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I THINK hit n ©bfarvation of Mr. Cowley**, that as ao men deserve J
more esteem from the commonwealth than (choa miAea, so none
*re mom neglc&ed. The truth of this hath been experienced by many
‘worthy perfots, who have spent all their time with care, wntcbfulnefs,
•nd labour, in the government and inftru&ion of youth, and found their
’encouragement (b disproportionate. as to have greatfeafon to complain of
Spending their lives in an npro6tfcSle drudgery. Nothing can be dearer
to parents than their children, and tberc'ore one would imagine a faith*
fjjl fchpoltnafter Oiould be entitled to the highe&rcfped ana encourage
meat from them; bat so inconsistent aTe the greofef part of mankind, that
* man of real abilities can scarce meet with twenty parents who would
make it worth bis while to undertake the important chirgeof educating
their children. Every mechanick can provide for himfelf and bis family,
fbd* where there is common prudence and frnga'ity, leave them a com
fertable subsistence; but this h leldom the case witha fchoolmailer, he is
doomed tqa poor deoendance all his life, and oftentimes has no place to
lay his head. This frequency •’brings to my mind a tlory 1 f>me
where met with of a poor f'-holar. who, travelling, overtook a waggoner
on the road, and begged a trifle to he’p him on hiv j >urn?y? The wag.
/ goaer enquired who and what he va>; heto'd him he was brfd a scholar,
and.was alfe a Matter of Aits* a fig for yo r tit e% fays the waggoner,
go and learn to work, with one art I can maintain my felf and a large fa
mily, bat you, with all yourarts, can nei her feed yoor belly nor cloath
your back. Education is certain.y a work rs great prudence, as well as
of great importance; it requires no little {kill and a'.d<efs to inftruft and
govern children; for a man may Be well versed both in ancie >t and mo
deni literature, and yet unequal to th : talk. Patience, mildn.-fs, nn
wearied diligence, and a love of mankind are Gm*” among the many vir
tues efl’entially necessary to a good preceptor—he fhoul lbe learned net
Only by precept, bat by experience; his age sh >d I carry reverence, end
the goodness of his life authority. Children rec-ietr->m nature very dis
ferent difpofitioo*, and properly to improve ih< ro, we must use a diffe*
rent kind of regimen ; fome mud be treated gently, whilit others require
the severity of correction ; though I have always found that the venerati
on and refped which proceeds from love is always greater and more lading
than that from fear. Generous minds love to be drawn, not compelled,
and even those who are more rough and flubborn in thrir tempers are with
greater success won to their duty by patience and gentlerefs than by any
severity that can be used. Thedifeafesof the mind are in th s refped like
those of the body ; those m. dicines are fifeit and bell which by degrees _
drawoff or corred the noxious blood. .It is well said, baurari ee!i, tUligi,
majut imperii tfl et amurt qui wit, languid* regnet ma/.u. A preceptor bath
gained a great point with his pupils, when he has worked them up to an
opinion that he greatly eilet-ms an t loves them ; that he never uses cor
rection bat with the utmost reluftance, and rj<>ices in notmng more than
their diligence and proficiency. Thife imprefiions (hould be for hed
When a child is quite young ; the tv ax mull be handled when it is fofteft,
and the twig bent whilst it is yet tender and flexible. When this har
meny and mutual esteem fubfills between mailer and scholar, howeafily
are the feeds of knowledge and virtue inliilled into the tender mind. Ft
is then indeed that education becomes a de.ightiul talk, and a good man
cannot but feel the mod exquisite pieafure to fee the t#uJs and b.ofTbms r.f
the human foul. To conclude, * the education of yoatn is of such vast
importance, and such singular use, iothe feene of iife, t^iat it viably car
ries its own recommendation along with it; for on it, in a great measure,
depends all that we hope to be; eve-? p rfcclion that a penerous and well
disposed mind would gladly arrive at; ’tie this that (lamps t. e diflindion
of mankind, and renders one man pn ferablr to another ; is aim .ft the ca
pacity of doing well, and remarkably adorns every point of life.
Savannah, May a, 1779. AMICUS.
4 Want's EJfaj . ‘
MACKAY’S Coparinerfliip wsTfe£
pirc in June next. They bvg the favour of all in
debted to that concern to fettle their accounts with
‘•utlofs of time to their fatisfa&ion, otherwise they -will oe
tinder the disagreeable neceflity of putting them into the
hands of an attorney at law. In the mean time, they ad-
Vertife for fale,’Their Trading House in Augusta, which
may be entered upon immediately, Plantation, Negroes,
Boats, Stock in Trade, Pack Horses, Indian Debts, &c.
For particulars enquire of John Gordon, Esq. inCharlt firvr,
Mr. ThomasNetherclift merchant at Savannah,-or cf ts e fob-1
feribers in Augnfta. WILLIAMS and MACK AY.
fa it fold by tie JubJcnber in Savannah, cr on tbt Ijlund Ofabaw, for prejent
<aft> or aifaunt,,
THE FOLLOWING ARTICI.es, viz. Exceeding good barreled
Beef; lodico, Bcna, and Cotton Seed; Myrtle-wax and Tallow
moulded Candles plain and fluted; Hard Soap of the best kind.
In Savannah bt has tc dtjgfgh of,
Several Bo*es of Crown Glass 12 by Sets of Patch Tile;
One Set of Marble Slabs; an AfTortmenWf Hinges and Lock*; fon.e
Dozens bottled Claret; exceeding gcqd Jamaica Rum by the hogshead,
half or quarter cafit; a handsome Wilton Carpet; fomr neat Mens, Wo
mens, and Youths Shoes and liofe; and anew Set of Furniture Check
led Curtains.
On proper notice will engage to cat any Quantity of Live Oak and Ce
dar Ship Timbers, of any shape and size required, and will deliver the fame
at proper landing* on OfTabaw.
He has alft for sale,
E*rt of a Trad of Land known by the name of Bewlie. This traft
intended for sale contains about 4*o about (rather more than
less) a quarter of a mile front on where a vefTel drawing
I - feet may lie afloat at low water. With refpeft to the quality of the
hnd few can equal it, particofarly for high land, and is well stored with
live oak an J otheejuloable timber, but the purchaser doubtlcfa will be
bii own ledge.
On GironJ in the absence of
>, . 10HN MOBEL.
to him to fettle the fame to
, ‘ • Bp tie titibtoifor,
A TRACIuP LAND, within two miles and a half of Savannah,
/x containing two hundred and fifty acres, fifty acret of it is exceeding
| good rice land, and tlte other two hundred is the very Left of oak land,
and equal toinv in the province for indigo and corn. Credit wi. Ibe pi.
ven until January next, paying interest, and giving fccurity if required
JOHN SIMI'SON.
On Fridaj the zsth infant May 1770, WILL BE SOLD BT PUBLICiC
FEN DUE, at the Exchange ,
, \LL THAT VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, containing 403
jl \ atres, in Sr. Matthew’s pari sh, granted to Henrv Kenran, fkuate
lon an island rear Ebenezer. 1 hree months credit will be allowed tha
purchaser giving approved feruriry. The sale will bevin at ten o’clock
in th* forenoon. EW V N and BOLTON. Vendue Mailers.
THITCOP ARTNEKSHIP of GORDON 2nd NF.-
THER CLIFT will soon expire*, they therefore give
this early notice to all persons whose bonds, notes,
or accounts, may be d x ue the firft of August next, that, un*
less they arc difeharged by the'firft day of September follow
ing, the fame (without rderve) will be put into ihe hands of
John Glen, Elq. to be sued for.
F O R SA L lii, ‘
TWO LOTS at Yamacraw, on which are dwelling*
houses with out convenience*:, lately inhabited by
Jacob Winfree. Apply to T NETHER CLIFT.
A S the fuberib. r pur poles to reiv.ove with his tamili into CaTo’ina ti
Lm. soon as tr.c Light IT use which he is under cer.trzfl to build is firiffi.
cd, we will ablolutely feH, at the usual place in Savannch, to ti e higl.eft
b'dder, on Friday the f.rll day of June next, I; 50 Atrt sos Lind, in four
trails joining each other, at the h'laver Danu, very fit for a saw mil,
one half at leaf! bring the belt of pine lend, ard fct undid by varortiaid
of the fame fort on both f:Jcs of all the tra£tr, with therrft jroper
(tre.im running through them for that purpefe in the previrte ; the re
mainicr excellent fwsmp ard ci'in Lrd, above jeo rerts t f vhiih may
with tae grcatell case and firtty beat any time overfirwed b) llcppirg
the llrtatn: A I raft of 500 Acic*, <ld rreafure, cf gr< and Oak and Pirre
Land, n Kilkenny’ Neck ; A T raft of Pir.e I ard, c< rtairirg ;cc Acres
like me-afuie, joining Cart. Jjf ldfmith, oppefite the town rs Sui bury;
40 Acres of Land on Cabbage’s Creek; Two new Saw Mills at F bene
zsr, 25 miles by land, and 45 miles by water, from Savannah, formerly
advertised in this Gazette, which cut 20 © feet of boards and plank a
dav, a>d about joco Acres of Land conveniently laid out round jkkm :
also, Working Oxen, ‘I jmber Carriage*, Tools, and 4 or 500 BtjflKof
Corn, Peafe, and Rough Rice, being all on the spot, and thcreaEponf*
venient for the purchaf r. nW
. r;e y C3rs credit will be giver for the mills and all he lards, paying
interest and givi g approved fccurity ; and two months credit f. r the ox
en, c.irriages, tools, and provifons.
, and pl.ice will be fold, i the like manner, giving two
months epedit, and paying interest,, with feci rity, A Parcel of very va
luable S aves, tnoflly lawyers, with feme Saddle ar and Draught Hcrfes. r
And, when we are ready to remove, will be fold by pubbek vendue,
Jor caih, A Riding Chair and Cbaife feme good Horses, a small Stock
•f Tame Cattle, 1 wenty Head of Oxen ; a great Variety of Timber Car
riages, Carts, ar.d Waggons; Two large Pettiaguas, ievcral fine Canoes,
ar.d a Pew in the Gallery of Chrill.Church.
The Place wheie we now reside, called Bonaventure, will also beleaW
for four or five y ara, at much less than half the yearly Value, to a good
temnr, who will give proper security to return it in the fame reran by
appraifement at the expiration of the lease as when he takes pofiefli a. ;
rAKEN UP at 31ack-Crcek by the fubferiber, TbTkEE HORSES,
riz. A Bright Bay, about 12 a*d 4 half hands high, Bor 9 yczls
o’d, has a cut mruth, branded on the mo-inting buttock 2. TANARUS, with fsddfe
spots ; a Grey, about the fame heihih, branded on the mounting buttock
like yMF in ore, and on the mounting ftioulder with a blotched brand;
another small Grey, branded on the m- unting shoulder P G or pp, and (fn
the off buttock IS. The owners rauil prove their property before a Jq*
ft'te of Peace, ard xprly to / JACOB IMLR r
BENJAMIN lUHNSON informs me of A SOREL.HORsitti about
twelve and a ha f hands high, p’ces natural, about four years old,
branded upon the reir flioulder something lit* X, cniupr.n the near but
tock Id, with a small streak in Fits face, and I small white spot upon h{
re up, Whoev cr owns the laid hone may apply tq and prove hi* property
befo * • RICHARD SGRpTGGS/l. P.
Black-C eclr, i6th April, 1770.
NO I fcL is hceby given, that tru hoiittaken up bePvAcn OgecLy
ar.d Canoo'hee, and advertised in the Gazette of* the jjth 0 T
Mav !aft call, will bes <ld on th/ 1 1 ft of May next eufuing. at the Muftei.
field on Great Ogechee, unless tha property be proved before that day
Biotigfit to thfe &jfeTcurr,
TWO NEGROE FELLOWS, brought from the Creek ration, caift
fpeaUEnglifhtotellthcirownorthcirmaflersnsm.es; onecfthrtn
is a flout able fellow, about feet high, aged about 28 years, has his
country marks thus )) on each fide of his face, ar.d holes in his cars; tF.
other is about 5 feet g inches high, aged 22 years, of a yellow ccf I xior,
with holes in his ears. December 7, lyfej. *
A NEW NEGROE FELLOW, can’t speak Erglifh Aas to tcllhis
mailer’s or his own name, about five feet ore inch high, sbout to ycais
of age. has on an old oznabrigs frock, taken up at Great’ Cgcchec, to
wile* from town. 21 ft January, 177 c.
ONE NEGROE FELLOW, r.amed OEORCF, who fays he belongs
to William Poo! near the Corrarces, in Soutl .Carolina, about five
feet five inches high, aired about forty yra-*, has across and a fear oa
bis left kittle pitted with the fxnallpox, taken up in Savannah
town * 21 ft April, I^7^^