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CHARLES DAVIS.]
VOLVKS 2.
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LOUIS A. GODEY,
|| til 1 Chestnut St. Philada.
I lune l
f I Steam B>oat Wood.
t TEAM BOATS touching at Brunswick can
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f Wanted,
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“ Oglethorpe House.
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L fore received. The bouse is large, airy, and
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•comfortable Summer residence in the State—
salt water baths may be had a
«om the bouse—also good stabling for horses.
. . R. W. HOLMAN.
T Brunswick, April 27tli, 1839.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 1,1839.
Unexampled Mammoth
Scheme.
THE following details of a Scheme of a
Lottery to be drawn jn December next,
warrants us in declaring it to be UNPARAL
LELED in the history of Lotteries. Prises
to the amount have never before been offered to
the public. It is true, there are many blanks,
but on the other hand, the extremely low
charge of S2O per Ticket—the Value and
JYumber of the Capitals, and the revival of the
good old custom of warranting that every
prize shall be drawn and sold, will, we are
sure, give universal satisfaction, and eapocfcd
ly to the Si*Hundred Prize Holders.
To those disposed to adventure, ws mMS
mend early application being made to us for
tickets—when the prizes are all sold, blanks
only remain—the first buyers have the best
chanoe. We, therefore, emphatically say—
DELAY NOT! but at once re-ntit and trans
mit to us your orders, which shall always re
ceive our immediate attention. Letters to be
addressed, and applications made to
SYLVESTER & Cos.,
156 Broadway, New York.
ffyObserve the number, 156.
$700,000!!! $500,000!! $35,-
OOO! * ’
6 prizes of $£0,000!!
2 prizes of $15,000!!
3 prizes of SIO,OOO !
Grand Real Estate and Bank Stock
LOTTERY
Os Property situated in New Orleans.
UrThe richest and most magnificent scheme
ever presented to the public, in this or any
other country.
tickets only S2O.
Authorized by an Act of the Legislative As
sembly of Florida, and under the Directions
of the Commissioners, acting under the
same.
TO BE DRAWN AT JACKSONVILLE,
FLORIDA, December Ist, 1839.
SCHMIDT & HAMILTON, Managers.
SYLVESTER <fc CO., 156 Broadway,
New York, Sole Agents.
No combination numbers!!!
100,000 tickets, from No. 1 upwards, in suc
cession.
The deeds of the Property and the Stock trans
ferred in trust to the Commissioners ap
pointed by the said act of the Legislature
of Florida, for the security of the Prise
Holders.
SPLENDID SCHEME!!!
1 Prize—The Arcade—2B6 feet, 5 inches, 4
lines, on Magazine street; 101 feet
11 inches, on Natchez street; 126
feet, 6 inches, on Gravier st., rent
ed at about $37,000 per annum. Dollars.
Valued at 700,000
1 Prixe—City Hotels—lft} ft on Com
mon street, 146 feet, 6 inches, on
Camp st. Rented at $25,000 —
Valued at 500,000
1 Prize—Dwelling House (adjoining
the Arcade) No. 16, 24 ft. 7inche» •
front on Natchez St. Rented at
SI2OO. Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto (adjoining the Arcade)
No. 18, 23ft. fronton Natchez St.
Rented at $l2O0 —Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto (adjoining the Arcade)
No. 20,23 feet front on Natchez st.
Rented at $l2O0 —Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto—No. 23, north east
cornerof Basin «fc Custom-house at.
40 feet froi-.t on Basin, and 40 feet
on Franklin st. by 127 ft. deep in
Custom-house st. Rented at SISOO
Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto—No. 24, south west
cornpr of Basin and Custom-house
st.; 32 feet, 7 inches on Basin, 32
teet, 7 inches on Franklin, 127 ft.
10 1-2 inches deep in front of 0i
Custom-house street. Rented at
SISOO. Valued at $6,000
1 Prize—Ditto—No. 339, 24 feet, 8
inches on Royal street, by 127 ft»,
11 inches deep. Rented at SI4OO. *
Valued at . 15,000
1 Prize—2so shales Canal ■ Bank
Stock, SIOO each, 25,000
1 Ditto—2oo ditto Com do do do 20,000
1 Ditto—lso ditto Mechanics' and
Traders' do do 15^00
1 Ditto—loo do City Bank do do lOyOOO
1 Ditto—loo do do do do do * 10,000
1 Ditto—loo do do do do do 10,00 ft
1 Ditto—so do Exchange Bank do do 5000
1 Ditto—-50 do do do do do 5000
1 Ditto—2s do Gas Light Bunk do do 2500
1 Ditto—2s do do do do do do 2500>
1 Ditto—ls do Mechanics' &■ Tra
ders’ do do 1500
1 Ditto—ls do do do do do 1500
20 do—each I<> shares of the Louisia
na State Bank, SIOO each, each
Prize SIOOO 20,000
10 do—each 2 shares of SIOO each,
each Prize S2OO, of the Gas Light
Bank 2000
200 do—each 1 share of SIOO, of the
Bank of Louisiana 20,000
200 do—each 1 share of SIOO, of the
New Orleans Bank - 20,000
150 do—each 1 share of SIOO of the
Union Bank of Florida 15,000
600 Prizes. $1,500,000
TICKETS S2O—NO SHARES.
The. whole of the Tickets, with their Num
bers, as also those containing the Prizes, will
be examined and sealed by the Commissioners
appointed under the Act, previously to their
being put into the wheels. One wheel will
contain the whole of the Numbers, the other
will contain the Six Hundred Prizes, and the
Srct 600 Numbers that shall be dnrwu out,
will be entitled to such Frizes as may be
drawn to its number, and the fortunate hold
ers of stick Prises will have such property
transferred to them immediately after the
drawing, unincumbered, and without any De
duction!
O’ Editors of every paper in the United
States, in the West Indies, in Canada, and o
ther of the British Provinces are requested to
insert the above, as a standing advertisement,
until the Ist of December next, and to send
their account to us, together with a paper
containing the advertisement.
SYLVESTER & CO., 156 Broadway, N. Y.
may 25
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Pone at this Office.
POETR V.
[From the Knickerbocker for May.]
GOD IN NATURE.
Come, climb along with me this mountain top,
Thou unbeliever in Eternal Good,
And look upon the wide outstretching scene,
That from the summer meets the eager sight!
Far as the eye may reach a varied map
Os earth and water, upland, mead, and vale,
fields, and forests waving wild:
■fifes, which bless the thrifty farmer's toil,
And barren peaks, where not a leaflet grows;
This varied scene in solemn beauty lies,
On which each heart, with just conceptions
fraught,
In admiration muses, and is mute.
What say'st thou, unbeliever, dark in soul!
Did chance accomplish all? Does chance
* maintain
The graceful harmony in constant round?
I Come, thou most learned of unbelieving men
Whose deep philosophy has mastered art:
With all thy skill make such a simple flower
As this fair blue bell that amid the crags
Looks up in beauty, smiling to the sun!
Thou canst not! Then, perhaps thou canst
unmake,
Here is an atom, which thy art declares
To be the smallest part of matter known,
(Atoms on atoms piled: compose the world;)
Take this, and o’er it exercise thy power;
Destroy, annihilate! Thou look’st abashed!
Thy boasted skill is vain! Now, answer me;
If the mean dust be of immortal mould,
Why, what art thou, who to the soul deniest
Its immortality? Blaspheming man!
Go hide thy pigmy head! In sackcloth weep,
And pray thy soul may be by grace illumed!
IISCELLAIVY.
[From the New York Star.]
Town and Country. —We manage
our domestic concerns on a large scale of
expenditure, considering we are a young
country and have not exactly the means
of competing with Europe, and many
persons of large fortunes abroad, —when
we say large fortunes we mean $500,000
—would be surprised to find in this city,
houses and furniture, and equippage and
equipments, among men of business of
small capitals, far exceeding in magni
tude and splendor the neat and unosten
tatious establishments of millionaires in
the old countries. At a late musical
soiree in one of our fashionable streets, we
took time to look around and examine
what we conceived to be a very splendid
display of taste and elegance. The style
of finishing parlours and drawing rooms in
houses of the first class in this city, give an
air of great magnificence to the lout ettsei>i‘
bit. The highly polished and beautifully va
riegated mahogany doors; the superb fold
ing doors and plated furniture, the ele
gant stucco work and centre pieces of
the ceiling, the ponderous and beautiful
ly veined marble mantels, and grates, al
most of themselves furnish the parlours.
When to these elegant fixtures we add
the rich wilton and royal carpets' and
ram, the highly polished mahogany chairs
Mkit. divans, the satin curtains and elabo
rately carved and gilt cornices, the pier
glasses, rich suspending girandoles and
mantle lamps, the upright piano and pier
tables—we have a combination not often
found in such elegance iu many of the
I£uropean families. Such drawing rooms
filled w ith elegantly dressed ladies and
gentteihen, and made light as day by an
immense number of candelabras and lus
tres, may be well imagined as presenting
a scene of richness and luxury only to be
expected from persons of overgrown for
tunes.
The refreshments and supper were in
corresponding taste. The folding doors
of the two spacious parlours were thrown
open kjid lined with Grange trees, gerani
ums and other flowers, throwing around
j their various perfumes. A table groaning
. under the weight of rich plate of every
I kind and quality —china from Dresden,
cut glass of the most exqusite quality, to
i say nothing of the*choice delicious con
; fectionary, pyramids, fruits, and old wines
i tha’. adorned the tables.. In every rapm
was a rose wood 4 coltage piano, of exquisite
touch and finish. Glees from amateurs
and songs from popular vocalists, a gal
lopade, quadrille, and a sober game of
whist, were in progress during the eve
ning in Hie several saloqns thrown open
on the occasion. It was altogether a feast
fit for princes, where elegance and taste
were united to hospitality and good breed
ing. The dresses of the ladies were dis
tinguished for richness and variety* and
the blaze of diamonds was only equalled
by the blaze of beauty. Such scenes are
not unfirequent during the season Mi this
city and it was long after our headhad
pressed the downey pillow that we could
collect our scattered senses for repose.
As Spring bursts upon us,eariy and gloss
ing, and all nature had put on its richest
livery—Spring so *rare in our climatft,
with verdure on its brow, and primrose is
its haudj we took a ride over son* of the
“ *
delightful roads and avenues of Long Is
land, to catch an appetite for dinner and
on our way to the South Ferry passed by
a two story cottage, painted white, with
greeu Venetians, piazettas and porticoes,
in neat taste, surrounded by a white paling.
While .gazing on the simplicity of the
building and the air of comfort thrown a
round it, we were roused by hearing some
one call "Hallo Stranger!” and, on look
ing up discovered it to be our worthy host
of Place. He wore a pepper and salt
grey coat, and a large Manilla hat, half
summerish in dress, but neat as it was plain.
“Come, come, light and see my improve
ments,” said he. "I must go to town to
dinner; it is now four and it will be late.”
j“No you don’t go to town for dinner; my
dinner is just ready, and you shall dine
with mo. Here Toney, take the gentle
man’s sociable; and put his horse in the
barn.” Having enjoyed his hospitality
when living in splendor, I could not refuse
his bread and salt under adverse circum
stances; so I alighted, and walked iuto his
parlor. What a change! A plainly fin
ished room—Wooden mantel piece, hav
ing a pair of oid fashioned plated candle
sticks, and China dog, as ornaments —
rush-bottom chairs and settees—ingrain
carpets, and mahogany-framed Looking
glass—au eight day clock ticked in one
corner—two maps, and an engraving of
the Great Western. What a contrast
with the late splendid exhibition at the
party! The table furniture was in strict
keeping: a white cotton table cloth, blue
China plates, black handled knives and
forks, tumblers and wines blown in the
cheapest style, at the New Jersey works,
and salt cellars dear at sixpence each.—
The dinner however, to my surprise was
excellent: a boiled trout of good size,
with fresh butter sauce, a pair of broiled
chickens, fresh asparagus, and a nicely
boiled batter pudding. Our host took
from the cupboard a bottle of old Hock
and old Madeira, the remnauts of better
times, and we were waited upon by a strap
ping girl with red hair, who squinted aw
fully. But the hostess—the lady of the
princely mansion—she who not long since
wore a sattin dress of exquisite lustre, ov
er which was Mechlin lace of great value,
! who had the whole stomachers, bracelets,
and ear-ring of diamonds—how changed,
| she looked we thought, more beautiful in
j her cross barred muslin loose gown and
| bobinet cap, in which a rose-bud and sprig
|of geranium had carelessly been fixed.—
' She was cheerful, and appeared to be hap
! py. We mused thoughtfully on the insta
| hility of human affairs and could not avoid
saying with evident pain: “I am glad to
i find, under all circumstances, that you
! bear your reverse of fortune with so much
J cool indifference.” The lady stared, and
| our host rolling out a volume of smoke
I from his segar, and looking with much as
tonishment said, "what! reverse of fortune?
Why my dear fellow did you suppose I
was broke—done up, gone over the dam,
eh? O no, no, this change, you see, is
| owing to no reverse of fortune—no alter
ation in my affairs; I am as rich as ever,
have as much business, and attend to it
daily, but the fact is 1 have come to my
i sober senses, I and my cara sposa there,
j VVe did not wait until bankrupey over
took us, but considering our children, and
our future prospects, and the obligations
jof duty we owe to each other, we agreed
j that it was folly to live in a splendid house,
keep a retinue of servants, horses and car
riages, give grand parties for the accom
modation of the busy fashionable world—
to all the gay young ladies and moustach
ed young fellows—to see every body care
for a few only, so that after making a fair
experiment, we took a survey of the field
and agreed, as the upholster had done
knocking up, we would send for the auc
tioneer and get him to knock down—so
now you see us a sober, metamorphosed
couple, by consent of parties, living plain
ly, comfortably as you see tis, on SISOO
per annum instead of $10,000!” We
were overjoyed to hear this—it exhibited
moral courage and great good sense unit
'■ ed—it was an effort to save a fortune, not
|to waste one—it was altogether worthy of
imitation. "Now, my dear fellow," said
he, “don’t believe me to be miserly and
wretchedly close. lam delighted to see
a friend, if he will take my plain, substan
tial cheer. I bake my own bread, make
my own butter, lay my own eggs, grow my
own vegetables and fruits. 1 ride to town
by nine o’clock in my waggon, and here I
am by four with a keen appetite and robust
health. I have always a glass of old wine
for a friend, and in a few years if I dont
make a fortune by business. I shall save
one by economy.”
We took our leave of the sensible, dis
creet pair, regretting that there were not
many others ready and willing to follow
their happy example.
Money invested as furniture, too ex
pensive for a man’s means, is worse than
dead stock—beoause it requires, or at least
induces a corresponding mode of living.
The eye is ill pleased at the expense of
•omfbrt—and to fill a sheriffs inventory
i* small ambition.
Who would not he. a Farmer? —ln
this glad season, when the earth is all
around bursting into life juid beauty, and
nature is keeping holiday—when winter
is over, and vegetation is waking again
from its deathlike sleep—when the birds
sing tlieir matin songs from every bush,
and man himself wakes to new life amid
the activity around him, tc/to would not be
a Farmer? —For him, .v.id almost for him
alone, bloom the fair flowers in nature’s
field—for him the feathered songster pours
her sweetest note, and for him the face of
creation wears a constant smile. Not so
with the inhabitant of cities, or with the
professional manor the man of business
any where. These are shut out from the
.blessed influence of nature. Their busi
ness is with men—restless, ambitious, and
oftentimes dishonest men—they them
selves are engaged in the eager scramble
for wealth and distinction, sometimes car
ing little whom they thrust down with
their unhallowed tread, so they mount up
on the wreck, and they lose the salutary
lesson of benevolence which may he learn
ed from the ways of Providence in the out
ward world. They must maintain a con
stant struggle with temptation, or yield
to its power. Accustomed to so much of
evil, they are sometimes almost tempted
to deny the existence of good. But the
farmer pursues the "even tenor of his
way,” undisturbed by the passions of mep.
His dealings are with nature, and he may
ifhe will not shut his heart against it, learn
true wisdom from its teachings. In the
springing grass, the opening flower, and
the ripening harvest—in sunshine and in
shower—he may sec a tokcq of God’s
love and goodness, and in the quiet of his
own home, lie may almost forget the ex
istence of evil. Thus widely different are
the conditions of the two classes spoken
of. Yet we sometimes find farmers dis
contented with their lot, and eager to join
with their fellows in the feverish excite
ment of trade and speculation. And ve
ry often we see young men, impatient to
leave their paternal acres, and to seek, as
they vainly think, some more honorable
or genteel mode of earning a living.—
They hail rather show a lily-white hand
to a lady, as they measure off a yard of
tape, than exhibit a manly, muscular frame
with a hand which does not shrink from
contact with implements of husbandry.
It has, indeed, become one of the great
errors of our time, that young men are
deserting the true nobility of country, for
the sake of wearing a more delicate com
plexion, or living, as they vainly hope,
more at their ease. Hence it is that all
trades and professions are overstocked,
that we have more lawyers than clients,
more doctors than patients and more par
sons than parishes.
We hear men complain of hard times,
mechanics cant find situations, yet the
country is actually suffering, and very se
verely too, for a want of proper attention
to farming, and why is it? Because ma
ny a man who should have followed the
plough, has become too proud for that,
and in his aspirations to he a gentleman
has undertaken to wield a pen or adminis
ter cataplasms and boluses. To this state
of things, too, is to he attributed to some
extent, the present scarcity and high pri
ces of provisions. The production has
been allowed to fall below the consump
tion, and this great producting country,
with its sparse population, has presented
the strange anomaly of importing bread
stuffs from the thick settled countries of
Europe. It is all wrong. Young men
should be taught to regard the employ
ment of their fathers as one ot the most
honorable in the world. ~ .
Your farmer is the independent man.
What cares he for hard times, or high
prices? Banks may fail—merchants’ notes
may be protested, and their drafts dishon
ored, but "Seedtime and Harvest,” that
old and stable firm, shall never “fail”—
drafts upon them are answered at sight,
and the hank of nature, where the farmer
makes his deposites, is "good as gold,” and
always discounts liberally. He laughs at,
or more likely pities, those who are left
at the mercy of the times, and compell
ed to cat the bread of carefulness. Beef
at twenty-five cents a pound, and other
edibles in proportion, docs not worry him.
He takes the favors Providence so boun
tifully bestow upon him, and asks fe\f of
'his fellows. While want afflicts the rest
of the world, he may snap his fingers in
his face, as much as to say, “Who cares
i for you? ' —[Nashua Telegraph, ""
3k
Absurdities. —To attempt to borrow
money on the plea of eatphihe poverty.—
To lose money at play ( and then fly into a
passion about it. To wk the publisher
of anew periodical how many copies be
sells per week. 'fes-ask a wine merchant
how old his wine is. To make yourself
generally disagreeable, and wonder that
nobody will visit you, unless they gain
some palpable advantage by it. To get
drunk, and complain the next morning of
a headache. To spend your earnings on
liquor, and wonder that you are ragged.
To ait shivering in the cold because you
[TERMS....4S Ilf ADVANCHr.
NUMBER Si
*• :»*M3L Z rati
won r t have a fire till November. To tap
pose that reviewers generally feed mote
than the title page of the WoSkft they
praise or condemn- To judge of peopled
piety by tlieir attendance at church- To
keep your clerks on miserable salaries,,
and wonder at their robbing you. Not to
go to bed when you are tired and sleepy,
because “it is not bed time.” To make
your servants tell bee Ibr you, and after
wards be angry because they tell bee for
themselves. To tell your own secrets
and believe o'ther people wib beep them.
To expect to make people hoofrit by har
dening them in a jail, and afterwards
sending them adrift without the means es
getting work. To fancy a thing ia cheap,
because a low price is asked for it. To
say that a man is charitable because ho
subscribed to an hospital. To keep a dog
or a cat on short allowance, andcotnplain
of its being a thief. To expect that your
trades people will give you long credit if
they generally see you in shabby clothes.
To arrive at the age of fifty, and be sur
prised at any vice, folly, or absurdity, their
fellow creatures may be guilty o£
Tiie rotal mustachios. —“In Angus!
| last, the King of Bavaria published au or
dinance prohibiting all persons excepting
| the military from wearing inustariwos, and
directing the police to arrest offenders n
gainsl the decree,.
The mustachios soon fell; even ee the
dry leaves when shaken by the autnmu
w’ind, and singular as the fact is, the de
cree met every where with unresisting o
bedience; there was not a single instance
of obstinacy to punish. The last week,
however, the gendarmes met several car
riages filled with travellers, one of whom
wore an enormous pair of grey mustachios.
VTlie gendarmes demanded his passport,
which was delivered. It was found cor
rect, but as the bearer was the Count d’Au,
they inquired ifhe was a soldier. Upon
the traveller answering in the negative,
they declared hint their prisoner and di
rected hint to accompany them, comfort
ing him with repeated assurances that as
soon as he waa officially shaved and their
expenses fur the job defrayed from bis
purse he should be released. His follow
travellers protested loudly against this
severe process and threatened the officers
with vengeance if they persisted. The
gendarmes continued obstinate, and de
manded a military title or the mustachios,
and one of them had already grasped the
collar of the traveller, who thought it
prudent in such au extremity, to reveal
his name and rank. He declared himself
the General of the Bavarian army, and
that his name was Louis Charles-Augustus,
King of Bavaria, travelling incog, to Italy
under the name of Count d’Au.”
A young inan in Boston lately tost his
life in a sudden and melancholy manner—
The Boston Times soys —he was playing
with a jack-knife, the blade of which he
was trying to throw open by a jerk of his
arm, when he suddenly spoke to a friend,
saying, “1 have cut myself,” and would
have fallen but that his friend caught him.
The knife had entered the groin, and sev
ered the great artery of the leg, so that be
bled to death in less than fifteen minutes.
Surgical aid Was called, but did not arrive
till life had departed. Indeed, if the best
surgeons had been on the spot at the mo
ment, it would have only been a miracle
that could have prevented a fatal termina
tion of the accident, as the division of the
artery was to that point where it emer
ges from the trunk over the bone of the
pelvis.
Had the wound been lower down in
the thigh or leg, the flow of blood might
have been arrested by a firm presure up
on the artery at this place, which was just
above where surgeons produce a power
ful compression in amputations ofthe fewer
limb. This shocking event shows how fear
fully and wonderfully we are madcg-pM:
teaches also, the vast utility of a general
knowledge of ourmmtoaiieul sttuuttwe,
that we may avoid injuries <»fetal jrfaets;
and be of immediate service toft#W|>W
beings whenever human aid is heeded us
calamity.
Horrible Transaction.—
Orleans Bee states that “an ilnli jpw iiii *
lation of law and justice oocur|nMl in the
Circuit Court of Copiah
a few days since.
„,“A man named. jSerpenter had
been tried ou a charge' of murder. The
case was submitted to the Jury, who, af- _
ter a brief abeeneaV returned s. verdict of
manslaughter. As the officer of thftftourt
was about rumoring the prisoner, a tu
mult aroae, the lights were extiNgttiufcei,
and Clrpeoter was stabbed in three or
four places, one of his hands cut off, and
he fell a corpse in the hall of the conrt.
It is supposed the persons who were en
gaged in this heart siekemog piece of cru
elty nil relatives of Mr. Keller, the indi
vidual murdered. Can such awful outra
ges be tolerated in a civilized community,
or is Misbissippi degenerating into bar
bar ism?”
