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- - - J.. HIM ■ -y-j.-r -y, Georgia fi Statesman. TERMS,—S3 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE,] BURRITT & MEACHAM, Editors.} GiEOnwiA. STATESMAN. IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. On Wayne-Street, opposite the Eagle Hotel. BY S. MEACHAM. gCJ => Terms.... Three Dollars in advance, or Four Dollars if not paid in six months.— No subscription received for less than one year, unless the money is paid in advance, and no paper discontinued till all arrearages an subscription and advertisements are paid. N. B.—Notice of the sales of land and ne groes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guar dians, must be published sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of personal property in like man ner must ue published forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be published nine months. Notice that application has been made for Letters of Administration, must also be pub* Eshed forty days. All letters directed to the Editors on business relating to the Office, must be post paid .1. I. » ■ 111-X-—l_ I. - . 1..1U1 MISERIES OF EDITORS. Under this lugubrious title. Major Noah, of the New-York Enquirer, publishes the following list of griev ances, from which it seems he fears his friends will kill him with kindness. It is only in the city of New-York where Editors of newspapers are in dangoAßf being surfeited on turtle soup or oyster suppers: —in other places, after cudgelling their brains until they become as ‘ dry as the remainder biscuit,’ Edi tors are left toSuck their paws, like the bears, or what is about the same thing, are compelled to live on promises, or thank you, sir The miseries of Printers and Edi tors have been frequently detailed to the world, and are too numerous to repeal; but there is a new misery to which they ar& subjected, and which 'threatens to be most fatal— namely : being killed with kindness, stuffed to death with good thjigs, plunged into turtle soup drown ed in punch or chr|t. Scarcely a day elapses without finding a few bil lets doux on our ‘ elbuw-chair’ run ning thus: «(KT" The ‘Goose and Gridiron' will be happy to see the Editor this evening, to partake of oysters, ter rapins and partridges (gT Hoboken Club gives another dividend to-morrow, at Turtle Grove. Spoon exercise at three precisely. Be punctual. 00 s " The corner stone of the new Steam Washing Company, is to be laid to-morrow at two o’clock — dinner at three. Your company is requested. Carriages in front of Si, Pauls’. The Editor will please accept a ticket for my Ordinary to morrow —the principal of the day is Codfish dressed in the Boston style. (fj ' Mons. Kickshaw’s Refectory opens for the season on Monday , the honor of your company is solicit ed. Fricasse a Grenouille, Beaux et cpinard, Cheufjlcr avec sauce blanche Omellettc Souffle, Arc. Wednesday is the anniversary of the ancient and honorable Krout dub. —Smoked goose and sausages, ringglets, sour krout, cabbage, &c. with other delicacies at three, at Peckwell and Batten’s, Broad-way House. N. B. A new Krout to be installed Please to exc pt the enclosed ticket for a Steam Boat excursion to Coinmunipaw, &c. Leave the wharf at 7 A. M. Gentlemen,sweet gentlemen, have mercy on the digestive organs of the poor Printers We can stand many shocks, but must inevitabley sink un der such loads of hospitality and disinterested benevolence. The boldest man in our rank on such oc casions is Col. Stone, but he is one of Pharaoh’s’ h an kino —we cannot fatten him in all these exercises, l.i addition to the few cards above quot ed, the printers themselves have a kind of monthly meeting, which does not go off very dry and musty, as Sykes and Niblo can testily. After publishing the above list oi invitations, our friend Buckingham, the able and indefatigable Editor ui the England Galaxy, and also of the Boston Courier daily pa per) thus indignantly hold th forth.- Now mark the difference between New-York and Boston. We of tin • literary emporium’ have no such troublesome and dangerous antidotes to health and long life staring us in the face to frighten us from our sta bility. Editors here are generally considered the hewers of wood and the drawers of water for all other • orders and de grees of men. We do indeed often hear of feasts and collations given by gentlemen who have elevated a new sign, built a new house, launch ed a new ship, or entered upon some new establishment, where notoriety :s desirable ; but then the the intel ligence docs not reach us till the daq after, when :‘ :s sure *o come m the shape of a communication, the writer of which borrows the editorial style, but which must undergo a re vision, bad spelling and bad grammar be corrected points introduced, and sundry other improvements adopted before it can be given to the com positor : and all we get for this la bour of love, is the privilege of giv ing a dozen or two of the papers which contains this puff, for the gen tlemen to send out as an advertise ment. Pehaps in one instance out of ten of this sort, he is a subscri ber, in which case, if we happen not to have so many papers as he wants, he damns us for stingy fellows, and withdraws his subscription. Verily these things ought not so to be. If g ntlement long for such blessed no toriety as can be obtained from com plimentary paragraphs in the nows papers, they must be more civil to the printers, those ‘ honest chroni clers’ of the times. For one, we have come to a resolution to do no thing in this wayffiereafter without a quid pro quo, or at least the offer of some kind of a quid. Ship-launches house-warmings, sign-raisings, cor ner-stone-laying, and such like, will we notice hereafter, when, and only when, we are invited to partake of the appropriate and customary colla tion. Gentlemen stage-proprietors, who wish a word or two said in favour of the superior speed and accommo dation of their respective lines, must send us a ticket for one trip gratis. Our friends who are about to enter the happy state of matrimony, we shall not tax with an invitation to be present at the ceremony ; that can be dispensed with; but we shall publish no blessed change in their circumstances that is not acompani ed with a pretty generous slice of the wedding cake. We may possi bly, as a piece of every-day informa tion, say, ‘ Married in this town, Mr. A. B. to Miss C. I).’ but such a bar ren annunciation suits the taste of a very few persons. Every body wish es. i.. these cases, that the printer should be particular, and likes to see a paragraph in some degree pro portionate to the magnitude of the event, as thus: ‘ Married last eve ning, at the mansion of A. B. Esq by the Rev. C. I)., E. F. Esq mer chant of this city, to Miss G. H., on ly daughter of the late Hon. 1. K.’ &c. &c. There is another misery to us edi tors of Boston, which is a crying grievance : Authorsand publishers expect us to notice their works as they issue from the press, but it never perhaps entered their heads that to procure a favorable notice they should send each of us a copy. No—they are angry if we are silent, and angrier still if we do not buy their books; they first shave us, (for who would not shave us) for our money and then expect to use our razor to shave others. This topic is becoming serious, and we arc reminded by a circular which now lies on our desk, that it is time to treat it in a serious way. This circular is from the Boston Li brary, stating -among other things, that ‘ several years having elapsed since any notice of it wss circulated, its condition is not generally known,’ and finally asks our aJention, ami that of our friends to the subject. Wherefore should st give our atten tion, and that of our triends to this circular ! The income of our labors does not authorise the purchase of a share in the library for ourselves or family, and if we are not a stock holder, the attention of our friends, or the money of our friends, (which is all that is meant) cando us no good.—The treasures of literature and science contained in the Boston Library arc as useless to us, as if they were in the imperial library at Pekin. If, in the course of our la bors as editor we should wish tb ex amine a date, or refer to a historical fact, (and as many such cases occur in a year) to settle doubt, or to en lighten ignorance, we cannot avail ourself ot the books and documents in the Boston Library ; they are to us as utterly unapproachable, aud would continue so, though we could persuade every friend we have in the world to become a stockholder. Sq it is with the Atheneum—the most valuable collection of books in the United States an institution for which Boston has become generally celebrated—but which is of no more benefit to the citizens of Boston, generally, than it is to those of thf imperial city above mentioned. Ir would hardly be believed in some other cities, if it were told, that m . more than a fiftieth, and perhaps m.: more than a hundredth part, of on. citizens receive the slightest benef irom this superb collection ; yei nothing is more true. It is one c the most aristocratic institutions i; cur country; and we never hav ascertained that it has been of an other '•‘ssse-'icc. than to tirati Ilae tibieruntartes, pacisque imponere morein, parcerc subjectis et debellare superbos.—Virgil. Milledgeville, Tuesday, February 6, 1827. fy the pride of some, of the block head proprietors, who often introduce visiters from distant places, to look at books which they t.iemselv s never read, and to admire the pro ductions of wisdom, learning and inspiration, which they cannot under stand. The printers of this place, we believe, have been pretty hand somely taxed to enrich the library of this institution, but we never learnt that their benefaction had been re ciprocated. If it is any advantage to have newspapers, and to have them well conducted, it is certainly good policy to grant to editors such facilities as can be granted, when the accommo dation costs nothing. Above ail, individuals, societies, or corporations who seek the advantage of gratui tous notices, to reciprocate the favour; and if they have libraries, f.t them open the doors of their res pective institutions to editors, at lei V-t so far as to authorise them to make references and extracts, when they wish to do so, for the purpose of correction and illustration.-JV. Jiep. Ane.i—we too. MISS LIVERMORE. Our readers may have observed in our columns, recently, notices of Miss Livermore’s intention to preach at the Capitol and elsewhere. Our engagements have not allowed us to attend her preaching, had we wished to do so. Those, who have heard her, speak highly of her natural gifts, and some are even enraptur ed by her eloquence. Among the latter is the esteemed Lady who is the author of the following Letter, of which we have been allowed to take a copy for publication It is addressed to the daughter of the writer, who resides in a distant part of th< country. “Washington, 9zA Jan. 1827 Aly Beloved Child-.— l witnessed a scene yesterday, so novel and im pressive, that I cannot forbear at tempting a description of it. I say attempting, for the sensibilities were more strongly affected than the senses, cons, a just delinea tion is very difficult. It had been rumored for some weeks, that a wo man of considerable pretensions had solicited in vain for permission to preach in the Representative Hall at Ihe Capitol. So you see, after all the professions of veneration for our sex, made by mankind, when tested by their acts they say “What good thing can come out of Nazareth.” Thanks to the Christian Pastors of Georgetown; thev invited her to their Churches, from whence the fame eloquence spread through the City curiosity prevaled over illiberal prejudice, ami she was invi ted to preach at the Capitol. We attended at an early hoar, and found the hall lobby, and gallery, so com pletely tilled that it was almost im possible to get admission: And I am told the avenue itself was full of persons excluded. When I looked round and saw the numerous audience, greater than I had ever seen on any farmer occa sion, 1 trembled for the yet unseen female who was to address them.— At ienght she appeared, attended bv a friend. Her figure is good, her height somewhat above medio crity, her face pale, perhaps some would say plain, but pleasing, and indicative of great serenity and goodness. They were both dress ed in a style so simple and neat, you would hare taken them for Quaker-. She ascencded the Speaker’s Chair, and her friend seated herself by her. She commenced, in the usual man ner, by praysr and singing. She then read the 112th psalm in a voice somewhat hurried and tremu lous, and selected her text from 2d Samu 1,23 d chap, part of the 3d and all of the 4th verses —“He that ru leth over men must be “just, ruling “in the fear of God. And he shall “be as the light of the morning, “when the sunriseth, even a morn “ing without clouds, as the tender ‘grass springing out of the earth by “clear shining after rain. The President, and many mem- I tiers of Congress, were present.— I From her text, you will readily per- I ceive her address was intended prin cipally for the rulers ofthe nation, — ; But she embraced the whole multi -1 iude —the rulers of schools—the ru lers of families: and, as individuals, the rulers of our passions. Her language was correct, per ■ '.tiasive, and, judging by my own feelings, the profound attention and •ympathy ofthe audience, extreme s' eloquent. Many wept even sob bing. C. first yielded to the gen ral impression, and even I, although mused to the melting mood, I, who nought my heart was seared by af •ction, and my eyes dried by weep g. found that heart relenting, and 'oso eyes dissolving in a* trickling . aai” I Judging, as I said, by my own feelings, and I have no othe/test, I should say she is the most eloquent preacher I have listened to since the days of Mr Waddell. But no language can do justice to the pathos of her singing. For when she closed by singing a hymn, that might with propriety be termed a prayer, in which she asks the di - vine perfections of each sacred char acter recorded in Scripture, her voice was so melodious, and her face beamed with such heavenly good ness, as to resemble a ‘ransfigura tion, and you were compelled to ac cord them all to her. I could have listened from morn till noon, and from noon till dewy eve of Summer’s’ day. It savoured more of inspira tion than any thing I ever witnessed; and to enjoy the frame of mind which I think she does, I would relinquish the world. Call this rhapsody if you will: but would to God you had heard her! I think you would have felt as I did, and 1 may add, as 1 now do.” National Int. When a once celebrated actress made her entre as Lady Townley, some years since in Dublin, three high-bred women of sash on in the stage-box grossly annoyed her bv talking loud, coughing, &.c. The actress, greatly distressed, stopped, burst into tears, and retired. The ladies unabashed, for a moment en joyed their triumph, when a great uproar ensued, and go on, go on, was heard from all parts ofthe house At length a young collegian jumped on one ofthe benches in the middle of the pit, and exclaimed to the au dience, “My friends who are about me arc determined that the play shall not go on, till those three drun ken gentlemen in women’s cloths leave the stage-box.” This address was universally applauded, and the amazonians retired in the utmost contusion, amidst the shouts and hisses of the spectators. INTERESTING TRAIN OF INCIDENTS. if the reader has ever read the account of which the following is the substance abridged, as it has ap peared in various papers, he will not regret to be presented with it again in this concise form. The ac count is given by Rev. Leigh Rich mond, as having been related by a minister in a meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society. A drunk ard was one day staggering in drink on the brink ofthe sea. His little son by him, three years of age, be ing very hungry, solicited him for something to eat. The miserable lather, conscious of his poverty, and ofthe criminal cause of it. in a kind of rage, occasioned by his intempe rance and despair, hurled the little innocent into the sea, and made off with himself. The poor littl suf ferer finding a floating plank by his side on the water, clung to it. The wind soon wafted him with the plank out to sea. A British man oi' war passing by, discovered the plank and child ; and a sailor at the risk of his life, plunged into the sea, and brought him on board. He could inform little more than his name was Jack. They gave him the name ot poor Jack. He grew up on board that man of war, behaved well, and gained the love of all the officers ‘ and men.—He became an officer of| the sick and wounded department. During an action in the late war, an aged man came under his care, near ly m a dying state He was ail kindness and attention to the suffer ing stranger, but could net save his lit'.. The aged parent was dying ; and thus addressed this kind young officer. ‘ For the great attention I vou have shown me, I give you this i only treasure I am possessed of— (presenting im with a bible bearing the stamp ofthe British and Foreign I Bible Society.) it was given inc by a lady ,- —has been the means of my conversion ; and has been a great comfort to me. —Read it ; it will lead you in the way you should go.” Ue went on to confess the wicked ness and profligacy of his life before the reception of his bible : and among other enormities, box/ he once cast a little son three years old into the s -a, because he cried to him for needed food! The young officer nquired of him the time and place, and found here was his own history. Reader, judge if you can, of his feel ings, to recognize in this dying old man, his own father, dying a peni tent under his care ! And judge of the feelings of the dying penitent, to find that this same kind young stranger was his son, the very son whom he had thus plunged into the sea ; and had no idea but he had immediately perished ’ A descrip tion of their mutual feelings will no be attempted. The old man soon expired m the arm- of sen’ The [Vol. 11. No. s.— Whole No. LVII. latter left the service, and became a pious preacher of the gospel. On closing this story, the minister in the : meeting of the Bible Society, bowed to the Chairman, aud said, “ Sir, 1 am poor Jack.”. Nantucket, Oct. 21. [ Curiosities oj Pennmanship.— We I have just examined some specimens ; of chirography, executed by a female : of this town, which, for ingenuity ■ surpass every thing of the kind, pro bably in this country-thcy are imita tions of typography, so exactly re rembling the impressions of types about the size of long primer, as to mock the nicest scrutiny. What is more remarkable however, and which will scarcely be believed, some of the specimens consist of three books, comprising nearly 200 pages duodecimo, of closely and ac curately printed matter, all the work of the pen! Whatever may be thought of so singular a taste, these productions are certainly most aston ishing monuments of patience, ex hibiting the powers of that wonder ful instrument the pen, in a very ex traordinary manner.— lnquirer. Great Apple.— Mr, Samuo Rice, of New-Salem, Mass, gathered from a tree in his orchard this year, an apple, which weighed one pound and five ounces. — Gazette. Geneva, April 21.—A little piece of news was published here a few days ago of a very piquant nature, the details of all the horrors lately committed in a village of the Can ton of Zurich, by a troop oi'fanatics. ! It describes a sad state bf libertinism, i and ferocity. A young woman, who had lived for some time a very irregular life, persuaded herself, all at once, that God demanded her life to obtain, at the price of her blood, the salvation of sinners. She sue cecded in making her family adopt this idea. One of her sisters, under her tuition, devoted herself also to death. They armed the hands of their parents and friends, and ex pired slowly under their blows. According to their express com mands, they were fixed to crucifixes and their executioners waited pa tiently for three days in expectation of their resurrection, agreeable to J the assurances of the young pro phetess. The murderers, and their accomplices, to the number of eleven , having among them the father, a brother, sisters, and the lover ofthe principal, have been condemned to imprisonment and hard labor lor life, or for a period of years in proportion as they took a more or less active part in the horrid scene of carnage. The house where this deed was per petrated has been demolished, and it has been forbidden to build an other on the spot. From an English paper. 1 Erasmus’s far-famed Greek Testa ment, on vellum, printed at Basil, 1519, in which edition Erasmus omitted the celebrated verse, in St. John’s Epistles, respecting the three heavenly witnesses, was purchased yesterday at Evans’, by the Arch bishop of Canterbury, for 140/. Sir Mark Sykes bought this book in Holland for 30/; there is but one other copy of it known to exist on vellum, and that is in the Cathedral at York. Sir Mark Sykes manifest ed so ardent a disposition to possess this volume, that previously to his fortunate purchase abroad, he is said to have offered the Archbishop and the Dean and Chapter of York, one thousand guineas for their copy, ' which they refused. Mr. Thorpe, I the bookseller, was the Archbishop I of Canter! ury’s powerful competitor. One of the most splendid Balis ever known in Boston, was given on Wednesday evening at the Ex change Coffee House, by a number of Bachelors of this city.—Carpets were extended for the accommoda tion ofthe company, as soon as they descended from their carriages. The j entries and stairways were lined with • rich drapery, ornamented with ever-: greens anil flowers. The company i were first received in an elegant Grecian tent, and thence the ladies and gentlemen retired to their re spective drawing rooms, which were richly decorated and accommodated. The ladies’ drawing rooms were fur nished with costly curtains, couches, sofas, mirrors, <.Vc. For the supper, nine table.s each about 40 feet in length, were spread, with every domestic and foreign es sential and luxury that could be •'ommanded The great hall. 75 by 30 feet, was occupied by the devo irs of the cotillion, quadrille, &c. The company began to assemble bout 3 o'clock, and attended the pupper about 12, after which the [on S4IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS, dancing was resumed and to a late hour. The expense of this free will of fering exceeded two thousand dol lars. About 600 persons were pre sent. — Palladium. From the eighth Report of the American Asylum for the deaf and dumb, at Hartford Con. Extract from a paper, written by a young la dy of 27 years of age, giving some of her opinions before she had receiv ed instruction:— What I thought of the sun, moon and stars, before I came to the Asylum. 1 wished to look at the. sun which was very brilliant as the gold, but I could not see it. 1 thought the sun was like a man who was a soldier.- He wore his crimson dress, and stood on the sun, while he governed over all mankind every day. I was much troubled by the heat ofthe sun. I told my sister that he was very cru el to us, and I wanted to touch him, but 1 was disappointed, because I was too far from him. While the, sun was coming up, I pursued to catch him in the cast, but 1 could not do it. I believed that he was very artful. I was playing in the garden in the summer without a bon net. My friends told me that he would make me black, aud T did not believe about it. There was rea son that he could make the brown cloth on the grass white. They were excited to laugh. In the after noon, the clouds began to becontS very black and 1 considered that the sun was melted with the lightning. The thunder was heard, and I could feel it. lie threw a large ball, go ing down the sky. Then the sun set was running under the earth, and he became the moon all night. In the morning he held a large Candle which was hot all day, while be was walking towards the west. I sat on 'he doorl of the house in the eve ning pleasantly, and 1 looked up the new moon going down the west. A few days ago, when I was walk ing alone to the neighborhood, the half moon followed me, and I did nor. wish her to come. 1 thought I was deaf and dumb, and she was very curious. The moon was full, and. became the darkness in her face like a picture. I asked my friends what was the matter with her? They said that they did not know|what. When 1 went to my chamber, I extinguish ed a candle and was afraid of her. and I shut the window all night, be cause I disliked to be seen by her.— I was very anxious to take refuge.— I advised her not to follw me, but she was still obstinate. When it was dark, the moon would not come up all night, and 1 was glad to hear of it. There were many stars in the sky which was very pleasant. Why did they stay there. 1 ’ 1 talked with my soul, and it was necessary that they lived. I went out ofthe house and I contemplated that they had large parties pleasantly in the eve ning. They were riding, while they held their beautiful candles with their eyes. \\ hen ! was a girl, 1 fr< quently w ent away, and was struck to look up a star which was going into fire with fear.—l thought it was like a gun, and 1 ran and-enter cd to call my sister to sec the star. 1 asked her what was the matter with it? She answered that it would kill me. 1 was very afraid of it, ami I told her that J would go away no more in the evening. I looked up the sky, and called my friends to see the milky way. I said, “some body covered there with the cloth.” I truely saw a comet which was fallen from the sky, and 1 trembled with terror. 1 wondered that I had never seen it before. I expected that some nation was burned with fire in the distant country. I did not know who made these, and I was very ignorant not to think [hat God was a creator of the universe. Caution to Ladies.— We under stand that at a fashionable tea party in this city, the young lady ofthe family, as usual, was called upon to perform the honors of the tea table. In the course of it, she had occasion to rise from her chair to reach an ar ticle on the opposite side ofthe wai ter. In the act of resuming her seat, the end of her corset bone un fortunately hitched in the rim of the waiter, and, terrible to relate! tilted the whole of its contents into her lap!—Hot coffee, boiling tea; cream, toasts, cakes, <s-c. in one indiscrim inate mass! The scene of confusion which followed may be easily ima gined. As this is given to us for a fact we deem it a fit occasion to ad monish parents, particularly mothers entirely to discountenance these per nicious and unseemly articles of fe male attire. Consequences to health far more injurious than being scald ed, arc known to have followed then use. Gm.