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POETRY.
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THE BACHELOR’S SOLILOQUY.
Marry, or not to marry ? that is the question—
'"Whether ’lis nohlef in tlic mind to suffer
The notion silence of these ctSb-webbed rooms
Or seek in festive balls some clicirful dam*,
And, bv uniting, end it? to live alone,
"No more : and by marrying say Sve end
The heart-ache, and the thousand make-shifts
Bach’lors arc heirs to ; ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To marry, to live
In pcitrc< l’cr chance in war : ay, there’s the rub j
For in the marriage state what ills may come,
When we have shuffled oft' our liberty,
BIust give us pause—there’s the respect,
That makes us dread live bonds of wedlock,
For who could bear the noise of scolding wives,
The fils of spleen, th’ extravagance of dress,
jiic thirst for plays, fcr concerts and for balls.
The insolence of servants, and the spurns
That patient husbands from their consorts tafce
When he himself might Ids quietus gain
"By living single. Who would wish to hear
The jeering name of bachelor,
But that the dread of after marriage,
(All that vast expenditure of income,
No tongue can scarcely tell) puzzles the will,
And makes us rather choose the-single life,
Than go to jail for debts we know not of—?
Economy thus makes bachelors of us still;
And thus our melancholy resolution
Is still increased upon more serious thought.
MISCELLANY.
r “’ PATRICK. HENRY.
The versatility of talent, for which this
great Orator was distinguished, is happily
described in the following extract from Mr.
d irt’s Sketches :
“ Hook was a Scotchman, a man of wealth,
and suspected of being unfriendly to the A-
mcrican cause. During the distresses of the
American army, consequent on the joint in
vasion of Cornwallis and Phillips in 1781,
a Mr. Venable, an army commissary, had ta-
-ken two of Hook’s steers for the use of the
troops. The act had not been strictly le
gal, and on the establishment of peace,
Hook, under the advice of Cowan, a gentle
man of some distinction in the law, thought
proper to bring an action of trespass against
Mr. Venable, in the district court of New-
liondon. Mr. Henry appeared for the de
fendant, and is said to have disported him
self in this cause to the infinite enjoyment of
his hearers, the unfortunate Hook always
excepted. After Mr. Henry became ani
mated in the cause, says a correspondent,
he appeared to have complete control over
the passions of his audience : at one time
lie excited their indignation against Hook ;
vengeance was visible in every countenance:
again, when he chose to relax and ’ridicule
him, the whole audience was in a roar of
laughter. He painted the distress of the A-
merican army, exposed almost naked to the
rigor of a winter’s sky, and marking the
frozen ground over which they marched, with
the blood of their unshod feet; Where was
the man, he said, who had an American
heart in his bosom, who would not have
thrown open his fields, his barns, his cellars,
the doors of his house, the portals of his
breast, to have received with open arms the
meanest soldier in that little band of famish
ed patriots ? Where is the man ? There
he stands—but whether the heart of an Ame
rican beats in his bosom, you gentlemen, are
to judge. He then carried the jury by the
power of his imagination, to the plains a-
round York, the surrender of which had fol
lowed shortly after the act complained of:
he depicted the surrender in the most glow
ing and noble colors of his eloquence—the
audience saw before their eyes the humilia
tion and dejection of the British, as they
marched out of their trenches—'they saw the
ti'iuiuph'which lighted up every patriotic face,
and heard the shouts of victory, and the cry
of Washington and liberty, as it rung ami
echoed through the American ranks, and
was reverberated from the hills and shores
of the neighboring river—but hark, what
notes of discord are these which disturb the
general joy and silence the acclamations of
victory—they ace the notes of John Hook,
hoarsely bawling through the American
£amp, beef! beef! beef!
« The whole audience were convulsed : a
particular incident will give a better idea of
the efleet than any general description.—
The clerk of the court, unable to command
himself, and unwilling to commit any breach
of decorum in his place, rushed out of the
court house and threw himself on the grass,
In tho most violent paroxysm of laughter,
where he was rolling, when Hook, with very
different feelings, came out for relief in the
yard also. «Jemmy Steptoe,* said he to the
clerk, » what the devil ails ye, mon ?’ Mr.
Steptoe was only able to say, that lie could
hot help it. ‘ Never mind ye,* said Hook,
« wait till Billy Cowan gets up : he’ll shew
him tho la’.’ Mr. Cowan was so completely
Overwhelmed by the torrent which bore up
on his client, that when lie rose to reply to
Mr. Henry, he was scarcely able to make ail
Intelligible or audible remark. The cause
was decided almost by acclamation. The
jury retired for form sake, and instantly re
turned with a verdict for the defendant.—
jtur did the effect of Mr. Henry’s speech
atop here. The people were so highly ex
cited by the tory audacity of the suit, that
Bock began to hear around him a cry more
tumble than that of beef: it was the cry of
tar and feathers: from the application of
frliuli it is said, that nothing saved-him but
ft precipitate flight & the speed of his horse.”
Religious Intelligence.
Extract of a tetter to a gentleman in the city of
JVew-Vurlc, dated Westminster, May, 1817.
« Little did you and i think, wlici we at
tended the first meeting of the missionary so
ciety, that it would have been the fruitful pa
rent of so many institutions having for their
single but glorious design, to illuminate the
understandings of onr fellow-creatures. We
have just concluded our yearly jubilee. The
month of May has at present higher claims
to otar praise than the charming scenes of na
turc; which arc now developed, and the
• aerry-inakings of thoughtless youngsters.—
it is now a month of religious enjoyment, to
which the mind looks forward with delight,
A which never disappoints our hopes. There
is an interest, a feeling and glory about the
grand meetings of the missionary and Bible
societies, which must be witnessed to he un
derstood. We have been this year peculiar
ly favored; a luminary lias appeared among
us that has eclipsed all his forerunners. It
seems a prognostic of remarkable events in
the religious world that the Lord lias raised
up a man, who is pre-eminently fitted to vin
dicate his cause, and to promote among all
ranks the knowledge of his gospel.
“ Dr. Chalmers, one of the professors in
the University of Glasgow, was in early life,
an infidel; but, no sooner did it please God tu
reveal his Son in him, than, like the Apostle
Fault he began “ to preach that faith which
he destroyedand bringing a great mass of
human learning into the Held, the armies of
the alien are routed before him—he com
mences a bold attack on the fortresses of in
fidelity, and their walls crumble into dust
before him. He has particularly bent his
mind to consider the evidences of Christiani
ty, and he has very lately published a hook
entitled “ A Review of the Evidences of
Christianity, considered in connection with
the Modern Astronomy,’’ which has met
with so rapid a sail, that it went through
four editions before it was heard of in Lon
don, and though only a small octavo volume,
the booksellers in London have just agreed
to give him four thousand jMiunds for the
copy-right.
“ This truly great man has been brought
to London to preach one of the missionary
sermons, and has created a sensation beyond
what I ever before witnessed. You know
Surrey chapel—on the Wednesday morning
thinking that my privilege as a minister
would procure mo a seat if I went early,
I got to the chapel at 9 o’clock, an hour and
a half before the prayers began to be read ;
hut instead of getting a comfortable place in
the first or second row of seats, which on
those occasions are appropriated exclusively
to ministers, 1 found the chapel quite full,
and thought myself extremely happy to
squeeze just within the door of the gallery
where 1'stood with a column of ’ people
pressing me both before and behind for five
hours.
“ Dr. Chalmers has nothing to recom
mend'him as a preacher but the intrinsic
worth of his matter. He is a small pale
man, with a feeble indifferent voice, and a
Scotch accent. His text was 1 Cor.*i4, 23,
24, 25 ; and the chief drift of his argument
was to prove, that the conversion of a sinner
did not depend on tho weight of rational ev
idence brought before him, hut rested alto
gether upon the agency of the Holy Spirit
bringing the man to compare his conscience
with the declaration of God’s word, where
upon “ the secrets of his heart are made man
ifest, and falling down on his face, he will
worship God, and report that God is in you
of a truth.”
“ From the confusion of so crowded an as
sembly, it w as diflicidt to hear him at first,
but after a most luminous introduction, lie
came to tiie first grand period of his argu
ment :—The congregation were electrified ;
I never witnessed such emotions before.—
While he paused to take breath exclamations
of surprise were heard around—“ Astonish
ing ! Beyond all that ever was heard before !
I never heard a sermon before ! Admirable
beyond iinmagiiiation !” Such were the u-
niversal expressions of delight and surprise.
If I was to tell yon the expressions 1
made use of, when I came out, you would
think them truly extravagant. Remember,
that this universal admiration is not the ap
plause of an ignorant midtitiule ; it is the
general feeling of as large anil well inform
ed an assembly of divines, as perhaps ever
before met together.
** This sermon was an introduction to a
popularity, justly deserved, hut of a degree
beyond what I have ever before wijnessjjd.
All ranks and degrees of men are crowding
to hear him. Ministers of State and mem
bers of Parliament; the Lord Mayor; Al
derman of the City, and many Clergymen ;
fearless of Qucene Bess’s Laws against non
conformity, crowd to hear Dr. Chalmers.
He preached last Sunday morning at the
Scots church, London Wall, and at three in
the afternoon at the large new church in
Swallow-street, formerly Dr. Trotter’s ; and
altho’ it had not been published, the throng
was so great by two o’clock, that they dared
not open the doors, but the place was filled
chiefly through the Vestry Window, and it
was thought necessary for Dr. Nicholl ami
other ministers to harranguc the people out
at the windows entreating them not to at
tempt to press ih, a8 tliero was not roopifor
one person more even to stand in the galle
ries, & thousands went away without obtain,
ing admission. The carriages thronged the
street, as if tl;ey had been going to the The
atre.
« When I consider the earnestness of his
delivery, and the irrefragable lorce ot his ar
guments, he reminds me of Apollcs, “ who
mightily convinced the Jews, and that pub-
lically, proving from the Scriptures that Je
sus was the Christ.” The minds of men
are irresistably directed to religion tlic most
prejudiced, and worldly minded feel con
strained to enquire into the doctrines of the
gospel ; and, if a peculiar measure of divine
power do not speedily follow, it will to me be
mere extraordinary than these circumstan
ces themselves. The Lord will hasten it in
his time. , ,,
“ I hope Dr. Chalmers’ book, as well as
his missionary sermon, will soon he reprin
ted and widely circulated in America.
“ Your townsman Dr. Mason is also
here, and nearly as popular as Dr. Chal
mers.”
AGRICULTURE.
FROM TIIE SOUTHERN PATRIOT.
CULTURE OF THE POTATOE.
My neighbors having frequently enquired
of me as to the best mode of culture 1 used
with Irish potatoes the last spring, in conse
quence of liieir extraordinary size and pro
duct, I have been inclined to believe a state
ment might not he unacceptable to others
further oft'—and even useful to some. Un
der this impression I feel impelled to give one,
from a sense of gratitude to him “ that giv-
eth the increase,” in hopes it may contribute
to alleviate the distress, likely to ensue, from
the probable high prices of provisions next
summer. My motives, 1 trust, will preclude
tlic necessity of an apology for the novelty
of my design, and shield me from any criti
cal attack ; yet should the opinions I have
presumed to give, by conflicting with those
of an abler agriculturist, elicit more impor
tant information, my purpose would be well
answered. The practice of publishing the
results of agricultural experiments has long
been common in England, and it lias, no
doubt, contributed largely to the immense
stock of agricultural knowledge that coun
try possesses—where practical farming has
been reduced almost to a science. But we
must be indebted to ourselves, for whatever
improvement we may acquire, for all their
knowledge on being introduced into our
country, may he, comparitivoly, to us, al
most no knowledge at all, as the difference
in soil and climate must make very great
variations requisite in the culture of the same
production.
The product of tho Irish potatoe, in Caro
lina, has seldom exceeded two hundred and
fifty bushels to the acre,even where, sonic at
tention has been paid to their cultivation—
Arthur Young, esq. says one thousand bush
els have been made to the acre in England.
I cannot think there exists any physical cause
for so great a disparity.
The ground I selected was a clayey soil,
over a yellow clay foundation. It was first
ploughed deep, with a bull tongue, tho lat
ter end of December, and about tho middle
of January it was thickly strewed with well
rotted stable manure, and ploughed in.—
When I was ready for planting, the ground
was tracked off at five, feet from centre to
centre of each bed ; I then proceeded to bod
up, making what may be called large ground
nut beds, with two trenches along each, a-
bout a foot a part. Having previously taken
out the largest and smallest sizes, the seed
was rut into from four to eight pieces—taking
care to have least, one eye on each piece ;
they were plumed with the eye upwards, ten
inches apart, in the trench, every negro
planting having a piece of stick cut of that
length for the purpose ; tho piece in the op
posite trench being placed opposite the cen
tre of the stick, so as to stand diagonally,
and covered about two inches deep.—The
quantity of seed used, was eight bushels to
the acre, and the time of planting the 11th
of February. The last of March they were
well hoed, for the purpose of keeping up the
fermentation about the roots, as there was
no grass yet, and a few days after drawn up
so as almost to cover them ; the space be
tween the two rows being first well raised.—
Three weeks after they were liotid and drawn
up, the storks laid across the bed and inter
locking with those on the opposite row of the
same bed. Nothing more was done to them
from this time, except to pull out such weeds
as occasionally appeared. The result was
this,—I commenced digging the first week
in June ; the quantity I then dug was thirty
nine bushels, which was from eight task
rows (one hundred and fifty feet) which Is
equal to four hundred and nine and a half
bushels to the acre : but my driver informed
me, the two succeeding weeks that the same
quantity was dug from less ground. I took
no notice of it myself, and it may be, there
fore, incorrect—yet as the potatoes continu
ed evidently to grow in that time, I believe
it. About the ist of July they commenced
rotting, and this evil increased daily. The
plan I adopted was to dig them as they were
wanted, and the last was dug the loth of
August. My loss must have amounted to
several hundred bushels. Some mode <rf
preserving them is certainly desirable. I
have never heard of any that was successful
I have tried various soils with Irish potal
toes, and observed the culture of otheis, and
the crops made by them has, in no instance
come near the result I have stated, Mr
John Nicholson,, of Herkimer, New-York*
in *\> agricultural treatise, says, any soil*
except clay, may be made to produce a pret!
ty good crop of potatoes ; but the very qua!-
ity of a clay soil, which is objectionable in
the state of New-York, must be best in
Sonth-Carolina, for tlic Irish potatoe—that
is its coldness. I am clearly of opinion,
that a day soil well prepared as before stat
ed, is best adapted to the culture of that
species of provisions among us. Many per.
sons I know, are averse to using them as
provisions for negroes : and negroes, gene-
rally, object strenuously to them at first,
but with double allowance of salt, and a lit.
tlo salt fish and fresh beef occasionally, they
soon become a great favorite, 'and particu.
larly among the children. Horses, hogs and
poultry are very fohd of them boiled, and
will thrive rapidly upon them.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Colleton, December, 1817.
NOTICE.
O N the first Tuesday in April, will be sold at
tlic Court house iu Eatonton, between the
usual hours, 1^2 1-2 acres of land, (as supposed)
being the real estnte of Jacob Turkenett, deceas’d,
situated nbout 8 miles from Eatonton—about 40
acres of said land is cleared, and on the same are
some cabins. Sold for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said deceased. Terms mad.
known on the day of sale. All persons having
claims against said estate, are requested to bring
them forward, properly attested, and those in
debted are required to make immediate pay
ment. DAVID L. WHITE, AtlmV ’
with tiie will annexed.
January 13, 1818.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. “
~M3 AN AYVAY from the sub,
XV scriber, living in Franklin
county, Nortb-Carolina, on the
jiff 12th of January, 1817, a negro
man named Randol, about 26
27 years of age, between 5 and
G feet high, rather yellow complected ; appear*
humble when spoken to ; it is expected lie ha*
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 of this county, who started with her about the
14th instant, to 8outh‘Carolina, Georgia, or Ten
nessee. It is supposed he will attempt to follow
her. This is to caution all persons from harborin|
or trading for said negro. And all masters o
vessels are forbid having any tiling to do with
him at the penalty of the law. The above re
ward and all reasonable charges will be paidtc
any person who will secure said negro, so that 1
get him. WOOD TUCKER.
December 23, 1817.
N. B. Any person apprehending the above ne\
gro, will inform me by letter, directed to Ran,,
sum’s bridge, N. C.
The Editors of the Telescope, S. Carolina;
the Whig, Nashville, Ten. and Reflector, Mil-
ledgeville, will insert this advertisement sit
times, and forward their bills as above.
Administrators and Guardians’ Sale of
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
T HE real estate of Obcdiali Lowe, late of th*
county of Baldwin, in the State of Georgia,
deceased, consisting of two squares, to wit, nurn*
bers 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-IIouse of Baldwin county, in Milledgeville,
on the first Tuesday in Februury next, agreeably
to an order of the honorable the Inferior Court«
Baldwin county, sitting for ordinary purposes,
passed on the 24th 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 Lowe,
ABNER LOCKE, Guardian
of Elizabeth and Obedience Lowe, orphan*
and daughthers of Obediah Lowe, de<v
LOW FOR CASH—HIGH ON CREDIT-
ritWO GIGS of the latest style, best niateri-
X His and superior workmanship.—Also, a w«
cond handed one, and a Sulkey*—All with harne©
complete, for sale by
THOMAS M. BUSH.
January 13.
FUNERAL.
O N Sunday the 8th day of February, th* Vu«
ncralof’Mr*. SARAH LANE, consort «
James Lane, Esq. of Putnam county, will h*
reached at his residence,by the Rev’il David L~
Vhite. Her friends and relatives arc invited to
attend. January 12.
FUBL1SIIUD WEEKLY, HI
J. B. HINES,
AT THREE DOLLARS PER YEAR, IS ADVAXCR
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first time for 75 cents, cash, and 50 cents for each conti*.
nance—longer ones in proportion. Every insertion ot tw*
tices not published weekly, charged as the first. AtlmiO’
istrators sales of real estate advertised for fetish"’
of personal property g 3—notices to debtors and creoj
tors g 3—and nine months citations S 5—one fourta
more in every instancy if not settled for when leit tut
publication.
077 The law requires land and negroes belonging M
testators and intestates, to be advertised sixty dan ; P® -
ishable properv, forty ; notices to debtors and creditor*;
six weeks ; and citations for leave to sell eettuf, (montbhj,
nine months.
Letters to the aditor must be post psW.