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BvunsUiicU JUrhocdte, BY CHABXJSB BAFB ] vomn & BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. ;.4» AGENTS. ' liihh County. Alexander Richards, Esq. TeQfyir “ Rev. Charles J. Shelten. -Mclntosh •• James Blue, Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. PslMski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq. Tioigffs “ William H. Robinson, Esq. IPmyne “ Robert Howe, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance—s 4 at the end of *• r the rear. o*So 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. O’All letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. IQ* ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Doll ar per twelve lines, or less, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure work always doable price. Twenty-five per cant, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. Those seat without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements published at the usual fades. , THE undersigned, land holders and inhabi tants of St. Simons Island, comparing the present state of their society with what it has been, feel deeply mortified at its present deg radation. They have to lament that their former char acter for respectability has been impaired ; that they have-been exposed to the ridicule of the community ; that their property has been de teriorated in value, and that their happiness has suffered a shock of a most fatal character. These are evils that have become so intol erable, that a propef respect for themselves and public opinion, and the instinctive princi ple of self preservation, require that they should, by a public declaration, shew tlieir dis approbation of those acts which have led to such a degraded state of society; and that they should endeavor to prevent a' repetition of them, by legal coertion, and the full moral in fluence of the whole community. They would in the first place express their unqualified disapprobation of the recent -pub lications in hand bills and newspapers of chal lenges for duels, given and received in open contempt of our laws, conveyed in language so indecorous, and containing conditions so bar barons and ferocious as to reflect disgrace on a civilised community. They would recommend that the members of our society, who have been concerned in such publications, be prosecuted. The late lamented rencontcr that took place at Brunswick between Mr. John A. Wylly and Doct. Thomas F. Hazzard,and which termina ted in the death of the former, being now un der judicial investigation, the decorous respect due to the laws of the country prevents the un dersigned from giving, at present, any declar ation of opinion with respect to it. They cannot howeverTeprcss the expression of their grief that by that act, one of their most respected citizens has been consigned to an un timely fate, and a blighting misery inflicted on a most worthy family consisting of an aged and amiable lady and her daughters. They cannot too pointedly advert to the fact, that had the only Justice of the Peace on this Island discharged his duty, such a misfortune would not have happened. They therefore recommend that he be prosecuted for mal practice in office and neglect of duty; unless he previously resigns his commission. They would notice the circumstance that strangers and aliens of doubtful character have established themselves at Frederica, and sub gist by illegal trafie with slaves, and would re commend that they be prosecuted. They would strongly express their indigna tion that strangers, aided by some members of this community, have attempted to run up lands set apart for useful public purposes, and lield by public bodies under the authority of the State for a period far beyond that prescrib ed by the law. They would particularly notice, that follow ing so bad a precedent, a certain Mrs. Cather ine Blue has made a sacriligious attempt to run up the Church lands on this Island, vested by the Legislature in the Wardens and Vestry men of Christ's Church; and which now are and have been in the undisputed possession of that corporate body for above thirty years.— Such attempts to wrest from public bodies of useful character, the endowments conferred on them at a remote period, being equally bold and unjust, they recommend that all legal means by suits against the trespassers, and the Survey w; fee resortedtp in order to Msamv Ana whereas it appears that society has be come so depressed, that the Church bibles and prayer books are no longer safe in our Church, they recommend their removal, and that of the pulpit and altar ornaments and the communion cups, to some place of safety, until Mrs. Blue's survey is decided, and until the Rector re turns. We the subscribers, do hereby nominate and appoint John Coureß, Robert Grant and James Gould, a Standing Committee, to watch over and attend to the interests of our Island, with power to call a meeting of the in haWtanta whenever they may deem it neces sary. And w« pledge ourselves to support them in all the legal prosecutions herein r^| eommende the above named Committee to forward, under their signatures, copies of th« expression of our feelings and opinions, for publication in the Brunswick Advocate, Savannah Georgian and Savannah Republi rSigned by many of the inhabitants of St. Simons, the names of whom were accidentally omitted to be forwarded to us. _ Ed. AdvJ »er, itwe. ROBERT GRANT, 1 dec 27—4 w JAMBB GOULD. Irish seed Potatoes. I A A BBLB. Iridh Seed POTATOES, of I IP** a superior quality, for sale by *Nov 29 RICE, PARKER & CO. PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. BxmnvioE, onuteu, Saturday morning, iaxduy ia, uas. MISCELLANY. Physical education. —When physical education is mentioned, that is a knowl edge of the laws by which health and strength are attained and preserved, ma ny people start and ask in surprise wheth er every man is to be a physician. The an swer to this is easy. Physicians under stand the laws and symptoms of the dis eased body. It is enough for common meri to understand the laws and functions of the healthy body. The conditions of health are few, simple intelligible. The action of disease is intricate and infinite. Anybody is competent to a knowledge of the former. After so many lives of study and experience, the latter is still an im perfect science. That knowledge res pecting air, exercise, dress, and diet, which is requisite for the preservation of health, may be acquired with a far less amount of attention and expense, than are commonly necessary in a three month’s sickness; while a physician has to learn the endless catalogue of diseases and the infinite varieties of pain, together with the properties and applications of a cata logue of supposed remedies equally end less. The body is not only the instrument through which the mind operates, but it is the first and only one through which the mind can act upon any other instru ment, provided for it by science or art. Hence the highest powers of mind, with the most perfect external instruments all around it, and the noblest sphere of action before it, may be baffled through the de fects of that intermediate instrument the body. From an ignorant violation of the simple laws of health, bow many young men sicken and die, after having incur red the expense and volunteered the la bor necessary to qualify them for useful ness and honor; like frail barks, sinking in the ocean at the first approach of the storms, and carrying down the costly freight with which they were laden! Who that has reached middle life has not seen many of the friends who started with him under the happiest auguries of suc cess, broken down in their career; —not falling nobly in the race, but ignobly per ishing by the wayside and far from the goal of duty? Mental power is so de pendent for its manifestation on physical power, that we deem it not extravagant to say, that if, amongst those who lead sedentary lives, physical power could be 'doubted, their mental power could be doubted also. The health and costitu tional vigor of a people is a blessing not to be lost—certainly not to be regained— in a day. Not only to bodily fragility and incapacity of endurance diminish the available powers of the intellect, hut the perpetual presence of pain, the depressing sensations of diseases, not acute, tend to impair the efficient impulses of virtue and to undermine the foundations of mor al character. Gradually and impercepti bly a race may physically deteriorate, un til their bodies shall degenerate into places, which, w ithout being wholly un tenantable, are still unfit to keep a soul in. [Columbus School Journal. Difff.rent Mode of Thought. —‘As we divide into various professions, and fall upon different ways of obsevation,’ says Tucker in his Light of Nature, ‘there is likewise a great diversity in men’s ideas; so that the same collection of materials presented to several imaginations, shall run surprisingly into various assortments, accordingly as they have been respective ly accustomed. Carry a number of per sons equally clearsighted, upon a hill, from whence they have an extensive pros pect with a variety of objects before them; the farmer sees turnip and corn grounds, meadow, pasture and coppies. The sol dier observes eminences, valleys, morasses and defiles. The mathematician descries parallelograms, triangles and scaleuums in the fields and , country attorney distinguishes parishes, manors and boundaries of estates. The poet be holds shady groves, sportful flocks and verdant lawns. The painter discerns va rieties, and contrast of light and shade. The religious man discovers materials for eating, for drinking, for clothing, for the necessities and convenience of life, ac companied with the thought of the Giver of those blessings—and all this instantly without any endeavor of tbeir own.’ After reading this passage, we were led |)o reflect upon the various peculiar and diverse emotions which must have filled the minds of those persons who beheld Niagara Falls for the first time. The thoughts that would crowd into the poet’s brain can better be imagined than esc press ed. The man of science would perhaps reason upon the force and velocity of so immense a body of water; of, if he hap pened to be a naturalist, examine the geol ogical features of the region around. The miller woyld exclaim, v'Lord! what a splendid stream to run amill!’ The tailor would cry* ‘What « place to sponge a coat!’ Or,,better than all, the ad vocate of internal improvement and prac- tical utility would express his regret (as an individual of the species actually did to a friend of ours) that the rapid and ab rupt descent of so much water should ob struct the passage of anew canal! ’>' Pleasant but Wrong. —Monday night one of the most fashionable families re siding in Leroy place, New York, gave a grand ball and supper. At nine o’clock the company began to arrive, and the car riages kept rattling up to the doofof the mansion until half past eleven.-—When the festivities broke up there was great confusion among the servants and several of the younger branches of the heart mondc determined to walk home, despite the snow which the ladies said was a mere trifle compared to the fun they should have on the road. Four of the party, consisting of a rich middle aged bachelor, a young married couple, and a dashing widow, who resides in Bleecker street, were com ing down Broadway, when the widow challenged the bachelor to throw snow balls at one of the city gas lights. The old beau looked blue at the proposal, and told the lady that such a feat would be very indecorous. The other lady laugh ed, and said Mr. was afraid of the n’atch. The gentleman protested his rea diness to do any thing to prove his cour age or to oblige the ladies—and then the fair widow' offered to bet him a dozen of white kid gloves that he could not extin guish the gas light in three shots. The bachelor took the wager, and the ladies made up the snow balls, while the other gent looked out for the Charlies, Bang! went the first snow ball—crack! went the glass of the city lamp. “It’s not out,” shrieked the widow. Bang, went the se cond shot—out went the light, and down came the Philistines, who said all the party must go to the watch house. The ladies protested, vowed, blushed, prayed, laugh ed, wept, and then offered to bribe their captors. “Never,” said one, “did I see such a pair of stony hearted wretches— I’ve a good mind to faint.” “Guess you’d find it wet work,” said old leather skull, and chuckled in his sleeve at the thought of his share of the penalty. Asa great favor the watchmen permitted the two gents to see the ladies to their respective homes under their vigilant surveillance and then they marched the unfortunate beaux to the watch house. In the morn ing they were brought before Justice Palm er, who very politely informed them that the penalty was S2O each, besides the fees and small charges which would make a hole in another five dollar bill. The bachelor drew a cheque for the amount and, ns lie returned his gold pen to his pocket, he said bis friend; “faith this is a pleasant mode of winning a Indy’s wager.” "Yes,” said the other, “and as wrong as it was pleasant.” [Morning Herald. A Volume in a Sentence.—Describ ing the last parting with his consort of the French King Louis, just before his violent death in the French Revolution, the au thor of the last work under that name, Carlyle, thus assumes for a moment his personality, and speaks for the monarch and the man: “And so our meetings and our partings do now end! The sorrows we gave each other; the poor joys we faithfully shared, and all our lovings and sufferings, and con fused toilings under the earthly sun, are over. Thou good soul, I shall never, through of Time, see thee any more! N ever! O Reader, knowest thou that hard word?” I am acquainted with a great many very good wives, notable, and so manag ing that they make a man every thing that’s happy; and I know a great many others who sing, and paint, and play, and cift paper, and are so accomplished that they "have no time to Ye'useful. Pictures and fiddles, and every thing but agreeable ness and goodness, can be had for money, but as there is no market where pleasant manners, and engaging conversation, and Christian virtues are to be bought, me thinks it is a pity the ladies do not oftener try to provide them at home.—[Hannah More Sir William Curtis has been for manv years an Alderman of London, and for some time was a representative of that city in Parliament. Yet he ia generally believed to be a man of shallow mind, grossly ignorant, and illiterate. Among the absurdities attributed to him is, that of giving the following toasts at public dinners: ‘The British Tars of Old England.’ ‘A speedy peace, and soon. 1 ‘The three Cs —Cox, King, sod Curtis.’ At a school dinner— ‘The three R’s—Reading, Kiting, & Rithmetic.’ / ‘The female Ladies of London.’ At the celebration of peace in |Bl5, — “Peace all over (he World and every where e(se.” The following from the New York! Times is the best rc|>orted American ’jeu d’esprit of its kind that we have seen:— “The Trumpet and the Trombone Players. —A rather novel case came off yesterday in the Marine Court, iu which the celebrated trombone player of the National Theatre, was defendant, and the late proprietor of the refectory on N the corner of Church and Leonard streets was plaintiff! The suit was instituted for the purpose of recovering $9 54, the amount of an account for certain and divers quan tities of pork and beans, fu'nished the trombone by the plaintiff, at the request of the trumpet player, who is, or was the husband of a lady who made some noise in this city on the occasion of “the Wood affair.” The circumstances under which the bill ivas'contractcd, are somewhat novel and amusing. When the Maid of Cashmere was brought out at the National Theatre, then under the management of Messrs. Flynn and Willard, tne principal parties in this transaction were engaged in the orchestra. The defendant, who is said to be but an indifferent master of his instru ment, could not blow a blast sufficiently strong to announce the approach of the Chopdar to proclaim the reward for the head of the unknown. He was therefere under the necessity of applying to the trombone. Now the trombone was inordi nately fond of pork and beans, and refus ed to aid the trumpet, unless, on every such occasion, he would provide him with a supper of his favorite odibles. This was readily acceded to, and the plaintiff was applied to and did furnish the fare. For the first two or three nights, everything went on well. At the end of that time the trumpet began to thinjc of dissolving his connection with the trombone, and*of cutting off at the same time his pork and beans. Acting upon this thought, lie gave the trombone notice, and essayed to give this piece of music unaided. But alas the first tang arang was a failure; it was too thin. “Pork," cried the trumpet to the trombone, and on the instant, the two in struments gave forth a beautiful tang a rang, tang, tang. At this moment the trombone recollected that nothing bad been said relative to the beans. He sud denly ceased playing. Beans,’ whispered the trumpet. “Pork and beans.” ‘Good,’ said the trombone, that’s enough, here goes.’ And he did do it to the great re lief of the poor trumpet, ns well as to the infinite delight of the whole orchestra, who by this time were in the secret. — Messrs. Cassolani &, Ambroise, two of the then, as well as now, members of the orchestra, were called to prove the nature of the contract. They testified not only to the above circumstances, but also to the fact that whenever this piece was performed the defendant had to call out to the trombone, ‘pork and beans,* in order to induce him to help him through that particular piece of music. The be ing fully made out, the jury fonnd for the plaintiff to the full amount claimed, viz. $9 54.” Bumps Illustrated. —A capital story is told in the Cincinnati News of Dr. Collyer, a celebrated phrenologist at pres ent sojourning in that city. One of the Doctor’s peculiarities, Is that of telling pre cisely what he thinks of the head submit ted to hisJexaminalion, whether it is in private or in a crowd. At the close of one of his lectures at the South, he re quested such as wished their developc ments regularly explained,to come forward. A stout, two fisted fellow made his ap pearance, and seated himself for the ex amination. The Doctor rapidly run his fingers through the hair, measured this bump, and that bump, and remarked very composedly—“ Sir, your phrenological de velopements are those which belong only to an infamous villain—destructiveness and cofflbntiveness enoamOQß, conscienti ousness very small, and all the moral and reflective region perfectly contemptible; yon only lack opportunity to become a rascal.” Without eaying a word, the man rose from the chair, and by a well directed blow with his fist, knocked the Doctor flat upon the floor. The worthy phrenologist gathered himself up and ad dressed the meeting, “Ladies and gentle men, there is the strongest proof of the truth of phrenology 1 have ever seen in the entire course of my career. The vil lain has proved every word I told him to be the truth.” Magnificent Vault. The vault oT the Scherematoff family is an object of the greatest curiosity. It is as large as a ball room, and warmed by stoves constant ly heated; no damp can ajmroscli these mouldering remains, enshrined' in tombs of ormolu, beautifully chased; and though some are more than t hundred years old, though their tenants have already crumb led into dust, these costly monuments still remain fresh and imimgared as they owde from the hands of the work man.-[Rarkes’a City of (he Czar. , A DOMESTIC PICTURE* Fondly familiar is the look she gives As he returns who forth so lately went— For they together pass their happy lives; And many a tranquil evening have they spent Since, blushing, ignorantly innocent, She vowed with downcast eyes and changeless hue, To love him only. Love fulfilled, hath lent Its deap repose; and when he meets her view, Her soft look only snyt —‘I trust—and I am true.’ [From the Columbia Telescope.] A Woman wants one tb:no only, a Man two. —Oh, pitiable condition of hu man kind ! One color is born to slavery abroad, aud one sex to slavery at home! A woman to secure her comforts and well-being in thia country, stands in need of one thing only, which is a good hus band; but a man has to provide himself with two things, a good wife end s good razor, and it is more difficult to find the latter than the former. The Dr. made these remarks one day when his chin was smart ing after an uncomfortable operation; and Mrs. Dove retorted by saying, that women had still the leas favorable lot, for scarce as good razors might be, good husbands were still scarcer* Ay, said the doctor, Deborah is right, and it is even so; for the goodness of wife, husband, and razor de pends upon their temper, and taking in all circumstances and causes, natural and adventitious,we might reasonably conclude that steel would more often be tempered precisely to the just degree, than that .the elements of which humanity ia composed should be all nicely proportioned and a malgamated happily. [The Doctor. William Wilberforce. —The late Mr. Wilberfbrce’s income, when he came of age, ia stated to have been .£IO,OOO a year, one fourth of which he was in the habit of giving away in charities of various kinds. Ilis liberality to all who stood in *need, and his profuse expenditure in the promo tion of the most praiseworthy objects, ap pear, however, to have had an effect on his once ample fortune, so that, in the decline of life, he became straightened in his cir cumstances. A few years before his death he sustained great loss by a milk company, into which, it is suspected, his family were duped. He had himself no personal con cern in the affair, but as having given guarantee for one of his sons; but his loss, it is said, was not less than £40,000 or 50,000, to meet which his Yorkahire, estate was sold. He was obliged to lire his last year with two of his sons, one of whom was presented, unsolicited, to a living by Lord Brougham, when Lord Chancellor. Yankee philosophy —never displayed itself to better advantage (says the New York Gazette) than in the case of the editor of the Nashua Telegraph. That editor was burnt oat recently but with the recuperative energy that specially be longs to his countrymen, he published his paper in a few days with new type, and with an improved appearance. That fire could not burn out of him the indomit able spirit of his race, is apparent enough from the following paragraph, in the first number of the revived Telegraph. Jack Downing himself never uttered a nobler Yankeeisin, or a better philosophy. “Comforting. —Many a man goes to bed rich at night, and gets up in the morning not worth a groat. ThstJs not our case —we went to bed one night poor, and got up before the next morning a darned sight poorer.” A Slave Owner on a Large Scale. The Russian Prince Cheremeteile owns 180,000 male slaves, (the females of the family are never counted.) All his male slaves pay him a copitation of ten roubles, (two dollars,) and all they can earn beyoid is their own. Some of the slaves, as well as some of those belonging to ether no bles, have acquired immense wealth by traffic in the Bazaars; as slaves, they can never belong to the castle of Merchants, nor aspire to any employment under Gov ernment, neither can their children.— They also are tlavea, and either they or their parents could be sent back to work ■pon the estato at the will of their master, unless they may have commuted for life. This is the hardest part of the Serf system of Russia. Many proprietors receive forge sums from successful slaves, whio buy thwr freedom. Prince Cheremeteif, it is said, has refused from severs! wealthy slaves, 200,000 rubles each for their liberty, which he refused upon the plea that he was proud to hare it said his slaves were so well Off with bis Nose. An English news paper says that the new Russian Minister in the United States, is called Somooeeoff, (saw my noseolf.) An attach* of thewse X, V [T£Kii«&£B mmm* How a Man peels w»<Ji r.'.T Married. —lt is said to bcl thing for a girl to leave mamma, trust herself to the keeping her heart. No doubt it is pose to show that even thn sTfiimst if, wife not surrender up their singleness jrithoart some misgivings and trepidation. ' * ' In the first place, then, die rictus of matrimony feels that be must surrender up the companions with whoffl b* Jttfso long held close communion—(uscStminfflL Mr stead of being spent at the chib ortho en gine house, must be dovotod to a charming young creature, whose guiltless headmost find very different ettartklnmct ’in (hat to which lie has been accustomed. — But this is not all. He know* (h«t after he has become bound in (he of matrimony, he WBwlpWfer • mteOfpe visitant in these circles, where, wbffWfcpp, wreathing smiles and gfedriag cwHHB to wreath s net for bis feet . * f- He knows that while 4 ‘bachelor is welcome wherever he goes,' a umutmJ man is regarded as one desd ed off the books, no longer, ;av»i!»btf , Blhc fair. In addition to all these unhappy oir cu instances, he has become the hew.,«« a family. Then ‘Throng the busy shapes into his Mindy of silks and calicoes, doctors' bilk, dons of debt that ho never reaped the beeeftt of. Like the horse in the has task to perform for others. He er free to embrace poverty or m fro wonder that the young bachelor iocfcft «ad, when the time of his enAmdawot ap proached. No wonder that, with Ml'Mo gel at his side, he looks woeM. —. Phrenological Aneodotr. bl the course of his |cqturop,|§|* Cetbf ducoMMßaunbcr of singular them ere occurrences which have Liken deavored to tQn •': v A Curious Cas* for Lawyers.— Two extraordinary and fat oxen, valued at #SOO, were lately owned by Me. hoo. of the second Ward Hotel, te «Mc cfey. -The night before test they were put up for raffle. The highest and the lomstthfowa take the two. AjhilHUg pP^d T*be brother* Sweeny threw 4# OR one chance—a Mr. Ilubb* alto threw 4#; this was the highest number th»sjni. The butcher bought out HtAhc*'fflimiee to Utrpw off the tie; ho the* wanted k buy ed one ox and * half the other; tboliwec nys owned KslfoTone. to pay the price of the ox and but the woudnWeH. then have the ox. and Sweetly can’t kill it without hb.yMngasiiß. SwpNWfpja he may keep it HP * cent for feed. The butcher cqyujw gap, or sell out his share. Here QMAMfcj|Me, cod leave it to the lawyers; Mtfj Hjjjgjjgp try will decide the cage by 3pßEh meat off the oiea. apl gM2g|2j§m»t« the bones.—[N.-Y. s*4?- : tteV Battle DUKiM‘ ,,^ t M^g£ t , U. It is cations of llaoet- Iu Thefe*.