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BrwwsSMidt JtJroo ta BY CHARLES DAVIS.] VOLUME 2. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE AGENTS. Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq. Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelt#n. Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq. Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq. If'ayne “ Robert Howe, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance—s 4 at the end of the year. T?No 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. UTAH letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. CP AD V ERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Dollar per twelve lines, or less, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per cant, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. 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The experience of the past year has confirm ed in the minds of the more reflecting and sa gacious of the Whig party that a vacuum ex ists in the periodical press of the country, in which should be combined the productions of our great statesmen on literary and scientific subjects, and those of the eminent literary ge niuses of which the United States can boast so ample a share, on the various subjects that present themselves to a sound and vigorous intellect. It cannot be doubted that the present crisis demands the publication of a work calculated to infuse and circulate true and honest political information, and to counteract the direful in fluence exerted by a monthly periodical of a similar nature published in this city, under the auspices, and bearing the name of the self-styled Democracy of the present day, ad vocating measures which, if successful, art* destined to moulder to ruins the fabric of our noble Constitution, by placing constructions on it to suit the caprice and advance the Teach ings of a corrupt ambition. The union of such principles with a general literature as have insulted the common sense and honesty of the country, by proclaiming the “ Martyrdom of Cilley,” rendered in a manner more detestable from the insidious way in which they are combined, tends di rectly to the disorganization of all that, ns Americans, should be held most sacred. This combination is calculated to secure them a circulation in quarters to which they might not otherwise penetrate, as.,well as from a cer tain deceptive air of philanthropy and expansive liberality of Views, with which they are artfully able to invest themselves, for the purpose of stealing their way into the heads through the unsuspecting hearts of that class on which depends the destiny and hopes of the nation its young men. Whilst the more experienced sagacity of older heads can never hesitate a moment in recognising the real naked deformity of these principles of modern Radicalism, under all the fair seeming disguises they may assume, yet to the young thev are replete with a subtle danger of the most pernicious character. The National Magazine and Republican Re view, is designed, and will be conducted witli these’and other high important considerations ,n view, calculated to correct misconstruc tions, and to inculcate the correct political principles on which are based the views and | practice of the great Republican Whig party, as well as for the encouragement and mainte nance of genuine political literature. The publishers will neither spare expense in the mechanical department of the work, nor their utmost efforts to render the Review useful to the Public in a literary point of view, and honorable to the country and cause which it is destined to espouse as a National work. The National Magazine and Republican Re view, is designed, and will be conducted with those' and other high important considerations in view, calculated to correct misconstruc tions, and to inculcate the correct political principles on which are based the views and practice of the great Republican Whig party, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1838. as well as for the encouragement and mainte nance of genuine polite literature. The pub lishers will neither spare expense in the me chanical department of the work, nor their utmost efforts to render the Review useful to the Public in a literary point of view, and honorable to the country and cause which it is destined to espouse as a National work. The period is fast arriving when the coun try will emerge from the dominion of a party which has come into power under the corrupt influence of a misled popular prejudice, and which has advocated and sailed under the broad and corrupt motto of office-seekers. “ To the victors belong the spoils of the van quished;" beiug alike anti-republican, uncon stitutional, and a foul stain upon the free in stitutions of the country, that can only be era dicated by the triumph of the principles which govern the Republican Whig party of the present day. The advocates of the principles alluded to, who have stood foremost in defence of the Constitution and Laws when they were as di minutive as a party could be, exerting the strength ot a Leonidas battling with the host of Xerxes, and have nearly succeeded in res cuing the Government from the grasp of cor ruption, will deem it their imperative duly of j continue their efforts, and it cannot better be I done than by supporting a periodical of high j standing for sound political principle and lit erary worth; and such a one will be found in the National Magazine and Republican Re view. The success ot the Magazine will therefore depend, in a measure, on the great body of the opponents of the present Administration, whose interest it will be to aid in its perma nent establishment. And it will be equally binding on the talented and patriotic band of lead.ug Whigs to spare neither time nor labor to the explanation and advocacy of the true and only principles on which the Govern ment can prosper, and on the success of which depends the great experiment of Republican Government. Having made these few remarks on the po litical cast of the publication, we feel confi dent that its utility will be readily perceived by the public, and fully appreciated. In addi- 1 tion to the political features, the following! will be the principal subjects on which the Review will treat, from the pens of most cele brated writers of the present day. Reviews and Critical Notices will occupy a portion of its pages, thereby giving praise to genius, and censure to such productions only as are richly deserving of it. A Sketch of the Proceedings of Congress will be given at the close of each session, in which w ill be explained the cause and effect of all prominent acts and measures, compiled by a gentleman of acknowledged ability and oppor tunity to arrange and collect such matters as will prove both interesting and instructive. Essays and Talas will also form an import ant part of the work, and all original articles of this character will receive prompt attention. The object of the publishers, next to enhanc ing the good cause in which they have em •barked, will be to furnish the reader with such matters as will both instruct and amuse, such as Sketches and Reminiscences of events too mi nute for history ; Biographical and Historical Sketches of dis tinguished personages, &.c. Original Poetry will be well sprinkled through its pages. Engravings of distinguished Statesmen. — If the work should receive the same encourage ment as is usually extended to periodicals of a literary and scientific character, the subscribers to the Review will not only find their num bers embellished with these desirable plates, but also with many other valuable improve ments. TERMS. The National Magazine and Republican Re view will be published in monthly numbers of eighty octavo pages each, on fine paper, with new and handsome type, and in the most ap proved mechanical and typographical appear- - ance, at the moderate price of Five Dollars a year, payable in all cases in advance, or on the delivery of tho third number, without respect to persons. Any person forwarding ten respectable sub scribers, and becoming responsible for the amount of their subscriptions for the first year, shall receive a copy gratis as long as they may continue subscribers. The publishers will be responsible for all moneys forwarded by mail, in case of miscar riage, provided the certificate of the Postmas ter shall be secured, and copies forwarded ac cordingly. If a subscriber shall not order his subscrip tion to be discontinued expiration of the year, he shall be considered as wishing the I Review continued, which shall be forwarded, and the subscription money expected on the i receipt of the third number, as in the first i instance. No subscription taben for a less term than ! one year. All communications, post paid, addressed to j the publishers at their residence, George- j town, D. C. will receive prompt attention. Publishers of newspapers who will copy the foregoing prospectus will receive a copy of the work in exchange, and also confer a! lasting favor upon the proprietors. FULTON At SMITH. Georgetown, D. C. Oct. 30, 1838. A Card. DOCTOR FRANK GAGE, informs the public that he has located himself in Brunswick and will attend strictlyto the prac tice of his profession in its various branches. Oglerhorpe House, Jan. 4, 1838. LAW. WILLIAM H. ROBINSON, has perman ently located himself in Marion, Twiggs County, Ga. as an Attorney at Law, and will attend punctually to professional business in the several counties of the Southern Circuit and in Houston of the Flint. July 26 ts FREDERICK BALDWIN, Attorney and Counsellor at Laic , AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, MACON...GA. Hides and Heeswax ■yy ANTED by RICE, PARKER A- CO. j POETRY. [From the National Algis.] THE MARRIAGE. How quick ’twas done! how soon ’twas form'd —the magic little tie! | And yet they say, ’tis strong enough, to last ’till they shall die. j ’Tis very strange, so slight a step, tlio’ taken in a minute, Should strew its fruits aloug through life, and color all things in it; \et few there be, that take the bonds, that give a sober thought On what results may issue from this more than Gordian knot. The offer’s made—and quick as thought, de cision’s given on it, As rapidly as one would choose the ribbon for her bonnet. But if from small and trivial things, effects so mighty rise, The smallest e'en to reason’s eye swell out to mountain size, And bid us, with a prophet's voice, each step with care to take; little steps, successive made, life's fleeting journey make. The last farewell—the fond farewell—what sa cred ties were broke! What sweet and holy bonds were riven when that farewell was spoke! Those same bright eyes that beamed on her with never ceasing care, Thro' infancy and girlhood’s hours, were beam ing on her there; That changeless heart, so close t« hers with every fibre wove Was throbbing at her bridal hour, with undi minished love, And tho’ affection’s witching charms were beckoning to another, How could she leave, without a sigh, the bos om of a mother? When friends and kindred circled her, Bhe’d loved for many a year, O! could she leave them all behind, nor shed a single tear? When inem’ries of departed days were cluster ing round her heart, It made the pang a real pang that severed them apart. She breaks from all, for lo! she sees the radient future ope More lovely scenes, more witching charms— the pencillings of hope; And home is left, with all the scenes midst which she lov’d to rove, For lo! she sees a fairer home, all burnished bright with love. The honor’d one who clung to her, to counsel and direct her, Resigns her charge with one fond kiss, to lov er and protector. But see them now—they mount the cars, and gaily on they move, And speed them towards their fairy home upon the wings of love, With beating hearts, lit high with joy, without a throb of sorrow, With bliss in store, with hope in view, and a delightful morrow. Ah! happy pair, as on ye fly in pleasure’s arms so sweetly, Reflect that all your rosy hours will fly along as fleetly; And if ye'd have your path bedeck'd with every charm and beauty, O! strew at every step ye take, the springing seeds of duty. Then, tho' misfortune’s frowns may throng, and threat each joy to smother, Ye’ll never fail to find a world of bliss in one another. Adieu, adieu, and may the sun, your future life adorning, Go down as bright as when it rose upon your bridal morning; And when the sweet and rosy bonds that bind ye here, are riven O! may ye find them knit again in fairer fields in Heaven. HSCfiLLANY. NAPOLEON AND WASHINGTON. [From Lord Brougham’s Article in the last Edinburgh Review.] Let us now, Before we close the view of time recently passed, and of the great men who flourished in them amongst ourselves, cast out eyes towards the Genius that di rected the resources of our enemies, unim pared by our party djvisions, and with all the unity of despotism besides. During the most eventful period of the age in which they flourished, the destinies of France, and ol the Continent, were wielded by Napoleon Bonaparte; certainly the most extraordinary person who has appeared in modern times, and to whom, in some respect, no parallel can be found, if we search th# whole annals of the human race. For though the conquests of Alex ander were more extensive, and the match less character of Caesar was embellished by more various accomplishments, aud the invaders of Mexico and Peru worked their purposes of subjugation with more scanty means, yet the military genius of ‘ the Great Captain shines with a lustn peculiar its own; or which he shares witl ! Hannibal alone, when we reflect that hi j never had to contend, like those conquer ors, with adversaries inferior to hiinsel iin civilization or discipline, but won al ! his triumphs over posts as well orderet j and regularly marshalled and amply pro j vided as his own. : This celebrated man was sprung from a good family in Corsica, and while yet a | boy, fixed the attention and raised the hopes of all his connections. In his ear ly youth his military genius shown forth; he soon gained the summit of his profes sion; he commanded at twenty-five a mili tary operation of a complicated and difficult nature in-Paris; immediately after he rap idly led tlie French armies through a series of victories till then unexampled, and to which even now his own after achiev ments can alone afford any parallel for the suddenness, the vehemence, and the completeness of the operations. That much of his success was derived from the mechanical adherance of his adversaries to the formal rules of ancient tactics can not be doubted; and our Wellington cam paigns would, in the same circumstances, and had he been opposed to similar antag onists, in all likelihood have been as brilliant and decisive. But be always had to combat the soldiers | bred in Napoleon’s school, while Napoleon for the most part, was matched against (men whose inveterate propensity to foi [ low the rules of an obsolete science, not I even the example of Frederic had been j able to subdue: and who were resolved j upon being a second time the victims of i the same obstinate blindness, which had, | in Frederic’s days made genius triumph over numbers, by breaking through rules repugnant to common sense. It must, however, be confessed, that although this consideration accounts for the achieve ments of this great warrior, which else had been impossible, nothing is thus de tracted from his praise, excepting that what lie accomplished ceases to be mir aculous; for it was his glory never to let an error pass unprofitably to jiiinself; nor ever to give his adversary an advantage which he could not ravish from him, with ample interest before it was turned to any fatal ac count. Nor can it be denied that, when the fortune of war proved adverse, the re sources of his mind were only drawn forth in the more ample profusion. After the battle of Aspern he displayed more skill, as well as constancy, than in all bis previ ous campaigns: and the struggle which he made in France, during the dreadful con flict that preceded his downfall, is by many regarded as the master piece of his military life. Nor let us forget that the grand er ror of his whole_career, the mighty expedi tion to Moscow, was a political error only. The vast preparations tor that campaign— the combinations by which lie collected and marshalled and moved this prodigious and various force like a single corps, or a domestic animal, or a lifeless instrument in his hand—displayed in the highest de gree the great genius for arrangement and for action with which he was endowed; and has prodigious efforts to regain the ground which the disasters of that cam paign rescued from bis grasp were only not successful, because no human power could, in a month, create an army of cav alry, nor a word of command give recruits the discipline of veterans. In the history of war, it is, assuredly, only Hannibal who can be compared with him; and certainly, when we reflect upon the yet greater dif ficulties of the Carthagenian’s position— the much longer time during which he maintained the unecpial contest—still more when we consider that his enemies have alone recorded his story, while Napoleon has been his own annalist—justice seems to require that the modern should yield to the ancient commander. But Napoleon’s genius was not confin ed to war: he possessed a large capacity also for civil affairs.—lie saw as clearly and as quickly determined on his course, in gov ernment as in the field. His public works ! ami his political reformations, especially Ins Code of Laws, arc monuments of his wisdom and his vigour, more imperisha- I ble, as time has already proved, and as himself proudly foretold, than all his vic tories. His civil courage was more bril liant than his own, or most other men’s valour in tlie field. How ordinary a bra very it was that blazed forth at Lodi, when die headed his.wavering columns across the bridge swept by the field of Austrian j artillery, compared with the undaunted and sublime courage that carried him from Cannes to Paris with a handful of men, and fired his bosom with the desire, and sustained it with tile confidence, of overthrowing a dynasty, and overwhelming an empire by the terror of his name! Nor were his endowments thereiy j those of the statesman and the warrior If h? was not like Caesar, a consummate orator, he yet knew men so thoroughly, [ , and especially Frenchmen, whom he had j i most nearly studied, that he possessed the ; i faculty of addressing them in strains of! singular eloquence peculiar to himself, j ! It is not more certain that he is the greal i est soldier whom France ever produced i then it is certain that his place is higl ■ amongst her greatest writers, as far as com F position or diction is concerned. Soon of bis bulletins are models for the pur i pose which they were intended to serve his address to the soldiers of his Olt Guard at Fontaiiibleau, is a masterpiece of dignified and pathetic composition; his speech during the Hundred Days, at the Champ deMars, beginning, ‘General Con sul, Empefeur, jetiens tout du peuple,’ is to be placed amongst the most perfect pieces of simple and majestic eloquence.— These things are not the less true for be ing seldom or never remarked. But with these great qualities of the will—the highest courage, the most easy formation of his resolutions, the most steadfast adherence to his purpose, the entire devotion to his object of all bis en ergies—and with the equally shining fac ulties of the understanding by which that firm will worked—the clearest and quick est apprehension, the power of intense ap plication, the capacity of complete ab straction from all interrupting ideas, the complete and most instantaneous circum spection of all difficulties, whether on one side, or even providently seen in prospect the intuitive knowledge of men, and pow er of mind and tongue to mould their will to his purpose—with these qualities, which form the character held greatest by vulgar minds,the panegyricof Napoleon was close. He was a conqueror; iic was a tyrant. To gratify his ambition—to slake his thirst of power—to weary a lust of dominion which no conquests could satiate —he trampled on Liberty when his hand might have raised her to a secure place; and lie wrapt the world in flames, which the blood of millions alone could quench. By those passions, a mind not originally unkindly, was perverted and deformed, till human misery ceased to move it, and honesty, and truth and pity, the duties we owe to God and man, had departed from one thus given up to a single and a selfish pursuit. ‘Tantas animi virtutes ingentia vitia a:qua baut; inhumana crudelitas;* perfidia plas quain Punica; nihil veri, nihil sancti, nul ins Deum metus, nollum jusjurandum, nulla religio.’f The death of Enghieu, the cruel sufferings of Wright, the mys terious end of Pichegru, the punishment of Palm, the tortures of Toussaint.i have all been dwelt upon as the spots on his fame; because the fortunes of individuals presenting a more definite object to the mind, strike our imaginations, and rouse our feelings more than wretchedness in larger masses less distinctly perceived. But to the eye of calm reflection, the de claration of an unjustifiable war, or the persisting in it a day longer than is nec essary, presents a more grievous object of contemplation, implies a disposition more pernicious to the will, and calls down a reprobation far more severe. How greatful the relief which the friend of mankind, the lover of virtue, experi ences, when turning from the contempla tion of such a character, his eye rests up on the greatest man of our owiror of any age; the only one upon whom an epithet so thoughtlessly lavished by men to foster the crime of their worst enemies, may be innocently and justly bestowed! In Wash ington we truly behold a marvellous con trast to almost every one of the endow ments and the vices which we have been contemplating; and which are so well fit ted to excite a mingled admiration, and j sorrow, and abhorrence. With none of that brilliant genius which dazzles ordinary minds; w ith not even any remarkable quick ness of apprehension; with knowledge less than almost all persons in the middle ranks, and many well educated of the humbler classes possess; this eminent person is pre sented to our observation clothed with at tributes as modest, as unpretending, as tittle calculated to strike or to astonish, as if he had passed unknown through some secluded region of private life. But he had a judgement sure and sound; a stead iness of mind which never suffered any passion, or even any feeling to ruffle its J cairn; a strength of understanding work ed rather than forced its way through all obstacles, —removing or avoiding rather than overleaping them. His courage, whether in battle or in council, w’as as perfect as might be expected from this pure and steady temper of soul. A per-1 fcctly just man, with a thoroughly firm resolution never to be misled by others, any more than by others overawed: never to be seduced or betrayed, or hurried away by his own weakness or self delu sions, any more than by other men’s arts; nor even to be disheartened by the most complicated difficulties, any more than to be spoilt on the giddy heights of for tune—such was this great inau, —wheth- er we regard him sustaining alone the whole weight of campaigns, all but des perate, or gloriously terminating a just war fare by his resources and his courage— presiding over the jarring elements of his political council, alike deaf to the storms of all extremes —or directing the formation ; of anew government for a great people, the' [TEftMg $ 3 Us ADVANCE. t- first time that so vast an experiment had I, ever been tried by man—or finally retir h ing from the supreme power to which bit -j virtue had raised him over the nation h« e had created, and whose destinies he had - guided as long as his aid was required— ; retired with the veneration of all parties i of all nations, of all mankind, in ordei : that the rights of men might be conserr ; ed, and that his example never might be : appealed to by vulgar tyrants. This i.« the consummate glory of the great Amer ican; a triumphant warrior where the most sanguine had a right to despair; a successful ruler in all the difficulties of a course wholly untried; but a warrior whose sword only left its sheath when the first law of nature commanded it to be drawn; and a ruler who, having tasted of supreme power, gently and unostentatiously desir ed that the cup might pass from him, nor would suffer more to wet his lips than the most solemn and sacred duty to his coun try and his God required ! To his latest breath did this great pat riot maintain the noble character of a Captain the patron of Peace, and a States j mart the friend of Justice. Dying, he 1 bequeathed to his heirs the swbrd which jhe had worn in the War for Liberty, charging them * never to take it from the i scabbard but in self-defence, or in de i fence of their country and her freedom; and commanding them, that when it should thus be drawn, they should never sheathe it nor ever give it up, but prefer falling with h in their hands to the relin quishment thereof—words, the majesty I and simple eloquence of which are not j surpassed in the oratory of Athens and Rome. It will be the duty of the Histo i rian and the Sage in all ages to omit no occasion of commemorating this illustri ous man ; and until time shall be no more w ill a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and in virtue be de rived from the veneration paid to the im mortal name of Washington! * The kindliness of his nature will be denied by some; the inhuman cruelty by others', but both are correctly true. There is extant, a ; letter which we have seen, full of the tender | est affection towards his favourite brother, to | whom it was addressed, when about to be sep arated from him, long after he had entered on public life. It is in parts blotted with his tears, evidently shed before the ink was dry. As for cruelty, they only can deny it who think it is more cruel for a man to witness torments which he has ordered, or to commit butchery with his own hand, than to give the command which must consign thousands to agony and death. If Napoleon had been call ed upon to witness, or with his own hand to inflict such misery, he would have paused at first—because physical repugnance would have prevailed over mental callousness. But how many minutes' reflection would it have taken to deaden the pain, and make him execute his ojvn purpose ? t Liv. xxi. I It is a gross error to charge him with the poisoning of his sick in Egypt; and bis massa ' ere of the prisoners of Jaffa, is a very costrife, verted matter. But we fear the early anee&Wtft of his ordering an attack, with no other objset than to gratify his mistress, when offi cer of artillery, rests upon undeniable authori ty; and if so, it is to be placed amonggt his worst crimes. Monroe Rah. Road. —On Monday, the first Passenger Car was placed on the road, and with the Locomotive “Ocmul gec” proceeded up a few miles to section seven, which was then unfinished. Al though tlie weather was inclement, a large number of citizens attended to witness ! the departure of the car. This carries | fifty five passengers: and others will soon ,be added. Every thing worked well, and | fully answers the expectations of all. On i Saturday, a train will go to Forsyth, and l carry a party who are invited to partici pate in a celebration of the opening of the road at that place. It is much regretted by the President,that accotHmoda|tons can not be prepared in time for a large number, w ho are anxious to participate in the cele bration. * . A splendid Ball is in preparation for Monday evening, in this city. Another will be given in Forsyth in a few days, I and we hope that al! such of our citizens, who participate in these recreations, s will favor our liberal and patriotic neighbors of Monroe, with their presence. From the openiug of this anew era in our commercial prospects.— The JOth OF DECEMBER, should be remembered as one of the land-murks for future reference. Although the For syth Road, is but a link, the dbciu fflf in ternal communication with which it must soon connect us, is of vast extent, and of incalculable consequence. It is r tbe first portion that has been completed, andjsar ries with it convincing can be effected by the application of untiring energy and enterprize, during the most dis astrous pecuniary einbaraseioents of the country. From what we bate witaMged, we shall never despair of coapitMQ of this work to the Stfte road, its destinies are guided hy i yhpj|Bfc3pi. has prosecuted them thus far—-Whether those whose duty it is to walclh over and cherish the interests of the people, act in accordance with their high prerogative, or meanly withhold the aid within their control.—[Macon Messenger.