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1,1.',K3 TO POVERTY.
Oil Poverty! hard featured tluine.
A\ Ip-nee prow the tenor-<d thy nntne ?
’Tis siiil ih.it from thy <*ri(Vt: eye,
TixH.iapitng train ot pleasure* 11) :
That ilcct* within thy mansion rude,
lauis tin bluck lit ini. 1 ti-ratiliul**
Tli lit to]!, and want, an cl slmitK are known
To Hiakn tin heartless hours their own,
Till guilt, Ins phrensried eye on lire.,
Kids the lust famish'd hope < spire.
Thus speaks thr world—-to mammon true,
While wron is thy pkudiftq worth pursue;
To me—atul / him scon tliei ■ war.
Though harsh thv withering look appear;
Though stem the teachers ol the .pour,
Aii-1 hard the lesson to endure
Vet many h \ irtue born <>i thee,
Lives siiiulered from prosperity.
Religion, that on heaven relies,
TIiR moral ot thv mind supplies.
I'itv, with plantive accent, kind,
Anil patience, to her fate resigned,
Are seen thy lowly cot to share,
\\ Idle temperance dwells an inmate there,
Lore join'd by truth—no rival's eye
H akes to the w ish of poverty :
But all the blest affections lw ine
Hound many a rustic home ot thine,
Close circling with the nuptial tie,
Joys which a moiiatch could not buy ;
Though hooi less, and to praise unknown.
Oft it (he lustre’d life thy own :
Tb thee, the priests of line I belong,
Ami thine the Poet's deathless so"g:
Thee, toiling science lives to etui. 11,
Ti*ou lead’s! his thorny step to fame.
Creative genius feels thy pow er,
Curv'd with his natal hour ;
On him the ays of glory shine
Too late- I- pat ting breath is thine.
Let me, thy simple glances meet,
Near the green hamlet s calm retreat,
.Not where the city throng’d with sin,
Kids nil the monster crimes begin.
Thence will thy timid virtues fly,
Peur’d by seduction’s serpent eye.
Their fate, each murdered hope to see,
While every suffering lives to thee.
Not that along the w iutry -hore,
ii e fisher plies the wearying our ; %
Not that amid the sultry plain.
The peasant piles the labored grain,
Will thou with frowning brow appear,
To wring the grief-extorted te-av —
But when Cos wron :s thy sufferings lead,
While shame and false report succeed ;
Whew genius, doom’d with thee to mourn,
Sees his unsheltered lanrels torn.
While ignorant malice rushing b) ,
Quick glances with insidious eye,
When all thy cultur’d virtues move,
Nor sense to feel nor heart to love ;
While treachery utider friendship’s guise,
Kids the pernicious humour rise,
Ktlll aiming with envenomed dart,
To reach ftie life pulse of thy heart—
Then, Poverty, hard featured dame,
We feel the miseries of thy claim ;
Would from thy close embraces fly,
Or, in their palsying pressure die.
TO THE ROSE OF AUTUSIN.
Gem of the mildly dosing year,
On nature’s breast redlining’
Oh ! who would leave thy w ihlness here
S'or bowers in beauty shining !
Bloomthou along thy native hill,
Bv no rude hand invaded ;
Thy flowers, like hope, shall flourish still,
W hen all but thine have faded.
Go—wreath the pensive form that lies
O’er love’s last mansion bending,
And sinks, like day in summer skies,
Or evening’s star descending :
Smiie on her sable couch of rest,
And droop not thus in sorrow,
For sure the regions of the blest
shall he thy home to-inorrmv.
Go—and w ith fading garlands bind
The dark, stern brow of madness.
And inelt that joy deserted mind
To more than childhood'* sadness.
Tell her of him, w hose low ly grux e
Shall meet her dark eye never ;
His pillow is the stormy w ave,
The deep J-is home forever !
Then rest th.ee. autumn’s lingering flower,
In life s last fragrance lx ing,
Anti drop along thy widen boxver, .
Still lovely though in thing,
And thou slmlt seem, w hile fading there
In ruin calm reposing,
Like virtue on tins Scene of care,
Her weary e w-uds closing !
ANOTHER ENGLISH TRAVELLER.
The Charleston Courier announ
ces the receipt of a book recently
published in London by a Mr. Faux
heing a journal of his travels in
the United States in the year 1818.
The Courier makes the following
extracts:
“ The South Carolinians train
dogs to hunt runaway slaves. Jn
South Carolina slaves destroy their
young in embryo, lest their chil
dren should be slaves. In South
Carolina they cover infirm and de
cripecl slaves, after stripping them
-naked, with treacle or molasses,
and then expose them to venemous
insects till they die. Drinking is
the fashion in Charleston. At the
Planter s Hotel, twedve duelists di
ned together, each having killed
his man. Slept at live residence of
Capt. ltuglpy a rich plant er, who
accommodated m one and the same
room, himself and his wife, and
Mr. Faux and a negro woman.-
Saw, on his way to Columbia front
Charleston, a huge black pond, ha
ving on its bank ten Aligators, each
ten feet long, ready to eat dogs or
any thing else. People of Charles
ton so inhuman n to allow a poov
creature who had been robbed andi
had both his legs broken, to remain (
all night on the pavement, and un
til 9 o’clock the next morning, when
relieved bv the humanity of a Prus
sian Colonel, who paid a dollar —
this on the first ot May, when the
thermometer was 110.
At W ashington he appears to have
visited the navy-yard, where he “saw
several eminent mechanics, nearly all
Englishmen, some of whom are receiv
ing not above lj dollar per day, altbo’
at home they received 31, a week. —
The steam machinery is here ‘ mighty
fine, superbly elegant,’ as a native
would call it, end the new 100 gun
ship of war is a most noble vessel, a
floating battery worked and manned
by 900 then. Gouging still flourishes.
Hi* Excellency, Mr. Monroe, while a
young man constantly kept his hair
closely shorn, in order that his head
might be less exposed to this brutal
practice.
“ Going “now in the neighborhood of
Iris excellency the President’s country
seat, or farm-house, the patrimony of
his family, 1 find that his neighbors are
rejoicing because his excellency, on
coming here last week, was arrested
thr e times in one week by neighbors
whom he ought to have paid long ago;
the debts’being money borrowed on his
estates. He lias long been under pri
vate pecuniary embarrassments, and
offered all his estates for sale in or
der to discharge the demands of his
creditors.
“ At. noon, I roamed into the su
preme court, where I saw my new
friend, the supreme judge, Wilson, on
the bench, in the midst of three rustic
dirty looking associate Judges, ail
robeless, and dressed in coarse drab,
domestic homespun coats, dark silk
handkerchiefs round their necks and
otherwise not superior in outward ap
pearance to our low fen-fanners
in England. Thus they sat, presi
ding with ease and ability over a bar
of plain talkative lawyers, all robeless,
very funny and conversational in their
speeches, manner and conduct; dress
ed in plain box-coats, and sitting with
their feet and knees higher than their
noses, and pointing obliquely to the
bench of judges ; thus making their
speeches, and examining ami cross-ex
amining evidence at a plain long table,
with a brown earthen jug of cold water
before them, for occasionally wet!ing
their whistles, and washing their quid
stained lips,* all,judges, jury, coun
sel, witnesses, and prisoners, seemed
tree, easy and happy.
The supreme judge is only distin
guished front the rest by a shabby blue
threadbare-coat, dirty trousers,and un
blacked shoes. Thussatall their lord
ships, freely and frequently chewing
tobacco, and appearing as uninterested
as could be.”*
“ 1 must complain (says a Mr. Lidi
ard,an English emigrant, to our au
thor) much of American roguery,—
Hardly any body cares about jg>er
honesty and punctuality. If a man
can, oris disposed to pay, he pays; if
not so disposed or not able, he smiles,
and tells you to your face, he shall not
pay. 1 saw an execution defeated
lately by that boasted spirit, which
they call liberty, or independence.—
The propei ty, under execution, was
put up to sale, when the eldest son ap
peared with a huge Heracutean club,
and said, * Gentlemen you may bid for
and buy these bricks and things which
were my father’s, but bv , no
man living shall ooineon to this ground
with horse and cart to fetch them
away. The laud is mine, and if the
buyer takes any thing away, it shall be
‘•mi bis back.’ The father had trans
fer red the land and all .on it to his son
in order to cheat the law. Nobody
was, therefore, found to bid for it, or
bo v.
Liberty and independence, of which
you and 1 thought so much and so
highly, while on the other side of the
Atlantic, sink and fade in value on a
nearer view. Nobody here properly
appreciates, but almost all abuse, this
boasted liberty. Liberty here means
to do each as he pleases ; to care for
nothing and nobody, and cheat every
* “ Judge AVaggoner who is n noto
rious hog-stealer, was recently accused
while silting on the bench, by Major
Hooker, the hunter, gouger, whipper
and nose biter, of stealing many hogs,
and being, although a Judge, the great
est rogue in the united States. This
was the Major’s answer to the question
Guilty or not guilty, on an indictment
presented against him. The Court
laughed, and the Judge raved, and
bade Hooker go out and he would fight
him. The Major agreed, but said,
‘Judge you shall o six miles into the
w mills, and the longest liver shall come
back to tell his tale! ‘I he Judge
would not go. The Major was now,
in his turn, much enraged liy the Judge
ordering him into court to pay a fine
ot ten dollars for some former offence,
the present indictment being sutlercd
to drop.” * * r ,
body. If I buy an estate, and advance
the money before 1 get a title, it i> ten
to one but I lose it, and never get a ti
tle that is w orth having. My garden
cost me this summer only bU dollars,
and all the produce was stolen by boys
and young men, who professed to think
they had the liberty to do so. It you
complain to their friends or superiors,
the answer is, “ (), itis only u boyish
trick, not worth notice.’ And again,
1 tell the gentlemen, that if 1 wished
to be social and get drunk with them,
1 dare not; for they would take the
liberty to scratch me like a tiger, and
gouge and dirk me. 1 cannot part
with my nose and eyes. The friendly
equality and intercourse, however,
which can be had with all ranks and
grades, ami the impossibility of com
iHg to absolute poverty, are the finest
features of this country.
Musketoes. — An English paper
announces that a principal road in
America is become impassable
from a species of nondescript mus
keto: they attack both man and
horse, and their sting is so destruc
tive as to cause death in three
hours. They ought surelv to have
told us where these horrid insects
were to be found, so that we may
avoid the furv of their attacks,
and the poison of their stings.—
We are curious to know whether
these are the same kind of muske
toes, as those which carry brick
bats under their wings to whet their
bills upon ‘
Spontaneous combustion of the Human both/.
The August number of the Lon
don Medical Journal containing a
detailed case of the spontaneous
combustion of the human body, in
the person of Sieur Vatin, a brewer
who had for some time indulged
to great excess in the use of spir
ituous liquors. The flesh on the
back, and both sides of the head,
was destroyed; the left side and
parities of the chest, and the w hole
upper extremities, were consumed;
andthe ribs and arms reduced to a
cinder or coal. It was with great
difficulty, and not till much water
had been used, that the fire was
extinguished. Some have ventur
ed to doubt the spontaneous com
bustion of the living body ; but we
now have on record many well au
thenticated instances,and the known
fact of vegetable matter, refuse ole
aginous waste wool in our factories
beii*g subject to the same chemical
action, fully support the theory of
spontaneous combustion. In what
way this chemical action is first ex
cited ; whether from the alcohol of
the spirits, the phosphorous of the
bones, or the combined agency of
both, furnishes a subject of curious
speculation.— Boston Galaxy.
Multiplication, sis Lawyers.
An essayist in the Philadelphia
Aurora introduces into one of his
numbers, in which the foil*.- of ed
ucating so many young *v,en to the
profession of the law is illustrated,
the following anecdote :
“Some time before the revolu
tion, a motion was made by a mem
ber of one of the legislative bodies,
stating in a solemn and alarming
manm r the amazing increase of the
lawyers in the several courts in the
province, as well as the apparent
increase of young sprouts of lawyers
who in time probably would act as
so many vultures on society. To
correct the evil, it was proposed
that a law should he brought in to
regulate the sons of Coke upon Lit
tleton, and that none thereafter
should he privileged or permitted
to plead, unless on due examina
tion before proper judges, they
should be found to possess sufficient
qualification in morals, education
and knowledge of the laws, so that
the good people of the province
might not become a prey to them.
After much debate upon the subject
and difficulties arising, the house
-adjourned without coming to a de
termination of the matter, and as
the members were leaving the
chamber, one of them, a shrewd old
fanner, who had not entered into
the debate, observed to his friend,
“ Plague on the lawyers! I guess
it would be better to serve them as
Nick Gale served his docks.” How
was that ? asked some of the mem
bers. “ You must know,” said
lie, “ that Nick Chile was a slov
enly farmer, and he suffered docks
to grow and increase in his mead
ows so much, that his neighbours
rallied him incessantly on the sub
ject, and determined him to endea
vour to extirpate them. He accor
dingly in the fall of the year went
to work with his grubbing hoe,
without reflecting that while he wflfc
tearing up the roots at that season
of the year, he was at the same
time scattering the seeds, and ot
course the next year the docks
greatly increased Poor Nick’s
neighbors him all the sum
mer, and again he went boldly to
work in the fall, grubbing up, and
scattering abroad the seed to such
an extent that his meadows were
all docks by the next spring, which
Nick perceiving, he gave up all
hopes of extirpating them, and
said to himself “ Now pest upon
uon nil, grow on till you choke one
another .” The member concluded
his storv, and it was agreed on by
a majority, that it was best to let
the lawyers grow on, perhaps in
time, they might become so numer
ous as to rentier it necessary for
two to ride one horse to a County
Court. Query.—Has that time
arrived ?
Upon a widow’.'jointure lniufi”
Mu,union wins Ms way irliere seraphs might
despair.
There is one apology, in the in
creasing extravagance of the mod
ern fair, for the ridiculous rage,
that exists among gentlemen after
rich sweethearts ,• and maidens
have not a less tenable excuse for
making sure of a full purse, since
an empty head is very likely to ac
company it.
The reality prudent, and some
what home-bred man, feels obli
ged to relinquish the idea of mar
riage altogether, or defer it to. a
late period, because it is justly con
sidered a hazardous adventure to
marry on the score of supporting
die expense of modern living. But
t!t:s idea shall have a seperate chap
ter.
The first inquiry that our voung
men make now, when a woman is
proposed for a wife, is, “ Is she
rich r” and for variety, or a salvo
“ Is she handsome ?” Let u hus
band die, and leave a rich widow,
or a rich heiress drop into the mar
ket, and, Lord bless us ! how the
beaux scamper,
In fall cry to catch her.”
If there is any shame in this state
of things ;if sacrificing feelings,
that should have their source in the
most generous and elevated con
siderations, to “ beauty and booty,”
is worthy of abhorrence, then, me
thinks, the present generation des
erves an unenviable share at “blush
ing honors.”
It is not verv likely that I shall
Have much cash to give with my
daughters, and in fact I don’t want
any to give. God grant they may
have good sense, a wholesome ap
pearance, unsuspected virtue, af
fectionate hearts, industrious hab
its, and then—why, if nobody wants
to marry them, they shall comfort
me in my old age, and help me to
bear up my spirit when about to
11 return to him who gave it.”
I am an old fashioned fellow, it
is true ; but I recollect when I got
married I made no account of mon
ey and if I was going to marry
again I would look lor a poor girl
rather than a rich.one. If l have
a wife, a good one is essential to
my happiness, and riches are not. —
I he Athenian General was right;
“ I had rather marry my daughter
to a man without an estate, than to
an estate without a man” lajian.
Lscfui Epitaph. —On a grave
stone in the cemetry of pere-la-
Chaise, is the following singular
prudent inscription “ Here lies
N ■> the best of fathers—the
most tender of husbands. His
inconsolate widow still keeps the
fancy shop, Hue Hichelieu No. 1)8.”
DOMESTIC H MT'INESS.
Oil! vvliat so refreshing, so sooth
thiug, so satisfying, as the placid joys
of home!
See the traveller--does duty call
him for a season to leave his beloved
circle? 71ie image of his earthly hap
piness continues vividly in the remem
brance: quickens linn to diligence : it
makes him hail the hour which sees
his purpose accomplished, and his face
turned towards home: it communes
with him as lie journeys, and lie hears
the promise which cause# him to hope.
1 hou sisalt know also that thv
tabernacle shall be in peace : and
thou slialt visit thy tabernacle and uot
sin. 01 the joyful re-union of a di
vided family-—the pleasures of renew
ed interview ami conversation after
days Os absence.
Behold tlie man of science—lie
drops the labor and painfulness of re
search—closes his volume—smooths
ft
his wrinkled brows—leaves t ,
—and unbending himself, stoJ, s /
the cftpaci-ies, yields to the wU “
and mingles with the diversions of ’
children.
‘lie will not bill'll tlmt has a fithers hr;,,.
To take in childish play a childish j );m
But bend* lbs sturdy neck to j.luv the tov
That youth takes pleasure in't o ~j *
boy.’ 1 s “*■
Take the man of trade—What
conciles him to the toil of Imsin,./
What enables him to endure the fi r’
diousness and impertinence of
tomers :—What rewards him fm
many hours of tedious confinement?
live-and-bye the season of intercom-’
will arrive ; he w ill behold the d ?M *
of his eyes and the children of |fi s
for whom he resigns his ease ; ami j
their welfare and smiles he will fi.q
Ins recompence.
Yonder comes the laborer— H e |, H
borne the burden and heat of the d Jf .
the descending sun has released
from Itis toil: and he is hastenim
home to enjoy repose. Half na ®
down the lane, by the *side of which
stands his cottage, his children run f a
meet him. One lie carries and one he
leads. The companion of his humble
life is ready to furnish him with his
plain repast. See—his toil-worn coun
tenance assumes an air of cheerfulness
his hard- hips are forgotten ; fati*ae
vanishes : he eats, and is satisfied,-.
Inhabitants of (his lowly dwelling’
w ho can be thy comfort?
Peace to this house !
“Let not ambition mock their useful toil
Their homely joys and destiny obscure:
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.”
w— I TI T - w —Hi
Hobertson Gvanbem,
HAYING removed their stocknf
Goods from New Town, request
all those indebted to the firm to make
immediate payment to S. Rose, attliii
Office, who is authorised to receive
the same.
Nov. 19. 3o
Jt> LOST BOV.
Came to the houseof'Jit
eZfc?/ / subscriber,on Sunday ni*lit
*aa rJtbmLm last, a Negro Boy, aged
about ti or 7 years : says his name is
OSDEN, that he belongs to widow
Lichen of Jones county, and that he
came to this place on Sunday, withliis
father, by whom he was left. The
ow ner is requested to pay charges and
take him away. J. STONE
Fort Hawkins, Nov. 19. 55
NOTE LOST.
I HEREBY caution all persons
against trading for a Note of ham!
given by E. W. Horn to the subscri
ber, dated on or about the last of Feb
ruary, 1828, and payable first Decem
ber, 1823, foi the sum of thirteen dol
lars : I also forewarn the maker of said
note from paying the same to any per
son except myself.
Z. HOLLOMAN.
Bibb County, Nov. 19, 1523. 2*s
jwvvTvT!
TIME Copartnership of Willet,
Huh bard, & Cos. is by agree
ment this day dissolved.
WM. T. HUBBARD,
ALFRED BE EDM N,
Twiggs Cos. Nov. IT, 1823. b
NOTICE.
IVTINE months afterdate ripplica
-1 v lion will be made to the Honora
ble the Inferior Court of ./eflerwn
count y when sitting for Ordinary pur
poses for leave to sell the real estate
of John Whigham, late of said count?,
deceased, for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said dec’d.
UOB’T DONALDSON, Ud-
Nov. Ip, 1823. 35*pm9m.
•A dmi nisi valor's Sale.
WILL he sold, on Thursday the
first day of Jaiuary rest, to
the highest bidder, at the house
‘I outig Allen, in Jefferson County,
Two Vegvo Slaves*. m®*
Willis, a man, and Rcfus, a boy,he*
longing to the estate of Susannah J or *
dan, deceased.—Sold for the beind ll /’*
the heirs and creditors of said decu*
and in conformity with an order oi t* e
Court of Ordinary of said county. *
Terms made known on the Jay o 1
Sale.
JOHN JORD AN, A Jii’ r
Nov. Bth, 1823. 33tib_
•Administrator's Sale.
ON Tuesday, the 22d day ol
cember next, will be sold at j 1
late residence of Willoughby S. 1 1 ’
late of Twiggs county, dec’d
V’avl oV t\ic Wrsoivai 1 r0 ‘
perty belonging to said estate c o j |s ‘ 5 ‘
ing of one set of Blacksmith’s to®**!?
yoke of Oxen,one Watch, and tw° 1 .
y Colts. Terms made known on
day of sale.
Martcy Hill , dclvtr
/Cm. Tharp, Jd* \\
Nov. 4th, 1823.