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BffttWotßicb interest*. by CHARLES 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 11. Robinson, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance—s 4 at the end of the year. (ETNo 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. ■U* All letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. ID* ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Dollar per one hundred words, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev 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. 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It will be a great saving to the publisher, and facilitate the early mailing of the paper, if the individual forwarding the sum required for four, or ten, or more subscribers, when they are located together, will allow the package to be addressed to the Postmaster, or someone a mong themselves, who being made acquainted with the names of the Club, can as readily dis tribute them as if directed separately. All letters mnst be postpaid, or they will not be taken out of the offiep. Address V CHARLES ALEXANDER, Athenian Buildings,Franklin Place, Philadcl'a PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23,1838. POETRY. [From the American Monthly Magazine.] “Gentlemen, I’m a leetle bit of a poet; and I’ve made a song, gentlemen, not about my self, gentlemen, far from it—but about a wor thier man. The title of the song,” he added, in a sentimental, fraternal manner, “ is MY BROTHER. I was born away down to Bangor, Where tradin’ is well understood, Where punkins are raised along shore, And nutmegs are grown in the wood. My brother was fixed at Castine In the pork manufacturin'line, For he had a patent machine To make bacon-hams out of pine. The tarnel concern did it slick, And ’twould make other notions with ease, You put in a thundering stick, Out tumbled a white oaken cheese. Not an article there was abused, • . For he was so saving, ’twas said The saw-dust was all of it used To make the dyspepsery bread. He’d a mill too, what worked as expert By steam—’twas a curious oaper! You put in an old cotton shirt And it came out a handful of paper: And when speculation was rife, My brother, who that understands, .Manufactured—it's true, on my life— Manufactured and sold Eastern lands. But then, sir, the climax to cap, The buyer of these made a stir, Though acres they bought on the map They couldn’t find out where they were. They talked about going to law— Then what could my poor brother do? By way of confounding their jaw, lie failed, and lie’s rich as a Jew. nISVKL tj A A V . COMMODORE ROGERS. Commodore Rogers died at the advanc ed age of seventy-three or four. He was horn in Ilarford county, Maryland, in or about the year 1705. Ills seamanship was learned in the merchant service, to which lie was attached from the end of the revolutionary war to the commence ment of the naval establishment of the United States, under which he was one of the first officers who received an ap pointment. It was Commodore Rogers’ peculiar fortune never to encounter an opportunity to achieve any brilliant affair; and con sequently his name has not been so much trumpeted as those of others; who pos sessing more intrepidity and skill, still fell upon opportunities of signalizing their names by valiant exploits. But in prac tical service to his country, and in suc cessful liarrassing of the vessels of the enemy, no officer in the navy has exceed ed him. In August, 1803, he commanded the frigates New York and John Adams, being the senior captain, and with Com modore Preble negotiated with the Em peror of Morocco, for the restoration of American vessels something in the same spirit, if not precisely in the same way France is negoci-ating with Mexico. An interval followed in the active service of the Commodore till 1811, when in the frigate President, he sailed from Annapo lis forNew-York. During this passage, an incident occured which made quite as much noise ns any other which directly preceded, and assisted in bringing about the last war. The Commodore was at tacked and defended, abused and praised, as the politics of the writers and speak ers prompted. Those who speak of the present and late party excitement as “un paralleled” must be of experience too short to include the time just previous to the last war with England, when the virulence of party was more bitter than at any time sinco. The reader of American history will readily remember that the affair to which we allude was that of the “Little Belt,” a British .sloop of war. Impressment by the British of American seaman, had awakened all the old hostility of the Rev olution. On the 1 (3th of May, at noon, Commodore Rogers made a sail to the eastward, which he supposed to be the British frigate Chesapeake, the com mander of which vessel, it was said, had a a few days before impressed a bov from on board an American brig, off Sandy Hook. The Commodore resolved to speak the British vessel, ascertain the facts, and should they prove as represent ed, to endeavor to procure the lad’s lib eration. He did not come up with the other till night, when he discovered in deed that it was not the Chesapeake, but could not ascertain the nation of the strange vessel, as she displayed no colors. A rencontre took place, the origin and details of which were variously related at the time, which resulted in the killing of ‘nine men, and wounding of about twenty on board the Little Belt, while but one boy was slightly wounded on board the President. At day-break, Commodore Rogers sent an officer on board with tenders of assistance which were, how ever, (Reclined. It was not until the re turn of his messenger that the Commo dore learned the npme of the vessel, her nation, and her commander, Cant. Bing ham. As before remarked this rencontre caused a great deal of newspaper excite ment ; but Commodore Rogers was suf ficiently vindicated in the fact, that while the government of the United States ap proved the conduct of Commodore Rog ers, the British government took no form al notice of the affair. Each commander published his bulletin, all the facts in both of which it was impossible to credit. After the formal declarations of war, in 1812, Commodore Rogers in the Presi dent, with the frigate Congress, and the brigs Hornet and Argus, sailed from this port on the 21st of June, in pursuit of a fleet of British merchantmen which had sailed from Jamaica, homeward bound, in the month preceding. While in pursuit of the merchantmen the Commodore fell in with the British frigate Belvidere, to which vessel he gave chase. The Belvidere out sailed the President and escaped. It was said the B. started her water casks, and threw her anchors overboard, and took other means to expedite her speed. That point, however, being merely important as settling the relative speed of the two vessels, is unimportant now. In the chase, the Belvidere had one man killed, and six wounded by a shot from the President, and the President had sixteen killed and wounded by the bursting of a gun. Among the wounded was Commodore Rogers himself, whose leg was fractured. Com modore Rogers put into Boston, whence he sailed again on the Bth of October, ac companied by the frigates Congress and United States, and the brig Argus. On the 12tli the two latter were parted from the other in a gale,* and on the 15th the President and Congress captured a Brit ish packet with 8200,000 specie and SIOO,- 000 gold dust on board; which prize safe ly reached an American port. On the Olot tUoj «lun |adm, with oil, and gave unsuccessful chase to a frigate under whose convoy she had sailed. Another British frigate was also chased, but escaped under cover of a fog, and after a cruise of nearly 8000 miles, the President and Congress arrived at Bos ton *on the 12th of December, 1812. Though the two prizes captured were valuable, the officers of the vessels exceed ingly regretted that no opportunity had ; been afforded for a gallant action, or an equal one—a circumstance which the newspapers opposed to the war did not fail to lay hold of. On the 28d of April, 1813, Commo dore Rogers again sailed from Boston, in company with the Congress, Capt. Smith. In this cruise the vessels visited the const of Bergen, Norway and the Shetland Isles, and captured twelve vessels, the crews of which amounted in number to 217; but met no enemy equal to their own strength, with whom their powers could he tried. They returned to Rhode Island on the 23d of September, making five mouths to a day, from the time they sailed from Bos ton. During this time Admiral Cockburn burned Havre de Grace, Md. and the House of the Commodore suffered among the rest. An incident is related in this connexion, almost too romantic for truth. It is said that the Lieutenant command ing the Highflyer, a British tender, cap tured by t’ne Commodore on the day pre vious to his entering Newport, in tender ing iiis sword, restored one of the Com modore’s that had been taken front his house in Havre dc Grace at the time of the attack on that place. During the attack on Baltimore, Com-i ntodore Rogers, with his seamen, was stationed in Fort Covington. This de tachment was the first who defected and repulsed the approach of the British surprise party, two thousand strong, who had passed Fort Henry in boats with muffled oars, under the cover of the' night. During the siege of Baltimore, Commodore Rogers was indefatigable in rendering all the aid possible to the city, for which service he was complimented with a splendid service of plate. Since the war, his life has been passed as one of the Navy Commisioners, and in various other services, pertaining to the monotonous peace occupations of our gallant naval officers. Take hint for all in all, he was an excellent and faithful public servant, whose services to his country made up in solid benefit, what the fortune of war denied them in bril liancy. A HUMAN PANTHER. In the latter part of that tragedy, which spread dismay throughout this part of the State, there were about nine hundred In dians encamped on the Illinois river, opposite to the present town site of La Salle, composed principally of the Iro quois tribe. They had always maintained ! a friendly intercourse with the whites in the vicinity, and had manifested a great partiality for one in particular. This was "old Myers," a perfect prototype of Cooper’s traper. This State was the fifth i» which he had erected his hut in ad vance of a white population. He had of course acquired more of the habits of the Indians than of civilized nten, and was familiarly known among them as “ The Panther”—-a title which he had acquir ed from them, by a daring exploit in kill ing an animal of that name, when leading them in one of their wild hunts. At the period referred to, these Indians rallied under the Black Hawk standard, and were committing many depredations upon the settlers in the vicinity. When re pulsed, they did not hesitate to wanton ly murder their former friends and com panions. About the cabin of the Panther, nearly a hundred settlers had come in for the safety of their wives and children, placing them under his protection. But among the victims of savage barbarity, there happened to be a brother-iiulaw of the Panther, with his wife and three children. Herein they committed an unpardonable outrage upon the family of their ancient friend and demi-savnge. When the sad tidings of their cruel fate reached the garrison, the Panther was seen clothing himself in battle array. With his rifle, his tomahawk and scalping knife, in open day, he silently bent his steps to the Indian quarters, about one mile distafit. Fearlessly he marched into the midst of the savage band, levelled his rifle at the head chief present, and deliber ately killed him on the spot. He then severed the lifeless head from its trunk, •and held it up by the hair before the awe struck multitude, exclaiming, “You have murdered my brother, his wife, and their three little ones, and now I have killed your chief. I ant nowhven with you; but,” be added, “every one ot you that is found here to-morrow morning at sunrise, is a dead Indian.” All this was accomplished by the Panther without the least molesta tion. They knew that he would take vengeance lor their deed of blood—and silently acknowledged the justice of the ((•iriog Up tltPii Knrp nff tliM Itporl in silence to his cabin. The next morning not an Indian could be found in all that region. They left forever their homes and their dead, and that part of the State has not been molested by them since. A lew weeks since, this veteran of eighty winters sold bis claim, and capari soned with the same hunting shirt and weapons which he wore when he killed the chief, started for Missouri. After travel ing a few rods, he returned and asked per mission to give his “grand yell.” The gentleman to whom lie had sold the land, giving his assent, he gave a long, loud and shrill whoop, that made the welkin ring for miles around. “Now,” said he, my blessing is on the land and on you; your ground will always yield an abund ance, and you will ahvaysprosper.” Again he took up his march for anew home in the wilderness, where he could enjoy the happiness of solitude, undisturbed by so cial ties. [Peoria Register. Tin: DEAF MAN. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. A young Parisian, who went with a nu merous party to Lyons to enjoy the pleas ure of seeing the second city of the king dom, thus related an adventure which he had:— W e were lodged at the best inn, and found excellent company there. The evening before our departure 1 was in the court yard about five o’clock, when a man entered leading his horse by the bridle. “Take care of my horse,” said he to the servant. “We have not any room for your horse,” replied the servant; “seek another sta ble.” “That is right,” said the man. “I shall take him of you to morrow.” “1 told you,” said the servant, “that we had no room; our stable is full.” “Very well,” replied the man, “you look like a good boy; take care of my beast.” “I believe this man is a fool,” said the boy, seeing the stranger walk to the kitch en; “what can he wish to do with his horse!” “I think lie is deaf,” said I to him; “i»he care of the horse; you will be respon sible for him.” 1 followed tlie man to the kitchen. The hostess made him the same complaint as her servant; he replied he was much obliged to her, and begged her not to fatigue her self by making her compliments, for he was so deaf that he could not hear a can non shot. He immediately took a ciiair and seated himself near the fire as if he was at home. The hostess saw there was no means of getting rid of this man, who was determined to take a slumber in his chair. I went into the parlor, where I told the company of the hostess embarrass ment. They laughed at it, and I, above all, who did not believe that I should be the dupe of the adventure. Supper was served, and our gentleman came and scat- ed himself by the door; we asked him to come to the table and not make himself a stranger; he apparently thought we wished to put him in the most distinguished place; for he replied that he was too polite to put himself at the head of the table. Seeing it was impossible to make him hear us, it was necessary to take patience; he ate as much as four others, and when the bill was presented to him, he drew thirty cents from his pocket and threw it on the table. The expense of each one of us was much more; this they tried to make him under stand, but he always replied that he was not a man to suffer others to pay his debts, and that he was much obliged to us for wishing to defray it; and although he was meanly dressed, his pocket was full of money, which he doubtless said because they gave him back his money in order that lie might give more. In the mean time, he made a bow and went out, leav ing us bursting with laughter. A minute after, the servant came in and told me to go and defend my bed, of which this man had taken possession. We all went up, but he had barricaded the door, and we knew that it would be useless to knock at it. As he spoke to himself, we listen ed. “ITovv miserable is my condition!’ said be, “they try to force my door open, and I shall not be able to hear them; I have”no other resource but to watch all night, with candles burning, so as to be able to use my pistols if they undertake to rob me.” He bad not the trouble; I passed the night near the fire, and willingly pardoned the man who appeared to ine so much to be pitied. He arose early the next morn ing, gave thirty cents for the expense of his horse, and having mounted him, he addressed me:— “1 ask your pardon,” said he, “tor hav ing taken your bed. One of my friends, who had been refused lodgings here, bet me twenty louis that I could not get ac commodated; this sum is worth being deaf for. As to the rest, sir, I understand by your conversation, you take the steamboat; I shall meet you there, and shall beg you to accept a good breakfast to repair the bad night which you have passed.” UoKiily ftfripurtcxl aftf»r these words, and left us much astonished at the sang froid with which he had played his part. [From a late Foreign Journal.] Duchess d’Ahrantes. —On Saturday last was buried one of the most remark able women in Paris—the Duchess d’Ab rantes. ller celebrity commenced where, with the world in general, it finishes— with the loss of fortune. The reputation which her works have acquired in Eu rope does equal honor to the energy of her character and the liveliness of her wit. The latter quality shines conspicuously in her memoirs, as does also another very rare virtue, even amongst the best wri ters, the ease and conversational tone with which she writes. . To judge truly of mankind something more than justice is necessary, namely, amiability of char acter and goodness of heart, both of which she possessed in a very uncommon degree throughout her various changes in life; thus, notwithstading her repeated and brilliant successes she never had a literary enemy. Although the excess of her literary labors was a subject of re proach with her family and friends, yet she was always at the disposal of any one who came to ask a service of her. Her time, her attention, the produce of her sleepless nights, all were freely given. In descending from a brilliant position, the only custom she could not divest her self of was that of obliging; and as, under every regime,she preserved the importance due to her personal value, she fancied herself still rich. She had much great ness of mind, and pushed her delicacy so far in her social relations, that she left her nearest friends in ignorance of the pecuniary embarrassments which embit tered her last days. After having for years done the honors of Paris to all Europe, she died in a lodging-house at Chaillot, where the greater part of her friends only entered to see her bier borne to the cemctry of Montmartre. It was followed by M. Victor Hugo, and nearly every literary or dis tinguished character in Paris. Jonathan aoain. —“ How old are you?” said Mr. Kiplings to a dwarfish young man. ‘Twenty.’ ‘I wonder you aren’t I right down ashamed of being no bigger, you look like a boy of ten.’ ‘All comes of being a dutiful boy.’ 'llow so V ‘When I was ten, father put his hand on my head and said, ‘Stop here,’ and he ran away; never seen him since, and I didn’t think it right in me to go on grow ing without his leave.” Tiif. Sea-Island Crop. The Charles ton Mercury says:—We regret to learn from a respectable planter of Edisto, the Cotton crops on the Southern side of that Island are so much burnt up by drouth and the late excessive heats as to he ah most destroyed. fTKRMB.....S3 IN ADVANCE. NTUMBJBR 12. ' •* r SONNET. Sitting one evening with a leaded fllfias. We soon began to talk of leaThed things; Not frills or flowers, rigmarole or xiawo. But fountains full of intellectual bliss. Thus in high con verse, from some distant place There came a strain of music, soft and clear; I saw a flash of pleasure light her Awe, And whispered poesy inner willing ear. She smiled and asked me who composed the linss— Where they were from? she thought them excellent, And more expressive than the song pf birds, When earth, with lovely spring-flowers is be sprent. I answered Milton. She said, ‘Yes! I know it, Tvc read his works — uncommon pretty post!' Right and Left Hand Gloves. —A contraband speculator, bought, some time ago, in Paris, 10,000f. worth of gloves for the English market. It in known that in the English Custom-house certain goods are taxed according to the value sworn to by the owners, and that to prevent fraud the Custom-house sometimes takes pos ession of goods at the price so determined. In this case the having stated the value of the gloves at 5000f., the a mount was paid to him, and the gloves re tained. The speculator, determined to have his revenge, procured an accomplice on his return to Paris, and purchased 40,- OOOf. worth of gloves. These were ad justed and made up into two packets, with which the two friends started, the one to Dover, and the other to Bristol. At Do ver the packet was opened, and the owner stated the value of the gloves at 15,000f., which were immediately paid to him, and the gloves retained. The same occurred at Bristol. The speculators at Dover started for Bristol, and met his friend half way on his road to Dover, and each of them, wkh 15,000f. in his pocket, waited patiently at his post till the day of the Custom-house sale. At the sale the gloves were expos ed, when our speculator at Bristol, bid ding among other people, observed after pretending to examine them minutely, that they were all for the left hand! and so, in fact, they turned out to be; purchasers, of course, could not be found, and he bought the whole lot for GOOOfi The same thing took place at Dover with the right hand gloves, and the friends proceeded to l-ondon, where, it is presumed the gloves were a third time profitably disposed of. Sam wellerisms. New similes pecu liar to Mr. performance of "Sam Weller,” in the comedy of that name. “ You don’t mean nothin’ friendly, you don’t, as the rat said to the cat ven she bit him in the back.” “I’m for risin’ in the vorld, as the bal loon said to the bag of sand; and I must take care I’m not burst in the process, as the bag of sand said to the balloon.” “I’ll penetrate his heart if he has one, ns the mouse said ven he nibbled his vay through the cheese.” “Ve are all here, and quite ready for you, as the fleas said to the old woman vot had just got back to her own bed, ar ter sleeping out for a week." “It’s pretty, but not pleasant, as the monkey said ven they painted his tail sky blue.” “Ve don’t often see the likes o’ you in our part of the world, as the devil said ven one of his imps handed him an ice cream.” “Ven I vants you I knows vhere to find you, as the spider said to the fly ven he vove his veb all around him to per went his catching cold.” “I’ seen you vonce, and I don’t vant to see you again, as the . sick gentleman said to the devil ven he called on him one vet afternoon.” “Ve don’t vant too many in this con cern at vonce, as the boys said ven they got into the empty sugar tubs.” “That’s enough to give any one « pain in his back, as the cockroach said ven the nigger put his foot on him.’.'-—{Philadel phia Courier. Autiioritv of Husbands. —Brae ton, a law writer of great repute in hia day, has furnished us with a curious legal opinion on the right of husbands to correct their wives. He says “although it may be law ful for the husband to correct the wife with a lawful weapon, such as it brooms tick, &.c., yet if he make use of ah unlawful in strument, such as an iron bar and the like, and death ensue, it will he murder. The ladies dwelling in the same town where resided this sage expounder Os conjugal rights are said to been so indignant and so little satisfied with the distinction in their favor, that they dragged the unfor tunate counsellor to the river, and ducked him soundly. Judge Bailer, of Exeter, in an opinion he delivered in an action a gainst a husband for bad treatment of bis wife, laid it down as a law, “that a hus band was privileged to beat bis wife, if the instrument used was wooden, tndnothkk er than his thumb.” The damOjg:Of Exeter sent a round-robin to hia JfiMpftfb and requested to know the exaol wmaMflons of his thumb. * The Provident Institution for" Serfage in the City of Boston has now in its keeping $2,00),832 89 cents, to the credit tfltfOli depositors. , w ■