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r i ■ ■ i i POETICAL. •FROM THE DELAWARE WATCHMAN. THE DEVIL FISHING. H Jill the world's a—fish pond.' 1 Vi hut luck, oIJClOvknfoot, to day ? Said I, one ibggy mdrning, • As lie threw out his line for prey, Poor mortal folk suborning. '* Not much,” quoth he, “ but wlmt I have, Beyond dispute, is'fair gain; 'With notes to snavk, l ? ve caught a knave, A miser with a bargain. To catoh a needy »fau,I took A draggle-tailed sdkTuu*— A would be bf.ci.k found on my hook, A tempting full dress suit. These lawyers are, though oft you wish (No (hunks for’t) Satan hud ’em, The most unprofitable fish Of all the sons of Adam. I caught a Surgeon with a high- Fed subject for dissection ; An Office-hunter with a l.e, Well seasoned for election.” c, *What fish bite sharpest, Pit. says I— •* Why, as to that,” quoth he, M I find not many very shy, Of high or low degiee ; Tour toper bites well at a cork, (When ihci'e’s a bottle to it)— Yo«t Jew will even bite at pork, I 1 itc smell money through it. Your old man I kes a parchment, when By mortgage some one’s bitten ; Tcur youngster likes a fresh m skin, Where yet there’s nothing written. Some shy ones play about the line, ’Till prudence waxes feeble; And ch« 'se at lust are often mine, Who only meant to nimble! Tin re’s few indeed, of small or great, (Or 1 am much mistaken) Dm ‘ ,nav, by some peculiar bait, L’e tempted, and then taken. But there i* one of all the rest, Who most employs my cook— The iDLFn pleases me the best, He bi»es the nakf.u hook BIOGRAPHY. BARON C. W. DE HUMBOLDT. Bui’on Charles William de UumboldL miri- istcr of states and privy-counsellor oT the king of Prussia, chief of the department for superintending religion, and director-gener al of public education, was, in 1810, ap pointed ambassador extraordinary to the' court of Vienna, and created a knight of the Itod Eagle. lie had previously been minister from Prussia to the court of Rome. In February, 1814, baron de Humboldt was one of the plenipotentiaries of the allied powers, who assembled at Cliatillon-sur- Seine, to negotiate for peace with France. At the congress of Vienna he was distm- guished for talent and extensive knowledge. He was one of the principal authors of tiie plan for a constitution, the discussion of which continued until the 16th of November, 1814. He was likewise a member of the general committee of the eight powers who signed the peace of Paris, for the question •relative to the abolition of the slave trade. On the 13th of March, 1815, he signed the first declaration of the same powers, con cerning Napoleon Bonapart's return from Fdna ; and, on the 12th of May following ti,i second declaration, which may be. regard ed as the last profession of faith made by the European powers. In the course of the same month, ht likewise concluded with Sax ony a treaty of peace, by which the king of Saxony renounced, in favor of Prussia, his claims to various provinces and districts. This treaty was signed at Vienna on the 18th of May, and ratified on the 21st. Towards the end of the year 1815, M. de Humboldt Was- appointed ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Vienna ; he was, however, recalled in Feb ruary, 1816, ami in the mouth of July was sent to Frankfort, to negotiate respecting territorial arrangements, and to be present at the diet of the Germanic confederation. In October be laid before the members of the diet, a memorial respecting the mode of treating the a flail's which might be submit ted to their discussion. As a reward for his services, the king of Prussia,about this time created him a member of the council of state and granted him a donation amounting to the annual value of five thousand crowns. About the commencement of 1817, M. de Ilumholdt was appointed ambassador to Lon don, in the room of M. Jacobi Kloest. Though M. de Humboldt has acquired so brilliant a reputation as a diplomatist, his literary attainments arc lit no means unim portant. He has produced an excellent tr nslation of Pindar, anil a poetical trans lation of jEsihy lus’s tragedy of Agamem non, which appeared in 1816,” If it be matter of surprise that, amidst the important affairs with which this minis ter has been entrusted, he should have found time to complete a work which required no less erudition than poetic genius, our aston ish, nent is increased two-fold on reading the translation, lie lias imitated the Greek metre, botli in the dialogue and chorusses ; and the translation is altogether so faithful, that it gi7cs the original rot only line for line, hut word for word. Finally, it is an effort of whirl, perhaps the German language alone is capable. It is equally remarkablo Thai M. ue ilumholdt has studied the Basque language to a greater extent than any other! Which'in one moment swallowed up more literary character. During his travels, he than 40,000 individuals, and ultimately, af- clianced to live in the house of a Biscayan curate. The good pastor spoke of his na tive language with so much enthusiasm, that the traveller determined to reside fur sever al weeks in the village in order to acquire it. He read every work tliiU. is printed in the Basque language, and all the manuscripts he could procure, and thus- enabled himself to communicate to the rest of Europe an ori ginal and almost unknown language, which bears no resemblance to any other. M. di Humboldt lias published a Basque vocabulary consisting of about (5000 words, in the 4th volume of Adclung’s Mithridatcs, -continued by M. Vater, Berlin, 1817. BARON F. H. A. DE HUMBOLDT. Frederick Henry Alexander, baron de ter innumerable difficulties, arrived, on the 23d of June, on the eastern side of Chimbo razo, and fixed the instruments on the brink of a porphyry rock, which projected over an immense space covered with an impenetra ble bed of snow. A breach, about five hun dred feet in width, prevented them from ad vancing further. The density of the air was one-half reduced ; they experienced the bitterest cold ; they breathed with diffi- culty, and the blood flowed from the eyes, Iqis and gums. They were then on the most elevated point that had ever been touch ed by mortal fnotsfeps. They stood at an elevation •of 3485 feet higher than that which Condaniino attained in 1743, and w ere consequently 19,500 feet above the lev el of the. sea. From this position of ex- Humboldt, a cel,-prated traveller, brother trmne height they ascertained, by means of . * . .. /iniilintliill flint flip cunt. to the individual before mentioned, was born at Berlin on the 14tli of Sept. 1769. He pursued his studies at Gottingen, at Frank fort on the Oder, and lastly, at the, commer cial School at Hamburgh, (see Buell's Uni versal Biography.) In 1790 lie undertook his first journey through Europe, accompan ied by Forster and Geuns. lie visited the Jlliiue, Holland, and England, and publish ed his Observations on the Basaltes of the Rhine, Brunswicli, 1790, 8vo. In 1791, he studied mineralogy and botany, under Wer ner, at Freiberg ; and in 1793, printed at Berlin, his Specimen Flora; Frebergensis Subterranae. In 1792, lie became assessor of the council of mines at Berlin, and after wards director-general of the mines of the principality of Anspach and Bayscutli, in Franconia. There lie founded several mag nificent establishments, such as the School of Stebcn, and was likewise one of the first who repeated the five experiments of Gal- vani. Not satisfied with merely observing the mnscular and nervous irritability of an imals, ho had the courage to make very pain ful experiments on himself, the results of which lie published, with remarks by Bluin- enbach, in a work written in German, Ber lin, 1796, 2vols. 8vo. The first volume lias been translated into French by J. F’. N. Ja- delot, under the following title : Experiences sur le Galvanisme, et en general sur Pirrita- tion des Fibres 'Musculaires et Norveuses, 1799, 8vo. In 1795, M. de Ilumholdt trav elled to Italy and Switzerland, accompanied by M. de. Fricdeleben ; and in 1797, he pro ceeded with his brother to Paris, where he became acquainted with M. Aiine Bonpland. At that time he entertained a wish to form part of the expedition of enpt. Baudin ; but the renewal of hostilities with Austria pre vented him from embarking. M. de Hum boldt. now turned his thoughts seriously to wards executing a plan which lie had long since formed, namely, of making a philoso phic visit to the cast. He anxiously wish ed to join the expedition which iiad de parted for Egypt, from whence he hoped to penetrate as far as Arabia, and then to the English settlements by crossing the Persian Gulf. lie waited two months at Marseilles to obtain his passage on board a Swedish frigate, which was to convey a consul from Sweden to Algiers. At length, supposing he might easily find means to proceed from Spain to Barbary, he set out for the former country, carrying with him a considerable collection of physical and astronomical in struments. After remaining several months at Madrid, the Spanish government granted him permission to visit their colonies in the new world. He immediately wrote to Paris, to request that M. Bonpland would accompany him, and the two friends embarked at Corunna, on hoard a Spanish vessel. They arrived at Cuniana, in South America, in July 1799. The remainder of the year was spent in visiting the provinces of New Andalusia and Spanish Gyana. They returned to Cuniana by the mission of the Caraibees, and in 1800 proceeded to the island of Cuba, where, in the space of three months, M. de Ilumholdt determined the longitude of the Havana, and assisted the planters in constructing furnaces for the preparation of sugar. In 1801, several false reports were circulated respecting the voy age of capt. Baudin, which induced M. de Humboldt to form the design of meeting him, but :n order to avoid accidents he sent Lis collections and manuscripts to F.urope, and set out himself in the month of March. The unfavorable state of the weather, however, prevented him from pursuing the course he had traced out; and he resolved to visit the superb collection of Mutis, a celebrated A- merican naturalist. In September, 1801, M. de Ilumholdt set out for Quito, where he ar rived in the month of January, 1802. There he was at length able to repose after liis fa tigues, and to enjoy the pleasures of hospi tality amidst the most beautiful productions of nature. At Quito, M. de Humboldt, ac companied by the son of the Marquess de Selva Alegre, (who, through an ardent pas sion for science, had never quitted him since his arrival,) determined on an enterprise, the execution of which cost him incredible labour. Finally, he departed, towards the middle of the summer, for the volcano of Tungaragno and the Nevado del Chimbora zo. They passed through the ruins of Rio- bambu, and several other villages, destroyed on tbo 7th of Feb. 1797, by an earthquake a trigonometrical operation, that the sum mit of Chimborazo was 2140 feet higher than the point on which they stood. Hav ing concluded these importadt observations, M. de Ilumholdt directed his course towards Lima, the capital of l’eru. Lie remained for several months in that city, ’enchanted with the vivacity and intelligence of its in habitants. During his residence among the Peruvians, he observed, at the port of Calao the emersion of the passage of Mercury on the disk of the sun. From Lima lie pro ceedeii toh.New Spain, where lie remained for the space of a year; he arrived at Mex iro in April, 1803. In the neighborhood of that city he discovered the trunk of the fa mous Clieirostemon Platonoidcs, the only tree of that species that is to he seen ill New Spam : it has existed since the remotest ages and is nine yards in circumference. The labors of M. de Ilumholdt were now draw ing to a close. He made several excursions during the months of January and Februa ry 18U4 ; but they were his last, and lie lias tcneil to embark for the Havana. In July he. set sail for Philadelphia, and after having resided for some time in the United States, lie crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Franco after an absence of six years, marked by la- boursthe most useful and satisfactory, though tilled with fatigue, dangers, and distress, of every kind. During his travels, M. de Humboldt rectified, by the most exact ope rations, the errors which had been committed in fixing the geographical positions of most of the points of the New World. He has liki wise discovered a very ingenious method preferable to any discription, for demonstra ting, under a single point of view, the accu mulated results of his topographical and mineralogical observations. He has given profiles of the vertical sections of tiie coun tries lie visited. The herbal which lie brought with him from Mexico, is one of the richest in exotic plants that was ever transported to Europe : it contains 6300 different species. Animated by an ardent desire for making discoveries, and endowed with the incans of satisfying this noble ambition, M. de Hum boldt has extended bis researches to every branch of physical and social knowledge. The mass of curious information, which lie collected in the New World, surpasses all that has ever resulted from tike investiga tions of any other individual. He lias dif fused a new light over the history of our species, extended the limits of mathematical geography, and added an infinite number of new objects to the treasures of botany, zoo logy. and mineralogy. M. Humboldt and M. Bonpland having shared together all the fatigues and dangers of their journey, a- Igreed that their works should be published under the names of botli ; the preface of each work explaining to whom such and such a portion is specifically due. M. de Humboldt also laboured in common with M. dc Guy-Lussac. They conjointly verified the theory of M. B : ot, on the position of the magnetic equator ; and ascertained that great chains of mountains, and even burn ing volcanos, have no sensible influence on the magnetic power, and that this power pro gressively diminishes in proportion as we de part from the terrestrial equator. The nar ratives of M. de Humboldt's voyages have been published in several different languages, but lie has disavowed them by publishing those which we have mentioned in the course of this article. It has been stated in sever al public journals, that this indefatigable traveller intends visiting the Alps of Thibet the most elevated point of whiidi is said to be 2700 feqt higher than Chimborazo. At one of the sittings of the French Academy, in 1817, M. de Humboldt produced his chart of the river Oronoko, which presents the phenomenon of the junction of that immense river with the Amazon, by the intermediate waters of the Ilio Negro ; a confluence which was supposed to exist by dc d' Anville but which had hitherto remained a matter of doubt.4ib£omion Literary Gazette IMPORTANT INVENTION T HE undersigned having obtained n V for the invention of an horizontal 1 pcndicularly moving water IFfteef,andbein. ’ sible that conclusions drawn from theory .V* 11 " are not always confirmed by experiment though supported in his Opinion of its poiviT and general utility, by the most cogent a oretical reasons ; yet, rather than obtrude t the public notice, supported by theory on]' ? determined to make a full and satisfactory ' ! riment of its operative pow-r and "encral JjSt* on a scale that would test the prmcinle h» , the possibility of doubt. He accoidinciv™ built and erected in the edge of Elk River f ** Elkton, Giles county, West Tennessee)a'lu wheel on the above plan, 32 feet diameter 12 arms, to which the floats, 8 feet by 4 jj face, are suspended by two hinges, and su Pi !!l' ed by rods connected to the lower edge audw* arms that follow, in a way not to prevent the ™ tion of the float until fully unfolded. Th e |u! begins to fold up on the etidy or that side of S wheel returning against the current, and k a, 6 tied easily over an inclined plain, by mean, j a small wheel or roller, fixed in the lower edeeof the lloat, and pass olf the float so soon as it cube acted o.i by the current. The inclined plain can be dispensed within tide water; the ebb aal flood acting alternately on the different sides of the wheel, and without changing or altering it) motion. The wheel is suspended by two sword*, indented on one side and passing tloronghbloekB on the arms of the cog-wheel and retained by catches and is raised or lowered by leverstm/t, the different stages of the water, or to icertise dr diminish its operative power. The inclined plain rises and falls with the Water. The current in the part of the rivei on which the above uhetl is erected, is far from being brisk ; yet then led performs one and a half revolution ’ in a r„irmtt driving a stone of four feet diameter with «d[ power and with a velocity of one hundred"ani twenty revolutions in the minute. The proprietor will have in full operation tbt ensuing summer, two pair of stones and a sdw.dl attached to and driven by the same water ykttl. i'he great and important advantage arising ^ this invention, is the substituting the com« current of rivers, for the usual quantity of rat acting under a head, or falling under an heiA and without a dam or any other obstructic. k the current in rivers than a small triangular v,ha( extending from the bank above, to half the din. eter of the wheel, to protect it against drift-wood, ice, &c. l'here are few rivers that do not afford a mi, tion every mile or tw u fo. * ie erection of a wlfd on the above construction, and thereby affordnt to farmers living on such water courses a facitl of manufacturing their own grain, sawing up au rendering profitable, timber that otherwise would prove an unprofitable incumbrance on tid ground ; and in short is well calculated to pit. pel all tiie various kinds of machinery, whetbet on a large or small scale, by increasing or dimin' ishing the size of the wheel. The premium for using the above describe! wheel, if obtained of the proprietor, will be trt hundred dollars j but if an agent, some irht higher. To a priviledged right will be attached a schedule, containing a f ull and accurate descrip tion of all the parts, sizes, &c. composing the wheel, so as to render it intelligible and easily comprehended by the most ordinary capacity, it being extremely simple, when seen or Under stood. WILLIAM PURNELL. Elkton, 22d March, 1818. NOTICE. "'HE subscriber being about to leave the state for several months, informs all those indebt ed to him, that their notea and accounts are pla ced in the hands of Thomas Haynes, jr. with positive orders to commence suits indiscriminate ly ; and all those having demands against me, will call,on said Thomas Haynes, jr. who is au thorised to settle and arrange all my business, during my absence. Jacob p. turner, Sparta, Jilne 12,1818.. INE months after date application will W made, to the Court of Ordinary of Jasper county, for leave to Sell the estate of Greet M’Afee, deceased, for the benefit of the heir? and creditors of said estate. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, adnlY. May 7, 1813. TINE months after date, application "illlu _ w made to the Court of Ordinary, of M'irgU county, for leave to sell the real estate of nil- liam B. Walls, deceased, for the benefit of ths heirs and creditors of said estate, MATHEW COCHRAM.ad’r. March 2, 1817. N N N OTICE is hereby given, that we shall ap* ply to the Inferior Court of Putnamcom* ty. sitting for ordinary purposes, for comma® 1 *’ ers to divide the estate of Daniel Baugh, dec4 ninety days after date. DANIEL WHITE, ? WILLIAM BAl'GII, 5 March 4th, 1818. NOTICE. V FTER the expiration of nine montls h 1 *. the date hereof, I shall make application^ the honorable the court of ordinary ol county for leave to sell a certain tract of kilt containing 202 1-2 acres, lying and beinfj. 24th district of Wilkinson county, (now fu'8? county,) said land drawn in the name of Lf® Rodgers, Bulloch county, and known by then* 272. to be sold for the benefit of tie heirs of Hie dy Fulgham, deceased. CADER FAIR.'IHLD,admr. February 7, 1818. in rfeht of his wife- GEORGIA. BALDWINiNFERIoR COURT) Sitting fur ordinary pirposes, March 2, 181! ’ U PON the application of Sarah Milhjfb administratrix o the estate of "dll*# Millinder dec’d, to le dismissed from sard ministration :—-It -S ordered, that after months public ndice hereof, has been g ITt J’ in one of the Uazettes of this state, the ministratrix wi be dismissed, unless cause * the contrary b< shewn, at the next term of tl» court, after Ae expiration of said notice, <» which all coreerned will please pay attention' Taken frani the minutes of said court. ABNER LOCKE, clerk. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BT .1. B. HINES. THREE D00J.ARS PER TEAH, IK ADVAIfCBi