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VOLI ME VI.—NUMBER 30.
THE STANDARD OF UNION,
BY P. E. ROBINSON,
pvblishkr (by authority) of the laws of the united states.
03* TERMS.—Three Dollars per annum. No subscription taken
for less than a year, and no paper discontinued, but at the option of
the publisher, until all arrearages arc paid.
CHANGE OF DIRECTION.—We desire such of our subscribers
as may at any hue wish the direction of their papers changed from one
Post Office to another, to inform us, in all cases, of the place to which
they had been previously sent; as the mere order to forward them to a
different 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.
AH\ ERTISEMENTS inserted at the usual rates. Sales of LAND,
by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be
held on tbs first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in
the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the coun
ty in which the property is situate. Notice of hese sales must be gi
ven in a publtc gazette SIXTY DAYS previous to the day of sale.
Sales of NEGROES must beat public auction, on
•of the month between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public
sales in the county where the letters testimentary, of Administration or
Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving SIXTY DAYS no
tice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the doo
of the Court House where such sales are to be held.
Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like man
■er, FORTYDAYS previous to the day of sale.
Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published
FORTY DAYS.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for
leave to sell LAND, must be published for FOUR MONTHS.
Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, must bo published for FOUR
MONTHS before any order absolute shall bo made by the Court
thereon.
Notice ol Application forJLettera of Administration must be publish
ed THIRTY DAYS.
Notice of Application for Letters of Dismission from the Administra
tion es an Estate, are required to be published monthly for SIX
MONTHS.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT? gTT = ’
iMilledgevii.ee, 29th .May, 1839. $
WHEREAS by mi Act of the General Assembly of this
State, passed the 26th December, 1838, entitled “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
shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor, to give pub
licity to the alterations and amendments made in the Con
stitution, in teferenco to tho reduction of the number of mem
bers composing the General Assembly ; and the first Monday
in October, next after the rising of said Convention, he shall
fix on for the ratification, by the people, of such amendments,
alterations, or new articles, as they may make for the objects
of reduction and equalization of ihe General Assembly only;
and if ratified by a majority of the voters who vote on the
question of‘Ratification,’ or ‘No Ratification,’ then,
and iu that event, so by them made and ratified,
shall be binding onWfc people of this State, and not other
wise.”—And ichereas the delegates of the people of this State,
assembled in Convention under the provisions of the before
recited Act, have agreed to, and declared the following to be
■lteratoins and amendments of the Constitution of this State,
touching the representation of the people in the General As
sembly thereof, to wit:
“THE CONVENTION assembled under the Act “to
provide 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,” passedthe 26th day of December,
1838, having met, under the Proclamation of the Governor,
on Monday the 6th day of May, 1839, propose as the final re
sult of their deliberations, the following, to be amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Georgia, and present the
same to bis Excellency the Governor of the State, that pub-
Icity may be given to said alterations and amendments, accor
ding to the sixth sectiea of the Act under which the Conven
tion assembled :
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
STATE OF GEORGIA.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of mem
bers from all the Counties which now are or hereafter may
be included within this State, according to their respective
numbers of free white persons, and including three-fifths of
all the people of color—to be ascertained by an actual enu
meration to be made from time to time, at intervals of seven
years, as now by law provided. Each county shall be enti
tled 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 representative population of twelve thousand per
sons, 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 be composed, according to the aforesaid ratio,and j
the last census, shall not hereafter be increased, except when !
a new county is created ; and it shall be the duty of the Le- ;
gislature, at their session to be holden next after the enumer- i
ation provided for by law, so to regulate the ratio of repre
sentation as to prevent such increase.
The Representatives shall be chosen annually on the first I
Monday of October, until such day of election shall be altered
by law.
The Senate shall consist of forty-six members, elected an- ,
nually, onthe first Monday in October, until such day of dec- !
lion shall be altered by law ; and shall be composed of one
member from each of the forty-six Senatorial Districts follow-
iwg:
1 Chatham and Effingham.
2 Scriven and Burke.
3 Richmond and Columbia.
4 Lincoln and Wilkes.
5 Elbert and Madison.
6 Habersham and Lumpkin.
7 Union and Rabun,
fi Forsyth and Hall.
9 Jackson and Franklin.
10 Clark and Oglethorpe.
11 Green and Putnam.
12 Taliaferro and Warren.
13 Hancock and Baldwin.
14 Washington an 1 Jefferson.
15 Emanuel and Montgomery.
16 Liberty and Bryan.
17 Tattnall and Bulloch.
13 Mclntosh and Clynn.
19 Camden and Wavne.
20 Ware and Lowndes.
21 Telfair and Appling.
22 Laurens and Wilkinson.
23 Pulaski and Twiggs.
And whenever hereafter the Legislature shall lay off and
establish a new county, it shall be added to the most contigu
ous Senatorial District having the smallest representative
population. JAMES M. WAYNE, President
of the Convention.
Attest: Lucien La Taste, Sec'ry of the Convention.”
I therefore, in conformity with the provisions of the before
recited Act, do hereby give publicity to the same, and enjoin
each voter for members of the General Assembly of this State,
on the day therein specified, to wit: on the first Monday in
Octobet next, to give his vote of "Ratification," or “ No Rat
ification,' as provided in said Act; ami that the presiding
officers certify the same to this Department, accordingly.
$ . ®** en under my hand and seal of the Execu-
' L.B. tive Department, at the Capitol in Milledgeville
this the day and year first above written.
~ GEORGE R. GILMER.
By the Governor:
John IL Htkki.f., S. E. D.
June 4. 20
AGENCY.—The undersigned, being employed as clerk
, in the Surveyor General’s office, will attend to the ta
king out an J forwarding of Grants and Copy Grants for
fifty cents each. Also, to the renewal of all Notes i„ the
Central Bank, that may be entrusted to hiscate. for the cus
tomary foe of Ono Dollar each renewal. Letters inclosing
money and notes (post paid) will meet with prompt atten
tion- ALFRED M. HORTON.
Milledgeville, Ist June, 1838. 20—ts.
of Union.
21 Bibb and Crawford.
25 Jones and Jasper.
26 Butts and Monroe.
27 Gwinnett and Walton.
28 DeKalb and Henry.
29 Newton and xMorgan.
30 Gilmer and Murray.
31 Cass and Cherokee.
32 Cobb and Campbell.
33 Coweta and Fayette.
34 Merriwether and Talbot.
35 Pike and Upson.
36 Houston and Macon.
37 Dooly and Irwin.
38 Thomas and Decatur.
39 Baker and Early.
40 Lee and Sumpter.
41 Randolph and Stewart.
42 Muscogee and Marion.
43 Harris and Troup.
44 Heard and Carroll.
45 Paulding and Floyd.
46 Chattooga, Walker and Dade.
millinery and mantla-makino.
MRS. LOUISA 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 own selection,
among which are
LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN’S BONNETS,
OF THE LATEST STYLE.
Sonic beautiful Drawed Bonnets, of a new and late style.
Also, the Latest Fashion for CA PS and HEAD-DRESSES,
and the Latest Fashions for LADIES' DRESSES—Arti
ficial Flowers of various kinds.
Iler Bonnets will be sold from one dollar and fifty cents, to
two, three, seven and tw-elve dollars.
Bonnets and Dresses made to older at the shortest notice,
and of tho 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 the taking out of Grants
and ‘.he renewal of Notes at the Central Bank, for the
usual lee of one dollar for each note renewed at the Bank ;
one dollar for a separate Grant, and fifty efints for each ad
ditional one.
They will also transcribe Documents from any of the De
partments of the Slate House, such as copies of tho 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
ready to attend with promptness, any business intrusted to
their care.
The money for Grants and renewal of Notes must be for
warded in 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.
OTI HE undersigned renews the offer of his services to his
JL friends and the public, in the transaction of a GENER
AL AGENCY in thisplace. He will attend to the renewal
of all notes, &c.. that may be entrusted to his care, in the Cen
tral Bank, for the customary fee of One Dollar for each
renewal; also, to the taking out and forwarding Grants,
for Fifty Cents each.
enclosing money and Notes (post paid) will
meet with prompt attention. JOHN R. ANDERSON.
Milledgevilq, Jan. 8, 1839. 50—ts
BRANCH BANK DARIEN, ?
Milledgeville, 27th March, 1839. $
A Ta meeting of the Directors of this Bank, this day it was
Resolved, That in consequence of the suspension of
the Branch Bank of Darien at Savannah, it is advisable
that this Branch suspend payment for the present.
The Cashier begs leave to say to the bill holders of this
Branch that they need be under no apprehension in relation
thereto, as the assets of this Branch are more than ample to
meet all its liabilities.
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,
10—ts J. R. ANDERSON, Cashier.
BANK OF MILLEDGEVILLE, (
July 2, 1839. $
ORDERED, That notice be given that such of the stock
holders of this Bank as have not paid in as much as
75 per cent on their stock, be required to do so, on or before
the 2d Monday in September next.
Exti act from the minutes.
July 9. 21—ts. T. RAGLAND, Cashier.
To the Stockholders of the Bank of Milledgeville.
AGREEABLE to the provisions of tho 7th section of the
act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
passed 22d December, 1830, “to incorporate the Bank of
Milledgeville, with Banking and Insurance privileges,” &.C.,
and being the owner of more than 500 shares of the stock es
said Bank, 1 hereby call a meeting of the stockholders of said
Bank to be held on Saturday theVthjday of September next,
for the purpose of suspending for the present, the payment
called for by the Directors of said Bank to be made on the
2d Monday in September next, on the capital Sto<-k thereof.
WILKINS HUNT.
July 24—tf.
GAINESVILLE FEMALE HIGHSCHOOL.
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
of Young Ladies in the follow ing branches of polite learning:
The Modern Languages; French, Italian, Spanish, anil
German; the Belles Lcttres, 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. The ground work of this system
is a laborious analysis of the studies themselves, resulting in
the compilation of entirely new elementary booksi by the
Principal of this Seminary; while the 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 permanent advantage of the Pupils,
will be the care of the Principal and his fellow teachers. The
discipline will be on principles of preserving tho 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 ; §BO 00
Senior.
No extra charge for any of the above named or any branch
of study taught in this Seminary, except for Music, for which
arrangements are in forwardness with an eminent teacher;
hut in the mean time, the use of the Piano, with competent
instruction, free of charge, w-ill be allow-ed to students who
have partly acquired that accomplishment.
Term, 10 months; commence January Ist, 1839.
Board at §lOper month and under, is secured for Pupils at
a respectable citizen’s, under the superintendence of one of
the Teachers.
Mr. G. BEAUMONT, who is an English Barrister, and
the author of several appiovcd works on Law, the Belles Let
tres. and Education, having selected Gainesville as a location
for his family, recommends to others, that which decided him
in this selection ; the undoubted salubrity ol this district, the
lesidcnce there of the most eminent members of tho Medical
Faculty, the quiet manners of the. neighborhood, and the well
supplied markets.
Jan. 22, 1839. 52—ts
('I EORGIA AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT MANUFACTORY
JT AND AUGUSTA IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY,corner of
Jones and C’umining streets, second corner above the Planters’Hotel.
The subscriber would call the attention of Planters and others to the
assortment of AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, &c. which hr.
has on hand, consisting of Ploughs of the most approved kinds and of
the different sizes, from light one-horse to heavy four-horse; Hillside
and Drill Ploughs, Seed Sowers, Harrows, Thrashing Machines, Corn
Shi'llcrs, different kinds; C’orn and Cob Crushers, a first rate article;
Wheat Fans, Hominv Mills,Cylindrical Straw Cutters ofdiflerent sizes;
also, various other straw Cutters; Suirar Mills, Paint Mills, Turning
Lathes, Ciicubtr Saws, Tyre-bending Machines, &c.
He is prepared to do heavy Iron Turning, or any other work in his
line nt short notice.
'The Iron and Brass Foundry is in full operation, having a first rate
workman to superintend the business, and a good stock of the best
pig iron and coal on hand. Those in want of machine orany other kind
of Castings, may depend on their bring well done and of good quality.
Gistings fur Cotton Gin Gearing, always on hand; also, Mill Irons, tec.
ROBERT PHILIP.
K KAMS of first rate MEDIUM PRINTING
PAPER, for sale at the “Standard” office.
June 25, 1839 22—if
OUR CONSC IE N C E—O U R COU NT R Y—O UR PART Y.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1839.
I olitics. —This department of our paper is one in which every class
of our citizens is interested. Under this head we shall give the general
political intelligence of the whole country; while we, as the conauctors
of a public journal, are determined, without fear, favor, or affection, to
support, with all our zeal, such measures of policy as alone will tend, in
our opinion, to the promotion of our general prosperity as a people, the
perpetuation of our liberties, and our beloved Union.
'J his paper, therefore,will be purely Democratic in its principles; ha
ving for its object the diffusion (b equal rights, equal blessings, and equal
burthens, thereby promoting the general happiness of the people; and to
this end will all our energies be directed.
W ith regard to the great questions of policy w hich arc now agitating
the people of the United States, respecting the currency, we unhesita
tingly declare our entire preference of the I ndependent Treasury system,
from our belief of its strict constitutionality, and, in its tendency, better
calculated to promote the general prosperity of all classes, than any oth
er which, in our view, can be conceived.
We are strict constructionists of the Federal Constitution, and shall
always oppose those splendid schemes,'or ‘ American Systems’ of monop
oly, which have ever characterised the policy of the Federal opposition,
recognising no implied interpretations of that instrument, and believing
that the * GENERAL WELFARE’ of every portion of our wide-spread
confederacy, depends on a strict adherence to its plain and straightfor
ward meaning, we shall not be sparing in our expositions and denuncia
tions of those daring attempts which have and are now being made by
the reckless and aspiring leaders of the Federal Party, to rend assunder
this glorious Charter of our rights and liberties, and rear upon its ruins
a splendid aristocracy of wealth and power.
Earnestly advocating, therefore, as we shall always do, these great
and fundamental principles of our government, which were conceived by
a virtuous and patriotic ancestry while struggling for the rights and lib
erties of mankind, we shall, in all cases, give our support, for public offi
ces, to such men as we are assured shall have the patriotism, talents,
firmness and disposition to sustain and carry out those principles suc
cessfully. With all our zeal and ability, therefore, we shall advocate the
re-election of MARTIN VAN BUREN, for the next Presidential term,
with the fullest confidence in his exalted talents, integrity and patriotism,
convinced that upon his success depends, in a very great measure, the
firm and lasting establishment of those glorious principles of our revolu
tion, so admirably .acted upon by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and
Jackson. And for the second office in the gift of the American people,
we shall as cordially give our support to the Hon. John Forsyth, now
Secretary of State.
In announcing our preference of these talented, patriotic, long-tried and
approved statesmen, for the highest offices in the government, we feel a
glowing confidence in the almost unanimous approval of our fellow citi
zens of the West, with an abiding belief that they will rally around the
standard thus raised, proudly unfurling to the breeze the names of these
distinguished individuals.
Mechanics.—Under this head that large and respectable portion of
our fellow citizens, among whom wc have the honor of classing ourselves,
shall have a hearing. We invite them to the use of our columns. Their
rights and interests must be sustained.
Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.— Under these different heads will
be found all important general intelligence, both at home and abroad.
Ct/y News.— This head will embrace all matters and occurrences of
interest, of every character, relating to, or transpiring within the city.
We shall reserve a large portion of our paper for Advertising Patrons,
both of the city and country; and as we anticipate a numerous subscrip
tion list and a wide-spread circulation, it will be to the interest of adver
tisers to appear in ourcolumns.
It is contemplated for this paper to be published daily, semi~weekly,
and weekly, on the following
TERMS.
For the daily paper sl2 00 per annum.
“ “ semi-weekly paper, 800 “ «
“ “ weekly “ 500 “ “
Subscriptions to be paid, in all cases, in advance, or satisfactory citv
reference given, or the guarantee of the Postmaster, at the office to which
the paper is ordered, for its payment.
Advertisements will be inserted.conspicuously, at the usual city rates,
rhose sent from a distance must he paid for in advance, ora satisfactory
city referencc given.
City subscribers will leave their orders at the Post Office, with the
name of the. street and number of their residence ; and those at a dis
tance will direct theirs to the Editors, post-paid., at New’ Orleans.
All letters on business connected with tne papers, must be paid, or
they will in no instance he taken from the office.
1 he publibaiion of this paper will be commenced some time in the
month of October next —if there is a sufficient number of subscribers at
that time to justify it. Our friends therefore will please send in their
names anil subscription lists in time.
Editors throughout the United States arc respectfully requested
to give this prospectus a few insertions.
EDWARD DELONY.
August 13, 1339. *,’9
'The Editor has made arrangements for furnishing the most impor
tant and interesting Texas news, from various points in that Republic,
at the earliest moments.
MACHINERY.
Millcastings, Ironwork, Cotton and all
kinds of Machinery furnished of the best mate
rials, and finished in the best manner, by “The Savage
Manufacturing Company of Maryland,” who have made
™arrangements with Messrs. Stovall, Simmons &. Co., of
Augusta, Geo., to be their Agents, for receiving consign
ments, who are authorized to receive payment of bills and expenses on
delivery by them,.of the above described work, sent to that section of
the South convenient to Augusta.
Prompt attention wll be paid to all orders addressed to those gentlemen,
at Augusta, to Thomas Landsdule, Superintendent of the works nt the
“Savage Factory,” Md. or to
GEORGE WILLIAMS, Agent,
August G, 1839. 28 3m.
ADMINI STRATOR’S SALE.
WILL BE SOLD, in pursuance of an order of the Inferior Court of
Washington county, sitting as a Court of Ordinary, on the first
Tuesday in October next, at the Courthouse door in said county, a ne
gro man by the name of Charles, belonging to the estate of James Go
lightly, deceased; sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said
James Golightly, deceased. Terms of sale on the day.
M. BROWN,
August G. 28 ts Adm’r of James Golightly, dcc’d.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
W'ILL BE SOLD, in pursuance of an order of the Inferior Court of
Washington county, sitting as a Court of Ordinary, on the first
Tuesday in October next, at the Courthouse door in said countv, a ne
gro woman by the name of Celia, at times subject to fits of insani
ty, and a uegro girl Elsey, belonging to the estate of Thomas Golightly,
deceased ; sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said Thomas
Golightly, deceased. Terms on the day of sale. M. BROWN,
Aug. 6. 28 ts Adm’r. of Thomas Golightly, dec’d.
GEORGIA, Jones County.
WHEREAS William Hogan, Administrator on the Estate of Ridge
way Hogan, deceased, applies for letters of dismission.
These arc therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of said deceased, to appear at my office within the time pre
scribed by law, to show cause, if any they have, why said letters should
not be granted. Given under mv h nd, this 23d dav of July, 1839.
CHARLES MACARTHY,CIk.C. O.
August G, 1839. $1 50 28 Gm.
GEORGIA, Washington County.
WHEREAS Josiah Amason applies to me for letters of administra
tion on the estate of Asa Jordan, late of said county, deceased.
These arc therefore to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred
and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the
time prescribed by law, to shdw cause, if any exist, why said lettcru
should not be granted.
G.vrn under my hand at office in Sandersville, this 28th Julv, 1839.
11 ' l v Ji JLNHiAN, C. O.
j?IOUR MONTHS after date, application will be made to the Inferior
1 1 Court of Jasper county, while sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave
to sell the real estate of John B. Slaughter, deceased, situate out of said
eonntv. SARAH SLAUGHTER, Adm’x.
August 6,1839. 28 4m ,
THE GREAT WESTERN.
LIBERTY AND THE UNION FOREVER—THE PRINCIPLES OF WASHING
TON, JEFFERSON AND JACKSON.
I N proposing to establish in the city of New Orleans, a new paper tin*
. tier the above title, we arc encouraged by the glowing and magnifi
cent prospects which seem to hover around this mighty Emporium of
the West, pointing its destinies to a summit of commercial grandeur, to
which no other city in the world can ever expect to reach. Nor are
these prospects confined alone to New Orleans. When we take into
view the numerous wide-spread, and extended arms of the noble Missis
sippi, winding themselves through an extent of country so immensely
vast; embracing the most fertile and productive region perhaps in tho
known world ; with a climate and scenery as beautiful us nature could
form them; and a population of hardy, industrious freemen, increasing
with every hour of the duv, we do not hesitate in declaring our opinion,
that the West is destined, at an early day, to be one of the finest, the
noblest sections of country on the face of the globe; and that New Or
leans, as a commercial city, may, at no very distant period, claim the
proud appellation of Mistress of the World.
With such a field, then, as is spread before us, we cannot but feel con
scious of our success in the important labors which we are about to un
dertake. Located, as we shall be, at the general centre of the almost
entire commercial business of the “ Great Iv’eoi,” and designing that our
paper shall embrace all intelligence of importance, of the United States
and of I'orcign Governments, it willlie found especially interesting and ]
useful to every class of our fellow citizens throughout the Western
country.
The Great Western will be devoted mainly to Commerce,
will support the interests td Agriculture, and will take its political posi
tion and plant its standard upon the broad parapet of Democracy ; it will
also extend its notice to the interests of Mechanics, and to City News, Sfc.
Commerce.—-The larger portion of this paper will be strictly commer
cial. All intelligence of importance of this character, both domestic and
foreign, will be summed up at as early a moment as possible, so as t<j af
ford our mercantile patrons every description of news which they can
desire, under this head.
Agriculture.—While every other branch of industry in the United
States is receiving fresh and encouraging impulses for perseverance, this
most important of all, seems to flag behind the general march of im
provement and prosperity; and, instead of being placed at the head of
our general national policy, and receiving that fosteringcare and protec
tion to which it is so pre-eminently entitled, is left to grope its wav, sim
ply by the dint of that perseverance and unwearied industry so charac
teristic of our hardy countrymen.
It will he our especial care to sustain the interests of this class of our
fellow’ citizens.
JHM.JH.-ia ■WMT’jSI.-JOLO.
JB RUNAWAY from the Subscriber,
about the 12th of February last, a negro
/ Man named 808, aged about thirty-six years, about
/ five feet ten inches high, and weighs about 140 pounds,
onmOmimMO of a tolerable lively appearance, has a scar on one of
his cheeks which has formed and appears as a substance resembling a
small finger from the middle joint. When last heard from he was in
Bibb county, Ala., where he was apprehended and escaped; he there
staled he belonged to a man by the name of Hartt, and when again ta
ken may not give his owners name, he also stated he designed going to
Augusta, Guo., he may probably go in the direction of Tennessee, us 1
purchased him last autumn of a Mr. Hearttt, a mule trader, of Bedford
county in that State.
The above reward will be paid for his apprehension and safe confine
mentin any Jail in the South, or South-western States, aud information
given to the subscriber, at his residence near Erie, Green countv, Ala.
BRYAN HINES.
August 6,1839. __ _ 28 4m
TO THE CITIZENS of MILLEDGEVILLE
AND VICINITY.
THE Subscribers take pleasure in informing the public that they
have commenced tho business of
RENOVATING OF FEATHERBEDS,
in the city, hoping to meet with the patronage of a liberal public.
The Feather Dressing has but recently been introduced into the south
ern country, and we have no hesitation in asserting that no invention has
ever given more general satisfaction than the renovating of feathers.
from the NEWEST and BEST, to the OLDEST and WORST. It
purifies and enlivens all.
We invite the public to call at the house lately occupied as the office
of the Standard of Union, on Wayne street, where they can see the ma
chine and witness its operations.
ALEXANDER & SPECK.
August 6. 28
N. B. Those who want work done will please make immediate appli
cation, as our services are wanting inotheer places.
POETRY?
“like orient pearls at random strung.”
LINES
suggested on hearing of the death of my mother.
Why should 1 sigh,
And bid the bitter tear in vain to flow,
That thou hast fled the sorrowing scenes of wo,
And scar’d on high ?
Why grieve, that thou
Hast put aside life’s mortal, impure dress,
And walk’st in seraph robes of
With angels now ?
For this deem not
My heart y ields up the labouring sigh—
The tear-drop trembles in my fixed eye;
But from deep thought.
Thought will have tears;
For in the floating visions that pass by,
Mine now is melting’neath thy tender eye,
As in pastyears.
And there I trace
The gentle smile that frequent gladden’d me,
As, kneeling, with my cheek upon thy knee,
1 sought thy face.
O mother dear,
If ’tis permitted thee of heaven to bend
Thy thought* on lowly earth, do thou descend—
My pathway steer.
For I am lost
In deepest maze, which, like the dark
And jutting cloud, wild fears spread thro’ the bark
By tempest toss’d.
Dispel that gloom;
O, bear it far as darkness is away
From the broad glories of resplendent day;
Come, mother, come.
Time was when all
Our path was bright, and spread with blooming flowers, —
When Fortune smil’d—than sunshine ’mid spring showers
More beautiful.
Days ye arc fled,
And with ye life’s young hopes;—to hours of bliss
Have followed years of pain and bitterness; —
Death shroud my liead.
O, if there be
A joy fur sorrows past which I may win,
No blissful heaven thou art—l ask it in
Eternity! m.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Be JUST and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
Thy God’s and truth.— Shakspeare*
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
There is, perhaps no individual at the present day,
whose charactei attracts and occupies, to so great an ex
tent, the thoughts and attention of mankind, as Martin
Van Buren. His position as president and responsible
head of a great nation—a nation whose progress fiom an
infant people to a great and mighty republic is, of itself,
one of the greatest wonders Europe or the world has wit
nessed for many centuries, now at the height of its pros
perity, happineSS and glory; respected and feared by all na
tions, civilized, savage and barbarous; whose vessels tra
verse every sea—whose citizens tiade in every mart—
whose natives ride on every ocean and*on every coast; a
nation capable of protecting and defending itself and its
interests at home and abroad ; a position pre-eminent ovej
that of other men ; acquired not by descent, treachery,
intrigue, corruption or conquest; but, as the spontaneous
offering and free gift of a free people: given as the deser
ved and acknowledged reward of a life constantly devoted
to the service, happiness, best interests and liberties of
that people; is one to attract the gaze and admiration of
mankind.
To do justice to his character, is an effort exceeding our
feeble powers- It will require the pen and intellect of
one who shall have lived in his day in constant familiarity
with theincidents of his life, and who shall have out-lived
him. Such an one, perhaps may one day be found, who
will do justice to the extraordinary qualities which have
raised him, by rapid strides through a gradation of public
places and honors, from the humblest to the loftiest posi
tional present attainable by man. Possessing command
ing talents, extraordinary abilities, a varied experience,
and a wonderful insight into the motives and springs of ac
tion which govern man, this distinguished individual has
risen by his own unaided efforts to the eminent station
which he now fills. That he has been persecuted bitterly
for his political course ; for the identity of his principles
and opinions with those of the eminent patriot who prece
ded him, and from envy of the success which has attended
him, in his course through life, is freely conceded. But
if this persecution itas been unjust; it lias endeared him
the more to the Democracy of the Union. From the
same cause, connected too with the success of his Admin
istration, it may be truly said, that the confidence and at
tachment of the people of the Union lias greatly increased
towards him within the last two years. Already he has
passed through tho most severe trials a statesmen has to
encourter, endured tho otdeal of many conflicts, been tried
in a gieat variety of circumstances and stations by his fel
low-citizens, and never been found inattentive or recreant
to their interests.— Utica Democrat.
P. 1.. KOKJXJSOA, Proprietor.
WHOLE NUMBER 290.
LIFE OF A FLOWER.
LETTER 11.
i Dear
I did not awake out of this second sleep till the sun liaJ
given his own colour and lustre to the morning clouds;
but the dew, into which an early hoar-frost had resolved
' itself, lay while upon the ground, and there was a globule,
; as big as a lady’s tear, in niy eye, that entirely filled it.
******
, At half past nine o’clock in the forenoon,' it butterfly,•
the first that 1 had seen—indeed the first of the
came ill tiering over us. Our chat was immediately
pended, and every eye followed the brilliant stranger,;
while he sported to and fro displaying his elegant form and
gay apparel in every attitude; hovering here, descending
• there, alighting nowhere. We violet* breathed our sighs
of sweetness io allure him; the daisies—poor things, how
I pitied them!—blushed to the tips of their petals, for it
was plain that he despised them ; the primroses shivered
with spleen, for they were in the shade, an 3 he never went
near them ; the butter-cups blazed out in golden splendor;
and they seemed his favorites, for now lie dipt towards one,-
then towards another of them, till to the chagrin and as
; tonishnient of all, he at length settled on a glaring yellow
' dandelion, the vulgarist flower on the bank—with which
not one. of us would even exchange a word ; and there he
sate in the sun, opening and shutting his burnished wings;
with ineffable self-coinplac.ency ; for it was soon evident
that the coxcomb chose the gaudy weed, not for the love'
ol it, but because its broad disk afforded him a convenient
resting place, on which he could expand his gold and pur
ple finery to tho admiration, as he thought, of all that be
held him. We were so provoked, that we tried to look
any way and every way, rather than at him ; and yet we"
caught our eyes continually turning, as it were by instinct;
again to him, for reilly he was a very pretty fell >w, and
would have been a thousand times more so if he had nos
known it. At last he whisked away. • * «
We were very silent and pouting for nearly an hour;
when a bee came humming along the lane; and as soon
as he had wheeled around the corner of the old oak, darted
down upon one of us—it was upon me. I was frightened
out of my wits, the assailant seemed so rough and warlike
in formnay, so unceremonious were his manners, if
manners they may be called, that he instantaneously salu
ted me, bore me down to the ground, and began sucking
my breath till 1 was ready to faint; then off be flew, singing
as he went, without noticing another blossom on the
When I bad a lil'Jn recovered from the confusion occasion
ed by this rencontre, I perceived that my neighbors were'
all sneering at me, and sneering so enviously that I soon
found—instead of being angry at the honest bee for rifling
my honey, 1 ought to have thanked him for bis condescen
sion in taking it by storm ; and it was evident, to me at
least, from his preference and their jealousy, that 1 «a»
the sweetest and handsomest flower of the party. This*
notion so delighted my vanity, that I become quite giddy,-
and eyed my companions whom nature had made less at
tractive than myself, with a kind compassionate contempt.
Down from a branch of the oak, that moment, fell a great
sprawling spider full on my bosom, where he lay wriggling!
on his back, five seconds, I am sure—an age of misery
to me ! before he could gather his legs together, and throw
himself, rolled up like a ball, on one of my lowest leaves,
where he remained to my unutterable annoyance, consider
ing h»w he should furthered ispose of himself. The flowers,
which had been hitherto stifling their spleen against me,
or muttering it in low whispers, now tittered aloud at this*
ridiculous mischance, while I was so paralyzed that I could
not even cry out for help. * ♦ •
At this crisis, the clouds, which had long been lowering,
broke suddenly, and poured down rain in torrents on our
heads. The mole, neither liking the air nor the water
from above, burrowed his way back again into his subter
ranean abode, without doing any harm, except humbling
the pride of the dandelion, for which we were all very
much obliged to him. Il was only an April storm ; towards
evening, the sun broke through the gloom, and spread a
beautiful rainbow from one end of heaven to the other, as it
appeared to me. The blue sk) cleared, the earth glowed!
with verdure; every leaf and sprig of plant and flower,
glittered with diamonds of the first water. All nature
looked smiling and joyous. The gnats, by myriads, were
dancing in circular clouds over our heads, repeatedly as
sembling, though as often dispersed by the swallo.vs that
darted to and fro in the open space between the hedges of
the lane, and sometimes skimmed athwart our bank, bend
ing our heads with their delicate breasts, or striking tho
dew-drops out of our bells, with sudden touches of the
tips of their wings. A black bird, perched on the old oak,
chanted in his loudest notes a simple tale, about a few
sticks and stiaws in the neighboring wood, which he and
his true love had gathered in the rambles of their court
ship, and woven into what they called a nest, where five
chirpers had been disclosed from the shells that very morn
ing. This had awakened, for the first time since he him
self was hatched, all the rapturous tenderness of a parent
in his heart, from the fullness of which he poured forth
such a song as made me wish that 1 had been born “with
such a pair wings” as his, “and such a head between ’em
for that little home was all the world to him ; aye, and l
he had a right to be happy in his own way, and to tell eve
ry body of bis happiness, though none besides himself
cared a straw about either his nest, his mate, or bis young
ones. Meanwhile the firmament above rang with the ca
rolling of larks ; the thrushes answered each oilier from
tree to tree; and in the hedges, linnets, chaffinches, and
wrens wore playing on their small pipes as many tunes as
there were minstrels among them, yet forming one harmo
nious concert. Above all, the cuckoo, continually chang
ing his place, but never changing his note, made glad the'
ear that haikened to him, while the eye in vain sought
him out. All wis peace and concord around, and we
flowers, forgetting our little enmities and rivalships, en
joyed the breeze that mingled our sweets, and wafted them
as incence to heaven.
In the height of our festivity, a little company of hu
man beings, the first whom I had seen above the rank of
milk-boys, jolting along on their asses, with barrels, and
an occasional clodpole, in his smock frock, “whistling a«
lie went for want of thought,”—a little company of hu
man beings, consisting of yourself, and a few of your friend*
of either sex, came sauntering down the lane. While I
was gazing with delightful astonishment on the apparition,
one of you—l won’t say who—-stept aside, and plucked
me. O the pang of that separation! may you never feel
one so sharp, or, if you must, may it be as momentary;-
for the next instant I was the happiest flower in the world ;
it was a lady who had plucked me, and she placed me in
her bosom. There 1 should have been content to die, but;
whether my brain was turned by my good fortune, or
whether the south-wind was envious of my felicity, and
blew me away, certain it is, that I had no great cause to
be proud of the lady’s partiality, for she was so regardless
of me, that, before I had gone ten paces, I “fell from my
high estate,” and what mortified me most was—she never
missed me. Then indeed, had 1 perished miserably in
the dust, or been trampled to death by some hob-nailed
shoe, had not another personage in your train—he who
has acted as my amanuensis in writing these memoirs—
picked mo up, carried mo home, and placed me in a
lachrymatory, filled, as be assuies me, with pure Castalian
dew, in which 1 have lived long enough to tell you the
fable of my life, and, with my dying words, to say, that
if you find no moral in it, the fault is not mine.
Farewell, VIOLA.