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Miscellaneous.
‘ NOW.a DAYS. ’
Alas! how even thing has changed,
Mile’ l ah- ,w, *-t sixteen;
When at! the girls wore homespun frocks,
And apionsnice and clean;
With bonnets made of braided straw,
That tied beneath the chin,
And shawls laid neatly on the neck.
And fastened with a pin.
But now a-days the ladies wear
French gloves and leghorn hats,
That take up half a yard of sky,
In coal-hod shape, or flats;
With gowns that do not fall as low,
As such things ought to fall,
Witn waists that you might break in two,
They are so very small.
1 recollect the time, when I
ltode father‘d horse to mill.
Across the meadow, rook* field.
And up anti down the hi!!.
And when our folks were out at work,
As true I’m a sinner,
I jump'd upon a horse, bear back,
And carried them their dinuer.
Dear me! young ladies now-a-days
Would almost faint away,
To think of riding out alone,
In wagon, chaise, or sleigh;
And as for giving ‘pa’ his meals,
Or helping ‘mu’ to bake,
Oh saint*! ’twouhl spoil their lily hands.
Though ‘sometimes they make cakc.
When winter came, and maidens’ hearts
Regan to beat and flutter,
Each beau, would take his sweet heart out,
.Sleigh-riding, in a cutter;
Or if the storm was bleak and cold,
The girls and beaux together
Would meet and have most glorious fun,
And never mind the weather
But now, indeed, it grieves me much
The circumstance to mention,
However kind a young man's heart,
And honest his intention;
He ne'er can ask a girl to ride;
But such a is waged!
And it lie sees her once a week
Why ‘surely, tliey‘re engaged!’
T never thought that I should try
My hand at making rhymes,
But ’tis the way to reprobate
The present evil times;
For should 1 preach morality,
In common, sober prose,
The‘d say ’twas older than the hills,
Or else turn up their nose.
I've almost lived my fourscore years;
l‘ve got a host of nieces,
And have to fin their trumpery,
So can‘t write more such pieces;
But oh! it makes me almost cry
I don't know what to do,
When now a-days I think upon
\\ hat folks are cominir to!
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TtlK MUMlii-Mi SEVEN.
Seven is composed of the
two first perfect numbers, e
qual and unequal three and
four—tortile number two con
sisting o< repeated unity, which
is no number, is not perfect.
Hippocrates says that the sep-i
tanary number, by its occult!
virtu res, tends to the accom
plishment of all things, is the
dispenser of life, anti fountain
of all its changes; and like
Shakespeare, he divides the
life of men in seven ages. In
7 months a child may be born
oud ive, and not before; and
an ienily it was not named be
fore seven days— not being ac
counted fully to have life before
that periodical clay—the teeth
spring out in the 7th month,
and are shed and renewed in
the 7ih year, when infancy is
changed into childhood— at
twice 7 years puberty begins;
at thrice 7 years the faculties
are developed—manhood com
mences, and we become legally
competent to all civil acts—at
four times 7 man is in the full
possession of his strength; at
five times 7 he is tit for the bu
siness of the world —at six
times 7he becomes grave and
wise, or never—at 7 tines 7
he attains his appogee, and from
that time decays—at eight
times 7 he is in his first cli-
macteric—at nine times 7, or
63, he is in his grand climac
teric, or year of danger—and
ten times 7, or threescore years
and ten, has been pronounced
by the Royal Prophet the natu
ural period of human life.
The 7th year, as well as the 7th
day, was directed to be a sab
bath of rest for all things; and
at the end of 7 times 7 years
commenced the grand jubilee.
Every 7111 year there was a gen
eral release from all debts, and
all bondsmen were set free l
Every 7th year the law was
directed to be read to the peo
ple—and by that law, man was
commanded to forgive his of
fending brother 7 times; but the
meekness of the last revealed
religion extended his humility
and forbearance to 70 times 7.
*df rain shall be revenged 7
fold, truly Lamech 70 times
7.* The Rabbins say, that
God employed this number to
perfect the greatness of Samu
el, his name corresponding to
the value of the letters in the
Hebrew tongue, which signify
7; whence Hannah, his mother,
in her thanks says, “that the
barren had brought forth’ 7/’
The 7th son was formerly con
sidered as endowed with pre
eminent wisdom; and the 7th
son of a 7th son is still thought
to possess the power of healing
ing diseases spontaneously. Fi
nally, perfection is likened to
gold 7 Umcs purified in the tire.
Mechanics Magazine ,
t From tliis law may have origina
ted the custom of our binding young
men to 7 years apprenticeship, and of
punishing incorrigible offenders by
Transportation for 7, and twice 7
years.
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VESTRIS'S EPITAPIIfC WIT.
Every body lias heard of the
late Col. Congreve, of ‘rocket
memory,’so justly celebrated
for his inventive genius in the
art of destroying his fellow
creatures (the College of Phy
sicians were mere children of
innocence compared with our
firework Congreve.) The Col.
who was a musical amateur,
one day accompanied Madame
Vest! is and a party of ladies to
view Purcell the
monument; and, “with good
emphasis and with good dis
cretion,’ read aloud the epitaph
—’He is gone to that place
where alone his harmony can
be exceedeed/ Vestris, the
|saterical little syren, who neyer
loses an opportunity of launch
ing a witticism, immediately
exclaimed—‘La! Colonel, the
same epitaph will serve for you,
by merely altering one word ,
thus; “He is gone to that place
where alone his fireworks can
be exceeded * All laughed b T
the Colonel, who spouted no
more epitaphs that morning.
&&e.
FEMALE CHARACTER.
I know not which is most
lovely, a female, born to afflu
ence, and accustomed to alt
the luxuries, the attentions, and
the gratifications which wealth
and influence can control, who
still preserves a courtesy, and
even modesty in her inter
course with those in lower cir
cumstances; or one, who, in the
depth of poverty and obscurity,
maintains a dignity, a propriety
of deportment tempered with
a submissive sweetness of dis
position, which commands the
respect of all who can appreci
ate true nobility,—JV*. E . Rev.
ANECDOTE.
Dr. Hyde, an eccentric ge
nius, meeting a person named
Bull, accosted him thus: ‘So
your name is Bull, is it? Pray,
where are your HornsV ‘They
always go with the Hide , sir,’
responded Mr. Bull.
JIJV’ to extend the ti. e for lorMi
nate drawers in the Land Lotteries of
eighteen hundred and eighteen, eigti
teen hundred and nineteen, and eigh
teen hundred and twenty-one, to take
out their grants for the lands thus drawn,
and after the time therein specified, to
vest the same in the State.
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
State of Georgia in General Assembly met,
and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, That every person who was
a fortunate drawer in the land lotteries by
the authority of the acts passed on the
fifteenth day of December, eighteen hun*
dred and eighteen, on the sixteenth day o
December, eighteen hundred and nine
teen, and on the fifteenth day of May,
eighteen hundred and twenty one, to take
out his, her or their grant, upon paying
into the Treasury the sum of eight dol
lars.
Sec. 2. And be It further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That from and af
ter the first day of November, eighteen
hundred and thirty, the lands so drawn
as aforesaid, and not granted, shall revert
to and become the property of the State.
Seo. 3. And be it further enacted,
1 hat this act shall not extend to any lot
or lot 9of land drawn by orphans until
three years after the said orphans shall
have arrived at the age of twenty-one
years; nor to any lots drawn by idiots or
lunatics or persons who have departed
(his life since they gave in for a draw or
draws in said lotteries of eighteen hun
dred and eighteen; eighteen hundred and
nineteen and eighteen hundred and twen
ty one, and whose estates are unrepre
sented, nor to any lots number ten and
one hunered set apart for the purposes of
public education.
_ ® EO, ■*. And be it further enacted,
I bat all .awe and parts of laws militating
against this act, be and the same is hereby
repealed.
f Seo J. And be it further enacted ti
the authority aforesaid, That it shall k
the duty of his Excellency the Govern, ‘ r
*0 cause this act to be published in all th’
public Gazetts of this State, ance a mom!*
until the first day of November next,
that he cause the expenses of sue!) p U ni|
ationto be paid out of the coutii;,re
fund. ° c,,t
WARREN JOURDAN
Speaker of the House of Representative?
THOMAS STOCKS.
President of the Senate*
Assented to 9th November, 1820
GEORGE R. GILMER,
Governor
Nov 21. 1829. m!2
WARREN SUPERIOR COURtT
Clary Gibson, -j
vs. L Dow fen
The Ex'rs. Jno , Gibson dec - J
ALL persons concerned will take
notice, that on the 29th day of next
March, we shall commence at the lato
residence of John Gibson, dec. i a
Warren County to lay oft*, and as
sign to Clary Gibson, widow of said
dec. her dower, in all the tracts of
land in the County aforesaid; on the
waters of Harts and Carsons ere* k ;
adjoining lands of Sampson Wilder’
B*;ck er Bass, Henry Hight and oth
ers.— Also in one other tract ad
joining Vincent Johnson.
The work will bo cootimied fi Jiu
day to day till completed.
Q. L. C. FRANKLIN,-)
SAM’L TORRENCE, l Corn’n rs
WM. LATIMER J
Feb, lltli 1830, tdd.~s4.
1,1 OUR months after date application
will be made to the Honorable the
Inferior Court of Columbia County wluju
istting for Ordinary purpose?, for leave to
sell the remainder of the real estate of
fgnatius Few, dec. for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of said and •
Thom .- Whi k, Ex‘er.
Feb, 13. 4m—34.
4 be 9old on the first Tuesday
v T in April next at the ‘ ourt Hou?e
in the town of Warrenton, Warren Coun
ty, a tract of land (widows dower except
ed) lying on the waters of Carsons creek,
and a negro man about 34 or 35 ye;irs of
age Sold for the benefit of the hues and
creditors of Win. Jones dec.
SUSANNAH JONES Adm‘is.
NICHOLAS JONES Adm‘r.
January 2d 1830. and 2 n .
1 shall apply to the Hon. the ini ur
Court of Warren County, when
sitting for Ordinary purposes, four
months from this date for leave to sell
150 acres of Land in Columbia County,
adjoining Parks, Jons, and others, near
the Fish Dam Ford on Little River*
part of the real estate of John L Porter
f Vfinorj said land bequeathed to him by
his Grand father the late Charles Porter,
in his last will and testament.
Sold for the benefit of said minor.
DORO I HY HILL, Guardian.
Jan, 26th 1830. 4m—32.
Subscriber informs the public
that the following will bo the
charges for work donu at his shop
the present year.
Sharpening ploughs 6 14
Pointing 25
Laying 57 l 2,
Making /* 25
Shoeing horse and find iron 1 25
Shoeing—iron found 1 06
Jump axe find steel, war
rented, . 50
and all other work in proportion.
ALFRED G. POGUE.
Warren county, Jan. 16 h 1830. ts 30
P GEORGIA, Warren. County.
WHEREAS, W. B. Hundley. apnicft
for letters of Dismission; on ibi
estate of Jerman Tucker, dec. fotev.f --aid
county.
These are therefore to cite and door
ih, all and singular, the kindn and and cr?d
itors of said deceased, to k e an( j : ,,,p C , r
at n y office, within the time pres cm lied
by law. to show cause, if any they have,
why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand this Oth .lav /
Febry, 1830 6ir 40.
FRANKLIN, c. C W. ,