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s. Si’ESCER & H. S. STEIV^UT,
iYAAovnex s at'Law,
OFFICE. TROUP V1LLE,
Lowndes County, Ga.^
Oct. 2G, 1843.
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CIIA If EES 3. WILLIAMS)
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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEO.
Nov. 10,18-43. * 22
C. MUKPHEV. Attorney at Law.
CASSVILLE, Georgia.
Tr-r’lJ.I, attend to business in any County, in the
\\ Cherokee Circuit, and in DeKalb ami Cobb, of
, the Coweta Circuit.
January 30, 1844.
3m
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
rpllli nndersijrned have formed a partnership for the
J transaction of a Factorage aud Commission Eiisi-
uess, in the city of Savannah, aud will open an office
on the first day or August next. They intend to give
their personal attention to the business, and hope to
nn-iit. and if so, to receive a liberal share ol public
,,alienage.
JOHN L. SWINNEY & Co.
Partners—John L. Swinsev, )
Jamf.s H. Burnett. 5
February, 1843. 37 tf
HAMILTON, HARDEMAN, & EO.
FACTORS
AND
GENERAL COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
Savannah, Ga.
Savannah, July 20.1843.
Fool* at this before you so farther
•H ST IlliAnVvYYNGr Wi
IIA PARR & UOSERS.l
.VUiEHeEmEE, GEOMGI.l,
IMPROVED
BOTAIICO-MEDICAL
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By M. §, r 2'l2onisati, 31. S>. Macon, Ga.
% i F.AD aud JUDG E.
MX fast to that which is ;
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a© OB,
At the Branch Depot erf the N. Y. Dry (.roods
CLOTHING STORE,
A FINE assortment of SPRING and SUMMr.R
J\_ Urv Goods, suitable for Ladies and Gentlemen,
consisting of calicoes, prints o f ail descriptions, &c.;
cloths, fancy casatneres, a large stock of readymade
clothing, gentlemen’s boots and shoes, ladie’s shoes,
hats, caps, &c. All of which will he sold at the lowest
cash prices One of the former being in New York all
the time, the goods received at the Branch Depot are
selected with care and upon the most favorable terms,
consequently we can sell as good, us fine, as durable and
as cheap, if not cheaper goods, than can be purchased at
•mv other establishment at the South. All that we ask,
is for the ladies and gentlemen to call and examine for
themselves, it will cost nothing aud we shall be glad to
see them. ,
\ T B Clothing cut out with neatness and despatco. at
the KTBRANCH DEPOT,next door to the
State Bank.
Milledgeville, Feb. 13, 1814. 8t —3'>
Penitentiary.—251W32S, EI5DES.
ASH OB, BARTER, will he paid for all kinds of
j Holes, suitable for being tanned, deured at this In
stitution. • . . , , r , .,
Persons at a distance, desiring to make sale ol nicies,
for Cash or Barter, will please open a communication
with the Iiisoector of the Penitentiary. or with the un
dersigned. A. IV. REDDING,
Principal Keej cr.
Feb. 5, 1844. 35 8t
Jtmt Published,
Y i* i c ft Yo Cents,
And for sale at this Office, and by the Author,
ptHE Essay on t'ie sol’s and available manures of
rain, with their application anil management;
founded on a Geological and Agricultural surrey, by
JOHN RUGGLES CUTTING,
State Geologist of Georgia, and Member of the Associ
ation of American Geologists.
Dec. 25,1843. 23
te IHr.ll ITCoacy S»I par.
jFsimlSy k.-ipoeppy SIopp.
HIE undersigned respectfully informs the citizer
HP of Milledgeville and Baldwin county, that he has
taken the stand formerly occupied by Mr. Rag
mediately apposite the'State Bank, and has on hand a
Large and General Assortment of
FAMILY GROCERIES.
Embracing every article usually kept in the line, select
ed by an experienced hand, which he will dispose of at
Wholesale or Retail, on more reasonable terms lor cash,
than can he purchased elsewhere in the city. His
CONFECTIONARY
Immediately in the rear of the “Family Grocery,
where Confectionaries, Fruits, and choice Liquors. $?c.
Ifc., can he had at all times. E. ItOWLEY.
Jan. 15, 1844
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T"J AXAWAY from my residence, on the morning of
JLk.. the 1st instant, in Wilkinson county, Ga., mv ne
gro man Milton, about 23 or 24 years of age. very dark
complected, with a very noted scar between his eyes.
He is about 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, and stout bunt,
weighing 140 or 150 pounds. Said boy can read and
write a little, aud perhaps has written his own pass-
suitable reward will he paid to any person, who will de
liver him to me, or lodge him in any Jail so tnat 1 ge
January 0, 1844.
DANIEL BURKE.
30 tf
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
I qj ANAWAY from the subscriber, living near Decs-
tur, Ga.. on the night of 11th inst., a blight mulatto
hoy. about 25 years old, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, rather
stout built, very straight hair, quick spoken, though not
very intelligent, had on when he went away, a black fur
hat, tall slim crown aud narrow brim; he carried off a
number of garments and may appear in different garbs
will probably try to pass for a white person, being very
white and change his name; his real name is Pleasant. I
will mve Twenty Dollars reward lor his delivery to me,
or for Ins lodgment in Jail so C ROCKET.
Decatur, DeKalb co., Ga., Feb. 14,lc44. .50 tf
“Prove all tilings and hold
ood.” As even in our day,
in reality, “the deaf may hear, the lame may walk, and
the blind may receive their sight.”
The undersigned fully awate of the tnanv responsibili
ties resting upon him as a practitioner ol the healing art,
would again tender his services to those who may need
them with the assurance in advance, that if assiduous
care, long experience, aud a thorough knowledge ol in
nocent vet powerfully health’s restoring remedies, with
their judicious application will restore lost health, he
feels warranted in saying, that so far as these go to the
procurement of such de ideratura, the afflicted or their
friends will in no case be disappointed.
As heretofore persons afflicted with chronic diseases
and residing at a distance may have their cases treated by
sending their symptoms in writing as correctly as possi
ble, when medicines to suit them will he compounded
and sent. .Many who have pursued this course though
vve have never seen them, are now in the enjoyment of
uninterrupted health. Person’s having diseased servants
who may be to them both burihensome and expensive,
may either have their cases treated or dispose of them to
the subscriber at a fair price.
Letters to ensure attention must invariably bo jiost
paid ; terms liberal aud punctuality expected.
M. S. THOMSON, M. D.
February 20, 1844. 33
That community may have some idea of the extremes
to which disease may go without being beyond the reach
of medicine, it is deemed proper to append the follow
ing statement of facts, taken from a number of similar
import, which may yet be submitted as room and circum
stances may admit.
Bibb County, Jan. 9th, 1844.
This may certify that my wife has been afflicted with
Dyspepsia and Liver complaint for twelve years, and
has taken a variety of medicines without apparent bene
fit ; even the justly celebrated Dr. Durham, of Clark
county, failed to benefit her. She suffered much from
nervous irritability, palpitation of the heart and extreme
weakness so as In be confined almost entiiely to her bed.
In this situation 1 applied to Dr. M. S. Thomson of Ma
con, under whose directions and applications I am hap
py to say she soon was restored to comfortable health,
and is now aide to attend to all the usual busiuess of her
house aud family.
My daughter was also afflicted with convulsive fits,
fiotn which Dr. Durham failed to relieve her. I applied
to Dr. Thomson also in her case, and I am persuaded he
has finally cured her; she has had no symptom of them
in six months.
But these though certainly of their kind very eminent,
cannot he compared for a moment with the case of one
of uiy sons, who has been afflicted with palsy to such a
degree as to have become perfectly helpless, he first lost
the use of his limbs then of his body and finally his hear
ing and eyesight, so that lie might he said to he in a
manner dead only he breathed, aud even that at one time
was so nearly gone, that his clothes were prepared in an
ticipation of his final exit W e had made use of the usu
al remedies in such cases, and even had applied to Dr.
Stringfellovv, a root doctor, but without benefit. In this
situation, Dr. Thomson was called in, who l am happy
to say has restored him not only to the full and free use
of all his limbs, hut also to the use of his eyes and ears,
without which creation were a blank and life itself a bur
den. Tite change is so great from absolute helplessness
blindness and d afness to life aud activity sight and hear
lie realised by any but those who
have seen it. This is a cut
effected by the Doctor are, will hardlv give precedence to
any. ISAAC WATTS.
Tlic Jerusalem Artichakc!
rjTIIE Cultivation of this root is spreading rapidly in
_L Tennessee and the Cherokee country in Georgia,
and it is found upon experiment, to produce more nu
tritive matter per acre, for fattening iiogs, than any other
Vegetable whatever. It is planted and cultivated like
corn; delights ill a loose soil, and will produce front 4
to S Hundred bushels per acre, as an examination of our
Farms at this time, upon the Onstanaulee and Etowah,
will fully prove.
One acre will keep in good condition, fifteen head of
hogs (if they are well supplied with ashes.) from the first
of October to the first of April. Five bushels (with one
lartre, ot two small roots to a hill) will pi int one acre—
aud two plotighhigs and hoeings will he sufficient. The
root will lie in the ground all winter, without injury and
is relished by horses, cattle and sheep. They can be had
at our plantations by the load, at 75 cents per bushel,
and at all other places where required, at the same price,
adding the cost of transportation.
O 3 March and April are the usual months for plant-
ing..i~n
A. T HARDEN, Floyd.
JOHN LEAK, Cass.
IS EISDEEB.
THIS thorough bred Race-horse (own bro-
titer to Alice Gray.) will stand the next season
fT7 A at CLINTON, Jones county, and will be let to
ni tres at the reduced price of !$25 the season.
RITNDEER was sired by the celebrated Henry, tlie
cmnpetitorofEelipse; his dam Sportndstress by Hickory,
(the best ion of the imported Whip) his grandatn. Mil
ler’s Damsel, the dam of American Eclipse; she wa
Walker County, Feb. 1st, 1844.
To Col. A. T. Harden ly John Leak, Esqrs:
I have seen your advertisement, and in comp iance
with your wishes, take this opportunity to state that l
have cultivated the Jerusalem Artichoke, for the last two
years, aud was. I believe, the first to introduce it into
Georgia from Tennessee.
There is no exaggeration in the account y on give of it,
according to my experience, and its introduction into
Georgia, will create an important era, and render onr
citizens in a short little in a great measure, independent
of western supplies of pork.
DANIEL NEWNAN.
Tite above article, can be had in Griffin and Madison,
in a short time, at 50 cents per bushel, by applying
to the Commission Merchants, Johnston, Jones & Peck,
and McKinley & Co.
Feb 22, 1844. 38 3t
ired \
by imported Messenger. Great grandatn, the imported
mare by Fotoxas, great great grandatn by Gnncrack-
8nap Dragoon, bv Snap—Regains—Bartlett s Childers
Honey Woods'Arabian, out of the Two True Blues.
ItFIXDEBR is achesnut sorrel. 16 hands high, of
largeVone. strongly made, short hack, fine eyes and of
commanding appearance. He was bred by Thomas
Pearsall, of Loiil' Island, New York, will he 9 years old
in Mav next. There is not a better blooded horse in the
United States, either native or imported.
JOHN WYNENS.
Feb. 13. 1844 . 35 5t
Assignee's Kale.
N~W\ylLLhe sold in McDonough. Henry county, on
\f' f the first Tuesday in April next, as the property
of AVm. J- Lewis, a petitioner in bankruptcy, the fol
lowing property, to-vvit:
tf land No. 2, in tl
Lot of land No. 2, in the 8th district, of Gilmer coun
ty ; also, lot So. 22, in the 10th district and 2nd section
0 f Gilmer county; also.au undivided half of No :>'.)7,
in the 10th district of formerly Irwin now Lowndes
county; also. No. 284, in the 4lh district ol Irwin coun
ty; also, lot No. 175. in the 2nd distr.ct and 2nd section
of Cherokee county; also, lot No 33. in the 2nd dis
trict and 2nd section of Cherokee county.
Also, the executions, notes, accounts and receipts ren
dered by the said Lewis, together with a variety of
books, a silver watch, and other articles.
WM. MARKHAM, Agent
for M Mvres, Gen Assignee for Dist. of Ga.
McDonough, March 5, 1844. 39
U’N.VWAY from mv plantation in Marion county,
Y eleven miles west ofTazwell, on the road leading
to Columbus, a negro fellow whose name is Scy or
Seyms, about twenty-five years oid ; five feet eight
or ten incites high, rather slender built and when spoken
is inclined to laugh, no marks recollected, but few scars
about his hack; he left in company with one other negro
belonging to Benjamin Story, named Hiram, six feet or
the rise in height, raw bone and stout and very black
complected, had on when he left a fine grey cloth dress
coat, with a velvet collar and had some two or three pair
of fine pants which he stole before lie left; he is ;t coblitl
blacksmith; they are supposed to have been decoyed off
hv some white person, in person or by giving them pas
se-; all patroons of Boats and agents for railroads, are
cautioned from receiving such negroes on hoard of their
respective charges.
A reward of twenty dollars will he given for both of
said negroes delivered to tite owners at their respective
places of abode, or lodged in some Jail, so that tli, y oart
he got, or ten dollars for oitlierof them- Any information
addressed to Jacob A. Clements, at Centerville Talbot
county, or to Benjamin 8tory, in Marion county, Taze
well, or Pineville post office either, will be thankfully
received. JACOB A. CLEMENTS, Talbot.
BENJAMIN STORY, Marion.
March 5th, 1844. 4t 39
THE THOROUGH BRED HORSE,
A IV E> R E W, .1 R ,
. „ - Will stand theensningseason at the stable of
ttiesnhscriber. in Baidwiiicountv, ten milesfrom
Milledgeville, near the Clinton road, and twelve miles
from Clinton; and as the tunes are so hard, he will he
let to mares at the low price of $12 the Season. Should
a mare not prove with foal the Spring Season, she will
be entitled to the Fall Season, GRATIS, provided she
is not traded off. He is truly a valuable Horse, and will
add greatly to the stock of the country.
Description.—Andrew, Jr. is a beautiful dark cuest-
nnt sorrel, 16 hands high, of fine hone and muscle, with
excellent limb and action
Pedigree.—Andrew, Jr. was got by the celebrated
horse. Sir Andrew, owned by Col. R M- Johuson, ol
Virginia, (the Napoleon of the turf.) whose performances
as a race horse needs no comment, aud out ol a Gallatin
mare, one of the best of the stock.
Performances.—lie was trained when three years
old, for a match race for $1,000—mile heats, which was
run over the Milledgeville course, and which he won
with ease in two heats, running under a hard pull and
beating Major Richard Rowell’s fine colt Truffle. He
was a^ain trained in 1841. and was entered with three
others! best 3 in 5, and in the third heat he threw his rider
at the stand, and but for this accident it was thought by
the best of judges, that he would have taken the parse.
In training for this race, he run one mih over the Mdledgi-
ville turf in tiro minutes with twenty pounds occriccigte,;
he also run over the same course two miles in four min
utes and twenty three seconds.
Mares sent to tne Horse will be taken care o! andevery
attention paid to prevent accidents or escapes, hut no
liability for either. Notes will be required payable nexi
Christinas which must lie sent with the mare.
50 Cents to the Groom for each mare.
Tite Season will commence the first of March and
end the first of June. ABRAM FOARD.
Feb. 6, 1844. ht
New Sprias Goods
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
A EL persons indebted to the estate of James Hutu’
phryes, lale ot N.ewton county, deceased, are re
quested to make immediate payment; and those having
demands against the estate are requested to present them
within the time prescribed by law.
„ CHARLES LUCAS, Adm’r.
Nov. 7, 1843. 22
T HIS DAY opening the following articles
a good " ” “ ‘ ~
d assortment of small figured prints, rich;
small check ginghams;
muslin ginghams, a new article for dtesses;
4-4 figured italzavtties, new and rich;
strip’d grantham lawns, new ;
rich printed lawns;
crewel canvass, lace striped muslins:
linen cambric handkerchiefs;
Georgia nankeen:
Carolina hoes, Trades patent hoes:
cist steel garden hoas, with handles;
cotton plough lines;
super, super, fine fashionable hats, all of which will
be sold cheap, considering.
March-lth, 1844. 36 tf
Georgia, DeKalb county.
Brought to fail,
ON the 4th instant, a negro man
of black complexion, by the name
of Jesse, between twenty-five and
thirty years of age, and says that he
belongs to William B. Bazor. of
Macon county, Alabama. The own-
requested to come forwara,
prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
A. B. BUCHANAN, Jailer.
March G, 1844.
39
BLANK. DEEDS
For Sale at the Federal Union Office.
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SPRING GOODS.
^I 'DE SUBSCRIBER has now commenced receiv-
, ing his supply of Goods! They have all been
selected by himself in New York aud Boston markets,
with much care, and will he sold at his usual low prices.
30 pieces Balzaiine, at 50c pci yard;
20 “ Foiriard Silk, at 5Gc per yard;
20 “ striped figured silk, at 62 1-2 a 75c;
figured silk, tit 87 1-2 a $1 25c;
black Gro de Nap, at 8? 1-2 a $1;
black Ton de Soie, at $1 a $1 12 1-2;
white watered silk, at $1;
white satin, at $1 a $1 25;
black and white ginghams, at 25 a 37 l-2c;
Fren h cambrics and muslins, at 25 a 37 1-2;
mourning cambrics and muslins, 25 a 50c;
F.ailston ginghams, at 31c;
Chenie ginghams, at 37 l-2c;
check ginghams, at 37 l-2c;
Furniture Dimity, at 25 a 31c;
check cambrics, at 25 a 50;
plain cambric, at 25 a 50c;
jaconet cambric and muslins, 31 a C2 1-2C;
striped Swiss muslin, at 50c;
Swiss muslin, at 50 a $1 25;
M nil muslin, at 50 a $ I ;
Nansook muslin, at 02 1-2 a $1 25;
English and French calicoes, at 163 4 a25c;
calicoes, at 8 a 12-12c;
Irish Linens, at 37 1-2 a $1;
Long Lawn, at 50 a $1 ;
Linen cambric, at $2 a $4;
bleached long cloth, at 8 a lGc;
4-4 brown homespun, at 8 a 12 l-2c;
3-4 brown homespun, at G a 6c;
Apron checks, at 12 1-2 a 25c;
Mariners’ stripes, at 12 l-2c;
Bed ticking, at 12 l-2c ;-
Bed ticking, at 18 3-4 a 25c;
bine Drills and Mexican mixtures, 20a25;
Thread and Lisle Laces; Cambric and Swiss Trim
mings: Lace caps; Bonnet silks; Bonnet ribbons; Silk
and Kid Gloves; Lace and silk Mitts; Birds eye Diaper;
Rtis-ia and English Diaper; Linen, silk and fancy hand
kerchiefs; Fancy silk Ties; Rich silk Shawls, &c.&c.
E. \V. BANCROFT.
Milledgeville, .March 12, 1844. 39
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300
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500
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Rcadj' Made Cloiliiag
And Gentlemens Furnishing Store, next door
to the Post Office, “ up stairs."
S UPER dress coats, $20 a 22 ;
do do 10 a 15;
Cassamer pants; G a 8:
Sattinetl do 2 50 a 3 50 ;
200 pair linen pants, 1 60 a 3 50;
200 li nen coats and coatees,2 00a 3 50;
50 hunting coats. 3 50;
25 gingham coats and coatees, (damaged,) 1 25;
200 light and dark vests. 1 00 a 3 00;
50 satin do 3 50 a 5 00;
50 silk do 3 50 a 4 00;
Black and colored kid gloves ;
Silk linen do
Satin and bombazine stocks. 57.1 a 3 50;
Satin,silk and gingham ties, 1 00 a 2 00;
Bvron collars, 31 a 37 ;
Shirts, 1 00 a 2 50;
Linen Drills, Drap de Ete, Napoleon Cloth, French
Cloth and Cassamers, fine Beaver Hats, &c. &c.
E. W. BANCROFT.
Milledgeville, March 13, 1844. 39
SPRING FASHIONS FOR 1S44.
Hind tV IIiuitjoiToiwI, MonticcUo,
C. iltingl'l fat'd & C»., Jackson, Butts Co.
A RE now receiving direct from New \ork, a large
/* assortment of Spring Goods, of the newest and
most fashionable styles fur ladies aud gentlemen’s sum
mer wear; m„u. .iv.. • . is.
spectfully invited to call and examine.
March 3, 1841.
MI^SCELL ANEOUS.
THE POET'S METAMORPHOSIS.
BY MRS. FRANCES OSGOOD.
CIIAPTSR I.
Gifted and worshipped ont! Genius and grace,
Play in each motion and beim in thy face!
She was just your ideal, dear reader of all
that is noble and lovely in woman; with wealth,
beauty and goodness for her dower, she might
have chosen a husband front the very elite of
the land, yet she folded up that blossom of
purity and truth—her heart—from the gay
and bold insects, bees, wasps and butterflies,
that sought its treasures, and turned away ‘In
maiden meditation’ still. But she shut up
within it one image—the image of a singing
bird, that had often hovered round but never
yet dared to alight. This bird was a poet,
deaf, ugly, lame and poor, although Grace
Carroll blindly persisted in thinking and de
claring him rich, handsome, graceful, in spite
of his red hair and sallow complexion, in spite
of his halting walk, in spite of his shabby coat;
yes, in defiance of friend and foe, in the very
face of fact, handsome, rich and graceful he
was, and should remain!
39—3t
Botsuels—Botiaels.
DOZEN BONNETS—embracing almost eve-
fp| P rv variety of entirely new styles of SPRING
FASHIONS—consisting of 'Shell and Albert, Plain.
Birds-Eye, and Lace Tuscan Bonnets; White and Black
Straw and Tuscan Bonnets; Black and fancy colored
Silk and Lawn Bonnets; Imperial Willow; Cypress and
Palm Leaf Bonnets, at all prices, from 25 cents to $5
The Ladies are respectfully invited to call and exam
ine the above assortment, which will be sold as cheap as
the same articles can be bought in Macon, Milledgeville,
or Madison, at
IIURD & HUNGERFORD S,
Monticello.
C. HUNGERFORD & CO.,
Jacksou, Butts county.
March 8, 1844. 39—3t^
Fifty Dozen Slats 1
N OW opening at HURD & IIUNGERFORD’S
and C. HUNGERFORD & CO.’s New York
Cheap Stores—consistit g of Pearl and Black Cassimere
Ilais; Beaver, Silk, Russia, and Sporting Hats: Sea
Grass, Leghorn, and Pahnleaf Hats, at all prices, from
ten cents to seven dollars. ’ 1
Gentlemen wishing to purchase a good article cheap,
will do well to call aud examine our assortment.
March 8, 1344. 99 3t
Boots, Brogaiis, Shoes, Slips, Ac.
I I ALEXANDER is now receiving at the sign of
* the New Boot and Shoe Store, his spring supply
of the above articles, which, with the stock on hand,
will make a large and complete assortment of
Gent’s fine sewed and pegged calf Boots;
Gent's fine fr. calf boots; Gent’s fine goat boots;
Gent’s seal boots; Gent’s fine calf and goat brogans;
Gent’s fine calf and goat pomp-soled brogans;
Gent’s fine calf and goat pumps; Gent’s fine leather
and velvet slips; Men’s Kip peg’d brogans;
Men’s Kip pegged shoes; Men’s thick black peggeil and
sewed brogans: Boy's calf pegged boots; Bov’s sewed
boots; Boy’s kip pegged brogans; Boy’s calf pegged
anti sewed brogans; Boy’s mo pumps; Youth’s calf
sewed and pegged brogans; Youth’s kip peg’d brogans;
Children’s shoes, all sorts; Ladies’ line black gaiter
boots; Ladies’ fine green and bronze boots, entirely
new; Ladies fine col d and bronze boots;
Ladies’ fine green and bronze slips, entirely new ;
T -iIt,.* 1 fine black and color’d half gai’er boots;
Ladies’ fine kid buskin welts; Ladies’ fine kid buskin
slips; Ladies’ line kid fr. tie slips; Ladies’ tine kid bro-
gatts; Ladies' fine kid mo. slips; Ladies’ fine seal welts;
Women's kip brogans; Women’s kip and leather
heeled wells;
Misses’ kip and gnat brogans: .Misses’ kid brogans;
Misses’ kid welts; Misses’kid slips; Misses’black and
col'd half gaiter slips and welts.
Also, black and russet negro shoes; travelling trunks;
valises, carpet hags, seal trunks, and Ladies’ satchels;
blacking, shoe brushes, shoe thread, &c &c.
All of which vvill be sold at the lowest cash prices,
for cash.
Milledgeville, March 12, 1814. 39
Administrator's Sale.
SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED ANDTHIR
TY-FIVE ACRES OF LAND IN SOUTH
WESTERN GEORGIA.
U .NDF.R an order from the honorable Inferior Court
of Richmond county, when sitting for ordinary
purposes, will he sold on the first Tuesday in May next,
for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of the estate of
Patfl Fitzsimmons,’ deceased, the following described
lands, belonging to that e.-tate.
At the court noose in Baker county, 2625 acres 3d dis
trict Baker county.
At the courthouse in Lee co.,
<• “ “ Dooly,
“ “ “ Randolph,
<• “ “ Sumter,
6071 acres 13th dis.
2021 “ 9th
2024 “ 7th
13U>4 “ 15th
“ “ “ “ 8704 “ 28th
« “ “ 405 “ 28th
Terms—one fourth cash, the balance on the 1st Janua
ry next, approved notes and mortgage on the property.
The Baker and Sumter tracts have considerable im
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‘But Grace, his face is not handsome sure
ly,’ said her friend Madeline.
‘It is ‘the divine beauty of his soul' I see.’
‘He is not graceful, at any rate.’
‘Y es, Madeline, his looks, his tones, his ac
tions, his words, are all graceful and tasteful
to me.’
‘Not rich, then?—you cannot makehim rich!’
‘Now, Madeline, for shame! What call
you wealth?’
‘Is he rich, Grace?’
‘\ r es, rich and noble too; why heha3 genius,
a king would drain his realm to buy.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Genius and honor—hope, truth, love! A
heaven in his heart, an empire in his mind.—
What is your gold but dross to these?’
‘But then—of such low birth.’
‘Low?—With the noblest!’
‘Ha, ha, ha! Give him a patent of nobil
ity and be done with it—do.’
‘He has it now—I’ve read it.’
‘What! —where?’
‘In his eyes, Madeline, and on his noble ;
brow—’twas writ in heaven. Y r ou smile—but j
I tell you that a single word of praise or
blame from that high-hearted being would af
fect me more than the applause or censure of
a whole world beside.’
‘Grace! are you possessed?’
‘Y'es, self possessed, Madeline, as yet, thank
heaven! So pray don’t imagine me in love
with Horace Herbert.”
‘Well, you can’t deny that he’s deaf as a
post sometimes.’
iT’nri n-lad he is deaf to all the idle, heartless.
noisy buzzing of this frivolous ana wearisome
world, whose clatter might otherwise drown
the music to which his soul still listens.’
And what is that?’
The voice of God! the voice of divine love!
the melody of heaven, which he echoes in his
beautiful songs.’
They were standing, Madeline and Grace’
near a curtained window apart from the other
guests at Mrs. Harvey’s—and neither dream
ed that they were overheard; but behind that
curtain was a young man, who, had apparent
ly just entered from the garden through the
open window. Too agitated—too deeply ab
sorbed in the conversation to think of avoid
ing the part of a listener, he had stood tremb
ling till it was over, and then, instead of re
entering the room, he rushed once more into
the open air to give free vent to the "passionate
emotions of his souli
Thank God! thank God!’ he cried, in a
voice half choked by feeling, and tears uncon
trollable rushed to his eyes as he spoke.—
Thank God, she knows me—she sees me as
I am—no, not as I am, but as T might, as I
ought to be.—She looks into my soul, ‘thro’
the rose colored glass’ of her own divine ima
gination, it is true; but I am more worthy of
her praise and love than of the ill concealed
aversion of those around her. Blessings on
the beautiful—the noble girl! What a lofty
and luminous soul lighted up her face as she
spoke—and I have deceived even her—but oh!
what a triumph to know that it is my genius,
my wind, my heart she loves. ‘Loves!’ ah, no,
she denied that she loved me. Perhaps—but
there is yet hope! She will, she must, she
shall,’ and with a proud and dignified mien,
which, in spite of his limb, impressed almost
all who beheld him with a sense of his superi
ority, he re-entered the brilliant drawing-room
of Mrs. Harvey, and stood with folded arms
apart, gazing upon the object of his long con
cealed affection, until she caught his gaze, and
blushed beneath it as she nex’er blushed for
others.
‘Oh, Mr. Herbert, you must come and sing
for us. You must indeed—one of your own
songs, won’t you?’ And a bevy of beautiful
and highborn girls approached him.
There was no reply; Herbert stood perfect
ly unmoved. ‘Y r ou forget he is deaf,’ said
Mrs. Harvey, and she wrote their request on
a tablet.
‘Pardon me, ladies, I am not in the mood
just now; my mind is out of tune—and you
know how I frightened you the other day with
my terrible discord, because I sang when I
didn’t want to.’
The young ladies looked disappointed. ‘Oh,
Grace, you ask him. He always does what
you wish.’
Horace could always hear Grace Carroll’s
voice, that is if it was very near him—and yet
she never raised her tone; perhaps it was on
that very account—her voice was peculiarly
clear and soft, and it seemed to reach his soul
instead of his ear. And now she stole timid
ly to his side and put her sweet mouth close to
his face. How his heart beat.
‘Do sing for us, Mr. Herbert—just one
Herbert did not turn—he could not—that
tone always roused in his soul an emotion he
dared not betray; but he obeyed at once the
spell of his enchantress, and sang in a rich,
mellow, manly voice—while his dark face
lighted up into almost inspired beauty, the
following impromptu verses:
Speak no more! I dare not hear thee!
Every word aod tone divine
All too fatally endear thee.
To this daring soul of mine.
A LL PERSONS indebted to the estate of the late
John Rawls, deceased, of Pulaski county, are here
by requested to make immediate payment. And all per
sons having demands against said deceased, will render
them in agreeable to law, to
CHARLES E. TAYLOR, adtu’or.
39 CAROLINE M. RAWLS, adm’rx.
Smile no more! I must not see thee!
Every smile’s a golden net:
Heart entangled! what can Iree thee?
What can sooth thy wild regret?
Speak again! smile on forever!
Let me in that music live;
Let me in that light endeavor
To forget the grief they give.
Thrill my soul with voice and look, love,
Like the harp-tone in the air,
Like the starlight in the brook, love,
They will still live treasured there.
lark
irarit
jrr.mca 19, 1844.
[TOE. 14. HO. 49.
CHAPTER II.
I give thee, maiden, faith and love,
The richest gifts that be.
I'll serve thee in the noblest waye
Inglorious man can finde,
And struggle for a conqueror's swaye
Upon the field of mine.
And tho’no prowde ones thronge the gate,
Nor mean ones court* thy view,
Thou shalt have reverence from the greate,
And honor from the true. J. M. H.
Our hero only a short time previous to the
scene related in the last chapter, had sudden
ly appeared in the fashionable circles of B—,
introduced by some one it was believed; but
by whom or how, or whence be came, the gos- t
sips of the cilque declared they could not im
agine. Every one was interested in him:
how could they help it? He was so peculiar,
such a bundle of contradictions! Giving evi
dence at times in bis writings and conversation
of a lofty and briliant genius, be was general
ly reserved, silent, haughty, ‘incomeatable,’
if I may borrow a word from a light friend of
mine. Shabby in apparel and lame, there
was, nevertheles, a certain nobleness, dignity
and grace in his mien and address, which some
few in the circle could discern and appreciate.
His hair and whiskers of a fiery red, con
trasted strangely with his superb eyes, intense
ly beautiful in depth and hue, and full of elo
quence in expression. His face was one of
those which light up in emotions ofjoy, anger,
or love, all the more glorious from being usu
ally cold, still and dark. It was generally
supposed that he was of low, or at leastobscure
birth; but however that might be, his senti
ments, deportment and language, were always
elevated and refined. At any rate, in spite of
his red hair, his eccentricity, his poverty, his
defect of hearing, his limb and his reserve,
Horace Herbert was a very fascinating per
son to those he chose to fascinate.
The Carrolls happened to be boarding that
winter at the same hotel with him, and they
had thus become intimate.
One rainy morning, just after breakfast,
when the ladies’ drawing-room was more than
usually crowded, Herbert had seated himself
on a sofa near Grace, who was netting, rather
apart from the rest of the company, and taken
up with a newspaper. Encouraged by her kind
ness, and the subdued softness of her manner
toward himself, to hope for at least indulgence,
if not return to his love, he had been wishing
for several days to converse with her in private;
but she was generally so surrounded by friends
that it was impossible, and even now it would
not do to whisper, for that would attract atten
tion and subject her to remark.
‘Won’t you read me the news, Mr. Herbert?’
said Grace, leaning toward him, that he might
hear—‘there is no one near enough to be dis
turbed by it.’ This was just what he wanted,
and he gravely began, commencing every sen-
««« items rt/vwxmrxm tr\ nawq.
papers, and finishing it in his own way, preser
ving the same monotonous and quiet tone
throughout.
‘An, alarm, of fire was given last night about
nine o'clock—I beg you will listen to me calm
ly for a few moments, Miss Carroll—go on
with your netting; no one will notice that I am
not reading from the paper all the time.’
Grace could not repress a laugh at this nov
el mode of conversing, and the three watch
ful maiden gossips on the opposite sofa could
not imagine what there could be so very amu
sing in an alrm of fire. Herbert went calmly
on.
‘Lost on Saturday morning—I cannot en
dure this state of suspense any longer.’
This time Grace blushed. ‘Well!’ said one
gossip to another ‘any one would think it was
her heart or his that was lost from the way she
colors about it!’
‘Any one leaving it at this office—I am oblig
ed to leave town to-morrow for a few weeks.’
And now tears stood in the dark and lovely
eyes of the listener, as she raised them for a
moment to his and dropped them again to her
work.
‘WhaLinthe world does that mean?’ won
dered the puzzled old maids, ‘crying because
a reward is offered! I don’t understand it at
all.’
• TFe regret to announce the death of the lion.
—I shall have no other chance to speak to you
before I leave, or I would not enter upon so
serious a subject in this apparently trifling way.
You must have been aware, long ere this, of
my devoted attachment.’
A smile so radiant, soextatic, illumined the
face of Grace Carroll at this moment, that the
gossips almost started from their seats in a
fidget of surprise and curiosity. Rejoicing as
she evidently did over the announcement of a
death! Had the deceased left her a legacy?—
What a heartless creature she must be.
Herbert’s voice began to falter—‘ We are
gratified in being able to state—oh, Grace! I
cannot go on—not here—not now! How
dare I hope for such a blessing as your love?—
But do not—do not quite condemn me for my
presumption! Without the advantage of
wealth, rank, beauty, or ’
‘Nay!’ said Grace aloud, looking half in
play, half in earnest over his shoulder—‘I am
sure, Mr. Herbert, you are not reading that
sentence rightly—let me finish it myself—and
she began the paragraph again, in a low but
distinct voice—
‘ We are gratified in being able to state that
—you must not go till I have seen you again.
Believe me your love is appreciated—valued,
returned. Would that you read my heart in
stead of the paper. But here are some ver
ses you must read to me, Mr. Herbert,’ and
she drew back blushing from his side.
‘Is this the poem I must read?—oh, it is an
old song of More’s, I see.’
“ ‘Tell her, oh! tell her the lute she left ly i ng
Beneath the green willow, is still lying there,—
Grace! all my soul is with gratitude sighing.
While your soft whisper replies to my prayer!
•Tell her, oh! tell her, the tree is growng,
Beside the green arbor she playfully set’—
Little those maidens, tho’ wondronsly knowing,
Dream of the news I am telling thee yet!
“Tine as the lute that no sighing can waken.
And blooming forever unchanged as the tree!”
“an echo in her heart! does she mean that her
bloom will last forever, and that his sighing
can never affect her? Well! did you ever?
such vanity! Oh 1 that's it undoubtedly.”
CHAPTER III.
“I give thee all, I can no more,
Tho’ dear the offering he;
Mv heart and lute are all the store
That I can bring to thee!”
The next morning, before breakfast, Grace
entered the drawing room with a beating
heart. A young man, a stranger, occupied a
sofa near the fire, from which he courteously
rose as she came in. Grace thought she had
never seen so handsome and distinguished-
looking a man. He made a singular impres
sion upon her mind, for which she knew not
how to account. His carriage was noble and
easy—a pale complexion, intellectually pale,
set off to advantage his hair of glossy black,
and eyes of the same deep hue, glistening with
the fire of genius and feeling. Grace had na
turally a passionate love of the beautiful in all
its varieties, and this person’s beauty was of so
high an order, so classic and so noble, that it
fascinated her in spite of herself. Besides.it
seemed to her that they must have met before,
though where she could not imagine. After
pacing the room for a moment or two, he went
out, and immediately afterwatd Horace en
tered and with only half a sigh at the contrast,
Grace soon forgot the handsome stranger, in
listening to the eloquent outpourings of his
generous, and pure soul; but while frankly
owning a return to his affection, the happy and
agitated girl overlooked the probability of her
friends objecting to his poverty and his ob
scure origin; and when she did remember this,
it was with some trepidation that she referred
him to her father, and bade him ‘good bye’ for
the present.
CHAPTER IV.
‘So while away from that arbor forsaken,
The maiden is wandering—oh! let her be’—
Meet me to-morrow when first you awraken.
Here, and mean while take my blessing with thee!”
That Herbert had more than satisfied Mr-
Carroll was very evident, from the earnest
manner in which the latter congratulated his
daughter upon the subject—end when Horace
returned from his journey, the wedding took
place quietly, without any of the untasteful
parade usual on such occasions.
Grace was very happy. She had but one
trouble—the image of the handsome stranger
would every now and then force itself upon her
mind. It was very wtong, very improper, she
said to herself, to bestow a thought of the kind
upon any one but her noble, her devoted hus
band ; but how was she to help it, poor child !
when that husband himself, by something in
definable either in manner or expression hour
ly recalled the.image ? And she found herself
involuntarily constantly comparing the two ;—
‘Horace would be handsome—he would re
semble him, if he had only black hair instead
of red! I must confess my fo.lly to my hus-
— 1 1 •*>•* not L« happy till I do, and when
I have once relieved my mind by owning it,
perhaps I shall forget that singular person ;’
and so one morning, about six weeks after the
wedding, poor Grace confessed to Herbert
that she feared site did not love him as she
ought. He did not look quite as miserable as
she had imagined he would at this terrible an
nouncement ; but merely saying, ‘then it is
high time I should bid you good morning,
walked quietly out of the room.’
In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, Mrs.
Harvey, Madeline, and a few other intimate
friends, came in. Horace had not returned,
and Grace was restless and disturbed. All at
once, as she was adjusting a braid at the mir
ror, she saw—could it be—yes! in the very
centre of the room, conversing with her father,
and apparently perfectly at ease, the very per
son whose appearance had so strangely infa
tuated her fancy ! As she turned from the
glass he approached her and raised her hand
to his lips, ere she was aware of his purpose.
Grace was quite confounded, indignant.
‘Sir !’ said she, with dignity, ‘your masked
intrusion here and this unwarrantable insolence
must be explained to my husband. Mr. Carroll
laughed, and the rest of the company opened
their eyes.
‘Madam,’ said the new guest, what a saucy
smile, and the voice was strangely familiar,
‘you are tired of your husband’s red hair.
Does mine suit you V
More and more amazed, Mrs. Herbert
turned impatiently to her father. He was
laughing heartly—and Grace echoed the
laugh ; for as she turned she faced the glass
again, and saw the stranger hastily adjusting
over his dark and curling locks the stiff red
"whiskers of Horace Herbert himself! The
amazed company joined in the merriment oc
casioned by the sudden metamorphosis, and
Grace snatched the false hair playfully from
him, threw it into the corner of the room.
‘And the limb, Horace ? Was that also a
ruse ?’
‘A poetical license, Grace.’
‘And the deafness, too ]‘
‘Alt! let me still be deaf to all but you,
sweet wife!’
LAZY SAM.
The following story will not be worth the
less for being true. A Kentucky horse driver
being in South Carolina with a drove, happen
ed to take it to the neighborhood of General
H n, whose character for jockeying and
‘That is a touching and beautiful poem, Mr.
Herbert—the last lines have found an echo in
As he finished, Horace bent his dare eye
earnestly on the fair and drooping face of
Grace Carroll, and again it crimsoned as she
felt the look.
M sirs
flushed, an 1 he, lip trembling with subdued <•"«■ 'And besides, I ve es D.ee a pa.r ol
emotion, glided from the room.
manceuvering in trade is much more celebra
ted than his feats in arms. The Kentuckian
having perfect acquaintance with his charac
ter, went to sell him some horses—or to swap
—or to run a race, as the destinies might or
der and decree.
He was one of our careless, unconcerned
knock down and drag out looking sort of fel
lows, who would assume just as much simplic
ity of countenance and address, as circumstan
ces might require. He had the appearance of
about twenty-two or three years of age, and
as usual, was dressed in the blue mixed jeans
to hide dirt, and wore a drab colored hat for
the same reason.
‘General,’ said he, ‘I’m just from old Ken-
tuck, with some powerful nice horses and may
be you want some. Dadd told me if I came
in your parts to call on you, and he reckoned
may be you would buy a pair of matches, or
help me out in tradin: for he said you had a
power of money, and understood tradin to a
*1 lattar frnm Vtim * VlUnHinCT
'What does it mean? What does it mean?’
murmured all three of the gossips in a breath
—‘how she colored—an echo in her heart!
Let us look at the song, Mr. Herbert,’ some
of them said, speaking aloud, ‘be so good as
to lend me the paper a moment. I want to
see what the play is.’
‘What the Ay-play is, you mean,’ said Her
bert to himself; but at the same time he looked
as it ht had not the most distinct idea that he
had been spoken to.
‘Dear! I forgot he was deaf! How stupid
the man is!’ She rose, and with a significant
look laid her hand upon the paper, which Ho-
as much for any of your boys, if you’ve got
any, whensoever they come here tradin, or a-
ny thing else. So no more at present, but re
main your affectionate friend till death.
PETER TOMPKINS.
matches as you could shake a stick at: and as
tight a nag for a quarter, daddy says, as any
in these parts; he says I must run no races,
caze I mought lose, and we want all the mo
ney we can scrape to pay for our land. B®*
reckon he’d suit you to a fraction, caz’ you’re
a sportin character, and mought win a power
ful chance of money on him.’ ,
While he was thus introducing bimslt and
telling his business, the General opened the
letter and read as follows:
Dear General:—l thi * opportunity to
write to you, by my Job, who is taking the
first drove he ever dnv, and I want you to
roll logs a leetle for him—if so he «nt you.
The hero of our horse races, cotton hags,
and sugar hogsheads, thought he perceived a
neat speculation, and acted accordingly. Mr.
Job Tompkins was received with much cour
tesy; his man and boy entertained with the
best in the larder; while his five and twenty
horses did not suffer. It is true the General
had not the slightest recollection of his friend
and correspondent, Peter Tompkins. He
night have once known him, or not. It was
the same thing. Here was Job, a raw Ken
tucky stripling, with twenty-five horses, as ea
sy squeezed as a ripe lemon. It was not in
his nature to forbear.
In the mean time, Mr. Job Tompkins made
himself quite free and easy; swaggered about
the costly furnished apartment as if it had
been in a log cabin. He viewed the silver
plate on the sideboad with much apparent as
tonishment, and a pair of silver snuffers, es
pecially excited his curiosity.
‘Lord General! arthera thar candle snuffers
made out of the pure stuff? I never seed any
afore but ir’in, and mammy used her sheet s.
And all them thar things on that ar big chist
(the sideboard) is the ra’l Spanish castins! I
heard talk o£ this alore, but never seed it.
Now if 1 was to tell this in our settlement,
may be they would’nt hop straddle me, and
ride over me rough shod for a liar. But they
say you're a powerful sight the richest man in
the South Stutes, aint you?,
To all which the General returned suitable
answers; and Mr. Job and he were hand in
glove, for the time being. Each man reso
lutely bent to make a successful lodgment in
his neighbor’s pocket with the view of taking
out. A Herculean task' .L be sure;—when
Job heard in the next room the sound of mu
sic. Several Kentucky reels were played, a-
non the sweet breathings of a melodious voice
sung ‘Sweet—sweet home.’
‘May I be darn’d,’ said Job, ‘if that don’t
beat Bob Walker, and he’s a pitch above com
mon. But that aint none of youi music box
es, I know; it can’t be. Is it?’
‘My daughter is playing on the piano,’ said
the General, ‘we will walk in the room and
hear her.’ Here were blandishments to strike
Job dumb, and entrance all his senses.
lOOK laid ucr IJiSIlu upuu megapel, >«••• ,! ’S“ — , ^ , U..* |U.
race immediately resigned. They turned ea- J ob’s spry enough at home, but hasn t ea.
gerly to the last verse of the song— I eye teeth,and tf you’ll lend him a hand, 111 due
The man who has no music in bis son),
And is not moved by concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and epoila.
Job thought a man might love music and
spoils also. He felt a liking for both. There
fore he applied the music in his own way most
rapturously.
Said Job, ‘may I never pull another trigger,
if she’s not a priming above any thing I heard
talk about. Why she’s chartered! She's a
ra’al one I assure you. Why, its enough to
make a feller swim that can’t; and if it was’nt
for all these kiverlids over the tract (the car
pet) and I had a partner to my mind, I’d go
my drove to nothing or less, I can shake the
ticks off of any boy you can produce.
The General now thought the Kentuckian
ripe enough. To aid in which he had been
plied with choice liquors as he denominated the
brandy and Madieria.
The horses were brought out and examin
ed, and praised and cheapened, and faults
found with all, They could agree upon no
thing.
‘Well, where is your quarter horse?’ asked
the General.
‘Oh ho! o’that’s what you were after, an
swered Job, ‘for you hardly looked at them
thar matches, and these fine gelding9. So
you are after a quarter nag. Jim fetch up Lazy
Sam, will you? Now General I’ll tell you,
honor bright, he’s never lick’t in a quarter
spur” but once by Joe Miller’s sorrel mare
which runs like a streak of lightning. She’3
a ra’al screamer, Daddy swapt for him last
fall, after she tanned him out. If I knowd her
I’d give you her marks, so as you mighn’t be
tuckt in. Fox I heard, said Joe, was hringin
her to the South to win his expenses. But
here’s the horse any how and I assure you
lie’s not slow.’
Now be it remembered that honest Job was
not ignorant that General H n, was at
that time the owner of the identical mare, and
for reasons best known to himself, he wished
to make a race between her and Lazy Sam.
The General examined Lazy Sam with the
eye of a jockey.
‘Pish,’ said he, very contemptuously, ‘why
this thing can’t run; why, it’s flabsided as a
sheep, and as heavy shouldered as a hog, and
cathammed besides; I would not give a good
mule for three of it. Why did you not bring
a lot of mules to market? 1 would have bought
some at a fair price. Your horses do not suit
me. Pray what do you ask for this which you
call a running nag? It may do to plough a
season or two. Does it work?’
Unlike the Job of ancient days, Job Tomp
kins suffered his anger to rise and master him.
At least he made the General think so. To
use his own words he corverted. He scream
ed out,
‘Hello! Mister, I wonder you’re so mighty
wise, considering you know so little. Why
you make me feel all over in spots, to listen at
you; I reckon you’ve got a quarter nag your
self ain’t you?’
‘I have a plough nag here,’ said the General
very cooly ‘that I am sure can run away from
that thing of yours.”
“Thing!’ hallowed ‘Job, ‘why you make me
feel sort of wolfy, and I’ve a good mind to go
my whole lot agin any thing you can raise in
the whole South.'
‘I would not spoil a good mind then,’ quoth
the General. ‘But I suppose you are afraid
to run, as your father has forbidden it.
‘I don’t care a solitary flint what daddy says
when my Irish is up, ‘exclaimed Job indig
nantly.
‘Bring out your nag and let’s see it.’
The General gave the order, and as Job ex
pected, the sorrel mare (once Joe Miller’s)
was brought forward.
While Job examined, his adversary endea
vored all he could to fret him by dispraising
his horse; and Job appeared worked up to a
fever heat.
To cut short the story, the drove was staked
against twenty-five hundred dollars in a check
upon the C Bank, and the company ad
journed to the General’s track to see the race.
On the way Job stopped short and facing the
General asked, very earnestly;
‘Now you’re sbure this aint Joe Miller’s
nag? my mind sort o’misgives, caze from what
I’ve heard they sort o’favor like.’
■D n your Joe Miller and hia nag al
so,’ replied the General, ‘the mare is mine I
tell you.’
This appeared satisfactory.
I have given you the General’s description
of job’s running horse—done to fret him. It
was by no means a correct one. Lazy Sam
was a well made pony of the Printer stock but
was of a mild sleepy, sluggish disposition, until
his mettle was roused. He generally went
with his eyes half shot and hia head drooping
at an angle of forty-five degrees. When the
General viewed him be was in this condition.
The horses were in the General’s stable and
the check for two thousand five hundred dol
lars was in the hands of a gentleman present.
The General had no doubt about keeping all
Job’s fine hones and sending him home on
his ten toes. Job thought differently. Lazy
Sam was led alone by Job’s boy as sleepy as
usual The preliminaries were adjusted and
riders mounted. As Job threw Jim on Lazy
he sprang all fours off the ground; and