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WJ&tnGG The following elegant lines will be read with interest by every Amer ican who has the heart ot a patriot in his bosom. The name of Kosci usko ought ever to be dear to us, as •one of the heroes of our revolution — who volunteered his services in the hout of our distress, trnd whose only reward must now be our gratitude.J From the ,Veiv Monthly Magazine. KOSCIUSKO. A sacred grief sublime and bright Descends on Kosciusko's bier, It mourns not that his soul of light. No more confin'd in mortal night, lias sought its native sphere ; The hallowed tear that glistens there, lly purest, loftiest feelings given, Flows more Iron) triumph than despair, And fails like dew from heaven. Tints oft around tire setting sun Soft showers attend his parting ray, And sinking now, his journey done, His matchless course to evening run— They weep his elbsing day. Who hath not watch’d liis light de cline, ’fill sad yet holy feelings rise ? Although lie sets again to shine, More glorious, in more cloudless skies. A As proudly shone thy evening ray, As in that, contest bright and brief, When patriots hail'd thy noontide day, And own’d thee as their chief! Thou wert the radiant morning star, Which bright to hapless I’oland rose, The leader of her patriot war, 7he sharer of her woes ! What though no earthly triumphs grace 77ie spot where thou hast ta’eu thy sleep; ‘Yet glory points thy resting place, And thither freedom turns to weep. The pompous arch the column's boast Though rich with all the sculptor’s art; Shall soon in time’s dark sweep be lost; But thou survivestin the heart, And bright thy dwelling still shall be Within the page of Liberty. And o'er the turf where sleeps the brave Such sweet and holy drops are shed, Who would not fill a patriot's grave, 7’o share them with the dead ? The laurel and the oaken bough, Above the meaner great may bloom, And trophies due to Freedom's brow May shade oppression's tomb ; But gh ry's smile hath shed on thee 7’he light of immortality 1 From the New-U am osh ire Patriot. 1 love the memory of that hour When first in youth 1 found thee, And infant beauty gently threw A morning freshness round thee. A single star was rising then, With mild and lovely motion, \nd not the zephyr's gentlest breath Went o’er the sleeping ocean. I love the memory of the hou r It wakes a pensive feeling, As when within the winding shell, The playful winds are stealing. It tells me of my earliest days, Ere hope went down in sorrow, Anil the joys of yesterday Were painted on to-morrow. Where art thou now r—The bending grass A dewy stone discloses, And love’s young footsteps paint the ground Where all my peace reposes. But where art thou ?—Thy funeral flowers Their yellow leaves arc twining, Yet still upon the peaceful wave That single star is shining. Farewell! my tears aFe not for thee, ’T\t ere madness to deplore thee, Or vainly mourn thy absence here, When angels halt adore thee. Thy days were fair and quickly told. Thy life, a mournful storv. Hath ended like the morning star. That melts iu deeper glory. Hits C'JSILXAirX. NATURAL WONDERS. It is very surprising, that two of the greatest natural curiosities in the world, are within the United States, and yet scarcely known to the best informed of our geogra phers and naturalists. The one is a beautiful Fall, in Franklin (Hab ersham) County, Georgia ; the oth er a stupendous precipice in Pen- dleton district, Sdatn Carolina; they arc both faintly mentioned in tire late edition of Morse’s geogra phy, but not as they’merit. Ihe . I'urcoa fall is much higher than the • falls of Niagara. The column ol t water is propelled beautifully over • a perpendicular rock, and when the i stream is full it passes down with • out being broken. All the prisma* • tick clfcct, seen at Niagara, illus trates the spray of I uccoa. ihe ] Table Mountain in Pendleton dis trict, South Carolina, is an awful precipice of 900 feet. Many per sons reside within five, seven, or ten miles of this grand spectacle, who have never had the curiosity or taste enough to visit it. It is now, however, visited by curious travellers and sometimes bv men 1 of science. Very few persons who have once cast a glimpse into the almost boundless abyss, can again exercise sufficient fortitude to ap proach the margin of the chasm.— Almost every one, in looking over, involuntarily falls to the ground senseless, nerveless and helpless; and would inevitably be precipita ted and dashed to atoms, were it not for measures of caution and se curity, that have always been deem ed indispensable to a safe indul ’ gence for the curiosity of the visit or or spectator. Every oneonpro • ceeding to the spot whence it is usual to gaze over the wonderful deep, has in his imagination a lim itation, graduated bv a reference to distances with which his eye has been familiar. But in a moment, eternity, as it were, is represented to his astonished senses ; and he is instantly overwhelmed, His sys tem is no longer subject to his voli tion or his reason, and he falls like a mass of mere matter. He then revives and in a wild delirium sur veys a scene, which, for a while, he is unable to define by description or imitation. Flow strange it is that the Tuc* coa fall and Table mountain, are not more familiar to Americans!— | F.ither of them would distinguish any state or empire in Europe. PICTURE OF LIFE. Happening to he present the oth er evening at a social part}’, I met one of those beautiful accomplish ed females, who seem born to be the delight and admiration of their friends and acquaintance. Her conversation was chaste, sprightly, full of wit and good humour, indi cating a heart sensitive in the ex treme, and totally void of pride and affectation. I was delighted with her society, and congratulated my self on having made an acquaint ance which promised me many hours of social pleasure and instruc tion ; the more so, because I learnt from an intimate friend of her’s present, that she was really what she appeared to be, truly an orna ment of her sex—A fond affection ate wife, a kind and tender mother ; discharging all the duties of life as became u woman and a Christian.— Among the party present was a number of lad ies who appeared very assiduous in their courtecies to her. Meeting these ladies a few clays af ter, in the course of conversation I mentioned the lady with whom I had been so well pleased in the par ty. “Lord (says one,) she is no better than she should be.” “ Humph (says another.) if some folks knew as much about some folks as I do, I guess people would not be so fond of running after her company. “ Bless me [savs the third] the creature cannot live with out flattery, it is the very food she feeds on, withdraw it and she is in the dumps in a moment. Dear me sir, have you not heard what terri ble stories have been told about her ; why I thought every body in the town knew it: to he sure 1 do not believe there is one word of truth in them, but then one does not like to he seen with one who has had such falsehoods circulated about them.” Thus they ran on for some time when I stopped them with, •pray ladies do >ou know of one sin gle instance of misconduct that this lady has been guiltv of?—All an swer no. Do you believe [I ask you in the sincerity of my heart] that she was ever guilty of any unu sual acts no. No, very well—l saw the oth er evening ladies that you were all very complaisant and courteous to wards her; appearing delighted when you caught her ear. “ Yes, you know Sir she keeps the best of company and her society is much | sought after; besides wc Jo not like to offend one who has the pow er to do us so much harm.” Well —why then do you slander her.— “ Slander Sir—pray do not miscon ceive us ; we would not slander her for the world O, Sir we never al low ourselves to slander anyone Os all people in the world we think a slanderer the most detestable. Re ally Sir, w g think her a very clever lady, but then”—But then—stop ladies; good morning. Such are the scenes which are daily exhibited to the attentive ob server, bv people who think them selves excellentchristians,and who would fain believe that they never slander any one. Surely there is enough of sorrow and trouble in this world without increasing the amount by unkindly! cooling our friends and increasing j our enemies, by an obliquity of con •, duct, disgraceful in itself and revol ting to every liberal mind. In cha rity we owe to our friends and ac-J quaintance complacency, good feel- , ing and a forgiveness of small andj trivial faults. How delightful is the social circle and the select co terie, where chaste conversation, enlarges, enlivens and purifies the mind, and renders earth a paradise’ below. Yet alas, how often do envy, bit terness and slander enter these sanctuaries to blast and chill, .and freeze the noblest, the most endear-1 ing feelings of the human heart.— From such scenes the benevolent mind turns with disgust and a feel ing almost bordering on misanthro py* s. w Many* a man among us,” says the Editor of the Village Record, “thinks nothing of 10 dollars in the price of a horse that suits him —or of 50 dollars in a gig. There are hundreds who do nui regard an i extra crape for their wives—orna ments transient and perishable— who would nevertheless think that six dollars a year (or 12 1-2 cents a week) for a literary Magazine— oh, bless you, they could not afford it at all ! !! This is all a mistake.— Let the wife have her crape —and you your fine horse and as many clothes as you please, hut look well at the same time, to furnishing the heart with literary and moral in struction, as well as the person with fine things.” A whimsical old gentleman who was remarkable for his adder-like deafness, but took no small pains to conceal the infirmity, being a carpenter by trade, happened to be employed one day in hewing a large piece of timber near the road much travelled: and (it being in Yankee-land, where the natural in quisitive propensity of the people is well known,) was much annoyed by the frequent conversation of those who passed by, and which his extreme deafness made him in capable of enjoying without hin drance to his work. To obviate which difficulty, and yet to affect the perfect use of His hearing, he concluded to form in his mind a set of such answers as he judged most likely to compose the proper replies to the inquiries ofidlers re specting hie work. The first question he calculated on being asked was, ‘ well, what are you working at to day ?’—an swer, Mill-post. Next,‘How lar will you hew the post?’ —answer, Up to that knot. Again, ‘What wages do you have?’*-—answer, Two dollars a day. To this they would probably observe, ‘ That’s too much ; 1 wouldn’t give it,’ —to which he would reply, Well, if you don’t give it, somebody else will. His formula was hardley comple- j ted when a gentleman came up and the following dialogue ensued : Stranger. Please to direct me the way to town. Carpenter. Mill-post. S. “Will you tell me the distance to town ? G. (Pointing to his work.) Up to that knot. .V. I say how far is it to town ? C. Two dollars a day . Y. (Growing angry.) Insulting fellow! answer my question,or I’ll give you a whipping. C. Very well; for il you don’t somebody else will! ! Horrid 11 —A pedler who sold essence, perfumery, ike. called on a farmer for the purpose ol trade.— The farmer told him he wished for ! none of his perfumery ; at toe same rime ad vising him to leave toe town immediately, as two essence p* ti lers had been put to death the day before ; and that he had better es cape while lie could. Ihe saga cious and affrighted pedler doubted the fact. The farmer, to affirm his veracity, led to the spot where the fatal deed was perpetrated ; when j to his utter astonishment, lie be held most horribly mangled, two of those essence pedlers commonly, called — Skunks —[alias Polecats.] Old times back again. —After the abdication of Buonaparte, in 1814, it wa3 observed at a fashionable partv in Paris, that things were to he restored to the same state in which they were previous to the re j volution ‘Oh! 1 am delighted to hear that, exclaimed a lady, who was no longer in the bloom ol youth, for then I shall be only eigh teen years of age.’ Thales, one of the wise men of Greece. A sophist wishing to puzzle him with difficult questions, the sage of Miletus replied to them all without the least hesitation, and with the utmost precision. What is the oldest of all things ? God, because he has always ex isted. What is the most beautiful ? The world, because it is the work of God. What is the greatest of all things ? Space, because it contains all that has been created. What is the most constant of all things: Hope, because it remains with man when he has lost every thing else. What is the best of all things ? Virtue, because without it there is nothing good. What is the quickest of all tilings? Thought, because in less than a moment it can fly to the end of the universe. What is the strongest? Neces sity, which makes men face all the dangers of life. What is the easiest? To give advice. What is the most difficult ? To know yourself. What is the wisest ? Time, for it discovers all things. FROM THE VILLAGE PREACHER. * i Father forgive themP Go, proud infidel—search the ponderous tomes of heathen j learning:—Explore the works of | Confucius ; examine the precepts : of Seneca, and the excellencies of the ancient and tKe modern mor alists, and point to a sentence equal to this simple prayer of our Sav iour. Reviled and insulted—suff ering the grossest indignities— crownedisvith thorns, and led awav / ... * to die ! no annihilating curse breaks from his tortured breast. Sweet and placid as the aspirings, of a mother for her nursling, ascends the prayer of mercy on his ene mies, ‘ Father forgive them.’ O, it was worthy of its origin, and stamps with the bright seal of truth that his mission was from Heaven! Acquaintances, have you quarrelled ? Friends, have you differed ? If He, who was pure and \ perfect, forgave his bitterest ene-j mies, do you well to cherish your j anger ? Brothers, to you the pre- i cept is imperative ; you shall for-; give—not seven times, but seventy times seven. Husbands and wives, you have no right to expeet perfec tion in each other. To err is the ( lot of humanity. Illness will some times render \’Ou petulent, and dis* appointment ruffle the smoothest temper. Guard, I beseech you, with unremitting vigilance, your passions : controlled, they are the genial heat that warms us along the way of lile—ungoverned, they are consuming fires. Let your life be one of respectful atten tions and conciliatory conduct.— Cultivate with care the kind and gentle affections of the heart.— Plant not, but eradicate the thorns that grow in your partner’s path : above all, let no feeling of revenge ever find a harbour in your breast: Let the sun never go down upon your anger. A kind word—an ob liging action—if it be in a trifling concern, has a power superior to the harp of David in calming the billows of the soul. Revenge is as incompatible with happiness as it is hostile to reli gion. Let him whose heart is black with malice and studious ql‘ revenge, walk ‘tluougb t’W tn . while, clad in verdure, and ath,, { l with flowers ; to his eye tfi. no beauty; the flowers to him hale no fragrance.* Dai k u 3 U soul, nature is robed in deepen I Hie. Ihe smile of beauty iiM-’ not up his bosom with jov ; but furies of hell rage in his and render him as miserable a , would wish the objectdf'his Lnt- But let him lay his hand up on j] heart and say “Revenge leasts from me—Father forgive me ;)s j forgive my enemies”—and r-,. ■j j * ■ it ,l|l p assumes anew anti delightful j a niture. Then, indeed, are / meads verdant and the flowers f r grant —then is the music of t s groves delightful to his ear, an ; [ the smile of virtuous lo\ c |.! to his soul. mmxf JKTOwafc *\tton\e\ Sc Counsellor AT 1 i AW, HAVING located lumsilf in (|, e Town of Macon,, tenders In, professional services to tile public-. He will practice in the several courts I of the Flint Circuit, and in the county of Jones and Twiggs. Macon, May 19, 1823. 9——ts. JVOTICE. A LL persons indebted to the estate of Henry Hatcher late of county, deceased, are required to make immediate payment: and those havin'* demands against said estate, to prt” sent them legally authenticated within the time prescribed by Law. JOHN HATCHER, Adin’r. BATIIIER HATCHER. Adm’x., May 19th, 1823. 9—6 w. JVWimstnvtov’s Si\\e. VT the house of Vincent A. Tharp in Twiggs county, on the 24th day of June next, will be sold \U the \ievsow<\\ estate ol Henry Hatcher, late of Bibb county, deceased, consisting of one Mare, Household and Kitchen furniture, anil a number of other articles too tedious to mention.—Terms made known oa the day of sale. JOHN HATCHER, Adin’r. BATH I Ell HATCHER, Adm’x. May 19 th, 1823. 9— tds. Georgia—Monroe C ouot\ It! Monroe Superior Court, March Term, 1823. Jonathan Parrish, Informer,") vs. > Soi. Fa. Berry Redd. J fT appearing to the Court by* flic Sheriffs return in this case, that the defendant is not to be found : On motion of the plaintiff's attorney, it if thereupon ordered that service be per fected by publication in one of the public gazettes of this state, that the defendant appear at the Superior court to be held iu said county, on the tourtii Monday in September timet,and make his defence, and that this rule be published monthly for three months previous to said court, according to law. A true copy from the minutes. WATKINS HUNT, Clerk. 2fith March, 1823. mSm—S Notice. NINE months after date, applica tion will be made to the honorable Inferior Court of Jefferson county, when sitting for ordinary purposes for leave to sell one tract of land con taining twii hundred acres, more or less, iying in the county of Burke, adjoining lands of John Pierce and others, it being the real estate of Isaac Harris, late of said county, deceased, and to be sold for the bene fit of the heirs and creditors of sahl deceased. Needham lirya'n,'\ Daniel Green, j- adiu’rs. John Slily, J . ‘ September 4, 1822 4 niffiiq \Y<S two autUovised to announce Capt. Chari.es Bui* r ock. a candidate to represent this County* in the Senatorial branch o! the next Legislature of this State, We ;\ve auttumscA to announce Timothy Matthews esq. a candidate to represent this county in the Senatorial branch ot the next Legislature of this State. SVc\>\\en Wi\\uu\is w lV candidate to represent this county M the next legislature of (his State. We are requested to sa%; that Charles Ingram Jun’r. is* candidate for the office of Captain of this district