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LINKS.
At the close of (he day how delightful to
tiar.e
On the sun a she sink; in the wts>
To know that again in the morn she wilt
rise,
In lit r pride froth the realms of the
blest.
Ami to think that like her, when Lift 1 ?
current is run,
’ I
The soul will ascend to the skies,
And be pure to our maker as the rnys of
that sun,
That is sure on to-morrow to rise.
Oh! give ine such thoughts in I.ifo‘3 cins- ’
ing scene.
To silence all doubls in my breast,
Then death nt the moment will be a*
a dream,
Just awaking the soul from its rest.
The only way to find always
new })l azures, to relish therp,
and make them the pastime
and refection of ihe soul, is to
enjoy them recording to the
intention of (Jod, to the rules of
Wisdom and moderation pie
scribed by tho law of God. A
French poet has handsomely
expressed this observation,
U s lines limy be translated
thus;
‘Pleasures, are the flowers,
which, among the brambles ofj
this world, our divine master j
causes to spring for us. Kach
has its season, and will) pi udent
care, some may be preserved to
the very winter of life. Put
if they must be pulled let it be
with, a spaiing hand. Their
transitory beauty is easily blast
ed. Labour is oftentimes the
parent o! pleasure. I pity him
who is burthened with a load
of leisure. Happiness is a hies
sing that nature bistows not,
hut sells. Here no crop can
he raised without cultivation ’
PUNCTUATION.
When Lord Timothy Dexter,
of Newbury port, wrote his
famous book, entitled ‘A Uikel
for the Knowing Ones,* there
happened to be many heresies,
schisms, and false doctrines a
broad in the land, regarding
punctuation; and as many
divoise s> stems, appeared, for
the location of commas, semi
colons, periods, dashes, tyc. as
there were works published.
To obviate this difficulty and
to give every one anopportunity
of suiting himself, his lordship
left out all marks of punctuation
from the body of his work, and
at the ending of the book, has
piinted four or five pages of
nothing but stops and pauses,
with which he said the reader
could pepper his dish as he
chose.
r It AVID TRAVELLING.
£ traveller on a miserably
lean steed, was hailed by a I
Yankee, who was hoeing his
pumkins by the roadside—
‘Hallo! friend, said the farmer,
‘where are you bound?* ‘I ni
going out to settle in the western
country/ replied the other
“Well get off and straddle this
here pumpkin vine, it will grow
and carry you faster than Uiat
erc beast.’
A gentleman who had a
strong dislike to mutton, but
whose landlord had furnished
the obnoxious provisions in
abundance, rernaked that he had
j eaten so much ofit during the
last six months hat he was
ASHAMED Tfc LOOK A SIIEEP IN
! I HE FACE*
SQUARE TOED SHOES.
Fiom a history of Lynn,
(Mass.) recently published, it
appears that ‘square toed shoes
went out of fashion in 1737/
After a lapse of nearly a centu
ry, they hare come in fashion
again, and are now the very
tip of the ton.
‘John Gilpen was a Citizen-*
The keeper oi a toll gate be
tween this [dace and Newport,
some years since was astonish
ed one day, at seeing a citizen
l/ai clicadod, ooHiiog „t furi
ous pace, on a horse, towards
| the gate Un he came, like
j chain lightning down a narrow
valley—and open flew the gate.
I he rider came up, but in pas
sing through the gate his knee
struck one ol the rotten posts,
and knocked it into the middle
of next week, while the horse
pushed ahead on all fours, like
iwo hundred and fifty one ante
lopes with death at their heels.
T he gate keeper seeing the de
limitation of his post and fearing
the loss of it in another sense,
he called out instantly to the n
der to stop and phy the bill.
Tay the hill/ shouted he of the
race,‘only stop my beast, and
Til pay any thing.’
Providence Patriot.
PROPOftAlifci
For publishing in Miliedgeville, Georgia*
A Heligioiis Paper,
to he entitled
THE CHRISTIAN PIONEER.
paper lor which public patronage
A. is new solicited, is mainly designed
to advocate Che principles and doctrines of
the Christian Church.
To those who have experienced the
ditliculty of promulgating a defence so
impopuiai tenets through the generality of
political and miscellaneous Journals, the
necessity lor such publication is sufficient
ly obvious.
How shal prejudices, accumulating, in
consequence of denunciations issued from
the pulpits of opposing denn m j na( j on 9 ev er
be icmoved, which the Press is closed
against h? We lament that such is the
fact, but we have bitterly felt, that the
boasted libeity of th Press exists in name
nlone, and are, in consequence, reluct
antly driven to a separate establishment
lor the purpose of defending our opinion,
and ourselves from obloquy, and diseming i
atmg those bright and consoling truths,!
which after careful examination appear to i
us, dictated by the sacred scriptures. i
>re indulge 00 unfriendly feelj.uge *
gainst our fellowmen of other denomina- !
tions, neither shall we over assail the
opinions of others, except so far as it may
become necessary, in defending our own.
We assume not to be‘Lords over God‘s
heritage,’ nor do we desire to ‘have do
minion over the faith’ of any.
On the contrary, a fundamental princi- i
pie of our denomination, and that foj
which we prize ii is, that no
restraint shall ever be imposed upon the
right of private judgement j that every
man shall be at full liberty to interpret the
scriptures for himseif, amean&bic jo no
other tribunal for the correctness it his
faith, than to God and his own consceo ce.
We claim but ‘one master, and that is
Christ.’ We admit no human authority
in matters of faith. Conceiving religion
o be beyond his jurisdiction, we shall op
pose with our utmost efforts, all attempts,
however specious, to induce the interfer
ence of the civii magistrate. We are not
unaware,*that Satan 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 discoid in the pres
ent, aud of those cruel atrocities which
have disgraced the church, in past ages,
we spurn, with indignation, all creeds of
human invention. ‘The Bible, the Bible
onlyf shall be our rule of faith. In it, we
hirik are clearly stated the doctrines of
the simple unity or god and the unrival
LEO SUPREMACY of tile FATHER. The
•benignity and paternal character of God,
his impartial love, and unpurchased mer
cy, strangely overlooked in much popular
preaching, will be strenuously supported.
To our view, the face of Christianity
has been deformed, by a multitude of
human additions. \Ve would exert the
little strength which God has given us
to restore its primitive form,
In fine, it will be our object to urge the
importance of that religion, which is not
dissipated in profession, but manifests its
influence over every thought, and word
and action; which consists in reverence
for God, benevolence for man, nnd a
faithful discharge of every known duty.
We would exert ourselves to restore
llie W t J J(t „ p of
judging by the fruit, aud wouiu prefer that
lg disciples should manifest their attach
ment to him, by keeping his commands,
rather than by pertinacious adherence to
a creed. With St. James wc desire to
sec /aith 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 on
any other theological discussion, provid
ed it bo done m a becoming manner.
Conditions.—The Christian Pio
neer will be published semi-monthly n
a mid tup) sheet, under the editorial direc
t.on of Elder Willis B. Nall, aided uy
an association of gentlemen, at gl 50 n
advance or paid at die end of the year.
A summary of general intelligence
will be giveu.
Any one procuring ten responsible
subscribers shall ruceive a cony without
charge^
Ministers and Members of the Christian
Church and all other friendly to the paper
are respectfully rolicited to exert them
selves in its circulation.
Letters and Communication, post paid,
may be addressed to the Editor of the
CnisTiAN Pioneer, Miliedgeville.
JiCT to extend the time for fortu
nate drawers in the Land Lotteries o
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 11 LN AC lED 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 be
♦he authority of the acts passed on thy
fifteenth day of December, eighteen hun*
dred and eighteen, on thesiiteenth day ©
December, eighteen hundred and nine
teen, ami on the fifteenth day of May
eighteen hundred and twenty one, to take
out his, her or their grant, upon Dario?!
into the Treasury tfce .urn of eight and?
lari.
Sec. 2. And be it further exacted by
Ihe authority aforesaid. That from and af
ter the first day of November, eighteen
hundred and thirty, the land* so drawn
as aforesaid, and not granted, hall revert
to and become the property of the State.
That tbi9 act e>al 1 not egteod to any lot
or lots of land drswn by orphans on*,
three years after the said orphans s l, at :
have arrived at the age of twenty om
years; nor to any lots drawn by idio’ts
lunatics,or persons who have departed
this life since they gave in for a draw -
draws in said lotteries of eighteen hun
dred and eighteen, eighteen hundred an<]
nineteen and eighteen hundred ami i Wn /
ty one, aud whose estates are* uniepre
sented,norto any lots number ten a
one hunered set Opart for the purpose., c
public education.
Seo. 4, And be it further enacted.
That all laws and parts of laws militatin'/
against this act, be and the same is herd/*
appealed.
Seo. 5. And be it further enacts! by
the authority ufotesaid, That it shall by
the duty of his Excellency the Governor,
so cause this act to be published in all* th *.
public Gazetts of this State, ance-a flu. Ml/
until the first da y of November nt/xi, ,;n<j
that he cause the expei scs of such \sf ( .
ation to be paid uut of. the coi ia.* e'>f
fund.
waiiren jour dan,
Speaker of the of Representatives
THOMAS STOCKS;-
President of the Senate*.
Assented to 9th November, 1820.
GEORGE It. GILMER,
„ Governor
Nov 21. 1829. ml 2
f I ‘(HE Facuity of Franklin Cos leg* p,o.
JL pose giving a prize, of the vain, o*
about ten dollars in appropi iale and wel’
selected books, to the best Latin scholar*
aud another to the best Greek s hohu*
whoshall enter the Freshman ( !a a s . ei?
August for a regular course. The nanus
of the younggentiemen thus distinguished,
and of the Teachers by whom they were
educated, wiR also be made public, that a
laudable emulation may be excited, aud
he standard of literature rais >
out the States.
The Latin prize, however will m*t be
given to any vrno shall not manifest on
examinations, a thorough knowledge of af
least, Jacob’s Latia Reader, both vols*
Cesar? Commentaries, all the war? in
Gauls, Guild's Ovid, the whole of Virgil.
Cicero's Select Orations, and tha
Cataline and Jugwrthine Way* of Sal
lust.
The Greek prif.e will not be given fo;-
less thaa a correct knowledge cf Delectus,
a valuable work for beginners John
and Acts, Jacob’s Greek Reader, and (J> u>
ca Minora.
A prize will also be given for the best
knowledge of Arithmetic and Day’s
Algebra, as far as the end of simple equa
tion?.
It has been a source of regret to tho
Faculty, nnd a draw back on the Liter*'.uro
of the College and the State that students
have generally been entered to b>dly
prepared, io 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 compete
for them next August, will, it i, hoped
qualify themselves for deserving and
obtaining them some succeeding jear.
The bo iks, a knowledge ol which is at
requisite for admission arc
Cmear \ irgil and Cicero’s Select Orations
in-Latin: in Greek, John and Acts, and
Graeca Minora, together with Eng ish
Grammar and Arithmetic. R is hoped,
that those who intend entering in future,
will come thorougly prepared on the verv
moderate reqtfisitions of the law.
,i LATHROP, Sec’y.
GEORGIA, \VAKKEnToUn Ti7~~
HRUhAb, Mary Parker applies
▼ T for letters of Dismission on the
estate of Samuel Parser, late of said
County, dec.
These are therefore to cite and arfmon
if. * all and singular, the kindred and c,e -
ditors of said dec. to be and appear at mv
office, within the time prescribed by law,
ot shew cause, if any they have, why said
etters should not be granted.
Given unde* my baud this the 6th
March IG3O.
Z. FRANKLIN, c. c. o. w. c.
W! „_. GEOnoiA vv *rren Ciiftnty.
fiCREAS Zephaniah Franklin up..
|>lie for letters of Adnuni-tration
on the estate of Berryman S. Harrison,
dec this it therefore to cite all § B n^ular
the kindred and creditors of said dec. to
be and appear at my office within the tima
preicnbed by law and fiie thejr objection?
(if any) why such letters should not be
granted.
.Given under my hand ‘Majrh 13:h
TrfcMAs Gibsok, Cl’k
