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BY W, S. RffifKUTLL
'USSOS !
AND
STATE BIWHTS’ ADVOCATE,
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charged accordingly.
Sales of I.and, by Administrators, Kxseutors,
•r Gunrdiat-.s, are required, by law, to be held on
the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours
«f ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon,
at the court-house in the county in which the
property is situate. Notice of these sales must
Lo giveu in a public gazette sixty days previous
-to the day of sale.
Sales of ncrroi s must be at public auction,
«a the first Tuesday of the mouth, between
ths usual hours of sale, at the place of pub
lie sales in the county where the letters '
Testamentary, of Administration or Guardian
ship, may have been granted, first giving sixty j
days notice thereof, in one of the public ga-;
aettes es this State, and at the door of tin ;
court-house, where such sales are to be held, i
Notice for the sale of Personal Property -musts
>,r given in like manner, forty days previous to j
the day ol sale.
Nsticstothe Debtors and Creditors of an Bs-,
tale must be published for forty days.*
N»t’u-e that application will be made to
the Gourt of Ordinary for leave, lo sell l.and,!
must be published tour months.
Notice for leave lo sell Negroes, must be 1
published for four months before any order ab- 1
solute shall be made thereon by the Court
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fice. and at Dr. Bruns’ Hotel.a Book of all
the Prizes in the late GW Lottery , in numerical
order, with the names of the drawer, il-.e coun
ty and district in which he resides, and the qual
ity of the Band as returned by the <ii-triet Sur
veyors. TUB PUBLISHERS. I
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the'superiiiltHttlaucp* of Mr# Ifctird. The 10-'
c.uiou is a pleasant uu<J hmiithy one —A Teacher
well ijualifii will m< * t with empf'-y raent.* Ap- j
p ication to be iiiaJe t > either ol'lhe undersigned j
t istees.
I. Q. n. I. A MAR,
Sls A TON U.l* NTLAKDJ
FA HI Ml CAttTKK,
8. lU)CK\YK4*L.
Decrml t r !, * 47
Straytd trim* atilk'diicviiii',
ON the 23rtl of November Three Steers, (beef,
cattle,) maths nor brands not recollected,
one of these t> notable, Jie is speckled and
itolds his head high with high hurt.a— the other
two are pied. Information left at the Georgia i
Times ahd Stale RiglU’a Advocate Cilice, or;
with Mr. Bout well, or 1(. Micklejolm will be,
thankfully received mid pr«p< rsiore-i.lv rewarded.
B. LUNCI’OIU), for
S JJ UK W BLLAM, M A N.
Dee. 18, 18311. 50-••• if
T£.\ »pjL~JL,ISt» £iS. rt\3i£V!
BuONT BIOKSES.
BROKK away from camp, lo miles above Au
gusta, on the \V asliiaglon road, two Sorrel;
horses : one large, about -i years old, —tie other/
tl years old, marked on the side lrom a burn—no ,
etiier marks recollected.
The above reward \vill be given to any person j
who w ill lake them up, and communicate Intel 1 i ■
genre to me, 8 iniieo below Covington, Ncwtonl
county, Ga-
MATHEW R. OI.BNN. !
Deeemher 1, 47
N OTicT..
rjtlißßK w'as brought to Jail on the 13th of
* October, 18.23, a negro man, by thy name < f
ISAAC, and that he belongs to a man in Han
cock coim’y, by the name of Oaldy Branlty, be
is 5 feet ,and or 8 incites high, 18 or g,t years ot age,
with a scar on his 1 rebead. The owner is re
quested lo cornu lorwurd, prove property, pay
charges, and take him away.
JAMBS JONHS, Jailor.
Olintc.n, Jones co. Deeemher, 1. J—t*.
KA9L HOAO STOCK.
BOOKS of subscription for .100 shares stork,
Brunswick Rail Road, at slooeach, will be
reopened in Macon onthelirst Monday it. Janua
ry next.
As litis short rdil road, the avenue for which
is already opened and leveled by embankments
and excavations, (ready for laying down the wood
■ work,) is to act as a steam dray age, across a nar
row neck of level land at the foot ot the Allama
ha, between the boats and the ■ships at Bruns
wick, which will completely open that noble port
to Macon and all these middle and Western
counties, whi* It haul their cotton to that market.
It is hoped that subscribers will come forward
and lake up the balance of the stock, and aid so
small apiece of work, which most prove ot so
git-at importance to 'bo stock holders —to the
people at large and the
'l’ltc charter is liberal, and the stock can easily
die made to nett the holders from 10 to Id per
per cent, at 0 1-1 cents per bale drayage; and ,
at 1-2 1-2 cents per bale, it would nett, with the
l.ack drayage £j per cent inteiest .per annum —
the limit of the charter, and the cotton at the
saute time, protected from damage ami free from
a.l other charge, front the boats to the ships,
i’his stock will prove as permanent as the
trade, which must ever pass up and down, from
Macon and Hawkins-title to the sea. It will
bring the •ships at the foot of the Ocwtelgee and
Aialnmaha, instead of their stopping at Savannah
ami Charleston.
The Commissioners sent by order of the last
legislature, to examine the gh at advantages of
this short rail road, Ac. nay, among other tilings
in their report, under nutli.'tiiat-*-** The only ob
stacle now existing to the connexion oi this no
ble port (Brunswick) with the he.riof Georgia,
and w ith the great wealth and the densest popu
lation of the Elate. is the. narrow slip of land, of
llttio over eicvtn utiles, between that port and the
ASatnmzha; said litis obstacle wc have aire idy
elated, can in our opinion, be overcome by the
Uiditig suit! of from jiti.tiW to nt/O.Uiwt dollars.
" But suppose it should cost tsluU.U'iO, the
expenditure is a trifle, in comparison with the
immense advantage* it would yield, imp only to
•he Treasury ot' the Stale, but the great body ot
■the people.”
Again :—“ Your Commissioners can say, upon
•lie solemn appeal they have made, in submitting
.this report, that they do not believe that there is in
the Untied States, so small a work ol internal im
provement, as the con tern plated rail road, fraught
w ilh consequences so important and so beneficial
to the same extent of c unlry, and the same a
mot.nlut uciiveaud industrious population.”
The charter rrqulrrs that $5 per share bn paid
or secured on subscribing.
IH*. IJ. 50— If
MEDICAL C.IEIB.
DR. Ph I'BRS, in consequence ofcireumstan- j
ces transpiring preventing his being in a i
Foreign country at ibis time, as he li id antieipa-;
ted, and in addition to that the grateful recollt-c- ’
lion of the very extensive patronage extended to
him in this city the last season, with the earnest
so.icitati nos numerous friends for his longer
continuance among them, has determined 'on
spending the ensuing winter in Milledgeville.
Dr. P. for several years has devoted his entire
attention to the treatment of chronic or inveterate
diseases in different climates. Persons unac
quainted with Dr. P's. reputation as a practitioner
of the Healing dirt , on applying to hi. l ! will be re
ferred Ol Ladies and Gentlemen of the first re
spectability who have experienced the surprising
ly beneficial effect* of his treatment, lie invito*
persons afflicted with what they may consider
incurable disease to give him a call : 'Those un
able to do so, will be waited upon at their respec
tive places of abode by request. Persons who
may wish his opinion relative to the nature of
thsir ailments are apprized, that no charge will
he inad", unless they actually place themselves
under liis care. Dr. p. may be Seen at his Offica
mi Wayne street the first door to the Post Of
fice. or at the Bag:e Hotel kept by Robert
McCombs where he boards.
Dyipepuit ami Liver-complaint.
Dr. Peters professor of Physiological Medicine,
has succeeded by chemical analysis and synthe
sis in forming a compound from several proxi
mate vegetable principles lo which be has given
the name Medicimc Stomnehicee e! llepaticx, which
has proved far more efficient than any remedy
heretofore discovered in curing those ilislressing
maladies of mind and body , which are generally
comprehended under the sweeping terms Ih/spep
sin and Liver-complaints. It is likewise an almost
certain cure for enlargements of th a Spleen
'Hie above Medicines consist of three different
preparations two of w hich are to he taken inter
nally .... the other to be appli ed externally over
the diseased parts; not the least -harm can result
from using them, and they are perfectly pleasant
to take and the same foot! may be taken and em
ployment pursued that would be proper were the
patient not under their influence. They areput
up in parcels with full directions for use. From
one to three parcels will he necessary to complete
a cure. The price is $5 a parcel, any person
sendingss in a letter, (post puirl) stating where
he wishes tire Medicine strut, will receive it be
Mail-
Among the symptoms of Dyspepsia and Liver
complaints, ate flatulency, sourness or burning in
the stomach, melancholy, irritability, disagree
able taste in the mouth ; great irregularity r.f
appetite, which is sometimes voracious and at
other times greatly deficient; thirst, fetid breath,
nausea, weakness of .the stomach, acid eructa
tions, palpitation, drowsiness, irregularity of the
bowels, pressure on the stomach after meals, pain
in the head, dizziness or vertigo; confusion of
mind, attended with loss of memory, a gnawing
in the stomach when empty,chillinuss.alfeclioii of
sight and hearing, pain and weakness in the
back, languor, disturbed sleep, cold feet and]
hands, tremor, uneasiness in the throat, cough,
pain in the side or breast, &c.
The above maladies lead to organic affection of
stomach, liver, and heart, terminating in Dropsy,
Consumption, Apoplexy, &c, according to the
climate, habits, age, sex, and temperament of the
patient.
Agents.
Samuel Cone, senior, Decatur DcK.tlb Coun
ty-
Thomas Richards, sole Agent for the city of
Augusta.
B. IJ. Perkins Tallahassee, sole agent for
Florida.
Piyor Wright, agent for Milledgeville.
Milledgeville, Oct. 30, 1833. 42...
THE SOriTISBA AGUittLTl*
SHST.
AND REGISTER OF RIT.AI. AFFAIRS.
-&TOI,. Vi. NOVEMBER, 1833. Contents
% Vin tI. Original t 'orrerponUtncc.
ART. LX XIX. An address delivered before
the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, at the
Anniversary Meeting, August atlth, 10.,3, by
Daniel K. Whitaker.
I,XXX. Account ot an Agricultural Excursion
made into the South ol Gtorgia in toe winter ot
1832; by the Editor, (Continued from page, 529.)
LXXXL On the rearing oftlic Siikworm and
' culture of the Grape Vine : by I*.
I.XXXII. Account of several succcsful cx
' periments in the culture ol Clover, in Abbeville
! District ; by Thomas Parker.
I.XXXIU On tin' changes wrought in Beau-;
fort District, by the application of Manure ; by
A. Passer, by. |
LXXXI V. Observations on the Oat Crop ; bv;
A. Highlander,
I.XXXV. On the Preservation of Potato slips;
by an Overseer.
I.XXXVI U. .mate of the Daily Labour ol
Negroes; by a Member of the Agricultural So
ciety of Sobth Carolina.
LXXXVII. Letter to the Editor, containing
Queries on the rearing of the worm, and mode
of the culture of the >iik.
Varl ll — Selections.
ART. I.XX. The difference between the old
and new methods of managing Yard Dung; by]
one of the new-School.
LX XL On Gardening—No. 6; by Alexander]
Gordon. j
LXXII. Account of the Bmharkment and;
Cultivation of the Shirley Swamp : by Hill Car-]
ter. j
I.XXIII. Saltpetre in Meat; by C. S. Raft-;
nesone, Uro. Ills, and Nat. Sci.
LX vIV. Saltpetre in Meat, in reply to Pro-]
fessor kafinesqne; by Medicos.
|,XXV. On fattening Swine ;by Deane. j
LXXXVI. On procuring pure Water; by P.;
Moser, M. D.
Varl Hl—Misrcllaneous Intelligence.
Manure is Wealth; to pr-ditce Onions of aj
large ,iz-•; Agricultural Thrift; On Forcing
Bulbs to cause them to flown in M inter; Peas ; j
Grow iug ('tys .ntiic.iiums; On shortening
! tap roots of Pices ; Age of Sheep ; Lands in .
A B. UIUBB.
iVo. 4. Vroad-Slreet, Charleston. ]
TO T£ tcnLMS.
r£li! B Annual Meting es the T- -ehers Society j
i of Georgia will be held in Savannah, on j
Monday die 23,1 Dec. (third I
W e arc authorised to slate that the bospiutil
! ,j e « of the City, XV iI: be extended to all leacuers
who attend,on application being made w Messrs, j
, W illiams and Birch, principal* ol Uialo.tn A
! cadetny.
‘ By order of Society, .
i C. P. BEMAN, President,
R. C. Bttow.i, Secretary.
i December, I. ‘ *
r axil B Teims of the .Superior Court of Baldwin
i county, have been elianged by law, fn-iii
,h 0 4lb M aid ay in February and August, to the
4th Monday in January and 2d Monday in Ju-r -1
The Inferior Court haa also been changed from
the 4th Monday in May and November, to the I
j 4 ili Monday iu April and October.
> jantnry I.
•XUJLSjEB&reI'SIeIjE, IfrU.WAUJi* !824
_ TRY, j
From the Academician.
mtiKve sop FoallK.
There is n sorrow in my heart
Tile worid may never know ;
A pant; that only can depart
When death shall lav me low ;
Yet ia my feature:* aiili aertmo,
No nitons of m>rro>v sec ; !
ao nil I wear a cheerful mien
That none may grieve Or :ua«
I dare no? tell my nearest trieni
'J’he anguish Unit I feel*
It might the faithful Losoui rend,
And mine it could not heal.
I would no eye fjr mo should woof,
No heart forego its g!c».
And hence my Woos I *-crat keep
I hat none may grauvo for me.
My suffering soon I know must end,
For life is on its ebh;
The autumn le tves that fir.it descon.l
Will find me with the dead.
I wish my fall may be like theirs.
From lamentations free ;
I a*«k no unuvuiii/tg fears.
No friend to griovo for ir.e.
A hand there is in yonder splisre
That waves for nio on high
A still small voice is on my ear
That whispers death is nigh.
And what is death ? a door to bliss^
Infinite in degree;
And it my triends will think of this,
How can they grieve for mo ?
Grieve fur themselves, tb.it they sr. I.ft
A Ihorr.v world to tread,
But not tor him who goes to rest
_ Among the quiet de.-t 1%
For there no dream* disturb tho mind,
Tho’ dark the mansion be.
And if I sink in faith resigned,
" by need they grieve tar mo f
o, if they knew tny heart’* despair.
The ruin of my peace,
Ii they could view the vulture there,
Whose feasting# never cense,
would not chain me to my woes,
But fr-t uly let me flee,
Nor break their own pure heart's ronoss
By grieving after mj.
Around my bed no brother*bow.
No sisters, vigil* keep,
No mother bathes tny aching brow
Or funs me whilst! si cp.
Alas ! for tneir care would alt be vaia
To stay the death decree;
Their presence would but giva me pais
To sec them grieve for me,
But there are those 1 dearly love,
Whoso pilgrimage is o'er,
Call’d to the realms of light and lova,
Where sorrow is no more.
I humbly hope OGod, to find
A home w th them and Thee,
And strengthen thou each mourning mind
I hat vainly grieves tor me.
JUSCELLAKEOIS.
Vrom bf hitaheds London Magazine.
Jly firs! Duel.
There are some events in the life of a j
man that make an indelible impression on '
the mind; events that, amid the varied ;
scenes of love, or war, or ambition, are. I
t o the last hour of existence, as forcibly ■
impressed upon the tablet of memory, as '
at the moment when they Were first in- j
scribed there by the hand of fate. Os
this nature is our first duel—the rccollec- j
tion of tiie first time that we stood on the
boundary line that separates the civiliza-j
n.M, r.f tilD ancient and modern worlds,
i hero are several kinds of courage, liTra.* 1 ;
been a thousand times remarked, all of
which, if we take the trouble of metapliysi-1
analyzing them, we shall find arc'
butthe consciousness of our own force or!
skill. The squadron of steel-clad cuiras- ]
siers rides gallantly tit the square of in
fantry, heedless of the bristling bayonets,
of the kneeling front rank, or the murder
ous volley o l ' the rear. The sailor, lash- i
cd to the helm, looks calmly on the raging
temptest. The huntsman, in pursuit of
game, springs fearlessly across the yawn- i
ing chasm, or boldly attacks the lion in
his lair. Habit, and a familiarity with
danger, deaden the instinctive dread of'
death implanted in us by nature; yet the
bravest man may blanch, and the life’s i
blood curdle in the veins, when he finds!
himself opposed to an adversary, who,!
without exaggeration, at twelve paces,'
could wing a hum-bird. Such was iriv
case when quite a raw and inexperienced’
youngster, exposed, at the age of sixteen,
to one of the most slippery tricks ihat
dame fortune, in her most wayward hu-'
tnor, can play a man. Livery one must
recollect the rancorous animosity that]
subsisted between the British and Ameri
cans for several years after the tormina-,
tion of the war between the two coun- ]
tries. Time has now, in some degree, l
softened down this hostile feeling; but, in
IBlf> it biaied fiercely forth at Gibraltar,
where a slight misunderstanding at one
of the guard-houses, led to a succession of
bloody, and, in sonic instances, fatal ren
contres between the garrison and the offi
ce) sos the American squadron, at that
time in the bay. Similar scenes were en
acted at Madeira, though with less fatal
results; and, only a lew months after-!
wards, when the United States corvette!
Ontario, and the British frigate Hyperion,]
were lying in the bay of Callao de Lima,
to so fierce a pitch had this feeling risen,]
that the commanders of the two ships ;
came to an understanding to allow their
officers to go on shore only on alternate
days; and by this timely precaution they ]
prevented a hostile collision, which would
in all probability have deprived the servi-'
ces of both countries of some valuable j
and gallant oifieers. It was during the]
noontide heat of this rancorous feeling be-!
tween the two nations, that 1 one evening
entered a ca fe, in one of the Brazilian out*
|torts, to meet, by appointment, a friend,
from whom l was to receive some letters;
of introduction for the interior of the coun- j
try, for which i was on the eve of inv j
departure. The street's were silent and 1
; deserted ; the only sound to be heard was
,the vesper hyam sweetly fioalihfllkm the
j evemug breeze. On entering the case, i
j found a group of savage-looking Minhei
; ros, who were drinking t.nj listening to is
j love-lay, sung with great sweetness la ;t
, quit traccompan men!, bya mulatto youth;
! and a party of four American officers who
j were going home, invalided from their
squadron, round the Horn. Forcibly as
my attention w is arrested by the pictur
esque costume of the Brazilian mountain
eers—one ol those dark Satanic, groups
that the spirit oi Salvator so revelled in
delineating—it did not escape me that the
subject of discourse with the American
party was England, against whose insti
tution and jHJople violent abuse and un
measured invective were levelled, in that
drawling, nasal tone that so particularly
distinguishes our transatlantic brethren.
No man, even of the most cosmopolitan
composition, can digest violent strictures
j «•*» the country of his birth ; the language
10l the Americans jarrea Violently on my]
] car, but though it s'irrod up the ill blood
i of my nature, 1 did not exactly think tnv
j.sell called upon to play the !>o:i tjuixoti*.
J and to run a tilt against all those who ‘
/ .should choose to asperse the majesty of]
j England. By the young and ardent this
j feeling, I am aware, may be stigmatized.
ias ignoble; but those whose passions
j have been mellowed by lime and expert-;
eace will, i think, own the prudence of
j the line oi conduct I pursued.
1 therefore took my seat, lighten a ci
j gar, and listened attentively to the beau-j
jiiful tnodinlta sung by the mulatto; there]
I was a plaintive softness in the air. and on ;
] exquisite simplicity in the wjunls oftlic
! ditty, telling of the pangs of unrequited !
| love, that had well nigh allayed the angry ]
j feelings that were struggling for mastery
j in my bosom ; when the strictures es the
Americans which hud hitherto been level-!
led at Old England in genera!, were di
rected to me personally, and left me but !
one—one honorable alternative. “ When
a man openly insflks you,” says my Lord
Chesterfield, “ knock him down,” If 1
did not on this occasion follow his lord
ship’s advice ala let Ire, i- did something!
which, among honorable men, is deemed
tantamount to it, and which produced a
challenge front one of the party; a de
j mand for immediate satisfaction on the
following morning, on the plea that their]
! departure was fixed for the succeeding ’
: day. “ Gentlemen,”-said I, “ willing as
-1 shall be to give you the satisfaction you
j require, I doubt my ability to do so at ’
I the early hour you have named ; for I am ]
j a stranger here, and may experience some
j difficulty in finding a second among my f
j countrymen who arc quite strangers to]
jme ; and arc, moreover, established in a 1
j con try where the laws against duelling]
| are severe—banishment to the shores of
Africa—l must, therefore, defer the ren.
j centre till the evening, not doubting, in
j the mean time, to find someone to do tne ]
the office I stand in need of.”
A provoking sneer played round the
: lips of three of the party, and an exela
!'nation of withering contempt was on the
i of Meaning them, when the fourth,
] who bad Inthenn r. : „
; sangarcc, rose from his chan and ad dress
jed me with great politeness of manner::
]” 1 cannot conceal from my sell,” j
were Ins words, “ that till* quarrel has
been forced upon you, and I regret, from
the turn it lias taken, that there remains j
nothing but the last appeal; but if, its you
. say, you are a stranger nere, and are like- j
i ly to experience any difficulty in finding a '
second, 1 will myself most willingly do
you that office ; for 1 can conceive no sit
uation so forlorn, so desolate as that of a
, man, in the solitary loneliness of a foreign
land, without a friend to stand by him in
an honorable quarrel.”
The hearty pressure of my outstretch
ed hand must have told him better than 1
words could do, how deeply sensible 1
was of the service he was about to render
mo. Wc separated. The sun hud scarce
ly gilded the balconies of the cast when
1 arose, hurried on my clothes, and having
given a few directions to my servant, has
tened towards the spot wlicTe, on the pro-j
ceding evening, 1 had parted from my;
new lriend. it was a beautiful morning
—the sun had risen in ail the splendor of!
u tropical clime, «.‘c as 1 moved on through
the silent trees, methought the fair face o.
nature had never looked so beautiful; not
a sound was heard, save the solemn pea!
of the matin bell, or the rustling of the
silk mantilla of some fair beata, as she;
ghued past me to pour forth her morning j
orisonrat the shrine of her patron saint.
I at length reached the palace square, and ,
observed my American friend slowly;
pacing the esplanade of the church of St.
Maria, lie was tad and bony ; his blue
frock and ample white trowsers hung a
bout him with republican negligence of
manner; lie wore his shirt collar open;
and Itis long malted dark hair was sha
dowed by a broad brimmed hat of < Lilian!
straw, white, in comparison to the sallow
hue of his complexion; hi si countenance
I can never forget ; it v.-qrc not th,
frankness and gallant bearing of the sol
dier, but there was an expression of en
thusiasm, of’ a cool, determined cart, a
stern intrepidity ; and, as he stretched
! out his hand to welcome me, and fixed his ]
large black eyes on me with a. concerned ]
gaze that seemed lo read my thoughts, it
struck inc that 1 beheld the very beau
] id' al of a duelist
Wc moved on, each of us wrapped up
in Ids own meditations, when, on <! anting j
I the city, he at length broke the jil<?rt '« that
] had prevailed, Ly asking tne if I hut! ever
; been out belt)re ? tn my answering the
: question in a negative, “ 1 supposed as
-much,” he continued. “At your age on:
’ lias seldom drawn a tri ’ger, bet on a lutri:
or pirtridge ; rcmemlx:r, therefore, !■>
J follow implicitly the instructions ! Miali
give you in placing you on the ground ;
! and take thin cigar,” iie added, handing
j me one from Isis case : “ it js a powerful
] stimulant, and quickens the circulation ol
the blood."*
We had by tins time ranched the field
]of action, and discovered my adversary,
his second, and a medical attendant, smok
ing their cigars beneath the shade of aclus
ter of cocoa-nut trees,that stood in loneli
ness in themiddlo.ofthe volley. They arose
<>n our approach, saluted me sternly, and
interchanged friendly greetings with my
companion. “ You will, of course,” ob
served my adversary’s lriend, “ have no
objection to sixteen paces.” “As the
challenged party, we have the right ot
choosing our own distance,” rejoiSed niv
seco id ; “say, therefore, twelve paces,
instead of sixteen, and the firing down.”
“Twelve paces, ’* I repeated to myself;
“ can he be playing me false ?” But 1 did
him injustice, ior to this arrangement I
owe, to all human certainty, my life.*
The ground was measured. My se
cond placed me with my back to the sun
—a disposition that brought Itis rays right
on my opponen-’s line of sight. The
seconds retired to load. The ramming
down ol the Intlls grated with porten
tous cllect upon my car. All being rea
dy, my second, taking a handkerchief from
his-pocket, bound one end of it tightly
.round my right had, and measuring the
ength of my arm, which lie marked by a
knot, brought it across the back over the
left shoulder, where the knot was tightly
Igraspod by the left hand. “ Now, then.’
lie saidfon putting the pistol into my hand,
“be cool ! When the signal is given, let
your arm steadily fall, till you find it
brought up by the handkerchief, and then
!;re !” The appointed signal was given ;
both tired at as nearly the same moment as
possible, but with unequal success, J\sv
Adversary’s bullet passed through my hat;
mine was more unerring it its aim—he
reeled and fell. My first impulse was to
rush towards him, but Twas arrested in
my course by niv second, who stood close
beside me. “ Remain where youare, sir.”
said he ; “he may yet stand another
shot.” This was not the case; the ball
had entered the _shoulder ; and ns the
wounded man lay weltering in his blood,
he said, with a look of reproach to my
companion, ‘ II— : n, this is all your doing."
Wc conveyed him to a neighboring hut,
til! the shade of evening allowed ns to take
him on board ship. A.s he walked off the
ground, my companion said to nio, “ Yoe
doubtless wondered why 1 rather placed
you at twelve than sixteen paces. Know,
then, that at the latter distance your ad
versary was a dead shot. At twelve, it
occurred to me, that he might by chance
fire over you ; that,,unaccustomed to
that distance, he might not correctly nV
! low for tlie parabola doscribpd by the ball
on leaving tho pistol ; the rcsu/t,” be ad-
Mdc! tnth a wJo, ‘ /ms- proved that my
calculation was*correct, llad you too.j’
he added, “ allowed your arm to have fal
len with great force, the shot wouid have
taked clleetlowcr, and might (this was said
very coolly) have proved fatal. But J
must not iiind fault with you, as it was
your first essay.”
On the following morning tny generous
friend, my preserver, in loot niv wouu Id
adversary, and his friends, sailed for the
states. 1 have never seen them since, or
even heard of them, save a fi-w short lines
sent me by a vessel they spoke at sea, t >
inform rue that the wounded man was do
ing well.
1 have often reflected since on the high
toned, generous feeling that entered so
deeply info the peculiarity of rr.y situa
tion ; (he high resolve that, once pledged,
sternly devoted itself to carry me through, j
indifferent to the ties of country or friend- :
ship. That my friend was a duelist, his j
conduct on the ground warrants me in
supposing. I run ignorant ifiie yet walks ]
(Ids earth. But this 1 know, had I gone:
into the field with any one else, 1 should I
now be sleeping between the white wails*
of the English cemetery at it .
Tire last of Use Cocked ZUiin.
"We weep at the death of an old friend,
and why should we not lament the ex
tinction of a favorite fashion? There is
but one reason for tolerating tho present
shrivelled state of the civic helmets wo]
call hats, aqd that is the Increased sccuri
ty of the sylvan jxroplc—the beavers ]
w hose own furs are as dangerous to them
as tl.e poisoned garment was to Hercules.,
"{) Sam. Rogers, and the Pleasures o‘;
Memory! How many sweet and bitter
remembrances hang upon the corner of;
of an old cockedh.il ! What a cantcnation
of murdered joys and misspent happv
hours, extends from it, like the long line ot j
kings in Banqyo’s posterity! That res
i„ i/iublc old beaver is a cfironiclo of the
older, time ; It is a page iu history ; it is
ait anchor in t!»c great sea of time, that!
drags up drowned antiquity by the locks.
It is a monument of the Augustan age of
English literature, and of (lie golden age ol!
morals and politereei. A part of that era 1
Mr. Webster has called the age o! Frank ;
tin. Out Ujjon that thrifty old c ir nu l ;eon,
for he represented his country at Barts inn I
little vile round lint, iifttend of ib • broad 1
sky-scraper of I.is father*;—turd fig u|kui
the pretty i’tc.vh Ir.di* *, who •'»'
YdSilBE 51 itiiTSBEK 9.
• much flattery upon poor Rickard in such
! a hat 1
* ii e head is the principal part of the
! man, the hat is the main part of the head,
:n3 your cocked hat is_to li.e r.an what
;he dome i-- to St. Peter's, or the capital
. to the Corinthian column! . Ai-<s, for the
:»uc of courtesy, v. lrich sueccedod that, .of
; aliivnlrv. Hot h are passed with the state-
I ly politeness of Sir Charles Granihscsi,and
the courtly vivacity of Wiil Honeycomb?
I “Tint dead but sceptared soverdeiu, wlio. still
j rulo . ‘''
Ourspirits from tlisir hats.''
“The co ;!;ud hat was indeed the symbol
' of courtesy ; out why lament the emblem
j when the thing no longer exists ! The
| man who ilgurished under it lived in a fa
: voted timoT 'The present is tiio age of
J iJrummel r.r.d of brass, ylor though
Ihummcl is deposed, his principles are
!ia force;) it is the brazen age of impu
j deuce am! eatc, the evil days of
Paul Clillbiih tight fits, and round hats.
!!Jut, titanic fortune, it is also the iqsre of
! reuolutiorfc, and our mode* arc now at a
| stage wh *every chan; « must he advati
: tageous. lam a republican in sentiment
and practice, yet 1 would fain see the time
when every citizen should be so fur aris
tocratieiis to cover his bleached or raven
locks with! a three-cornered hat.
“It is liow übout four hundred years
since hats have covered the heads of all
civilized men, and lor more than half that
‘ term the cocked hat has maintained its
j civil and military ascendancy ; nor is that
;or virtue yet entirely extinct. There are
, even now in all quo abdito e‘ longinquo
rare, some seduced nooks of New-En
| gland, or of the image of IVew-Erigland,
| Ohio, (matre pulebrajilia pulckrhrr ) where
; the Ui-eorued hatscomc lorth at least one
I (Jay in seven to Pidp glorioun recollcc
j lions und vein regrets that the present
I race of hats and heroes is so much inferi
or to the past. O sorrow ! that I must
grieve for the good old schoolmaster,
whose hat,not whose life, 1 have depicted.
He died lamented by many, but nullo lle
bilior than by me. It was from him,
I whom I was wont to call Uncle Hugh,
that i received ail the Latin I have, and
which 1 now delight to render back to its
source, by illustrating him and his bat.
lie dung to that beaver,not with obstina
cy, but with tenacity He Would give
up any ‘time-honored’ prejudice, but his
hat was a part of his being, a moiety of
lis heart. ‘Bury me" said he, ‘where you
will, but let me die, like the great Nnpo-
Icon, in the cocked hat.’ Teltntam mc.
riens dcf.cienle manu.
“lesteem it fortunate that I was cduca
cd in a family where ancient modes
were not extinct. One ofnfV uncles*vore,
and, thank heaven, still wears, a queue;
not the mean appendage that was in vogue
anno domini IbOO, the lost glimmer of
capillary effulgence, before the mass of
men became crops, but a real, substantial,
pump-handle tie, secured by an cel-skin,
and which hangs down beneath his shoul
der-blades, leaving a brilliant seini-circlo
\of powder. 1 remember to have seen a
trial, u diet defendant was mulcted
: in (tie hundred dollars and costs, for wil
fully and maliciously cutting o£Tthe-plain
tiffs qiltw.e. The plaintiff who was a
man ol Rubstnr.ec as well ns feeling, gave
his testimony like a person who had been
untried' in what lie laid most sacred—
•there where he had garnered up liis‘ hair.
He wept Idie a child, or rather lifer a
man, for a less, cause would draw tears
lroni a crocodile. The attorney wept fdo,
but, as he was paid lor it, the jury were
.not moved by his sorrows. The. injured
party appeared in a wig with a magnifi
cent taii-preer, l;ut this was a poor substi
tute,—it was a changeling, and the child
of hisatlbctions was gone-.
“lie had re;, ion to weep and to refuse
to be comforted. W*hnt was Alcidcs l;im
soll without his club, ami.whut was Semp
f oij without his locks? There is a young
( hinese of a ]'leasing tfrtUntcoaiice and
carriage that attracts much attention h»
the streets. My heart warmed towards
him at first sight, for he was n genuine,un
sophisticated queue, that sweeps the
ground, it tapirs like the streamer of iVfri
gatcvmd when he walks briskly, it hangs
out behind like the tail of n tenet. It m.s
been suggested to me,however, t.’mtk has
been.pieced out with silk, ns a coachman
lengthens his lash with a snapper.
“(A mores! where shall if man go in
these days to ask for hair-powder? the
word as well as the thing is obsolete, and
the inquirer,Tike Kip Y;ui Vi inkle, would
talk of his hearers had forgotten. As I
hope for distinction, by reviewing ancient
forms of dress, I believe lliat there is in
this v/holo city bat one pair of shoe-buc
kles. These are political ones, and are
so well known that 1 need not describe
them. The wearer deserves a good cpi*
luph,) may he have it late,) for the brave
stand he has made against innovation.
“It rouses my earliest and latest aflee
aflections, to behold any of those remnants
of the ancient days, that remind me of
my grandfather** family. Every mem
ber of it resisted innovation like a ’Turk ;
and they' had a chronology of their own.
They reckoned time from the remarkable
events that marked the fortunes of flic fam.
ily. Thus my own age was computed
from the year in which Uncle Ifngh lor- 1
his great hat in a puff of wind on i,ong
wharf. Anetlusr c»a was the year i »
which Jowlcr was killed on suspicion <J
worry:;. ' sheep. A favorite point of
lime irotn which tny grandfntltermcasuro.!
tl»« siv xreding year* was when the tlm f
. tto*. » ,i;s pa l.ci and attempted k.» t j
