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BY GARDNER Sc BARROW THE GEORGIA .111 IS ISO It, |» published every Saturday, in Florence j ewsrt county, Ga. at THREE DODLARSa veur, if paid in advance, or FOUR DOLLARS, if not paid until the end of the year. Advertisements will be conspicuously inserted at One Dollar jier square, (15 lines) the first, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Nothing under 15 lines will be considered less than a square. A deduction will be made for yearly ad vertisements. All advertisements handed to for publication v'-thotii s limitation, will be published tiil forbid, and charged accordingly. .Sales of Lanrl and Negroes by Executors, Ad ministrators and Guardians, are required by law to be advertised in a public Gazette, sixty da vs previous to the day of sale. The sale of Personal property must be adver tised in like manner forty days. Notice to Debtors nod Creditors of an estate must be published forty days. Nonce that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land and Ne groes, must be published tvcel.lv for four months. HIT 1 * All Letters on business must ba tost run to insure attention. JOB PRINTING. Cl ONNF.CTE D with the office of the MTR > ROR, is a splendid assortment of »'•■©> 'Ji VJ And tve are enabled to ex/ ute id! kind of Job work, in the neatest manner and at the shortest notice. dr every de-c: iption will constantly he kept on hand, such a* INDICTMENTS, DKCLA R VTIONS,. SCR i’s KN A>, JT’RY SUMMONSES, K\ ELUTIONS. Cf)ST EXECUTIONS. SHERIFF’S RILLS OF SALE, do DEEDS J, kM > lif.KDB. .ICS. SUMMONSES, dn EXECUTIONS, MORTGAGES, do GUARDIANSHIP. T,KT. ADMINISTR VTION. do TESTAMENTARY, \gd a pre at livnuy others (nr Justices, of the Peace, ulmin dr.itor*. Executors. Ac. ,\L M'.AM A LANDS ran n./ lk. V HALF <> 14 ro A . F. ),«•(■ .ii ( rto N. half ft 14 N. half 7 M 50 S. li.di 7 14 50 S. half f> 14 no S. half u U 29 S. half 2<'l Ift 28 S. half fl l 19 28 N. half nr; 19 29 S. half .Mi 19 29 MX half 29 Ifi Cfi N. half fi 10 .no Ji. half 01 20 20 ]X half 20 LI 28 NX half .03 20 20 S. half .n* 18 28 MX half 25 15 L'4 S. half 29 10 25 K. half 2 18 25 Any of the abnv Lands will be sold nn terms tn - jitpurchasers, by application to John D. lbtts, 1 sq. Florence, Ga. or to the subscriber, at Ma in.,, J. COWLES. July 26 IP V\LTBLE STEWART LANDS tor sake. ?TMIE subscriber has several fine tracts of Land -l for sale, situate from five to ten miles of Flo rence, some sell improved and in a fine state of CiltiTation, it, bodies from 206t0 1000 acres inn tract. Any person wishing to bnv a good home 'will do well to make early application, or a great bargain mav he lo«t. Rich Land and good titles (hr cash, negroes or pood paper and a long time Credit. ~ THOMAS ,T. STELL. Tan 1 39 nt BOOK OUT FOll BAILIFFS. f IHIE snb c eribers are compelled to have money *- or suffer greatly, therefore all persons due ’hem, little or much, on their smith accounts for 'lie last year, are requested to come forward with out delay, and make payment, as wc cannot give further in diligence. WHITE & FLETCIIER. Flore ice, Jan. 4.1839. 3D 3t Notice tn XsotPurchaser*. VLL persons having notes due and unpaid, for Lots in the town of Florence, would do well to call at inv office forthwith and save their lots and Improvement, as n general meeting of the eoinpany will take place in a few davs, and they vil! want money. 11. W. JF.RNIGAN. •Tan 5 3D* 3t Agent Florence Cos. noticeT T FOREWARN nil persons from trading for a promissory note made payable to one Mr. AUaodarr) for Three hundred and twenty or twenty tfiye dollars, due 25th Dacembcr, 1839, wliich’note am derermiued not to pay unless compelled by bs tfierc Is a fraud ia part of said Dote. REUBEN WEATUERSBEEt W <fc FLORENCE ACADEMY. Fjj UIL exercises ol the Male Department of the X !• birence Academy, will commence on Mon day next, . tli inst. under the superintendence of >li. (jkouge J. McCnKSKF.r, wlio comes well recommended as an Instructor of youth. The following will be the rates ot tuition, porquarter: Orthography, Reading and Penmanship, £4 00 d° do do with Ariflimetic, 500 English Grammar and Geography, {> 00 Higher English Branches, * 8 00 Languages. io qo I lie I< eniale Department will commence on the same day, under the direction of Miss Marga iu.t Hakykv, and the Department of Music un der the charge of Miss VViuuht. Os Miss Har vey s qualifications the r l rustees deem it unncces saiy to speak, as they are too well known to re quire any recommendation from them. Miss V. rig ut brings with her the best evidences of her capability to discharge her duties with the ut most satisfaction, and the Trustees do not hesitate to recommend her to tljp patronage of the public. The terms of tuition, w;!l be the same as stale. nlioTe, and for Drawing and Painting. 12 00 Music alone, ic 00 do w ith other branches, 20 00 Needlework an extra charge of 3 00 Board can be had, tor males and females, in the most respectable houses, at reasonable quires. • T an. 5 . 39 BY THE TRUSTEES. TO THE PUBLIC THE TRU.STF.ES of the Stewart county A rridemy. deem it nothing but justice to them scivos and to the institution, to correct some mis statements that have been most causelessly and ungenerously circulated against them. It has been stated, and repeated, (and that by men of some considerable respectability,) that Mr. Shipp has cccn detached from the institutiod, or has not been employed th" present year, because he was a Union man; and that Miss Douglass, also, has not been retained because she was origiually re commended by Union influence. Now we give this charge a m ist flat and unconditional denial, and we invite the proof— wc defy any manor set of men to exhibit any testimony or evidence, de rived from any net or deed of the. board to war rant this assertion. 'l'll** rras-nns. and I'’“ •' ...I-r- *'--r were notretaine.i, were, that the income of the institution did not warrant giving the salary they deinandod—parfy views have Clothing to do with either of the measures. M. GRESHAM, 4 I X T* BI’.ALL, j K. DKNNARD, ']’. FOR'!’, k Trustees. V. BEDDINGFILD. 1 M. M. S. WADSWORTH, HOL EIS BOYNTON, Jan. 1. 18/.. 39 rpiTF. Executive Committee of the Georgia I I- emale College, exercising a discretion with which they deem themselves vested, by the rela tion which tlj-'y hold to the Institution, haw, up on mature deliberation, and in deference to what they have learned to he the general sense of the friends of the College, determined to reduce the charges of tuition iu some important particulars below the. rates recently published. They therefor^announce to the public the fol lowing rates: For the regular collegiate course, ernbracingall the studies requisite to a thorough English, Liter ary and Scientific Education, and including the French Language, the price for a collegiate year nf fen mouths, will be Fifty Dollars. For Music cn Piano, per quarter, sls 00 Use of Piano. do. 2 00 Drawing and Painting, do. 800 Spanish Language, do. 5 00 Italian Language, do. 5 00 Latin and Greek, do. 5 00 To the instructions belonging to the collegiate course, and for which the annual charge is fixed at tlm moderate sum of Fifty Dollars, theassidu nus labors rtf the President and three Professors will be devoted. The study of Music, Drawing and Painting, and of the Spanish, Italian, Latin W« Greek Languages, not forming a part of the fngular College course, will be the subjeet of ex tra charges, at the rates above stated. The price of tuition io the Preparatory Depart ment will be, per quarter, $9 00. Board per month, exclusive of washing and candles, sls 00. The Institution will open on the first Monday in January noxt, and its first session will termin ate on the first of August. The regular collegi ate year will commence on the first of October next, and expire tin the first of August ensuing— leaving August and September as months of va cation. Twelve years is fixed as the lowest age for ad mission into the College. For admission into the Preparatory School there is no restriction os to eg©- Board and Lodging within the college edifice, can he furnished as well to the pupils in the Pre paratory School, as to those in the collegiate classes* ~ E. HAMILTON, Chm. pro. tea. E. C. Macon .December 24, 1839. "'"juZjT J OFFER my property in Lutttp tfyfkin for sale. ’■!!Apply to G. DeLatrcay. n. JONES. Deo. 8 06 coir2m - wanted - ; AT this office, on active, indastriotf* (Ifld intel ligent lad t» an apprentice to fb© Printing business. Groat pains will be taken to make biro master of his trade, a* well as purfictflrr nttenfioo paid to hi* moral fl**pot.ftnCT^t. Dee. 15 37 FLORENCE, GA. SATURDAY. JANUARY 12, JS39. IHW, Fram the Augusta Minor. GEORGIA. My native State !—my cherish’d home! Hallow’d alike by smile and tear May Glory o’er thee build her ffone, And F temples tear; 1 love thee lor the burning ski’. ’Neath which my feet have ever trod , I love thee for the forms that lie, Cold, Cold beneath thy sod. Oh. gladly do I see the light, That hove s round thy fortunes uow ; The spirit, that must soon nuite Thy sea, and mountan’s brow ; The iron, ties, that soon will biad, In one indissoluble band, Place unto place, and mind to mind, Within the wide-spread land! Iu vain doth wild fanatic zeal, Thy institutions all condemn, On us, be every ivoe or weal. That emanates from them : To those who would tliy ways molest, Who’d gladly spoil thy verdant scene. Re this response, ‘w hat GOD hath bliss'd, That call not ye unclean.” Art thou not bless’d, my cherish’d home? Thy sons we true, —thy daughters fair; From mountain’s crest to oceau’e foam, Thy land is free fronj care ; Wealth glitters in thy golden mines, Health lives amid thy hills of blue, Religion’s light above thee shines, And Plenty smiles here too. Aye! there are hearts within thy land, As warm, and brave, and pure and free, As throbb’.i among the Spartan band Os old Thkiimoptjuk ; And like that baud, should foes invade, To seek thy right from thee to tear. Thy sons will lift the shcat Ideas blade, And bid them come, who dare ! As cluster’d in the days of yore, Thv heroes ’neath “the stripes and stars,” l,i 111 wir prd <>■ gulf, And heedless of their scars ; Bo evermore, that banner round, In hours of peace, or days of strife, Still be thy gallant children found, To guard it with tboirlife. GOD bless it! may its spangled wreath, Bs ne’er disgraced by sons of thine, Still may they ding its folds beneath, Jn one unbroken line ; And still, in ages yet untold, As brightly bpam its glory's sheen, As when it waved, with scanty fold. Above the old Thirteen ! My native State! niv cherish’d home! Hallow’d alike by smile and tear, May Glory o’er thee build her dome. And Fame her temples rear; One hope is to my heart most dear, One boon at Fortune’s hand 1 crave, Fate made me date my being here. Let Fate make here my grave! Savannah, Goo. R. M. C. The <»atiiblei*. Augustus Chore!,ind, at the ag* - - of fourteen possessed all the exterior graces of his sex, a fine expressive countenance, illumined by a pair of piercing black eyes installed him in the good graces of his fair friends, while the independent state of his family, insured him a welcome, even among his superiors: nor was his mind inferior to his form, ever alive to the pleadings of necessity, it was his invariable practice to reserve a prescri bed amount of pocket allowance for the poorer class of tenants on his father’s extensive domain. Mr. Cleavelaud, surrounded by opulence, un incumbered by the cares and intricacies, with which a man of business is surrounded, spent the greater portion of his existence in that ruinous vice, gambling ; it had gained such an ascendency over him at the time that our narrative commences that his very existence, nay his whole soul ap peared to depend upon its continuance. Three years rolled away. Augustus had changed his comeliness of you'll tor the more set features of a man; he had also exchanged his heart with his youthful pfay-mate, Alice—he loved her. ardently loved her, his affection was returned injan equal degree. Alice was a beautiful girl: the dazzling beauty of her face outshone every competitor, nor were her wtues inferior to her lover's; one thought and are alone, would.oft-times oloud her fair brow with sadness—her fortune amounted not to one-fiftiethpart of Augustus’, and she too well knew the avaricious disposition of his father, to allow the remotest idea of their wishes being realized by any application to him; Augustus too, was fearful, be had observed the contracted brow, vacant stare, and thoughtful mood of bis parent of late, and therefore feared speaking, not doubting his father had foresees his attachment. Weeks passed in this state, un til th© impatient Augustus, although dreading, determined to communicate with his parent on the subject. It was a lovely morning in the middle of June, as father and son were taking their morning bev erago, the biflis warbled merrily as they spor fivel * hopped amoug the fantastic trees; euohan fing view from the window enlivening the sight with the beauteous fields clad in their gayest hue; the rippling streams and distant hills, all served to magnify the beauty of the stirrounding pros pect ; August us gazed on it wirb aboyi b e.xstacy, never had he before observed grandeur to the ’s<*enc Qefore him. He fumed towards his father, who appeared to be iu deep meditation ; the idea of arousing him now occurred, gently pressing his hand, he fear fully hinted his wish to know the cause of his parent’s abstraction. “Look around you,” said Augustus, “at the vast extent of beautiful grounds—the delightful prospect—have these not charms sufficient to drive away that clouded brow 1 Bay, my lather, what demon can cause that high-tinged cheek and troubled mien ? Glance but around you, cannot the sight of your extensive domain-—” * .My domain,” groaned forth his infatuated parent, “my domain, alas, alas, what horror do those little words convey to my deluded brain ; my son,” continued he, “hear me; ’tis useless to delay-.-hear me, anil curse your parent, curse him that brought you up in opulence to become a beg g«r. Oh, iu) son, vant not your auger yet, but listen, i have ruined you—-myself--all, all, is goue; that cursed vice that was my r ige has ruined me. Oh, my son, if you still value a father's advice—-his blessing, avoid cards, avoid them as you would a noxious reptile, for not only have they ruined me in fortune but honor: I am omenable to my conntry’s laws; for what? Oh. hoavens! forgery ! /orgery is my crime; yes, now, you know all—-now curse ine—buT remember my advice.” Here the unhappy father sank back in his chair exhausted. August us stood as petrified; he glanced his eyes towrrdtbe landscape, that a few moments before had yielded him such delight, all now appeared tastelwsft— to his eyes all seemed and irk and dismal; his hopes were blasted, all the visionary clouds of happiness had vanished. He had not remained in this thoughtful mood long, ere a lorn! noise on the stairs proclaimed an unusual imerferanoe, lie turned towards his par ent, who had risen from his seat. “If is the officers,” cried his father, “say, my son, do you forgive—” “Ol*, yes, sir; make your escape, for heavea’s sake be quick, that door', said his son, locking the other. “1 ennoof, cannot go,” cried the deluded par rent—until I have some token of your forgtvuess, some remembrance—” “Take this,” replied Augustus, hanging his own miniature (intended for Alieej around his hither’s •eck—in another moment he had d»ap peared; a minute scarcely claused ere the nfficei * .... i j »._.j iiu»u—escaped. After a lapse of six months, (duriug which Augustus had not received any communication horn his father,) b« was united to his beloved Alice; they had removed to Loodon, the estates and effects having been realized t» satisfy the nu merous creditors; hereon the fortune of Alice tWv lived happily for some time; one smiling cherub alone blessed their union ; two years gli ded away, the love nt the bridal couple wedded in to the more sobered quietness of liusbaud and wife. Augustus had contracted new acquain tance. his hours of returning home bee ime irreg ular, the flushed countenance and flurried step, too plainly spoke the disturbed state of his mind ; forliouiw would his dis:r< nsed oud heart-broken wife sit watching the starry firmament, as the myriads of luminous lightj receded to the more mages*ic beams of the morning sun, Ltr unhappy husband returned to his now desolate dwelling; no angry sentence escaped her p*»lc lipE, the eyes of the lovely and still loving Alice, alone spoke her imprisoned thoughts, but they were unseen or unheeded by the care-worn Augustus; her imagination ever on tlsa rack to invent some uew scheme of pleasure to agfliu draw her husband earlier to his home, gave way, and she dropped slowly hut sure ; her before pale, lived counte nance ngnin resumed a color but not th* beau teous hue of the “maiden blush.” with which her lovely cheeks were want to be endowed, it was a lorelier deudlirr tint which now usurped them— death had marked her as his own, still she com plained not.' The lionise in Albany street was ex changed for a more confined three story lodging in the vicinity of Regent street; whether this was clfisen as near tr any house of entertainment we will leave our readers to guess. Time waned, the neglected wife was r.o longer able to support her tottering frame ; it was not until life appeared almost extinct, that Augustus was awakened to a sense of her danger; but now. now that it was past the aid of humtui pow er to save, he hung over her, maddened at his own deliberate folly he almost cursed the being that gave him bi-th. The fortune of Isis dying wife, the interest of whirh had for some time kept them with respec tability, was gone, but how? Oh, he could not, dare not ruminate; his Alice who' still laved hi in with such devoted fervency, was dying, and he liad not the means of relieving even tlie smallest of his wants! his boy too—he could bear it no longe.', but rushing from the house wander ed, he scarce knew whither; the night was ex tremely dark ; he found himself in a lonely street in the suburbs of the town, driven to a decree of frenzy, he scarce knew how to act, or what he wa* doing—self-destruction was uppermost iu liis mind— he drew a pistol from bis pocket, and slow ly raised the deadly weapon to his head. At that moment the shadow of a man scarcely visible, passed; a sudden taught flitted o'er the the mind of the ill-fated Augustus. “Stop,” he cried, with a wildness scarcely to be surpassed, at the same time revolving the po sition of the pistol, “Your money!” “’Tis all I l»ve,” the other, giving him some loose silver. “Enough,” cried the distracted robber, as seiz ing the money he rushed towards his home; he had already traversed the greater part of Regent street, a sudden idea appeared to attract his atten tion, he drew forth the money and - examined it: “This small sum.” he seemed to say, “is us©- Isss; I may be fortunate," retracing a few stejw heeDtereda well known house of entertainment; in a tew moments the dice rattled, a man who ap jicarfd worn down with grief rather than age, was his opponent. Augustus threw, and was for tunate ; again and again they played, but For- V#i, I.—-i?o. 40 tune, as if tired of its severity now declared in his favor—his antagonist had no more; the gold tinkled as Augustus, exulting in his prosperity, prepared to relieve his dying wife. ‘Stop,’ cried the oid man, ‘think not thus easily to dupe me, the dice wete loaded,’ High words ensued, blows followed, swords were immediately procured, and the gamblers rushed to the bac k ot the house—their weapons clashed, another moment, and the victorious sivord ol Augustus entered the other’s breast; the blood flowed profusely; all the virtues of his early davs ruslied to the mind ol #lO ill-fated riefor; he loosed the waiscoat of the dying man, and per ceived a miniature suspended from the neck; al most paralized with fear, he cast a single glance towards it—oh, horror! who could describe or imagine the poignancy of his feelings—it was his own miniature—he looked around—the officers were approaching--a deep, grown followed bv a contemptuous, horrid laugh, escaped the Pa'ra cide—lie drew his pistol—the officers rushed for ward—a flash—a report followed the smoke dis persed, and the lifeless body of the unfortunate Augustus laid, with his head shattered, by th© side of his murdered father. Tflx JOTFH. FLEASURE OF SHOPPING. Ono of the most vexatious pri cssses, as far as we are aw are, to which a man can be subjected, is to have to accompany a lady on a shopping txeur siou. it trust of couse bs presumed that the gentleman and lady are not lovers, for then the complexion of the ease is totally charged. But suppose it be a cool sensible man of some thirty five or forty, accompanying a wife te whom lie has been united fer the better part of a dozen years ; tbeu is the case truly one of torment. In the first place he gets ready exactly at the time appointed, and has to wait half an hour before she is ready to appear. This time he spends in a state of ineffable fume and fret, with unbrella in hand and coat buttoned, dancing between the lob by and tb« parlor, sending to see if she is not ready, yet, calculating how he could have employ ed the time otherwise to the advantage of his pat rimonial interest, stamping to keep hisfeet warm, as he think*, brushiug his hat for the fifth time, comparing his watch with the lobby clock, threatening cot to wait any longer, and vowing he will never encaee to on •lie comes ue>n stairs with all the coolness imag inable, wonderiug how he could be impatient; and off they set. 1 he inat cis ol business in which he is mainly interested refer to shops in distant parts of tho town; and, in proceeding thither he ha* to ac company her into others, where she has affaire t* manage, in which he is not interested at all. She has a certain kind of ribbon to buy a certain pier© of lace to be matched in another, z pair of silU suits to be got in a third ; all of them affairs of the the gretest importance to her. requiring full time for deliberation, choice aud chaffering, and to the details of which he is forced to be witness, as to the sufferings of the uufWrtunat* fellow men whom Providence has ordained to stand from njoruing to night in these magazines of femiuiue evanescences, to be bored int'i female (rivolhy and unpleasableness. A full quarter of an hour is spent, in each spot, durii g which some twenty drawers and shelves are ramscaked and tumb'e'd into confusion ; an incessant chatter has bee* kept up; he has been fretting between the chair at the end of the counter and the door and th© shopkeeper hae exhausted every phase recom mendation in behalf of his goods, and everv phrase of civility iu deference te the ladv, when at hist, he seesaome such *utn a* lOd paid for a trifle wrapped up in the thin paper, and leaves the place with feelings of a man who ba* been party to one of the shabbier t transaction* that ever nas committed. Thus he goes on for an Lour or two, his ouiy choice I eiug between lingering within the shop, there ta be inculpated iu such disgraceful doings as these and loungiog without, there to be jo tied by tjie crowd and chilled by the damp pavement, till he hss not a spark of maqly dignity or vigor 1 ft in his com position. And, after all, the affairs in which he is really interested have yet to he attended to. At the conclusion of the business, it is likely lie finds that left to himself, hs could have executed in hall an hour what, in company with a time destroying wif* it has cost him the beffer part of the day to accomplish. As to wear and tear of temper, the matter is the metaphysical to hear calculation ; but every man who hat ever goue a sbpoping in such circumstances must have a feet idea of it; and he who has not, let him con tent himself with supposing it to he great, and not think of putting the thing to proof—a pieeu of conduct compared with which we could only say that of a boy who hanged himself to see what hanging was like, was legitimate and philosophi cal Chamber’e Journal. From the Alabama Journal extra, Pec. 19 Ot. FIRE ! On Sunday last, ab*ut 11 o'eloc]| onr ritizen9 were alartned by the cry of Fire. It origiuated at, or near the pflic* o! the Alabama Journal, ass that building was the first discovered to be on are, appafent'y *n the oufcide.’ The flames imr.*- d.ately comuiuuicated to the adjoining butViiog* a.noug which was thespacions brick building the “Planters, Hotel,” occupied by Herbert and Mcd-i igun, and owned by Mr. AVner MeGehre A’d the buildings ou a lic& with tto Journal Ouioe were consumed or destroyed, as far up Court street as the Bank. The progress of the fivmee iu the rear of the fire, wee stayed by blowing up a large wooden building attached to the Planters' Hotel. Theamouat of prepertydestroved issup possd to be near Seventy Thousand Dollars: nod consists of thirteen Hoaiu, besides out-bnildings —ell belonging to Abner McGshes with the ex ception of three Offices, owned bv <Jol. J. Hutch sou, and Dr. Vickers. We understand that there was no insurance upon euy of the property, ex cejit a partial sue upon the two offices swued by dCul .J. Hutchinson. 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