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POETRY.
I'Uu.h ciarnttL’a plkasuiixs or uorc.
KOSC1USZKO.
Warsaw’s last cliampion from her height survey’d
Wide o’er the fields, a waste of ruins laicj—
Oil Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save !—•
Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ?
Yet, though destruction sweep those lovely plains,
Rise, fellow men 1 our country still remains !
Uy tliat dread name we wave the sword on high,
And swear for her to live.!—with her to die !
He said, and, on the rampart heights, array’d
His trusty warriors, few, but undismay’d i
Tirm-pac’d and slow, a horrid front they form ;
Still as the breeze, but dreadful as tire storm ;
Low murmuring sounds along their banners fiy,
Itevenge or death—the watchword and reply;
Then peal’d the notes, omnipotent to charm,
And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm !
In vain, alas ! in rain ye gallant few !
From rank to rank your
ye gall
0 _ volley’d thunder flew :
Oh 1 bloodiest picture in the book of Time,
Samartia fell, unwept, without a crime :
Found not a generous, not a pitying foe !
Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe!
Dropt from her nerveless grasp the shatter’d spear,
Clos’d her bright eye, and curb’d her high career ;
Hope, for a season, hade the world farewell,
And Freedom shriek’d—as Kosciusko fell !
BEAUTIFUL MORCEAU.
Not e’en a lonely star will shine,
The cold rain dashes on the pine,
The horse’s hoof upon the hill,
But seems to say,“ how still, how still !
And all around me either sleep
Or sit in thoughtful silence deep ;
Perchance, they muse on days to come,
On blissful love or happy home ;
Perchance, sweet retrospection cast
O’er many a lovely scene that’s past;
But memory whispers not to me
Of pangless, careless infancy,
And Hope’s bright eyes but faintly shirr,
To warm this lonely heart of mine ;
But, light Imagination, thou
Must be my only solace now
Then bear me on thy quivering wing
Par, far from earth, and let me sing
Of generous hearts detesting guile,
Of sweet Affection's soothing smile, -
Of beauteous Virtue born on high,
And Honor in her majesty,
Till every soul-oppressing pain,
Is lost in the ecstatic strain.
MISCELLANY.
DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND GIRL.
Extract of a letter From a gentleman in Boston, to Ms
friend in New-Haven.
If proofs of vigorous intellect in the deaf
and dumb, are admirable, how much more
wonderful arc evidences of a similar nature,
in persons who suffer the additional misfor
tune of being blind f
1 iieard a benevolent lady mention the
name of Julia Brace, a girl about 11 years
old, living in the vicinity of Hartford, who
is afflicted with the triple calamity of blind
ness, deafness, and dumbness, having lost
the senses of sight and hearing, by the vi
olencc of a typhus fever, at the age of four
years. On visiting her myself, I learned
that the extreme poverty and the obscurity
of her parents, have prevented her from be
ing known or particularly noticed, except by
the charitable ladies of the town, and a few
gentlemen, who have been induced, by mo
tives of curiosity, to examine her conduct.
The following facts and little anecdotes, I
relate for your amusement.
Her form and features are regular and well
proportioned. Her temper is mild and af
fectionate. She is much attached to her in
fant sister, often passes her hands over the
mouth* and eyes of the oliild, in order to as
certain whether it is crying, and soothes its
little distresses with all the assiduity and
success of a talkative or musical nurse. All
objects which she can readily handle, she ap
plies to her lips, and rarely fails of determin
ing their character. If any thing is too large
for examination in this way, she makes her
lingers tile interpreters of its nature and pro
perties, and is seldom mistaken. She will
beat apples or other fruit from the tree, and
select the best,with as much judgment as if
she possessed the faculty of sight. She of
ten wanders in the fields, and gathers flow
ers, to which she is directed by the pleasant
ness of their odour. Her sense of smelling
is remarkably exquisite, and appears to be
an assistant guide with her fingers and lips.
A gentleman one day, gave her a small fan.
She enquired of her lips what it was ; and on
being informed, returned it into the gentle
man’s pocket. The mother observed, that
Julia already possessed one fan ; she proba
bly thought that another would be superflu
ous. The gentleman gave the same fan to a
neighboring girl, whom Julia was in the ha
bit of visiting—She went, a few days after,
to visit her companion, whose toys she pass
ed under the review of her fingers and lips,
and, among other things, the fan, the identi
ty of which she instantly discovered, and
again restored to the pocket of the gentle
man, who happened to be present.
She feels and admires mantle piece or
naments, and never breaks or injures the
most brittle furniture even in a strange room.
She is aq obedient as other children in ge
neral. The jar of her mother’s foot upon
the floor effectually prevents the commission
of a fault; but she easily distinguishes the
stamping of one of the children from that of
her mother, and obeys or not, as she pleases.
Her parents, as you may well suppose,
have not been able to indulge fee in dress;
hut when she receives articles of clothing,
or ornaments as presents, she is highly gra
tified to find that flicy resemble in form aud
* Probabaly to discover whether the mouth be dis
torted, or there are any tears on the check.
fashion, those of her playmate. She lias, as
you perceive, a species of female vanity !
At a tea table, she behaves with moro gen
tility, than many a miss, who has the bene
fit of eyes, by which to adjust her motions
and attitudes.
In short, this poor girl, in her calamitous
state, exhibits so much good nature, vivacity
and intelligence, that I sincerely wish some
plan could be devised to furnish ltcr with in
struction. The very thought, you will say,
is visionary. Perhaps it is : but her lingers
are so expert, tliat possibly site might be
taught by means of letters raised, or in some
way rendered susceptible to the touch.—
Would not charity and philosophy be well
employed in making this child an object of
attention P
She might certainly be taught to use
needle skilfully. She has made a Vandyke
for her cat, a bonnet for her doll, and some
other little things of curious workmanship.
A -gentleman once made several experi
ments with a view to satisfy himself whether
she really had the discernment, which she
was reported to possess. Among other arts
for effecting his object, he pretended to car
ry away her infant sister. She immediately
detected the cheat, by ascertaining that his
umbrella remained upon the table. She then
went out of the door, and picked the head
of a large thistle in full bloom, brought it in,
smelling of it as she came, and offered it to
the gentleman, apparently as a nosegay.—
He reached but his hand to receive it; but
instead of giving it, site archly pricked his
hand by way of retort for his freedom in tes
tifying iter sagacity.
FROM TUX CON!f KCTICCT J0UR9 4L.
Mr. Printer,—My indignation is often ex
cited when I hear persons and especially
married persons, railing at old bachelors aud
old maids. Now, Mr. Printer, this, in mar
ried people savours strongly of self-conceit,
inasmuch as they thereby proclaim to the
world that they arc more wise than their
neighbors, whom they pretend to vilify with
the name of fools for not getting married—
and in unmarried people it argues great want
of sound and sensible thought r cogitation.
Now, allowing the matrimonii itate to be as
productive of happiness as was ever pour-
trayed in the most florid description, it re
quires no great exertion at argument to show
that the state of single blessedness, as it is
facetiously termed, is infinitely more pro
ductive of happiness. It is a very trite ob
servation that those objects which we most
eagerly pursue, are far better in anticipation
than enjoyment. The young devotee of lly
men sees nothing in marriage but one unin
terrupted scene of exquisite happiness ; and
nothing in the fair object of his love but spot
less and unparalleled loveliness. And yet,
Mr. Printer, this same ardent and sanguine
lover, when he lias been a year married, will
tell you that, notwithstanding his former no
tion that marriage was heaven, he still finds
himself upon this same dull, un-celestial
earth, and that the same being who a year a-
go seemed an angle in bis eyes, proves at
length to be nothing more than a tolcrabl
snug, tidy, wholesome piece of flesh and
blood. In short, reality is a sad damper, to
youthful anticipation. Well, so far for the
premises—now for the conclusion—We old
bachelors and old maids, have all the plea
sure of anticipation, without any of the dis
appointment tliat follows the reality, —tin
pleasing dreams of hope, and the reveries of
Love do not flit before one eyes for a year,
then to be dissipated and put to flight fore
ver—but they always hover around us, and
constantly impart to our bosoms the most ex
quisite and ecstatic sensations. Wc are for
ever anticipating our speedy marriage—we
see only the bright side of matrimony—noth
ing but sunshine, flowers, honey, kisses, love,
raptures and endearment—and in this state
we pass insensibly along day by day, wrapt
to ccstacy in the delightful reverie, and we
arc never taught by sad experience that this
is all a wild fantastic, and an absurd dream.
Now, Mr, Printer, did’st thou never wake in
the midst of an agreeable dream, and regret
that thou liad’st not dreamed longer. So all
but we old bachelors spend all our lives in a
dream, yet it is a dream of bliss from which
we could not wake without regret. I wish to
he explicit, and to he well understood, and
therefore repeat it; our happiness does not
consist in indifference to the pleasures of
matrimony, but in the protracted and unin
terrupted anticipations of those pleasures—
it being assumed as the corner stone of the
argument that there is more real pleasure ii>
anticipation than in fruition, inasmuch as the
latter is the death of the former, and is usual
ly followed by disappointment.
Besides a person who has never been mar
ried, alter a certain age, never grows older;
though to be sure some malicious and evil
disposed back-biters williinsist that bachelors
and old maids grow older as the seasons re
volve, in the same manner as others do—a
most malicious slander, Mr. Printer. At any
rate, after twenty-live or thirty we never
think we grow older—the plain and manifest
consequence is tliat at the age of twenty we
have all the light, buoyant and merry feelings
of sixteen, with all the vigor, ease and activi
ty of that thoughtless age—or which is the
same, we think we have them, and of conse
quence just as happy as though wc actualiy
had.—How enviable then must he tliat state
which keejfs up the blissful reign of boyhood
and youth in our bosoms, though our heads
arc covered with the snows, and our cheeks
with the wrinkles of age, while those unfor
tunate beings who waked too soon from the
rapturous dream of singlo blessedness, find
an old ago in their bosoms corresponding to
that which whitens their heads and palsies
their limbs, and have net even in imagina
tion a single vestige of their youthful days
remaining upon them. CtELEBS.
CONNUBIAL HAPPINESS.
A writer in the Savannah Republican (says
the Delaware Watchman,) has wielded his
pen witli great force and we hope with effect,
with the laudible view of reasoning and ridi
culing the young men of his neighborhood out
of their gross indulgences. In one of his
numbers wherein he pourtrays the debasing
tendency of such habits in the most striking
colours, he closes in a style of eloquence
which has all the bullion without the tinsel of
Phillips, in the following terms :
“ What a faithful contrast to the enjoyments
and anticipations of ‘the wedded virtuous
man ! No dark mistrust, no scaring jealousy
breaks in upon bis repose. No odious ail
ment corrodes bis health or corrupts hiS
frame. No disgrace attaches to his habits.
No reproach to sully posthumous fame.—
lie is not ashamed to avow the object of his
passion. She is the ornament of his house,
the soothed of his cares, the honorable mother
of his lawful children, the centre of his wish
es, the badge of his honor. His children—
their birth never crimsons his check nor cre
ates gloomy presentments in its bosom. He
views himself the founder of illustrious fami
lies.
In a country like America, where talents
and integrity are the pedestal of promotion,
he sees, in the vista of futurity, his offspring
holding the reins of the republic. He lives
in conformity to the laws of his country : and
dies in peace with men and his Maker.
Such are the inducements to wed—such
are tha amaranthine chaplets that decorate
the brow of wedded Love. Love !—sacred
be its name and revered its presence, when
itcomes pure and spotless and from the heart.
Dionysius, the sophist, addressing his au
dience on the virtues of moderation in the.
pursuit of pleasure, used to say that a per
son should taste honey only on the tip of his
finger.”
Lord Byron.—The following is an extract
from a review of lord Byron’s Manfred, in
the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, and we
have never seen a more admirable delinca
tion of the characteristics of his lordship’s
genius : “To do poet was there ever given so
awful a revelation of tho passions of the hu
man soul. He surveys, with a stern delight,
that tumult and conflict of terrible thoughts
from which other highly gifted and powerful
minds have involuntarily recoiled ; he calm
ly and fearlessly stands upon the brink of
that abyss from which the soul would seem
to shrink with horror, and lie looks down
upon, and listens to, tho everlasting agita
tion of the howling waters. There are in
bis poetry feelings, thoughts, sentiments,
and passions that we at once recognize to
he human, though we know not whence they
come; they break upon us like the sudden
flash of returning dream, like some wild
cry from another world. And even those
whose lives have had little experience of the
wilder passions, for a moment feel that an un
known region of their owu souls has been re
vealed to them, and that there are indeed
fearful mysteries in our human nature.”
,ln Attorney (says Sterne) is the same thing
to a barrister, that an apothecary it to a physician,
with this difference, that your lawyer does not
deal in scruples."
6 feet
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
AN AWAY from the sub
scriber, living in Franklin
nty, North-Carolina, on the
of January, 1817, a negro
named Randol, about 26
years of age,'between 5 and
r yellow complected ; appears
humble when spoken to ; it is expected he has
some marks of shot about his hips, thighs, neck
and face, as lie 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 South-Carolina, Georgia, or Ten
nessee. It is supposed he will attempt to follow
her. This is to caution all persons from harboriyj
or trading for said negro. And all masters of
vessels are forbid having any thing to do witli
him at the penalty of the law. The above re
ward and all reasonable charges will be paid to
any person who will secure said negro, so that I
get him. 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. C.
The Editors of the Telescope, S. Carolina ;
the liig, Nashville, Ten. and Reflector, Mfl-
ledgeville, will insert this advertisement
times, and forward their bills as above.
Administrators and Guardians' Sale of
VALUABLE PROPERTY. J
T HE real estate of Obediah Lowe, late of the
county of Baldwin, in the State of Georgia
deceased, consisting oT two squares, to wit, nu®!
bers two hundred and forty-six, ami two hundred
and sixty-four, each containing 202 j.o tlcreg
and a fraction number two hundred and seventy!
one, containing 114 1-4 acres, all in the fifthdjgl
trict of Wilkinson at the time of the survey, now
Baldwin counfv, making the estate in the a->ne.
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
on 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 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, orphans
and daughthers of Obediah Lowe, dec.
LOW FOR CASH—HIGH ON CREDIT.
T WO GIGS of the latest style, best materi
als and superior workmanship.—Also, a se
cond handed one, and a Sulkey—All with harness
complete, for sale by
THOMAS M. BUSH.
January 13.
NOTICE.
O N the first Tuesday in April, will be sold at
the Court house in Eatonton, between the
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 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 made
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 arc required to make immediate pay.
ment. DAVID L. WHITE, Adm’r
with the will annexed.
January 13, 1818.
300 ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE,
A NI) immediate possession given: the tract
X lL lies within 4 miles of Milledgeville, and ail-
joins Messrs. Barrow and Borland, on which
there is 140 acres cleared—70 of which is prime
cotton land—There is a comfortable hewed lo»
dwelling house with two rooms ; agin housean2
cotton machine with the running gear complete;
also, a grainery with a good threshing machine,
propelled by the wheels of the cotton gin. One
fourth part of the purchase money will be requir
ed in hand, the balance in three equal annual
payments. I can furnish the purchaser with corn
on the premises.
BOLLING HALL.
January 20,1818.
NOTICE. '
N INE MONTHS after date application will
be made to the honorable the inferior court
of Morgan county, when sitting for ordinary pur
poses, for leave to sell one half lot of land. No.
242, fourth district, lying in said county, if being
the real estate of Fanny Rogers, deceased, for
the benefit of the heirs of said deceased.
DRURY ROGERS, adm’r.
January 17, 1818.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, GEO.
Milledgeville, 1 Till January, 1818.
W HEREAS by a resolution of the legisla
ture of this state passed the 20th Decem
ber last,-the governor is required to direct the
proper officers to proceed without delay, to the
collection of all monies due this state on account
of Fractional Surveys or Town Lots in Mil-
ledgeville—it is
Ordered, that notice of the same be given by
public advertisement, in order that allpersons
may make their arrangements accordingly, as
immediately after the first day of March next,
the proper officers will be directed to proceed a-
gainst all such as are then iii arrears,
Attest, E. WOOD, secretary.
Law. ’
HPHE subscriber tenders his professional scr-
JL vices to the citizens of the Ocmulgee cir
cuit, the county of Hancock in the Western cir
cuit, and the public in general. His office is
kept in Monticello, Jasper couptv, where he al*
ways will be found when noton the circuit.
He has for sale five hundred arces of good up
LAND, lying in the county of Jackson on the Fe
deral road, which may be had on accommodating
terms, by applying to Martin Kolb or John Boyle,
esqs. ot Jackson county—Thomas Oliver of EU
bei t county, or to the subscriber.
T F. BALDWIN.
January 17, 1818.
FUNERAL. '
O N Sunday the 8th day of February, the Fu
neral ot Mrs. SARAH LANE, consort of
James Lane, Esq. of Putnam county, will be
preached at his residence, by the Ilev'il David L.
White. Her friends and relatives are invited to
attend. January 12.
RUNAWAY NEGROES.
B ROUGHT to Baldwin goal on the 18th inst.
a negro man, by the name of Sam, belong
ing to Bennett Terrell of Wilkinson county, al
so a negro woman, by the name, of Amy, who
belongs to Randolph Jackson,; the owners are
requested to come forward, pay expenses, and
take them away.
F. SANFORD, Goalcr.
January 19.
l’UJJLISHEU WEEKLY, BY
J. B. IIINES,
XT three DOLLARS TER year, IV ADVANCE.
Advertisements under one hundred words, inserted the
first time for 75 cents, cash, and 50 cents tor each contin
uance—longer ones in proportion. Every insertion of no
tices not published weekly, charged as the first. Admin
istrators sales of real estate advertised for g 4 cash—
of personal property g 3—notices to debtors amUnx’i-
tors § 3—and nine months citations g 5—one fourth
more in every instauce, if not settled for when left to
publication.
(C* The law requires land and negroes belonging t*
testators and intestates, to he advertised sixty days ; per
ishable proper), forty ; notices to debtors and creditor*
six weeks ; anil citations for leave to sell estate, (monthly)
nine months.
Letters to tbs editor must be post paid.