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POETRY.
roil THE HXFLBCTOH.
* HOPELESS LOVE.
CE ASK, tyrant of my flaming bosom, cense,
Nor force the gentle slumbers from my eyes,
All ! blit again restore my youthful peace,
And from my breast erase desponding sighs.
May Fate relent, nor let me languish here,
While l^Ther eyes I’m chained to gloomy care,
Still for the transient rose I shed a tear,
And o’er Iter blushes weep with wild despair.
Impetuous transport pierces while I gaze— '
Corrosive anguish preys upon my mind—
I stand Condemned to pass unhappy days,
And leave content and flatterng hope behind.
1 grieve hi silence,and! grieve in vain,
Her eyes resistless snatch me to my doom ;
Fain would I rove to ease this lingering pain,
But that will follow to the dusky tomb.
Fly Hope, thou soother, from my wretched breast;
Revive no more, nor bring thy gentle aid ;
I mourn, 1 wander, and I weep unblest,
Enslaved, rejected by a beauteous maid. P.
Monticello. Feb. 5.
RELIGION.
POOH JOSEPH.
AX AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE.
A poor illiterate) man, named Josopli,
Whose employment was to go on errands and
carry parcels, passing through London
streets one day, heard psalm singing in a
place of worship. He went into it, having
a large parcel of yarn hanging over his
shoulders : It was Dr. Calamy’s St Mary’s
Aldermanbury. A very well dressed au
dience surrounded the Doctor. He read
his text from i Tim. 1. 15. “This is a
faithful saying, and worthy of all accepta
tion, that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” From
this he preached, in the clearest and simplest
manner, the anciont and apostolic.gospel,
the contents of this faithful saying, via. that
there is eternal salvation for the vilest sin
ners, solely through tho worthiness of Jesus
Christ, the God that made all things.—
“ Not many rich, not many fioble are cal
led” by this gospel (saith the Apostle ;) but
“ God hath chosen the weak things of this
World, to confound the tilings that arc migh
ty.” While tho elegant assembly listlessly
heard this sound doctrine, and if they were
struck with any tiling at all, it was with
Some brilliant expression, or well tin ned
period that dropt from the Doctor, Joseph,
in rags, gazing with astonishment, never
took his eyes from the preacher, but drank
in with great eagerness all he said and trudg
ing homeward, he was heard thus muttering
to himself, Joseph never heard this before ;
Christ Jesus, tlic God who made all things,
camo into the world to save sinners like Jo
seph ; and this is true; and it is a “ faith
ful saying.” Not long after this, Joseph
was seized with a fever, and was danger
ously ill. As’ he tossed upon bed his con
stant language was, “ Joseph is the chief of
sinners; but Jcdus Christ came into the
world to save sinners ; and Joseph loves
him for this.” His neighbours, who came
to see him, wondered, on hearing him dwell
on this, and only this. Sonic of the reli
gious sort addressed him in the following
manner: But what say you of your own
heart, Joseph ? Is there no token for good
about it ? No saving change there ? Have
you closed with Christ, by acting faith upon
him ? “ Ah, no (says he) Joseph can act
nothing—Joseph lias nothing to say for him
self, but that he is the chief of sinners; yet
seeing it is a faithful saying, that Jesus, he
who made all things, came into the world
to save sinners, why may not Joseph, after
all, be saved.” One man, finding out where
he hoard this doctrine, on which he dwelt
30 uniformly, and with such delight, went
and asked Dr. Calamy to come and visit
him. He came ; but Joseph was now very
weak, and bad not spoken for some time,
and, though, tolil of the Doctor’s arrival,
ho took no notice of him ; but when the
Doctor began to speak to him ; as soon as he
heard the sound of his voice, he instantly
sprang upon his elbows, and seizing him by
the hands, exclaimed as loud as he could,
with his now feeble and trembling voice,
« O sir, you are the friend of the Lord
Jesus, whom I heard, speak so well of him,
and w hom I love for what you said of him,
Joseph is the chief of sinners ; but it is a
faithful saying, that Jesus Christ, the God
who made all tilings, came into the world to
save sinners—and why not Joseph ? O pray
to that Jesus for me, pray that ho may save
me: tell him that Joseph thinks he loves
him for coming into the world to save such
sinners as Joseph.” The Dr. prayed, and
Joseph thanked him most kindly ; he then
put his hand under his pillow, and took out
an old rag, in which were tied up live gui
neas ; and putting it into the Doctor’s
hand (which he had all this time close in
his) lie thus addressed him : “ Josfcph, in
his folly, had laid np this to keep him in his
old age ; but Joseph will never see old age :
take it and divide it amongst the poor friends
of the Lord Jesus ; and tell them that Jo
seph gave it them, fur his sake who came
into the world to save sinners, of whom iic
is chief.” So saying he reclined his head.
His exertions in talking had been too much
for him, so that he instantly expired.
Dr. Calamy left this scene, but not with
out shedding tears over Joseph; and used
to tell this little story with much feeling as
one of the most alfecting occurrences he
ever met with.
CHARACTERS.
CHARACTER OF GILBERT WALMSLEY.
BY OR. JOHNSON.
Of Gilbert Walmsley thus presented to
my mind, let me indulge myself in the re
membrance. I knew him very early i lie
w r as one of the first friends that literature
procured me, and I hope, that at least, iny
gratitude made inc worthy of his notice. He
was of an advanced age, and I was only
a boy, yet he never received my notions with
contempt. He was a whig, with all the vir
ulence and malevolence of his party; yet
difference of opinion did not keep us apart.
I honored him, and he endured me. lie had
mingled with the gay world without exemp
tion from its vices or its follies ; but bad ne
ver neglected the cultivation of his mind.
His belief of revelation was unshaken; his
learning preserved his principles ; lie became
first regular, and then pious, Iiis studies
had been so various, that I am not able to
name a man of equal knowledge. His ac
quaintance with books was great, and what
he did not immediately know, he could at
least, tell where to find. Such was iiis am
plitude of learning, and such his copious
ness of communication, that it may be doubt-
ed whether a day now passes, in which I
have not some advantage from his friend
ship. At this man’s table I enjoyed many
cheerful and instructive hours, with compa
nions, such as are not often found—with one
who has lengthened and one who has glad
dened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in
physic will he long remembered ; and with
David Garrick, wdioin I hoped to have gra
tified witli this character of our common
friend. But what are the hopes of man ! I
am disappointed by that stroke of death,
which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and
impoverished the public stock of harmless
pleasure.
CIIARACTEIiToF' ROUSSEAU.
Rousseau has been too often extolled as a
philanthropist. Mr. Burke said of him,
that he loved his kind and hated his kindred.
The exposure of his children, by whatever
sophistry it may be excused, is an indelible
blot on Ids humanity; and invalidates all
Iiis pretensions to philanthropy. For, can
that philanthropy be genuine which is foun
ded on the extinction of the parental affec
tions ; and which, witli more than savage
brutality, forsakes the poor innocents it
brings into the world 1
Every page of ltousseau glows with the
captivations of that sentimental luxury, of
which he is so great a master, and which he
arrays in all the blandishments of eloquence.
Hence the source of that admiration, Which
Iiis writings have so universally excited.
Though his judgment, as a philosopher was
not so profound, yet his taste was so ex
quisite, that lie strewed flowers in the most
rugged way, and interests the passions and
the fancy, in the investigation of the most
abstract propositions. This is his greatest
excellence.
In his ncwEloisc, tho interest consists, not
so much in the diversity or tho combination
of the incidents, as in the beauty of the sen
timent and the magic of the diction. The
picture of Julia is highly finished; but it
leaves on the mind more impressions of re
spect than of tenderness, of admiration than
of love. At times, she appears an hetero
genous mixture of apathies and passion, of
prudence and of coquetry. In some situa
tions she wants tenderness, in others firm
ness ; and she is often less governed by the
warm impulses of affection, than by the ab
stractions of philosophy.
His Emilius, though marked by the. illu
minating touches and the original concep
tions of genius, yet, considered as a sytem,
is move conspicuous for its singularity than
its truth. It portrays a system of education
which, if were universally adopted, would
keep the human species in a state of perma
nency between light and darkness, between
savage barbarity and civilized refinement.
It would counteract the moral and physic
al improvement of man, the progress of
knowledge and the productiveness of indus
try
v riiough Rousseau had little beneficence,
yet Iiis writings breathing nothing but the
reciprocal love, and kindness, and confi
dence of the golden age, contributed by their
wide diffusion, and their enchanting elo
quence, to render humanity fashionable;
and they have at least this merit—thcJt no
man can well rise from reading them, with
out feeling a higher respect for his species.
The extreme and febrile sensibily, whicli
was the characteristic peculiarity of Rous
seau, while it proved the origin of many of
his miseries, was, perhaps, a principal source
of Iiis greatness. It imparted a singular
delicacy, freshness, and animation, to every
page of his writings. His feelings, in what
ever channel they flowed, rushed on with a
resistless impetuosity ; but, in the end, they
made a wreck of Iiis understanding. His
judgment was lost in the unremitting tur
bulence of his sensations; and, in some
instervals of insanity, he exhibited the me
lancholy prospect of genius crumbling into
ruins.
The language of Rousseau was always
a faithful niifror of what was passing in tilt
heart; which now thrilled with rapture, and
now raged with passion. Of his stylo, tin
peculiar characteristic is exuberance of im-
agery ; profusion* without distinction of lus-
trc. It often resembles a landscape, in which
there is a great assemblage of beautiful
forms, without any intermediate spots of
barretiess, but without any objects of a strik
ing and prominent grandeur, and, in the
contemplation of which, the eye is at least
satiated by the uniformity. Yet, highly co
lored as is the eloquence of Roitescau, I be
lieve that the generality of readers would
peruse his works with less relish, if they
were less adorned ; and, it must be con
fessed, that the ornaments with which they
are embellished, are not the frippery and
patchwork of a paltry artist, but the rich
copiousness of an highly saturated imagina
tion, and they often possess a charm, of
which even the apathy of the coldest critic
can hardly bo insensible to the facination.
He who wishes to perfect himself in those
delicacies of language, or curious felicities
of phraseology, which impress a probable
form, a living entity on tho fleeting tints
and sensations of the heart, should care
fully annalyse the genius of the style ot
Rousseau; should search into the causes
from which result the beauty and splendor
of bis combination ; and endeavor to extract*
from an attentive perusui of the Eloisc, and
the Emilius, a portion of that taste by which
they were inspired.
THOMAS M. BUSH,
C ONTINUES the Store opposite the Journal
Office, and the one in Cracker’s Neck. j; e
has established a Store in the end o Mr. Flp m .
ing’s building, opposite Mr. Rousseau’s tavern*
and one at Mr. John Bush’s, in Greene 000111/
He has discontinued his Eatonton Stoic,
intends keeping at his Stores such Goods, (; n ' )Cc .
ries, &c. as suit the people. He conceives it uni
ly necessary for him to say, that lie continues hij
usual prices and terms. lie wishes to employ
two or three young men who are acquainted vvj&i
business, and hopes that none but such will apple,
Millcdgcville, Feb. 10.
WANTED, ~~
200 bales Cotton freight, df 10 prime Boat hands,
T HE subscribers will give one dollar and
twenty-five cents, per day for hands to work
on their boat, which will be ready to sail for Cj.'
rien in fifteen days. They also want 200 bales
of Cotton ou Freight. Persons wishing to send
Cotton on our Boat will please make application
as early as possible to
ISAAC BOWFR, or
BEN’L BUWLR.
Milledgeville, Feb. 10.
* NOTICE. ~~
I N consequence of Mr. Barna M’Kirine retir
ing from business, the subscribers liave to an- 1
nounce a contemplated dissolution of their con
cern, and that all transactions al ter the first of
nextmonth will be conducted by their successors,
Scarbrough St M’Kinne ; vylid they respectfully
beg leave to recommend to the same confidence
and encoiiragment, that has been so kindly con
ferred on them.
BARNA M’KINNE Sc Co.
Savannah, Jan. 24, 1818.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
| AN AWAY ‘from the sub-
k> scriber, living in Franklin
county, North-Carolina, on the
12th of January, 1817', a negro
man named Randol, about 20
f>r 27 years of age, between 5 and
et fiigh, rather yellow complected ; appears
humble when spoken to ; it is expected he lias
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 comity, who started with her about the
14th instant, to South-Carolina, Georgia, or Ten
nesscc. . 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 all reasonable charges will be paid to
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
som’s bridge, N. C.
The Editors of the Telescope, S. Carolina :
the Whig, Nashville,^1'en. and Reflector, Mil-
Icdgcvillc, will insert this advertisement six
times, and forward their bills as above.
RUNAWAY NEGROES.
B ROUGHT to Baldwin goal Oil 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, Coaler.
January 19.
~ 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 ol'Jac. Turkenctt, deceas’d,
'situated about 8 miles from Eatonton—about 40
acres of said land is cleared,and on the same are
some cabins. Hold for the benefit of the heirs
ami creditors of said deceased. Terms made
known onjthe 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. v DAVID L. WHITE, Adm’r
with the will annexed.
January 13, 1818.
GILDING AND SILVERING.
TIIE SUBSCRIBERS,
U NDER the firm of Scarbrough dj* M‘Kiara)
(successors to Barna M ( Kinne & Co.) hay.
ing formed a connexion in business in this place,'
they beg leave to offer their services as general
Commission Merchants.
WILLIAM SCARBROUGH:
JOSEPH P. M’KINNE.
Savannah, Jan. 24, 1818.
TVJJ2KINNE& CO. will make advances os
If JL produce lodged with them to lie forward
ed their friends, Scarbrough & M-Kinne, for salt
Should the Savannah market not offer accepta
ble advantages,jtlie produce, (at tne option of tl#
owner) will then be forwarded to the nortlwvard;
or a port in Great Britain or France, and iu all
instances, for the customary commission, they
will guarantee the responsibility of the partita
to whom it may he consigned for sale.
Augusta, Jan. CO, 1818.
notice^
4 FTER (he expiration of nine months fro*
iL the date hereof, I shall make application t»
the honorable the court of ordinary of Burke
county for leave to sell a certain tract of laml,
containing 202 1-2 acres, lying and being in tlie
24th district of Wilkinson county, (now Twiwj
county,) said land drawn in the name of Jacob
Rodgers, Bulloch county, and known by the No,
272, to be sold for the benefit of the heirs of Har
dy Fulgham, deceased.
CADEtt FAIRCHILD, adra’rt
in right of bis wife.
February 7,1818.
300 ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE,
A ND immediate possession given: the tract
. lies within 4 miles of Milledgeville, and ad
joins Messrs. Barrow and Borland, ou which
there is 140 acres cleared—70 of which is prime
cotton land—There is a comfortable hewed !o»
dwelling house v.ith two rooms; agin house and
cotton machine with the running gear complete;
also, a grainery with a good threshing machine,
propelled by the wheels of the cotton gin. Oa*
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 coca
on the premises.
BOLLING IIALL.
January 20,1818.
GEORGIA, JASPER COUNT Y.
P ERSONALLY came before me Henry Green,
and after being sworn, saith—that he Ins
lost or niishl two notes on Aaron Miller, one fat
twenty six dollars and the other for twenty eight,
both tfue 25th day of Dec. 1817.
HENRY GJIEES.
T HE subscribers having established a Gilding
Manufactory in this place, will repair in the
neatest manner Looking Glasses of every de
scription. Old Spectacles repaired. Orders
from the country promptly attended to.
JOHN M. MILLER & CO.
Augusta, January 28.
GEORGIA, BALDWIN COUNTY.
P ERSONALLY came before Joseph Weaver,
and make oath that he was in possession of
a note of hand givep by Enoch M’Clendon and
Thomas M’Clendon security, which note was gi<
ven to David Carvell, for twenty dollars, and due
the 25tluof December, 1816, and the depo-
nant saith that the said note is lost or mislaid, so
that he cannot find it.
JOS. DEVEREUX.
Sworn to before me this 7th Feb. 1818.
Marlow L. Pryor, j. p.
LAW.
T HE subscriber tenders his professional ser
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 county, where he al
ways will be found when noton the circuit.
He has for sale five hundred arces of good up
LAND,lyiugin the county of Jackson on the Fe
deral roau, which may be had on accommodating
terms, by applying to Martin Kolb or John Boyle,
esqs. of Jackson county—Thomas Oliver of El-
beit county, or to the subscriber.
F. BALDWIN.
January 17,1817k
Sworn to and subscribed before Wm Tray, J«
I. C. this 18th of October, 1817.
_____ .
N IN mo nths after date, application will be
made to the honorable the Inferior Court uf
Putnam county,sitting for ordinary purposes far
leave to sell part of the real estate of Levi J"r-
dain, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs awl
creditors of said deceased.
. ISIIAM BROOKS, guaidiaai
January 20, 1818.
DU. JAMES GLENN,
T ENDERS his professional services to the ci
tizens of Milledgeville and its vicinity. Ap*
plications made at Mr. Rousseau’s will be attend
ed to. January 13..
WANTED 1000 BUSHELS WHEAT.
C f ASH will be giveu for one or two thousand
) bushels merchantable wheat, at one doilac.
and fifty cents per bushel delivered at mv milk-
FAR1SH CARTER
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