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[COSAM EMIR BARTLETT— EDITGJI,\
THE
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j(r tjic business season, and three times a
* crl;uiiring the summer months, at Eight Dollars
V*innm in advance.
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1 Fridav; at Six Debars per annum. This sheet
“Ic made up of the two inner forms es the
’ ‘aily P a r pr > containing all the news, r.aw adver
tisements, Air..
rt-Hi o compiled from the Savannah Mercury,
j niiiu a selection of the leading and most
8 frpstin” articles ‘of the Daily papers. Adver
intCF ents”will be generally excluded, and the
, v iH be principally filled with reeling matter.
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-Tf paid in advance. ->
b, 'rr iiverti semen Is will be “published in bothvc
'*/ ‘ f 75 rents per square of 14 lines for the fist
f rrS, !\ n )ind 37) cents for each continuation.
ins jij Comm uni rations respecting the business
nft Od'C) must to the Editor,post
f-j J
‘‘shk"’ of land and negroes by Administrators
r’Tenters nr Guardians, are required by law, to
, jT.y on t he first Tuesday in the month, between
JJ jwurs often o’clock in the forenoon and three
.}r afternoon, at the Court-House of theCoun
j! n wliicwThe property is situated. Notice of
N tfse caes must be given in a public -'Gazette
L, (javs previous to the day of sale. ■
v',tice d’the sole of personal property must ho
given in like manner, forty days previous to the
thr of sale. _
Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate,
must be published for forty days.
tfotice that application will be made to the court
of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be pub
lished four months.
SiTADifAii. Friday, Jui i 5, 1820.
law, fr\-i *7l-2 cents per b.
8 a
Rjtter, 18 a 29 a*. /;/ / M.
Sortkt'm, inferior ymitdij.lv a 15
hieffivn. Dundee fy Inzer niss, 2: a22 1 <2£.
e “ 7Vfl>j 18. ‘
Brand u. Cognac, Otar :/, Co's, brand, J
50 a l 60- j . ‘ “
<• other brands, $I a I2 {^- —<luli-
rafftm, Uplands, 7 J *2 </*• ‘
“ Islands t \ %y -t 22, arm aaoTC for fine
’ brands.’
Corn, r.r. cargo sales, 48 5O rte.
Cheese, nous : ’ ‘• ,;
Crockery; 30 a 35 per cent. udn.
C#c, /Varnfift Green,prime, 14 1-2 a lit,
other-qraaitu* Vsi *W salea
jmdhs, Xortherfi Mould Tallow, 10 ft’ U c/s.
“ Georgia pi#’
Sperm, 24 a 25
::r, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond ana
Aielamlria, P'l a * &>■
(, Holland, 90 a 115
i: Sort hern, 28 c3O t
jet/, prime Sort he ia, Ist qtiaJ. sines
hjson Tea , SIOO ft 110 ;><•?• Lb. !
,m, Swede's SiOO life / >tr - <m *
lard, (5 (7 7 cte. ‘ .
amber,ijt'loic pine Dunging ‘limber , $3 l-o a 4
Steam sowed Lumber,’ipD'u O
Ik'ftr Lumber, Boarda, Blanks 4’ Scantling
sl2
•-Quartered \\imh floor i.:g Boards, sl4.
IfAite Pine Boards, clour 9 17 * 18
Merchantable, $9 ft 10 -
if. 0. Ho' T heads Sin res, sls ft 18
J.O. ’ 10 ft 12
Itiunfes, rafted, ‘‘ 2 1-2
<• il boated, <{ 0 ‘
HuhiTfl, Jp9,l, $0 1-4
“ “6, f.il-J
“ sll--2
Masses, W. India, 28 a 30.
.XewOrhans, noU9
Owhrghs, 9 a 30.
Pori, ‘jrime, sll
.Vess, 13i4Q.
fitter, $3 v ’
jw, $2 a 2 75.
90 r/ 112$.
If est India 48 cte.
1 .V. England, 32 ft 35 r/>\
yellow, 5 a 8 cewte y;f r if/.
s,7 fes 40 Ctß.
Havana, white, and Brown,
Mnsrocddo, 9 9 1-2 — St. Ltuu, salo £
Xcw-Orlcfins, $8 a 8 1 2-
f krputd Louf, 10 1 2 18 1-2 —Lump 15 a 1(>
Mucco, Kentucky; Georgia, $ 4 rf£.
„ “ Manufactured do -fc a3O
■a'loir, 8 9 “
ih bhls. 2G a 27.
in It ds. 25 a 20c.
p EXCHANGE.
sjland,Ba§sp.ct.pm. Darien Bills, par.
•'tv-York, 1-2 pr. ct. .V. Carolina S.U.JYotcs,
i 30 ands 5-8 a l 5 per ct.dis.
p !°\ d's 1 State Bpnk oj Georgia,
yfeks do I, prev.t payable at .the Branch
gnleipuia <■ ts other than Augusta
“in°rt “ OH( i J\fHie fig exilic, 1 a
tj UC ? I; Fj 11 pr c. dis. 1* per cent. dis.
fi( < Y 6 Bills, 3-8 a £
pm. K
r; FREIGHTS.
tftrpoot, l2 d 0 jv. York, 1-2 ct. per lb.
“'hit, 1 1-8 a 1 1-4 r. : Providence } i>B ct.
REMARKS.
; F i res —Uplands lor'tlie last, week hjive been
hri 1 loratc demand, and the sales will probably
if kajrs; at all prices from 7 1-2 to 9 1-2.
t “ es generally lia vq’ been from 8 1-4 to 9;
c it’. 1 feline of 1-4 a 1-2 a cent on last Week’s
?V 10 m S or lJcriw1 ’ descriptions. Strictly
U';! VV]I! J’ et couinrand 9 1-2, and in one or two
t . ; ' Cos ‘' f 4 ha? been paid. The quantity now
f Ikrivud f u uifliug, and the stock must bo
j v rtdiieiug;* I’i Sea Islands the transactions
*Ues ° Cn . Ver y limited; *'we have beard of some
Since the last unfavorable ac
-1 s iioin Liverpool the price has sunk below
lijj B |,,e ’ Fus quotations. Thu sales, however, at
r . Uc ti°n has berm limited; ar>s \ve quote
to 20, and upwards Urc prime. •
; —Soie sales have bilfcn idade at 2 1-4 a
fie deinaiul liowever is limited.
—Are generally dull; we have heard
in-,. 5 l ‘ es worth noticing since our last, nor any
TANARUS,. 0!l ln prices.
L Holders are asking $7 1-4 a 7 1-2; tbs
( ( 1o) prime Howard-streot was made at $7.
■p I,N ~~Xo cargo ailoat; ls retailing at 48 a. 50.
!l. i,|, .* l,Ts ~* r l o inverpool 1 -2d—dull>T’o France
*?j r> a 1 cents—dull. ‘J’o New Yotk 1-2 el.
5 *icent.
brandy nurl Cider.
(V Pfp., , “ding from brig Courier,
and, ,4 , Cognac Bnndy ’• ’
’ 4 : '° Xeß hot'led Cidor, 1 dozen each
o&rrcls Vinegar" 1 ‘
Fur sale by
i fc 7 CANpLEiI <Sk DAVIDSON,
Jt ’■ #: Mfihgxn’ upper wharf.
THE ARGUS.
. -if” ft V-a nr.
O* W e are requested to §tate, that no person
has tern authorised to say that Mr. Timothy Bar
nett declines being a candidate fop fee Legisla
ture at the next election.
1 he following remarks on the Independence cl
the Press in this country, are front the Philadel
phia Aurora:
“We have, from time to time, made extracts
from English papers, showing the daring intrepi
dity with which the press of that country is con
ducted. In the midst of higotry, political misrule
and boundless power, the press of Great Britain
stands the fearless Champion and immovable bul
wark of the rights and liberties of the people. In
theory, the press of this country is as free as that
of Great Brit ain, but is if. such in practice? no one
will -pretend that it is. Thp fault is in the people
—there is here a sensitive, we had almost said a
vindictive individual supervision of the press; far
mere destructive to its freedom than any censor
ship ever established in Europe. “Wo betide the
hand that -lares to pluck the wizard beard of hoary
Error,” was the just remark of an’ eloquent wri
t.er, to which we may add, wo betide the Editor
who dares to expose individual vice, or oppose
party measures. It would be professional suicide,
no individual fortune could sustain the conflict;.—
The expression of an independent opinion is fol
lowed by “stop my paper.”
Wp have abundance of journals that fearlessly
enough denounce their opponents; but this is
their vocation and the purpose for which they are
supported. But show us the paper that has ever
dared to censure popular error and popular men,
or to expose the failings of its own party, and
been ablo to stand its ground. Few such, we be
lieve, can be found. Highly as the people foye
liberty, and dedfiy they prize their individual
rights, by a strange infatuation, they risk both
rather than hear unpleasant truths or be thwarted
in favorite schemes; but until they bring them
selves to prefer the public welfare to the gratifica
tion of personal pique and individual vengfapee,
tlipy will have no free press.” ; . .
Something Syvqlly! —The Baltimore Patriot
says, the author of the following card is the edi
tor of the Philadelphia Mercury, a violent. George
Kremcr-Jackson paper, and the same individual
who returned Major Eaton, the present Secretary
at War, to the Insolvent Court of Philadelphia,
as one of his cred .tors for fifteen Hundred dollars'.
A Curd. —A rumor having been current that
General Jackson has returned my correspondence
.villi him; f it due to myself to state, that the
report, come from what quarter it may, is entirely
false and unbounded. STEPHEN SIMPSPN
Eel Simpson threaten the Hero with a publica
tion of the correspondence, and he will be proviu
ed f<r like Nor ton of the Ha,vttoid Times, with a
place in the Custom House.
Letter to the Editor of the U. States Gazette, da
twd ‘ • ‘
Washington, May 14, I§£P
“ The Grand Jiffy on Thursday, ignored two
bills presented to thorn by the District Attorney
in the Cft?e of Df. Watkins, because they, charged
him with fraud in ms official character and sta
lion, and found as true bills two which charged
himv’ifh misdemeanor cply, under tlip common
lav/. }l seo.u3 yet to bo doubtful if the case wfllj
some to a. trial'. Should these bills come to a tri
al, it wiU be at the present term oftlie and
in the fom sc of a few days ; but it is understood
that a motion is about to be made to quash the
indictment by the‘counsel of Dr. Watkins, who
are acute and persevering and independant Law
yers and highly respectable as men. I Will net
hazai and a r.y conjecture w-hich may, in the slight
est degree, tend to prejudice public opinion, ex
cept that it may probably turn out that those who
have prosecuted him have exhibited a degree of
zeal to prosecute, and a degree of acrimony a
gainst Dr. Watkins personally, which the result
will prove to be gratuitous, and tradeable to other
motives titan an exclusive regard for the public
good. At least, such is the inference to which
the reports in daily circulation in tfiiscify invari
ably tend.
It appears to be the policy of some of the Edi
tors to destroy those who have been removed
from qfficfc ; and acting upon this system the 1 el
ograph has lately made an outrageous attack on
Mr. Fillebrovvn, a Clerk who has been removed
from the Navy department. With a view, per
haps, to convince the readers of the Telegraph,
tpat Mr. f illebrown deserved to be removed, the
Editor charged him with having lent his assist
ance to draw money from the Treasury for pur
poses not authorised. Mr, Fillebrown will easily
vindicate himself against this assertion, but he
hafi been induced by his friends to make that vin
dication in a Court of Law. In'fqifilment of this
resolution, he has commenced a suit against the
Editor of the Telegraph, and has employed two of
the ablest members of our bar to conduct his case.
T am told, although scarcely from authority suffi
cient to justify mo instating it as a fact,'that
: the damages laid in the declaration are s‘^o,ooo,
| A verdict for half that anioimj. would have a pro
! digious effect in tcoling down the ardor which the
Editor pfithe Telegraph has heretofore exhibited
in hunting (Jpwn the reputations of those against
‘whom he has been politically ox.pos<*ti.'’
The system purshedby Gen. Jackson, has ren.
tiered offices so insecure, that the spirit ofenter
piise in this city has received a severe check, at
least foi the piescnt year. A number of Clerks
who contemplated building houses for themselves,
have been frightened from their plans; and in
stead of circulating the little money ‘which they
may be able to spare from their salaries, are much
iiioi e disposed to play the miser, and to lay by
their cash to create a little fund for a contingency
recent events have shewn to be much less
improbable than it has heretofore been consider
ed.
Politicians here, have been surprised at the ne
glect of Mr. Cambrel'mg, and are disposed to in
fer from it, that Mr. Van Baron’s influence m the
cabinet is much weaker than had been supposed
It is understood that Mr. Cambreling would not
have been very difficult to please The rumor i
that at the close of the session, he went to pay a
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY HORNING, JUNE 11, 1829.
visit to North Carolina, in order to allow time fo r
tilings to settle down here; after ar absence of
some two or three weeks, he returned to Balti
more, and made an application to be appointed
Consul at Havre, v, T hich is next in value to the
Consul at Liverpool. It is certain that he has
not yet obtained that office, and it isf* expected
that he will not obtain it. He was named here
for the collcctorship of New-York, anil also for
the mission to Spain, but, if he and ap
plied for either ot those offices or stations, it is
clear that he has been disappointed. We have
reports here, that he lias not been pleased with
the manner in which offices have been
in New-yovk, and that he had joined the mal
contents of the Jackson party in a determination
to remonstrate against them.—This may or foay
not be so.
Our pave is still thronged with office seekers,
who come here daily, for the benefit of the tav
ern keepers a,nd Sometimes for their own; and J
tear the time is yet remote when we shall be left
v ith only the natural annoyances of qai* city, the
eternal treble of musquitoQS, and the deep bass
of the bull frog.’
V ■ °
The way they do things at JVeic York. —A boy
was lately taken up in New York, and committed
to prjspij, for starting a false alarm of fire.
Paper Machine. —lsaac Sanderson, of Milton,
Mass. Paper Manufacturer, has invented; and
secured a patent for anew and highly important
improvement in the Cylinder Paper Machine, for
manufacturing paper, consisting of a contracting
horizontal \\ hirl Wheel—and a paper-forming
Roller, by which the paper usually made by a
Machine ia greatly improved in quality, strength
and durability—and several kinds of paper abb
made, never before produced by any machine.
’ ‘ - 1 -n ■
The New York Gazette faj s—the Captain of
brig being enraged at one of his sailors, struck him
with a large billet of wood on the head. 1 The
sailor fell senseless, with the blood gushing from
his ears and mouth, lie was conveyed to the hos’
pital;‘ and is not expected to survive. The Cap
tain has made hist escape.:
A letter from a gentleman at Melville, Cum
berland county, New Jersey, received at Phila
delphia, states that the whole neighborhood is in
consternation at a tremendous fire in the woods
of Walkerfield, abput five miles from Melville.
On the first of April, a hoax was played.off up
on some of the London papers through the news
paper piinted in Tralee, Ireland, ffem which pa
per they copied a fictitious report of a Xjrial, in
which Mr. Sergeant Lcfroy was said to have di
rected an acquital, on the ground that rams were
not sheep. r ■ t
Mr. Paulding has published 3 volume of
sketches under the tale of‘Tales of a good
vypman by a doubtful gentleihan,’ which are
gitafly admired by the critics. The fol
lowing *3 selected, in its condensed form,
from Mi, hogget’s interesting Critic; it ex
hibits the fioiTid results of intoxication in a
form almost tob repelling to be contemplat
ed, yet the delineation does not exceetTtfte
reality. Similar incidents are often related
in the newspapers; atfd the moral of the
story is calculated to make a d6ep and last*
ing impression;
The first of the tale is a most powerful
and vigorous sketch, and the direct and
positive tendency of it is calculated to be
of the most salutary kind. It is written in
the form of a confession, by one who, born
of respectable and affluent parents, and
brought up with tender indulgence, is gradu
ally led astray into the paths of vice, first
from a habit of associating with persons of
inferior stations, and afterwards by being
induced to visit the haunts of gamesters, of
the most dissolute and abandoned class.
The unhappy young man is hurried from
one grade of vice to another,- till he at last
losses ail his property by the arts of his
acsociatas, and all the respect of society
from the confirmed irregularity of his hab
its. In order ter pay a debt of honor, he
embezzles the property of his sisters, which
had been entrusted to his guardianship, and
afterwards, to prevent his infamy being dis
covered, he marries a young, interesting,
and wealthy female, from whose partial eyes
he had managed to. Conceal his excesses.—
For a while, after these inauspicious nup
tials, the resolution of the dissipated hus
band is sufficiently exerted to enable him
to refrain in a great measure from indul
gence in his deplorable and ruinous practi
ces. But the natural delicacy**and sensi
tiveness of his character had been too tho
roughly eradicated for him long to find a
sufficient source of happiness in the quiet
intercourse of social love. ‘The old im
passioned ways and habits of his mind re
mained,’ and falling in with- some former
companions of his midnight orgies he was
ivithout difficulty persuaded to revisit the
‘club’ where his fortune and reputation had
been speut, and whyr e he was to become
yet more deeply implicated in evil.- About
this period of time the marriage of one of
his sisters making it necessary that her
portion should be forthcoming, and having
now a man to deal with, who could not be
put oft by the artifices which he had hither
to practiced on his credulous relatives, he
Is induced to load his soul with another act
of infamy, which more than the first, preci
pitates him rapidly towards irretreviable
ruin. ‘The crisis of my fate,’ says the
unhappy drunkard, ‘arrived.’ My gener
ous, and noble hearted wife had peremto
rily resisted all the cautions of hep relatives
to have her fortune settled on herself. No,
she always replied, no, I trust him with
my happiness, and my fortune shall go with
it. It rested with me now, either to tell
her candidly my situation, and throw myself
on her ge lerosity, or to make use of her
foitune secretly, to k replace that of my sis
ter. That strange pride, which clings even
to guilt and degradation, prompted!me to
the latter To replace thp money of w hich
I had robbedimy .sister, 1 robbed my wife
of that, which afier events proved, shie
would have given me with all her heart. ..
“ILp to this period, 1 have loved Amelia
as much as it was possible for me to love a
generous virtuous woman. JJer affection,
and the complete acquiescence to nty wish
es which she exhibited on all occasions,
had w’on all that was left of a heart seared
in the fires of mad voluptuousness , But
from the momeut I robbed, I hated her.-r
With the injustice which I believe ever
accompanies the perpetration of injuries, I
considered my wife a spy, prying into my
actions, and at every moment on the eve of
discovering the deception I had practised,
the robbery I had committed, AH confi
dence was now at an end, on my part; all
pleasure in her society; I began to estrange
myself from home, and by degrees to drink
drams, to keep up the- courage of dastardly
guilt, and make me sufficiently a brute to
meet her after my nightly orgies witb9Ut
sinking into the earth. Now it was that
ray- -dowuhill course became more rapid
than ever; I fell in company with some of
iny old associates of the club; renewed my
intimacy with Baity and the ferret eyed
buu her; got half fuddled, was robbed and
cheated every night and returned to my
home e very morning, more of a beast than
I left it in the evening^’.. 1 .
To liquidate 1 the losses thus incurred
deeper and deeper draughts are made on
his wife’s fortune, and to >ury the galling
consciousness of his turpitudi-j-still galljng
to his seared and inundated hearts he steeps
his senses in the stupefaction of
From one excess he proceeds to another,
untH he at length becomes a bloar
ted mass of disease—entirely forsaken bv
those who were addicted—but in a less de
gree— 4o the hatefel vice by which ibe had
been prostrated. He becomes .at length
reduced to absolute penury, and has only a
miserable hovel to shelter himself and ruin
ed family from the storms of .'heaven.—
The catstrophe of his fate now draws rap
idly on. During ail this time his heart bro
ken wife had borne'him company, meekly
bearing Jiis brutality and ill treatment, and
endeavoring to force herself ipto an ap
pearance of cheerfulness which )ier wan
and wasted conditiop .feo plainly denied.-r-
But, as the author observes, there is a cer
tain state of endurance, a forced elevation
of the spirits, which cannot be sustained be
yond a stated period, without-shaking the
intellectual fabric to its foundation. The
reason of the uncomplaining partner of the
drunkard ait last becoirie&upsettlcd ‘‘Her
mind was sometimes evidently not mistress
of itself, and her vivacjty at inter
vals, when she was strongly excited, so mis*
placed and upgov.ernable, as to indicate too
evidently that"(foe springs which regulated
the 4 fine machine were : dera-nged cr worn
out by perpetual exertion.*’ The delinea
tion of this 5, poor and blighted creature's
condition is given with a painful strength
and accuracy of touch that cannot but take
a deep hold of thei reader’s sensibility. But
we must pot dwell on it. During this
wrecked end shattered condition of her in.-
tellect, her husband conceives the diabolical
thought of making her a participant, ip his
practices; and thjus.pollute her soul, as he
had already forever destroyed her* happi
ness. ‘ ;
“ Yet, Bom the bottom of my soul,” says
the narrative, “ I believe my poor Amelia,
had she been herself, notwithstanding her
mistaken lenity, anti mischieveus indulgen
ces of mv excessts, would never, in her ra
tional moments, have degraded herself by
a participation in niy orgies. At last, how
ever, and by imperceptible degrees, she fell
from her high estate, and indeed
to my dead level of measures less brutality
—but low enough to lose herself, and ! all
she once had been. ‘I will not describe
the scenes which my home now presented,
almost every day. Husband, wife, father,
mother, children, all mad ; now singing and
laughing; now cursing and swearing like
the inmates of a mad house.” The dread
ful issue of these courses could not long be
delayed, and we shall copy the account of
the catastrophe from the volume itself. -
“ One day—it was an ominous day—the
anniversary o i our marriage—in a fit of sa
vage hiliarity I wore I would celebrate it
with more than usual splendor. • 1 got up at
twelve the preceding night, and intoxicated
myself before sunrise, when I went to bed
and slept myself partly sober again before
dinner. At dinner I drank, and enticed
my poor Amelia to follow my example, till
the little reason left us began to stagger on
its throne. I proposed a toast— ‘ Our wed
ding day, add many happy returns ofrt.’—
A sadden pang seemed to cross her miud,
& produce a train of bitter recollection?.—
‘ YVas it not a happy day, Amelia,’ said I,
tauntingly. She burst into tears and cov
ered her face with her hands for a minute ;
then slowly removing them she replied with
a look of agony, that still haunts me day and
night—' 1 Yes, it was a happy day—but—
The tone and look irritated my already in
furiated spirit, burning as it was in liquid
flame. 4 But what,’ replted I ‘ Come,
speak out—del us have no secrets op this
happy day.’ i I We have paid dearly for it,’
she said; you with the loss of fortune, fame
and goodness I with a broken heart and
shattered reason.’
4 1 And I alone am to blame for all this, I
suppose.’
* No ; I blame nothing but my own folly.
I bad my warnings, but came too late,
or rather, as my conscience tells me, 1 shu f t
my ears to them, Wou?d I had died,’ ad
ded she, wringing her bunds, ‘ before that
miserable day.’
“ l laughed aloud. 1 Poor sou],’ cried |
‘ does it mean to; say I deceived it? fish/
woman ! did you ever flatter yourself yopr
weak and silly ssx was a match for men—
rtien of the world—men .of experience ?
Pshaw ! a wife is.a more plaything—a—
‘.A victim,’ sighed my poor wife. ‘ Bus
whapehart;© me with V
♦ Your fortune is gone,’ said I.
1 Who was it wasted it for nfe V
‘Your beauty is turned to deformity'|
you have grown as uglv as the
• Who spoiled it by robling me ofrest by
night, of happiness by day ?’
4 You,are npjpnger the gay, sprightly, an
imated, witty thing that won my heart.’
‘Your heart, replied she, scornfully $ but
who was i( that robbed neto of my gaiety:
that worked my heart and turned try brain e
Do you know the man, the monster i woultj
say ? Her eyes now flashed fire as she
continued. ‘Do you know the monster J.
say ? he who .deceived my youth; waste*}
my fortune; destroyed ir*y happiness; de*
graded the modesty of my.sex and station j
poured liquid fires down my throat, and
heaped coals of fire op theffieads of my
children ? rendered the past p recol
lection of horror,. the present yet worse-pr
the future—O my .God ?’
. ‘I, whom you promised to love and obey
all ypujpilife. \ Come give me an example
of your obedience,’ cried J, pouring opt a
glass of fililry liquor, come, one bumper
more; I swear ycm.shall drink ope bumper
piore.tQ this happy day—come!’
‘I ; will not; J am already more than half
a beast !*
‘And half a fool,’ muttered I, risiug and
staggering to the. other side of the table*
where she was sitting, ‘I swear by hell yoq
shall drink it. . , *
‘I swear by Heaven I will not.*
‘fVho shall answer for tile actions of q
man mad with drink I No 4 himself for hq
is a beast without a sopl;vnot fop
he has abandoned him. A struggle'now eni
sued,, during which, became, ir%
ritated into fury.*. </jT.h e childrfafe
frighted about us, bin | kicked seem away.
My poor Amelia, at length s,trupk the glas§
out of my ‘hand; 1 became furious as a
mon, and threw her from me with a diabol|
teal force, against the cqjraer of the firQ
place. fell, raised herself half
gave her chjldren one look and.sunk down
again. Sho was dea4 ‘ ,
‘I am now . the sober tenant of a
house* The jury that tried me, w ould net
belive a man who acted such scenes as wei<|
proved upon me could be ip his
They acquitted me on the store of insani*
ty. My, relatives placed me here to pass
the rest.of my apd repover my senses
4f I can. Bu,tl am not diad; the justice*
of heaven has ordained that 1 shall live
while I live, .in the full perception of my
past wickedness, t l know not what is be f
come of my children, for no one will an*
swer my. inquiries—no one will fell itiq
where they are, whether they areftpad pf
•live. All I can understand is, that j
shall never see : them more. My constant
companion day -and night, waking and
dreaming, is ,my murdered wife. Every
moment of my life is spent ip recalling tu
my mind, the history of tfiat ill fated girl f
ip the summing up pf w hat I have to ant
swer for to her, her fi fends and her ofl\
spring. Denied the indulgence of all sorts
of stimulants, my strength is gonej ipy bo
dy shrunk and shrivelled/ almost to a skefet
ton, and my limbs quake with the least ex%
ertion. Guilt grins me in the face; infamy
barks at my heels; scorn points her finger
at me; disease- is gnawing in my vitals,
death already touches me with his icy fin*
gers; and eternity waits to swallow me up,
Jam going to meet Amelia-* J
*Th© man to whose charge I am commit*
ted, has-, furnished mo with the means <>f
fulfilling this tn.y last task, and making the
only atonement in my power, for, wbut f
have done. 1 If there be any one .whO iSha))
read this, to whom temptation may beckon
afar off, at a distance, which its
deformity, Jet him contemplate megs I en r
tcred on the stage of life; as I pursued my
course forward; as I closed or am about to
close it forever. Let him not cheat his
soul; let him pot for a moment believe,
that it is impossible for him to become as
bad, nay worse than I have been,. If we
look only at the beginning-and the end of a
carepr of infamy and the space
appears a gulf,; which the delinquent has
overlept at a single bound. But if we ex
amine into the particulars of hislife and
progress, we’ shall seldom fail to find that
the interval has been passed, and the goal
attained, step by step, little jiod little, froiq
good to bad, fiom bad to worse; The pridq
of human reason, imay whisper in our eqrs
that we can never become like the wretch
whose career we have just been tracing.—
But as poor Ophelia says, ‘we know what
ive are, but we know not what we Kiay le.’
It is only to begin as I began; to sow the
seeds, and be sure that in good time yoq
will reap the same fruits; drink the sqme
gall and bitterness here, and the same (fery
draught hereafter.’—p. 183-88
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