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y • IJMCERTAINTY of fife. by BISHOP HEBER. Beneath our feet and o’er our head, Is equal warning given; ; Beneath us lie the countless dead, L E3. Above is the haven. Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks on every flower; Each season has its own disease. Its peril, every hour. Our eyes have seen the rosy light Os youth’s soft cheek decay, And fate descend in sudden night On manhood’s middle day. Our eyes have seen the steps of age Halt feebly towards the tomb; And yet shall earth our hearts engage And dream of days to come? Turn, mortal turn! thy danger know, Where’er thy foot can tread, The earth rings hollow from below, And warns thee of her dead! Turn, Christian turn! thy soul apply To truths divinely given; The bones that underneath thee lie, Shall live for hell or heaven! NEW WAY TO DETECT A THIEF. The father of the great American statesman Mr. Webster,) was a very humorous, jocose personage. Innumerable are the anecdotes that are related of him. As he was once journey, ing in Massachusetts, and far from his native town, he stopped rather late one night, at an mn in the village of . In the bar room were about twenty different persons, who as he entered called out to him to discover a thief. One of the company it appeared, had a few minutes before a watch taken from his pocket, and he knew the offender must bo in the room with them. ‘Come Mr. Almanac maker! you know the signs of the limes, the bidden things of the sea son; tell who is the theif! ’ ‘Fasten all the doors of the room, and let no one leave it; and here landlord go and bring your wife’s brass kettle.’ <Wh—ew? want to know' my stars? my wife’s—wh —ew!” quoth Boniface. ‘Why you would’nt be more struck up, if I told you to get a pot.’ Boniface did as commanded. The great brass kettle was placed in the middle of the floor, its bottom up—as black, sooty, and smo icy as a chimney back’ The landlord got in to' his bar and looked on with eyes as big as saucers. ‘You don’t want any hot water or nothin, to take off the bristles'of no critter, do you squire?’ said the landlord, the preparations loo king too much like hog killing—‘the old wo man’s gone to bed and the well’s dry. ‘No go into the barn and bring the biggest cockerell you’ve got. Whew! you won't bite him, will you?—he’s a tough one. I can swear squire, ho did’nt steal the watch. The old rooster knows when it’s time to crow without looking at a watch!’ ‘Go along, or I won’t detect the theif.’ Boniface went to the barn, and soon return ed with a tremenduous great rooster, cackling all the way like mad. ‘Now put him under the kettle; and blow the light out.’ •Now gentleman, I don’t suppose the thief is in company, but if ho is, the old rooster will crow when the offender touches the bottom of the kettle with his hands. Walk round in a circle, and the cock will make known the watch stealer. The innocent need not to be afraid you know.’ Tho company then, to humor him, and carry out tho joke, walked around tho kettle in the dark for three or four minutes. ‘All done, gentlemen?’ ‘All done!’ was tho cry—‘where’s your crowing—wo heard no cockadoodledoo?’ ‘Bring us n light.’ A light was brought as ordered. ‘Now hold up your hands good folks.’ Ono held up his hand alter another. They were of course black, from coming in contact •with the soot of the kettle. ‘All up?’ ‘All up!’ was tho response. ‘All black?’ »A—ll —don’t know, here's one fellow who hes'nt held up his hand!’ ‘Ah, ha, my old boy; let’s tnko a peep at your paws!’ They were examined, and were not black, like those of the rest of the company. ‘You’!-find your watch about him—now search.’ W 1 * And so it proved. This fellow not being aware any more than the rest, of the trap that was set for tho discovery of tho thief, had kept aloof from tho kettle, lest when he touched it, the crowing of tho rooster should proclaim him as tho thief. As the hands of all the others were black ened the whiteness of one showed of course that he dared not touch the old brass kettle, rnd that he was the offender. He jumped out oftho frying pan into the fire, nnd was soon lodged in as comfortable a place as either, to wit, the jail. /’iow customs of the Siriss. his the cus tom, in the valleys of the canton of Berne, whenever the father ofa family builds a house, and the walls are raised to their full height, to request the minister o| the parish to pray to trod insiUe. Pho workmen, and such as are to assist in finishing the house, meet together, and unite in thanking the Lord for his care hitherto, and entreat a continuance of it, through the more dangerous part that remains. “This prayer,” observes M. Paulet, the pas tor of Contelary, “when made in faith, redou bles one’s strength, and removes all fear of danger.” “If God be for us, who can be a gainst us?” observed an old carpenter to the same minister, when he advised him not to ex pose himself too incautiously. A blessing ter minates this pious ceremony: the workmen re turn to their labors, and the noise of hammei s begins to be heard again. How pleasing it is to see a practical acknowledgement of the truth, “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it?” The following pious custom is also general among the inhabitants of the Alps. The shep herd’s horn in the Alpine regions is the sig nal for a solemn and religious duty, and is us ed for a much nobler purpose than the mere re turn ofthe cattle from their pasturage. When the sun has quitted the valley, and his lingering beams still cast a glow of fading light on the snowy summits of the mountains, the shepherd, whose hut is placed on the highest Alp, grasps his horn, and pronounces, through his speak ing trumpet, the solemn injunction to the world below, “Praise ye the Lord.” Every shep herd in the neighborhood, who catches this sound in succession, repeats the same sentence at the door of his cabin. Thus, perhaps, for a quarter of an hour, the cliffs and rocky preci pices fling to each other oft-repeated echoes of the sublime, “Praise ye the Lord!” A solemn stillness succeeds the'last reverberation; and all kneel bare-headed and in silent devotion, till darkness rests upon the earth, and veils the towering mountains. Again the horn sounds, and the peaceful, social “good night! once more awakens the echoes. Hills, vales, and rocky cliffs, and all sink to rest:—Oriental hey to the Scriptures. Folly of Discontent. The following little anecdote of a person who had contemplated self-destruction, is very beautiful and touch ing- “I was weary of life, and, after a day, such as some have known, and none would wish to remember, was hurrying along the street to the river, when I felt a sudden check. I turn ed and beheld a little boy, who had caught hold of the skirt of my cloak in his anxiety to solicit my notice, llis look was irresistable. Not less so was the lesson he had learnt; “There arc six of us, and we are dying for the want of food.” Why should I not, said I to myself, relieve this wretched family! I have the means, and it will not delay me many min utes. But what if it does?—The scene of mis ery he conducted mo to, I cannot describe. I threw them my purse, and their burst of gra titude overcame mo. It filled my eyes—it went nn n tn my heart. I will nail to morrow, I cried. Fool that I was, to think of leaving a world where such pleasure was to be had, and so cheap.”— Kogers’ Itally. WOMAN—HER SPHERE. A beautiful woman and her husband were once lost in a wood, in the middle of a very dark night. On all sides they heard nothing but the shrill whistle of robbers, or the loud cries of wolves; the sky too was tempestuous. The female became at once motionless through fear. “What will become of us?” cried sho cling ing to her husband. “Let us continue our journey, my love,” he replied. “But, good heavens! the robbers’” “Well, then let us return.” “Oh, that’s worse! the wild beasts’” “What would you have, then?” “Leave this place.” “We can only do that my love, by going forward or returning—choose which.” Tho female then shut her eyes, stopped her ears, and suffered herself to be conducted by her husband. Such is the lot of woman. Nature has poin ted out our respective distinctions, and the dif ference of our employments by the difference of our conformation. A taller stature, a more solid and a less flexible organization, indicate the honorable duties of man. Here the laws of nature and society accord. “Woman and man,” says, Rousseau, “are made for each other, but their mutual depend encc is not equal. Men depend upon women by their desires; women upon men by their de. sires and their wants. Woman was created to be the companion of man; to please him, to solace him in his sor rows, and not to partake with him the fatigues of war, of the sciences, and of government. Warlike women, learned women and women who are politicians, equally abandon the cir cle which nature and institutions have traced around their sex; they convey themselves in to men; they renounce the empire which they inevitably exercised by their weakness, to run vainly after the more equivocal empire offeree. We hear of women who have fought, written A governed with success. What does this prove* The exception does not destroy the rule. And besides, where is the feeling and amiable wo man, who would exchange the ineffable happi. ness of being loved, for the unsubstantial plea sures of fame? —where is the man, who would have preferred Joan of Are, to the mild and timid Agnes Sorel? We admire the mascu line mind of Elizabeth; but we love Mary Queen of Scots. An unfortunate married man was very ill used by his Xantippe; he was even treated with an occasional thrashing. His friends rallied him upon this, and at last spurred him on to declare that he would make an effort to be mas 'ter- One day not long after, his better half : was so furious that he found himself compelled to seek shelter uider the table. Just at this moment the voices of his friends were heard in the passage. “Come out, come out,” cried the wife, fearful of an exposure. “No, no,” cried|the husband in triumph;“come out indeed, not I, I'll show for once that I am master!” Murray S!ieriffs-Sales for May. WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in May next, at the Court House in Spring-place, Mur ray county, within the usual hours of sale, the fol lowing property, to wit: Lot No. 296, 8 District, 3rd Section, of originally Cherokee, now Murray County; levied on !as the property of Thomas S. Hunt, to satisfy a fi. • ia. issued from a Justices Court of Bibb County, in I favor of Bryan and Kelton, vs. said Hunt. Levy made and returned to me by a Constable. Lot No. 260, 9 District, 3rd Section, of ' originally Cherokee, now Murray County; levied on as the pronerty of John Nicholson, to satisfy a fi. fa. i issued from a Justices Court of Bibb County, in favor :of Spencer Riley, vs. said Nicholson. Levy made and returned to me by a Constable. Lot No. 136,10th District, 3rd Section, of originally Cherekee, now Murray County; levied on to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court oi I Murray County, in favor of William Harden, vs. i William S. Oats, Adm’r, and Tamer Barnett Adm’rx ion the Estate of James C. Barnett, deceased. Prop • erty pointed out by Plaintiff. Lot No- 214, 12th District, 3d Section; le vied on as the property of Emsley Beeles, to satisfy a fi. fa. issqed from a Justices Court of De Kalb county, in favor of Willaim Edwards, vs, said Beels. Levy 1 made and returned to me by a Constable. Lot No. 29, 7th District, 3d Section; levied on as the property of Mathew M. Petty, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from a Juatices Court of Clark county, in favor of John Whitlow, vs. said Petty. Levy made and returned to me by a Constable. Lot No. 279, 12 District, 3rd Section, of originaily Cherokee, now Murray County; levied on as the property of Peter Wylie, to satisfy four fi. fas. issued from a Justices Court ot Houston County, two in favor of E. Graves and Son, one in favor of Robert C. Duncan, and one in favor of James Brax ton, vs. said Wilie. Levied and returned tome by a Constable. STEPHEN JONES, Sh’ff. March 31. NOTICE. renllE the Sheriffs Sales of Lumpkin county, will in future, be advertised in the Wes tern Georgian. SAMUEL KING, Sh’fF. April 7.—12. GEORGIA, Walker County. ANDREW L BARRY of Captain Smith’s Dis trict, tolled before me a dark Bay Horse, five or six years old; fourteen hands high; curled tail, and both hind feet white; no other mark perceivable. Appraised to Thirty-five Dollars October Ist, 1837. LEMUEL HOGE, J. P. Tho above is a true Copy from the Estray Book- JNO. CALDWELL, D. C. I. C. April 7—l2—3t. A<inimisiraior’s Sale. A GREEABLY to an order of the Inferior Court of Coweta county, while witting for ordinary pur poses, will be sold on the first Tuesday in May next, within tlie legal hours of sale, at the Court house in the Town of Rome, Floyd county, Lot No. 144, 16th District, 4th Section, of originally Cherokee now Floyd county. Sold as a part of the Real Estate of Willard Fisher, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs of said deceased. Terms made known on the day. THOMAS S. GRACE, Adm’r. March 10. 8 tds. GEORGIA, FLOYD COUNTY. PKY AKEN up and posted by John L. -uml HL Russeau, living near Barnett’s -A Mills, one Bay Horse; both hind feet 'CsTp/W white up to the footlock joint; the left fore-foot white; some white hairs on his right thigh; five feet two inches high. Appraised to thirty dollars. January 24, 1838. A. PATTERSON, Clk. G. L. Huggins, j. f. March 3. 7 4t Administrators Sale. A GREEABLY to an order of the honorable the 711 Inferior Court or Butts county, when sitting for ordinary purposes, will be sold, before the court-house door, on the first Tuesday in June next, between the lawful hours of sale,in the town of Rome, Floyd coun ty, Lot No. 33, 23d district, 3d Section, of originally Cherckee, now Floyd county. And at Paulding Court House, Panlding county, on the same day. Lot No. 22, 17th district, 4th Sec tion, of originally Charokee, now Paulding county. Both said tracts sold subject to the widow’s dower, as the property of Dennis McCarthy, deceased. DAVID MARTIN, admr. March 10.—8—tds, NOTICE. I.IOUR month after da’e application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Gil. mcr County, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell Lot No. 261, inthe 11th District, 2nd Section, formerly Cherokee, now Gilmer County; being a part of the Real Estate of William Ellingten, late of said county deceased. L. D. ELLINGTON, Ad’m’r. March 24, 10. w4nu NOTICE. I'XOUR months after date application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Gi’mer County, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell two Negroes, being the Estate of Priscrlia Ellington late of said County deceased, sold for the purpose of division. L. D. ELLINGTON, Ad’m’r. March 24, 10, w4m. NOTICE. FOUR months after date application will be made to the honorable the Inferior Court of W alker county, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell Two Lots of Land, No. 132, inthe 13fh District of the 4th Section: and No. 116, in the 16th District of the 3d Section, it being a part of the Real Estate of John Gilbert, late of Jackson county deceased. ROBERT ALLEN, Admr. March 17, 9 w4m ; NOTICE. FOUR msntlis afterdate application will be made to the honorable the Inferior Court of Walker count v, when sitting as a court of Ordinary, for leave to sell all the Real Estate of Harris Sprayberry, late of sa d county, deceased- fl ARVEY J. SPRAYBERRY, Adm’r. March 17, 3 w4m Administrators Sale. WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in May next, at the Court House door in Cass County, a negro girl named Eveline, about seventeen years of age; sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of Solomon Walleck, late of said County, deceased. Terms cash. WILLIAM HARDIN, Adm’r. March 31—11—tds. Administrators Sale. WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in May next at the Court house in Gilmer County, all the perishable property belonging to the Estate of Priscilla Ellington, late of said County deceased, consisting of one Two-horse Wagon, two Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and Plantation Tools, together with other articles too te. dious to mention. L. D. ELLINGTON, Ad’m’r. March 24, 10, tds. GEORGIA, GILMER COUNTY. WHEREAS L. D. Ellington applies to me for Letters of administration on the Estate of Pricilla Ellington, late of said county, deceased : These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singufar the kindred and creditors of said de ceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to shew cause if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at office thia sth day of March 1838. LARKIN SMITH, c. o. o. March 17, 9 30d. GEORGIA, GILMER COUNTY. WHEREAS B. B. Quillain, Coke A. Ellington and Lewis D. Ellington, apply tome for Let ters of Guardianship, for Salinah H. Ellington, Jerome F. Ellington and William B. Ellington, orphans of William Ellington, late of said county, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish, all and singular the kindred and creditors of said de ceased, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to shew cause if any exist, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at office this sth March 1838. LARKIN SMITH, c. c. o. March 17, 9 30d. Guardians Sale. WILL be sold at the Court House door in Mur. ray county, on the first Tuesday in April next, between the usual hours ofsale, Loi of Lana No. 96, in the 10th District of the 3d Section, of originally Cherokee, now Murray county. Sold as the property ofthe Orphans of James Stewart, deceased, and sold for their benefit. ROBERT CORRY, Guard. March 17, 9 tds. NOTICE. FWNHE Sheriff’s Sales of Paulding county, will in JL future, be published in the Western Georgian. Also, the business of the Clerks of said county. BARNABAS PACE.c. o. o. THOMAS A. CHISLOMN, c. a. c. THOMAS DUNLAP, Shff. Feb. 24. 6. 4t. Kj-I Will Sue I'oil.ZT] fILTOW let me tell all those that are indebted to me I.N this is the last time I will ask them for money. For if they do not call on N. Yarbrough of this place, by the 10th day of March next, and settle my demands they may expect to pay cost. WILLIAM K. BRYERS. Rome, Feb. 17 5 ts. L A W. THE Subscribers will attend the Superior Courts of the Cherokee Circuit, Georgia, and the Courts of Cherokee and Benton, tn Alabama. AH business entrusted to their care, will be promptly attended to. LUMPKIN & WRIGHT. Rome, Feb. 2. 3. ts, NOTICE. PHI HE Sheriffs of Murray county, will in future ad lL verfiso in the Western Georgian. Letters ou business connected with their office, must coma Post Paid,otherwise they will not ho attended to. STEPHEN JONES, Sh’ff. February 2.34 t. GEORGIA, FLO YD COUNTY. W'HEREAS Stacy Wheeler nnd Margarctt Wheeler, apply to me for Letters of guardi anship. These are therefore to cite and admonish all per sons interested, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to shew cause if any exist why said fetters should not be granted . Given under my hand at office this sth March,lß3B. B. F. SMITH, d. c. c. o. March 10, 8 30d. Arrival and Departure of .Hails. PHTHE Milledgeville Mail, carried by Stage, -A from Decatur to 1 his office arrrives eve ry Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 5 o’- clock, P. M., and leaves on every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday mornings, at 5 o’clock. The Stages from Carrollton & Spring Place meets at this office on every Monday, Wed nesday and Friday, at 6 o’clock P. M., and leaves on every Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday mornings at 4 o’clock. The mail for the above routes is invariably closed at 9 o’clock, on the night previous to their depar ture. The mail from this office to La Faveite, Walker county, leaves on every Tuesday morning, and returns on every Saturday eve ning at 5 o’clock. The mail from Jacksonville, Alabama, car ried by Stage, arrives at this office on every Tuesday and Saturday, at 12 o’clock, and leaves in an hour after its arrival on each day. The mail conveyed on horse-back from Fayetteville to this office, arrives on every Wednesday at 6 o’clock, P. M., and departs on every Thursday, at 6 o’clock, A. M. Rome, Geo., Feb. 5, 1838. NOTICE. P®XIIE Sheriff* Sales of Forsyth county, will in -■L future, be published in the Western Georgian. Feb. 24. 6 4t. JAMES ROBERTS, Shff. COURT CALENDAR. SUPERIOR COURTS- January. Ist Monday, Richmond, 1 2d “ Chatham, February. Ist Monday, Stewart, 1 “ Floyd, Paulding,Thursday before J 2d Monday, Clark, “ Bibb, “ Macon, “ Randolph, “ Cass, ' 3d “ Walton, •• Crawford, •• Early, •• Cherokee, i 4th “ Baker, “ Jackson, “ Meriwether, “ Forsyth, “ Upson, Lee, Thursday after, March. Ist Monday, Cowetaa, “ Lumpkin, “ Pike, Sumpter, “ Taliaferro, 2d Columbia, : “ Fayette, Greene, “ Laurens, “ Madison, •• Marion, “ Monroe, “ Morgan, “ Gwinnett, Union, Gilmer, Wednesday after, 3d Monday. Butts, •• Elbert, •• DeKalb, “ Hall, “ Putnam, •• Talbot, • “ Murray, 4th “ Bullock, •• Cobb, “ Dooly, «• Newton, “ Walker, “ Washington, •• Wilkes, Effingham,Thursday after April. Ist Monday, Warren, “ Wilkinson, •• Campbell, 2d “ Carroll, “ Dade, “ Camden, " Hancock, “ Harris, “ henry, •• Franklin, “ Montgomery w Twiggs, Tatnall, Thursday after, Wayne, “ “ 3d Monday, Emanuel, “ Habersham, •« Heard, " Glynn, “ Jones, •• Muscogee, “ Oglethorpe, “ Pulaski, Mclntosh,Thursday after, 4th Monday, Scliven, “ Lincoln, “ Rabun, •• Jasper, “ Telfair, •• Houston, •• Troup, “ Liberty, Irwin, Thursday after, Bryau, Wednesday after, Mat, Ist Monday, Burke, „ Appling, Ware, Thursday after, ; 2d Monday, Chaiham, ; “ Lowndes, ; 3d “ Jefferson, •• Thomas, 4th “ Decatur, ! UNITED STATES COURT, Sixth Circuit for the district of Georgia—James M Wayne, Circuit Judge—At Savannah, Thursday after the Ist Monday 3d May—Milledgeville, Thursday after the Ist Monday Bth November—Rules day. the Ist Mondays in each month, upon which days all writs are returnable to tho Clerk’s office in Savannah. District Court—JrauMtMt Cuyleh, Judge—ln Sa vannah 2d Tuesday 13th February—2d Tuesday Bih May—2d Tuesday 14th August—2d Tuesday 13th No vember. _____ ■ THE undersigned will attend the Courts in all the Counties of the Cherokee Circuit Habersham and Raburn of the Western, nnd Cobb of the Coweta Circuit, and also the Counties of Benton nnd Chero kee Ala. All business directed to their address Cass ville, Ga. will receive prompt nnd punctual attention- WILLIAM 11. STEELMAN, JOHN W. H. UNDERWOOD. Feb, 10, 4. w. 6mo. GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY. WHEREAS Robert Allen applies to me for Letters of Administration on the Estate of John Gilbert, late of Jackson county, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish nil and singular, the kindred and creditors, to be and appear ai rny office within the time prescribed by law,to shew cause, if any exist, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at office, this 22d day of Jan uary, 1838. JOHN CALDWELL, o. c. c. o. Jan. 26. 2 30d. State Kights Hotel, iiuO? CANTON, CEO- | Pta VIE subscriber respectfully informs his friends JL and the public, that he has removed from his old stand upon the west part of the public square to the house formerly occupied by B. F Johnson. He as. sures those who ma; favor bim with a call, that noth ing will be wanting on his part to render them com— comfortable. His Table and Stables will be furnished with the best the country affords. B. F. DANIEL. Canton, Jan, 19—1—w6w. June. Ist Monday, Baldwin, “ Richmond, August. Ist Monday, Stewart, »• Floyd, 2d “ Clark, •• Bibb, “ Randolph, “ Cass, -• Macon, 3d •• Walton, •• Crawford, •• Early, “ Cherokee, 4th “ Baker, •» Jackson, “ Emanuel, “ Upson, •• Meriwether, •• Forsyth, Lee, Thursday after, ri September. Ist Monday, Pike, “ Gilmer, “ Taliaferro, “ Coweta, “ Lumpkin, 2d “ Columbia “ Madison “ Morgan •• Laurens “ Monroe “ Fayette “ Greene “ Marion Gwinnstt M Union 3d >. Elbert «, Butts .. DeKalb *. Hall ‘‘ Talbot ’• Murray ’’ Putnam * Newton Cobb „ Walker *, Bulloch u Dooly Washington •• Wilkes October. Ist Monday, Warren “ Wilkinson ’’ Campbell Montgomery 2d *« Hancock « Franklin “ Catnden „ Twiggs' Dade M Henry „ Carrol Harris 3d Emanuel , Oglethorpe Habersham • Jones » Pulaski Heard ’, Muscogee 4th « Seri ven •• Lincoln “ Rabun “ Jasper " Telfair „ Houston Troup November. Bulloch, Wednesday be fore the Ist Monday Effingham, Friday after, the Ist Monday, 2d Monday, Jefferson 3d “ Burke *• Applying Ware, Thursday after Lowrrdes, Monday after, Thomae, Mon. thereafter, Dccattfl’, “ “ 4th Monday, Camden Wayne, Thursday after Glynn, Monday thereafter Mclntosh, Thursday “ Liberty, Monday, •• Bryan, Wednesday “