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MOONLIGHT ON THE GRAVE.
*T JANS T, LOMAX
i> &bjMtb oaths qnUt
VTh«r« weary ohm have gone;
It watehetfa with an<ab« gue,
Where the dead are left alt aa,
Aad not a sound of ou»y life,
Te the still graveyard cornea;
Bat peacefully, the sleepers lie*-
Down in their silenthomM.
All silently and solemnly,
It thro we ih shadows round;
And every grave-stone hath a trace,
In darkness, on the ground.
It looketh on the tiny mound,
Where a little child is laid;
And it lighteth up the marble pile,
Which human pride hath made.
It falleth with unaltered ray,
On the simple and the stern;
And showeth with a solemn light,
The sorrows we must learn;
It telleth of divided ties,
On which its beams hath shone ;
It whispereth of heavy hearts.
Which ‘brokenly live on.*
It gleameth, where devoted ones,
Are sleeping side by side;
It falleth, where the maiden rests.
Who in her beauty died.
There is no grave in all the earth,
That moonlight hath not seen;
Itgazeth cold and passionless,
Where agony hath been.
Yet it is well! that changeless ray,
A deeper thought should throw.
When mortal love pours forth the tide
Os unavailing woe ;
It teacheth us, no shade of grief,
Can touch the starry sky;
That ail our sorrow liveth here —
The glory is on high !
Fredericksburg, Va.
HOURS OF JOY.
FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOPHANES.
At even tide, when the beautiful sound,
Sings on the wind from the olive ground.
And the nightingale’s breath is stirring the vine,
And the sun is passing from every shrine ;
And the cheek of the cottage child gleams with a smile,
And the eyes of tne mother grow brighter the while—
Child of gladness, how joyous then
The light of thy path ’mid the haunts of man.
When the little one lifts its voice of glee,
And a chequer of light is under the tree,
And flowers are scattering over the door,
And the young men lean at the cottage door,
And the aged and young come gathering round thee,
And the heart of the widow laughs when she hath found
Child of gladness, now frank and free, (thee—
Tno merry sound of thy steps shall be!
In the shade of the elm where the day beams depart,
The plane-leaves shall murmur peace to tny heart,
Tne boughs of th.* poplar shall shadow thy seat,
And the enddren in joyfulness play round thy feet,
Tne light of the t>oso.n shall not burn dim,
Time snail not wither heart or lima—
Child of gladness, how joyous then
The light of thy path 'mid the haunts of men.
Hours in Hiudustau.
BY H. R. ADDISON.
A TALE OF WRITER’S BUILDINGS.
Ws had drank deeply; Writers’ Building re
echoed with our snouts ol'ininn; eleven o’clock
sounded, yet not a word of parting had yet been
pronounced. The 101 l shrou (claret) was excel
lent; the guests amusing; unline orgies ol a
similar description in Europe, not an argument
had arisen to dim tne brilliant hilarity of tiie
evening. A feeling of brotherhood exists a
rnong Englishmen in India, arising fioin the
distance 01 their common home, that joins them
incloser ties of friendsnip tnan those weener
into elsewhere, more particularly if you are “in
the service.” In our country a man may be in
the army, navy, church, or law, and yet not feel
that every one in his proiession is, consequent
ly, his intimate friend. In India, however,
those who as 1 said before, are “in the service,”
consider themselves as members of a fraternity
which binds them together by,!inks ol the.strong
est friendship. It is true, the civilian is apt to
think himself a much greater man than the sol
dier; yet, as this teeliug is principally displayed
by opening his house, and entertaining his less
rich fellow-.abottrers, the military man has little
to grumble at, and consequently partakes of tne
sumptuous tare afforded him without murmur,
as 1 did on the evening I have selected for this
sketch.
Jack Thorton, had lately arrived. He was
the son ot a director, and perhaps, assumed a
few airs and graces in consequence, which were
willingly admitted; for in Bengal we look upon
the lords of Leadenhall as sometimes exceeding
the Emperor of Russia in power, in riches be
yond Crcesus, and (I must in common gratitude
add) in kindness unequalled by any other rulers
in the world. To come back however to my
story.
The conversation had turned upon ghosts.
Some boldly admitted their belief in such appear
ances; others half doubted: while the third, and
most numerous portion ol the company loudly
ridiculed the idea as being impossible, offering
to undergo all kinds of tests in order to prove
their scepticism. At the head of this party was
young Tnemton.
“It is really too ridiculous to talk of such
things in the nineteenth century," cried he.
"Ghosts, indeed ! I should like to see one.”
“So should 1,” chimed in Gravestock; “noth
ing would give me so much pleasure.”
“Here’s a health to all ghosts and goblins 1”
laughingly shouted Tom Baghctt, ayoung caval
ry-officer, and the toast was drank with great
merrimen
“As an , ..lendment, I vote that we go and
drink it in the church-yard,” said Thornton;
“they’ll hear us better there.”
“Really I fear my dear sir, you are going a lit
tle too far,” said Mr. Marlin, the clergyman ot
St. John’s; “like yourself I am no believer in
such appearances as you describe ; but I must
confess that lam wholly opposed to such indeco
rous proceedings as those you propose. Invo
cations of the kind might, indeed, summon with
anger the dead from their graves.”
“Twaddle I” interrupted Gravestock.
“Egad! it they’re to be had out of their very
resting-places,” said 1 horton, “we’ll have’ein.
Here goes 1” said he; and, assuming a very se
rious air and manner, in despite of the opposi
tion of the clergyman, he pronounced in a sol
emn voice, “By all the powers of necromancy,
past, present and future, by every incantation,
holy and unholy, by every adjuialion, I hereby,
if such a thing be possible to call upon the dead
to appear!”
Baghott, who had left the room lor a single
instant, hearing this pompous conjuration, sud
denly burst in the room with a loud “Bah 1”
The effect was so sudden so unexpected, that
Thornton uttered a loud scream, and sprang
from his chair. In an instant the general
laugh recalled him to himself, when smarting
under the quiz, which being unanimously kept
up at his expense, he wisely refrained from re
senting, he seated himself determined however,
not only to be quits with Master Tom on a fu
ture occasion, but also to redeem his character
from the braggadocio hue which now slightly
tinged it. After much laughing, after a hun
dred other topics had been in turn discussed,
Thorton suddenly turned round, and abruptly
adverted to the conversation, which had already
caused himself so much pain:
“Gentlemen, I was taken by surprise just now;
I was startled, I acknowledge, and overcome by
sudden fear; but, as you have had your laugh
at me, it is but fair, in my turn, I should have
my revenge on some of you. I require but a
slight one. A thousand rupees will compensate
for the little affront that has been put upon me.
Now, gents, who will bet me a thousand rupees
that 1 do not go through any ordeal with respect
to ghosts and goblins that may be assigned to
me?”
“I will,” replied the president; for he wished
sincerely to make up for his apparent rudeness
in having joined the laugh at Thornton’s expense
even though he left he should lose his money.
“Done I”
“Done 1”
“Now, then, what am I to do?”
“It is nearly twelve o’clock. You shall goto
the churchyard of St. John’s, which is close by,
and pick up a skull 1 saw lying there to-day,
near old Halliday’s tomb, and with a hammer
and nail, which you can take with you, fasten
the said skull to the wodden monument tempo
rarily erected over the grave of poor Martin;
come back, and finish the evening here.—l think
I have let him off lightly,” added the president
in a whisper to his next neighbor.
“I only bargain for one thing, namely, that no
practical jokes are played otfon me. To in
sure this, promise me that no one stirs from this
table till 1 return; I, on the other hand, am will
ing, on my return, to pledge my honor that I
have accomplished the task, or pay the bet.—
You must, however, allow me two hours toper
form it, as I must take the opportunity when
the watch is off his beat.”
These terms were agreed to, the required as
surances given, and Thornton started off to his
house to prepare himself for his undertaking,
leaving the revellers to enjoy themselves tillhis
return.
Once more at home, Thornton sent out a
scout to see that the coast was clear; then chan
ging his dress, and donning a large military
cloak, he armed himself with a hammer and a
nail, and started off for St. John’s church-yard.
The night was one of those beautiful specimens
ot oriental climates, which, in some degree,
compensate for the violent heat of the day.—
The heavens presented a sheet of the very dark
est blue, thickly studded with stars. No moon
was visible, but the lesser luminaries gave suf
ficient light to distinguish imperfectly objects in
the.immediate neighborhood. A gentle breeze
fanned the earth, slightly sighingas it passed
through the ornamental buildings of the city.
Arrived at his destination, without meeting
with a single living being, Thornton boldly en
tered the church-yard, steadily resolved to ac
complish the teat that had been proposed to him.
It is true he felt a slight fluttering around the
region of the bean, for which he could not ac
count; a continual desire to swallow his saliva,
which, thou<h generally adiuiued to be an indi
cation al tear, qrsttwig ouaiiaa, nanjd swivaly
be so m the present instance; for the youth nev
er stepped more firmly than when he entered the
place ofChrirtian sepulture.
Without much difficulty, he found the skull •
but as he picked it up, he" could not help think
ing he heard some one pronounce his name. As
he raised himself, a shadow appeared to flit by
him. Could he be deceived by his senses?
Could the dead thus rise to reproach him ? Well
be knew, after the pledge that he received, that
none of his companions could have followed
him. The man he bad sent as scout had too
■well examined the place to believe that any one [
eouki lurk there. Whence, then, the sound i
which he had heard, as it were close to his ear?
Already he began to feel that he was wrong in ■
.ttus desecrating, by his presence, the place of
ombs. For a moment he hesitated whether he
should not return and give up the bet. 'I he
money was no object; but the tauntings which
would attend such a result, he could not bear;
so, in spite of everything, he determined to com
plete his task.
He now strode across the burial-ground. He
suddenly felt a jerk. He started, and uttered a
low ejaculation. He looked round; it was
merely his cloak, that had caught the corner ol
a tomb stone. He hastily snatched it away,
and proceeded. Presently he felt a blow on the
leg. For a moment he was startled. In the
next be smiled, as he perceived it was only
against a prostrate iron rail that he had hit it.—
Uu coming cluse to Marlin’s place ol rest, he
stepped on some new earth, and sank ankle
deep into it. It was the new grave of a friend,
a fellow-passenger, who had been interred that
morning. He felt shocked; yet determined on
accomplishing his enterprise, he ai length laid
his hand on tne wooden tablet, which, till the
marble one should be completed, covered the re
mains of poor Martin, his brother writer, his
late chum.
As ne knelt down beside the monument, which
consisted of a flat piece of board, resting ou the
four brick walls, about eighteen inches from the
ground, he fell more inclined to pray for the re
pose of his friend’s soul, than thus to pollute the
covering to his ashes by an unholy act. Again,
however, the idea ol the ridicule to which he
would be exposed, shot across his mind, and he
set about his task, being determined to do it as
quietly as possible.
Having placed the skull upon the tablet, he
was pulling out his hammer from his pocket,
when, in turning, his hat was suddenly knocked
off. He rose, and with the boldness olten in
spired by fear, looked around him. No one
was near. He had, most likely, struck it a
gainst something, and so caused it to tail off.
In groping around he grasped a human bone,
which he threw away with a shudder. Again
ue felt about, and his hand touched a cold, slimy
frog. Its icy, clammy chill reminded him of
death, he determined to finish his labor before
he again sought his hat; so down he knelt, and
earnestly commenced his task. With extreme
agitation he began to fasten the skull to the
tomb. As the nail ground through the bone, he
fancied some one or other twitched him trom be
hind; but, determined that nothing shoulddeier
him, he gave one more stroke, and the dead
man’s head was firmly affixed to the monument
of his friend.
He was about to rise, when he felt himself
held down by the back oi his neck. He e there
could be no mistake. “Who is there?” loudly
demanded Thornton. “By heaven! if you don’t
let me go, i’ll strike you dead with this ham
mer!” No answer was given, and Thornton
began to feelextremely agitated. “Who’sthere,
I say? I’ll not consider this as a joke. Scoun
drel, let me up!” And to rise, but in
vain; the same firm grasp held him by the nape
of the neck. His horror now almost amounted
to madness, for, by stretching out his leg, he
had clearly ascertained that no one was behind
him. “Living or dead, you shall not conquer
me!” added he, in a paroxysm cd' tear and des
peration. “you shall not hold me!”—and he at
tempted suddenly to spring up. In the next in
stant he was dashed down upon his lace, per
fectly’ insensible.
In the mean time the two hours demanded by
the adventurous better had expired, and someof
the party at the Writers’ Buildings proposed to
go and look alter Thornton, and claim the bet,
which was now clearly won. Supposing that
his courage had failed him, and that he had qui
etly sneaked home, to avoid the sneers of the
company, it was proposed thal they should oue
and all go to the young man’s house, and have
their laugh out at his expense.
The proposal was warmly approve I of, and
they sallied forth; but, alas! the bird was flown.
From the servant’s account, he had evidently
gone forth to accomplish the task he had under
taken; so to the burying-place they joyously
trudged. The gate was open; Thornton was
evidently there. They shouted to him, no re
ply was given; so in they inarched. Presently
they came to Martin’s grave, beside which lay
their friend, perfectly motionless. In an instant
the drunken party became sobered, and they
felt too late that they had engaged in an affair
likely to terminate in a disagreeable manner,
and reproached themselves with having serious
ly frightened a good ccAnrade and a valued
friend. Those who were nearest immediately
stepped forward to raise poor Thornton up. He
was cold and insensible. A doctor, who was of
the party, advanced; he looked alarmed, felt the
pulse, put his hand upon the breast, then turn
ing round, exclaimed, in a voice which struck
terror to every heart around him, “He ts dead—
quite dean!”
The friends who supported him hoped he was
deceived, and attempted to remove the body. It
was attached to the tomb. In an instant the
whole cause of his terror and death was appa
rent. His cloak had slipped in between the
skull aid the tablet—he had firmly nailed it to
the monument, so that when he had endeavored,
poor fellow! to rise, he had been held down by
the back of the collar, and, striving with a jerk
to free himself, had been naturally thrown down
by it. The matter was hushed up. To this
day the friends of the unhappy youth know not
the cause of his death. From that moment
none of the company have ever indulged in a
practical joke. A brave, a good, and virtuous
youth was thus immolated in attem| ting to prove
his courage, where no such test was required.
May his example serve as a beacon to the
foolhardy!
Fran the Dublin University Magazine.
Resurrection Men.
“We should first premise that the principal
characters among the resurrectionists were two
men, the one named Patrick, and the oilier Mur
phy :
“An intimate friend ofPatrick’s was employ
ed in the service of a gentleman, whose residence
was a short distance from London. One day
this man called in company with a fellow-ser
vant, on Patrick, and informed him that his mas
ter was dead and thought something in the way
of business might be done with the body as it
was lying in a back parlor the windows of
which opened on to a large lawn. Palrickmade
several inquiries, and having ascertained that
the funeral was to take place on the following
Sunday, said in conclusion, “The coffin then
will most probably be screwed down on Satur
day ; it it is, let me know; I will have nothing
to do with it until that part of the work is done.”
Things fell out as Patrick anticipated, and ac
cording on the night of Saturday he entered at
the back ol the premises, and being admitted to
the parlor by the servant, he commenced his op
erations. Unassisted by any light, he drew all
the screws, took off the lid, and having formed
an estimate as accurate as the circumstances
would allow, of the weight of the body, removed
it into a box which he had brought with him
forthe purposeofcontainingit. Hethenplaced
in the coffin a quantity of earth, which the ser
vant had procured from the garden, correspond
ing to the weight of the corpse. The lid was
then replaced, carefully screwed down, the pall
thrown over it, and the box containing the body
passed out of the window to Patrick, who bid it
in a tool house at some distance from the
dwelling-place. In this shed he allowed it io
remain until the following Monday, when it
was removed to one of the private anatomical
schools, &c. For this subject Patrick received
fifteen guineas 1
This is but one of a great number of such in
stances, but it is a tolerable fair specimen of the
cool and daring character which mat ked the sys
tem of what was termed “body-snatching.”
The enormous profit which attended this pur
suit may be imagined, when it is strted that one
ot its followers (Murphy) received for one
night’s work one hundred and forty-four pounds!
There was also a considerable profit arising
from the traffic in human teeth, and it is related
of this man, who was no less active in mind
than in body, and who never moved but in hrs
occur: l tion—
“That, in taking a walk, he observed a neat
meeting-house, attached to which was a paved
burial ground. Looking around, he observed a
trap-door, leading he had no doubt, to hidden
treasures, and these he determined to explore. A
short time after coming to this conclusion, dress
ed in a suit of black, and with a demure demean
or, his eyes reddened as if from tears, he called
upon the superintendent of the meeting-house
burial-ground, and desci ibed to him, in much
apparent distress, the recent bereavement which
he had met of his wife, and his anxious wish
that her bones should repose in this neat and
quiet sanctuary. Slipping a halfcrown into his
hand, Murphy readily induced the man to pur
mit him to descend into the vault, undarthe idea
that he wished to select the spot for the remains
of his beloved. Murphy, who outside had
studied the bearings of the trap-door, after much
pretended inspection of the vault, took an op
portunity, while his companion’s back was turn
ed to him, of suddenly raising his hand to the
ceiling and slipping back two bolts which se
cured the door. On that very night Murphy let
himself down into the vault, and there, by a few
hours’ active exertion, secured possession to him
self of the front teeth of all its inmates. By this
night’s adventure he made a clear profit of sixty
pcundsf ”
Frankness.—Be frank with the world.—
Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
Say iust what you mean to do on every occa
sion,'and take it for granted you mean to do
what is right. If a friend ask a favor, you
should grant it, if reasonable—if not, tell him
why you cannot. You w'H wrong him and
wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to
keep one—the man who requires you to do so
is dearly put chased at a sacrifice. Deal kindly-,
but firhav, with all men —you willfindit the pol
icy vlick weais best. Abave ill.’do MiSfwr
l« others what you ar* act. If you bare aiy fault
to find with any one, tell him, not others, of
what you complain. There is no more danger
ous experiment than that of undertaking to be
one thing to a man’s face, and another behind
his back. We should live, act, and speak out
of doors, as the phrase is, and say and do what
we are w-illing should be known and read by
men. It is not only best as a matter of principle,
but as a matter ot policy.
From Gvyama.—Capt. Mitchell, of the bark
Josephine, from Guyama, arrived last evening,
informs us that the drought which had continu
ed for near one year, was succeeded, in the ear
ly part of May, by- plenteous showers.— N. Y.
Express.
. Too Near to be Pleasant.
The Bundleeunds may justly be styled the
wilderness ol India. No human hand has ever
endeavored to recover the jungle-covered land
from its primitive wildness, overgrown with
closely-tangled brushwood. Its swampy soil is
reckoned so unhealthy, that few wretches, how
ever poor, have as yet been found hardy enough
to settle here. Through this district, however,
the military officer is sometimes compelled to
pass to arrive at the head-quarters of his regiment.
Such was the tale of Arthur Mctavish, who re
lated tome the following adventure, which there
brtel him.
Mac, having grown dreadfully weary of his
long confinement on board the little boat in which
he was slowly voyaging through the Bundle
cun Is, determined on landing near the first spot
which should present to his eye the agreeable
view of a human habitation. Aware that the
whole country around him was swarming with
ferocious wild animals, he wisely refrained from
going on shore on many of the beautiful but soli
tary spots by which he passed. At lenghth he
came to a little knot of Indian hovels, which stood
some hall a mile from the banks. Arthur here
desired his head danuy (boatman) to lagow (the
act of fastening the boat to the shore,) and in
stantly shouldering his Manton, started for the
native village. On his approach being perceived
a couple of Indians, divested of evety strip ol
clothes except their small langoutes (the very
rag which decency requires), hastened to meet
aim, and wain him of tlie many pitfalls around
him. From these men he learnt that their only
occupation was thatof digging holes, resembling
human graves, about eightfeet deep, which they
covered with small branches of trues and brush
wood. By these means they ensnared the wild
animals, who, unconscious ot the trap thus art
fully set would often tread on the seeming ground,
and in the next instant find themselves prisoners
at the mercy of their captors, who instantly de
spatched them, selling the skins of some, and
claiming trom the authorities the price set upon
every tiger’s head. Os these animals they hau
captured above twenty during the preceding
twelve months. Two of their party it is true
had been destroyed by these ferocious beasts;
but as the natives considered that it must have
been their nussca (pre-ordained fate), they ap
peare 1 little affected by the circumstance. It
was now late in the day: so, desiring them to go
and fetch his sleeping mats, he determined on
remaining in one of these huts tor the night, as
they promised him, in this case, that at break ol
day they would point out some splendid sport to
him. To obtain what they described, he would
willingly have gone half round the world, so he
unhesitatingly accepted their offer, and deter
mined on passing the night there.
Alter partaking of some rice and ghee, having
cleaned his gun, (one barrel of which he always
charged with ball, the other with shot,) and ar
ranged his ammunition and shooting apparatus
for the following morning, (in places where we
have few companions to uivert us, this is half
the sport,) he laid himself down to rest, taking
care, however, to bar the door as well ashecoulu
forhe rather disliked themannerof oneofthe vil
lagers, and already began to repent that he had
thus left hunsell so completely in their power.
His servants, whom he now regretted not
having brought with him, were full haifa mile
off. The few natives around him were strong
athletic men, accustomed to struggle with wild
beasts, and almost as ferocious in their natures
as the animals they were in the habit ofhunting.
At liberty to change from spot to spot; enableu
in the fastnesses ot the Bundleeunds to elude the
the most diligent search, proverbially avaricious,
thinking little of the sacrifice of life, why' should
not these men fall on him, and muruer him !
He had foolishly displayed his purse to them,
filled with rupees, and had vaunted the goodness
of his gun, an object to them more precious
than gold itself What, then, was to pre
vent their making themselves masters of all
these? Nothing. He felt this, and revolving
it in his mind, left into a light, uneasy slumber
It must have been about one o’clock in the
morning, when he was awakened by hearing
several voices conversing in suppressed tones
close to the little window of the hut, which was
ill-blocked up by a cuskos tattic (a blind or shut
ter made of dried grass). Mactavish stealthily
crept towards it, and, to his utter consternation,
heard them thus explain their bloodthirsty in
tentions.
“How long,” demanded strange voice, “is it
since you got him in?”
“Just before nightfall.”
“Have you since listened, to ascertain if he
is stirring?”
“I have, and suspect he is fast asleep.”
“Then this is the best time to fall on him.—
But as j’ou say he is powerful, we had better go
prudently to work. How do you propose to at
tack him?”
“I think,” replied one of his entertainers,”
the best way will be to fire at him through the
crevices with poisoned arrows.”
“But, suppose he bursts forth?”
“Oh! then we’ll despatch him with our knives.”
“ Have you got them with you?”
“Not yet.”
“Well, then, be quick,” said the apparent
leader; “be off and fetch them, and we’ll get the
job over as soon as possible. I’ll return in five
minutes,” and Mactavish heard them suddenly
go off in different directions.
With a panting heart Mae. listened as their
footsteps died away; then, seizing his gun, he
determined to endeavor to escape, or, at al
events, to sell his life as dearly as possible in
the open air, whence the report of his fowling
piece might be heard by those on board his
budgerow. In another instant he was out of
the door, and with the speed of lightning he
started oft’ in the direction (at least so he suppo
sed) of the place of anchorage, where his boat
was lying.
The moon was brightly shining as poor Ar
thur rushed along, heedless of any danger but
that ol being followed by the inhospitable mur
derers amongst whom he had thus unluckily
fallen.
The cri-s ot the jackal and the fayo, the roar
of the larger animals, and the screams of wild
birds, suddenly disturbed from their roosting
places, lent additional horrors to the scene as
Arthur flew madly along. Presently a sudden
bound was perceptible amongst the jungle. The
crackling underwood was heard to yield be
neath the pressure of some weighty beast of
prey. A savage growl, accompanied with a pe
culiar cat-like, hissing noise, a pair of flashing
eyes, gleaming brightly even through the dark
ness, at once told the unfortunate fugitive that a
tiger was springing after him. Poor Macta
vish gave himself up as lost. For about twen
ty yards he kept ahead of his fearful pursuer.
Another bound, however, would place him in
his power; he had no time even to offer up a
prayer. He gave one spring in despairing en
ergy, and, as he did so, he felt a violent shock;
bright sparks of fire appeared to flash from his
eyes: eveiy joint seemed dislocated. Arthur
had fal'en into one of the pit-falls, over, which
as he fell, the tiger leaped safely.
Relieved for the moment from his fears, Mac
tavish now ventured to look up. By the light
of the moon, which shone brightly, he perceiv
ed the tiger crouching down at the edge of the
pit, watching with savage wakefulness the
wretched being, he evidently seemed to think
now within his power. His glaring eyes were
steadily fixed on his victim, who crouched down
as low as possible, to be out of the reach of the
monster’s destructive paw.
As Mactavish’s eyesight began to get accus
tomed to the place, he perceived to his horror, a
long black snake attempting to crawl up the
sides. Foiled in this, the serpent seemed to hesi
tate whether he would renew his endeavours to
escape, or turn upon the intruder, who now sat
trembling before him. Atlastit seemed to de
termine on the latter I for it suddenly began to
rear it elf, and fixing its eyes, which seemed to
be of fire, upon poor Mac, prepared to spring,
Arthur started up. Ashe did so, he suddenly
left the flesh torn from his shoulder, which he
had unthinkingly exposed to the claws of the tiger
by raising himself within reach of his outstretch
ed limb. The animal, in making the movement
had disturbed the branches at the edge of the
trap. The gun had dropped through, and now
fell into the pit at the feet of Mactavish, who,
bleeding and in agony, hadyet sufficient presence
ot mind to catch it up, and instantly discharging
it, destroyed the serpent as it kept moving about,
preparatory to its final dart. The report seem
ed to render the tiger more ferocious, who now
even attempted to creep down into the trap.
Poor Arthur began seriously to consider whether
it were not better to yield himself at once to the
jaws of the animal, than remain to die a linger
ing death by starvation in this living grave.
His head reeled: desperation seemed almost
about to drive him to madness. Well he knew
that the snake’s mate would probably ere long
return to its consort. Already the earth began
to crumble down underthe scraping paws ofthe
impatient tiger. Human nature could last but
little longer, when suddenly a dying roar is
heard! the savage animal turns over in the
agonies of death, transfixed by several poisoned
arrows! In another moment poor Mactavish’s
late host and his friends appear, and lift him out
ofthe pit. They welcome him, and express
their delight at saving him. What, then, could
their previous conduct mean? The mystery
was soon cleared up; as they conducted Arthur
back to his budgerow, they explained to him
that they had been engaged in destroying a leop
ard which had fallen intoone oftheirpit-falls, and
about which thej’ were conversing when he over
heard them. They were returning from thisex
pedition when they heard the report of his gun,
and rushing to the spot whence the sound had
proceeded had happily succeeded, as I have re
lated, in saving him, and restoring him to the
service, in which he has since risen to high rank
and honours.
How to make Money. —We annex some
rood advice from an old author:—“Let the
•Miaesa of every body aloao, and attend to
your own; don’t buy what you don’t want; use
ever}' hour to advantage, and study to make
even leisure hours useful; think twice before
you throw away a shilling, remember you will
have another to make for it; find recreation in
looking after your business, and so your busi
ness will not be neglected in looking after re
creation; buy low; sell fair, and take care of
the profits; look over your books regularly, and
ifvou find an error, trace it out; should a stroke
of misfortune come upon you in trade, retrench,
work harder, ‘but never fly the track; confront
difficultias with unflinching perseverance, and
they will disappear at last; though you should
even fail in the struggle, you will be honored;
but shrink from the task you will be despised.”
The Best “Yarn.”
BY C. a. LOGAN, COM EDI AJt.
All alioat, in a boat,
Aa clumsy as an vivphaul.— Old Song
Embarked in a small sloop, bound for East
port. A fresh northeasterly wind rendered the
morning chilly', and the Captain invited me to
join him in an anti-iogmatic. 1 assented; and
having swallowed a portion of new rum, heavi
ly impregnated with molasses, my eyes
fixed themselves on the lank features of agigan
tic Yankee, who, having been waiting until I
had despatched my quantum of the nauseous
fluid, reached down, and withdrew the cup from
iny lips, observing, while he distended the huge
jaws, to perform what I afterwards found he
meant for a laugh, that, “He guessed that are
was pooty considerable slick stuff for a coldish
mornin’l” The Captain acquiesced in the re
mark, and said, “Better take a sup. Mister.”
But the Yankee was one of those who disdain
postponing an action on account of a preceding
or an accompanying ceremony; the invitation
was, therefore, lost on him. He had already
transferred the remaining contents of the bottle
to the mug—thence, by a natural and easy swing
of the left arm, deposited the draught within the
purlieus of his stomach He neither smacked
his lips, nor winked his eyes, nor gave any oth
er indication that he either liked the liquor or
felt ilsstrength, but accommodating the lower
part of ms elongated legs to the increasing mo
tion of the vessel, and fixing his little, grey,
deeply-set eyes on the skipper, he inquired of
him, “Where he bought that ere sperits to?”
“Why?” replied the Captain, glancing his eyes
from the Yankee to the olt-patched and weather
worn sa Is, the fag ends of which “wantoned in
the breeze.” “Why, Nelson ! don’t stand your
stick o’ wood up that way when you split it,
cause your axe ain’t overly sharp, and the eend
o’ the stick might go clean through the deck.”—
“Wonder how you’re goin’ to do it any better,”
cried Nelson, from the forecastle deck; “you
know much about steerin, don’t ye, to wet a fel
ler all over this way, an putall the fire out —how
do you think you’re going to git any breakfast?”
“VV ell, you can’t steer no better,” said the mas
ter. “anil what’s more, you can’t cook.” “Can’t
cook?” bellowed the insulted Nelson; “then
blast me if you may’nt cook for yourself, for all
mel” hurrying the uplifted axe to the deck with
a violence that went nigh to verify the Captain’s
tears, the expression oi which had caused the
strife.
“Well, there ain’t no occasion to get in a tiff
about it; come, fly round and git breakfast."
This was uttered by the Captain in a soothing,
conciliating tone, which he hoped would adjust
die difference between him andhiscook, bvcall-
ing his attention to the immediate and impor
tant duty of preparing breakfast. His hopes
were vain. Nelson had been insulted. He had
been publicly accused of being ignorant of the
principles of a profession to which he had been
“brought up”—a proiession to achieve the mys
teries of which he had wasted the midnight oil.
He was conscious he bore a name which was
inscribed among the highest on the scroll of
Fame. His great soul heaved with emotion—
tne heroic spirit of his great namesake swelled
within him, and manifested itself by the terrific
thrusting of his clenched hands into the dangling
pockets ol his monkey jacket—by the huge strides
with which he paced the deck, strewed with the
prostrate fuel, and by the deep swelling of bis
manly breast and oily cheeks—the former with
agitation, the latter with tobacco. The Captain
. of the vessel beheld these alarming symptoms
with dismay. He knew that the temper of his
cook was as fiery as his occupation.
Let none of my readers sneer at the importance
which is here attached to the cook. The form
of government on board the Bay of Fundy lug
gers is popular, or democratic. In the Captain
is vested the legislative, judicial and executive
powers. The cook, besides officiating in his vo
cation proper, is the grand representative of all
“the people” usually thought necessary in man
aging vesselsofa prouder denomination. In
shorter words, the entire crew consisted of the
cook and the skipper, and therefore the mutiny
on board was of momentous consequence.
Our course had altered since we left port, and
the sloop was now on a wind. We were, at
this time, running about seven knots toward a
bank of black mud. The shore was bold, and
the captain in beating, usually ran within half
cable’s length of it. We were within the usual
distance for tacking, and the belligerent parties
on board had made no advances towards a re
conciliation. The skipper deterring the order,
which he feared would not be obeyed when giv
en, let the vessel go to the utmost verge of deep
water. Necessity then overcame his scruples,
and he said in a friendly, familiar tone, “There,
Nelson, let her go about! Helm’s a lee! draw
away your jib sheets.” The injured cook dis
dained reply, and scorned obedience. He sprang
upon the windlass, and placing one loot upon
the adjacent gunwale, resembled in attitude, it
not in magnitude the Rhodian Statue. The
captain put the helm down, but the vessel would
not go about. Fearless ol fate, the doughty
cook beheld the danger and the mud, with an
equal disregard for both. The sloop struck the
bank and stuck fast. Nelson chuckled, and
muttered, “Thar, right slap-bang; 1 s’pose he
calls that are steerin’! I can’t cook, can’t I?”
He would have said more, but he had other
matters to attend to ; he felt at that instant the
cold, bony, iron hand of the Yankee insinuated
between the quilted collar of his jacket and the
vertebrae oi his neck. A quick, feeble struggle
for deliverance was the last voluntary action
Nelson was seen to perform. Propelled by an
effort of almost superhuman strength, his body
“winged its giddy flight,” horizontally through
the air. Gravitation acting most powerfully on
his ponderous head, brought that member first
in contact with the yielding mud. “Thar! right
slap-bang!” reiterated the Captain. “There’s
my hand and by craft both stuck fast in the
slush ! I say Mr. ——, what did you do that
are for ?” Two strides brought the Yankee aft,
and placed him in the same spot he had occu
pied during the recent contention, which he had
now terminated in so inglorious a defeat of one
party. “Well, , but look’e yur, you didn’t tell
me whar you got that are sperrits to,” were the
first words uttered by the Yankee, who clung to
his former inquiry with the pertinacity of Co
lumbus in sailing westward—of Napoleon
mounting the Alps, or ot any of those enterpris
ing gentlemen, whose perseverance is celebrat
ed in “the pursuit of knowledge under difficul
ties.” The skipper left the now useless helm,
and advancing to the forecastle, shouted, “Nel
son, what are you doing thar, you lubberly fool
you? If you ain’t agoin’ to come aboard, why
let us know, and we’ll leave you a stickin’ thar.”
The ill-fated disciple of Ude had extricated his
head from the mud, and silling with the nether
half of his body embedded in the alluvia, endea
vored to clear bis mouth from the black adhe
sive mass that filled it.
“Leave me!” he said. “Conte, 1 like that are;
I rather guess you’re a stickin’ thar, as fast as
I’m a stickin’ here.” In a short timed the earth
ed cook felt his berth, however soft, wanting in
some ofthe requisites of personal comfort; and
when tide fell he contrived to get on board, with
hishead cooler, and somewhat thicker than it was
before his removal irom the windlass.
While these events were passing, the usual
dinner hour had passed with them, and nothing
on board indicated the proximity ot that meal,
which the sharp air of the morning had given
me a keen appetite for.
“This is slow gittin' along, Mister,” said the
Yankee, transporting himself by his wonderful
locomotive powers, to where 1 stood. “ 1 wish
some I hadn’t come in this here craft.”
“Do you think,” said 1, “you could have come
better in any other craft !”
“Why, don’t know about it. You from ’long
East, I reckon.”
“Yes.”
“Guess you've been good ways down along?”
“Some distance.”
“Whatrfaaes red pine fetch ’long that ?”
“Where?”
“Why, ’bout your parts—somewheres ’long
down thar, towards Peterses Cove.”
“I didn’t come Irom Peters’ Co e.”
“Well, don’t much reckon you did. You don't
look no great like folks .' long thar. I thi: :: I
seed you to Cr iit . ; -t ■ ~e r. "
“Ah?”
“Considerable smugglin’ cross that.”
“Ah?”
“Guess you used to do a little that way your
self, when I seed you thar.”
“Me! In the first place, sir, you never saw
me at Carlton, because I never was there; in the
second place, your guessing I smuggle, is an of
fending remark; for 1 consider evaamg the laws
of a country a .greater degree of moral turpi
tude than breaking them; because, when a man
breaks a law, he knows that he instantly be
comes liable to punishment. He braves this
punishment to effect his purpose. Not so the
cowardly rogue who has the wish to cheat, bui
wants the courage to risk the penalty.”
“Why, jist so—that’s some my way of think
in’. You know I axed this’tarnal skipper, that’s
hove us up high and dry, wharabouts he got
that are sperits to, and the critter wouldn’t tell
tne, no how. Didn’t you see, soon as I axed
the question, he turned it right off, and got quar
relin’ with that mud-machine of hizen? jest so
as I shouldn’t get out on him whar he got them
sperits to! That’s what made me mad. I had
nothin’ agin the cook, and didn’t mean to hurt
him, no how.”
I now drew forth my watch, to observe how
long we had abstained from our morning meal,
or rather to know how soon we might expect
our noonday repast. My long friend seemed to
admire the fancy crystal which covered the face
of the time-piece.
“Jist let’s see that won't you?” taking it from
my hand before 1 could give or withhold per
mission.
“Well, now, this is consid’rable of a crystal.
Guesa yo« buy this ’kng in these parts?”
“No”
“This ought to he English made, ’cordin’ to
the looks on it.”
“It is.”
“Well, I thought as much—watches consid
’rable cheap thar, ain’t they?”
“Where? ’
“Where you bought this un.”
“I don't know. I asked the price of none but
that which I bought.”
“Now, how much might sich a watch as this
cost? Consid’rable, I reckon. Now here’s one
my grandfather bought in the Revolution; and
he has often told me, with his own mouth, that
he gave eighty-four dollars an’ three six cent
notes for it. But I don’t calculate it’s worth all
that now, ’cause it’s some wore, an’ money’s
worth more now 'er ’twas then. How’ll you
swop.” !
“I have no desire to barter, the watch I have
pleases me, ;.nd I shall keep it.”
“Well, don’t know but what you’re right; but
if I should take a fancy to buy one like this,
where will I be most likely to git oue?”
“At any watchmaker's in Boston !’’
“Oh,you b’long to Boston, then!”
“No.”
My inquisitor looked a little bothered. He
shifted his ground, laid bis plans more deeply,
and commenced more remotely from the object.
“How much is the passage ’long in this craft
from St. John to Moose Island?”
“Two dollars and fifty cents, I have to pay.”
“And find yourself, I reckon ?”
“No: I understand that provisions were in
cluded in the charge.”
“Well, then, why don’t they give us some
breakfast?”
“Because you threw the cook overboard."
“The mud scoopin’ poke. H>w is traveilin’
to westward—consid’rable cheapish ?"
“Don't know."
“Han’t been 'long thar, lately 7"
“No."
“Thar’s some pooty ’commodatin’ tavrins, to
Boston, aintthar ? Guess you stop at some par
tic’lai one—that is, if you aim married. You
don’t look much as though you might be mar
ried, though to be sure, 1 know some men, mar
ried to right nice gals, look just as contented
away from ’em as you do now. You married
Patience Hoskins, I should opine.”
“Why do you think 1 married Patience Hos
kins 7”
“Cause you see, Patience, nice agal she was
as ever hoed a com ridge, only she used to have
an ugly fashion, when she got her dander riz,
of excavatin’ canals in a feller’s face—she tuk
ui a chap that, 'cordin’ to description, is just
like you—tat and good-natured like, and as
you’ve got the same’nitials as her husband,” —
“How do you know my initials, sir ?”
“Why, pooty soon after I got on board, I
thought it best to find out who you was; so 1
spied around till I seed your baggage, and them
are brass nails says your name begins with an
L. Liston, may be ’tis.”
“Why should yd* think my name Liston ?”
“Cause 1 beam Jim Boswell say—you don’t
know J im, dh you 7—Jim's supercargo in a brig
out of East pert to Liverpool—Jim says, I say,
that he saw a play-actor in Liverpool named
Liston, anAe (Jim) screeched so, setin’that
leHer play-awt-thal he had the yaller janders all
the;voyag-'jjQing- Now, as it seems you’re a
the kame, I rmther
rtwkony&u Hffve'cbme over in'one of the New
Branswick lumber-ships."
‘Why do gou think I’m a play-actor ?”
“Cause, you see, that are biggest trunk of
your’s han't got no lock on it—nothin’ but a
strap —so I jist thought I’d open it. Whu! it
beat all creation. The goold on them are j ackets
must have cost you consid’rable, didn’t they ?”
“So you opened my '.rank?”
“Jist looked in—didn’t lake nothin’ out —so
no harm done. You look some like an English
man.”
“I am not an Englishman.”
“Don’t much reckon you’re a Western man?”
“No.”
“Where was you raised?”
This was a poser. He had restrained his in
satiable curiosity ’till it swelled at his heart, and
bust from his lips. A rude civility, or tear of
giving offence, had hitherto kept him from pro
posing any blunt, downright question, from
which there could be no escape. He had been
beating around the bush until his patience be
came threadbare. As he himself had never per
haps, in bis lite, given a direct unequivocal an
swer to any human creature, on any human sub
ject, so he had, until now avoided giving his in
terrogatories such a positive form as would leave
nothing to the option of his victim. His inquis
itive facultes had acquired too severe a tension to
perform any further circumlocution; and his
last unqualified question had evidently been the
result of a violent struggle between his passion
and his politeness.— Southern Sportsman.
I Contentment. —1 have a rich neighborthat
t is always so busy that he has no leisure to laugh;
t the whole business of his life is to get monev,
I and more money, that he mar still get more arid
f more money; he is still drudging on, and says
I that Solomon says, “The diligent hand maketh
> rich,” and it is true, indeed; but he considers
- not that it is not in the power of riches to make
, a man happy; for it was wisely said, by a man
• of great observation, “ That thsre be as many
> miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.”
And yet God deliver us from pinching poverty;
, and grant, that having a competency, we may
be content and thankful.
, Lusvs Natursb. —A play or freak of nature
; came under our notice yesterday, which seem
ed truly wonderful to behold; if possible, the
circumstance transcends the little two-headed
i serpent referted to last week. This curious
item consists in this—that a gentleman of our
, village (Mr. P. Davis, the proprietor of one of
. the largest hotels) most politely visited our of
[ ficc, and exhibited to us an Egg, (a hen’s egg)
. which was broken ih his house, containingan
i other Egg within its shell, about the size of a
. partridge egg, and in no manner adhering to the
. larger egg. Doubt there is not to the truth of
I this matter. — Vidcclcredr.: see and believe; we
. have seen, yet hnd we not haveseen, there would
. not have hewi an iota of misgiving in us as to
i the truth of this strange occurrence.— Port To
, bacco Register.
Exercise.
1 Many people look upon the necessity man is
1 under of earning his bread by labor as a curse.
But it is evident from the structure of the body,
that exercise is not less necessary than food tor
1 the preserv lion oi health; those who labor are
' not only the most healthy, but generally the most
happy part of mankind. This is peculiarly the
. case with those who live by the culture oi' the
■ ground. The great increase of inhabitants in
I infant agriculture every where, evidently proves
it to be the most healthy, as well as the tn .wt use
ful employment.
! Next to total abstinence from all intoxicating
1 drinks, nothing contributes more to the preser
vation of health than early rising and exercise
in the open air in the morning, when the air bra
ces and strengthens the nerves. Custom soqn
renders early rising agreeable.
Every person should lay themselves under
some sort ot necessity to tak.* exercise. Indo
lence, like other vices, when indulged, gains
ground, and at length becomes agreeable.—
Hence many who were fond of exercise in the
early part oi' life, bccotnejquite averse to it after
wards. This is often the case with gouty arhy
pocondriac persons, and frequently when their
disease' are difficult to cure.
Indolence not only occasions diseases and use
lessness to society, but promotes all manner ot
vice. The mind if not engaged in some use
ful pursuit, is constantly in quest of some ideal
pleasures. From these sources proceed most of
the miseries of mankind. Certainly man was
never intended to be idle. Inactivity frustrates
the very design of his creation, whereas an ac
tive life is the best and greatest preservative of
health.— Orarle of H allh.
Shower or Fish. —On Wednesday night, a
heavy shower, accompanied with thunder and
lightning, passed overour city. In the morning,
small fish were observed upon the pavements in
some parts of the city which had fallen with the
rain. Several we saw were an inch and a half
in length.— Pittsburgh Chronicle, May 26.
J3rA newspaper bearing the Pennington
postmark passed through the Trenton Post of
fice on Monday with this poetical superscription:
Away! away! on swiftest pinion,
To the State once call’d The Old Dominion;
Pass thro’ the mountain's gorge,
Over dale and over hill,
To the county ol King George,
And the office of Millville ;
Thee yield thyself up, a memento from me,
■> V freartcherised friend,MissE. Emery.
A. A. W.
For bieli Miss E. will he required to pay 18;
et». w ill be j ermittedto peruse its con-
tents. Quite a courteous correspondent, that Mr.
‘A. A. W.!— Trenton, Stale Gazette.
From Godetfs Lady's Book for June.
STANZAS TO .
BY MRS. SKBA SMITH.
Oh ! deep within my inmost heart
Thy treasured image lies,
Enshrined with all that’s holy there
That death or change defies—
And yet my woman’s tongue could ne’er
Frame words to tell thee thou art dear.
No woman’s lave is ever found
A silent, hidden thing :
Where hopes and tears alternate rise,
Like shadows o’er a spring,
That in some lone and silent wood
Is gushing in the solitude.
No. like the voiceless perfume breathed,
Where flowrets deck the ground,
That hidden in their verdant screen,
Else scarcely might be found—
I would that o’er thy sense might steal,
The half a woman's heart can feel.
Opinion of the World. —Dr. Johnson had
a veneration for the voice of mankind beyond
what most people will own; and as he liberally
confessed that all his own disappointments pro
ceeded from himself, he hated to hear others
complain of general injustice. I remember
when lamentation was made of the neglect
showed to Jeremiah Markland, a great philolo
gist, as some one ventured to call him: “He is
a scholar, undoubtedly sir,” replied Dr. John
son; “but remember that he would run from
the world, and that it is nut the world’s business
to run after him. I hate a fellow, whom pride,
or cowardice, or laziness, drives into a comer,
and does nothing when he is there but sit and
growl; let him come out as I do, and bark."
DIED. '
In Athens, on Wednesday morning, 31st ult.,
Mr. ALSA MOORE; aged ’62.
On Monday morning, 22d ult. Mrs. SARAH
KING, aged 73, for many years an exemplary
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
NOTICE.
The Whigs of Burke county are requested to
hold meetings in every Magisterial District, and
nominate three delegates to a meeting which * ilj
be held in Waynesboro, Saturday June 17th.—
The object of which Is to select auitable candi
dates for the Legislature, and hear the voice of ,
the tMofr people, may 18
CommerrioL
Stutomtat of Cotton in Auguota & HimPg, June I. 1843
»lo«k oa hand, S«pl 1, ISIS 2,459
Rac'd Cm s«pt. 1,‘42, to May 1,’43.....194,048
“ “ May 1, ’43, to Jun. 1, '43 8,673
Ta tai supply and receipts2o6,oßo
hloipmentj.
To Savannah in May 9,962
“ Charleston in May, (R. R0ad)2,197
w Savan. «fc Charleston previously. .174,991187,150
Stock on hand this day 17,930
Os which, there are, in Augusta,l4 ,543; aad in Ham.
burg, 3,387 bales.
Charleston, June 3.
it , tton —A fan amount of business has been done in
Upland during the week just closed, buyers having
r bales, against the receipt in the same time
of 207 bales; and the market has exhibited a greater
degree ol firmness than has characterized the opera
tions for the last fortnight. The demand in the early
h* week, coupled with the light receipts,
checked the downward tendency in prices noticed in
our report of the 27th ult., and the market has not on
ly fully recovered itself, but there are those who, with
in a few days, have obtained a slight advance for favo
pte parcels, not sufficiently so, however, to warrant us
tn changing the quotations of the previous week.—
Purchasers in the meantime will not operate to the ex
tent of their abilities, but prefer waiting the result of
further advices from the other side. The sales are as
follows 4at 4i; 17 at 41; 166 at 5; 268 at 5i , 2dl at
6} ; 433 at 53 ; 7a3 at s|, 336 at 54; 665 at sj; 93 at 51;
SHO at 6; 335 at 6j; 172 al 6} ; 75 at 6# ; 363 at 64; 556 at
317 at 6f; 43 at 6J: 31 at 7; and at 7f.
Receipts of cotton at the following places since Ist
September, 1842:
18423. 1842--.
New Orleans, May 271,030,405 711,148
Mobile, May 27.467.468 311,224
Florida, May 20147,075 106,404
Georgia. June 1272,466 201,303
Do. bea Island7,zs4 6,607
South Carolina, June 2315,360 232,693
Do. Sea Isl.-nd15,781 13,017
North Carolina, May 208.439 9,8 3
Virginia, May 1 10,000 17,150
2,274,258 1,609,669
The following is a statement of the stock of cotton on
hand at the respective places named:
1842-3. 18412.
New Orleans, May 27103,170 90,365
Mobile, May 2739,4"! 22-315
Florida, May 20.12,440 12,929
Georgia, June L 20,137 5,947
Do. bea 151and1,455 269
South Carolina, June 225,456 11,511
Do. Sea Islandl,s7B 1,713
North Carolina, May 20 900 500
Virginia, May 1 900 1,700
205,497 H7£49
Macon, May 1 4,795 3,047
Augusta & Hamburg, June 1.... 19,113 12,179
Philadelphia, May 27 1,135 857
New York, May 17 35,000 24,000
40,083
Rice— There has also been a good demand for this
article, which taken in connection with the light re
ceipts and the comparatively light supply on the mar
ket, have enabled holders during the week to realize
better prices, and have advanced our quotations ac
cordingly. The receipts since our last are 1526 tierces,
and the transactions
fowing rates:—2s at 1 7-16; 49 at IS ; 13 at IJ;6oat IS ;
100 al 1 15-16; 176 at 2 1-16; 370 at 2|; 252 at 2 3-16; 371
J7 tierces at g2|. We quote inferior to good
fa*r 1 j (a) 2|; good and prime 2| (a) 2|; choice —.
Ftour There has been some inquiry for this article
during the week, solely however for city consumption;
and in consequence of the light stock on sale and the
advance in the article in the Northern cities, holder*
have obtained better prices.
S'aZ/—The recipts of the week have been 5145 sack's,
but 1755 of which is for this market, and which sold at
$1,25 <#•’ sack.
Su-gars —About 125 bbls Floridas have been received,
which were sold at auction at a very low price, and re
sold by private contract at 4 cts. lOOhhds Louisiana
changed hands al 54 cents lb.
Coffe* —600 bags Rio have been received coastwise,
none ot which has been disposed of. We have no tran
sactions of magnitude to report.
AM'.sses A lot of 152 hhds, 34 tierces and 16 barrels
Trinidad, received the previous week, were sold on Sat
urday last, and brought withm the neighborhood of 20
cents; it has since been sellmg in small lots al prices
ranging from 21| to 23 rente gallon.
Dcmuttic Liquors— About 400 bbl* N. Orleans Whis
key changed hands during the week at 21 and 22 cents
gallon.
LxcJtnges— Ve-y little has been done in either For
eign or Domestic Exchange during the week.
. Fre ghts— Liverpool 5-Ibths (at Ju for cotton ; Havre,
in square bags, |ct We quote to New York cotton in
square hags b2£ (a) 75, Rice 624 (a) 75; to Boston cotton
75 cts (d) SI.
- . Savannah, June 3.
Cb/toz/.—The receipts have been 72dbulei» Upland and
3b do »eu Eland; exports to Liverpool. 2,793 bales Up
land and « 39 Bea Island; to Boston, cdl do; to Provi
dence, u.;9uo; to New York, I,U?/ do; to Charleston,
13u oo and 44 Bea Island, together 5.396 Upland and 7al
• ea Island—leaving on hand and on shipboard a slock
of 18,old bales Upland and 79Udo Bea Island.
The market presents no new feature since our last
review. There is a very limited demand, and that prin
cipally lor tne better sorts; inlerior Cotton can hardly
be bolu al any puce. Tuere w*i» apparently mote ani
mation on Wednesday and Thursday, but nettling like
a brisk market has been seen, since the receipt ot the
Caledonia’s accounts. Our quotations are the same as
last week, but they may oe considered almost nominal,
us buyers lor foreign markets will not come up to luem,
while sellers i el use to make any further concessions:
(<i 4f
‘to* l ;**’)' Hi 14
Fair io ruby f air (a (al 6*
Good Fan b, (al 7
The sales of Upland sum up 1,515 bales at the folio
mg prices: 10 al 4J; 64 at 5; 3' at SJ; 115 atM; 64 at
75 al 51; 59 at SJ; 121 atsJ;9lal 54; 564 at 6; 115 all>1;
141 at 6f, 9 at 6|; G 8 at 6J; and 13 at 6y cents.
Rte\— There has been a fair demand for this article
thro ighout the week, and former prices have been wefll
rnaint lined. The sales, which amount to 427 tierces*
have bet n for both foreign and coastwise shipment.—
The particulars <»f the transactions are 22 tierces at
Slj;3Batl 11-16, 117atlJ;22at 1 15-16; 25 at 2; 194 at
2|; and 9at s2} 100 lbs.
Flour.— The market is well supplied, and prices are i
steady; 40 bbh Baltimore sold at S4B. We have not no
ticed any other sale* this week except those from stores
in small lots to the city trace. Prices have an upward
tendency.
Gram.— As there have been no arrivals of Corn for
some time, the market is getting bare, and retail prices
have advanced to 70 75 cts.
Gro er.es.— We have no important operations to no
tice this week There have been no imports of any of
the leading articles, and the trensactions are entirely
by retail to the city and country trade.
S ft.—Most of the cargo arrived this week from Liv?
erpool has been disposed of on shipboard at from $1,30
to $1,35 sack.
B ts oti. — 150 Reynold’s Hams sold at 9 cts.
Eich.inge.—Wti have no change to notice from form
er rates. Sterling bills are selling at 7 (a) 7| ct. pre-
sight checks on Northern cities at par.
Fre ghts.— Foreign are still ext.emely dull at former
rates, say to Liverpool 5-16 d for square and |d for round
bales. The rates coastwise remain the same as last
week—to New York, 75 cents for squire and $1 for
round bales Cotton, and '0 ctstt’ cask for Rice; to Bos
ton, sl| bale for Cotton; to Providence, last engage
ment $1 (P bale.— RepH l cun.
•ax ®SO REWARD.—Runaway
j® from Dr Gilbert, in Macon, Ga.., on Sat
urday the 29th April last, my negro fel
low Eldridge, of whom the follow
ing is a description A light mulatto, looking
very much like an Indian, about five feet 7 or 8
inches high, very stout built, weighing about 150
pounds, about 20 years of age, quick sj«>ken and
very sensible, has straight black hair, he has a
scar upon his left leg, just below the •cnee joint,
and a fresh one on his right temple
I have reason to believe he has been taken ofl
by some white person, if so, and found in their
possession, with proof to convict, I will give the
above reward, or ten dollars for ixis cot ifinement
. in any safe jail, so I can get him. Agents of
Railroads, Captains of Steamboats an d vessels
are particularly requested to look out so r him, as
he will probably make for a free State.
ZADOCK JACJISON.
Palmyra, May 10, 1843. w4t
m 850 REWARD.—Ranaxvay on
the night of the 26th January last, from
j the subscriber’s residence in this: city, a
negro woman named MIMA, a bright
mulatto, tall, spare made, and thick lips, about 30
years of age. She has a very intelligent oounte
nance, and is a woman of good sense. And her
son DANIEL, a black l-oy about 12 years of age,
a very likely and sprightly boy. They have pro
bably been decoyed off by some other person
under whose protection they now remain; if so
I will pay the above reward for their detention,
and proof to convict such person or persons, or
ten dollars fortheir apprehension and delivery in
any safe jail so that I get them.
mJ6-trw2w&wtf _ E. W. I>OUGHTY_
q Brought to Richmond county
> J’lil. un the 17th May, a Negro woman,
'■ h° ca N fl herself Siller, and says she be
long*' to Jeremiah Inman, of Burke coui
ty, Ga. Th said negro is about twenty years
old, light complected, middle size, bushy hair.—
The own *r t-f said negro Is requested to come for
ward, pr< v. ’• pav < xpenses and take her
aw :y. ‘ L. T. SHOPP, Jailor.
UiiH'sn. J use 2, 1343. w3t
Brought to Richmond county
® Jail, on the 27th May, a Negro man who
himself Nathan, nineteen years old,
light complected, five feet eight inches
high, no hair on the top of his head, occasioned
by a burn, and says he belongs to Samuel Hause,
of Columbia county, Ga. The owner of the said
negro is requected to come forward, prove prop
erly, pay expenses and take him away.
L. T. SHOPP, Jailor.
Augusta, June 2,1843. w3t
Brought to Richmond county
® Jail, a Negro man who calls himself
Jack, and says he belongs to Joseph C.
Burch, of Hancock county, Ga. The
said negro is about twenty-two years old, dark
complected, with a small scar on the forehead,
five feet seven inches high. The owner of said
negro is requested to come forward, prove proper
lYi pay expenses and take him away.
L. T. SHOPP, Jailor.
Augusta, June 2, 1843. w3t
-ax Brought to Richmond county
S Jail, a Negro man who calls himself
Spencer and says he belongs to Brinson
Fountain, of Burke county. The said
negro is about twenty-seven years old, dark com
plected, lost part of his fingers on the left hand ;
he is about five feet seven inches high. The
owner of said negro is requested to come forward
prove property, pay expenses and take him away.
L. T. SHOPP, Jailor.
Augusta, June 2, 1843. w3t
4 LL persons are hereby notified not to
.ZjL reads for a certain PROMISSORY NOTE,
Ijr the .übeerihara, dated the Bth day «f
April, 1843, and due the la< day of October, 1943,
amount 8522 22, and payable to. Robert A Hill, or
bearer, as we have received no consideration for
said Note, and do not intend to make payment
thereof, unless we are compelled by law.
JAMES HALL,
may 4-w6t ROBERT D CODY,
NEW COTTON GIN MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber has opened a shop
on Broad street In Bennoch’s Brick Range,
opposite Messrs. Adams, Fargo & Co., where he
intends to carry on the above business in all its
various branches, of making and repairing COT
TON GINS on W. Jones’ plan, as he hac been
in hie employ for the last six years as foreman,
end hopes to'merit a share of public patronage.
may3-w3m H. ODEN.
TO THECITIZENB OF THE SOUTH*
rpHE GENUINE BRANDRETH
A PILLS have, in all cases in which they
have been used, fully sustained their high char
acter. In the East and West Indies, in Russia,
Turkey and China, the Brandrsth Pills are ex
tensively patronized. The same may be said of
Mexico and throughout South America. I have
recently received one order for eighty thousand
boxes, from the Goremor of a Colony of Portu
gal in the East Indies. He had used the Bran
dreth Pills in Madeira, by the advice of the very
Reverend, the Canon, Thomas Tolentino de Sil
va, my agent at Funchal, and found them so ex
cellent as an anti-bilious physic and purifier of
the blood, that he became, after much experience
of their beneficial properties, one of their best and
strongest advocates, and has now introduced them
into the Colony of which he is the appointed Go
vernor by the Government of Portugal. Thus
the Brandreth Pills continue to have the sphere
of their usefulness extended.
In the Eastern States of North America, and
in Great Britain, no medicine was ever in such
universal use as the Brandreth Pills. High and
influential individuals often purchase them to ad
minister to the poor. In every place where they
have been introduced, and where no rile imitation
of them has been sold, their reputation has con
stantly increased, and the circle of their useful
ness enlarged. They are conceded to be the best
purgative, the best anti-bilious and the most cer
tain purifier of the blood known. The cures they
have performed in chronic diseases, where hope
had fled, is beyond belief.
As a general family medicine, especially in the
South, their value is incalculable. By having the
Brandreth Pills always on hand, should a sud
den attack of sickness take place, they can be gi
ven at once, and will often have effected a cure
before the physicia n could have arrived. In Cho
lic and inflamation of the bowels, these Pills will
at once relieve, and perseverance in their use,
accoiding to the directions, will surely do all thal
medicine can do to restore the health of the pa
tient. In diseases arising from the use of mer
cury, or from any cause of vitiation, from bad
blood or otherwise, their use will produce the most
happy results. In all attacks of Rheumatism, in
Erysiphilas, Salt Rheum, and in cases of chronic
or recent Costiveness, the use of the Brandbeth
Pills will be productive of infinite service; some
times being productive of so great a change for
the better, as to occasion great thankfulness. In
ail cases of indigestion, worms, asthma, diseases oj
the heart, and in all affections of the stomach and
bowels, the Brandreth Pills will be found a ne
ver-failing remedy.
To insure the full benefit of these celebrated
Pills, they should be kept in the house, so that
upon the first commencement of sickness they
may be at once resorted to; one dose then is bet
ter than a dozen after the disease has become es
tablished in the system.
The Brandreth Pills are purely vegetable,
and so innocent that the infant a month old may
use them if medicine is required, not only with
safety, but with the certainty of receiving all the
benefit medicine is capable of imparting. Fe
males may use them during all the critical periods
of their lives; —the Brandreth Pills will insure
their health, and produce regularity in all the func
tions of life.
Be cartful of evunterfeii Pills. How to avoid them.
No. 1 Security.
Each Agent who sells the genuine Brandreth
Pills, has a Certificate of Agency, which has
been engraved at a vast expense. It represents
the manufactory at Sing Sing, on the banks of
the Hudson River, and is signed by Dr. Brandreth,
and his seal stamped upon the paper.
No. 2— Security.
Above all, observe the labels upon the boxes:
Each box of the genuine Brandreth’s Pills has
now three labels upon it. The top and the bot
tom label containing upwards of five thousand
letters in red ink; the words Benjamin Bran
drath’s Pills being printed over two hundred
times upon the two labels.
No. 3— Security.
There are also upon each label two signatures
of Dr. Brandreth—one “B. Brandeth,” and also
one “Benjamin Brandreth.” Each box, there
fore, to be genuine, must have six signatures of
Dr. Brandreth upon it. If the box do not an
swer this discription, the Pills are not the Bran
droih Pills, but some vile counterfeit of them, as
all the old labelled boxes have been collected.
Besides the above signs of genuineness fac
similes of the Brandreth Pill labels are upon
the Certificate of Agency; therefore compare
your box with the labels on the certificate; if it
agrees the Pills are true, if it does not, they are
false.
I have expended much time, and at least five
thousand dollars, in perfecting these checks to
the sale of counterfeit Pills, and in the hope they
will secure the genuine Brandreth Pills to all
who want them.
I remain the public’s servant,
B. BRANDRETH, M. D.,
241 Broadway, N. Y.
Sold by the following authorized agents in
Georgia:
CHARLES E GRENVILLE & CO, Book
sellers, Augusta; Chapman & Threewit, War
renton; Sanford & Lumsden, Eatonton; Wil
lard & Williams, Decatur; W Maxey, Monticello;
Joseph B Gondor, Sparta; A B Phelps, Powel
ton; Hill & Pratt, Lexington; Usher Ander
son, Covinyton; J A Clarke, Jr, Monroe; Tucker
& Compton, Jackson; Dunn & Martin, Forsyth;
John M Cox, McDonough; T & J Cunningham
& Co, Greensborough; Seaman Goodall, Savan
nah; S D Clark & Co Hamburg. ly feb 10
IMPORTANT MKDICINES!
MARSHALL’S SARSAPARILLA
is with confidence offered to the Medical
Faculty and the public, as possessing in a great
degree all the virtues of Sarsaparilla in its most
concentrated form, being prepared by a new and
improved process over all others, which extracts
all the active matter of the root. This syrup is
highly recommended as a Fall and Spring purifier
of the blood, and will be found particularly useful
in the cure of Rheumatism, Ulcers, Scrofula, Tet
ter, White Swelling, Cutaneous Eruptions, and
all disorders arising from an impure state of the
blood, the abuse of mercury, &c. Physicians who
prescribe Marshall’s Sarsaparilla, will soon dis
cover such incontcstible evidence of its curative
powers, as shall fully establish its character and
superiority over oil others now in use. One eight
ounce bottle contains more of the active principle
of Sarsaparilla, than a gallon of those mixtures
usually sold in the stores, and those who have
been disappointed in the use of Sarsaparilla, wil/
ui/d this an effectual remedy.
MARSHALL'S VERMIFUGE—Ia recom
mended to nurses, parents and others, who have
the care of children, as the most safe and effectual
worm-destroying medicine yet discovered. Besides
being a .-q/e and active vermifuge, it is so pleasant
that no child will refuse to take it. It is equally
efficacious in removing other disorders, such as
bowel complaints, vomiting, and all complains to
which children are liable/
HE YL'S EMBROCATION, for Horses.—
This valuable Embrocation has been used with
great success in the cure of the most troublesome
diseases with which the horse is affected, such as
old strains, swellings, galls, strains of the should
ers, &c. It soon cures old or fresh wounds, cuts,
bruises, &c. It is highly recommended, and
should be constantly kept in the stables of all per
sons ow.iing horses.
Sold at W. MARSHALL’S, (successor to Chas.
Marshal!,) No. 312 Market street above Ninth,
Philadelphia. also,
Marshall’s Compound Syrup of Liverwort.
“ “ Tonic Mixture,
“ “ of Sarsaparilla, Cubebs
and Copaiva,
“ Extract of Buchu,
“ “ Pind Root, &c. &c.
For sale by J. E. MARSHALL,
nov 29-w6m Successor to Thos. I. Wrav.
GEORGIA, WARREN COUNTY.
Superior Court, April Term, 1343.
Rich ird S Lazenby, ]
vs. | On petition to fore-
The Heirs and legal Repre- z close mortgage on
sentat ves of Robt. Stan- | land.
ford, deceased. J
ON reading and filing the petition ot
Richard S Lazenby, shewing that Robert
Stanford in his lifetime, and on the ninth day of
February, in the year one thousand eight hun
dred ami twenty-four, executed his indenture of
mortgage, duly recorded in the office of the clerk
of this court, whereby for the purpose es securing
to one David Stanford the payment of the sum
of three hundred and forty-eight dollars, specified
in a proi lissory note made by said Robert to said
David, li t conveyed to the said David Stanfojd,
his heirs tnd assigns, two certain tracts or par
cels of .and lying in said county, one whereof is
describee in said mortgage as all that tract or
parcel of land where n the said Robert formerly
iiv -d, a l which he contracted to Titos Gibson,
am: upo.. which said Gibson resided for a time,
ano at this time is occupied by Jonathan Stan
ford, and adjoining land whereon Man Donavin
now lives, and also adjoining land whereon Wm
Harris now lives, and also adjoining land where
on Reuben Magee now lives, and also adjoining
land whereon Thomas Roney now lives, contain
ing two hundred and fifteen acres, more o. less;
also one other tract or parcel of land, lying and
being in the county and state aforesaid, andon
the stage road leading f rom Warrenton to Augus
ta, and upon which the said Robert now lives,
and adjoining the land above cescribed whereon
Jonathan Stanford now lives, containing fifty
acres, more or less; and shewing further, that
the said David Stanford has transferred and as
signed to him the said promissory note and mort
gage, and that the said sum of money with in
terest is due thereon, and said petitioner praying
that the equity of redemption ot the heirs and le
gal representatives of said Robert Stanford may
be barred and foreclosed, and that they be requir
ed to pay said money, or that said mortgaged pre
raises may be sold.
It is ordered, on motion, in behalf of said Rich
ard S Lazenby, That the heirs ami legal repre
sentatives of the said Robert Lazenby, deceased,
do pay said sum of money and the interest accru
ed thereon into this court, on or before the first
day of the next term thereof, or in default of such
payment, then equity of redemption to said mort
gage premises will be barred and foreclosed, and
said premises will be ordered to be sold for the
satisfaction of said debt, and the interest and the
costs of this proceeding.
And it is furtherordered, That this rule be pub
lished in the Chronicle & Sentinel at Augusta
once a month for four months, or served on the
heirs and legal representatives of said Robert
Stanford, deceased, at least three months prior to
the next term of this court.
I. Jamoe Pfleher, Clerk of ths Superior Court
of Warren cuunty, Georgia, do hereby certify that
the above is a true copy from the records of said
court.
Given under my hand this 4th of April, 1843.
April 7, 1843. JAMES PILCHER, Clerk.
Georgia, Columbia County:
TOLLED before me, a Jus
tice of the Peace, in and for said dis-
' ' t trict No 8, a dark brown HORSE,
left hind foot white, with marks of saddle and
harness, bob tail—no other marks or brands—
supposed to be 17 or IS years old, and appraised
by Benjamin Bugg and Anderson W Fawcett to
thirty dollars, this sth day of April, 1813.
WILLIAM BELL, J. P.
A true extract from the estray book.
May 10, IM3. DAVID HARRISB, Oteak
PUBLIC SALES.
A DMINISTRATOR’S SALE.'—On
XX. the first Tuesday in August next, will be
sold agreeable to an ord.r of the honorable, the
Inferior court of Burke county, when sitting fol
ordinary purposes, before the court house door in
the town ot Waynesboro, between the usual
hours of sale, nine hundred and sixty acres of
it nd, more or less, adjoining lauds of Ezekiit
Williams, John Gordon, and others. Sold as the
property of Abraham Boyd, deceased. Terms of
sale on the day. BENJ. BOYD, Adm’r .
May 18, 1843. .
ADMINISTRATOR’S Sale.—Will
be sold on the first day of July next, at the
court house door in the town of Waynesborough,
Burk< county, a negro boy named Fulwood, a
bout 13 years old ; sold as the property of Walter
S A Hamilton, deceased, for the benefit of the
creditois oi said deceased. Terms on the day of
sale. ELISHA A ALLEN, Adm’r.
May 4, 1843.
Admin istrator’s sale.— on
the first Tuesday in August next, will be sold
at Perry, in Houston county, agreeable to an or
der from the honorable the Inferior Court of Co
lumbia county, while sitting for ordinary purpo
ses, the following lots of land belonging to the
estate of Luke F Clark, deceased, viz: two hun
dred two and a half acres, known by lot No. 173.
in the 9th district; and two hundred two and a
half acres, known by lot No. 191, in the 13th dis
trict of said county. Sold for the benefit of the
heirt and creditors of said deceased. Terms on
the day of sale.
JOHN G TANKERSLY, Adm’r
March 18, 1843.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE —On
the first Tuesday in August next, will be
sold agreeable to an order of the honorable, the
Inferior Court of Burke county, when sitting for
ordinary purposes, before the court house donr in
the town of Waynesboro, between the usual hours
of sale, fourteen hundred and forty one acres of
land, more or less, adjoining lands of Samuel
Foster, estate of Pemberton and o hers. Sold as
the property of Joseph McCollum, deceased.
Terms of sale on the day.
NATHANIEL McCOLLUM, ? . . ,
JORDON McCOLLUM, < Adm rß '
May 18, 1843.
DMINISTRATOR’S SALK.—On
the first Tuesday in July next, will be sold
before the court house in Lincoln county, aggree
able to an order of the Inferior Court of Lincoln
county, a part of the negroes belonging to the
estate of Jeremiah Blanchard, deceased. Sold
for the benefit of the creditors of said estate.
April 29, 1843. GEO W LEWIS, Adm’r.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE —On
the first Tuesday in August next, will be sold
at Zebulon, Pike county, agreeable to an order
from the honorable the Inferior court of Colum
bia county, while sitting for ordinary purposes,
the following lot of land belonging to the estate
of Luke F Clark, deceased, viz: two hundred
two and a half acres, known by lot No. 77, in the
3d district of originally Monroe, but now Pike
county. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors of said deceased. Terms on the dav of
sale. JOHN G TANKERSLY, Adm’r.
March 18, 1843.
ADMINISTRATOR’S Sale.—Will
be sold on the first Tuesday in July next,
agreeable to an order of the Inferior Court of De
Kalb county, when sitting for ordinary purposes,
before the court house door in the town of De
catur, between the usual hours of sale, five acres
of land, with a mill seat thereon, one lot No 65,
in 17th district of formerly Henry, but now De
Kalb county. Also two pair steelyards, and oth
er articles too tedious to mention. Sold as the
property of Leroy Perdue, late of said county, de
ceased. Terms made known on the day of sale.
May 4,1843. J W REEVE, Adm’r.
EXECUTOR’S Sale.—Will be sold,
at Columbia court house on the first Tues
day' in August next, between the usual hours, one
moiety of the gri t-mill and its appendages, for
merly owned by Benjamin Leigh, on White Oak
creek; the whole having recently undergone a
thorough repair, and is now in splendid order for
the manufacture of flour or corn meal; it being
a part »f the real estate of Mrs. Lucy Hunt, de
ceased, and sold in pursuance of her will, for the
purpose of distribution. Terms made known at
the sale. GABRIEL JONES, ) „ ,
JOHN LAMKIN, < Ex rp '
June 3. 1843.
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE. —All persons indebted to
the estate of Michael Shelinan, deceased
a t e requested to make immediate payment, and
those having demands against the said e.-tate are
requested to render them in according to law.
May 5, 1843.A McDONALD, Adm’r.
NOTICE. —All persons indebted to
the estate of Elizabeth Jordan, late of
Warren county, deceased, are requested to make
immediate payment, and those having demands
against said estate, to present them legally at
tested within the time prescribed by law.
ERASTUS BEALL, ),. ,
May 5, 1843. JESSE R BEALL, ( Adnl rs '
NOTICE. —All persons having de
mands against the estate of Levi Marshall,
iateoi Columbia county, deceased, are requested
to render them in duly at ested within the time
presciibed by law, and those indebted to said es
tate are requested to make immediate payment.
DANIEL L MARSHALL, Adm’r.
May 5, 1843.
NO TI C E.—AH persons having de
mands against the estate of Pat’k Dough
erty, late of Columbia county, deceased, are re
qu sted to render them in duly attested within
the time prescribed by law, aad those indebted to
said estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment. JOHN W DOUGHERTY )
JOHN BRISC’ ‘E, ' Ex’rs.
RALPH BRISCOE, S
May 5, 1843.
NOTICE. —All persons indebted to
the estate R Searll, of Lincoln county, de
ceased, will please make immediate payment and
those having claims against s Id estate are re
quested to rend r them in duly attested, within
the time pri scribed by law.
April 29, 1843. NATHAN BURSEY, Adm’r.
’ IV" OT IC E. —All persons indebted to
11 the estate of Samnel Moore, deceased, are
requested to make immediatepayment, and th se
' having claims against said estate will present
them, properly authenticated, within .the time
' prescribed by law. JAMES SPEIR, Adm’r.
’ Ma y 1843 -
i O TIC E.—All persons indebted to
-L y the estate of McCune Allbntton, late of
Burke county, deceased, are requested to make
immediate payment, a.id those having claims a
gainst said estate, will render them in properly
’ attested within the time prescribed by law.
May 8 1843. JAMES GRUBBS, Adm’r.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
’ In Equity—Burke Superior Court—ln Chambers
March 27th, 1843.
Present his Honor John Schly.
Mulford Marsh, Adm’r Joseph ]
Jansen, deceased, compl’t, I D ... - T
and ’ 1 ’ 'i Bill for Injunc-
Felix J Livingston and wife, , *°. n to
et. al. creditors of said Jau- M 111 '” 11 ” 11 asst ts
sen. J
IT appearing to the Court by the Com
plainant’s affidavit, that the defendants, Felix
J Livingston, and Caroline his wife, Joseph Jan
sen, Jane Jansen, and E Foster & Co. reside with
out said State, and thal NB & H Weed, W J
W Remshart, Snider & Nichols, George R Hen
drickson, Wright, Bull & Co., Haviland, Risley
& Co., F Lamback, Enons H Scarborough and
Solomon B Smith, reside without the connty of
Burke: Whereupon, on motion, it is ordered,
That th ; service of this bill De perfected on said
defendants, by publication of this Rule in one of
the gazettes of Augusta, once a month for four
months.
A tru< extract from the minutes.
Mayl343.* EDWI). GARLICK, Clerk.
I AW NOTICE—JOHN W. WIL-
J S< >N and LEWIS POTTER having aafo
ciated i.i. in-clves in the Practice of Law, will
punctually attend to any professional business
entrusted to them in the counties of Taliaferro,
Green, Oglethorpe, Columbia, Hancock, Lincoln,
Warren and Wilkes. Office at Crawfordville, Ga.
jan 10 wtf
REMOVAL. —The subscriber would
inform the planters of Georgia and South
Carolina, that he has removed to Crawfordville,
Ga., where he will permanently locate himself,
and carry on the business of manufacturing COT
TON GINS. He is prepared to make Cotton
Gins on various plans, though he would recoin
mend the Anti-frietian Gin as being the best arti
de of the kind he has ever seen in use, and, from
his experience in the business, he can say, with
propriety, that he does not think his Gins can be
surpassed in the Southern States, and in fully au
thenticating what he says in relation to the mat
ter, he would refer you to certificates of gentlemen
who have used them. All orders addressed to the
subscriber at Crawfordville, Taliaferro county,
Ga., will receive prompt attention.
jan 3 S. R. CRENSHAW.
r I ’•O MECHANICS.—The undersign
-1- ed will let out to the lowest bidder, at the
market-house in the town of Louisville, Jefleraon
county, on Tuesday, the 6th day of June next,
the building and furnishing material therefor of a
Court House for said county, of wood, two stories
high, forty by thirty feet. Information in relation
to plan and construction of building, and pay
ments therefor, will be made known on the day
of letting, or to any of the commissioners until
that time.
HENRY B. TODD,
THOMAS W. BATTEY,
SHERROD ARRINGTON,
PHILIP S. LEMLE,
BKNIAH W. CARSWELL,
RHESA J. FARMER, ,
EBENEZER BOTHWELL,
may 8-td Commissioners. |
A BARGAIN.—I offer for sale my ’
Plantation in Columbia county, 26 miles
north of Augusta, near Little River, containing
850 acres. Payments made easy.
rnv 15 wtf JAMES CARTLEDGE.
ARPERS’ FAMILY LIBRARY. <
cheap edition. —Vol. 1 Milman’s History ol t
the Jews, price 25 cents. The whole edition <>.
the celebrated aeries of works are now being pub- I
llahed at the above low price, and will be receivcc
by CHAS E GRENVILLE & Co. i
ap 7
PUBLIC SALES.
JEFFERSON Sheriff’s Sale.—lVm
be sold on the first Tuesday in July next,
within the legal hours cf sale, at the ’market
house in the town of Louisville, Jefferson coun
ty, the following property, to wit * one negro
woman by the name of kizziah, about 55 or 60
years old, a sorrel horse eight years old, one
buggy and harness, five head of cattle, seventeen
head of stork hogs, one hundred bushels of corn
more or less, five hundred pounds of bacon and
pork, more or less, a small quantity of coffee and
augar, seventy-five pounds of lard more or less,
Inattrasse «» bedsteads and furniture,
r y. Blan< J and books, one bureau, one
<in onr d, two small folding tables, one large
ooltln g glasses, one sideboard, one lot
chairs tw y i and B*aßßware, twelve flag bottom
two Ve C^ ~e ottorn one sideboard,
i ups ar . l8 ’ fourteen lh ’usand unburnt brick,
<>m?’rn?ll Ji2 l ; wa,c ’ ? ne hundred glass bottles,
chain Dlsntnf? 1 cut, ing lumber, one heavy log
rid tO ° l8 ’ ca ‘P e nters’ tools, a va-
■ ’ map of th <? state of Georgia,
dred ™undT n f P r? S ’ ° n< ’ ‘'“X chßir ' five h”n
dicd pounds of todeer more or less two lots in
the town oi LotiisviUe, one joininttlot,of At chi
bald Cambel and others, and one%ining lots of
Mrs. Lewis and others, containing fro n one
to three-fourths of an acre, all levied nn 1. th.
property of Michael .Shein,an, to satisfy one fi >a.
issued f'otn the Superior Court of Jerfl-rst i, co.,
in favor of Meriton it Champlin, vs. John Shell
man and Michael Shelman. Property pointed
out by plaintiff s attorney. 7 *
Also one lot of pine land, containing one hun
dred and fifty acres, more or less, joining lands
of Lewis Camp and others, on Rocky Comfort
creek, levied on as the property of John V. Camp
to satisly sundry fi fas ;rom a Justice’s court in
favor of Hugh J. Neely, and transferred by said
Neely to H. D. Bell. Property pointed out by
the defendant. Levy made and returned by a
bailiff.
Also, a tract of pine land lying on the waters
of Willlamaon’s swamp, containing three hun
dred acres, more or less, adjoining land, of Woods
and Attaway, and others; levied on to satisfy
sundry fi fas from the justices court in favor of
Quinney Lamb vs John Lamb and Sam’l Gleen.
Property pointed out by John Lamb. Levy made
and returned by a bailiff
Also, one bay horse about 8 years old, bridle
and saddle; levied on as the property of Lyman B
Parmer, to satisfy one fi fa issued from the infe
rior court of Jefferson county, in favor of Joseph
K Kilburn vs Lyman B Panner. Property point
ed out by plaintiffs attorney.
Also, one tract of land, oak and hickory, on the ■
waters of Big creek, adjoining lan Js of Evana and
others; levied on as the properly of Roger M
Lawson, to satisfy fi fas issued from the superior
court of Jefferson county, in favor of John W
Bothwell. Property pointed out by the defend
an^y3o,lßTSALEXANDKl{’DSh,ff'
JEFFERSON Sheriff’s Sale.—Will
be sold on the fi:st Tuesday in August next,
at the market house in the town of Louisville
one negro boy by the name of Jesse, about 10 yrs
old ; levied on as the property of Micaiah Phillips,
to satisfy a mortgage fi fa returnable to the infe
rior court of Jefforaon county, in favor of John
Russel vs Micajah Phillips. Property designated
in said fi fa R J FARMER, Sheriff.
May 27, 1843.
LI NCOLN Sheriff's Sale —Will be
sold on the first Tuesday in August next,
before the court house door in Lincolnton, Lin
coln county, between the usual hours of sale, the
following property, to wit: one negro woman bv
the name of Rhody, about 24 years old ; levied oh
as the property of Henderson Peed, to satisfy a
mortgage fi fa in favor of Obadiah Flournoy vs
Henderson Peed. Property pointed out in said
fi B. F. TATOM, I). Sh’ff
May 22, 1843.
LINCOLN Sheriff’s Sale.—Will be
sold on the first Tuesday in July next, be
fore the court house daor in Lincolnton, Lincoln
county, between the lawful sate hours, the fol
lowing properly, to wit: five hundred acres of
land, mure or less, in Lincoln county, adjoining
lands of Barbara Zillars and Win Gullett. Also,
six acres of land more or less, situate lying nnd
being in said county of Lincoln, adjoining Wiley
G Taiom and others, whereon Matthew Brunson
now resides. Also, sixty acres of land more or
less, lying and being in Lincoln county, adjoin
ing V\ iley G Tatom ; all levied on as the property
oi said Matthew Brunson, to satisfy a fi fn from
Lincoln superior court, John Cartledgc vs Joseph
Davis and Matthew Brunson. Property pointed
out by Matthew Brunson.
Also, one negro ntan about 20 years old, by the
name ot William; levied on as the property of
Robert B Wheeler, to satisfy a fi fa from Lincoln
superior court, John C Stokes bearer, vs Robert
O B Wheeler. Property pointed out by defendant.
1 MILUS M CAMPBELL, Sheriff.
d Ma >' 'A 1843.
e npALIAFERRO Sheriffs Sal?--Will
-L be sold on the first Tuesday in July next,
- before the court house door In the town of Craw-
O fordville, between the usual hours of sale, the fol
□f lowing property, to wit: one tract or parcel of
land, containing three hundred acres more or leas,
Is on the waters of Ogcechee, adjoining James Peek
t . and others, whereon James JC. King no lives,
with all its improvements. Levied on as the pro
perty of said John E. King, to satisfy nfifa j n fa
vor of Gutus Luckett, vs. John E. King.
GILCHREST OVERTON, Sheriff.
; June 3, 1343.
!i ]V| ORGAN Sheriff’s Sale.—Will be
e -I'-* sold on the first Tuesday in August next,
. before the court house door in the town of Mad
ison, in said county, within the usual hours of
sale, the following property, viz: three negroes,
to wit; Bob, about twenty-two years of age ;
- Sooky, about twenty-five, and Alcy, abetit thirty
- five, and one road wagon and harness, nnd five
- mules, all levied on as the property of Edwin
- O'Neal, to satisfy a mortgage fi fa from Troup
a Superior Court, in favor i f James O’Neal vs F-d
--t> win O'Neal. LEWIS GRAVES, Sherlfl'
- Jun “ 'l, 1843.
BURKE Sheriff’s Sale.—Will b sold
on the first Tuesday in August next, in the
town of Waynesboro, Burke county, between tie
usual hours of sale, nineteen hundred and forty
> acres of land, adjoining lands of G W Hurst, Pe
. ter J Coutteau and others; levied on as the pro
-1 perty of Jacob Evans, to satisfy a mortgage fi fa
in favor of John Brigham vs Jacob Evans.
1 May 25 > 1943 - s BLOUNT, Sh’ff.
BURKE Sheriff’s Sale.—Will be sold
on tiie first Tuesday in July next, at the
> court house in the town of Waynesboro, between
■ the usual hours of s.i! . one negro boy named
> Abraham, levied on as the property of Thomas
A. Ward, to satisfy one execution in favor of An
drew' J. Cook, vs. Thomas A. Ward and Alfred
G. Barden, security, and others vs. Thomas A
Ward. S. W. BLOUNT, Sheriff.
' May 31, 1843.
r T3URKE Sheriff's Sale.—Will besold
-U on the first Tuesday in July next, before
the court house door in the town of Waynesboro,
between the usual hours of sale, five hundred
acres pine land, whereon James H Godbee now
lives, adjoining lands of Moses Godbee, William
C Bates and others; levied on as the property of
James H Godbee, to satisfy an execution in iav-
< or of Cress & Turpin vs James H Godbee prin
cijml, and Stephen Godbee and William C Bates
securities on stay ol execution.
May 29, 1843. H J BLOUNT, D Sh’fil
BURKE Sheriff’s Sale.—Will besold
on the first Tuesday in July next, before
the court house loorin Waynesboro, Burke coun
ty, between the usual hours of sale, the f ollow
ing property, to wit: one hundred acres of oak
and hickory land, adjoining lands of James Bell,
Edward Carterand others; levied on as the pro
perty o ' Aaron Williams, to satisfy sundry fi fas
from n justices court, In favor of Izatus Jenkins
and otli irs. Levied on and returned to me by a
constable.
Also, one negro girl named Maria; levied on as
the pro; erty of James Lenoir and Angelina I.e
nair, to satisfy an execution in favor of Samuel
Grlswo':l & Co. vs James Lenair nnd Angelina
Lenair, one execution in favor of Blalzc L Neltr
vs Jann s Lenair and Angelina Lenair, formerly
Angelina Clinton.
Also one negro boy by the name ofWill; levied
on as th property of Thomas D Adams, to satis
fy sundiy ti fas from the justices court in favor of
Minchi Gray vs Thomas D Adams, nnd others
vs Thoi ;a.- I) Adams. Levied and returned'n
nie by a i unstable.
Uno. three negroes, Ben, Prince, nnd Henri
ch I ; levied on ns the property of Joseph M P -r
--ry, to satisfy one execution in favor of Osborne
M Lowry vs Joseph M Perry, nnd others vs Jo
seph M Perry. S W BLOUNT, Sh’ff.
May 25, 1843.
Burke sheriff’s salT—wnibTsoki
on the first Tuesday in July next, at the
court house door in the town of Waynesboro, be
tween the usual hours of sale, one, negro boy by
the name of Coba; levied on as the property of
Jefferson Roberts, to satisfy an execution in iav
or of E L Anth my vs Jefferson Roberts.
Also, three hundred acres of land, adjoining
lands of Henry Lewis, Janies Anderson and ttb
ers; levied on as the property of John Turnemnd
Isaac B. Turner, to satisfy one execution issued
from the Superior Court of Burke county, ii fa
vorof E A D Brown vs said John nnd Isnat B.
Turner. S W BLOUNT, Sheffi!
May 25, 1843.
BURKE Sheriff’s Sale.—Will b4old
on the first Tuesday in July nexl, a the
court house in the town of Waynesboro, lurka
county, between the lawful hoars of sale, or ne
gro boy named Edward, levied on as the proerty
of Joseph M. Perry, t« satisfy an execution n fa
vor of William H. Crane & Co. vs. Josep M.
Perry, and others vs. Joseph M. Perry. Paper
ty pointed out by defendant.
June 3, 1843. S. W. BLOUNT, Shdiff.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE usn
the first Tuesday in August next, vill be
sold at Berrien, Dooly county, agreeableto an
order of the honorable the Inferior Court >f Co
lumbia county, the following lots of land blong
ing to the estate of Luke F Clark, decease, viz;
two bqndrod two and a half a«re», lanowriy lot
No. 36, in the 13th district of said county also,
in the town of Washington, Wilken count, two
hundred acres on the waters of Little rivr, ad
joining Shivers and Thompson. Sold for he be
nefit ot the heirs and creditors of said dcased.
Terms on the day of sale.
JOHN G TANKERSLY, A«n’r.
March 18, 1843.
P XECUTOR’S SALE.—WillTsold
on the 4th Monday in June next, be>re the
court house door in Lexington, in lawfuhonrn,
six horses, of the estate of Frederick WCook,
ieceased. Sold on a credit till next Chntmas,
for notes and good security. At same tne, or
•n the day after, will be sold the reinala of a
stock of goods at public auction.
May 16, 1843. W. McKINLEYEx’r.