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Brunswick
BY CHARLES DAVIS.]
VOX. IT HIE 2.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
AGENTS.
Bibb County.- Alexander Richards. Esq.
Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Sheltsn.
Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq.
Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq.
Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq.
Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq.
Wayne “ Robert Howe, Esq.
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~VrOT!CE is hereby given that the following
-i-i described property in the cilv of Bruns
v.'.ek, (!»., will be sold at Public Sale, at the
Court ll> use, in said city, on the fourteenth
diy of March, eighteen hundred and tliirty
nlne, between the hours of nine o'elock in the
morning and six o’clock in the evening of said
day.
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY TO BE
SOLD.
Lots an that part of tiie city usually called
the old town, numbered and taxed as follows,
to wit:
Water Lots, Nos. 1,2, 4, 5 0. 7. 8. 10.11. 12.
13, 15, 17, 18, 10, 20, 21,22, S3, 24. 25. 20!
27, 211.30, 33. 34, 35. 30, 37. 38, 33, 40, 41. 42.
43. 44.45. 40, 47,48.40,50.
Town Lots, Nos. 1. 2,4, 0, 8. 0, 10, 11, 12,
13, 10, 17, 18. 10, 20. 21,22.23, 20, 27. 28.
30, 31, 33, 34. 35, 30, 37, 38, 30, 40, 41,42. 43,
44, 45, 40, 47, 48, 40, 50.
The tax assessed upon each of the above lots
is seven dollars and fifty cents.
I.ots, Nos. 51, 52. 53, 54, 55, 5(5, 57, 58, 50,
02. 03, 04. 05', 07, 08. 00. 70, 71, 72. 74, 75, 70,
77, 78, 70, 81, 82, 83. 84, 85, 80, c 7. 89. 00. 01.
02. 93, 04. 05, 00. 97, I’B,' 00. 100, 101. 102,
103, 104.105, 106, 107, 108. 100. 110. HI. 112.
113, 114, 115, 110, 117, 118, UO, 120, 121. 122,
12!, 124, 125, 120,127.
The tax assessed upon each of the above lots
from No. 51 to 128, is live dollars sixty-two and
a half cents.
Nos. 120, 130. 131, 132, 133, 134, 135. 13G,
137,138, 140, 141.142, 143, 144, 145, 140, 147,
148,140, 150, 151,153, 154, 155. 150. 157 158,
150, 100. 101, 102, 104,100, 107, 108, 170, 171,
173, 174,175, 170, 177, 178.
The tax assessed upon each of the above lots
from No 120 to No. 178, is three dollars and
seventy five cents.
Nos. 170, 182. 185, 180, 187, 188, 180, 100,
191.102, 194, 105,100, 107. 108.100. 200. 201,
202,203, 204, 205, 200, 207, 208, 200. 210. 211.
212, 213, 214,215,210, 217, 218, 210, 220, 221,
222, 223, 224.
The tax assessed upon each of the above lots
from No. 170 to N0.224, is thire dollars.
Nos. 220, 230. 231, 232, 233, 231, 235, 230,
237, 238 230, 240,241, 242. 244, 245, 240, 247.
248, 249, 250, 251,253,254, 255, 950, 257, 258,
204 205, 200, 207, 208. 209, 270. 2*!. 212, 273,
274, 275, 270. 277, 278, 279, 280, 2*1.282, 283,
284, 285, 280, 287,288, 289, 290, 201, 292, 893,
2 i4 ? 205, 290, 397,298, 300. 301, 302, 303, 304.
305. 300, 307, 300, 310, 311.312. 313. 314. 310,
317 310, 320, 321.322. 323, 324.325, 320. 327,
328 320, 330, 331. 332, 333. 334, 330. 3:’,7. 338,
342, 343, 344, 345, 340, 347, 318. 350. 37,1, 352.
357,358, 350, 300, 301,
317 308. 300, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 370,
377 378, 270, 380, 381,382, 383. 384, 5-5, 3?6,
387* 388, 380. 390, 301,392, 395,390, 397, 308,
The tax assessed upon each of the above lots
from No. 229 to No. 400, is two dollars and
twenty-five .cents
Nos 407 408, 400, 410. 411,412,413,414.
415 410, 417, 418, 410, 420, 421,*422, 423. 424.
425 426, 427, 428, 420, 430. 431, 432, 433. 434.
430’ 430, 437, 438. 439, 440, 442, 443, 444.
445,’ 440, 447, 448, 440, 450, 451,452,453, 454.
455 450, 457, 458, 450, 4GO, 401,402, 403, 404,
405,400. 407, 408, 400, 470. 471, 172. 473. 474,
475 470, 477, 478, 470, 480, 481,4-2, 483, 484.
48o’, 480, 487, 488, 480, 490, 401,492, 493, 494,
495 490, 407, 498, 490, 500, 501,502, 503, 504,
fiOo’ 500. 507, 508, 409, 510,511, 512, 513, 514,
515' 516. 517, 518. 510, 520, 522, 523, 524,525,
500! 527. 528, 520. 530. 531,532. 533, 534. 535.
530,537, 538, 539, 540, 541,542, 543, 544, 445,
The tax assessed upon each of the above lots
from No. 407 to No. 540, is one dollar and eigh
tv-seven And a half cents.
’ The supposed owners of the above described
property, so far as known to the subscriber,
are. The Brunswick Land Company, Moses
Eastman,Urbanus Dart.T. B. King, Jane Ren
gart, T.. T? JMhfiTdM K'Hnzlehu'rsf
Also, one hundred acres of land, more or less,
lying on and adjoining the Eastern side of said
old town of Brunswick, the tax assessed there
on beimr thirty seven dollars and fifty cents
Supposed owner, Moses Eastman
A. L. Mayor.
Brunswick, Nov. 20, 1838.
trrThe Savannah Republican and the Geor
gia Journal at Milledgeville, are requested to
publish the above once a week for tliee months
and forward their accounts for payment.
Notice.
FOUR months after date, I shall apply to
the Court of Ordinary of Wayne Coun
ty. for leave to sell a negro man by the name
of Caleb part of the Estate of Richard W.
Bryan, deceased. MOSES S. HARRIS,
jan 19 Admr
toffee.
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| POETRY.
[From the Southern Rose ]
EXAGGERATION: OR, THE SPOILED
BONNET.
‘l’m weary, weary of the world, and every
thing I view,’ i
Fair Emma said, rs on a lounge her graceful
form she threw;
| ‘Friendship is false, and love a farce, and pleas
ure all a show;
Smiles flutter upon faithless lips, bewildering
as they glow;
1 hate mankind, I hate myself, the very earth
I scorn,
And wish, poor miserable girl, I never had
been born.
My father wonders at rr.y grief, mamma cries
fie upon it!
But oh, I’m sure she never spoiled so beauti
ful a bonnet!
Just then a servant oped the door, with band
box closely tied;
‘O Bella, darling, is that your’ the drooping
maiden ezlid;
-I thought you never would have come—how
could you be so slow?
Is lithe very, very shape, the spreading front,
you know? ’
Quickly the knotted string was cut, the loos
ened cover raised,
Then brightened up fair Emma’s eyes, enkind
ling as they gazed:
-Oh what a heaven of a shape ! the ribbon how
divine !
And how becomingly it suits this azure scarf
of mine !
Quick. Bella, my mantilla get, run, child, be
quick, I say,
I must abroad, for every thing is beautiful
1 o-day !’ C. G.
M ISCELL A .\ Y •
[From the Boston Post.]
Loirs, Literature and Religion of
Ilui'iiiali. — On Thursday evening, Rev.
Howard MalcoinNlelivered a eeeond lot.
tore at the Odeon, upon Burniali, which
was highly interesting in every portion of
it. He first gave a few leading character
istics of the people; for instance, he said,
they were distinguished for their want of
energy; it was manifest at all times;
there was slight inducement for activity,
as the soil yielded sure crops; there were
few wants and they were easily supplied;
they set a limit to their ambition and
having readied it, sink into repose; they
have no inclination to occupy their time
with book-learning, literature being con
sidered the particular occupation of the
priests. They have an idea that one who
sits, never lies down, and one who lies
down never sits nor walks. Mr. M. illus
trated this fact by an anecdote which oc
curred when he was sailing in a boat on
one of the rivers; he got out occasionally
to exercise himself on the shores and his
boatmen looked upon him with utter as
tonishment. There are houses in every
village fur the entertainment of strangers.
Tiic people are temperate in all tilings.
Almost all the men show an unusual fond
ness for children; infanticide is of rare oc
currence; a widow who has several child
ren has a better chance of getting well
married than one who lias none: this re
mark elicited much surprise from the fair
sex, who heard it. It is considered an
honor to lie and they who can tell the big
gest lie are entitled to the highest honor.
The people believe that the whole hu
man race has existed front eternity; at one
time the spirit takes the form of a leaf, at
another of a worm, butterfly, or bird, till
it changes into the human shape, and the
earth is the nearest possible approximation
tow ards heaven; after remaining here, they
believe that they change into an angel and
w ill afterwards merit perfect happiness, till
.by some misdeed, they again descend iu
lo one of the four hells and afterwards go
through these numerous changes again,
from worm to bird, till they arrive where
they were before and these changes are
constantly going on forever, through end
less ages. They believe that human life
once extended to several thousand venrs,
but by excess, it, has been reduced to its
present term of about eight years, and
they think it will further he cut down to
eight or ten, and afterwards it will length
en again by proper care and prudence in
living.
They have different words among differ
ent classes to express the same thing, ac
cording to the rank of the persons using
it. The men do not have the handling of
the money, as with us, but the women
keep all the cash, and are called cash-keep
ers. Courtship differs among the poor
and the rich: the poor man goes to the
cottage of his intended and helps her in
the household affairs, till he finally leaves
his own home and the marriage ceremony
is consummated by his eating out of the
same dish with his bride; Mr. M. remarked
that, this was to him a very delightful
sight.
■ The dsenses of the country consist of
fevers, rheumatism and bowel complaints;
the medital men are divided into two
classes, it which there is not little oppo- ,
sition, the one giving enormous doses of
: medicine and the other none at all.
Alter speaking of the medicabmen,[Mr. !
. M. said, ic supposed he ought next to say |
! somethin' about funerals,which he describ
ed particilarly; poor persons are burned,
but the ich are embalmed by extracting j
the bowels and brains; after which honey is
put into he body and covered over with j
a thin coating of beeswax and gilding; it
then lays more or less months.
Mr. M. said that he should not have
time or strength to speak of the amuse-;
ments of the people and oilier things, but
spoke at some length of their laws, some!
of w hich were very singular, as was also
the oath; punishment consists chiefly of;
beheading and crucifixion. The alphabet, |
instead of having twenty-four lette: =, has'
one thousand. The hooks are made of
palm leaf, some of w hich Mr. M. exhibit
ed, and tiey were very beautiful. Mer
chants’ books are often fifteen feet long. I
Education is widely diffused and every
boy leans to read.
The Religion of the country, Mr. M.
said, might excite contempt, hut, it could
not fail to call forth our pity. More than !
one half the human race believe in this re-'
ligion. They have imaginary gods and
the stories about them would appear ab
surd in the extreme. Mr. M. then went
into a minute, and we should judge, faithful
account of the religion, in connexion with
a celebrated god, a model of which, in
marble hi* bad before him, but we regret
that our limited space will forbid us to en
ter into particulars.
Mr. M. informed liis hearers, as we an- 1
nounccd sometime since, that lie had in
preparation a book of travels upon the East,
which would soon he given to the public,
and judging from the two lectures he has
delivered, we anticipate a work of uncom
mon interest.
Temperance Societies. —A German
innkeeper, of Pennsylvania, not in any
danger of being hung for his wit, became
a zealous member of an auti-dram-drink
ing society. To wean off from the bar
was rather a hard task, and he began to
complain of a weak stomach. What was
to he done? 11 is stomach grew worse
daily; and the good wife, after solemn con
sultation, determined to cail the doctor.—
That grave personage arrived—felt his
pulse—threw a knowing look at the ceil
ing—and, in a low whisper, ordered hint
an ounce of brandy per diem. When the
doctor had made his exit, in came Chris
topher, the eldest son—‘Christoflle!’ cried
the old man, ‘go down stairs agin un
pring up te ’sistant, un look among to ta
bles how much makes an ounce of prandy.’
Christopher complied, and read aloud from
the hook, ‘Eight drams make an ounce.’
‘Stop dere, Christoflle, stop dere I say—
tat is te toctor for me—lie understand my
case—he gives me eight drams a day, un
I never took more as six afore, put I al
ways wanted eight—so pring on—te so
ciety don’t prevent us from taking medi
cine.’
Arab Realty. —Among them was one
of the most beautiful girls I ever saw, ap
parenily'about twenty years of age. She
was of a dark complexion, eyes black as
jet, the inside of her eyelids was black
ened with kohle. her teeth were white as
ivory, and her long hair fell down her
neck and over her shoulders behind, long
enough for her to sit down upon. She
iiad large silver ear-rings, and a silver ring!
through her under lip, gently drawing it
down and displaying her fine teeth; through
her hair was passed a silver arrow, confiu- j
ing her veil to the top of her head, which
was thrown back negligentlyover her shoul
ders; she was habited in a long blue loose
shirt, open at the breast, her bare arms
were covered with bracelets and amulets,
a string of beads wound round her neck,
her feet were bare, and two large rings
were fastened round her ankles. She
Walked, as all the Arab women do, with a
grace and beauty of carriage I never saw
. surpassed; nor .in simplicity and elegance
of appearance have I ever seen a fine la
dy of Europe, with her jewels and pearls,
equal this plan and simple Arab girl.
[Addison’s Travels.
The Sea’s Bottom. —The bottom of
the basin of the sea seems to have ine
qualities like those of the surface of the
continents. Were it dried up, it would
present valleys and plains. It is cover
ed almost throughout i>v an immense quan
tity of testaceous animals, or those who
have shells, intermixed with sand and
grain. The bottom of the Adriatic Sea is
composed ofa compact bed ofsheiis, several
hundred feet in thickness. A celebrated i
diver employed to descend in the Strait of
Messina, saw there, with horror, enor
mous polypi attached to rocks, the arms
of which, being several feet long, more
than sufficient to strangle a man; in many ;
seas the eye perceives nothing but a j
bright, sandy, plain bottom, extending for !
several hundred miles without an inter
vening object. But in others, particular
ly in the Red Sea, it is very different;
the whole body of this extensive bed ol
water is literally speaking, a forest ol
submarine plants and corals, formed by
insects for their habitation, sometimes
branching out to a great extent. —Here
are seen the madrepores, sponges, mosses,
sea mushrooms, and various other things
covering every part of the bottom. The
bed of many parts of the sea near Amer
ica presents a very different though a ve
ry beautiful appearance. This is cover
ed with vegetables which make it look as
green as a meadow; and beneath are
thousands of turtle and oilier sea animals;
feeding thereon. There are some places
of the sea where no bottom Ins yet been
found; still not . bottomless. Themoun-j
tains of continents seem to correspond (
with what are culled the abysses of the j
sea. The highest mountains do not rise j
above 2.1.000 feel; and, allowing for the
effects of (be elements, some suppose that
the sea is not beyond 3(3,001) feet in depth.;
Lord M ulgrave used in the Northern Ocean j
a very heavy sounding lead, and gave
out, along with it, catde rope to the length
of -I,<>-() feet, without finding the bottom.
But the greatest depth hitherto sounded
washy Captain Scoresby, who, .in the
Greenland Seas, could find no bottom;
with 1,200 fathoms or 7,200 feet of line.
According to Laplace its mean depth is
about two miles, which supposing the gen-;
orally received estimates to be correct, as ■
to the proportion the extent of the water;
bears to the dry land on the earth’s sur
face, would make about two hundred and
eighty millions of cubic feet of water.
[llev. C. W illiam’s Works.
-
Economy. Married, at Pawcatuck
Bridge. R. 1 ~ by Geo. \V. Noyes, Esq., a
Mister Browning to a i,ady, nrnup un
known. The circumstances connected
j with this wedding arc somewhat singular
in these days of refinement. The brido
| groom, n!u> is a plain firmer in appear
ance, wit!) his brid. , called at a private
. bouse in the village of Pawcatuck, and
, after gaining admittance, requested the
‘ privilege of being married there; they did
! not wish a clergyman to officiate on the
occasion, preferring a magistrate, and ob
served that they did not wish any refresh
ments as they had brought their victuals
with them. The hospitable occupants of
the dwelling granted their request, and
procured the attendance of a Jut lice of the
I Peace, and the family attended as witness
,os on tiie I nippy ocasion. After the mar
riage ceremony was performed, the couple
partook of their refreshments, paid the
Justice one dollar, and another fir the use
| of the house; this bsing done, they decam
-1 ped as they came.
! A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. Wc linder
i stand that an individual of this town says
! he had made fifteen hundred dollars by at
! tending to his own business, and five hun
dred more by letting oilier people’s alone.
This surely is a good business, and pavs
well, and at present is not overdone.
. [ Watchtowcr.
! A Patron. —The New York Spirit of
! the Tunes has a subscriber who mnv be
j set down as a patron, and no dispute.—
j Calling at t* n office of the Times one
: morning tlie following dialogue took place:
[N. Y. American.
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am I not? A trifle sir—five dollars.” —
| “Make out my bill then—and to save trou
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it for a hundred years in advance, where
upon he laid a five hundred dollar bill up
on the desk and vanished, leaving the
i publisher in such a state of blissful petri
faction that lie was unable to thank him.
A RHINOCEROS STORY.
“Once on a time my father took his
sons out to hunt; he only had a gun, and
we had assegaes and knives. At first wc
; were very unsuccessful: we found noth-;
ing till the second day; we were very hun
gry, when we came on a rhinoceros.
The old man soon wounded it in the Ic.",
and lie then told us to throw stones at it,
to make the wound wofse. \ou know
how Namaqms can throw stones; so we
crept upon the rhinoceros, followed it, j
i and threw’ stones with such effect, that atj
i last it lay down from pain. 1 being arm
ed with a knife, then apptoachfti’ fte-m
behind, and commenced to hamstring it,
while iny elder brother, who is now dead,
Cobus, remarkable for two strange rings
round his eyes, tried to climb over the
back of the rhinoceros to thrust his lance!
into his shoulder (it would have been ve
ry dangerous to have gone up to its shoul
der on foot); he had just begun to climb,
when the rhinoceros rose suddenly with a
terrible blast or snort and we all rau off
as fast as we could to a tree and there
held a consultation about our further pro
ceedings.
“We had not been long at the tree,(
when the rhinoceros observing where wej
were, rushed towards us with his horns at
first in the air, and then as he came near,!
TERMS MIN ADTAIfCfe
hjii tufLim -m -
he tore up the ground with them, We
'scattered ourselves before him, when. Co
bus getting in a passion, ia
, his flight, called the rhinoceros aa ugly
(name, and turned and faced it. The rm
noccros, astonished at this unexpected
manoeuvre, also stopped al»d stared at
! Colins, who then commenced calling oet
loudly and abusing the monster; k now
seemed to be seized with fear, fik iljH*
died off, w hen Cobus, who had a heart
like a lion’s md was as active as an ape,
immediately pursued the rhinoceros, seiz
ed tho tail, sprung with its assistance on
its back, rode it well, and* plunging his *B
- deep into its shoulder, it fell, and
was despatched by the rest of us. Hun
gry men can do extraordinary tilings — and
this is a true story.”
The rhinoceros is often accompanied
by a sentinel to give him warning, a beau
tiful grecn-backed and blue-winged bird
about the size of a jay, which sits on one
of its horns. When he is standing at his
case among the thick bushes, or rubbing
himself up against a dwarf tree, strut and
strong like himself, the bird attends him
that it may feed on the insects which ei
ther fly about him, or which are found in
wrinkles of his iiead and neck. tho
creeping limiter, stealthily approaching on
the leeward side, carefully notes'the mo
tions of the sentinel bird; for he may hear
though he cannot see the rhinoceros behind
the lealy screen. If the monster 'move®
bis head slightly and without alarm, the
bird flies from bis horns to his shoulder,
remains there a short time, and then re
turns to its former strange perch; but if
the bird, from its elevated position and
better eyes, notes the Approach of danger
i and flies up in the nir suddenly, then let
the hunter beware; for the rhinoceros in
stantly rushes desperately and fearlessly
to wherever he hears the branches crack.
[Col. Alexander’s Expedition.
Pe rilvus Adventure — Daring Intrepid •
i i/i) —Praiseworthy Benevolence. — Infor
mation reached this city yesterday morn
, ing, that severa! families who lived in
'dwellings situated on the meadows above
jtlie city, were prevented from reaching
, the shore in consequence of the rise
;of the freshet; they were driven into the
j upper apartments of their houses, and the
water still rising had reached them there
— tlioir lives were threatened, and in
their distress they called loudly for assist
ance, but with a frail prospect of obtain
ing any —Tho river at this time was fuff
of driving ice, the water hid risen to s
fearful height and it seemed folly and rash*
ness to attempt a rescue of the suffering
mid iiiifo.turinte beings. At this critical
juncture, and when their situation appear
ed to all who witnessed them front the
shore and heard • cries for "help” to be
almost hopeless, nine Young Gentlemen
of this city volunteered to make ati effort
to save them. With this determination
they furnished themselves with some luht
hoards and ventured out on floating oskes
of ice, leaping from one body to another
and frequently preventing themselves from
j sinking by laying their boards across the
jloo.se pieces of ice, then laying them
selves dmvn at full length e.n d paddling
j with their hands in the water. That, af
ter a long and tedious, as w«U a* fearful
j attempt they succeeded in reaching the
'dwellings. - *-• ;
Here they found four or fire famillea
j in a most distressed condition, some Iktief
j been driven into their garret* fiaaeafcty
and expecting every moment te-fae carried
| away by the flood. They - then with that
deliberate caution and prudence which is
seldom exhibited in the daring acta of
young men, carefully planned measerea
which should bo the safest and soteat
method of their reaching shore. And af
ter a second hazardous journey titfthe
driving ice, they succeeded in presetvtag
three families from a watery grave, among
whom we saw one poor deereped female
upwards of eighty years of age. Such
| disinterested acts of humanity call lottdi?*
for the esteem and praise of the public,
and should never go [Hert
ford, Conn., Review.. TANARUS:
Loafer’s Soliloquy.— Here I am, «
beautiful rascal, low in firnd#, tmnk in
reputation, seven 'hundred and fifty mites
from home and no mule to rwta VX Owe
my landlord any thing, I will atfy and eat
it out with him like a gentleman, and if
I owe any person thing I freely
forgive tile debt. ‘ 'lvT' *
Authority.—Hold two ifogs by their ’
hind legs, and thfty will almost hr
love” to devour one another; them
by tho ears; and thrust their COM tfpse* to
each others’ very mums, and yon will find
“dog won’t eat dog”—they wtli tor*’ll pen
you ! . ■- W; ■■. -
Riches burdcu more th.n&jtaatUfy;
and men’s wealth only helj|Nleilii their
wants. The great than often wants a sto
mach and rest more th*p thefioor wants
meat and a bed to lie on. *
“Always take fun* by the fortUek," at
the pickpocket said, whew he drew out
the gentleman's watch by the chain.