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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.