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Miscellaneous. jm ! * 11,11 ■ —■■■■■ - - ■■*'■■■ - . | 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