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POETICAL SELECTIONS* From a London Paper. “ THE JOY OF GRIEF.” OSS I AN. SWEET the hour of tribulation, When the heart can freely sigh: And the tear of resignation Twinkles in the mournful eye. Have you felt a kind emotion Tremble through your troubled breast; Soft as evening o’er the ocean, When she charms the waves to rest ’ Have you lost a friend, a brother ? Heard a father’s parting breath ? Gaz’d upon a lifeless mother, Till she seem’d to wake from death ? Have you felt a spouse expiring In your arms, before your view ; Watch’d the lovely soul retiring From her eyes, that broke on you. Did not grief then grow romantic, Raving on remember’d bliss ? Did you not, with fervor frantic. Kiss the lips that felt no kiss ? Y*c! but when you had resign’d her, Life and you were reconcil’d; Anna left —she left behind her, One, one dear, one only child. But before the green moss peeping, His poor mother’s grave array’d, In that grave, the infant sleeping On the mother’s lap was laid. Horror then, your heart congealing, Chill’d you with intense despair; Can you recollect the feeling; No ! there was no feeling there ! From that gloomy trance of sorrow, When you woke to pangs unknown, How unweleome was the morrow, For it rose on you alosi! Sunk in self consuming anguish, Can the poor heart always ache ? No, the tortured nerve will languish, Or the strings of life must break. O’er the yielding brew of sadness, One faint smile of comfort stole ; One soft pang of tender gladness, Exquisitely thrill’d your soul. While the wounds of woe are healing ; While his heart is all resign’d, ’Tis the solemn feast of feeling, ’Tii the sabbath of the mind. Pensive memory then retraces Scenes of bliss forever iled ; Lives in former times and places, > Holds communion with the dead. And, when night’s prophetic slumbers Rend the veil of mortal eyes, From their tombs, the sainted numbers Os our lost companions rise. You have seen a friend, a brother, Heard a dear dead father speak ; Proved the fondness of a mother, Felt her tears upon ycur cheek ! Dreams of love your grief beguiling, You have clasp’d a consort’s charms, And received your infant smiling From his mother’s sacred arms. Trembling, pale, and agonizing, While you mourn’d the vision gone, Bright the morning star arising, Open’d Heaven, from whence it shone. Thither all your wishes bending Rose in extacy sublime, Thither all your hopes ascending Triumph’d over death and time. 1 bus afflicted, bruised and broken, Have you known such sweet relief? Yes, my friend! and by this token. You have felt “ the joy of grief.” the Trenton) True American, “ PUNCTUALITyTs THE LIFE OF BUSINESS.” EVERY man of business will readily confess the truth of my text; and yet not one in an hundred perhaps is gov erned by it. You are in great want of a pair ol shoes—your shoemaker measures you fur them—he will have them done such a day for certain—you call, and send, and send and call, and have good luck if as much as a thickness of sole-leath er is not worn out in running for them before you get them—while you are suffering in your health, and endanger ing your life, by trampling about in leaky shoes. The Tailor measures you for a suit; of clothes—you have put oft’ getting thtm as long as you could do without, and are now in a great hurry for them— he is liberal in promises, for promises cost nothing—but a violation of truth. \ou are sure to have them on a set day—you fix your heart upon them— they are not done, but will be to-mor row—and may be this same story is repeated until it is as thread-bare as your old clothes, and your many disap pointments devour more than half your pleasures in your new ones. \ou take a piece to the weaver’s— you or your children are almost suffer mg for it. “It shall he done in a few days.” A few weeks elapse, some times months, and even years, before you get your piece woven—and if it is not injured by mice or moths, you have to thank their forbearance for it. The Miller promises you your grist the next morning. Morning comes, and not one grain of it is ground. Se veral days roll round—your corn is still in the bag, and not uufrecjuently re mains there till your hungry bellyache makes you roar loud enough to fright en it into the hopper. You want your grass cut, your har vest in, your grain threshed out—you engage a person to assist you—you may depend upon it he will not disappoint you; but if your hay and harvest ~ot on the field, or the rats devour your grain, before your laborer anives, you may console yourself with the reflection that you are not the first person that has been served so. It is not merely these descriptions of persons who forget to remember that “ Punctuality is the life of business;” the same forgetfulness infests all clas ses of mankind? The employer is as often as far from punctuality as the employed. Have not you, my readers, many of you, suffered your tailor, your shoemaker, your weaver, or other work men, to calf again and again before you paid them their just dues ? Besides robbing them of their money for a sea son, you rob them of their time in com | ing or sending for it—and “ time is j money.” If “ the laborer is woithyof j his hire,” ought it not to be paid him J when his labor is finished ? \ou, Mr. - (the sermonizer will not call names, but you know who he means) have owed your doctor a great while. He perhaps saved you from a speedy consignment to “ the house ap pointed for all living”—and now you requite his service by refusing to pay his honest demand. Ingratitude is the vilest of vices—for all others there may be some apology—for this, none. You, M. . have a long bill due at Mr 's store. Punctuality is, in a spe cial degree, the life of his business— without money he cannot get any goods —and without it, he had better sell none. \et you detain his money from him, and perhaps lay it out for other objects, not half so just or honorable. Sir, these things ought not so to be. '1 he parson, among other good men, feels, frequently too sensibly feels, your wantol punctuality. In this free coun try, no one is obliged to subscribe to the support of any minister: so much the more ought you to be punctual in pay ing the small pittance which you have promised “ the man of God.”—While he is toiling to furnish food for your im mortal souls, surely you should provide him with sustenance for his mortal body —while he is seeking to make your death bed easy, you cannot refuse your aid to render his life comfortable—Re member who has said “ the laborer is worthy of his hire.” Perhaps it may not be amiss to re member the printer in my discourse. He is in a very difficult and disagreea ble situation. He trusts every body, he knows not who—his money is scattered every where, he hardly knows where to look for it. His paper, his ink his presses and his types, his labor and his living, all must punctually be paid for. —\ou, Mr.. .and Mr. , and Mr. , and Mr. ——, and an hun dred others that I could name, have taken Mr. .’s paper a great"while—. you, and your wives, and your children, and your neighbors, have been amused and informed, and I hope improved by ’’ it—if you miss one paper you think ve t ry hard of the printer or post for it; for - you had rather go without your best meal than without your paper—have i you ever complied w ith the condition of 1 subscription ? Have you taken as much 1 pains to furnish the printer with his mo , ney as he has to furnish you with your l paper? Have you contributed your mite • to repay him for his ink, his paper, his i types, his presses, his hand-work and : his head work ?If you have not—go— ■ pay him off, “ and sin no more.” i Verily, brethren, this want of punctu ality is “ a sore evil under the sun”—an evil which is felt by ail ciasst3 and con ditions of life, and which all ought to unite to scout out of society. The scripture movelh us in sundry places to render unto every one his due, and to owe no man any thing and experi ence teacheth us that without punctual ity there is neither pleasure nor profit in business—But were it otherwise, promises ought not to be broken—“ for what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?” WONDERFUL PRESERVATION. From Warner's “ Walks through Wales.” IHE bridge at Usk is formed of wood, on a similar construction with that of Chepstow ; and the same reason is to be ascribed, for the tide at each place occasionally rising to the inertd ible height of fifty or sixty feet. The boards which compose the flooring of this bridge, are designedly loose, in or der to float with the tide when it ex ceeds a certain height, and are prevent ed from escaping only by little pegs at the ends of them ; they do not afford a very safe fooling for the traveller; and some aukward accidents have been known to arise from this cause. A sin gular adventure occurred to a female about twenty years ago, as she was passing it at night, which tells so much to the credit of the ladies, that it would be unpardonable in a tourist, who is less an admirer of the sex than myself, not to detail the particulars. T he heroine in question was a Mrs. W illiams, well known at the town of Usk, and living there till within these few years. She had been to spend a cheerful evening at a neighbor’s house on the eastern side of the river, and was returning home, I presume, at a decent hour, and in a decorous state. The night being extremely dark, she had provided herself with a lanthren and candle, by the assistance of which she found her way towards the bridge, and had already passed part of the dan gerous structure. When about half over, however, she unfortunately trod on a plank th*t had by some accident, lost the peg which originally confined it, and had slipped from its proper sit uation. Ihe faithless board instantly yielded to the weight cf the good lady, and carried her through the flooring, candle and lanthern into the river.— Fortunately, at the moment of falling, she was standing in such a position as gave her a seat on the plank, similar to that of a horseman on his nag. It may be easily imagined, that Mrs. V il liams must have been somewhat sur prised at this change of situation, as well as alteration of climate. Blessed however, with a large share of that presence of mind, and a patient endur ance of evils, which exalts the female character so far above our own, the good lady was not overwhelmed by her fall; and steadily maintained her seat on the board, taking care, at the same time, to preserve the candle lighted, rightly supposing it would serve as an “index to any one that might be able or will to assist her. Thus bestriding the plank, our heroine was hurried down the river towards Newport, the bridge ot which she trusted would stop her progress, or its inhabitants be alarmed at her cries. In both her hopes, how ever, she was disappointed; the rapid ity of a spring tide sent her through the arch with the velocity of an arrow discharged from the bow, and the good people of the town had been long wrapt in slumber. Thus situated, hen’ pros pect became each moment more des perate ; her candle was nearly extin guished, and every limb so benumbed with cold, that she had the greatest difficulty to keep her seat. Already had she reached the mouth of the Usk, and was on the point of encountering the turbulent waves of the British chan nel, when the master of a fishing boat, discovered the gleaming of her taper, and heard her call for assistance ; and after a considerable struggle between humanity and superstition, ventured at length to approach the floating wonder, and brought Mrs. Williams safely to the shore in his boat. A NR CD 0 TR S. A PROBABILITY. A clergyman being deprived for non conformity, said to his friends, “ That if he was turned out of the church, it might cost a hundred men their lives.” This strange speech being noticed abroad, he was summoned before a ma gistrate, and thus explained it. If I lose my benefice, I shall practice phys ic; and then! may, if I kill more than an hundred. A country squire asked his son, who had just come from school, what was meant by a circular letter ? Why father, it is a round letter, sent round the coun try, v/ith a round. seal, and often ailed with rouna-übvut things. COURTSHIP. The New-Hollanders observe no par ticular ceremony in their marriages, though their mode of courtship is not without its singularity. When a young man sees a female to his fancy, he in forms her she must accompany him home ; if the lady refuses, he not only enforces compliance with threats, but wit!) blows ; thus the gallant, according to the custom, never fails to gain the victory, and bears off the willing tho’ struggling pugilist. The colonists for some time entertain) d the idea that wo men were compelled and forced away against their 'consent; but the young ladies informed them, that this mode of „ gallantry was the custom, and perfectly to their taste. Adrni:nistratofs sale. lA VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, Wiil be Sold, On thr first Tuesday in October next, at the Court-house in Columbia county, to the highest bidder : TWO hundred and ninety Acres of Land, be the same more cr less, which said tract of land being a part of the real estate of David Perryman, dec. lying on the Great Kiokee creek, near the Court-house, adjoining Col. John Appli >g, and others—one hundred acres of said land is now- in cultiva tion, with a good mill ti e-eon, and a good spring, with a thriving Apple Or chard— Ihe terms will be made known on the day of Sule. Elisha Perryman, Adm’r. July 26. Executor's Saks. On Saturday the 13 th cf September next , at the late residence of Dixon Perry man, dec. part of the personal estate of said deceased. TWO negroes, Sam and Mourning, two guns, a Watch, a su of Sur veyor’s Instruments, and o'her ai ti< les too tedious to mention, will be sold to the highest bidder—Terms of sale, made know n on the day of sale. Da?,id Stanford , 7 r - Elisha Perryman , 5 i ' x ’ rs * Columbia County. £ July 26, 1306.' 1_ “ Administrator's sale . On Saturday the 1 Zth of September next, at the late residence of Dixon Perry man, dec. Will be Sold, THE whole of the personal estate of Jeremiah Perryman, deceased: To wit, one negro man, two horses, one set Black Smiths tools, two guns, and one hand saw—Terms of sale, • made known on the day of sale. Elisha Perryman , Adm’r. July 26. I__ ■NO i 1C Ik. All persons indebted to the estate of the late Dixon Perryman, cf the county of Columbia, are dtsireu to come forward and make payment— those who have claims against said es tate, will forward them w ithin the time prescribed by law fer payment. David Stanford , ?ip Elisha Perryman , x rs * July 26. i GEORGIA, Rich / irmd County. AT a meeting of the Honorable the Inferior Court , cti Monday the 7th Ju ly, 1806. Present — John Course, John Willson, John Catlett, Esquires Justices. ON the application of William But ler, stating that he is confined in the custody of the Sheriff, under a bail writ, issued at the suit of Michael and | John Conrad, 8c Co. and that he is un -1 able to pay the debt or give bail for the same, and praying the benefit of the act passed fur the relief of insolvent debtors. ORDERED, That the said William Butler notify his creditors either in per son or by giving sixty days notice in the Augusta Chronicle and Columbian Centinel, previous to the first Monday in October next, at which lime an ex amination will be had, and a discharge granted, if no cause is shewn to the contrary ; and the Sheriff is hereby commanded to have the body of the said Williatp Butler before us, at 11 o’clock, at the Court-house, on the said first Monday in October next. Taken from the Minutes. MATTHEW FOX, Cl'k. July 12. 55