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Brnnstoick Jlfthoc ate. BY CHARLES DAVIS. 1 ] VOLUME 2. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. AGENTS. Bibb County. Alexander Richards. Esq. Tc'fair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton. Mclntosh “ James Blue; Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq, Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq. Wayne “ Robert Howe, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance—s 4at the end of the year. [CPNo 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. IT All letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. ID’ ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Doiur per one hundred words, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure work always double priee. Twenty-five per cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. 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This Journal was commenced on the first of I January last, and, without any previous effort to herald its success, went into immediate and rapid circulation. Such was the unprecedent ed popularity which attended its projection that, in about six months from the period it was first issued, not less than fifteen thousand names were embraced on its subscription lists! which have been ever since constantly and rapidly increasing, and now bid fair to super cede in extent and stability every other pub lication which has existed in the literary world. It is generally conceded that the contents of the Messenger embraces as much origimal matter as any other periodical of the present day. The diffusion of useful and wholesome information, with a view to the cultivation of a correct knowledge of Polite Literature, is the chief object at which it aims. Arrangements have been entered into, by which the publish er will be assisted in the editorial department by the talents of three or four gentlemen of distinguished abilities—and it is intended to introduce several important improvements, which will bespeak additional popularity for its columns. As the character and leading features of this Journal are well known throughout the United States, it will be superfluous to enter into a recital ol the same. The season is approach ing, however, when the reading public are ex pected to make their selections for the next year, and we deem it advisable, therefore, to furnish a brief and explicit statement of our ipjrms, which we hope will prove’satisfactory, and be implicitly observed : A ten dollar bill,forwarded by mail, postage paid, will pay for ten copies of the Messenger for one year! A five dollar bill, forwarded by mail, postage paid, will pay for four copies for one year ! 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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 s\im 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 inong themselves, who jicing 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 office. Address CHARLES ALEXANDER, Athenian Buildings,Franklin Place, Fhdade! a. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1838. POETRY. THE STAR AND THE LILY. The sun stepped down from his golden throne And lay in the silent sea, And the lily had folded her satin leaves, For a sleep}' thing was she; What was the lily dreaming about 5 O, what is that to you? And why did she open her drooping lids, And look at the sky so blue? The rose is cooling her burning cheek, In the lap of the breathless tide— Thou hast many a sister fresh and fair, That would lie by the rose's side; He xvould love these better than all the rest, And he would be fond and true— And the lily unfolded her weary lids, And looked at the sky so blue. Now think thee, think thee, thou silly one, How fast will the summer glide, And wilt thou wither a virgin pale, Or flourish a blooming bride? O, the rose is old, and thorny, and cold, And he lives on earth, said she, But the star is fair, and he lives in the air, And he shall my bridegroom be. But what if the stormy clouds should come, And ruffle the silvery sea? Would he turn hiseye from the distant sky To smile on a thing like thee? O no, fair lily, he will not send, One ray from his far off throne, The winds shall blow,and the waves shall flow And thou wilt be left alone. There is not a leaf on the mountain top, Nor a drop of evening dew, Not a golden sand on the sparkling shore, Nor a pearl in the waters blue, That he has not cheered with his fickle smile, And warmed with his faithless beam— And will he be true to a pallid flower That floats on the quiet stream? Alas, for the lily! she would not heed, But turned to the skies afar, And bared her breast to the trembling ray, That shot from the rising -star; The cloud came over the darkened sky, And over the waters wide; She looked in vain through the beating rain, And sank in the stormy tide. Ji ist: a: ts a, a A it . Cut’RAUE. The courage that can go forth, once and away to Chalk Farm, and have itself shot and snuffed with a decen cy, is, in our estimation, an exceeding small matter, capable of co-existing with a lile full of falsehoods, feebleness, pol troonery, and clespicaliility. Nay, often er, it is cowardice rather that produces! the result; for consider, is the Chalk j Farm pistoieer inspired with any reason able behalf and determination ? or is he hounded on by a haggard indefinable fear —how he will he cut at public places, and “plucking geese of the neighborhood” will wag their tongues at him as a pluck ed goose ? If he go then and be shot at without shrinking, or audible uproar, it is well for him; nevertheless, there is noth ing amazing in it. Courage to manage this, has not, perhaps, been denied to any man or woman. Thus, do not recruit ing sergeants drum through the streets of manufacturing towns, and collect ragged losels enough, every one of whom, if once: dressed in red, and trained a little, will receive fire cheerfully for the small sum of one shilling per diem, and have the soul blown out ot him at Igast with per fect propriety! The courage that only dares to die, is on the whole, no sublime affair; necessary, indeed, yet universal, pitiful when it begins to parade itself. On tli is globe of ours there are some j thirty-six persons that manifest it, seldom with the smallest ’failure, during every second of time. Nay, look at Newgate. Do not the offscourings of creation, when condemned to the gallows, as if they were not men, but vermin, walk thither with decency, and even to the whole universe give their stern good night in silence ? What is to be undergone once, we may j undergo what must he, comes almost of I its own accord. Considered as a duellist, | what a poor figure does the finest Irish | whiskerando make, compared with an j English gamecock such as you buy (or fifteen pence! The courage we desire : and prize, is not the courage to die de icently, but to live manfully/ This, when |by Cod’s grace it is given, lies deep in I the soul; like genial heat fosters all vir j lues and gifts; without it, they could not ; live. In spite of our innumerable Wa ! terloos and Petcrloos, and such enm ' paigning as there has been, this courage jwe allude to, and call the only true one, is perhaps rarer in these last ages, than it has been in any other time since the Sax on invasion under Hengist. Altogether extinct it can never lie among men; other | wise, the species man were no longer for 1 this world; here and there, in all times I under various guises, men are sent hither, not only to demonstrate, but exhibit it I and testify as from heart to heart, that it is still possible, still practicable.—[Thom as Carlyle. An Invitation to Dinner. It was observed that a certain covetous rich man | never invited any one to dine with him. j‘l'll lay a wager,’ said a wag, ‘I get an I invitation from him.’ The wager being J accepted, he goes the next day to the rich | man’s house, about the time he was to dine, and tells the servant he must speak with his master immediately, for he can save him a thousand pounds. ‘Sir,’ said the servant to his master, ‘here is a man in a great hurry to speak with you, who says lie can save you a thousand pounds. (Out came the mas ter.) ‘What is that you say, sir—that you can save me a thousand pounds?’ ‘Yes, sir, I can—but I see that you are at dinner ; I will go myself and dine and call again.’ ‘O, pray, sir, come in and take dinner with me.’ ‘Sir, I shall he troublesome.’ ‘Not at all.’ The invitation was accepted. As soon as dinner was over, and the family retir ed, ‘well, sir,’ said the man of tlie house, ‘now, sir, to our business. Pray, let me know how I am to save a thousand pounds.’ ‘Why, sir,’said the other, I heard you have a daughter to dispose of in marriage.’ ‘I have.’ ‘And that you intend to portion her with ten thousand pounds.’ ‘I do so.’ ‘Why, then, sir let me have her, and I will take her for nine thousand.’ The master of the house rose in a pas sion and turned him out of doors. In my school-hoy days,when I loved bet ter to rob birds nests and plunder orchards, than acquire knowledge, I have often de serted the school-room, and pursued the above mentioned avocations in the forest, in my usual quiet manner. I recollect once, when, having been lost in the intri cacies of the wood, of stumbling upon a little hut. Rightly concluding that a spring would be found in its vicinity, and being exceedingly thirsty, I wended my way thither. 1 found it occupied by an old woman, of whom I requested a draught of water. I was soon furnished, and when I had despatched it, I was over whelmed witli questions. “Arn’t you one of the ’Cademy boys?” inquired she. “Yes inarm,” was the reply. “Well, I declare,” ejaculated the old woman, “they say you learn queer things down there. Why they say the world is round.” “The world, inarm,” said I, anxious to display my acquired knowledge, “is not exactly round, hut resembles in shape a flattened orange, and it turns on its axis once in twenty-four hours.” “Well, I don’t know any tiling about its fixes,” replied she, “hut 1 know it don’t turn round, for if it did we’d be all tum bled off, and as to its being round, any one can see its a square piece of ground, standing on a rock.” “Standing on a rock, but upon what does that stand?” “Why on another to he sure.” “But what supports the last?” “Lank, child, how stupid you arc, there’s rocks oil the troy down.” [Alexander’s M essenger. " William IV. sometimes had the happy art of saying the most eccentric tilings with the most amusing simplicity. On Talleyrand’s first coming over as ambassa dor he was one day dining at St. James’s "with most of the foreign ambassadors, when the King, after conversing on some indifferent topics, suddenly turned, and asked what was the last news of Casimir Pcrier, the Prime Minister of France, who j had been siezed with the cholera. “He \ is either dead or dying,” said the ambassa dor, in his sepulchral tone. “Ha!” said the King in one of his fits of abstraction, “very unfortunate: a great man and an honest one; the only honest statesman in France dead! the only man capable of rul ing such a pack of sanguinary rogues; is it not so?” turning to a foreign diplomatist at his side. The diplomatist, much em barrassed, looked unutterable thirds, land muttered unintelligible ones. All tin: 1 ambassadors, not knowing where else to look, looked into their plates, and could scarcely restrain their laughter. Talley rand alone applied himself vigorously to his soup. He had been in the habit of swallowing Royal compliments, and the ) practice was useful to him on lliis’occa sion—he never moved a muscle. It was said of this imperturbable Minis ter, that if a man were kicking him behind as he was speaking to you, you would nev er know it by a change of his visage. Sir \Y alter Scott once described the Duke of Wellington’s style of debating as slicing the argument into two or three i parts, and helping himself to the best.” As an illustration of the rapid advance of our country in greatness and prosperity, a correspondent of the New York Express cites the case of the city of Rochester, the site of which was a wilderness only twenty eight years ago. Twelve years from the time of her first settlement gave Rochester more than 5,- 000 inhabitants, and twelve more increas ed her population to more than 14,000, and at this moment the population prob-j ably exceeds 18,000. A busier or happier ( multitude of men never walked the earthJ The State improvements here are many | and stupendous. A single Aqueduct here cost more than SBO,OOO, —another, built of limestone, $500,000! The Canal wn-; ters here arc raised five hundred feet above the level of the Hudson. About 20 costly ' and beautiful Churches have been erected, | where the worshippers of God of all de-( nominations, may sit under their own vine I and fig tree. Banks, Hotels, Museums, Seminaries, Public Buildings, all are nu merous! You may judge something of tlie public business, when told that the capital in vested in Mills alone, is $350,000, and the amount paid for wheat here not less than 1,5(10,000 a year. The canal busi ness here amounts to a million a year The Manufacturing business to another million. The Mercantile business to $300,000. More than a million of barrels of flour are manufactured here each venr, and Rochester alone lias paid one sixth of all the tolls of tlie Erie Canal. 1 read these statistics, which 1 have taken some pains to have correct, with wonder and astonishment, especially when I am told in addition that the water power of the Falls in Rochester, in almost con stant operation, are equal to 1920 steam engines of 20 horse power each, and which, according to the cost of steam horse power in England, would amount to more than $10,000,000 as annual value or annual cost. The w heat manufactured and sold here, amounts to near ten mil lions a year! These facts to the unacquain ted seems ns they actually are astounding, and no man, therefore, will wonder at any thing he sees around him after reading tliis simplu rpe.nrfl of the history, enterprise j and industry of this city. Black Hawk.— At Fort Madison, lowa, the 4th of July was celebrated by the citi zens, with the Indian Chief Black Hawk, jas their guest —the same who gave us so ■ much trouble on the frontier four years | since. j He was toasted, and made this speech, i “It has pleased the Great Spirit that 1 am here today—l have eaten with my ! white friends. The earth is our mother— !we are now on it—with the Great Spirit | above ns—it is good. I hope we are all ' friends here. A few winters ago I was fighting against you —I did wrong,perhaps, hut that is past —it is buried—hut let it he forgotten. Rock river was a beautiful country —I liked my towns, my cornfields and the home of my people. I fought for it. It is now your’s—keep it as we did—it will (produce you good crops. “1 thank the Great Spirit that I am now j friendly with my white brethren—we are ; here together—we have eaten together — |we are friends—it is his wish and mine. I For your friendship I thank you. “I was once a great warrior—l am now : poor—Kekorkuk has been the cause of I my present situation—hut I do not attacii j blame to him. I am now old. I have looked upon the Mississippi since I have been a child. I love > tlie Great River. I have dwelt upon its hanks from the time 1 was an infant. 1 look up it now; I shake hands with you; and it is my wish I hope ' you are iny friends. Dear Son: Your mother and I talk of calling at the school next Summer, when we shall he glad to meet our darling boy ; once more. In the mean time, we are glad to learn that you are getting better of the impediment in your speecii. Your loving father, n. m. Dear Parents: I was infinitely rejoic ed to get father’s letter, and to learn that you would call and devote some of your tune to me next Summer. My stammer ing is manifestly better, yet not wholly ; conquered. Your affectionate son. j. m. Dear Son: Was glad to get aline; from you; hut recollect, my hoy, that in writing letters to your parents, you should use your most familiar style. Avoid high sounding words, and write exactly as you would talk, in their presence. Your loving father, n. m. Bt-uc-dt-ar Pa-a-rents: I r-r-received your le-le-letter, and woo-woo-will t-t-try ' to obey its d-d-directions; and wri-wri-wri-j w rite just as I t-t-talk in your pr-pr-pres cnce. Your af-af-aflectionate S-s-son, j. m. [Evening News. _ System. —Curran said to Grattan, “You ( would be the greatest man of your age, if; you would buy a few yards of red tape, and j tie up your bills and papers ” An amusing anecdote is told of John Law, the celebrated financial projector, which exemplifies in some degree the ac umen and boldness for which he after wards became conspicuous, and which, we are inclined to*believe has never been in print. In his youth he had an ap pointment in the service of the East In dia Company, and by one of those acci dents not utinsal in that part of the world —the death of several of his superiors in rank—he found himself sole governor j of a province, ruling the destines of, thousands with despotic sway. The na-‘ live lawyers were noted for the ingenuity j with which they mystified every case J brought before him; a decision on the 1 merits of the question being impossible, j so completely did they weave the web of sophistry and chicane. Perplexed almost! to despair, he bethought himself of an ! expedient, shocking to professional cars,! and announced his intention of tying up ! and flogging the lawyers, whenever he ( could not understand a case. The per-1 spicacity of the pleadings was now won derful; truth was brought forward in Iter naked simplicity, dripping from the well, and his decisions were thenceforward as remarkable for their correctness, as the arguments for brevity. A future Con vention for the amendment of the Con stitution may make use of this.—[N. Y. Am. Imi’ortation or Ready Made Houses. —The Yankees “heat all natur.” They arc now exporting ready-made houses to the tar-west. We shall have anew item on our custom house tariff Memorandum: per steam ship Down East arrived at Kas krskia, twenty-four houses with frame works, marble matitieh, cliiuinics, &.c. complete, per invoice $24,000. 'Plte following, in practical illustration of the anticipated commerce, is from the Pekin (Illinois) Telegraph July 21st. Wts too good to be lost;—[N. Y. Star. Novel Importation. —The being fur nished with a comfortable and con venient dwelling, is among the first and prominent wants of the Emigrant. But 11 1 is object is not easily attained. A ri-«i.lout in the country, with all the ad vantage of acquaintance, encounters great difficulty and delay in building, from the i scarcity of materials and labor; a stranger, ■ of course, is subjected to far greater incon • veniencies. It would, seent, however, that some of our eastern friends whom we welcome most heartily to this land of prom ise) determined not to submit to this slow, vexatious process and have hit upon an ex pedient, of the practicability of which, ; we will not venture to predict. We swa last week in the warehouse of J. W. Casey, the various parts of a house, packed iu distinct parcels, and shipped from tlie East, via New Orleans to this place*, owned by one of the members of the enterprising colony of Delev an in this comity. All the materials were prepared ! for being put together, which would finish i and complete the house. The floors,&c. ! were already painted; and nothing was' wanting hut the shingling of the roof, and the lathing and plastering. To what extent the importing of houses ; may he found advantages we know not, hut ; but the experiment is well enough. Cigar Race. This variety of sport ing may ho. new to some of our readers, hut not uncommon on the other side of the Atlantic. The conditions are, that the rider starts with a lighted cigar in his mouth, continues to smoke it during the race, and comes in with it lighted ; much, of course, depends on the goodness of the cigar, but still more to the tact of the smoker. If he does not ride fast enough lie looses the race that way; if he rides too fast the air may either blow it out, or cause it to burn so fiercely that it will be entirely consumed before lie reach es the winning post. The fastest cigar race on record was ran in December last, in Kingston, Jamaica: mile heats. Time the first heat, two minutes ten seconds; the second heat, two minutes twelve sec onds. Climate and other circumstances considered, it must in every sense of the expression, have been a smoking race. [English paper. The East India method of rendering Snakes harmless. The secret, so much wondered at .by which East Indian jugglers safely handle venomous snakes, is said in the Oriental Herald, quoting the authori ty of Lieut. Hutton, to be this. They ; are drugged with opium, which renders them quiet and harmless. ’The effects ot the drug will not wear off for fortnight or three weeks. This fact Lieut. Hutton ascertained by personal experience; a drug ged snake which he had purchased hav ing, at the lapse of three weeks, flown at him unexpectedly and nearly strangled him. The sick are all taken Goelic’s Match less Sanative.—[Boston M., Her. And dying pretty considerable quick afterwards.—[ Age. [TER»MU..*3 IN ADVANCE. WMBBR 13. Imitation Wines. —lt i9 not perhaps, (generally known that very large establish ments exist at Cette and Marseilles, in the j south of France, for the manufacture of every description of wines, the natural 'products not only of France, but of all other wine-growing and wine-exporting (countries. .Some of these establishments ( are on so large a scale as to give em ployment to an equal, if not greater, num ber of persons than our large breweries. It is no uncommon occurrence with spec ulators engaged in this sort of illicit traf fic to purchase and ship imitation wines, fabricated in the place named, to Madeira, where by collusion with persons in the custom-house department of the island, the wines are landed in the entrepot, and thence, after being branded with the usu al marks of the genuine Madeira vintage, resltipped, principally, it is believed, for the United States. Tlie scale of gratuity for this sort of work to the officials inter ested may be estimated by the fact, that, on otic occasion, 70 pipes were thus sur reptitiously passed at a charge of 1,000 dollars. It is a circumstance no less sin gular, that tiic same is said to he commonly carried on witfi counter feit wine made up in Cette and Marseilles, and thence despatched to Oporto, where the same process of landing, branding, and reshipment ns genuine port is gone through, the destination of this spurious article being most generally the United States. Such is the extent of this nefari ous commerce that one individual alone has been pointed out in the habit of des patching four times in the year 25,000 bottles of champagne each shipment, of wines not the produce of champagne dis tricts, hut fabricated in these wine facto ries. It is known, that the imposition of these counterfeit wines has arrived at'such a pitch as to have become quite notorious, and the subject of loud complaint in the United States at least.—[London Times. Danitm; Extraordinary. — ln ‘Sketch es of Paris,’ by an American gentle man published not long since by Carey and Hart, we find the following graphic de scription of the performance of M. Essler, a colfhrAted dancer at the Paris Opera: “She will courtsy to her middle, and then rise in a jtirouettc two yards high! This is her preliminary step. She will then set off, and skip over the whole area of the stage, lighting on it only occasion ally, trying her limbs as it were, provoking the dance from afar; and will present her self to the spectators in all the variety of human shapes and appearances. One while you will see her many “twiqkling feet” suspended in the air, then twirling herself round, until her face and hips will seem on the same side of her; at last, (and this is the very epic strain of the peforntance and therefore the last,) she will poise her self upon the extremity of her left toe, and bring the right gradually up to the level of the eye, (the house will hold its breath,) and then she will give herself a rotary movement continuing it in cres rtndo till she becomes invisible. You can no more count her legs than the spokes of a rail wagon carrying the Pres ident’s Message.—This is Fanny Essler.” M. Tocqueville in his work on America, gives the following prophetic paragraph: “It is my opinion that nations, like men, indicate almost always from their early age the principal traits of their destiny. When I see with what spirit the Anglo- Americans carry on commerce,* the fa cilities they find, and the success which they obtain, I cannot withhold the belief that they will one day become the first maritime power upon the Globe. They are pressed onward to possess the seas, as were the Romans to conquer the world.” *lle says elsewhere. “I cannot better I express my thoughts than by saying that I the Americans incorporate a certain he j roisin into their manner es conducting ! commerce.” Considerate. —Pat Hogan once rid ing to market with a sack of potatoes be fore him, discovered that the horse was getting tired, whereupon he dismounted, put the potatoes on his shoulders, and again mounted, saying— “it was better he should carry the prattles, as he was fresh er than the poor beast.” Uncommonly accommodating. One of our exchange papers -lately presented a curious mistake of the printer. The caption line ‘Through by Daylight,’ which belonged to a steamboat advertise ment, was placed over that of Brandreth’s Pills!—[N. Y. Sun. At a Steam Ship meeting in Bristol, Eng., one of the speakers said—' “ wc j have laid a railroad of 3000 miles across the sea.” Not bad. The newspapers published in the Uni ted States, are comjputed at 1,5200 —from, which 100,000,000 arq annually issued.