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BY AUTHORITY.
ETU'CATION.
AN ACTto wuW ish a general system of Etluca- .
tiou by common Schools.
Sec, 1, Beit enacted by the Senate and House of ‘
Representatives of th® l Stale of Georgia in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the aulho- .
rity of the same, That from and after the first day of !
January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, the funds ■
• of this state heretofore known as the Academic and
Poor School Funds, be, and the same are hereby con
solidated, and together with the interest on one third j
part of the surplus reveune, derived to this State j
from the United States, and Heretofore set apart for
that purpose, shall compose and constitute a general |
fund for common Schools, for tlwi Skate of Georgia.
Sec. 1 And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That within ten days after the reception
if ,suc.h notice, the School Commissioners shall ns
x sembie together, and elect from their number a Presi
*dent of the Board, and a Secretary, and sit all also
appoint a.Treasurer, who shall give bond and tecu- ;
rity to the Commissioners for the time being, and
their office, in such stuns as they may j
fix upon, conditioned faithfully to discharge his duty
ns Treasurer, and should any vacancies happen in
such board of Commissioners. l>y death, resignation
or otherwise, the same shall be filled by the board ;
itself.
See. (!. And be it further martini by the authority ;
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the School ,
Commissioners in each division, or a majority of
them, to lay off their respectfve enmities into school
districts, conforttffhg, as neorly tts practicable, to the
present Militia districts; in the same, in a manner
most suitable and convenient fortbe purpose contem
plated in this net
He*, 8 And be it farther enacted by the authority |
aforesaid, That they shall apply for. and receive!
from the state, their proportionable share of the gen- i
rral fund for Common Education, and shall npiior- .
Urns and divide the same among thi*s- veral School j
districts in their divisions, in proportion to the num
ber of children in each, between the ages of five and
fifteen years, and shall make an annual report to the
Governor, of 1 lie number of School districts in their ,
respective divisions, the districts from which reports :
have been made to them, and the tl, faulting districts, j
the length of time a sehool has been kept in each, ana j
also the amount of funds rereived by themselves or
treasurer from the State; and from laves raised, and
in what mat nr • the same lias been expended, and
the number of chi’ Iren taught in each district, which
r port the said C> nmissioners shall cause to be re
corded by the Secretary, in a book Itept for that par- 1
pose.
See. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the Commissioners of each School
division, shall, by tins act be, and they are hereby
constituted u body corporate, under the name and
style of the Commissioners of the Common School,
and are made capable of suing and being sued, and
the Trustees oCthe several school districts of each di
t ision shall also be a body corporate, under the name
and style of the Trustees of the district schools, with
like powers os übovc, both of which said Corpora
tions, shall be allowed and entitled to own rent es
tate and other property, upon which to erect School
houses, and for othsr purposes connected with the 1
See 9. Ami be it further enacted by the authority
That the Trustees shall w ithin 15 days 1
after their appointment, proceed to ascertain the
piumber of free while persons in their respective dis
tricts, between the ages of five and fifteen years, and
the same to the Commissioners of the School
div ision to which they belong. They shall also re
ceivc from the m hoo! Commissioners, or tlieir Trea
: surer tile funds to which they are entitled under the ;
Inw, and on the first Monday of November in each
i year, make a report to the said Commissioners, show
ing the amount received, the manner of its espendi
f mre, the number of children taught in their district,
it ho length of time which a sehool has been taught,
: and the compensation paid to teach rs and their
i nuines. They shall locate amt superintend theerec
i t ton of suitable School houses in their respective dis
tricts, at the. most convenient ami suitable places for
■he inhabitants nml scholars residing in the same,
Is hall employ and pay teachers and visit the schools,
lat least twice in the year
* See. 10 And be it further enacted by the authority ,
jtaCoresaid, That tlie Commissioners and Trustees
Sunder tilts act, shnll hold their office for twelve
■months, or until their successors are elected, and re
■cclve no compensation for their services
r Sec. 11. And lie it further enacted by the authority
I aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Governor,
l annually to distribute to the Commissioners of eae.ii
LSchool division in the Stair, their proportionable
[part of th* Common School fund, which apportion
jincnt shall be made (by the last census, until the next
fccensus be taken, nmterhen by that) according to the
(number of free white persons, between the ages of
Hive and fifteen years, of which he shall give to said
commissioners, in each division, immediate notice
I See. 12. And be it further enacted by the outhori
jy aforesaid, That no moneys received front the State
*>y the Commissioners for School purposes, shall be
expended for any other purposes, than for paying ;
Beacliers and purchasing books and stationary for
children whose parents are unable to furnish the
gs a me.
I Sec. 13. And be it further enacted by the authori
ty aforesaid, That after these schools shall have gone
■ into operation, no Trustees for districts shall he al
fcspv.’ it to receive any funds from the Commissioners, |
unless they shall have made a return signed by a
majority of their number, showing the. amount re
ceived by them, and how the same has been expend
ed. and that a school has been kept in their districts,
at least three month* in the year preceding, or then ,
.ending. , , , ,
s ?c 14. And be it further enacted by the authority ;
aforesaid, That all moneys not draw'll by any such I
defaulting district shall be added to the amount to be !
! distribut'd the next year, and apportioned among all
the districts in such division,!. .
See 15 And be it further cnactci by the authority :
aforesaid That should the Commissioners, in any
division, fail to apply for, and distribute the fund re
| icived as directed by this law, that shall Is- subject
I to a suit for damages, at the instance of the trustees
1 of any district in such division, in any court of law
li n this State having jurisdiction, and the amount of
■ damages so recovered, shall be collected out of the
R private property of such commissioners, and not
f:-.rx the funds of the School.
j, s-r 17. And be it farther enacted by the authority
K’ . . ii .1. kot urnnn the
&ec. i i. anuwiwuiu..* v..- — • /
aforesaid, That all white persons bet wc-n the ages
of five and fifteen years, shallbe allowed tobetaitght
scholars in the respective districts in which they :
reside or in case their location may make it inconTe- |
‘nient in the adjoining distnet, by making applica
tion to the Trustees thereof, who may prescribe, j
though no one over the age of fifteen years and under
twenty-one. shall be excluded front said fc-bools. I
Sec 18 And be it farther enacted by the authority
aforesaid. That in those counties where the mhabi-,
rents are. thinly settled, th; commissioners may, if
,t v think it best refuse to lay off tne same into
school districts, but they snail employ a suitable
’ snumlyr of Teachers who shad under their directions,
bleach schrioi not longer than three months in any one
Jd burin or
receive, as nearly as can be equal ad
vuitab ‘from said fund; and it shall lie the duty of
r ibe Commissioners of any such county tn which the
@4- vVtemniav be thought best, to mention
J3k&f&) hbmo'spmil
fine themselves to the three Military districts of said
I county.
Sec. iO. And be it further enacted by the authority
j aforesaid, That the Commissioners and Trustees
I elected as aforesaid, in the foregoing act, before they
I enter upan the duties of their office's, shall take the
1 following oath In-fore anv Judge of the Superior
j Court, Justice of the Inferior Court,’a Justice of the
| Pence, in the county where they reside, viz : 1. A. B ,
j do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully perform all
j the duties required of me by law, ns Commissioner
] of Common Schools, or Trustee of Common Schools,
i as the case may lie.
JOSEPH DAY.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS.
President of the Senate.
Assented to, 36th December, 1837
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.
AN ACT,
To amend an act, to establish a general system of
education by common schools—assented to ‘2Cth
December, 1837.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the autho
rity of the same. That the second and third sections
of the above recited act, lie, and the same are hereby
; repealed; and in lieu thereof, that each county in this
j state, shall l>e considered and known as a common
school division; and that on the first Monday in
March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine,
and on the first Monday in January, of every year
thereat ter, or so soon after the above mentioned days,
as the same can be conveniently done, the justices o
the inferior court of each county in this state, shall
by order, entered upon the minutes of the court, ap
point five fit and proper persons as commissioners of
common schools, in the division wherein such justi
’ ces may reside, and shall w ithin ten days, thereafter,
j cause a certified copy of such appointment, to be de
livered to them, which shall be sufficient notice of the
same. And such commissioners shall continue in
office one year, or until their successors shall be ap.
jminted.
Sit. 2, Ami he ii further enneted by the authority
aforesaid, That if the said commissioners, or any of
them, shall be unable at any lime to procure the st r
vices of n treasurer, us r.mitcmnlahd in the fourth
section of the above recited not, it shall, and may lie
lawful, for the president of such ltoard of commis
sioners, to an as treasurer, who shall give bond and
security to his excellency the governor, and lus suc
i ressor for the faithful discharge of his duty, ns tren
j surer. And the said commissioners, within ten days
after their appointment, shall by order entered in tho
I minutes of their board appoint for each school dis
trict to be luid out agrccubly to tin-fifth section of the
| above recited act, three trustees, all of whom shall ro
: side in the district for which they shall lie appointed,
and shall lie notified of their appointment withinten
■ days after it siinll be made.
See. 3. And lie it further enacted, That if the jus
-1 tices of the inferior court of any,.county, shall uot
within one month after the time herein before fixed
for that purpose, select and appoint five commission
ers, ns aforesaid, who shall accept their appoint
ments, the ssitl justices of the inferior court shall
themselves discharge the duties of commissioners in
their division; and unless said commissioners shall,
within one month after their appointment* select and
appoint three, trustees in euch district or division,
who shall accept such appointments, the justices of
the peace, and such other person as the justices of
the peace may appoint, shall discharge the duties of
trustees, in any district in which such appointment
shall have been omitted; tutd the commissioners’ op.
jioiiiuilent by the court, may fill by election any va
cancy which may occur in their flourd, during the
year; and a majority of commissioners, and of the
trustees, shall be competent to perform the duties re
quired of them respectively.
Sec. 1 And lie.it further enacted, That it shall be,
* the duty of the trustees of the school district, tocol
i Icct by subscription, such sums as the citizens of the
district may be willing to subscribe, which shall be
i applied to supply an amount of money, in addition
to what may lie allowed by the state, sous to enable
i hem to employ a suitable number of teachers in the
district, provided there shall lie no liability on the
trustees for said subscription money, further than to
transfer the said list of subscription to the touchers
where such school may lie taught.
See. f>. And be it further enacted, That the justi
ces of the inferior court, in the several counties, in
this state lie, aud they are hereby authorized, at
their discretion, to levy an extra lax in iheir respec
tive counties, not exceeding fifty percent, on the gen
eral tax. which shall be added to the common school
fund of saic. county, and paid over to the commis
sioners aforesaid, by the tax collector, who shall give
bond and security for the sutnc, us in ease of other
Ixinds, for extra taxes.
See. t>. And lie it further enacted. That the trus
! tees of any county academy, be, and they are hereby
authorized, to pay over to the commissioners of com
mon settfiols, any funds in their hands.
Sec. 7 And lie it further enacted, That bis excel
lency the. governor, within the month of January
! next, be required to cause so much of the above re
: cited act, ns this net docs not repeal, together with
this act to be published in the newspapers of this
state, and also, to ouusc the same to be published
with the acts of the present session.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the eighth, twentieth, twenty-first,
and twenty-second sections, and so much of the ninth
section as refers to the notice to be given by a justice
of the peace and free, holder to the trustees of tlieir
election, and so much of the sixteenth section, as re
fers to lb- balances in the hands of trustees of acade
mies and their treasurers be, and the same is hereby
j repealed,
; JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
President of the Senate,
Assented to 29th December, 1838.
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.
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Justices Cottrt for I H’.ti).
4 COURT, for the 271st District, will lie holden
at the Court House in the city of Darien, on tlie
4th Monday of each month —to wit
Monday tilth January, 1839.
Monday 25th February, “
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Monday 22d April, ‘■
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I aIU rtn fi ‘ NELSON W. CARPENTER.
Justice of the Peace for 271st, District.
1 Darisii, Jamiajy 29st, 1839.
DARIEN, UEOKGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1 s;i‘J.
?iiorn*i>.
THE NYCTANTHES,
OR NIGHT BLOOMING JESSAMINE.
‘Tis when the last faint ray of light
Is fading in the western skies,
And all that late shone fair and bright
In deepest gloom enshrouded lies;
‘Tis then, pure flower, thy leaves of white
(Which shrank from day’s embrace away)
Open—and on the air of night
Breathe forth their votive tVagancy.
Even thus—with woman’s holy heart,
Whose worth no eye e’er measures
White joys illume, or pleasures dart
Their smiles round worldly treasures.
But should the night of sorrow close
On pleasure’s nay—which rose so dear;
►Should on the brow, where bloom’d the rose,
The cypress wreath tell of despair,
‘Tis then that woman’s heart would bloom,
E’en like this snow-white flower,
A fragrant balm to soothe our gloom,
And cheer the bitter st hour.
Charleston, Sept. 1, 1835.
WRITTEN FOR THE DARIEN IIERAI.II,
Tlt Victim.
The scenes which are recounted in the fol
lowing story, wore told me sonic time ago by
a friend who was present during the enacting
of most of them, and may be relied on ns facts
which took place among the troubled settlers
of the Cherokee section a few years ago. We
had just pulled up our camp stakes, to remove
our camp to the ritlge of mountains that now
divides Gilmer and Murry counties, and runs
up into Tennessee, when we. were startled by
the appearance of a small troop of rough look
ing fellows, whose appearance, and trimings,
in connection witli the wildness of the country j
gave them ns fair a title to the name of
outlaws, or banditti, as ever was branded on
Rob Roy,or any clan on the mountains of I taly. |
As they halted in front of us, the leader, a hold
looking man with a rifle slung over his should
ers, and a brace of pistols in his belt, accosted
us very gruffly with the usual salute of the
day; by way of preface to opening theconver- j
sat ion, which he immediately up by I
demanding when we were going, aud if wehad :
finished tho survey? “Not exactly” said
Wells, a waggish sort of a fellow, who was em
ployed as chain bearer, but if you will just stir
tip your eurrivan, I reckon we’ll survey sights, j
“I reckon you mought too,” said one of the .
fellows, and jogged his horse along to the |
front of the gang. “Well,” We wont reckon j
without a host, even then, resumed Wells.
“You mought I calculate,” any how, said
the first speaker—but I reckon you are not tho i
sort I am looking after,
Have you seen any of them fellows of the j
Forty Club, about here lately, Mr. Surveyor? ;
No! I replied.
“They must have gone round the hill, and
we shall meet their by taking the road through |
the hollow, and bidding us a good day, the par- |
ty rode off in pursuit of tite fugitive of the j
Pony Club.
This was a Club, as they were termed by (
the better portion of the,Cherokee settlers, of,
adventures; who where robbing the Indians, i
that were about migrating west of the Missis- j
sippi. of their properly, and running them into j
the adjoining States of Alabama and Tennes-
see, where they disposed of them with impu
nity, even should they he followed, and at- j
tempted to be convicted of the theft. There
daring and reckless course had .been carried on
so long that they became an annoyance to the
entire district; and had aroused the indignation
of not only the settlers in Georgia; hut those
on the borders off Tennessee and Alabama,
who combined together for the suppressing of
i this gang, under the name of “regulators,”
which ultimately became as terrible to the dis
trict for tlieir high handed measures as the
grevinces which they started out on to put
down.
And it was at this time, which these scenes
will be confined; when they had “rode through
the district “rough shod,” compelling those
that had quietly set themselves down to culti
vate their farms, to join their Company in pur
suit of thfe “Ponyites,” and if refusing, were
; considered as conniving with them, which sub
jected them to the terrors of their judiciary —
much like that of the famous Black Douglass
of Scotish tradition, up the suppos
ed culprit on the first tree, and tried him after
wards.
Tlie persons that they were now in pursuit
of was a man by the name of Randles—a bold
and daring fellow, though outlawed by the re
gulators and limited about through the moun
tains, yet had maintained his freedom and fre
quently made liis way lo his wife, who thus far
had been left unmolested by the regulators
while they were in pursuit of him. But hav
ing suspected our neighbourhood, and that we
afforded them shelter, they had determined to
visit the CVtmp, and if not successful in finding
Randle, they hoped to discover some traces
which would put them on the trail. Happily
he had received warning of this movement of
t the regulators,and was on the wing longbefore
! they came up to where our Camp was; but not
without leaving traces of his having been about
! there recently; which was observed by the
company almost as soon as they rode up, and
followed up with such success that they had
homed him in on one of the peaks of the dug
down mountains, which overlooked the valley
below, in which the “regulators” were ap
proaching. The peak was bold and abrupt,
hardly admitting of any access, except that
which had admitted him; almost forming an
impenetrable barren to the approach of the re
gulators. But the numbers of those that pur
sued him had completely surrounded him, even
Itad there been more ways than the one men
tioned, and therefore, left him, but tho sad al
ternative of forcing a passage through them,
or throwing himself down the precipice to the
great risk of being dashed to pieces in the at
tempt to escape, The immergeney of the caso
admitted of very little consideration to put
himself on the defensive, or make one bold ef
fort to free himself by slratigem, even should
he forfeit his life in tho attempt to escape, rath
er than allow himself to be taken by the “re
gulators.” The report of a rifle just below
him, and the whistling of the ball past his head,
was the first salute he received from his pursu
ers; and a simultaneous shout of joy at the
success of their enterprise rung through the
broken range, in wild and discordant notes of
exultation which showed the valuo they set on
their game, which was answered by Handle,
with a spirit of defiance to “halt,” or he would
send them a ball rattling down the hill which
would not be easy to stop.”
“Shoot,” was the reckless reply of the r< gu
lator, “you can only stop one of us,” and charg
ed up the precipice, with two or three more at
his heels, tg second the design of taking Han
dle prisoner,and giving him a fair trial at Lynch
law. Another moment, and Handle had raised
his rifle to his shoulder, poinlug to the breast
of the ‘regulator,” and an instant more would
have sent him tremblingdown the precipice in
the agonies of death. But for the timely
thoughts of his wife and children; which would
be at the mercy of the regulators induced him
to forgive his design, and make a bold effort to
escape by throwing himself down from the frag
ments of rocks, and make tho best of his way
for some place in the mountain to screen him
self. The thought no sooner entered his mind
titan he put it in execution: springing down the
chasm, to the amazement of his pursuers who
had now attained the height of the peak, and
imagined they had him within their power.—
A'ruslUo the chasm by the regulators, expect
ing to sec their victim wrething in the agonies
of his horrid death, increased their amazement
when they saw him not only unhurt, but fleeing
among the brukes and rocks, out of the rcnch
of their rifles, which they fired hopelessly nt
the fugitive in chagrin and vexation, more than
with the expectation that they would hit their
object. Tito disappointment they had met
with, added to the settled feelings of hatred,
among the regulators, now urged them to ac
complish the destruction'of Handle, lie had
foiled them in their pursuit; and when some
people are foiled in their career, and have
power in their hands they pursue their victims
with a deadlier hate, than Unit which had urged
them on in the onset.
With feelings of this kind, which usurped
any kindlier sympathies which may have pre
dominated in these men, they retreated down
I the cliff; muttering their threats of revenge
against the fugitive, while they devised their
1 plans for entraping the wary partizan of the
Pony Club. Their plans were yet unsettled,
j when they reached the foot of the mountain,
i when a halt was proposed to deliberate more
i at ease on the inode of securing Handle, who
1 above all the partizans they esteemed the most
important to effect their ends. A babel like
confusion soon pervaded the troop of regula.
tors, each had his own peculiar plans, though
varying in the manner of execution, yet cqual-
I ly as sanguinary in their results,
i “I reckon General,”
The regulators were a volunteer company,
and each individual was addressed with the
| local titjes, which almost every*man is dubbed
with, in the interior of the State,
j “We might as well calculate on taking this
I fellow any how by a drive.”
I “Aye, we shall have a heap to drive up them
dug down mountains, but Randle is too peart
to let any one of you drive him.”
“I reckon,” replied the General.
“Not so mighty peart neither General,” said
one of the troop, “to run the risk of killing him
self by breaking down them rocks.”
“He was no count fellow any how, said the
General, he mought as well hang himself, as be
hung. I calculate.”
“go I am thinking, General, rejoined another
of tho gang.
“Perhaps,—Major, said the second speaker,
we inout lake Randle, by breaking along the
“dug down” to Iris house, and there lay in wait
for his return home.”
“Wo calculate to trail him there,” replied the
Major, “and if we can’t do better, we mought
brake up his nest.”
“I reckon if the nest was broke up, there
would be a mighty chance of fun with the old
she fox, and she would be mighty peart in
finding the hole of her mate.”
“Aye, rejoined the General, and the sooner
we beat the bush, the merrier the chase.”
Their plans arranged, tho regulators pursu
ed the route towards Randles house, along the
edge of the mountains,
The distance to where Randle lived was
some ten miles, along the mountains, situated
at the head of a Small river and within a few
miles of “Van’s” settlement; but owing to the
disturbed state of Ihe times he had been com
pelled to change his residence, though his wifo
and family occupied the house we have describ
ed. Ii was late in the evening before the party
came in sight of the house; and a proposition to
halt therefor theniglu was agreed on,when they
set about making their arrangements for the
night; and devising the most successful mode of
accomplishing their ends. Numerous were
these plans, that were urged with the sanguina
ry feelings of cruelty which had gained the as
cendancy of their more civilized and humane
feelings, which, in the depraved passionsof the
white man becomes more formidable and re
volting to the noble feelings of the mind, than
when displayed in the cold blooded barbarity
of the savage. Violence seemed to bo their aim,
and when they could not rovell In It, In tho
legimate pursuit of their object they did not
scruple in the reckless disregard to the laws of
humanity, and their country, to visit the weak
and harmless dependants of their victims to
wreak their vengance on.
In the morning the regulators matched bold
ly up to the house of Handle, dismounted, and
were proceeding to enter the house, when the
wife of Handle demanded who they where and
what they wanted, as she stood leaning on tho
edge of the door, ready to shut it, or open its
the answer of tho regulator should deride.
“Wo want Joo Handle,” was the bold reply
of tho regulator,
“For what? and who arc you, that wants my
husband ? lie is not in this house, and if he
were, it Is his own house which you dare not
enter.”
“We arc the regulators, and have coino to
lake justice against Handle, who belongs to tho
Pony Club.” And advancing at the same time
towards tho door which Handles wifo was lean
ing on, iis if intending to fore.o himself in
the house which she was not to perceive,
but scornfully, taunting them of their law
less course, slanted too the door, and
barred it with a heavy bar which defied their
attempts to come in at the door. A dread mo
ment of anxiety now pervaded in Handles
mind as well us'that of Ids wife; for having
since the escape of the day before fled home,
iit hopes to evade the pursuits of his enemies
whom he had so happily got rid off; now found
hi.mself in a more critical situation, and one
that hardly admitted of a passing hope, as ho
supposed they had trailed him in his flight and
knew of his being in tho house, which they
would not hesitate to destroy in accomplishing
his destruction, though it involved the wholo
of his family. It was a painful moment, as he
looked at his children, that were hanging about
liia wife in terror at the ferocious manner of
the regulators, while she, with that earolcssness
which women can assume at timos of great
emergency; though with u countenance that
sufficiently told that she felt the magnitude
and desperate condition which they were re
duced, stood facing her husband, as if ready
to second any effort which he might undertake,
or passively submit to the violence and rude
threats which were now distinctly heard at the
outside among the “Regulators.”
It was a moment of suspense, only, and
another for action, as the regulators were now
forcing tut entrance in the house which arous
ed him from the painful reflections which had
crossed liis mind on the arrival of those self
stiled regulators of the district. Painful as
his feelings were, on account of his families
safety : yet the present danger was tou impor
tant to he entirely disregard, without an effort
to meet his persecutors with ahold resistance,
though in the end it should avail him nothing,
only the consolation of having honourably de
fended his family and property while lie had
the power of resistance. While these passions
were agitating the breast of Randle, his wife,
was thinking of .other matters of quite a con
trary nature, to those that were predominating
in his own mind. Firmly actuated by the same
impulses as those of her husband, her mother
wit had been more fertile in expedients than
Randles; and had thought of more pacific
means of avoiding the impending ruin, than
those suggested to the blunt mind of her hus
band. The futile attempt to resist the number
of the regulators, had forcibly impressed hor
mind as one of the most desperate expedients
that could he resorted to, and only available to
them in the extremities that they might ho re
duced to. A rusli at the door by the besiegers
with a heavy billet of wood Which they used as
a species of haltering ram, made the door
shiver on its hinges, and bound hack to the
concussion in defiance at the shock which it
had received—again, tho same ponderous
thrust was made, with seemingly redoubled
frocc, as the splinters on the inside of the door
bristled up in frightful array; showing the po
tency of ihc weapon they wielded, to annihi
late the slender barrier to their ingress; any
again withanotljer rush, and the united strength
of the assailants sent the slender pannelsfrom
their mortises, and the whole of the regula
tors headlong into the middle of the large and
almost fnnim rclcss room, A shout of exultation
at their success; broke from them as they re
covered themselves from the head-way which
they had got under, at the sudden and unex
pected breaking away of the door; and in the
next moment they had seized the statue like
form of Randle’s wife, who had withdrawn to
the opposite corner of the house, to await their
motions—while othors of the party were
searching every nook of the house for her hus
band, whom site had secreted in the moment of
the first shock behind a pannel of the sealing,
VOL. I. NO. 8.
or casing of the room, that was benrly suffl
oiontly large enough to reoeive him, and closo
up as oven ns the rest of tho pannols, Tho
haste and confusion they were in, and the sud
diness of tho regulators bursting in, had almost
found him entirely exposed. Their search
however, was long and minute, every corner
that could be supposed to give a hiding place was
ransacked and not a hole that would hardly ad
mit of a rut was not left uiivlsited; fatigued and
dispirited at the ill suocoss of tho search.—•
Tin: ransackers returned to tho room which they
had burst open, muttering imprecations on the
head of tho fugitive, and threats and violence
towards tho calm and self satisfied wife of
Handle, who was inwardly rejoicing at tho ill
success of tho “Regulators” in thoir search.—-
Consolous of the brutality of her captors, she
submitted meekly to thoir throats and violence
while they pinioned her arms, rathor than be
tray a fooling that might arouse tho kindred
feelings of her husband and load In an expo
sure, by his throwing himself betwoon the re
gulators and his wifo, to screen her from their
brutal hands. The violence of her feelings had
passed, and the presence of mind and fortitude
of her sox stood her in need, to guard against the
lawless and vindictive threats of the regulators,
who wore leading hor from the houso with her
childron, hanging at her pinioned arms, pilious
ly imploring her release from their hardened
captors. Tho sight of Randle's rifle, which,
in their ardeht search after the greater object
had until now escaped their observation; for
an instant the party hesitated ns if by mutual
consent, as the clue to thoir soaroh flashed ou
their mind ; mid then separated to renew tho
search, which had been so ineffectual in their
former rounds through the house.
Impelled now by a sonso of prido, at tho
failure of thoir enterprise in the onset, they re
turned to the ransacking of the premises with
redouhloddetermination. Crevices thatbeforo
had passed by unnoticed, were now torn open
to satisfy their search. Tho floor pulled up,
and the sealing of the room, sounded to de
tect the eoncouknent of any substance: once,
the flat and dead Ring sound, echoed to the blow
of the regulators as they passed In front, tho
panned whleh concealed tho trembling object
of their search, was followed by a pause, as if
doubting the sound, and then passed ou.
To gratify theit ends, were now thoir solo
purpose. To e ffect any injury on the person
of Handle's wife, deliberately was an act which
their better foelings shudderod at, though they
would not scruple to take the life of Randle, or
destroy his property at the expense of her
comfort and happiness. The regulators, there
fore, led their captives a little from the house
to tfre edge of the thicket, where they tied her
to a,stake which was drove in the ground for
that purpose.
At the return of the last search of the regu
lators, a smile of satisfaction and joy pervaded
the heretofore downcast looks of Randle’s
wife, fur tlie safety of hor husband. Happy,
at the ill success of their repeated search which
had thrown her into u fever of excitement was
like to have betrayed tile secret, which uccidcnt
hid so faithfully. Site looked with complacent
contempt on her captors, and their threats.
Conscious that with her, they dure not commit
any violence or outrage. Heretofore, the re
gulators had confuted themselves to the prin
ciple object of their commission, but in few
instance had they attacked the weak uud indi
rect to accomplish their purposes. Exasperat
ed, however, by the failure of their enterprise,
they throw off tlie usual restraints of seeming
justice, and gave vent to private pique and re
venge, determined to offset tlie ruin of the fu
gitive. * A burst of flame and smoke through
tlie windows and openings of Randle’s house,
was hailed with an exulting and suvage-iiko
delight as they witnessed tho doath-liko change
that came over the countenance of t)ie fugi
tives wife—-“my husband, save him, save him,’ 1
she screamed in horror as her form withered
away in a death-like sworn, hung by ibe ban
dages which secured her to the stake, It wen
late in the evening before she recovered from
the stupor that overpowered her strength. A
smouldering smoke still curled over the ruins
of her happy home, but not a vestago of its
comforts were left to condole witli her in his
forlorn situation. Stiff fastened to the stake,
she imagined that some of the regulators were
near at hand; but as she gpzcd around the scene,
nothing was to be seen, a dead calmness per
vaded the settlement, all wasjsilent, for, when
the “Regulators” saw her extreme anxiety, the
fire flashing from the budding, and heard tho
heart rending acclamation that was wrung from
her, in tho agony of despair, they knew they
had gained their victim, and a victory, and
only responded to her feeble cry ns they re.
mounted their horses, and left the grpedy ele
ments to devour theirvkstim, which they were
sure, now, had an ordeal to pass, that would
present him to a just heaven, for retribution bn
her persecutors.
Savannah, 1H39, L.
Restoration of Sight. —A late number of
the West Chester Recorder informs us that a
woman near Dihvorthtown, who has been blind
near 13 years, received her sight a tew days
since. She had long since abandoned
of a restoration, and the event wan wholly upr
expected to her. She wan quite
herself, and at the first glimpse of light,; idW#i
exclaimed with joy and surprise, “Oh! I
After a night so long, how bright the
appears,