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BY GARDNER & BARROW. 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. Advertisements will be conspicuously inserted at Oue Dollar per square, (15 lines) the limt, 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 hi for publication 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 Vol. I.—No. LT 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