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BY CHARLES DAYIS.] VOLUME 2. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. AGENTS. Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq. Telfuir “ Rer. Charles J. Sheltan. Mclntosh “ Janies Blue, Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq. Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq. H'ayne “ Robert Howe, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance—s 4at the end of the year. 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. D-All letters and communications in relation to the' paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. OCT ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at Oss Dollar per twelve lines, or less, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cxnts 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. Those sent without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates. Uj*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 county in which the property is situate.— Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette, Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. Sales of 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 ths letters testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house, where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property,must be given in like manner, Forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es tate must be published for Forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must bepublished for Four Months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for Four Months, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. Lands for Sale. THE Subscriber offers for sale 400 acres Pine Land, situated on the Little Satilla, in Camden County. The land is very conve nient to water carriage, and is bounded North by lands of William Moore, on all other sides by vacant lands. It contains about 20 acres Hammock, and the residue is covered with a good growth principally pine timber. Also, 360 acres, principally Hammock, on Barrington road, Glynn County. The land is situated within 13 miles of Brunswick, and within 3 miles of the south branch of Alatania ha river. Likewise, a tract containing 100 acres; 20 acres of which is hammock, and the residue pine, situated at the cross roads, Sterling, Glynn County, distant 11 miles from Bruns wick, baing a very good situation for a Tavern Stand. • Any information in regard to said land can be had on application to John Franki.in, Jr. Brunswick, Ga. JOHN FRANKLIN, Sen r- Feb. 15. ts JI'EGROES n\i.\'TEM>. THE Contractors upon the Brunswick and Alatamaha Canal are desirous to hire a number of PRIME NEGRO MEN, from the Ist October next, for fifteen months, until the Ist January, 1640, or for any term within these dates, not less than twelve months. They will pay at the rate of EIGHTEEN DOLLARS per month for each prime hand. Payments to be made quarterly. These negroes will be employed in the exca vation of the Canal. They will be provided with three ar.d a half pounds of pork or bacon and ten quarts of gourd seed com per week, lodged in comfortable shantees and attended constantly by a skilful physician. As the Contractors are now making their arrangements for the work of the next year, all those who will be disposed to hire negroes for the coming season are requested to make immediate application, and obtain any further information that may be desired at the office of the Contractors in Brunswick. J H. COUPER, P. M. NIGHTINGALE. sept. 20—3 ma. The Savannah Republican and Georgian and Darien Telegraph will please insert the above once a week till forbid and forward their bills to this office. Yellow Pine dumber. The burnt fort steam mill COMPANY, on the Satilia River, (Cam den Cos.) Geo., have on hand a large amount of Sawed Lumber, and are prepared to fill orders | to any amount, of any size and length, up to. sixty feet. The timber on the Satilia is of the best quality, Yellow Pine, to be found in the Southern States. The Mills (SO miles up the , river ) are well built after the Northern fash ion and well manned with Northern millmen. Vessels drawing 6 feet of water can go up to j the Mills, and ships of a thousand tons can go within eight miles, where they can hare the lumber brought to them, load, and not be sub ject to any charges whatever. The lumber will be put at low prices to secure custom. Hav, Corn, Provisions and West India produc tions will often be taken in exchange for lum bP/'a Colby, Esq. of Philadelphia, principal owner.) SAMUEL ATKINSON, Agent. Burnt Fort, Camden County, Geo. sep 13—ep3m. , „ ~ . _ The Charleston Mercury and Savannah Re publican are requested to publish the above 3 mo. and forward their bills to S. A. for pay ment. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13,1838. POETRY. [From the Christian Statesman.] ‘ The fool hath said in his heart there is no God. 1 Psalm 14. ‘No God ! No God !’ The simplest flower That on the wild is found, Shrinks, as it drinks its cup "of dew, And trembles at the sound ; ‘ No God !’—astonished echo cries, From out her cavern hoar, And every wandering bird that flies Reproves the Atheist-lore. The solemn forest lifts its head, The Almighty to proclaim, The brooklet, on its crystal urn, Doth leap to grave his name. High swells the deep and vengeful sea, Along its billowy track, And red Vesuvius opes its mouth, To hurl the falsehood back. The palm-tree, with its princely crest, The cocoa’s lofty shade, The bread fruit bending to its load, The winged seeds, that borne by winds, The raving sparrows feed, The melon on the desert sands, Confute the scorncr’s creed. * No God !’ with indignation high The fervent sun is stirred, And the pale Moon turns paler still, At such an impious word ; And from their burning thrones, the Stars Look down with angry eye, That thus a worm of dust sliould mock Eternal Majesty. L. 11. S. WOMAN’S WIT, OR LOVE’S DISGUISES. They sat within a bower of roses twined, A pale, dark youth, beßide a bright-eyed girl: Behind her parted lips shone wealth of pearl, As, ever and anon, she, smiling, turned To that dark youth : and he with fevered mind, Gazed on that bright eyed girl, and mutely drank The beauty that on her fair features burned, Till all their witchery to his heart’s depths sank. He seized her hand, and borne upon the tide Os swelling passion, straight before her knelt. He felt—he felt—he knew not how he felt— But feel he did, and said so ; —she replied, “ All very tine this, Master Tom, no doubt, But does your anxious mother really know you’re out ?" MISCELLANY. Extraordinary Fanatics. The arti cle which follows is from one of the latest numbers of the “United Service Journal.” Readers will believe as much of it as they please, though we do not perceive that it is more incredible than some of the state ments made a year or two since, on pret ty good authority, respecting the Egyptian Magician : Ever since I came to India I have heard of a class of Mussulmans, the disciples of a sect or saint by name Shaikh ltuflfai, who, in order to impress the unbelievers with the truth of the Mussulman faith, im parted to his followers the power of plung ing swords and daggers into their body, cutting of their tongue, frying it, and put ting it together again, cutting off the head and limbs, scooping out the eye, and, in truth, doing with their head and body whatsoever it pleased them to do; all of which Colonel G , in company with a clergyman, a Mr. , had seen, when the latter grew sick, and ran out of the place, declaring it was the power of Satan, which to this day he believes, and the Colo nel, that it is done through the power ofthe art, magic, at which I of course laughed, j and declared that so soon as a man of the regiment (by name Shaikh Kureen, one of these Ruffai) should return from fur lough, I would witness the exhibition. A large tent was accordingly pitched, and fifty lamps furnished, and plates full of arsenic, and quantities of a plant of the cactus tribe, filled with a milky juice, a drop of which, if it fall on your skin, blis ters it, and a vast quantity of the common glass bangles, or bracelets worn by the women, and daggers, and swords, and things like thick steel skewers, and other horrid looking weapons, like a butcher’s steel, only with a large handle covered with chains, and about twenty Ruffais to beat all manner of drums; and so, when all was ready, about five of the officers left the mess table with myself, and along with us about a hundred sepoys crowded into the tent. When we were seated, and silence obtained, the work commenced by a sort of chant from their sacred books, the drum-beater joining in and keeping time; the chant increased at length both j in noise and velocity; until, having work ] ed themselves into an ecstacy, they seized I hold of the instruments, the body kept in J a 9ort of swinging motion; some plunged ! the skewer instruments, one through each : cheek, another through the tongue, a third | through the throat, and then commenced | stabbing themselves with swords and dag- I gers, and all sorts of nasty instruments.— I Others cut off their tongue, and, having ! roasted it in the fire, put it in their mouth | again, when they immediately united; they j ate the arsenic and the blistering milk plant, whilst others munched the glass ban gles as though they were the greatest del icacies. This was all done within half a yard of my knees, for they came up close to me i with many lamps, in order that I might! see that there was no deception; and I do 1 assure you that it made me feel sick, and produced any thing but an agreeable sensa tion on my mind, for to this moment I know not what to think of it. lam not superstitious, and, although the Colonel and many very respectable natives had de clared to me that they did actually do these things, and that, if a sense were to be in any mauner trusted they had seen it all done, I would, nevertheless, not believe it. I was told beforehand that it required faith and purity on th* part of the performer, and that, then, not a drop of blood would follow; but that otherwise, a few drops of blood would sometimes follow the instru ment, and the performer would receive some slight injury. On taking my departure from the tent, I happened to say, that I should, at all events, think more honorable of their prowess if I saw them exhibited in the open face of day, and divested of noise, motion, paraphernalia, &c. On the fol lowing day, whilst reclining on my couch at about two o’clock, reading an English newspaper, without a servant or soul near me, in rushed their Kazee, (priest or judge,) his band full of iustrunients, which, throwing upon the ground, he seized one, plunged it through his tongue, upwards, so that it stuck into his nose, another through his throat; he then stabbed him self with a bright and sharp cresse, which entered his body about three inches; not a drop of blood fell: he was going to cut off bis tongue, when I begged of him to de sist. I was, in truth, perfectly nauseated at the sight. The man was in a state of phrenzy, and really looked frightful; his face stuck full of instruments, arid stab bing and cutting himself with all his might. I sang out for some people, and turned him out. I have now told you what I have seen, and yet I will not ask you to believe it, for I know not myself what to think.— There are many persons of very strong minds, in other respects, who firmly be lieve, and who do not hesitate to declare their belief, that although driven out of Christendom, demonology, witchcraft, necromancy, and the entire list of black and forbidden arts and powers are broad, and in full existence in India. And I must declare that 1 will never again trust my senses if I did not see all that I have told you. I examined the instruments—l saw them drawn out of the flesh, and no {scar, or blood, or mark left. I also saw 1 a man eat and swallow three ounces of ar senic, and crunch and swallow glass ban ! gles innumerable; and yet, although “see . ing is believing,” I can scarcely say that I believe what before a court of Justice I would swear I had seen. YOUNG MEN, READ THIS. A SCENE FROM “CLEMENT FALCONER.” Mr. Crabbe entered his office late one evening, after having passed from the grave to the gay, in his usual manner at the table of a friend, and throwing himself in to his own chair, “Clem,” said he, “lay aside that book, and let us talk.” Aud the volume being deposited on the table, he continued: “I have turned out of nty office a number of very clever, and a few very distinguished men, and whether you arc to go in advance of your predecessors, or to fall behind them, must depend, in some measure, upon nature, to be sure, but mainly upon yourself. I was sitting in this place one morning in the fall ofthe year, when in stepped a long lank, limber young Yankee. His cane was thrown over his shoulder, from which depended down his back a bandana handkerchief, containing all the worldly goods and clothes he possessed besides those he had on. He wore a slouched beaver, a thread bare coat, linen pantaloons, and coarse shoes, and had travelled afoot from the mountains of New Hampshire, on his way to the West. But it had occurred to him that morning as lie said, that before lie arrived in the new States, he would like . to study the law, and requested permission to begin his studies forthwith, in my office, ! desiring me to state, at the same time, what was the customary student’s fee in these parts. Somewhat startled attheap-! parition, l had thought at first of not re ceiving him; but there was something in ! the quiet determination of his eye, and the confident business air with which he threw down his bundle, and opened the subject of his wishes, and still more in the hardy enterprize and firmness of pur pose implied in the whole conduct ofthe young man, that pleased me exceedingly, j and 1 told him that he was welcome to the use of my books, and to such aid as I could afford him in the prosecution of his studies. That my charge to those young gentlemen who were able to pay me conveniently, was one hundred dol lars per annum; but those who could not afford this expenditure, I willingly receiv ed without charge. He replied that he had no money, and could only say, that j after he should be qualified to practice, and had got into business, which he hoped he would not be long in doing, he would remit my«fee from the West. He set in accordingly, paying his board, and pro viding himself with clothing, by taking a class of young men, to whom be gave instruction at night, in Latin and Greek, and was never absent from the oflice one day for three years, at which time he was admitted to the bar.—lie now again took up his cane and bundle, continued his tramp over the mountains, and sat him self down in the then territory of Indi ana, whence he/einitted me, iusmal! sums from time to time, the whole amount of my fee. I wrote to him, declaring that I was unwilling to receive his money, and hoped that he would consider me satis fied; but he insisted upon paying me eve ry farthing.—And now that man is a Sen ator in Congress from the West, building up a well-earned fame among the Amphic tyons of the Union.” A Nkw-Jersey Hero. —C’apt. Nathan iel Fitz Randolph, of Woodbridge, was one of the bravest and most intrepid men.— Twice he was offered a Colonel’s com mission in the regular army; but he pre ferred the command of his own select vol unteers to any other service, and perform ed the most desperate deeds of valor. He and his men were once surrounded by a greatly superior force of the British. Their uniform motto was, ‘Death or Vic tory.’ The contest was maintained with great slaughter of his companions, who lay in heaps dead and wounded around him. In this condition, he seized a mus ket, ami, being a man of great muscular strength, defended himself and knocked down his enemies right and left with the butt end of it, until the British command- 1 er became heartily sick of the contest, and i begged that for God’s sake he would de- j sist and spare the sacrifice of human life, j seeing that he must eventually fall into: their hands dead or alive. He coolly re-j plied that he was not yet a prisoner, and : again placed himself in a posture of de-j fence. The renewed his entreaties, telling him he was the bravest man he ever saw, and that it was a pity so valuable a life should be lost in so un equal a contest; promising him the kind est treatment. At length, being covered with wounds, and faint anil weak from fa tigue and loss of blood, and no longer able to raise the weapon of defence, he re luctantly gave himself up, under the pledge that he sliould be well treated, and ex changod the first opportunity; which prom ise was faithfully performed, and he was soon again at liberty to take up bis arms in defence of freedom. His bravery, in trepidity, and gigantic strength, made him a terror to the British wherever his name was known; but the torics and Lon don traders were his most inveterate foes. A whole squad dared not encounter him in the day-time, even when he was alone. On a certain occasion, when he was on a scouting expedition on Staten Island, a party of tories secretly dogged him into a house in the evening, and, after lie had laid aside his arms, rushed in upon him and made him prisoner—when, to his great grief and mortification, he remained | nearly a year before he was exchanged. At the head of his volunteers he once encountered a company of Hessians, one of whom, being somewhat separated from the rest, took deliberate aim and wounded Captain R. in the arm. He plainly saw from whence the ball came, the companies being very near together, and, walking de liberately up to the fellow, as though he would say something to him, seized him under his sound arm and brought him off a prisoner, while his gaping comrads stood motionless with surprise. Capt. R. was finally killed by a musket ball in a battle near Elizabethtown, and hurried at Woodbridgc with the honors of war.—[Newark Engle. Lean People. —Many who do not pos-j sess the proportions of Daniel Lambert, | will be amused by the following extract, i but we doubt whether any will be found i willing to enlarge, by following the pre-j scription. It is from anew work by Dr. Bell, entitled “health and beauty:” “Various expedients, in addition to an improved diet, have been resorted to, for the restoration of lean persons to a better care: but amongst the most singular that we have on record is that of flagellation.— j Galen says that horse dealers have been observed to fatten horses for sale, by flog- j ging them; an analogous method might be useful with spare persons who wish to-; become stouter. He also mentions slave' dealers, who employed similar means. ■ Suetonius informs us that Musa, the fa vorite physician of Augustus, used to flagellate him, not only to cure him of sciatica, but to keep him plump. Mel bomius pretends that nurses whip little children, to fatten them, that they may appear healthy and chubby to their moth ers. No doubt but flagellation determines, a greater efflux of blood to the surface, and may thus tend to increase the circu lation, and give tone to parts which w'ouid otherwise be languid.” Overgrown Wealth. The cele brated Countess Branitska, the neice of Petomkin, died lately on her estate of Biala-Cerkiew, in the eightieth year of her age. She had been a favorite of the Empress Catharine, on which account the Emperor Alexander always treated her with the utmost distinction and respect, addressing her by the name of matuska, or mother. He never met her without kissing her hand, and he would stand in her presence until she hade him be seat ed. The Countess has left an immense fortuae, which will be partly inherited by Count Wotozow, her son-in law. A sum of one million sterling in specie was found in her chateau; she has sixty mill ion of roubles lodged in the Bank of Rus sia, and on her estate were one hundred and thirty thousand peasants or slaves. The Countess in her lifetime made money in every way; she lent it out in mortgages, and there are very few landed proprietors in the empire who are not her debtors; she discounted bills, sold gold, disposed herself of the immense produce of her lands, and it is even said, that having vis ited France some years since, and find ing human hair so valuable an article iu that country, she had, oil her return to Russia, caused the heads of all her fe male slaves to be shaved, and shipped a cargo of chevelures to France, where they fetched her a handsome return. Her ca isse was always escorted by thirty or forty Cossacks, and her reputation for wealth was so general throughout the em pire that during the last insurrection, the Polish government had given instructions to General Dwernicki and other olficers sent on expeditions into Lithuania, to en deavor to gain possession of her treasures. “Nine Tailors make a mast .”—This sentence which hud its origin in the great ful mind of one who had received his start in life from the charity of the craft, has now, from an ignorance of the cir cumstance, entirely lost its meaning. The term had its origin in the following manner:— In 1743, an orphan beggar boy ap plied for alms at a fashionable tailor’s shop in Loudon, in which nine journey men were employed.—The interesting appearance of the boy opened the hearts of the benevolent tailors, who immediate ly contributed nine shillings for the relief of the little stranger. With this capital, our hero purchased fruit, which lie retail ed at profit. From this beginning he eventually rose to great wealth and distinction; and when lie set up his carriage, he had painted up on the panel, "Nine Tailors made me a Man." Anecdote of Dr. Franklin. —ln Phil adelphia, the merchants, many years since, set up an assembly for dancing, and desir ous to make a distinction, and to assume a rank above the mechanics, they at first proposed this among the rules for regu lating the assembly:—That “no mechan ic, or mechanic’s wife or daughter should he admitted on any terms.” These rules being shown by a manager to a friend (Franklin) for his opinion, he remarked that one of them excluded God Almigh ty. “How so?” said the manager. “Be cause,” replied the friend, he is notorious ly the greatest mechanic in the universe, having, as the scripture testifies, made all things, and that by weight and measure .” The intended new gentlemen became ashamed of their rule, struck it out, and no such distinction has ever since been made there. Miss Tolly Collins took up Robert Knowles, at Barnstable, for not fulfilling his promise to marry her. The gist of the evidence turned out thus: “1 asked Polly,” said Robert, “if she would have me and she answered, yes; but I did not tell her that I would have her.” That made it bad for Polly. A clergyman, not quite a hundred miles fron Edinburgh, preached a most edifying discourse on ‘Come and draw water out of the wells of salvation, without money and without price.’ On the following week some of his parishioners took the liberty of drawing water from a very fine spring well in the parson’s garden at which the learned divine was not a little nettled, j Being reminded by the intruder, of his text and sermon, the reverend gentleman j replied, ‘You may draw as much water i as ye like from the wells of salvation, but if you come here again and take my wa ter, I’ll send a bullet through you.” We have seen many good mottos, but we do not recollect to have seen one in which so much truth is embraced in so | few words as the following, taken from the Alton (Illinois,) Spectator. “The man who takes no papers, Or taking, pays not when they're read; Would sell his corn to buy a <horn And live on borrowed bread." [TERMS. |S IN ADVANCE. NUMBER 28L | MACON, Non AT. I A Runaway's Den was discovered on I Sunday, near the Washington Spring* in a little patch of woods, where it had oeen j for several months so artfully concealed under ground, that it was detected only by accident, though in sight of two or three houses and near the road and fields where there has been constant daily pass ing. Tlie entrance was concealed by a pile of pine straw representing a hog bed —which being removed* discovered a trap door and steps that led to a room about 6 feet squre, comfortably ceiled with plank, containing a small fire place, the floe of which was ingeniously conducted .above ground and concealed by the straw.— The inmates took the alarm and made their escape; but Mr Adams and bis ex cellent dogs being put upon the trail, Boon run down and secured one of them, which proved to be a negro fellow who has been out about a year. He stated the other occupant was a woman, who had been out a still longer time. In the den was found a quantity of meal, bacon, corn, potatoes, &.c. and various cooking utensils and wearing apparel.—[Telegraph. The NoRTn Eastern Boundary.— The commissioners appointed by the gov ernment of Maine to examine the north eastern boundary line, have concluded their duties and returned !o their home*. The Bangor Courier says, “We under stand that they found very distinctly mark ed highlands at the point where the ivaters divided between the St. Lawrence, an3 the Atlantic ocean, and all the country north of St. John's river extremely moun tainous. The country where the waters divide, is not level and swampy, as has been represented and believed by many, but lies in mountains and dividing high lands, corresponding to the terms of the treaty of 1783.—[Journal of Com. We learn that a letter from the Rev. C. W. Howard, the State’s Agent at London to procure copies of the Records relating to the Colonial History of Georgia, has been received at the Executive Depart ment containing the information that he had obtained permission to examine and transcribe the records.—[Georgia Jour nal. Masaniello. —The church still stauds in Naples where Masaniello was shot, the only spired edifice in the sity. In a fit of derangement he ascended the altar place, and was about to harangue the populace; descending the steps he was met by the emissaries of Government, who stood pre pared to sacrifice him. The unfortunate fisherman, it is said, received three balls aimed at his person in different directions. The opera is not allowed to be played in Naples, it is sometimes done in Florence as a pnntomine. Two of the greatest works of art now to be seen in Switzerland are, the new chain suspension bridge at Freyburg, and the grand organ in the cathedral of that town. The former, flying over from rock to rock at an immense height above the river, and of a very wide expansion, near ly equals in grandeur, though not in mas sive solidity, or the almost superfluously luxury of construction, its great prototype over the Menai straits, Caernarvonshire. The second is in many respects hardly in ferior to the organ at Haerlem, and in the vox humana stop is said to be superior. Patronage.— Col. Smith—commonly known to the theatrical world at the West as Sol Smith—recently assumed the dou ble character of manager of the Mobile Theatre and editor of the Mobile Adver tiser. He soon grew tired of his thorny seat in the chair editorial, and on making his exit, adressed his readers with a fare well and last appearance speech, in the course of which he introduced the follow ing remarks on patronage: “Speaking of patrons —I cannot conclude without giving some of my ideas on the subject of patronage. The Americans are a patron izing people. If a person subscribes for a newspaper, or advertises in it, he be comes a patron; if be puts up at a hotel, he patronizes that house; if he purchases an article at a store, he gives the merch ant his custom, if he visits the playhouse on a benefit night, he bestows Ota such an actor a dollar! This is all wrong.— Let us change this patronizing air, and acknowledge that if we take a newspaper, purchase goods, lodge or dine at a hotel, or go to the play, we ezpeet, at least, to get our money’s worth. 'Holla, oM fellow,’ bawled out a chap to me, in South Caro lina, ‘I gave you a dollar last night —I like to patronize, the Theatre.’ The day before, I had loaned that patron fifty dollars which he has not paid me to this day!” It has been shrewdly remarked by some one, that there are four orders of women; the peacocks, with whom dress is all; the 1 magpies, with whom chatter Is all; the | turtles, with whom love is aH: and the : paradise birds, above them all.