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TMIIE WBHBIEILTy;. (KILIEAMIEIE PRINTED- BY H. S. NOBLE, SALEM, STOKES CO. NORTH-CAROLINA JOHN C. BLUM,. PROPRIETOR. VOL. I. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1829. no; 18. 2Tf)e WLttkls (GUantv IS PUNTED AND PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY MOKNING. TER5IS Owe Dollar per annum, if paid in advance ; Ow Dollar and 25 Cents, at the end of six months ; but if not faid within the year, the price will be One Dollar and IFTY Cents. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at fifty cents per square for the first insertion, and twenty-five cents for each sMtceeding week. All letters on business fhust be post paid, or they will not be attended to. VALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOB. SAM. THE Subscribers will sell, C without fail, at Mocksville, WOfV on Friday, the loth day of May iif.it, on accommodating terms, the most valuable Plantation in the countv of Rowan. The tract is situated in the Forks of the adkin, on Cedar creek, and contains between Four and Five Hundred Acres. Tfif dv( lling-house is new and commodious, with suitable out-houses, and a Still-House ; the plantation is in excellent repair. Tbe healthiness of the situation and superior fertility l tiie soil, gives this plantation- a fair preference, for all the purposes of agriculture, over any in the county. Also, will be sold at tbe same time, the Turcrn House, in Mocksville, accommodated with stables, a garden. &c. being astlijiible a situation lor that business as any in the county ; iirjvl two other Houses and Lots in Mocksville. Persons u ishing to purchasemay call upon the subscribers at any time before the day of sale. J. D. JONES, B. G. JONES, March W, 1820. lStCi JNO. CLEMENT. LAND FOR SALE. WISH to sell the Plantation whereon I now reside, Ivins on the road generally called " Cucumber Road," leading from Sa lem to Randolph C. House, on tbe waters ot South Fork, about 4 miles south of balem, in stokes county. The tract of Land contains about 200 acres, of which a bout HO acres, including an excellent meadow and a well se lected fruit orchard, are in a good state of cultivation ; the balance is woodland, and a great part low grounds, inferior to noun in this section of country. The Mill Seat on this almost never failing stream, the South Fork,, adds, and is of no small importance to its value. The improvements con sist of a dwelling-house, bam, stables, and other out-houses, mostly new and in good order. Those inclined to purchase, are in ited to call and view the premises, and learn further ..articular. JONATHAN WILLIAMS. ' March 13, 1329. 2m20n STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA, . STOKES COUNTY. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessiois UarcJi Term, 1829. Elisha Mendenhall ) ' rs. Attachment. Christopher Swaim. ) T appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the de- H. fendiwit in this case is not an inhabitant ot this estate, or Uiat he so absconds or conceals himself that the ordinary pro fess of law cannot be served on him : It is therefore ordered, ihat publication be made in the AVeekly Gleaner, for six weeks, for Christopher Swaim to appear at our next Court. n the second Monday of June, and plead or demur, other wise final judgment will be entered against him. MATTHEW It. MOORE, c. c. By Cosstastine L. Ba.vner, D. C. Germanton, 1 Hh March, 1 829. 171 pr. adv. $1 75 " State of North-Carolina Stokes County. March Term, 1C29. IT appearing to the Court, that a negro man who calls him self John Baker, has been confined in jail for 12 months, and it appearing to tbe satisfaction of the Court that notice has been given in the State Gazette according to law: It is therefore ordered by the Court, that the Sheriff of this Coun ty make sale of the said runaway negro according to law. MATTHEW R. MOORE, c. c. By C. L. Bannek, D. C. Pursuant to the above order of Court, I shall offer the above mentioned negro fbrj sale, for ready money, to the highest bidder, at the Couxlj-House door in Gcrmanton, on the second Monday of June next S. STONE, Shtrijf. Sheriff Office, March 9, 1829. t22-pr. air. $2 75 TVHf EOiiTiTi A TTEOUg. SENSATIONS BEFORE AND DURING A BATTLE. PROM SHIPP'l MEMOIRS. I have heard some men say, that they would as soon fight as eat their breakfasts, and others, that they " dearly loved fighting." If this were true, what blood-thirsty dogs must they be ! But I should be almost illiberal enough to suspect these boasters of not possessing or dinary courage. I will not, howeverrgo so far as positively to assert this, but will content my self by asking these terrific soldiers to account to me why, some hours previously to storming a fort, or fighting a battle, are men pensiver thoughtful, heavy, restless, weighed down with apparent solicitude and care f Why do men country town on a market day, and feeling rather hungry, 1 went and sat down at a table, which I saw at the inn, and which proved to be a farmers ordinary; such indeed, as it would have required the monopoly of the home mar ket to support. The conversation turned on the best kind of food for horses. I thought that 1 would put in tr word, that I might not appear above my company ; so I asked what they thought of feeding horses on sheeps heads, (a common practise in India, when you wish to fatten a horse quickly.) Upon this they winked at each other ; and I could cvetv observe sundry tongues in the act of distend ing the off check. uPray, sir, where might that be 7" said one of the party. " In the Gast on these occasions more ferventlv beseech the I Indies.11 1 reolicd. w 1 thought as how the sren Divine protection and guidance to save them 1 tleman had travelled" said a- little dry fellow in the approaching conflict ? Are not all these I at the corner of the table. This slly produc- feelings the result of reflection, and of man's regard for his dearest care his life, which no mortal will part with it he can avoid f I here are periods in war which put man's courage to severe tests : if, for instance, as was my case, I knew I was to lead a forlorn hope on the fol lowing evening, innumerable ideas will rush in quick succession on the mind ; such as 44 for aught my poor and narrow comprehension can tell, I may to-morrow be summoned before my Maker." " How have I spent the life he has been pleased to preserve to this period 1 Can I meet that just tribunal ?" A man, situated as I have supposed, who did not, even amid the cannon's roar and the din of war, experi ence anxieties approaching to what I have des cribed, may, by possibility, have the courage of a lion, but he cannot possess the feelings of a man. In action, man is quite another being; the softer feelings of the roused heart are ab sorbed in the vortex of danger, and the neces sity for self-preservation give place to others more adapted to the occasion. In these moments, there is an indescribable elation of spirits ; the soul rises above its wont ed serenity into a kind of phrenzied apathy to ; the scene before you, a heroism bordering on j ferocity ; the nerves become tight and con tracted : the eyes lull and open, moving quick ly in the sockets, with almost maniac wild ness ; the head is in constant motion ; the nos trils extended wide, and the mouth apparent ly gasping. If an artist could truly delineate the features of a sol1 tr in a battle's heat, and compare them with the lineaments of the same man in the peaceful calm of domestic life, they would be found to be two different portraits ; but a sketch of this kind is not within the pow er of art : for, in action, the countenance va ries with the battle ; as thebattle brightens so docs the countenance, as it lowers, so the countenance becomes gloomy. I have known some men drink enormous quantities of spiri tuous liquors when going into action to drive away little intruding thoughts, and to create false spirits ; but they are short-lived, as the onliomnrn ctrno-o-lpa hut n mnmnnl on ih t chrystal stream, then dies. If a man have not natural courage, he may rest assured that li quor will deaden and destroy the little he may possess. Incredidity of Englishmen. Shortly after ed a roar ot laughter, in which, as I had no one to back me, I thought it best to jom mysell. Twelve Years' Military Adventure. Methodism. It was in the year 1729, just a century ago, that John Wesley aided by two of his fellow students at the University of Ox ford, commenced the work of reforming the morals of the great body of the people of Eng land, and especially those of the lowest and most neglected classes. At that time, the Re ligious Teachers of the Country were chiefly that of the Established Church, and but little pains were taken to induce disorderly persons, who kept at a distance from the Church, and any thing like Religion,- to change their course ; and the number of these was far from being inconsiderable. JValcy, and his associates at College, moved by this state of things, be gan by visiting places in the neighbourhood, and holding meetings wherever they could find opportunity. But this great Reformer of Mo rals, at length commenced his plan of establish ing Itinerary Preaching throughout the King dom, which at first met with much opposition. The travelling Preachers having no establish ed places in which to address the people, held forth in the Streets, or in any place where they1 could assemble a few persons together, and were frequently, much annoyed by. boys and disorderly persons, pelting them with dirt ancT other missiles. But nothing could prevent Wesley from pursuing his object. His zeal and perseverance, and the zeal and perseverance of his disciples, -overcame every obstacle, and at this time the Methodist Meetings many parts of England, are the most numerously at tended Houses of Worship. Nor did his zeaF stop here ; Mr. fVesjey determined to visit this Country, and rouse p the negleetere of Reli gious Worship here also, and the present situ ation of the Methodist' Church throughout the; Union shews the complete success which crowned his efforts. And this venerable and excellent man, had the gratification to live to- j sec the fruit of his labours, and in his old age i to visit his Churches throughout Great Britain, where thousands oi his disciples met to wor ship their Maker, and where, like an Apostle, he could gratefully say, 44 These are my CAiV dren in the Lord ; it is from my labours, and from the labours of those tchom I have induced I to travel and preach tht Gospel, that these norm .1 -i ;:.. r i t i -i.-a.. I my return from'lndia, I was passing through a I " f " W tkttjly J from the offscounng of the people.
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