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POETICAL SELECTION si FOR THE CENTLYF.L. MR. RANDOLPH, lx this ])ropitious time of Econom; and accumulation, the following feeble essa\ to wards diverting the leisure moments of your readers, and of exposing to public view, cer tain occurrence . and customs, deserving pub lic disapprobation, may not be wholly unwor thy your attention, or of insertion in ycur im partial paoer. 'THE GOLDEN AGE, OR STATE Os NATURE REVIVED. TELL me ye knowing ones, tell me I pray, W hy Itos a, charming, blooming, young Sc gav Should cloister’d he, by revern’d age for life, (With spirits choice, and feeble flesh at strife) To mourn some joyless nights and cheerless days, And on far happier scenes of life to ga/.e In sad de pondt ncy.—The reason’s plain, The glorious golden age’s return’d again ! A golden chain can youthful fires assuage, Confound distinctions just, ’twixt ytouth and age; Make hoarv age assume the garb of youth, And youthful minds forsake the pathsof truth. We’re in a state of nature, sure—’tis plain, (And consequently in a golden reign) Where oft we see within one lasting noose, The aged gander with the gosling goose ; And vice versa, see the callow he Chattering, shivering, near the aged she; Eut stranger still behold the lordly swan And ebon goose to make a pair anon ! Then let us hail those times, those glorious times. When with fair freedom and the first of climes, Columbians taste the heavenly bliss again, Df “ follow ing nature in a golden reign.” JUVENAL, jr. PRLY'TLYCi. BY MRS. Oo XSTANTIA GRIERSON. HAIL Mystic Art! which Men like An gels taught, To speak to eyes, and paint embodied thought! 1 he deaf and dumb, blest skill, reliev’d by thee, We make one sense perform the task of three. We see....we hear....we touch the head & heart, And take or give what each but yields in part; With the hard laws of distance we dispense, And, without sound, apart, commune in sense; View, tho’ confin’d, nay, rule this earthly ball, And travel o’er the wide expanded all. Dead letters thus with living notions fraught, Prove to the soul the telescope of thought; I'o mortal life immortal honor give, And hid all deeds and titles last and live. In scanty life Eternity we taste, \ iew the first ages, and inform the last; Arts, History, Laws, we purchase with a look, And keep, like Fate, all nature in a Book. THE JUSTE ST PORTRAIT Os Napoleon Bonaparte, that ever urns exhibited. EXTRACT. Difficult indeed is the tusk of drawing ouch a Portrait in genuine colons, and as tracing it* features by the linea ments of im/iartiality and truth. Few men, ij any, exist without fiurticulur predilections and aversions ; which, when applied to national or personal competitions, render a fair and candid appreciation still more difficult. The author, who has probably pourttdyed his character with the greatest success, is an F.nglishman in Paris, Mr. Tho mas l:o i croft, who married a French latlu, aval resided a considerable time on the spot. Ilis delineations in mam/ respects, bespeak the hand of a master; and where his coloring is defective, it may be attributed to the difficulty of pourtraying so extraordinary a Prince with classical precision. In his “ tra vels from Hamburgh, through West phalia, Holland, and the Netherlands, to Paris,” from which the following extract is taken, he first enumerates ! the vices,and then the virtues of his hero, j “ R >s the turn and concurrence of, circumstances, that give the powers of man their direction, stamp his charac ter, and reconcile him to courses of ac tion ; such even, as he may have once held in abhorrence. In all the ardor ot youth, when the intemperate ima gination knew not where to rest, be iore principles had been fixed by expe rience, yet n. i ii:l after a burning thirst ol lame had been excited in him, Bo naparte found that dangerous engine, that implement of human misery, an army, at his command, and prompt to j effect whatever purpose his rapid geni- j us could conceive. He soon discover- > ed the necessity there was to give that i coloring to events that might produce ’ the effects intended : to conceal, j to deceive to fix the attention on 1 false points, to flatter peasants, to speak to princes in the lofty tone of menace, to spur the soldier to attack by the hopes of plunder, to hang him after wards for the crime; to promise friend ship to the vanquished, and then to raise contributions, and strip them of all they esteemed most precious; these soon became the daily occurrences of his active warfare ! Oh, had his genius received another direction, had he been impelled with no less force into the paths ■ of wisdom and benevolence, what a bless ing to the world would he have been ! “ In Egypt he found a race much more ignorant, more depraved, and therefore still more addicted to the arts I ar ' of deceit, than in Italy ; and jie bent ] i bis powers to the task of overcom | i n g them in every member. Could j they fight? He conquered them as well 'in valor as in sagacity. Could they mislead and wear the mask of hypocri sy ? Even in this they were not his equals. Still his mighty mind gave ftub lic fir oofs of the warnings and impulses it received from truth ; to the man of dis- there are passages in his state flutters, that shew with •what force it struck him ; and prove his grandeur oj thought . To this hour, changed as he gradually has been, and j loaded as his horizon is with the clbuds of splenetic ambition, it nevertheless occa sionally emits a luminous bcant. But the most fatal of all the circumstances which has unfitted him for the task he has assumed to himself, which is no less than that of governing Europe, is, that he has been habituated to the com mand of armies. u I have several times, says Mr. Holer oft, been close to Napoleon ; his stature is diminutive, his complexion sallow, and his physiognomy bears those marks which denote the labors ol bis mind ; it is care-worn, but it is also susceptible of great variety. From his atrabillarious complexion, choler ■ might be certainly predicted; butirom tne sedaleness of his eye, not of that sudden and impetuous kind to which lie is so very subject. There are va rious traits, public and private, that discover this mighty Chief to have at tempted to copy Alexander, while he was in Egypt; Cxsar during his Ita lian campaigns, and Charlemagne since he assumed the Imperial purple.— Alien traversing the sands of Syria and Egypt, he did not forget the Ly bian deserts; Alexander was then his model, ile placed a large statue of Cxsar, allowed to be of excellent work manship, fronting his apartment in the I huilleries, that he might have it in daily contemplation. Since the addi tion of Helvetia and Italy t 0 i,i s dO - mains, he has imitated the power of Charlemagne. To sum up with accu racy the various characters of this ex traordinary personage, is a task to which few persons will find themselves adequate. There are two parties in direct contradiction to each other; and both ol them equally violent in asser tion. One set of them attribute to mm every human excellence ; in their eyes he is not a man, but a deity • another will not allow that he ever pos sessed eminence of talent, discovered a single virtue, or performed one ac tion that cun be called good. “ Let those who affirm that the sa gacious Napoleon foresaw all that has been or might be accomplished; plan ned all that has been atchieved, and with power little less than Omnipotent, insured military conquest, and com mander. civil triumph ; let these parti sans enquire, whether a mind so capa cious, could have been betrayed into acts, so many of which are puerile, so many more absurd, and a still greater number are malevolent and destruc • Uw. ie nature of true greatness has ever been, and will be beneficicnt. II Ins plans were so truly profound, would not his means be more certain, j hls CoU J more even, and his end more j stclUe ' ls taciturnity in private, ap -1 P ears t° be pride; but in his public j acts, lus selfishness is too great to com i niand aspect. Power, such as his par tisans would have the world to believe lie possesses, would better understand itself, would act in silence, and strike in the dark; it would pursue the even tenor of its way, and disdain to vapor o.i t 0 s °othe. 1 he excess of the pas sions uniformly rob men of their sound judgment, and render them malignant and base. . those who will not allow the Emperor of 1- ranee any one good quali ' ty, what shall be answered ? Let them 1 j jo °ki n to history, and find under whose j real or apparent command, actions so ! numerous and great have been per j formed by a man of feeble mind, j irresolute in conduct, and inconsistent jin bis plans. Let them scrutinize the • j Powers of the mind, and prove, if it be I possi.de, from Let or from deduction, ! | V°' v u shoul( l happen in times so dread- , ■ mjly contentious, that debility could ob- ! j tain and preserve the rule ; conquer I enemies abroad, subvert rivals in pow- I e . r at h°m e > profit by foreign and intes- 1 tine broils, overawe or reconcile sac- tions, change the capricious destinies of a capricious people, to that which despotism calls order ; and establish a i new dynasty, which, in ages of greater * i ignoi ance, would long have continued - permanent and beyond controul. Truth 1 is always found between the extremes, < Napoleon is an extraordinary man who has lived in still more extraordinary times. The grand events of these times were many of them military ; so, as it happened, was his education, and so were his propensities.—Such was the lortuitous favor of circumstances, that they caused him to appear a prodigy, A first campaign elevated him to the rank of a hero, the second showed him a God ; he seemed to command events ; in reality they cammanded him ; they were his creator. “ Early habits had powerfully concur ed to fit him for the future accidents under which he became placed and this pre-disposition, and these accidents, were further aided by a mind of such ardor, and of such prolific ambition, th at he has been hurried through the various gradations which similar minds have travelled ; and does, and will only differ from them in similarity of fate, as far as circumstances have varied and shall hereafter vary: Sallow complexion, length of face, a pointed nose, a projec ting chin, and prominent cheek bones, have distinquishecl the countenances of fanatics and persecutors. Fanatics and persecutors were often men of power ful minds, but violent passions ; and be tween such men and the Emperor of France, allowing for times and circum stances, in physiognomy, in talents, and in manner of acting, there is a great re semblance.” SHERIFF’S SALE. On the first Tuesday in December next, at the Court Douse in Lincoln county , at the usual hours, Will be Sold, A TR ACT of land in the coun ty of Lincoln, on the waters of Savan nan river, containing 200 acres more or less, joining Thos. Walton and others, known by the name of Clark’s fishing place ; which tract of land is levied on as the property of John Clark, to satis fy an execution in favor of Thomas Mounger, fcfco. against West Harris, and Scott Montgomery, and also, John Clark, as being security on the appeal. ALSO, One hundred acres of Land, more or less, on the waters of Little River, joining Walker and Dill; levi ed on as the property of John Gordey, to satisfy sundry executions against said Gorely and Charles Kennon, and re turned to me by a constable. C. Stovall , S. L. C. November 1. 15 SHERIFF’S SALIC On the first Tuesday in December nsxt at the Court House in Warren county , at the usual hours, Will be Sold, 300 ACRES of land on the waters ot Briar Creek, adjoining Mer cer and others. ALSO, 202 1-2 acres of land in Bald win county, No. 219, 3d District; levi ed on as the property of David Robert son, at the instance of Wm. White, adm’r. ALSO, One bed and furniture, levied on as the property of Peter Hodo, at the instance of Thomas Springer. ALSO, One mare and colt, and twenty barrels of corn, levied on as the proper ty ol Edmund Dunaway, at the instance of Josiah Beall. ALSO, 100 acres of land adjoining Henry Hight and Rudicil waters o Hart’s creek, levied on as the property of \\ illis Perry, at the instance of Cha pel Heath ; the above pointed out by the defendants. Conditions Cash. Jeremiah Beall, s. w. c. November 1, 1806. 15 SHERIFF’S SALE. 0?i the first Tuesday in December next , at the Court House in Waynesborougli , Burke county, at the usual hours, Will be Sold, ONE. tract of land containing two hundred acres, adjoining land of Thomas Davies, deceased, and others, on the waters of Boggy Gut, taken as 1 the property of Thomas Spright, dec. • at the instance of Luke Deane. ALSO, One Sulkey taken as the pro- * perty of William Maxwell, to satisfy r f ields Kennedy, and others. t ALSO, One tract of land containing five hundred acres, adjoining lands of Amos Whitehead, and the estate of - Jones, deceased, taken as the ' property ol Isaac Walker, to satisfy the ( executors of James Jones, deceased. [ Conditions Cash. Gross Scruggs, S. B. C. J November 1, ISO 6. 15 SHERIFF’S SALE. Oil the fir at Tuesday in December next, at the Court-house in Warren county at the usual hours, Will be Sold, OaL large buy mare, seized by execution on a mortgage from John M‘Kinzie in fjtvor of Joshua Williams Conditions, Cash. J. Beall , W. C. September IC. 8 ADVERTISEMENT EXTRA. G. 6 r . Houston, & Co. Respectfully inform the public tha they have recently received from LEE’S PATENT AND Family Medicine AVARE-HOUSE, NEW-YORK, an additional and Fresh Supply of those valu able Medicines, which, as annodvnes, preven tions or cures of the diseases to which the hu rnan body is subject, either from imprudence, c.iange ot climate, accidents or natural causes, are unrivalled—in the words cf an old physician on this subject, we may add. 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The Sovereign Ointment for the Itch , AVhich is warranted an infallible remedv in one application. . Anderson's Pills , Wc. Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, Celebrated for the cure of the Gout, Rheu matism, Palsev, Sprains, Bruises, he. A large and Fresh supply of the Indian Vegiiable Specific, A safe, speedy, and pleasant cure for a cer tain dreadful disease-—Prepared by Dr.Leraux. d he aoove medicines sold only by appoint ment cl J’s sole Inventor and proprietor, at their Store, Broad-street, Augusta. January 11. 29 ~ found, IN the store of the subscriber, last week, a. note of hand for one hun dred and twenty dollars, with twenty dollars credit on the bark. The owner by proving said note and paying for this advertisement, can have it by applying to NATHANIEL P. BEACH. v November 1, 1886. 15