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Atunzas, on reading an Account of the
re~intenne,nt of King Jtobert Bruce.
Alike the mean and mighty fall,
The* prince and peasant die :
•fiine, like tyrant, levels all,
\ad sweeps unheeding by
Pown to oblivion and decay
1 lie countless thousands pass away.
For one, whose honors high
Kemain —n morning star—to shine,
With light undying, and divine.
‘lrue that the world is sunk in crime
That error walks abroad ;
Yet Virtue ever soars sublime
O’er every pressing load.
A cloud may veil the lord of day.
Mot glows lie, when it glides awuy.
Less brightly than he glowed ?
Or can opposing tempests bend
The giant from his journey’s end?
Thus is it with the greiu in soul,
The mighty of oar race,
Who onward pant to glory's goal.
Their only resting place.
Amid the sapient, and the brave,
Thy destiny survives the grave,
Nor e’er shall time efface
| The lialu round thine honored urn.
itnmoital chief of dan nock burn ‘
Five renturit s have rolled along
In silence o’er mankind,
Itiiiice thou, in youthful vigor strong,
As danced upon the wind
I Thy war-crest on the battle eve.—
Ijtidst to the chin it.’ Bohun cleave,
j And all the hosts behind
■Minuted, and hostile camps did view
Iff ith wonder, and with trembling too !
But yet thy fain * hath nobly stemmed
I The cataract >! j i ars,
11.i Honour’s sacred temple gemmed,
Thy kingly worth appears ;
■'or thou wort not of those who take
h>! light in impious war, and slake
II Their wrath in l.innan tears;
Bn, when the sword ua, sheathed, thy udnd
■1 us gentle us the summer wind.
Br Scotland slmll i’>r'get thee not,
B Brave champion of her right ‘
Bhmi art her praise, to every Scot
[I A glory and delight ;
Bad countless thon.-andi yet to come
Hhall kneel in reverence at thy tomb,
HVmi kindle at the sight.
think that there the dust remains
B him that brohe his (louulrv's chains I
v.
Tilt DKF.AM cl’ l.oVi,
Bv Charles Ludlow, <>t Kiclmion Va
1 have seen a bubble blow, in its cir
liar anil indescribable beauts ; on i(s
illiant surface were painted tin*
list inimitable pictures of life; gratc
-1 clouds Hooted in tlie busom of the
Imic sky ; a tiny sun irradiated the
■tie world, and cast all the magic of
[lit and shade over a landscape of
ist bewitching splendour. A crea
p, bright os a pot t could imagine,
laved before me ; but a wave of (be
ft broke the spell of ils transitory, but
ftiiutiful existence, and it was gone
■was like a tlreutn of love. If there
■>nc linppv b’ ing in creation, it is tiie
in the luxm v of his missionary
.ions—it” there is a single blissful
it, like a star sparkling as the
vy firmament of life, it is that
discovers a long nourished af
i to lie mutual.
i moon, as she rides on through
Unity of space, has nut a greater
upon tiie ocean tide, than has
ssion of love upon the tide ot
i thought—now permitting it to
d< v\ n into a state of temporary 1
lility—again bidding it heave
veil, by the magic of its viewless
. \\ itlioul it, what would be
n Id. Asa creation without
yet, possessing it, as we do,
ocs it discompose the soberest
ofreason? liow do the loftiest
rks of stern philosophy bow down
isnppear before the Iragiance of
eatli ? It is the poetry ol thought
reason slumbers on her stately
e, or wanders away in happy
>s. It is scarcely to he defined,
Seems a peipctual halo of soil
“Inch dazzles while it lascin*
Ihc mind's eye. It is to the
“hat sun-bine t, the Huwti —
• Hie fragrance from its bosom,
•ringing out all the energies ol
,u, 'g nature, or as the hand ol
) b> the slumbering lute passing
’he silent < hoids, till “it doth
P l>e most clo<|uent music.”
r* a young lilend, j .ist i isiitg in
lnhuou lit*rv and unsettled as
fnior |(eed in buttle, his career
I'v’iuled by pnuleiice or thought,
bring a tear into your eve,
ll "'inil ( - bad left your lip —l.c
■ |e ai.d happiness.
•}’ he -’.yud befvi e me an al
GEORGIA MESSENGER.
MACO.Y, ( (jV’.OUC.XA,') WEDNESDAY, JA.W.UIY 5, VS2:>.
tered being—his eye had grown mel
ancholy and full of meditation. It*
moisture was often succeeded bv a
Hash ; and its fire again extinguished
in the trembling tear. He shunned
the rude clamour of the bustling world
and would steal away into some soli
tary recess, and in the still shade of
the forest ponder on the sweetness of
his own sorrow. His mind became al
most a world of itself, and thousands
of visions rose obedient, at the call of
creative thought; his soul, lifted high
on fancy’s wing, would explore, in its
wild and beautiful career, the fathom
less regions of imagination, through
all the variety of its magnificent do
main. He loved—deeply, devotedly.
It was more than love ; it was adora
tion. The object of his passion was
all that women could be. 1 here is
no object, in all creation, half so splen,
did as such a being—the charms that
are diffused through the whole uni
verse seemed gathered together in her.
When the sun is going down in the
west, leaves behind him a track ot
bright light of her eye. The fra
grance of the rose, was not so deli
rious as the warmth of her breath—
music could make no melody like the
thrilling tunes of her voice. Iler mo
tion was more graceful than the heave
ol (he sea, or the change of the cloud,
and the magic of mind gleaming;
through all her words atid looks, ami
actions, shed around her a charm more
grateful than Arabian incense.
No worder my hero bowed down
before her ; no wonder that the sound
of her voice was always in bis ear,
that her image was before him iti his
daily occupations, and bore a part in
tlie my steiious changes of hi* dream.
There was no affectation in her nature
and she confessed she loved him—
they seemed created for each other—
and who would have believed their
fate—hut I am digressing.
*1 here is something very melancholy
in the reflection that any woman can
die ; blit to him that she should perish
was the very agony of despair. — lie
had left her for a few days, intending
when he returned, to have asked her
hand. On the morning of his leUiru,
he sprang into the stage coach m a
iiidfl delicious reverie. He held no
discourse with lus fellow passengers,
but w rapped himself up in a rich dieam
of anticipation.— His heart was lull ot
happiness, lie thought himself, as he
entered his house,too happy for a mor
tal man. He was preparing to pay
her the fust visit, and dwelling in his
mind on her pleasing welcome, when
her brother came to see him—he did
not observe any thing peculiar about
him at first, and not till the warm af
fectionate shake of the hand was over,
did he notice that his eyes were filled
with tears, and a dismal, gloomy, black
crape hung from his hat. He started,
ami in a hollow voice, that had a des
olate dreariness in every tone he said,
“ Elizabeth is dead.”
At first lie was not comprehended.
A vacant horrid laugh, that echoed
strangely through the still room, was
his only answer, then lit* repeated the
words,’and the features of my friend
became pale, and motionless as mar
ble—then lie sat down in a chair, and
covered his lace with his hands, but
not a word—a bieatli broke the silence.
There was something alarming in his
calmness: —it seemed like the silence
of the heavy black cloud, just before
it launc lies its destructive lightning
front its bosom, lie beckoned and
w ished to be alone, He was left in
solitude. I would not profane the sub
ject by any attempt at describing his
feelings. ‘1 here was a dark horrible,
confusion in Ids mind, like some ac
cursed dream glaring around him, and
the night rolled away its long hours of
sleepless agony.
‘I lie next day was the funeral ; and
when the sun rose in h.s same glorv,
and all the “ pomp and circumstance 1
of day bc’an to beam upon the face of
nature, and the merry voice of men
sometimes came upon the breeze, and
the carts rattled rudely along, and all
around wt.s business and adveuture,
nnallerttd by tie great event that bad
come like i* 0“ f scorching lire
upon the paradise of his heart—lie re
collected, and lie said. “ to-day is her
funeral—her funeral r” 11 is benumbed
mind dwelt upon the words, but there
us something undefined, and almost
incomprehensible m them, bhc was
lobe buried at five in the afternoon.—
I lie clock sliutk joitr —fie putou hfs
hat and went steadily to her house.—
fie thought twenty lwnes lie heard lie.
sweetly toned, laughing vuice, o*
passed along. 1U tuinfcd his bead
once oi twice to see if she was not at
his shoulder, but there was nothing,
and lie walked on. He saw the house
and his eye sought every window—
but Elizabeth was not there. lie rang
the bell—the servant came weeping—
lie looked at him and walked ori—lie
passed into the parlour—the chair
which she had occupied, when he was
there before was standing by the very
same place—and there was her piano
he almost thought he heard music—
he listened, a sob from the next room
came like ice upon his heart, and he
sat down, Her mother came into the
room—her face was serene in grief,
but the first burst was over, and she
was comparatively calm. She asked
him if lie would look at the corpse.—
He knew the was dead, but the blunt
question shook every nerve in his
frame and seemed to breathe death
upon his soul.—He arose and followed
the bereaved mother. There was the
air oi death in the apartment; and a
varnished coffin was on the table,
a white cloth flung carefully at the
head ; a tew friends sat and wept in
silence, musing on the beauties, anil
virtues of the being they were about
to consign to the cold earth. He
walked up to the table, and stood as
still, and pale, and motionless, as the
form that lay stretched before him.—
lie would have torn awav the veil
that covered that face, but he could
not—lie felt that he might as well
have attempted to heave a mountain
from its rocky base. The mother saw
—she felt—a mother can feel—and
she silently uncovered that beautiful
countenance, it broke upon him in
all its loveliness. There was the
same white forehead—the sleeping
eye—the cheek that he had kissed so
fondly—the lips that had spoken stir!,
sweet sounds—he gazed at her corpse
with intensity of thought. Her living
image was before him—he saw her
smiling'—he behold her ir, the graceful
motion — now her figure passed before
him, beautiful in the mazy dame —
and now be gazed into her full black
eyes,and iead unutterable things. lie
had a l ing on his finger, a present from
her—-he tried to speak—he looked at
the ring, then at hei—agony swelled
his heart; he gave one long gaze, and
looked no more.
He knew not how, hut he stood by
her grave ; ami they were bearing the
coffin towards the dais narrow |>it —
a heap of fresh earth was piled at its
side, borne one s.iid, “ Where are
the cords?” He heaid the answer,
“ here they are and liter, the coffin
vias gradually let down into tiie bot
tom of the grave—it sat firmly on the
ground, and he heard a voice say,
“ there, that is right—draw up the
rope.” 1 lien there was the sound, as
if the orders vv re obeyed—in the act
of doing it, a lew grains of sand and
pebble dropped upon the coffin—then
all was still—then a handful of soft,
damp heavy clay, was shovelled down.
Ob, that sound ! It broke the horrid
spell that kept bis voicesilent and his
eye dry—his lip began to quiver—large
teai s gushed from his eyes, he stretch
ed out his hands in an agony of weep
ing—and grasped an old quaker gen
tleman's nose in the stage-coach,
where, he was sleeping, and gave oc
casion for Obadjah to observe.
“ Verily, friend, when tliou has suf
ficiently amused thyself with my nose
perhaps tliou w ill return it to its right
ful owner.”
7’lie whole horrible creation of bis
fancy passed away like a mist; bis
heart bounded in him, and lie soon took
sweet levenge on those wicked lips
that had been so cold and still, yet so
beautifu I, in the darkness of his dream.
A Happy Reply. —The late Rev.
Mr. Neil, one of the Ministers of
the West Church, when taking a
walk in the afternoon, saw an old
woman sitting by the road-side, ev
idently much intoxicated, with her
bundle lying before her in the mud.
—He immediately recognized her
to be one of his parishioners.
“ W ill yeu just help me up with
my bundle, gude man ?” said she,
as he stopped—“ Fie, fie, Janet,”
said the pastor, “ to sec the like o 1
you in such a plight.—Do you
know where all drunkards go to V
‘ Ay, sure,’ said Janet, 1 they just
go w har a drap o’ gude drink is to
be got.’— [Scotch paper.
A Paris paper furnishes the fol
lowing rcmaikable anecdote. —
About 100 years ago a man aged
18, was condemned to the gallics
for a hundred years and a dny.
The man has suffered in full the
sentence of the law, and has now
returned to Lyons in France, where
claiming an estate belonging to his
family, the proprietor, M. liertlio
lon, who had thought his purchase
very lair and safe, agreed, by the
advice of his lawyer, to settle the
contentious mitter by giving the
real proprietor 4,500/. sterling
(nearly $20,000.) This wonder
ful old man, at the age of 118, has
lately offered his hand to a woman
and is shortly to be married.
An advertisment of the sale of
part of the estate of the late Abra
ham Bowen, Esq. of Troy, Mass,
contains the name of the minor chil
dren of the deceased. Among them
is the following singular one—Al
devarontephoseofornia Bowen.
LIST OF ACTS
Passed at the lasi Session of Hit legislature.
1 o establish election districts in
the county of Glynn, and to punish
those who may vote at more than
one place on the same day.
Prescribing the mode of parti
tioning such lots of land drawn in
the land lottery of 1821, as have
been, or may be declared by judg
ment oi court, to be fraudulently
drawn.
To incorporate the town of Per
ry in Houston county, and to ap
point commissioners for the same.
To cause the Justices of the In
ferior court to lay off three lots of
land on the common of the town of
Madison, whereon the Methodist,
Presbyterian and Baptist persua
sions have the right of building
Churches.
To incorporate Goshen Acade
my in the county of Lincoln, and
appoint I'rustees for the same.
To vest in the Hibernian Society of
Savannah all monies arising from the
sale of escheated estates of irishmen
in the county ol Chatham.
To authorise A. G. Middlehronks,
of Morgan ci uuty and John V*. Graves
of Clai k county, to establish a toll
bridge over the Appnluclue, at llicks
ford ; and IJ. F. Park, of Morgan to
erect a toil bridge at his mill on the
Oconee.
‘1 o incorporate the Huntsville Acad
emy in Jasper county.
To exempt all aliens within the
state ol Georgia from ouiinary militia
duty.
in amend the act passed Dili De
cember, 1809, to impose an additional
tax on Pedlars.
To amend the 4th section of a road
act passed in 1822, for the county of
Glynn, &c.
To incorporate the Henry county
Academy, and to appoint T rustees for
the same.
To give to Master carpenters and
Masons a lien on buildings erected by
them in Macon.
To establish a ferry on the Altama
ha, known as Mann’s ferry.
To entitle the incorporated Acade
miea of Oglethorpe and Greene to their
lull share of tiie county Academy
funds.
Incorporating the Lawrenceville
Academy in Gwinnett county.
Incorporating the Clayton Academy
in Rabun county.
Repealing an act passed in 1817', to
prohibit the introduction of slaves on
ly on certain conditions.
Further to define the duties of Col
lectors of 7 axes.
Establishing and regulating district
elections in the county of 7/ryan.
Authorising the Inferior court ol
Henry county to convey to the Trus
tees of the county Academy a part of
the land purchased for county pur
poses.
Changing the names of certain per
sons called Osborn, to Newsom.
Appointing Trustees of the Wilkin
son county Academy, and incorpora
ting the same.
Changing the name of J.E. W. Prcs
kitt to Oliver.
Laying off F.rnanuel county into
election districts.
To tucorporate the Fayetteville Aca
demy.
Authorising the Inferior court of
Fa vette county to convey a lot ot land
to the county Acsdcmy.
To keep open the river Ohoopie for
the passage of fish, so tar us respects
Tattnall and Emanuel counties.
Vesting the powers of the commis-
sioners of the court-house of Laurens
county in the Inferior court of said
county.
Incorporating the Clarksville Aca
demy in Habersham county.
For the relief of Thomas Foley.
Altering ami amending an act for
the reliet of James Dudley.
Changing the names of J. Spence to
.1. Johnson, ami Charles Roberts to that
of Charles \V heeler.
F.stablishing McW r right’s Ferry in
(ivvinnett county, on the Chattuhoo
chie.
To amend the road act of 1800, re
lating to Burke, Jefferson and Rich
mond, so far as respects the county of
Burke.
Authorising the Inferior court of
Newton county to convey a lot of land
to the county Academy.
Altering the militia laws so far as
respects Richmond county and autho
rising the organization of a legionary
corps in Augusta.
Authorising the trial of certain cau
ses in Morgan Superior court.
Altering the act of 1821, more ef
fectually to prevent the obstructions
to the passage of fish in the Ocmul
gee.
For laying out a road in the county
of Camden and to appoint commis
sioners for the same.
To change the name of ccitain per
sons called Albritton to Leaptrot.
Providing for the trial of claims to
slaves levied on under execution.
Authorising the troops of cavalry
now in Putnam, to consolidate and
form one troop,and to attach the same
to the oldest Colonel’s regiment msaid
county.
Reviving and amending the several
land acts now in force in relation to
lands surveyed on head rights and
bounty warrants.
Authorising James Kamp to estab
lish a terry across the Alatamaha river
on his own land.
Establishing the Academy in the
town of Forsyth in Monroe county.
Changing the name of L. B. 11 til to
Floyd.
Altering tin- act of 1823, to remove
the site of the public buddings in
ayne.
Incorporating the Walnut Creek
Baptist Church in the county of Jones.
incorporating the Houston county
Academy.
Establishing dislrirt elections in
Dooly county.
Defining an act to authorise the en
forcement of patrol duty in the city of
Savannah.
Authorising the Judge of the Supc
rior court of the Eastern district to
appoint a guardian or trustee lor a cer
tain woman of color named Ilino.
Authorising the Superior courts of
this state to appoint persons to set off
and assign dower, ami to prescribe
the mode of proceeding therein.
Establishing an engine company in
the city of Savannah,
tfl To change the time of liolding the
Inferior court of Hancock county, so
far as regards the summer session.
Making permanent the site of the
public buildings in the county of De
catur.
For the temporary relief of the pur
chasers of fractional lots or islands.
Incorporating a fire engine compa
ny in the city of Darien.
Pardoning Thomas F. Hull of Chat
ham county.
Altering and amending the 2d sec
tion of the 2d article of the consitution
of this state.
Making valid certain grants to land
within certain reservations to the Che
rokee Indians.
Authorising James Cleland to plead
and practice law in the several courts
in this state.
Extending the time for fortunate
drawers so take out their grants.
Establishing anil fixing the name of
the Mineral Spring Academy in
Wayne county, and incorporating the
trustees thereof.
Altering and amending the act of
incorporation of the town of Clinton,
Dividing the county of Appling.
Authorising the volunteer company
in the couaty of Jones called the In
dependent Blues to receive members
from the 31st regiment of Georgia
militia, and exempt the said company
from battallion and regimental musters
except m certain cases.
Appointing Trustees of (he Jasper
county academy, and to incorporate
the same, and also to grant a lottery
for the benefit thereof.
Authorising a lottery for the pur
pose of bulling a Masonic Hall in tfie
city of Augusta.
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