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l^truttsbiick by CHARL.es DAVIS.] VOLUME 2. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. AGENTS. Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq. Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton. Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq. Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance— s 4at the end of the year. o*No subscriptions received for a less term than six months and no paper discontinu ed until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the publisher. 40*All letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. IET ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Dollar per one hundred words, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for cv •ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per “cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. Those 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. EpN. B. Sales ofLAND, by Administrators, .Executors or Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in 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 of sale. Sales of Necrof.s 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 thereot, 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 b# 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 b« made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell 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. THE ADVOCATE. THE PULASKI. So much interest is still felt by all on this absorbing topic, that we give the following ac count which appeared in the Savannah Geor gian, as an extract of a private letter from Col. Robertson: Wilmington, (N. C.) June 19,1838. “Having a few hours leisure I may as well give you-some particulars respecting my participation in the terrible disaster of the Pulaski, of which you will have heard before this reaches you. We left Charleston at G on Thursday moriiing, having taken in a very large number of passengers, • making, when added to those from Savannah, from 150 to 170, a large proportion being women and children. The Ladies’ Cabin and the four state rooms were entirely occupied by them, and two slept in the Gentlemen’s .after Cabin. The wind was fresh, the sea rather rough, and much motion in the Iboat, in consequence of which most of the Ladies and many of the Gentlemen were too sick to come to table: yet we were all in good spirits, at the idea of landing in Baltimore on Saturday morning, particularly Capt. Dubois, who expressed his gratification at the large numbers of passengers he had, the “Georgia” having sailed the evening previous with but 45. Dr. Gumming and myself were among the last who retired to bed (soon after 10.) I was in a sound sleep when the explosion took place, and the exclamation “The Boiler’s burst!” and a crash, like the sound of a thousand iron bars falling at once :upon stones, and the breaking of all the glass in the cabin, met my ears simultane ously. Before leaving my birth I waited a moment to ascertain if any steam entered rthe cabin, intending, if it did, to bury my .head in the bed clothes, but I experienced nothing but a strong smell of burnt wood. In my progress to the deck, I found some of the cabin floor, opposite the berths of Mr. Hutchison and Dr. Cumming, blown up. On gaining the deck, 1 found the after part of it crowded with the pas sengers, in their night dresses, and ladies jn the same state, momently issuing from their cabin, the whole in dreadful con sternation, enquiring what was the matter, and calling for Captain Dubois; but alas! neither he nor any other officer of the boat,, responded to their call. It occur ed to.nie that the sails might be hoisted, and the vessel put before the wind, but upon trying the rudder ropes, I found them hanging loose. The cry was then for byckets—that she was on fire, but no buckets were to be found.—l now proceed ed forward, and found the centre of the vessel a complete wreck, particularly on the starboard side. She was kealing over to larboard, rolling with every sea, and the water entering with every roll, having PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA already extinguished the fire.—l now felt there was no hope, for although the boats had Occurred to me. I supposed, as usual on such occasions, that they would be over whelmed by numbers. I proceeded at once to the starboard quarter boat, inflat ing my life preserver, as I went, (which 1 had brought to Savannah as a curiosity, some five or six years ago, but always car ried with me in steamboats)in case I should have to swim to reach it; but found it just casting off with the mate and two others in it. I then crossed to the other side, and found two of the hands lowering that boat, when I at once leaped in and assisted them, and was followed by Capt. Pooler and his son. This was an anxious moment to me, for fear the boat would not be properly lowered, for either head or stern giving way, she would have filled. As soon as afloat, Mr. J. Hamilton Couper lowered down Mrs. Nightingale and Mrs. Fraser, then their children after them, and followed himself, falling in a dangerous situation, with his head in the water. Before we cast loose, two negro women cast themselves down upon us, one of whom nearly knocked me into the sea. After leaving the steamboat, and rowing off to some distance, we distinctly heard the cries of some of the perishing and wounded, who had been thrown over board by the explosion. From the way in which I have conducted my narrative, you my suppose much time elapsed be tween the explosion and my leaving the steamboat; but not more than 10 minutes intervened between quitting my berth and getting into the yawl. About ten minutes after leaving, we heard one of the boats, lying on the promenade deck, thrown over, but from the sound we feared she had filled. Some time after we fell in with the mate’s boat, having in tow the one last thrown over, full of water, from which he had taken two of the crew. This he gave us in charge, which added greatly to the labor of our two rowers, for we were obliged to put our boat’s head to the sea, to prevent her filling. The mate having picked up two or three men, returned to us, and commenced bailing the sunken boat with a hat; but finding the water enter as fast as taken out, we were obliged to cast her loose. About an hour after the explosion, the lights on board having for some time dis appeared, we heard terribly distinct, al though we endeavored to shut out the sound, the bursting up of the deck, and wild shrieks of mental agony which accom panied it. We continued in the neighborhood of the wreck, the mate having put one of the rescued on board of us, and extreme cau tion being required to prevent being stove against the notv numerous pieces of wreck, until 3 o’clock. A squall then coming up, and being unable to render any assistance to our unfortunate companions, as any more in the boats would have overloaded them, and put at hazard the lives of all in them, it tvas agreed to pull towards the land. Accordingly, about a quarter past 3 on Friday morning, the mate first taking the passengers he had given us, and him self steering one boat, and Mr. Couper one,without water, food or necessary cloth ing, or compass to guide, we commenced rowing towards the shore. The squall fortunately passed without any further in jury than a slight wetting, and we pursued our course with a fair wind and sea. Up to this time we had preserved a moody si lence, each being engaged with his own thoughts. Our boat having previously been the one least used, leaked consider bly, hut by the aid of a hat, borrowed from the mate’s boat, we soon freed her. It was only now, under a feeling of comparative safety, with a fair wind and sea, and in the sanguine hope of falling in with some vessel, that we began to con verse unrestrainedly, and to relate what each had separately witnessed. My feel ings at the sufferings and melancholly fate of our friends, hitherto controlled by the necessity of action, now found vent, and I am not ashamed to say found relief in tears. The prevailing cry during the dreadful three hours after the sinking of the wreck, was “ help, help, oh! help!” which heart-rending exclamations can nev er be effaced from my memory. Os the five men in one boat only two were good rowers, but we relieved each other during the day, and during our progress not a word was heard of hunger, thirst or suf fering. The sun was excessively hot, and the only protection to our heads was handkerchiefs, except the ladies who for tunately had cloaks. I felt but little thirst till afternoon and no hunger, and kept my feet in the water at the bottom of the boat, and constantly moistened my hands. From 8 till 12 little was said, our eyes being strained in vain around the horizon for a sail, and the labour being extreme we began to dispair. The truth is, had the wind changed we must have been driv en further to sea, and our situation been rendered indeed desperate. The Mate had conjectured that we should see land about 12 o’clock, and accordingly some what past that hour they gave the signal BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1838. of seeing it from their boat, distant we supposed about seven miles. About an j hour previous to this a poor fellow dread- I fully scalded, picked up by the Mate’s ! boat, and whose moans were distressing, died and was thrown overboard. Upon the sight of land our spirits rose wonder fully, but it required three hours of hard and incessant pulling to come up with it, and during the period we imagined houses, villages, light houses and farm houses vis ible to our expectant eyes, all of which, however, were transformed into arid sand hills defended by a line of surf, as far as the eye could reach. All hands being now exhausted, a consultation was held” when it was decided that the Mate’s boat should land first through the breakers, and those in her be ready to help the ladies in our boat when we attempted it. The Mate then choosing a placo, went on ur ged by the surf, stern first with great rap idity. We watched the result with intense anxiety, and began to despair after their long immersion, when we saw them to the number of five emerge singly from the w'aves; the others were never more seen. In our boat we were now truly in an awful situation; for we w r ere completely exhaus ted, so much so that if one of us was re lieved for two minutes he fell fast asleep, and it was with the utmost difficulty we could keep the boat from getting among the surf, far less to row 8 or 10 miles or more, in reach of an inlet. I now for the first time despaired, not of myself, for I felt confident of'reaching the shore, but on account of the females and the children. We remained in this tantalizing situation without our comrades being able to do any thing for us, except to beckon us not to land, until near 7 o’clock, P. M., when becoming desperate, we prepared to en counter the surf. Mrs. Nightingale tied her child to her person. Young Pooler put on the life-preserver; disliking to part with my coat I tied the skirts round me. and all prepared for the worst—our com panions still at a distance. We put her stern on, and were borne through and amid the rollers like lightning, towards the shore, which we were not far from when our boat unfortunately broached too, was turned bottom up, and we left to swim the balance of the way. This we all did safely, with the aid of the surf, which cast us up whether we would or not. The difference in the recess of landing from the two boats was that the first went ashore on an ebb tide, with an under current to contend with; we with the flood tide. In side of the Island upon which we landed was a shallow face of water w hich we af terwards found was named ‘Stump Sound,’ over to which the first boat had been dragged, and sent off to a house about two miles off. Here on a sand bar, without a tree upon it, we had to await the return of the boat, in our wet clothes, and a cool w ind blowing in from the sea. The ladies and their children were laid in the sand covered with coarse grass and weeds, and the men afterwards in a row to preserve warmth. The sun having been shining on the sand, the side next the earth were comfortable enough, whilst our upper sides were miserably chilled. The mate suc ceeded by digging with a shell in procur ing some brackish water, but which was a great relief to us. About 10 o’clock, to our great jov, three canoes arrived from the house, bringing' a jug of coffee and some bread. We soon embarked, and after half an hours pulling, hauling, hol lowing and paddling, through water never over waist deep, and sometimes mud with out water, we arrived at the house, where we found a good fire and meat and drink, being then about 25 hours since we had left the wreck. We were 31 miles from Wilmington, to which the mate, another and myself, volunteered, to proceed, in a cart, but were compelled to stop half way thoroughly drenched by a North East storm of wind and rain. We, however, reached Wilmington about 9 o’clock, where our arrival produced the greatest excitement. A train of private carriages immediately set off for our companions! 7 miles off am? brought them comfortably to town. The passengers were taken to the stores and provided vyith clothing,'&,c. at cost to those who could pay, while those who were destitute were furnished gratis. The Bank has offered to cash our drafts to any moderate amount, and the Rail Road Company have offered us a free pass age North or to Charleston. In short, we have been most hospitably treated, and I will long remember it. Capt. Dubois, at the time of the explo sion, was asleep in the steering house, having relinquished his room, and the va rious officers and hands not employd about the machinery at the time, were asleep in their berths, adjoining to the boiler. The explosion seemed to be upwards and to wards the side of the boat, because the gentlemen’s two cabins in a line with the boiler, were not much injured and reciev ed no steam. The cause was doubtless gross neglect. Prince Talleyrand has seen 8 reigns, commencing with Louis XV. [From Cooper’s new novel of the “Homeward Bound.” In the following extract Mr. Cooper gives a renewed exhibition of his talent for the description of thrilling nautical in cidents which so distinguished his early novel “The Pilot.” Pitting a Ship before the Wind.— Long before noon, or at the hour mention ed, Capt. Truck foresaw that, in conse quence of the seas that were constantly coming on board of her, he should be compelled to put his ship before the wind. He delayed the manoeuvre to the last mo ment, however, for what he deemed to be sufficient reasons. The longer he kept the ship lying to, the less hexleviated from his proper course to New York, and the greater was the probability of his escap ing, stealthily and without observation from the Foam ; since the latter, by main taining her position better, allowed the Montank to drift gradually to leeward, and, of course, to a greater distance.— But the crisis would no longer admit of delay. All hands were called, the main top sail was hauled up, not without much difficulty; and then Captain Truck reluc tantly gave the order to haul down the mizzen-stay-sail, to put the helm hard up, and to help the ship round with the yard. Tips is at all times a critical change, as has just been mentioned, for the vessel is exposed to the ravages of any sea, larger than common, that may happen to strike her as she lies, nearly motionless, with her broadside to its force. To accomplish it, therefore, Captain Truck went up a few ratlines in the fore-rigging, (he was too nice a calculator to offer even a surface as small as his own body to the wind, in the after shrouds) whence he looked out to windward for a lull, and a moment when the ocean had fewer billows than common of the larger and more danger ous kind. At the desired instant he sign ed witli his hand, and the wheel was shift ed from hard-down to hard-lip. This is always a breathless moment in a ship, so.-, as none can foresee the result, it resem bles the entrance of a hostile battery. A dozen men may be swept away in an in stant, or the ship herself hove over on her side. John Effingham and Paul, who, of all the passengers, were alone on deck, understood tlie hazards, and they watched the slightest chance with the interest of men who had so much at stake. At first the movement of the ship was sluggish, and such as ill-suited the eagerness of the crew. Then her pitching ceased, and she settled into the enormous trough bodi ly, or the whole fabric sunk, as it were, never to rise again. So low did she fall, that the fore-sail gave a tremenduous flap; one that shook the hull and spars, from stem to stern. As she rose on the next surge, happily its foaming crest slid be neath her, and the tall masts rolled heavi ly to windward. Recovering her equil ibrium, the ship started through the brine, and, as the succeeding roller come on, she was urging a-head fast. Still, the sea struck her a-beain, forcing her bodily to leeward, and having the lower yard arms into the ocean. Tons of water fell on her decks, with the dull sound of the clod on the coffin. At this grand moment, old Jack Truck, who was standing in tile rigging, dripping with the spray that had washed over him, with a naked head, and his gray hair glistening, shouted like a Stenton, “haul in your fore-braces, boys! away with the yard, like a fiddlestick!”— Every nerve was strained; the unwilling yards, pressed upon by an almost ir resistible column of air, yielded slow ly, and, as the sail met the gale more perpendicularly,or at right angles to its sur face, it dragged the vast hull through the sea with a power equal to that of a steam engine. Ere another sea could follow, the Montank was glancing through the ocean at a furious rate; and, though of fering her quarter to the billows, their force was now so much diminished by her own velocity, as to deprive them of their prin cipal danger. Tartar women. —Among the Tirtars, the position of the \v?fe differs - not very materially from that which she enjoys in Europe, although she is treated on some points in a manner that would leac a stran ger to think otherwise. She is pjrchased from her father according to the primi tive custom. The suitor, if he cannot at once pay the price demanded for fier in cows—a cow, being amongst them the principal standard of value—must yield his personal service in lieu thereof, as Ja cob did of old. The price o'a well-look ing girl is about thirty cows, in proportion to the want of personal attractions on the part of the lady. But thotgli the father may sell his daughter, th* husband can not dispose of his wife after that fashion. If she he. faithless, he ipayeend her home, and obtain what he pail for her back again. But if she be wfff conduted and be the parent of children-'-the great source of honor in the may go thro’ | life as happy as any wvman of any cotin • try. —It is true, that am»ngst some nations ;of Tartars she is notpermitted to eat at the same table with her is compelled to go tbroug^HnHHHH of the family, while her^HNRHHgBg ease. But examples of may be found even in Fr.'^H^RSHgßg speaking, the Tartar wJKtSBBSSm the import of prove iar from being Tar tars. pitahlc to strangers, nffc^^HßMflßß husbands and children, festival days s|>lt'udidlj^HßßßSßjHßH| their friends and choose, they have their enjo\ incut, for title tattic Tin: Defence of defence of Stonington, of Commodore Hardy, most gallant little affairs contest in which it occurred. rnn of sir Thomas Hardy Romulus 71, the Pactolus fr^HHHHj guns, the brig Despatch of 1 a bomb ship, winch bad lain off for a considerable time—e.itirely^^HH ading the Sound. Commodore supposed the place to be cntirelv less, and had repeatedly thr destruction. The attack was ' 9th of August, 1814, the brig a° c^HSHEj within half cannon shot; the bomb ketch fired at a moC HHHh distance. There was a smafl' ;^»ir^j?v^ defence, however, situated ie tremity of the peninsula, InitAitP^^HlH regular garrison. When tli atU^^HHn menced, the people, supposing rough was doomed to inevitable (HH tion, tied, for the most part in wild a^^HH Others, however, ofstermr stuff, rHHH ed in their houses, while a Sparta^^^^g of volunteers rushed itto the lit^^^H tress, with two eighteen pounders, were directed against /lie brig witSi|||| effect as to tear up her main de<^H||j|| oblige her to cut her cables and with all possible expedition. The ron then drew off. The flag staff little fort yet stands as during the^^^H We visited the spot —and the hou^^^H late venerable citizen, (Mr. Palmer,^K|||| of half a dozen or less enterprising ers in this city,) whose bouse was by one of the enemy’s shells, and own life was saved by the circumstai^^H his stooping to light his pipe at the ii^HH the shells passed over bis head, the only benefit that vve ever kne^^SS erne from the abominable prac^BHß smoking 'The Prince dk Joinvii.i.e. —A stance occurred on the Prince’s Washington, which must have him and his suite 'with some He had arrived in the city and in a dress “marvellously With his friends in a similar called at Gndsby’s for “bed and dH||B| The person to whom the party a|H||||| after surveying them from head and not conceiving a very exalted of their pccuniosity, told them no room in the Hotel. They to Brown’s Hotel, where they lariy scrutinized, hut were informed were only two rooms in the garret, copied. As the travellers were tiredHHS6 accented of this elevated dormitary, than go farther. The bar keeper ed his hook ns usual, for the names visiters, and when the Prince with all Be titles, &.c. &.c. &c., in a great flurry, rang the bell, B. ordered the best Chamber to be diately prepared for the Royal This must have recalled to the the Prince a similar one in the adventures of Guzman d’Alferche,flH which the hero stops at a tel were he had been very badly some time before on account of his appearance, but when he called in /in egant carriage and stepped in, brilliant style, there was no erfd , fatiguing splendor of his reception/ timure Transcript. A Short Sermon. word spoken in season, how good it is,” and never, perhaps, was this proverb more fully veri fied than by the late Rev. Rowland Hill. He was once walking.iivCh©*p&ide, on a Sabbath afternoon, when he overheard a conversation between two young mfcn of gay appearance who were close behind him. “Where shall we go to this even ing?” asked one of them- “Wherever we can have a bit of fun,” replied the other. “Then let us go to Old Rowley's el,” said his companion, “ there will be some fun there.” It was accordingly a greed upon; and while the worthy Divine read the lesson in the evening, bis eye discerned in the gallery near him the very two persons whom he had beheld in the street but a few hours before making the above remark. His text was taken from Psalms ix 17. “The wicked shall be’tUrn ed into hell, and all nations that forget God.” For a moment the Minister paus ed, and then looking them both full in the face, and pointing to them with all the dignity of his calling, repeated to them the awful denunciation of# scripture, add ing at the same time, “There’s fun for ye, my boys!” A* Evsion JsHPIQHhHHHHHHH Place Guards yesterday Eaqr. Ensign. A Committee -mnPitpfsninimT to notify him of his election, Mi he immedi ately returned to the je*ne of notion, de livered the following aadfttHddc ad-* dress: “ Gentlemen —The honor which yon have just conferred on so unexpected that I (Uh notion the sodden emergency, find voids ad*- quote for the expression of any gUtllnilii hot one tiling I can say, end that i*, I Jfcspt the office, and if YOU have a mind toW4tfl| all go up to Mr. Meyer’s French GaMt House, and take a drink.*— {Boston Boot <*»* Tub Last Yanks Stobt.— A Mtp pMS* ing through New Hampshire nhplind the following notice on a hoards OsjpMe'-'lahqe in-to grass. Long end afk asked the »»»»«• «f **» yy| the see, ma’am, thelong tails can brush away the flies': hotthe abort ones are aotatnMMftd bv them they can hardly pit at aIL"