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VOLUME 2.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
- AGENTS.
Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq.
Telfuir “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton.
Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq.
Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq.
Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq.
Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq.
IPayns “ Robert Howe, Esq.
TERMS.
Three Dollars in advance—s 4 at the end of
the year.
fijr*No subscriptions received for a less term
than six months and no paper discontinu*
•ed until alt arrearages are paid except
at the option of the publisher,
tr All letters and communications in relation
to the paper, must be POST PAID to en
sure attention. ,
D* ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in
serted at Os* Dollar per one hundred words,
for the first iasertion, and Fiftv Cents for ev
tity subsequent,continuance—Rule and figure
■work always double price. Twenty-five per
(cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during
<h« continuance of the advertisement. Those
oent without a specification of the number of
sniertioAs will be published until ordered out,
and charged accordingly.
Leoal Advertisements published at the
usual rates.
O*N. B. Sales of Land, 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 eounty in which the property is situate.—
Notice of these sales must be given in a public
gazette, Sixtv Da vs previous to the day of
sale.
Sales of Negroes 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 sixtv davs notice
thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this
State, and at the door ofthe Court-house,where
such sales are to be held.
Notice for the sale of Personal Property,must
he given in like manner, Fortv 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 be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must
bepublished for Four Months.
Notice for leave to sell Neorof.s, must be
published for Four Months, before any order
absolute shall be made thereon by the Court.
Medical CJollese of Georgia.
THE seventh Course of Lectures in this In
stitution, will be commenced on the se
cond -Monday (the 12th) of next November,
and be terminated on the first Saturday (the
2d) of March following. The Lectures will
be delivered by
G. M. NEWTON, M. D. Professor of Anat
omy.
L. A. DUGAS, M. D. Professor of Physiolo
gy and Pathological Anatomy.
CHARLES DAVIS, M. D Professor of
Chemistry and Pharmacy.
JOSEPH A. EVE,M. D. Professor of Ther
aspeutics and Materia Medica.
L. D. FORD, M. D. Professor of Institutes
and Practice of Medicine.
PAUL F. EVE, M. D. Professor of Princi
ples and Practice of Surgery.
MILTON ANTONY, M. D. Professor of Ob
stetrics and Diseases of Women and Infants.
The Professor of Anatomy will superintend
the Dissecting Rooms in person, and discharge
the duties of Demonstrator without additional
fees. He and the Professor of Chemistry and
Pharmacy devote their whole time to the Col
lege. In the College Buildings, Museum,
Chemical*Apparatus, Library, &,c. are invest
ed $40,000.
The expenses for the full Course of Lectures,
including the Demonstration ticket, is $115.-r-
Students attending this Institution for the first
time, will pay for Marticulation $5. The cur
rent money of any of the States in which Stu
dents may reside, will be taken at par.
Specimens in Anatomy and Natural History
will be thankfully received for the Museum.
PAUL F. EVE, Dean of the Faculty.
Augusta, (Ga.) Aug. 10. [Aug. 20.
Georgia Female College.
THE FALL TERM ofthis Institution, will
open on Wednesday, 13th inst. As the
number of Students iwlimited, it is to be desir
ed that those who design patronizing us, should
apply at the beginning of the term.
“Remarks on Female Education,” is in the
hands of the Printer,and will soon be published.
, An Essay on the Theory and Practice of
Music, and Marches, «fcc. by V. Lataste, Pro
fessor of Music in this Institution, are for sale
at the Bookstores
Our friends are informed that this institution
is now in a very flourishing condition, in spite
ot the various rumors attempted to be spread
by those who consider us formidable opponents,
or they would labor to put us down by fair
means. They have reported that we are not
patronized by respectable people, and other
things equally generous and decent. In con
firmation of the truth of such, we refer all
wishing correct information, to Jesse P.Greene.
Win. B. Greene and James Anderson, Esq’rs., j
Burke County—John Morel, Esq. Savannah—
John E. Lester, David Lester, Esq’rs. Jones
County—David Hill, Stephen Bivins, Esq’rs.,
Off. Rockwell, Maj. Wm. Y. Hansell, &c.
&c. <fcc. Baldwin County. This is professed
ly a Southern Institution, and Southern men
,„;i; simnort it L. LATASTE,
will support It. anna m lataste,
, June 31. Principals^
GEORGIA —GLYNN COUNTY.
URBANUS DART applies to me for letters
dismissory as Executor of the Estate ana
Effects of Nathaniel Bell, late of Glynn
County, deceased —
These are therefore to cite and admonish the
kindred and creditors of said deceased, to be
and appear at my office within the tune pre
scribed by law, to shew cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be granted
Given under my hand thisoth day of March,
A D 163d JOHN BUFNETT,
A U ’ ICJ Clerk C O. G C.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA
BRUNSWICK, GBORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15,1838.
.v/;ir goods.
RICE, PARK[ER & CO.
HAVE just received per schooner Nile,
from Boston—
Hogsheads N. E. RUM,
American BRANDY,
Do GIN,
Superior high flavored St. Croix RUM,
Do Old Cognac BRANDY, in half
pipes and quarter casks,
Superior PORT WINE,
Do MALAGA WINE,
“Woodhouses” Sicily Madeira WINE, 9
years old,
“Alberline s” Sicily Madeira WINE,
Superior Old Holland GIN,
Champagne WINE,
Hogsheadsand barrels Muscovado SUGAR,
Boxes brown and white Havana do
East Boston double refined Loaf and Crush
ed SUGAR,
St. Domingo and Java COFFEE,
Best Havana SEGARS, of the most approv
ed Brands, •
TOBACCO, Chocolate, Raisins,
White and Brown SOAP,
Winter and Spring strained Spermaciti OIL,
ofthe best quality, manufactured at N. Bedford.
Spermaciti CANDLES; Butter; Cheese,
Bent's Butter and Water CRACKERS,
Genessee FLOUR,
ALE and PORTER, in whole and half bot
tles,
BEEF; PORK; HAMS; White BEANS;
APPLES; ONIONS; Northern Potatoes,
Pickled SALMON, in half and quarter bids.
MACKERELL, in whole and half bbls.
Pickled TONGUES and SOUNDS,
Pickled LOBSTERS,
LARD; SALT; CODFISH; Smoked Her
ring; Powder; Shot; Pepper; Cassia; Mus
tard; Pickles; Maecaroni; Vermicelli; Starch;
Capers; Ginger; Anchovie; Sardines; Olives;
Pepper Sauce; Salad Oil; Lemon and Rasp
berry Syrup; Walnut, Mushroom and Tomato
Ketchup; Powder; Shot; PAINTS and OIL;
Window GLASS; Cut Nails.
Shoes.
Mens' thick pegged BROGANS—Boys do.
Womens’ do do
Ladies’ Kid SLIPPERS—do Walking Shoes
Childrens’ Morocco BOOTS—Misses' do.
Mens thick BOOTS,
Do best CALF do
Do fine Goat do
Crockery, Glass and Stone WARE,
HARD WARE, of all kinds,
WOODEN WARE,
FOREIGN &. DOMESTIC PIECE
GOODS, viz:
Brown and bleached SHIRTINGS and
SHEETINGS,
TICKINGS; Blue DRILLINGS; Brown
do; SATTINETS; CASSIMERES; Brown
LINEN; Bleached do, Brown Linen LAWN;
Imperial Linen SHEETINGS 10-4 and 12-4
wide,
G-4 Linen SHEETINGS,
9-8 heavy Pillow Case LINENS,
Colored and White CAMBRICS,
CALICOES; Printed MUSLINS,
Rich French CALICOES,
Red and White FLANNELS, plain &. twilled
Linen DAMASK—do Napkins and Table
CLOTHS,
Jaconet, Book, Mull and Cambric Muslins,
Plain and fig'd Swiss MUSLINS,
Rich worked French Muslin Collars and Pe
lerines,
Laces; Edgings; Cravats; Lace and Gauze
Veils; Green Barage,
Silk and Cotton HANDKERCHIEFS;
Ladies’ Cotton, Worsted and Silk HOSE;
Do Silk and Kid GLOVES,
Cotton and Linen Thread.
Gro do Nap and Poult de Sole SILKS,
BLANKETS; KERSEYS,
Black and White LINSEYS,
Washington JEANS, a very desirable and
good article for Negro Clothing,
Mixed Cordova PLAINS, } anew article of
Do do KERSEYS, > Am. manuf. for
White Plains & Kerseys, S Negro Clothing.
The attention of Planters is invited to these
articles for Negro Clothing, for which orders
will be received for any quantity for the pres
ent or the next year. It is believed they will
do more service than the imported articles us
ed for the same purpose.
Brunswick, Oct. 25.
IfIRS. I ANKARA ill,
RECENTLY from Boston, would respect
fully invite the attention of the Ladies
of this and the adjoining counties to her Es
tablishment, just opened in Brunswick, over
the store of Rice, Parker & Cos., where may be
found an elegant assortment of
French, English, Italian dj* Canton Goods,
consisting in part of rich Satin. Brocade, Fig'd
and Plain SILKS; Mouseline do Laines, Chal
lies, Crapes, Muslins; elegant wrought Capes,
Collars, Shawls. Handkerchiefs. Scarfs ; Gar
niture, Cap and Belt Ribbons; Gloves, of every
description; Hosiery; French Shoes; French
Flowers; Feathers; a great variety of Straw
and Leghorn Bonnets.
Also, the latest Paris, London, N. York and
Boston Fashions for Millinarv and Dress
Making. Oct. 25.
(Lr’The Darien Telegraph will give the a
bove three insertions and forward bill to this
office for payment.
Fall and Winter Goods.
JUST received by sclir. Canton, from New
\ork, a large assortment of
Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS,
Ready made CLOTHING—aII kinds,
Ladies’ and Gents’ fine BOOTS & SHOES
HATS, CAPS and BONNETS.
Negro CLOTHS—Negro SHOES,
Heavy 42 inch BAGGING,
HARDWARE, NAILS, CROCKERY
MEDICINES, GROCERIES, PROVIS
IONS,
WINES, LIQUORS. &c. &c
For sale on accommodating terms, by
S. A. HOOKER.
BETHEL, Oct. 25—3 w.
A CARD.
A W. WIGHT, Violin player, late leader
ofthe Bind on board U. S. schooner
Madison, would inform the public that he
would be happy to attend Balls, Dancing Par
ties, &c. at short notice and on reasonable
terns. Orders from a distance left at the Bar
of the Oglethorpe House will be attended to.
Oct. 25—ts.
POETRY.
THE PARROT. A Domestic Anecdote.
IT THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESq.
The deep affections of the breast,
That Heaven to living things imparts,
Are not exclusively possess’d
By human hearts.
A parrot from tha Spanish Main,
Full young and early caged, came o'er
With bright wings to the bleak domain
Os Mulla's shore. •
The spicy groves where he had won
His plumage of resplendent due,
His native fruits, and skies, and sun,
He bade adieu !
For these he changed—the smoke of turf—
A heathery land and misty sky,
And turned on rocks and raging surf
His golden eye.
But, petted in our climate cold,
He lived and chatter'd many a day ;
Until with age, from green and gold,
His wing grew grey.
At last, when blind and seeming dumb
He scolded, laughed, and spoke no more ;
A Spanish stranger chanced to come
To Mulla’s shore.
He fail'd the bird in Spanish speech ;
The bird in Spanish speech replied ;
Flapp'd round his cage with joyous screech,
Dropp'd down and died.*
* This incident, so strongly illustrating the
power of memory and association in the lower
animals, is not a fiction I heard it many
years ago in the Island of Mull, from the
family to whom the bird belonged.
H I § € E li L A i\ I .
The Soldier’s Revei. and the Sol
dier’s Wife. Mr. Stephens, in his In
cidents of Travel, gives the following
sketch of a bacchanalian scene among
the Bavarian soldiers, which he witness
ed in the locanda at Megara, in Greece;
About ten o’clock I was roused by the
loud roar of a chorus, not like a sudden
burst, but a thing that seemed to have
swelled up to that point by degrees; and
rubbing my eyes, and stumbling down
stairs, I entered the banqueting hall; a
long, rough wooden table extended the
whole length of the room, supplied with
only two articles, wine-flagons and tobac
co-pouches; forty or fifty soldiers were sit
ting round it, smoking pipes and singing
with all their souls, and, at the moment I
entered, waving their pipes to the dying
cadence of a hunting chorus. Then fol
lowed a long thump on the table, and they
all rose; my long travelling friend, with
a young soldier who spoke a little French,
came up, and, escorting me to the head
of the table, gave me a seat by the side
of the chairman. One of them attempt
ed to administer a cup of wine, and the
other thrust at me the end of a pipe, and
I should have been obliged to kick and
abscond hut for the relief afforded me by
the entrance of another new-comer. This
was no other than the corporal’s wife;
and, if I had been received warmly, she
was greeted with enthusiasm. Half the
table sprang forward to escort her; two of
them collared the President and hauled
him off his seat, and the whole company,
by acclamation, installed her in his place.
She accepted it without any hesitation,
while two of them, with clumsy courtesy,
took off her bonnet, which I, sitting at
her right hand, look charge of. All then
resumed their places, and the revel went
on more gaily than ever. The lady Pres
ident was about thirty, plainly*but neatly
dressed, and though not handsome, had
a frank, amiable, and good-tempered ex
pression, indicating the greatest of wo
man's attributes, a good heart. In fact,
she looked what the young man at my
side told me she was, the peace-maker
of the regiment; and, he added, they al
ways tried to have her at their convivial
meetings, for when she was among them
the brawling spirits were kept down, and
every man would be ashamed to quarrel
in her presence. There was no chivalry,
no heroic devotion among them, but their
i manner toward her was as speaking a
' tribute as was ever paid to the influence
of woman, and I question whether beau
ty in her bower, surrounded by belted
knights and barons bold, ever exercised
in her more exalted sphere a more happy
1 influence. I talked with her, and with
the utmost simplicity she told me that the
soldiers all loved her: that they were all
kind to her, and she looked upon them
all as brothers. We broke up at about
twelve o’clock with a song, requiring each
person to take the hand of his neighbor;
one of her hands fell to me, and I took it
with a respect seldom surpassed in touch
ing the hand of woman; for I felt that she
was cheering the rough path of a soldier’s
.life, and, among scenes calculated to har
i den the heart, reminding them of moth
ers, and sisters, and sweethearts at home
SILK CULTURE.
Since the last war, Joseph Ripka of
Manaytink, has been one of the most
persevering and early friends in the cause
of the ‘‘Silk Culture” in this country.
The greatest obstacle appeared to be the
want of a good breed of silk worms. In
1827 at his own expense and risk, he ob
tained the services of gentleman well ac
quainted with the manufacturing of silk,
to proceed to the South of France and
reside there during the time of the hatch
ing of the eggs, and to carefully investi
gate the treatment of the worm through
all its various stages, and to select for
him eggs, of the best kind for breed;
which having faithfully accomplished, re
turned in September of the same year,
bringing with him the finest selection
France could produce. In the mean
time Joseph Ripka purchased a farm on j
the Point Road, four miles from the city, 1
of about 13 acres; he employed John
Tarhowen, a man well skilled in rearing'
the silk worm, and had the whole plant-;
ed with the white Italian Mulberry. lie
has preserved annually with great care I
the same breed of worms, selecting for
seed the best cocoons. The worms are j
free from all disease, and without excep-;
tion, are the best in the United States. J
They are the large mammoth white, and i
produce more silk and of better quality !
than any oilier kind of worm ext ;nt. The
cocoons and silk have been exhibited and
favorably noticed at the annual exhibitions
of the Franklin Institute.
The expense attending the introduc
tion and preservation of the eggs has
been great, and the country at large owe
a debt of gratitude to Joseph Ripka, who
has been and still is one of the great pat
rons of the silk culture in this country.
Since the introduction of the morns
multicaulis, a wide field is open for the
profitable investment of capital, to those
who will now engage in the business.
Editorial Change. Mr. Sol. Smith,
has sold the establishment of the Mobile
Mercantile Advertiser, to Messrs. C. C.
Langdon and J. O. Harris, by whom the
paper will hereafter be conducted. Mr.
Smith, publishes quite a lengthy valedic
tory, which he concludes with the follow
ing very appropriate remarks, relative to
the patronage of newspaper establish
ments.
“Os all trades, professions, or callings,
I know of none—l have followed a great
many —so poorly paid as newspaper pub
lishers. Many patrons of newspapers, or
otherwise, worthy, punctual men, think it
not unrighteous to let the publisher wait
year after year for his dues—and at last, if
he is compelled to pay, he docs it with a
very bad grace. “Mr. Type must have
his money, must he!” Well if he must,
he must. Give me a receipt; and do you
hear! stop the paper —l have patronized
that establishment six years—there is no
such thing as gratitude in the world.”—
Another will iell you he never subscribed
fur the paper —“the boy lias left it every 1
morning, it is true, and ns it was left, I :
did read it occasionally—but 1 never or
dered it.” There is another clasS of pat
rons who never subscribe at all, but are
great friends of the paper, and always read
it —in fact, this is the class who may be
termed your “constant readers.” “Here,
Sain,go over the way, with my compli
ments to Mr. Tomkins, and ask him for
the loan of Ills paper —and, Sam tell him
as he never reads it before breakfast, I’ll
thank him to let John bring it over here
every mprning—it is an excellent paper —
that editor really knows what lie is about
—I begin to think of patronizing him my
self.” There yet remains to be mention
ed, one more class of patrons —support-
ers I should say, for they are the support
and stay of publishers. This class is com
posed of those who say—“ Here Mr. Clerk,
—be so good as to place my name on
your subscription list and write opposite
to it, paid in advance.” In looking over
a list of some tlidusand yesterday, 1 saw a
hundred or two of this class. If I had
any golden types, their names should litter
ally appear in letters of gold. There are
now from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars
due this office; and I am convinced, the
new proprietors would willingly sell all
the debts for five thousand! It is thus,
with newspaper offices—and why? because
publishers are good-natured, and submit
to their own degradation in the scale of
tradesmen. Let this state of things he a
mended—“reform it altogether.” Adhere
strictly to the terms of your papers —for, j
take the word of an experienced man, |
yon had better keep your ink and paper I
than furnish them and your labor for noth
ing. You may get popularity but you
will get no pork and cabbage for your j
dinner.
I now take my leave, as proprietor of
the “Advertiser”—l forgive all, and ask
forgiveness of all, (if any one has any
thing to forgive,) and conclude by repeat
ing the advice I gave my Cincinnati I
friends, fifteen years ago, with a slight j
amendment; "live honestly—serve God
and m for your newspapers.
Life Restored by Electricity. Last
week a little girl, named Hannah Sheets,
fell head-foremost into a butt of rain-wat
er, which stood open in the back yard of
the house where her parents resided in
Castle-street, Golden square. It is
actly known how long she lay there, for
she was not immediately missed, and even j
then an anxious search of many minutes
was made through the house and streets;
adjacent ere the water butt was thought of.
When dragged out she was quite cold,
and all the usual remedies were tried, for
a length of time, by surgeon \V. B. Parkes,
of Carnaby-street without success. A
mongst the rest, attempts to inflate the
lungs were unremittingly persevered in for
a considerable time. Asa last resource,
Mr. Parkes applied the stimulus of elec
tricity. He first passed shocks gently
through the head and chest, along the
course of the spine, gradually increasing
their power, and persevering during the
whole time in the inflation of the lungs.
After these menus had been employed
conjointly for about ten minutes, faint
traces of respiration were observed, and,
in three-quarters of an hour, he had the
pleasure to behold his patient in a fair
way of recovery. The child is now in the
enjoyment of perfect health.—-[London
Morning Post.
Curious Typographical Error. The
celebrated printer, Henri Ettiene, son of
Robert, (both known in the learned world
by the name of Stephanus,) was once en
gaged in the printing of a splendid quar
to Missal. The great number of subscri
bers seemed likely to make ample com
pensation for the heavy expense required
by the undertaking. After the sheets had
been corrected with the utmost care, the j
work was printed off, splendidly hound,
and delivered to the subscribers. It would
he impossible to describe the astonish
ment of the learned printer, when one
copy after another was returned to him,
till all were sent hack. He enquired the
reason of this extraordinary circumstance,
and was informed that in one place the
compositor had put lei prrtre otera sa
culotte, (here the priest will take off his
breeches) instead of calotte, (small black
cap) and the error escaped the correctors
of the press. In vain did the poor prin
ter offer to make a cancel; the subscri
bers who were almost all ecclesiastics,
positively refused to take the work on
any terms. This unfortunate affair is
said to have been the first and chief cause
ofthe derangement which afterwards caus
ed Henri Ettiene to be confined in the
Lunatic Hospital at Lyons, where he
died in 1098. There is a copy of the
Missal with this unlucky error, in the
royal library at Paris.
Pyramid of Cheops. —This monument
of pride, science, or superstition—who
known which?—was building while Abra
ham was iu Egypt; Joseph and his breth
ren must have seen the sun set behind
it every day they sojourned in Egypt; it
must have been the last object Moses and
the departing Israelites lost sight of as
they quitted the land of bondage; Py
thagoras, Herodotus, Alexander, the Cal
iphs— it has been the goal of nations!
Lost nations have pilgrimized to iis foot,
and looked up, as their common ances
tors did before them, in awe and humil
ity; and now, two strangers from the
‘ultima Thule’ of ancients, Britain, sev
ered from the whole world by a watery line
which they considered it impious to trans
gress, stand here on the summit, and,
looking round, see a desert where once
stood the ‘c.loud-capt towers, the gorgeous
places.’ The temples and tombs of Mem
phis arose in their calm beauty, and Wis
dom dwelt among the groves of palm and
acacia—solitary now, and deserted, ex
cept by the wandering Arab and his camel.
[Lord Lindsay’s Letters.
Vaccination. It is stated is the Lon
doirMedical Gazette, of Saturday week,
that Mr. Estlin, surgeon, of Bristol, has
succeeded, after many years of ineffectual
trial, in procuring fresh vaccine lymph
from the cow, which has reproduced the
disease in the human subject. The new
matter is represented as of a well marked
and active character, producing more
local and constitutional affection than that
in common use. Some has been sent to the
small pox hospital, in London. Mr. Est
lin has offered to provide any gentleman
with it who has the care of a public insti
tution for gratuitous vaccinnation.
Chaw-*sin, the poet, states somewhere,
that a man who eats three meals a day,
allowing one half hour each for break
fast and supper, and one hour for dinner,
and lives to the age of three-score, spends
during his life, as much time in eating
and drinking, as would be now required
in Cincinnati, to slaughter, dress and
pack seven millions, nine hundred and
ninety-nine billions of hogs, each weigh
ing 450 lbs.
If you want to get rich work hard and
spend little.
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Mason s and Dixon’s Link, —lbis
line is very frequently referred to, in de
bate and conversation. A correspond
ent requests us to give him the-history
and location of it, and to comply, we bor
row the following explanation from the
S&lem Gazette.— Balt. Patriot. t
| “This boundary is so termed from the
names of Charles Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon—the two gentlemen who were ap
pointed to ran unfiuished lines, jsJ76l,
between Pennsylvania and MujflHL on
the territories subjected to tn 6 wHct of
Penn and Lord Baltimore. A tetnpora-
ry line had been ruitin .1739, but bad
not given satisfaction* lfep the disputing
parties, although it resullfcd from an agree
ment in 1739 between theroselyes. A
I decree had been made in 1618/1 n King
James, delineating the be
tween the lands given by charteMfHhe first
Lord Baltimore, and those adfroged to
his majesty (afterwards to William Penn)
which divided the tract of land -between
Delaware Bay and the Eastern sea on one
side, and the Chesapeak Bay on the Other
by a line equally intersecting it, drawn
from Cape Henlopen to the 4th degree
of North latitude. A decree in chance
ry rendered the King’s decree imperative.
But the situation of Henlopen became
long a subject of serious, protracted, and
expensive litigation, particularly after|tbe
death of Penn, in 1718, and of Lord Bal
timore, in 1714; till John, Richard tifrid
Thomas Penn, (who had become thejsole
proprietors of the American posessions of
their father William) and Cecilius, Lord
Baltimore, grandson of Charles, and great
grandson of Cecilius, the original paten
tee, entered into an agreement on the
10th of May, 1727. To this agreement a
chart was appended, which ascertained
(he site of Cape Henlopen, and delinea
ted a division by an East and West line,
running westward from that Cape, to tlie
exact middle of the peninsula. Lord
Baltimore became dissatisfied with this
agreement and endeavored to invalidate
it. Chancery suits, kingly decrees, and
proprietory arrangements followed, which
eventually produced the appointment of
commissioners to run the temporary line.
This was effected in 1739. But the cause
in chancery being decided in 1739, new
commissioners were appointed who could
not, however, agree, and the question re
mained open till 1761, when the line was
run by Messrs. Mason and Dixon.
The Queen’s Bed. The visitors of
Buckingham Palace, who have an oppor
tunity of seeing the Queen’s bed, and who
are accustomed to couclude, that royalitv
mu3t repose on feather beds and downy
pillows, will be astonished to have point
ed out to them a small camp bed, with a
hard mattress and one small pillow, as the
couch of royalily; but such is the fact.—
If ladies generally would follow her ma
jesty’s example, they would feel the bene
fit of it in the improvement of their per
sons and figure, and in the flow of health
and spirits it would secure.—[London pa
per.] What stuff! Her majesty’s bed
suits her, and other ladies use beds that
suit them.—[Ed. Albion.
.
Consolation.— While Gen. Green, of
Rhode Island, was independent of all fa
natics, he had a capital knack of sooth
ing the disappointment of beaten candi
dates, and on such occasions, used to tell
a favorite story, in such a style of inim
itable humor, which reconciled every
body to the Joss of office. We can give
nothing of its spirit—merely the outline.
A field slave in the South, to whom meat
was a rare blessing, one day found in his
trap a plump rabbit. He took him out
alive, held him under his arm, patted him,
and began to speculate on bis qualities,
j“ Oh how fat! how berry fat! the fattest
: I eber did see! Let me see how I cook
hint. I roast him. No, he be so fat he
lose all he grease. I fry him. Ah, yes,
he so berry fat lie fry himself; golly,
how fat he be. No I wont fry him; I
j stew him.” The thought of the savory
stew made the negro forget himself, and
in spreading out the feast in his imagi
nation, his arm relaxed, when oflf hopped
the rabbit, and squatting at a goodly dis
tance, he eyed his late owner with cool
composure.
The negro knew there was an end of
the matter, and summoning? all his-phi
losophy, he thus addressed the rabbit,
| shaking his fist at him “ You l6ng
' cared, white-whiskered, red-eyed son of
a , you no so berry dam fat arter
all.”
A banker, during heavy reverses, sought
consolation in his prayer book every
morning. NfiFio6ner, however, was the
volume closed, than be would utter the
most violent oaths, against his iH fortune.
“My dear,” said his wife to biny one
morning, while he was venting his im
precations, “do for mercy ante either
leave off praying or swearing.” I do not
care which.” —.[Claremont Eagle.
If every one were honest we need not
lock our .doors.