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ertions will be used for their interest, and their
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tor the purchase of goods will be promptly
attended to. ROBERT MAI.ONE.
Augusta, July 10. 33 —15n
Win. JSims, Williams &co.
THANKFUL for past favors anu patron
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id* Liberal advances will he made wher
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clusively to the duties of their business.
Augusta, Gqo. aug. 24, 1826. 36—2 m
Tl IE SUBSCRIBER
HAVING retired from the late firm o
Edward Campfield, Cos. has taken
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Robert Malone, (possession to be had on the
Ist October next) where he contemplates
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satisfaction. Liberal advances will be made
V) Customers, when required.
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Sept. 26 39—2 m
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Savannah, aug 29. 36—tN
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cauuonad against trading for the same.
V, CHARLES BARNES.
■Monroe cty. Geo. Sept. 5. 37 ts
w ILLIAM V. BURNEY
attorney jit Ldir,
H As LOCATED HIMSELF at Jackson,
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nan| miC M\ to h,s fri ' nds aml ‘he public 1.,
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MASONIC CONVENTION.
fjt pIE COMMITTEE appointed by Re
u solution of the Grand Lodge at its
communication in December last, “To
meet in the Town of Millcdgevill , on the
Saturday before the first Monday in March,
(inst.) for the. purpose of examining the re
turns of votes for and against the Convention,
and ascertaining the result,” met pursuant to
said Resolution, and opened and compared
the several returns which had been received
from the several subordinate Lodges, and de
clare the following to be the result of the said
returns, viz : Three hundred and nine in fa
vor of, and seventeen opposed to a Conven
tion.
The Committee, therefore, give notice to
the several subordinate Lodges under the ju
risdiction of the Grand Lodge of the State of
Georgia, that from the returns received, it
appears to be the opinion of a majority of the
subordinate Lodges, that it is expedient to call
a Convention of Delegates to meet at the Seat
of Government on the Friday after the first
Monday in Dec. next, for the purpose of form
ing anew Constitution for the Government of
the Grand Lodge, in conformity with the Re
solution of the Grand Lodge, in the following
words. “Resolved, That if on counting said
votes it shall appear that there is a majority
in favor of calling said Convention, it shall
be the duty of said Committee, or a majority
of them, by advertisement, in one or more of
the public Gazettes of this State, and by a
Circular addressed to each of said subordinate
Lodges, to announce the result, and direct
the said subordinate Lodges to appoint each
two Delegates (who must be Master Masons)
to represent them in said Convention.”
The undersigned Committee, therefore, an
nounce the result as above, and hereby direct
each chartered Lodge under the jurisdiction
of the Grand Lodge, to appoint two Delegates
of the degree of Mister Masons to represent
the same in said Convention.
S. ROCKWELL, )
W. Y. HANSELL, )Com.G.L.
J. KEISTER, )
NINE months after date, application will
If u.ade to the Honorable the Inferior
court of the county of Newton, while sitting
for Ordinary purposes, for leave to sell the
whole of the real estate of Thomas Creel, late
of said county deed.
WILLIAM CREEL, Admr.
Sept. 12,1526. 3S—9m
NINE months after date, application wil
be made to the honorable the Inferior
Court, of Pulaski county, when sitting for or
dinary purposes, for leave to sell the negr cs
and real estate of Thomas D. Mitchell, late
of said county, deed.
ISAAC W. MITCHELL, Admr.
May 16, 1926. 22—m9m
JOB - PRINTING
Done with neatness antj despatch
AT TIilS OFFICE.
Hae tibi eruut artes, pacisque imponere niurem, parcere subjectis et debcllarc superbos.— Virgil.
MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1826.
FROM THE MASONIC REGISTER.
Philadelphia, March 17 th, 1919, )
2 o’clock, P. M. >
Dear Emily —We do not w lgh
anchor so soon by on day, as I in
timated in my last; but the Capt. is
now at length ordering “ all hands
aboardthe decks are crowded with
men and “stores,” of every descrip
tion: officers and owners with hur
ried interest are conning over their
Bills and Boxes of lading, while a
hundred lookers-on have assembled
to till up the bustle of the scene and
wave a kind of festive adieu, when
the ship shall let go all” and ware
into the breeze. After participating
awhile in this hurry and bustle, and
rude merriment upon and ck, I have
retired below to think of the friends
I have left; and as one more proof
of remembrance, to give you a hasty
sketch of a few incidents or actors in
the scene I have just described,
which are either so simple, unobtru
sive, or common, that they seem to
have engaged the notice of no one
but myself
Indeed, amid the salutations of gai
ety, and the balbeck consultations of
men of business, committing their
ventures of gain to tho uncertainties
of the deep, this silent and beseeching
spectacle, is too humble to woo re
gard, but from the eye of fancy, lefl
emancipate from the reign of the
stronger faculties. At a little dis
tance from the Convolving mazes of
this bustling crowd, I observed a fe
male form, in humble dress, and of
unpretending modesty, standing by
herself, in a fixed, and thoughtful at
titude. Her look was downcast and
wan, and overspread w ith a mildness
of resignation, half-smiling in its bit
ternes, such as might be with one
about to be torn from some dear ob
ject. Like Sterne’s Maria, there was
no arm offered her to lean upon ; and
I guessed that Fortune, our legiti
rnate school-mistress, was administer
ing to this young mother, for a moth
er she seemed, some rude kind of dis
cipline. Her cares seemed to awake
into more evident concern as the dis
appearing of the business-men began
now to make room. Her eyes, which
till now seemed “bent on vacancy,
and with the i corporeal air to hoid
discourse,” were now fixed upon the
snip; and now alternately upon the
ship, and upon the ground. I had
gazed upon this person with deep
interest, puzzling myself with conjec
tures about her lot, till reason was
satisfied, curiosity could learn noth
ing more, and that however desirous
if able, I could now have no oppor
tunity to.
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain ;
Or, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of! hat perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart.”
I now descended the cabin to ad
just some things, and prepare for our
departure. Here I found two play
ful, honest lads; the one apparently
five, and the other seven years ol
age, of whom, by their costume, i
judged that they too, would sail wim
us. I had not been here long, be ice
the lady above mentioned, descend
ed the stairs of the cabin, and seat
ing herself beside the two little boys,
surveyed them with that maternal
and mute eloquence with which a
mother watches the turning crisis of
some malignant fever, which threat
ens to burn in twain the lifethread o>
her first born!
It required no power of divination
to discover their mother’s image in
the face of this female. She han
just emigrated from Ireland, and
sought our country, as any assylum
from the wretchedness that had ex
patriated her, and her childred, from
her ow n. The father, unable to see
his own dear children raise to him
the supplicating hand for food, with
out the power of administering to
their cries ; or, to see their mother
weeping over the tomb of all com
fortable felicity, fell a victim to his
own grief, &. by bis own hand! “Our
landlords,” continued the lady, while
a varied blush of hallowed indignity
kindled on her hectic, sallow cheek,
‘ our landlords refused us our usual
and hard earned pittance. To main
tain these hungry babes Sir,” and the
yearnings of tiie mother, as she rais
ed her full eyes upon them, fell in
large drops down her cheek, and
lodged upon her bosom, “I found
my unaided strength inadequate to
do what we both had been unable to
perform ; and was thus driven by
the dire mandates of hard necessity,
and my children’s good, to fly the
domicil of tyrants, and seek a shelter
in some more hospitable clime : But
alas ! in steering the only ark of mj
hopes to escape the devouring gulph
of Charybdis, I have met the hungry
rocks ofScylla.”
“ For I now find my resources too
scanty to afford a comfortable suste
nance and education to these tny fa
therless children; and as the mother
sent away Joseph and Benjamin, so
send 1 my two boys to Georgia, not
knowing the things that may befall
them there. Bjit this thing I know,
they will there have no mother to
watch over them in sickness and in
health : and their master will not
have a father’s heart to pity and pro
vide for them. Alas; I have brought
them into an existence where penury
and misfortune deride all my efforts
to support it 1”
The touching eloquence with which
nature uttered these plaintive emo
tions ; her pensive articulation, the
-acredncss of her sorrow, her be
seeching modesty, and the whole tone
and earn stness of her language, are
recollections as impossible to forget,
-s they are to pourtray. It did not
fall upon an impenetrable ear; it
touched a corresponding note within
me, that vibrated through a thousand
strings ; and which, like the music of
Carol, if not sweet, “was mournful
to the soul ” The truth was ; this
woman had stipulated to give avvav
her children, during the minority of
their years, to a slaveholder in Geor
gia : who. on passing ffiis sea-port, it
appeared, had ordered their passage
to Savannah, whence they were to be
transported by stages about one hun
dred miles into the interior of that
state, on which route I determined to
prosecute my journey.
The sailors now began to play off
their usual cries when unfurling the
sails, which the mother observed as a
signal for tearing herself from her
sober-looking boys; and each mo
ment now added a two-fold sting to
every throe, as it shortened the possi
bility of delay. Her mind, aye ! her
whole soul had now becometoo dc p
!y agitated to conceal its bitterness :
her eyes, suffused and glistening with
maternal fondness, lingered in speech
•ess eloquence on her forlorn little
boys ; she cast now and then an ask
ing look at me, and at lengtn exclaim
ed, “ O Sir 1 do befriend these my
children! As you are going to Geor
gia, I resign them to your goodness!
O watch, and protect them! and pro
pitiate for them the favour of their
master wheu you shall give them
1341.” But the moment had now ar
'rived. She saw the last sands ofthis
last and protracted interview with her
b-doved children were now falling ;
with tears fast flowing, she flies to
wardsherchildren, butpausingshort
she cast an imploring look to heaven
while a convulsive clasp rivets her
hands upon her breast, and seemed to
cry, “O thou Spirit of my destiny!
if it he possible, let this cup pass from
me !” But Fate—relentless as death,
and inexorable as the grave —she
rushes to her boys, and embosoms
them in her last embrace : ‘ Be good
niy children,” she cries; “hope we
shall meet again. May God my dear
children bless” here shacould not
speak; as they were hanging upon
her neck, another, yet another linger
ing moment, she tore them from her,
nd left the cabin. And I know not
from what impulse, but I followed
i after, and reached the
and pk as she set her foot upon the
wharf. On seeing me, she more com
posedly, though ferveptly doma.d
ed, “Will you, kind Sir, befriend my
poor cast-out children, now that they
are sent away motherless, upon the
ocean, >0 seek a home at their ten
der age, among strangers ? Won’t
you watch and nurse them should
they be sick 1” She was here inter
rupted by my assurances; the ship
got under way, and I soon saw her
no more.
I believe, my dear sister, that if
any p nitent of the human family,
-hould ask of our venerable Saviour
the remission of his sins with that
earnest contrite sincerity with wh.ch
the above petitions were urged, the
request would be granted. I have
been told that the cause ot the widow
and the orphan was rigidly sacred in
masonic faith. But in this case you
know I boast a philanthropy which
can be excelled only by a disparity
of means. But I shall close with
promising to give you in my next a
minute detail of all the little acts of
kindness which I can contrive to
bestow upon my proteges during
their passage, and until I deliver
them up into the hands oftheiradopt
ed master in Georgia : For be assur
ed, if Providence do not interfere to
prevent, I will not basely desert
my charge before this is achieved, so
lorg as a drop of blood is propelled
from this heart, or a shred of muscle
quivers on this arm !
Yours, affectionately, e. h. b.
From Noah’* Enquirer.
INTERESTING LETTER
\lb. Oracle,
Dear Sir ,- —When my cousin Bob
showed me your Lottery Bill bedeck
ed all around with potey», “ there
Doll,” said he, “ is something for
you”—
“The means for maiden* quick to mat*
Arc found at Broadway l, 3, K”
“Yes, coz.” I replied, “ and the
next one I should think, would suit
you”—
“ The bach’lor tired o’ the single state,
Must haste to Broadway 1,3, 8.”
Wc quickly made a bargain no one
was to be wiser, and I gave Robert
all the money I had been saving for
three weeks, he said he would add
as much more, and pay you a visit.
Out of the fur tickets he bought,
you know, Mr Oracle, we had three
prizes, and when Robert came home
the second time after going down
to York, he came to our house and
asked me to take a short walk. I
was sure what kind of news he had
to tell me, because it was such a
capital hit you made as to Robert
and me. He took out four Mechan
ic’s Bank Bills of one thousand dollars
each! and three of a hundred dollars,
besides a bunch of small notes
“Fegs Doll,” says he, “we’ve made
such a lucky b ginning, I’ve a notion
uow we ought to buckle to, and try
our fortunes together through lile.”
I never dream’t of saying no, Mr.
Oracle because I had always had a
sort of a notion that Robert would
make a good husband, and besides
he had often told me before that he
never saw a young woman whose
society was more agreeable to him.
Matters were soon arranged. Ro
bert bought neighbour Hawkins’s
farm, and paid him all ready money
three thousand dollars for it, stock
and all, and made him promise to
say nothing about the matter till last
Wednesday, which was my birth
day, when our families were all invi
ted to spend the day at neighbour
Hawkins’s, and not a soul was to be
absent, because something very cu
rious was to happen. All were on
tiptoe to be in season, and there was
both Robert’s my own grandfather,
grandmother, &. father & mother, sis
ter and brothers, uncle Josh, aunt Ta
bitha, and several neighbors, besides
our good minister. What a wonder
ment, to be sure, was there! A
whole sheep in one place, a fine whole
hog in another, a quarter of beef in a
third, were all roasting over pits full
of fire; then under the great beach
tree Robert had got a table that
went all round it, and benches all
round the table ; and there was it
barrel of fiddler’s ale, a keg of brau
dy, a keg of wine, and ever so many
lemons, oranges, and other things to
make every heart glad. “Why,
what in the world ” says my grand
father, "can neighbor Hawkinstnean?
What is all this mighty fuss for?”
Neighbor Hawkins then got up and
said—“ Friends, this is a happy day
for me, and I trust it will also
prove happy to you all. Indeed,
1 air. quite sure I see some who are
quite as happy as myself." He then
told them that the farm and every
thing upon it was no longer his. O!
Mr. Oracle, had you seen the look
of all except the thr p who were in
t he secret ,y on would have enjoyedthe
scene. Bui what followed is beyond
my powers of description. When
neighbor Hawkins said “This farm &
all upon it belongs to Robert Lenox,
and it is he who makes this least,”
it seemed as if every soul of them
was actually struck dumb, besides
being in danger of the lock-jaw from
gai>ing with amazement! Roberi
thought it was then time to relieve
them and out with the whole story,
how he and I had put our heads to
gether, and joined in a good ventur
at the ORACLE LOTTERY OF
FICE in Y ork city, how we got some
thing like five thousand five hundred
dollars in prize money, how he had
got my consent and then bought the
farm, and now. on ipy birthday,
(just 19, Mr. Oracle, think how 1
felt,) he wish'd to know if father
and mother would consist that Mr.
Willingly should make us man and
wife. Father and mother both w pt
and sobbed, and cried, they didn't
seem to know for what, hut I think
it was for pleasure, for they both at
once ran to join our hands, We were
married before dinner, under th-?
great beech tree, and then atl the
females went to work, and ligtit
work is was, in setting off the round
table, and the boys all had errands
to bring from uncle’s, aunt’s and
father’s houses all the gear to help
out for so large a company.
In the evening, the neighbours all
round flocked in L joined inthe happi
ness around our Beech tree, O ! the
dear delightful Beech tree! that,
and you, Mr. Oracle, 1 shall love the
longest day 1 have to live. But
bless me ! I have not yet got half
through with my story, and here
my paper is run out. However,
there is a hundred dollar bill enclos
ed, made up by every one that was
present, to be laid out in tickets in
your Lottery, that has Fifty Thou
sand Dollars and the Albany Lots,
a- the highest prize, and you will
•end by mail to my husband, Mr.
Robert Lenox, some halves, some
quarters, and some eighths, besides 5
[OR $4 IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS.
NO. 44....V0T . ».
whole tickets, so that he nmy make
a division among our friends, accor
ding to the money they have put
in,
N. B Between you and me, I
peisuaded Robert to pot in tw nty
dollars himself to show, that we not
only continue to have faith in your
fortunate office, but also that we
have not forgot your liberality in
not taking more than the managers’
discount from tho prizes you sold
us, and not done ns some of your
neighbours I hear are in the practice
of doing—charging 70 per cent, a
year, or at that rate, for cashing a
prize! If Robert draws the fifty
thousand dollars and the Albany
Lots, he promised me he would still
stick to our charming beech tree
and snug little farm lam resolved
to write to you again soon, **ud tell
you how all your 1,3, 8 verses hit
the different folks in our compauy,
on my wedding day. They have all
taken your direction—" Oracle Lotte
ry Office, 138 Broadway, New-York,*’
and they were much pleased to hear
that a letter enclosing money would
ret safely to your hands, and the •
next mail bring hack the tickets.—
O! dear, I shall soon send you the
first firkin of butter made by me in
my new dairy, which you will find
excellent, from
Your faithful happy friend,
DOROTHY LENOX,
From the Cincinnati, (Ohio,) Gazeftfl,
ANTIQUITIES.
In excavating the grounds m this
city, last week, some articles were
found well calculated to cxcitfe ca
riosity and speculation.
The principal site of the city is
upon what is usually called a second
bank It is composed principally of
sand and gravel, and rises from 30 to
40 feet above tlie first bank of the
river. Above 23 feet beneath the
upper surface an iron shoe, like a
horse shoe, was found imbe ded in
gravel Its size ami shape corres
ponds with that of the foot of a jack.
It is neatly made, in the present
fashion of making horse shoes, has
slight heel points, and had three nails
of a side, four of which now remain
in it, and are clenched in such a man
ner as to indicate that it was not cast
from the foot, in use, but more pro
bably remained on the animal at its
death. The incrustation of rust i’s
not very thick, and considering the
place where it was found, might be
such as to prevent any further cor
roding. It is deposited in Lctton’s
Museum, in this city, where the cu
rious can see it.
Very near the same place, and ats
about the same depth, there ♦as
found, on the next day, a tooth, weigh
ing about five pounds, of a black co
lor, and supposed to be the grinder
of an elephant. These articles were
found at no great distance from Judge
Burnet’s where, in digging a well
some years since, a lump, with merks
of the cut of an axe, was found at
near the same level. An ancient
fortification enclosed the surface of
tlie ground where they were found,
the remains of which were very dis
tinct at the fire-t settlement of the
city.
There are also, inLetton’s Muse
um, some brass and pewter buttons,
of an uncommon construction, found
recently in th- Ohio river, ncaF (he
mouth of the Little Miami The
button is an inch in diameter, and the
shank is a thin plate, half an inch in
length with a round hole of the size
of a turkey shot thought it, near the
end We understand they resemble
buttons used in Russia and other
Northern countries for coats made of
skin or leather. It is supposed they
mu-t have been lost by some of the
earliest navigators of the Ohio, whoa
the French were attempting a com
munication between Canada and the
Mississippi.
A Ratical Story —“ Good and true."
At Amsterdam in a street called
the Wood Market recently lived a
man who was curious in keeping fowls.
One of his hens though in the midst
of summer had several days stopped
yielding her usual produce, and yet
made her usual cackling ; he search
ed the nest, but could not find even
the shell of the egg, which made him
resolve to watch her closely. He
accordingly, the next day, placed
himself in such a situation ns to be
able toiibserve her motions minute
ly, when to his great surprise he saw
her discharge her ogg; when no
sooner was she off the n -st than throe
rats made their appearance, one of
them immediately laid himself or his
back whilst the others rolled tho egg
ujion his belly, which he clasped be
tween his legs, and held it fast; the
other two laid hold of his tail, and
gently dragged him out of sight
This wonderful sagacity was exhibit
ed for several days to totao nmner
our observers,