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i»^ , A.t£jHgiß> , aiivw>iJw»gar! i x Fnwwim>ti«wrw POETICAL SELECTIONS. AN EXTRACT, Addressed to a person inhabiting and defiling street, in the town of ■ (>, SAY, thou enemy, to soap and towels, Hast no compassion lurking in thy bowels? Think what thy neighbors suffer by thy whim, Os keeping self and house in such a trim ? The Officers of Health should view the scene, And put thy shop and thee in quarantine. Consider thou, in summer’s ardent heat, When various means are tried tocool the street What much each decent neighbor suffer then, From noxious vapors issuing from thy den ? Say, if within the street, where thou dost dwell, F.ach house were kept exactly like thy cell; O, sav, thou enemy to brooms and mops! How long thy neighbors could keep open shops; If following thee in taste, each wretched elf, Unsbav’d, unwash’d and squali d like thyself, Resolv’d to live ?—The answers very plain, O tc year would be the utmost of their reign ; Victims to I,’rh, each vot’ry soon would fall. And one grand gaol distemper kill them all. THE ROVER’S REFORM. JERKY’S heart was form’d for loving, But inconstant as the air, Round the brilliant circle roving, He admir’d each lovely Fair. Some lie lov’d for pure good nature, Some for shape, and some for feature, Some for one thing, some arm: her, This he lov’d for being small, For her size he lov’d the other, And in faith he lov’d them all. Who would think that such a rover Cottld consent to take a wife, And become a constant lover For the period of his life ? J BititY vow’d he’d never marry— No one girl was form’d for Jerry. Marriage thoughts were too alarming, Well he lov’d the enchanting Fair, But, “ Variety is charming^’ Was to him a charming air. Soon, however, lovely Sally, Borrow’d Clip in’s surest dart, And before he’d time to rally Pierc’d the roving lover's heart, j nitty lov’d— resolv’d to marry — Sally made a spouse of Jerry. Who in one alone delighted, Finds his former notions ill, For, though long they’ve been united, Jerry love* his Sally still. ANECDOTES OF DRINKING. I HJJARD of a company of Dutch seaniet},' thAt had dfapk so deep, that, beginning, tjo stagger,, aqd their heads turning round? thegs UkAght, verily, they were at sea, and trail the upper chamber where thfey were was a ship; insomuch that, it', bung foul .windy wea ther, they fell to throwing the stools and other things where they were out of the window,- to lighten the vessel, for fear of suffering shipwreck. In a sermon preached 1615, the preacher says, “ Now all over the land, the Justice of Peace i&mild, and the drunkard merry, which two, you know} will amend no sinner. 1 will tell yoif a story, in Athcmnis, of an ale that came to be The Sign of the Gal lev, upon this occasion. The roaring boys, meeting at a house, drank so that their brains being overwhelmed, they thought all that was about them to be the sea, and the room where they sat a galley, so tossed with the waves that they feared drowning, and there fore. as men in danger of shipwreck, they threw all things that came to hand out of the window into the street, pots, plate and furniture, to lighten the ship; •whifiltbeing taken up, and carried away by such.as came bv, the magistrates the next morning comes to punish them for the disorder ; but they, not having yet slept out their drink, answered thus, “ That it was better to cast all into the sea. than the galley, wherein they were should be sunk, and so ma ny brave gentlemen be cast away.”— And while the magistrates wondered at their drunken imagination, another, creeping from omler the table, where h.e had lien all night, replied, thinking the magistrates to have been gods of . the sea, “ And I, O ye, Tritons, for ' fear laid me down under the hatch es.” Which distemper of theirs the .. officers perceiving, went their way, and .**, . forgiving them, bade “Doso no more | to whom they all give this thank, “ If ever we escape this storm, and get safe to land, we vow you statues, and will set up your images in our country as to our saviors.” St k ph a no, the drunken butler in the Ternftext, is led to the adoption of naval language by the influence of the grape; “ Tell not me !—When the butt is out, we will drink water ; not a drop before ; therefore bear ufi and board, ’em." From the Cumberland Register. The following articles have been related to the Editor, by a gentleman oj un doubted veracity. About the close of the American war, this gentleman, being at an Indian town in Louisiana, at the confluence of two rivers, he observed an Alligator swimming on the surface of the water, hut paid little attention to it, being no thing uncommon in that part of the world ; but hearing a splash in the wa ter he instantly looked round, and saw an Indian swimming directly towards it; tiie animal no sooner saw him, than it came to meet him ; when they met, it opened its jaws to devour him, but he thurst his hand into his mouth and im mediately wheeled round and made for tl.e shore : the Alligator began to make a considerable struggle, but in a few minutes turned on his back and died ; the Indian then hauled him out of the water, and tiie gentleman, who had all this time been thinking on what could be the cause of its death, was surprised to see that the Indian had taken a piece oi wood, which was sharpened at both ends ; this lie had dexterously set into its mouth, which when it made the snap at him, stuck last into both the upper and under jaw, from which it could not clear itself or close its mouth, and ol consequence must suffocate. 1 lie same gentleman gives us a pe culiar instance of Indian barbarity : lie says, that on his return to Pennsylva nia, in company with an English cap tain who had brought goods to New-Or leans, to trade with the Greeks and Cherokee Indians, he was one day at an Indian funeral, the person deceased was a woman, who had left behind her a young child who had not as yet been taken from the breast; the infant was carried to the grave by a young woman, a near relation of the deceased, who, when the mother was put in -the grave, looked round and asked each of the per sons present if they would take the child and officiate as a parent to it, but no person would undertake the charge ; when she saw this, she clasped her hand on the child’s mouth, with its nose between her fingers and thumb, and held it in this manner for a considera ble time, which put an end to its exist ence, and as soon as it appeared to be dead, she laid it in the grave with its mother, where both were buried toge ther. From this instance of barbarity, we may see the wonderful power of custom upon the minds of mankind; for it would appear from this transac tion, that the next successive relative had the disposal of the children that were unable to provide for themselves, not only to raise them, but even to put them to death at pleasure, when it did not suit their convenience or inclination to foster them. GEORGIA, Richmond County. AT a meeting of the Honorable the Inferior Court, on 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*, Sc, Co. and that he is un able to pay the debt or give bail for the same, and praying the benefit of the act passed for the relief of insolvent debtors. ORDERED, That the said William Butler notify his creditors either in per son or by giving'-sixtv days notice in the Augusta Chronicle and Columbian Centinel, previous to the first Monday in October next, at which time 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 William Butler before us, at 11 o’clock, at the Court-house, on the said first Monday in October next, i Taketi from the Minutes. MATTHEW FOX, Cl’k. July 12. 55 SHERIFF’S SALE. On the first Tuesday in October next, at j the Court-house in IVaynesborough, Burke county, at the usual hows , Will be Sold, ONE black horse taken as the property of Michael Collins, at the in stance of Nicholas Ware, Esq. ALSO, One third part of a crop of corn, fodder and cotton, ten heads of hogs, and sundry articles of house hold furniture ; taken as the property of Thomas Wall, at the instance otJohn Wimpy and others. ALSO, One black Horse about ten years old, was taken out of the posses sion of Eli Johns, as the property of James M‘Key, at the instance of James Welch. ALSO, One hundred acres of land ad joining lands of Edward Telfair, in the Long Ridges, called the Plank Land ing on Savannah river, taken as the property of Francis Parris, dec. at the instance of Win. Stobo. ALSO, •; A likely young negro woman about twenty-one years of age, and a likely negro boy about twelve or four teen years of age. Conditions of Sale, Cash. Gross Scruggs , S. B. C. August 30. 6 SHERIFF’S SALE. i On the first Tuesday in October next , at the Court-House in Warren county , at the usual hours , Will be Sold, 450 ACRES of land, one oth er tract of one hundred acres with a good Dwelling House, and all necessa ry out buildings, with a very consider able clearing and in good order for cul tivation, situate and lying on both sides of Ogechee ; taken as the property of Samuel Alexander, at the instance of Mary Griffith, Administratrix, re-sold at the risk of the former purchaser, he not having esmplied with the conditions of the former sale. ALSO, 200 acres of landjpth a good Griss Mill, lying and being on Sweet- Water, originally granted to Elijah Bragg, known by the name of Embree’s Mill; taken as the property of Martin Hayes, at the instance of David New som—the above property pointed out by the defendant. Cqnditions, Cash. Jeremiah Beall , S. JV. C. August 30. 6 SHERIFF’S SALE. On the first Tuesday in October next, at the court-house in Lincoln county , at at the usual hours , Will be Sold, ONE tenth part of the follow ing tracts of Land, it being the distri butive share of Josiah M‘Call as one of the distributees of John Gamble, de ceased. ALSO, 150 Acres in said county, o% Pistol Creek, adjoining Jerrard Suddeth and Thomas Cosey. ALSO, 100 acres on said creek adjoin ing Lot House and Isaiah Wellis, tak en by virtue of an execution, Jesse Mills vs. Josiah M‘Call. ALSO, 263 acres second quality, more or less, in said county on Savannah ri ver, joining Ware and M‘Kinney, taken as the property of Minor Winn, to sa tisfy an execution, Nathaniel P. Beach vs. said Winn. ALSO, 100 acres second quality, more or less, in said county joining James M‘Corkle on Loyd’s creek, taken by virtue of an execution, Basil Lamar vs. VVilliam Greaves and Alexander John ston levied on as the property of said Johnston. ALSO, $0 acres of land more or less, joining Micajah Henry and Sarah Webb, on Loyd’s creek, taken as the property of William Matthews, to sa tisfy three executions in favor of Allen Mabry vs. the said Matthews—return ed to me by constable. Conditions, Cssh. John Stovall, d. s. l. c. August 23.? . ■ 5 SHERIFF’S SALE. ! On the fir fit Tuesday in December next , at the Court-house in Warren county ut the usual hours , Will be Sold, ONE large bay mare, seized ! by execution on a mortgage from John M'Kinzie in favor of Joshua Williams. Conditions, Cash. J. Beall , S. IF. C. September 13. 8— ADVERTISEMENT EXTRA. G. S. Houston, & Co • Respectfully inform the public that they have recently received from LEE’S PATENT AND Family Medicine WARE-HOUSE, NEW-YORK, an additional and Fresh Supply of those valu able Medicines, which, as annodynes, preven tions or cures of the diseases to which the hu man body is subject, either from imprudence, change of climate, accidents or natural are unrivalled—in the words of an old physician on this subject, we may add. Expenntia Docct— they having now been in general use through out the United States, for seven years past* and attended with general success, when used agreeable to the directions ; for, in the lan guage of Chesterfield. “ If ’tis worth while to use a thing, “ ’Tis worth while to us* it right." They are well known and attested to by nu merous certificates in our possession, as un parrallelled in the following diseases: Worms, Itch, Coughs & Colds Diseases of the Asthma, Eyes, Consumption, Ringworms, Gout, Tetters, &c. Rheumatism, Inward weak- Sprains, nesses, Palsey, Nervious disor- Head Ache, ders, Tooth Ache, Ague & Fever, Corns, &c. &c. To those afflicted with nervous disorders, lowness of spirits, loss of appetite, indigestion, &c. Bcc. is recommended Hamilton's Grand Restorative. It is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparalleled in the cure of Nervous disorders, Consumptions, Lowness of Spirits, Loss of Appetite, Impurity of Blood, Hysterical Affections, Inward and Seminal tV eakness, Flour albus (or whites) Barrenness, Violent cramp in the stomach and back,' In digestion, Melancholy, Gout in the Stomach, Pains in the Limbs, Relaxations, involuntary Emissions, Impotency, &c. &c. Hamilton's Worm-Destroying Lozenges. Which have within four years past, cured upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand persons of both sexes, of every age and in e very situation, of various dangerous complaints arising from worms and from obstructions or foulness in the stomach and bowels. Hamilton's Elixir ; A sovereign remedy for colds, obstinate coughs asthmas, sore throats, and approaching consumptions. —l hey are particularly recom mended to parents who may have"children afflicted with the Hooping Cough. The Anodyne Elixer , For the cure of every kind of head ache. The Damask Lip Salve, Is recommended (particularly to the ladies as an elegant and pleasant preparation) for chopped and sore lips, and every blemish and inconvenience occasioned by colds, fever, he. speedily restoring a beautiful rosy color and de icate softness to the lips. The Genuine Persian Lotian, Celebrated for preventing and removing blemishes of the face and skin of every kind, particularly freckles, pimples, pits after the I small pox, &c. Gotland’s real and genuine Lotion. Hahn's Anti-Bilious Pills , Are recommended for the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers. Restorative Pomderjor the Teeth if Gums * Dr. Hahn's Genuine Eye-Water. A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes. Tooth-At ne Drops. The only remedy yet discovered, which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most >•' severe instances. The Sovereign Ointment for the Itch , Which is warranted an infallible remedy in one application. Anderson's Pills , ifc. 1 Hamilton's Essence and Extract cj Mustard , Celebrated for the cure of the Gout, Rheu matism, Palsey, Sprains, Bruises, &c. A large and Fresh supply of the Indian. Vegitable Specific , A safe, speedy, and pleasant cure for a cer tain dreadful disease— Prepared by Dr.Leraux. The above medicines sold only by appoint ment cf the sole Inventor and proprietor, at their Store, Broad-street, Augusta. January 11. 29 NOTICE. ALL persons having any bu siness with Capt. John B. Barnes, will pLase call on the subscribers. Nicholas 11 at C, Attomics, for James BtggS, Capt. Barnes. July 19.