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JOHN G. FOLI1ILL, EDITOR.
MILLEDGEVILIE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AVGUST 7, 1830.
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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 6.
the federal umoxr
Is published every Saturday at 'Ihrke dollars per an
num, in advance, or Four if not paid before the end of the
year. The Office is on Wayne-Street, opposite Mc
Combs’ Tavern.
All Advertisements published at the usual rates.
tCi* Each Citation by the Clerks of the Courts of Or
dinary that application has been made for Letters of Ad
ministration, must be published Tiiirtt days at least.
N"tice by Executors and Administrators tor Debtors
and Creditors to render in their accounts must be publish
ed Six WEEKS.
Sales of negroes by Executors and Administrators must
hf advertised Sixty days before the day of sale.
Sales of personal property (except negroes) of testate
aed intestate estates by Executors and Administrators,
must be advertised Forty cays.
Applications by Exieulors, Administrators and Guar
dians to the court of ordinary for leave to sell Land must
be published Four months.
Applications by Executors and Administrators for Let-
'ter3 Dismissory, must be published Six months.
Applications lor f>r« closure of Mortgages on real Es
tate must be advertised once a month for Six months.
Sales of real estate by Executors, Administrators and
Guardians must be published Sixty days before the day
of sale. These sales must be made at the court-house
door between the hours of 10 in the morning and four in
11)4 afternoon. No sale from day to day is laSid, unless
so expressed in the advertisement.
Orders of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied w ith a copy
of .he bond, or agreement) to make titles to Luud, must
advertised Three months at least.
Sheriff’s sales under executions regukrly granted by
the court?, must be advertised Thirty dats.
Sheriff’s sales uuder mortgage executions must be ad
vertised Sixty days before the day of sale.
Sheriff’s sales of perishable property under order of
Court must be advertised generally Ten days.
All Orders for Advertisements will be punctually at
tended to.
Ad Letters directed to the office, or the Editor,
must bepost-paid to entitle them to attention.
THE MANSION,
COLUMBUS, GiL
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Kwjnnff HIS large and commodious building
1 alii jjp|g JL situated on the comer of Broad and
Craw ford streets, and in ibevery centre
of business, is so far completed that the
undersigned is enabled to announce to his
friends and the public generally, that he is
now ready to receive all those who may favor him with
their calls. Hariftg fora number of years been engaged
in the Tavetn keeping business, be flatters himself from
his experience in the above line, that he will be enabled
to give general satisfaction to all those who may call at
Ibe MANSION.
His STABLES arc spacious and well ventilated, and
amply supplied with the best of provender, and attended
by experiened and steady Osilers. His BAR will at all
times be filled with the choice of best Liquors, the New
Orleans Market will afford. In addition to which, the
undersigned will bestow his own unremiitcd personal at
tention, and in his charges, he will not forget the pres
sure of the times. He assures the traveller, the daily
boarder and all those who may honor him with their pat
ronage, that they will not go away displease d.
SAMUEL B. HEAD.
July 31 4 5t
GLOBE HOTEL,
MILLEDGEVILLE
MASONIC HALL
LOTTERY.
On Thursday, the 4Ih day of November next,
rjTV ; E THIRD DAI *3 DRAWING will pos.tnci>
fl take place—at which time, the Wheel will be in
such situation, as for holders of Tickets to reasonably
calculate on some respectable prizes. A nobler chance
{ »r a fortune, in the way ofLottery, was never present
ed to the public. All who may feel disposed to parch tst^
Tickets, would act whsciy, to buy, in the MiUalgeville
Masonic Hull Loll try before ihc next drawing. This Lot
tery is at home, ami though you should be unfortunate,
there is still the advantage that the money v ill be in cir
culation amongst us, and added to this, the chance is cer
tainly very g jod to realize ten or fifty times the amount
i xpended for Tickets. On examination of the different
drawings, it will be seen that the small prizt-3 are very
notch diminished, leading in the Wheel nearly all of the
valuable ones—It will also be recollected, that the prizes
•under two hundred dollar?, were deposited in the wheel
at the comm*me- ment of (he drawing, and tb it there are
jet to be deposited, prizes from two hundred up to
30,030 DOLLARS!
•v iich certainly holds out the strongest ind ictment to pur-
iMast>rs •
At ihc next Drafting the following Splendid F ri-
ares will be foaling:
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PRIZE OF
jj ,0.''00
1
PRIZE
OF
§500
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10.000
1
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44
500
1
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41
5,000
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14
400
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1.000
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400
1
do
41
1,000
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1
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44
900
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44
300
1
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44
900
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300
1
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44
800
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1
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41
900
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44
200
X
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41
800
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1
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44
700
19
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14
100
1
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37
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500
besides 20
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PRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole? tfUO—Halves §5—Quarters $2 50.
’CT* OI1DER3 addressed to Wy.itt Foard, Secretary
•> the Commissioners, post-paid, will met! with prompt
attention.
WYATT rOASD,
Secretary to the Commissioners.
MilWrevillr, .Trily 17 2 tf
DOOT & SHOE MAKING.
T he subscriber
respectfully informs
his friends and the public
! in genernl, that he bus ta
ken a SHOP opposite the
Methodist Church, where
he is prepared to execute
all business in his line with
neatness and dc.-patch.—
All work entrusted to his care will be executed with
promptness. Persons wishing to have XfDCrXIO
SHOES made, will find it to their advantage to call,
as)lie subscriber feels himself warranted in sating, that
. he can do them on as g >od terms as they can be done any
xvhere in this place. JOSEPH McGEE.
Millcdgcvillc, July 31,1830 * 31
ANEIV MAP OF GEORGIA.
T HE subscribers have now under the hands of the
Engraver in New-York, a complete and splendid
"lap of the State of Georgia, the greater part compiled
from actual survey, with all the district? carefully laid
down and numbered, the uhole completed with great la-
Imr and exactness from the latest and most authentic in
formation, in a style not inferior to any thing of the kind
^ ot presented to the public, with a table of distances from
t.ie Seat of Government to every county site or place of
importance in the State. The districts In the new pur
chase and lower counties are all numbered in the corners,
so as to enable a person to ascertain the exact situation
of any lot of land, and will he painted and finished oft in
<he neatest manner—a part of them canvassed, varnished
and placed on rollers, the balance will be on thin paper
nicely folded in morocco rovers, and will he for sale in
WilledgMrille bv the first of Octubei next. Those on rol
lers at Five Dollars, and the pocket map of the same size
at Four Dollars.
Persons residing at a distance wishing to procure the
mop can do so by sending by their members, os a 9i>ffi-
•cient number of them will be kept in Miilcdgeville dunng
Lie session of the Legislature.
CARLTON WELLBORN,
ORANGE GREEN.
July 31 3 14t
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
HJMIE SUBSCRIBER, (late proprietor of the Globe
.BL Hotel, and more recently of the Mansion House,)
begs leare to announce to his friends and the public gen
erally, that he has taken that elegant and commodious fire
proof Brick Building on the corner of Broad and Jackson
streets, and immediately adjoining the new Masonic Hill.
It 19 situated in the most central part of the City, nid is
in ihe vary heart of business—being in the vicinity of the
Augusta Bank, and the Branch hank of the State of Geor
gia.
This establishment is known as the GLOBE HOTEL,
and in its interior arrangementand general construction,
unites in an eminent degree, spaciousness, neatness, and
commit. To the man of family, the individual traveller,
the daily boarder, or the fashionable vi&it er , the GLOBE
presents accommodations inferior to none in the Southern
States.
Haring conducted for a number of years, two among the
most popular Hotels in this City, he flatters hiinsHf that
his experience in business, added to the superior advanta
ges of situation and the resources under his controul, will
enable him to give the most decided satisfaction to ail
who may honor him with their patronage.
His STABl.ES are spacious and well ventilated, and
amply supplied with the best of provender, and at
tended by experienced and steady Ostlers—in addition
to which, the subscriber will bestow bis own personal un
remitting attention, and in his charges, will not forget the
p.essurc of the times.
MISCELLANY.
fCjP The Charleston Stores arrive at the Globe Ho
tel, every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, at 6
o’clock, &. depart every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
morning, at hJfpsl 9. The Wasbingion and Athen
Stage, departs every Tuesday and Saturday morning, at
3 o’clock, and arrives every Wednesday and Sunday eve
ning at C o’clock. The Etberlon Stage departs every
Sunday morning, at 4 o’clock, and arrives every Friday
evening at 6. The Pendleton Stage departs every Tue*
day, at 4 o’clock in the morning, and arrives every Mon
day at 2 o’clock in ihe evening. The Milledgeville Stage
arrives every day except Thursday, at 7 o’clock in the eve
ning, and departs every day except Wednesday, at 2 o’
clock in the moaning. The Savannah Stage arrives eve
ry Monday We (Tuesday and Friday, at 10 o’clock in the
morning, and departs every Sunday, Tuesday and Tiiurs
day, at 2 o’clock in the morning.
WILLIAM SHANNON.
Augusta, Oct. I, 1829 196 tf
CALL AND SEE!
THE Subscriber respectfully informs
his friends and the public in general, that
he has opened a HOUSE of
ENTERTAINMENT
in Carrollton, Carrol* county, G s. and
flatters himself that be will give as gener
al satisfaction to all that may favor him witii their pairon-
age as any other Inn-Keeper in as newly settled country
as this—Though Carroll county has been kept in the back
ground, defamed and shaded by repoits, yet I hope c!i
will soon he blown away by the sunshiue of virtue, nur
lured by the Gospel of Christ, and the instruction of arts
and sciences—So call and see C. McCARTY
April 24 225 tf
££ Si
agiig
22 e
BIS
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T1HE SUBSCRIBER is preparing a Defence of the
A following Doctrines:
1. The Doctiine of Election, which is faiily proved
by scripture and its use shown.
2. The Doctrine of the Covenant or Redemption,
proved by scripture And reason, and its use shown.
3. An answer to the Rev. Cyrus White on the Atone
ment, in which iiis “views” arc fairly refuted by scrip
ture and reason.
4. The Author’s Views on Associations—in whichhe
designs to shew that Associations are not conducted ac
cording to scripture—All which will shortly be published
by LUKE ROBINSON, of Newton co. Ga.
May 99, 1830 ?30
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GEORGIA, Meriwether county.
STEPHEN KNIGHT,ofCapt. Curry’s
$ District lol's before Abner Durham,
ilrtW SORREL HORSE.
•t fSBIHB Uvrlre or thirteen years old, with a small
bin. ; (: j., his forehead, right hind foot white, a email chain
ar.- j id his right four foot, no brands perceivable, had on
a b jll worth one dollar—Appraised by John H. VValtlioll
and Monk Thornton to Thirty dollars, 6<h July 1830.
J, B. SLAUGHTER, Cietk.
• fc:ly 17 2 31
HD TICE.
HE Justices of the Inferior Court of Gwinnett coun
ty, Ga. have appropriated $4000 for the purpose of
BUILDING a
Brick or Slone Jail,
in said county—to consist of not less than five apartments
for prisoners. Sealed Proposals will be received for
building the same until the first day of October next. The
proposuls will embrace plan ar.d price, and be addressed
to William Maltbie, E?q. Clerk of said Court.
JOHN BREWSTER, J. i. c.
J. WARDLAW. j. i. c.
CLIFFORD WOODROOF, J. i. c.
A3 AH EL R. SMITH, i. i. c.
June 26 234
Notice to all Persons !
) ' HEREBY forwarn all persons, from trading with
„ Elbridge Harris, for lot No. 272, in the 6th district
of Carroll county, because I have purchased the same oL
ai from said Harris on the 26th of June last past, and
P i<i him for the same, and am determined to hold it.
T his notice is therefore given for ihe benefit of all per-
« L JOSHUA HOLDEN.
lltibzrsham county July 13th. IB JO.
3 4t.
GEORGIA—WALTON COUNTY.
By the Honorable the Inferior Court of said County, til
ling for Ordinary purposes.
I T appearing to ihe Court, that Benjamin Selman, late
of Morgan county, deceased, in bis lifetime, executed
his obligation to John Selman, then of Cbrk county, but
late of Walton county, deceased, bearing date the 30th
June 1821, conditioned to make a good and lawful war
rantee Title to lot number one hundred and seventy-two,
in the tenth district of Habersham county:—And, it ap
pearing that both the said Benjamin Selman and his Ad
ministrator, and the said Johe Selman died without exe
cuting titles in conformity with said Bond.
It is therefore ordered by the Court, That William W.
Selman, Administrator, de bonis non, of said Benjamin
Selman, deceased, make titles to John H. Lowe, Admin
istrator of the iTaid John Selman, deceased, in conformi
ty with the conditions of said bond.
A true extract from the minutes this 3d May, 1930.
JESSE MITCHELL, c. c. o.
may 1{ 228 Cm
THE DESERTBD-a -Alf..
It was a fine afternoon in June; the son was
fast sinking h< hind-the clouds lfi»t skirted the
horizon, gorgeously piled on the fantastic tops
of a ridge of hills to the West of one of our
noblest rivers, which in silent majesty was slow*
ly gliding along its delightful vale. All nature
seemed still, except the light breeze which
now and then gently rutiled the waters of the
river, and to the eye of a poet appeared to
stoop and kiss the dark wave, and then re
bound to the willows that overhung the wind
ing banks.
Attracted by the beauty of the scene, a
youth and a maiden walked forth, and now
stood looking at a half-finished house in a ro
mantic situation near the river. Reader, were
you ever in love? if so, you can imagine to
yourself the pretty nothings that passed be
tween them—the blushes, smiles, and glances.
I will frankly own to thee, that I have never
been in love: but if thou wilt pardon my omis
sions but this time, I will become enamoured of
some fair maiden, that I may suitably describe
to thee the workings of the tender passion; but
pardon my digression, and 1 will proceed to ac
quaint thee with the persons introduced to thy
notice.
Charles Owen was the only child of an in
telligent and respectable farmer, who had been
able to give him many advantages of educa
tion, but by a too common mistake, he injur
ed his temper by excessive indulgence. Gra
tified in his every wish, he became fickle and
volatile, and though the impulse which prompt
ed any action or affection was violent, it soon
passed away and was succeeded by a new ob
. iject. Thus flattered and indulged, he had
grown up: the wayward caprice of the hoy had
become the controlling trait in the character
of the man, and by his bearing one would have
thought that the universe was made for his
sole accommodation. Having been however
mostly secluded from the world, he had es
caped the contagion of fashionable vice, and
was correct in Ins habits, more from imitation
of others than from fixed moral principles.—
He hud suddenly conceived a violent passion
for Alice Bop.ton, the daughter of a neigh
boring farmer, and as no objections could be
made on either hand, he had pursued his ad
dresses After six months’ suspense, he had
been made happy by a sweet aflirmative blush
from Alice, and a plain matter of fact “yes
from her father; and his nuptials were only
deferred till he could eiect a house on his fa
ther’s estate, which was, when our tale com
mences, in a rapid course of completion.
Days and weeks passed; Charles spent his
days in urging the work on his future dwel
ling, and his evenings in the company of hi:
charming Alice. But these seasons of happi
ness were doomed to be of short duration; the
demeauuor of Charles became gradually chang
ed—be no longer met her w ith his former look
of affection: something seemed to perplex him
aud his visits were short, cold, and formal. A
long month passed, and Charles did not ap
pear; and it was whispered that he was paying
bis addresses to Eliza Biaufort, the daugh
ter of a gentleman who hid recently purchas
ed an estate in the vicinity. Rumour for once
told true: Charles, attrae'ed by this new beau
ty, had forfeited his plighted faith, and desert
ed his confiding Alice! These tidings were
daggers to her heart She had in the open
confidence of love given her whole soul to
one, and his unfaithfulness had blasted all her
budding hopes; yet her maiden pride forced her
to assume a calm, and at times a cheerful
countenance—and a stranger would not have
detected that hidden grief that w as silently
wearing away her heart-strings. This forced
calmness could not long be supported, and she
contrived mostly to be alone. It. was now fall,
and the decay of nature’s loveliest works ac
corded well with the crushed state of her mind,
to which every falling leaf, every withering
flower seemed an emblem of blasted and dis
appointed hope. She would often walk forth
to the solitary woods, and there give free vent
to her feelings.
In one of these rambles she unconsciously
entered the lands of her faithless lover.
Charles chanced to be hunting, and they ap
proached quite near without perceiving each
other. Charles first saw her, and with a for
mal how passed on, when she called to him to
stop. He obeyed in some confusion; and after
a short pause to collect herself she addressed
him in a solemn tone. ‘Charles, (said she,) I
once thought you loved me; 1 was deceived—
but I forgive you: may you in your marriage
enjoy that happiness that is denied me. But
I would fain know the cause of your cruel de
sertion.
“Alice,” said he, (a dark frown passing over
his brow,) “ask me not that qu stion. I can
not, will not answer it.”
So saying, he was turning away, but she re
called him.
“Charles, do not fly me; I crave it as the on
ly boon you can ever grant ine, answer me;
why did you forsake thu fond Alice, whose on
ly fault was loo much love tor you?”
“Alice,” exclaimed he, “urge me no farther;
I will net tell you.”
“Nay, but 1 beg by your love to your Eliza
answer me!”
“Alice," said he, every feature convulsed
with passion, “cease this persecution, or
by
* *
"Trust not to that. Though man should
never know of tbv crime, there is One who will
know it,, ar.d His punishment thou canst not
escape. He can, if he choose, reveal thy guilt
in a thousand ways, and by means the most
insignificant to man. Seest thou these falling
leaves? The least of his works, even one of
these may disclose thy crime. Think not that
I fear thee: take this wo’rthless life if thou
wilt; but answer my question.”
“Then by Heaven! take thv answer!”
A week had passed; Alice had in vain been
sought for by her disconsolate parents, and it
was generally believed that she had put a pe
riod to her own existence. Time passed on
A large company were collected in an elegant
ly furnished room; there were youth and beau
ty, and laughing eyes and blushing cheeks,
while age looked on in smiting approbation; it
was a wedding party. The bridegroom ap
peared in extravagant spirits; his laugh was
the loudest and the longest, but his mirth had
an air of wildness that alarmed his friends, and
at times a shade crossed his brow, and he
seemed struggling to banish some horrid re
collection.
Day after day passed,.arid she sighed in si*
Jence. At length she extarted from him the
cause of his dejection, and learned that his bu
siness had declined, and that he had sustained
multiplied loosscs which had deprived him
nearly of all his earnings. There are women,
and those whom the world call women of
sense too, who could have contented them*
Selves with sympathising with their husband,
and supposing by affectionately shrinking his
regrets they had discharged their duty. Not
such a woman was Mrs. Morton. She felt
deep for her husband’s misfortune, ami that
feeling prompted her to do what was in hef
power to assist him. She immediately com*
menced a rigid system of reform, retained only
one servant, her table was not, as before, load
ed with luxuries, and the wine was banished
from her sideboard. Her two children were
neatly but simply dressed, and she gazt d upon
them with more heartfelt delight, than when
covered with ribbons and useless finery Shu
applied herself to domestic avocations with
unabated diligence; and carried economy into
every department of her household.
All this was oot done however without the
'Near a year had passed, and the verdure of Hie opposition, and in some instances tte
summer was again yielding to the approach ol j sneers, of her acquaintances: but happily the
winter. Fortune had smiled upon Charles,
and his amiable wife had done her utmost to
please him; he had joined the festive circle,
he had even sought tlie consolations of reli
gion; but for him there was no peace no re
lieffrom remorse and wretchedness. His wife,
without knowing its cause, shared his unhap
piness; her countenance spoke not of happy
and requited love; though delighted at times
by his warm professions, the apparent con
straint ol his mind, his abstraction, and unde-
finable dread she felt for him, had embittered
her every pleasure. Though to others they
seemed happy, yet the fireside, that paradise
on earth when hallowed by affection, had for
them no attractions; and Charles, to indulge
his musings, had chosen to be alone. He sat
before an open window and unconsciously gave
utterance to the thoughts that burthened his
mind.
“A year, a long year is passed, and yet eve
ry thing reminds me of my guilt; conscience
utters it in a voice of thunder. In the night I
hear it muttered over my pillow; grim visages
mock me, and say, behold the ‘murderer]’—
The wind murmurs her came; these rustling
leaves—ha! did she not say that even these
would inform against me? But they shall not.
Ha! a lucky thought—I can escape ye yet.—
Conscience, goad on! Howl away he fiends—
I defy ye! Alice, thy death shall be reveng
ed!” Then starting in a sort of phrenzy, he
seized a pistol and pointing it to his breast,
“Alice,” cried he, “thus dies thy murderer!”
On hearing the report, his wife rushed info
the room with a scream of agony. “Oh God!
Charles, why this rash act? :f Charles groan
ed deeply, and ultered the name of A!ice.—
“Alice!” said his wife, “speak, w hat of her?”—
“Enough,” he feebly answered, “but I must
not tell you; and yet I will. 1 loved her once:
I saw thee, and could I love aught else? I
met her in the silent wood, she asked why I
had forsaken her, and I refused to answer.—
She entreated, she repeated tier question, and
in a moment of passion these hands were rais
ed against her in deadly violence! Her grave
is under the shade of an elm: oft have 1 been
there—I have wept over the sod, I have called
on her to pardon me—the last time I was there
1 heard a hollow voice, ‘Murderer, thy-titne
will come’—and it has come!” Then with a
shudder, his spirit sought eternity!
The place where Alice had been buried rtras
easily found, and her remains decently re-inter
red. Eiiz.i returned to her father’s, and in
time found a solace for hejKgriefin the care
and education ^f her son, wlrdie dawning mind
suggestions of pride and indolence fell harm
less on the ears of Mrs. Morton, for she weigh
ed them against the duty to her husband, and
her affection to her children, and the scales
mounted in the air. Her husband, in the
meantime, though he would have perished
rather than have prescribed such conduct,
saw her thus employd with new delight
springing in his heart, and in his .approbation
she found at once a reward for past exerti< n 4
and an additional incitement to new. From
the much decreased expenses of his family he
was encouraged to struggle against misfor
tune, and business soon began slowly to revive;
ami though he cannot, as before, anticipate
speedy wealth, yet from the prudent care of
his wife, and his own industry and application,
brighter prospects are daily opening to h ; s
view. To his partner he is now attached by
a new, tender tie of aff cl ion; for he has seen
that she Can sh?.rc and alleviate (he distre«s of
adversity, as well as adorn and dignify the
prosperous station. Happy Morton, who has
such a wife: and thrice happy atid lovely the
woman who can thus act! From her example
may every American fair learn in what course
of conduct lies the true dignity of female char
acter. May they Idarn that thev were intend
ed by providence not mereIy,to float on tiie sur
face of pleasure, as fluttering butterflies in the
sun, but to be sweet soothers and consolers of
man, When misfortune clouds his prospects,
and presses heavily upon his spirits.—Poalsan's
Daily Advertiser.
“Nay, swear not; but answ’er my question.
Caliest thou this persecution? I will follotv
thee till thou dost answer me; l will ask thee
in thy marriage chamber, in the presence of
thy Eliza.”
“But there is one way to silence your en
treaties,” said be, ferociously; “the dead do
not entreat.”
“Foolish man! dost thou thiuk such a crime
will go unpunished?”
“These woods, said he, bitterly, "can tell
no talcs.”
seemed fully to compensate her sorrows The
father of Charles, broken-hearted and discon
solate, soon followed his son—a Victim to grief,
brought on by his own excessive indulgence.
INTERESTING PICTURE.
A young merchant, Morton, w r as united, a
few years since to a most amiable girl, whom
he sincerely loved, and who returned his affec
tions with all the warmth and ardour his many
virtues deserved. Aj the time of their, uup
tials, Mr. Morton’s, business was lucrative,
and apparently increasing,. s6,tjiat he could in
dulge in reasonable anticipation, not only of
eventual independence, but of obtaining that
desirable end, without denying* himself «nd
family the fashionable gratifications of the day
Accordingly, he furnished his house in a styie
of considerable elegance, kept several ser
vants, and in other respects conducted his fa
mily arrangements on a liberal ‘ scale, ~ and
which his forefathers would! ’perhaps have
deemed idly extravagant. His wife,, too,
thinking to do credit to her husband, paid lit
tie atiention to economy, and raihcr made it
her study to gratify his taste, than to regard
the expense it might occasion.
There was a time ivhen such a general pros
perify pervaded this country that prudence
herself seemed to justify extravagance. But
those times had gone by, and on those coun
tenances where once sat hope and confidence,
now sat disappointment and despair No
longercould the merchant engage in schemes
of enterprise: for he saw the more extensively
he was in business, the wore extensive were
his losses.. No longer could he place "reliance
on the stability of his neighbor; for experience
was daily teaching, in painful lessons, that the
foundations of credit were loosened, and those
who bad withstood many a storm now bent
and yielded to the times.
But still the storm howled only without the
dwelling ot domestic peace—it had not yet
wounded the merchant in his tenderest con
cerns. Soon, however, Mrs. M. saw the
gloom that misfortune was gathering on her
husband’s brow, and which neither her own
affectionate solicitude, nor his children’s sport
ive playfulness, could chase away.
:i Fhe Farce of Love—A. cow keeper, nimed
Cawston. residing in Newington, applied on
Friday for advice under the following riremn-
stances: He stated that he was very much an
noyed by a female, who haunted him day and
night. He could go no where that she was
not after him.
Mr Davis (the magistrate)—f suppose,
then, the poor girl is in love with you; is that
the case? / > *
Applicant—That is the fact, your worship;
when 1 goes out of a morning with my-pails,
she is sure to be arter my heels; and when I
come? home, there she sticks herself afore n*y
door, and looks for all the world like a statue.
She was a servant,, he said, in a gentleman’s
family that he Used to serve with milk. She
often deplored that she was not a woman of
fortune for his sake, declaring that had she
thousands th» v should be at the command of
so nice a young man. lie never gave her any
liberties he said, but her father dying {eft her
some property; and the poor m m was no soon
er in ihe prave. s * np Came f 0 hj m fapnjj*
cant,) exhibited to him 1300 am! asked him to
marry her; saying.that Ire should have the mo.
ney to increase bis$lock of cows On that oc
casion, added the cow keeper, I told her point
blank that i would not have her at any price;
howsomever. she would not take this denial,
and she comes after me wherever I go, and
says that wherever I am there she will be also.
The magistrate said he did not see how the
poor girl could be hindered from following and
admiring the man she loved. Doc?s she threa
ten to assault you, or do you apprehend any
personal danger from her?
Cow keeper—I can’t say that I do; but then,
your worship,'suppose as how yourself was in
my sityvatiou; you wouldn’t like to be follo\Y< di
about to Lim houses of your customers by a
woman. ' I’m Sure I have done every thing a9
laid in my poorer to get rid of the nuisance. I
have sloshed milk over her more than once,
twice, or thrice, but that won’t do.
Mr. Davis—One would be inclined to think
that would cool her ardor for a lover who dash
ed his milk at her head.
Cow-keeper—No Sir, not a bit of it; she’s
as bad as ever now, and.follows roe about, de
claring that she will have me at last—for if she
don’t, nobody else will. It was only the night
afore last I shoved her down into lb‘o mud;
she got up again, went home, changed her
dress; and there she was at my tail before I
served half my customers with the afternoon
milk. \ </
i. The magistrate said, that however enraptur
ed the poor girl might be with the complain
ant, that was no justification for his dashing
milk at her bead, or sousing her in the mu i —
He could not see that any assistance could be
rendered from the office.
Cow-keeper—-Then I’m afraid I shall lose
all my customers, for seeing the girl coming af
ter me continually, they will suppose that there
is an improper connexion between us, which, I
declare most solemnly, is not the case.
Mr. Davis remarked, that it was a pity a girl
possessed of property should give w*y to a pas
sion for a man who was utterly unworthy of her
thoughts. The magistrate then directed Craig,
the officer, to proceed to her residence, and