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MUSES RETREAT.
From t), e Centinel.
The LIGHT OF THE Moon.
HOW swift flew the moments away.
When our hearts were too small for a sorrow.
When in childhood we hoped like to-Jay,
Would rise the bright beams of to-morrow ;
Unconsciously time went along,
And when evenings arriv’d, oh, how soon!
We listen’d the nightingale’s song,
Or made shades by the licht or the
moon.
How bright broke our youths’ rosy morn,
Unclouded by trouble or care—
As pure as the dew on the thorn
Was each mind flowing free as the air;
Then Hope sweetly glided the scene,
And each heart was as gay as the tune
That merrily rang round the green
While we danc’d by the light or n«
MOON.
But why came this knocking within,
Why oft “you lead w n onc” cried the
swains,
Ah, surely, it never had been,
Had Eliza ne’er danc’d on our plains :
Oh, would she had never been there—
Indeed but she left us too soon 1
She seemed most bewitchingly fair—
And mild as the light or the moon.
I sought her, she own’d to approve,
But 'twas him on a far distant plain!
• And I, though 1 could not but love,
Return’d to my cottage again:
I cannot yet join the gay rings—
At my door tho’ 1 listen the tune,
Its echo a new sweetness brings
While I gaze on the lichtof the moon.
Cambridge.
FRAGM ENT.
POW’R, wealth, and beauty area fhort-liv’d trull;
'Tis virtue only blofToms in the dust.
APOSTROPHE to IDLENESS.
IDLENESS, thou banc of every esti
mable quality, thflu ~PfWi4ffty ' oughteft
thou to be painted, and how dangerous
is it nr rnciufge thy carefTes ! beneath thv
enervating blandifliments every corruption
springs up, and every virtue is obfeu
red. It ii thou that finkeft the love of
honorable performance in the bed of in
glorious ease. It is thou that holded out
the oblivious draught of what duty calls
to perform; and when once thy cup is
tasted to intoxication, farewell every hope
of fame, farewell every wish for distinc
tion. Bound in thy fetters, talents, whe
ther natural or acquired, are useless; and
even ihe brighted virtues become tainted
by folly, or contaminated by perverse
pailions.
ANECDOTE.
Duke Shandois, (of convival memory)
one day gaming at the Groom porters in
London, after having looked at his watch
milling, his fob, put it between the lining
or nis oreecnes am. nun; crmrieTtme
after he milled his watch and informing a
nobleman who fat by him of it, the no
bleman immediately dood up, aud lock
ing the door, said, Duke Shandois had lod
his watch, and that every perfou prtfent
fliould (land a dried search. Accordingly
a general search was made, no person refus
ing, hut one voung gentleman very decent
ly drefled, who drew his sword, and said
he had not the Duke’s watch and that he
would not he searched by any man in
England. The Duke took a fit of laugh
ing at the gentleman’s foolifli refidance as
he thought it, and in his fluking on the
chair he felt the watch, in his breeches
under his thigh, and cried out immediate
ly that he had found his watch.
When all the confufion subsided, the
Duke rose up, went to the voung man
and calling him nfide, nfked him what
could be his rcafon for refufiug to be
searched, as he was innocent, and as he
knew it a meafnre that would be infilled
upon ? Upon which the voung man said,
to fatisfv your grace, I will tell you, tho’
I would not tell any other person in Eng
land.
I am a vounger brother, I have spent a
large personal fortune, and am now re
duced to great didrefs, I dined vederdayat
a friend’s house, and not knowing \»here
to dine this dav, I put a cold fowl in my
pocket, and would sooner fight any man in
England, than it fliould be discovered
tfcere.
From Tkomas’s Massachusetts Spy. ,
“ When fortune is smiling, what crowds will
pear, 1
Their kindness to offer and friendship sincere ;
Yet change but the prospect, and point out
distress,
No longer to court you they eagerly press.”
TRUE frieaddiip is the mod noble,
exalted and generous sentiment that ever
a&uated the mind of man. But alas!
how often is the name of friendfhip pro f.
tituted ! The blufli of indignation fuffules
the cheek, when I reflect how often ma
lice, envy, and revenge, lurk beneath the
appearance of difinterefled affeftion.
Alphonso was young, amiable and a
greeable ; his partner in life was no lels
pleasing, their children were such as pro
mised amply to reward the care and afiidu
ity of their parents, and fulfil their molt
sanguine expetdations. The fortune of
Alphonso, though not affluent, was fuffi
cient to procure him all the neeeflaries and
many of the little elegancies of life; his
trade was prosperous, and his wealth daily
increasing, he was happy, beloved by all.
Every one was his friend ; his presence at
every party was solicited, and social inter
course without him, was joyless and insi
pid. A perplexing circumflance obliged
Alphonso to borrow of his friends a con
(iderable sum : He offered to mortgage
part of his edate ; they would by no means
permit him to do it, and readily obliged
him. A series of unavoidable misfortunes
now rendered his circumflances extremely
difficult. As the embarrairments increased,
t:>e friendfhip of those who had been the
fliarers of his hospitality, and had received
innumerable benefits from his genero is af
fidance, rapidly declined, and, fliall I write
it ? thole who were under obligations to
him, fhamtfnlly exerted every endeavor to
plunge him into ruin !
He had disposed of his eflate to fatisfv
the demauds of his impatient creditors,
and, upon an exa£l calculation, found that
he owed a vafl sum which he law no prof
peA of paying. He applied in vain for
alfiflance to those who once received
him with smiles, a cold refufa! dung him
to the foul.—The anguifli of his heart
while he beheld his amiable wife, and the
blooming innocent pledges of their mutu
al affeflion, reduced to extreme poverty,
is indifcribable.
Thole ta- —••u crTt y Dee n
, . J.Wff advocates and greated admir
ers, how became his mod cruel enemies,
and by their coldnef* and affefted superi
ority, barbed the darts of affli&ion, and
triumphed in his misfortunes. Others
would flirug up their dioulders, and fay,
with a half smile, “ I pity Alphonso, but
charity begins at home.”—“Aye!” laid
another, “ he is a clever fellow, but I al
ways thought him too generous for his
own intered.”—All agreed to forfake him,
and many regardless of their obligations to
him, conspired to increase his difficulties
and the diftraiflion of his affairs.
Gracious heaven ! can human nature
be so depraved as to exult in the miseries,
and triumph in the didrefTes of a fellow
mortal? Oh ve, to whom pity and misfor
tune are alike unknown, whose iron hearts
never opened to the generous, refined feel
ings of humanity, ye are flrangers to hap
piness! Ye never witnefled the exprrfflve,
greatful looks of an objeA relieved by youi
benevolence. The tearful eve, the half
articulated thanks, and til.* sigh hording
from the bosom iweiled bv powerful, jn
exprelfible sensations of delight and gra
titude, afford more exquisite felicity to a
heart where fenliliility has found a feat,
than all the glories <>f the eift.Tn w: rid.
A true friend will never turfite us in
the hour of adversity, but will with inrreaf
ing kindness, dnre our furrow®, and bv
partaking,mitigate the.pangs infixed ty the
“ Stings and arroovs of outrageous fort me."
Such a friend cannot be two highk* va
lued! hut alas! how few are to be met with,
whose greated happiness confills in both
ing the anguish of the woe worn kart,
and wiping the tear of miferv fron the
cheek which the cruel hand of forrov has
robbed of its vermillion. Strange as r ap
pears those who are in the greated ifflii
cnce, and balk in the sunshine of luxuarv
and prosperity are often void of humaiity.
Not know ing from experience the wants J
of others they never trouble tliemfelves to
think of them. And it is dill more ftrmge
that those who have fuddeulv arisen front
poverty to splendor, fliould so fir forget (
their former fufferings as to refufe relict to |
the unhappy wretch whom misfortune lias
reduced to indigence. Yet this humi-iat- ;
ing truth, so degrading to human nature, (
daily ohfervation can teflify. Oh ! For- i
tune, if thy partial gifts have a tendency (
to render the heart callous to the fine emo- |
t ions of sensibility, bedowthem noton the
% j, - •"LEICESTER GIRL. t
Septcm? sot.
Soap and Candle Manufl^
THE Subscriber returns his
thanks to the Public, and his frie..Vs
in particular, for the liberal encourage
ment that he has received in the line of
his business—and likewise informs them
that he has moved nearly opposite the
Printing Office in Washington-Street,
where he intends keeping For Sale,
SOAP: Mould Csr Dipt CANDLES.
TALLOW made into Candles upon
realonable terms —having his works well
fitted up for that purpose—Solicits a (hare
of the public favor.
ROBERT REID.
( ’ Wanted to the above busi
ness as an apprennct, a Boy of Colour of
about 14 nr i 5 years of age.
Twenty t>o!lars Reward.
RUNAWAY Iron the iubfcriber in
Hancock County, a NEGRO
MAN named FE'i ER, of a yellow com
plexion, abou' fix ieit high, thirty-five
years old, ft.,u; built ; had on when he
went away a cotton shirt and overhalts, the
overhai s <i e<t j nr: ie, he had on a blue
Broad doth coat about half worn. Any
period that will brii g him to me or con
fine him in am J;• 11 in the fiate, so that 1
can get him, (hall have the above reward.
JOHN WILKINSON.
October 21.
Itn Dollars iveward.
RAN AW AY from the fubferiber in
t Lou 11v it;, a NEGRO WENCH,
named LOUibJi, verv w ell known in Au
gufla, formerly belonging to James Bay
ard, who her from Mrs. Pavajean :
She i» about 33 years of age, chunky
made, with a rough face, speaks broken
Engliflt and broken French, and calls her
felf among the black people Luci. Any
perfoti who "ill deliver her to Major
Scott or fames Bayard in Augusta, or the
fubferiber in Loutfville, (hall receive the
above reward.
• CHARLES GACHET.
Loutfville, Sept. 17. * (15.)
SHERIFF’S SALES.
On the fit ft I UESDAY in December next ,
at the Market-* 4 ": rt" —' :rt t,te City of
usual hours,
WILL BL SOLD,
One likely Negro Woman nany
ed Nancv, taken as the property of Tiili
ferro Cox, to fatisfy an execution in favor
of Stephen Files.
A L S o,
700 acres land lying in the coun
ty of Jack fun, on the waters of Trait or
Foal Creek, joining lands of Barnett
Thompson and others, pointed out by
James Gardner, Esq. as the property of
William Eltoft, to fatisfy anexecution in
favor of laid Gardner, surviver of M‘Cal
lum and Gardner.
A L S 0,~
Sundry Merchandize, taken as
the property of Jobu A. Hoffer.to fatisfy
James Bulgin.
—4* .? O,—
A valuable Plantation in Colum
bia county, pointed out as the property
of George Fee, to fatisfy sundry execu
tions; a complete defeription of which ;
will be given previous to the day of sale.
—A L S O,—
Sundry lots in Harriflburg, poin
ted out b* the defendant Ezekiel Harris, to |
fatisfy H. and F. Willfon. Conditions 1
Cash.
I. MALONE, Sheriff, r. c.
Oflober 2S. (20 )
SHFRIFF’s SALE.
On the fir ft TUESDAY in December next,
at tne Market-ffoufe, in the City of Au
gusta, at the ujual hours,
WILL BE SOLD,
A Lot and improvements in the
said City, at the corner of M‘lnto(h and
Reynold street, at present occupied by
V\ illiam Bellamy, George Pearson and
others: Seized as the property of William
Bellamy, to fatisfy Abraham Markly.
Conditions Cash. i
I. MALONE, Sheriff r. c.
{Cj 1 The above proper ty was levied on by a I
former Sheriff, & the Sale fttoped by a Claim, \
which has ftnee been decided. I. M. <
October 14. (ig.) {
Twenty Dollars Reward-
STOLEN from the Subscriber on the
second inflant, a Double Case GOLD ‘
WATCH, with a Gold Chain, Seal and
Kev ; the outer Case was ornamented with
engraving, and the Cyphers P. S. on the I
back. The Seal had the Cyphers B. S, 1
engraved on it. The above reward will
be given either for the Watch or for such 1
information as may lead to a deteftion of <
the Thief. 1
BENJAMIN SIMS.
r DOCTOR Blßß.'vj
HAVING returned from Philadelphia, V
offers his Medical Services to the '
Citizens of'Peterfburgh and its vicinity,
and hopes by his attention to gain a part
of the public confidence.—He expefts
soon to receive a general supply of
FRESH DRUGS & MEDICINES,
Which he will dispose of,on as
as they can be fold by any other pdPfW
the upper parts of this Rate. \j,
Peterfburgh , Elbert County , 3Lt - -ff/j >
September 21,
Henry Darnell,
TATLOR fc? HABIT-MAKER,
TWO DOORS BELOW SpiNCEl’s CORNER
WASHINGTON-STREET.
Respectfully informsthepubiic,
that he has commenced the above
business in all its various branches. He
flatters himlelf from his experience and at»
tention to business, to merit the patronage
of the public : Such gentlemen as may
favor him with their work, may depend r
on its being executed with neatness and.
ifpatch,and onthe moflreafonable terms.
I THE SUBSCRIBER, 1
NFORMS his friends and the public,- I
mat he has taken the convenient two Rory- 1
House, corner of Reynold and MTntofh-i 1
Streets, formerly occupied by Mr. Dread- | 1
zil Pace, where he intends keeping a gen- '
teel BOARDING HOUSE, and where
travellers may be agreeably acUunrnodatf*”*'
ed. He also informs the ’citizens of Au
gußa, that he has erefled a Billard Table
m the fame house, and being well fupplj. !
ed w,th the beR of liquors, he flatters him- i
let, from due attention, he will merit the
patronage of the public.
ANTHONY BLACHE.
jAuguß 21. ( I 0)
WANTS A PLACE^
A young man, who unde,-Rands ac
counts, and can come well recommended
Off,-‘ rrher ifaforma£ion » c »pire at this
Odfober 28. f
■ 20.
F O R S A LIT
On a credit of ninety hays, for Country Pro
duct, Weft-India Goods, cr even cash will
ve taken in payment :
A HANDSOME COACHEE,
with Harness complete for two horses-1
ror further particulars enquire of
, JOSEPH ASHTON.
Oftober 28. ( ao .)
RAN AU AY from the Subscriber f »
who resides in Liberty County, on
the 10th of July laR, a NEGRO FEL
LOW named ALCINDORE. r He is
about 22 years old, small size, and very
atfive, speaks broken English ; but under-
Rands French, being brought from the
Cape. The firß letter of the brand on '
h.s breaß is F. the whole of it is not per
feft y recolleacd. but believed to ba
F IN He had on when he went away
a blue broad cloth Coatee, striped Jacket,
also a yellow caffimere one, brown cord*!
roy Overalls and black Hat—l will give
THIRTY DOLLARS rc Jd ,o
person who will lodge him in any Jail in
this flare, or a liberal reward to the person
who will bring him to me.
, W. M‘WFHR.
Sunbury, Augufl 7th, 1801.
AUGUSTA fc? SAVANNAH
Line of Stages.
THE Propri<*brs have the
Public, that the and
SAVANNAH STAGE, iuturc
run once a week —It. will leave 1-
gjitia every Tuesday Morning at fiv<v i
o’clock, and arrive at Savannah onThu/I
day twelve o’clock ; returning, leave *'
Savannah on Friday ten o’clock,
a. m. and arrive at Augufla on Sunday
afternoon.
The proprietors on account of the high
price of Forage, are compelled to make
the following alteration; :
Fare for Paflengers, teh dollars
with an allowance of 14 lb. baggage—all
extra baggage 8 cents per lb.—All bag
gage to be at the risk of the owners.
J. W. GRANT, Proprietors.