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THE SOUTHERN’ LITERARY GAZETTE
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
BY WILLIAM C. RICHARDS.
OFFICE ON COLLEGE AVENUE-OVER THE P.O.
O*
Terms : Tlco Dollars per annum, to be paid strict
ly in advance. If payment is not made within the
first six months of a term of subscription, the price
will be Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ; and, if de
layed until the end of the year Three Dollars.
Advertisements relating to Literature and the
Arts, and a few others of a select nature, will be pub
lished on this page of the “ Literary Gazette ” at the
customary rates. Business Cards, (of five lines and
under,) will be inserted one year for Five Dollars.
CORRESPONDENTS
Furnishing articles by contract, or solicited favors,
will please mark their letters with their initials as it
will be a general rule not to take unpaid letters from
the post-office unless they are so marked. Commu
nications of whatever nature must be addressed to
Wm. C. Richards. Anonymous communications
will receive no attention. If a writer desires io pub
lish without name or with a nom de plume, he must
still furnish the Editor with his proper name, who
will of course observe a proper secresy. Writers will
please send fair ms., written on one side of the sheet
only.
TRAVELING AGENTS.
Rev. W. Richards, Samuel P. Richards,
Charles F. White, Thomas A. Burke,
J. J. Richards, Robert H. Richards.
—JUST RECEIVED AT THE
B@(Q>]k=stb©i?@ 8 2 2 j
College Avenue, Athens , Georgia.
Bardell’s Sheep Husbandry at the South ;
Griswold’s Female Poets of America, (plain & gilt;) j
Read’s “ “ “ “
Caroline May’s “ “ “
Elements of Agriculture ;
Hahn’s Hebrew Bible ;
Mysteries of City Life ;
A Week at Glenville, (a beautiful Juvenile ;)
Partners for Life;
Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ; do. Poems; i
Mary Barton ;
The Great Hogarty Diamond. &c. &c.
A thens, Feb. 6th. WM. N. WHITE.
MUSIC ! —New Music just received at the
UNTV. BOOK-STORE, j
Ho Wilmm.
TT7OULD respectfully inform his friends a id the
VV public generally, that he has taken the Store |
on College Avenue, (next door to the Newton j
House, and recently occupied by Hill., Moss &
C 0.,) where he is now receiving and opening a
handsome assortment of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, and
CROCKERY, &c.,
Which he is offering on very favorable terras.
Persons wishing any article in his line, would do
well to call and examine his stock before purchasing,
lie hopes from his experience in business and strict
attention to the same, to be able to please all who
may call on him.
Athens, Feb. 10. 33 3w
Books, Stationery and Music.
TAMES McPHERSON & CO., beg leave to in
.J form their friends and the public that they have
greatly increased their supplies of
SCHOOL AND MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,
and are daily receiving, direct from New York and
Philadelphia, choice works in every department of
Literature and the Arts, together with
PLAIN AND FANCY STATIONERY,
of every description, both Americana id Foreign.
They have also a fine supply of
CENTRE, SIDE AND SUSPENSION SOLAR LAMPS,
made by Cornelius & Cos., the best in the world.
Atlanta, Ga., February 10, 1848.
Dissolution of Partnership.
U|"UIE Copartnership heretofore existing between
X the subscribers was by mutual consent dissolved
on the 31st ultimo, and the business will be hereafter
conducted by Mr. WM. N. WHITE, in his own
name, and on his own account?. Mr. White is also
authorized to settle the unfinished business of the
concern, and all parties indebted to it, are urgently
requested to make early settlement of their ac
counts’ WM. C. RICHARDS,
WM. N. WHITE.
The undersigned tenders liis sincere and grateful
acknowledgements to his friends for the patronage
so liberally bestowed upon him in the Book business
during the past four years, and begs to inform them
that he has sold out liis entire interest to his late
partner, Mr. Wm. N. White, who will continue ihe
business in all its branches, and for whom he earn
estly solicits the continued favors of his friends and
the public, assured, as he Is. that they will be emi
nently merited. WM. C. RICHARDS.
Athens, Feb. 1, 1849.
PIANO-FORTE AN!) ORGAN.
RECEIVED to-day, a splendid Six Octave
Rosewood Piano-Forte, of Stodart & Dun
ham, New York. Also, for sale, a magnificent Sev-
One ctave Grand Piano-Forte, of Erakd, Paris. A
Mahogany Church-Organ, of Apleton, Poston, at
the low price of $350 00.
CHARLES ZOGBAUM,
At Mr. Mitchel’s Hotel.
Dec. 9th, 1848. 31
§©33ifa &i£ S3 ®&&& if T 1
GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN.
BOOK-SELLERS & PUBLISHERS,
No. 59, Washington St., Boston.
JUST PUBLISHED.
Wayland’s University Sermons.
DELIVERED in the Chapel of Brown Universi
ty, on many of the moral and religious topics
of the day. By Francis Wayland, D. D. 12m0.,
cloth. $1 25.
CONTENTS.
Theoretical Atheism; Practical Atheism; The
Moral Character of Man; Love to God; The Fail
of Man; Justification by Works Impossible ; Pre
paration for the Advent of the Messiah ; The Work
of the Messiah ; Justification by Faith ; A Day in
the Life of Jesus of Nazareth; The Fall of Peter;
The Church of Christ; The Unity of tho Church ;
The duty of obedience to the Civil Magistrates ;
The Recent Revolutions in Europe.
“ Few sermons contain so much carefully arranged
thought as these by Dr. Wayland. The thorough
logician is apparent throughout the volume, and
there is a classic purity in the diction unsurpassed
by any writer, and equalled by very few. Knowing
the author’s rigid adherence to fixed principles, as
the only safe guide to right conclusions, the intelli
gent Christian will turn with deep interest to the
two last sermons.” — JY. Y. Com. Adv.
“ They are the careful production of a matured
and powerful intellect, and were addressed to a
thinking and well informed audience, and are espe
cially adapted for the educated and thoughtful
man.” — Ch. Alliance.
Proverbs for the People.
A series of Discussions on the book of proverbs, in
which are graphically delineated the great doc
trines and duties which relate to man’s temporal
and eternal weal. By Rev. E. L. Magoon. Cin
cinnati. 12mo. 90c.
Contents : — Chap. 1. Introductory, or The Wise
Preacher : 2. Captiousness, or The Censorious Man;
3. Kindness, or the Hero who best conquers ; 4. So
briety, or The glory of Young Men ; 5, Frugality,
or The Beauty of Uld Age; 6. Temptation, or Tiie
Simpleton Snared ; 7, lutegity or The Tradesman
Prospered; 8. Extravagance, or The Spendthrift
Disgraced: 9. Vanity, or The Decorated Fool ; 10.
Pride, or The Scorner Scorned; 11. Idleness, or
The Slothful Self Murdered : 12. Industry, or The
Diligent made Rich ; 13. Perseverance, or the In
vincible Champion; 14. Perseverance, Continued;
15. Sincerity, or The Irresistible Persuader; 1(>.
Falsehood, or The Dissembler Accused; 17. Deceit,
or The Knave Unmasked; 18. Flattery, or The
Lurking Foe.
“We commend the book as a most acceptable
companion to the sober and thoughtful reader.”
[Boston Courier.
“ The author lias in the most novel and strikingly
popular manner, discussed the principles of Christian
morality. The book cannot fail to arrest and fix the
reader's attention.” [Christian World.
“ He has shown in this volume much ability in
transmitting the ore and bullion of other climes and
ages into the valuable results of his own labors.
There is a freshness about the book, which is very
agreeable.” [Christian Alliance.
The Church in Earnest:
By John Angell James. Third edition. 50c.
“ Avery seasonable publication. The church
universal needs a re-awakening toitshigh vocation,
and this is a book to effect, so far as human Intellect
can, the much desired resuscitation.” —New-York
Commercial Advertiser.
is pre-eminently a Book for the times,
many pastors are engaged in circulating the work
j among their people.
The Person anil Work of Christ:
The Doctrines of the Person and Work of Christ .
|By Dr. Sartorius. Translated from the fifth Ger
’ man edition, by Rev. O. S. Stearns. 42e.
“ A work of much ability, and presenting the ar
’ gume.nt in a style that will be now to most of Amer
i ican readers; it will deservedly attract attention.”
| —[New-York Observer.
“ The came tr.ess, beauty and vivacity of its style,
possesses the qualities which should recommend it to
the favor of the Christian public.”—[Michigan
Christian Ilerald.
DAILY DUTIES, containing the “Bible and
the Closet,” and the “Family Altar,” in one vol.
Cloth, gilt edges. 50 cents.
CONSOLATION FOR TIIE AFFLICTED,
containing the “Silent Comforter” and the “At
tractions of Ilcaven.” Cloth, gilt edges. 50 cents.
TIIE CHRISTIAN’S FAMILY COMP AN
ION, containing the “Daily Manna” and ihe
“ Young Communicant,” in one vol. Cloth, gilt
! edges. 50 oents.
GOLDEN GEMS, for the Christian. Selected
from the writings of the Rev. John Flavel, with a
Memoir of the Author, by Rev. Joseph Banvard.
Cloth, gilt edges. 31 cents.
GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN,
Jau. 1549. Boston.
TIIE undersigned begs leave to inform the pat
rons and correspondents of the late firm of VV.
’ C. Richards, and Cos , that he will continue the busi
| ness on his own account at the store
NO 2 ON COLLEGE AVENUE,
immediately under (lie Newton House, and hopes by
unremitting attention to secure a continuance of
1 theirconfidcnce and support. Those indebted to the
firm, arc urgently requested to settle their accounts
1 with him immediately, that the books of the concern
may be closed. WM. N. WHITE.
Athens, Feb. 1, 1849.
iWafeS
FEMALE SEMINARY.
TIIE first Session of this Institution will com
mence on the Ist January, 1849, and continue
till the middle of Julv, under the instruction of Rev.
Seagrove W. Magill.
The friends of advanced female education, in and
about Athens, have long desired Ihe establishment,
in that place, of an Institution in which Young La
dies might be carried through a course of thorough
and extensive intellectual and moral training ; and
at their request, Mr. Magill has consented to com
mence such an institution.
The course of study will embrace Languages,
(Latin and Greek,) Mathematics, Philosophy, (Nat
ural, Mental and Moral,) Belles-Lettres, ice.
The number of pupils will be limited to about 35.
Candidates for admission must have completed
Geography, Grammar, and Arithmetic through De
nominate numbers. After the first Session, none
will be admitted for less than one year.
The Scholastic year will hereafter commence six
weeks after the Annual Commencement of Franklin
College, and close two weeks before the following
Commencement —with arecess of one w r eek at Christ
mas and the same about the Ist of May.
Terms, S4O per annum, payable one-half at Christ
mas, the remainder at the close of the scholastic year.
A commodious and handsome building for this In
stitution, in a beautiful grove adjoining the residence
of T. R. R. Cobh, Esq., will soon be completed.
A room in this building will be appropriated to a
musical department, and a competent teacher pro
vided for such of the pupils as may desire instruction
on the Piano.
For the accommodation of the patrons of the In
stitution. and the families in the vicinity, a room in
the building will, for the present, be appropriated to
a preparatory department, the instruction in which
will bo conducted by a competent teacher, under
the general supervision of Mr. Magill The number
in this department will be limited to 20, of such as
are prepared to enter upon the study of Arithmetic,
Geography and Grammar. Tuition, S3O per annum.
Applications for admission may be made to Mr.
M. at Greensboro’, until Ist December, or at the
Store of Wm. C. Richards &. Cos., in Athens.
Mr. Magill is permitted to refer to the following
gentlemen:
Dr. R. D. Moore, Rev. S. Landrum,
Hon. Chas. Dougherty, Prof. C. F. McCay,
Hon. J. H. Lumpkin, Rev. Dr. Church,
Wm. L. Mitchell, Esq. Prof. Le Conte,
Wm. C. Richards, Athens, ga.
MRS. COLEY, a highly educated and accom
plished English lady, has been engaged to
take charge of the Musical Department in the Ath
ens Female Seminary, and will organize a class for
instruction on the Piano, on Tuesday, Jan. 2d, at
the Seminary.
Mrs. C. is also prepared to give instruction in
Drawing and Water Colors, and will organize a
class for this purpose very soon after the opening of
the School, on the Ist of January.
S. W. MAGILL, Principal.
Athens, Dec. 9:h, 1848. 31
I3SW BOOK ST ©mi,
ON COTTON AVENUE, MACON, GEO
TIIE undersigned have opened, as above, an es
tablishment for the sale of
BOOKS, STATIONERY, and FANCY GOODS,
and will keep on hand a full and choice assortment of
School and Miscellaneous Books,
together with Plain and Fancy Stationery, Music
for the Piano Forte, &c. All of which they will sell,
at Wholesale or Retail, at the lowest market prices.
{(Cf- Orders for Law, Medical and Theological
Books, respectfully solicited
J. J. & S. P. RICHARDS.
Macon, Nov. 4. 1848.
“THE MISTLETOE:
A Magazine of the Sons of Temperance.
J. IV. B,’ T. A. BURKE. EDITORS.
AT the suggestion of some of the friends of Tem
perance, and by the expressed will of many of
the Divisions of the Order of the “ Sons of Tempe
rance,” the Subscriber commenced, on the first of
January, in the town of Athens, the publication of
a work, bearing the above title.
In commencing this enterprize, we address our
selves for support princi) ally to Sons of Temperance,
believing that they will cheerfully aid in sustaining
a Literary Magazine, in connection with the inter
ests of the Order. While it will, in the main, be
devoted to the great cause of Temperance, much
will be found in its pages to please the general
reader.
CONDITIONS.
The Mistletoe will comprise about 21 pages of
reading matter, monthly, printed from new type and
on good paper, with an occasional engraving, and
will be sent to subscribers at One Dollar per annum,
payable invariably in advance. Six copies will be
sent to one address for live dollars. The work will
contain two semi-annual volumes, and subscriptions
will be received for six months at 75 cents, in ad
vance.
A PROPOSITION TO DIVISIONS.
To that Division sending U3 the largest number of
subscribers, for the present year, we will send the
Mistletoe to each of its subscribers, gratis, for the
ensuing yea r.
All letters on business must bn directed, post-paid,
to JOHN W. BURKE,
Athens, Jan. 1849. 35 Publisher.
NEWTON HOUSE, *
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
nnllE Subscriber, as proprietor of this now and
X well-furnished Ilote 1 , expects (from long expe
rience, a disposition to ] lease, and attention to bu
sinc s.) to make it just such an establishment as the
public wants. LOVICK P. THOMAS.
January 6, 1819. 1 ]y
“GAZETTE”
S set SB Wet Safi* s
ESTABLISHMENT!
Executed with Neatness and, Despatch
AT THIS OFFICE.
R. J. MAYNARD,
BOOK BINDER,
Over the “ Southern Banner” Office, ?
A THENS, GE OGRIA.
ALBON CHASE^
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER
Books, Stationery, Fancy Goods , Perfumery
Paper Hangings , fyc., fyc., fyc.,
Opposite the College Campus, and under the South
ern Banner Office.
Orders filled at the Augusta prices!
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
JAMES McPHERSON & CO., .
DEALERS in
BOOKS, STATIONERY, MUSIC AND MU
SICAL INSTRUMENTS, FANCY GOODS
PAPER-HANGINGS, MAPS, &c. &c. &e.,
Atlanta , Georgia.
WM. N. WHITE,”
WHOLESALE ANI) RETAIL BOOK-SELLER,
—AND DEALER IN —
Stationery, Music $ Musical Instruments.
Lamps , Cutlery Fancy Goods , fyc. fyc.
Orders filled at the Augusta rates !
COLLEGE AVENUE, ATHENS, GA.
FELLOWS, WADSWORTH & CO.,
No. 17 Maiden Lane, New-York,
IMPORTERS OF
English and French Watches , Jewelry, Silver
and Plated Ware. Fancy Goods, tfc.
T'lIE Y have constantly on hand watches from the
manufactories of Robert Roskell, M. J. Tobias
4* Cos., Johnson. Bold-st, Taylor. Jno. Crags, Win.
Martin, M. Tobias, T. /•’. Cooper and others. as
well as all the varieties of Geneva and Swiss work.
UU A general assortment of Fancy Goods, suited
to the sales of Jewelers, Druggists, and others, Gold
Pens, Allen & Thurber’s Revolving Pistols.
May 13, 1348. Us
W. B. CHERRY.
Surgeon Me eh a7l i cal D enti st ,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Rf-Office on Dr. Reese's lot; near the Episcopal Ch.
HOUSE AND LAND FOR SALE.
fTVIIE SUBSCRIBER, intending to move from
X the State, offers for sale his House and Land in
the Town of Athens. The Land comprises two hun
dred and ninety-six acres, of which about a hundred
is well wooded, and the rest in good arable 1 ondition.
The property is situated in the upper portion of the
Town. The Dwelling is handsome and convenient,
the ont-houses all new, and the whole in perfect re
pair. There is an excellent Spring near the Dwell
ing, and also a fine well of water.
For terms of sale, apply to C. F. McCay, or to
ANDREW BAXTER-
Athens, Oct. 12. 32 —ts
CLASSICAL & MATHEMATICAL
MALE SEMINARY.
rpilE Fifth Semi-annual Term of this Institution
X will commence ou Monday, January Ist, 1849.
in the building before occupied, to which an adjoin
ing lot has been added for play-ground. The num
ber of pupils and rates of tuition to conFnUte .as le*
fore In the reception of applicants to fill vacancies,
particular attention has been given, both in respect
to acre and qualification, which will secure a better
classification, and afford time, so as to give History,
Composition and Elocution a sufficient- prominence-
Vacancies, that may occur from dismission, will be
filled by those who first apply.
A. M. SCUDDER, Principal-
Athens, Ga., Doc. 23, 1848.
Southern Mutual Insurance Company.
WM. M. MORTON, AGENT AT ATHENS,
rpms Company is now firmly established, and do-
X ing an extensive business. Risks will betaken
not only in towns, but in the country, on Dwellings,
Gin-Houses, Mills and Factories. , ~
The following parties are among the StockiioU”
ers of the Company at this Agencv: T
Asbury Hull, T. Bradford, Win W. Clayton, . -
8. Linton, Albon Chase-, Dr. 11. Hull, Henry Hu* -
.Tr.. E. L. Newton, Dr. E. R. Ware, F. Lucas, &-
J. Mays. Y. L. G. Harris, C. F. Lyle, A. J- Brady,
George Pringle, M. E. McWhorter, D- Holm*,
Rev. Dr. Hoyt, L. J. Lampkin, Rev. S. Landrum,
J J. liuggin-', W. Bavnon, T. R. IL Cobb, I r - •
M. Reese. Green B. II ay good, W. C. Richards
Cos., and Wtn. M. Morton. -
Parties, desiring to effect insurance on then P
pert.y in this vicinity, will make application to
subscriber. ’’ WM. M. MORTON
Athens. Nov. 25th, 1318. J
FERRY &Tc 0.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN —
Hats, Caps , Boots, Shoes, Tranks, <$ r *
BROAD-STREET, ATHENS, GEORGIA-