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About Augusta herald. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1799-1822 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1803)
MUSES RETREAT. FROM THE PORT FOLIO. Sweet is the rose-bud, my fair one, that blooms Through the dews in th: morning of May, And sweet is the *ong of the bird that relumes, When the night has departed, its lay. The lhade of the dark wood is pleasant to me, And pleasant the murm'riug of (breams, I joy, whtn from tumult atid care 1 am free, To be 101 l in my idle day dreams. But my hours nor the rose-buds nor birds can be guile, Nor forells, nor dreams can impart Their pleasures to me, when I miss the sweet (mile That lttays to thy lips from thy heart. FRtDI R I C • From the NtW-YORK CHRONICLE Meflrs. Printers, Doubting not your rradinefs in giving place to every thing within your power that would tend in the least degree to correfl Vice , or protefi Virtue , 1 have sent you the follow ing for insertion ; it happened in New York, was there publijhed some years since , and was afterwards lepuhlijhcd in Europe, from whence it is now copied hy one of your friends and customers, “ A Gentleman in the midical line was lome time ftnee requested to visit a patient, and was convinced up three pair of stairs info a gloomy, shabby, fkvlighted appart ment ; when he enter’d he saw two young females setting on the fide of a very poorly furnifhed bed, and without curtains, on approaching he found one of them nearly ‘ in the agonies of death ; (nppnrtcd bv the other, who was perfuadmg her to take a bit of bread dip’t in fpiritb ; but the pale e'AUtated figure refufed, faying in a feeble languid vokc, it would but contribute to prolong her miferv, which flic hop’d was drawing to an end ; ami looking at the doctor, laid you have come too late fir; I want not your alfiflance—and thus ad drefs’d him— Oil! could’ft thou minister to a mind diseased, Or stop the access and palVage to remorse— Herr file-fetched a deep sigh and drop’d upon the bed—everv means of relief was aft ird d, but in vain ; for in less than two hours Jhe expired. In a small box by the fide of the bed Wrre found fume papers by which it ap peared that the youug woman was of a Root! family, and had more than an ordi nary v.J vl cation—that file had changed her name, and t, ncea | c a that of her parents; j°! U * ,e l >ll ’'d ; and whose greatest fault , ", ad b f c “ to ° indulgence, and a mif p aced confidence ~ the prudence of their favorite daughter. , On the back of form direftions respec ting her funeral, ;lie following pathetic lines were written ; and some little money in the box was afiigned to have them in graved on a tomb fione ; thus— f erses for my Tomb stone , if ever 1 should have one by a proflhute and a penitent. Th* wretched vietlm of ■ Reliev’d from life on liumSle bed of clay, The Lift and only retuge for my woes A loft, love ruin'd lem tie l repose. From the fad hour 1 lilteued to his charms, And fell half forc’d, in the deceivers arms ; To that whole awiul veil hides every fault, Sheltering my futferings in this welcome vault. When pamper’d, ftarv’d, abandon’d or n drink, My tho glits were rack’d in llriving not to think’ Nor could rejeiflei conscience claim the power T’ improve the respite of one sciious hour. 1 durst not look to what I was before; My sou! Ihrunk back, and wifh'd to be no more. Os eye undaunted, and of touch impure, Old, e’te of age; worn out when lcarce mature. Daily debafs’J to (title my disgust Os forc’d Enjoyment; in aft-tied lull! Coher’d, wi h guilt, infection, dehr, and want, My home a brothel, and the llrtets my haunt, Full seven long years, of infamy I’ve pined, And tondled, loath'd and prayed upon mankind ; •Till the lull course of (in and vice gone through, My ihatier'd tabrick (ailed, at twenty-two ; Then death, with eveiy horror in his train lleie closed the scene of naught but guilt and pain , Ye fair jllociates of my opening bioom, O, coinc and weep, and profit at my tomb; l et rtiy ftort youth, niy blighted beauty ptove, I The fatal poison of unlawful love, O, think how quics, my foul career l. ran, I The dupe ot pilfion, vanity, and man. Then (hun the padi where gav dclufions Ihine, B: vouvs the '.clfon sad evperie-ice mine. jp 3 Blank Deeds of Conveyance, Hl| For sale at this Office. FROM THE PORT FOLIO. THE LAY PREACHER. “Two are better than one.” This is Solomon’s theory, and I like it; his praflice was rather too extensive, for, in his luxurous palace, seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines, were better than one. Whether the wo men of Jerusalem were composed of more mamgeahle materials, than modern fe males, I am at a loss, for Josephus, wbofe works I have turned over, to gain infor mation on this knotty point, fays nothing of the matter. However, lam inclined to think Solomon made his domestic ar rangement loon after he “ planted vine yards.” Had he chosen a graver moment, he would not have told the mod confi dential of his eunuchs that seven hundred expensive wives, and three hundred ca pricious concubines, were better than one. Why the revenues of gold paved Jerusalem, or the bagnios ofitsfuburbs could not have furniihed robes for the married dames, nor rakes for the free ! Men, sage like Solomon, are generally moderate in their arithmetic of plealures. But this was too bold a sum in multipli cation, even for a polygamist, to work. In all probability, Solomon, though the oriental writers expatiate upon his refour ces, found his flock too scanty for the ma ny and great claims which “ the daugh ters of Jerusalem” must have made. For late in life, when the “pitcher” was bro ken, and the “ silver cord” of love looted and his “desires failed,” we find him gravely composing a (ententious proverb, in praise of sociability, and reducing a thousand companions to one. His reasons, too, are not drawn as they would have been, when he formed his seraglio, from pafiion and pleasure, but from utility. For he supports his opinion by arguing, in the context, that “ two are better than one,” because in difficulty, or in battle, thev mutually aflift, or, bedded in a frofty night they keep each other w^rm. Although, in remarking upon Solo mon’s voluptuousness, I have been mo ved from my naural gravity, as a prea cher, yet let not the wanton reader con strue my sermon as a satire upon the sage prince. After animadverting upon the rxcefs of his praflice, it is my intention to echo the benevolence and utility of his so cial principle. “Two are better than one.” Dr. Franklin thought so, when he recommen ded early marriages. As lam of Angular continence myfelf, I know nothing of the matter; but St. Paul, an apostle of expe rience, tells bachelor and virgin chriftians, that it is betttr to n.arry than burn. If they feel this heat, therefore, let them quench it in legal couples, and choose for the wedding ring posy, ‘J two are better than one." My phyfkian declares, that, in these degenerate days, when illicit love is common, early marriage is favourable to health; the philolophers affirm that it is to morals. The Preacher, therefore, concludes that “ two are better than one,” applied to matrimony, is a precept pro du6five of happiness , and that a young man who will reject all the concubines, and fix hundred and ninety-nine of the wives, which Solomon thought necefiarv, may be pronounced wiser, as it refpe&s wo then, titan itiat prince. In the dark ages, as they were justly fti led, devotional men used to think that S Peter, the porter of Heaven’s wicket would not open it, but to one at a time. Accordingly, monks and hermits would wander in defers, or rtfide folitarv in caves, and infill that an error had crept in to the proverbs, and that Solomon cer tainly wrote “ one is better than two." This was a vile interpretation ; and, il they had meditated their Bibles well, they would have difeovered that the founder of their religion was never so happy as when “ much people” lurrounded him, and that the apofiles chose companions in their tra vel; the one fat socially at a wedding sup per, and the others resorted to the tem ples, the town hall, and the market place. I grieve to fee a melancholy inan, mo ping in the chimney corner, refuting to “eat bread,” and, when the cup goes round, unwilling to pledge a bumper. Trust me, thou son of spleen, happiness is doubled by participation. Arise, there fore, and be even as this publican ; be so cial, be merry, go to the door of thy tent, and if thou ifeefi a man of understanding pass by, intreat him with a “ turn in hith er, I beseech thee.” So (hail the “ evil fpir it” flee, as of yore, from the harp of the ftiepherd, and all the cares of thy heart be lulled by the pleasant communion of a friend. • HER EVER Bonaparte advances, we are prefenred with a dull repetition of the fame lenfelefs addrelTes, and the fame nau( eous adulations. We find, ax Amiens, that a circumflance took place, which, in Come degree, varied the uniformity or the scene. A rich merchant’s daughter had been so inflamed by heroic del'criptions of .the First Consul, that a most violent pas fion took poflellion of her whole foul. She waited for his arrival with the utmost impatience. No sooner had Bonaparte entered the apartment, than the young la dy threw herfelf at his feet, and declared her paflion in tbs most romantic strains. With ineffable condescension the little great man raised up the aftli&ed beauty, and consoled her in language not unwor thy the knight of La Mancha. Madam Bonaparte joined in this tender scene, and with all due sensibility, comforted this un happy lady, whom her fiufband’s charms had over powered. Next day fire prefent* ed her with a rich medallion of Bonaparte, to console her for the loss of the orignial, and there are even hopes that file may, in due time, appoint her one of her ladies of honour. [Lon. pap J BOTONY-BAY. A late Paris paper contains a letter re •ceived from Citizen Gregoire, mineralo gist, dated Basil’s Streight, King’s 111 and, Dec. 7, 1802, in which he gives the fol lowing account of the English settlement in New-Holland : “After leaving Van Diemen’s Land, our next halt was at port Jackson. That riling colony is the firft from which the natives have no right of complaint against Europeans. They have been treated with every attention ; but still rifilt all attempts ro civilize them Though living, for these fifteen years, with the English, they have adopted no English cufiom. Clothes to them is still a fuperfluitv. They rarely wear any thing to protect them from cold j never a garment to hide their r.akednefs. Their language has, however, bv this in tercoorle undergone some alterations. “The English, during the fifteen years (nice their settlement here, have already carried their agriculture to a furprizing" extent. The furefts have given place to corn fields of wonderful fertility. Here are already towns and villages affording every accommodation of Euro pean luxury. The population amounts to 8000 fouls, none of whom are (laves. I fend vou a sample of the wool of this country. The flieep which bear it are from Peru, from Paraguay, from the Cape of Good Hope, and from Bengal. The breeds are here much improved, and are mending dailv. Those from Bengal, which have there nothing but hair, yield here lambs having a rich fl ece. In a liav of five months, I excurflons into the country. Leaving Port Jacklon, we pro ceeded to furvev the rest ofthecoaftof Nfc w-Holland. The commander fends to France the NaruraiilL, w ith what collec tions we have up to this time made. I have pafied from the veflel in which I fai led for Le Geogrcphe, on board w-hich I succeed my colleague and friend Depuch, obliged by ill health to return to France.” Bailaj> t JYlineralogift. A SINGULAR AWARD. A hungry beggar obfervingthe fmoak ing hot viiftuah in a Cook’s shop, went in, lat himlelf down, and eat some of his own bread, and was so fatisfied with the comfortable fiijcll of the meats and sauces (whereof he tasted no other wife) that he confeffed that his hunger was as well ap pealed therewith, and that he had as good a repast, as if he had indeed fluffed his paunch with the heft cheer there; which ’he Cook hearing, bade, with astern countenance the poor Catiff pay for his dinner; at which the fimplegueft wasaf tonifhed, and the Cook nu>c.h the more earned—at last thev both agreed to abide the award of the firft man that fliould pass by ; who happened to be a student at law, to whom as their judge they reherfed the matter; —which, being heard, the student caused the poor man to put so much mo ney between two porringers, as amounted to the unreafonahle Cook’s demand, and fitake them in his hearing. This done, the arbitrator awarded. “That, as the Cork had fed the poor man with the smellof his victuals; so the poor man should pay him therefor, with only the sound of his coin.” V Two girls of fafhinn lately entered an assembly room just as a fat citizen’s wife was quitting it. “ Ah, (said one of them, pretty loud) there is beef a la mode, coming out.” “ Yes, (retorted the city dame) and there is game going in.” A Spunky fellow enlified forafoldier —on his return from the war, he was in terrogated as to his exploits—he said he had cut off a man’s arm; but on being told that it would have been more heroic to have cut off his head —Faith, fnid he, that was off before. VALUABLE Lands For Sale. One trad' within half a mile o' Washington, Wilkes county, containing fix hundred and fifty acres, firft and feconc quality, with tolerable improvements. One Ditto, three miles from said town, containing 435 acres, firft qua lity, with a Large Plantation in tolerable repair. The tratfh whereon the fublcri bers line, having a good Dwelling House, Store and Cotton House, and is one of the best stands for a country Store to be found.—A person wifliing a large and va luable Plantation connected with the oth er advantages, may be accommodated with about 1600 acres, on which there is a large quantity of prime Land cleared, with an elegant situation for building, fix miles from Washington. 800 Acres in Lincoln county, three miles below the last mentioned, prime land, with a considerable planta tion and contiguous to the best range so cattle, in the fettled part of the country. 1232 Acres in Clarke county, very good Land unimproved, joining Greene county line. The whole, on moderate terms, and long credit. Apply to Wm. & FELIX GILBERT. October 12. (22) N O T I C E. AGREEABLY to an order of the Honorable the Inferior Court of this county, will be fold on the firft Tuef d3v, in January next, in Greenfborough, for ready money, one hundred and ninety five Acres of Land more or left, lying in said county, on the the Beaverdam of Richland Creek, adjoining Maddox, Ellis and others, for the benefit of the Heirs and Creditors of David Walker, late of this county deceased. CHARLOTTE WALKER, 7 , CLAYBORN MADDOX, j ■ Greene County , Osftober 28. N O T I CR On TUESDAY the 3 d of January next , IVILL BE SOLD at Fitz M. Hutu's in Collumbia County t All the Goods and Chatties of James Gunby, deceased, Confiding of one Negro Boy, one Mare, and Cattle, &c. &c. All turns under Ten Cafli; fix months credit will be given for all sums over Ten Dollars ; the pur chasers giving Notes with approved* Se curity. ELIZABETH GUNBY, Adm'rx. November 22. (2*9) N O T I C E. AGREEABLE to an order of the Honorable Inferior Court of the county aforefaid, will be fold on the firft Tuefday in December next, at the Court- House, in the county aforefaid : One traft of land in the Fork o£ Oconee and Appalatchee Rivers, on the Waters of Ellison’s Creek, adjoining Matthews, Moreland and others—Also, another trad in said county on the Beav erdam of Richland Creek, adjoining Houghton and others, it being the real estate of Miles Beavers, deceased, fold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. • Wm. JENKINS, Adm'r. Greene County, Sept. 30. - NOTICE. AGREEABLE to an order of the Honorable the Inferior Court of this county, will be fold on the firft Tuef day in December next, ensuing : Two hundred eighty-seven and half acres of land more or less on the Wa ters of Richland Creek, adjoining Hun ter and others, as the real estate of John Dunn, deceased, it being for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. David Harrison , 1 Joseph Jackson , > Adrar’s. Nancy Smith , J Greene County, Sept. 30 NOTICE. * ALL persons having demands against the Estate of Alexander King, E(q. late of this county, deceased, are de sired to make them known within the time preferibed by law, and those indebt ed are desired to make immediate pay ment to Robert M. Cunningham, J .. . Aaron Levingston , j ' vJ ‘ Greene County, Sept. 30.
