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3$ ? u n £ to lc tt BY CHARLES DAVIS.] VOLUME 2. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. AGENTS. liibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq. Trifair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton. Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. Puluski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq. Ticiggs “ \\ illiam H. Robinson, Esq. U ayne “ Robert Howe, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance—s 4 at the end of the year. JCTNo 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. HT All letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. / (O'ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at Oil 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 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. v Wayne Cos. SlierilPs Sale. WILL be sold at the Court House door, in the said County of Wayne on the first Tuesday in May next, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to wit : Lots No. (209), whereon a Saw Mill, a Grist Mill, and other needful buildings are situated; also lots No. (210), (239), (175), (172). Also Fraction Lot No. (240), to satisfy a scire facias issued Irom the Superior Court of Wayne County, in favor of Pliney Sheffield, against Albus Rea and David Burbank, the property jiointed out by the plaintiflT’s Attorney. LEIGHTON CAUSEY. feblG Sheriff of the Cos. of Wayne, Ga. Notice. I TOUR 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 Adinr. 'Notice. ALL persons having demands against the Estate of Jno. Burnett, Jr. late of the Cos. of Glynn, de eased, will hand them in duly attested within the time prescribed by law; and all indebted to said Estate make payment im mediately to ROBERT HAZLEIIURST, S. M. BURNETT. Mar 9 Qualified Executors. Notice. ALL persons having demands against the Estate of John A. Wyley, late of the Cuunty of Glynn, deceased, will present them duly attested within the time prescribed by law; and persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to A. W. WYLEY, Mar 9 of Mclntosh Cos. Adinr. Notice. FOUR months after date, application v ill be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Wayne County, when setting for or dinary purposes, for leave to sell the land ly ing on the Great Satilla River, being part of the real estate of Sherrod Sheffield, de ceased, for the benefit of the heirs and credi tors. ELIZABETH SHEFFIELD, jan 12 Executrix. UHREIt. THE proprietors of the Darien upper Steam SAW MILL have on hand LUMBER of various dimensions for sale, and nre ready to saw to order. They have a good supply of saw logs and are able to furnish cargoes as fast as they can be loaded, at the Mill Wharf, where the depth of water is sufficient for vessels draw ing fourteen feet. TURNER & JOHNSTON. Darien, March 2,1839. ts o*Reference may be had to P. M. Night ingale, Esq. in Brunswick. Hank of Brunswick. THE hours for the transaction of business in this Institution will be from ten A. M. to one P, M. The offering day will be Friday and discount day the following Monday of each week. Oct 8 I. C. PLANT, Cashier. Ready .Hade Clothing. AN extensive assortment of READY MADE GARMENTS, for the present and ap proaching season, on hand and receiving at the BRUNSWICK CLOTHING STORE, in part as follows, viz: SURTOUTS, —WRAPPERS of BROAD CLOTHS,—PILOT CLOTHS,—PETERS HAMS, &.C., —Frock and Dress COATS of Broadcloths of every color and quaIity—PAN TALOONS of black, blue, mixed fancy En glish and American Cassiineres—VESTS of plain and fig’d English Satins and Silks—Va lencias—Toilinetts —figd and plain Velvets— Marcella, &e. For sale by jan 26 ts J. W. ATWILL. Notice. THE Subscriber has appointed Robert Ha zlehurst, Esq. his authorised attorney du ring his absence from this State. WILLIAM D. JENKINS. Mar 23—3t* For Sale. A TRACT of land containing two hundred acres, situate near Sterling, eleven miles from Brunswick, on which is a good dwelling house, out buildings, &c Apply to mar 23—ts JAMES MOORE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL «, 1839. Sloop tor .Sale. I -KTIN' THE Subscriber offers for sale one half, or the whole of the Sloop ARGO.— For further par ticulars, application may be made to the Subscriber, near Brunswick. J. J. MORGAN. N. B. All persons are cautioned not to credit said Sloop, as I shall not pay any bills contracted on her account after this date. Mar 4—m 9 —l m J. J- M. Steamer Florida. THE elegant steam packet FLORIDA.! n,Captain John Nock, ==3SS3Ss£SBKSSb9& continues to run regu larly from Savannah to Brunswick every week, on her way to St. Marys, Jacksonville and Black Creek, always touching at Brunswick on her route back to Savannah. For further par ticulars apply to W. A. HOWARD, mar 16 ts Oglethorpe House. flJ’Steam Boat Notice.,£o Passage from Bruns- Marys,Jachsonrille and Garey's Ferry. The new and superior Steamers “FORRES TER,” Capt. Drake, and the “ISIS,” Capt. Pearson, will run regularly from Savannah to Florida weekly, always stopping at Bruns wick and St. Marys, going and coming. For particulars apply to DART, BARRETT & CO. jan 12—3 m Brunswick, Ga. To Planters. PLANTERS in this vicinity, wishing sup plies for their Plantations, can be furnish ed with Merchandize in every variety, on as reasonable terms ns can be purchased in Sa vannah or Charleston, at the store of jan 26 RICE, PARKER & CO. $l*TO Reward. ABSCONDED from Waverley Plantation, Camden County, on the 16th day of July last, LARKIN, DICK, and CATO. Larkin is a stout Mulatto fellow, about 28 years of age, 5 feet 6to 9 inches high—he has a scar on Tijflj right cheek, also some marks of small about his face, particularly on his nose, also a large scar from an axe on his foot, near the great toe. Larkn has rather a feeble voice for a man of his stature. Cato is a black fellow, an African by birth, he is a stout, square built fellow, about 4 feet 4 to 6 inches high—has the mark of his tribe on his breast, he is like wise ruptured, and has a very large mouth. Dick is a small black, well set fellow, also an 1 African by birth, with a round face and down cast look, easily confused when interrogated; there is also n singular appearance about his mouth when alarmed. The above three fel lows were bought of the estate of Jno. H. Mo rel, in March 1836, and formerly lived at the Cottonham Plantation, Bryan Cos. They arc also well acquainted in and about Savannah. GEO. C. DUNHAM, Manager. Mar 9 , Fifty Dollar* Reward. Ran away from the subscriber vfcN in Hamburg on the 28th Febru ary, his negro man THOMAS, he is about 28 years of age, five (v'3C_. feet ten inches high, dark com- U plected, and pleasant counte nance. He is a blacksmith by trade, and has doubtless pro- j cured free papers from some person, and has gone to work at that business either in South ! Carolina or Georgia. He is in all probability j lurking about Savannah, as 1 understand he j engaged in the steamboat “Thorn.”—When he : left, he had on a red flannel shirt, black satti net pantaloons, and broadcloth coat and new beaver hat. Any person delivering said ! negro to me, or will lodge him in any safe jail, so that 1 can get him, shall receive the above reward. R. L. TOW SON, Jr. Hamburg, S. C. March 24th, 1839. Mar 30—lOw Doctor* YVilson and HAVINC? entered into a copartnership will attend to Professional business. They are ready to enter into contracts with , families and plantations for Medical services I WM. PRINCE WILSON, I F. GAGE. jan 19—ts Dissolution. THE Copartnership heretofore existing be- I tween Dart, Barrett &. Cos. is this day ! dissolved. The debts due by the firm will be j settled by the subscriber, and those indebted will please make early payment to him. Mar 7 GEE DUPREE. Leots for Sale. PERSONS wishing to purchase lots in de sirable situations in this city can he accom modated on reasonable terms, by applying to the subscriber. Nov 22 A. L. KING. Flothing. (YAA CALICO and Striped shirts—4oo vs pair Duck Pants—so Lawn Jack ets. Just rec’d per schr. James Francis, and for sale by mar 16 RICE, PARKER & Cos. Wanted, BY JOHN FRANKLIN. HIDES, Beeswax, and Tallow. — Cow and Buck Horns.—Also, Bear, Cat, Deer, and otter Skins, for which the highest market price will be given. Mar 9 DUNBAR MOREL, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, TENDERS his professional services to the public. His office is over the Post Office, where he will always be found, mar 16 A* ■ • KINO, ; Attorney and Counsellor at Lau>. OFFICE over the Post Office, opposite the 1 Oglethorpe House, mar 16 MISCELLANY. [From the Common School Journal.] PENMANSHIP. It is common to call good handwriting an accomplishment. We call it a utility. There is value and assistance in it, and a substantial good. To run over a page of fair handwriting is like riding over a smooth, solid highway. To work one’s way through a page of bad handwriting is like forcing a passage through a swamp thick with underbrush, netted with bri ers, and unstable with quicksands. There is a certain honesty and friendliness in good penmanship;—nay, it has a quality of justice and equity, as though it said Ido unto others as 1 would that others should do unto me. Bad handwriting is an incivility. It has an air of selfishness about it. It says, “What is your conve nience or pleasure or time to me?” We received to-day a note, covering less than one side of half a sheet of paper, which it took us fifteen minutes to read, and re quired the cooperation of all the facul ties. It took our correspondent not more than two minutes to write it. Had he spent five minutes in writing it, we could then have read it in two minutes. Thus between us there was a loss of ten min utes of time, to say nothing of eyes and temper. But suppose it takes my cor respondent only five minutes less to write, what it takes me five minutes more to read, because it is written badly; by what pretence of justice does he throw the loss of that fire minutes upon me? His prac tical declaration is, “Yonr time is less valuable than mine.” But have Ino other duties to perform? Am I, like Champol lion, to decipher*Egyptian manuscripts, without the honors of a discoverer? But why is it necessary, in a time of profound jpeace, and on a matter of common busi liess, to write in cipher as though we were conspirators, plotting a rebellion? In confuting the opinion of those who contended, that the universe was formed from a fortuitous concourse of atoms, Cicero said it would he as impossible to form the universe in that manner, as it would be to shake together an innumer able quantity of metal letters, and throw them promiscuously upon the ground, and have them so fall in relation to each other, as to make one of the poems of Ennius. In quoting this passage from Cicero, Dr. Thomas Brown remarks that “such is our nature, that it would seem as truly impos sible, that a number of types thrown to gether should form the Iliad or Odyssey, as that they should form Homer himself.'' Now in regard to some manuscripts, the exact reverse of this would seem to be true. On first inspection, we should he ready to affirm, that nothing hut Chance, that is, the fortuitous concurrence of marks, could have produced them. And if, at last, with incredible labor, vve sep arate and arrange and combine these marks into legible symbols, it is only by a sort of creative power, like that which would produce a world from chaotic par ticles. On what principle can it be ac counted for, that had spelling should be universally taken as proof of a defective education, while bad handwritting often accompanies the highest? It is a vice which seems to prevail most, amongst learned men. A manuscript, ever so bad ly spelt, is more easily read, than one scrawlingly written. It is almost impos sible to spell so falsely as wholly to mask the meaning. If one person cannot di vine it, another can. And such is the ar bitrary combination of our letters into words, that they, who spell worst, are of ten most true to the elementary sounds of the letters. Dr. Franklin relates an an ecdote of receiving a letter from a cor respondent, which had the word, wyf, in it. He was baffled and posed. He show ed it to Mrs. Franklin, hut the word was a stranger to her vocabulary. The maid servant happening to come into the room he asked her what w, y, f, spelt. Why, what should it spell, said she, but wife to be sure? But some writing we meet with is as unorganic, as destitute of structure or arrangement, as beds of autumn leaves whirled together by the wind. When prop er names are written in this manner, it makes a hopeless case, for there is noth-1 ing in the context to shed its light upon j them. We have had, more than once, | to take the signature of a letter, and the marks which stood where the name of the town is commonly written, and make a facsimile of them, as a superscription to the answer; not knowing whence, or from whom, the letter came, nor wherfe or to whom, ours went. The lesson giv en by Dr. Parr, to Sir William Jones, is one we have often had occasion to re peat. When Sir William sent the doc tor one of his unreadable letters, lie re plied as follows: “Either you cau writte better or you cannot. If you can write better, then write better; if you cannot, then go to school.” Teach children, that there is a certain openness and ingenu- j ousness of character, a love of fair dealing; aa it were, in clear, well-defined, distinct- j ly-featurcd penmanship. It is like a good ! ] physiognomy in a stranger, which inter ! ests us in his welfare at once. But in J had penmanship, there is something un mannerly.evasive and dissembling. When old John Hancock signed the Declaration i of Independence, he wrote his name in a broad, bold, energetic character; as though he said, —“If 1 am ever tried as a rebel, I’ll not deny my autograph.” i We believe a vast deal of time is lost in vvliat is called, by courtesy, learning to write. The art of learning to write | depends mainly upon two things:—first, a clear conception, in the mind of the learner, of regularly and well-formed let ters; and second, a skill, a manual dexteri ty and quickness, in delineating that form | upon paper, —in bringing out and pre senting to the sight the image or picture which was in the mind. One thing is perfectly certain, that the outward object, the visible letters, will never be any bet ter, than the conception of them in the mind. Owing to stiffness in the hand or fingers, the form of the letters written, may be far less perfect, than the picture which the writer may have in his mind; — that is, a writer may close his eyes and then imagine a letter, exact and symmet rical in all its parts, and yet, through rigidity in the organs, be unable to copy the mental image upon paper. The hand, the fingers, and the pen are alike instru ments of the mind in performing the op eration; and there may be a numbness or want of pliancy, either in the bones, the joints, or the goose-quill, which may de feat the attempt to equal, by an outward representation, the accuracy of the men tal archetype. But though the letter made i may be inferior to the letter imagined, the former will never excel the latter, in the correctness of its outline, and the fit ness of its proportions. The first step, then in teaching the art of writing, is to secure the existence, in a child’s mind, of the best possible no tice of a well-shaped letter or part of a letter, or a well-written word. This must be so effectually done, as that the child can excite an image of a handsome let ter in his mind, with his eyes shut, or in the dark. This may he done by exhib iting beautiful letters, causing the child to fix his attention upon them, and con necting such pleasant associations with the perception of their forms, that they will be remembered; for the mind slowly if ever, forgets that which gave it delight i when conceived. It may be necessary to ! repeat this process again and again; nor does it incur any loss of time to do so, | for the business of learning to write is never advancing so fast, or so effectually, jas during the formation, in the learner’s mind, of a correct conception of what is to be done by his fingers. And here, in passing, we may remark upon an idea we have, not (infrequently, heard advanced by teachers; viz. that the first marks or copies, set for new be ginners, should he of an imperfect charac ter. The notion is, that if the copv he perfect, the learner will despair, when he comes to see the contrast between his own rude work and the perfect model.— But it is quite as easy for a learner to catch the forw of a true oval for an o, as it would be if it bulged oil one side, or crinkled at the upper and lower turns.— The art of writing addresses itself more to the imitative, than to the reflective or progressive faculties; and in writing or drawing, the formation of a perfect object will not be facilitated by first striving to form a number of imperfect ones, any more than it will aid the correct solution of a sum in the arithmetic to work a few sums wrong. But we repeat, that, until the mind is able to form a correct picture of a letter, the fingers will never be able to make one. The will starts certain nerves of motion, which have their origin in the brain.— These nerves of motion are spread out over muscles, which are entirely depend ent upon the nerves of every voluntary motion. These muscles move the fingers, and through their instrumentality the pen. Now, the slightest conceivable variation in the impulse or direction given by the will to those intermediate instruments, the nerves and the muscles, will deform the letters; as in throwing a stone by the hand, if thi,exact projectile force be not given to the arm, the stone will fall short or rush bejtoqd the mark; or if the fingers do not suffer tfre.stone to fly off at the exact tangential pointj'tiMt is, the true point in the curve made byAire arm, then the stone j will strik** to the right or left of the mark. Except, therefore, the guiding power of; the mind sees the form of the letter, upon the white surface of the paper, just as plainly, before a particle of ink has touch ed it, as though it were written in fire, it can never guide the nerves and muscles so as to delineate that form. It cannot re produce through the physical organs, and make visible to those, any thing more per fect, than was first mentally visible to it self. But this picture, in (he mind, of a well-written word or letter, consists oil a union of several simple notions, and | these must be arranged by the mind, one j by one, to form the perfect archetype.— For this purpose, oral instructions should be given to the pupils, respecting the con stituents of good penmanship. Let them be exercised upon such points jas these, until they become perfectly fa | miliar with them:— ! I.Q. That, with the exception of enpi -1 tals, and those letters and parts of letters, which rise above or descend below the line, all the letters should turn exactly up on the line, neither perceptibly above, nor j perceptibly below it. in the letter n, for j instances, to have one mark shorter than j the other, is like a man’s having one leg I shorter than the other. 2nd. That the letters should all slant , the same way, and should have the same {degree in inclination, compared with par allel vertical lines. A difference in the slanting of two adjacent letters may be exhibited on an enlarged scale by laying j a long rule upon them and marking the 1 divergence of the lines when extended to the top or bottom of the page. 3</. That all the hair strokes and the large marks should correspond with each other in fineness aud fullness. 4th. That the same letters, whether they recur in the same or in different words, should be of a uniform size. In the word book, to have one o small and the other large is as ugly, as it would be to have one great eye and one little eye in the same head. sth. That all the letters in the same word should be equidistant from each oth er. Where there is an m followed by an n, or where there are two ms together, the dis tance between the marks composing the letters, and the distance of each letter from the connecting stroke should be the same. In the word ocean, the bottou curves of the four letters o, c, e, and a, should have the same sweep, and the same intermediate spaces. 6th. That when one part of a letter branches off from another part, as (he last mark of an n from the first, the point of divergence should always be equidistant from the upper ruled line, and so in all words, attd when one letter is connected with the succeeding, as the first five letters in the word ceiling, the connecting line should always enter the succeeding letter at the same distance front the bottom ruled line. We need not speak of the dot ting of the i’s and the crossing of the t’s. Enough has buen said to indicate the course recommended. There should he a regular exercise of this kind, consisting of some twenty ques tions, which every writing class should he able to answer, with precision and exact ! ness, in relation both to coarse and fine I hand; and they can he made to see, that all their had writing consists in some de parture from tlieir own rules. These re j marks may seem minute and trivial, and j yet they comprehend the whole difference between elegant and slovenly handwriting. In actual measurement of a foot-rule, how ■ minute is the difference between the great majority of human countenances, and yet I what endless diversity exists between them! The painter, the sculptor, the en graver catches these minute differences by his eye; he retains an exact impression of them in his mind, aud then, through his organs and his implements, he transfers these impressions to the canvass, marble, or plate. By well-directed and delicate stfokes or etchings he can impart exquisite and refined lineaments to the “human face j divine;” or by deep and harsh ones, he can ; exemplify what Quin called, in a ruffian, “not the lines, but the cordage of liisjace." Good writing, like the highest achieve ments in the arts, comes from noting these minute differences. When the habit is once formed, the muscles seem to obey the will, almost unconsciously. Let the motto al ways be, good writing first; rapid writing afterwards. Drawing is a form of writing, and ought always to be taught with it. No doubt, writing itself could he mastered more easi ly, if the highly useful exercise of drawing were taught simultaneously with it. But we have not room, at present, to enter up on a discussion of this subject. A Russian Masquerade. About Christ mas, musquerades are much in vogue in Russia, and even when an ordinary ball is given at this season, it is not unusual to place candles in the windows of the house, as a signal that masks are admitted with out invitation. At the period to which this story refers, namely, the Christmas of 1834, a hall was given at a house at Pe» tersburg, which was mentioned, bull have forgotten the name of the owner, and the ordinary signal was displayed for the ad mission of masks, several of whom arrived in the course of the evening, stayed a short time as usual, and departed. At length a party entered, dressed as Chinese, and bearing on a palanquin a person whom they called their chief, saying that it was his fete day. They set him down rery re spectfully in the middle of the room, and commenced dancing what they said was their national dance around him. When this was concluded, they separated and [TERMS S3 IN ADVANCE. NUMB SR. ftft. mingled with the general company, speak ing French very well, and making them selves very agreeable. After a while they began gradually to disappear unnoticed, slipping out of the room one or two at a time, till at last they were all gone, leaving their chief still sitting motionless, in dig nified silence in his palanquin in the mid dle of the room. The ball began to thin, and the attention of those who remained was wholly drawn to the grave figure of the Chinese mask. The master of the house at length went up to him and told him that his companions were all gone, polite ly begging him to take off his mask, that he and his guests might know to whom they were indebted for all the pleasure which the exhibition had offered them.— The Chinese, however, gave no reply by word or signs, and a feeling of uneasy curiosity gradually drew around hint the guests who remained tr, the hall room.— The silent figure stilt took no notice of all that was passing ronud him, and the mas ter of the house at length with his own hand took off the mask, and discovered to the horrified by-standers the face of a corpse. The police were immediately sent for, and on a surgical examination of the hotly, it nppeared to he that of a man who had been strangled a few hours be fore. Nothing, however, could be dis covered either at the time or afterwards which could lead to the identity of the murdered man, or the discovery of the ac tors in this extraordinary scene; it was found on inquiry that they arrived at the house where they deposited the dead body, in a handsome equipage, with masked servants. —[Venable’s Domestic Scenes in Russia. [From Grant’s “Bench and the Bar.”] Excessive Politeness.— Nine unhap py men were appointed to receive sen tence of death for various offences. It so happened, however, that in entering the names of the unfortunate parties, on being convicted, on his own slip of pa per, Baron Graham omitted one of them. The nine were brought up, and the eight, whose names were on his paper, received sentence. They then quitted the The ninth stood in / mute astonishment. The clerk, perceiving the mistake, c.alled to his lordship, just ns he was opening the door to leave the court. Turning about and casting a look of surprise at the prisoner, he hurried hack to his seat, and putting on the black cap, he address ed the prisoner in the following manner, giving at the same time a profusion of hows: “My good man, I really beg your pardon for the mistake: it was entirely a mistake: altogether a mistake I assure you. The sentence of the Court on you is that you be taken to the jtlace whence you came, tiience to the place of execution, and there he hanged by the neck until you are dead. And the Lord have mercy on your soul. I do beg your pardon I’m very sorry for the mistake I assure you.” So saying he made another low how to the unhappy man, and then quitted the court. Fish in tasiiion. — When fashions are worn out at Paris, the milliners send the antiquated articles to the north, that is to Sweden or Russia. A vessel deeply laden with such merchandise was run down in the channel of St. Petersburgh. Next day a salmon was caught in the Neva, dressed in a satin pe:ticont, and in the same net were found two large cod with inuslin handkerchiefs around.tWfr rtfeyks. The sharks and porpoises were observed in gowns of the latest taste; and hardly was there a fish that did not display some of the freshest Parisian fashions that had ever visited the North. Some idea of the benefits of advertising in newspapers may be formed from the fol lowing article from the Utica Observer. The benefit of advertising in newspa pers is fully illustrated by the proprietor of the Goelickes’ Matchless Sanative.— During the year 1838, he paid for adver tising in the newspapers of the United States, ninety thousand dollar*! f After paying this immense sum, paying his nu merous agents, and the expense of the in gredients, the manufacture of the article he has pocketed a handsome sum. from the sale of the Sanative. We say to ail who advertise, advertise—the printer will fob a little, and the advertiser a great deal. from Jaekeoo, Wash ington comfy, has raised and sold to Gteorasgjfcnrtz of this city, for 9900, a “leetUjlji. largest” hog that was over dreampt o£ This noble porter -is now two years and eight itKMf&s old, and weighs sixteen hundred pounds. It is sup posed by good he will lose 150 pounds in dresting, which will leave his useful weight 1439 pound*. He mea sures 8 feet t inches in length, mad ia re garded by connoisseurs as the largest ani mal of his rac«t ®*er raised in America. This is the second hog that Mr. Alexan der has raised to the enormous weight of over 1400 pounds. —Albany paper.