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POETRY.
FOR THE nirlRCTOR.
! following line* written by a young lady
nn tlit diw.th of her friend (who died in I’liiLulelphiu,) you
Will find delightfully interesting. They ari |>rnncd with
tlttt tenderness of soul which glows in the breast ofbeau
ty. They excite the tendercst sympathies of our nature ;
and while we reluctantly relinquish our Has# ah to the
silence of the tomb, we are forced to remember that the
f 'rave must soon contain the “ beauteous lace” aiul “ spark
ing eye i" and that though we now exult in the glories
0 f youth, wb must shortly yield to inexorable death. >1.
Oft have we seen a flower whose beauteous form
And grateful fragrance yielded sweet delight,
Fondly we thought it ours—a sudden storm
Swept it all lovely, blooming from our sight.
So bright, dear girl, thy early morn arose.
And unexpected was the fatal blow;
That bade m death each brilliant prospect close,
And silent laid our lovely Haxsan low.
How vainly then we prize a beauteous face,
With rapture view the sparkling eye !
The youthful form adorn’d with every grace,
In the dark chambers of the tomb must l.e.
Oh I happy then are those in early youth
Who gladlv listen to their Saviour’s voice ;
With joy believe the word of sacred truth,
And make religion’s holy paths their ciioice.
Thus in the time of beauty’s brightest bloom,
Dear Hawaii wisely chose that “ better part,”
Which from the hour of death dispels the gloom,
And fills with sweet serenity the heart.
How oft when nature’s pow’r seem’d almost gone,
Has her soft vo ce inardent prayer been heard,
Breathing her fond requests to Mercy’s throne,
For those she lov’d, but for whose tale she fear’d.
Oh—may those friends for whom the ardent prayer.
Was to her Saviour’s pitying love address’d;
On irtem’ry’s record bear, with tender care,
Her last fond wish for their eternal rest.
Why then for her let endless sorrows flow ?
See rob’d in light yon Seraph move ;
Calmly she looks on all tilings here below,
And views her weeping fr ends with smiles of love.
THE NEW YEAR.
• 1 Thou crownest the Yearwith thy goodness, and thy paths
drop fatness.”—Psalm 65,11.
There is a period when the soul of man,
Howe’er intent on business or delight,
ltetircs from scenes where vice and tumult reign,
To muse and meditate on things divine.
There is a period when the World must fail ;
When Pleasure’s throbbing pulse (mist tease to beat,
And Hope’s delusive vision charm no more I
A period when that spark divine, which warms
And pur.fies the heart of man. must leave
The narrow confines of corporeal sense,
And, kindl’d into thought, new beams receive
From the pure fountain of Eternal Light.
And such that per.od now ; which loudly calls
The wand'ring soul from scenes of thoughtless mirth,
To contemplate that pow’r and grace divine,
Thatmles with majesty o’er Nature’s laws,
Preserving order, harmony and love.
“ Begin, my soul, th’ exalted hymn of joy,”
And swell through nature’s range the grateful seng;
let earth and skies join in the sacred strain,
And celebrate the love of God to M»n.
Through all the changes of this lower world,
Where pain and disappointment chill the heart,
Bis goodness hath upheld and kept thee safe,
To hail With gratitude another year.
T.me, inliis rapid fi ght, with tireless wing,
Has through ihe world his steady course pursu'd,
'Mark’d the decay of sublunary tilings,
And triumph’d o’er the destinities of Man.
Corroded bv his touch the monuments
Of art have" sunk into silent dust,
And mourn’d in sadness their dejected state.
The stalely edifice whose strong.budt tow’rs,
Seem’d fix’d and planted by the Eternal hand,
Have bow’d the.r heads beneath h.s mighty weight.
The beauteous column, where the curious eye
Once gaz’d with wonder o’er its lofty frame;
Trac’d the inscriptions of heroic men,
Or read Ihe taleof ancient battles won,
Seems blighted by the d.irk’ned rust of time.
“ And o’er its Tr.oss-crown’d. head the tall weed waves,
And sighs its sorrows to the passing wind.”
But while we mourn the ravages of time,
And mark the fallen monuments of state,
Let us in their decay our own review
And learn the sad mortality of man !
Annd these wrecks, where vile corruption dwells, /
And Sorrow, in her sable vestments clad,
Sits weeping o’er the faded scenes of pride,
A vo ce “ in sullen echoes,” seems to say,
•‘Behold, fond m»n—see here thy pictur'd life;”
Thy pride, thy glorv and thy honors all,
L ite these must fai\e before the scythe of Time,
And thou thyself be number’d with the dust !
Within the circle of the year just gone,
How many varied scenes have met the eve !
How many tales of sorrow reach’d the heart!
How oft lias pity in her anguish wept,
To hear the sad distressing news of war ;
Of orphans asking for the hands of those
Who gave them once the needful brc..d of strength,
And dried the bitter tear of poverty—
Of wretched walows, whose distracted minds
Had reason lost, for those who shar’d in life
Their love and joy, now silent in the grave.
The year that’s past has seen our sufT’rings too I
Our souls have bled beneath misfortune’s pangs.
And tears of agony have bath’d our checks!
The friends that gave us jov are now no more!
How many have we follow'd to the tomb,
And wept with anguish o'er their last remains !
The mother from iicr weeping infants torn,
And tenanted w.thm the silentcartli—
4 A father taken from domestic joys,
Where smiles of filial gratitude end love
Repaid the labors of parental care.
AVe too have seen the tender, faithful wife,
Snatch’d from the kind embraces of him she lov’d,
And borne in sadness to her new-made grave I
Within her whiten’d shroud, in her embrace,
Her lovely infant, like fresh l.lly nipp’d
By chilling frost, look’d sweet "in dealh,
Thus cherish’d by a lifeless mother’s care.
And while the “ pestilence that stalks at night,
And sharpen’d arrows that destroy by day,”
Have rang’d abroad and pierc'd the human frame ;
While sickness, pain and death their visits paid,
And he p’d affliction on the struggling soul?
The Lord of glory hath remembered me,
And spai’d me to behold another year I
A year of peace ana universal jnyj
A } car that promises repose to man,
A»d gifts descending from the throned God.
TO
Too late I staid—forgive the crime;
Unheeded flew the hours;
For noiseless is the foot of time,
That only treads on Rowers.
What eye with clear account remarks,
The ebbing of the glass,
When all its sands are diamond sparks,
Which dazzle as. they pass.
Ah I who to sober measurement,
Time’s happy swiftness brings;
When birds of paradise have lent,
Tlieif plumage to hi? wings *
LITERARY.
LIFE OF PATRICK HENRY.
The following panegyric upon Mr. Wirt’s
life of Patrick Henry, \vc extract from Poi
son's Daily Advertiser. If we aro allowed to
estimate a priori, the stylo and execution of
this work from the chaste production of the
British Spy, we heartly respond to the ani
mated praise which is bestowed upon it:
A literary comet has just shot forth to
the enraptured contemplation of the republic
of letters. This splendid phenomenon is the
offspring of the chaste, classical and gigantic
mind of William Wirt, Esq. of Richmond.—
It modestly purports to be “ sketches of the
life of Patrick Henry and as unassuming
ly is ascribed to “ the young men of Virgi
nia.”
“ If these be sketches ! how infinite would
be the “ intellectual banquet,” to be derived
from a foil portrait of this most illustrious of the
renowned forefathers of American liberty,
painted by theem banting pencil of Mr. Wit
Butsketches they cannot be called. It is impos
sible that any reader of taste or judgment can
regret the slightest imperfection in them.
They are full, luminous and exemplary bio
graphy, derived from the best possible au
thorities, and conceived in the happiest train
of literary enchantment. And though hum
bly addressed to the patronage of “ the youn
men of Virginia,” they will receive the hom
age of every mind that lias a taste fur th
beauties of composition—of every soul tiiat
adores the virtues of a patriot, both in the old
and new world. They will he a monument
at once to the author and to the theme they
celebrate, far more brilliant than a statue of
gold.
*• Think not, kind reader, that I mean to
eulogise Mr. Wirt, or the immortal subject
of his biography. They soar transcend anti}
above any eulogy that my poor abilities could
express, were I ambitious to render them that
justice. Still less would I presume to give a
review of the work. How lame and prejudicial
to such a blaze of merit would any analysis
be ! Can the ecstacy of enchantment he im
proved by the cold deliberation of analysis ?
Hear the zealous remark of a sensible friend
while perusing this interesting book ! “ If
all books were conceived in (his happy strain
of enchantment I should kill myself in one
month !”
“ And such have been my raptures tlir.i’-
out the perusal of it, produced by the conti
nual corruseations of the moral sublime—by
tha frequent occurrence of the most extraor
dinary as well as the most fortunate coinci
dents—and, by the incomparably happy man
ner, in which the whole was conveyed to my
voracious appetite, that I should have been
exceedingly unthankful to any one who would
have been so ofi.irions as to flatter my un
speakable enjoyment, by giving me a previ
ous analysis. Suffice it to say, that I never
read a novel or a romance in my boyish days
with halfthc avidity with which I read this
memorable production. And he assured,
HARDWARE, CUTLERY & FANCY GOODS.]
FKANCI8 OGSBURO, SAVANNAH,
H AS taken the Store one door west of Messrs.
Crapou’s,near Market square, where he of-?
fers for Sale, at very low prices, the following ar
ticles, wholesale or retail, table, desert, tea and
children’s knives and forks, scissors, shears, pen
and pocket knives ol all descriptions, oyster,
b itchar, mincing and pruning knives, iron, po
lished steel, japanned, paper, leather, snuff, to
bacco boxes, ink powder, court plaister, elegant
game hags, powder flasks, shot belts, battledores,
shuttle cocks, toy watches, cushions, white and
yellow tinsel cord, gold and silver thread, silver
thimbles, bodkins, pencils, tooth picks and cases,
plated pencil cases, spangles, finger rings, opera
and spy glasses, metal coat and vest buttons, tre
ble gilt and plated do. white and yellow ball do.
blaclt, blue and green glass buttons, pearl and ivo
ry do. quilled back and dressing combs, coarse
and fine do. pocket combs, steel bodkins, twee
zers, japanned and plated hooks and eyes, cork
screws, gun picks and brushes, lead pencils, India
rubber, morocco pocket bonks, purses, single and
double temple spectacles, white metal, pinch-back
and brass thimbles, brass and iron paste jiggers,
do. Jewsliarps. do. chain, iron post coffee mills,
with and without covers, netting and knitting
needles, bed keys, sugar nippers, timber scribes,
brass cocks, with fast and loose keys, brass and
iron candlesticks, jack and trace chains, polished
steel siiuft'ers, iron and japanned snufl'ers, snuffer
trays, iron and brass head shovels and tongs, brass
pocket ink stand and compasses, steelyards, fir#
steels, candlestick springs, spouts and handles for
tin tea kettles, composition ami sheet iron tea ket
tles,<auce pans, loYig and short handle frying pans,
turning forks A. and C.—horse and shoe rasps,
mill, pit and hand saw files, rough, bastard, 2d
cut and smooth files, thumb, Norfolk ami brass
nob spring lancets, cupboard,bureau, chest, trunk,
desk, closet, stock and pad locks, iron rim door
locks, with brass rings or nobs, iron sash pullies,
II HL T strap and chest hinges, brass trunk nails,
clouts, flemish and tin tacks, tenter hooks, shoe
pincers, nippers, hammers, knives, awls and tacks,
carpenter’s hammers, compasses, rules, pencils,
chalk lines, spike & nail gnnblcts, augers, braces
and bits, trying and iron squares, band, panne!,
tennon, dovetail and coinpass saws, jack & smooth
planes, common handles and nobs, lion head and
shell rings, clock balls, thread escutchions, socket
and plate castors, with iron, brass and wood
bowls, wood screws of aU sizes, smith hammers,
screw plates, iron wire, &c. &c.
Also, 1 case first quality Violin Strings, assort
ed j 2 de. best Turkey Oil Stones.
December 13.
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
T HE subscriber has just opeued at the store
formerly occupied by Maj. John Howard,
afresh and elegant assortment of DRY-GOODS &
GROCERIES, which will be sold low for cash oi
produce-—-among which are the following articles ;
Superfine Broad-Cloths and Coarse ditto, Super-
line and Coarse Cassimeres, Fine and Coarse
Flannels, Bear-skin Coating, Yorkshire Cloths,
Fine Rose Blankets, Loudon Duffie& Point ditto,
Fine Bombazetts and Bombazeen, Cassimere
Shawls, Fine ami Coarse Linens, Northward
Homespun, Cambrics, Calicoes, Furniture ditto,
Leno Muslins, Jaconet ditto, Mcrseiles, Ging
hams, Satin and Lavantine Silks, Silk Shawls and
Handkerchiefs, Bandanna do. Ribbons, Nun’s
I bread, Worsted and Cotton Stockings, Furni-
kiml reader, if you have a heart for patriot-! ture Dimity, Cotton Diaper, fine and course Sad
ie sympathy, or a vein for risible humor, your dies, Lady’s do Plated Bridles, Lady’s and Gen-
■'* ' ‘ 1 ' " " ’ tlemen’s Shoes, Children do. fine and coarse Hats,
Children do. Bearer do. and a good assortment of
HARDWARE, Cutlery, Nails, Castings, Steel
and iron. Brown Sugar, Loaf do. Coffee, Hyson
Pea, Jamaica and Northern Rum, Whiskey, Sher
ry Wine, Cheese, Raisins, Figs, Crockery Ware,
a few sets of China in small boxes. With a great
variety of articles too numerous to mention.
JAvfES VV. GOODMAN.
Milledgeville, Dec. 16.
E
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
IGHT or ten Young Men, (without familj 0lI
| as an additional number to the present Pen ]
tentiary Guard, who shall receive fifteen dolla'’
per month, cash, for their services, to be pa-
quarterly, and will be furnished with good doth!
ing, rations and lodging. Recommendations will
be required of persons wishing to join the Guard]
as none but sober and respectable men can he i.lJ
mitted. JOHN BOZEMAN, L
OGcer of the Guard I
Milledgeville. Dec. 22.
NOTICE.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Colone] I
John Lewis, late of Milledgeville, are requi r . I
cd to make immediate payment. Those who have
claims against the sain estate are requested to
present them duly authenticated without delay
ELIZABETH LEWIS, ex’rx
WILLIAM LEWIS, exect’r.''
Milledgeville, Dec. 1,1817".
NOTICE.
.A GREEABLY to an order of the Court of I
J\. Ordinary for Baldwin county, will be sold, f
on the first Tuesday in February next, one third
of an acre LOT in the townof Milledgeville, oa I
Hancock street, the property of Henry Johnston, I
deceased, sold for the benefit of his heirs and
creditors. A. F. BYINGTON, adm’r.
November 12,1817".
cheek will evince both, by the alternation of
a gentle tear and a hearty laugh.
“ Every American should read this hook if
lie wishes to see, at once, the fullest, tiie most
authentic, and the most elegant printed ac
count of the dawning of American independ
ence; and more especially, if be would wish
to know to whom we are indebted for its com
mencement, and every measure of any mo
ment in the early stages of it. A grateful na
tion cannot much longer withhold the appro
priate monument to so great a patriot as Pat
rick Henry.”
Zerah Colburn.—Proposals have been issu
ed in England, for publishing the memoirs of
Zerah Colburn. The work [imposes to give
a minute detail of the child from his birth,
and an analysis of his astonishing method of
calculating the most complex numbers. This
arithmetical prodigy, only 12 years of age,
is now at Westminster school, under the pat-
onage of the carl of Bristol, where, it is said,
he makes wonderful progress in languages
and mathematics. Subscriptions are receiv
ed by the editor of the Washington City Ga
zette, who will deliver the copies subscribed
far when received from England.
J). D. Warden of Paris, lias issued propo-
j„,sals for publishing “ A Statistical and
Historical Account of the United States of
America, from the period of their first esta
blishment to the present day,” on a new
plan. “ This work, intended as a manual or
vehicle of useful information for the agricul
tural, commercial, political, scientific and li
terary world, will consist of four volumes in
octavo, of four hundred or more pages. The
author engages to put the work to press, and
have it completed without delay, if patron
ised by a sufficient number" of subscribers, to
whom the edition is to be confided; and whose
names it is his intention to publish.”—Tin
price of the four volumes, in boards, will be
nine dollars.
William Godwin, author of the Political
Justice.—The admires of the Political Jus
tice, will learn with astonishment and regret,
that Mr. Godwin whose republican princi
ples were supposed beyond the. power of cor
ruption, is now regarded in England as the
literary tool of the British government.
NEW GOODS.
NORTH, HOVVF, k CO. MILLEDGEVILLE,
H AVE just received, and offer for sale at their
Store next door east of P. Jaillett’s. a gene
ral assortment of DRY GOODS, consisting part
of the following articles, viz. blue, black and
mixed Cloths, blue and black Cassimeres, red, yel
low and white Flannels ; worsted, silk and Mar
seilles Vesting; Saruets, Sinchevvs and double
Florence Silks ; Canton Crapes and black Can
ton Shawls ; Levantine and Imitation Shawls ;
Jacknnet Muslin and Muslin Roues ; plain and
figured Cambric ; Waterloo and Furniture Cali
co; Cotton, Maddrass and Silk Handkerchiefs
black and checked Canton do ; Silk and worsted
Hose : Litinen and Cotton Shirting ; Beaver and
Silk Gloves; black and colored Bombazct;—
Whitney Blankets, etc. etc. etc.
Also, a general assortment of GROCERIES,
all ol which will be sold at very reduced prices.
December 22.
NOTICE.
IIE subscriber will be a candidate for Receiv
er of Tax Returns for Baldwin county,«
the ensuing election.
JOHN JETER.
Millegeville, Nov. 19.
r*M
I <
THOMAS M. BUSH,
H AVING bought out Frederick Johnson, Esq,
in Cracker's Neck, respectfully info,, ,s his
old friends and acquaintances that he intends con-,
tinuing the Store at the same place, and in addi-,
lion to what was on hand, he has added a com
plete Assortment, which will be sold on as ao.
commndating terms as can be afforded in the
country, 'ihe highest price* allowed for any
kind of produce. *
Milledgeville, December 23.
NOTICE.
W HEREAS my wife, Martha Madden, has
left my bed and board without any just pro
vocation—This is therefore to caution all persons
from trusting her on my account, as I am resolved
to pay none of her contracts.
HENRY MAULDEN.
Jasper county, Dec. 15.
STRAYED
1 71 ROM the subscriber on the 4th inst. a sorrel
’ MARK, with a swab tail, blaze in her face,
and hlp-shotteu in one of her hips. She left me
on the Ogeechce, about 10 miles below the Shoals.
She had on a saddle plated behind and before.—
Ten dollars will he given to any person who will
deliver said mare to Benjamin Marshall, near Bo
len’s ferry, in Baldwin county, or to the subscri.
her, five miies from Clinton, on the road leading
from Cliutou to Tom’s ferry.
JAMES A. BOGGS.
Jones conntv, Dec. 27.
SADDLERY.
M L. WHITE, Market-square, Savannah,
• has on hand and will be receiving, a gen
eral assortment of Saddlery, manufactured hv M<
W. Morgan. New-York ; warranted made iii the
best manner and to suit the market, which are of
fered wholesale and retail, at a small advance
form the New-York charges.
December 25.
THIRTY DOLLARS IIE WARD,
~171[7ILL be given for appre-
T! bending and lodging in any
jail in or out of the State, a light or
yellow complected fellow named
BUTLER, about 24 years of age,
5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, stout
limbed, likely, and very civil when
spoken to, and generally so with his companions;
very capable of all kinds of work, and bandy
with carpenters’ tools, is a good driver of horses,
and a complete maker and burner of bricks ; sen
sible and smart; had on when ho went away, a
large white hat with-a broad brim, a round-about
jacket, and trowers of bear skin cloth, and ab
sconded on the night of the 8th October. The a-
bove reward will be given, and if brought to Sa
vannah all reasonable expenses paid in addition.
DAVID POLLOCK.
November JO.
Administrators and Guardians’ Sale-of
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
T HE real estate of Obeiliali Lowe, late of tha
county of Baldwin, in the State of Georgia*
deceased, consisting of two squares, to wit, mini*
bets two hundred and forty-six, and two hundred
and sixty-four, each containing 202 1-2 acres,
and a fraction number two hundred and seventy-
one, containing 114 1-4 acres, all in the fifth dis
trict of Wilkinson at the time of the survey, now
Baldwin county, making the estate in the aggre
gate, so far as is now known, 519 1-4 acres, more
or less, will be sold to the highest bidder, at the
Court-House of Baldwin county, in Milledgeville,
tm the first Tuesday in Februury next, agreeably
to an order of the honorable the Inferior Court of
Baldwin county, sitting for ordinary purposes,
passed on the 24tii November instant, to be sold
for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said
deceased. MAL. G. WILKINSON, Adm’r
in right of his wife Judah, late Judah Lotve.
ABNER LOCKE, Guardian
of Elizabeth and Obedience Lowe, orphan?
and daughthers of Obediah Lowe, dec!
Nov. 25, 1817.
Q 1
Ij :
TO R. HUTCHINGS,
SHERRIFF OF JONES COUNTY.
IR, you are forwarned by me the only admin
istratrix for the estate of Baxter Pool, and
Guardian for the children of said B. Pool, from
paying the money you receive for that tract of
Land, you have advertised for sale, as there is no
other person or persons a ♦. orised to receive said
money, except myself, you will therefore pay it
to no person unless you receive a written order
from me for the money.
A. W. STURGIS.
WANTED AT THIS OFFICE,
4 S an apprentice to the printing business, ^ u
bov of 14 or 16 years of age, of respectable isT^we'
connections, who can read, write, and spell well. !n
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