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Jacob Raclekson applies to
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ROBERT B WILSON,
May 10. * Clerk C. O. W. C.
GEORGIA—GLYNN COUNTY^
URBANUS DART applies to me for letters
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A. D. 1838. JOHN BURNETT,
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Georgia-- Glunn County.
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of November, 1837. JOHN BURNETT,
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eorffia—Waync ( ouiifv.
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C 011 ty, deceased.
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Dutens' Memoirs.
Carnes' Letters from the East.
Crichton, an Historical Romance,
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Wraxall’s Historical Memoirs.
The Gurney Papers.
Recovery of the Treasure sunk in the Thetis.
ThcT-ife-of Oliver Goldsmith.
Pretension, a novel, by Miss Stickney.
The Adventures of a French Sergeant.
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POETRY.
[From the Mother's Magazine.]
IT IS NOT HARD TO DIE.
“Oh ! Mother, say, must we all die?
You, sister, dear papa and I?
I do not like to think I shall
Lie in the deep dark grave so stilfc
Mother, I’m fond of life and play,
And like not be borne away,
From the green fields and pleasant light,
To lie where it is always night."
•
“Come hither child, and you shall place
W ithin the earth, in yonder vase,
This grain."
“O, it is smooth and round !
Mother, put not in the ground
Th is pretty grain.”
“Do it, my love ;
For by this seed I wish to prove,
Tiiat it is not so hard to die,
And in the deep dark grave to lie.”
“How sweet a fragrance fills the room!
Mother, your flowers are now in bloom ;
And oh! how beautiful they seem
While standing in the bright sunbeam !
Mother, I’m glad yon made me place
That smooth round seed within the vase ;
For more delighted now, I see
The blosoms on this pretty tree,
Which from that buried grain has sprung."
“ Tis thus, my r love, with children young
And loved to God—their bodies die,
And like that grain in earth must lie,
But like this flower from thence shall rise,
A form of beauty in the skies, —
Which quickly springing from the tomb,
In paradise shall ever bloom.”
miscellany.
THE HOLE IN MY POCKET.
BY JAMES H. PERKINS.
It is now about a year since my wiG,
said to me one day, “Pray, Mr. Slackwa
ter, have you that half dollar about you
that I gave you this morning?” I felt in
my waistcoat pocket, and I felt in my
breeches pocket, and I turned my purse
inside out, but it was all empty space—
which is very different from specie; so I
said to Mrs. Slackwater, “ I’ve lost it, my
dear; positively, there must be a hole in
my pocket!” “I’ll sew it up,” said she.
An hour or two after, I met Tom Steb
bins. “How did that icc-cream set?”
said Tom. “It set,” said I, “like the
sun, gloriously.” And as I spoke, it
flashed upon me that my missing half dol
lar,had paid for these ice-creams: howev
er, I held my peace, for Mrs. Slackwater
sometimes makes remarks; and even
when she assured me, at breakfast, next
morning, that there was no hole in my
pocket, what could I do but lift my brow
and say, “Ah, isn’t there? really!”
Beforb a week had gone by, my wife,
who, like a dutiful helpmate, as she is,
always gave me her loose change to keep,
called lor a twenty-five cent piece that
had been deposited in my sub-treasury for
safe-keeping. “There was a poor woman
at the door,” she said “that she’d promis
ed it to, for certain.” “Well, wait a
moment,” I cried; so I pushed inquiries
first in this direction, then in that, and
then in the other: but vacancy returned a
a horrid groan. “On my soul,” said I,
thinking it best to show a bold front,‘you
must keep my pockets in better repair,
Mrs. Slackwater; this piece, with I know
not how many more is lost, because some
corner or seam in my plaguey pockets is
left open.”
“Are you sure?” said Mrs. Slackwater.
“Sure! ay that I am; its gone! totally
gone!” My wife dismissed her promise,
and then, in her quiet way, asked me to
change my pantaloons before I went out,
and to bar al! argument, laid another
pair on my knees.
That evening, allow me to remark,
gentlemen of the species “husband,” I
was very loath to go home to tea; I had
half a mind to bore some bachelor
friend; and when hunger and habit, in
their unassuming manner, one on each
side, walked me up to my own door, the
touch of the brass knob made my blood
run cold. But do not think Mrs. Slack
water is a tartar, my good friends, be
cause I thus shrunk from home; the fact
‘■Was, that I had,-while abroad, called to
mind the fate of the twenty-five cent
piece, which I had invested, as larger a
mounts are often invested, in smoke, —
that is to say, cigars; and I feared to think
of her comments on my pantaloons pock
ets.
These things went on for some months;
we were poor to begin with, and grew
poorer, or, at any rate, no richer, fast.
Times grew worse and worse: my pocket
leaked worse and worse; even my pocket
book was no longer to be trusted; the
rags slipped from it in a manner almost!
incredible to relate. As an Irish son<r
says— =
‘And such was the fate of poor Paddy O'More,
1 hat his purse had the more rents as he had
the fewer.’
At length, one day, my wife came in
with a subscription paper for the Orphan’s
Asylum; I looked at it, and picked my
teeth, and shook my head, and handed it
back to her.
“Ned Bowen,” said she, “hasputdown
ten dollars.”
“The more shame to him, I replied,
he can t afford it; he can but just scrape
along, any how, and in these bard times
it aint right for him to do it.” My wife
smiled in her sad wav, and took the pa
per back to him that brought it.
The next evening she asked me if I
would go with her, and spe the Bowens,
and as I had no objections, we started.
I knew that Ned Bowen did a small bu
siness that would give him about SISOO a
year, and I thought it would be worth :
while to sec what that sum would do in ■
the way of housekeeping. We were ad- 1
mitted by Ned and welcomed by Ned’s !
wife, a very neat little body, of whom
Mrs. Slackwater had told me a great deal,
as they had been schoolmates. All was
as nice as wax, and yet as substantial as
iron; comfort was written all over the
room. The evening passed, somehow or
other, though we had no refreshment, an
article which we neve/ have at home, but
always want when elsewhere, and 1 re
turned to our own establishment with
mingled pleasure and chagrin.
“What a pity,” said I to my wife, “that
Bowen don’t keep within his income.”
“He does,” she replied. *
“But how can he on $600?” was my
answer: it lie gives $lO to this charitv
and $.» to that, and live so snug and com
fortable too?”
“Shall I tell you?” asked Mrs. Slack
water.
“Certainly, if you can.”
“His wife,” said my wife, finds it just
as easy to go without *2O or S3O worth of
ribbons and laces, as to buy them. They
have no fruit but uhat they raise and
have giv«»~ ‘uem by country friends »hom
uiey repay by a thousand little acts of
kindness. They use no beer, wiiioW u
not essential to his health, as it is to yours;
and then he buys no cigars or ice cream,
or apples at 100 per cent, on market price,
or oranges at 12 cents a-piece, or candy,
or new novels, or rare works that are
still more rarely used; in short, my dear
Mr. Slackwater, he has no hole in his
pocket.”
It was the first word of suspicion my
wife had uttered on the subject; and it!
cut me to the quick! Cut me? I should
rather say it sewed me up, me and my
pockets too; they never have been in
holes since that evening.—[Cincinnati
Chronicle.
Woman. We extracted, a few days
since, front an English paper, a remark,
that, in the promotion of public or pri
vate charities, one woman was wortli just
thirteen men and a half. A young lady
of this city, who possesses the means for
judging, has sent us word that the ratio is
nearer 18 to 1, in favor of the ladies, and
she has appealed to us to sustain her as
sertion. This appeal to us is well with
reference to the general character of the
sex, but unfortunate, as it regards partic
ulars, because we are as ignorant in these
matters of the ladies as uflcle Toby,
whose declaration was made with so
much emphasis to Squire Shandy, his
brother. But our impressions are so
strong of woman’s pre-eminence in works
of goodness, that we are half inclined to
defend the assertion, and trust to an im
perfect memory for a few instances. Wc
say nothing of Eve, nor will we allow her
error to lie pleaded against us, —she was
too recently from the side of Adam to
have acquired any distinctive character,
but take her daughter, perhaps her old
est. When the first born of our race
was driven forth from his home and his
kind, he went not alone—the soothing
cares of woman softened the judgment of
heaven, and father, mother, home and its
innocent delights, were sacrificed to the
charit es of a wife, and she followed him,
the accursed of God, to minister to his
wants to hide, if not obliterate the mark
of guilt upon his brow; to throw herself
between his bloodstained bosom and the
avenger’s sword!
It was the woman, the mother, that sav
ed and nourished the infant Moses. “My
head, my head,” said the boy who had
fclfcwed the fp.rdo members'* of- the family:
into the field, and they hare him to his
mother, and lie lay on her knees until lie
died.
It was woman, the daughter of Jephtha,
that bowed her head submissive to the
chieftain’s oath, and gave her life that she
inigkt redeem a parent’s pledge.
When the “Promised One” came, men
and Kings indeed came and worshipped
him, but woman watched his infancy, and
ministered to his wants. It was woman
that bathed his feet—it was woman that
listened to his preaching—it was woman]
that sought him “without”—it was wo
man that stood at a distance and gazed
latest upon his agonies at the cross, and
it was woman that came first to inqnire
at the tenantless grave. History teems
with the efficiency of woman’s exertions,
her long endurance, her ready sacrifices,
and her successful labors; and now, when
j ie manners of society have changed, we
ii.ne only a change in the mode of her
charities, none in the spirit of devotion
and influences of them. I3 the “gospel
to be preached to all creatures?”—woman
bears the plea—her willing hand collects
from a thousand sources the means to ful
fil the purpose. She gathers a vast accu
mulation, in particulars so trifling as to
be overlooked by man, and when the or
phan cries or widow supplicates, her hand
can minister with a double efficacy, be
cause it delicately ministers. We stop
not to praise woman at the bed of sick
ness, because no comparison exists at that
place—there womftn is supreme. The
physician may prescribe but woman must
minister—she must watch, nourish, sus
tain and charm to convalescence, or else
her kindness must sooth the pillow, and
hand close down the dimming eye. In
such a situation, a woman is not to be val
ued. “Her price is above rubies.”
! -A Rogue Caugiit.— An English gen
tleman, residing at Cambridge, some
months since had his desk broken open,
and about S2OOO in gold stolen therefrom.
Suspicion falling upon a son-in-law, who
was employed as under keeper at the
House of Correction at East Cambridge,
and it being observed that a sort of inti
macy existed between him and one of the
cc.ivicts, a notoriously bad fellow, they
where carefully watched.—About a week
since, the convict applied to Mr. Watson,
the master of the house, for leave to trans
- plant a tree from one part of the prison
yard to another, and a better location,
which was granted. Surprised however, at
the singularity of the request, Mr Watson
! determined unseen, to witness the proceed
ings. When the hole hod been dug, and
the tree in it, but before the filling
“ft had commenced,the uiuWJ^acp*,-
from one of the out buildings, and after
examining the tree attentively and looking
cautiously uhont, slid something from
between his legs mio the hole, and after
throwing in a quantity of dirt, which be
carefully trod down, he allowed the convict
to finish the filling up, which he awaited
to superintend. After it was completed,
the master came forward, and sending the
convict to his cell, remarked that he did
not like the location of the tree, and direct
ed the under-keeper to take the shovel and
dig it up again. This lie did very carefully,
leaving a quantity of earth in the hole,
which ho was also told to shovel out, —he
did so, and also with it a little bag, which
was found to contain a quantity of as
fine gold sovereigns as ever were coined,
and which have since been sworn to as
the stolon property.—Of course it is unnec
to add, that the dutiful son-in-law is no
longer the keeper, but the kept.—Boston
Mercantile Journal.
The Barber’s Poi.f., which is the sym
bol of the mystery of shaving by a razor,
has been used for many years. Its origin is
thus related in Pullcyn’s Etymological
Compendium: ‘The origin of the barber’s
pole is to be traced to the period when
the barbers were also surgeons, under the
denomination of Barber Surgeons, or
Barber Ctiirurgcons, none other informer
times being allowed to ‘let blood.’ To assist
this operation, it being necessary for the
patient to grasp a stafl, a stick or a pole
was always kept by the Barber-Surgeon,
together with the fillet or bandaging used
for tying the patient’s arm. When the
pole was not in use the tape was tied to
it that they both might be forthcoming
when wanted. On a person coming to be
hied, the tape was disengaged from the
pole and bound round the arm, and the
pole was put into the person’s hand: after
it was done it was again tied on, and in
this state the pole and tape were often
hung at the door, for a sign or notice to
passengers that they might there be bled.
At length, instead of hanging out the
identical pole used in the operation, a pole
was painted with stripes round it, in imi
tation of the real pole and its bandagings,
and thus came the sign.”
/Eroxai’tks. Mr. Monck Mason has
published in London a volume, ac
companied with highly finished embellish
ments, entitled Sketches of the Theory
and Practice of /Erostation. author
was oite of the atßenikfroifs' party
with Mr. Green, made the celebrated noc
turnal trip from London to Weilberg, in
Germany, in the winter of 1836. Mr.
Mason’s narrative of that adventure is
given in the volume.
[ A Mercantile Pun.-A flock of birds
flying over tho heads of twocity merchants,
one of them exclaimed, “ How happpy
those creaturesjife! They have no accep
tances to pay! “You are mistaken,” re
plied the other. “They have their bills
to provide for, as well as we.”— Picayune.
IN ADYA^ffe,
• "-r t I; _
■ I Origin of “Yr.s Horse.”—
I man travelling through the pinewodtfs of
I Georgia, arrived »t a settlement towards
1 evening, at one of the houses es whiefche
stopped for the night. There hipffened
to be a ball in the neighborhood, and he,
being a stranger, was, as a matter of coarse]
invited. During the evening, the gentle
men regaled the marie* with Whiskey,
and “giniwine” New* England, and the
ladies amused themselves with eating roast
ed potatoes— (which were banded round
in place of cakes and wine,) taking the
peelings off with their finger* niils.—
Concluding to dance, the gentleman step
ped up to a young lady who was busily
employed in disposing of an enormous
potatoe.and politely aaked her if she would
dance with him in a set just forming?
to which she replied: “ Yes.dHcwe, if I
knows myself, I goes it. Here, Sol,
(speaking to a friend beside) hold My Ha
ter, while I trots a reel with this 'ere
feller!” [Fed. Union.
Nicely Caught. A few nights since
a thieving rascal entered a house in the
upper part of the city from the front door
and commenced appropriating diversgoods
and chattels to his own immediate ac
count. While busily engaged another
professional gentleman, a stranger, enter
ed from the back door and “set up” in
the same business. While both were
pursuing their avocations noiselessly and
in the dark, they accidentally came in
contact, each thinking he had “ woke
up” the lawful owner, a hard scuffle com
menced, upsetting chairs and tables and
raising such a tremendous racket that
the proprietor was roused, who soon came
to the scene of action with a candle, when
the free-booters, discovering their mistake,
made oIT leaving all their plunder, and
escaped. It is a real pity the rascals were
■not allowed to make a “Kilkenny cat”
aflair of it, and use one another up,
Picayune.
Farmer’s Anecdote. A farmer not
more than 100 miles from Cape Elizabeth
employed a shrewd neighbor to c** a
pier.® grass for I®"*. Condi‘«rtlfifly that
Tie should have one half of the hay.
When his hay was dry his neighbor
ceeded to haul it in, accompanied by the
o,v ner to see the division. When he
tliougfu th a t be had pitched one half on
the cart, lie «.«ked old hunks if he had
not got one hall » Qi ‘No, no> » wna t j, e
reply and he then put „„ , nore> in
asked the same question, ano ••reived for
reply, ‘Not quite half yet.’ ‘Well,
the other, ‘I will pitch on till you think I
have got one half on;’ so he proceeded
till about two thirds of the hay was on
the cart, when lie was told that he had
got on About one half. He then coolly
observßlliat he would drive home with
that Joadfbr himself, and then return and
haul in the remainder for his neighbor.
So the owner in managing to giving his
neighbor only one third, had to take that
for his own share.
Sir Isaac Newton’s Courtship. It
is said that Sir Isaac Newton did once in
his life go a wooing, and, as he wag ex
pected, had the greatest indulgence paid
to his little peculiarities, which ever ac
company great genius. Knowing that he
was fond of smoking, the lady assiduous
ly provided him with a pipe,—and they
were gravely seated to open the business
of Cupid. Sir Isaac made a lew whiffs
—seemed at a loss for something—whiff
ed again—and at last drew his chair near
to the lady—a pause of some minutes en
sued—Sir Isaac seemed still more uneasy
—Oh t lie timidity of some, thought the
lady when io, Sir Isaac got hold of her
hand now the palpitations began— he will
kiss it no doubt thought she, and then the
matter is settled. Sir Isaac whiffed with
redoubled fury, and drew the captive hand,
near his head; already the expected salu
tation vibrated from the hind to the
heart, when, pity the damsel, gefttie read
er, Sir Isaac only raised the fair hand, to
make the fore finger what he much want
ed—a tobacco stopper!
A Chancery Prisoner. The tern
key led the way in silence, and gently
raising the latch of tho room door, mo
tioned Mr. Pickwick to enter. It was a
large, hare, desolate room, with a number
of stump bedsteads made of iron, on
one of which lay stretched the shadow of
a man, wan, pale and ghastly. His
breathing was hard and thick, and he
moaned painfully as it came and went
At the bedside sat a short old manib 4
cobler’s apron, who4>y the aid of SuPONI
of horn spectacles, Waa reading fhMgf
bible aloud. It was the fortunate le«|ne.
The sick man laid bis hand umpTnui
attendant’s arm, and motionestlbwge to
stop. He closed the book andHud it on
the bed. *
“Open the window,’ «*«d the sick man.
He did so. The noise of carriages
and carts, the rattle of wheels, the cries
of man and boys; all the busy sounds of
a mighty multitude instinct with life and
occupation, blended into one deep mur-