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be pot over the night, he would get
his reason again—-that in this way be
bad been going on for some time.”-
On this information I withdrew, to re
turn on the following day, determined ;
to try the effects of some medicine I!
carr'n d with me for my own safety.--
Before day 1 was at his bed side, and
os soon, ns he awoke - , recognising me
he permitted a portior of the prepara
tion to be put imo his month,and which
he swallowed. The effect appeared
in about hall an hour, when he asked
forme, & with a deep ?igh said,he had
“some ease of body I ut none of mind.”
Capt. don’t lose, hope, you may get o
ver this attack, “ah” said he,the body
may, hut the soul cannot, I am gone—
gone forever! Here I determined on
an effort. Capt. S us in the pre-
sence of heaven, and permitted to speak I
to a dying m tn, I now assure you I have
glorious news to communicate. You
are in a tremendous error—God is
merciful, nay mercy itself-—the second
person in the glorious trinity, died for
the chief of sinners—You have a wrong
view, you can only be the chief—and
you dare not questiori the veracity of
Jehovah,when you are assured, for the
chief, his son died. I now entreat’yoii;'
nay command you, by every considera-!
tion dear to a candidate for eternity— :
for everlasting h ippiness,or never end-'
ing woe, to throw away all doubts, all 1
fears, ail wretched setting bounds to
infinite goodness and cast your all, as !
the chief of sinners, at the loot-stool of I
sovereign mercy, and take with your
whole soul, io yourself, and at his sove
reign command, the promises of your
Go<l—the entreaties ofyotir Saviour,
to com* 1 to him, not only, “without mo
ney and without price” but as the chief,
of sinners. Grasp, as the anchor of!
your soul, the divine unction, —"as I
live s.iith the Lord, I have nodelight;
in the death of the wicked, but that
icy turn to me, and live.” Take the
igh behest of sovereign goodness—
relieve in the Lord Jesus, and thou
lalt be saved.” “Ah my friend,”
iid the dying man, with trembling
ps— “i cannot, I cannot—you know I
ave done the awful deed—l nave been,
am a murderer,and no murderer shall
Her the Kingdom of Heaven—hell,
ell, is my portion, and even hell, if it
ould but hide me, from the frowns of
ie insulted m Jesty of heaven”—here
.nee, while his wife and daughter, in
/o|tj lari'y scream'd, and ran out of
the r< om. sinking into a flood of tears;
Soo discovering what this his first full
confession had done “ah” said he, “long
long, have I been trying, to destroy the
wile of my bo-nm, why did I ever de
ceive her, a >d by my example,have I
try’d to.uinmy infant offspring, why
oh God, did I give them existence—
the only legacy I can ever leave them,
is now given—i husband—a father—a
murderer’ In malignity I murdered up,
fcietfd,—by a long course of unkimi
x'ess. I have destroyed rnv wife—and
b", Hie /ell recollection, I shall leave
Lave hmchered the future peace, of mv
innocent, iny affectionate child.’’ Here
he again sank exhausted, with tm
atruggitng e/for*, to unhurtheh the
son! laboring under the most awful
convictions of guilt, without a ray, a
im '.t ray of hope. It seemed as if this
“anchor of the soul,” was gone,—lost
forever!
A scene of distress indescribable,now
followed. The wife and daughter.
Appeared overwhelmed, & inconsolate
r Hh the awful disclosure, now first
emphatically made—one heart rending
rcream, followed another,both involun
tarily praying for death. His groans,
Jang through the house, and beyond,
and occlusion;! Uy, an exclamation of thfe
wildest despair. It was a scene of hor
ror itself. Feeling myself beginning
to experience a l uge portion of the
general distress, I retired to an ad
jacent wood, as a momentary relief
from the scene, which now beggar’d
description. On returning to (he sick
couch,and finding some little composure
I began to reiterate the grounds of
hope tor even'the most unfortunate of
Adams race, if happily they u-i/Z, can
fid brought to meet the terms, on which
is based the grant •fcteina) happiness
and reconciliation with offended dei
ty. Capt. S said 1, it pains me
that I cannot succeed in getting you c
ven on the threshhold ofhope—hope,
in an infinite Saviour—in r God of
boundless goodness—of unfathomable
mercy.” “Hope—hope”—replied he
quickly, and with an agitated empha
sis—“the hope of the wicked perisheth.”
“I am gone, I am a murderer—taiknot
to me, of infinite goodness, of infinite
mercy—-speak not to me—l am gene,
Beyond its reach—speak of infinite
guilt—of infinite justice—of infinite
punishment—l am gone, lam a mur
derer!
Herr, I insisted, that another ano
dyne should be taken, as I was now ful
ly assured that all that could he done,
'was to srAooth the passage from time
to eternity, to which place I was confi
dent he. was fast tending. I obtained a
saen d volume, turned to nil those pas
sages. conclusively, and strongly indi
cating the willingness and the power
of God, to pardon guilty men.
1 read them to him, in the most impres
sive manner I could, but all to no pur
pose. At each pause, and in reply to
each attempt at application of mine,
he would loudly exclaim, “not for me
—not fot* me.” lam a murderer — I
have spilt human blood, the blood ot
my fellow man, no murderer can inher
it eternal lite” how am I to appear at
the bar of Jehovah!—oh! eh! oh!
Towards a late hour of the night, he
appeared to sink into an apathy. Ai
intervals a wild exclamation exhibited
the tortures of the mind, for conscience,
“that worm that dielh not,” was doing
its duty. I now found all appeals to
reason useless, to religion vain. Tin
first had partly the reins, the lasi
was not there. It was not only th<
reign,blit the triumph of despair! Ron
sing ar if from a dream, he loudly, and
with much agitation, uttered shine in
coherent sounds, indicating a strong be
lief, that the Devil was near him, ami
hurrying his last moments. His now
livid countenance, assumed asimilai
wildness, and distraction, he struggleci
to look around him. Sinking into ai
apparent torpor, he appeared to dose.
Whilst we were all sitting around his
hedj and viewing in silence, the emaci
ated countenance and difficult breath
ings of struggling nature, he shrieked
out, with rt convulsive throw of the
body, “don’t drag me, don’t drag me.
don’t drag me, I am coming, don’t drag
me, ah, it is just”—gave a few long
groans, a few hectic breaths, drew up
and stretched again the quivering
limbs, and was gone forever.
Finding all around me now, incon
dolable, and much in want of rest, I
retired from the abode of misery, - an
distraction, with a promise to return
;tnd see the duties performed to th
wretched remains—once my friend.
This I recollected the next day, am.
joining the group of surrounding neigh
bors, I assisted in discharging the Lu
rites due to humanity. ltappeared,tbin
the deceased,had,whire living, pointed
out the spot, on (he top of a bleak, ano
elevited ridge,about a mile distant, a
the place,of the last rest, for his earth
ly remains, on which 1 found tlfe grave
ed with the body, and a more dreary
spot I never beheld.
On arriving at the rflaC.e, a patriar
chal looking man,bowed down with ago
vhnse silvered locks, furrowed cheeks,
and trembHng hands,placed him alines,
as a link, between time ami eternity,
and who appeared to be agitated with
grief ofa pious kind,came tottering for
war ! to the grave, raising bis eyes and
quivering arms to heaven, in the atti
tude of the most ardent supplication,
he poured out h?s whole soul to the
•Most mg!i, for his benediction on the
inougitless multitude, all of whom
“soonei or later, must meet the irnpoi
taut change from time to eternity.”
Most ardently, and in the strains ot
the most fervent intercession, in hi? ap
peal to his God, Ire labored’ to hty be
fore the survivors, the certainty abd
soZ-’zfcm/y of death, the terrors ot judg
ment and the dread realities of eternity!
with the only trust for each trying mo
ment, the divine consolation of vita!
religion. As his' strain reached the
last in the painting of which, he ap
peared to feel in a degree that prepar
ed him to “put off this mortal coil,”
his face swelled, his voice no longer
/altered, hie trembling forsook him, and
exhibiting the pure sunshine of the soul
the full fruition almost of faith &. hope,
he breathed out the sweetest strains of
prayer. Like the patriarch ot old, he
seemed to hold divine communion with
his God! closing with these words,“oh
that our deaths may be as the righteous
'and our last end like his, while here,
. may our breath be devoted to thee,our
I God and may the !a?t that we draw, be
, but the beginning of that eong of grati
■ tude and praise to him,who hath loved
us, and who hath redeemed us, by his
own blood.” Never did I hear such
an appeal to the most high. It was the
wrestling of “Jacoband the Angel!”
The remains were now committed
to the place prepared for them, and
during out return to the late dwelling
of the deceased, the effect of the ad
dress we had just heard, was evident!}
exhibited. A few additional, but
solemn exhortations on our return,frem
the lips of the same venerable man,
seemed to produce a marked effect,
and at the moment of separation, the
little group appeared to evince by their
tears, and all by the solemnity of ap
pearance, that it was now their ardent
desire, that “their deaths might be that
of the righteous, and their last end
like his.”
After the company had retired,! re
quested permission to look over the pa
pers of the deceased, I found two euva
iopoa strongly seated and superscribed
“to be opened after my death.” 7’he
first on examination, contained a full
account of the murder. he had commit
ted, with the cause that led to it,and
which from hie own account, was most
disgraceful to his memory, being an ac
knowledgement, that he failed in en
deavoring to wrong his friend. The
other contained directions as to his in
terment. In this, he most pointedly
charged two of his friends, to have pla
ced, at the head of his grave, a board
of the mo:t imperishable Wood, if stone
could not be obtained, on which war to
be “inscribed in strong letters” “the
murderer’s grave ”
On passing the gloomy speit some two
years after, recollection induced me
to turn fiom the path, and visit the
place where the remains of the unhap
py man had been deposited. I found
on approaching it, the ground strongly
nclosed, and a most conspicuous head
•tone placed, exhibiting in “strong,’
and dark letters, “the MurdEreß’S
grave .”
A small cypress had sprung up at
he foot of his “narrow house,” while
the remainder was profusely covered
with briars and thorns, nd bad em
blem of a wretched life, and still more
wretched termination,whiht the gene
-al wildness and dreariness of the place
corned to mark it out, emphatically, a5
' most appropriate spot for “The mur
derer's CRAVE ”
A hundred, once imaginary tales, a
mongst the surrounding population,
>ave ripened by time, into “truths
strong ns holy writ” and the unhappy
nan, the “Old Schoolmaster.” is
seen frequently,leani ig on Hie railing
that surrounds the small spot allowed
im, in loud lamentation?, “don’t drag
me,don’t drag me” “it is just,it i-just,"
whilst in bleak and stormy nights, the
tall pines armvid, miiroiur div/iac'ly to
the passing wind?, “the murderer's
GRAVE.”
Upon a tai] and majestic tree, whose
foliage had been destroyed by the light
tings flash, an owl had taken up her
ibode, and built her nest, attracted by
'he congenial nightly moaning? of the
listurbed spirit, and m answer to the
• aimls reverberating from (he tomb,
she changed her reel.inchefly note? giv
ing to the moon, in her :oi.idc-t scream,
"THE murderer's GR.i V’l.”
Marking the disapprobation of licav
n, of the deeds of guilty mu:, (he
’’’--r bruise OTcrlf.': spot, .villi u;i
unusual crash, and the surrou i.iin/
Hees were rent, by the lightning- force
while it was distiactiy heard, in etch
t Htd, murmuring roar,.as it p> -<*<i t
: long (he vault of heaven, 44 the mur
derer's grave.”
Soldiers in peace, are like chimaie?
which are not used.
Still waters have deep bottoms.
Absta’di from fleshly lu-ts wnich war
against the soul.— 5/. Peter.
I am not angry because irry son fo?es
in the game, bet because he Continues
to play at if.
Lhvvok’*e >\v
FOR MAY. 1835
<'WT ILlj BF SOLD, before the
V V couff house do >r in Ch “ton,
on the fi'it-t Tuesday in May n- xt, be
tween the lan lul boors,; the ioituwiug
property, to win
Lot No. 121(7, in she 15th dist. 2d
‘sec., Cherokee county-^—levit d on as
the property of .losepn Dean, to satisfy
afi fa'from a Justices court of Chat
ham county, in favor of John C. Legee
v? said Dean. Levied and returned
Q7 a constable.
• Lot No. ??3, in the 3d dis. 2d sec.
Cherokee county wn as the
property of James Slater, (o satisfy’ a
fi fa issued from a Justices oouit cd Up
son county, in favorof Kell) Cannon
vs said Slater. Levied and returned
by a constable.
One sorrel horse—levied on as the
properly of Edward E I ward?, to saiisly
a fi fa issued from the Superior court of
Cherokee county, in favor of the State
vs said Edwards, for cost.
• f Lot No. 1102, 3d dis. 2d sec. Chero
kee county—levied on k? the property
of Win. Tucker, to satisfy tv?<> ft fa’s is-J
sued from a Justices court ot Hancock'
county,Tn favor of James 11. Sanders
and Jacob ?. Turner, vs said 'fucker.
Levied and returned by a constable.
J Lot No. 1071,15th dis. 21 sec. Che
rokee county —levied on as the proper
ty of Reddin Robinson, to satisfy two
fi fa’s one from the Superior court, and
one from a Justices court of Gwinnett
county, in favorof Ephraim McLain,!
vs said Robinson. Levied and return
ed by .1 constable.
Lot No. 249,4th diyßS l sec, jfohero
kee county—-levied on as the property
of Silas Crawford, to satisfy four fi fa’s
issued from a Justices court of Clark
county, in favor of B irton Thrasher,
vs said Crawford. Levied and return
ed by a constable.
M. J. CAMDEN, D.Sbff.
March 24, 183$,
Cass Saks,
FOR MAY.
V ILL BE SOLD, on the first
v V Tuesday in MAY next, before
the court house dcor in the town ot
Cassville, Cass county, the following
property, to wit;
A stock of Goods, Wares and Mer
chandize, containing an assortment ot
Dry Goods,Hardware, Cutlery &c. the
property of Wm. Gibson to satisfy sev
eral attachments in favor of Edwaid
Barrett, & others, vs said Wm. Gibson.
Also, One .NEGRO MAN, by th,
name of PERRY, about forty years ol
age, the property of Wm. Gibson, to
satisfy several attachments, from Cass
Superior court, in favor of S tmuel
Morgan Sl Co and others vs said Wm
Gibson—levy made and returned to m
by a constable. The above property
sold by order of the Superior Court ot
Cass county.
Also, Lot No. 117, 7th dis. 3d sec
of originally .Murray, now Cass cty.—le
vied on as the property of Ebenez
Fain, to satisfy a ft fa from Habershan
Superior court in favor of Sam’l Chum
vs said E’>en< Z‘r Fain.
LEWIS TUMbLIN, Si.ff.
■ M irch 31, 1835.
1 Cherokee Mi sateb,
FOR MAY.
WILL BE SOLD, before the coun
house door in the town of Canton, oi
’the FIRST Ti’' - sday in M A Y mii,l»t
fwcen the legal the following
property, to W»t!
>t No. 706, in the 2d dist. 2d sect.
Cherokee county—levied on as tin
property of Joseph Deaton, to satisfy 3
fi fa’s h.-ued from a Justices court m
Hail comity, in favor of Jo.ies & Payn.
ts said Deaton. Levied and returnee
by a constable.
Lot No. 473, in the 2d dis. 2d sec—
levied on as the property of Isaac
Moore, io satisfy a ti fa issued from a
Justices cou t of F.iyt tte county, in fo
yer of John Burke, vs said Moore.
Levied and returned by a constable.
M. .!. CAMDEN, D. Shff.
March 30. 1 835.
LIS P GF LETTERS
REMAINING in the post office at
• Cassville, Cass county, Ga. March 31,
i And if not taken out within 3 months,
I will be sent to the genera! post office as
i dead letters.
1 A .Inhn A. Arlnir, Cthnrloa Arlatr,
Mr«. Elizabeth Adison.
i B—J B B iker, JiV D Burchjßcnj.
Bowlin. John Beavers,
C—F iletiah Chilton, Wm Cobb esq.
F—Wm Falkner, Wm7 (). Falkner,
Eli Ferguson.' ,
' G—Wm M Green, ; Lewis Green, B.
i G ij: hllf - , G. Fl. Gi lara.’fh;
j H—Jo 1 ' !oy|<’, esq.
; J Johnson, Atty, at Law, James
l Johnson.
! K—John Kerby. ,
M—Samuel Vic Dow 2, Toseph Mur
dock, Simpson Mooney, J H ulurdock.
N—-Jo?ii - t Newton.
P Io in H. Pehdergrast, Wm. R.
P xyr-li, J sse Ponder.
R—Thomas B. Royston, Mary Row
ell. ;
S —Jane Q. Slewart.
T—Wm. J. T uvin, Jackson Trou f ,
C HES PER HAWKS, P M.
April 1, TB3k 43
REWARD.
THE undersigned, - hereby offers A
REWARD of
Vwohundred cX fifty doWars.
For th** apprehension and conviction
i fthe murd( rer or murderers of EZE
KIEL RATCHFORD.
He will he found at his residence in
Jackson county, near Jefferson.
RD BERT R ATCMFORD.•
Jan’y. 25, 1 835.
Sls REWA R D.
a RAN WAY from the sub*
xJI scriber, on the night of thej
15th instant, between the!
V res ’dence of Doctor Brews.
, ter and the Laughing Giri’s,
A NEGRO BOY, by name
This egro is about 30 years 0M,5 foet
eight inches high, and quite black.
From having received a burn, he is not
able to straighten his right arm. 1
purchased this fellow of one Eli How
ell, of Habersham countj, but being
able to talk the Cherokee Language
very fluently, he will probably try to
pas? among them as a treed black.
For apprehending and confining sa'd
negro in any Jail, I will give FIF
TEEN DOLLARS.
GEO. W. JONES.
March 17, 1835. >
(KTlnform meat Pleasant Ridge
Post Office, Greece county, Alabama,
FOR MAY.
WILL BE SOLD, on the FIRST
Tuesday in M A Y next, within the
legal hours, the following property,viz:
Lot No. 12G2, in the 2d dis. 4th sec.
—levied on as the property of Wm.
C. Whaly, to satisfy an execution iit
favor of Hardaway As Hawkins, for.
the use of Owen 11. Kinian, which fi
fa issued from a Justices court of Mer»
riw» th?r county. Levy made and rc- z
turned to me by a constable.
Lot No. 970, IC’ih dis. 3d sec.—lev.'
;ed on as the property of Gillum Wat*
kins, to satisfy a fi fa issued from a Jus
‘ices court of Columbia county, in fav
vor of John S Heath. Levy madet
and returned to me bv a constable.
J. C/YORK, Sb’ffi
March 26, 1 835.
Lot, No. 70,
In the North East end of
It contains about one acre —is well on* 1
losed with a rail fence—has two small
omfortable dwelling houses on it, (ona
>n each side of the lot) to one of which
here is a kitchen attached, with a good
-table,corn crih, &c. The whole, or
•all of the above Lot will be sold on
iccommodating terms. Apply to ttio
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