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THE LAPSE OF TIME.
BY WM. C. BRYANT.
Lament who will, in fruitless tears,
The speed with which our moments fly;
I sigh not over vanished years—
But watch the years that hasten by.
Look, how they camel—a mingled crowd
Os bright and dijrls,but rapid days;
Beneath them, like'a summer cloud,
The wide world changes as I gaje.
What! grieve that time has brought so soon
The sober age of manhood on ’
As idly might I weep, at noon,
To soe the blush of morning gone.
Could I give up the hopes that glow
In prospect like Elvsian isles;
And let the charming future go
AVith all her promises and smiles?
The Future!—cruel were the power
Whose doom would tear thee from my heart;
Thou sweet'ner of tin' present hour;
Wc cannot —no we will not part.
Oh. leave me still the rapid flight
That makes the changing seasons gay,
The grateful speed that brings the night,
The swift and glad return of day.
The months that touch with added grace,
This little prattle r at my knee,
In whose arch eye,and speaking face,
New meaning every hour 1 see;
The vears that o'er each sister land,
Shall lilt the country of my birth.
And nurse her strength till she shall stand,
The pride and pattern of the earth;
Till younger commonwealths, for aid,
Shall cling about her ample robe,
And from her frown shall shrink afraid
The crowned oppressors of the globe.
True, time will sham and blanch my brow;
Well. I shall sit with aged men,
And my good glass will tell me how
A grizzly beard becomes me then.
And should no foul dishonor lie
Upon my head when l am gray,
Love yet shall watch my fading eye,
And smooth the patli of my decay.
Then haste thee, Time, 'tis kindness all
That speeds thy winged feet so fast;
Thy pleasures stay not till they pall,
And all thy pains’are quickly past.
Thou fliest and bear’st away our woes,
And as thy shadowy train depart,
The memory of sorrow grows
A lighter burthen on the heart.
A II VI’OCKITE SERVED OUT. ‘SoEiO
tiody’s a tappin’ at the door,’ said Sam.
‘Let’em tap,’replied his father, with
dignity.
Sam acted upon the direction : upon
which there was another tap, and anoth
er,and then a long row of traps; upon
which Sam enquired why the tapper was
not admitted.
‘Hush,’ whispcrfcd Mr. Weller, with
apprehensive looks, ‘don’t take no notice
on’em,Sammy, it’s vun o’ the v.idders,
p'raps.’
No notice being taken of the taps, —
the unseen "visitor, after a short lapse, ven
tured to open the door and peep in. It
was no female head that was thrust in at
the partially opened door, but the long
Mack locks and red face of Mr. Stiggins.
Mr. Weller’s pipe fell from his hands.
The reverend gentleman gradually o
pened the door by almost imperceptible
degrees, until the aperture was just wide
enough to admit of the pass igo of his lank
body, when he glided into tho room and
closed it after him with great care mid
gentleness. Turning towards Sam, and
raising his hands and eyes in token of the
unspeakable sorrow with which lie regard
ed the calamity that had befallen the fam
ily he carried the high-backed chair to his
old corner bv the lire, and sitting himseli
down on the very edge of the seat, drew
forth a brown pocket handkerchief, and
applied the same to his optics.
While this was going forward the elder
Mr. Weller sat hack in his chair with his
eves wide open, his hands planted on his
knees, and his whole countenance expres
sive of absorbing and overwhelming as
tonishment. Sam sat opposite him in per
fect silence, —waiting with (Mger curiosi
ty for the termination of the scene.
Mr. Stiggins kept the brown pocket
handkerchitd' before his eyes lor some
minutes, moaning decently meanu liile and
then mastering his feelings bv a strong ef
fort, put it in his pocket and buttoned it
up. After this he stirred the lire : after
that.he rubbed his h ind and looked at
Sana.
‘Oh, inv young friend,’ said Mr Stig
gins, breaking the silence with a very low,
voice, ‘here’s a sorrowlnl allliction.'
Sam nodded very slightly.
‘For the man oi wrath, too 1 aided
Mr. Stisr'dns, ‘it makes’ a vessel s heart
bleed’.’
Mr. Weller was overheard by his son
to murmur something relative to making
a vessel’s no.-e bleed : but Mr. Stiggins
heard him not.
‘Do you know, young mart,’ whispered
Mr. Stiggins, drawing his chair close to
Sam,‘whether he. has left Emanuel any
thing ?”
‘Who’s lie ?’ enquired Sam.
‘The chapel,’ replied Mr. Stiggins,—
‘our chapel, our fold, Mr. Samuel.’
‘She hasn’t left the fold nothin,’ nor the
the shepherd nothin’! nor the animal noth
in’,’ said Sain decisively ; ‘nor the dogs
neither.’
Mr. Stiggins looked slyly at Sam, —
I glanced at the old gentleman, who was
[sitting with his eyes closed as it asleep
and drawing his cliaif still nearer,said,
‘Nothing for me, Samuel V
Sam shook his head.
‘I think there’s something,’ said Stig
gins, turning as pale as he could turn.
I‘Consider, Mr. Samuel ; no little token ?
| ‘Not so much as the vurtli o’ that 'ere
1 old umbrella o' yourn,’ replied Sum.
| ‘Perhaps,’ said Mr. Stiggins, hesita
tingly, after a few moments of deep
I thought, ‘perhaps she recommended me
jto tiie care ol the man of wrath, Mr.
Samuel ?’
I think that’s wery likely, from what
he said,’ rejoined Sam, ‘he was a speak
in’ about voujist now.’
W is lie, though !’ exclaimed Stiggins,
brightening up. Ah ! He’s changed 1 dare
[ say. We might live very comfortable to
gether now, Mr. Samuel, eh? I could
take care of bis property when you are a
way—good care, you sec.’
Heaving a long drawn sigh, Mr. Stig
gina paused for a response. Sitm nodded,
and .Mr. Weller, the elder, gave vent to
an extraordinary sound, which, being
| neither a groan, nor a grunt, nor a gasp,
nor a growl, seemed to partake in some
degree of all four.
Mr. Stiggins,—encouraged by this
sound, v. hicli he understood to betoken
remorse or repentance, looked about him
rubbed bis hands, wept —smiled, —.wept
| again; and then, walking softly across
the room to a well remembered shelf in
one corner, took down a tumbler, and,
! with great deliberation, put (bur lumps of
sugar in it. Having got thus far, lie look
led about linn again and sighed grievous
jly ; with that lie walked softly into the
| bar, and presently returning with the tum
j bier hall lull ot pine-apple rum, advanc
ed to the kettle which was singing gaily
| on the nob, mixed his grog, stirred it, sip
| ped it, sat down, and taking a long and
| hearty pull at the rum mid water stopped
• for breath.
| The elder Mr. Weller, who still con-
I tinned to make various uncouth attempts
, to appear asleep, otic red not a single word
! during these proceedings, but when Mr
{ Stiggins stooped Jbr breath, lie darted up
on him, and snatching the tumbler from
his luAid, threw the remainder of the rum
and water in his face, and the glass itself
into the grate. Then, seizing the rover
■end gentleman firmly by the collar, lie sud
denly fell to kicking him most ftiroinslv,
accompanying every application of his
tnpboot to Mr. Stiggins’s person with sun
dry violent and incoherent anathemas up
on his limbs, eyes and hotly.
‘Sammy,’ said .Mr. Weller, ‘put my hai
on tight for me.’
Sam dutifully adjusted the hat with the
| long hatband more lirmly on Ids Inibrr’s
head, and the old gentleman, resuming
j his kicking with greater agility than be
' fore, tumbled with Mr. Stiggins through
: the bar, and through the passage, out at
| the frontdoor, and so into the street —the
kicking continued the whole way, and iti
-1 creasing in vehemence, rather than dimin
ishing every time the top-hoot was lifted
I'T-
It was a beautiful and exhilarating sight
:to see the red-nosed mail writhing in Mr.
1 Weller’s grasp,—and his whole frame
j quivering with anguish as kick followed
: kick in rapid succession ;—it was a still
| more exciting spectacle to behold Mr. Wel
i ler, after a powerful struggle,—immersing
1 Mr. Stiggin s head in a horse trough full of
| water, and holding it there till lie .. as all
i hut suffocated.
‘There,’said Mr. Weller, throw ing all
his energy into one complicated kick, as
ihe at length permitted Mr. Stiggins to
withdraw his head from the trough,‘send
j any vun o’ them lazy shepherds here, —
, ami I'll pound him to a jelly first, ami
1 drowned him arterwards. Sammv, help
me in, and till me a glass o’ brandy. I’m
out o' breath, my boy.’ [Pickwick Pa
pers lbr October.
The late discovery of a libre in the
j leaves of the pine-apple plant renders it
| probable that, independently of its con
tributing to the luxuries of the table, it
will soon become of eminent utility as a
; material from which fabrics of the most
beautiful texture mav be formed. This
iibre is said to surpass in delicacy that of
tlax, cotton, wool, or even stik. The
.Magazine of Popular Science institutes a
j comparison between the fineness of the
j silk fibre and that of the pine apple leaf,
from which it appears that the former is
1 more than four times as largo as the lat
ter, which is said to resemble it very
much in point of smoothness and polish.
, The newly discovered fibre is altogether
destitute of joints or other irregularities,
j and is remarkably transparent, particu
larly when viewed in water. It is very
elastic, of great strength, and receives
readily the most delicate dyes. Tlu>
j leaves of the plant when examined arc
j found to consist of an assemblage of fi
i bres, running parallel from one extremity.!
of the leaf to the other, imbedded in the!
( soft pabulum. The process ot preparing
i the article for use is very simple. The
! leaf is placed under a “tilt hammer,” by
the rapid action of which it becomes
j crushed in a few seconds without any in
jury being done to the fibre, which rc
; mains in a large skein and requires to be
rinsed in soft water to clear it of impu
j rities, and is then dried in the shade. So
j simple and rapid is the process that in a
quarter of an hour the fibre may be made
ready for the manufacturer’s use, as a
glossy, white material with its strength
unimpaired by putrefaction, as in the
BRUNSWICK AbVOCATE.
j case of flax. This discovery promises to
! be a great source of wealth to the conn
i tries where, the plant grows, as it is easily
I cultivated and propagated.
[Balt. American.
[From Blackwood s Magazine.]
j The naivete of the lowcrlrish is proverbial.
But English blunders are sometimes equally
rich. As Mrs. M’Gibboii, a popular actress at
Liverpool, was about to dress lor Jane Shore,
her attendant came to inform her that a woman
had called to ask for two box orders, as “she
and her daughters had walked four miles to
l see the play.”
“Does she know me?” said the actress.
“Not a bit;” was the reply,
j “Very odd; has the Woman got her faculties
i about her?” said Mrs. .M’Gibbon.
' “I think lie has ma’am,” said the dresser,“for
I see site has got something tied up in a red
j handkerchief.”
' Still the Irish blunderer sometimes mixes a
degree of dexterity with his apparent mistake,
winch rises to wit. A story of tins order Ims
! been lately current in Ireland, and has raised
many a laugh against a noble person, celebrat
! oil for questioning his servants on their no
tions, religious and political. In some parts of
Ireland this would he an important inquiry, if
the truth could be extracted by a cross exam
ination. A groom came to be hired:
I “What are your opinions?” was the first
! usual and general requisition,
j “None at all, your honor,” was Put’s diplo-
I matic reply.
j “Puli! nonsense,” said the noble T*ord, you
! all haveyour opinions, and some of them bad
! enough. I insist upon knowing them before
you come into this house.”
“W by then, your Lordship,” said Pat, with
a bow to the ground, "I fancy they are the
■ very same us your Lordship’s.”
“Stale them then, said the Peer; “and let
!me see if you are of my way'of thinking.”
“I humbly beg your honor’s pardon,” said
the man; “but 1 could not be so bold as to
think like your Lordship, but I’m of Pat O’-
Sullivan, the gardner’s way of thinking.”
“Then fellow, out with it at once,” said his
! Lordship, growing impatient.
“Why then, your honor,” said Pat, with the
indescribable look of craft and humor indige
■ nous to the native droll, “says Mr. O’Sullivan
! to run, I’m thinking, Pat Brady, that you owe
me fifteen shillings which you have not a no
tion of paying! And that’s the plain truth,
your honor; and that’s what 1 call being of
I Pat O’Sullivan’s way of thinking.
A Loafer. The Knickerbocker thus hits
off the likeness of a loafer at Niagara ; Ex
• ccedingly amused at the air and manner of a
i decided loafer, a sentimentalist withal, mid a
toper, who had come out of his way from Baf
j falo to sec the Falls. “Landlord.” said he to
! the Boniface of the cataract, “and you gentle
men, who stand on this porch witnessing this
;pm less rain, you see before you one who Ins
j a tempest, ol sorrows beating upon his head
| continually. \\ oust I vyas vvo’th twenty tliou-
I sand dollars, and I driv the saddling profession.
• Circumstances alter cases—now I wish to so
j licit eh irity. Some of you seem benevolent,
am! I am not destined to rank myself among
those »ho could travel from Dan to Ifeerslic
b.i, and say ail is barren. No—l scorn to brag
but l am intelligent beyond my years, and my
education has.been complete. I have read
\ oluey’s Ruins, Marshall's Life of Washing
ton, Ovid's Art of Love, and Pope’s Essay on
Man, and most of the literature of the day, .as
contained in the small newspapers. But the
way I’m situated at present is scandalous. The
fact is, my heart is broke, and I’m just Isluna
cling about the globe, with a souifira brow,
and a bosom laden with woe. Who w ill help
me—speak singly, gentlemen—who will ‘ease
my grief, and drive niv cares away ?’ as
Isaac Watts says, in one of his devotional po
ems.” No answe r was returned—a general
latightei arose. The pride of the mendicant
was excited—rage got the better of bis hu
mility : and shaking his fist in the face of the
bystanders, he roared out—“ You’re ail a pack
of poor ornary common people. You insult
honest poverty; but Ido not ‘hang my head
for a’ that,’as Burns says. I will chastise any
man here for two three-cent drinks ofMonon
gahela w hiskey : though I have but lately es
cape and shipwreck coming from Michigan to Bus
-1 a!(», and am weak for the loss of strength, yet
I will whip the best of you. Let any one on
ve come over to the Black Rocks Itiilroud
Depot, and l'!! lick him like a ” “Never
mind that part of it,” said one ; “tell us about
tiie sbipwieck.’’ “Ah!” he continued, “that
was a scene ! —twenty miles out at sea on the
lake—storm bustin’on the deck !—tiie waves
like mad tailors, making breeches over us con
tinually—tiie Inditing a bustin' overhead and
bissuvo under water—the clouds Meeting the
earth—the land just over the lee bow—every
in.tst in splinters—every sail in rags—women
a screeehin’—farmers’ wives, emigratin’ to the
West, calling for their husbands—ami graves
yawnin’ all around ! A good many was dread
fully sick ; one man, after casting forth every
thing beside, with a violent retch threw tip his
boots. <)h ! gentlemen, it was aw fill ! at length
came the last and Jestiuctive billow. It struck
the ship in the 101 l side, in the neighborhood
of die poop, and all at noust I felt something
under us breaking a way. The vessel was part
ing!—Une half of the crew was drowned —
passengers were praying and commending
themselves to Heaven, i alone escaped the
watery doom.'’ And how did you manage to
redeem yourself from destruction ?” was the
general inquiry. “Why, gentlemen, the fact
is, I seen how tilings was a goin,’ and 7 took
ir.y hat and went ashore !" The last 1 saw of
lids Munchausen was as our conch w heeled a
v.ay. He had achieved a “drink,’’ and was
perambulating, through tiie mud, lightened
momentarily of his sorrows.
A Groom and his Duties. A groom is
a chap that a gentleman keeps to clean Ids
horses, and be blown up when things go
wrong. They are generally very conceited
beggars, and as they never know nothing, why
the best way is to take them so young that
they can’t pretend to any know ledge. I al
ways get mine from the charity schools, and
you’ll find it very good economy to apply to
those that give the boys leather breeches, as
it will save you the trouble ot finding him a
pair. Tiie tirst thing to do, is to teach him to
got up early', and to hiss ut every tiling he
brushes, rubs or touches. As the leather
breeches should be kept for Sundays, you
must get him a pair of corderovs, and mind
you order them of a large size and baggy bet
hind, for many ’oases have a trick of biting a
chaps when they are cleaning them: and it is
; better for them to have a mouthful of corderoy
than one of the lad’s bacon, to say nothing of
the loss of the boy’s service during the time
lie is laid up.
[John Jorrock’s Sporting Lectures.
The Scotch King and ms Minister. 1
Generally speaking, the Scotch enjoy persi-
Jiage, and the Irish ore apt to take fire at it.
After a mess-dinner of the 21st (Royal North
I British Fusileers,) always a gallant and gen
tlemanly very national character,
there had been a good deal of proud reflection
! upon the stern faith of the North Britains, in
j their treaties with other powers. A lively boy
| who bad recently joined, observed to some of
j the elders that he had a legend in confirmation
| of the claim, and narrated it accordingly,
j Few of our histories refer to a very sanguin
ary war that subsisted between an .early Scot
tish king and a king of the Land’s End. Scot
i fish valor prevailed, and news was brought of
the complete success of an expedition against
the Cornish strongholds. The monarch wasi
elated beyond measure, and sending his prin
cipal adviser, Lord Alexander , address
j ed him:
j -“VY cel, Sandy, is there onv other king I can
; bring to submission the noo?”
“An’ it please your majesty, there is butane
king whom you canna vanquish.”
j “Ane king that I canna vanquish! Ah’ wha’s
he, rnon?”
“I mean, vour majesty, the King of Heaven.”
“Haven! Haven! wha’s that, Sandy?”
Ilis Lordship pointed to the sky, and then
bowed becomingly to his royal master, who
did not quite comprehend what was meant,
! and feared to betray a geographical ignorance
: by inquiring more particularly than he had al-
I ready done.
j “Nae matter, Sandy, gang and tell the King
j o’Haven that gin he does not surrender his
'dominions at once, I’ll come and bang him out
,of them. And mind, rny Lord, you dinna
i shew' yer face before us till you have done our
! bidding.”
This was an embarrassing position for tiie
noble favorite, who knew that expostulation, or i
! even explanation was.too dangerous to be at-!
! tempted at such a moment. He therefore re- j
j tired submissively, and consulted a priest.;
j This progenitor of Loyola consoled him by i
j the assurance that, on an occasion of the kind,!
j it was quite allowable to tranquili.se a mon- i
| arch of weak understanding by putting an ar- j
j tiiicial construction on certain passages of i
j scripture. Lord Alexander appeared, accord- j
iugly, in the royal presence, and was instantly I
observed by his gracious master.
‘Wool, Sandy, what says the king o’ Haven?’ ]
“Please vour majesty, I have na seen him-
I sd’, but I hive conferred with ane o’his ac
credited ministers, an’ he solemnly engages!
that your majesty may hae his kingdom for j
; asking for.”
i “W as he sae cecvil?” inquired the monarch’ j
! wanned to magnanimity by the assurance:,;
then ccn gang yer gait there once more, and j
; tell the King o’ Haven that for his ceevility
nae a Scotchman shall ever set foot in his 1
kingdom.” [Frazer’s Magazine. I
Ferocity or as Eagle. A curious in
stance of the ferocity of the eagle occurred
lateiv in a solitary chalet, on a pasture moun
tain in Switzerland. A peasant boy, eight
years of age, was engaged in looking after
some cattle, and lie was the sole tenant of the
cottage, as the Swiss train their children very
young to tiiis occupation. lie perceived two
young eagles ot no great distance on the
ledge of a low rock. Tempted by the prize,
he drew silently close behind the rock, and
suddenly grasping them in-his arms, took pos
session of botli birds in spite of the most de
termined resistance. lie -was yet struggling
with his prey, when, hearing a great nois ?, he
saw to his no little terror the parent birds flv
ing rapidly towards him. He ran hastily into
the clarlet and closed the door just in time to
shut out his pursuers. Tiie boy afterwards
sjioko of the terror lie Suffered during the day
in his lonely chalet, lest the old eagles should
force an entrance: as, being powerful birds,
they would in their fury have ended his life.
'They kept up the most frightful cries, and
strove, with all their might, to break down tiie
barriers of the frail chalet, loosly built up of
single logs, and find some avenue by which
to rescue their offspring. But the young peas
ant kept his prey, well aware of its value—a
louis d’or being given by the government of
Berne for every eagle killed. As night ap
proached, he saw the pursuers, tired with their
useless elfoits, leave the chalet, and watched
their flight to the lofty,though not distant prec
ipice, and as soon as tiie darkness had set in,
lie again grasped the two eagles, and ran as
fast as his logs would carry him down the moun
tain to the nearest village, often looking back
lest the parent, birds should have described
him. nnd-fitlcving lie heard their cries at every
interval. lie arrived in safety, however, in
the hamlet, not a little proud of his prize.—
[Letters from Switzerland.
Salutations. —We have selected the fol
lowing items for the amusement of our rea
ders :
The Greenlanders have no salutations, and
laugh at the idea that one person is iuferior to
another.
The Islanders, near the Phillippines, take a
person’s hand or foot, and rub it over their
face. ,
The Laplanders apply their noses strongly
again«t. the person they salute.
In New Guinea they place leaves upon the
head of those whom they salute.
In the strait of the Sound they raise the left
foot of the person saluted, pass it gently over
the rfeht leg. and thence over the face.
The inhabitants ot the Phillipines bend ve
ry low, placing their hands on their cheeks,
and raise one foot in the air w ith the knee
bent.
An Ethiopian takes the robe of another,and
ties it about him, so as to leave his friend al
most destitute of covering,
The Japanese take off a slipper, and the
people of Arracan their sandals, in the street,
and their stocking in the house, w hen they sal
ute.
If the Chinese meet after a long separation
they fall upon their knees, bend their face to
the ground two or three times, and use many
other affected modes of salutation. The Chi
nese have also a kind of ritual, or a cadency
of compliments, by w hich they regulate the
number of bows, genuflections and words to
be spoken on any occasion. Ambassadors
practice these ceremonies forty days before
they appear at Court.
At Otaheite, they rub their noses together. I
[Boston Po*t,
THE AMOCIfE.
BRUNSWICK, (Ga.) FEB. 22, 1838.
State Rights Ticket for Congress.
ELECTION FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Grccnc
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troupe.
WALTER T. COLQUITT, of Muscogee.
RICHARD W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham
EDWARD J. BLACK, of Scriven.
MARK A. COOPER, of Hall.
EUGENIITS A NESBIT, of Bibb.
LOT WARREN, of Sumpter.
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The subscriber finds no ordinary difficulty in
stating the principles upon which this press will
be, in future, conducted, in terms, which will
not compromise his own independence. With
the ordinary feelings of a young man, so much
laughed at and derided by the old and liack
nied politician, he is unwilling to harness him
self to the car of party. The collar would set
most heavily and uneasily upon lnm, and he
does not anticipate that he could, should he be
found straying, patiently bear being ‘ whipped
into the traces,’ by the drivers or leaders of arty
party. This love of independence may possi
bly iirovc a chimera—a mere dream. If so, it
lias been dreamed more than three times, and
it it be a delusion, the undersigned most ear
nestly and confidently hopes that it may not be
dispelled. At the same time, while Avowing his
independence of the shackles of party, lie docs
not object to acknowledge that the principles
of the State Rights party square with his own.
“ The world is governed too much,” says
the Globe. “Power is always stealing
from the many to the few,” said the Tele-
graph. Both are in the right. Our world—
that is, our country—is ‘ governed too much’
and too badly. Power has stolen from the many
and has been concentrated in the hands of
one man who rules the country by the Consti
tution, ‘as he understands it,' and who would
break down the Judiciary to exalt his own of
fice.
The principles which the last eight years
have developed, are indeed alarming. The
man, the individual man has been elevated,
while the Constitution, Principle, Office and
Patronage, have to this end been degraded.—
Short sighled and dangerous policy! which
unites the People against the Government, and
which, it may well be feared, may excite them
to destroy in violent efforts to amend.
Tiie adoption by the State of a liberal and
extended patronage of Internal Improvements,
will always find a warm if not an able support
in this paper. The principle that Internal
Improvements cost nothing, while they
create immense wealth, will be fully set forth,
and to this end an extensive correspondence
has been commenced to ascertain definitively
tne effect of this policy as fur as it is develop
ed in other States.
Having thus generally and frankly stated
our views, we solicit from our editorial brethren
of the South generally—as well those who differ
as those who agree; the right hand of fellow ship.
To our political friends is promised a cordial
and hearty co-operation. To onr political oppon
ents the pledge is given that no personal con
troversies shall deface these columns, and that
a regard for private and individual character
shall ever be held sacred.
With the public we rely for consideration
upon its know n indulgence and the willingness
it has always shown to bestow the rewards due
to success upon sincere and earnest endeavors
to attain it. J. LYMAN,
Editor Brunswick Advocate.
Sport. VV e are happy to loarn that a match 1
has been made up between a Boat Club of Sa- i
vanuah and our friends and neighbors of the >
Aquatic Club of Georgia.
The President of the Savannah Boat Club I
styled the Lower Creeks, challenges the
boat Lizard, ow ned by tw o individuals of the
“Aquatic Club of Georgia,” for $r»00 a side.—
Tiie “Lower Creeks” have just received a boat!
built in New Y'ork, precisely of the dimensions
of the Lizard, each rowing four oars. The
owners of the Lizard have accepted the chal
lenge and the race will come off at Savannah
in April. Distance one mile. Each boat to
be rowed by white men, or members of each
Club. Hurrah for our side.
AGENT OF GEORGIA’S REPORT,
Here-vitUJwe give.the whole report of the
Ageit of the State of Georgia—though it ar
rived so late that we found’it difficult 'to print
it It is however so full of matter that it is
impossible to abridge it or to take extracts from
it w ithout doing it injustice. It will_commend
itself to all our readers:
MEMORIAL.
To the Honor ablest he Senators and Representa
tives of the Legislature of Tennessee in Gen
eral .issembly met:
The undersigned haajbeen instructed by Gov
ernor Gilmer, under a resolution of the Legis
lature of Georgia, to proceed to this place, and
endeavor to obtain from your honorable body,
the right of way and other privileges, for the
extension of the Western and Atlantic Rail
Road from the Georgia line to the Eastern
margin of the Tennessee river, at some point
hereafter to be designated, by the proper au
thorities.
The vast importance of this connexion to the
citizens of both States, the public attentionaivi
approbation which has accompanied it, and the
ample means set apart for its immediate com
mencement, lead me to believe tliere will be
no obstacle in the way of its accomplishment;
and more particularly, when it is understood’
that the State of Georgia stands ready when
ever the application is made, to grant similar
privileges to tiie State of Tennessee, or her in
corporated companies.
The physical features of the surrounding
country, and other circumstances, will fix the
point for the commencement iff tiiis Road, at
or in the neighborhood of Ross’s Landing
Placed on a fine and deep river, on the verge
of the cotton and rice regions on the one Irand
and the provision regions on the other, and ac
cessible from existing and contemplated im
; provements and communications from every
j quarter, it must give rise to a great inland city,,
inferior to no other in the United States,
j From this point, six routes will present them
| selves to the Western traders for the transpor
-1 tation of their commodities, and other supplies,
j The first through the Decatur and Memphis
1 Rail Road, or by the way of the Tennessee,
1 down the Mississippi, to New Orleans, and
‘ from thence along the Inland passage to Mo
bile, St. Andrews Bay, the Apalachicola, and
up its branches; or across the peninsula of
Florida to Brunswick, and other towns and
cities on the Atlantic. The second from Gun
ter’s Landing on the Tennessee, by Rail Road
to Selma on the Alabama, and from thence
to Mobile, falling in with the first route. The
third will take its course on the main trunk of
the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, until it
diverges jto the right, down the beautiful val
ley of the Chattooga, to the head of steam boat
navigation at Wetumpka,and from thence down
the Alabama to Mobile, and then tike the line
of the first & second routes. This route itis pre
sumed, will be accomplished by the Iliwassee,
and Wotumpka Rail Road companies, and if
deemed expedient and necessary, by the State
ot Georgia or some company which, she may
hereafter incorporate. The fourth will pass on
| the main trunk through tiie Cherokee country,
j until it reaches the high ground on the Eastern
bank of the Chattahoochee, and then take a
direction to West Point, (where it will meet
] the Rail Road on the said river from Mont
i gorncry,) and to Columbus and other towns on
! the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola, reaching
j the terminations of the previous routes. The
j fifth from the same point near the Chatta
! lioochec, will pursue a course to Macon on the
| Ociuulgee, and then meet w ith steam boat nav
igation to Brunswick, Darien, Savannah and
Charleston, and in a few years with Rail Road
jto Savannah and Brunswick. The sixtli from
the same point will take a direction for Cov
| ington, Madison, Athens, Greensborotigh and
; Augusta, and then reach Savannah by asteam
j boat and Charleston by a Rail Road,
j The extent of the lines upon these different
; routes, (without estimating the lateral branches
which will hereafter arise,)added together, will
approach 4,000 miles, and confined almost en
tirely to a cotton region, in which, from climate
and other considerations, the price be what it
may, its culture must be pursued in all time to
come.
Upon all these routes except the first, Ten
nessee can be the soonest in the market, and
will meet with a ready demand for her pork,
flour, bacon, lard, beef, iron, castings, lime,
gypsum, and various other smaller articles;
and with charges for transportation greatly re
j (luced. The transportation of lime alone, to
reclaim the land impoverished and worn out by
j the cotton culture in the South, and for other
I purposes, will be a source of great profit to the
; citizens of Tennessee, and it is believed that
the Rail Road companies can afford to carry it
100 miles for B*> per ton. Its price throughout
Georgia generally, for a great many years, has
ranged from a dollar to a dollar and fifty cents
per bushel. Its extensive production and use,
troiri these causes, and for these purposes, will
have a great tendency to invigorate and im
; prove the agricultural pursuits in both States,
to increase their population, and suppress in
; some measure the rage for emigration.
; Nature has, perhaps, done more, and man
! less, for Tennessee and Georgia, than any
. other two States in the Union. But this state
of inaction has passed away, and is giving
place to a fine spirit for Internal Improvement, in
every part of these two sister States, which
must soon lead to a great amelioration in all
their relations; and which a genial clime,
great mineral wealth, immense water power,
the productions of almost every climate, and
and wise legislation are so capable of produc
ing. The advantages to be derived by Ten
nessee and other parts of the West as well as
the South, by changing the routes of a great
part of their foreign and other importations, are
next considered. Ross’s Landing is about
400 miles from Charleston, Savannah, Bruns
wick and Mobile, and about I.uO miles from
Nashville ; consequently, this places the great
er portion of Tennessee and a considerable
part of the West,.as will appear from the other
maps and other examinations, nearer to these
ports than any other upon the Atlantic or tiie
Gulf of Mexico; and fewer impediments will
be encountered upon these routes than any
other existing, or in contemplation.
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama ap
pear determined hereafter to make their im
portations and exportations nearly similar in
amount, if easy and speedy intercourse with
the West and other measures now in embryo,
can produce it, and no longer submit to the
withering effect which has arisen from their
importing 4,000,000, and exporting about 30,-
000,000. Laws have or shortly will be passed
by these States for the creation of companies
with limited partnerships, which will present
the opportunity for the investment of capital
without risk to the remainder of the owner’s