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BY 11. STYLES BELL.
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f- ‘ ■ ■ ■■ ■■
State of Geo.—Liberty County.
RY Elijah Buk-r, Clerk of the Court of Ordina
ry for said county.
James Dorsey, and Sarah Smvlie, have applied ;
for letters of administration of the goods and chat
tels, rights and credits, that were of Archibald Smy
“lie; iare nf said romi'y , dc'rn vd -
These are therefore, to cite and admonish all ami
singular, the kindred and creditors of the said de
ceased, to file their objections, (if any there be) in my
office at Hinesville, on or before the first Monday, in j
May next, otherwise the said letters may be granted :
ns applied for.
Given under my hand and seal at Hinosvillo, in said
county, this fourth day of AJarch, in the year J
L. S. of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty nine,
and in the sixty third year of American Inde
pendence.
pa 9 E. BAKER, C. C. O. L. C.
Georgia—Caimlcn County*
WHERE AS, Joseph Thomas, applies for h’t- i
tenol administration of the goods, chattels,
rights, and *rilits of Dyman Darrow, late of said
county, daceas*'!. .
These arc therefore, to cite and admonish, all and
singular, the kindred and Creditors of the said de
ceased, to file their objections (if any they have) in
the office of the Clerk of the (Jourt of Ordinary at
Jefferson, within the time prescribed by law, other
'i-isc the said Joseph Thomas may obtain the letters
appd ;d for
Given under the hand and sea! of the clerk at
L. S said Court, this sixth day of February,
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
p 9 JOHN BAILEY, C. C. 0. C. C.
Fifty Dollars Howard.
RANAWAY from the subscriber in Hamburg j
on the 3Sth, February, his negro man THOMAS,
he is about vSH years of age, five feet 10 inches high,
dark complected, nnd pleasant countenance. He is I
n blacksmith by trade, and lias doubtless procured j
free papers from some person, and has gone to work
at that business cither in South Carolina or Georgia, j
He is in all probability lurking about Savannah, ns
I understand he engaged in the steamboat “Thorne. 1 \
—When lie h ft, he had on a red flannel shirt, black j
satlinet pantaloons, and new broadclotheonl and new
beaver hat. Any jicrson delivering said negro to
me, or will lodge him in any safe jail so that I can
gel him, shall receive the above reward.
R L. TOWSON. Jun.
Hamburg S. C. March sMth, 1835—ap2-3in
GEORGIA LUMBER C OM’P.
THE subscribers, agents of said company,
offer to contract for delivery at Darien, or j
elsewhere, of hard Pine lumber of the best
quality, sawed to any dimensions that may be ,
required, and at low prices. They will have ,
on hand at their depot in this city, a good sup
ply of lumber of various sizes.
WOODBURY & STACKPOLE.
Darien, Jan. 22,1839. 3w
Justices Court for 1 SU‘J.
A COURT, for the 271st District, will beholden
at the Court House in the city of Darien, on the
4th Monday of each month—to wit
Monday 28th January, 1839.
Monday 25th February, “
Monday 25th March, “
Monday 22d April, “
Monday 27th May,
Monday 2ith June,
Monday 22d July,
Monday 26th August, “
Monday 23d September, “
Monday 28th October, “
Monday 25th November,”
Monday 23d December, “
A pannel of 7 Jurors, will be drawn at each term
after the first.
NELSON W. CARPENTER,
Justice of the Peace for 271 si, District,
Darien, January 29st, 1839.
The Carolina Hotel,
AT PRIVATE SALE.
Jigidx THE proprietor of the CAROLINA
Rssslßt HOTEL, in Broad street, Charleston,
‘■* SW wishing to engage in other pursuits, of
■jaAjS fers his valuable establishment at pri
vate sale. The Carolina Hotel ranks amonst the
very best establishments of the kind in the United
States, is situate in the finest street, in the immediate
vicinity of the most busy part of the city of Charles
ton, and has always commanded the very best pa
tronage.
Hotel consists of two very fine three nnd a half
story brick buildings on the north side of Broad st.,
commanding a front of 51 feet, with anew and ele
gant three story range of brick buildings running
from Broad, to Chalmers street, 290 feet. On Chal
mers street there also a large three story brick
building, of 51 feet front; all the buildings are con
nected with each other. On the premises are also
two large and convenient Kitchens, .Servants apart
ments, and all other necessary out buildings, of brick.
There are nine fine parlors, forty-eight neat and com
fortable chambers, a large and elegant ball room, one
large dinner room, and one large sitting room for
gentlemen, a barroom, store room, and two pantries.
There is a private entrance in Broad street for ladies
and families With the Hotel will be sold the whole
of the standing furniture, requisite for the proper
conducting such an establishment, all of which is
neat and new, and has been carefully selected.
Any one wishing to engage in the business, will
find an opportunity in this offer, for a safe and very
lucrative investment, and if the brilliant prospects of
the city are realised, it is believed that no establish
ment of the kind in the United States will compare
with it in profit. For terms, and other information,
apply to ELLIOTT, CONDY A DAWES,
Comer Broad street, and East Bay, Charleston,
ap 9
itßixsnszs r-‘S 9
OF every desorption executed at the of
fice of THE DARIEN HERALD.
s&ssraa m&Mmst umisrn mmmmwmm*
NEW WOODS.
THE SUBSCRIBER is just opening a fresh as
sortment of select
Consisting of the following articles, viz: Irish Sheet
ings; Irish Linens; Linen Cambric Hdkfs: Russia A
Scotch Diapers; Curtain do; Bird Eye uo; Linen
Table Covers; Corded Skirts; English and American
Prints; French Muslins; Picnic Gloves; Fancy nnd
Satin Scarfs; Gauze Nhawls; Npun Silk Hose; black
and white half hose do; Colton do; Footings, Edg
ings, and Inscrtings; Cap Ribbons; Linen and Cot
ton Musquito; Nettings; Marseilles Vesting; striped
Lasting*, Linen Drills, and Georgia Nankeens, for
Gentleman’s Pantaloons. Together with a variety of
other articles, all of which will be sold cheap for cash.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen, are respectfully invited to
call and examine for themselves.
nth 19 H. W HUDNALL.
DO BOY STEAM SAW MILL,
W ILL keep on hand a large supply of
LUMBER of till descriptions. Cargoes
will be sawed to order. Five wharves are at
tached to the Mill, and tile Lumber will be de
livered within reach of the vessel louding.
Apply to
’ P. R. YONGE & SONS,
Agents.
Darien, January 22,1839.
SEWSPRIItID a SI mint goods.
THE SUBSCRIBERS have received in addition
to their stock a variety of SPRING & SUMMER
GOODS, amongst which are
French Painted Muslins
Light Prints
Check’d, Cambric and Swiss Muslins
Black Gro do Swiss Silks
Furniture Dimity
Linen Sheetings
Table Diapers
Byrdseye nnd Russia do
Colton Fringes
Irish Linen
Dress Shawls and Scarfs
Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs
Parasols nnd Umbrellas
Corded Skirts
Silk Kid and Lisle Gloves
Silk and Colton Hosiery
Ladies’ Corsets
Georgia Nankeens
Drillings, Vestings, &c. &c.
Which arc offered on the usual terms by
.! th S. II ROKENBAUGH.
Darien, March 26, 1839. _
Co-Partnership Notice.
THE SUBSCRIBERS hoveformed a Co-partner
ship in the city of Darien, for the sale of Dry Goods,
Groceries, Hurd Ware, Ate. &c. under the style of N.
M. Calder fit Cos.
N M. CALDF.R,
JOHN HUGHEY,
n j McDonald.
Darien, Feb. sth, 1829. nth 2(i-2m
Notice.
VLL persons indebted to the subscribers by note
or account, will please settle the same forthwith.
CALDER & HUGHE Y.
Darien, Feb. sth, 1839. mh 26-2 m
CIAPTAIN KYD ; or, The Wizard of the Sea.
J A Romance By the Author of “The South
west,” “Lafitta,” “Burton,” Ac. 2vols. Just rccevi
ed and for sale at the HeraldOffie.e. mhs
Notice.
THE .SUBSCRIBERS woul l inform the citizens
of Darien, and its vicinity, that they will carry on
the HOUSE CARPENTERING BUSINESS*, in
all its branches, building or repairing. All contracts
promptly attended to.
N B. They also contract now, for buildings to be
finished next winter.
i -t; s. D & J P WOOPBI RY.
.*s2s Reward.
EBCAPF.I) on the lMth inst. from my
custody, WILLIAM GREEN, under sen
tence of imprisonment in the Jail of Mcln
tosh County, for harboring a slave. The
said William Green is about forty years of
age, fair complexion, and has a wild express
ion of countenance, lie resides on the
Honey Gall Creek, a Branch of the Alata
maha, in Glynn County, and is well known
in and about that neighborhood as a notori
ous cattle thief.
The above reward will be paid on delive
ry of said Green to myself, at my residence,
or to my deputy at Brunswick.
JOHN FRANKLIN,
ap 30 SheriffG. Cos.
Frcsli Raisins, Ac.
A BOXES FRESH RAISINS—AIso,
! jml Preserved Ginger
Scott’s assorted Pickles in Jars
Fresh Sweet Oil, and
Superior Imperial and Young Hyson Tea.
Just received and for sale by
feb 26 J. & S. H. ROKENBAUGH.
Darien Hank Hills.
RILLS on the above Bunks taken by the subscri
ber for DRY GOODS —consisting of French,
English and American Prints; Silk Lawns; Challie’s
Paramatta Cloth, (anew article for gentlemen’s
Summer Coats, &c.); 5-4, 4-4, 3-4 bleached and
brown Sheetings arid Shirtings; Georgia Nankeens;
white Jeans; coloured Drillings; Damask Table Dia
per ; Birds Eye Diaper; Vestings; Bear Duck; Ho
siery, Sic. &c. Also, for Groc ries, Hardware, Cut
lery, Hats, Shoes, Iron, or any other articles I may
1 have for sale. My assortment is now good.
SAMUEL M. STREET,
ap Bth Broad street, (Vivian’s Range.)
Notice.
ALL Persons having claims against the Estate
of WILLIAM A. DUNHAM, late of M’ln
tosh county, deceased, arc requested to hand in their
claims duly attested—and all those indebted, are
likewise desired to make immediate payment to the
subscriber. CHARLES WEST, Executor.
Darien, April 9th, 1839.
Brought to Jail,
ON the 14th inst. a negro named AHR AHA If.
says he belongs to Mr. Potter, of Savannah.
| He is alx>ut 5 feet 6 inches in height, dark complex-
I ion, says his age is 23.
i BENJAMIN GROOMES, Jailor,
M’lntosh County.
Darien, April 16th, 1839.
Boards.
50,000 feet up country sawed
BOARDS, 7-8 to 1 inch thick. For sate by
mh 12-3 t irAMCiti. PALMER.
DUNBAR MOBIL,
Attorney at Law,
Brunswick, Geo.
OFFERS his professional services to the pu'lie.
He will practice in the Courts of the Eastern
District, and attend strictly to any business entrusted
to his charge, a P
Paints and Oils.
KA KEGS English White LEAD
Vr 75 do American ditto—Also,
Greer, and Black PAINTS. Just received
and for sale by
may 7 J. & S. H ROKENBAUGH.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1839.
UNEXAMPLED
MAMMOTH SCHEME !!!
The following details of a Scheme, of a Lottery,
to be drawn in Doeember next, warrant* us iudeclar
ing it to be UNPARALLELED in the history of
Lotteries. Prizes to the amount have never before
been offered to the public. It is true, there are ma
ny blanks, but on the other hand, the extremely low
charge of ISO per Ticket —the Valve and Number
of the Capitals, and the revival of the good old cus
tom of warranting that every prize shall be drawn
and sold, will, we are sure, give universal satisfac
tion, and especially to the Six Hundred Prize Hol
ders.
To those disposed to ndvenluro we recommend
early application being made to us for tickets —when
the prizes are all sold, blanks only remain—the first
buyers have the best chance. We, therefore, em
phatically say—DELAY NOT ! but at once re mil
and Jrans-mit to us your orders, which shall always
receive our immediate attention. Letters tube ad
dressed, and applications to l>e made to
SYLVESTER & CO.,
156 Broadway, New York.
HjT Observe the Number, 156.
$700,000 !1 S $500,000 !! $*25,000 !
6 prizes of $*20,000 ! !
2 prizes of $15,000 !!
II prizes of SIO,OOO !
Grand Real Estate and Bank Stock
LOTTERY.
Os Property situated in New Orleans,
r r The richest and most magnificent Scheme ever
presented to the public, in this or any other coun
try.
TICKETS ONLY s‘2o,
Authorized by an Act of the Legislative Assembly
of Florida, and under the Directions of the Com
missioners, acting under the’same.
TO BE DRAWN AT JACKSONVILLE,
FLORIDA. December Ist, 1831)
SCHMIDT & HAMILTON, Managers.
SYLVESLEIt & CO., 156 Broadway.
New York, Sole Agents.
NO COMBINATION NUMBERS ! ! !
100,000 tickets from No. 1 upwards, in succession,
The deeds of the Property and the Stock transferred
in trust to the Commissioners appointed by the I
said act of the Legislature of Florida, for the sccu- ‘
rity of the Pi ize Mulders.
SPLENDID SCHEME! ! !
I Prize—The Arcade—-286 feet, 5 inches, 4 lines,
on Magazine street; 101 feet,
11 inches, on Natchez street;
126 feet, 6 inches, on Gravier st.
Rented at about $37,000 per an
num. Dollars.
Valued at 700,000
l Prize—City Hotel—l 62 ft on Com
mon street, 146 feet. 6 inches, on
Camp st. Rented ut $25,000 —
Valued at 500,000
1 Prize—Dwelling House (adjoining
the Arcade) No. 16, 24 ft. 7 inches*
front on Natchez st. Rented
at $l2O0 —Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto (adjoining the Arcade)
No. 18,23 ft front on Natchez st.
Rented at $l2O0 —Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto (adjoining the Arcade)
No. 20, 23 feet front on Natchez
st. Rented at sl2oo—Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto—No. 23, North east
corner of B; sin Custom-house
street; 40 feet front on Basin, and
40 feet on Franklin st. by 127 ft.
deep in Custom-house st. Rented
at slsoo—Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto No. 24 South west
corner of Basin & Custom house
street; 32 feet, 7 inches on Busin
32 feet, 7 inches on Franklin, 127
feet, 10 1-2 inches deep in front of
Custom house street. Rented at
slsoo—Valued at 20,000
1 Prize—Ditto—No. 330, 24 feet, 8
inches on Royal street, by 127 ft.
11 inches deep. Rented at SI4OO.
Valued at 15,000 .
1 Prize—2so shares Canal Bank
Stock, SIOO each 25,000 ]
1 Ditto —200 ditto Com do, do do 20,000
1 Ditto—lso ditto Mechanics’ and
Traders’ do do 15,000
; 1 Ditto—loo do City Bank do do 10,000
j 1 Ditto—do do do do do do 10,000
; 1 Ditto—do do do do do do 10,000
j 1 Ditto—so do Exchange Bank do do 5,000
1 Ditto—so do do do do do 5,000
1 Ditto—2s do Gas Light Bank do do 2,500
I 1 Ditto —25 do do do do do do 2,500
I 1 Ditto—ls do Mechanics’ & Tra
ders’ do do 1,500
1 Ditto—ls do do do do do 1,500
20 Ditto each 10 shares of the Louis
iana State Bunk, SIOO each, each
Prize SIOOO 20,000
10 Ditto each 2 shares of SIOO each,
each Prize S2OO, of the Gas Light
Bank 2,000
200 Ditto each 1 share of SIOO, of the
Bank of Louisiana 20,000
200 Ditto each 1 share of SIOO of the
New Orleans Bank 20,000
150 Ditto Each 1 share of SIOO of the
Union Bank of Florida 15,000
6000 Prizes. $1,500,000
TICKETS s2o NO SHARES
The whole of the Tickets with their Numbers, as
also those containing the Prizes will he examined
and sealed by the Commissioners appointed under
the Act, previously to their being put into the wheels.
One wheel will contain the whole of the Numl>ers, !
the other will contain the Six Hundred Prizes, and
the first GOO Numbers that shall be drawn out, will
be entitled to such Prize as may be drawn to its num- j
ber, and the fortunate holders of such Prizes will ;
have such property transferred to them immediately j
after the drawing, unincumbered, and without any
Deduction !
Editors of every Paper in the United States, in
the West Indies, in Canada, and other of the British
Provinces are requested to insert the above, as a
standing advertisement, until the Ist, of December
next, and to send their account to us, together with a .
paper containing the advertisement.
SYLVESTER & CO, 156 Broadway, V. Y.
may 21
sxsaoasga
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ON THF. DEATH OF A SISTER.
BV CIIARI.ES sprauuk.
I knew tlmt we must part; day after day
I saw the dread Destroyer win his way.
That hollow cough first rang {he fatal knell,
Aa on my ear its prophet warning fell;
Feeble and slow the once light footstep grew,
Thy wasting cheek put on death’s pallid hue,
Thy thin, hot hand, to mine more weakly clung,
Each sweet “Good night,” fell fainter from thy
tongue.
I know that we must part—no power could save
Thy quiet goodness from an early grave ;
Those eyes so dull, though kind each glance they
cast,
Looking a sister’s fondness to the last;
Thy lips so pale, that gently pressed my cheek,
Thy voice—alas ! thou eouldstbut try to speak;
All told thy doom ; I felt it at my heart;
The shaft was struck—l knew that wo must port.
And we hove parted, Alary—thou art gone I
Gone in thy early bloom, meek, suffering one 1
Thy weary spirit breathed itself to sleep
So peacefully it seemed a sin to weep,
In those fond watches who around thee stood,
And felt, even then, that God wus greatly good.
Like stars that struggle through the shades of night,
Thine eyes one moment caught a glorious light,
As ifto thee, in that dread hour, Were given
To know on earth ivlmt faith believes of heaven;
Then like tired breezes didst thou sink to rest,
Nor one, one pung the awful change confessed,
Death stole in softness o’er that lovely face,
And touch’d each feature with n new-born grace ;
On cheek and brow unearthly beauty lay,
And told that life’s poor cares had passed away.
In my last hour, be Heaven so kind to me,
1 ask no more than this—to die like thee.
But we have parted ! Afnry—thou art dead !
On its last resting place I laid thy head,
Then by the coffin-side knelt down and took
A brother’s farewell kiss and farewell look ;
Tliobo marble lips no kindred kiss returned ;
From those veiled orbs no glnnce responsive burned;
Ah 1 then I felt hat thou hndst passed away.
That the sweet face I gazed on was but clay.
And then came memory with her busy throng
Os tender images, forgotten long ;
Years hurried back, and as they swiftly rolled,”
I saw thee—heurd thee, as in days of old,
.Sad and more sad each sacred feeling grew,
Manhood was moved, and sorrow claimed her due;
Thick, thick and fust, the burning tcur-drops started,
I turned away and felt that we had purled.
But not for ever—in the silent tomb,
Where thou art laid, thy kindred shall find room;
A little while—a few short years of pain,
And, one by one, we’ll come to thee again.
The kind old father shall seek out the place.
And rest with thee, the youngest of the race;
The dear, dear mother—bent with nge and grief—
Shall lay her head by thine, in sweet relief;
Sister and brother and that faithful friend—
True from the first, and tender to the end—
All, all, in His good time, who placed us here,
To live, to love, to die nnd disappeur—
.Vhall come and make their quiet bed witth thee,
Beneath the shadow of that spreading tree;
With thee to sleep, through death’s long dreamless
night
Willi thee rise up, and bless the morning light.
TO A CANARY BIRD.
God bliss thee a ad thy joyous throat!
Thy thrill, thy churr, thy piercing note,
My sweet canary!
Thou gush of song, thou water-brook
Ofjoy, thou poem, doctrine, book,
Vocabulary !
Thou caged-up treasure of delight!
That knowcsl lo make a prison bright
Through music’s mystery;
To swell thy ridi notes in full tide ;
Anon, the highest reach of sound divine,
Like Paganini!
. Where didst thou gain the womlerous lore 1
Where that, which I admire yet more,
The glad Philosophy,
That smiles at iron bars and doors, —
In loneliness a spirit pours
Os mirthful minstrelsy.
Wert ever old 1 or broken hearted .
Hast ever from thy mate been parted,
To meet thereafter 1
It cannot be; that gleesome strain
Comes from a breast that ne’er knew pain—
’Tis almost laughter.
Now thou art still; thy chaunt is o’er;
Thou seem’st intent on something more
Important to thee;
Hast any thing to lose, or gain 1
What think’s! thou of the war in Maine,
And Sir John Harvey 1
Would’st Scott, or Prescott, rather be 1
The cotton cron—is’t ought to thee 1
The (.rayon papers—
Art rich at heart, or yet to know
That silvery stream again doth flow ;
Again in music stirs 1
Ah rogue! I see thee, have thee now,
That leap from off the transverse bough,
That knowing look inspires ;
The sound thou lov’st shall now be heard,
“Fresh seed and water for my bird,
And sugar for his wires.”
Dr. T. W. Dvott, the Free Banker of
Philadelphia, is on his trial in that city,
with that other Loco Foco beauty, C. J. In
gersoll, as his counsel. Os course, they
both act as crookedly as possible. Ingcr
soll tried to get the indictment quashed,
but Judge Conrad, overruled him on all his
points. By his direction, his hopeful efient
refused to plead to the indictment. Ihe
Judge ordered a plea of .Not Guilty to be
entered. Dyott and Ingersoll refused to
have any thing to do with impaneling the
Jury. After they had behaved as ugly as they
knew how throughout, the Judge ordereda
nother pending case to be postponed, (this
was Tuesday) and the trial of Dyott logo on
until concluded. So there is good reason
to hope he will have justice done him.
TIIK VILLAGE GRAVEYARD.
A FRAU M ENT,
The Inst rose tints were gradually disap
pearing from the western horizon when I
left the village inn and bent my footsteps
towards the church-yard. The stillness of
the atmosphere—the hush of merriment
and business, and the approach of twilight,
disposed my mind to meditution and threw
their soft influence over me. A short walk
brought me to the place which I sought.
Plain as it was in its appearance, with no
natural or artificial charms, it had attrac
tions numerous and powerful for my pen
sive mine. Its venerable yew tree—its
regularly disposed walks, and its neatly
arranged graves, gave it an air of solemn
ity, and invested it with a peculiar beauty.
Such a spot has nlwuys been delightful to
me. llow often in the uucorrupled hours
of childhood, did 1 steal from the play
ground and alone wander through the
grave-yard! How many Sabbath after
noon moments have I passed among the
tombs, surrounded by the emblems of my
own mortality ! Why this was so, I cannot
tell. It may have been because my kin
dred were there. It may have been be
cause some of my first associates—my ami
able sister—my tender brother were there
reposing in the coldness of their last rest
ing place. Companionless and solitary’ in
the world, I there found communion and
pleasure, and hence I loved to visit it and
linger in its borders. I would sometimes
remain there till the night shades closed
around me, and the dew drops fall fast and
thick upon my head. More than once did
I lay upon its grassy mounds and weep
myself to sleep.
The burial place of a village awakens
feelings and produces thoughts different
from other grounds of interment. I have
stood among the mausoleums of the great,
and wondered at the pride that could so
magnificently decorate its last tenement.
I have walked amid the graves of the rich
—1 have bent over the vaults of heroes—of
philosophers —hut never have 1 hnd the
emotions which arise within me in a village
grave-yard.
I there feel ns if I were among the pat
riarch’s of other days—those who long ago
acted their parts and formed their charac
ters on the theatre of life. I sec around
me the memorials of many generations. I
behold the common dwelling of ancestois
and their posterity—the dust of parents
mingling with the dust ofchildrcn—friends,
one in life and one in death, their commun
ity preserved, their society undestroysd.
The inhabitants of a village in this ref occt
have but a step from the cradle to the gtqva.
The tomb is ever before their eyes—it -is
ever impressed upon their hearts and in all
their employments its influence is experi
enced. Content to live where their fore
fathers lived, they close their eyes on the
scenes that first gladdened them, and in
peacefulness they lie down among the hal
lowed ashes of their race.
We sec there no exhibition of pride. All
is simple. No expensive monuments are
seen ; for their memory is left totlie charge
of those who survive them. It is embalm
ed in their affections, and watered by tears.
Every thing is becoming the place. Noth
ing disgusting to the eye is witnessed.
Who can tell the influence which a grave
yard, under such impressive circumstances,
has upon the character? Who can conceive
the power that it may exert over the thou
ghts and actions? It is an habitual mon
itor of the vanity of earthly things. Its
voice is every heard calling upon all to
regard themselves as the transient inhabi
tants ofa fleeting world. It restrains lev
ity, and like the presence of some awful
spirit, it controls the affections and gover
ns the thoughts. Dissolution is an event
that is prepared for in time, because of the
perpetual exhortations individuals have had
to attend to it. They read, in the fate of
others, their own destiny. They feel and
know that they must die, and hence they
make it their business to obtain that purity,
that indifference to earth, that love for heav
en that can enable their possessor to depart
with no bitter remembrance of misspent
time and of neglected opportunities ; with
no regrets for the past and no evil appre
hensions of the future.
Good Nature.— “ By Hook or by Crook,”
Dame Grundy was the most good-natured
woman alive. Come what would, every
thing was right, nothing wrong. One day
Farmer Grundy told a neighbor that he
believed his wife was the most even-temper
ed woman in the world, for he never saw
her cross in his life—and that sot once he
should like to see her so. “Well,” said
his neighbor, “go into the woods, and bring
home a load of the crookcdcst wood you can
find, and if it doesn’t make her cross, noth
ing will.” Accoidingly to try the experi
ment, he teamed home a load of wood
every way calculated to make a woman
fret. For a week or more she used the
wood copiously, but not a word of complaint
escaped her lips. So one day the husband
ventured to inquire of her now she liked
the wood. “Oh ’tis beautiful wood,” said
shc,“ I wish you’d get another load, for it
fays round the pot complete !”
A man of weak, complying disposition,
whom no one fears, no one will be at the
trouble to oppose ; while a man ofa strong
and fixed character is liable to opposition,
at least from those who expect to derive a
certain importance from the dignity of
their adversary. But he will compel even
this opposition into subserviency to him
self,-just asjthc mariner obliges the wind
that opposes him to help him forward.
The injuries we do, and those we suffer,
are seldom weighed in the same balance.
VOL. 1. NO. 19.
L. E. L.
The Corsair contains an eloquent notice
of the life and death of this gifted and la
mented poetess. It is doubtless from the
pen of N. P. Willis, and is brilliant and
beautiful. We regret that we have only
room for a single passage ;
It would be difficult to convey to those
conversant alone with American society a
correct idea of the unhappy prinfulness of
Miss Landon’s position in England. Wit
cannot easily understand where begins
that indefinable tinge of vulgarity, visible
only to those who breathe the subtle air of
exclusiveness in that aristocratic land,
but, as impalpable as it is, the unforgiven
sin of society. Miss Landon was brilliant,
conversant to a singular degree with all the
minute usages of continental and I-ondou
society—probably would describe the five
shades of good manners and nice elegancy,
better than any living writer ; but there
was no denying it she was felt by the
classes she most aimed to please to be
vulgar. It was not her birth—that was
highly respectable. It was not her voice,
or figure—they were eminently those of a
lady. She was graceful and self confident.
Her books quoted and made the medium of
love by the very aristocrats who “turned
down the thumb” upon her pretensions.
“What a sweet poetess! What a vulgar
girl!” was said in one breath, whenever
she put her foot on the threshold oi rani ..
And this, it may be said now, was the “ashen
at the core” of all the fruit ottered by youth
and genious to her lips. She felt that she
was born for the upper air, but her wings
wanting, She was over elegant, over am
bitious in her taste for society. She would
have given all the concentrated fame of all
the poetesses of English literature to have
queened it at Almack’s through one forgot
ten ball.
The late Gen. Smith of Baltimore was
the son of a merchant, and was intended
for that profession. At the age of 19 he
was sent to England and placed in a coun
ting-house to improve in his mercantile
education. Not satisfied with the restrain
ts imposed upon the clerks in the house in
which lie lived, he freighted the vessels in
which he went out, and sailed for a port in
Italy. He traveled over most of the con
tinent and relumed to the United States in
the same vessel, with Major Andre, between
whom and himself was formed a friendship
which ended only with the life of that vic
tim of Arnold’s treason, and his own dis
honorable conduct. Gen. Smith, when a
young man, was solicited by the committee
of safety of Baltimore to cormpatid a com
pany sent by water to Annapolis, to arrest
or capture the provincial Governor Eden.
The Governor made his escape, and Xheot
tempt to nrrest him was unsuccessful. .
At the commencement of the revolution
ary struggle, Smith entered the service as
a captain. He was in the battles of Bran
dywine, Monmouth, White Plains and Long
Island,and his company covered the retreat
of the army through the Jerseys. He com
manded at Mud Fort; where such gallant
and desperate defence was made against
the British fleet. In this engagement he
was disable by a spent ball which gave a
shock to his frame from which he did not
soon recover. lie for one year represen
ted the city in the Legislature of the State,
and aftciwards was in one or the other
, House of Congress until the fourth of
March, 1833.
Mr. Jefferson pressed Gen. Smith to
accept the office of Secretary of the Navy,
which he declined, consenting however, to
act in that capacity until some suitable per
son could be selected to fill it permanently.
He served as Secretary for six months or
more, but would not receive any compen
sation forhis services. He generally while
in Congress filled some high station, being
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means in the House, and of that of Finance
in the Senate. When Baltimore was threat
ened with foreign invasing, in 1814, he
accepted the command of the defending
army, and pledged his own private fortune
and that of a friend. During the whole
term of his command, neither he nor his
staff received any pay. His first term of
service in Congress commenced in 1793,
and lie continued in the House or Senate
till the fourth of March, 1833. Congress
voted and presented him a Sword for his
gallant defence of Mud Fort. His last pub
lic service was in the capacity of Mayor of
Baltimore, to which he was elected, a few
years since, during the period of great ex
citement, as the only person who was
thought competent, by his personal influ
ence and popularity, to allay the spirit of
riot and check the exasperated tone of pub
lic sentiment, which then disturbed the
peace of the city,
Irish humor. —A shrewd yankee, for the
purpose of arresting attention, caitsed his
sign to be set upside down. One day, while
the rain was pouring down with great vio
lence, a son of Hibernia was discovered di
rectly opposite, standing with some gravity
on his head, and fixing his eyes steadfastly
on the sign. On an enquiry being made of
this inverted gentleman; why he stood in so
singular an attitude, he answered, “I am
trying to read that sign.”
A giant mind may be held in suspense ;
but that suspense must be brief, and the ac
tion which follows it will be more decided
and energetic in consequence of that deter
mination ; just as a stream rushes with grea- i
ter force for a temporary obstructicn.-
An Indian being asked his opinion ofa
case of Madeira wine presented to him bty
an officer, said he thought it juice exttfjjpl
ted from women’s tongue and
hearts ; for after he had drank a botfka offt,
he could talk for ever, and fight
duce.