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lot it mnrmur to lie luret'd from t-pring nr,
Ircant, now nil i'luze.n up mer tin sc Inglt
lioorlandl. As the momentary costal ions
if the sharp drift allowed my vy> s to look
inwint! ami arouml.l saw here and them up
In: little opi'niniz; Millies,euttiqp s j.ist visihlc
mncnlli the black stents of their snow rover-
■d clumps of trees, or lieside some small spot
if green pasture kept open for the sheep.—
Plii'ii! intimations of life and happim ss fame
loligbtfullv to me in the midst of desolation;
ad the harking of a dog, attending some
Shepherd in his ipiest on the hill, put fresh
igour into my limbi, telling me,that lonely
s I seemed to he, I was surrounded by
heerfiil though unseen company, 'and that
was not the only wanderer over the snotvg.
As I walked along, iny mind ivtw iosensi-
ly filled with a crowd of pleasant images of
oral winter life, that helped me gladly on-
.anls over many miles of ntoor. I thought
f the severe but cheerful labors of the barn
the mending of farm gear by the fireside—
le wheel turned by the foot of old age, less
ir gain than us a thrifty pastime.—the *kil-
il mother making “ mild dues look iimaist
h wed’ the new”—the ballad uiiuimsciowfiy
■stoned to by the family, all busy at their
ton tasks round the singing maiden—the
ild traditionary tale told by some wayfarer,
|i)spitably housed till (lie storm should blow
y—the unexpected visit of ni ighbora on
red or friendship—or ihe footstep ofulo-
Vr undeterred by snow drifts that have bn-
ffd up his (locks ; but above all, l thought
tif those hours of religious worship that liaie
lint yet escaped from the domestic life of tile-
: .-a.-.antry of Seolland—of the sound of
, n rahns that tin* depth of snow cannot dead-
u to the ear of Him to w Ik m they are chan-
.■d ; and ol that sublime Sabbath-keeping
n i !i:rli, on days tootempestuo'.s foe the ki• k,
11 iianges tile eoltnge Cf'Thc shepherd into the
1 emple of God.
>rl A' itli such glad and peaceful images in
. fJ ny heart, 1 trai idled along that dreary moor,
vith (lie cutting w ind in my face, and iny
I cet sinking in the snow, or sliding on the
'lard blue ire beneath it—as cheerfully as I
8 h er w alked in the dew y warmth of a sura-
1 T n r innrnin , through Helds of fragrance and
Ij’vf (lowers. And now 1 could discern with-
, Oi half an hour’s w alk before me, tite spire
, e if the eliureh, close to which stood the
danse of my aged friend and benefactor.—
.fly heart burned within me tu} ii sudden
'! ' Irani of stormy sunlight tipt it w ith fire—
” , *nd I felt, at that, moment, an inexpressible
'<1 ruse of the sublimity of the character of
hanat greyheaded shepherd, who had, for lif-
oni.V years, Abode in the wilderness, keeping
,t j jgethcr his own happy little thick;
j Ij As I was ascending a knoll. I saw before
no on horseback an old man, with lushing
w Mlite hairs beaten against his face, w ho ne-
c ‘ en ertheless advanced with a calm - counte-
anec against the hurricane. It was no o-
e rlier than my father, of whom I had been
ed jliinking—for my father had I called 1 him for
* jtventy years —and for twenty years my fa-
/g iter had lie truly been. My surprise at
liteeling him on such a moor—on such a
*lay, was but momentary, for i knew that he
1 okas a Shepherd who cared not for the w iu-
heer's wrath. As he stopped to take my hand
witlindly into his, anil to give bis Messing to
8U i(tis long-expected visiter, the wind, fell calm
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" rt ™ of lie Halt, of
v TIIE ELDER’S DEATH IlffiU
The following touching and tender talc,
we extract from Blackwood’s Edinburgh
Magazine, for March; a work which bids
fair to rival any in Great Britain. We are
gratified in having it in our power to present
to our readers so rich a repast. It represents
one of the most interesting scenes, and is de
scribed in the most lively and affectionate
manner; so much so, that it is impossible
for ttiose who have known the affection of a
parent, or tile endearments of connubial hap
piness, to read ii without emotion. Those
who can shed tears, will not restrain them
here. The characters are very striking.—
That of the Parson, whose white head had
felt the peltings of so many wintry storms,
and ivlto seemed almost an emblem of that
season, from national peculiarities, is not so
familiar and pleasing to us ; but hid diligence
in the performance of his parochial duties,
notwithstanding the inclemency of the sea
son, is a noble example, well becoming his
Sacred office. The feelings of the little grand
son, half fearing, half hoping, will be familiar
to tliose who have seen a parent suffering
under sickness, &. apparently near the grave,
iseil to then
themselves to make
and have promise
anv sacrifice, to perform any duty, however
difficult, if that precious life might only be
spared. The affection which nature instils
into a child, and which parents ought to in
spire, we see as' it were transferred to the
grandfather, ivlm hail performed the duties
o! a father towards him. Nor is the daugh
ter less prettily described. She appears so
long to have silently mourned the miscon
duct of a husband, with the loss of other
friends, that her heart seemed ready to ad
mit grief, because it had so frequently and
familiarly entered it. But when we. are in
troduced to the dying Elder, we behold re
ligion in all its beauty, and anticipate for tlie
good old man the. joy and crown which he
ts leaving us to inherit. We view him at the
end of his labors, going to take possession of
the promised rest, and whilst we are affect
ed, we rejoice in his happy dismission, flow
tenderly, even in his last moments, does he
Weak ot his wife, and assure the surround
ing friends that he had never forgotten her.
A new scene takes place when the prodigal
son enters. What strength of affection does
the °ld man exhibit, notwithstanding the ma
ny provocations which'he has received. lie
does not upbraid him with past misconduct,
but only ardently hopes that his future life
will ho belter ; even his neglected wife pleads
for him, and cannot endure the sternness of
the Parson. And they all kneel round the
good old man, to receive his patriarchal bles
sing. On the whole, it is a most lively and
interesting talc ; the whole group are execu
ted to the life, and are introduced with the
ait of the finest painter.—.V*. I*. Spectator.
It was on a fierce and howling winter day
that I was crossing the dreary Moor of Au-
chindotlur, tm-my wav to the Manse of that
parish, a solitary pedestrian. The snow
which hud been incessantly failing for ;i week
past, was drifted into beautiful but dange
rous wreaths, far and wide over the melan
choly expanse—and the scene kept visibly
■shifting before me, as the strong wind that
blew Irom every point of the compass struck
t!ie dazzling masses, and heaved them up &
down in endless transformation. There was
somethin? inspiriting in the labor, with
which, in the buoyant strength of youth. 1
fbreed my way through the storm—and I
could not but enjoy those gleamiiws of sun
light. that ever and anon burst through some
unexpected opening in the sky, and gave a
character of cheerfulness, and even warmth
to the sides or summits of the stricken hill:
Sometimes the wind stopped of n sudden,
and then the air was as silent *• the snow—
ft,—the whole face of the sky was softened,
often#. ixi brightness, like a smile, mint over the
j. *' on flushing and crimsoned snow. The very e-
tt.tn houaxmients seemed then to respect the hoary
tyeod of four score—and after out first greet,-
' in? was over, when I looked around, in my
affection, L felt how beautiful wtts winter.
“ I am going,” said he, “ to visit a man at
/the point of death—a man whom you can
not have forgotten—whose head will lie
missed in the kirk next Sabbath by all my
congregation; a devout man, tvho feared God
all his days, and whom, on this awful trial,
God will assuredly remember, i was going,
my son, to the Hszlc-Glcn,”
I knew well in childhood that lonely farm
house, so fur off among the beautiful, wild
green hills—and it war not likely that I had
forgotten the name of its possessor. For
six years’ Sabbaths I h id seen the ELiiF.it in
his accustomed place beneath the pulpit—
and, with a sort of solemn four, had looked
on his stedfast countenance din ing sermon,
psalm a.id prayer. On returning to the
scenes of my infancy, I now met the Pastor,
going to pray by his death-bed ; arid with
the privilege which nature gives us to behold,
even in their last extremity, the loving and
the beloved, i agreed to accompany him to
the house of sorrow, resignation and death.
And now, for the first time, i observed,
'walking close to the feet of his horse, a little
boy ot about ten years of age, who kept fre
quently looking up in the Pastor’s face, with
his blue eyes bathed in tears. A changeful
expression of grief, hope and despair, made
almost pale, checks tint otherwise were
blooming in health and beauty—and I recog
nized, in the small features and smooth fore
head of childhood, a resemblance to the aged
m in whom we understood was now lying on
his death-bed. “ They had to send his
grandson for me through the snow, mere
child as he. is,” said the Minister to me,look
ing tenderly at the hoy : “ but hue makes
the young heart hold; mul there is One who
tempers tin* wind to the. shorn lamb.” I a-
gaiu looked on the fearless child with ids
rosy cheeks, blue eyes, and yellow hair, so
unlike grief or sorrow, yet now sobbing a-
loud as his heart would break. “I do not
fear but that my grand-father will yet reco
ver, soon as the minister has said one singli
prayer by Ids bed side. I had no hope, or
little, as 1 was running by myself to the
Manse over liili after hill, but I am full of
hopes noiv that we -are. together; and oil!
if God suffers my grandfather to recover, l
will lie atvKe all the long winter nights,
blessing hit* for his I will rise up
in the mid A of th^Hkness, and pray to
him in the naked knees!” and
here his voicewHKnked. while he kept his
eyes fixed, as if for consolation and encou
ragement, on tiic solemn and, pitying coun
tenance of the kind-hearted,fwius old man.
We soon left the mein road, and struck oil'
through scenery^ that, covered as it was with
the bewilderinglRnow, I sometimes dimly
sometimes vividly remembered ; our little
guide keeping ever a short distance before
us, and with a sagacity like that of instinct,
shewing us our coursaMuf which no trace
was visible, savaug^^mnidiy liri rtfrn litlle
foot-prints as hcTiud been l^ffying to the
Manse.
After crossing, for snrriJr miles, ntorass,
and frozen rivulet, and drived hollow, with
here and there the top of Zstone-wall peep
ing through tin’ snow, orwhe more visible
circle of a sheep-blight, we. descended into the
Hazle-Glen, and saw before us the solitary
house of the dying Elder.
A gleam of days gone by came suddenly
over my soul. Tile last time that I had
been in this glen was on a day of June, fif
teen years before, a holiday, the birthday' of
the king. A troop of laughing school boys,
headed hy uur benign Pastor, we danced li
ver the sunny braes, and startled the linnets
from their nests among the yellow broom.
' Austere as seemed to us, the Elder’s sabbath
fiicf, wlan sitting in the kirk, we . bool-
hoys knew that it had its week-day smiles—
mil we Hew on the w ings of joy to our an
nual festival of curds and cream, in the farm
house of that little sylvan world. AVc rejoic-
d in the (lowers unu the leaves of that long,
that interminable summer-day; its memory
was with our boyish hearts front June to
June; and the sound of that sweet name,
“ Ilnzlc-0leu,” often came upon us at our
tasks, and brought too brightly into the
school-mom, the pastoral imagery of that
faithful solicitude.
As w e now slow ly approached llie cottage,
through a deep snow-drift, which the (lis
ter:;;, within had prevented the liouseliuld
from removing, we saw, peeping out from
the door, brothers ami sisters of our little
guide, w ho quickly disappeared, and then
their mother showed herself in their stead,
expressing, by her raised eyes and arms fid
ded across her breast,how thankful she w as
to see, at last, the Pastor, beloved in joy, and
trusted in trouble.
Soon as the venerable old man dismount
ed from hi.s horse, our active lit tic* guide led
it away into the humble stable, ana we cn-
tered the cottage. Not a sound was heard
hut t he to king of the clock. The matron
w ho had silently welcomed ns at the door,
led us, will) suppressed sighs and a face stain
ed with w eeping, into her father's sick room
whirl) even in that time of sore distress, was
ns orderly as if health had blessed the house.
I could not help remarking some old Chinn
ornaments on the chimney-piece—and in
the window was an ever-blowing rose-tree
that almost touched the lofty roof, & bright
enc.d that and of the apartment with it:
blossoms. There was something tasteful in
the simple furniture.; and it seemed as if
grief could riot deprive the hare! of that *na
Iron of its careful elegance. Sickness, al
most hopeless siclinc: s, ley there, surroun
ded with the same cheerful and beautifu
objects which health kail loved : and she,
who had arranged and adorned the apart
ment in her happiness, still kept it from dis
order and decay in her sorrow.
■With a gent'e hand she drew the curtain
Of tin* bed, and there, supported by pillows
as white as the snow that lay without, repo
sed the dying Elder. It w as plain that the
hand of God was upon him, and that liis
days on the. earth were numbered.
lie greeted liis minister wr'di a faint svnife,
and a slight inclination of the, head—for Ids
daughter had so raised him on the pillows
that he was almost sitting tip in his bed. it
was easy to see that he knew himself to he
dying, and that his soul was prepared I'm- the
great change; yet along with the solemn re
signation of a Christian who has made his
peace with God and his Saviour, there was
blended on Ids while and sunken counte
nance, tm expression of habitual reverence
for tlir. minister of his faith ; and 1 saw that
he could not have died in pence without! that
comforter to pray by his death-bed.
A few words sufficed to tell who was the
stranger—and the dying man blessing me
hy name, held out to me his cold shrivelled
hand in token of recognition. 1 took my
seat at a small distance from the. bed-side,
and left a closer station for those, who were
in ore dear. The Pastor sat down near his
head—and hy the bed, leaning on it with
gentle hands, stood that matron, his daugh
ter-in-law ; a figure that w ould have graced
and sainted a higher dwelling, and whose na
tive beauty was now more touching in its
grief, lint Religion upheld her whom na
ture was bowing down ; and now for the
first time were the lessons taught hy her fa
ther lie put in practice, for 1 saw that she
was eftthed in deep mourning—and she be
haved like the daughter of a man whose life
had not only been irreproachable hut lofty,
with fear and hope fighting desperately bn!
silently in the core of her pure and pious
heart.
While we thus remained in silence, the
beautiful liny, who, at the risk of his life,
brought the Minister of Religion to the bed
side of his beloved grandfather, softly and
cautiously opened the door, and with Bin
hoarfrost yet uninvited on iiis bright giis-
loiiiog ringlets, walked up to the pillow, evi
dently no stranger there. He no longer
sobbed—ho no longer weeped—fur hope
had risen strongly within his innocent heart,
from the consciousness of love so •fearlessly
exerted, and from the presence of the Indy
man in whose prayers he trusted, as In the
intercession of some superiour and heavenly*
nature. There he stood, still as an image
in his grandfather’* eyes, that, in then' dim
ness, fell upon him with delight. Yet, happy
as was the trusting child, Ins heart was de
voured by fear—and he looked ns if one
word might stir up the, flood off tears that
had subsided in his heart. As he crossed
tiic dreary k, dismal moors, be had thought
of a corpse, a sin mid and a grave ; lie had
been in terror lest death should strike in his
absence., the old man with whose grey hairs
hr. had so often played ; but. now ho gnu;
him aiive., and felt that death was nut able
to tear him away from the clasps and links
and fetters of his grandchild’s embracing
love.
“ If the storm do not abate,” said the sick
man, after a pause, i: it will he hard for my
friends to carry me over the drifts to the
kirk-yard.” This sudden approach to the
grave, struck, as with a bar of ice, the heart
of the loving hoy ; anil with a long deep sigh,
he fell down w ith his face like ashes on the
bed, while the old man’s palsied right hand
had just strength to lay itself upon his head.
“ Blessed be thou, my little Jamie, even for
his own name’s sake who died for us on the
tree!” The mother, without terror, hut
with an averted face, lifted up her loving
hearted hoy, now in a dead fainting fit, and
carried him into an adjoining room, where
he soon revived; hut that child and that
old man Were not to be separated ; in vain
was he asked to go to his brothers anil sis.
ters ; pale, breathless and shivering,'Ito took
his place as before,with eyes fixed on his
grandfather’s face, hut neither weeping nor
uttering a word. Terror had frozen up the
blood of his heart ; but his were now the on
ly dry eyes in the room ; and the Parson
himself wept, albeit the grief of fourscore is
seldom vented in tears.
“ God has been gracious to me, a sinner,”
said thedying man. “During thirty years
that 1 have been an Elder in your Kirk, nev
er have I missed sitting there one Sabbath
When tlie mother of my children was taken
from mi—it was on a Tuesday she died—
and on Saturday she was buried. We stood
together when my Alice was letdown into
the narrow I « tse made for all living. On
the Sabbath 1 joined in the pnbliek worship
nT God—she commanded me to do so the
night before she went away. I could not
join in the psalm that Sabbath, for her voice
was not in the throng. Her grave was co
vered up, and grass and (lowers grew there ;
so was my heart: but Thou, whom, through
the blood of Christ, I hope to see this night
in Paradise, knowest, that from that hour to
this daj , never have 1 forgotten Thee !”
The old man ceased sneaking—and his
grandchild, now able to endure the scene,
for strong passions are their own support,
glided roflly to a little table, and liringiir a
tup in wliieh a cord lid had been mixed, ijrld
it in liis small soft hands to lie gralidtnthj i s
lips. Jle drunk, and then Baid, 1 Come close
to me, Jamie, and kiss me lor ill) own tend
thy father’s sake ; and as the child loudly
pressed liis rosy lips on the ' n| hi* grand
father, so white and withered, the tears ii-ll
over all the old man's lace, and then trickled
down on the golden head ol the child atla.-t
sobbing in his tmsqin.
“ Jamie, thy own father h(S forgotten thee
in thy infancy, and me in my old age ; hut,
Jamie, forget not thy father nor thy mother,
for that thou knowest and livlest is the com
mandment of God.”
The broken-hearted hov rtmld give no re
ply, He had gradually stolen closer and
closer unto the old lining man, and now was
tying, worn out with sorrow, drenched and
dissolved in tears, in his grandfather’s bo
som. His mother had soak down on her
knees, and hid her face with her hands.—
“ Oh ! if my husband knew hut of this, hr
would never never desert hi' dying father !”
and I now knew that the elder was praying
for a disobedient and wicked son..
At this all’ eting time the minister took
th‘ Family Bible on his knees, and said,
“ Let us sing to the praise aul glory ol God,
part ol the fifteenth l’mtlm,” U he read w it It
a tremulous and broken word, those beauti
ful verses:
Within thy tabernacle, f ord,
W lio shall nhiile. w ith thee ?
Anil in thy high and holy hill
Who shull u dw eller hr '
The men that walketli uprightly.,
\nd worketli ciglilcotisnP'S.
And ns lie thiaki tli in liis heart,
So doth lie truth express
The small congregation sung tiic nnldi
hymn of the. Psalmist to “ Plaintive martyr*
w orthy of the name.” The dying man him-
elf, ever ami anon, joined in Ihe holy nutsiek
and when it feebly died aw iv on liis quiv
ering lips, lie continued still to follow the
tune with the. motion of his withered hand,
and eyes devoutly and hiunhly lifted up to
heaven. Nor was the swerl voice of liis
loving grandchild unheard ; a il’the strong
(it of deadly passion had dissolved in the mu-
sick, he sam; with a sweat mul silvery voice,
that to ap sscr hy had seem d that of per
fect happiness—a hymn sin;:, in joy upon
its knees by gladsome diiiilliood le t'ore it
Hew out among the green liili-', to quiet la
bor or gleesomo play. As that sweetest
voice came from the bosom i ; the. old man,
where the singer lay in afiectimi, and blend
ed w ith his own so tremulous, never had 1
felt so ufftTtmgly brought before me tiie
beginning and the end of life, the credit and
tiie. grave.
Ere the psalm was over, II;' door was o-
nened, and a tall, fine looking man entered,
nut with a low ering end dark countenance;
seemingly in sorrow , in miser; and remorse.
Agitated,-confounded and awe struck by
the melancholy and dirgelila* mnsiek, lie
sat down on a chair—and looked with a
ghastly face towards liis foliai’s death-lied.
When the psalm ceased, tiie Elder said with
a solemn voice, “My son—t! mi art come,
in time to receive thy father’s Messing. May
the remembrance of what will happen in
this room, before the morning again shine
over the Hazle-Glen, win flier from the er-
rour of thy ways. Thou art (hereto witness
the mercy of thy God and thy Saviour,
whmn thou Last forgotten.
The minister looked, if not with a stern,
yet with an upbraiding countenance, on the
young mail, who Irul not ivi-ovcred liis
speech, and said, “ Wiiliam ! fur three years
past your .shadow has not dark aed the door
of the house of Cod. They niio fear not
the thunder, may tremble at t'.e still small
voice—now is the hour for rqientartce—
that your father’s spirit may, carry up to
Heaven, tidings of a contrite soiti saved front
the company of sinners !”
The young man with much effort, advan
ced ti. The bed-side,-and at la - 1 found void
to say, “ Father—I am not wit.unit: the af
fections of nature; and / hurried home soon
as l heard that the-minister bud been
riding towards our house. I liupe that you
will yet recover—and if I havi ever made
you-unhappy, I ask your lbrgoeness—for
though I may not think as you tie on matters
of religion,. I have a human heart. Father !
I may have been unkind, but I a :t not cruel.
I ask your forgiveness.”
“ Come near to me, William, ,;nw ! down
by my bed side, and let my land find the
head off my beloved son—lor blindness is
coming fast upon me. Thou v.iff mf first
born, and thou art my only living son/ Ail
thy brothers h sisters are lying in ilte church
yard. lieside her whose sweet face thine
own, \\ iiliani, did once so much resemble.
Long wert thou the joy, Ihe pride of my
soul—aye, too much the pride, for there was
not in all the parish such a soil,;,, tny’own
William. If Iny heart has since li.cn chang
ed, God may inspire it again with tight
thoughts. Could I die fnr-thy take—could
1 purchase thy salvation with the uutpouring
of thy father’s blood—hut this lire Son of
God nas done lor tin e who hast di .ied hint I
i luue sorely wx.pt for thee—aye. William,
when there was none near me—e>in as Da : -
vid wept for Absalom—for thee, my son,
my son !”
A long deep groan was the only reply :
tut the whole body of tiie kneeling man was
convulsed ; and it w as easy to nee his suffer
ing, liis contrition, his remorse, aul his des
pair. The Pastor said, with a sterner voice,
and austerer countenance than ' ere natu
ral to him, “ Know you whose Ik id in now
lying-on your rebellious head ? Hut what
signifies the word father to him win has de
nied God, the Father of us all“ Oil !
press him not so hardly,” said tin weeping
wife, coming forward from the daik corner
of the room, where tfia- had tried tu conceal
herself in grief, tear and shame, “ ..u-e, oh !
spate my husband—he has ever hrii, kind to
me,” and with that she knelt dnv n beside
him, with her long, soft, white an,, mourn
fully and affectionately laid acres- his neck.
“ Go thou likew ise, my sweet littk James ”
said tlie Elder, “ go even out of niy bosom,
and kneel down beside Ihy father and thy
mother, so that I may bless you allot onre,
and with one yearning prayer.” The child
did as that solemn voice columns led and
knelt down somewhat timidly hy Is father’s
side : nor did that unhappy man di line en
circling with his arm the child too i .ueh ne
glected, but still dear to him as ins own Mood
in spite of his deadening and debasire; iutlu-
e.nco of infidelity.
“ Put the Word of God into the hinds of
my soo, and let him read aloud to Ir, dying
father the 25th. 20tli. and 27tli verse 0 f the.
eleventh chapter of the Gospel acre t„
St. John.”—The Pastor went up t„
kneelers, and, with a voice of pity, condo
le.:e.e, and pardon, said. “ There wa- ;t time
w lien none, William, could read the Su-jptures
belter than couldst thou—can it be jbe
son of my friend hath forgotten Hu fi ssons
of his youth ?” He had not forgottrr them—
then was no need for the reppnta t sinner
to lift up liis eyes from Ihe bed-sit 1 ... 'rt )( .
sacied Stream yf the Gusnel ImJ .' ma .
clnnr.rl in liis hctlrt, aid tho Water 5 wrrr
.• t aiti t.ow mg. Y\ itli n inked voice lie said,
1 Jesus said unto her, llm the resurrection
,i,d the life : ho that bcllvcth in me,though
ie w re dead, yet sli.'dllc ’ive ; Awl who*
oever livi lit, and believMi in me, shall ne-
verdie. II. lievest? Shciiilh unto him, Yea,
] .old : I believi that thniart the. Christ, the
Sot. ol God which slio|d cornu into the
world.”
“This is not an tinliel >ver’s voice,” said
the dying mat) triumphal Jv ; nor, William
ha.-t thou an tmbelicvei : heart. Say that
tl ii iclievest in what I nu hast now read
anti the lather will die it) ipy !” “ I do be
lieve ; and as thou forgi pst me, so may 1
he forgiven hy my Fatltrwho is in hea
ven.”
The Elder seemed lilei a man
. spired with a new life, lisfadei
ii ed—his pale cheeks gloved—I
man suddenly
faded eye Irim-
pnic (Tiecks giawcd—liis palsied
t anils seeiued to wax stnig—and his voice
v a., clear as that ofmanliiod in his prime.
“Into thy hands, oli God,tcommit my spi
rit,’’—anti so saying, lie golly .sunk back on
i« pillow ; and I thought \ heard a sigh.—
There was then a low deelsilence, and the
lather, and mother and eltil^, rose front their
knees. The eyes of us all were turned to
wards n white placid face oflhc Figure now
stretched in everlasting rest; and with la-
twfntations, save the silent |laniciitiition of
the resigned soul, we stood riind tho Death
bed of the Elder. lEREMFS.
AUCTION!
CHEXSIUH ft.lRIlOll on qitnrday, 2-t((i of
June, will .«( // Im ir uktihf, stAcr of (jKOI’E-
i:i> vith.oil rcicrvc, rc/uch mil amount to a-
haul #12,000.
To I,Ms. MO I, ASSES, t
20 ditto Sugar,
lo ditto A. E. Hum, ’
r> ditto .luinuicn ditto,
1 ditto Ciin,
1 pipe Brnndy.
lOO Idils. line Sugars,
75 ditto WldSuc}’,'
2 boxes Tea,
2,0 10 ills. Colffep,
Ol'jOiO do. Swedes iron. (assorted,)
lo kegs best Toliucco,
1 I ditto Powder,
60 canisters Powder,
Jo crates Crockery Ware,
Jo boxes Soup,
20 barrels Elour,
1 small Carriage,
1 pair line young Horses.
A variety of other small articles will be sold.
All sums exceeding,9300 will lie allowed a cre
dit of 1)0 days, payable at Bank.
June P). 18
VvpusYuvyv it Wavy day
\ HI) compelled to inform persons indebted
J- A to them, that they will, vitlionl exception,
pul in suit the next court, all debts due them,
unless paid immediately, 't hey will extend their
(Wilts for months for well i mhirsed paper, paya
ble at Bank. Ik—If' Jimo ja.
JUST RECEIVED,
ON CONSIGNMENT, VXD roll S.VLFrS* THE SLB-
SCRI01.U,
20 hbds. SE'.iAB,
60 bids, ditto,
2o ditto Loaf ditto, i
BO ditto Lump ditto, f
17 ditto Coffee,
60 ditto Mori hern Gin,
TO ditto Whiskey,
lo ditto Miickiirrl,
Do casks Cut Nails, (assorted)
7 ditto wrought ditto,ditto,
20,00!) lbs. Swede- Iron,
. 12,000 lbs. Cn Tings,
IH casks Trace (.'Indus,
•00 pieces Cotton Bagging,
7 trunks Shoes, '
14 crates (.Torkery,
4 hlids. Glassware,
.700 gallons .lug,; and Jars,-
10 boxes China.
Thomas mr.rr.
June PI. id—If
Sheriff's Salcs r
TjrrTT.L lie sold at the court-house in the tov.
W of Dublin, Laurens county, within tin
usual hours oi sale, on the first 1 ueeday in July
next, the following property, via :
One fraction of land on the Oconee river,
containing ciglity-fivc acres, more or less, ad
joining Thomas, and others ; nl-o one fraction
of laud containing ninety acres, more or less,
on 'lie Oconee river, and adjoining the aforesaid
fraction ; and also one lot of land containing
two hundred two nnd one half acres, more or
less, of land adjoining Dickson k M'Cnll, and
Tlmmas; nnd also one other fraction of land,
containing one hundred acres, more or less, ad
joining Dickson and M'Cnll—levied on ns the
properly ol Jonathan Saw yer, to satisfy an exe
cation in favor of John Powell.
One negro man named Abel, a negro woman
named Sylvia, one bay horse, bridle and saddle,
one cow and calf, one yearling, and one chest
enrpenlers tools—levied on us the property ot
E. I!. Chisolm, to satisfy an execution in fuvoi
of J. K. White k Co. and others.
Diie lot of Inmi on the Oeonce river, adjoining
William Thomas and others, containing one
hundred arri s, more or less, levied on as the
property of Elisha Watson, to satisfy an execu
tion in Invorof J. J. Guyton—property point
ed out by plaintiff.
One lot of land No. 2(11, second district for
merly Wilkinson, now Laurens county, lying
on the Oconee river, containing two hundred
two and one. halfaercs, adjoining David H at son
ami others, levied on ns the property of Henry
Hi ill, in favor of Abraham Eossel, and others—
property pointed out by defendant.
( 1IAHLES S. GUI'TON, Sh'ff.
April 2f>, lh2(>
Sheriff's Sale.
"WTT71LL be sold on the first Tuesday In July
T V next, between the usual hours of sale, at
the court-house hi the town of Dublin, Laurens
comity, the following properly, to wit:
282 arras of land, w ell Improved, lying on
the waters of Hig ere. k, adjoinin'; Hightower
anil ITiraei Mason ; taken as the property of
Henry Culpepper, lo satisly an execution ir fa-
vnur of the State of Georgia against Allied
Tlionij son, tax-collector of I.aureus county for
the year 1818, and Henry Culpepper, Jacob
EalTner and (Tim It • Powel, liis securities; also,
202 1-2 aeres of land in the twenty-second
oi b'ict W ilkinson now Laurens comity, num-
bn 284, oii the waters oi Rocky creek ; alsi»
1 e lot ol land 2t;2 !-■: acres adjoining the a-
bove tract, taken as the property of Chariest
Euivel, to satisfy the above execution.
I t head of cattle, taken as the property off
James Beaty, to satisfy executions in favor off
William 11. Parritnorc, and others.
One let ot hind. No. ISC, in the second ilis-
t.iet of Wilkinson now Laurens county, taken
as the property ol Samuel Pnuni.y, to satisfy
executions it, favor of the administrators of IK
Bra-wel. deceased—levied on by constable and
i etiirncrl lo me
One hall ol lot of land No. 272, in the second
district of W ilkin son l ew Laurens county, con
taining-101 1-4 acres, taken ns the property of
W illinin M. Brice, to satisfy three executions in.
favor oi (ierard Burch vs said Brice and Elisha
W ntsnu—leviod on by a constable and returned
to me.
lot 1-1 acres of land, it being one half of lot
No. 272, in the second district of V\ ilkinson now
Lauren 0 county, taken as the property of Win.
Al. Brire, to satisfy two executions in favor ojff
Adam Hunter, for the lisp of Gerard Burch, a-
gninsl said rrice, Elisha Waisdn ami fvetliek.
Watson—b vied on by a constable and returned
to me.
One lot of land, No. 110, in tiic 18th district
Wilkinson now Laurens coimtv, taken ns thu
property of Dnoc liayett: also,’loKNo. 102, and
pi'il ot lot lot), in said distr.ct, nil taken a- the
.a petty ot said liayett, to seTnly sundry execa*
t:o is iii favor of the administrators of George
Dykes—levied on by a constable arid returned
tome. Conditions rush.
CHARLES S. GUYTON, Sh’ff.
May lf-'tli, 1K20.
A.
SODA HATER.
Constant s qipLy ol this pleasant nnd snlu-
tary beverage prepared oii'curreet chemi
cal principles, h kept foi stile ut the iprated w a
ter establishment, one door north of the Shoe
Store, west side of State-House square, Mil-
ledge villi?.
June 12 18—5)t
AUL PERSONS
A RE cantioued not to trade for a due hill or
j.'JL note of lim’d, given by the subscriber to
Samuel Bidlingtoii, deled 2>(h May last, paya
ble one day at!' r 'late, for about iorty dollars,
which wn, ,iven for :!;e rent of a house in ail~
ranee, which house said Buffington lias taken
possession of and rented out to unotheiiperson.
As I have received no consideration for the
note or due Dill aforesuid, lain rieieriu&ed not
to pay it unless compelled i;v law.
LOU AN H. LEWIS.
June 1;i. 18—2
F 5
iv A i\ A VV A V
AROM the subscribe:’ on the 14lh inT. at tho
plantation which he Occupies six m I (,,..
low lYiirie-blull, Wilcox county, on the west
side ot Alabama l iver, a sit.-u! ivolJ -el , ; pro
man named .UtltOS, ho is about rive feet ten
inches high—a little yellow—and has lord pait
of one of Ids ear;;—and is about BO years of See.
Ho took with him u long shot gen and some
'minima,lion; ho also took with him about 20
weight of bacon—he c vHijj sn iy with him
did’ei nit kinds of wearing apparw—lie may ei
ther have on a dark colored homespun hooter
ora Idue homespun coatee—ho also had a sumll
black hat mid n pair of shoes. - The said Aaron
is the property of Jolijl Jones late of Carol:-
nu; fluid has now-just coma into this state to
res. le on the nhuve plantation)—he was bro't
ta this country by the subscriber in March la-t.
i expect in■ will aim to get l ack to Carolina hy
the way of Cahawba or Montgomery. A libe
ral reward will be given tor tho delivery of .-aid
Aaron to the subscriber, or for securing him in
any jail in this state.
Should lie be apprehended |n Xorlh nr South-
( nriiiinii or Georgia, information is requested to
he given to John ltodgers or W in. Jones, boll)
living in Soulh-Carolina, Marlborough dislrici,
or to the subscriber.
JOHN W. BrtlDGE.Si.
W ilcox county, May 27 lx—3
IJ i‘ Editors of tiic Southern Recorder* Co
lumbian telescope, Carolina Observer, ocGeor
gia Advertiser, are requested to insert tli" nb .,v,.
three times, nnd for will'd flick- 'dd ''-v-my n ,p n j
Sheriff's Safe.
U’ sold to tho highest bidder on tiie.
V V first T igrdav in July next, between tin,
usual lioursof sale, at Tattnall court-house, the
follow ing NEGROES, viz Jim and his wife
A iolet, nnd DJl'.lnli her child ; Diana 25 years
old; Maya hoy 12 years old ; Billy 10 years
old; Tom 12 years old ; Charlotte R years old ;
( yrus, child; (trace 6 years old; Jordan It
years old; Hercules, 11 years old; Rachel 10
.vein's old ; Harriet, a Mulatto girl, 10 years old.
taken ns the property of James A. Tippins, se
curity, to satisfy gut-dry executions in favor ot’
thu stale against the tax collectors of TuttnuS
county. ai.su,
287 1-2 acres of land joining Daniel Brinson;
on the Altarnnha, granted lo Wfilliam Davie.
B to a .-resof loud, mere or less, joining Jo.dica.
Dasher, ui d John Moldy, on the Aitamaha—,
granted to tSiind. McKulloek.
800 acres pine land, more or less, joining
Benjamin Stripling, granted to Jacob Watt
the above lands all lying in the couuty of Tatt
nall; and taken ns the properly of Lodnwick
Laid, to satisfy two executions in favor of Jo
shua i.cmpnnd Reuben Nnile, property point -
ed out Ly Joshua Kemp.
■Terms, cash.
J. B. STUIBLING, n. s.
May 10. •. j.j
r |AHE firm oi'MALCOLM -2 :-TMG VN, w as'
J. dissolved on the 2;5th of April. 1820.
M VLCOLM i. ELNlfi AN.
Mi!ied'revlIle, Miv2>) r. 'it
~JA.MES FIJ\T(iA.\,
TJ ESBECTECLLY informs the Inhabitants
,!.V oi Millcdgev'.lle and its vicinity, that lie
('i 1; ru ■ on PAINTING in general, and earnestly
(solicits a share of tiie public patronage. All or
ders lit at Appleton Rosscter's Store, will ht?
punctually attended to.
Millcdgeville, May 29 Y7—12t
~e djeW fav,
.?TTOIiXE V& COLZA'SEf,C0R .IT I .‘Ilf,
in Georgia, and the pub-
' opened an office at
17—4t
W. \i\«Vl.\,\,
HAH JUSJ RECEIVED JN ADDITION TO IIIS FOR*
MER STOCK,
1000 yds. 3-d Brown Shirting*
2ooo do. 1 yd* do. Slice tin*/;
2o<«> do. Indian Stripes ;
louo do. blench ad Shirting;
50
ON CONSIGNMENT,
i , , r »*1« Tliomnstown LIME, in excel-
lent order, which he v. ill sell very low.
Millcdgeville, June 5 ]- j
B ROUGHT to Baldwin comity Jail on Wed
nesday the 31st nit. a negro fellow who
calls ins name JACK, and says lie belongs to
W illiam Murphy, of Burke county, near Louis
ville—lie is ulmiit 5 foot'd inches high, of,i very
black complexion. I le says he has a sister liv
ing m Morgan county, belonging to W illiam
.Mailings, who was his former master. The ow
ner of said negro is requested to come forward
,.rm e property, pay charges and take him away,
otherw ISO he IVd lbn dealt with agreeably | ;n v
June 1 I RLirUdkjx SAM’ ORD’, Jailor.
June f>.
17—2
TNEOittlS his friend
.4. lie generally, that he
Washington, in the coi-.nty of Autauga, on llm
Alabama river, between Caliawbu and Montgo
mery, " hero he is yearly to attend to any bu<i-
imss m Ins profes Aon, or as agent, with which
lie may be favored. !lc will attend courts in
i ii . "“I** counties, most of which arc in -
eluded in c,r ie Circuit, commencing the third
A onday ,n July. Return day out live days be-
lore Co,,rt. Business left with Sopbos Staples;
■-'i'Urta, w ili in; attended to.
va-lnngtoii, May 2u
OH, Vuin\s, See.
ji’st RECKivrn nv tiii: scbsctuberS)
B Ids. LINSEED OIL,
While Leadund Spanish Brown,
1000 lbs. round Bolt Iron, suitable for light •
wing rods,
German and Blistered Sieel,
An assortment of Cut Nails
Best Chewing Tobacco,
Patent Weeding Hoes,
Fine Tuble Salt,
I ine Brass-wire Sifters,
Colton Cards, Starch, tec
ALSO,
1 set of handsome Mahogany Dining
Tables, and . °
A two horse Wagon, complete.
For sale by
STANFORD CR VET.
Executor's Sa/r.
W ILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in July
next, at Elberton, Elbert county,
900 acres of Land
in said county, on the waters of Light\vo#<!
creek, adjoining lands of Jonathan Paine and o-
thors, as the property of Hiclmrd Easier, (Jce d.
lor the henelit of the heirs and crediiors ot s.titi
deceased. JOHN C. KAdTEI^ IJ*
Aju‘11 ic—u