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Searcher of gold, whose days and nights All waste away in anxious care, Estranged from all of life’s delights, Unlearned in all that is most fair— Who sailest not with easy glide, But delvest in the depths of tide, And strugglest in the foam— Oh! come and view the land of graves— Death's northern sea of frozen waves— And mark thee out thy home. Lover of woman, whose sad heart Wastes like a fountain in the sun, Clings most where most its pain does start, D.es by the light it lives upon— Come to the land of graves; for here Are beauty's smile, and beauty’s tear, Gathered in holy trust; Here slumber forms as fair as those Whose cheeks, now- living, shame the rose— Their glory turned to dust. Lover of fame, whose foolish thought Steals onward from the wave of time— Tell me, what goodness hath it brought, Atoning for that restless crime? The spirit-mansion desolate, And opens to the storms of fate, The absent soul in fear— Bring home thy thoughts, and coine with me And see where all thy pride must be; Searcher of fame, look here! And, warrior, thou with snowy plume, That goest to the bugle's call— Come and look down—this lonely tomb Shall hold thee and thy glories all: The haughty brow —the manly frame— The daring deeds—the sounding fame— Are trophies but for death! And millions who have toiled like thee Arc stayed, and here they sleep; and see, Does glory lend them breath? .111 SCKLL Al¥ Y. A Deserted City. We take the fol lowing description of the wonderful and i long deserted City of Petra front our | countryman Stevens’ Travels in the East. It is in the valley of Edom (of the Israel ites,) near the Dead Sea, and was visited by -Mr. S. in 1835: This ancient and extraordinary city is situated within a neutral amphitheatre of two or three miles in circumference, en compassed on all sides bv rugged moun tains fit e or six hundred feet in height. The whole of this area is now a waste of j ruins, dwelling houses, palaces, temples, j and triumphal arches, all prostrate togeth er in 'indistinguishable confusion. The' sides of the mountains are cut smooth in a perpendicular direction, and filled with long and continued ranges of dwelling houses, temples, and tombs, excavated w ith vast labor out of the solid rock; and while their summits present Nature in her wildest and most savage form, their bases are adorned with all the beauty of ! architecture and art, with columns, and | porticoes, and pediments, and ranges of | corridors, enduring as the mountains out lof w hich they are hew n, and fresh, as if | the work of a generation scarcely yet |gone by. Nothing can he finer than the im j mouse rocky rampart w hich encloses the I city. Strong, firm and immovable as na ture itself, it seems to deride the walls of cities, and the puny fortifications of skil i fill engineers. The only access is bv j clambering over this wall of stone, prac ticable only in one place, or bv an en | trance the most extraordinary that nature, |in her wildest freaks has ever framed. |The loftiest portals ever raised bv the hands of man, the proudest monuments |of architectural skill and daring, sink in -Ito insignificance by the comparison. It is, perhaps, the most wonderful object in the world, except the ruins of the city to which it forms the entrance. Burkhardt had been accosted, immediately upon his entry, by a large party of Bedouins, and had been suffered to remain but a very | short time. I expected a sc.ena of some j kind; but at the entrance of the city I there was not a creature to dispute our j passage; its portals were w ide open, and j we passed along t lie stream down into the area, and still no man came to oppose us. |\\ e moved to the extreme end of the area; and when in the act of dismounting iat the loot the rock on w hich stood the temple that had constantly faced us, We saw one solitary Arab straggling along j w ithout any apparent object, a mere wan derer among the ruins; and it i s not an uninteresting fact that this poor Bedouin j was the only living being we saw in the desolate city of Petra. After gazina at us for a few moments from a distance, he came towards us, and in a few moments was sitting down to pipes and coifee with my companions. Among the ruins is a circular theatre, cut out ol the solid rock, containing 33 rows of seats, and capable of holding 5000 people. Although the front pillars ■ have fallen, ■■ ct the whole theatre snvs BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1838. | Mr. Stevens, is in such a state of preserv ation that “if the tenants of the tombs ! around could once more rise into life, they might take their places on the seats.” “Where,” he exclaims, “areye, inhab ! itants of this desolate city? ve, who once j sat on the seats of this theafre, tile young the high born, the beautiful and the brave; who once rejoiced in your riches and power, and lived as if there was no grave! where are ye now? Even the very tombs, j whose open doors are stretching away in iloiig ranges before the eyes of the wan | dering traveller cannot reveal your doom. ' Your dry bones are gone. The robber has invaded your graves, and your very ashes have been swept away to make room for the wandering Arab of the des-1 ert.” i No description without the aid of plates, can give an adequate conception' of the ruins of this wonderful city. Sus-: ficient may be gathered from the preced ing account, to convince every reader, ♦hat Petra was once a populous, wealtln and luxurious city, adorned with temples, arches and theatres; and that it was for a thousand years utterly forgotten, and that it is now destitute of a single inhabitant. The most interesting and important consideration connected with the city is, that its ruin is a distinct fulfilment of the ancient prophecies. Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos, Joel, Obediah, and Malachi have announced the desolation of Edom, and j some of them in language, which most! graphically describes the situation of Pe-1 tra, ‘in the clefts of the rocks,’ and in I ‘the height of the hill.’ Mr. Stevens 1 says: ‘Amid all the terrible denunciations j against the land of Idumea ‘her cities and the inhabitants thereof,’ this proud city among the rocks ‘doubtless for its ex traordinary sins, was always marked as a subject of extraordinary vengeance. ‘J have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah (the stronger fortified citv) shall become a desolation, a reproach, and a waste and a curse, and all the cities | thereof shall be perpetual waste. Lo, 11 will make thee small among the heathen,! and despised among men. Thy tcrriblc ness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that (liveliest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill; if thou shouldst make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence saith the Lord.* ‘They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall he there, and all her princes shall be nothing; and thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof, ami it shall he an habitation for dragons, and a court for ow ls.’f j I would tlmt the skeptic could stand as! i I did, among the ruins of this city among j the rocks, and there open the sacred book, and read the words of the inspired pen men, written when this desolate place was one of the greatest cities in the world. *Jer. 40: 13,10. tlsaiah34: 14,15. Picture or Oregon. The following j synopsis, as it were, ot the great Oregon | Country, and region of the Rocky .Moun tains, is taken from a review of Parker’s recent work in the last number of the I Knickerbocker: “Spread before you, reader, a map of . that portion of this continent which ! stretches westward from a line with the j Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, J and with the above named work in your hand, follow its author in all his journey (ings, until you reach with hint that iron hound coast, where mountain harriers re pel the dark rolling waves of the Pacific, which stretches, without an intervening ! island, fir five thousand miles, to the ; coast of Japan. What a vast extent of j country you have traversed; how sublime itlie works of tho Creator, through which you have taken your way! We lack space |to follow our author in the detail of his far wanderings, and shall not therefore at tempt a notice at large of the volume un der consideration, but shall endeavor to | present, in a general view, some of its | more prominent features. Mr. Parker was sent out by the American Hoard of Foreign Missions and he appears to have : been eminently faithful to .his trust, j amidst numerous perils ami privations, 'which are recorded, not with vain boast 'mg and exaggeration, but with becoming j modesty and brevity. Ilis descriptions, | indeed, are all of them graphic, without being minute or tedious. Before reach ing the Black Hills, he places before us the prairies rolling in immense seas of | verdure on which millions of tons of grass grow up but. to rot on the ground, or feed j whole leagues of flame; over which sweep the cool breezes, like the trade-winds of the ocean; and into Whose green recess, bright-eyed antelopes bound away, leav ing the fleetest hound hopelessly in the rear. I here herd the buffaloes, by 11 1 0 11 - sands together, dotting the landscape, ] seeming scarce so large as rabbits, when surveyed at a distance from some verdant , bluff, swelling in the emerald waste. Sub litner far, and upon a more magnificent scale, are the scenes among the Rocky Mountains. Here are the visible foot i steps of God! "i onder, mountain above j mountain, peak above peak, ten thousand feet heavenward, to regions of perpetual snow, rise the Titans of that mighty re gion. Here the traveller threads his way through passages sft narrow, that the tow ering perpendicular cliffs throw a dim twilight gloom upon his path, even at mid day. Anon he emerges, and lo! a cata ract descends a distant mountain, like a belt of snowy foam, girding its giant sides. On one hand, mountains spread out into horizontal plains, some rounded like domes, and others terminating in sharp cones, and abrupt eminences, tak- j ing the forms ol pillars, pyramids, and 1 castles; on the other, vast circular eni-j bankments, thrown up by volcanic fires, | mark out the site of a van ning crater; I while far below, perchance, a river dash- J es its way through a narrow, rocky pass-1 age, w ith a deep-toned roar, in winding mazes, in mist and darkness. Follow the voyager,as he descends the Columbia, subject to winds, rapids, and falls, two hundred miles from any whites and amid tribes of stranger Indians, all speaking a different language. Here, for miles, stretches a perpendicular basaltic wall, three or four hundred feet in height; there foam the boiling eddies, and rush the va rying currents; on one side opens a view | of rolling prairies, and through a rocky ! vista on the other, rise the far off inoun-j tains, mellowed in the beams of the| morning sun. Now t lie traveller passes! through a forest of trees, standing, in | their natural positions, in the bed of the i river, twenty feet below the water’s sur face. Passing these, he comes to a group of islands, lying high in the stream, piled with tiie coifin-canoes of the natives, fill ed with their dead, and covered with mats and split plank. lie anchors for a while at a wharf ol natural basalt, but present ly proceeds on his way, gliding now in solemn silence, and now interrupted by the roar of a distant rapid, gradually growing on the ear, until the breaking water and feathery foam arise to the view. Pausing under a rocky cavern, by * the shore, formed ol scmi-circular masses i which have overbrowed the stroma for i ages, ‘frowning terrible, impossible to j climb,’ he awaits the morning: listening during the night-watches, to hear the distant cliffs ‘ reverberate the sound Ot parted fragments tumbling from on high.’ Such are the great features of the mis sionary’s course, until the boundary of the ‘Far West, is reached, and he reposes for a time from his long and toilsome journey.’ i Go to Church. There is no one thing which helps to establish a in‘in’s standing in society, more than a steady I attendance at clmrch, and a proper regard j for tiie first day of the week. Every i head of a family should go to church, as | ui example to its members, and ever', branch of a family should go to church, wi imitation of the example of parents 'u ho loved them and watched over their best interests. Lounging in the streets on the Sabbath is abominable, and dc , serves execration: because, it lavs the inundation of habits which ruin otic, i .Many a young man can date the com mencement of a course of dissipation j which made him a burthen to himself and ! iriends, and an object of pity in the sight '"f his enemies, to his Sunday debauchery. ! Idleness is the mother of drunkenness— the Sabbath is to young people generally ian idle day; therefore if not properly • kept, it were better struck out of exists i (lice. It is good to keep the Sabbath, i because the laws of God and man ordain that it should be so kept. The man that will not abide by the law is a bad man— and a bad man is a pest to society—a pest to society must be cut off; therefore, the Sabbath breaker must die for his sins. Go to Church. If you are a young i man just entered on business, it will es | tablish your credit: what capitalist would not sooner trust anew beginner, who, in stead of dissipating his time, Ins charac ter, and his money in dissolute company, attended to his business on business davs, and on the Sabbath appeared in the house ofGod? Go to church with a contrite heart, and bending a knee at the throne of your Maker, pour out a sincere thank offering tor the mercies of the past week. Goto Church, ladies, however differ ent your religious opinions may he, and remember that religion most adorns the female character. An Invitinu Invention. — An Irish- j man, newly arrived from ConneTnara, see- 1 ing on the door of a shop “Money lent,” 1 went in and asked the pawnbroker to | lend him a sovereign. On its being ex-! plained to him that iie could not have the ' u.Tiiey without leaving quantum sujjirit of goods, vastly disappointed, he exclaimed, ' “Ye swindlers, then what do you inane by writing up ‘Money lent,’ when all the | time it ought to be ‘ Goods borrowed !’ | (From the American Railroad Journal, July 1] IRON STEAMBOATS- The following letter from Mr. G. B. Lamar, of tjavarinah, to Mr. Haynes, we take from the Pittsburg Gazette. We j have long desired information relative to 1 these boats—the notice of the first arriv al of which we published long ago. The | fact that they were in use in this country has not been generally known until re-, centlv. Savannah, March 27, 1838. |To the Hon. Chas. E. Haynes, M. C., Washington. D. C.: Dear Sir, — Yours, of the 29th inst., enclosing certain queries of the lion. Mr. Biddle, of the Com mittee on M anufac tures, on the subject of Iron Steamboats, was received to-day; and it affords me pleasure to give all the information 1 have obtained in regard to them, at all times; but more especially, the use of them in our country. The one I import ed is fully described in the annexed circu lars. [These are the documents hereto fore published in the Gazette.] She cost 833,000 in 1834, exclusive of the duties which Congress remitted. Iron has since risen 50 per cent, in England, and there is great competition in that country for such boats, so that the cost is now 75 per j cent, greater there than at that period. | Nevertheless, two have been imported! since for tins river—two more are order-1 ed for it, and two more for the Alatamaha, j besides those of Mr. Butts, on which nj remission of the duties is now asked of Congress. Ido not reply to the queries in order, because the circulars furnish all that is desired, except as to cost, and the expenses of completing them in this coun try, regarding which 1 shall particularise. The last boat imported was built at Liv erpool, in 1837; cost there .£2,900 in-j eluding rivets, and materials for putting I her up intriis country. The freight will he about $800; and the completion, in cluding deck and small cabin, about sev en or eight thousand dollars; she weighs about 63 tons—is 115 foot long, 24 feet wide, and 8 feel hold—will draw, with a sixty horse engine, low pressure, boiler, and wood for 24 hours, (G cords) not ex j ceeding thirty inches , perhaps less. There |is no necessity for bringing men to this i country to put them up; any person who i can strike a rivet can do the work. It is nn improvement essential to the safety of life, ai well as property, in the navigation of many of the rivers, hut more particu larly the Mississippi. For, if provided with bulkheads, as those last imported are, they could not he sunk in snagging; because, only one interval could be tilled with water at the time, and il further im proved by a like extension over tiic boil ers, and connected with those partitions with large pipes or apertures for the es cape of the steam over tlie sides of the boat, they would be protected, too, against explosions of the boilers, which are so frequently and so fatal on that river. Once on the Mississippi, at a moderate cost, my reputation is pledged that none other will be used if iron can be had. They are peculiarly adapted to that navi gation, and trill defy its sawyers and ex it Ids inns. The duties will lie about 82 80 tier 100 pounds on the weight of them— a most onorous tax. I speak so freely, because I am scarcely interested, at pres ent, in any of these being imported. 1 • sold mine at cost, and the purchasers would not take 850,1)00 for her now; and they think she will be good fifty vears ; lienee. Yours, .Sec. G. B. LAM All. March of Invention Steam -Music. Among tlu- numerous inventions which almost daily claim a share of public atten tion, wc have to notice that of a steam organ, invented and adapted to the “Type” locomotive engine, property of the New castle and Carlisle Railway Company, by the Rev. Janie Birkett, of Ovingham. As far as we are able to judge, this instru ment bears the greatest resemblance to the organ; it consists of eight pipes, turn ed to compass, what is termed by mu sicians, an octave, but without any in j tervening tones or semi-tones. This is : the first attempt to adapt a musical instru l ment to the steam engine, capable of pro ducing a tune, and though not so perfect las to admit of all the pleasing variety ! and combination of sound as the instru ! ment to which we have compared it, there is no doubt but very considerable improve ments will be made in this steam musical instrument by the inventor, who is a skil ful musician, as well as an ingenious me j chanic. We understand that some im ! portaut alterations are at present in pro ! gross, and intended to he completed pre vious to the grand opening of the railway on the 18th inst. —[Tvnc Mercury. : “You must he fined,” said an Aider man, '“for selling oysters in a month which has no R in it.” “Please your honor, re plied the Oysterrnan, “1 spells it, O-r, Or, g-u-s-t, gust, August.” The man was excused. [TERMS »3 ll* ADVANCE. • »*- -* NUMBS* tO. »~ Walter Scott. [Metnorudi from the last volume of Lockhart’s Life.] Life of Napokon. The life of Napo leon produced to the author, or rather his creditors, about 990,000; an amount lor a single work unprecedented in the annals of literature. His descendants. Sir Walter’s daugh ter Anne, received in 1832 a grant of £2OO per annum, from the privy purse of King William IV. But her name did not long burden the pension list. Her consti- tution had been miserably shatteredjn the course of her long and painful atlmdance first on her mother’s illness, then on her father's; and perhaps reverse of fortune j and disappointment of various sorts con jnectcdwith that, had also heavy effect. jShcdiedin June, 1833, and her remains j are placed in anew cemetery in the Har row Road. The adjoining grave holds (those of her nephew John Hugh Lock hart, (the Hugh Little John of the Tales jof a Grandfather) and also those of So jphia Lockhart, who died in 1837. There remains therefore of Sir Walter’s race only his two sons—Walter, his successor in the baronetcy, major in the 15th regir ment of hussars, childless—and Charles, clerk in the office of her majesty’s secre tary of state for foreign affairs; and the two children of Sophia Lockhart, a boy and girl. Abbottsford. Abbottsford was mort gaged for £IO,OOO to support Constable in 1825, and is so left. The library and museum presented to him in free gift by his creditors in 1839, were bequeathed to his eldest son, with a burden of £SOOO, designed for his younges children, his literary property, if more than sufficient for the debts, was to be applied to the ex tinction of this burden, and thereafter to be divided equally among his surviving family. The Author of Waverly fatally struggled to pay his debts, and in fact failed to endow his family, though he left them a rich legvey in his fame. llis Monuments £I2OO were sub scribed in Glasgow, where a pillar is now rising in the chief square of the city; the subscription reached £6OOO in Edinburg, but the committee have not yet made their selection from the plans submitted ito them. The English subscription reached £IO,OOO, but a considerable part of this was embezzled by a young person rashly appointed to the post of secretary, who carried it with him to America, where he soon died. Statue in America. Mr. Thom, the celebrated Scotch sculptor, has executed a very extraordinary full length in stone for the group of Old Mortality and his Pony, since his arrival in America. This exquisite likeness has been purchased by the Laurel liilT Cemetery Company of Philadelphia, on whose grounds the whole group now is; as soon as the Gothic niche, nearly ready, is completed, the group will be opened for the gratification of our citizens without charge. We are much mistaken if the locality is not at once considered appropriate for such display. Two Year's Exertions. Between Jan. 1826, and Jan. 1828, Sir Walter’s exer tions for his creditors produced $200,000. Chinese Anecdote. —A man ac customed to deal in marvels, told a coun try cousin of his, that he had three great curiosities in his possession; an Ox, that could travel five hundred miles a day, a Cock that tells the hour of the night, and a Dog that could read in a superior man ner. “These arc extraordinary things in deed!—l must call upon you and beg a sight of them,” said the cousin. The liar returned home and told his wife what had happened, saying he had got into a scrape and knew not how to get out. O, never mind,” said she, “I can manage it.” The next day the countryman called' and inquired after his cousiu, was told that he had gone to Pekin. “When is he expected back?” “In seven or eight days.” How can he return so soon?” “He’s j gone off upon our ox.” “Appropos of that, I am told that you have a cock that marks the hour.” A cock just then hap pened to crow. “Yes, that is he: he not only tells the hour of the night, but reports when a stranger comes.” “Then, your dog, that reads books: might I beg to see him?” “Why to speak the troth, as our circumstances are but we have sent the dog out to keep school.” One of ihe most significant toasts we. have yet seen published is the following given at the Chuckatuck, Va. celebration of the 4th. Business is business, and the prudent man never suffers it to be wholly forgotten.— Alex. Gaz. „ “By James P. Gwinn, (Deputy Sheriff.) —Fellow-citizens, prepare to pay your taxes, for I shall soon be down upon you.’* London is the largest and richest city jin the world, occupying a surface of 32 | square miles, thickly planted with houses, ' mostly three, four and five stories high.— It contained, in 1891, a population cf 1,471,410. ‘ '