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.Monduv, June 30, \S23.
/--vo Oil the 4th July next, at half
oast 10 o’clock A. M. au oration v. ill
(,*' delivered at the Fort by Ciiahliw
I McDonald, Esq. The citizens will
\'.‘ cn repair to a dinner prepared for
:iiein on the public square in the town
of Macon,
COMMUNICATED.
> 0. IV.
?Jr. Robertson, # .
Another circumstance having
,-ome within my observation that may
be of service to some people in future,
] a<r a in take the liberty of intruding
“elf on the notice of the publick,
through the medium of your paper.
The world in which we live is not a
world of happiness. In our very child
hood we are dissatisfied with our situ
ation, and look forward to the time
when wc think we will imitate the
most happy person we know. And
when we are grown up, we look back
uoon the innocence of our childhood,
and regret that those days are never to
return? This is perhaps the case in a
greater or less degree with everyone :
but with none so much as those who
have in the days ot youth and giddi
ness been led astray into the scenes of
folly, dissapation, and crime. Not
l withstanding there is so much unhap
piness, nay misery, in the world, there
are yet situations in which we enjoy a
taste of even refined happiness. And
I know of no task more pleasant to a
philanthropic mind that is unstained
with moral guilt, and in which sensi
bility is a prominent ingredient, than
that of averting or curing such evils as
render our fellow creatures miserable.
This consideration induces me to re
late the following circumstance, in
hopes it may give warning to some who
may be on the brink of the gulf of dis
sipation with their faces thitherward,
and in utter ignorance of their danger.
A few days ago, having some busi
i ness to do that called me to a distance
trom home, as I passed through your
’ town, at one of the taverns I saw some
horses equipping, which l presumed
belonged to some travellers who wish
ed to resume their journey, but not ex
pecting they were going to travel my
road, I made no stop. 1 had not, how
ever, gone far before I was overtaken
by two men. One of them was an el
derly, spare made, thin visaged man,
rather taller than ordinary, whose
teeth were a little uneven, and who
had a remarkably keen eye. He was
genteelly dressed, except one or two
iittle artint .$ which bordered on the
jop •* I suppose him to have seen not
less than throe score years. There
v.as something in his appearance at
which I telt instinctively inclined to
shudder : yet I examined him again
and again, and could not tell what it
was. His motions were remarkably
quick for his years; his voice shrill,
and his words hasty'.
His companion I suppose to have
been about twenty-four ; about an inch
ai,, l halt or two inches under the or
dinary stature of man. His eyes were
“ed and fiery, and appeared to be un
der the intluence of forced vivacity.—
everal wrinkles were to be seen on
each side of his mouth, which, without
noticing his other features, would in
dicate him to be about the age of forty.
” e travelled several miles together,
nnd conversed upon different subjects
before the most common topic of con
• ersation (money matters) was touched
‘pon. Ibe young man was not at all
’•‘markable lor Ins loquacity on that
and the following conversation
place between the Old Jlan and
myself.
(tbsrrver. I find the times very'hard,
Md money difficult to get—l owe a
■' ! . a . n hi three hundred dollars,
w m!i l expected, when l contracted
‘-o debt, to be able to pay at the time
was due; but it has been due these
■'ennontiis, and ! have just now been
’ ’ f o get it by collecting and selling
property for two hundred dollars of it,
’? H borrowing the ether hundred—l
• ‘o now in haste to pay it, as 1 under
’ ‘ in< ‘ h, y creditor is likely to fail for
Want ot it.
WfZtVmi, Money, 1 know is very
) •'* cc, Init l have as much as I have a
; j > c sent need for. Some times 1 have
J imod deal of money, ami sometimes
„ u - v .But d’ s a e t hard run at
‘ ’ * mie > 1 generally know how to pick
U P a little.
f J^K 1 should like to have that know
uge. tor sometimes l am very hard
V and do not know how to pick im a
aoiJa r , • 1
0. ,\L 0, Tit an easy matter, if you
were once in the way of it. I never
labour any, but ride about the country
and take my pleasure: and I always
make money enough by sporting to pay
inv way: and I should make a great
deai. bnf ] am always too inattentive
to what I am about; and 1 do’nt un
derstand the game as well as most peo
ple that follow it. So when ever l plav
with one wlm really understands it, I
generally lose nearly all 1 have.
Ob. 1 never made any money that
wav, nor do I think if prudent to try :
for as I do nt understand it, 1 should
be more likely to lose than win.
O. M. It you don’t understand the
game I would not advise you to risk
money, at least on your own playing.
Do you ever play any, stranger ? (ad
dressing himself so the young man.)
t loung Jtlun. A little sometimes—
though not, often.
Here the conversation changed to
one ot a desultory nature; and con
tinued at that till we rode two or
three miles. When it had ended, and
the old man had rode a little ahead,
the young man addressed me in the
following words.
r. m. i can put you in a way to get
that hundred dollars you say you bor
rowed.
Ob. How?
J . J\l. Let ns all stay together to
night, and if you will furnish me with
a iittle to go upon, I can win all that
old man’s money ; and l believe r he
lias a jp'eat quantity of it. lam just
at this time caught without any ; and
as I have nothing to put in, I shall ask
you but| a small trifle to play.
Ob. No sir ; I never win or lose any
money. Ido not hold with the prin
ciple—and if I did, I should not think
it prudent to risk, any at present; for
I am hound in honor to pay what mo
ney 1 have, and if I should lose it, it
would be impossible for me at present
to raise the sum again.
]'. M. 0, sir, I’ll be damned if there
is any danger of losing it. I can beat
any man I ever saw in my life. I pre
tended to this old fellow that I did not
know well how to play ; but my object
wa3 to get him to try me, and though 1
never saw him before to-day, I’ll bet
ail I’m worth I can beat him.
Ob. 1 believe I had rather not
engage in it.
Y. M. Why sir, you can use your
pleasure; but by G —d, I can beat
any man that ever was born at seven
up or 100. I have not a doubt but this
old fellow has a thousand dollars, and
if 1 had but fifty dollars to begin with,
I’ll bed (1 if 1 could not win eve
ry dollar of it in two hours. Just let
I me have twenty dollars to begin with,
. and if I do’nt win a hundred without
losing any, I’ll not ask you for anoth
er cent.
Ob. Well, we'll see about it.
We then spurred up and overtook
the old man.
O. M. Where do you think to stay
to-night, gentlemen.
Ob. I expect to go to .
O.M. (), that is too far—l was think
ing of staying at Mr. s.
Ob. I shall go there to dinner ; but
my business requires that 1 should go
farther in the afternoon. I do not
wish, however, gentlemen, that you
should go there on my account —I ex
pect to be something in the night.
V. Jf. as we have fallen in compa
ny together, wc might as well stay to
gether: and if this gentleman cannot
stay short of , 1 propose that vve
should go on with him.
“Nothing further that was material
occurred till we came to the inn before
alluded to, and stopped for dinner.—
We had been there but a short time,
when a gentleman rode up to the inn
from the opposite end of the rood
from the one we had been travailing,
and came in. lie was a stranger to
me, but appeared to be well acquaint
ed with both my companions; tor he ad
dressed the old man by the name of
11 , and the young one by the
name of 11 . Having inquired af
ter their health, addressing the young
man, he said, You still stick to old 11.
do you r Yes, said Mr. Ik (while his
face was turning very red,) we have
been travelling together to-day—but
which way are you going ?
Stranger. 1 am going up the coun
try. —But, travelling together to-day,
you say—have you been different
routes since 1 saw you at
B. No—L came were you there
when was he there when 1 saw you
there?
S. Was he there do you ask ? YV hy,
man, v'hat ails you ? You were both
there together ; and 1 understand you
have formed a co-partnership.
J . M. There ! By G~d there is no
thing to be done in this world without
people could be got to hold their
tongues!
M ith this observation be rose hasti
ly and left the room. Old H. was not
present during this conversation, anil
Mr. B. walked directly out to him.™
When he was gone the stranger asked
me if l could account for the strange
effect tire conversation had fln Mr. B.
I told him I could not, Unless it wa3
that they were both strangers to me,
and had represented themselves stran
gers to each other. That the young
man talked to me of winning the old
one’s money, and wanted me to bet
upon him.
O, said the stranger, I can sec thro’
the whole of it. now—but upon the
whole of the business I am not sorry
for what I said. This has been a snare
laid to catch you, and as you|are out of
it now, 1 would advise you as a stran
ger, to have nothing to do with them.
Wl ien we resumed our journey I .as
ked the old man how long he had fol
lowed the business he was employed
in? (Mr.B.had rode on some distance
ahead of us.)
11. Ever since I was a yoang man.
Ob. And do you find it an agreea
ble business ?
//. O yes, a very agreeable one. I
always keep plenty to support me.
Ob. But when you take a retrospec
tive |view of your life, and reflect how
you have spent your days, can there
lie any thing like happiness, or even
contentment in the reflection ? To be
mofe plain with you, my old friend,
and to come immediately to the point
—When you know that you have <mt
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your fellow creature’s money, and that
dishonestly ; when you have never gi
ven him value for it—when you have
obtained it by some trick in the game,
or have dishoneslly laid some snare
in which to entrap him ; when you
have used some such artful means to
entice him to the gambling table, as
you have been using with me to-day,
and there won his money, which (in a
moral point of view) you might as well
have stolen—at such a time, I say,
does not your conscience smite you ?
or have you so long withstood the
checks of conscience, that she lias de
serted you to the free execution of your
diabolical purposes. I told you this
morning of my difficulty in raising the
money I have, and I told you my cre
ditor was likely to fail for want of it.
How could you then lay such a plan
with B. to get it from me r
11. The truth is, sir, since you have
gone so deeply into the business, that
l have followed this way of living so
long that 1 have not much feeling for
any thing but myself. I will be candid
enough with you to tell you that since
I first entered into it 1 have lived a
most miserable life. I first got at it
by throwing five corns at a cent a
throw, when 1 was about eighteen years
old: being successful I enlarged, and
very soon began to feel the love of it.
My father was not living to controu!
me, and by the time I was twenty I
was a complete devotee to it. Thus, I
have jrone on—sometimes rich—some
times poor; but always miserably un
happy. I never had a family, never
had a home, and am inclined to think
I never, since childhood, tasted the
joys of life. ♦Fhave no social or do
mestic ties—l do not think I have a
real friend in the world. 1 feel like a
kind of barren vacancy in the world ;
having dragged through life without
being of any use to myself or my fel
low creatures, or seeming to answer
the purpose intended by my Creator.
I feel like I could abandon my way of
living, but 1 am not now able to labour
for a support; and am obliged to go on
and appear cheerful aiui happy when
my heart feels like it would sink within
me. Ido not believe that any vice in
the world so torments its votaries in
this life as that of gambling —the drun
kard becomes calous to his misery, but
the gambler is always feelingly alive
to it. ‘ The worst of my misery is when
1 lie down at night—l can neither
sleep nor rest; and so excruciating is
my mental torments, that I am often
ready to cry out, “ > that death, or
even hell itself would come and re
lease me from this suffering, for it
could not place me in any worse.
OBSERVER.
COMMUNICATED.
No. V.
Mr. Editor —We ceased our work
for a short time, with the expectation
that someone else, would lend a wil
ling hand, in the work that we
have commenced. In this we have
not been disappointed. We perceive
in the last Messenger a piece signed
Co-Censor, every sentence of which
we approve, although we disclaim any
knowledge of the author. We wish,
such sentiments were more generally
cherished. The has
come under his animadversion, com
bines the most consumate folly, and
the most relined cruelty. W e arc
sorry to see, that a practice so ridicu
lous, should characterise any section
of our state. We wish it may not
long be the case, but may the citizens
cherish those virtues that shall make
Sparta be, what Sparta was. It has
not fallen to our lot to notice such
things. We have watched the trans
mutations of fashion, willing to give
our readers all the instruction we can
on the subject. Among the various
improvements and alterations that
have been made in the articles ofDrcss,
there is none, with which we are so
much pleased as the late one in Bon
nets. For some time past, there seem
ed to have been great competition ex
isting between the females, each stri
ving to excel the rest in the works of
oily. Some arraying themselves with
“ martiaV caps and feathers; and
others with an exuberant abundance of
plaited straw, gracefully turned up
jehind. Such were the chapeaux,
with which each party entered the
ists. The scales of victory hung for
a long time suspended in the air and
it was doubtful which way they would
eventually incline. Both parties,
seemed resolutely determined on suc
cess. Such was the state of affairs,
when both parties, wearied with con
tinued exertions, resolved to bury their
contention, and rally around one stan
dard. To effect this, some new fash
ion was necessary; and then it was
that the parties agreed on the present;
which is something like unto the fol
lowing. A large sheet of Leghorn
straw, with a crown in the middle, as
large as may be required, with the brim
turued down, so as to resemble an old
worn out umbrella, and this when pla
ced on the head of a fine lady, has a
most enchanting appearance. The
advantages of this fashion are numer
ous. It shades the neck and face,
serves as an umbrella, and precludes
the vacant stare of impertinent curi
osity. The beholder has nothing left
to gaze upon, but the form. If the
subject be ugly, or old, “ ’tis all the
same ;” it is entirely left to the imagi
nation to pourtray her visage. And
thus, muffled up in straw, &c. the fe
males are entirely protected from the
remarks of all impertinence. But, to
tax the females with prudery in dress,
would be the height of ingratitude.—
What though they do hide their heads
and faces, do they not supply it by
exposing other parts ? Do we not see
them frequently so attired, as to expose
to view a handsome ankle? Yes, and
from what we can see, we should
judge, that such as are not blessed by
nature with the last named article, to
prevent unpleasant remarks,wear what
is vulgarly termed, Jack-boots.
CENSOR & CO.
GOLD MINE.
In the county of Anson, N. C.
two miles from Rocky river, and
about 35 miles from this place, there
has been recently discovered an ex
tensive Gold Mine—in excavating
which, 12 workmen are now em
ployed with very considerable suc
cess. We have conversed with a
gentleman who a few days since vi
sited this Mine ; from him we learn
the ore is exceedingly pure, and
sells readily in its crude state at 91
cents the pennyweight. While he
was present, one piece was dug up
weighing 22 ounces, equal to 55340
40 cts. One other piece had previ
ously been found weighing 40 oun
ces, equal to §728. Gold is not
found deeper than three and a half
feet below the surface. There is a
small creek running through this
mine, the bottom of which being
covered with millions of small par
ticles of gold glittering through the
limpid stream, presents a very inte
resting and beautiful appearance.
Cher aw (S. C.) Intel.
An article in the last Philadel
phia Press states that the three
Commissioners from the Republic
of St. Salvador had reached that
City from Boston ; that they are the
bearers of dispatches to our govern
ment, requesting to be admitted as
a State into the Union, if consistent
with the principles of our constitu
tion ; and if this proposition he de
clined, to form a close and friendly
alliance with the U. S. The inde
pendence of this republic was recog
nized by the Mexican Congress
previous to Iturbide’s downfall, and
was proclaimed on the 21st of Sep
tember 1821. Afteh his usurpation,
he pronounced all the acts of the
Mexican Congress void, and march
ed another strong army on St. Sal
vador. His designs were arrested
by the Revolution, which prostrated
his own throne. (On the Ist June,
Col. J. Castillo left Philadelphia
for the city of Mexico, with special
instructions to have the decree of
the Mexican Congress confirmed.)
On the 22d Nov. 1822, the Con
gress of St. S. declared the Repub
lic to be one of the confederate pro
vinces of the IJ. S. of North Ame
rica. This republic is represented
as extending from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, having two seaports on
each ocean ; the whole republic con
tainingabout 300,000 souls, rich in
mines, and in the products of the
earth —the capital city, St. Salvador,
containing more than 20,000 inhab
itants. —lt is clear, ihat-*he inter
ests of the U. S. will not permit us
to add to the Union a territory so
far separated from our boundaries
—but wc trust, that the ministers
will be treated with all that kind
ness and distinction which so cour
teous and complimentary a propo
sition deserves. —Richmond Enq ,
Return J. Meigs, has resigned the
office of Postmaster General of the U.
States. His successor is not yet de
signated.
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{fj° u A Citizen of Bibb County”
was received too late for insertion this
week.
(Cj™ The Rev. Vincent A. Tharp
will preach at Fort-Hawkins on Sun
day next.
We are requested Vo
that JAMES McDONALI) is a candi
date for Justice of the Inferior Court
for this county.
OTICE. —The following are a list of free persons ot colour
who have caused their names to be registered in my office
since the first day of January last, in conformity with the law in
that case made and provided.
Names . Jiges. Where born. How long resi- Occupation.
ded in Georgia.
Jenney 42 Virginia 25 years Spinner
Solomon 22 Georgia 22 M alter
Berry 7 do 7
Stephen 5 do 5
Caroline 3 do 3
Nancy 2 mo. do 2 months
Extract from the Book of Registry.
JAMES FLKWELLIN, Clerk.
Bibb Countv, 30th June, 1823. 15
waj&b s,T©3ra:<£iii
PERSONS having BOOKS belong.
ingto the subscriber, are reques
ted to return them as soon as possible.
GEO. B. WARDLAW.
24th June, 1823. Iwls
Information Wanted.
\NY person or persons having
knowledge of JAMES HAR
VEY WASHBURN, (a native of
Massachusetts) within the space of 12
years past, will confer a great favor
by enclosing and forwarding in a let
ter, such information, per mail, to
H. MORTON.
Telfair County, Geo. 15
IfTT’Editors of papers throughout
the United States, will have the good
ness to give the above one or two in
sertions.
John G. Bostick Y
vs. f Bill in Equityfor
Edwin Whitedeadf Discovery.
& Charles Watson )
IN this case the sheriff having re
turned that the defendants are not
to be found in this county, on motion,
it is ordered, that a service of the said
bill be perfected upon the defendants
by advertising Ibis rule once a month,
in some public Gazette of this state,
until the next term of this court: and
it is further ordered that the said de
fendants do appear and answer the
said bill at the next term of this court.
A true extract taken from the min
utes of the Superior court of Jef
ferson county and state of Geor
gia, this 29th May, 1823.
15] JOHN G. BOSTICK, Cleric.
KOTICE.
VWJTILL be sold on the first Tucs-
▼ day in September next, in the
town of Louisville, agreeable to an or
der of the honorable court of Ordinary,
of Jefferson county, nine hundred and
thirty-six acres of land, lying in the
county of Jefferson,on the waters of Dry
creek, adjoining lands of Wm. Mar
shall, and others: It being the real es
tate of Benjamin Davis, dec’d and to be
sold for the benefit of the minor heirs
of said deceased. Also two hundred
and two and an half acres, lying in
the county of Wilkinson, known by
lot No. 7, in the 16th district of said
county, belonging to the subscriber.—
Terms made known on the day of sale.
Elizabeth Davis, Adm'x.
June 20, 1823. 15—60d.
.An Election
WILL be held at John Keener’s on
the 19th July next for Judge of the In
ferior Court, to fill the vacancy occa
sioned by resiguation of D. Lawson,
and for County Surveyor to fill the va -
cancy occasioned by the resignation of
J. B. Grace.
J. DAVIS, j. i. c. n.c.
C. W. RAINES, /. /. f. and. c.
June 30. 15s