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llti?M ttIK XAVM. CMKOMCH. \ s.MI.qiVS F.l.F.lSY ON TUP. FATIiOF TICK WASP. O \ when in somo illustrious light, Stout warriorj yield, ut f.vtcrt rude call, They f ill, like shooting Mart ut night, . And b(i{;hlcii .w tlicy full. t ?)? , A thmvund tongue* their deeds relate, And w|th the itonr new Ore. A country mourn* their mournful fate, , Ami Iwltca weep uud men admire. ? llut dreary It the fate <if those * I mourn, in Una rot:*,h sailor atrain, Who iH-mh'd An#, no morUl knows, Ami pcrbh'd idl In vain. ' ^ ^ Who in our country cannot tdt v. How 1II.AKF.IjKY brought tho red-cross !??# And twicc triumpbrtUrm quell, 'I'll- prowcts or a valiant foe f ? ,** A. Who has not heard of his brave men, Ail valiant heart* of sterling gold. Who braved the Uon in lib den, / 'AikI turn'd his hot blood into coftl f Who liai not wish'd tliat they witc here, I^c.ip'd the Occnn'a peril* rvde. *H? Mlurv our country's welcome cheer, And reap a nation'* gratitude t Hut they will never come ofcain To claim the welcome #1' their home ? Allcction looks for then in vain, T?h? surely, they wilf never come. 1'ar distant from their native land, They iiei-isliM in tAo yawning dcci>, Where tliei-e wi.a i?mic to strctch a hand, And none their fnte to weep. No ear their d retry drowning cry, Heard o'er Hie desert wave i Their <lying struggle met no eye, No fr.cm/ly aid to ?avc. Ami \whru they pcrish'd none can tell, Nor i *htrt their bone* are laid~ Tire !>f>ot affection loves so well, * No mourner's step will tread. N?> tctvlfr friend will ever go Tn seek the *pot where they abide, N?r c ii.ld, or wUlow, full of wo. Tell how, .-Mi l when, and where they died AL*! they have no Cliurch-Yard grixe, No moimd to mr.rk the sjnit, They moulder *n the drop, deep wave. Just where? ?it matter* not. Tlu-v nerish'd far awav from home, Ami few will weep tlie.se (tailor* Itohl, For e'er the certain new* shall coiiic Our feelings will grow cold. Ily ?lovv decrees hope will c*p:rc, And when the Mtxious feel lur** o'er,'" Stale memory will quench her nre, And sorrow Ik: no more. Save where some pale and widow'd one, llv grief, or madness cro.ts'd, fill-all clmg to olio dear hope alone, And hope, though tmpe were lost lly fond imagination led, Or Ideal visions driven, O ! she will ne'er Itclteve him dead, Till they do meet in Heaven. MIHCEMANY. THE ROUND TAl)LE....No. I. ? T LSIOtI UIJT. It has often struck mo in conunnn with other luxurious* persons who arc fund of reading at 'break ami who arc well-tem pered enough, on such occa sions, to put up witu a little agreeable ad vice, that there has now been a sufllcient distance of time sinco the publication of our good old periodical works, and a sufllcient change of matters worthy of social obser vation, to wurrant the appearanco of a si milar set of papers. Upon this design, with the assistance of a few companions, and with ail sorts of de terminations to lie equally instructive anil delightful, I urn accordingly now entering ; and must give the reader to understand, in their name as well as my own, that wishing to be regarded as his companions also* we act as become* all honest persons under such i-iirumsfanies, and profess to be no other quaint ance of ours, ill Ids becoming disdain of the original French, would call names rij vii r. A hundred years hnck, when tlio mode of living was different from what It is now, and taverns and coffce houses made the per son* of the wits familiar to every body, as sumptions of tliis kind muy Ijave been he ecHsar.v. ('aplain Steele, for instance, the gay ft llow about town, might not always hi.ve been listened to with becoming- atten tion or ? ven gravity, (-specially if ho had been lidle too inartieiilato over-night? he therefore puts on the wrinkles and privi leges of Isaac llickcrstuif, the old gentle man. Sir Itiehard might bo a little bettor, but not perhaps during an election, or after the fail tiro Of a lis h pool ; and so ho rtfreat ed into tb" ancient and impregnable compo sition of Nestor Ironside* I do not mbaii to say, that we have none of the foitdes of our Illustrious predecessors^ It would be odd indeed, (to speak candidly, and with that humility which becomes fruil beings like men') if our numerous and ve ry ei.iincnt virtues had no drawlnu k? but more on this subject presently* All that I nay is that we have Hot the same occasion for disguise * and therefore, as we prefer at all times a plain, straight-forward behavior, and in fact, choose to lie as original us we can iu our productions, we have avoided the trouble of adding assumed characters to real ones \ and shall talk just as we think# walk, and take dinner* in our own proper persons. H hi jirtie, the wjmt of old age, or of a Ibw pMrlftrrh.il eccentricities, to exer else people's patronage on, and Induce their self-love to bear Willi us, may be a deficien cy in our pretensions with some j but we nuts: plainly confess, with whatever morti fSrutioit, that we are still at ? flourishing tf^iCpf lire | And that the trouble and ex perience which hfcvo passed over our heads, have left our teeth, hall1 and eves, pretty nearly as good us . they found them. Ono of us, (which, by the way, must recom mend uh to all the married people, and nd mlrors of AgcsUous) Was even caught the othor day acting the great (torso wltli a bov ouhls shoulders j and another (which will do as much for us among tho bachelors, and givo Lord's Ground In particular a lively sroso of Our turn of thinking) was not a vast whllo ago counted tho second-best cricketer In Mm native town. On the other haml,as wo wish to avoid tlie solitary and dicttorlal manner of tho la ter essayists, Ac at the same time are bound to show our readers that we have something to make up for tho want of flapped waist coats and an instructive decay of faculties, we hereby inform them, that we are literal ly speaking, a small party 'of Mends, who meet once a week at a round table to discuss the merits of a leg of mutton, and of the subjects upon which we uro to write. This we do without any sort of formality, letting the stream of conversation wander through any grounds it pleases, and sometimes retir ing into our own respective cogitations, tho' it must be confessed, v*r y rarely? Tor we have a lively, wom-visaged fellow among us, who has a trick, when in company, of leaping, as it were, on tho top of his troub les, and keeping our spirits in motion with all sorts of pleasant interludes. After din ner, if the weather require** it, we draw round the fire, with a biscuit or two, and (he j'emainder of a philosophic bottlo of win? ; or as wo are passionately fond of music, ono of us touches an instrument, in a manner that would mako a professor die with laughter to sec him using his thumb where lie should put his finger, or his fin ger where he should use iiis thumb, but nevertheless in such a way us to ravisli the rest of us, who know still less than ho does. At un Italian air we even think him supe rior to Trumczzani, though wo generally give vent to our feelings on this point in a whisper. We suspect, however, that lie' o verheard uh one evening, as lie immediately attempted sour extraordinary graces, widen with all our purtiultly we own were abom inable. The reader will hco by this account, that we do not mean to bo otcr austere on th<p score ot' doiueatlc enjoyments, for our mathematics and -accord' writers, one of us is deep languages, anotlier in ?n?U third in poetry j ami astor experience an . a proper (tympany with the infirmities of our species, tlio former of which it absolute ly necessary for tlwse who set up to be in* h true tors, and tlie latter quite as much so to give it a becoming tone and render it fail? ingly useful ? we ahull not break in upon a greater principle by imitating the reckless raudor of Ilousseuo, and make a parado of what other weaknesses we may hnve?btit for sickness, for ordinary worldly trouble, and in one or two respects, for troubles not very ordinary, few pontons at our time of life can make a handsomer show of infirmi ties. Of some wo shall only say, that they have been common to most persons, art well us ourselves, who were not born to estates of their own ; but ilicso and others have enabled us to buy, what|jM>noy might have still kept us poor in? (dji real good know ledge, and, at bottom of all our egotism, some warm-wishing unaffected humility.? Even at school whore thore is nothing much to get sick *r melancholy with, if Indulgent parents are ont of the way, wo were initial- . cd Into expertenr t a little earlier than most J jpcoplo ) tho tribulations we have fallen in to before and alter lids time are almost in- , numerable ; und out of mere horror oil mind, particularly at a fright we had from u wicked wag, through a key-hole* wo shall content ourselves with saying, that we can muster up* undci* the head of sickness and casualties alone, a pair of scutded legs, a watery head, (now, hy tho way, In excel lent preservation,) a variety of fevers, In cluding a rupital Ht. Anthony's fire, two rheMmatlsms, three drownings, and qne. (Which w us quite enough) hypochondria. ? We must mention also a twovear's imple ment, as a circumstance that has increased our stock of ideas j and may add as a spe cimen of our experience after tlto fashion of Ul vsses, that have all of us, at separate periods from another, been In France. 1 must confess, however, for my owiv pari, that I was not of an age to make much use ?f my travels, having gone thither in my I'hildhootl to get rid of one sickness, and j'ist stayed long enough to survive another* It was just before tho decrees that altered religious as well as political matters in that country, and almost all that I remember is a good old Woman, our landlady, who used to weep bitterly over me, because I should die a heretic, fc lie buried In unconsec rated; ground. 1 have made an exception ever since, oat of tho whole French nation, in I (kyoi* of the people at Calais, and was de lighted, though not surprised, to hear the Otfter day from one of our round table, that the Women are pretty and prepossessing, and still looked as if they could be kind to young heretics. Of this accomplished and distinguished party of ours, circumstances have made me president | but 1 wish it to be distinctly un* derstood, that I do not on that account claim any pre-eminence but a nominal one. Wc shall choose our own subjects, only open to tin* suggestion** and comments of each o 4ft 11 TTft .a aa ??. "? ? * " ther t ant! all snoak, as becomes our social familiarity, In tho first it dents, therefore, (and I > first {tenon*. CorrcApon iuii8t here mention I tally that all persons not actually admitted to the said table* must write to us ill tlio form of a letter) may address as they plense>: ei ther tc tho president of tlio round table, or to the president ami Ills fellows In general, as w Mr. President, ? Gentlemen of the Round Table j" or to any ouc Of my Mends in particulnr, according to? his signature, or tho Hound Tc Table, as "To tho Member of tho Hound ? T. or W." This perhaps will bo dctermln* , ed by tho nnturo of tho communication.} ? but I must be mora anxious to say. some 11.. ? 't-? i ? .tiling on tlio point, Inasmuch as my situa-| tlon often reminds mo of other grei who liavo Hut at tho head /of tables, round | ?fM?r Uf?fv niiv l?? ftl?V IIVHU .VI tWUlUNf niUVlll or square, silch as Charlemagne with his peer?, who were persons of greater prowess titan himself) or king Arthur, who in spit* of his renown was nothing alter all to some of his knights, Launcelot or Tristran for in*; stanco { or to glvo a mora fttinlliar example Hobin llood and his fellows, every one of whom, before ho could be admitted iuto the Cfljnpaiiy had beaten the captain. I must not, however, before I conclude, pass over king Arthur so sHghtly ; as our round table, to a certain 'degree, is Inevita bly associated in our minds with his. .The name indeed was given to us by otie of that sex, who have always been tho chief orna ments and promoters of chivalrous institu< tlons j and for my part, when I am sitting at tho head of it, with my knights on eaeli side, lean hardly help fancying that I am putting a triumphant finish to the old proph ecy, and feeling in me, under an unexpect ed but more useful character, tho revived spirit of that great llritlsh monarch, who w?* all know, was to return ugain tit light from his subterraneous exile, repair tlio round table in all its glory : He is a king ycrownid in fairie With *ccpVCT and ?\v?>rtl, and with hit regally Shall rcXtttM lord and Bovcnyjme 10 m Bcitainc, .old round tabic, Utl)le -LTMATI. train of roman works connec.t mes resort in our I wo shall keep the, <Uning table bc-| my i error and ? ifopons, who brought ?wever gigantic, who W' ? GLEANINGS, f So littlo do wo accustom otirselvc# (says Dr. Johnson) to consider the efTocts of time, thai tltinjpi necessary and certain often sur prise us like unexpected contingencies. Wo leave the beauty in her bloom, and. after an absenco of twenty years, wonder, at our return, to find her faded. Wo meet those whom we left Children, and ran scarcely persuade ourselves to treat them as men. Tho traveller visits in age those countries through which lie rambled in his youth, and lio]>es for mdrriincnt at the old place. The man of business, wearied With unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and experts to play away the last yearn witli the companions of his childhood* and rerover youth lit the fields where lie once was young. From tills inattention, no general and ho mischiev ous, let it be every man*s study to exempt himself. Let him that desires to seo others Imppy make haste to give while his gift can beeiQoved, and remember that every mo mentor delay takes something from the viitue of his benefaction. And let him who pnriioscs his own happiness rellect, thai while lie forms his imritoso the day rolls on, ami the 11I3IU comcln when no man can work, The Titer.? Chateaubriand, in his recol lections of Italy, says : " As to tho Tiber, which waters and participates in the glory of Home, its destiny is altogether strange. It pusses through a corner of the city, as if It did not exist. No one deigns to cast his eyes towards it, no one. speaks of it, no ono drinks Its waters, and the women do not even use it for washing. It steals away between tho paltry houses, which conceal it, and hastens to precipitate itself into the sea, ashamed of its modern appellation." " What is your ojiiuion of Ariosto ?'* said Voltaire to an abbe Just returned from Italy. ?? I think him a great poet,0 suid the abbe. <? I think him," said Voltaire, with some warmth, ?? the greatest of poets* His Or lando Purioso is an enchanted palace, where the buHrsriue is so happily blended with the mnjestic, that one sets off the other. It is at once (he Iliad. fin- Odyssy,At Don Quixote." I? ? TUB Milncriltrrj to the Presbyterian Church, urc re quoted to \i*y tho halMK** of the old, and tli? *? mount of tb? MW tubicription*. M u? convenient, to tb^ BUlLDlNO COMMt n ri.. btiwtt " * sCDEMIOAL DRUG AND MEDICINE WAREHOUSE, >? (Ditmfr tffttlH thk MarkH. J WILLIAM HRAVl'liWAlTF. OtCtr* for ulr, at hit New & Cheap |>mg Warehouses large and general Assortment of " stiumcnts, tweTjiHy 1 10 OVlCri . r ,^inw?wil addition of carrliin expenco only,) Having spared no pxitvt m the uelcctMm oVCllOKJr. 1MIIIU8, bo. fur lui stock, wli eh mtiU at all times bo pureliascd fur C'?mA ? ho prcstutwa to toy, that the qualit ca ami prices of tho | Article* will ensure to tlx)-* desirous not to extend their purchases beyond tho state, advantages which beftwo have not been uttered. ' A tight of the Articles, and a knowledge oT their price* will ensure their recommen dation. fhfcy will be sold for Cash, produce, negoti able piper at TVanlc, or on k credit to Approved mnelw mm. To enumerate all the Articlc lto l?n? tor *uK\ would bo too tedious. Uie following lire a two// jwrt ? 410 lb. best Yellow lUrk, 330 lb. Cream Ti>r tar, 1500 lb. Glauber Salts. 130 lb. Aqua Fortis (double) 125 lb. 0,1 VltriOl. tOO lb. Had. Gentian, 100 lb. OraiiRv Peel, 100 U? Spitrlta Hartshorn, 100 lb. Swrot Spirits Nitre, 73 lb. lAiinp Magittsia, 73 lb. Powdered llhubarb, 73 lb. Kcncku Hoakc ltoot* 73 l.iqnorico Ibll, 33 lb. Cam Shor, 30 lb. Jalap, 40 lb. (bnckvilrcr, 35 lb. Calomel, J lb. Tartar Kmetie* 35 lb. llipno, 2.5 lb. Balsam Co* Mr. ??- ?? " " V ? " and all the other Gums. 50 lb. Camomile Flowers, % Ub. ltochclle Salts, 40 lb. Cantharide*, 15 lb. Com?iw fptblimate, 35 lb. Sugar Lead* 95 lb. Vitr.olic Aiilwr, Castor Oil* Sweet Oil, Oil of Aimiseed, Oil oi' lV|>j>cr ' mint, and all the essential Oil. ? -PUutcrs utul Oint mcuu. ot different kimWi a small Assortment ot IN STItUMF.NTfl rUHY PAINTS of all k.ndsi idso. VMM Brtwliet (MwlSush TooW-w-tlAtTBH'S MA1*R? HI\I?S, a %-aricty? Or. Robertson'* and OyoU's latent ami Family Medlelncs- ? I'ATfcNT MB1MCINR8, by Uie Groco, Doxen, or tingle Phial? - Mercliaiits can .be supplied with Jalap, Rhubarb, Calomel, Castor Oil, 'laudanum, I'aragor)e, he. Cte. neatly put up in |>li..il?, by tho tfmcc, or doien.? ? Also, all the AKTHXKS usually touud in a Druggist Store. MEDICINE CHESTS, For Plantation ami Families, with u ltonk of approved directions, always on hand. The ?ubftcribcr has made arrangements to receive from I /union ami Phi Lidelphia, every spring and till, an ni Horiment of Drugs ami Medicine*, Itc.-nfthc licsi final ities. Constant ami regular customer* arc entitled to, hihI will receive every accommodation and adv^tnt .ge, to be derived from n general assortment upon as fivumblo terms an can possibly be offered in i<ny part nf the Slate or South<Oarolina. \V\I lilt ANTIlWAITR. Cnlumbi.i, S. C. Februnrv 1816. 10 F11KH1I lmUGS AND MKDiClNKH. Fill IK subtcrdter lius just reee vwl ?i lit* Wholesale wwl I. Uela.l DHUCitilHT HTOIIK, I. all' way between tlic S..?ie-ltousc ami Market, Columbia, Houth-C:.rol na, a i. igc & general assortment <>f DRUGS ft MKDICIMP.S, rejected uy hia agent in Philadelphia uml New-York, out ofttlcUtcst importation* from P.nro|>c, winch will lie ??lrt .hi the most reasonable term* for cosh or appiovcd crctl it, Tlte following arc a part of bit latest mportations, every article of which will be warranted genuine i 100 wt. AOttn Fortis, (dottblc) 200 wt A Hum, 40 wt AtabvtHlu, 50 \t l- Antimony, 50 w(. Aloes, Alkanet Hoot, Alcohol, AftifiCftl, Amrntto, Arsenic, (white ami jellow) Atrow I too e, llalsunt Ctpivii Italian* Peru, Balsam loin, Barb?doc?Ti<r, Mors* Refined. Burgundy P 200 wt . Brimstone, Calomel, Cantharldes, Camphov, Chammo mlle Mowers, Cr.nella Alb ., Oiuavvav Heed, 150 wt. Cream Tartar, Cascur.lla, CastileHoap, Clow*, Coluif.bo Hoot, Cochineal, Conserve Jlose.s, Crude Tartar, Comw tvo 8ub 1 1 mate, IMgiuUit, Bpiom Hilts, Hxtn.ct Jnlap, Hitract Gentian, Extract Hemlock, P,Xtract Bafck, Kvieucp ?f * ' Kssencc of llcrgamnt, P-ssencc ?;f LaveiaUt*. :oarsc ami fine) Fttwwl Seed, Flowers of Zinc, Arabic, Ctim'qtUicunT. CUB* Tn.guXib, Oont a?q! 'due, Cwnftlno, Cutn CUxil. Ltc. Shell, Lac. Uen/o^,. Lac, ElciiiLl*CtMyrrb, IfckWe, llicra Fieri; lamrlsjs, 40 tb/IlipjkjoinpoW'tUr, Jalap, 100 lb. Juniper Jkrr.es, Lquor.cn IlalL J jatiorlce Refined, liquorice Hoot, Mnnr Caustic, lOOilb, Mann* Flake, 1501b. Wanna m sorts, 50 lb. M..gncn:icalc.ncd,do. Glosses in Bf>xe.i,10?)ib. Mad der, Mortars, Composition, ?!b. GUsj, .Muce, Y.exe.lop,. Nutmeg*, Nil. Tails, Nitrid Ackl, Oil of Anise, Ol 6t' Cloves, O.l of Can-away, Oil of lavender, O.l of l'cany royal, O.l of Peppermint, O.l Of lluKnx.iv, OA of Savin, Oil of Jumper, Oil of Sassafa*, O.l of Vitriol, 35 lb. 0 l>ium, Orris Hoot, Oxymel of Squills, 2J0 lb. Peruvian Murk m powder, Pearl Ash, Pearl Barley, Patent l,nt. Red Precipitate, White Precipitate, Qtuulla WOod, Rheu* barb in Powder, do. in Hoot, Bochcll Salts, Rrise Water, Rotton Hume, Hid. Ammoniac, Std. Polychres-, 8.lt of Tartar, S.dt of Ifartahonu 8m M ip.ir dla,SpoiltfO, Hc.Mnmo ny, Saffron, Hernia, Sago Jn Grs.t'fOciicku, Ho<l.i, 150 lb. Ball iMf*, (double refined) Spermacctii, Squill*, Kumr l^e id, 150 lb. Sweet Spirits Mitre, 75 lb. Bpifitj Ifou hom, T.utclcss Salu, Tamarinds, Turmctlc, l/va Vrsl, Valerian Root, PATBNT AND FAMILY MKMCINF.8, 111 Phals, suitable for ?ountry mcrcluvnts, to lie hral bjr tliu grocl or down. i . Ixtfs New-l/mdon Bilious Pills, Anderson's Pills, Hooper's Pills, Issue Planter, HhImwi Ifoncy, British Oil, Batcmnn's Drops, Dafly'? P.lixir, Ikdbj's Carminative, Kasenco of Peppermint, K/t?em o of Mu.tard, Gin'.ftey** Cord.al, Steer's Opodeldoc, Rtooglitnit's Il;tters, llaMrm Oil, Cepballo Snuli^alt of I/ciimmis, Citric Acid, C<s Pl&ister, Milk of Iloses. Uowluivi's f /it ion, 8'piir Crand F.lixlr, Iniprovc.1 Cnarcinl Hentilrn'", Ant mon'l Wine, Klixir Parcfltirlc, laudanum, Rpir.ts I lartshotT Sw?;t Spinta Nitw?, Cordial Tmctui* of Hliubails T| tar Kmctic, Calomel, Jalap, Hbeubarb. HUN 1)1(1 KH. Crown l/mccts. Common l^nccts. Apothecary SAl and Weights, Spatulas, Camel Hair Pencils, 1'ul Brushes, Cold-Beater's Skin, Ink Powdci', Hod lnl Healing Wax, Pill Boxes, Wsfe.'i, Bottle and Pl?. Corks, TajK-rs, Liquid Blacking, Best l/tndon musi.fd, Twvesers, Trussea, Wash Balls, Windsor >fc?ap, \'(.ri egated Hnap, Vransparent Soap, I'oinatum, T<H.th Brushes, l.ip Halve, Hmellinjr Bottles, Bieve'* Water Oilmirs m l*oxC!S, Nipple Hhclls aral TuU'-i, Imba Inb* l>cr, Phials assortesl, 'I ooth Drawers, Surgeon's Xcc4lcs, 8cal[>ells, (V>rk Screws. I'aint*, Colour*, and Halt n't Material*, l)ry White Lrad, lied l>e.id, Vellow Oebrc, 8nanlst? Brown, Whiting, Kngltsh Clialk, .H<?sin, l.-.mp Black, Venetian lied, Prussian Blue, j Rose Pitik, > < nudlioty 1'I.AMTATIOM AND ' ) FAMILY MKDICINR CIIKSI S, 1 Of various nixes, put up affrcealde to order, and on tlio shortest notice, with a ?nK?k of approved directions, containing a description of most diMtfiMi. Will receive In a few days, a fresh supply of Doctor Itoliertson'* and Dyuti's celebrated Patent and Family Medicines. Also, a larffo supjdy ?f cold drawn CASTOR OH. ol a very suiienor quality. All Orlera from tlie countrj- will I* executed with punctuality ami dilpatch. S. FF.HClVAt,. fofumf'lii, ttftrmM' 7% 1815.' NOTICK. - ,/ A COPAHTVP.BSIIIP la entered into l>et ween Col. ill A. Ili tintxa aisd WW. P. DMAt sseaK, who will itrtctiwi in tho Omrts of I^?w P>r the District of Rich, land i ami in lh? Cwrl of Rquity held at Columbia flbr the Districts of l^xtngton, Richland i.ml Fairfield a untlnr tl.e lirm of BiAnDIS'U ^ BPAAl/SSURK.