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The Weekly Georgian.
HIS Paper is published every Saturday at the of-
v of the Daily Geoigian, ur thepriceof Three
dollars p,*r annum payable in advance. It has been
r<abli>hod for nearly fouryeais, and lias a respectable
circulation in the interior counties of the Slate, arid
tin* number of i:s subscribers gradually increasing.
It rout tins all the news of the week, besides all the
Lditorial matter and contributions to the columns of
the Daily Georgian, which are of interest lo country
r«-a lers.
fin.* Savannah Shipping and Commercial List,
embracing the Prices Current published weekly at
th<* office of the Georgian, will always be found in its
columns.
file printing department of the Georgian is under
the superintendence of an experienced and practical
printer.
Th*» Commercial Department of the Georgian is
attend l to by Mr. Thomas D. Rice.
Tiie Editorial Department of the Georgian remains
un l.*rthe control of its present proprietor.
the Tapers in Georgia, and those of Chatles-
t<»a will pub'ish the above four times and charge the
Georgian office.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1843.
[NO. 6,
s'sssas.
f ACT"The Recorder is published weekly, in the Ma-
T .ip Hall, at Three Dollars, per annum, payable in
advance, or Four Doll ARS, if not paid before the end
of the year No paper, in any case, sent out of the State,
with ui being first paid for in advance; or any new
subscriber taken for a less period thin ONE year, unless
paid for at the rate of Four Dollars per annum in
advance.
Advertisements conspicuously inserted at the usual
fcates. Those sent without a specification of the number
\ insertions, will be published until ordered out, and
f ^vcbfctged accordingly.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Exe
cutors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on
the firs: Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten
in the forenoon and three in the afternon. at the Court-
House of the county in which the property is situate.—
Notices of these sales must be given in a public gazette
TIXTY days previous to the day of sale.
Notices f«»r the sale of personal property must be giv
en, in like manner, FORTY days previous to the day of
3ale. Notice to tue debtors and creditors of an estate
must also be published FORTY days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be
published for four months.
All business in the line of Printing, will meet with
prompt attention at the Recorder Office.
Letters on business must be post paid.
[O 3 * Our subscribers in requesting the direction of their
papers changed from one Post-Office to another, are de
sired, in every instance in making such requests to in
form us as well of the name of the Post-Office from which
they desire it changed, as that to which they may there
after wish it sent.
January 31*/, 1S43.
More New Oouds.
O CASES splendid Cassimere Hat., $6,00.
1 case splendid silk Bonnets, at $3.50.
150 pieces more Calicoes, at 12£ to 13 cts.
50 piece# rich English do. at 25 to 31 cts.
Furrfiture Calicoes, at 12£ to 16 cts.
Rich d omestic Fringe.
Furniture Dimity, at 31 cts.
20 pieces superior Irish Linen at 6?£ to 1,00.
3 bleached Shirtings, at Gj cts.
4-4 do d.> at 124 to 13 cts.
2 bales more those 4-4 brown Homespuns, verv heavy,
at 14 cts. ’ 3
50 llis. Idk Flux Thread, at 1,25 to 1,75 per lb.
Brown and Mixed Cotton 4 Hose.
Apron Chirks and Cotton Snipes.
Brown Drillings, at 124 cts. per vard, &c. &c.
1 hose in want of bargain# like the above, will please
call at the sign of the New Dry Goods Store, w here
Central Bank money i# received for 100 cent# in the
e. w. Bancroft.
Milledgeville, Ga., January 31, 1843. 3 tf
CHARLES J. WILLIAMS,
•i/lornry at Ease,
MILLEDGEVILLE. GEORGIA.
Office in the Darien Bank Building, West of Mr.
M’Cornb’s Hotel.
February 7, 1843. 4 tf
Penitentiary, ?
•Hilledgeritle, 17th Jats'y. 1813. j
A LL articles manufactured in this Institution will
I -Cx. be sold at the lowest prices, fur Central Bank,
| specie funds, or State 6 per cent, bonds at CO cents for
the dollar. CHAS. H. NELSON, P. I£
January 17, 1843. 1 if
Central Money Wanted.
\XTANTKD, in Exchange for goods at the “usual
* * low prices,’’ $>>0,000 in Central funds at
Par. Call at the sign of the New Drv Goods Store.
E. W. BANCROFT.
Milledgeville, Jan. 17, 1843. 1 tf
January 17, 1843.
IVew Goods again at Bancroft’s.
Just Reed .5- now opening AO pilcF.ngCS, stick as
"I LA AAA YDS | brown Homespun, 64 pr yd.
1U)UUU 5.000 4-4 do 8 to 124 ••
B iles R>-d Ticking, good 15 “
100 d * Ladies’ w hite cotton Hose, 124 pr
do ld’k, w’le, and slate do (fine) 25 to 374 cts *
bales brown cotton Jeans and Drills 124
150 ps Fancy Prints, 124 to 20 “
50 lbs. black linen Thread,
do sewing Silk,
50 G10 lasting Velvet and suspender Buttons.
1 bale plaid Litisev (for negroes) 25 “
5000 vds. bleached Shirtings, 124 to 15
all wool r >d Flannels,
do white do
blk. and colond Eng. Merino
123 worsted and cotton Shawls,
Negro Kerseys
white cotton Cambrics,
plaid do
colored do
20 doz. head Handkerchiefs,
good mixed Satlinets,
100 dz. Taylor’s 300 yds. spool Cotton,
brown Linens for aprons, Soc.
line birds-eve Diapers, 374 c,s - P Pr y d >
gents.-blk and colored Kid Gloves, 75 to $1 “
superior silk Pocket Hkfs., 624 t° $1 “
“ beaver Hats, $3 50 to $7
silk do, $3 50
The above mentioned Goods are fresh from New
York, and will be sold at “astonishing low” prices for
CENTRAL MONEY. Persons in want of Dry Goods
will do well to cull at the Sign of the “New Dry Goods
Store.” where more goods can be bought for one dollar
in Central Money, than can be had at any other store
in the interior of Georgia, for $1 in Specie.
Please call and see. Next door to the Post Office.
E. W. BANCROFT.
Milledgeville, Jan. 17, 1843 1 2t
OFFICE BANK OF DARIEN,
Mn.LEDGKVit.Lg, January 13. 1843.
A LL persons indebted to the Bank of Dai
Branches, are hereby notified that all pap
ten or
paper tiow>
due and unpaid, will be placed in the hands of an
attorney for collection, if not paid previous to the re
turn day of the next Term of the Superior courts.
J. R. ANDERSON, Agent.
January 17, 1843. 1 7t
AUGUSTIN II. HANSELL,
•lttorssey at E.tiic.
Hawkinsville, Geo.
January 10. 1343. 52 n.3m
JAS. A. II. MACON,
; ATTORNEY AT LAW,
STARKVILLE, Lee Co., Ga.
j Will attend the courts of the Southwestern Circuit.
October 18,1842. 40 iy
A. C. SCOTT
W ILL practice law in the several counties oftlie
Flintcircuit. Office at Jackson, Buttscounty, Ga.
I September 13,1842. 35 tf
LATAMTK & HBIG5IT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
i r my Toy. geo.
I Will practice in the counties of Baldwin and Wilkinson,
! of the Ocmulgee Circuit; and in Twiggs, Pulaski, Irwin,
Telfair, aud Laurens of the Southern Circuit.
J. L. LATA5TE,
June 21.1842.—23 if J. S. WRIGHT.
PETER AUA.4I8,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DUBLIN, Laurens county, Ga.
May IT, 1842.—18 tf
DENTISTRY.
Dr. PRITCHARD, Surgeon Dentist.
j F.ootns at Ur. Trice's, UiLedgeville, Georgia.
I CpiIE flattering success and general satisfaction
| which lias attended Dr. Pritchard’s Dental
Operations, wherever he has practiced, emboldens
j him to assure all who require his services, that no
{ means known to modern Dentistry shall be unemploy-
I ed by him to render full satisfaction to them,
j O^F rench Metat.ic Paste, for filling painful
Teeth, which are too much decayed lo receive a gold j
I pluzg.—Dr. P. would most particularly call the atten- I
lion of the public to this highly recommended and su- j
j perior article for plugging sensitive and decayed Teeth, j
j and which restores those organs to ease and useful-
I ness, even in cases where one half the crown of the
To 'tli i«* decayed away. It is applied in a minute,
without heat, causing NO PAIN, and with but trifling i
pressure—and from its exceeding ductility, it accom
modates itself to the inequalities of the surface of the
cavity, and in a short time becomes hard and impene
trable, and renders the looih as useful as it ever was
Ibis Paste almost entirely supercedes extraction,
and renders disagreeable teeth healthy and sweet.
C3 39 Teeth Inserted—From one to a full set fur-
nished, and in a style not to be excelled—and arranged |
upon pivots, or with fine gold plates,springs, or clasps, j
or upon the principle of surtion or atmospheric pres-1
sure. Dr. P.’s assortment of Porcelain Teeth, front
and jaw, with and without faUe gums, is not surpassed j
by any Dentist in the South.
[XI? 3 Extr acting Teeth.—The practice adopted
by many Dentists, and Medical practitioners, of ex- |
trading all painful and decayed Teeth, Dr. Piitchard,
in justice to humanity, and Dental science, unquali
fiedly condemns. It is an unfeeling practice—evinc
ing an ignorance of well established principles in the
treatment of complicated caries.—A practice that out
rages common sense—is at war with physiology—and
olten attended w ith consequences of an appuling char
acter. A very largo majority of the molar or jaw
Teeth daily extracted, c<»uld be speedily restored to
ease and usefulness, under an enlightened and judi
cious treatment, and rendered valuable for many years
and perhaps for life. This foci cannot be urged too
strongly upon the consideration of females, who suf
fer so much from Tooth-Ache—and who justly con
template the extraction of a Tooth with fear and tremb
ling.
[X? 3 Tooth-Ache Pills and Powders—warrant-
f.d. This preparation, used for curing Tooth-Ache,
effectually and radically—and rendering tender a.id
sensitive Teeth easy, is unrivalled.—Not one failure
can be adduced. This preparation effects its purpose
in a short tim**; and often without the slightest pain.
Pe rsons who are suffering with Tooth-Ache, or who
are annoyed with quick or sensitive Teeth, should not
omit to give this preparation a trial. One application
of it to an irritated dental nerve is often found sufficient
to ensure a cure.
DCF All Dental Operations, of whatever charac
ter, performed with ease and care, and warranted.—
Teeth Plugged, Cleansed, Separated, and In
serted. Old Fangs Extracted—and all diseases
of the Teeth and Gums attended to.
(XI? 3 All operations, except extracting, performed
without giving pain—and no charge made where per
fect satisfaction is not given. Charges moderate.
DC?* Ladies waited on at their residences when de
sired.
Milledgeville, Tannery 31, 1813. 3 tf
KKESE Sc IVIcIIEHKY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MADISON, Morgan County, Ga.
April 26,1842.—15 tf
€Sftci*okec Land Agency.
t fi 111E undersigned proposes having, under his di-
JL rection, all grants of ungranted lands in all the
Cherokee counties, procured and forwarded ft ee of
charge, when the requisite provisions of law are fur
nished birr, accompanied by money to pay the grant
fees, and the postage paid by the owner of the lot.
1 further propose to sell any Jot of land, when the
party wishes to sell and will advi-e me of his desire,
specifying his lowest cash price, and in what funds he
wishes payment, the proceeds to be remitted or de
ported forthwith to order, if sale is effected and the
parry notified of the result under his or their instruc
tion-. I would suggest to those who have seen theii*
lands and believe them not worth the grant fees, to
write me before the forfeiture occurs, which i? the first
of Julv next, placing a small price above the grant
ltes as I believe that I could sell almost any lot for
fonn’thirig, and it. would only cost the postage to know.
1 m ike these propositions with a view of affording
some friends l have, an opportunity of purchasing some
lands ; and as the party owning has the power of pric
ing and receiving the cash at his price for his property,
there cannot beany thing unfair in my propositions.
All instructions w ill be promptly complied with. In
every instance when a party may authorize me to sell
his land, the power of agency will he returned in 30
davs, if no sale is effected, unless otherwise instructed.
By the provisions of the late law. all land not grant
ed bv tiie 1st of July next, is reverted to the State, and
will lie sold. To procure n grant, an affidavit is re
quired of the owner, guardian, administrator or legal
r« preparative of the owner, or of judgment creditors
— h.-wing that he. or they are such owner, or judg
ment creditor of the owner, which affidavit must be
filed with the Surveyor General, before a grant can
issue, and if applied for by an agent, a power of attor
ney in due form with the agent’s affidavit is required.
The grant fees on 40 acre lots are $2 50, on 160 acre
1 ‘tf §5; for which Central Bank bills are received at
t ie i reusury.
Milledgeville. Feb. 14, 1843.
JOHN A. & JOHN JO.M-N,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
W ILL practice in the counties of the Cherokee Cir
cuit, and in Cohb and Carrollof the Coweta Cir
cuit. Office at Van Wert, Pauldingco.
August 11. 184U. 30 tf
WILLIAM W. PAINE,
attorney ai Jarr,
Jacksonville, Telfair County, Georgia.
January 31, 1843. 3 4t
LOST,
O N the road near Madison, one note dated Stew
art county, January, 1839, in favor of H. IJ.
Lawrence, for thirty dollars, due 25th December fol
lowing, and signed by Wilson Pope. I furwarr* all
persons from trading for^said note, and the maker of
said note from paying it to any person ex^»‘pt mvself.
HARTWELL H. LAWRENCE.
February 14, 1843. 5
(ISBe
• ii
FOIL NALE,
TIIE pleasant and very desirable residence
at Midway, near this place, formerly owned
by R. K. Hines, Esq., more recently by Mrs.
Egerion. This property is convenient to
the best of schools, sufficiently so to Oglethorpe Uni-
i versity, and quite so to the Female Academy. The pre*
I mises comprise thirty acres of land, and have thereon a
• good ami convenient dwelling and all necessary out
I houses, in complete repair. The situation is unrivalled
! in health, and handsomely located and ornamented. The
society equal to any in the country. Any one desirous
j of purchasing is invited to call and examine for himself.
Teims will be accommodating—adapted to the times.
! Also, a good second hand Piano—a Seraph in. and
j Bass-Viol, a large Sideboard. Dining ai:d other Ta-
: hies ; a French Mahogany Bedstead—plain do. arid
other ai tides.
R. M. ORME.
j Milledgeville. July 26. 1842. 28
TeruiM Huilud to the “ Time*”
Farmer's Arademy, Washington County, Georgia.
THE School in this Institution commenced opera-
A tions on the second Monday in January, under
the care and superintendence of Mr. C. S. Hawley,
A. B. during the ensuing year, and a liber si 1 patronage ]
is solicited only so far as worth and superior qualifica- i
tions invariable eusure and command. The Academy J
is located in a healthy situation, at a distance from |
every thing that can have a tendency to attract the ut- I
tention of the Scholars, and draw their minds from a I
close application to their studies.
The rates of tuition are reduced to correspond with j
the '* times,” and are believed to he lower than at any I
institution offering equal inducements and advantages, !
in the State of Georgia.
The scholastic year will be divided into four sessions
of eleven weeks each. Parents or guardians having j
sons or wards intended for a classical education, will |
find this a desirable preparatory school for College.—
Further particulars can he obtained by addressing Eng- i
lish Smith, John R. Tucker, or J. R. Youngblood.
. , . |
1 he following rates of tuition are established for the
ensuing year:
For Orthosraphy and Reading, $12 pr. year. ;
“ the above with English Grammar,
Geography, Arithmetic, History and
Penmanship. 14 “
** Natural Philosophy, Chimistrv, Bot
any, Mineralogy, Geology, all the
higher branches of Mathematics, in
cluding Algebra,Geometry, Survey
ing, Trigonometry, Navigation, Men
suration, Conics, Calculus, Autono
my, &c. Also, Book-Keeping, Rhet
oric, Logic, and Political Economy, 16 tl
<- Latin and Greek Languages, 18 “
Board can he obtained in families of the first respec
tability, at from five to six dollars per month.
January 24, 1843. 2 tf
LAW NOTICE.
T HE undersigned has opened an office in this place
and tenders his legal services to his friends and the I
public. A11 business confided to him, will be attended to ;
with promptness and fidelity.
He will attend the following Courts regularly • Bald
win, Morgan, Greene, Pntnam, Wilkinson, Jones and !
Jasper, of the Ocmulgee circuit; Twiggs,of the South- :
ern, and Hancock, of the Northern circuit; and, during ,
the recess of the circuit, other counties not too distant, in
the arrangement of claims placed in his hands.
JOHN GRIEVE McHENRY.
REFERENCES.
Hon. George R.Gilmer,Cel.Joseph H. Lumpkin.Lex
ington, Geo.
Hon. William C. Dawson, Greensborough, Geo.
Hon. E. A. Nisbet, Macon. Geo.
James McDowall, Esq ,EgbertB. Beall, Esq..Augus
ta. Geo.
Hon. James M. Wayne, Andrew Low &. Co., James
Anderson A Co., Savannah. Geo.
Wiley, Lane & Co , Charleston. S. C.
Leroy M. Wiley A Co., New York.
Milledgeville.Geo., Jan. 19.1841. 1 tf
JOHN BUTHEEFOUD,
Commission Jtlerchtt:it,
SAVANNAH, GEO.
(FORMERLY OF MACON',)
r.SrrXTFULLY tenders liis services in a gen
eral Commission Business. He desires espe-
. to >olicit the pa'rorage of Colton Planters.
.VANNAil, Geo. January 2, 1343. 4 8t
TThe Federal Union, Georgia Journal, Augusta
eitutionalist, Macon Messenger, and Telegraph,
the South Western Geoigian. are requested to
ish tiie above to the amount of three dollars. J u.
$IOO UK WARD.
Every body look here*!!
JTOLEN from ihe subscriber, four miles from Trwiii-
ton, Wilkinson couuty, Geo., about the 18lh or 20th
°f J illy last, a negro man Frank, about 27 years old,
quite black, quick spoken, though he inclines to stammer
when scared or confused. Frank is about 5 leel 6 in-
rhesliigh. square built, heavy muscled, weighing about
170 1 , r 1 tO lbs. lie has a sear on one of his feet from the
cut of an axe. cutting the bone of tw o of his^toes up inhis
foot go a S to stiffen them and leave a sear across his foot.
He has a scar across his throat Iroai the cut of a knife.
He was stolen by one Daniel GraJta\.i, of Pulaski county,
Geo. Graham is about 40 years old, about 0 f ee t high,
spare b .jlt, dark skin, hollow eyed, black hair, heavy
blaok beard, and blue eyes, with a down look when spo
ken tu. o n examination their backs both considerably
marked from the whip. The negro may be run by Bare
foot, I. urnoy, Phillips. Moseley, Drawdy or Bohauuon,
as there is thought, to he a chain of them.
The subscriber will pay the above reward for the ap-
prehension and delivery of the said negro and thief, or
hall the amount for either, if taken so that proof can be
made, or $25 each to lodge them in some safe jail so that
1 gettbem. (JJtEEN B. BURNEY.
September B, 1812.- 34 w3t—eowtf
A ‘-I. persons having demands against the estate of
- William Williams, d‘."eased, are requested to
present liient in terms of th> law, und persons indebt
ed to his estate will make -aytnent without further
de £- v - HENlY MORTON, Adm’r.
Putnam co. January 31, lt!3. 3 6t
M r rospecttis of the Southern Planter.
However the value of works devoted to t, e impnr
tant science of Agriculture may have been appreciated
in former times, the day lias past when it becomes
necessary to enter into an elubotate defence of the
necessity and worth of such publications, and all prac
tical men are now constrained to admit the bene
ficial influence which they exercise upon the agricutlu-
ral industry of the country, as well in the increased
productions of labor as ir. the general improvement of
the soils. Impressed with these convictions, and the
no less startling truths w hich are daily developing to
the mind of every reflecting man, the necessity of di
verting a potion of that labor now employed in the pro
duction of our great staple, into other and more pofitn-
ble employment; the growth of Bread-stuffs, Provis
ions, Stock of all kinds; thereby rendering the South
ern section of the Union, less dependent for all the ar
ticles of daily consumption, upon our Eastern and
Western brethren, and affotding a more ample field
for the improvement of our rapidly exhausting soils—
the undersigned have been induced to undertake the
publication of the Southern Flanter, a work which
will he exclusively devoted to the cause of Southern
Agriculture, and whatever pertains to the promotion of
the science, in all its varied ramifications, extending
as they do through all the Mechanic Arts.
Tliis brief sk. tch of the objects and designs of the
work, will doubtless commend it to the favorable con
sideration of every intelligent Planter who feels the
necessity of such a medium of communication, and
to such, without further remark, we make a direct ap
peal in its behalf, confident that the extremely low price
tit which it is offered, will place it within the reach of
every farmer, however limited his means
TERMS:
The Southern Planter will be issued every oth
er week ; the first number will appear early in January,
on FINE paper and NEW type, (bon-ht expressly f,' )r
the work) in a form suitable for binding. Each num
ber to contain eight pages, 9 by 12 inches, which will
form at the end oftlie year, a volume of208 pages, and
will be mailed to subscribers at One Dollar p«r year,
invariably is advance.
The Cash principle will he rigidly adhered to, aid
in no case will the work be forwarded unless the cash
accompanies the order.
lUT Every citizen, whether he he Farmer, Mechan
ic, Lawyer, Doctor or Merchant, who feels the
necessity of making an effort to advance the gieat Ag
ricultural and Mechanical interests of the country, is
requested to constitute himself an agent for the circu
lation of the Southern Plaster.
EPP'ist Masters will forward all subscriptions, free
of charge, if handed to them. Otherwise ail letters
and communications must be Post Paid.
J. VV. Sl \V. S. JONES, Augusta, Ga.
December 1842. 49 4t
jkaa Easfss ©s 1 ■pass&'sFm©-
Neatly Executed
AT THIS OFFICE.
PUOSPJECTUS.
T HE undersigned propose to publish, after the first
of March next, a Newspaperin the town of Rome,
to be called the
GIIOISGI.1 COPSSIEIt.
The North-lVeslerii section of Geeorgia has been
for a few years past rapidly increasing in importance.
Its great natural advantages, as yet but imperfectly
known; its inexhaustible mineral resources, becoming
everyday mote developed; its abundant and varied
Agricultural products.—its prospective and mutually
beneficial connexion with the chief Commercial points
upon the Seaboard, together with the immense politi
cal and social influence which it is capable of exert
ing, render it more interesting than per haps any other
portion of our widely extended territory.
The want of a Periodical which would suitably sup
port the true policy of the State at large, and the pecu
liar interests of this section of it, while its location
would enable it more widely to disseminate political
truth, has been long felt. To satisfy this want is the
object of the present enterprise.
The columns of the Courier will be chiefly devoted
to the liberal and moderate advocacy of Whig princi
ples, and to the support of internal improvement; en
deavoring. if possible, to avoid party beats and jealou
sies, and busing our opinions upon sound and practical
expositions of the Constitutions of tiie Stale and Gen
eral Governments.
It will also contain the current news of the day, a
tastefully selected Miscellany, and the medley of mat
ter usually served up in such publications. In short,
no effort will he spared on our part to make it a pleas
ing vehicle of instruction and amusement.
W. SPENCER BROWN.
H. V. M. MILLER.
Rome, January, 1843
Terms.-—I lie Georgia Courier will he published at
Three Dollar's per annum, payable ia advance, or Four
Dollars if not paid until ■ he expiration of the year.
Two copies will be forwarded for five Dollars, or five
copies for Ten dollars pair! in advance.
Practice of the Law.
T HE undersigned having formed a copartnership
in the Practice of the Law, under the firm of
Smith & Manning, will attend to any professional
business entrusted to their care, in any of the Courts
held lor the Ocmulgee, Fiiat, Western, Coweta, and
Cherokee Circuits.
Office at Covington, Newton countv, Georgia.
JNO. BAILEY SMITH.
JETHRO W. MANNING.
February 7, 1843. 4 4t
.Hies MSam silon-e School.
M ISS A. P. Hamilton, would inform her friends
and Patrons that she lias returned to Milledge-
villeand w ill re-commence her school Monday, tiie 23rd.
Jan. in the building next door to Rev. Mr. Baker’s.
Terms of tuition, per session of five months juvenile
class $10. Geography, English Grammar and Arith
metic $15. Higher branches $20.
References—Rev. Mr. Bowman,Col. Y. P. King,
Hon. W. C. Dawson, Duct. J. Foster, Greenesboro.
Jan 24. 1843. 2 4t
.llarirlla .Hate asssl M-'ensale •teaetemics.
IT1HKSE Institutions opened on Monday the 2d of
I Januaty. 1313, united under the superintendence
of Rev. J. W. Waddell, A. M. assisted in the Male
Department by Air. J. L. Gregg, und in the Female
bv Miss Elizabeth Brigham.
The Tiustees confidently believe the adopted ar
rangement cannot fail to give this institution that char
acter they so ardentlv desire it should assume aud
maintain.
The scholastic year will he divided into two sessions
of Ive months each.
hates of tuition:
Elemetfary branches, with Arithmetic, $2 50 per qr.
English C-rammar and Geography, 4 “
The above *ith Natural and Civil History,
Natural Philosophy, Phrsiology, and
Algebra, 5 “
Latin, Greek and French, Moral and Iir-
lellecliiai Philosophy, Rhetoric and Lo
gic, the Natural Sciences, Book-Keep
ing and the higher Mathematics, 6 “
To those in the Female Department desirous of in
struction in Vocal Music and the Piano, it will be in- t
corporated with their regular exercises. ‘
N. L. CHESTER, See'ry. of Board. |
January 10, 1843. 52 6t
From Graham’s Magazine for February.
THE ENCHANTED GUN.
A TENNESSEE STORY.
The evening closed in dull and thick,
with that stagnant heaviness of the atmos
phere which often precedes a storm.—
There was a moon, but its face was veiled
by the leaden clouds; and its light, dissi
pated through the murky air, created
that kind of “ darkness visible” which gives
a drearier aspect to the landscape than
when it is wholly obscured.
The only cabin in sight lay in the midst
of a desolate “ clearing," which, though
completely walled around by the forest of
firs from whose depths I had just issued,
bore not a trace of shrubbery to relieve the
waste of blackened stumps. A well of
primitive construction, with the bucket
dangling at the end of a grape vine attach
ed to a long lever pole, crowned a naked
knoll where the stumps had been cleared
away. T he pole, from which the bark had
never been stripped, was nearly covered
with that pale green moss which will often
collect upon the dry rails of a fence which
have not for years been disturbed; and
this, with the night wind whistling through
the parted slaves of the decrepit bucket,
proved sufficiently that the well, if not dried
up entirely, was still no longer used. A
I had no time to weigh further the mean
ing of her words, for at this instant there
was a sharp flash of lightning, the door was
dashed suddenly open, and three armed
men strode into the apartment, the storm
pelting in behind them as they entered, and
a terrific thunderburst following instantly
the lightning amid whose glare they cross
ed the threshold. The palor of their
countenances, set off by their long black
dr ipping locks, seemed measurably to pass
away when that livid light was withdrawn ;
but from the moment that the door was
flung open there was an earthy smell in the
room, which, whether coming from the
reeking soil without or from the garments
of those wild foresters, was most perceptible.
Those less familiar than myself with the
raw-savored odors which sometimes travel
out with the rich perfume of the woods,
would, I am persuaded, have identified it
with the grave-damps which our senses will
sometimes take cognizance of in old church
yards.
The aspect of two of these men was suf
ficiently formidable, though in point of sta
ture and an appearance of burly strength,
they weie inferior to their companion.—
They were square-shouldered, black-beard
ed fellows, armed both with hatchet and
bowie knife, in addition to the short rifles
low shed, built of logs and roofed with bark, i which they still retained laid across their
was the only other outward appurtenance : knees as they settled themselves side by
oftlie cabin. * J side upon a bench and looked coldly around
The whole picture, it will be acknowl-1 l hem. The third was a full-cheek, heavy-
edged, was a dreaty one. Comfortless, | featured man, of eight-and-twenty, bearing
monotonous—almost heart-depressing !— a strong resemblance to my hostess, in
A scene of wildness without beauty ; of sol- | complexion and countenance, save that
itude without dignity ; a woodland home ^ eyebrows instead of being square and
without one attribute of rural cheerfulness; j coal-black like hers, were irregularly arch-
an abode in the wilderness utterly destitute ec * ar) d of a faded brown. His mouth also
of forest shelter and security. | lacked the firmness of expression which
The spirits of evil, which in some lands j dwelt around her thin and shrewish lips,
are believed to take up their abode in every I This man bore with him no weapon save
deserted palace orruinous castle, methought j a huge old German piece, a Tyrolean rifle
would straightway migrate hitherward did as i 1 seemed to me, from the enormous
they dream of a spot so utterly lonely and, length of the barrel and the great size of
as it seemed, so man-forsaken :—I say I l he bore, as well as the outlandish and
“seemed,” for though the traces of what i cumbersome ornaments about the stock and
are called improvements were about me, I breeching. It was, evidently, a weapon
could scarcely realise that the hands which j intended for the great distances at which
had once wrought there might still be busy tl,e chamois-hunter claims his quarry, and
near. The man who bad made such ait! though serviceable for a long shot on our
opening in the forest must, I thought, have western praries, was ill suited to the thick
been fiigbtened at bis own work the mo-1 wooks of the Apalachian mountains. Incon-
ment he ceased from his toil and became ! venient, bovvever, as the length and size of
aware how uncouthly be had given shape * he piece might make it in some hands,
and form to the spirit of solitude which still seemed to be nothing in the grip of the
sighed among the tall trees around him. sturdy mountaineer, (who had probably
I dismounted near the cabin, and scarce- bought it from some passing emigrant
ly touched the door with the hut of my rid-j f rom the OM World,) for I observed even
ing whip, when it was flungopen from with- as be entered that be held the gun verti-
in, by some one who instantly retired from caI, y at arm’s length before him. Still he
the threshold. The abruptness of the act; seemed glad of relieving himself of the
did, 1 confess, startle me. Though not weight as soon as possible, for he instantly
easily alarmed, my mood of mind at the advanced to the farthest corner of the
moment was such as to prompt some mys
tic associations with the scenes and circum
stances already detailed. I am a perfect
barometer of the weather, and the approach
of a thunder-gust always weighs down my
room, where he placed the piece with some
care in an upright position against the
wall.
“ Well! what for now V’ said the virago;
why do you stand looking at the gun af-
sptrits with undefinahle oppression, in the ' er you’ve set it down 1—You think she’ll
same degree that a driving snow storm ex- i wa lk off of herself, do ye?”
liberates them. The low muttering? of the
on-coming tempest, which were now begin-
ing to be audible, would, then, be sufficient
to account for my present sensibility to
gloomy influences ; but I might also men
tion other things which perhaps added to
the present anxiety of feeling, if the phrase
be not too strong a one. It will suffice,
however, to state merely that I bad not
heard the sound of human speech in the
last two days, and that that which now met
The youth looked gloomily at her—took
a stool on the opposite side of the hearth
to his companions—leaned his head dog
gedly upon his hand, but said nothing.
1 thought 1 had never fallen in with a
more strange set of people.
“ What ! Hank Stumpers, haint ye a
word to fling to a dog ?” cried the woman
advancing toward him. “ Is that the way
you treat yer dead father's wife ?”
The young man looked up stupidly at
my ears was hatsh and discordant. It was j J ,e t\ gave a glance witli something more of
lire croaking tone which you may sometimes
catch fmm a sour tempered virago as she
strolls from the conventicle.
“ I thought you’d a been here afore,”
said this ungracious voice, which upt^i
intelligence at the gun, but still said noth
ing.
“ Yes—yer nateral-born mother—ye
chucklehead ye—and she a widder. Can’t
ye speak up to her—where’s the deer ?—
entering the apartment, I recognised as be- j the turkeys ?—the squirrels 1—haint ye got
longing to its only occupant. ’ j even a squirrel to show for your day’s
She was a heavy-built woman, of course ! vvo,k ?—speak you, John Dawson, what’s
square features and saturitie complexion, the matter with the boy? He ben’t drunk,
She wore her straight black hair plainly par
ted over her eyebrows, which were bushy
and meeting in the middle. One elfish
lock had escaped from behind her ears as replied one oftlie men biiefly, and he, too,
be he ?”
“ It’s a matter of five hours, Mother
Stumpers,since eitlierof ustouched adrop,”
she stooped over the hearth, holding a tal
low candle to the a.-ffies, which she was try
ing to blow into a flame, when my sum
mons interrupted the process.
“ You thought I would have been here
before ?”—I exclaimed, at last, in reply
to her singular salutation ; “ why my
good woman, I have lost my way, and on
ly stumbled upon your house by accident
—you must take me for somebody else.”
“ I’m no good woman. Don’t good wo
man me,” she replied, with a scrutinising
glance which bad something, I thought,
gave a furtive glance at the old firelock
“ Well—well, why don’t ye go on ? is
any one dead ? are ye all distraught ?—
Jackson Phillips, you—you’ve felt the back
of my band across yer chaps, afore now,
for yer itnperance—I know ye, man, and
that sober possum-look means something !
Do ye think to gum it over me afore this
stranger?—speak up, and that at wonst, or
it ’ll be the worst for some of ye, or my
name’s not Melinda Washington Stump-
ets !”
(1 did not smile, reader, as you do, at
of almost fierceness in it, as shadingthe now j Mrs. S.’s sponsoral dignity—I did not dare
lighted candle with one hand, she turned 10 smile.)
scornfully round and fixed her regards up-1 “ You know we would n’t offend you, no
on me. I how. Mother Stumpers,” deprecatingly re-
“ Yes, yes, stranger, you are the man,' plod the man whom she addresssd as Pliil-
the very man that was to come at this hour. | bps. Hank’s misfortune, you see,had made
I dreamed ye—I dreamed yer boss—yer 09 dull-like, as it were, and—”
brown leggius and all, I dreamed ’em—and “And what in the name of Satan is bis
now go look after yer critter while I get misfortune t” interrupted the mother, now-
some supper for ye.”
for the first time moved with concern as well
se who ate so good as to follow me as anger.
story, will perhaps be vexed and irn- “ 1 bat’s it—that’s it, mammy,'
Hank, with something of alertness ;
Those
in my story, will perhap
patient when I tell them here, that the whole
of this singular scene has no immediate
beating upon its denouement.
“ Why then, it may be asked, “ do you
delay and embarrass the relation with the
cried
she’s
dtuv the veiy nail on the head ; Satan is
at the bottom of all of it.”
“At the bottom of all of what ?” scream
ed the virago, and, even as she spoke, the
detail of matters that have no connection ancient piece in the corner, untouched by
with the incident fur which you would ' any one, without the slightest movement of
claim our interest ?”
I did not say they had no connection
with it!—They have an intimate—a close
connection. It was these very circumstan
ces which still further fashioned the mood
the lock, discharged itself towards the ceil-
ling !
“At the bottom of the bar’l of my gun ;
he speaks for himself,” replied Hank,
moodily, while his mother started back and
of mind under which I became an observer, 1 sprung to my feet at the sudden report so
and partially an actor, in the startling though j near me.
grotesque events which followed, and I “ Your gun must be foul,” I said, resum-
wish to place the reader in exactly the | h>g my seat “ very faul, to hang fire so long,
same point of mental observation. j 1 suppose she made a flash in the pan when
We have returned; then, to the cabin, he ; attemping to discharge her just before en-
(the reader) and I ; again alone in the tering.”
midst of the wilderness; in that dreary! Stumpers looked vacantly at me, shook
room ; alone with that weird-looking wo-1 his head, muttered something about he and
man. The storm is now howling without, j his mother being “luiuated,” and then
but it doe3 not chafe savagely enough to
excite the dispirited temper of our feelings,
or offer a contrast of any dignity lo the
gloomy influences within.
Supper was already prepared for me
when 1 returned fiom looking after my
horse. The coarse bacon and hoe-cakes
were placed before me without another
more audibly said, “Stianger, you may
have more book larnin than me, but I tell
ye, wonst for all, that Satan’s got into that
gun !”
And bang ! at that moment again went
the gun, as if to prove that his words were
sooth.
This is certainly most extraordinary
word being spoken between my hostess . I exclaimed, as I rose to examine the gun
and myself. I drew a rude stool to the ta- for myself.
ble, and was in the act of helping myself
from the wooden platter—
“ Stop, I hear them coming!" cried the
woman.
“ Hear them ! who ?” said I, turning
round sharply, as some new, though unde-
finable suspicion flashed upon me.
“ Thera as will have to share that supper
with ye, stranger—if how’s b’t they let ye
eat any of it.”
“ You’d better not touch her, stranger,”
cried Philips.
“ I tell yon she’s got Satan in her,” re
peated Hank.
I looked at Dawson, inquiringly.
“ Fact! stranger, every word of it.—
Hank’s not been able to get that gun off
since noon ; but about a hundred rods
afore we struck the clearing she begun
fil ing of hex own accord, just as you see—”
Bang !—Bang !—went the gun.
“ I told you that Satan was in her !” ejac
ulated Hank.
“ That’s the way with her,” said Philips,
in a tone of solemn sadness—sometimes
she’ll not 9peak for a matter of ten minutes
or so ; sometimes she gives two short barks
like those ; and sometimes she gives a reg-
lar ripsnorter—
(Bang ! thundered the gun.)
like that ?”
* I told you she’d got Satan in her !” still
repeated Hank.
I confess that it wa3 now only the calm
ness of those around me which prevented
some feeling of superstitious terror being
disagreeably awakened in me. The men,
however, seemed sad and awe-struck, rath
er than alarmed ; while the woman—a
thing not uncommon with resolute minds
disposed to believe readily in the supernat
ural—seemed at once to accept the fearful
solution of the mystery which had been
proffered to her, and ready to meet it with
an unflinching spirit. Still, puzzled and
bewildered as I was, I could not but smile
at the manner in which her emotions now
manifested themselves.
“ Well!” she cried, impatiently, “ and
what a poor skimp ofa man you must be to
let Satan get into the piece when you had
her all day in yer own keeping.”
“ I a skimp of a man ?” answered her son
with spirit; “ there isn’t another fellow in
these diggins who’d ’a brought that gun
home as I did, qfter he diskivered that
sich going on were inside of her. And if
she’d tell her own story—”
Bang !—bang !—bang ! pealed the gun.
“ That’s Satan who’s speaks now—”
Bang—pltizz—bang !
“ It’s Satan, I say, aHd no mistake.—
But if she’d tell her own story she’d own I
never let her go out of my hands this bles
sed day, save when Jackson Philips tuk
Dawson’s piece and mine to watch for deer
on the Runaway, while we went down the
branch to see if we could’nt get a big suck
er or two for supper out of the deep hole
where I cotched so many fish last fall. No!
if she’d speak for herself—”
Bang ! thundered the gun, with a report
so tremendous that I ir.volutarily put my
hand to my ears.
“ Gim me the tongs—gim me them’ere
tongs,” shouted Mrs. Stumpers in great
wrath ; while Dawson turned pale, and
even Philips seemed a little disturbed as
he muttered, “ if the old thing should burst
it might be a bad business for us.”
Hank, however, doggedly handed his
mother the tong3 ; and before I could inter
pose, or indeed before I was aware what
the courageous woman was about to do,
she had grasped the gun with the tongs,
near the lock, and hearing it before her
with a strong arm she moved toward the
door. “ Why don’t ye open—”
Bang—phizz !—bang !—bang !—phizz !
pltizz !—hang ! alternately pealed and
sputtered the gun; but still the intrepid
virago went on. I sprang to the door and
flung it wide before her.
The light from within was reflected upon
the hollow buttonwood trunk which formed
the curb of the well opposite, and in anoth
er instant the gun was plunged to the bot
tom.
“ Thar !” said Mrs. Stumper, clapping the
tongs in true housewife fashion as she re
placed them in the chimney corner. “Now
one can hear bisself talk without the bother
of sich a clatter.”
Bang ! moaned the gun at the bottom of
the well.
‘Can’t stop Satan that way, mammy’ said
Hank, his stupid face sicklying over with
an unhappy smile.
The mystery had now deepened to the
highest point of interest—that last discharge
was wholly unaccountable—and for my own
part, my curiosity was wound up to a pitch
that was positively painful. I remembered,
though, the shattered bucket, and bethought
myself of asking if there was any water in
the well.
‘About enough to come up to a lizard’s
ear,’ answered Hank; ‘ but there’s a smart
chance of mud under it, I tell ye, stanger.
That old gun will keep sinking for a week
yet.
‘She’s stopped,’ said Dawson.
‘ Yes,, said Philips, ‘ and we’d better
fish her out before she sinks beyond our
reach.
last night, you’ve only to put twenty charg
es in a gun, with sich wad as this atween
each on ’em—and scotch now t and then, in
stead of dry powder, will be all the better ;
ram each down well; let the chap carry
his gun about for an hour or so, unbeknown,
jist like that simple Hank did—and chooso
your own time for dropping a piece of light
touchwood into the muzzle.’
Upon my word, I was not sorry that I
was to part company, before night, with
this practical joker: who, for aught I knew,
might see sometempting opportunity toslip
a snake into my boots, stuff my saddle with
squibs, r.r play off some little piece of face-
tiousness like that with which the joc
ular Captain Gofle, in Scott’s novel of the
Pirate, used now and then lo indulge his
humour ; the said Captain having a funny
way of discharging his pistol under the
mess-table, merely to pepper some one’s
shins with a half-ounce ball.
New Arm of the Military.—We find
the following extracts from the British
Naturalist’s Library concerning Bees, in a
late number of the London Quarterly.
1 hey contain the only application of the
anger of bees to useful purposes, which
we have ever seen recorded :
“A small privateer with forty or fifty
men, having on board some hives made of
earthen ware full of bees, was pursued by
a Turkish galley manned by 500 seamen
and soldiers. As soon as the latter came
alongside, the crew of the privateer mount
ed the rigging with their hives, and hnrled
them down on the deck of the galley.
The Turks, astonished at this novel mode
of warfare, and unable to defend themselves
from the stings of the enraged bees, be
came so terrified that they they thought of
nothing but how to escape their fury;
while the crew of the small vessel, defend
ed by masks and gloves, flew upon the ene
my sword in hand and captured the galley
almost without resistance.”
The reviewer well remarks, that “ it
must strike the reader how well furnished
this vessel must have been to afford at the
moment * masks and gloves’ for forty men.”
The other extract contains an application
of the same military arm to the purpose cf
preserving the peace.
“ During the confusion occasioned by a
tjime of war in 1525, a nest of peasants as
sembling in Huhnstein, in Thuringia, at
tempted to pillage the house of the minis
ter of Eieude, who, having in vain employ
ed all hi3 eloquence to dissuade them from
their design, ordered his domestics to letch
his bee hives, and throw them in the mid-
d'e of this furious mob. The effect was
what might be expected; the peasants
were immediately put to flight, and those
were happy who escaped unstung.”—Nat.
Lib. 195.
A Pennsylvania paper records the death
ofa man lately, of Ridley, in that State, of
a disease we never before heard of killing
a man—the glanders. It was caused by
bleeding a horse, sick with that distemper.
At the time of bleeding the animal, he had
a cut on one of his fingers, into which the
poisonous virus of the disease was trans
mitted to the system, and in a short time
made itself manifest throughout the whole
frame. Mortification ensued, and death
put an end to his sufferings in about three
weeks after he was attacked.
How many can be supported ?—It is cal
culated that we have territory enough in
the L T nited States to suppoit, comfortably,
between two and three hundred millions of
people ! Think of three hundred millions
of freemen, all living under the same bene
ficent form of Government—all speaking
the same rich, sonorous language—and all
worshipping the same God ! Have we not
something to live for? Looking at our
prospective glory alone, who would not be
an American ? Beauty, power, grandeur,
are comprised in that noble ward.—Amer
ica.
Small Mistakes.—As a minister and a
lawyer were riding together, said the min
ister to the lawyer, ‘ Sir, do you ever make
mistakes in pleading ?’ ‘ I do,’ said the
lawyer. * And what do you do with the
mistakes ?’ inquired the minister. ‘Why,
sir, if large ones, I mend them; if small
ones, I let them go,’ said the lawyer.—‘And
pray, sir,’ continued he, ‘ do you ever make
* Don’t, I fell ye Satan’s in the gun,’ cried mistakes in preaching ?’ ‘ Yes, sir, I have.’
Hank, almost furiously—‘ down—down— , ‘ And what do you do with the mistakes V
she’ll keep going down now till he has her j —* Why, sir, 1 dispense with them in the
in his own place all to himself. I lost an l same manner as you do—I rectify the large
axe myself in that well wonst, and if half and pass the small ones. Not long since,’
that father used to tell about it be true—’
* Spluc.h—uch—uch—Bubble—ublebang!
ble— Bang!—Splu-ble—bang—bang
BANG !
We listened—we looked at each other—
With the last report, which was almost •
overpowering, I was convinced that the
continued he, ‘ as I was preaching, I meant
to observe that the devil was the father of
liars ; but made a mistake, and said, the
father of lawyers. The mistake was so
small that 1 let it sro.”
A Sheep’s Tooth in a Child’s Sock-
U* V/l DU t» V/i ‘I'K) A. rw i*o x/v/n • I u viv/v* <.<•«*■, «.»%/ | ,
explosion must have been aided by inflam- ! ET * ' n ^41 Mr. I wiss, of Ivetry, ex-
able gas at the bottom of the well, for the tra cted 0 .-i-j-
broken tooth from a young lady,
aged twelve years, and put in its place the
front tooth of a yearling sheep, reeking
from the jaw, haviug shortened its root at a
quarter of an inch. After the first week,
the tooth at first being much too small for
the space, it became more and more firm,
and has enlarged, but not so much as it
would have have done in its pristine state,
a circumstance observed in transplanted
trees. Mr. Twiss selected the sheep, from
the extreme cleanliness of that animal, and
the beauty and aptitude of the teeth at two
or three years old, when about the size of
lin Journal.
blue flame, as it rose from it, flashed through
the only window of the cabin, and show
ed the features of its ignorant inmates,
for the first time, distorted with real terror.
At least Philips and Dawson, upon whom
my eye was fixed at the time, looked per
fectly aghast with fright.
Hank’s supposition of the ultimate desti
ny of his famous gun (viz. going to the
sporting dominions of the Great Hunter be
low) could hardly be true, inasmuch as a
piece of the blackened muzzle was found
next morning, driven half through a frag- ,
ment of the wood curb which lay shattered : auult human teeth, and more likely to
around, broken in splinters by the explosion S'°' v " hen transplanted. The root may
of the fire damp. The poor young man fairly i be shortened or pared to fit, and kept in
wept outright when it was shown him by 4hat situation by waxed silk ligatures.—Dub-
Philips ; who, with a generosity I could not
sufficiently admire at the time, insisted up
on replacing the hoary weapon of Hank’s
affections with his own light Easton rifle ;
saying at the same time that he had a Ken
tucky tool at home which he much prefer-
ed to the Pennsylvania yager. This same
Philips, by the way, very civilly offered af
ter breakfast to put me on my road, which
from the number of Indian trails along the
borders of the Cherokee country, 1 bad
wholly lost.
* I say, stranger,’ said he, the moment we
had got out of earshot of the house, ‘ you
were devilish cool when that well blew up !
tell me the trick of it anly, and I’ll tell you
the trick of the gun, which rather skeared
you a few, as I think.’
I explained to him the fire damp.
• Raally, now.’ he exclaimed, * wells is
most unknown in this country, for we eith
er settle down by a spring, or get our water
from the branch. But the fust well 1 can
fall in with, I’ll draw up a bottle of that
gas, as you call it, and have some raal fun
with the fellers. But look here,’ said he,
stopping and tearing off some diy fungus
from an old stump, ‘ when you want to play
a chap sich a trick as made music for us
The first newspaper, says the Essex
Trans cript, was printed in England in 1642.
The first in Boston, printed in 1704—only
on one side of half a sheet of post—pub
lished by John Campbell, who styles
himself “ Postmaster of New England at
Boston”—and being, we believe, literally
the only Post Master in all New England.
May we l>e pardoned for copying one ofbia
early advertisements 1 “ To be sold by the
printer of this paper, the very best negro
woman in town, who has bad the small pox
and the measles, is as hearty as a horse, as
brisk as a bird, and will work like a bea-
It is a melancholy reflection to think up
on what a very shadow human happiness de
pends. A smile or frown—a kind or angry
word, can make this world appear unto us
almost a paradise, or in an instant seem to
change it into a scene of desolation. One
moment does the heart glow with gratitnde
and thankfulness to the Creator of all things,
that we 4 live and move and have our being,*
and the next, sensible only to the distress
and sufferings of existence, we would most
gladly be numbered with the dead.