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GEORGIA COURIER.
J. G. M’YVHORTER
AND
HENRY MEALING,
PUBLISHERS.
Trim*.—Tiiis Paper is puhh iio.il e\rry Monday mid
ThurHilny afternoon, nt $5 i)0 prr annum, payable iu ad*
,,r sQ Oh at the expiration of the year.
L7 Advert i.-ciuputs nut oxect’din? a square, inserted the
irsttim.* or GJ 1-2 cent?, and 43 3-1 cents for each con*
From Niles’ Weekly Register.
PA 11TI no V OF TURKS Y.
In our p iper of the 8th ius;, we made
a few remarks on the reported intention
of Britain, France and Russia to divide
Turkey in Europe and Africa between
them; and stated, that its accomplishment
would have “a mighty influence over the
cffaiis of the United States, it: its effect
upon our great staple, cotton”—without a
lively foreign demand for which and a
brisk internal trade, it will appear mani
fest to every one, that our present com
mercial relations with Europe must he
dissolved. That staple deducted, the
whole of onr exports to all the world, in
the last year, was valued at only 28,000,-
000—say 22 millions, exclusive also of
manufactures; bat our imports were £>0
millions ; and, taking cotton from the ex
ports to Great Britain, only about .$4,-
500,000 worth of all other articles was ,
receive I to pay for goods costing 26 mil- >
iions. Without cotton, the foreign trade
the United States, as at present carried
On, could not, by possibility, exist a single
year : and a rsstriction would he imposed
a thousand times more onerous than tho
tariff is said to be by the most violent de-
daimers against if. But it will he real,
not fanciful—practical, and not in theory
-—at our fire-sides, not in speculation ; a
balance of trade'' not in figures, but in
sheriff’s sales and depopulated districts.
Wo are serious—rite subject is one of im
posing magnitude, and calls loudly upon
us all to “ look a-liead.” How soon that
which ve anticipate will he accomplished,
we.venture not an opinion—but that it
will be accomplished, there is every rea
son to believe.
The crop of coUon last year has been
estimated at, 950,000 biles, that ot die
present a* 1,000,00,—sav 350,000,000
pounds. A udghtv quantity’ indeed: of
which about 280 oillions wd! he for the
supply of the European markets. Now
if seems that a field-hand will produce
1,200 lbs. of cotton—or an entire force of
80 slaves, of all ages and conditions,
60,000, besides s ipplving themselves with
provisions. The number of persons then,
to supply the 280 millions, after fading
themselves, will at unr only to 370,000;
and Mi. Darby tolls 'is that an acre of
more than 200,000 bales ’ aod the pro- ; may find an ample market for their bread
ducts of Tennessee, Louisiana and Missis- ! stuffs, by the aid of canals and rail ways
sippi have beep doubled in a few years.— j that each section of our beloved country
may mutually contribute to the comforts
of the others ; and extirpate entirely those
unhallowed jealousies, whieh, at present,
stalk so largely among us. I firmly be
lieve this is the aim of vour paper, atn^
desire of your heart; and you will dou|)t 4
less be rewarded by the plaudits of thou
sands of our test citizens, while hundreds
and thousands of our mushroom politi
cians, who have grown to an enormous
size in the day, will sink into their origi
nal insignificance.”
Another letter received from North Ca
rolina, on Tuesday, forwarding the name
of a new subscriber, says—
It was unknown ns an article of commerce
of any importance to Egypt until 1824,
when about 40 millions of pounds were
exported from Alexandria, and the crop
of 1825 was much larger. These things
are mentioned to shew the easy transition
that is made from other products to that
of supplying cotton. It mav, apparently
be tendered die chief product of agricul
ture, or export in two or three years,
wherever the climate is suited to it, and
laborers are to be obtained.
The population of Egypt ’.s about 2,-
500,000 ; and there is enough land, not
subject to frost or liable to too much or
too little rain. A detachment nt one-fifth
of the population of this country to the
cultivation of cotton, would afford a supply
equal to our whole production, after fur
nishing the cultivators with provisions.
The gross population of Greece and
the islands was, at the commencement of
tiie revolution, about 1,400,000. This
includes but a small part of the continent,
except the Mo re a. Candia contained
120,000, the rich island of Scio 110,000, | (his extract.] Among our opponents, are
viouf; ' "and having particifHftteif in th'e
sunny calm, the halcgon hour of the esta
blishment, we depart before the unreal
and transitory delusion is dispersed, and
leave the husband to contemplate the less
brilliant changes of the lady’s countenance
and temper, and to maintain a single com
bat agaiset the boisterous perversities of
her offspring. It is certainly a most de
sirable thing,that all those persons who
tlrah for the elevated station which free
dom, civilization, and Christianity have
assigned her. A woman who is occupid in
little else than receiving the courtesies of
the other sex, having every want supplied
by obsequious attendants, if she does not
become torpid by inaction, is almost al
ways the victim of that morbid sensibility,
chant's and Planter's Bank of the citv c
Augusta. y °*
To provide a more easy and convenj
ent mod c of proving open accounts
as to make them evidence in J
courts.
Declaring and m iking certain the ] aw
regulating the rights af husband in and t0
the property of their deceased wives, and
for other purposes
I To give to informers under the laws ( ,t
sa
ustices
which, while it can weep over the ideal
scenes of a novel or tragedy, has no inter-
are blessed with large houses and good j est in the affecting realities of human life, _ ^
cooks, should marry : for I do not under- j and passes tluough the world without this State, disposing of the late acquired
stant how they can otherwise hope to a- communicating happiness, or acquiring re- ; territory, who may take out of office the
thieve any very good balls, or even 1 sponsibility. 1 Grant for lands drawn in consequence o;
any tolerable din-ners. If houses' Few appreciate the obligations, cares fraudulent returns, the preference'where
are to be opened with effect, ; and labours oi an industrious female, and there may be several sci fas filed in anv of
there must be a mistress ; and it isthere- j few, I fear, are sensible ot the perpetual : the courts of this State against the saa.t
fore absolutely incumbent on all pub* i self-denial which she is called to exercise i defendant or defendants,
u j hope I shall be enabled to cro- lie spirited persons who have the real I in the performance of her laborious and j To provide for the recording of dr tds
cure several additional subscribers before 1 good of society at heart, to provide their . reiterated duties. Her eye must be every j ot mortgage upon real arid personal ;, r .
soring; as the fact cannot be much Ion-I establishment with so essential a member. | where in her own proper sphere; her perty, and to define the lien of the sa;;..
o'er concealed, that the system, so zeal- j But marriage is an act of generous selfde- j authority every where in her own retired . and also to amend the act to admit cei; .
ouslv and ably supported by you, is the ! votion for the benefit of the circle among j dominion ; her hand on every spring in ‘ deeds to record, and to authorize the
American system. ' Self-interest is a prin- ; whom we move—a sacrifice of personal | all the departments of domestic iobour ; or copies tlfcreot, to be read in evidence*
ciplo too active, too inquisitive, to be j advantage, made to attain the power of j end cheerfulness and care constitute the j and also the copies of certain oilier deeds
forever smothered, by
politicians."
and
being gracefully hospitable to our friends;
[We have omitted three hard words in
lam
, i(>!d 250 lbs. of cotton, there
fore the 280 millions would occupy n
more than ibout 1,100,000 acres. If we
allow that o:ie acre *ii' ->f fen mav be
planted with cotton., tie* whole quantity of
land required for the growth of 2S0 mil
lions cf pounds of cotton, and the subsist
ence of'he persons employed in its culti
vation, will bo no more 'Inn 11,500,000
acres, equal to 17.200square m:b j s. But
the land actually implied lo the cultivation
would he only 1,100,000 acres—a district
less than the small state .if Delaware ;
and it is estimated that nor less than
6,000.000 acres favorable tc- the rultiva-
ti'on of the plant, are within the limits-of
Louisiana only. The en'jre enrton-grow-
ing region in the .Untied States may be
put down as follows :—
* Square -miles.
Parts of \ irg’mia <fc N. Carolina, -50,000 1
S. Carolina, Georgia. Alabama,
Mississippi & Louisiana, 230.000 i
Half Tennesse, 20.0^0 1
Arkansas and Florida, 180,0.00 r
430,000
It is also grown in Missouri, Illinois
ami Indiana ; and certain experiments
have succeeded very well in Maryland.
. We do not pretend to estimate the vast
quantity of land within this vast region of
country, as fitted for the actual pi eduction
of cotton. Mr. Dailiv, however, tells ns
.that of the 23, 80,000 of land in Louisi
ana, (the swamps,-rivers, lakes, &c. de
ducted from the whole contents,) there
are 5,900,000 acres capable of being ad
vantageously cultivated i i cotton, tobacco
or indigo. Now-that quantity really culti
vated, and voiding 250 lhs. to the acre,
would produce/bar millions of bales!
But t > leave these vast amounts and de
scend lo accepted ficts or reasonable pos
sibilities. Let us sav that our whole pro
duct is 100.0,00 bales, or 350.000,000
pounds, that an acre will yield only- 200
pounds, and allow 750 pounds for each
person on a plantation, after supplying
themselves with food, and we have—
1,750,000 acres actually employed, and
requiring a gross population of less than
500,000 persons—being considerably less
than mie third of the slaves in the United
'States.
These are. sober results, unless all who
have written upon the subject, (being per
sons who ought to understand it,) are in
correct ; but we apprehend that a planter
with 80 slaves, old and young, would do a
bad business if not raising 60,000 pounds
of cotton a year ; that such product would
affords small profit, for capital employed
in slaves and land, after paying all inciden
tal expenses belonging to both, and those
on the crop before it would arrive at this
market.
The progress of the cultivation of cot
ton is wonderfully rapid. Our exports
shew this—
In 1805 we exported 87,000,000 lbs.
1316 * 81,000,000
1826 £04.000,000
’ The crops are thus estimated—
1824- 5 569,000
1825- 6 720,000
IS26-7 957,000
A little while ago, a brief period, in
deed, and V irgiuia and Alabama produced
ito cotton for market—cow they send oat
Samos 20,000, 6c c.
government, this popu
been at b?ast t
not then very
Scio, Samos,
support from 6 to S00,000 ; and would,
if under ihe dominion of France. They
would rally to them the Greeks scattered
through Asia, and tens of thousands of
Frenchmen would take up their abode in
then>. The Moroa itself and the Elands,
which together contained about a million
of people, according to a l it* 1 estimate,
might soon supply as much cotton ns we
in the United States have exported. The
Turkish empire in Europe, independent
^af the parts of Greece named, is many
times more extensive, and great crops of
cotton may be raise i in Macedonia. Epi
rus, Albania, Ac. in which it has been
cultivated for centuries. It is not very
long since that 120,000 bales, worth 80
piasters each, were exported from the j
valley of Seres in Macedonia, chiefly by !
way ofSalonica : besides, large quantities j
were manufactured in the city of Seres, j
famous for its supplies of cotton goods.— i
Cyprus is 150 miles long and 70 broad—
was once very populous, and has long
been celebrated for the excellency of its
cotton. And it should be recollected, that
the chief supplies of cotton were obtained
from these countries, before the recently
extended cultivation in the y. States and
Brazil, &c.
In addition to all these considerations
there is another yet more important. The
average annual price of labor in Greece
and Egvpt, hardly exceeds the interest
on capital vested in slaves in the United
States, and subsistence is much cheaper.
It is no matter, and lias but a small
bearing upon the facts presented, whether
the reported design of the hree powers
to partition T nr key is prematurely stated
or altogether erroneous. Every one we
think, must see that the present condition
of Turkey cannot la-4 long; audit is
known that an interference is made'to pre
vent the pacification of Greece, aftc- the
manner of Mussulmans, by exterminating,
the people! The state of tilings will be
changed, and more security for persons
and property than heretofore given, will
be obtained—then will the husbandman
return to his field, and one of the rciiest
countries in the world throw out the exu
berance for the common market of the
world. We are protected against tbs in
flux of East India cotton by distance and
the uncertainty of the price ofthe article.
What has ruined thousands of our plan
ters and dealers, was ilie cause demand,
fan our commodity ; but Greece, is ns it
were, a near neighbor to France, and ad
vices may pass from England to the La-
van' in a few days. And further, the
East India article isnot generally so good
for it is established beyond a doubt, that
we single persons enjoy the cream and
quintessence of matrimonial felicity, and
that wives and husbands possess a painful
monopoly of its tumults and distractions—
its anxieties and its restraints. Then a-
again with regard to home, I dont believe
that any individual in existence knows
we our selves may unknowingly be. Wei what a really comfortable borne is—the
pretend not to an exemption from the j quiet—the consideration—the uninter-
commoii lot of mortality, and only request j ruptible—the easy chair drawn parallel
that argument, founded upon practical re- j with the fire place—the undisputed right
sult«, may be preferred to personal a.tuse i ot sitting with a loot on either knob—the
~ lamp arranged to suit the level of his own
Under a reasonable ! »s good and as true men as our country cun
ulation would have j boast—met. whom to suspect of base mo-
ice as large as it was, and lives would be to libel human nature, and
dense. Candia, Cyprus, j ^ ^“lief that they are mistaken or pre-
ind Rhodes might 'easily |j Ildiced > does ,lot make tl,e ‘ m so---forthus
nd wild speculations. That Btitish a-
gents have interfered to arrest the accom
plishment of the “ American System,”
and to a great extent, we believe with as
mu di sincerity as'that there are countries
called tGreat Britain and France. We
also believe that a large part ot the pre
sent excitement against the tariff grows
out of time-serving politicians—to influ
ence the feelings and mislead the judg
ment; and it is this lo which both our cor
respondents allude. Unhappily, there 1 passed along my mind, on_ the alternoon
eye—the careless luxury resulting from
an exclusive appropriation of all the con
venience of the apartment—No man can
be really chez soi—can be in the full en
joyment of all the accommodation afford
ed by bis own house, and fireside, and
furniture, and presume to exercise the
prominent excelencies of her character, and for other purposes.
A female that has been made to believe j To incorporate the Augusta Ins r
that site was made for nothing but to be and Banking Company ofthe city cf \
beloved and admired, and who is never guita and to repeal the act passed 9th D t '
pleased but by alterations of idleness and 1S22.
dissipation, has never learned to estimate I To prevent the surveying or grantin'.-. ‘
her true worth and excellence, and stran- i ceitain lands either under head rights. .
ger to the high dcstiuation of a woman. j in any other way, and for other nuroo ■
Religion in woman, as in man, is not j
only “of tho operation of God,” bnt the j MY MO MIT ”
result ofrcflection, comparison and choice,) r ,. . _ 1 * 1 , , „
and consists in acheerful and happy! , - ' ' ..I s oli< f. lilor !‘i vr.ing ltee
remunicatinn of all the heart holds dear, ; ‘ C /T ! f ? ^ that . U:
tu ns slightest breathings of us ceF ;i a ;
j origin, it is that of a mother’s love
tiler’s chaste, overwhelming love
for Jesus Christ, and of every opposing
interest for his kingdom and glory, and
this is bea distinguished excellence.—
Let the least of God, and the love of
Jesus Christ control her domestic virtues;
let the humility, patience, faith, hope,
charity and resignation, of the Gospel,
becemo interwoven with personal accom
plishments, and sweeten and govern lier
right of a master over them unless lie be j bonduct; and how lovely is such a woman/
independent of the fetters of wedlock.
Such were the reflections that hastily
are men wno, to obtain a favorite object,
would cry “ havoc and lot slip the dogs of
war,” and dissolve this union rather than
not rule it. These must be resisted—but
truth will be victorious without violence;
and, though the will of the majority may
he again defeated by management in con
gress, success must attend the efforts now
making to force reciprocity upon the old
world, and so consummate the indepen
dence of the United States.
B VCIIELOR’S REVERIES.
The evening of Thursday, 15th of Feb.
1827, was one of the most delightful I ev
er remember to have spent. I was alone,
my heart beat lightly; my pulse was quick
ened by the exercise of the morning;
mv blood flowed freely through my veins,
as meeting with no checks or impediments
to its current, and my spirits were elated
bv a multitude of happy remembrances
and of brilliant hopes. My apartment
looked delightfully comfortable, and what
signified to me the inclemency of the wea
ther without? The rain was nattering up
on the skv-light of the stair-case; the
sharp east win 1 was moaning angrily in
the chimney ; but as mv eve glanced from
the cheerful blaze of the fire to' the ample
folds of my closed window curtains—a«
the hearth t ug yielded to the pressure of
my foot, while beating time to my own
music, I sung, in rather a louder tone than
usual, my favorite air nO’Jud.y O'Fla n-
egan"—the whis'lmg of die wind, and the
pattering of the rain, only served to en
hance i:i my estimation 'he comforts of
cay home, and inspire a livelier sense of
die good fortune which bad delivered me
from any evening engagements. It may
be questioned wbeihei there are any hours
in this life, of such unmixed enjoyments,
as the few, the very few, which a young
bachelor : s allowed to rescue from the
pressing invitations of those dear friends
who want another talking man at the din-
as our’s—butthat of the Levant is general
ly better. It appears to us that these j ner table, or from those many and wilily
devised engagements which are woven
round him by the bands of inevitable mo
thers, and preserve entirely to himself.—
Talk ofthe pleasure of repose/ What
repose can possibly be so sweet as that
which is enjoyed on a disengaged day,
during the laborious dissipation of a
London life ? Talk of the delights of sol
itude! Spirit of Zimmerman! What a
things are worthy of most serious reflec
tion, and should lead to all encouragement
of the home market, in the establishment
of all sorts of manufactuios, as far as la
bor, skill and capital are ready for the
supply of our wants.
We might go much more into detail,—
But the summary facts presente 1 will, or
ought to set people to thinking. They
will offend some-for some are never to he j solitude is the imagination capable of con-
pleased except by flattering their prejudi- j ceiving so entirely delightful as that which
ces or in deceiving them. They would j a voting unmarried man possesses in his
rather receive an agreeable falsehood than j quiet lodging, with his easy chair and his
an unpleasant truth. There is no hope j dressing gown, bis beef-steak and his
for them, but through punishment of their j whiskey and water, his nap over an old
errors—they will only he taught in the I poem or a new novel, and the intervening
suffering school of experience. ! despatch of a world of little neglected niat-
And is it to be expected that G. Brit- • teis, which, from time to time, occur to
ain, refusing our bread stuffs, will take our I recollection between the break of tho
>f Thursday, the 15th of February, 1827,
as I sat with a volume ofthe Tor Hill in
mv hand, in the back drawing room of my
lodgings in Conduit street. It was about
ten o’clock in the afternoon. Mv dinner
wasjust removed. It had left me with
that gay complacency of disposition, and
irrepressible propensity to elocution,
which result from satisfied appetite and
undisturbed digestion. Mv sense of con
tentment became more and more vigorous
and confirmed, as I cast my eye around
my apartment, and contemplated my well
filled book-case, and the many articles of
convenience with which I had contrived
to accommodate my nest; till, at length,
the emotions of satisfaction became too
strong to be restrained within the bounds
of silence, and announced themselves in
the following soliloquy:—
“What capital coals these are! There’s
nothing in the world so cheering—so en
livening—as good hot, blazingsea coal fire.
I broke a large lump into fragments with
the poker as I spoke. “It’s all mighty
fine,”I continued,’’for travellers to har
angue the ignorant on the beauty of for
eign cities, on their buildings without dust,
and their skies without a cloud ; but for
my own part, I like to see a d irk, thick,
heavy atmosphere hanging over a town.
It forewarns the traveller of his approach
to the habitations, the business, and the
comforts ofliis civilized fellow creatures.
It gives an air of grandeur, and impor
tance, and mystery to the scene—it con
ciliates our respect—we know there must
be some fire where there is so much smo
ther. While in those bright, shining,
smokeless cities, whenever the sun shines
upon them, one’s eyes are put out by the
glare of their white walls; and when it
does not shine—why, in the winter, there’s j
no resource left the man hut shivering
and hopeless resignation, with their wide,
windy chimnies, and their damp, crack
ing, hissing, sputtering, tantalizing faggots.
It has frequently been remarked, that
pious womon are not more numerous, but
more pious men. How infinitely superior
are her charms to all the facinations of
beauty, all the splendors of external
accomplishment, and all the delicious j of tfaat object }s al stak it puttelh away
joys of giddy dissipation? Ilow invalua- i f , i„ i_ r .
bio does such a woman appear, odorned
and dignified, not only by all that earth
can give, but decked in the robes of that
piety and loveliness which earth can nei
ther give nor take away.
State Hegislatnvt.
A FEWACTS,
Passed at the Annual Session of 1327.
To authorise the Courts of Ordinary
in the different counties in this State to
grant and issue letters of guardianship
upon the persons and property of illegiti
mate children.
To incorporate the Savings Bank of
Augusta.
For the relief of the several counties
of this State in which the Commissioners
ofthe Poor School fund shall have failed
to make their returns in conformity with
law.
For the relief of persons in certain ca
ses who have purchased any part of the
State’s interest in lots which have been
condemned and sold as fraudulently drawn
within the counties of Bibb, Houston,
Crawford, Monroe, Upson, Pike, Henry,
Fayette, DeKalb, Butts and Newton.
To grant to Thomas Spalding and his
associates, the right of constructing a Rail
Road of Wood, or of digging a Canal from
the Ocmulgee to the Flint river, with
certain privileges.
Tq incorporate the Trustees of the
Mwsonic Hall in the citv of Augusta.
To extend the time for fortunate draw
ers in the land lotteries of 1818, 1819 and
lS21,to take ont their grants, and for o-
ther purposes.
To authorise the Governor and Secre
tary of State to correct any errors that
may have taken place,
ce.
or may hereafter
I continued my argument ... favor of onr | take , in issulnc a uv grant, in any of
metropolitan obscurity by another stroke j the ^ lolrerjes of this State,
ofthe poker against the largest fragment; Tfi ampnd an a tf) aher the 12th sec-
ot the broken coal, and then, letting lull „ c . . . , ,,e
. ’ . ! i . tion ot an act, to protect the estates ot
my weapon, and turning my back to the , , ’ ,
- J T 1 , . i , , , orphans, and to make permanent provi-
hre, 1 exclaimed, “Certainly, thera s no . j'„igii
, . . , J , . , sion lor the poor, passed in 1811.
kind ot lurniture like books—nothing else r P \ tlm Ho
rr . i • r /• i 1 o amend an act, empowering the t_re-
can atlord an eqnal air ot comtort and lia- , ,, . rm . na p
0 , | neral Court of Pleas to grant writs ot par-
bitabilily. such a resource too; A man ; n
J ’ tion ol lands and tenements held in copar
cenary, joint tenancy, &c.
To incorporatte the Augusta Library So
ciety.
To repeal so much of the 22d section
of an act, passed 1 Oth December, 1818,
so far as requires tbe senior officers pre
sent at all Courts of Enquiry to preside.
To give farther time to purchasers of
sales
A man
never feels alone in a library—lie lives
surrounded by companions, who stand e-
ver obedient to liia call, coinciding with
every caprice of temper, and harmonizing
with every turn and disposition of the
mind. Yes, 1 love mv books ; they are
my friends, my counsellors, my compan
ions. Yes, I have a real personal attach
men!, a very tender regard for my books.”
I thrust mv ha
my dressing gow
tlue middle states of this union. ; fulness ot their family circles, but I do not
We cannot better perhaps, conclude hesitate to affirm, that ne, in our state-of
this short article, than by inserting tiie i single blessedness, possess not only all
following extract from a letter received--, the sweets of our condition, but derive
from Alabama We give it without j more solid advantages from matrimony
the alteration of one word, although not i itself, than any of these solemn eulogists of
written forjiublicationpo show that it does
not regard, ms,- “ the great enemy of the
south,” as Mr. Haile has been pleased
to call us.
“I cannot lay aside my pen without
congratulating you upon the success of!
those great principles of internal policy |
which you have so much assisted in bring- j joyous summer of their homes, when they
ing about. It must, it will prevail. Our I are illuminated for company, and escape
greatness as well as happiness, as a nation : the intervening winter of darkness and e
their own happiness can dare to pretend
to derive from it. We have their din
ners without the expense of them ; we
haVfc their parties, without the fatigue of
those interminable domestic discussions
which are inseparable from the prelimina
ry arrangements ; we share the gay and
will grow and increase with the means we
have of living independent of other na
tions,for both comfort and luxuries. And
I assure you,the intelligent part of my ac
quaintance have become strongly interesrr
ed in the success of the “ Amer. System.”
I am a cotton planter, & expect to remain
a planter during life. And I hope before
that lite ceases, to learn that all the cot
ton raised in the sonthern states, may find
looms sufficient for its manufacture in the
eastern,and that the northern end western 1
conomy ; we are welcomed with all the
plate, the glittering dinner service, and
the wine, that is produced, on rare occa
sions, from recondite binns, and are most
mercifully delivered from the infliction of
the ordinary Wedgwood dishes, and the
familiar port and sherry; we are present
ed lo the lady when her smiles never fail
to radiate, and are made acquainted with
the children when adorned with their
smooth hairand shniingfaces, in their em
broidered frocks and their gentlest beha-
u j ‘T v J fractions, lots or islands, at the late sab
and into the pockets <>fj (J f factions, to pay for their lands.
' n ’: Wh ' Ch c y ,!. To authorise the city Council of Ai
! gusta, to appoint Vendue Masters for-said
prescribe their duties, and to reg-‘
form and amount of their bonds,
ther ourposes.
ground—aua waging smwly back-' o, , •, ‘ , . r
f h , ! f o reduce the damages upon hills of
wards and forwards in my room, 1 con-1 > < , , i .•
' , , r _. J , ' i exchange drawn any place beyond the li-
tinued—“ L here never was, there never ■ r , IT ■ , ^ ■ i
, . , . I. nuts of tne United States returned protes-
can have been so happy a fellow as myselfi | ted for non . pavment , and t0 define
What on earth have I to wish for more? precis e, y th i mode of settling the
Monthly Mag.
—SO©—
Valuable Suggestion.—If there is a
qualification in which a female ought to
excel, it is a thorough and practical ac
quaintance with the arts and duties of do
mestic life. She may be ignorant of oth
er branches of human knowledge, and de- t 1799.
; on the principles of re-exchange,
i More effectully to enforce tho provision
of iheStatule of 1826, so far as the same
regards the arrival of persons of color «a
the several ports and waters of this State.
To repeal a part of an act reviving and
amending the Judiciary system, passed in
ficient in moro refined attainments with
comparative impunity, but embellishments
cannot supply their deficiency in those.—•
These constitute her peculiar and appro
priate employment, and so Car from degra
ding, they adorn and beautify the most
distinguished of her sex.
Tiie sentiment may not exactly accord
with the opinions of the present age, but
it is one that ought to be inscribed on the
heart of every female, that industry and
economy are her true glory. There is no
opologv for a slothful woman. A sloth
ful woman is more fit for a bomestic
drudge, or tha slave to an eastern despot,
To give Masons and Carpenfers in
Richmond and Chatham counties an in
cumbrance for debts due on account of
work done, and materials furnished in
building and repairing houses.
To amend the act incorporating the In
surance company in the city of Savannah,
and granting banking powers to the same,
and also to regulate intercourse between
the several chartered Banks in this State,
so far as relates to demand of payment
from one to another, of the notes issued
by them respectively.
To incorporate a bank in the city of
Aqgusta, to he deitpmina'ed the Mer-
-a nin-
hr uc F
child ten. The name of a mother is ( , u;
childhood’s talisman, our refuse in (m
mimic misery ; his the first half form.-; '
word that falls from the babbling tongue
tbe first idea that dawns on the openin'
mind ; the first, the fondest and the nios:
lasting lie in which affection can bind tin.
heart of man.
’Tis not the selfish passion, dependin;
for its permanency on the reciproc ity,
of advantages—but, in its sincerity, it cas
teth out itself, and centres but in tiie hap
piness of its object ; and when the welfare
fear and knowetb not weariness. It is not
excited by form or feature but rather hv a
happy perversion of perception, embues
all tilings with imaginary beauty. It
watches over helpless infancy, with tiie
ceseless benignity of a guardian anci;
anticipates every childisliwish, humors ev
ery wayward l'ancv, soothes every tran
sient sorrow, sings our sweet lullahv lo
rest, and cradles us on i's warm and throb
bing breast; and when pain and sickness
prey upon the fragile form what medicine
is there like a mother’s kiss ? And when
launched the wide ocean of a tempestous
world, what eve gazes on our adventurous
voyage with the eagerness of the mater
nal fondness, amid the sad, yet not un
pleasing contest of hopes and fears and
deep anxieties. •
Yet it is not prosperity, with her smiles
and beauty, that tries th.e puii'v or ;V
vour of a mother’s love—it is in the dar
and dreary precincts of adversity, amic
the cold frowns of an unfeeling world, ia
poverty and despair, in sickness and sor
row, that it shines with brightness bey ore
mortaTty and stifling the secret agonies cf
its own bosom, strives but to pour bale.,
and consolation on the poor., the wounded
sufferer.
The love of a father may be: as deep
and sincere yet it is calmer, and perhaps
more calculating, and more fully directed
to the great periods and ends of life ; tt
cannot descend to those minutiae ot af
fection, tliosa watchful cares for the mi:iur
comforts and gratifications of existence,
which a mother, from the finer sensibility
of her nature, can more readily and duly
appreciate. Tiie pages of history abound
with the records cf maternal love, in eve
rv age and dime, and every rank of lire •
but it is a lesson of never-ending pres
ence, which the heart can feel and ac
knowledge, and needs not example to
teach it how to venerate.
Can there bea being so vile and odious,
so dead to natuie’s impulse, who in return
for such constantcare and unvarying kind
ness, can willingly or heedlessly wound
the lieart that cherished him and forsake
the lonely one who nursed and sheltered
him; who can madly sever the sweetest
bonds of human union, and bring down the
grey heirs of'his Parents with sorrow to
the grave, who can leave them in their old
age to solitude and poverty, while he wan
tons in tbe pride of undeserved prosperity?
If there be, why let them abjure t lie name
of man, and herd with the beasts that
perish, or let them feel a distraction that
worst of human miseries.
“ Ilow much sharper than a serpent’s
tooth it is, to have a thankless child.”
Footl’s last joke.—When this para
gon of wit, and satire, was on his way to
France, whither be was ordered by his
medical adviser, for change of air, which
they hoped would alleviate the inveteracy
of his distemper, arrived at Dover, he
more , wont ; n t 0 t f ie kitchen, as was generally
same I |jj s custom, to order a particular dish, ol
which lie was particularly bind. The
gruff cook, w ho set a high value on he:
knowledge of her profession, blasted taa
for her part; that she had never set he:
foot out of her own country, and did not
require French lessons on English cook \
cry. On this, the invalid gravely ob
served, “ Why Coolcey, that’s very ex
traordinary, as they tell me above stairs,
you have been several times all oetr
Grease !” “ They may say what they
please above or below stairs,” replied tte
cook, “ but I was never, thank heaven
ten rnilc-s from Dover, in all my Idc f
“ Nay my good Fatty, that must be a tUv
said the wit, “ for 1 have positively seer.
you at Spit-head." The other servants
by this time understood the joke, and a
bud roar of laughter ensued.
JOB PRINTING,
Neatly executed al this Oftet