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BY W, S. RffifKUTLL 'USSOS ! AND STATE BIWHTS’ ADVOCATE, Published Weekly in the Tvon of M'U-dgtvUle at Tiiii!:*: nui.i. viiN i*kr asacs P.VVAKI.K IS ADVAXCS. Advertisements iiisortud at the usual rate*: I those scat without a specified- number of inser tions, will ' « published until ordered out, and 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 ©■ JJ -Kod ~ ii 6 J. Uj Aj a J UST I'ublished, and fertile at theTimes' Of- 1 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 Dec. 13, 49— if. | ~l§ w\j t Yr£B, j Uio JScolLshoro Ad«if!emy« latcfy u»«d«r 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