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MKK&LLANEOtJS.
From Ackerman's ‘Forget Me Not.*
NIGHT.
James Montgomery.
Night U the time for rest;
How sweet when labours close;
To gather round our aching breast
The curtain of repose;
Stretch the fired limb, and lay the head
Ujon our own delightful bed!
Night is the time for dreams;
The gay romance of life,
When truth that is and truth that seems,
Blend in fantastic strife;
Ah! visions less beguiling far
Thao waking dreams by day light are.
Night is the time for toil;
To plough the classic field,
Intent to find the buried spoil
Its wealthy furrows yield;
’Till all is ours that sages taught,
That poets sung, or heroes wrought.
Night is the time to weep;
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory, where sleep
The joys of other years;
Hopes that were angels in their birth,
But perished young like things of earth!
Night is the time to watch;
On ocean‘s dark expanse,
To hail the Pleiades, or catch
The full rnoon‘s earliest glance,
That brings into the homesick-mind
All we loved and left behind.
Night is the time for care;
Brooding on hours mispent,
To see the Sceptre of Despair
Come to our lonely tent;
Like Brutus midst his slumbering host
Startled by Caesar‘s stalwarth ghost.
Night is the time to muse;
Then from the eye the soul
Takes flight, and with expanding views
Beyond the starry pole,
Descries athwart the abyss of night
The dawn of uncreated light.
Night is the lime to pray;
Our Soviour oft withdrew
To desert mountains far away,
So will his followers do:
Steal from the throng to haunts Untrod,
And hold communion there with God.
Nurht is the time for death;
When all around is peace,
Calmly to yield the weary breath,
From sin and suffering cease:
Think of Heaven's bliss, and give the sign
To parjing friends: —su h death be mine.
MK. DUVAL.
4 Etiquette is the characteristic excellence
of good society .'-—Lord Chesterfield.
Though fashions, they say, never live to
be ancient,
In Mr. Duval they were found not so tran
sient,
The date of his school you might read in
his dress,
But no modern could match him in strict
politeness.
No caring for substance, devoted to form,
In feelings quite cold, but in etiquette
warm,
H* held it an act ofindelihle shame
To speak to a person unless by his name.*
One night at a tavern sitting much at
his ease,
As much as with form easy comfort a
grees.
He beheld at a fire a stranger display
His back—coat up-turued—just, you
know, a-l Anglais.
He eyed him—would speak—but how hit
on the plan?
Long pond’ring, at length he thus calmly
began:
‘Will you favor me, pray, with your name,
sir? said lie,-
‘My name,” said the other, ‘why whats’
that to thee?’
‘Not much, l confess—but 1 gladly would
know,’
‘Well. Thompson’s my name, since you
will have it so.’
*1 thank you,’ said he, ‘that is all.l desire,’
’ The tail of your coat Mr. Thompson’s
on fire. *
* This is perfectly according to the can
on, never, in speaking to a person, say
Mr. What d’ye you call ’um. or Mr.
Thingumbob, but to enquire his name,
and address him by it— Chesterfield.
ROSES.
Belles that rise soon, and walk apace; 1
Hoses from Aurora 1 ® face;
But when they yawn in bed till ten,
Aurora steals them back a* T ain.
GLEANINGS.
Selected from various Authors.
‘the Pi ’ ess . —In proportion:
as society refines, new books
must ever become necessary.
—Savage rusticity is reclaimed
by oral admonition alone; but
the elegant excesses of refine
ment, arc best corrected by the
still voice of studious enquiry.
In a polite age, almost every
person becomes a reader, and
receive more instruction from
the press than the pulpit.
Goldsmith.
Reasonable Sensuality.—Sen
sual enjoyment, adds wings to
curiosity. We consider few
objects with ardent attention
but those which have some
connection with our wishes,
our pleasures, or our necessi
ties. A desire of enjoyment
first interests our passions in
the pursuit, points out the ob
ject of investigation, and reason
then comments, where sense
has led the way. An increase
in the number of our enjoy
ments, therefore, necessarily
produces an increase of scien
tific research but in countries
where almost every enjoyment
is wanting, reason there seems
destitute of its great inspire!*,
and speculation is the business
of fools, when it becomes its
own reward.— ib.
Uncivilized Nations, —To at
tempt to introduce the scien
ces into a nation of wandering
barbarians, is oidy to render
them more miserable than e
ven nature designed they
should he. A life of simplicity
is best fitted to a state of soli,
tilde. The Siberians , the Hin
doos, and many of the Indians ,
are perhaps, less .addicted to
vice, than the more refined na
tions of the world. It there
fore answers no good purpose
to interfere wiili their religious
or moral concerns.— Anon.
The Laurel. —ln the sonnets
of Petrarch concerning Laura,
there is a perpetual allusion to
the Laurel and Daphne. She
was the daughter of the river
Peneus; the gods changed her
into a laurel, to shelter her
from the pursuit of Apollo, who
ran after her along the hanks of
this river. Since you cannot
he my wife then said he, you
shall at least he iny laurel, and
from that time the laurel tree
i was consecrated to that God
From the laurel being consecra
ted to Apollo, who was the
i God of poetry, they afterwards
crowned the poets with it.
Di sput at ion —W hen persons
begin a debate they should al
ways take care that they are a
greed on some general princi
ples, or propositions, which ei
ther nearly or remotely affected
the question in hand, otherwise
they have no foundation or
hope of convincing each other.
In common conversation, dis-
putes are often managed with
out any observance of regular
ity, or order; and turn to good
or evil purposes, according to
the temper of the disputants.
‘1 hey may sometimes he suc
cessful to search out truth, and
convince the mistaken; hut at
other times, and frequently, a
dispute is a mere scene of bat
tle, in order to victory and vain
triumph.
Pleasure and Study. —Hob
not, by present gratifications,
all the succeeding per iod of life
of its happiness—sacrifice a lit
tle pleasure at first, to the ex
pectance of greater. The stu
dy of a few years will make the
rest of life completely easy.
He who has begun his fortune
by study will confirm it by pre
servance. The love of hooks
damps the passions for pleas
ure, and when this passion
is extinguished, life h cheap
ly supported.
Pleading. —There is un
speakable pleasure attending
the life of a volunteer student.
When 1 fiist read an excellent
hook it is to me just as if I had
gained anew friend. When 1
read over a hook 1 have perus
ed befoie, it resembles the
meeting witli an old one. It
is of no importance to read
much, except you are regular in
reading. If it he interrupted
for any considerable time, it
can never be attended with
proper improvement. Wis
dom is a coquet, and must he
courted with unabating assidui
ty-
Wisdom. —A man is wis
while he continues in the pur
suit of wisdom; but when he
once fancies that he has found
the object of his inquiry, he
then becomes a fool.
The world is like a vast sea
—mankind like a vessel, sailing
on its tempestuous bosom —
prudence trims its sails—the
sciences serve for oars—good
or bad fortune, are the favour
able or contrary winds—and
judgment is the rudder. With
out this last, the vessel is tos
sed by every billow, and
will find shipwreck in eve
ry gale. In a word, obscurity
and indigence, are the parents
of vigilance and economy, rich
es and honor, of pride and lux
ury—pride and luxury, of im
purity and idleness; impurity
and idleness again produce in
digence and obscurity. Such
are the revolutions oflife.
Goldsmith's description of an old
maid, and an old bachelor.
There is nothing in the whole
creation not even Baylon in
ruins, more truly deplorable
than a lady in the virgin bloom
of sixty three; nor a battered
unmarried beau, who squibs a
bout from place to place show
ing his pigtail wig, and his’
ears.—The one appears to my
imagination in the form of a
double nightcap, or a roll of
pomatum. The other in the
shape of an electuary, or a
box of pills.
The life of man, is a journey
that must be travelled howev
er bad the roads, or the accom
modation. If, in the beginning
it is found dangerous, narrow,
and difficult it must grow bet
ter in the end or we shall by
custom learn to bear its ine
quabihties.
PROPOSALS -
For publishing, at Darien Geo a News
paper, to be entitled the
Darien Phoenix.
By a.c. Mclntyre.
5 N issuing proposals for this publication,,
the Editor deems apology to be unne
cessary. He is only exercising the pro
fession of his youth, and can conduce nei
ther to good nor evil, apart from the pub
lic will. If success attend the under
taking, it must arise from the natural ad
vantages of Darien, the aid of art now em
ployed in behalf of that City, and its Con
nexion, as an entrepot, with two-third? of
the State. The PHOENIX will, there
fore, be chiefly valuable as a commercial
vehicle; and, as the Editor must depend
for subsistence on the circulation of h'S
paper, the public have a strong bond for
I is exertions. *
On he score of politics, he has but I>‘-
tle to advance. Averse to new docilities
and ambitious innovations, his creed is
the Constitution of the United St ite,
and his exposition of that instrument;
the one that obtained under the Ad
ministration of Washington, Jeffer in
Madison, and Monroe. For othpv polit
ical dicta, he confesses freely that he has
no veneration. Hence, he announces
himself as belonging neither to the ?ect
o! Ali oi Omar; but determined in every
vent to support men so long only as they
ire able anil willing to contribute
to the national prosperity. To these bo
wirh to cherish a paper based on other
principles, he in frankness mut observe,
that he desires not their patronage.
TERMS.
THE PHCENIX will appear in the
month of January next, on a royal sheet,
and be weekly published on a day to suit
the mails. •
The subscription will be Three Dollars
per annum in advance, or Four at the end
of the year.
Advertisements will be inserted at the
usual rates.
NO I ICE.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of
VV illiann Jones, late of W arren eou n
ty, dec. are requested to make payment.’
as soon as their notes become and <e: and
those having demands against said estate
will render them in, properly attested,
within the time prescribed by law
NICHOLAS H JONES, Adm’r.
SUSAN AH JONES, Adm’x.
September, 13th 1828. 16—6 w.
GEORGIA, Warren County.
WHEREAS, Hardy Pitts, appli s fur
Letters dismis-ory from the adminis
tration of the estate of William Thomas,
late of said county dec.
These are, therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested to be and
appear at my office, within the time pre*
s nhed by law, to file their objections,
(if any they have) why said letters should
not be granted.
Z. FRANKLIN, elk. c. o. w. c.
Georgia, Warren county.
VM7HEREAS Henry Wilson applies
T ▼ for letters of Administration on
the estate of Jeremiah W ilson, dec. late
of said county:
These are therefore to cite and admon
ish, all and singular, the kindred and cre
ditors ot said deceased, to be and appear
at my office, within the time prescribed
by law, to shew cau ‘f any they have,
why said letters sh ot be granted.
Given under my .and this fourth day
of November, 1828.
Z. Franklin, c. c. a*.w. c.