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v - \ , , , . is WILLI VMS
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• , Aisigjp 0 < . , av , colin t v at the election
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r.; \Vc pro authorisctl to
V - J\i*£T* nnotv.ee WILLIAM V. DELL
, a caichdate for Receiver ol lax
Returns for Stewart county at the
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* t], th- s-j a; bted to the Black Smith
and 1838, must pay u ■ '
•• will 1. • put in an officers hands for
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• r . -.her. 22; 1857
ILG. WH.ll * MS,
j \ * a om ,1 themselves in the PRAC
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■ service* to the citizens of
|ft . . - md the unrounding country.
1 e acquaintance with diseas
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always ex' cet t and immediate attention.
Florence, ' nril 9 2
$ ,v v; R, IJ AV,
ATToRN-EV AT LAW,
HAVIN'- loehimself in Starksvillcc, Lee
conntv. will 'notice mull the counties of
the Chattahoochee -. .nut, and in Houston and
Upson of the Flint, and Dooly ol the Southern.
He hopes, bv strict u-.Jit.ou to the business en
trusted to his rare, t. > receive a liberal share ot
public patronage.
Nov. 15 fit 54 .
J. A. H. HIACOW,
attorney at law,
STARKSVIILE. let COUNTY. GEORGIA
\¥TILI, attend the Courts of the CHAi
v? lIOOUHEE CIRCUIT.
Nov. 25 35 ly , -- - -
Allorney .it l-aw,
FLORENCE, STEWARD COUNTV, GA
Apiil 16
LOTS IN FLORENCE,
FOR jSHZE
t he subscriber offers for sale on ac
'«Mf if commodatuig terms, several Business
:,r, d Residence Lots in the town of
atfin Florence, beautifully situated, and one
improved lot with a comfortable dwelling house,
on the same forsale or rent. Persons wishing to
settle in Florence and are desirous of purchasing
Lots for business or residence will do well to call
and examine mine as they will be sold on very
liberal terms. Florence is rapidly thriving and iu
a short time min t become a place of immense bu
siness. situated as it is in a healthy section of the
country, surrounded by wealthy and industrious
planters.
1 would ais > remark that the citizens are ma
king arrangements to have tine schools established
both Male an I Female —which are now in opera
tion. A fine female Academy is in contempla
tion which will shortly be completed when Flor
ence will tie enabled to compete successfully with
any town in Georgia for advantages of this kind.
The subscriber also oilers for Sale on liberal
terms GOO acres of land with some improvements
on the road leading from Lumpkin to Irwinton,
5 miles from the former place. The situation is
j beautiful and health •, the water good. Persons
j wishing to purchase orview the premises will call
ots Mr. James P. Matthews near the place who is
' triy authorised agent for the sale of said lands or
i to the subscriber near Florence.
JOHN T. B. TURNER.
July 23,1833 13
V A M VBLE PROPERTY
i 'OSI S.iLE.
fAOR the purpose of closing the estate of Asaph
R. Hill, late of Stewart County deceased.
The subsriber will soil at private sale, one third or
the whole of the following property, viz.
ONE COMMODIOUS NEW STOJE HOUSE AND LOTS,
The well known stand of Hill Laurence A Cos.
Lumpkin Ga. Also 31 acres Land adjoining
said Town, handsomely situated for private resi
dence. Also the well known,
I*2so*?iix fiOtel, FavrsHtare
And Lots, in the Town of Florence, at present
occupied by Mr. A. Burnett. Also the large
framed,
WARE HOUSE AMD FIXTURES,
In the Town of Florence, at present occupie/by
Jernigan Laurence &Cos Also two unimproved
Lots, in said Town, Nos. 103 and 109 in square
11- high elevated ground for building.
‘.S i two ettlnnetits of valuable pine Lands, con
taining 740 acres, 3 -title . t; t Florence. Also
8 Lots in the cit -of St- Jnue: bs. amongst which
are Lots to suit tint merchant or the settler. Also
'27 shares of the Capital Stock c • St. Josephs
Rail Road&Uatial Company. V->> one fine Sad
dle Horse. -
Any of the above property will be sold on ac
! comma luting terms, by application to the sub
scriber at Florence Georgia
HENRY W. JERNIGAN TEx tr.
and •> i •»■>’ Y 14 I -ce ted
The Subscriber will sc!! several valuable settle
ments of Land, from 202-3 to 1000 acres.
May ->5, 1833 9 ii. W. IGAN
AL A 13AM \ L \NDS
FOR SALE.
i "\T half o M jo
ii • s. half i it nn
N. half 8 i t 30
N. half 7 14 30
S. half 7 ! 4 30
S. half G 14 30
S. half 11 14 29
S. half 20 18 28
S. half 31 10 08
N. half 5-3 19 29
S. half 53 if) 29
\V. half 29 10 2G
N. half ♦> 10 .30
E. half 21 22 2G
E. half 22 13 28
N. half 33 20 26
S. hull' 32 18 28
W. half 26 15 24
S. half 29 16 25
E. half 2 18 25
Any of the above Lands will bo sold oa -n
to suit purchasers, by application to John D. Pitts, j
Esq. Florence, Ga. or to the subscriber, at Mu j
con. J- COWLL.9
Juiv 26 18
LAND FOR SALE.
THE subscriber will sell to the j
(ffSyjLc highest bidder, on the first Tuesday |
Cf m JANUARY next, the Plantation
where he now lives, lying on the Fort
Gaines road, nine miles north oi Lumpkin, con- ,
mining FOUR HUNDRED ACRES oak and
hickory land, with about 125 acres cleared. Per- \
sons wishing to purchase would do well to call
and view the premises.
Nov. 5 33 4t W. B. SHIRLING.
VALUABLE LANDS
FOR SALE.
The Subscriber offers for sale a vat
4KS r.rdile TRACT OF LAND whereon
he now lives, lying in Stewart county,
one mile and a half from Florence,
contacting 1,000 acres, of which there is between
200 and 300 acres in cultivation. On the premi
ses there arc comfortable houses, a good GIN
HOUSE, superior GIN and GEAR. Also, a
FIRST KA PE SAW MILL, which has only
been in operation about six months t surrounded
bv an inexhaustible quantity of pine timber, near
several towns, situated on the Chattahoochee riv
er. The land ts rich and level. I have good
soring water, and a healthy and beautiful situa
tion for a residence. Any person wishing to pur
chase will call and view the premises.
-TOSEril REESE.
J dry; 28 re eotf
FLORENCE, GA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 5,1839.
From the Southern Literary Messenger
iiiilj or tiollieisi.
BV MRS. SIGOURNEY.
Mothers best discharge their duty to the com
munity, by traiuiug up those who shall give it
strength and beauty. Their unwearied lah-n.
should coincide with the aspirations of the Psal
mist, that their “sons may lie as plants grown up
in their youth; their daughetets, as corner-stones,
polished after the similitude of a palace.” They
would not wish to leave to society, where thev had
themselves found protection and’ solace, a bequest
that would dishonor their niemorv.
\\ e, who are mothers, ought to feel peculiar
solicitude with r-jjard to the manner in which onr
daughters are reared. Being more c in-dant'y
with ns, and more entirely under out control than
sorts, they vvili be naturally considered as our
representatives, the truest tests of onr system, the
strongest witnesses to a future generation, o our
fidelity or neglect.
“Unless women,” said the venerable Feller.berg,
“are brought up with industrious and religious
habits, it is in vain that we educate the rn n; for
they arc the oues who keep ti e character ol men
in its proper elevation.” Our duty to the com
munity, which must be discharged by the educa
tion ot a whole race, comprises many unobti (tstv-,
almost invisible points, which in detail may se .-tu
trivial, or at least lesultory, but which are stiii as
in portant, as the ram-drop to the cistern, or the
rill to the bro.d stream.
A long period allotted to study ; a thorough
implauation of domestic taste.s, and a vigilant
guardianship over simplicity of character, are es
sential to the daughters of a republic-. That it is
wise to give the greatest possible extent to the
season of tutelage, for t.iose who have much to
learn, is a self-evident proposition. If they are
to teach others, itisdoubly important. And tln-re
is no country on earth, where so many females
are employed in teaching, as in our own. Indeed,
from the position that educated women here
maintain, it might no' be diffieult to establish the
point, thrt they are all teachers, ail forming other
beings upon the model of their own example-,
however unconcious of the fact. To abridge the
education of the educator, is to stint the culture
of a plant, whose “le v are for the healing of
the nation i.”
1 was delighted to hear a young lady say, at the
age of nineteen, “1 cannot bear to think yet of
leaving school. 1 have scarcely begun to learn.”—
With propriety might she express this sentiment,
though she was eminent both in studies and ac
toin; lishments, —if the great Michael Angelo,
could adopt for his mottoi in his ninetieth year—
“aneora imparo,"— and “yet I am learning.”
It has unfortunately been too much the r.t2om
in our country, not only to shorten the period al
lotted to the education of our sex, but to fritter
away even that brief period, in contradictory
pursuits and pleasures. Parents have blindly lent
their iuiiuencj to this nsage. To'reform it, they
must oppose the tidcof fashion and of opinion.—
Let them instruct their daughters to resist the
principle of conforming in any respect to the ex
ample of those around them, uuless it is rational
iu itself, and correctly applicable to them as indi
viduals. A proper expenditure lor one, would be
ruinous extravagance in another. So, if some in
discreet mothers, permit their young daughters
to waste in dress and fashionable parties,
the attention which should b* s utToiJt! ,f > study,
need their example bo quoted as a precedent ?
To do asothcis do. which is the rule of the un
thinking, is often to copy bad taste and erring
judgment. We use more discrimination in points
of trifling import. We pause and compare pat
terns, ere >ve purchase a garment which, per
chance, lasts but for a single sea on. Why
should we adopt with little inquiry,—-or on the
strenMh r*f doubtful precedent,—a habit, which
may stamp the ehnra.-Tr G children forever !
When circumstances require, iM Youngest girl
should be taught not to ieac to difler Turn her
companions, either in costume, manners, or opin
ion. Singularity for its own sake, and every
proach to eccentricity, should be deproc . e; and
discouraged. Even necessary variations from
those around, must be managed with delicacy, so
as not to wound feeling, or exasperate prejudice.
But she who dares not to be independent, when |
son or duty dictate, will be iu danger of for
feiting decision of character, perhaps, integrity of
principle.
Simple attire, and simple manners, are the nat
utal orurrmentsof those who aro obtaining their j
school education. They have the beauty of fit
ness, and the policy of leaving the mind free, for
its precious pursuits. Love of display, every step
towaros affectation, are destructive of the charms
of that sweet season of life. Ceremonious visi
ting, where showy apparel, and late hour* prevail,
must be avoided. 1 feel painful sympathy for
those mothers, who expose their young daugh- j
tors to such excitements, yet expect them to re- ■
turn unimpaired and docile, to the restraints of!
school discipline. “Those who forsake useful
studies.” said an ancient philosopher, “for useless (
speculations, are like the Olympic gamesters, who ;
abstained from uecessary labors, that they uaglit
be fit for such as were not so.”
Shall i allude lo the want of expediency, in ex
hibiting very young ladies in mixed society !
Their faces become familiar to the public eye.—
The shrinking delicacy of their privileged period
of life escapes. The dews of the morning are
too suddenly exhaled. They get to be accounted
old, ere they tnafure, —more is expected of them,
than their unformed characters can yield,—and
if their discretion does not surpass their yours,
they may encounter severe criticism, perhajts
calumny. When they should be just emerging
as a fresh opened blossom, they are hackeucd to
the common gaze, as the year’s Souvenir, which
by courtesy or sufferance, maintain a place on the
ceutrc-table, though its value has deteriorated.
Is not the alternative either a premature marriage,
or an obsolete continuance in the arena of fashion.
with a somewhat mortifying adherence to the
fortunes of new candidates, as, grade alter grade,
they assert their claims to fleeting admiration, or
vapid flattery f
How much more faithfully does the mother per
i-iioi her duty, who brings forth to society, no
crude or superficial semblance of goodness, hut
'lie well ripened fruit of thorough, prayerful cul
’ ’.e. Her daughter, associated with herself, in
•icmcstic cares, it the same lime that she gathered
the wealth of intellectual knowledge, is now
qualified to take an active part iu tiie sphere which
sb - embellishes. Adorned with that simplicity
’•vliich attracts every eye, when combined with
'-Odd breeding, aad aright education, she is ar
rayed in a better panoply than the armor of Sem
iratnis, or tiie wit and Deauty of Cleopatra, tor
whom the Roman lost a world.
>iiiip!irity ol luuguage, as well as of garb aud
manner, ii powejful ingredient in that art of
pleasing, nil ' h the young and lovely of our sex
are suppesed to study. The conversation of
children is rich in this charm. Books intended
for their instruction or amusement, should con
sult their idiom. Ought not females to excel iu
the composition of elementary works for the ju
vcaiis intellect, associated as they are with it, in
its earliest and least constrained developments?
The talented and learned man is prone to find
himself embarrassed by such a labor. The more
profound liis researches in science, and the knowl
edge ot the world, the farther must he reitice his
steps, to reach the level of infantine simplicity.
Possibly, he might ascend among tfie stars, and
teel at home ; but to search for lioney-dew in the
bells t flowers, and amoug the mosscups, needs
the beak of the humming-bird, or the wing of the
butterfly. He must recall, with painful eiibrt,
the far-off (fays, when he “thought as a child,
spake as a child, understood as a child.” For
tunate will he be, if the “strong meat” on which
he lias so long ted, have not wholly indisposed
him to relish the “milk of babes.” If he is able
to arrest the thoughts and feelings, which charmed
Imu when life was new, he will still be obliged to
transfuse them into the dialect of childhood.—
He must write in a foreign idiom, where, not to
be ungrammatical is praise, and not utterly to fail,
is victory. Perhaps, in the attempt, h» may be
induced to exclaim, with the conscious majesty
of Milton—“my mother bore ms, a speaker of
that, which God made tny pwu, and not a trau la
tor.”
It has been somewhere asserted, that he who
would agreeably instruct children, must become
the pupil of children. They arc* not. indeed,
qualified to art as guides among the steep cliffs of
knowledge which they have never traversed; but
they are most skilful cimdustors tothe oreen plats
of turf, and the wild (lower- that encircle its base.
They best know where the violets and king cups
grow, which they have themselves gathered, and
where ti c clear brook makes n irthful music in
its pebbly bed.
Have you ever lister cd to a little girl telling, a
story to her younger brother or sister ? What
adaptation of subject, circumstance, atm epithet !
If she repeats what site has heard, how naturally
docs she simplify every train ot thought. If she
enters the region ot invention, how wisely does
she keepin view the taste and comprehension of
her auditor. Ait, how powerful is that simplicity,
which so readiy* unlocks aud rules the heart, ad
which, “seeming to have nothing, | ossesseth all
things.”
Those who are conversant n.tli littls children,
are not always disposed sufficiently to estimate
them, or t<* allow thetn the high rank which they
reallv hold in the scale of being. In regarding
; the acorn, we forget that it comprises withiu its
: tiny round the future oak. It is this want of pros
! pective wisdom, which occasions ignorant persons
' often to despise childhood, and renclws some por
| tions of its earl training seasons of bitter bon
dage. “Knowledge it an impression of pleasure,"
said Lord Bacon. They whu impart it to the
young, ought not to interfere with its original
nature, or divide the toiifrotn the reward. Edu
cated females ought especially to keep bright the
liliks between knowledge aud happiness. This is
on:' moiie of evincing latitude to the age in which
thc> |tye. for the generosity with v.liicii it has re
unite ed’those prejudices, which tu past !«s
citcuinstibed the intellectual culture of their
sex.
May I be excused for repeatedly urging them
to i .nvinre the community that it has ! st nothing
by tms liberality 1 Let iiot the other sex be au
thorised in complaining that the firesides of then
lathers were better regulated than their own.—
Give them no chance lo throw odium upon knowl
edge, Irom the faults of its allies and disciples—
Rather let them see. that by a participation in tht j
blessings of education, you art made better in
every domestic department, in every relative
duty—more ardent in every hallowed effort of
benevolence and piety.
1 caiiuot believe that the distaste for household
industry, which some young ladies evince, is the
necessary effect of a mere expanded system of
education. Is it not rather the abuse of that
system ? or may it not radically be the fault of the
mother, in neglecting to mingle day by day, do
mestic knowledge with intellectual culture! iu
forgetting that the warp needs a woof, ere the
rich tapestry can be perfect ? I am not prepared
to assert that our daaghters have too much lear
ning, though I may be compelled to concede,
that it is not always well balanced, or judiciously
used.
Education is not indeed confined to any one
point of our existence, yet it assumes peculiar
importance at that period when the mind is most
ductile to every impression. Just at the dawu of
that time, we see the mother watching for the
first faint tinge of intellect, “more than they who
watch for the morning.” At her feet a whole
generation sit as pupils. Let her learn her own
value, as the first educator, that in proportion to
the measure of her she may acquit
herself of her immeDce responsibilities.
Her debt to the community must be paid
through her children, or through ethers whom .
VoL. I.—No. 39.
1 she may rear up, to dignity and adorn it. Aristo
tle said, “the fata of empires depended on edu
cation.” But that in woman, ft »«it any particle
ot that conservative [tower, escaped the --criitiai
zing eye of the philosopher of Greece. The
far-sighted statesmen of our times have discov
ered it. A Prusiau legislator, at the beginning of
the present century, promulgated the principle,
that ‘ to tiie safety and regen.aafion of a people,
a correct state of religions opinion aud practice
was essential, which could only be effected by
proper attention tothe eatly nurture of the mind.”
He foresaw the influence, which the traing of in
fancy would have, upon the welfare of a nation.
Let our country go still farther, and recognire
iu the nursery, and at the fireside, that huliowed
agency, which, more than tiie pomp of armies,
shall guard her welfare, and preserve her liberty.
Trying as she is, in her own isolated sphere, the
mighty experiment, whether a republic can ever
be permanent—standing iu need as site does, of
all tha cheeks which she can command, to curb
faction, cupidity and reckless competition—rich
in resources, and therefore in danger from her
own power—in danger from the very excess of
her own happiness, from that knowledge which is
the birthright of her people, unless there go forth
with it a moral purity, guarding the unsheathed
weapon—let this our dear country, not slight the
humblest instrument that may advance her safety,
nor forget that the mother, kneeling by the cra
dle-bed, hath her hand upon the ark of a na
tion.
Hartford, Con. October 18tb, 1838.
From the Buffalo Commercial
A TtiIII LTNG INCIDENT.
Among the perilous scenes of the heavy gale
which caused such wide spreading disaster to our
lake shipping, a fortnight since one has come to
our knowledge equalling in interest the most high
ly wrought rale of fiction. Capt. Appleby, was
out amidst the terrors of the gale. By tb“ glimp
ses caught at intervals when the fitful storm for
a moment broke away the anxious and* watchful
commander was made aware ot ti e critical situation
of his boat which was rap.idly (inlth •; in—uuder
the hurricane power of the gain, which blew al
most direcctly across the lake—toward a dan
gerous reef, from which c• ■ npe would have been
impossible. He went directly tothe engineer,and
ordered on “more steam,” r .i t:e reply of the en
g ueer was that there was already as much on as
tiie boilers would safely bear.
Again did the captain seek the deck, to see of
his laboring boat was makit 1 headv, ay, and again
returned to the engine root! Ha explained to
the ingmeer the hazardous situation, and tc. dlitin
tl»nt uii Lojtc »vii3 Ua», .. • !>•»«•• . vuulvl
lie gamed—but left the eugmeerto act his(ii-.cie
tion in tha crisis. A mom-st ot reflection and his
decision was made. Lite or ivath hung on the
issue. Certain destruction awaited the boat aud
her devoted crew, iu ;i few brief miuutes, if she
did not gam upon the driving stori This might
be averted, if the boilers—already c owded to a
fearful pressure —could yet b.e.u ,i heavier strain,
and that he determined to try True, ilie aw
ful horrors ol a.t kxulosi $ were vividly before
him—the mangled limbs, ilic scoi hed and life
less bodies, the death shrieks ail groans of toe
lielpless victims, were hemic Ins eyes aud on his
ear — the alternative was a fearful ose, et it must
be resorted to.
He cooly directed the heads of two barrets of
oi] to be broken in, and the furnances were rapidly
fed with wood dipped in tiie highly inflammable
liquid, while two men witii ladies dashed the oil
into the flames. The intense heat which these
combustibles created, generated steam with the
the rapidity of li. htnitig, and soon the resistless va
por forced up the safety valve, an : issued forth
with tremendous violence, its sharp hissing heard
above the wild uproar of the waters and the storm.
With a desperate and determined courage which
equalled the most daring heroism that the page of
history has ever recorded, the engineer satffowti
upon the lever of the safety valve to confine and
raise the steam to the necessary power required
to propel the boat against tiie drifting waves ! in
this awful situation lie calmly remained until the
prodigious efforts of tin en gine had forced ,tho
Constitution sufficiently offshore to be beyond
threatiepiog danger.
Thisiotupid act was not a rash and vain glori
ous atie.C’ff to gain the applause of a multitude
bv a fool hardy ensure ot I j in some racing
excursion—it was not tod deed ol ad rutin* anff
reckless in in, wickediy heedless o> > -■ - aletyof
those whose lives w re perile >— but it was the
self-possessed and m • t courage of on;
whose Jiunuess i 1 ■w„ Dj mratMn. We
give it as it was told to us,, u out of those frequent
scenes of real life, whose ..dual realities are indeed
“stranger than fiction.”
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editor for the news, for behold it is Ins duty at
the appointed t me to give it unto thee without
asking.
When thou dost write for his paper, never say
unto him, “What thiukest thou ol my piece?”
thr it may be that the truth might offend thee.
It is not fit that thou should ask him who is
the author ( fan article; Air his duty requires him
to keep such things to himself.
When thou dost enter into a printing office,
have a care to thyself that thou d<ot not touch
the type, for thou utayest cause tha-printer mucii
trouble.
Look not at the copy which is in the hands of
the compositor; for that is not meet in the sight
of the printer.
Neither examine thou the proof sheet, for it is
not ready to in!-et he eye, that thou mayest un
derstand it.
Prefer thy town paper to any other subscribe
immediately for it and pay in advance that it may
be well with thee and thy little ones.
A contrary wife is to her husband what tin ury
ruly horse is to hi* master, a “beast of burthen.’