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BrnnsbiicU. JUnjocat^- DAVIS Sz SHORT, PUBLISHERS. VOLUME Z. The Brunswick ,‘tdvocatc, i Is published every Thursday Morning, in the city of Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia, at per annum, in advance, or $4 at the end of the year. No subscriptions received for a less term than six months and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the publishers. Jj=All letters and communications to the Editor or Publishers in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to ensure attention. O’ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in- j serted at One Dollar per one hundred words, j for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents forev-; ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure \ work always double price. Twenty-five per I cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during j the continuance of the advertisement. Those j sent without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out* and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates. O=N.0 = N. B. Sales of Land, by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, arc required, by law, I to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and 1 three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in j the county in which the property is situate.— Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette, Sixty Days previous to the day ot sale. Sales of Negroes must be at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house, where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property, must be given in like manner, Forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es tate must be published for Forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave Land, must be published for Four Months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for Four Months, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. PROSPECTUS A WEEKLY PAPER, PUBLISHED AT BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. The causes which render necessary the es tablishment of this Press, and its claims to the support of the public, can best be presented by the statement of a few facte. Brunswick possesses a harbor, which for ac cessibility, spaciousness and security, is une qualled on the Southern Coast. This, of itselft would be sufficient to render its growth rapid, and its importance permanent; for the best port South of the Potomac must become the site of a great commercial city. But when to this is added-the singular salubrity of the cli mate, free from those noxious exhalations gen erated by the union of salt and river ~waters, and which are indeed “charnel airs” to a white population, it must be admitted that Brunswick contains all the requisites for a healthy and i populous city. Thus much has been the work of Nature ; but already Art has begun to lend her aid to this favored spot, and the industry of man bids fair to increase its capacities, and ailil to its importance a hundred fold. In a few months, a canal will open to the harbor of Brunswick the vast and fertile country through which flow the Altamaha, and its great tribu aries. A Rail Road will shortly be commenc ed, terminating at. Pensacola, thus uniting the waters of the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean. Other Rail Roads intersecting the State in various directions, will make Bruns wick their depot, and a large portion of the trade from the Valley of the Mississippi will yet find its way to her wharves. Such, in a few words, are the principal causes which will operate in renncring Brunswick the principal city ot the South. But while its advantages are so numerous and obvious, there have been found individuals and presses prompted by sel fish fears and interested motives, to oppose an undertaking which must add so much to the importance and prosperity of the State. Their united powers are now applied to thwart in every possible manner, this great public bene fit. Misrepresentation and ridicule, invective and denunciation have been heaped on Bruns wick and its friends. To counteract these ef forts by the publication and wide dissemination of the facts—to present the claims of Bruns wick to the confidence and favor of the public, to furnish information relating to all the great works of Internal Improvement now go ing.on through the State, and to aid in devel oping the resources of Georgia, will be the leading objects of this Press. Such being its end and aim, any interfer ence in the party politics of the day would be improper and impolitic. Brunswick has re ceived benefits from—it has friends in all par ties, and every consideration is opposed to rendering its Press the organ of a party. To the citizens of Georgia—and not to the mem bers of a party—to the friends of Brunswick— to the advocates of Internal -Improvement— to the considerate and reflecting—do we apply tor aid and support. Terms —Three dollars per annum in ad* v once, or four dollars at the end of the year. J. W. FROST, Editor. DAVIS & SHORT, Publuherv BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21,1837. .U ISC ELL AX Y. From the New Monthly Magazine. ETIQUETTE. In an unfrequented and thinly peopled part of the country, towards the western borders of Warwickshire, there chanced to he let furnished two large substantial houses, distant about a mile and a half from each other. It happened, also, that two families of distinction came at the same time, and for reasons as cogent, though somewhat different from those of the absentees, took possession of both.; The one family consisted of four fair daughters and a youthful son ; the other of a son, now of age, and of two youn-j ger sisters. The head of the one house I was Sir Marmaduke Dyer; the chief of! the other, Sir Frederick De Vere. The dwelling-houses of which we have spoken ; stood alone upon a superficies of fifteen miles square : they faced each other— j hut there was no immediate route ot ac- \ commodation between them—and a mar ket village and a parish church lay far away to the rear of both. The families whom we thus introduce to the reader were equal in rank, pretty much upon a pair with respect to the style of their respective connections, and, for a wonder, pretty equal in wealth. Lady Dyer was a woman of elegant man ners, and of first-rate accomplishments, and her daughters were her counterparts, as far as regarded initiation into the usa ges of the liaut ton. Lady de Vere was all this repeated, the son was handsome and well esteemed, and the girls were pretty. Both families, indeed, consisted of persons who. were by nature, habits of j thinking, and manner of life, perfectly waited to one another. Indeed, more a-, greeably amalgamating materials could no where have been found. They were j in a manner born congenials, and their breeding was in harmony with all theoth- j er features of their condition. There is a small, still voice, or rather a pretty loud one, that proclaims every tiling to every Body, wherever there are but a lew inhabitants scattered over a soli tude. The families could tell to the scan ty guests who came from afar in order to fulfil tfieir long-promi.se<| visits, the whole history, character amjr condition of all the individuals who composed the house hold of each other respectively. But their personal knowledge was a blank; the parties were not acquainted ; no, not in the least. They had never met even upon neutral ground. They had, perhaps, tracked one another through the queen’s drawinging-room, and that never on the same day. Unluckily, too, they went eacli to separate churches, and in their drives and pastimes they chose a contra ry direction ; for in this each was simp ly guided by the fear of being suspected of seeking lor the good graces of the oth er. A year and a day passed. The fami lies tired, as every body does, of their own particular coterie. In a word, both fainajies longed, and eventually prayed, to he permitted to sympathise and to recip rocate with one another. As we can but too well*guess the enmity or the'in clining dislike of the different persons whom we encounter in our worldly pil grimage, so there happens to breathe an air that tells us we are coveted, though it is very rarlt that we may be beloved. The families were aware of the good intentions of each other ; and situated as they were! upon a wide and almost dreary solitude, I and both of equal and unexceptionable} rank and character, both sighed for the hour when they might be permitted to ex press their mutual good wishes and regard. But there came the dilemma —who wasj it that should adventure the first move ! Alas! the heads of both families shud dered at the bare idea of being for a moment suspected of descending from their dignity; sympathy, kindness, be nevolence, what were they when placed in immediate opposition to the claims, of punctilio and pride ? Another year passed,and they had never met. Both families, especially the youn ger branches, mourned their solitude, es pecially in wintry weather. Both sighed for that pleasing relief which we so often experience in the presence of a fellow be ing not constantly shut up w ith us in the same house. Still, notwithstanding the good inclinations of all the parties, there was not even a casual symptom of an ap proach. The grand misfortune, equal to any, indeed, ever planned by a book of fate, lay in their having m.'luckily arrived in the country at one and t e same time. Hud it been otherwise, the I. st comer, oil ascertaining the quality of his neighbors, would have hastened, no doubt, to com pliment the second. What, then, was to be done 1 Sir Marmaduke Dyer sat one evening rather late over a tray heavily laden with social comforts,in company with the coun try physician; and having kept his birth day,Sir Marmaduke was in a mood uncono* raonly facetious; the rest of the family had dispersed. “I wisb so much,” be said, “Lady Dyer had had the pleasure of La dy De Vere’s acquaintance. I know them to be a most respectable family, and by the way, through the grandfather old Sir Willoughby’s marriage with a sister of the first Marquis in Mountford, I find that I am, though rather in a distant de gree, connected with them myself Such delightful neighbors, too! —they might prove quite an acquisition ; but I don’t know them, and there is no master of ceremonies at the nighbouring village.” “And is that all ?” returned the friend- | ly visiter, in a voice of sudden glee, and | beguiled completely by the cordiality of the baronet’s opening words. “Why, j my dear sir, I shall take you to call on ! Sir Frederick De Vere myself, any day ; ! I am most intimate with him.” “Thank you,” drawled the baronet in ' response; “but the truth is, I have got] very little time upon my hands just now. By the way, doctor, do you ever find any difficulty in making out your way when it grows late ?—the moon has waned, I fear, by this time.” The doctor rose, a half-scared young man, who always did his best, but always at the wrong time. “Well, good night, Sir Marmaduke.” “Good night,” returned Sir Marma duke coldly, hastily resuming his seat. A servant came to wait for orders. “Is he gone ?” yaw ned Sir Marmaduke. “He is, Sir Marmaduke ; and the night is wet.” “Just so. Now, Gregory, you will take care that that man be not admitted i for the next three months, unless, j indeed, Lady Dyer or any of the others! get indisposed. lie is a great goose. Call Stevenson and the baronet, still brood ing over the unintentioned attack upon his dignity, and the still more serious one upon etiquette, murmuring indistinct things, retired. It happened at this very time that Sir Frederick De Vere, the head of the oth house, had had a lingering sickness. Ilis daughters, fatigued with their long attend ance, were gone to Cheltenham; the son was gone to grouse-shooting in the north. Lady De Vere disliked ecarte, and chess, and music ; she disliked every tiling, and I she seldom talked ; she was solemn —that was enough; and of course Sir Freder ick grew weary. His next neighbour, Dyer, was a most agreeable man, ayd a perfect gentleman ; politics the same, re ligion, ditto; no cause, no fear of feud; was no bird of passage, and might com fort a few lonely ho;.rs—his son had ex pectations. So communed Sir Frederick De Verq. But another motive prevailed; he thought himself handsome, and he wea ried to pay compliments to the Misses Dyer, who were esteemed beauties. La dy De Vere, was different from all other women. She loved that her husband should be, in vulgar parlance, “thought of’ by others of her own sex. Sir Fred erick determined to make a push. He had an old or rather an intimate friend in the Earl De Camp. He wrote, — My dear De Camp,—lf you know any thing of Sir Marmaduke Dyer, who is my neighbour, get me introduced. 1 write to you, as you are one of those good sort of people who know every body. “In haste, yours truly, “F. Da: Vere. An answer came, — “ Dear De Vere, —You have hit upon the proper chord. . I know Sir Marma duke intimately ; I sTiall write to him to morrow, and desire him to call on you.” The Baronet had mended still more effectually out of his long illness, and his notions of propriety, and more espec ially of etiquttc, had grow n afresh. “Church and state !” he internally ex claimed, “what in the world have 1 done? Dyer must see through my mameuver at once, for De Camp could not, without a hint, have started forward at such a rate.” He rose with newfound alacrity, and rung a peal. “Get me,” he said, half out of breath, “get me an express on the in stant.” He wrote again to the Earl De Camp,— “What have you done ? You have committed me with Dyer. You have been insufferably rash : and all that I can say is, that if he calls upon Lady De Vere through your letter, she shall not be at home. I make over to you that cob, which I find has not sold ; otherwise it might have eaten itself up. Yours truly, “F. Dr. Vere.” The fears of Sir Frederick De Vere w’ere fortunately allayed. Another letter came from the Earl De Camp. “Dear De Vere, —You certainly arc cra zed ; however, I have not sent my letter to Marmaduke. I was dressing for aball, when I recollected what I had promised to do for you ; and it was awkward to inter fere with the arrangements of my valet. Luckily the next day brought your ex press. “Pray live at home at e**e, and believe me, yours, ® Da Camp.” “P. S.—l like the and I don’t like the cob.” “HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE Another horrid year passed on. A public ball was struck up, to take place in the county town ; and it was announ ced that Sir Marmaduke Dyer and Sir Frederick De Vere wore to appear as stewards, and their ladies as patronesses. Meet, therefore, they must. The day came. But, oh, misfortune ! Sir Freder ick De Vere, in making a false *tcp, had sprained an ancle.—Lady De Vere was confined with a had cold. Here then was a complete finish to the anticipated meeting. Another year, and then anoth er, passed away: game-keepers had exchanged quantities of pheasants for quantities of something else; gardeners had given up white moss-roses in order to secure blackberry-caloured narcissuses; horses were put to pasture for a night, and the use of empty coach-houses sought 4’or, and readily granted. Nevertheless, all this friendly and even intimate jjiter communing came to nothing. Eacn fam ily shrunk as from a viper at the inert idea of taking advantage of any of these conciliatory circumstances. They even suspected the suspicions of each other, and there they paused. The demon eti quette was ever at their elbow, prompting them to stem the outgushing of their na turally kindly affections. He was too successful in iiis assidnties. For five mortal years were human be ings, intellectual, accomplished, friendly, and social, thus kept at bay, and detained in comfortless ignorance of one another, through the mere idea, the vague nothing, of etiquette; and etiquette, insubstantial as it was, was likely to see them all depar ted from off the face of the earth, and no trace remain. Indeed, two deaths had recently eccurrcd in both of the families ; a daughter ofeacli had grown consumptive and sunk beneath that foe to lovliness and to youth. No black-edged cards however, been sent; no reciprocal enquiries had been made ; pride and suspicion seemed in this instance to over match even the awful occurrence of death itself. At length a fire broke out. The acci dent, as it is called, took place at Sir .Frederick De Vere’s ; the family, simply | escaping with their lives, were conveyed in safety to the neighbouring mansion of the Dyers. The meeting took place under rather interesting circumstances, and further acquaintance did not destroy the illusion : the parties when once known became one and every thing to each oth er; but—that fearful, that all-prevailing but —all too late: the only sou of Sir Frederick became enamoured of the lovely daughter of Sir Marmaduke. Alas! she had engaged to marry, within a month, a tnan whom she had uniformly detested. The son of Sir Marmaduke, now grown to man’s estate.fancied the younger daugh ter of Sir Frederick. Alas! she also was engaged to espouse an Irish colonel of foot, of whom she knew nothing. The new-found lover himself must short ly follow his regiment abroad. Sir Mar | maduke Dyer and Sir Frederick De Vere were become on the instant the greatest > possible fitiends ; personally they esteem— jed each other, and mentally they agreed . upon every thing. The ladies—ah! won | Her fulfilled !—the ladies also became at i tached to each other. All was, however, | too late. The lease of Teasedule House, | the residence of lady Dyer, was out, and ' she and hers were all departing. Sir Frederick and Lady De Vere must also | move. The fire had driven them forth, I and they must be gone. The Dyers went north, the De Veres went south. The ; families were obliged to separate, and that in the height of their mutual re ! gard. They who when met had so-fond- Iv and so truly loved, parted as all must, I and we fear with but feeble hope to meet again. Such is one of the many exam ples we could name of the power, the ty ranny, of ETIQUETTE. A Mistake. —fine Sunday, when that eminent Christian, the Rev. Sir 11. M Oll cricffwas minister of Blackford, the pre- I centor came to the church w ith the hack ! part of his large curled wig turned to the forepart of his head. ’Die minister gave out the 71st Pslam to he sung, beginning ’at the 7th verse. When the precentor, ! stood up to sing the first line, which runs, ! “To many Ia wonder am,” the people could not help looking and laughing at him. Sir Henry, observing the point to which the people’s eyes were directed, looked over the pulpit, and seeing the mis take, gravely said, “And so, sir, you are 1 a wonder to many ; turn the right side of ! your wig foremost ” —[Glasgow Courier. A young man, desirous of engaging in 'matrimony, once asked thephosopher Ar- J istappus, what kind of a woman he should choose for a wife. ‘lndeed I cannot ad vise you,’ said the cynic, ‘if she is beau tiful, she wilUdeceive you, if she is ill-fa voured she will disgust you ; if she is rich, she will domineer over you. Indeed, !my young must be your own counsellor in thifnatter.’ . MESSAG E FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES To the two Houses of Congress at the Com , mencement of the frst session of the Twentj -1 fifth Congress. Fellow citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives. i The act of the 23d June, 183(1, regu lating the deposites of the public money, and directing the employment of State, District, and Territorial banks for that purpose, made it the duty of the Secre tary of the Treasury to discontinue the use of such of them, as should at any time refuse to redeem their notes in spe cie, and to substitute other banks ; pro vided a sufficient number could be ob tained to receive the public deposites, up on the terms and conditions therin pre scribed. The general and almost simulta neous suspension of specie payment Iby the banks in May latit, rendered the performance of this duty imperative in respect to those which had been selected under the act;.and made it, at the same time, impracticable to employ the requis ite number of others, upon the prescrib jed conditions. The specific regulations | established by Congress, for the doposite and safe keeping of the public moneys, have thus unexpectedly become inopera tive, I felt it to be my duty to afford you an early opportunity for the exetcise of your supervisory powers over the sub- Iject. j I was also led to apprehend that the suspension ot specie payments, increasing I the embarrassments before existing, in the pecuniary affairs of the country, would so far<diininisli the public revenue,that the ac cruing receipts into the Treasury, would not, with the reserved five millions be sufficient to defray the unavoidable ex*' penses of the Government, until the usu al period for the meeting of Congress; | whilst the authority to call upon the States, | for a portion of the sums deposited with | them, was too restricted to enable the Department torealize a sufficient amount frwni that source. These apprehensions have been justified by subsequent results ! which render it certain that this deficien j cy will occur, if additional means be not ! provided by Congress. The difficulties experienced by the | mercantile interest, in meeting their en gagements, induced them to apply to me, i previously to the actual suspension ofspe , cie payments, for indulgence upon their i bonds for duties ; and all the relief au jthorized by law, was proinpTy and cheer fully granted. The dependence of the Treasury:upon the avails of those bonds, to, enable it to make the deposites with the States required by law, led me in the outset to limit this indulgence to the Ist !of September, hut it has since been ex tended to the Ist of October, that the j matter might be submitted to your fur ther direction. Questions were also expected to arise in the recess in respect to the October instalment of those deposites, requiring the interposition of Congress. A provision of another act, passed a bout the same time, and intended to se cure a faithful compliance, with the obliga tion of the U. States, to satisfy all de mands upon them in specie or its equiva lent, prohibited the offer of any bank note not convertible on the spot, into gold or silver, at the will of the holder, and the ability of the Government, with millions on deposite, to meet its engage ments in the manner thus required by law, was rendered very doubtful by the event to which I have referred. Sensible that adequate provisions for these unexpected exigencies "Could only he made by Congress ; convinced that some of them would be indispensably necessary to the public service, before tjje regular period of your meeting ; and desirous also to enable you to exercise at the earliest moment, your full consti tutional powers lor the relief of the coun try, I could not, with propriety, avoid subjecting you to the inconvenience of assembling at as early a day as the state of the popular representation would per mit. iam sure that I have done but jus- to your .feelings, in believing that this inconvenience will he cheerfully en countered, in the hope of rendering your meeting conducive to the good of the country. During the earliest stages of the revul sion through which yve have just passed, much acrimonious discussion arose, and great diversity of opiuion existed, as to its real^causes. This was not surprising. The operations of credit are so diversified, and the influences which affect them so numerous, and often so subtle, that even impartial and well informed persons are seldom found to agree in respect to them. To inherent difficulties were also added others tendencies, which were by no means favorable to the discovery of truth. It was hardly to be expected, that those who disapproved the policy of the Gov ernment in relation to the currency, would in the excited state of public feel- J. W. FROST, £DITOm* % NUMBER ltfe ing produced by the occasion,fail to attrib ute to that policy any extensive smbafrass ment in the monetary affairs of the coun try. The matter thus became connected with the passions and conflicts of party; opinions were more or less affected by political considerations : and were prolonged which might otherwise have been determined by an appeal to facts, by the exercise of reason, or by mutual concession. It is, however, a cheering reflection, that circumstances of this nature cannot preveut a commu nity so intelligent as ours, from ultimate ly arriving at correct conclusions. En couraged by the fi:m belief of this truth, I proceed to state my views, so far a9 may be necessary to a clear understand ing of the remedies I feel it my duty to propose, and of the reasons by which I have led to recommend them. The history of trade in the United States, for the last three or four years, af fords the most convincing evidence that our present condition is chiefly to -be at tributed to over action in all the depart ments of business ; an over action, de riving perhaps, its first impulses from an tecedent causes, but stimulated to its destructive consequences by excessive issues of bank paper, and by other facil ities for the acquisition and enlargement of credit. At the commencement of the year 1834, the banking capital of the ‘ U. States, including that of the Nation al Bank then existing, amounted to a bout two hundred millions of dollars; the bank notes then in circulation to a bout ninety five millions ; and the loans and discounts of the banks to three hun dred and twenty four millions. Between that time and the first of January 1836; being the latest period to whidi accurate accounts have been received, our bank ing capital was increased to more than t\go hundred and forty millions, and the loans and discounts to more than four hundred and fifty seveu millions. To this vast increase are to be added the many millions for credit, acquired by means of foreign loans, contracted by the States and State institutions, and,, above all, by the lavish accommodations extend ed by foreign dealers to <££ merchants. The of tins redundancy of credit and of the spirit ofreckless spec ulation engendered by it, were a foreign debt contracted by our citizens, estima ted in March last at more than thirty mil lions of dollars; the extension to traders in the interior of our country of credits for supplies, greatly beyond the wants of the people ; the investment of thirty-nifle and a half millions of dollars in unpro ductive public lands, in the years 1835 and 1836, whilst in the preceding year the sales amounted to only four and a half millions : the debts to an al most countless amount, for real estate in existing or anticipated cities .and villa ges, equally unproductive, and at prices now seen to lmve been greatly dispropor tionate to their real value ; the expendi ture of immense sums in improvements which in many cases, have been found to be ruinously improvident; the diversion r to other pursuits of much of the labor that should have been applied to agricul ture, thereby contributing to the expen ditureof large sums in the importation of grain from Europe ; an expenditure which, amounted in 1834, to about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, was in the first two quarters of the present year, increased to more than two millions of dollars ; and finally, without enumer ating other injurious results, the rapid growth among all classes, and especially in our great commercial towns, of luxu rious habits, founded too often on merely fancied wealth, and detrimental alike to the industry, the resources, and the mor als of our people. It was so impossible that such a state of things could long continue, that the prospect of revulsion was present to the minds of considerate ihen before it actu ally came. None however, had correct ly anticipated its severity. A concurrence of circumstances inadequate of themselves to produce such wide-spread and calami tous embarrassments, tended so greatly to stggravate them, that they cannot be over looked in considering their history. A mong these may be mentioned, roost prominent, the great loss of capital sus tained by our commercial emporium in the fire of December, 1835—a loss, the effects of which were underrated at the time, because postponed for a season by the great facilities of credit then existing; the disturbing effects in our crnninercial cities, of the transfei#of jhe publi#mon eys required by the deposite law of June, 1836; and the measures adqtttej by the foreign creditors of oar merchants to re duce their debts, and to withdraw from the United Slates a large portion of crur specie. * However unwilling any of our oitiseat may heretofore have been to asaign tft these causes the chief instrumentality* 4* producing the present state of things, the developeraente subsequently mail, and