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POETICAL SELECTIONS.
From the New-York Lady’s
y LINES
On visiting th« grave of the little girl who
died from Arnold’s cruelty.
Poor babe ? poor babe! What bro’t me here ?
For now my heart begins to bleed,
Enough I’ve mourn'd the horrid deed!
Enough for you have dropp’d the tear!
Yes, when your story sad was read,
No more I talk’d, no more 1 smil’d,
My soul in horror all recoil’d,
Sleep '*mg that night my pillow fled.
In vain I strove to think no more,
In vain to close my heavy eyes,
Your scene of suffering would arise,
And bid my tears in torrents pour.
Sometimes your image would appear,
Peaceful as when at first the book
Into your little hands you took,
And little thought what doom was there.
And then the tyrant’s threats were heard,
And then to see you sob and cry,
Your infant accents vainly try,
In vain to name the fatal word.
Then eager eye again the page,
But fear and anguish cloud your sight,
Still farther farther from the right.
Still, fiercer still, the tyrant’s rage.
And then the murd’ring rods combin’d,
And then your frantic look and shriek—
Is there a heart that would not break,
Or then sot you some succor find!
Weak was the pity * that could see
A child, hut only six years old,
A winter’s day, intensely cold,
Bound seven times lraked to a tree.
Cold, cold, indeed, that blast did blow,
That caus’d you faultVmg to entreat,
“ Oh, uncle, let me warm my feet,”—
’Midst all your complicated woe.
But why your sufferings still deplore!
The dreadful hour has long been past,
No more you’ll hear the wintry blast,
Nor pain nor grief can touch you more.
Yet oh! it was not always so; —
Your lisle image re-appears
In bleeding wounds, and freezing tears,
Your little life at ebb and flow.
Cease, fancy, cease ? ’tis now no more—
And let the green sod wrap the clay:
Why would's: thou draw the vail away
And o’er the pale corse sorrowing pore.
Why o’er the little mournful face,
The mangled limbs, the clay cold breast,
The little hands together prest,
The scene of death again retrace ?
Happv the bark, from stormy deeps
Moor’d safely at some friendly shore|!
On her life’s tempests beat no more,
She wakes to bliss, or sweetly sleeps.f
Oh world of wrongs! can this be so!
But loudly speaks this little grave,
There it a power above will have
Vengeance for every wrong below.
How sad the spot....now fades the day....
Its gloom hangs heavy at my heart....
Poor innocent! 1 must depart,
And to the village haste away.
There to enquire your mother’s fate.
And if -ime’s lenient hand has brought
Reason to her distracted thought,
Or still she, fran.ic, cries, “ Too late;”
" Too late, my murder’d child! too late!
“ Ah mons er, art thou now secure !
“ Restore my murder’d child! restore—
“ Ah, no! too late ! too late ! too late !”
* It appears that Arnold’s wife was a wit
ness to the scene.
•}- Till the great day of resurrection.
MATERNAL COMFORTS.
With soft concern the happy matron views
The smi'ing infant to her bosom prest:
And on its face each well-known line pursues,
That in the father’s semblance glows con
fest.
With secret joy she sees her cherub play,
And sport, and wreathe its dimpling lips
around,
And many an anxious minute whiles away,
In rapt attention to its lisping sound.
'At length the words just syllabled, are heard,
The little stamm’rer taught by rote to speak,
And every accent by the voice preferr’d,
Affords the gossip converse for a week:
And, in a pastime rational as this
Consists, unalloy’d, the parent’s bliss.
Wjs opinion, the sublime pa
thos of tu'e fallowing effusion has sel
dom been stC. r P assed or equalled in any
language.
THE OFFSPRING OF MERCY.
A GERMAN PAkWLE.
When the Almighty wa.' about to.
create man, he summoned btto. rc him
the angels of his attftbutes, the w K nc ! 1 '
es of his dominions— they stood in
council round his hidden throne. Cre
ate him not said the angel of Justice. |
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he will not be equitable to his brethren,
he will oppress the weak. Create him
not sa : d the angel of Peace, he will
manure the soil with human blood ;
the first-born of his race will be the
slay-r of his brother. Cieate him not
said the angel of Truth, he will defile
thy sanctuary with falsehood, although
thou should stamp his coCmtenaßce
thine image, the seal of confidence.—
So spake the angels of the attributes of
Jehovah; when Mercy the youngest
and dearest child of the Eternal, arose,
and clasping his knees, create him fa
ther said she, in thy likeness, the dar
ling of thy loving kindness: when all
thy messengers forsake him, I will
seek and support him, and turn his
faults to good, because he is weak, I
will incline his bowels to compassion,
and his soul to atone. When he de
parts from peace, from truth, from jus
tice, the consequences of his wander
ings shall deter him from repeating
them, and shall gently lead him to a
mendment.
The father of All gave ear, and cre
ated man a weak faultering being, but
in his faults, the pupil of Mercy, the
son of ever-active and ameliorating
love.—Remember thine origin then,
Oh man ! when thou art hard and un
kind to thy brother : Mercy alone will
ed thee to be ; —love and pity suckled
thee at their bosoms.
Samuel Wigfall,
Informs his friends and the public that
he has taken Mr. Da vht'M'Kisnet
into Co-partnership , and that their
business will hereafter be car
ried on under the firm of
W igfall & M Kinney
By this arrangembnt they will be
enabled to keep on hand a constant
supply of the best selected materials,
SADDLES,
BRIDLES, HARNESS, SsV.
AT THEIR
Manufactory,
NEAR THE
CITY-HOTEL, AUGUSTA.
Where orders shall be particularly
attended to, and they hope, from their
attention to business, and from the faith
ful execution of their workmanship, to
merit a continuance of those favors that
have been so liberally conferred.
May 30. 2m 45
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber having taken Ro
bert Doyne into Partnership,
will in future carry on business at his
old stand, under the firm of
Da? forth & Doyne,
WHO OFFER rOR SALE
A VERY GENERAL
ASSORTMENT OF
DRY GOODS
AND
Groceries.
Which they will dispose of on the
lowest terms for cash or produce.
Jacob Danforth.
June 20. 6t 48—
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On the first Tuesday in August next , at
the Court House in Waynesborough ,
Burke county , at the usual hours
Will be Sold,
ONE likely Negro Girl, levied
on as the property of Blanche Palmer,
at the instance of Stephen Collins, tor
the use of John Pollock and others.
Gross Scruggs, s. b. c.
Waynesborough, >
June 27, 1807. 3 49
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On the first Tuesday in August next , at
the Lincoln Court-house t at the usual
hours ,
Will be Sold,
26 ACRES of land granted
to James Hutchinson, on Soap creek,
adjoining at the time of survey, Stovall,
». Muckelmurry and Wright’s land
1 levied on aS the property of James
Hutchinson, to satisfy an execution in
1 favor of Joseph Hutchinson.
John Stovall, d. s. l. c.
| July 4, 1807. 50
T'* ' v *'
The Celebrated Imported Horse
WH IP.
Wt respectfully take the liberty
of addressing you, and those of your
friends, who may wish to breed from
fine horses, and who may not have seen
our advertisments in the papers, of the
cofßinuation of the season ol WHIP, in
the town of Washington, until the 20th
of September next. WHIP will stand
at 31 dollars each mare, payable by
note the first of January next. Mal ts
left with the horse, led as directed at the
market price of grain. Every possible
care will be taken, but not liable for any
kind of accidents that may happen,
It may be well to observe, that we
have received information from gentle
men of known veracity, that Whip’s
colts have this spring distinguished
themselves on the several Virginia turfs
(where all the best bred colts run.) We
subjoin an extract from the Virginia
Argus, that will prove that his colt won
perhaps the greatest sweepstake that
ever has been contended for in Ameri
ca—l 6or 18 colts having entered, by
the best imported horses, out of the best
running mares, and only four started.
Edward .Jordan,
Joseph Barnet,
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
Neh'-Marker Spring Meeting 1807.
First day dfiril 21 st—4 Post Swee/i
--takeJor 3 year olds —2oo dollars en
trance,
Collier Harrison’s b. c. Hickory,
by Whip, 11
W. R. Johnson’s g. c. ,
by Magic, 3 2
Miles Selden’s s. c. Foreman,
by Dragon, 2 dis.
John Macßac’s s. c. Alfred, by
Clifdtn, dis.
FOR a detail of Whip’s pedigree
and performances I must refer you to
the printed advertisements in News-pa
pers and Handbills, which contain a full
account of both ; and as I have referred
tothe Racing Calenders and Stud Book,
(which I keep with him,) I may with
safety vouch for the accuracy of his
pedigree, and the account of his supe
riority on the turf of England, having
never lost a race where there were
heats, although he contended with the
best racers of his day, and ran match
races, and carried from 20 to 30 lbs.
and beat with ease. As it was my wish
to purchase a first rate imported horse,
I spent several months in the spring of
1803, in reviewing the several imported
horses, 8c making critical observations
on their colts, 8c after full consideration,
I was induced to give Whip the pre
ference for blood, figure, action, and the
sire of colts. It may be necessary only
to add, that Whip is by Saltram, his
dam by King Herod ; which pedigree,
all other horses are eagre to attain, —
but I believe there is none so near a re
lative. If you should be inclined to send
any mares, you may rest assured, that
the greatest attention will be paid them,
By Your most obedient servant,
EDWARD JORDAN.
May 28th 1807.
CERTIFICATE.
AT the request of Mr. Edward Jor
dan, who has lately purchased the im
ported horse Whip I do certify that
the said horse has stood for the two last
seasons within 3 4ths of a mile of my
residence, that I have seen in the pas
tures attached to his stand during the
last season, Several colts and fillies at a
time (at least a dozen in number) got by
him, epual, and in my opinion, superi
or in point of form and size to to any
equal number I have ever seen got by
other horses. I also believe him to be
as sure a foal getter as any horse in
America. Any gentleman inthis neigh
borhood who may accord with my opin
ion, will do no more than justice to the
reputation of the horse, and also oblige
Mr. Jordan by adding their signatures.
George Ruffin.
Ldmund Ruffin John J. Heath
Jas. T. Hubbard Thos. Gault
Roger Atkinscn John Jones
Fred. R. Batte Wm. Glover
George Cocke W. Eppes
PeterEppes Stith Gregory.
Van Leonard Reace Rollings
Thos. Gray Edw. Markes
Joseph Ford Thos. Morrison
James Cocke Sterling Gary
John Avery Briggs Reaves
Jesse Heath John Markes
Wm. Cole Jas. Cureton.
Isaac Hill John Batte
Prince-George county, Dec. 11, 1804.
P. S. We learn by the Charleston
papers that a Whip colt also won the
Great Sweepstakes at Norfolk lately.
THE season of the
Imported Horse WHIP, will continue
until the twentieth of September nest,
under the terms heretofore published.
WHIP’S owners flatter themselves that
the extensive credit which is given to
' those, who may be their encouragers,
1 will he an inducement to a liberal pat
: ronage. Good accommodation for
1 mares.
1 WHIP’S performances in England
1 were unquestionably equal to any hor
ses sent abroad, which the racing cal
’ enders with him will sufficiently testify,
: and the event of the late racing in Vir
: ginii* proves his Colts to be as promis
ing as any in that state; several on
the different turfs this last spring, have
: run with exceeding cred.t, and have
won on the New-market as great a
1 sweepstake as any heretofore contend
l ed for. which by reference to '.he Vir
' ginia Aegi s will more fully appear.
EDWARD JOURDON, .
1 JOSEPH BARNETT. **
Washington , May 30. ts 45
Factorage
AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
THE Subscribers having taken into
Partnership John and Thomas
L. M alonk, the business will, after the
first (lay of the ensuing month, be car
ried on, under the firm of
BACON, MALONE, fc? CO.
JOHJSt BACON,
7. MALONE.
M'Credie’s Wharf, }
Savannah , April 25. S 10t 40
The Merchants ’ Planters ’
COFFEE-HOUSE
AND
HOTEL,
ON THE BAT, IN VHE
CITY OF SAVANNAH.
Thomas Bay ley ,se?i*
HW ING taken the above house,
begs leave to solicit the patronage
of the Gentlemen Merchants and Plan
ters visiting that city, and those who
honor him with their favors, will find
every attention paid.
N. B. A constant LARDER, WINES
and SPIRITS, of the first quality.
April 11. 10t 38
- - - - --
William Butler,
Book-Binder Ssf Stationer,
RESPECTFULLY informs
his friends and the public that he has
just received from New-York a com
plete assortment of
English & American
Paper, Viz:
Imperial, Medium,
Super Royal, Demy &.
Royal, Foolscap.
ALSO,
Ledgers, Letter Books,
J ournals, Cash Books,
Day Books, Receipt Books,
Invoice Books, Record Books,
And Blank Bocks of every des
cription made with or without Spring
Backs, and patent black lines for writ
ing on.
BOOK BINDING in all its
executed with neatness and dispatch.—
All orders left at the Centinel Printing
Office, or at my shop opposite Major
Phinizy’s dwelling house, will be punc
tually attended to.
May 30. 45
Notice .
ALL persons having unsettled ac
compts with the subscriber are
earnestly requested to call on Mr.
DAVID M'KINNE Y, and make pay
ment, or liquidate the same imme
diately.
SAMUEL WIG FALL.
June 13. 47
NOTICE.
THE subscriber respectfully informs
those that are indebted to him,
that if they do not come forward and 5
make payment, suits will be indiscrim
inately instituted against them.
THOMAS MILES, A
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