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TURNWOLD, GA., OCTOBER 27, 1862.
To a Young Correspondent.
I am reluctantly compelled, to decline
your article, but return it to you. Take it,
and keep it carefully until you are older,
and you will thank me fer rejecting it.—
Your fault is that of all >oung writers : you
employ too much language to convey your
ideas. Your article contains some very
goed ideas, but they constitute only about
one fourth of your piece, while the othei
three fourths are mere words. The only
use in the world ) ou have for words, is to
serve as a medium for conveying you 1
ideas, and the fewer words you use the bet
ter. Your language should be the plainest
and simplest possible.—You have an exu-
herent fancy. Curb that, and cultivate
your judgment. Above all, study simplic
ity, and artlesness of style.— I do not in
tend this for rebuke, but for instruction. I
am doing you a kindness, and would be
treating you with great injustice, were 1 to
publish your article.—Do not let what I
gay discourage yon. I have been rejected
hundreds, if not thousands of times, by pub
lishers, but never allowed this to overcome
b p, .Tolin Bunyan, Waiter Scott and the
author of Jane, Eyre, met with just the
trouble you have met with. But they were
Bunyan, Scott, and Bronte still..—You
have a talent fer writing, and I advise you
to cultivate it. r J here is a glorious field
just ahead of you for Southern writers.—1
publish this instead of writing to you pri
vately, so that all my young friends and
correspondents may profit by it.
Beautiful Extract.
“ There lies in t lie depths of every heart
that dream of our youth, and the chastened
wish of manhood—which neither cares nor
honors can evei extinguish—the hope of
one dav resting from the pursuits that ab
sorb us ; of interposing between pur old age
and the tomb some tranquil interval of re
flection, when with feelings not subdued
but softened, with passions not exhausted
hut mellowed, we rna-y look calmly on the
past without, regret, and on the future with
out apprehension. But in the tumult of
the world, this vision forever rcceeds as
we approach it ; the passions which have
agitated our life disturb our latest hour ;
and we go down into the tomb, like the sun
into the ocean, with no gentle and gradual
withdrawing of the light of life back to ihe
source that gave it hut, sulle.i in its beam
less descent,with all its fiery glow, long after
it has lost its power and its splendor.”
“Affected simplicity is refilled imposture.”
THE COUNTRYMAN
Sadness.
“ There is a mysterious feeling that fre
quently passes like a cloud over the spirits.
It comes upon the soul in the busy hustle
of life, in the social circle, in. the cairn and
silent retieais of solitude. Its powers are
alike supreme over the weak and iron heart
ed. At one time -it, is caused by the flit
ting of a single thought across tl*e mind.
Again a sound will come booming across
the ocean of memory, gloomy and solemn
as the death-knell, overshadowing all the
bright hopes and feelings of the heart.
Who can describe it, and yet who has not
felt its bewildering influence 1 Still, it is a
delicious sort of sorrow : and like a cloud
dimming the sunshine of the river, although
causing a momentary shade of gloom, it en
hances the beauty of returning brightness. y *
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Legal advertisements at the usual rates, and
all others at I He per line, for each insertion, cash
in advance. Obituaries and marriages, short or long,
are advertisements. <1
Prospectus.
The Countryman is a Little Papdr published
on the editor’s plantation, 9 milts from Hamil
ton, at $1 per annum, in advance. —I do not profess
to publish a news paper, fur, under ihe circumstan
ces, that is impossible. My aim is to model my
journal after Addison’s Little Paper, The Spectator,
Steele’s Little Paper, The Taller, Jot nson’s Little
Papers The Rambler and The Adventurer, and Gold
smith’s Little Paper, The Be: neith r of which, 1
believe, was as large as The Countryman. It is my
aim to till my Little Paper with Wit, Huun r, Am e
dote, Essays, Poems, Sketches, Agriculture Ar
ticles, and Short Tales. 1 do not intend to
publish any thing that is dull, didact.c, or prosy. I
wish to, make a neatly-printed, select Lytle Paper- a
p-leasant companion for the leisure hour, and to re
lieve the minds of our people somevvnat .from the
engrossing topic ot war news.
This journalWill bedivided into quarterly volumes,
each of which will make a book, when reprint- d,
containing 400 ocia.o pages of the must interesting
matter found in the English language.- No bark
numbers can be supplied now, but the volumes will
be reprinted and bound hereafter.
J. A. TURNER, Eatontor, Ga.
October 13, 1862.
TJEORGIA, Putnam County.— VVht reas St.euhr n B.
” Marshall applies for letters of administration on
the estate of James F. Marshall, deceased —
And whereas, also Rtchatd H. Griffin applies for
letters of dministration ou the esiate of Robert H.
Griffin, deceased.—
These are therefore to ci‘e and admonish all and
singu'ar the kinder! and creditors of said - eceased,
and all ott ers interestid, to be and appear a' my of
fice, wi’hin the time prescribed by law, nd file
their objections, if any tiny have, why said letters
should not be grant-d.
Given under my hand, at office, this 23 I day of
Oct, ber. 1862. WM. B. CARTER, Ordinary.
Oct. 27. 1862. 3 4-6t
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.—Will be sold before
■** the court house door, in the city of Atlanta, on
the first trfesdaj -in Dec. next, between the legal
floors of vale, the interest of Green Wig-jin? late of
Putnam Co. deceased, in a certain lot of land, lying
and being -in the county of Fulton, containing 40
acres more or less, the interest of said Wiggins in
said tract of land being one sixth of the whole. To
be sold under order of the Court of Ordinary of Put
nam County.—Terms ou the day.-
Oct. 20, 1862. ids W. A. CORLEY, Adnr’r.
4 DM INISTRATOR’S SALE.— Under an order of the
Court of Ordinary of Putoam County, will be sold
before the court bouse door in the town of Dahlone-
ga, on-the 1st tuesday in Dec. next, between the le
gal hours of sale, as the property of Green Wiggfns,
late of Putnam Co., dec’d.,a tract i f land containing
40 acres, situate in the 4th dist., 1st sec. in originally
Cherokee Co , and known and distinguished in the
plan of said district as no. 397.—Terms on the day.
Oct 20th, 1862. ids W. A. GORLEY, Adrn’r.
E'XECUTOR’S S A LE.—Will be sold ou the 1st tues-
day in Dec. next, before the court-house door in
Eatonton, between the legal hours of sale, 1,000 acres
of land well improved, w’ith good dwelling house and
negro houoes, new gin-house and screw, a..d all oth
er necessary buildings Sold as the proper!y of John
A. Cogburn, late of Putnam Cou-nty, deceased.
Also wilt be sold at the residence of said deceased,
on the 10th Dec., the blacksmith tools, road wagon
and harness ox carts, interest in horse power and
thresher, 2 buggies, a carriage, household and kitch
en furniture, mules, horses, cows, 3 yoke oxen, pork
and stock bogs, sheep,corn, fodder, wheat, peas, &c.»
belonging to the estate of said deceased. Terms
made known on the dayso! sale, and sale to continue
from day to day until all is sold.
Oct, 20, 1862. tds D. A. WEAVER. Ex’r.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. —Will be sold on the
1st Tuesday in D- c. mxt, between the legal hours
of sale, before the court house door in Sparta, 4 acres
of land belonging to the estate of Thoma.- C. Gr imes,
deceased. Said infer of land is that wher-on the late
Thomas C Grimes resided, in life, is known as the
Burnt Piece, and adjoins the lands of Mrs. Colt,
ami Dr Whitten.—Sold under an order of the Court
o! Ordinary of Putnam Co.—Terms on 'lie day of
sale. Jl. DENNIS, Adrn’r.
Oct. 13, 186-2. 3-3 tds
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE-
Court of Ordinary ot Purus
MEAT' FOR SALT.—I have a few fartening hogs,
a few sto-Tr hogs, and one or two beeves, that I
will exchange for salt. A letter dincted to Eatonton.
will reach me. W. W. TURNER.-
Oct. 27, 1862. 14 tf
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE -Will be sold, on the
1st tueeday in November next, in the town of Ea-
tunton, between tb# legal hours of sale, one horse,
buggy and harness, one lo' of medicines and curgi-
cal instruments, skeleton, fee. Also, on ihe follow
ing day, at the residence .si John Paschal, x few
stock hogs, household es»n bitchru turuitars —Sold as
the propel ty of Wm H. Monteith, dace.- ed.—Terms
made hno* te on the day ot sale.
Oct 20, 1862. <Ms) JOHN PA SC HAL, Adrn’r.
Under an order of the
am Co., 1 will ott< r for
sale, on ti e let Tuesday in Nov. next, hr lore the
court-house door of Ettonton, the real estate of Wil
liam Bukin deceased, consisting of 1020 acres, more
or less. The properly may be divided into two pla
ces, with good s> tilements, and a gooel proportion of
woodland on each, Roth places are well watered,
an j immediately join, the one a Methodist, and ths-
bihera Baptist church, besides being convenient to
a post office an t store, shoe-shops, lumber and grist
mills, printing-! ffice, and hat-shop. Two more de
sirable residences cannot be* found. They will be
sold separately, or jointly, as may be deem- d bt st oa
the day of sale, when terms will he made knoivn.
Sept. 22, 1862. (tdr-) A. H. F.AKIN, Adrn’r.
fclXTY DAYS alter date, application will be made
to the Court of O'd nary of Putnam County, for
leave to sell the Feal estate of James Pink- rton, de
ceased. JOHN PINKERTON, Ex’r.
A oir. 30, 1862. w. b c. 12 9t
APPLIOAliON will be made, to the fir-1 t rin of
the Court of Ordinary ot Putnam County , after
the expiration of sixty days from the bate hereof, for
leave to sell the negroes belonging to the estate tf
Win. W Paschal, dec’d. JOHN PASCHAL, Adrn’r.
Oct. 13, 1862. 3-3 9t
BUHSTirUTES WAN TED.—Twoab e tiodieu men,
^over 45 years old : ooe for the 3td Georgia, undone*
for the 44th Georgia Volunteers. A liberal price will
be paid if good recotmiu ndations can be given.
Apply to the uud'teigned in pers-. n at Stanford-*
vill- , Ga or bv letter to Eatonton, Ga.
Sep-ember 22, te6i. tf B. B. ODOM.
IOU V\ ORK executed with neatness and des-patek
** at th's office.
Sept. 15. 2 14_tf
ruilE EVANGELICAL PULPIT : Published month-
ly, by Wilkes & Marshall, Forsyth, Ga., at $1
p< r un mi in
Aug 23, 1862. 2-11- ti
FUR AND WOOL WANTED: for which I ana
* pavin-r the highest cash prices at my I at shop.
Sept. 29, 1862. 2-14- tt J. A.'TURNER.
WAN FED TO HIRE : 2 or 3 likely men, or boys,
for whom liberal monthly wages will be paid.
Apply at this office.
Sept, 15, 1862. 2 14 tf