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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 •/ %/ “ 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. ■ ■■■ -V..’- ■ ■ ■ {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