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Miscellaneous.
AN ECLOGUE—on the tlouoh. ‘
Wake up my mus t ! wake up my soul!
Survey the globe from pole to pole—
To what employment shall 1 bows
Pursue the arts or hold the plough?
Upon a just and strict attention*
The plough appears a high invention.
The great Messiah, when he wrought,
Made yokes and ploughs, as>weare taught,
Mogul, renown'd of India‘B land,
First takes the plough into his hand;
His millions then in honor toil
To pulveri a e the let tile soil.
The fam'd Elisha you'll allow,
J!e drove the ox, or held the plough.
The Stubborn earih he rent and tore,
With oxen number'd twenty four.
The immortal Job, more rich and grand.
Than any in the Eastern lard.
lie launch'd his ploughs— the earth gave
way,
His thousand oxen rend the clay.
Os ail pursuits by men invented.
The ploughman is the best contented.
His calling's good, his profits high,
And on bis labors alt rely—
Mechanics all by him are fed,
Os him the merchants seek their bread}
fiis hands give meat to ev'ry thing,
Up fromjhe beggar to the king.
The milk and honey, corn and wheat
Are by his labors made complete.
Our clothes from him must first atise,
To deck the fop or dress the wise—
We then by vote may justly state,
The ploughman ranks among the great;
More independent than them all,
Thatslwell upon this earthly ball.
All kail, ye farmer*, yoUng and old!
Push on your ploughs with courage bold;
Your wealth arises from youi clod,
Your independence from your God.
If then the plough supports the nation,
And men of rank in ev*ry simian,
Let kings to farmers make a bow,
And ev’ry man pro urea plough,
hailstorms.
Professor Olmated, of Yale
College, in the last number of
Siltiman’s Journal, has attempt
ed to account for hail storms;
this is ‘considered one of the
most difficult problems in mete
arology He states the follow
ingfacts —Violent hail storms
are attended by black clouds,
Irish winds, and thunder and
lightning; they are confined
chiefly to the temperate zones
they occur most frequently in
the hottest months; hail stones
are touch smaller on the tops
of mountains than in the neigh
bouring plains; they are oflen
followed by cooler weather.
The immediate cause ol hail
storms is sudden and extraor
dinary cold in the region of the
clouds were the hail stones be
gin to form, but the great ques
tion is, what is the origin of
this cold? Professor O. does
not believe that the cold is gen
erated by the agency of electri
city, as some have supposed,
hot assigns as the cause, an ex
ceedihg cold wind from the
north, or from the high and
cold regions of the atmosphere;
his meets with a moist, warm
current of air and a haii storm’ •
follows. In descriptions of hail
storms it is commonly mention
ed, that opposite and violent 1
winds met.—‘When a cold cur
rent from the regions of per
petual frost meets with a warm
current, the watery vapour of;
the latter is frozen* and hail
stones are formed. In the tor
rid zone there are no hail
storms except near lofty moun
tains, because there are no
freezing currents of air, and in
the frigid zone there are no vi
olent hail storms because there
are no heated currents of air to
mix with the cold currents
The south of France is more
remarkable for frequent hail
siorms than any other country
in the world—This is owing to
its situation between the Alps
and Pyrenees; the cold blasts
from these regions of snow and
ice mingling with the hot, damp
air over the. intervening coun
try, produce violent hail storms;
the opposite currents of hot and
cold air are set to motion when
the heat of the sun is ro great.
It is surprising that hail stones,
descending as they do through
many thousand feet, fall with
so little force. They are heavy
enough to fall with a hundred
times the force which they ac
tually exhibit. The reason, of
this is the following. They are
very small when first formed,
and receive continual acces
sions in descending; these ac
cessions are made from watery
vapour at rest, and the taking
on of these new loads continu
°% retards their speed. Hail
stones are smaller on the tops
of mountains than in the neigh
bouring plains, because they do
not fall so far.
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PROI'OSALS
For publishing in Milledgeyille, Georgia,
A Religious /'aper,
TO BE ENTITLED
THE CHRISTIAN PIONEER.
paper for which public patronage
1 is new solicited, is mainly designed
to advocate the principles and doctrines of
the Christian Church.
To those who have experienced the
difficulty of promulgating a defence of
nnpoputar tenets through the generality of
political and miscellaneous Journals, the
uecessity for such publication is sufficient
ly obvious.
How shall prejudices, accumulating, x
consequence of denunciations issued from
the puipits of opposing denominations ever
be removed, which the Press is closed
against us? We lament that such is the
mo, out wc have bitterly fen, that the
boasted liberty of the Press exists in name
alone, and are, iu consequence, reluct*
atitty driven to a seperate establishment,
for the purpose of defending our opinions
and ourselves from obloquy, and disemin
ating those bright and consoling truths,
which after careful examination appear to
us, dictated by the sacred scriptures.
Vve indulge no unfriendly feelings a
gainst our fellowmen of other deriomina*
tions; neither shall we ever assail the
opinions of others, except so far as it may
become necessary, in defending our own.
We assume not to be ‘Lords over Godss
heritage,’ nor do we desire to ‘have do*
minion over the faith’ of any.
Oo the contrary, a fundamental princi
ple of our denomination, arid that foj
which we prlxe it most dearly, is, that no
restraint shall ever be imposed upon the
right of private judgement* that every!
mao §feall b at foil liberty to interpret the
scripture* for himself, ameanable to no
other tribunal for the correctness of his
faith, than to God and his own conscience.
j We claim but‘one master, and that is
Christ.* We admit ao human authority
in matters of faith. Conceiving religion
to be beyond his jurisdiction, we shall op
pose with our utmost efforts, all attempts,
however specious, to induce tne inteifer
ence of the civil magistrate. We are not
unaware, that Aatan often assumes a garb
of an angel of light.
We bow to the decision of no synod,
council or conference. Regarding them
as the fertile source of discord in the pres
ent, and of those cruel atrocities which
have disgraced the church, in past ageß,
we spurn, with indignation, all creeds of
human -invention. ‘1 he Bible, the Bible
only,’ shall be our rule of iaith. In it, we
think are clearly stated the doctrines of
the simple unity or ood. and she unrivaj,
LE© SUPREMACY of the F ATHEK.—The
benignity and paternal characteryol God,
his impartial love, and unpurchased mer
cy, strangely overlooked in much popular
-preaching, will be strenuously supported.
To ‘urview, the face of Christianity
ha* been deformed, by a multitude oij
human additions. W e would exert the
little atrength which God ha 9 given us
to restore its primitive form.
In finest will be our object to urge tnei
importance of that religion, **
dissipated in profession, but manifests andj 8
influence over every thought, and w Ol > i
and action; which consists in revere Dce
for God, benevolence for man, and 4
faithful discharge of every known duty.
We would exert ourselves to restor®
the standard proposed by our Saviour,! o*
judging by the fruit, and would prefer tha*
his disciples should manifest their attach
ment to him, by keeping his commands,
rather than by pertinacious adherence to
a creed. With Sr. James we desire to
see faith exhibited by works*
A portion not exceeding two columns,
will be devoted to the use of any who may
choose to assail our opinions, or enter ou
any other theological discussion, provid
ed it be done in a becoming manner.
Conditions.*— The Christian Pio
neer will be published semi monthly n
a midiwin *heet, under the editorial direc
tion of Elder Willis B. Nall, aided by
an association of gentlemen at gl 50 in
advance oi paid at the end of the year.
A summary of general intelligence
will be given.
Any one procuring ten responsible
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charge •
Ministers and Members of the Christian
Church and all other friendly to the paper
are respectfully solicited to exert, them
selves in its circulation.
Letters and Communication, post paid.
may be addressed to the Editor of the
< histian Pioneer, Milledgevilie.
JiJVj&CT to extend the tin.e for fortu
nate drawers in the Land Lotteries of
eighteen hundred and eighteen, eigh
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 pergon who was
a fortunate drawer in the land lotteries be
*he authority of the acts passed on thy
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.
Sse. 3. And be it further enacted,
That this act ehall not extend to any lot
or lots of 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
this 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*
IJ ope* and whose estates are uurepre
seated, not tb any tots number feVP a>!s
one huoered set apart for the purposes’ r
public education.
Seo. 4. And be it farther
That all laws and parts of laws militatin’
against this act, be and the same is hereby
appealed.
Seo 5. And be it Further enacted by
the authority ufoiesaid, That it ehall [>%
the duty of his Excellency the Governor.
10 cause this act to be published in all the
public Gazetts of this State, ance a month,
until the first day of November next, *..t
that he cause theexpenscs of such pub 1
ation to be paid out .of the contingent
fund.
WARREN JOURDAN,
Speaker of the House of Representative*’
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate-
Assented to 9th November,
GEORGE R. GILMER,
Governor
Nov 21. 2 829. m!2
irjr>HE Faculty of F anklin College pro
■ pose giving a prize, of the value ot
about ten dollars in appropriate and *.veij
selected books, to the best Latin scholar,
and another to the best G reek scholar,
| who shall enter the Freshman Class next
August for a regular course. Th<e nanoe§
of the younggentlemen thus distinguished,
and of the Teachers by whom they were
’educated, will also be made public, that u
laudable emulation may be excited, and
he standard of literature raised through
out the States.
The Latin prize, however, wit! not be
given to any wno shall not manifest on
examinations, a thorough knowledge of at
least, Jacob’* Latin Reader, both vole.
Cesar? Commentaries, all the wars in
Gauls, Gould’s Ovid, the whole of Virgil,
Cicero’* Select Orations, arid the
Catalina and Jugarthioe Wars of Sab
lust-
The Greek prize will not be given ftfr
less than a correct knowledge of Detecbu,
a valuable work for beginners John
and Acts, Jacob’s Greek Reader, and Gra
c& Minora.
A prize will also be given for the bo/t
knowledge of Arithmetic and Day s
as far as the end of simple equ i
lions.
It hag been a source of regret to the
Faculty, and a draw back on the Literature
of the College and the State that student?
have generally been entered so bully
prepared. To remedy this in part by an
honorable competition, is the design of
the above mentioned prizes These pri
zes are intended to be permanent; and
many who may not be able to co npete
for them next August, will, it is hoped
qualify themselves for deserving and
obtaining them some succeeding y ear.
The books, a knowledge of which is at
preasent requisite for admission ae
Caesar, Virgil and Cicero’s Select Oration?
in Latin.* in Greek, John and \cts, ad
G rseca Minora, together with English
Grammar and Arithmetic. It is hoped,
that thdse who intend entering in future,
will come thorougly prepared on the very
moderate requisitions of the law.
A LATHROP, Sec’y.
mam* mnc “■nasi ri ’'“ 1 —i mr *i ‘m m —■ mi ■ i--
Clary Gibson, q Writ fort he
Vs. ! signment of dow-
The Executors ofCerrom Warren.
John Gibson, dec, J Superior Court
To all whom it may concern, take
NOTICE.
rpHAT we, the undersigned com
missioners appointed by
.perior Court of Warren county, to
lay off and assign to Clary Gibson, her
Dower in and to two certain tracts or
parcels of land lying and being in flic
county aforesaid—one contain! -g sev
en hundred fifty acres more or
less, adjoining Wilder, Hight, Basr.
,and others; and the other, containing
two hundred acres, more or less, ad
joining Johnson and others—- that we
will proceed to lay off and assign the
said Dower, on the first Monday in
July, 1830, Commencing on the
tract adjoining Wilder, Hight, Hass
and others, and shall continue from
day to day until the whole work bo
completed,
HENRY LOCKHART, }
SOLOMON LOCKETT, } Corn’ s.
AARON W. GRIER, j
April 7. td—43.
Blank Deeds,
FOR SALE AT THIS OFF ICC-