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THE GEORGIA HBRKOJ!,
Is published every Saturday, in Florence
. ewart county, Ga. at I’IIREE DODLARS a
year, it' paid in advance, or FOUR DOLLARS,
if not paid until the end of the year.
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without t limitation, will be published till forbid,
and charged accordingly.
Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad
miukirnrors and Guardians, are required by liwv
tf> be advertised in a public Gazette, sixty days
previous to the day of sale.
The sale of Personal property must be adver
se' 4 in like manner forty days.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
oust be published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the
of Ordinary for leave to sell Land and Ne
groes, must be published weekly fcr four months.
(VJ** Ail Letters oil business must be post
rxiD to insure attention.
REDUC TI ON CONVE N TION.
THE following gentlemen are
aniionneed as the candidates of
si! the Union party, to represent
Stewart county m the Reduction
" Convention, which is to assemble
in Milledgeville on the first Monday in May. E
lcctiou outlie first Monday in April.
JOHN FLEMING,
JOHN D. PITTS,
ROBERT HATCHER,
SAMUEL BROOKS.
Jan. 1-3 403 t __
JOB PRINTING.
€ CONNECTED with the office of the MIR-
J ROR, is a splendid assortment of
.And we are enabled to excute all kind of Job work,
in the neatest manner and at the shortest notice.
ahAATXS,
of every description will constantly be kept on
hand,such as
INDICTMENTS,
DECLARATIONS,
* SUBPOENAS,
JURY SUMMONSES,
EXECUTIONS.
COST EXECUTIONS.
SHERIFF’S BILLS OF SALE,
do DEEDS,
LAND DEEDS,
JUS. SUMMONSES,
do EXECUTIONS,
MORTGAGES,
do GUARDIANSHIP.
LKT. ADMINISTRATION,
do TESTAM ENTARY,
And n great many others for Justices, of the
Peace. Administrators, Executors,ire.
ALABAMA LANDS
FOR HALE.
7VT HALF 9 14 30
i-l . S. half 4 14 30
N. half S 14 30
N. half 7 14 30
S. half 7 14 30
S. half 6 14 30
S. half 11 14 29
S. half 20 18 28
S. half. 31 19 28
N. half 30 19 29
S. half 36 19 29
W. half 29 16 20
N. half 0 16 30
E. half 21 22 26
E. half 22 13 28
N. half 33 20 20
S. half 3 1 18 23
W. half 20 15 24
S. half 29 16 25
E. half 2 18 25
Any of the abeve Lands will be sold on terms
to suit purchasers, by application to John D. Pitts,
Esq. Florence, Ga. or to the subscriber, at Ma
con. J. COWLES.
July 26 18
&aiM>sisfca) ~
\ltovncy at Law,
STEWART, COUNTY, GA
April 10
WANTED
\T this office, an active, industrious and intel
ligent lad as an apprentice to the Printing
Business. Great pains will be taken to make him
master of his trade, as well as particular attention
paid to his moral deportment.
Dec. 15 37
A--git I OFFER my property in Ltnnp
kin for sale.
iiiraß Apply toG. DcLaunav.
11. JONES.
Dec. 8 36 eow2m
ATTENTION.
\ LL persons subject to military duty, are here-
JAI by ordered to be and appear at the house of
Asa Joiner, on Saturday Dext, 2d February, armed
and equipped as the law directs, to perforin the
duties of a company muster.
WM. J. SANDERS, Captain ,
Jnn.ee 42 Com. 12bQi Hist. (J. M.
FLORENCE ACADEMY.
exercises of the Male Department of the
*- Faience Academy, will commence *n Mon
d iy next, .ih inst. under the superintendence of
Mr. Georgk J. McClesblkt, who conies well
recommended as au instructer of youth. The
following will be the rates of tuition, por quarter:
Orthography, Reading and Penmanship, $1 00
do do do with Arithmetic, 500
English Grammar and Geographv, g 00
Higher English Branches, ‘ 8 00
Languages, io 00
r l he Female Department will commence on the
same day, under the direction of Miss Marga
ret Harvey, and the Department ot Music un
der the charge of Miss Wright. Q|‘ Miss Har
vey’s qualifications the Trustees deem it unneces
sary to speak, as they are too well known to re
quire any recommendation from them. Miss
Vv right 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 the patronage of the public.
The terms of tuition, will be the same as state,
above, and for
Drawing and Painting, 12 00
Music alone, k; qQ
do with other branches, 20 00
Needlework an extra charge of 3 00
Board can be had, for males and females, in the
most respectable houses, at reasonable prices.
Jan. 5 39 BY THE TRUSTEES.
a Ml o kg fejmZje
wmxwtm*
npilE Executive Committee of the Georgia
A Female College, exercising a discretion with
which they deem themselves vested, by the rela
tion which they hold to the Institution, have, up
on mature deliberation, and in deference to what
they have learned to be the general sense of the
friends of the College, determined to reduce the
charges of tuition in some important particulars
below the rates recently published.
They therefore announce to ike public the fol
lowing rates :
I' or the regular collegiate course, embracing all
the studies requisite to a thorough English, Li ter
ary and Scientific Education, and including the
French Language, the price fora collegiate year
of ten mouths, will be Fifty Dollars.
For Music on Piano, per quarter, §JS 00
Use of Piuuo, do. 2 00
Drawing and Painting, do. 800
Spanish Language, do. 5 00
Italian Language, do. 5 00
Latin aud Greek, do. 5 00
To the instructions belonging to the collegiate
course, and for which the annual ch..rge is fixed
at the moderate sum of Fifty Dollars, theassidti
ous labors of the President and three Professors
will be devoted. The study of Music, Drawing
and Painting, and of the Spanish, Italian, Latin
and Greek Languages, not forming a part of the
regular College course, will be the subject of ex
tra charges, at the rates above stated.
The price of tuition in the Preparatory Depart
ment will be, per quarter, $?8 00.
Board per month, exclusive of washing and
candles, j>L5 00.
The Institution w ill open on the first Monday
in January noxt, aud 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 on 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 as to
age.
Board and Lodging within the college edifice,
can lie furnished as well to the pupils in the Pre
paratory School, as to those in the collegiate
classes.
E. HAMILTON, Chm. pro. tcm. E. C.
Macon December 24, 1838.
Ills. It. Si Z. WILLI iliK,
HAVING permanently located themselves in
FLORENCE, respectfully tender their
professional services to the citizens thereof and
the surrounding country.
From the success which has heretofore attend
ed their practice, they flatter themselves that they
will be enabled to give general satisfaction to their
patrons.
One. or both, may be found at their office when
not professionally engaged.
Jan 26 42
DR. T. HARTRIDGE _
RESPECTFULLY tenders his services in
the practice of
MEDICINE AND SURGERY,
to the citizens of Florence and its vicinity, and
hopes, by unremitting attention to merit a share
of the public confidence.
Dr. 11. may always be, found, except when pro
fessionally engaged, at his office on Broad street,
lately occupied by the Georgia Mirror.
Jan 5,1839 39
I>r. Win. n. Ilanhvifli,
LUMPKIN, GA.
C 1 AN, at all times be found by those wishing bis
f services, at his office, or the house of M.
McCullar, Esq. when not professionally engaged.
Jan 26 42
LAW NOTICE
THE undersigned having moved to Lumpkin,
will practice Law in the County of Stewart
and the adjacent counties. Ail business entrust
ed to his care will be promptly attented to.
January 11, 1838. E. W. RANDLE.
J. ITILIIACOit,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
STARKSVILLE. LEE COUNTY. GEORGIA,
WILL attend the Courts of the CHATTA
HOOCHEE CIRCUIT,
s Nov. 25 35 ly
J LOLLNCE, GA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1339.
S i’ A TEUTON YE NTI ON.
\ N ACT provide for the call of a Coiiveo
xA. turn to reduee the number of the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, and for the
other purposes therein named.
See. t. lie it maned by the Senate and llntse
°J “presentalices of he State oj Georgia in (An
erul Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted bn the
authority > of the same. That the first Monday in
April, eighteen hundred anA thirty-nine, be, and
i same is hereby designated and set apart as
the day on which the citizens ol Georgia, quali
fied to vote for members of the Legislature, ahau,
at the several places prescribed by law for holding
such elections, vote for delegates t# represent
them in Convention, in number equ.l to their
representation in both branches of tie General
Assembly, according to the last ck.Xsus ; such
election to be conducted, managed aid certified
under the same laws as are of force it respect to
elections of members of the General Assembly.
fe'ec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of such managers to transmit to bis
Excellency the Governor, the result o’ said elec
tions under the laws now of force conducting,
managing and certifying elections of members of
the General Assembly, as aforesaid, within ten
days after such election; whereupor it is made
the duty of his Excellency the Governor, to issue
his Proclamation discharging the result of such
election, by notifying tlie individuals severally
elected to represent the good people of Georgia
in ('ouvention, as contemplated by tlte act.
See. 3. And be it further enacted, That every
citizen of the United States shall be eligible to a
seat in said Convention, who has attaiued the agu
of twenty-five years, and been an inhabitant of this
State three years, immediately preceding the day
of elcciion, and who shall have resided one year
in the county for which he shall be elected.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That each
member returned as duly elected, shall, previous
to taking his feat in said Convention, taka the
follow ing oath or affirmation, viz : “I do solemnly
swear that J will not attempt to add or to take from
the Constitution, or attempt to change or alter
any other section, clause, or article of the Con
stitution ot the State of Georgia, other than those
touching the representation in the General As
sembly thereof, and that 1 have been a citizen of
this State torthelast three years, so help tne God.”
And any person elected to a seal in said Conven
tion, who shall refuse to take oath aforesaid, shall
not be allowed to take his seat in said Conven
tion.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the
members of said Convention shall assemble on
the first Monday in May, after their election, at
Miiledgpvillo. in the Representative Chamber of*
the State House, for the purpose of entering
upon and consumating the great objects of their
convention, to wit: a reduction and equalization
of the General Assembly; shall have power to
prescribe their own rules and forms of business ;
nd to determine on the qualifications of their
own members ; elect necessary officers, and make
all orders which they may deem conclusive to the
furtherance of the object for which such Conven
tion shall assemble.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of his Excellency the Governor, to
give publicity to the alterations aud amendments
made in the Constitution in reference to the re
duction of the number of members composing
the General Assembly; and the first Monday iu
October next, after the raising of said Convention,
he shall fix on for the ratification, by the people,
of such amendments, alterations, or new articles,
as they may make for the objects of reduction and
equalization of the General Assembly only, and if
ratified by a majority of the voters who, vote on
the question of “Ratification” or “No Ratifica
tion,” then and in that event, the alterations »•
by llieiii made and ratified, shall be binding on
the people of this State, and not otherwise.
Sec. 7. And belt further enacted, That it shall
be a fundamental article in the formation or a
mendments of the Convention, that each County
of the State now organized or laid out, or whieh
may hereafter be created by law. shall be entitled
to at least one Representative in the Representa
tive branch of the General Asssinbly. The Sen
ate shall be composed of forty-six members only,
from forty Senatorial Districts, composed of two
contiguous Counties': 'and in the event of the
creation of any new county, it shall be added to
some contiguous Senatorial District; aDd that
the said Convention shall not disturb the Federal
basis, in apportioning the representation ia rhe
General Assembly of the State of Oeosgia.
Sec. B.* And he it further enacted, That so soon
as this Act shall have passed, his Excellency the
Governor be, and he is hereby required to cause
it to be published in the gazettes of this State,
once a w eek until the day fixed on by this act for
the election of Delegates to said Convention; as
well as the number to which each County shall be
entitled in said Convention, according to the ap
portionment of members of the General Assem
bly, to be made under the late Census, taken Aud
returned during the present year.
See. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
Delegates to said Convention be paid at and after
the same rates that the members of the General
Assembly now receive; and that, his Excellency
the Governor be requested to draw his warrant on
tlie Treasurer for the same, out of any money not
otherwise appropriated ; and all laws and parts of
laws militating against this act, be, aud the same
are hereby repealed.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
President of the Senate.
Assented to 26th December, 1838.
GEORGK R. GILMER, Governor.
nras'TT
ONE Note on Gachet 6c Jernigan for Seventy
five Dollars.due January Ist, 1839; one for
fifteen dollars, due Ist Oct. 1338, on Mcrrit JoueS
payable to John Stuckev.
Jan 1,1839 39 ' THOS. CORAN.
VOK TilK GEORGIA MIRROR.
REVIVAL HYMN.
Written during a severe Providential affliction and,
distress of mind.
BY G. J. M.
Look up nry soul, be not cast down,
O, liallc, hallelujah!
Thy Saviour has for thee a crown,
O, halle, hallelujah!
ihou shult his glory largely share,
O, halle, hallelujah!
A few more rolling years, at most,
And 1 shall moulder iu the dust;
'1 his world, with all its ten pting toys,
1 II change for heaven, aud heav’nly joys.
JMy soul shall then to glory go,
Far above this world of woe;
Yea, it longs to see the day,
When it shall leave this house of clay.
My troubles and my trials here,
Will make me but the richer there j
Then let me still more earnest strive,
To live as Christian soldiers live.
Whilst here on earth I’ll ever siug
Hosannas to my Saviour, King,
Who did himself a ransom give,
That guilty sinners all might live.
An<l when toyonders world on high.
My soul on wings of love shall fly,
Then 1 will praise, and ever swell,
The notes of King Emanuel.
Tho’ hell may rage, this still shall be
My tlieuie through all eternity,
W hilst J with saints and angels dwell,
That Jesus has done all things well.
WaoA&’&Aim c/cis*
ICIIABOD AND THE BULL.
The following acequut of Mister Ichabod
Wing’s first attempt to preach in the town of
most authentic statement .
The congregation met, and the meeting house
was filled, but the minister put it olf terribly.
The bell kept tolling and tolling and tk« people
thought it never would be done. They yawned
and started aud kept peeping out of the windows—
just as if they expected he would come sooner for
iW»i. At l«-t JAncoti (Snacks got up auu Spoue
to ’.Squire Barleycorn—
‘Squire, where is the minister?’
Really, Deacon, l dou’t know. lie came out
of iny house'just after me but walked so slow I
,got out of sight of him.’
‘lt’sVery strange he dou’t come.’
‘Very srra'Jrge.’
Here, Miss Deborah Peepabout, an elderly lady,
who held the opinion of Paul Pry, that the
‘spirit of inquiry is the grand fcharacteriftic of
the age in which we live, and who also felt a par
ticular sympathy in the fate of all unmarried men,
thrust her long nose between the Deacon and the
Squire, and asked—
‘Law me ! Deacon—Squire—why don’t the
minister come ?’
T?heu Miss Martin Busybody, seeing the Dea
con, the Squire and Miss Peepabout, engaged in
colloquy, wriuggled herself into their company
aud asked the same question.
Then another and another and another followed
the example, and there was quickly a knot of peo
ple gathered round the Deacon and the 'Squire,
all asking questions which nobody could answer.
The whole congregation was in a buzz bnzjlng.
Every one was asking where the minister was, al
though every on* knew that all the rest w ere just
as ignorant as himself.
Hill Muggs, the sexton, kept tugging away at
the bell rope, till he had tolled the people out of
patience ; —hut v*e must leave the bell tolling, and
the sexton fietting, and the Dencon and the
’.Squire and the old maids, and all the rest of the
congregation to the tender hooks of suspense, and
go back to see w hat bad become of our friend
Ichabod,
Ichabod hud slackened his pare after leaving
the house and had fallen into a sort of reverie.
Finding himself rather late before he got near
the church, lie resolved to make a short cut
across a field where the road made an angle;
jumping over a stone wall, he steered thereby for
the church, but had not proceeded many pares
when he was startled by a most savago and un
musical boo booing sound in a tone of the deepest
bass he ever heard. Lifting up his eyes he be
held a furious bull making at him with atl speed
aud bellowing like uiad. It is needless to say that
he took to his heels; the bull made after him,
aud Ichabod put on with all the fleetness he could
exert- Four legs are better than two, and it. was
soon evident that the quadruped would win the
rar*. Ichabod found he could not reach the
wall before the hull would be up witli him.—
‘Now,’ thought he ‘it is all over with me!’ His
shoes flew off; but the bull kept on. He drop
ped bis hat, but the stratagem did not take ; the
bull was not lb be made a fool of. He threw his
Sermon behind him, with uo better success; >!ie
bull was not to be reasoned with; lie gave the
manuscript a whisk with his tail and scattered it
to the four w inds.
‘l’m gone!’ I’m gone!’ said Ichabod, for the
bull was close behind him—at this instant he
copied an apple tree close at hnhd—and summon
ing all his mental strength he made a desperate
leap and was fortunate enough to spring into the
tree at the moment the bull was at his heels.
Here was an unlooked for deliverance, but un
luckily the bull was not so easily got rid of.-
Though disappointed of his prey lie kept about
the tre* with such a menacing disposition that
Ichabod dared not descend. It seemed as if the
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malicious animal knew he kept a congregation
waiting, he stuck to the spot with such pertinaci
ty. For two mortal hours did the unlucky lcha
bo I sit perched upon the tree in sight of the
church. He heard the bell toll, toll, toll, and
each stroke seemed the funeral knelt to his hopes.
He pictured to his fancy a crowded congrega
tion waiting; in anxious suspense, and lost iu won
der and amazement at his nonappcarauce.* ‘Alas!’
said he to himself—
‘l hear a voice you cannot hear
Which bids me thus delay;
Mil
lie saw the congregation come out of the
church and scatter hither and thither like sheep
without a shepherd, yet lie durst not leave the
apple (tee because there was, uot a liou, but a bull
in the way.
The congregation were at last fairly tired out.
Two hours liad they waited and uo parson came.
The sexton had left off tolling the bell, and in
deed it was quite time, for he had nearly worn tho
rope off. The people cause out of the church,
having after two hours debating on the matter,
t ome to the conclusion that there w as good ground
for alarm as to the fate of the minister. They
sent off parties east, west, north and south, to ex -
plore the country, presently Ichabod discovered
u crowd along the road headed by the Deacon
and the Sexton, Ichabod mustered all the strength
of his lungs and bawled out to them like seven
wulAhmen upon a tower, The whole party came
io a halt aud gazed around with astonishment and
fear; at length they spied something snugly
roostoJ in the apple tree ; they took it at first for
a huge black turkey-cock, but on nearer approach
they found it to be no other than poor Ichabod.
Now the bull, just at that moment, happened
to be pawing and snuffing with libs nose on the
other side of the tree, so that he was bidden from
the'psrty by a thorn bush at its foot. The peo
ple seeing Ichabod perched ou high in the same
manner, were struck dumb with amazement for
few moments. Was the poor matt bewitched ?
ot had lie run mad, or what bad possessed him to
spend the afternoon dangling like a scare-crow t*
the bunch of an apple tree. For some moments
no one dared advance a step further or speak a
single word. At last Bill M uggs plucked upcour
ago and advanced to the stone wall. lie was au
old sailor, who, within a few years, had taken liis
land tacks aboard aud seated himself up in tho
bush : he took up the trade of a sexton because
it consisted iu pulling a rope. Ou this occasion
he undertook to be spokesman of the party for
the Deacon was absolutely frightened. Bill put
his Le; and over the wall, clapped his hand up to tLo
corner of his mouth, and sung out—
‘Halloo, atmv.
Ichabod lifted up his voice like nil owl in tho
desert, aud exclaimed! ‘come along and save
me!’
‘Blast your eye-balls,’ said Bill, clawing a huge
quid of tobacco out of his mouth and throwing
it slap Upon the ground, ‘why don’t you save
yourself?’
‘I can’t, I can't said Ichabod. ‘Drive him
away—-drive him away.’
lly thi> time some of the party, and the Deacon
among the rest, had got over the wall, and wer-i
advancing towards the tree, staring and wonder
ing to hear ‘the man talk iu such an unaccounta
ble manner.
‘Gome down, come, down,’ said the Deacon,
‘What have you been doing all the afternoon in
Col. Shute’s orchard !’
‘Ay, ay,’ said Bill, ‘what are you about there
aloft without hat aud shoes ? looking lor all the
world like a half starved monkey sitting iu a lee
backstay ?’
At this moment the party had got nearly up to •
the free. ‘Lookout,’ cried Ichabod,‘he’s com
ing!’ They had no time to ask who it was that
was coming, for before the words were fairly out
of his mouth, they heard a furious bellow- and
bounce ; in an insta»t the bull was among them!
Heavens, what a scampering! The whole squad
took to flight quicker than a llock ol wild ducks
on hearing a shot. Ihe Deacon lost his hat and
wig, and captain Blueberry ran out of his boots
which were a little too large for him. Divers
other accidents happened. The greatest catas
trophes were those of Squire Snakeroot and
Lieuteuant Daring, The Squire being pursy
and short winded was overtaken by the bull, ami
received a tremenduous butt in the rear which
disabled him so that he could not sit down with
out a double cushion for a fortnight. The bull, af
ter knocking him over, ran off' after the others, and
the Squire made a shift to climb up the tree and
take sides wiih Ichabod.
The Lieutenant’s was a more frightful case.—
He was a short, fat, thick-set, ducklcgged fellow,
and happened to be dressed in a pair of stout, old
fashioned leather breeehes. The bull having
floored the Squire, came in the twinkliqg o,f a bed
post, upon the Lieutenant who was waffling off in
double quick time. The bull bit hint a poke be
hind, intending to serve hint as he did the Squire,
but one of his horns cal chi: g in the waistband of
the Lieutenant’s inexpressibles, he was taken off
his legs iu an instant and whisked off' upon the
bull’s horns. Away went the bull scourging af
ter the fugitives, with the unfortunate Lieuten
ant dangling by the vvaisband, and fairly out of his
wits with terror. His capers in the air were only
brought to an aud by the bull's bringingup butt a
gainst the stone wall, and pitching the Lieutenant
completely over into the road.
The rest of the party got over the wall without
any help, and escaped the fury of the animal.—
And now commenced a regular set to: The par
ty armed themselves with stones and clubs and
began a pitched battla with the bull for the de
livcrtme of Ichabod. Thump#, hangs, pokes,
and missiles of every description, w ere showered
upon the "ides of the beast, who shook his re
doubtable horns, flourished his tail, and ran bust
ling and bellowing here and there, wherever th*.
attack was •■ottest. Ichabod and the Squire
meantime shouting from their citadel iu the ap»
plo tree, cheering on the assailants, and attacking