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E. Bradshaw Billings
- Is induced by motives, which he hopes nre
not improper, to solicit the patronage and fa
vor of the worthy citizens; of Savannah.in the
*. encouragement "of a small Academy. As he
proposes teaching the fmportai.t branches of
science, viz. Keading, Writing, Orthography,
. Khrtoric, Punctuation and Arithmetic, (incln
ding Book-keeping, both single and double terms, is only pardonable because the speaker
-Entry) the art of Composition, or the Perspi- involves himself in his own satire. To men
cuous. Accurate and Grammatical construc
tion of Sentences; Geography, with a particu
lar reference t» Maps; the elements of Astro-
. Homy, and a general view at ancient, modem,
natural ami bit graphical History.
Terms, Five Dollars per quarter each. Will
commence as soon as a sufficient number of
FOR THE EVENING LEDGER.
There is nothing more absurd than a gen
eral satire; and still there is nothing more
comtfiort, than to hear people reprobating or
ridiculing the degeneracy of the times. To
speak contemptuously ot the age, in general
involves himself
of. a particular disposition, whatsoever age
they may live in, that age will certainly appear
worse than any which preceded it. Being
dissatisfied in themselves, and hiving become
addicted to the use of ridicule arid of satire,
they follow the example- of their father, SI-
Hut is the mere chimera of disappointed finer,
and malignant jealousy. They, by whom ; u
is adduced, would rather bestow panegyric
upon works cf antiquity, than award due' hon
ors to coteinpoiauenus merh. They delight
in adverting to the times of Augustus, wjtosc
reign ended with Ids life, upwards of seventeen
centuries ago. He was noi only an excellent
Maecenas,
minister,
scholars are obtained, which, by heads of fa- t motiides; und represent man in llte most un-
vrv iline eon il, r „* 1 - - I,,, n t wowcrorl Kar eullmrv ot . .1 ..1 1 f aUe ■■ l.-hiiar.l ,11 oliru h.te
mities, can shortly Ire arranged, by calling at
this office, iinrt P aving their respective names,
or on the subscriber, at Mrs. E. Df.vant’s
Boarding-house, a few doors north west of the
Pre'-byterian church.
January 2—M—1.
Tuition Abroad.
The subscriber proposes attending a few pu
pils at their residence, for the purpose i f in
•structing them in Geography, the Use and
Drawing of Maps, the Rudiments of Astrono
my, the Use of the Gl i.-es, and tire liigl.e
branches of an English Education
William Green.
January 2—1
A Capital Chance.
There is now a capital chance for a man to
make his fortune in the Baltimore Grand Col
lege Lottery, which is now drawing, and th
following Capital I rizes remaining in tin
wheel on the 15th day of the present month
two 20.000 ; two 10,000 ; two 5,000 and tea
1.000 Dollar Prizes, besides a number of 5ob
200 and 100 Dollar Prizes. The total gain i
the wheel is immense. On the 19‘.h days draw
lii g it w is twenty thousand three hundred am
thirteen dollars.
Tickets, and shares of Tickets, from Waite’s
truly fortunate office, warranted undrawn, for
sale by A. WEY.vI AN.
On the Bay,
N. B. Tickets will advance in price in a few
days.
Tickets in the late New-Yi rk Lotteries re
ceived in payment of the above.
Pile holders of Tickets, No. i389i and 2i432,
dra-.vn Prizes of Five Hundred Dollars, can
receive '.he payment for them by applying as
above.
December 3o--m—155
Paper Hangings.
An elegant assortment of the newest and
most fashionable patterns of PAPER HANG
INGS, just received from the manufactory at
Philadelphia, and Tor sale by
Seymour & Williams.
December 30—L—155
First quality Cider.
A few barrels of as excellent Newark Cider
as can be procured, suitable {• r bottling, just
received in ship Charles, from New-Yoik, and
for sale cheap, by A. WEY.VIAN,
ON hand, On the Bay.
Imperial Hyson TEA, of a superior quality,
in caddies of 2 lbs each, expressly for famiiy
use. December 30—A—155
W. J. & A. Wevman,
Respectfully inform their friends and tha
public in general, that thev are now opening.
On the Bay, one door east of Messrs. Miller and
Moorhead's, the greatest variety of
READY MADE
CLOATHING.
Ever yet offered for sale in this city, which
hrt' ,»een carefully selected, and are warrant
ed for workmanship and quality, and the new
est fashions, viz—
Gentlemens extra superfine dress coats and
dress frocks, of all colors
Da white and colored flannel ditto
Elegant drab, blue and black Kcdford-cord
pantaloons
Superfine double milled stocking webb ditto
Tin Mup nrtrt Idar.k cl, th and cassimere ilitti
Do- blue and black cloth and cassimere ditto
Do. fawn, drab and Oxford mixed ditto
Brazil, Portugal and patent c.-rd ditto
Constituti >n cord and thickset ditto
White cotton florentine and Jefferson cord ditto
Superfine black and drab c.a- simere breeches
Fu st quality Mack florentine and fancy silk
waistcoats
Fancy moleskin velvet and Castilliancordditto
Saragossa stripes and plaid ditto
Fancy silk, plush, black cassimere and patent
cord ditto
Spanish toilenet and swandowu ditto
Elegant white quilting and Bengal cord ditto
Gvntlvmvns fine flannel and linen imder-clothes
D'>. swanskin and flannel dressing gowns
B. <ck cassimere gaiters and patent suspenders
Childrens dresses, from one year old and up
wards, of a variety of colors and fashions
Misses Salisbury and police clmh coats
Youths cloth and cassimere coatees, vests and
pantaloons
Do. surtnuts and wrappers
Gentlemens superfine linen and cambric shirts
and cravats
Muslin, check, flannel and baize ditto
Gentlemen’s superfine drab, biue and bottle-
cloth surtnuts
Superfine olive-green brown and mixed ditto
Gentlemens wrappers of bath coating, cloth
and rattine
Do. travelling wrappers
Drab and mixed- cloth hanslopers,
qualities
Whitney di.fi! and Lisn-skin wrappers
Full trimmed Spanish cloth cloaks
Best ramMet boat cloaks
Fine blue cloth jackets and trowsera
Pilots pea caats aad pea jackets
ALSO,
A large quantity of
Cheap Negro Cloathing.
The shove articles, by any quantity, with j
larger supply looked for .daily, will be soli
ven cheap, bv wholesale or retail.
,■ January 4—2
natural colors. If the inhabitant of ano'her
planet could be suddenly translated into this,
he would conclude, from the declarations of
these mai-centerds, tjiat courage and generosity,
honesty and capacity, with evety thing mag
nanimous, had ceased to stimulate us, or to
rule our conduct. We have degeneiated, it
would seem, even in our stature. 1 he figure
judge, it seems, but a writer also,
the patron of Horace, was his prime
and was himself a good poet. His hospitality
to men of wit, was unbounded; and it appears
that the wealthy Polio was, uniformly, an ett-
courager and a fiicnd of genius. We arc told,
tbal in consequence of his intercession, the
patrimonial estates of Virgil were restored;
arid the immotlal bard, it is added, for the pa
thetic beauties contained in fifteen litres of his
’.Trt'rng, received as a reward from Oclavia, the
sum of ten sesterces; which would amount, in
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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Monday, Deentber 18 '
INTRUDERS ON PUBLIC LANDS.
Mr. Poindexter observed that a resolution:
_ a-,-E
had been laid on the table sonic tirue ago by a
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Miller) pro-
posing the repeal of the taw authorising ihb
president of the United States to exppl inti utt
ers from the public lands. Mi. P. said that he
was averse to the repeal of the law, but thought
some parts of it arbitrary and unconstitutional,
and therefore wished it modified. Without-tie-,
signaling- the part to which he.objccted, ho said
the following resolution would shew his object
in rising at present r
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, u Kcsulvcct, Thai the comir.ittcc of public
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our money, to seven
»; which would amount, in i an< j s [ )C instructed to enquire whether anyi and
hundred and eighty pounds. , jf a hv, what alterations are necessary to'be
Thus, the denouncers of the present, dilute
upon the virtues of the Augustan age; and
Cite many other instances of its generous tem
per, with considerable exaggerations. iiy
means like these, they endeavor to bring con-
of a Trojan hero, at the present time, would , enipl u ,, on th e.r cotemporaries, by stigmatis-
te-rtfy the beholder, and no doubt partially re
vtve the rejgn of superstition. Men must,
assuredly, have lost much in the vigor of their
bodies, from the days of Tut nus to the tune
of Virgil. Turnus, agreeably to that author,
flaog a stone at the good .Eneas, which twelve
of the most robust Romans could not have
raised frem the earth. Heaven only knows
what kind of creatures tar would be, if mankind
had continued degenerating since the time of
Virgil, at the same rate. Geometrically speak
ing, wc ought long ago to have becu below the
icgetable species, the decrease of which, 1 be
lieve, is not insisted upon. The brute crea-
■ion, however, has degenerated beyond doubt,
«s well as the human ; for wlto would compare
■tie of our modern horses to a Centaur ?
Though common-place reflections upon the
degeneracy of the existing age, are replete
with absurdity, they have still been indulged
with abundant freedom. They have given
plentiful employment to the pen of saut e, and
may be traced upwa'd to remote antiquity.—
l'hts fact will be sufficiently proven, by a re-
ferenca to the mystical theology of the ancients.
Here, we cannot refrain from obseiving how
gieat the similarity is, which exists between
the Asiatic superstitions, and the mythology
of the Greek and Roman poets. It is douUiul,
in fact, whether those poets did not borrow
their mythological system front Asia ; but
bethel they did or did not, there is ceitainly
an obvious correspondence between that system
and the religious ideas of the Hindu’s. They
call the days of their weeks after the same
gods; their allusions to the zodiac strengthen
the coincidence, and the correspondence be
tween them extends so far as the four ages of
the world. Whosoever is in the least acquaint
ed with the mythology of the Bramitis, and
has ever read the Greek and Roman theory, as
described in the metamorphoses of Ovid, will
readily perceive 'heir close assimilation. The
Asiatics have had their limes of purity; and
during those times, the stature of a man was
neither more r.or less than twenty-one cubits,
which the conjoined heights of six moderns
would about equal. They, as well as the Greeks
and Romans, have also had their silver age ;
and in that ana, men cnminenced their career
of licentiousness. They have likewise had
theit brazen age; when, accoidmg to what
ir,g them with the charge of degeneracy ; and
foi no other cause than the neglect and disre-
gard shewn towards their paltry productions.
These writers, finding that they can never
soar to eminence, themselves, strive to prevent
the flight of every rising genius. They expa
tiate. in the first place, upon the total destitu
tion of ail taste for literature, and the conse
quent neglect attendant upon the works of
genius. If, by such insidious stratagems, tl-.cv <
fail to deter the literary adventurer from the
publication of his works, they then denounce
necessary to? be
made in the act entitled An act to prohibit '
settlements being made nn the ptiblic.lands un
til authorised bylaw and that the committee
have leave to report by bill or otherwise.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Risk reported a bill providing for the
third census or enumeration of the population
ofthe United States. Twice read andcommit-
tcd.
YAZOO CLAIM
Mr. Troup calie ■ tor the consideration ofthe ,
motion made by hint on Friday last foi piiiituig
for the nsc ofthe house certain papers relative
to the Yazoo claim
Mr. Bacon moved to amend it so as to in
clude the following papets: i'he'uct of the legis
lature of Georgia, passed on the 7 >h day of Jan-
its-:,
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the age as void of talent and ingenuity, with ihe ‘ 1795. granting to sundry companies and
diabolical wish to depreciate that merit, which mdividualxceruin lamls therein descubid ; tin
they despair of ever reaching. They condemn ' " ~
the age, because their attempts at wit have
been denounced as buffoonery; and pretend
to mourn over the triumphs of vice and of foi
ly, while, in fact, they arc giving vent to their
resentment, by speaking of their cotempuraries
as of reprobates and simpletons
A WANDERER.
INTERESTING TO FEMALES,
Extracted from the Medical Repository, publish
ed quarterly at Ptrw-York.
Pulmonary consumption.—From a scien-?
message of the president ofthe Uuiied Sure*
communicated to this house -m the 17 h day of
February, 1795; an act el congress, passed tite
7*h day ol Apt il, 1798, for an amicable settle
ment of limits with me state ot Georgia, and
authorising the establishment ot a government
in the M-.sissippi Territory, and an act supple
mental to the last mrmioned act,passed the
10th day of May. 1*00 ; and die report ol tho
committee of claims on th* memorial of sundry
citizens of the tlateof'vlabsachuseiisaodothers,
putchasers under the Geoigia and Mississippi"
companies, made to this house on the ISdiday
of January, 1805.
Mr. Troup had no objection to include in hie
motion all the papers mentioned by the gentle
man itoin Massachusetts, but the Sist. I he
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tific sod elegant disse.tatiou on consumption of houS( . could ll0l ge , „ ,j le acl Ulete a |i uded
a In a I....aAMAtsvIimcnVan lav I I■. n t., 11 U..
the lungs, communicated to Dr. Mitchill, by
Dr. Young, of New-York, are extracted the fol
lowing remarks:
j“ But as the prevention of this destructive
disease is preferable to the best method of cur
ing it, tt is of more importance to point out
some of the causes which produce it, especially
with respect to females. The first 1 shall
mention is, a combination among the shoe-mak
ers, tvho appear 'o have resolved, that, as the la
dies’ gowns have no bodies, their shoes should
have not only the semblance of a soal, but sonar-
row that half an inch of the vamp comes to the
pavement at evety step, and admits the Water
very freely. Secondly. I must mentinn the
perniciuus effects of their bodiless gowns with
out sleeves. When a lady rises in the morn
ing she dresses comfortably, probably, in a
gown with long sleeves; but Mrs. A. receives
the following polite card from Mrs. U. Mrs.
they affirm, as many of mankind were vicious j B. presents her most respectful compliments to
—— — - In their fourth, as in the' Mrs. A. and (havinginvited a few select friends)
as were virtuous.
iron age cf the Greeks and Romans, an entire j reqtfcsts the pleasure of her company to spend
corruption began to prevail; and the extent of a sociable evening.” 1 he weather is cold and
human life diminished, as vice increased. Wc damp; hut Mrs. B. cannot think of enlenain'ng
may observe, from taking this brief view ofj company in the common room; and about hail"
the similarity which exists between tile Hindu, an hour before the visitants are. expected, a fire
and the Greek mythology, that the idea of is kindled in the best parlour, which had been
attributing degeneracy to mankind, is of very well scrubbed in the forenoon; and, to have all
ancient origin. The one distinguishes its ages things complete, the carpet is laid down before
bv 'he quality of metals; and these metals, ' the floor isdty. The time draws near. Mrs. A.
which bear the most value, arc strictly applied
to the most remote periods. I he other as-
ibes universal purity to its first age; and
accuses man ef continued degeneracy, from
he d ue of its expiration, until it reduces him
to a mass of entire corruption. The charges,
however, of human retrocession, are net con
fined to the fables of mythology. Authors
,f he most distinguished reputation have be
moaned over the fallen virtues of their ances
tors, ami vented forth their wrath at the degra
dation of their cotemporaties. Many, when
lamenting'the degeneracy of their own times,
have prognosticated the increase of corruption.
retires to a cold room to dress, and, as a suitable
substitute for the warm morning dress, adopts
a thin book or cambric muslin, with short,
wide sleeves, and other corresponding articles
of dress. The neck and breast are bare, or
covered with very thin gauze, and the arms
naked imost up to the shoulders. If the breast
is left open to facilia'.e the entrance of Cupid’s
darts, it affords a mor.- certain mark for the cn-
vennmed shafts of the grisly ATug oj Terrors. A
muff and tippet may be worn in the streets, but
are laid aside before the room gets warm.
“ But Mt s. A. is bedecked in a suit much bet
ter adapted to the month of August than Da-
which would stain posterity, Cicero com- I cember. She looks out of the window and oh
of all
plains, frequently, efthe licentiousness which
! prevailed in his time; and Livy infoims us,
• that three hundred years before his, such a
' spirit of equity prevailed among the people, as
i was not to be found in the bast cf individuals,
when he wrote. Juvenal was of opinion, that
his cotemporaries had completely settled the
business, by reducing human nature to the low
est state of possible degradation. Vice, he
avowed, had attained so prodigious an height,
that it would puzzle posterity to increase it,
however good-naturedly inclined it might be
to do so. Writers, however, who have taken
a view of modern times, appear to think that
he was wrong in Itis declaration ; and, indeed,
one might be led to suppose, from consulting '
these wire's, that each preceding age had been
. distinguished for the prevalence of eminent
| virtues.
I The truth is—though men differ; though
some adhere to virtue, and others pursue vice;
that the original constitution of human nature
is invariable. In ail ages, and in all courtries,
the same passions appertain to it. The proper I
regulation of these, conformably to the dictates
nf re-'son; and the due performance of those
•liings, which experience proves to be most
serviceable in society, constitute genuine vir
tue. A pernicious misuse of the passions, not-
serves that it has rained; but no matter, the
walks are pretty dt y, and it is but a step.
Madam sets off, and gels Iter feet wet. When
she arrives, the fire just begins to blaze; the
room is cold and damp, but off goes the muff
and tippet; her feet are suet and cold, but po
liteness will not permit her to dry them : she
sits shivering until the fire has warmed the
room. The company have all arrived; the
warm tea is served about; which, with the heat
of a crowded room -opens the pores, and produ
ces a copious perspiration. At leng-h the com
pany breaks up, and the visitants return home
thro’ the damp night air, and find many of
their fives extinguished, and the rooms cold;
they go shivering to bed, and ore awakened in
the morning with a viobnt cough and hoarse
ness !
“ The Deity mercifully adapted the human
constitution to bear very considerable extremes
of hr at and cold, but the changes from one condi
tion to the oilier must be gradual; as all sud
den changes either from krai or cold f C attended
with imminent danger. When a warm ntoro-
ing-gown. with long sleeves, and a shawl, is ex
changed for a thin muslin without slervrs, and
a gauze handkerchief, the change is too great
and too sudden to be borne with impunity ; and
any person who considers tbs circumstance can
because the virtue of the people ufGemgia had' •
induced them solemnly to consign it'to tbit*
flames, and nothing of it remained hut its ashes,,
from which it could not, phoe' tx-iike, revive-
It had been committed to the flames because it
was an unconstitutional act of an unconstitution
al legislature—a legislature unconstitutional be
cause resulting trnm and originating in liaud-'
He asked the house whether they would sanc
tion the corrupt act of the legislature of Geor
gia. when, in 'he most solemn manner, the peo
ple cf Geoi gia had consigned it to oblivion fr
uitless for the purpose of insult to the state of
Georgia, the (touse would not in any manner
sanction such an act. It would be in effect io
legislate for the state ol Georgia, whicii this
house had no right to do.
Mr. Bacon said that the fraud of the transac
tion had been alledged against the petition re
ferred last waek. as a reason why it should not
be considered. It was impossible to get at a
correct understanding of the circumstances at
tending the grant, unless the house had the act
in its possession. How would it be made to
appear that the legislature had acted corruptly,
except its act. and the names of the member*'
concurring in it, were produced ? He knew
not how the gentleman would prove the cor
ruption which he had pledged himself to prove
without that act—and Mr. B. said he was desir
ous of affording every convenience to the gen
tleman in the task lie hud undertaken. A, to
the act having been burnt, Mr. Bacon said iie
was much mistaken or he had sta-n copies of it
in the printed documents in the clerk’s libra’ y.
The house, by ordering it to be printed, would
not express any opinion on the validity of the
act.
Mr. Troup observed, that as much of the act
of 1795 as'was necessary for the purpose allud
ed t" by the gentleman from Massachusetts,
was recorded in the act of 1796. and so much
he had no objection to have printed, as it was a
matter of record. As to the names ofthe cor
rupt members, they were also on record.
Mr. Bacon rcpiied.that as much of the act of
1795 as was necessary for the purpose of tha
rescinding legislature had been published in the
act of 1796. It was not to be supposed, with
out imputing to that legislature any improper •
motive, that any more of it would have been
published in the act. But he was desirous of
seeing the whole of the act.
Mr. Bibb remarked, to shew that this act
was rot on record, that a year or two after Mho
passage of the rescinding act, certain gentle- *
men had been appointed to publish a digest ou
tlie laws of the stale of Georgia. They hap
pened to be in favor of live Yazoo claim, and
insisted upen ^inserting in the work the act of
1795. The people of Georgia would not per
mit it, ar.d the bock in which this act was in
serted was declared by the legiSajute not to be
a digest of the laws of Georgia.
Mr. Livermore made some further observa-
tion$ nl -he same tenor as those of Mr. Bacon,
and Mr. Troup replied.
When the question was taken on including
the paper <-bj-cted to by Mr. Troup, it tvasne- ''jP
getived 53 to 46.
withstanding its baneful effects are known, is I beat no loss to account for ' he fieqner,oy vnd
-till discoverable in every state, and in erCry
veavon.
But we have degenerated, it would appear,
->ot only in virtue, strength and statute, but
.Iso in knowledge and in genius. This charge,
1 apprehend, is not founded on solid ground;
fatality of consumptions. Here is r. fashion ex
hibited on one side, attended with tltscasc, death
and dissolution ; and common prudence, on the
other side, promising health, pliosure, and lon
gevity, submitted to the citsice of rational be
ings.”
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Ar.d'Mr. Tro«ip accepting the other papers
as a t'nrt of his (nation, ihe >vhuSe was agreed
to, b7 to 22. "v,
Mr. Poindexter offered ‘he following rcsolu^
lo;i, us connected v.itii this *uiijcct :
J\£Vijrit t?»c *ecfcia»y ol stale he re-
quested to by Wore this houss-an abstract of;
sll British patents, waiTim** uttiers ofwirvey s
filed in »«'f$ oilW, a^-e-tsbfy to the several ac»s
of con^rp«» resuhuirie the grants of land, and
providing for the (Jispus.il of the Innds of the
United i>ti'.5S 3942ih <s. ihe &aic ol IcDiieitcc. .