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Edited by THOMAS HAYNES. VOLUME VI.—NUMBER 29. THE STANDARD OF UNION, BY I*. E. lIOBINSON, PUBLISHER (by authority) OF the LAWS UF THE UNITED STATES. KT* TERMS.—Three Dollars per annum. No subscription taken for less than a yeai, ami no pn|>er discontinued, but at the option of the publisher, until all arrearages are paid. CHANGE OF DIRECTION.—We desire such of our subscribers as may at any ime wish the direction us C.eir papers changed from one Post Office to another, to i ifortii us, in nil cases, of the place to which they had been previously sent; as the mere order to forward them to a ditlei-ent office, places it almost out of our power to comply, because we have no means of ascertaining the office from which they are or dered to be changed, but by a search through our whole subscription book, containing several thousand names. ADV ERTISEMENTS inserted at the usual rates. Sales of LAND, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law lobe held on the first Tues lay in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, ai the Court House in the coun ty in which the properly is situate. Notice of hese sales must be gi ven in a public gazette SIXTY DAYS previous to the day of sale. Sales of beat public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters tc<timentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first £iv mg SIXTY DAYS no tice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and atth<*doo •f the Court House where such sales are to be held. Notice tor the sale of Personal Property must bs given in like man ner, FORTY DA VS previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published FORTY DAVS. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary fo r leave to sell LAND, must he published for FOUR MONTHS. Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, mast be published for FOUR MONTHS before any order absolute shall be mude by the Court (hereon. Notice ol Application for~Letters of Administration must be publish ed THIRTY DAYS. Noth eof Application for Letters of Dismission from the Administra tion of an Estate, are required to bo published monthly for SIX MONTHS. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Ga { M i ll> dgevilei: SBih May, 1839. $ ‘UI/’ll ER E by an Act of die General Assembly of (his < > State, passed the 26th December, 1838, t untied “An Act to piovide for the call of a Convention to reduce the number of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes therein named," it is provided “That it •hallbelhe duty of hi> Excellency the Governor to give pub licity to thr alteration? and amen* m< fits made in the Con- ' •titution. in icfereiice to th j reduciioii of the number of mem bers composing ih«* General Assembly ; ami ihe first Monday ’ io October, m xt after die rising of said Convention, he shall fix oil for tlie ratificiiii n. by the people, of sueb amendments. j alteratio s, 01 new articles, as they may make for the objects of reduction and equalization of the G.-neral Assembly only ; i aud if ratified by a majority of the voters who vote on the | question of ‘ll atification.’ or ’No Ratification.’ then.! and iu that event, the alteration so by them made and ratified, | ■hall be liimling on the people of tins State, and not oilier- I wisa.”— And ndierias the delegates of the peopleof this Slate, assembled in Couvi inion under the provisions of the before I recited Act. have agreed to. and declared the following to be 1 alteratoins and aineudments of the Constitution of this State, i touching the lepresentaiiou of the people in the General As senddv thereof, to wit: ‘•THE CONVENTION assembled under the Act “to provide foi the call of a Convention to reduce the number of | the General Assembly id the Mi.te of Georgia, ami for »ther | purposes therein named." passed the 26th day rd" December. ' 1838, h iving met. under the Proclamation of rhe (limnw. ( on Monday the 6 h day of .May, 1839, propose as the final re sult of their deliberations, the following, to be amendments to the Constitution of the State ol Georgia, and present the •nine to his Excellency the Governor of the State, that pub- Icity may be given to said alterations and amendments, accor ding to rhe sixth section of the Act under which the Conven tion assembled : AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The House of Representatives shall he composed of mem bers from all the Counties which now are or hereafter mat be included within this State, according to tlieii respective numbers of free white persons, and including three-fifths of all rhe people of color—to be ascertained by an actual eiiu meration to be made from lime to time, at intervals of seven years, as now by law provided. Each county shall he enti tied to one member. Each county having, a representative population, as above specified, of six thousand persons, shall be entitled to one additional member; and each county hav ing such rep esentative population of twelve .thousand pfer ioos, shall be entitled to two additional members; but no county shall have more than three members. The number of members of which the House of Represen tatives will lie composed, according to the aforesaid ralio.aud the last census, shall not hereafter be increased, except w hen a new county is created ; ar.d it shall he the duty of the Le gislature.'at their session to be holdcn next after the enumer ation provided for by law. so to regulate the ratio of repre sentation as to prevent such increase. The Repiesentatives shall he chosen annually on the first Monday of October, until such day of election shall be alten d by law. The Sekatk shall consist of forty-six members, elected an nually. onthe first Monday in October, mud such day of elec tion shall he altered by law ; and shall be composed of one member from each of the forty six Senatorial Districts follow- lug- 1 Chatham and Effingham. 2 ticnven and Burke. 3 Richmond and Columbia. 4 Lincoln and \\ ilkew. 5 Elbert and Madi'on. 6 Haber* hum and Lumpkin. 7 Union and Rabun, 8 Foray th and Hull. 9 Jackson and Franklin. JO Clark and Oirlethorpe. 11 Green and Pufmim. 12 Taliaferro and Warren. 13 Hancock ami Baldwin. 14 Washington an I Jefferson. 15 Emanuel and Montgomery. 16 Liberty and Bryan. 17 Tattnall and Bulloch. 13 Mcinlo*h and Ciynn. 19 Cainden and Wavnc. 20 Ware and Lowndes. 21 T» hair and /Uipling. 22 Laurens and W ilkinaon. 23 Pulaski and Twiggs. 46 Chattooga, Walker And whenever hereafter the LegiaUtme shall lay oil and establish a new county, it shall he added to the most contigu nus Senatorial District having the smallest tepresentative population. JAMES M. WAYNE, I’resident of the Convention. Attest: Lccie.x La Taste. Sec’ry of the Convention.” I therefore, in conformity wiih the provisions of the before recited Act. do hereby give publicity to the same. anil enjoin each voter for members of the General Assembly of this Sta e. on the day therein specified, to wit: on the first Monday in Octobet next, to give his vote of “■Ratification'’ or ’• A’o not ification.” as provided in said Act; ami that the presiding officer, certify the same to this Department, accordingly. ? Given under my hand and seal of the Execu- LS. t've Department, nt the Capitol in Milledgeville this the day and year first above written t „ GEORGE R. GILMER. JJy the Governor • Joh.v I'. Steele, S. E. D. June 4. 20 ' fi ,! undersigned, being employed as clerk , in the Surveyor General’, office, will attend to the ta king out an 1 forwarding of Grants and Copy Grams, for fity cents each. Also, tn the rem wal of all Notes in the Central Bank, that mav be entrusted to hiscaie. for the cus tornary fee of One Dollar each renewal. Letteis imdosing money and notes (postpaid) will meet with prompt atten ... , ... . ALFRED M. HORTON. Milledgeville, Ist June, 1838. 20—ts. ■fflje Stoßarft of Union. 21 Bibb and Crawford. 25 Jooen and Ju.’per. 26 Butt* and Monroe. 27 Gwinnett ami Walton. 23 DeKalb and Henry. 29 Newton and Morgan. 30 Giltner and Murray. 31 Ca«R and Cherokee. 32 Cobb and Campbell. 33 Coweta and Fayette. 34 Merriwether and Talbot. 35 Pike and Up-on. 36 lloiiMton und Macon. 37 Dooly mid Irwin. 38 'J'homnH and Decatur. 39 Baker and Early. 40 Lee am! Sumpter. 41 Randolph and Stewart. 42 MiiFcoge<t an<| Marion. 43 Marrin rqid Troup. 44 Heard and Carroll. 45 Paulding ami bloyd. MILLINERY AND MANTVA-XAKING. MRS. LOUIS’A O’BRIEN, RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies of Milledgeville and its vicinity, that she has lately received from Charles ton, a fine assortment of BONNETS, of her owu selection, among which are LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN’S BONNETS, OF THE LATEST STYLE. Some beautiful Drawed Bonnets, of a new and late style. Also, the Latest Fashion for CA PS ami HEAD-DRESSES. and the Latest Fashions for LADIES' DRESSEs—Arti ficial Flowers of various kinds. Her Bonnets will be sold from one dollar aud fifty cents, to two, three, even and twelve dollars. Bonnets and Dresses made to oidcr at the shortest notice, and of the best materials, very cheap for cash. Also, on hand some splendid Feathers for Bonnets. Milledgeville. April 16th. 1839. 12—ts Agency. THE undersigned will attend to thetakingout of Grants and the tenewal of Notes tit the Central Bank, for the usual lee of one dollar for each note renewed at the Bank ; ime dollar for a separate Grant, and fifty ceuts for each ad ditional one. They will also transcribe Documents from any of the De partments of the State House, such as copies of the Numeri cal Drawings from the Executive Department, certified co pies of Acts passed by the Legislature, &c., for a liberal compensation. Being engaged in the State House, they will be always reaily to attend w ith promptness, any business intrusted to their care. The money fir Grants and renewal of Notes must be for warded iu all cases, or they will not be attended to. ANDREW G. LA TASTE, CHARLES E. HAYNES. Jr. Milledgeville..Ga.. January 8. 1839. 50—ts General Agency. THE undersigned renews the offer of his services to his friends and the public, in the transaction ol a GENER AL AGENCY in thisplace. He will attend to the renewal of all notes. &c.. that may he entrusted to his care, in the Cen tral Bank, fortlie customary fee of One Dollar for each renewal; also, to the taking out aud forwarding Grants, for Fifty Cents each. (U = *l etters enclosing money and Notes (post paid) will me. t with prompt attention. JOHN R. ANDERSON. Milledgevile. Jan. 8. 1839. 50—ts BRANCH BANK DARIEN,? .Milledgeville, 27th March. 18139. y £> T a meeting of the Directors of tbisßank. tbisday it was Resolved, That in consequence of the suspension of the Branch Bank of Darien at Savannah, it is advisable that this Brandi suspend payment lor the present. The Cashiei begs leave to say to the bill holders of this Branch that they need he under no apprehension in relation thereto, as the assets of this Branch are more than ample to meet all its li diilities. Resolved, That this Bank will pay an interest of seven per cent, upon all sums of one hundred dollars and over depos ited in this Bank, of the bills of said Bank during the sus pension. By order. lO—tf .1. R. AXDERSON. Cashiei. BANK OF MILLEDGEVILLE, ( July 2, 1839. $ ORDERED. That notice be given that such of the stock holders of this Bank as have not paid iu as much as 75 per cent on their stock, be required to do so, on or before ihe 2d Mondoy in September next. Ext aet from the minutes. ■hili 9. 21—ts. T. RAGLAND, Cashier. To the Stockholders of the Bank of Milledgeville. A GR EEARLE to the provisions of the 7th section of the act of ihe General Assembly of the State of Georgia, passed 22d December. 183.0, a “ to incorporate the Bank of Milledgeville, with Banking and Insurance privileges.” &c.. and being ti e owner of more than 500 shares of the stock of said Bank. I hereby call a meeting of the stockholders of said Bank to be held on Saturday lhe 7th dav of September next, for the purpose of suspending for the present, the payment < all< d for by the Dilectors of said Bank Jo be made mi the I 2d Monday in September next, on lhe capital Stock thereof. ’ WILKINS HUNT. | July ft. 1839. 24—ts. j THE Subscriber very respectfully informs his friends and the public generally, that he has located himself at the Marrietta Hotel, Cobb C. IL, where he offers his services to search out and tc«t the value of Gold and Land lots, and to make a true return to applicants in the coun ties of Cobb, Paulding, Floyd. Cass, Cherokee and Foi syth; at the low rate of five dollars per lot; at the above stated place, reference may be had to the State and Check maps, the quality Book, and numerical list. Bationage in the above business will be thankfully received by . DANIEL MAY. M arch 11. 1837. 51 -1 r GAINESVILLE FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL. G. BEAUMONT, A. M. of Cambridge University, Great Britain, Principal. THIS Establishment, for which a spacious Building, Botanical Garden, and extensive grounds are in the course of active preparation, will be opened for the education ol V tiling Ladies in the follow tug branches of polite learning ; The Modern Languages; French. Italian, Spanish, and German ; the Belles Lettres, Music, Drawing, Elocution, the Mathematics, Experimental and Moral Philosophy, Botany and Geology; as well as the usual studies of the Primary Departments. The mode of instruction in all branches, will be pursued on philosophical principles calculated to save the time and increase the interest of the student. Tlie ground work of this system is a laborious analysis of the studies themselves, resulting in the compilation of entirely new elementary books, by the Principal of this Seminary; while lhe physical sciences will be taught entirely by Lectures, explanatory of facts exhibited by the Philosophical Apparatus. The developement of all the functionsof mind and body, that are calculated for the permam nt advantage of the Pupils, will be the care of the Principal and hisfellow teachers. The discipline will he on principles of preserving the self respect of Pupil and Instructor The advancement of the Pupil will be secured by a weekly rectifying of the classes upon exami nation and review. The charges are (see advertisement. Dec. 1838,) respect ively, $24 00 Primary Department; $45 00 Second ; SBO 00 Senior. No extra charge for any of the above named or any branch of study taught io this Seminaly, except (or Music, for which arrangements are iu forwardness with an eminent teacher; ; but in the mean time, the use of lhe Piano, with competent instruction, free of charge, will bo allowed to students who have partly acquired that accomplishment. Term, 10monirn; commence January Ist. 1839. Board at slOper mouth and under, is secured for Pupils at a respectalil? citizen's, under the superintendence of one of the Teachers. Mr. G. BEAUMONT, who is an English Barrister, and the author of several appioved works on Law. the Belles Let tres. ami Education, having selected Gainesville as a location for his family, recommends to others, that which decided him in this selec ioii: ’lie undoubted salubrity of this district, the residence there of the most eminent members of the Medical Faculty, the quiet manners of the ueighboi In.sjd, and the well supplied markets. Jan. 22. 1839. 52—ts fl REAMS of first rate MEDIUM PRINTING M PAPER, for sale at the “ Standard” office. June 25; 1830 22—ts OUR CONSCIENC E OUR COUN TR Y OUR PARTY. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1839. POETRY. “ LIKE ORIENT PEARLS AT RANDOM STRUNG.” THE ITALIAN GIRL TO HER FAITHLESS LOVER. FROM THE ITALIAN. Thon b-aidst, that thou Wouldst love me, and forever;—and my heart, Unconscious, dreamt not that we e’er must purt. Where art thou now t I weep alone— • ClieerloaA, and desolate. My heart no more Wakes those sweet echoes which it woke before, For thou ait gone. Thou saidst, that when The battle’s rage was over, and the cry Os carnage hushed, and routgona by, T4iou’uatcoine ajain. ' And I believed*. I could have breathed my dying prayer for lhaa, Nor murmured at my fate;—but thus to bo Ry thee deceived! ’Tin well—’tig well, These charms one * loved are passing fast awayt This tongue, it cannot curse— butom’y say Farewell—farewell. But yet—should e’er Thy footsteps stray to where this farm is laid— Then think of her whose fond heart thou 'st betrayed; Give ine one tear! M I S C ELL A N E O U LIFE OF A FLOWER. There is a very pretty and playh'l “Life of a Flower,” narrated in the following letn rs from a Violet to a Lady. My Dear Madam, Do not ask me by what means a (lower has contrived to write its own history. How in the course of my short life —one week, five days, nine hours and twenty-three min utes, at this moment —I learned so much of men and things, as to qualify me to tell you my little tale in language in telligible to beings so exalted in the scale of creation as you are, you will hear in the sequel. I can assure you, on lhe word of one among innumerable millions of a race bv whom a lie was never (old since Adam plucked ihe first flower in Paradise—and that you know, was before he was married—that every syllable of the following record is as true as that 1 myself ever lived. Who has lent me his pen, as amanuensis on this occasion, I shall not tell; for if you are not sufficiently well acquainted with the hand writing at once to recognise it as that of a friend, he has deceived me, or you have deceived him. I have onlv to premise further, that if there be any thing in my narrative unwoithy of a violet, or what a violet could not have known, spoken, or done, you will be pleased to attribute it to his ignorant or impertinent interpolation. 1 do not recollect being born, nor do I remember my parents ; for we violets, being only spring-flowers, die nine months before our children come into the world. But this is idle prating ; fir, to tell lhe truth, theie are no such things as fathers and mothers among ns; we love ourselves, and our posterity are the offspring of sell-love; consequently, there can be no fear of our own issue failing, while this ruling passion is the universal inheritance of all our tribe. The first event that I can call to mind was, the fall of an icicle from lhe old oak tree under which I grew, upon mv head, when it was no bigger than a pin’s. Toe pain of this uncouth accident was to me the earliest consciousness of existence ; I was then, according to the best chronology, exactly eight and forty hours ol 1. by the church-clock of our parish, which struck, six, A. M. just as the icicle was shaken from a bram h above, by the sudden rising on the wing of a cr >w, that had roes ed on it all night, & who, hav ing oversb-pt himself, was startled out of a pleasant drcam, by the report of a gun, which farmer Gripe’s son fired at him over the adjacent hedge. As the poor bird lost noth ing but the remainder of his nap, and his tail, which was shot sheer away, he will not be any worse, or wiser either, for the misadventure; the feathers will grow again, no doubt; and so far from profiting by the warning, I saw him sitting on the very same bough, the day before yester day, and cawing as it he were king of the region. This happened on the third of April, 1839; I therefore conclude that I must have been born on the first—as good a day as can be found in the whole calendar, for the coming forth of a flower. From the instant that sense and reason were thus awa kened in me, I became a quick and dilligent observer of all that passed within me ami around, so far as opportuni ties were afforded lot gratifying my curiosity and impro ving my mind. The authentic particulars respecting the crow and the icicle above mentioned, 1 was told while yet smarting under the pain of the accident, by tny neigh bor, and gossip, a withered sprig of speargtass, which had already ontlivcd two winters, ami was notoriously the great est gossip that grew for ten fields round. By this nterrv blade I was taught the rudiments of useful knowledge ; and w hether you believe me or not, I will venture to affirm that my pteceptress was as good a school-mistress as any old woman of eighty within the ring of our bells, and myself !1 ? a good scholar, at the week's end, as any little bov or girl three hundred times my age, and ten thousand times my bulk. During my minority, that is till my blossom open ed, I was blind ; aud in truth I had then only two of the five senses by which you animals vainly imagine that you are distinguished above us vegetables : hut let me tell you, that 1 could feel as exquisitely as tourself,-Madam. In deed I doubt whether an icicle a quarter of an inch long, falling upon your head, would have cost you half the an guish, that such an iuflii tion cost me. And as for hearing, certainly yon will not pretend to measure your ears with mine: 1 date say you never heaid a stalk of grass speak in your life; 1 have heard one uttering oracles all dav long—aye, and all night too; for my neighbor talked as much in her sleep, and as much to the purpose, as when she was awake. Now while I was blind, I had nothing to do bnttogrow wiser and bigger every day ; bigger I did grow, for I could not help it, and wiser—but 1 must not boast, lest I should prove myself a fool: I may say, however, that Ido not lecolleel that I ever lost a moment in all my schooling, with the old beldame of our bank-side, or under a much higher and more accomplished tutor, at whose feet 1 was brought up, ami by whom I was as carefully instructed, as if, instead of a few spring-days, my life was to equal your grandmother’s. This august and venerable personage was no other than a majestic oak, that had outlasted twenty generations of your long-lived race, and five hundred of ours; nay, it had stood so long against the strokes of time and death, that it had survived two-thirds of itself, being only a ruin, vet, even in decay, more magnificent than a forest of biambles in their glory. This oak, which was, or pretended to be—for I could not help suspecting some unacknowledged gaps in the avenue of his genealogy, my honored tutor having only one weak point about him, and that was a certain pride of ancestry incomprehensible to us ephemeral things—a very commendable pride, you will perhaps say, in the stump of an old tree ! Be it it so—but I must begin the last sentence again. This oak, which was or pretended to be, the twelfth in descent from one that grew on the same slope at the creation, was a mar vellous linguist, having in the course of its own five cen turies, acquired all the knowledge that had been accumu lated in its family, and transmitted by due inheritance from sire to son, for nearly six thousand years. * * • * My Royal Oak, however, was was very kind and conde scending to me; and from his sage lessons 1 learned as much of the works of nature and art, of the actions of animals hitman and brute, of ethics ttid English gianimar, as you might suppose a violet of tolerable parts, improving every instant, could acquire in ten days ; so that when I came of age on the eleventh, I was prepared to begin the world to advantage, having pretty clear ideas of every thing I might expect to behold when the universe became visible to me—for you will recollect that 1 was blind du ring the whole of my nonage. At sun-rise on the 11th April, my eye-lids were opened on the creation; and in the same moment when 1 fitstsaw the light, I first breathed lhe air, fresh, cool, and fragrant, amidst a thick group of sister-violets, “stealing aud giv ing odours,” as the breeze of morning swept the dew-drops from our leaves. Heretofore 1 had only felt the warmth of the sun, and the pleasantness of the breeze, cherishing and expanding my^btid; now the light of heaven seemed to dart not only into my eye, but through my veins down into my very root, and the spirit of the wind was like a living soul within me. If Ido not remember the moment of my birth, this moment I should never forget, were I to live to the age of the oak. Amidst the innumerable ob jects, all beautiful and new, above and around—the birds flitting through the air, the insects creeping among die her bage, the flowers of many hues that blossomed on my na tive bank, mine ancient gossip, the spire of dry grass with two withered blades hanging down, and high over all, lhe patriarchial oak, towering, and, as it appeared to me, touching the sky—nothing caught my attention longer than while I cast a glance across it. As soon as I had looked thus hastily about me, I fixed ray eye upon the sun, com ing forth from his golden palace: as he rose in the firma ment, my petals spread wide to receive liis ray, and my breath grew sweeter; while I sighed in the delight of be holding him all day long, with the occasional intervention of a cloud, and the floating shadows of taller plants around that alternately crossed and cleared my sight, I traced the splendid luminary in his course to the meridian, and down ward through a crimson coloured sky, till behind the old oak lie vanished from me. I telt my lively spit its sinking as he declined ; when he was gone, vision began to fade; the objects near me lost their color, then their form; 1 was alarmed; I thought that ntv primitive blindness wai returning ; the air grew chill ; I bowed upon my bed, and oppressed with indescribable dejection, I fell into a deep slumber. Thanks to the sweet deceiver, Sleep ! In my dream (for flowers dre’am as well as sleep, whatever botai ists may say,) the glorious image of the sun arose on my imagina tion, and 1 spent my day over again in the night. From this delicious trance, I was awakened by strains of inusic so inspiring, that 1 found myself and sisters involuntarily —and yet, oh ! how willingly ! dancing with all our leaves and blossoms to the melody, which came neater, and grew merrier every moment. There was a very pale twilight in the air, when glancing upward, 1 perceived a dark cloud with a silver maigiii; in the middle of which there ap peared a blight spot, that bacame thiu.ner and thinner, as it melting away, till a beautiful orb broke through it. it w.is the moon, a little on the wane, which had risen after my eye closed, and was now half way up to the skv. She was not so gorgeous as the sun ; but in the first joy of dis covering her, I thought her a thousand imes more lovely; for just then 1 recollected, that while I was falling asleep, 1 had lancied that 1 was losi gmy sight. In the trans port of having Z/its restored, I had no ear for music: 1 was all eye, and that eye was all moot), for I saw nothing else; till suddenly her beams appeared alive, and in motion to wards me. Millions, aye millions, of little beings, in form like the lords of creation, and as brilliant as if they had been born in ladies’ eyes came pouring upon our bank-side, and covered it as thick as dew-drops. The music, which was as much too exquisite for human ears as these shapes were too fine for human sight, continued meanwhile to swell and tall, and flout aud quicken, and languish. It seemed a moving spirit among these lively little things ; sometimes they ran out in lines all the way up to lhe moon and back again; anon they wheeled in rings so swift as to I be individually indistinguishable; again they intermingled in measures so slow, that every feature of the smallest face was easily discerned. Love, joy, grief, hope, fear, and every passion, were expressed in their countenances, car olled in their songs, and represented in their dances.— They flew among us and over us, with steps so light that we bent not our h -ads beneath their volatile feet ; but when they touched us, we felt in ourselves the very affec tion, whether joyous or mournful, that possessed them at the time. It would take more hours than I have to live, to describe all the scenes of this wonderful spectacle; it was a pantomime in mini it re of your great world, in which all the horrors and glories of war, the labours and pastimes of peace the business of the field, the court, the senate, the bar, the college, the town, and the country, were at once exemplified. Iu a word, there was then presented to us a perfect masquerade of human life, the detail of which the reverend oak expounded to me and my sisters (for the rest of our vegetable neighbors were asleep) the next morning; and though a violet’s existence is compu ted by minutes instead of years, I thought it worth while having been born a flower to see this. But the charm was abruptly broken by a liideni s scar ing noise directly over our heads. “ Tohoo ! Tnhoo ! Tohoo!” it cried, and forth froi* the hollow of the oak issued a giant of a screech-owl. Plumb into the midst of the rejoicing assembly he plunged when all the fays and fairies (for so 1 understand they are called in the language of men) with a sound as if the strings of a thousand mu sical instruments were at once snajit asunder, vanished in the twinkling cf a dew-drop—except Robert Goodfellow, the merriest elf among them all, who had been playing his antics with me and my sisters, all night, and was then standing on his head, fiddling with his legs in the air, on one of my topmost petals. Neck and heels, in his fright, poor Robin! he tumbled, a height of three, statute-inches at least, into the hollow of one of my foot leaves, whete he lay stunned for a full half-second, and then I saw no more of him. The owl, with another cry of triumph more horrible than the first, hurried back to his den among the ivy of the oak ; the moon was beclouded, and I fell asleeji again. Lest you should do the same—or rather that you may do the same—Madam, 1 will here make a break in my narra tive to you. But I must continue it by mvself, and be queath the remainder to you in my will; for though 1 am tip to the neck in water—the only means of prolonging my life, after I had been mortally wounded by one of the fairest bands in the world, as you will learn hereafter.—rl feel that 1 shall not live till to-morrow morning. Meanwhile, and with my sweetest breath, and last, J atu yours, for ever. VIOLA; [lieftcr IT. in dur nerti] P. L. SiHEtHNSON, Proprietor. WHOLE NUMBER 289- From Raynor's Life of Jefferson. THE LAST HOURS AND DEATH O£ THOAIAH JEFFERSON. When the morning of that day came, he appeared to ba. thoroughly impressed, as if preternaturally, that he could not live through it, and only expressed a desire that he might survive until mid-day. He seemed perfectly at ease, being willing to die. When the doctor entered hi» room he said, “ Well doctor, you see lam here yet.” His disorder being checked, a triend expressed a Lope of amendment. His reply was that “ the powers of nature were too much exhausted to be rallied.” On a member of his family observing that he was belter, and that the doctor thought so, h'» listened with evident impatience, and said, “Do not imagine for a moment that 1 feel the smallest solicitude for the tesult.” He then calmly gave directions for his funeral, expressly forbidding all pomp and parade, when, being answered by a hope that it would be long ere the occasion would require their observance, he asked with a smile, “ Do yon think I fear to die 1” A few moments after, he called his family and friends around his bed side, and utteied distinctly the following sentence i “ 1 have done for my country and for till mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul without fear to tny God, my daughter to tpy country." These were the last words he articulated—his last sfflemn declaration to the world—his dying will and testament, bequeathing his most precious gifts to his G >d and to his country.—All that was heard from him afterwards, was a hurried repetition, in indistinct and scarcely audible accents, of his favorite ejaculation, Nunck, Dimitas, Doniine*— Nunck, Dimitas, Domine. He sunk away imperceptibly, and breathed bis last, without a struggle or a manner, at ten minutes be fore 1 o’clock, on the great jubilee of American Liberty —the day, and hour too, on which the Declaration of In dependence received its final reading, and the day and hour, on which he prayed to Heaven that he might be per mitted to depart. Astonishing coincidence! wonderful anthanasia! Was not the hand of God most aflectingly displayed in this event, as if to add another, and a crownbig one, to the multiplied proofs of His especial superintendence over this happy country I On the anniversary of a day the most distinguished in the annals of mankind; on the fiftieth anniversary of th it momentous day ; on a day, too, which his own great work had rendered thus momentous —at lite identical moment, when fifty years before, he was en gaged in repeating its sublime and eternal truths, for the final adoption of his country—and in merciful fulfilment of his last earthly prayer, he closed his eyes in patriot exstaey amidst the thunders of artillery, and the lightnings ol impassioned declamation, flashing from every temple, and the hosannas, of a congregated nation, uniting with one voice in proclaiming the assurance of his immortali- * ty 1 The like felicitous combination has nevet happened in the world—no, nor can it ever happen, may be almost said with certainty. Few of the miracles recorded in the sacred writings are more conspicuous or imposing. Mark again—what did not escape the wonder and the record of the anxious spectators of the scene—-the extraordinary protraction of physical existence, manifested in lhe last momentsof Mr. Jefferson, as if to render the coincidence moie strikingly and beautifully complete. At 8 o’clock P.M. on the third of July, his physician of whose emi nence it is superfluous to speak, pronounced that he might be expected to cease to live every quarter ofan hour from that time. Yet he lived seventeen hours longer, without anv evident pain, or suffering or restlessness; with sensi bility, consciousness, and intelligence, for much mote than twelve hours of the time ; and at last gradually subsided into inanimation like a lamp which had shore throughout a long, dark night, spreading far its beneficent rays, and had continued to burn enough io usher in broad day light upon mankind. His desire to see the noontide of the National Jubilee was thus wonderfully fulfilled, contrary to the expectations of all around him. Surely a life so precious and illustrious., should, if possible, be rendered more estimable, more sacred in lhe contemplation of the incomprehensible felicity of his death, Nevet was this nation more profoundly impressed than by the occurrences of this event. When the first shock of the intelligence was over, the silent emotions of amaze ment yielded to iuterjectional exclamation from every tongue of minged surprise, admiration and awe. Instead of being viewed iu the light of a calamity, there was not a heart which di I not feel a thrill of raptuie at the miracu lous beauty of such a death.— Ft iend met friend in mourn ful pleasure, and interchanged felicitations, broken with ejaculations of wonder, on the signal manifestation of the hand of heaven in our affairs.—Business wax suspended, from town to town as the intelligence spread through the country, the minute guns were fired, the bells all sounded a funeral note, the flags of the shipping fell half mast, and every detnonsTatioti of profound feeling, spon taneously cooperated in marking with reverence the im pressive occasion. Yet, while the nation was heaving with the first agitation of the shock, the report of the death of his venerable co-adjutor of Quincy, but five hours after, on the same day, came like a second bolt from tlie same Superintending Hand, to confirm and redouble the awful solemnity of the mement. Dying also in the same mighty spirit, with the last words “Independence forever" and “Jefferson Survives”—the one lhe Author of lhe Decla ration of Independence, the other the great champion and defender on the floor of Congress, and both the only two survivotsof the committee, appointed to prepare that in strument —another and powerful confirmation was added that Heaven itself mingled visibly in the jubilee celebra tion of American Liberty, hallowing anew the day by < double apotheosis. They were amiable and glorious, in their lives; in death they could not be divided, 1' was indeed a fit occasion for the deepest public feeling. Hap pening singly, each of these events was felt ns supernatu ral; happening together, the astoliishment, w ith the evi dence was rendered two fold and alniost overwhelming. Ina private memorandum, fptind among some other obituary papers of Mr. Jefferson, was the suggestion that in case any memorial of him should ever be thought of, a small granite obelisk should be erected with the following inscription ; Here lies buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of liulepentlenc*, Os the Statutes of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.— Volumes of panegyric could never convey so adequate an idea of unpretending greatness, as is contained in this brief and modest epitome of all the splendid achievement* of a long, and ardent, and incessantly useful life. GRIEF. The circumstance which Scott mentions, as having overcast the pleasure ofan excursion he once made, was the death nfhis friend, the Dutchess of Bnccleutrh., His letter to her widowed lord is a beautiful specimen of good sense and feeling'. “Would to God,” he writes, “I could say, he comforted! but I feel every common topick of consolation must be, for the time at least, even an irritation to atlliction. Grieve then, my dear lord, or I should say, my dear and much hone ored friend, for sorrow fn- the time levels the highest distinctions of rank; but do not grieve qs those who have rid hope.