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POETRY.
1 Jj* FROM THE COLUMBIAN CK-VTINLL.
A NEW-YEAR’S PRESENT.
‘fcAMtu.A, my fair one, the lily and rose,
That a little time since were so blooming and bright,'
Thei) rplcndor anu fragrance are come to a close,
A\b ‘ another short year hath betaken to flight.
•Ti* a ffcw days ago, when we walk’d out ortc mom,
As the Min was just risen above the green hill,
Tfle pear tree was laden, the rose hid the thorn.
And sw'eet was the qucrulus voice of the rill.
'The thrush and the linnet were joyous and gay ;
The lark sweetly sung from his tent in the sky,
From the hazel’s retreat nlirst the blackbird away,
And the fields seemed ill music and beauty to vie.
r *.n;iu, the 'landscape hath lost its delight,
The earth is all barren, the trees are all hare,
The forest indeed wears a mantle of white,
llut tlie voices that cheered it, no longer are there.
My fair one, how changed is the face of to-day!
To he sure the wind whistles tmjoyous and drear,
But the flowers have faded, the birds flown away,
Their music all died with the death of the year.
'Still the sun shall return, and bis lamp slrall be r.igb,
And the trees that are naked and tom by the blast,
Be again green as ever and rich in his eye,
But Camilla, life's year is the first and the last.
*Our lamp shall wax dim and our sun shall retire,
And our bodies, tllfcy soon must be crumbled to dust,
Who then shall breathe in us a spark Of new lire ?
Camilla, life’s year is the last and the first.
A sunjtfhat’s eternal, shall burst on the tomb,
And commence a new year, saith the voice of the wise,
His rays thy dark prison shall pierce and relume,
And sprinkle with splendor thy path to the skies.
There no birds arc regretted, for harps that are strung
lly the Cherubim, Seraphim hurst on the car,
The praise of the Lamb and the Father is sung,
And glory eternal encircles the year.
MISCELLANY.
*m>M CUiTEil DRIASu’BTHAVBU IS ORACCE, FAAK.T1SK, See
THE RIVER JORDAN.
We advanced for an hour & a half with ex
cessive difficulty over a fine white sand. We
were approaching a grove of palm trees and
tamorinds which to my great astonishment I
perceived in the midst of this fertile tract.
The Arabs all at once, stopped and pointed
to something that I remarked at the bottom
of the ravine. Unable to make out what it
was, I perceived what appeared to be sand
in motion. On drawing nearer to this singu
lar object, I beheld a yellow' current, which
I could scarcely distinguish from the sands
on its shores. It was deeply sunk below i«.
banks, and its sluggish streams rolled slow
ly on. This was the Jordan.
I had surveyed the great rivers of Ameri
ca wit!, that pleasure which solitude and na
ture impart; I visited the Tybcr with en
thusiasm, and sought with the same interest
the Eurotas and the Ccprissus ; but I can
not express what I felt at the sight of the
Jordan. Not only did this river remind me
of a renowned antiquity, and tme of the
most celebrated names of the most exquisite
poetry ; hot its shores presented to my view
the theatre of the miracles of my religion.
Judea is the only country of the world, that
revives in the traveller the memory of hu
man affairs, and of celestial things, and
which by this combination produces in the
soul a feeling and idea which no other'rcgion
is capable of exciting. The Arabs stripped
and plunged into the Jordan. 4 durst not
follow the example on aejount of the fever
by which I was still tormented ; but 1 fell
tipon my knees on the bank with two servants
and the drogoman of the monastery. Har
ing no Biblo with us, wo couM not repeat
the passage of Scripture relating to the
spot where we now were j but the drogo-
man> tvho knew the customs of the place,
began to sing, « Avo Maria Stella.” We
responded like sailors at the end of their
voyage. I then took up some water of the
river in a leathern vessel; it did not seem
to me as sweet as sugar, according to the ex
pression of a pious missionary. I thought
it, on the contrary, rather brackish : but
tho’ I drank a considerable quantity, 1 felt
no inconvenience from it; nay I think it
would be very pleasant ir it were purified
from the sand which it carries with it. A-
bout two lcagups from the place whrre we
halted, I perceived higher up the river
thicket of considerable extent, I determin
ed to proceed thither, for it is calculated this
must be the spot where the Israelites passed
the river, facing Jericho, where the manna
S oil to fall, tvhere the Hebrews tasted the
(fruits of the land of Promise, where
man was cured of his leprosy, and last
ly was bubtized by St. John. Towards this
place we advanced, hut as we drew near
to it, wc heard the voices of men in the thick
et. Unfortunately the human voice, which
cheers you every where else, and which you
would love to hear on the banks of the Jor
dan, is precisely w'liat alarms you in these
deserts. The Bcthlehemites and the drogo-
inen proposed an immediate retreat; but I
was determined to examine the river facing
the spot where wc then stood. They yielded
witli reluctance to my resolution, and we a-
gain repaired to the bank of the Jordan,
which a bend of the river had carried to
some distance from us on the right. I found
it of about the same width and depth as at a
league lower down, that is, six or seven feet
deep close to the shore, ami about 50 paces
in breadth. The guides urged me to depart,
nnd Ali Ago himself grumbled. Having
finished making such notes as I considered
most important, f complied with the wishes
of the caravan, and saluted the Jordan for
(lib last time.
AFEECtlNd ANECDOTE.
A young lady, named D’Amnount, w T as ex
ecuted in the city of Lyons for the supposed
murder of her uncle, the Chevalier de la i’ou-
ionc, witli whom d!«J lived in the most aflVc-
tionate harmony from her infant years. Ha
ving ‘Conceived a passion for a deserving
young officer who was quartered in the town,
and between wliom and the young lady a mu
tual affection subsisted, she came to a deter
mination of eloping with him unknown to her
uncle, and only admitted one fei »»!c servant
to her confidence. It unfortunately happen
ed that this woman was leagued with a pri
vate soldier, who meditated the plan of mur
dering the chevalier, witli a view of plunde
ring the bouse oh the night the intended
elopement should take place, in order that
the unhappy niece should be judged the per
petrator of the horrid deed, which was accor
dingly effected with every degree of barbar
ity. The young lady and the officer were
immediately pursued, taken, and committed
to prison. The former was tried, and exe
cuted on the false cviijcnee of the female ser
vant : and the latter was cashiered, and con
demned to the gallics for life.
Some time after, the servant being taken
ill, threatened to divulge the whole matter
before a magistrate; to prevent which, the
soldier, who had married her, put an end to
his wife’s existence ; but at length, feeling
sincere remorse for these repeated murders,
he voluntarily surrendered himself up to
justice, confessed the whole affair, and was
publicly executed, amidst the execrations of
the enraged multitude.
What adds to the dreadful recital is, that
the young lady was not less remarkable for
her beauty, than her unaffected piety and
sweet simplicity of manners. A broken
heart soon terminated the miserable exis
tence of the wretched officer, who died in six
weeks after the execution of the most amia
ble sufferer, in the must excruciating tor
tures.—Foreign jxipeit
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In one of Miss Edgeworth’s last novels,
(Harrington) the fouowing anecdote is told
—‘ It is recorded of,Alonzo Cano, that hav
ing finished a statue qf St. Antonio dc-Padua
for a Spanish counsellor, the tasteless lawyer
and niggardly devotee hesitated to pay the
artist his price ; observing that Cano by his
Wn account, had bcentnily twenty-live days
nbMUt. The counsellor sat down with stu-
pid aWf-sullicience, to Mlcul&te, that a hun
dred pistoles divided by twenty-five days the
artist would be paid at a higher rate than he
was himself, for the exercise of his talents.
Wretch talk to me of your talents,’ exclaim
ed the enraged artist: ‘ I have been fifty
years learning to mAc this statue in 25
days and as he spoke, Cano dashed the
statue to pieces on the pavement of the acad
emy. The affrighted counsellor fled from
the house with the utmost precipitation, con-
‘luding that if the man was bold enough to
destroy a saint, he would have Very little
morse in destroying ajjawycr.
I never heard (said Dean Swift) a finer
piece of satire againstjlawyers, than that of
astrologers, when theyipretcnded by rules of
art to tell when a suit will end, and whether
to the advantage of the plaintiff or defen-
(laiYf^-thus making tne matter depend en
tirely upon the influence of the stars, without
the least regard to the merits of the cause.
Vfe 1
THOMAS M. BUSH,
H AVING bought out Frederick Johnson, Esq.
in Cracker’s Neck, respectfully informs Ins
old friends and acquaintances that he intends con
tinuing the Store at the same place, ami in addi
tion to what was on hand, he has added a com
plete Assortment, which will be sold on as ac
fcommodatiug terms as can be afforded in the
country. The highest prices allowed for any
kind of produce.
Milledgeville, December 23.
tin. JAMES GLENN,
T ENDERS his professional services to the cH
tizens of Milledgeville and its vicinity, ^p.
plications made at "Mr. Rousseau’s will be attend!
ed to. January 13,
DR. CHARLLS J. PAINE,
O FFERS his professional services to the inha
bitants of Milledgeville and its vicinity, lb
resides at Mrs. Jenkins
January 12
NOTICE.
O N the first Tuesday in April, will he sold at
the Court house in Eatonton, between tli#
usual hours, 122 1-2 acres of land, (as supposed!
being the real estate of Jacob Turkenett, deceas'd*
situated about 8 miles from Eatonton—about 4()
acres of said land is cleared, and on the same are
some cabins. Sold for the benefit of the heir*
and creditors of said deceased. Terms made
known on the day of sale. All persons havin'
claims against said estate, are requested to brine
them forward, properly attested, and those in
debted are required to make immediate nav!
ment. DAVID L. WHITE, Adm’r
with the will annexed-
January 13, 1818.
STRAYED
F ROM the subscriber oil the 4th inst. a sorrel
MARE, with a sivab tail, blaze in her face;
and hip-shotten in one of her hips. She left me
outlie Ogeechee,about 10 miles below the Shoals.
She had on a saddle plated behind and before.—
Ten dollars will be given to any person who will
deliver said mare to Benjamin Marshall, near Bo
len’s ferry, in Baldwin county, or to the subscri
ber, five miles from Clinton, on the road leading
from Clinton to Tom’s ferry.
JAMES A. BOGGS.
Jones county, Dec. 27,
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
ELIEV1NG the provisions in the act of the
late session of the legislature to amend the
Penal Code, which prohibit the introduction of
Slaves into this state, for the purpose of specula
tion, to be founded on the,permanent interests and
the true policy of this state, we give timely and
public notice, that, from and after the first day of
February, we will prosecute for violations, or eva
sions, of those provisions, either by sellers or pur
chasers of Slaves ; whether they be citizens of
this state, or the sister states. We aver that it
will be painful to cause any man to be heavily lin
ed ami thrown into the 'Penitentiary ; but wc
also inform persons disposed to violate the law,
that it will be more painful to witness a recur
rence of the daring violations and shameless eva
sions which have already degraded the citizens
of Georgia, in the estimation of reflecting men.
We trust, however, that, paying due regard to
their pecuniary interests and their personal lib
erty, speculators will save us the trouble, the ex
pellee and the pain of prosecuting, by an acqui
escence in the law of the land ; or that, if viola
tions or evasions occur “ the oflicers of this state,
civil arid military,” whose special duty it is, un
der the law, will keep from the shoulders of pri
vate citizens a burden which properly devolves
on public officers, on account of their public ca
pacity, and their oaths of office. If however, the
public officers should be so unmindful of their
duty as to neglect a service involving the vital
interests of the State, feeling, as wc shall, the
deepest regret at so criminal a dereliction of du
ty, we shall proceed, tho’ with the greatest reluc
tance, to the enforcement if a law, sanctioned by
every principle of justice, humanity, policy and
interest: and we shall confidently rely on the
aid, co-operation and countenance of every friend
of religion, morality, law and order ; in execu
ting a law enacted by the immediate representa
tives of the people, and enforcing a policy re
commended by Tucker, Jefferson and Franklin 5
by the intelligent Legislatures of several of the
must populous and enlightened of the sister
states ; and, indeed, by the great, the good, and
the excellent of ali Christendom.
We earnestly iuvite the citizens of the other
counties to co-operate with us in this good work.
Five—nay, even one or two citizens iueach coun
ty, supported, as they would be, by the friends
of law and order throughout the state, would be
adequate* with the strength of the law, to the
suppression of an evil denounced by the Legisla
ture, and deprecated by every unpiejudiaeu, re
flecting man in the community. But let it be
remembered that its growth is most rapid ; that
it will hourly acquire strength ; ami that, in or
der to produce an easy destruction of the monster
it must be crushed at once. It will, therefore,
be daugerous to delay a single day after the 1st
day of February, when the amended penal code
will go into operation.
Putnam County, January, 1818,
Thomas Hoxey, William Turner,
Edm’d. Shackelford, Allen IV. Coleman,
Coleman Pendleton, James Lane.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
R AN AWAY from the sub
scriber, Jiving in Franklin
county, North-Carolina, on the
12th of January, 1817, a negro
man named Rautlnl, about 26
i<>r 27 years of age, between 5 amt
6 feet high, lather yellow complected ; appears
humble when spoken to ;^t is expected lie has
some marks of shot about his hips, thighs, neck
and face, as he has been shot at several times
His wife belongs to a Mr. Henry Bridges, former-
ly or this county, who started with her about the
14th instant, to Soutli-Carolina, Georgia, or Ten
nessee. It is supposed he will attempt to follow
her. This is to caution all persons from harboring
or trading for said negro. And all masters of
vessels'are forbid having any thing to do with
him at the penalty of the law. The above re
ward and ail reasonable charges will be paid to
any person who will secure said negro, so that I
get Inm. WOOD TUCKER.
December 23,1817.
N. B. Any person apprehending the above ne,
gro. will inform me by letter, directed to Ran.
som’s bridge, N. U.
The Editors of the Telescope, S. Carolina;
the Whig, Nashville, Ten. and Reflector, Mil-
ledgeville, will insert this advertisement six
times, and forward their bills as above.
Administrators and Guardians’ Sale of
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
T HE real estate of Obediah Lowe, late of the
county of Baldwin, in the State of Georgia,
deceased, consisting of two squares, to wit, num
bers two hundred and forty-six, and two hundred
and sixty-fuur, 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
01 less, w ill be sold to the highest bidder, at the
Court-House of Baldwin county, in Milledgeville,
on the first Tuesday in Februury next, agreeably
tu an order of the honorable the Inferior Court of
Baldw'iu county, sitting for ordinary purposes*
passed on the 24th November instant, to be sold
for the beuefit of the l.eirs and creditors of said
deceased. MAL. G. WILKINSON, Adm’r
in right of his wife Judah, late Judah Lowe.
ABNER LOCKE, Guardian
of Elizabeth and Obedience Lowe, orphans
and daughthers of Obediah Lowe, dec. i
M. 1
SADDLERY.
L. WHITE, Market-square, Savannah,
has on hand and will be receiving, a gen
eral assortment of Saddlery, manufactured by M.
W. Morgan, New-York * warranted made iu 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.
GEORGIA, BALDWIN COUNTY.
W HEREAS John Mathews applies to ine for
letters of administration on the estate and
effects of Wiiliam B. Turner, late of the army
I# the United States, deceased :-Th„e «wc ¥ | mediate payment
therefore to cite and admonish ali and singular' K J SARAH FOREST, adm’x.
the kiudi-ecr and creditors of said deceased, to
file their ub^ctions in my office within the time
prescribed ly law, (if any they have,) or said
letters will be granted him.
Given under iny hand at office, in Milledgeville,
6th January, i818.
. ABNEIt LOCKE, C. C. O.
T
LOW FOR CASH—HIGH ON CREDIT,
NWO GIGS of the latest style, best materi
als and superior workmanship.—-Also, a se
cond handed one, and a Sulkey—All with harneA
complete, fdr sale by
THOMAS M. BUSH,
January 13*
FUNERAL.
O N Sunday the 8th day of February, the Fu
neral of Mrs. SARAH LANE, consort of
James Lane, Esq. of Putnam county*, .will be
preached at his residence, by the Rev'd linvid L.
White. Her friends and relatives are invited to
attend. Januarv 12.
T i
li
EAGLE TAYffllN,
SPARTA.
HE subscribers beg leave to inform the pnb-
lie that thev have purchased that well known
establishment the EAGLE TAVERN, formerly
occupied by Mr. Wm. G. Springer. Possessing
locally every advantage to be found in similares
tablishmeuts in the up-country, provided with (lie
best the market affords, trusty and attentive ser
vants, and an undeviating determination to please
they are flattered with tne hope of gi'ing entire
satisfaction to their regular boarders and occa
sional visitors.
THOMAS S. MARTIN,
. CHAS. ABERCROMBIE, Jrt
Sphrta, December 17, ’817.
REFUNDING OF INTERNAL DUTIES.
A GREEABLY to the act of Congress ofDe*
oember 23d, 1817, duties on licenses for pe
riods extending the 31st of December, 1817, and
for stamps not used, are to be refund «1 by the
respective collectors j provided the stamps shall
be returned previous to the first day of May, 1818.
HINES HOLT* collector
of the 6th collection dist. of Georgia.
January S, 1818.
NOTICE*
■1,X7ILL be sold on Tuesday the 20th January
j f next, at the late residence of John Fortst,
deceased, near Licknor’s creek, Jones county,*
good Waggon and Team, a small stock of Cattlej
and Hogs, about 6000 weight of seed Cotton, a
new set of Blacksmith’s Tools, household and
kitchen Furniture and plantation utensils, &c.&c.
SAJIAII FOREST, adm’x.
December 5,1817. «
All persons having demands against the abort
mentioned estate are required to bring them for
ward legally authenticated within the time pre
scribed by law, and thoSfc indebted to make iu»*
* NOTICE.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Colonel
X^_John Lewis, late of Milledgeville,are requir
ed to make immediate payment. Those who have
clairfis against the said estate are requested to
present them duly authenticated without delay.
• . ELIZABETH LEWIS, ex’rx. *
WILLIAM LEWIS,exect’r.
Milledgeville, Dee. 1,1817.
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(ry The law requires land and negroes belonging **
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n ne months. ,
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