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About Georgia express. (Athens, Ga.) 1808-1809 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1809)
POETRY. THE INCONSTANT, By Abraham Cowley, a poet, who lived in the time of Oliver Cromwell. I never yet couldfee the face Which had no dart for me 5 Fran ffteen to fifty's fiface ‘lbty all vi£; ericas be. Colour cr fihapi, good times, or face, Gcodr.fis or wit, in all 1 find ; In motion or in fipeecb a grace ; If allfail, ’tts womankind. If tally the name of proper flays ; Jf fair, fhe’s ptiafant as ike light ; ’ vj, her prettinefs does plca/e j ./ black, what lover loves not night ? .he fat like plenty fills my heart, ‘lke lean with love makes me too fo; If freight, her body's cupid's dart ‘lo me if clocked, ’tis bis bow. 1 bus with unwearied wings J files Through all Love's garden * and his fields ; Andy like the wife induftrious bee, No weed but honey to me yields. From the Raleigh (N.C.J Star. CONGRESS OF FASHION r ■ J— er Hot ft — JRITDAT, Bee. 2. Ir. Rough chin, * from the com *e to whom vas referred the pc \of Mr. Smoothdice, gating that >uld net tuit nr ally comply with vr requirii g long beards, and ‘g for h avc 10 wt ar a wig un -5 chin, trade a report ifavora the prayer of the petitioner, ch the houfe concurred. An Ted bill to fufpend till the fi ft of March, the operation of rn a6t, entitled <c an for abelifliing the prtfenr form cf drefs among Ladies of Fafhiop, and reducing it S8 near, as modern manners will permit, to the primitive cuftom of our fi:ft mother eve, was read a third time and p; iTcd. Ordered, that Mr. Goletweencar ry faid blH.ro the Houfe of Ladies, and rcqyrft their concurrence. An ergrefled bill, to a u thorite the wearing of queues one inch long, was read a third time and palled. The qfderofthe day was called on the bill preferibirg an uufer m’ty of drefs, as it refpcdb the higher and Icivlr eftfles of females. Mr. Level advocated the biP, on the ground ofits congeniality to re publican principles. Mr. Dog lady held up one foor, and laid toe hr,life might be con vinced, by his ftockirgs, of the e vils of tilts practice ; he had trod den into a gutter, as he was follow ing an elegant Lady, back of her houfe, into the kitchen. Mr. Sneer thought the lady might have have been polite enough to put Doglady into her wafti tub. Mr. Satiric was very lorry if the parlour lady could not be diftinguifti cd from me kitchen lady , except by the chfffTence of her drefs. The bdl \ isl Fed almoib without a dfvi ficn. Mr. Shad prefented 2 petition of furdry Fiftnrmen, praying for a law to prevff;i ii,c wearing of filhing nets rour and the neck. Referred to a commirtee of commerce and ma nufacture?. Mr. Cable prefented a counter petition of fundry Rope-makers. Referred to the fame committee. A meflage was received from the Houfe of Ladies requeuing the con currence of the lower houfe, in a bill authorifiag the ufe of anew in ftrument, fimilar in operation to the bootjack, in drawing cfF petti coats. Whereupon the laid bill was immediately ref-rred to the whole houfe—Mr. Flafoiel in the chair. Mr. Pull gown ft ate and that he was obliged to (pend the greater part of every long winter evening in help ing hii lady to draw eff her gown, Ac. —that he was often obliged to fend to hia neighbour, Mr. Cooler, for a pair of pinchers, with which to get hold of the fame—with di vers other vexations of a I'ke na ture. Wherefore he moved the concurrence of the committee. The committee concurred and rofe—the houfe pa (Ted the bill and adjourned. The Parifhn belles wear no ear rings in the morning cf have them fo fmall as not to be perceived. In the evening, except in very full drefs they wear ear-rings of a circnmfer f fice, refcmblinga ferpent in a circle with an apple in Vrs mouth, fo that in looking on a well fketched naked belle, one Tees at the lams time, the woman, the ferpent, and the apple ; and*cannot avoid exclaiming— thefe Pariliin dames arc the firft women of the world. CTiMiiiiwn 1 ■ ■—■■■■■■ 1 ft nte'ncaauns NOTICE. Proffals in writing will is received until the firfi cf March next, for BUILDING A JAIL IN GREENSBOROUCH, TJPCIf THE FOLLOWING FLAN, V!2, TO be built of Hone, laid in lime mortar, 44. feet in length and 22 in breadth'—Two rooms otlaw fer the jailor and a guard when ncceffarv—- one 16 feet Iquare, the other 14 in length and 16 in breadth with a paflage between 4 feet wide—Alfo two rooms above of the fizc with thole below, the large one for a debtors apartment, the fmall one for a criminals apartment, with a flight of fteps and landing place in the paftage between.—l he walls furrounding the criminals apart ment to be three feet thick—-thefe furrounding the debtors apartment to be three feet thick at the fidcs and two feet thick at the ends. The checks cf the doors and windows above to br fecured hr iron bars on each fide the wail, ri verted t< gethcr through the wall— The upper floors to have their fleepers laid ciofe together, and in the criminals room rhe fkerers to have iron bars let into them cri fif wife fix inches apart, well fecured by bolts and then covered with two inch plank.—Both the debtors and criminals room to be fecured over head by ftrerg fleepers laid entirely ciofe and well fattened down—The grates to be of iron bars inch fquare, and as many l’etts in a window as will entirely break the lights. The doois above to be fecured by iron bars {trapped iniidc and outfide and Iccurcd by rivets going through. The materials to be all furnifhed by the undertaker. PETER EARLY, JAMES CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS W. GRIMES, Commififoners P. S. The propcfals muft be directed to Mr. Thomas W. Grimes in Grernefborough, Green County, Georgia. November 26, isoS a NOTICE. ON the third Saturday in March ntxc, at Monticelloln the county cf Randolph, will be let rhe BUILDING OF A JAIL, of the laid county, to the loweft bidder at public audlion—the del cription and terms made known on the day. —Alfo, a parcel of iocs newly laid off, and all thrt have not complied with the terms of the for mer files of Jots, w.il be put up at public audlion on the fame day and fold under the penalty of the form er filer. JOHN MARTIN, SOLOMON STRICKLAND. JOSEPH CARTER, JOHN CARGIL, & C. CRAWFORD, Commiffioners . January nth, 1809. SHERIFFS SALE. WILL BE SOLD At the Court-Houfe in Clarke county, tn the fir ft Tuefiday in March rent, tbs following property, viz: ONE negro girl, named Dinah, levied on a* th> property cf A cro fted Mdler to fatlsly an execution in favour of Tabitha Wood, and pointed out by the p laint iff. Conditions Cafh. JOHN WADDED, D. S. February 3, 1809 SHERIFF’S SALE. 0/f tbs Firfit Tuefiday in March the Court-Houfe in Jackfion County, between the iifiu.nl hours, will be fold the folio wing property, to wit : Two trails of land on the Ap palachc river in the aforefaid coun ty, or.e containing ieven thoufind one hundred and liAty acres, bound ed by lands granted to Filhburn and Cobbs, Evans and others—the ei ther tract containing feven th#ufand three hundred acres, bounded by lands granted to Cobbs, Cchur nnd other’s, the fa;d lands granted to Bafil Jones and levied on as his pre- P-ty to fatisfy two executions in favor of George Henning and Ig natius Few. This levy is inconle qucnce of the fi r ft levy being illegal and the fade not complied with, and amiftake as to the fecond fale. Conditions CHh. JOSEPH J. SCOTT, D. S. February 2, ISO 9, NOTICE. T il HAT on the third day of March next, will be fold to the hlgheft bidder, pare of the perfonai property of Ilaac Phillips, late of fil'd county, deceafed, at his former refidr.nre on the Ocmulgec river. JENNY PHILLIPS, WILLIAM PHILLIPS, WILLIAM HAMMETT, Adminiftratrix & Admmiftratoi3, Randolph countv, January 21, ISC9. ‘ NOTICE. WILL BE SOLD, On Thurfday the 23d of Feb ruary next, at Madifon (Morgan Court-Houfe) all the Public Loti at faid place ; the fite is now per manently fixed near the centre on a beautiful eminence, and excellent water —there is no doubt but it will be one of the moft flourifhing vil lages in all the up country.—The terms of fale will be made known un the day by the ’ COMMISSIONERS. GEORGIA, JaclJon twenty* AT a meeting of the honoral’i thdCourt of Ordinary for faid coun ty, on Monday the fecond day q January, 1809 ; Prefent their honors, B. Harris, A Jas. Pittman, f fins. Hendrix, / David fVill, j UPON the petition of Marti? CLck and Malachi Cleck, dating t c the Court that Michael Borders de cm fed, in his life time, to wit, or the twenty-third day of September Seventeen hundred and ninety-four, entered into a'certain inftrument of writing for the conveyance of a cer tain trad of land co the fiuci Martin Cleck and Malachi Cleck, whereon the laid Clecks then lived, contain*, ingtwo hundred and fi tv acre?, (% copy cf wi 1: his fi!d in chis nfiiccj. and that the laid Michael B/rdera departed. th’S life without executing titles to the laid land agreeable to the fti. \ bond. . IV here up n it is ordered That Mary Borders the executrix and John Borders the executor of laid Michael Borders do execute titles to the aforefaid tract cf land agree ab!c to faid Lftruinent of writing, and the a£fc of afTembly in fuch ca fes made and provided, unlefs caufe to use c:o urary * “ lliewn. And that this be publifheu once a month for the fpace- of three months In the Georgia Exprcfs, or fjtne other public Gazene ol this ftate. A true co;>v fi.-m the minutes. E. ADAMS, Clk. C. O. F’ b u iry 11, 1809. TO SHERIFFS. ExucuTIONS will be for warded from this QfHce, by every mad between the date the fi ft of April next, tylifte one or more of the Sheriffs of this ftace. I hey will confult their own intereft, therefore, by applying in pfffon, ac the Poft. OHicts in their counticE, and receiving their letters as early as pofiible after the arrival of each rod!. GEO. R. CLAYTON, T reafurer. Treafury Office, Georgia, Milledg&viUe, id Jan. 18cm ifilF Bhe Printers in the Middle and VV eftern D.ftrifls are requeu ed co inl-rc the above in their pa* papers two or three times, NOTICE. T - JL HAT having been appointed , Lrcafurcr and Land agent of the B >ard of Trufttes of the U iverlity, I am requefted to notify ail perfons who may be indebted to faid Boards whether for tuition, Tales of lots, or arrears of rent, to make immediate payment to me, and to roe only in default whereof, fuits arc ordered to be Ipecdily commenced. A. S. CLAY TONo January 21, 1809 NOTICE. NINE months after date appli cation will be made to the Inferior Court of Jackfon County, for leave to fell three tradlsof land, viz : —two trafls lying on the Nortb Fork cf the Oconee, one or which contains 200 acres, the other 192, one lot lying in the 14th dif .tridl of Baldwin No. 64 —to be fold for the benefit of the heirs and ‘ creditors &r Michael Borders, dec. MARY BORDERS, Executrix . JOHN BORDERS, Executor,* y*.y 9, sSos. .
