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Georgia S Statesman. TERMS,—S3 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE,] BURRITT & MEACHAM, Editors.] GEORGIA STATESMAN IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY IN MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. On Wayne-Street, opposite the Eagle Hotel. BY S. MEACHAM. ICT’ 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 arc 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 i>B published forty days previous to the day of side. 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* Ihhed forty days. AH letters directed to the Editors on business relating to the Office, must be post paid From the Memorial, THS BIHNACI.E. The following narrative is from the 1 lips of a seaman, as related on board 1 of a vessel upon the Atlantic, when indications of a storm were upon the heavens/similar to those disclosed in the tale. To transplant it, from the scene and circumstances of its delivery, detracts much from its ef fect. The scenery adds to the play, and both are dependant for their in teresting qualities; upon the state of the listener’s mind. Let him who has but a single touch of romance in his composition, imagine himself on the relentless deep, away from all that he holds dear, subjected to the dominion of wind and wave, and pas sing a vacant hour among the sailors on the forecastle, listening- to their wild tales of storm and death, and he then may have a faint idea of that mate attention which was bestowed upon this simple story. The author pretends to no other credit than that which is due to a translator « A light in the binnacle.” This order was given in that peremptory manner, which shows that a man is either ill at c ise with himself, or with those peculiar, circumstances in which he is then involved. He, from whose lips this order came, knew not but that it might be deem ed unmanly in him to begin, at that moment, to guard against the worst. Tim topmasts had been struck, the rigging coiled away in the most sea manlike stylo, and the sun had now s-unk beneath a chaos of pillowy clouds; leaving scarce a star, as a ; sentinel to watch over the dreary waste of waters. Yet, to the inex perienced eye, there was nothing to warrant any preparation against an approaching tempest. A summer evening breeze gently filled the reef ed foresail, and the helmsman was warbling snatches of sea-songs, in termingled with sundry and diverse musical caricatures of .Inld Lang Syne. But the captain and mate were ob served to converse together in low tones, and often to look at the rig ging; and to cast stolen glancs to ward the sky, which was then dying every object with a fearful crimson. The expiring sun-light, as it fell up on the face of Captain Sears, gave in deep outlines, one ofthose expressive countenances, which are frequently found among the seamen of New- England ; and one could almost trace marks of the storm upon his weath cr-bcuvm visage. On board of his ehip he was a pcrlkct autocrat; but in the bosom of his family, or in the social circle, he was the unaffected, amiable sailor, pretending to nothing in art or science higher than the truck or deeper than the keel of his own vessel. There was a beam in his eye, at the moment of which we have been speaking, allied to both of these qualities —a note of pre paration seemed to ring from his strung nerves, while a stoicism, as to the result, might have been drawn from his open and tearless counte nance. The sailors followed with their eyes the direction of his looks and gestures, and with sedulous haste obeyed his orders, as given through the medium of his mates A gradual increase of the breeze was noticed, and the hesitation of the commander seemed changed from doubt to certainly He turned toa young man near him, and said, in an under tone, “do you mark that yon der glim has shut in, that those clouds are condensed, and do you see that feathery maze approaching us at the rate of twenty knotsan hour, upon our weather bow ?” “And what then was the reply. “What then ?■—you do not pre tend to be ignorant that an equinoc tial gale will be likely to give us a Mrot birth for supper—or that it is Bow coming on as though the very devil directed it ? Come, Monsieur Melancholy, give us a specimen o1 yea uro that THE FOLLOWING TABLE Exhbits, at one view, the prices of the various descriptions of Cotton, in Charleston, in each week, during the last ten years. 1816. 1817. 1818. 1819. 1820. 1821. 1822. 1823. 1824. 1825, |7|WS ws £ I O |j? ffjl l pg Iff 8 s “ IPI SI Hl’S *5-2 5- g I 111 '!x =§ I liß-IS. HX, 5- B. lls-'g a ls-i§ re r& ™ r co ! r ’I- cq ce hr pf re J jiUi® £• Htr Is.gfi HrU -f-s. 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15 2 |SO 30 14»i 50 37 35 25} 51'47 33} [54 50 25 |4O 33 15 ;j2B 24 16 28 23 18 25|18 12 )[2B 22 15 28 21'15 [SO 30 142 51 39 35 25} 56 50 34 [53 48 26 [[39 35*16 [3l 25 16 I 28123117 25|20|12 |;2B 22 14 2!|28j24l 15 2;'55 30 14 2 52 39 35 25“ 58 —35 [55 50 27 |j37})34; 16}1’30 25 16 I 30[23j 18 2 30|20| 12 2J28]22 14 2.|28’24; 15 2:*50 32:14 2 jLjpTn the columns of the five last years of the above table, the quarters of cents arc denoted by figures 1,2, 3, instead of fractions. my jack-tars will stand by me as long as a spike holds ; yet they love your jacknife better than my whole car case—cheer up, give bad luck to the winds help us to port, and who knows but happiness may await you.” " I would rather,” soliloquised the young man, “be gasping in those dark waters, which are now rising in au ger around me, and grope my way into those still coral caverns, which • arc yawning beneath me. Was I not bom to a fortune, and have I not endured penury ? Were not these hands once soft with luxury, and are they not now hardened by toil! Did 1 not love thee, Mary, and wort not thou, my bud of bliss, blighted by misfortune ?—art thou not the bride of another Why is it, that,' heart less myself, others attach themselves to me, merely to be drawn into that vortex of ruin, which mine own go ing down has created ? A home un der these troubled waves, were bet ter than to live a thing without a hope under a seeming iair sky of peace, when the fiery demon of despair is burning all within me. Yet these poor fellows love me ; they love life —I must save them.” He started from his musing posture and it was as it lightning had flashed across the decks. The cry was, “ Frederick sees danger, and we must do our utmost.” The foresail was ha ded, a balance-reefed storm staysail placed in its stead ; he was on the maintop, bowsprit, and in every part of the ship almost at the same instant. The excitement was such, that an indifferent observer would have thought that all was in sport —that a visitor was coming, or a merry-making on foot. The cap tain and mate seemed to have de legated their authority, and Fed crick, the moving cause of all which followed. An instant of stillness occurred after all was done, when Frederick walked leisurely up to the captain, and putting ufl all restraint, grasped his hand, and in the lotty tone of despair, urged him to state, when (if ever) he should see his Mary, that she was the last object upon which his earthly thoughts had rested. The pressure was warmly returned with the reply, “ We have too long (duty to the cootxixy tQiwjttstiaJipf) tejt cur. Hae tibieruntartes, pacisque imponere morem, parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.—Virgil. Milledgeville, Tuesday, February 13, 1827. selves as strangers; should I not survive, you will find that I have re membered you. But I must attend my duties. Assist me look at yon mist, created by the storm, as it takes off the tops of the sea. Farewell.” Frederick repaired to his station, and viewed calmly the tornado as it came on. There were the unearth ly sounds of contest heard, as the winds and waters met in their light ; the frighted sea-bird; as she fled from the mad onset, was heard screaming in the distance ; the saddened look of the sailor, as he watched the approach of the elemental army, be tokened thoughts of his far home and fire-side all seemed like that instant , when the victim’s neck is ready and before the fatal axe falls. Yet Frederick cast but a glance at the mast, and again settled into a re verie, as an indifferent spectator of the work of the Almighty The first shock careened the ship almost to a level with the sea —she then went majestically onward, tri umphing over the waters like a war rior in the pride of victory. But on ward and more furious came the foes. Brace after brace snapped—sea af ter sea swept the decks, as if sea and air were contending for the prize. The cheering shouts of Fre derick rose amid the roar and crash cf elements, until one wave, more violent than the rest, tore the cap tain from the deck, and he was seen amid the froth, struggling in the agonies of death. There was a wild shriek which burst from the crew’, as the ship settled under its burthen of waters, and when she arose from the blow’, not a particle of rigging was standing—the masts were over the side, and the decks swept as closely as though some tremendous machine had, at one onset, severed each timber and stanchel. The mate looked fearfully to the situation of the captain, and then turned his eye toward the place where Frederick had stood In a moment be saw- the latter buffeting his way toward the former, having in his hand the top gallant-yard, and apparently swim ming from the vessel. Two seas more brought the captain on deck, nearly exhausted, who murmured “ Frederick,’’ oud becssw ixjsosi ble The gale died away by degrees, though the swell of the sea still con tinued, and the next morning dawned upon a mastless bark, which lay in her inefficiency upon the billows, with spars floating all around her. A disabled ship, with but a bare fore mast standing, was seen caprioling upon the waves astern, and the ele ments were gradually and slowly subsiding. Captain Sears’ feelings wore so goaded, that he was almost driven mad, when he recollected that his young companion had sacrificed himself upon the altar of romantic friendship. The last words which he had heard from Frederick's lips, while they were on the waves to gether, were continually ringing m his ears, “you have competence and domestic attachments—l have nei ther ; take this and be saved.” Jurymasts were raised, repairs made, the sailors lamented the fate of their beloved comrade, and, at last, their destined port was reached in safety. 1 cannot describe Mary. It is well known that a coincidence exists between man’s life and the seas and winds—upon the ocean, in one lati tude, the breath of heaven stirs rot its face ‘‘too roughly” —in another, there are the demons of destruction raging in their fiercest mood. With man it is thus—to-day his course is that of the placid river—to-morrow what onct: was peace, is thrown into commotion, and the original beauty is changed. On the evening of the shipwreck Mary was strolling in un easy listlessuess upon the margin of the sea, entirely unconscious that every part of it was not as quiet as that w’hich met her gaze. I cannot describe Mary, as I have said ; but she was one who seemed born to cheer, and not to sadden—there was a joyousness in her dark eye, yet sorrow dwelt around her lip. It was not that her ringlets were glossy— nor that she was fair—not that her checks wore the hue of health ; I have seen many such, and forgotten them ; but it was the combination of all her features, set off by a love ly form, which interested as a whole and seen, would have been held not as a standard of Ijpauty, tzt 33 a crctctype of 3 Uiag [Vol. 11. No. 6.— Whole No. LVIII. by whom man would wish to be be loved. Her thoughts were upon the sea, upon one ship which was daily expected. Tho moon was then shining upon the white tops ofthe bounding wave; the distant cloud just blushed the edge ofthe horizon with the damask tinge of lightning, and the mild wind, as it threw hack her raven hair, blew auspiciously for the return of Fre derick. 1 will not say but that she more than once thought of an event which might follow. She coursed the winding shore, stopped to view a piece of the wreck of some ship which had just floated on shore, burst into tears, and went home to weep over the dangers of the sea There is a loveliness in the grief ol a beautiful woman, which interests deeply, although we know not the cause of her sorrow ; it is not allied to love, when we behold it, but it constrains us to vow that we will achieve impossibilities to remove it. Mary had a lively, but a sensitive affection, and that piece of perhaps antiquated wreck, which she beheld, was the harbinger of a destruction to her dearest hopes. Association, with its shadowy forms, will some times daunt the mind more effectually than wh > reality presents to one the of human wo. It was thus with Mary, a decayed piece of a wrecked ship which bad long since been covered by the deep, awoke terrors for the fate of her lover which were not the less severe because they were the work of her imagi nation. ■? •****■ A few years passed by, when the commander, who had not forgotten the penis of that night which have been faintly described, called togeth er, at an Inn, the crew’ who were his companions in the fearful scene. Ho sat at the head of the table, a t-ue picture of the open-hearted, j generous seaman; with bis mate on his right, and his hardy tars around him. He seemed sad, as if some as sociations connected with former years, had brushed a dark wing a cross his memory. Th • careless jokes of his unthinking companions awoke no smile upon his lips. He had discharged his solemn errand frea Fredrick t 3 Mary, ’*• hz, even [OR IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS, | now, was exclusively devoted to the j memory of hei* first and only love., t The deatu of her interested suitor previous to the binding of the fatal knot, had absolved her from the ne ? cessity of obeying her parents. She ; was alone, “ a mere waif upon the world’s wide common,” the mistress •of a fortune bequeathed her by hei ; lately deceased parents, and though in the bloom of youth and beauty, ; wa . s . anx ’ ous to join in the world of • spirits that one who in death could not forget her. The recollection of ; these things weighed down the spirits ■ of the captain, and the shade of j derick seemed to upbraid him for the present apparent festivity. Twice j had he left the table, with bis hand. ■ upon his brow, and walked in agita tion across the long room of their ■ entertainment. He gazed from the - window, and the moon looked down* in her effulgence upon the frost a% . it spangied the meadow, and glitter i ed upon the trees ; in the distance, the rude sea gamboled in its frolic ; I the lighthouse twinkled on the beetl ing bluff, and his own ship rode ma<- i jestically at her moorings. Thu tear: I stoic down his bronzed cheek, as he I thought of his young friend, and a i reverie of painful reminiscences was ) fast coming over hire when duty, ) the seaman’s watch-word, recalled , him to a sense of his situation, and > with an eflort he returned to his j seat; and filled a bumper “to the j memory of Frederick.” They all - rose and a trembling in the hand, aqd a quiver of the lip could be seeaß- ; mong them, as the cup was slowly raised to drink an almost sacred ; toast. They were scarcely seated. ; before the door opened, and a sailor, in a neat, yet coarse dress, accom < panied by a cabin boy, apparently a bout eighteen years of ago, came in, and the sailor, without ceremony, ’ look a seat at the foot of the table, ; still keeping on his shining tarpaulin j while the cabin-boy stood behind hfs j chair. The Captain seemed to think i this an unwarrantable instrusion, and ; in his gruffest tone observed, “ship mate, you bear down upon us with out showing colours ; come, give us a toast, to ascertain whether you are , not a pirate; as for your Bob-o-lin , coin, yonder, he appears to be in a dead calm; send him round under my lee.” The cabin-boy went be hind the captain, the can was filled and all were in readiness for the stranger’s toast. “ I will give you,’ said he, <.l light in the binnacle !” The scene was picturesque. The ; Captain dropped his glass, and le«n cd forward with a superstitious ear nestness in his gaze. The sailors locked alternately from the Captain to the concealed countenance of tho stranger. “By ,1 see his cloven foot,” quoth an Irisman, as hr peep» cd under the table ; a sound box. well applied to the ear of the captain from the pretended cabin-boy, and a loud laugh from the stranger, reveal ed Frederick and Mary to tlio a-s --tonsished listeners. The binnacle, and the ship astern, had saved Fro* derick on the night of the storm i fortune bad favoured him with riches: he had returned, the master of a non ble ship that every evening ; Mary had welcomed him with rapture ; and their little plot of surprise, to Cap tain Sears and his crew, had been carried into happy effect. Mary suffered for her bravery ir» masquefading by a loud smack from the Captain, before she effected her escape. Frederick was doomed to pay the whole of the reckoning; anil every sailor, together with Captain Sears, received an invitation to the wedding, which was held in jovial style, at a seat adjoining to the Cap. tain's, which Frederick hadpurchak, ed with Lhc fruits of of his sea voj{ age. Iciiabod] “MY AUNT SHAKERLY. r ' From Hood’s Whims and Odditfer. “ My aunt Shakerly was of an cZ normous hulk. I have not done jus tice to her hugeness in my for my timid pencil declined to ard a sweep at her real dirnenbions. There is a vastness in the outline, of even moderate proportions, till the mass is rounded off by shadows, that makes the hand hesitate, am? apt to stint the figure of its proper breadth ; how, then should I have ventured to trace, like mapping m a continent, the surpassing boundaries of my aunt Shakerly! What a visage was hers ’ —the cheeks a pair of hemispheres ; her neck literally swal lowed up by supplementary chin; her arm cased in a tight sleeve, was as the bolster ; her body IPto the feather bed, of Ware. The waist, which in other trunks, is an isthmus, was in Ijcrs only the middle zone of a continuous tract of flesh ; her an kles ovcrlajFped her shoes. With such a figure, it may b«. supposed that her habits v-ere sedentary Whea dti '•’■'Uh. the Tozer