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Miscellaneous.
From the Providence American.
We have li.td the pleasure of pre
senting our readers with several spe
cimens of the po tie composition of the
II on. It. 11. Wilde, of Georgia, whose
exquisite taste in the construction of
tin’ sonnet, and the lighter stanzas of
delicate versification, it is to he re
has not had more opportunity
for cultivation. We are aware that
a gentleman so deeply immersed in
the business of a profession, at the
head of which he stands in his own
State, besides the calls upon his tal
ents as a member of the national Le
gislature, the gratification of a taste
for p etic composition most be a rare
arid stolen amusement. If however,
its exercise * fiord as much pleasure
f<>r himself as it invariably co. f. rs on
those permitted to see the results of
his elegant (riding, we should suppose i
the temptation to a more frequent in’* j
diligence would he irresistible.
The following sonnet, before pub
lished under a signature not usually
adopted by Mr. W. we know to be
Ins; and though evidently a slight and
careless eff*rt, it is marked with
an atlra* tive freshness and delicacy.
SONNET.
Thou ha*t thy faults Virginia!—yet I own
1 love the still, although no son of
thine;
For I have climbed thy mountains not
alone;
And in id • the wonders of thy vallies
mine.
Finding from morning’s dawn ’till day's
decline
Some marvel yet unmarked some peak
whose throne
Was I oft m*; girl with mist, and crown’d
with pine,
Some deep and rugged glen with copse
o’er grown,
The bin It of dome sweet valley, or the
time
Traced by some silver stream that mur
mured lone;
Or the da. k cave where hidden chrys-,
tals hine,
Or the wild arch across the blue sky ,
thrown;*
Or els** those traits of nature more di
vine,
That in some favored child of thine had |
shone.
SURREY.
*TIe Natural Bridge.
legal whiskers.
As o’er their wine and walnuts sat,
Talking of this and then of that.
Two wight* well learned in the law,
Tint is, well skilled to find a daw;
Saul me companion to the other,
‘How is it, most respected brother,
I h t you ot late h ive *h ived away,
Those whiskers, which for many a day
II nl o (lamented much your cheek?
S ire \was an idle silly fieak ’
T * whom the other answer nave,
W ith link half merry and half grave,
S T ough others be bv whiskers graced,
A LAW YER can't be too barefaced!’
Epitalh.
Stop, passenger, lor here is laid
On* who thed. bt of nature paid.
This is not strange, the reader crie9,
We all km >w here a dead man lies.
You re right,hut stop. I'll tell you more,
He never paid a debt before;
And now lie’s gone I'll further say,
He never will another pay.
“A mother’s a m therall the days of her
life:
“A father's a father till he gets anew
wife.’’
Saida Dutchman to a Yankee, as
they were walking on the banks of
the Hudson, ‘How did dat man, what
we read of in the Bible, make iron
swim?* *lt was through f.tith, an
swered his comrade; ‘and,’ rejoined
be, *f you ran have faith too, you
may make your axe swim.’ After
repeated assurances, the Dutchman
said, ‘H, | does have faith once,’
and deliberately casting his axe into
the river, saw it go to the bottom.
hen turning to his laughing com
rade, he hastily exclaimed, ‘Dare,
now, I knew as it would sink,’ ‘That’s
the very reason,’ replied the Yankee;!
‘you did not believe.’ ‘Now I see it
so plain as day,* said the Dutchman,
‘but it vas vone d—d Yankee dri< k.’
A lady meeting a girl who had late
ly left her set vice inquired, ‘Well M<t
ry where do you live now?? ‘Please,
ma’am I don’t live now’ replied the
girl, *1 un married.*
The G ‘rman pronunciation of the
English th. Many Germans, it i
well known by all who are conversant
with pronunciation, substitute the
sound of and s r that of th. —A gentle
man from L ipsic being asked how
• •Id he was replied ‘he was dirty;’
(30,) and when asked the age of his
wife, he answered she was dirty two’
(*•)
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J \MES W. SIMMONS.
WILLIAM G. SIMMS. Jr.
Charl ,, s’on. June 1. 1848
CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS.
George K. Gilmer, of Oglethorpe,
Ri, hard 11. AA tide, of Richmond,
C'har'es E. Haynes, ot Hancu. k,
Gen. VVilev Thompson, of Elbert,
Major James Mem wither. ofTlafk,
Col Daniel 11. BraiUford, of M’lntosh,
Jmes M. Wayne, oft hatiiam,
Thomas F. foster, ol Greene,
Charles Williamson, of Baldwin,
T. I T . P. Charlton, of Chatham,
Major Win. Triplett, of Wilkes
John A. Cuthbert, of .Monroe.
The following gentlemen, were nomin
ated by the Troup party, as electors of
President and Vice President The elec
tion t ikes place on the first Monday in
November next, bv the people.
Col. JOHN MAXWELL, of Bryan.
ROBERT R. HEID, Esq. of Richmond.
Dr WILLIAM TERRELL, of Hancock.
AUGUSTIN S. CL AYTON, ot Clark.
Gen. 1). BLACKSHEAR, of Laurens
SOLOMON GRAVES, Esq. of Newton.
Col. JOHN RUTHERFORD, of Bald wiu
JOHN MOORE. Eq of Oglethorpe. ,
, Maj. OLIVER PORTER, of Greene.
Final Notice.
VLL persons indebted to us are in
formed that we will allow them
the highest price for cotton, this fall,
in payment, and we Icpe they will a
vail themselves of this notice.
ROBER TS & MADDUX.
July 19 h 8 . *f
Macon oales
OF THE RESERVE LANDS,
TIIB TOWN LOTS AND THE
BRIDGE.
\\7 ILL commence on Wednesday
f V the first day of nxt October, ami
will cont nue from and y to dav with the
excepti"ii of the fiist Monday aid Tues
day of that month. We snail then ex
po*e to sale in Macon, to the h gh *st bid
der, in c nfo: mity with a late act of the
General Assembly :
All the tow*) lot* not heretofore dispos
ed of; being upwards of
in number ; on the western side of the
river; among them are twelve adjoining
the river and a fev other choice lots fo*
busme-s. ‘The le-ulue ate in more re
ti ed situations, and generally afford geo !
building ‘■ifea in a pleasant and giowin
art of the town.
Forty tw< gardening lots of 10 and 20
acre* each ; laid out from one to one and
a half miles distant from the town in tw >
ranges around the Western Common.
Also, twenty eight lots on the Eastern
-ide ; tli.it is to say, four of twenty, eight
of ten acres, and sixteen of one acie each.
These la** include the place sometimes
known as Newtown; and will be sold,
subject to certain lea es from the United
States, to expire next January.
Th** residue of the lands in the two
reserves, are laid out in tracts of 100
o res, and fractional parts of such tracts.
Os .these, the uplands wi I be next offer
ed ; the lowest nu ibers first; beginning
with those on the western side.
On Wednesday the 22d of October
next, ai 11 o’clock, A. M. will be offered
at the place of the other sates, tha
Bridge at Macon,
together with one acre of land on the ea t
ern side of the Ocmulgee rivei, as one of
the hutments ; and die privilege of u*i';g
so much ol Fifth or B idg * street on the
vestern bank as may be necessary for the
other hutment of the Bridge.
On Ttrursday the 23d ol October, we
dial! proceed to sell the %
Swamp & Bottom
land* within the Reserves, those on the
western side first : and continue from day
to day until completed.
The particular tibmbers that will be
sold on each day cannot be specified; but
it is intended to put “p the several kinds
and desciiptious m the order here men
tioned.
The Reserves are generally well wa
ter and, and contain several good mill
se ts The area of the whole cannot be
exactly kno < n unt I the platting is com
pleted; but twenty-one thousand acres is
the estimated quantity contained in
both Reserves ami the adjoining fractions,
exclusive of the town sutveys. Perhaps
no bodv of land of the same extent can be
V
found, that embraces a greater variety
in its surface, sod and timber. Situated
just in that region where the pine of the
lover country changes to the oak and
hickory of the upper; it includes both
hese grow hs and soils in most of their
vaiieties; in some portions entire, in oth
ers interspersed or blended. Tracts of
very hilly land, urthat which is quite lev
el, or gently undulating, may be had of
almost every quality; either of oak and
hit kory, or pine, or river lands; and sev
eral of these kind* occasionally united in
tracts of 100 acres, and fractions of va
rious sizes, adapted to most of the pur
poses for which land is wanted,
j From the pressure of the times, ard
.more especially from the quantity oilaud s
and town lots that have been lately iu
the market, these must unavoidably sell
low. And, lying at the head of naviga
tion, immediately around the third town
of the state in population and trade, there
is every reasonable prospect of their soon
rising in value.
Purchasers have now an opportunity,
and apparently th** last that will soon of
f* r, of obtaining on cheap and very indul
gent terms of payment, choice situations
for residence, fur trade or for farming.
TERMS OF SALE.
Perchaseis of lands and lids are to pay
the Commissioners on the day of the
purcha-e, one fifth part of the purchase
money in cash or current bills of char
tered B. nks of this State, and the residue
in four equal annual instalments.— No se
cuirty will be required.
The bridge vv II he sold on the same
term ; exc* pt th .t the purchaser will he
required to gne bend with two or more
approved met-cs for the payment of the
four sub- que* t annual instalments.
W. N. HARMON, 1
C. B. STRONG, lConun’s
OH. PRINCE, j
Macon July 5, 1828 9—9 t.
o^7” The Editors of the Charleston City
Gazette the Tuscaloosa Mirror, and oj
the several public Gazettes, in this State
will publish the foregoing weekly, tune
weeks in their respective papers, and for
watd their accounts to MARMADUKE
J SLADE, Esq. Clerk of the Commis
sioners in su* h time as to reach him by
the Ist of November.
Will ha sold, on the first Tuesday in
December next, at the Court House, in
Warren county, the real estate of John
Turner, dec. of said county, consisting of
150 acres of land (the widows dower ex
epted ) ‘The legatees are hereby notifi
ed, that the widow intends claiming her
dowre of said land, if any of the hens to
said estate, has anydawful objection, they
are requested to come forward and let it
be known.
JAMES TURNER, Adm-r.
Jnlv 7, 1828. 7-Cod
AFTER the expiration of the time te
quired bylaw, application will b** made to
the Honorable Inferior Court, of the
county of Warren, when sitting for ordi
nary purposes, for leave to seii 106 acies
of land, lying on long creek, adjoining
Richard Heath and John Harrell. A part
of the real estate of Eliz bech King, dec.
JAMES i\ DIcKEN,-Ex‘r.
JuW 12 h. Iy2B. 7 4m
t'OUit UiOlitila utiti U a Uppi ‘ CiiliiUl
will be made to the Honorable inferior
Court, of Warren county, when sii!i> g
for ordinary purposes, for leave to svd
the real estate of Drury P. te, dec.
JOSEPH LEONARD, Adm‘r.
.Tult 12t i, 1828. 7-4 in
POUR month a ! tei date, application
wilt be nude, to the Honorable interior
Court, ot Wa.ren county, when sdting
fordsdina r .y purposes for leave tu sell the
real estate, and the negroes not disposed
of bv the wsll. f John M'Coruiitk. dec.
SARAH \PCOKMU K, Ex‘ix.
BARNETT DULY, Ex*r.
July 12. 7-4 m
FOUR months after date, application
will be made to the Honorable infesior
Court, of Warren county, when sitting for
ordinary purposes, fur leave to sell Lnt
No 376, in the 12th district of Irwin, it
being part of the real estate of Robeit
Palmer, dec.
WINEFRED PALMER. Ex‘rx.
July 12. 1828. 7-4 m
ALL persons having demands aga iist
tha estate of Elizabeth King, late of V\ ar
ren county, deceased, are requested to
present them as the law directs; and ‘hosa
indebted, to make immediate payment.
James t. dicken, Ex t.
July 12; 7 40.1
ALL persons unit bte-l to tiie estate of
Robert Palmer, late of Warren county,
deceased, are requested to make imme
diate payment; and those having de
mands against said estate, are desired to
present them a* the law directs.
WINEFRED PALMER, Ex‘rx.
July 12. * 7-40d
ALL persons indehted to the estate of
J:ihn M*Cormick. late of Warren county,
deceased, are desired to make immediate
payment; and those having demands a
gainst said estate, are requested to pre
sent them a* the law directs.
SAR AH M‘C’OR MI( K, Ex‘rx.
BARNETT CODY; ExT.
I July 12. 7-40d