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TWISTER (from Twi»t) A KOPEMAK.tR.
WHEN a twister a twisting will twist him a twist,
Tortile twisting of hit twist, he three twines doth intwift ;
Rut if on* of the twines of the twist do untwist,
The twir.e that untwifteth untwifteth the twist.
tlntwirling the twine that untwifteth between,
lie twirls with his twister the two in a twine;
Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,
He twittheth the twine he had twined in twain.
The twine that intwining before in'the twine.
As twines were intwiftcd, he now doth untwine ;
•Twixt the twain intertwifting a twine more between,
He, twirling his twister, malces a twist ot the twine.
From the GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE
THE APPARITION.
... A'pi flu obmutuit amens ,
Arreflarque horrorc comar , it vox faucibus h.rsit ;
Diriguit subila gelt Jus fotmidtnc sanguis
“ In the vicinity of Chamberry, a
town in Savoy, stood the antient man
lion of the Albertini ; round it were
several little buildings, in which were
deposited the cattle, poultry, &c. &c.
belonging to the family. A young gen
tleman, by name Barbarofle, came to
the Chateau on a visit for a few days:
he was cordially received, being of a
pleasing, lively disposition ; and an ele
gant room in the east wing was prepared
tor his accommodation.
“ The family and their young guest
spent the day very agreeably, and after
supper they fat round a comfortable
large fire, and diverted themselves with
songs and stories : the former, as is gen
erally the case, were fomc of the Upright
ly, some of the tender and pathetick
kind ; but the latter were for the mod
part of the melancholy call, particularly
those which related to preternatural oc
at half part twelve o’clock, and Bar
barofle retired to his chamber. It was
a hand some room, on the firft floor,
having three doors ; two of those be
longed to two little elofets, one on the
right that overlooked a farm yard; and
another more to the left, that presented
a view through the window of a large
romantick wood ; the third door was
that by which he entered his room after
traversing a long paflage. Our youth
had visited this room in the morning,
and looked out of the window to enjoy
the profpert for a great while.
“As he entered this apartment with
his mind full of the diverfton just left,
he set his candle down upon the table,
and looked about him; there was an
excellent fire in the chimney, with an
iroo grating before it to prevent acci
dents ; a large elbow chair flood near it ;
and not being at all sleepy he fat down
reflerting on the amusements of the day,
and endeavouring to remember the tales
he had heard. In some he thought he
perceived flrong traits of truth ; and in
others lie difeovered palpable firtion
and absurdity. Whilst he was delibera
ting upon the various incidents, the
heavy watch bell tolled two; but Bar
barofle did not attend to it, being deeply;
engaged in his contemplation. He wajf
fiiddenly awakened from his reveries by'
an uncommon rustling found ifluing;
from the closet on the right hand; ancf
listening attentively, he hfeard diftihrt
taps upon the floor atfhort intervals.
“ Alarmed at the circumstance, he
w alked slowly to his bed fide, and drew
forth his pocket pistols from under the
pillow; thefc he carefully placed upon
the table, and resumed the elbow chair.
All was again flill as death •, and nought
hut the winds, which whittled round the
watch tower and the adjacent buildings,
could he heard.
Barbarofle looked towards the door
of the closet, which he then, and not till
then, perceived was not shut, but found
that it hung upon the jar; immediately
a furious blast forced it wide open; the
taper burnt blue, and the fire seemed al
mofl extinrt.
“ Barbarofle arose, put forth a silent
hafly ejaculation of prayer, and fat down
again; he heard the noise ! He ftar
o J C*
ted up, seized the piflols, and stood mo
tion Tels ; whilst large cold drops of dew
hung upon his face. Still his heart
continued firm, and he grew more com
posed, when the rustling and taps were
i enewed ! Barbarofle desperately invo
ked the protection of Heaven, cocked
oue of the pistols, and was about to rush
l into the portentous apartment; when
* the noice i; . reafed, and drew nearer :
- loud peal of that seemed to
rend the firmament, shook violently the
solid battlements of the watch-tower,
the deep-toned bell tolled three, and its
hollow found long vibrated on the ear
of Barbarofle with fainter and fainter
murmurs: when a tremendous cry thril
led him with terrour and dismay ; and
lo ! the long dreaded fpertre stalked in
to the middle of the room; and Bar
barofle, overcome with forprife and as
tonishment at the unexpected apparition,
funk down tonvulsed in his chair.
“Thephantom was armed de cap
en pied , and clad in a black garment-
On his crest a black plume waved ma
jestically, and instead of a glove or any
other fort of lady’s favor, he wore a
blood-red token. He bore no weapon
of offence in his hand, but a gloomy
shield made of t ie feathers of some kind
of bird was cast over each shoulder. He
was booted and spurred ; and looking
upon Barbarofle with ardent eyes, raised
his feathery arms, and struck them ve
hemently againfthis sides, making attlie
fame time the most vociferous noise !
“ Then it was that Barbarofle found,
fays my phlegmatick author, that he had
not fnut down the window in the morn
ing; from which neglert it happened,
that a black game-cock had flown in
to the closet, and created all this inex
preflible confufion.” #
THE FOLLY OF PROCRASTINATION.
“ Prgt'n, be bold, and venture to be wise
“ He iu/io defen this with /torn day to day,
“ Does on a river's bant expefling flay,
“ Till the whole stream that /lops him jhall be gone,
“ Witch runs, and as it runs,/orevei Jhall run on."
There is nothing in which people
more frequently deceive and cheat them
felvts, than in their purposes and plans
so- A.**... .wgutaiton ot their lives.
Few live at present in such a manner as
gives them rational ground of fatisfac
tion : Yet most people intend, or think
they intend to live well at some fu
ture period. The foils and daughters
of mirth, who use life merely as a frol
ickfome holiday, look forward in the
moment of reflertion to some distant
time when they design to treat life as a
serious thing. Sensualists flatter them
felvs, that after a few more years of in
dulgence, they will break the fatal en
chantment, and live as becomes ration
al beings.— I'herich man, of even three
score, whose whole foul has, through
a long life, been absorbed in constant
and eager efforts to accumulate wealth
fays sometimes in his heart, “ I will yet
give niyfelf a little respite from worldly
cares ; and will employ a small remnant
of days in fecuringmy title to the un
fading inheritance.”
Thus people lull themselves with in
efFertual resolves and hollow promises :
On the altar of deceit, they make their
oblation of an incenfe,fuch as the great
tragic poet calls “ limber vows.” There
is always a fallacy in resolves of amend
ment, when some future time is afligned
for beginning the work. Whoever are
unwilling to give attention to the busi
ness of felf-correction to-day, cannot be
finccre in resolving to attend to it hereaf
ter ; because, if pofl'efling the fame dil
pofitions, their repugnance will be as
great, and their objertions as strong to
morrow,next year, or any future time
as they are at present. Accordingly,
the Book that teaches wisdom, folemny
exhorts and commands the children of
men to feck her NOW.
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS.
Held at Columbia, (S. C) Nov. 27.
A motion had been made in the cir
cuit court, the preceding week on be
half of Augustine Buyck, to be dii
charged from farther imprisonment, on
account of the state prosecution against
him. This application was grounded
on the habeas corpus adt; which direrts,
that if a person confined fortreafon or
felony be not brought to trial the firft
term, he ihall be admitted to bail ; and
if not tried the second term, that he
ftull be difeharged from imprisonment.
Mr. Justice Bay reported to the
bench his realons for retufing this ap
plication. Had the prilioner been con
fined within the four walls of a goal, he
ftiould have felt the Art imperious to
admit him to bail ; but being already
in pofleflion of that enlargement, he did
not conceive the art to mean a total dii
charge. Had there been no evidence
of effort on the part of the State to
bring on the trial, he should have been
tempted to difcharg him ; but the
comptroller had made an affidavit, sta
ting that the witnefies on behalf of the
State, some of whom lived out of it,
could not be brought •, that even under
thele circumstances, he ffiould almost
fav, that he would, in failure of prosecu
tion, absolutely difeharge him the next
term.
The counsel on the part of Mr.
Buyck, firft urged the infufficiency of
the Comptroller’s affidavit, which was
vague •, and farther aflerted, that, if
compulsory procefshad beed sued out,
the witnesses might have been present.
This the court over-ruled.
Mr. Egan then contended, on behalf
of Mr. Buyck, with great force and
perspicacity, that this clause of the ait
was imperative on the court. The
word “ dijcharged” in the second
clause, flood contradiftinguiflied from
the words “ admitted to bail” in the
firft: and were it not so, there would be
no climax, and a prisoner would not be
a whit nearer his liberation after a se
cond negled than after the firft, and as
the ait there left the fubjeit, if it did not
direil a final difeharge there, it directed
it no where, and a prisoner might then
remain with a capital prolecution luf
pended over him in infinitim, and thus
this boasted Habeas Corpus be reduced
to a mere nullity: He also infilled, that a
prisoner incuftody was toall legal intents
and purposes, and in law language and
in'law intendment, as much a prisoner
as if within the four walls of a goal
and within them it was ever in the dis
cretion of his bail at any moment to
place him. He further observed, that,
if 1c were to give operation to
the clause, that a priioncr- Atould Jhp I
actually within the prison walls, all the
boon apparently granted by the firft
clause, was resumed ; and a man, instead
of accepting bail after the firft term,
would prefer remanining in the Sheriff’s
custody, in order to qualify himfelf for
receiving the grace, then allowed to be
intended in the second clause ; which,
with due submission to the court, he ap
prehended to be an absurdity.
Mr. Justice Grimke alked Mr.
Egan, if he had attended to the pream
ble of the ad : He then read it from the
bench, to shew that the purview vs
statute was only to corredthe mal-prac
tices of Goalers. With him, the other
justices concurred, and Mr. Buyck re
mains in the custody of his bail. Ab
sent Mr. Justice Lee. ,
GEORGIA, \At a meeting of their Honors the
Wilkes county, j Juflicei of the Infer iour Court, fer
tile County aforesaid. on Tuesday
\th Dec. 1804. — Present their
Honors,
Benjamin Porter,")
Wjlliam Sansom, > Justices.
John Parks, )
UPON the petetion of Jolejph Grav, by
his Attorney E. H. Cummins, Rating
mat lie is confined in the common Jail of
Wilkes County, at the suit of William W.
Smith of said county, for a sum of money
which he is unable to pay, and that he is wil
ling to give up all his Estate both real and per
(onal, for the benefit of his creditors, and
therefore prays that he may be difeharged from
confinement, agreeably to the laws and con
stitution of this Rate, and it appearing to the
Court that the laid Joseph is confined as above
Rated—lt is ordered accordingly, that the said
Joseph, do give notice to his creditors, as the
law directs, to appear by themselves or attor
nies at the Court-House on the second Satur
day of, February 1805, to (hew cause if any
they have, why the iaid Joseph should not be
difeharged in terms of the aft of aftembly, in
such cases made and provided.
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true
copy from the minutes.
Nathaniel Willis , Clk.
December 4. (83)
SHERIFF’S SALE
WILL BE SOLD,
On the firft Tuesday in January next, at the Mark
et House, in the City of Augusta, at the usual
hours, ( being pollpent Jfrom ladfait day, by con
sent of parties.)
The Easternmost part of lot No. 35,
on Broad and Ellis-llreets, Augusta, forty four
feet front, lately occupied by John Howard
tij’ Co. Also, the lots No. 89 ar.d 90, on
Greene and Telfair streets, Augusta, lately oc
cupied by Robert Walker, Esq. the whole le
vied on as the property of Ananias Cooper,
to fatisfy a judgment on foreclofure of a mort
gage in favor of Charles Snowden.—Condi
tions of sale Calh.
James Scott , Sheriff, r. c.
December 5. (22)
Life of Washington.
THE Subscribers in Augusta, to this
work, wilt receive the firft Volume,
by applying at Doftor Murray’s, and pav
ing four Dollars in advance for the Second
Volume.
Just Received at the
Augusta Book-Store,
* AND FOR. SALE BY
HGBBr BUNCRy
A VALUABLE
Colle&ion of BOOKS,
A catalogue of which will be published
on Saturday next :
In the mean time the following are enumerated at
fart of the Collection :
Refear- Kyd on Bills.
ches,ortra»faXionsvf Lavater’s Philiogno
the society instituted my, with numerous
in Bengal,for enquir- Cuts,
ing intoihe hiftory & Locke’s Works,
antiquities, the arts, Leache’s Reports,
sciences, and litera- Lorenzo de Medici,
ture of Alia, elegant Murphy’s Works.
410 edition, 5 vol. Matfillon’s Sermons.
Anlou’s Voyage, Mayor’s Voyage.
Addison’s Evidences. Do. Univerfat Hist.
Alison on Taste. Newton on the Pro-
Adams’s Defence of phefies.
the American Con- Natural Hiftory.
dilutions, 3 vol. Naval Gazetteer.
Adams’s Aftronorny. Oiney Hvmns.
Bibles, in 1.2,& 4 vol. Oriental Dialogues.
Blair’s Sermons. Offian’s Poems-
Do LeXures. Purfmts of Literature.
Bnffon’s Nat. Hiftory. Plutarch’s Lives.
Burghs Dignity. Pilgrim’s Progress.
Blackstone’s Repor#. Praver Books.
Commercial DiXion- Prideaux Connexions
ary, 3 vol. Pothier on Obliga-
Chaplet’s Chemeftry. tions.
Cornyn’s Digest. Qnincey’s Lexicon.
Cheftcrfield’s Letters. Rolliu’s Antient His-
Davie’s Sermons. tory.
Doddridge’s Works. Ramsay’s American
Denon’s Travels. War.
Darwin’s Zoonomia. Raynald’s E. and W.
Do. Botanic Garden. Indies.
Dryden’s Fables, with Rippon’s Hymns,
elegant plates. Robtrtfon’s America.
Elements of Morality. Sheridan’s Dictionary.
Erfkins’ Sermons. Do. Reading.
Exhibition of Hearts. Scott’s Lessons.
Edward’s oa Oonurord ants Merton.
Sterne’s Works.
Franklin’s Works. Smith’s Wealth of
Faucett’s Cavalry. Nations.
Fofler’s Ctow>n Law. Testaments,
Fordice’s Sermons. Taylor’s Sermons.
Gibbon’s Rome. Tatler.
Goldsmith’s Greece. Tales of Wonder.
Goldlmith’s England. Vicar of Wakefield.
Geffner’s Works. Vifu for a Week.
Hume’s England. Vagabond.
Hervey’s Works. Watt’s Psalms,
Hunter’s Sacred Bi- D) Hvmns.\
ography. Walker’s critical pro-
Harrison’s Britilh Claf nouncing DiXionary
licks, Well bred St holar.
Jenvn’s LeXures. Willich’s LeXures.
Johnson’s Works. Willfon’s Divine E-
Do. Lives. conomv.
Isaiah. Zimmeunan on Soli
Kennet’s Antiquities. tude.
Knox’s Sermons. Do. on National Pride
Kyd on Awards. Zeluco.
Stationary, &c.
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cap, folio, quarto with japanned ca(e».
Port, Gilt and black Travelling cases,
edged writing paper. Ladies elegant fciflbrs
Theoretical Cards. with plated bows
Marble paper. Composition Pencil
Wrapping paper. cases.
Portable writing driks. Backgammon table*.
Cafesmathematicalin- Billiard balls.
ftrnments. Dice.
Books of devices. Red and black ink
'lnk Hands afibrted. powder.
Ivory Folders. Cyphering books.
India Rubber. Copy ditto.
Durable ink for wri- Files for receipts and
ting on linen, which orders,
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Receipt Books. Baileys blacking.
Ladies and gentlemens Slates and pencils,
pocket books. Hopkins razor drops.
Ladies thread cases. Decanter stands.
Pen knives. Childrens cabinets.
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Camels hair and black Biank account books,
lead pencils. Gunters fca'es.
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Newman’s colours. Watch keys and seals.
Ditto Crayons. Sni ff boxes
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Geographical and con- Childrens books,
verfation ditto. India ink, &c.
December 6.
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
J3k _ the plantation ot Cowle*
P Mead, Esq. on or about
Thursday last, a BRIGHT BAY
HORSE, about 14 hands high, 6
years old, with a star in his forehead, swab
tail, trots faft, and is remarkable lively. Who
ever takes up said horse and delivers him to
the fubferibers, or give information so that
they get him again, Hull be handsomely re
warded, and all expences paid. The above
horse was formerly the property of Solomon
Ellis, of Columbia county.
Bradley & Knapen.
OXober 27. (17)
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