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ALABAMA LANDS
FOll SALE.
-V HALF 9 M 90
I1 . S. half 't 1 1 50
N. half 8 14 30
N. half 7 14 30
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S. half 0 14 30
S. half 11 14 ’JO
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AV. h • 26 1.5 24
S. haif 2 ’ 13 25
E. half - 18 25
Any of the • ’' ! ,:d on terms
to suit purcha- 1 -Leaden to John D. Pitts,
Esn. Florence. • • the subscriber, at Ma
con. J. COWLES.
July 26 l c
VALUBLE S i’ t . \ VRT LANDS
FOR SALE.
THE subscriber has c ! fine tracts of 1, #nd
for sale, situate from five to ten miles of Flo
rence, some well improved ami in a line state of
cultivation, in hod ! >-s f'iun 200
Tract. Any person « hing to buy a good home
will do well to make c uiy application, or a great
bargain may be lost. Rich Land and good title
for cash, negroes or good paper and a long time
credit. THOMAS J. S TELE.
Jan 1 39 3t
'LOOK OUT FOR BAILIFFST
THE subscribers are compelled to have money
or suffer greatly, therefore all persons due
♦hem, little or much, on their smith accounts for
the last >ear, are requested to come forward with
out delay, and make payment, as wc cannot give
lurt her indulgence.
WHITE & FLETCHER.
Florence. Jan. 4,18.3d. 3;) 3t
JMttice to EiotM B itrchasers,
A LL parsons having notes due and unpaid, for
/ V Lots in the town of Florence, would do well
to call at my office forthwith and save their lots
and improvements, as a general meeting of the
company will fake place in a few days, and they
■will want money. 11. MV. JERNIGAN,
Jan 5 39 3t Agent Florence Cos.
NOTICE.
r FOREWARN nil persons from trading for a
promissory note made payable to one Mr.
Woodard for Three hundred and twenty or twenty
five dollars, due 25th Dacember, 1838, which note
1 am determined not to pay unless compelled by
iv-’, as there is a fraud in part of said note.
. R E U BEN WEATHE R HE F. E.
Wee .?! f.9 3r
EDUCATION.
A N Act to establish a general system of edu
-Cm. cation by common Schools.
Sec. I. lit it enacted by the Senate and House
'J Kej/rescntut; res oj the State of Georgia, in
< tcHerat Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, That from ~<d after the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and thir
ty-erne. the funds o‘ this State hat ml we known
as tue Academic and lhior School Funds, he, aud
the same are hereby consolidated, and together
with the interest on one-third part of the surplus
revenue, derived to tins State from the United
States, and heretofore set apart for that purpose,
shall compose and constitute a general fund
for Common Schools, for the State of Georgia.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That within ten days after the recep
tion of such notice, the School Commissioners
shall assemble together, and elect from their num
ber a President of the Board, and .1 Secretary, and
shall also appoint a Treasurer, who a hail give
bond and security to the Commirsiom rs for the
time being, and theii successors in office, in such
sums as they may fix upon, conditioned faithfully
to discharge his duty as Treasurer, and should
any vacancies happen in such board of Commis
sioners, by death, resignation or otherwise, the
same shall be filled by the board itself.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid, That it shall lie the duty of the
School Commissioners in each division, or a ma
jority of them, to layoff their respective counties
into School districts, conforming, as nearly as
practicable, to the present Militia districts, in the
same, in a manner most suitable and convenient
for the purpose contemplated in this act.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid, Tuat they shall apply for, and re
ceive from the State, their proportionable share
of the general fund for Common Education, and
shall apportion and divide the same, among the
several School distiicts in their divisions, in pro
portion to the number of children in each, be
tween the age of live and fifteen years, and shall
make an annual report to the Governor, of the
number of Scheol district in their respective di
visions, the districts from which reports have been
made to them, and the defaulting districts the
length of time a school has been kept in each;
and also the amount of funds received by them
selves or treasurer, from the State, and from taxes
raised, and in what manner the same has beeu ex
pended, and the number of children taught in
each district; which report the said Commission
ers shall cause to be recorded by the Secretary, in
a book kept for that purpose.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, by the author
ity aforesaid. That the commissioners of each
Schcrol otali, !--• «l,li ami flipy
are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the
name and style of the Trustees of the district
schools, with like powers as above, both ot which
said corporations shall be allowed and entitled to
own real estate aud other property, upon which to
erect School houses, and for other purposes con
nected with the schools.
Sec. 9. And beit further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid, That the Trustees shall within fif
teen days after their appointment, proceed to as
certain the number of free white persons hi their
respective districts, between the ages of gve and
fifteen years, and return the same to the commis
sioners of the school division to which they be
long. They shall also receive from tie- Schools
Commissioners, or their Treasurer, the funds to
which they are entitled under the law, and ou the
first Monday of November in each year, make a
report to said Commissioners, showing the amount
received, the manner of its expenditure, the
number of children taught in their district,
the length of time which a school has been taught,
and the compensation paid to teachers and their
names. They shall locate and superintend
tho erection of suitable school houses in theirres
pective districts, at the most convenient and suita
ble place for the inhabitants and scholars residing
in th“ sa me, shall employ and pay teachers and
visit < he schools, at lea-t twice in the year.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid. That the Commissioners and
Trustees under this ac .shall hold their office for
twelve months, or until their successors aro
eiei ted, ami receive no compensation for their ser
vices.
Sec. 11. A t hr it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid’. That it shall be the duly of the
Governor, anuaUv to distribute to the Commis
sioners of each School division of the State, their
proportionable part of the Common School fund,
which apportionment shall be made (by the last
census, until the next census be taken, and then
by that) according to the number of free white
persons, between the’ages of five and fifteen years
of which In- shall give to said commissioners, in
en - 6-v- -a immediate notice.
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted by the au-
Uwrity iit'm-, r.d, That no monies received from
the State bv the Commissioners for School pur
poses, shall be expended for any other purposes,
than for paying teachers and purchasing books
and stationary for children, whose parents are un
able to furnish the same.
Sec. 13. And beit further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid. That after those schools shall
have gone into operation, no trustees of districts
shall be allowed to receive any funds from the
Commissioners unless they shall have made a re
turn signed by a majority of their number, show
ing the amount received by them, and how the
same has been expended, and that a school has
been kept in theii districts, at least tlirce months
in the year preceding, or then ending.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted by the author
ity afunsaid, That a!l moneys not drawn by any
such defaulting district shall be added to the a
mount to be distributed the next year, and ap
portioned among all the districts iu such divis
ions.
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That should the Commissioners, in any
division, fail to apply for, and distribute the fund
received as directed by this law, they shall be sub-
FLORENCE, GA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1839.
Ject to a suit for damages, at the instance of the
trustees of any district 1 in such division, in anv
court of law in this State hivi -g ,m. lictmu, and
the amount of damages so recovered, shah be col
Dcted out of the private properly of such coin- 1
missioners, and not from the funds c:' the School.
Sec. 17. And be. it further enact< and by the au
thority ■aforesaid, That all white persons between’
the ages of five and fifteen y?ars, • hail be allowed
to be taught as scholars in the respective districts
in which they reside, or in case their location may
make it inconvenient, in the adjoining district, by
making application to the Trustees thereof, who
may prescribe, though no one over the atie of fif
teen years and under twenty-one, shall be exclu
ded from said Schools.
Sec 18. And be it further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid, 'That in those countries where the
inhabitants are thinly settled, the commissioners
may, it they think it best, refuse to lay off the
same into school distiicts, but they shall employ
a suitable number of Teachers who shall under
their directions, teach school not longer than
three months in any one district or neighborhood,
so tliai every section of each county shall receive
as nearly as can be, equal advantages from said
lund; and it shall be the duty of the Commis
sioners of any such county in which the itinera
ting system may be thought best, to mention the
same in their report; and so fur as relates to the
county ol Baker, the Commissioners shall confine
themselves to three Military districts of said
county.
See 19. And be it. further enacted by the author
ity aforesaid, r I hat the Commissioners and
Trustees elected as aforesaid, in the foregoing act
before they enter upon the duties of their offices,
shall take the following oath before any Judge of
the Superior Court, Justice of the Inferior Court
a Justice ot the Peace, in the county where they
reside, viz; I. A. B do solemnly swear, that' I
will faithfully perlorm all the duties required of
tne by law, as Commissioner ofComiuon Schools,
as the case may be.
JOSEPH DAY",
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, 26th December. 1837.
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.
AN ACT
To amend an act, to establish a general system of
education by common schools—assented to 2Gth
December, 1837.
SEC. 1. 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 the second and
third sections of the above recited act, be, aud the
same are hereby fppeaieo; ami m.u a. r
that each county in this State shail be considered
and known as a Common School Division ; and
th ton the first Monday in March, in the year
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and on the first
Monday in January, of every year thereafter, or
so soon after the above mentioned days, as the
same can be conveniently done, the Justices of the
Inferior Court of each county in the State, shall,
by order, entered upon the minutes of the Court,
appoint five fit and proper persons, as Cotnuus
sioners of Common Schools, in the Division
wherein such justices may reside, and shall, with
in ten days thereafter, cause a certified copy of
such appointment to be delivered to them, which
shall be sufficient notice ol the same. And such
Commissioners shall contiue in office for one year;
ornintd their successors shall be appointed,
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid. That if the said Commissioners,
or any of them, shall be unable, at any time to pro
cure the services of a Treasurer, as contemplated
in the fourth section of the above recited act, it
shall and may be lawful for the President of such
Board of Commissioners, to act as Treasurer, who
shall give bond and security to his Excellency, the
Governor, and his successor, for the faithful dis
charge of his duty as treasurer. And the said
commissioners, within ten days after theirappoint
menf, shall, by order eutered in the minutes of
their board, appoint for each school district to be
laid out the fifth section of the above
recited act, three trustees, all of whom shall re
side in the district for which they shall be appoint
ed, and shall be notified of their appointment
within ten days after it shall be made.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That if the
Justices of the Inferior Court of any county, shall
not, within one month after the time herein befc-e
fixed for that purpose, select and appoint five com
missioners as aforesaid, who shall accept their ap
pointments, the said J isf eso! the Interior court
shall themselves, discharge the < tides of commis
sioners in their division; and nut'-, said commis
sioners shall within one month i t their appoint
ment, select and appoint th ' * istees in each
district or division, who shall a such appoint
ments, the Justices of cli •Pe e. and such otiier
person as the Justices ot the Peace may appoint,
shall discharge the duties as trustees, in any dis
trict in which such appointment si. I have been
omitted ; and the commissioners appointed by the
court, may fill, by election, any vacancy which
may occur in their board during the year; and a
majority of the commissioners, and of the tms
tees shall be competent to discharge the duties re
quired of them respectively.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall
bethedutyof the trustees of the school districts,
to collect by subscription, such sums as the citi
zens of the district may be willing to subscribe,
which shall be applied to supply an amount of mo
ney in addition to what may be allowed by the
State, so as to enable them to employ a suitable
number of teachers in the district, provided there
shall be no liabily on the trustees for said subscrip
tion money, further than to transfer the said list
of subscription to the teachers where such school
may be taught.
ftec. 5. And be it further enacted, [That the
Justices of the Inferior Couet of tho several coun
ties in this State, be, and they ate hereby author
ized, at their discretion, t# levy an extra tax hi
their respective counties, not exceeding fifty per
cent, o , the genen I tax, which shall be added to
the common school Hind of said comity, and paid
over to the commissioners aforesaid, by the Tax
t “Hector, who shall give bond and security for the
- ime. io case ot other bonds forextra taxes.
Si c. G. An; be it further enacted, That the trus
tees of any county Academy, be, and they are
hereby authorized, to pay over to the commission
ers ol common schools, any funds in their hands-
Sec. 7. And beit further enacted, That his Ex
cellency the Governor, within the month of Janu
ary next, be required to cause so much of tliea
bove recited act, as this act does not repeal, to
gether with this act to be published in the news
papers o( this State, and also to cause the same to
be published with the acts of tho present session.
Sec. 8. And l>c it further enacted by the au
thority aforesaid, That the eighth, twentieth,
twenty-first and twenty-second sections, and so
much ol the ninth section as refers to the notice
to be given by a justice of the Peace and free hol
der to the trustees of their election, and so much
of the sixteenth section as refers to the balances
in the hands ol the trustees of Academies and
their treasurers be, and (lie same are hereby re
pealed.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CH A RLE S DO UGH E RT Y,
President of the Senate
Assented to 29th December 1838
3t GEORGE R. 'MLMER, Governo-
m aa wj.
From the Southern Literary Messenger.
THE SLEET STORM.
AT WASHINGTON
By the author of‘Love at the Shrines,’Ac.
As I lay in my bed this morning I heard a low
noise upon my windows, and extending my arm
from beneath its folding of blankets, I drew aside
the curtain, to see which of winter’s messengers
was summoning me to arise. Like a wild ur
chin scattering shot from his father’s pouch: the
delicate tlakes o( sleet tapped against the panes,
ami made music upon the brittle and responding
surlace. 1 was fairly awake. There was no
sunlight in the skies, but a dull, heavy atmos
phere fell over the face of nature, and veiled the
distant houses in a dusky cloud. Stil, the sprt
tering against the windows continued, aud 1 an
swered the summons by a spring from my bed,
and was soon equipped.
How ( heerfully our hearth burns on a slcetv
morning, when the servant is inlustrious - You
descend Iroin the regions of Lapland, where fur
red mappers and ermined cloaks are necessary,
inta.tim >» ion of deli,-inns I'nnjfnrf.
1 lit breakfast room is warm, and you meet
your rosy child, with its rich cheeks crimsoned
with health, who runs to you from her cricket
by the fire, and presses her sweet warm cheek to
yours Aon take her in your arms, and both to
gether gaze upon the whitened fields ; and how
the merry heart laughs, ns she sees the old cow
sliding down the bill, like a mahogany table—
her four legs stiff as icicles. She chirps and
laughs with dehght, when a little boy catches
the sliding old quadruped by the tail, and ac
companies her on her slippery journey, until they
arrive in safety at the bottom of the hill. The
wiry, woolly dog has crept from his lair in an old
basket, where he has slept all night, covered up
in a green baize crumb-cloth which he has cab
baged, and he looks around him with a knowing
eye as if lie was considering his chance for an up
set. He is a droll, sly and quaint chap, and
though quite young, has his nits wonderfully de
veloped.
The only place that he will stand a chance for
a fall will be the outside steps that descend to
tire kitchen. Bob, the ostler’s shoes, may have
iced their angles, as he pased in from the stable.
No suu yet—aud the clock is on the figure, of
nine. Is yonder white world of ice to stand all
daylong? The skies forbid.
How the urn smokes again, and the aroma of
the coffee ascends in fragrant spires and pervades
the room, as if the odor of some Deity descending
from Olympus. The hot rolls melt the butter, as
I hope the sunbeam, warm and vigorous, will ere
long march over the stubborn ice, and conquer
its huge surface with a smile.
The sleet hurries on apace from the near hang
ting clouds, and the very trees sec in to shiver as
the ice-bolt splinters about them. How gloriously
will he unfold them, and cloak their dusky bark
with an armor as pure as the crystal of the spring.
Two months hence, and the buds will cluster
upon those boughs, and the wild birds hide them
selves in the fragrant leaves—the gentle breath
of May will whisper to them, aud the soft suu
will rejoice amid thoir verdant foliage ; but will
they then wear an aspect so lovely as that with
which they are now bedecked ? Like teu thou
sand chandeliers of diamond spars flashing every
ray from the light, the limbs throw out theii glas
sy tracery upon the sky, and the wind that whis
les through them, clatters them together with a
soft and singular sound.
The grass is prouder to-day than it has been
for a long arid weary time—it is stiff in its con
ceit ; and should the old cow that slided down the
hill j«st now, attempt to clip it how it will pierce
her nose with its sharp and beautiful spear. The
grass is in its panoply of silver mail, aud is ready
to tilt against anything. Now it is n.ore beauti
ful than the lily of the valley, and it lifts its head
that the wind may tread over it and hear its mel
low song.
The horses poke theii: bony heads out at the
stable door and sunfftbe cool air, and shake their
trembling ears a3 the sleet darts between them.
Armed w ith my cane, and wrapped in my coat, l
step forth to dare the whistling messengers from
the clouds. Whew! How they scatter themselves
over my face and cut their h rizoutal way over
the tips of my ears: I place my faithful cane
carefully in the ice, else away 1 would dart and
'roll -j\ er. »o edification of every market-woman
V#l. I.—No. 41.
that might feel herself secure in woollen straps
passed uuder the soles of her shoes.
Progressing along withal! the apparent infirmi
ty ol ag-#. though l am but in my younger youth,
I reach at last the crowning point of toy *oil—to
ascend that knoll on this sine and descend it ou
the other, is like the passage of the Alps.
\\ arily my cane is placed, as if 1 trod upon
the loftiest summit of Mont Blanc, and saw ben
eath tne the deep glaciers wherein ’tis almost
death to gaze ; 1 stick the point of my square
toed boots into the ice ami clamber up. The
steep is vvou—but now for the descent. A wild
boy on hU aUulua p» ,t oic..aiiU aW»V L‘-
gocs like a rail-car, down the steep; he has pas
sed the fence corner: aud the rogue has stopped
on liis iron heels, to watch the - descent of Bona
parte. Lord how the wind whistles around me,
and how smooth and clear looks the shining de
clivity—there is not the slightest shrub to break
the monotonous frigidity of the view, nor the
grateful furrow of a cartwheel, and down that in
clined plane go I must. Shall 1 sit down anil
slide it out ? The laughing eyes of the skater,
peeping over the fence, forbids the idea. The
w ork is commenced—the caiTc ouce more plant
ed—the umbrella hoised abo\*e my head ; foi the
sleet storm is pouring upon us all in feathery glo
ry, and lam off. It is in vain that I try the slide
the equilibrium of my boyhood is gone, and the
just prccisiou of my eye, from want of practice,
(ails me at this momentous crisis. A slip— mer
cy—and all is over. My heels have kicked de
fiance to the clouds, and my head has smitten
with ao audacious force its mighty mother. The
unmbrella inflated with its own conceits has flut
tered away, and is beyond my reach. But lam
down, and the occasion is favorable. There is
no bone broken, and away I go upon my back as
gently as a sleigh springing along with four in
hand. I heard that wicked urchin’s mirth as my
lieels slipped from under me, and as 1 glide ma
jestically along, I hear his splintering approach- -
lie shoots by me like an arrow, and a broad grin is
upon his handsome face. He brought n.o my
umbrella, and has brushed the ice from my back.
As I wend up the avenue, hundreds t>f boys fiv
past me ou their skates, for the pavements and
toads are all covered with the ice. Here it is sa
fer walking, for they have roughened the surface
with their fluted irons, and I pace along as mer
ry as the rest.
Like an alderman picking liis vvny to a turtle
dinner see that solemn steed, how he minces his
steps, and hear him how he snorts, as a flvii g
skater, like a summer swallow-bird, flashes befi.ie
his fr ist-webbed eyes, and his poor rider shakes
his whip at the boy, who chuckles in his sleeve,
and returns to the’ attack like a Bedouin Arab
of the Desert.
Tlie klukDUlhli'a sliup U uoimlul -Ul, cam
pany, and ilie booted (w in,,;.,,,;,,,, r„i>.. c. i. ..
forehead and hisses on the glowing iron. The
two white horses are to be frosted first, for they
belong to Mr ,and he wants them to pay a
visit gif some importance to the President. The
blacksmith, with a nonchalant air, snatches up
the huge toot of ail honest cartmau’s horse, who
earns his bread by his daily toil, and ham-'
mers away light merrily upon him 'I :e white
servant of the great man has to pocket the insult
but his turn will come next. Thanks, honest
smith! The poor wood currier will bless you
this night, when he pours his eatings into his
wile’s hand, and sends his eldest box out to buy
milk for the evening coffee.
1 stand by a man who is digging lustily away at
something beneath the sleet: choj>— chop—chop
the ice breaks off in cakes and he draws forth
the last evening’s paper. He will chop logic over
the sage editorial; for bent must lie be on learning
that would thus stand in tlie shivering air, and
pick two inches deep iri ice lor an evening’s jour
nal. The editor was highly complimented by the
labor.
How the hours wear on—how slowly the hands
point upon the face of my time-piece and vet how
swiftly do our thoughts mount upon the four
winds, and seek tiic hearthstone scenes of our
friends. Alas ! that they are distant from us.
We henr the wind chuckling around the gable
ends of tne houses, and almost screaming w ith
delight, when it cuts a 'orpulent biped across flu
bridge of the nose with its icy sword.
The night draws ou apace—slowly the .urtain
fails, and dim and iiidiatinct sneak on the living
moments of the day—the grass has not bent an
inch, and the tall treesshake their heads ominous
ly, as m\j has to say, “ IF'tilhave a cold time of
it out here to night," Where are your elcgaiir
blankets that the gods have sent you ?
Will the nucsstir abroad to-night? The cat
is rolled up in her night-clothes and purs awav
like an old crone spinning wool. The wiry-head
dog barks ever and anon in his sleep, for b« is
haunted by visions of sacked towns and dismant
led larders.
Oh ! how the w ind bellows without—“discours
ing most eloquent music.” The shutters are fas
tened-—the doors are not locked, for some suffer
er may knock, and 1 would not deny him the com
fort ol iny blazing fire. The curtains are not
drawn down in such a night as this, for many a
poor houseless wretch passing by anil seeing all
dark would pass on, and lie might find his bed in
the deep hollow a few yards beyond my door.
The sleet and iy ended in a cold and starry night.
The fretted limbs are swaying about in the puvv-,
erful blast, and as jet I have heard of no ucci
danis. 'lTie boys could have met with none, for
they were not forced to the deep waters for their
skating frolic : and though they, doubtless, have
had some delightful tumbles, they are none the
worse for that. Fine fellows, how soon the skates
arc thrown aside, after their first appearance at
the barber’s.
Aud now it is growing late ; the wand of Mor
pheus has been passed more than once across n’t
<sos, as the nodding reader will have percived, and
once more 1 am permifed to snuff my bed-room
candle, fnd don my nightcap,
IFasJiinglon Feb. 16, 1838.