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J 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 PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY J. B. HINES, AT THREE DOLLARS PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE. Advertisements under one hundred words, inserted the first time tor 75 cents, cash, and 50 cents for each contin uance—longer ones in p o portion. Every insertion of’ no tices not published weekly, charged the first. Admin istrators sales of real estate advertised for 34e:it»h—■ of personal property $ 3—notices to debtors and credi tors g 3—and nine months citations $5—one fourib more in every instance, if not settled for when lelitf* publication. GCj* The law requires land und negroes bolongingto testators and intestates, to be advertised sixty days ; per* ‘ “''able piMpery, forty ; notices to debtors and creditow. eki; nv*d t* • ««♦•»♦.<*, (monthly nor'h*?.