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BY GARDNER & BARROW. T $1 1: CJ EORil I \ TANARUS! Bi? ISO St, Is published every Saturday, in Florence ewart county. Ga.. at THREE DODLARSa year, if paid in advance, or FOUR DOLLARS, if not paid until the end of the year. Advertisements will be conspicuously inserted at One Dollar per square, (15 lines) the first, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Nothing under 15 lines will be considered lass thau a square. A deduction will be made for yearly ad \ertisenients. All advertisements handed in for publication without t limitation, will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad ministrators and Guardians, are required by law 10 be advertised in a public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of Personal property must be adver tised in like manner forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate rast be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land and Ne groes, must be published weekly for four months. £7'® All Letters on business must be post i* aid to insure attention. STATE CONVENTION. A N ACT to provide for the call of a Convea- A. tion to reduce the number of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and for the other purposes therein named. Sec. 1. ldr it marled by the Senate and House •/ Representatives of the Stale if Georgia in Gen eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted l.y the authority of the same. That the first Monday in April, eighteen hundred ami thirty-nine, be, and the same is hereby designated and set apart as the day on which the citizens ot Georgia, quali fied to vote for members of the Legislature, shall, at the several places prescribed by law for holding such elections, vote lor delegates to represent them in Convention, in number equal to their representation in both branches of the Genera! Assembly, according to the last census, such election to be couductdd, managed and certified under the same laws as ..re of force in respect to elections of members of the General Assembly. Pec. 2. And be it further enacted. That it shall he the duty of such managers to transmit to his Excellency the Governor, the result of said elec Tears under the laws notv of force conducting, •JiiatMgiug and certifying elections of members of the General Assembly, as aforesaid, within ten days after such election; whereupon it is made tile duty of his Excellency the Governor, to issu° his Proclamation discharging the result of such election, by notifying the individuals severally elected to represent the good people of Georgia in Convention, as contemplated by the act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every citizen of the United .States shall be eligible to a seat in said Convention, who has attained the age of twenty-five years, and been an inhabitant of tins State three years, immediately preceding the >1 u of election, and who shall have resided one v ,r in the county for which he shall be elected. Sec. 4. And be it farther enacted. That member returned as duly elected, sbajl pi to taking Ids tea! in said Convent on, t.d. Id owing oath or affirmation, viz: “1 do so iv swear i'.a; 1 will not attempt to add or to t >i,«* from ’be CoTuitutiort, or attempt to change < r a.ier a"v othet section, cSaus--, or article o! fne Cos stitu.ion of tin State of Georgia, other tha;- those touching the representation in the Gpnera! As sembly thereof, and that I have been a citize of ti is State for the la a three j ears, so help me God.” Ami anv person elected to a seat in said Conven tion, who shall refuse to take oath aforesaid, shall no? be allowed to take his seat in said Cor.ventio- . Sec 5. And be i' further enacted, That th members of said Convention shall assemble on the first Monday in May. ;fCr their electhm, at Milled- tvi'D, in the Representative Chamber ol the State Mouse, for the purpose of entering upon and consumuting the "rent objects of their < invention, to wit: a reduction and equalization of the General Assembly; shall have power to prescribe their own rules and forms of business ; ml to determine on the qualifications of their ° u n members; elect necessary officers, and make : ' orders which they may deem conclusive to the Utrtheranoe of the object for which such Conven tion shall assemble. Sec. 6. And br.itfurther enacted, That it shall i,s the duty of his Exc: 11.-nev the Governor, to give .publicity to the alterations and amendments ln ade in the Constitution m reference to the re duction of the number of members composing the. General Assembly; and the first Monday in Detober next, after the raising of said Convention, he shall fix on for tlie 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 so by them made and ratified, shall be binding on toe people of this State, and not otherwise. Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That it shall be a fundamental article in the formation or a inemlments of the Convention, that each County ( f the State now organized or laid out, or which may hereafter be < reated by Jaw. shall be entitled ,f > at least one Representative in th” Represents f ive branch of the General Ass embly. The Sen ate shall he composed of forty-six members only, from fort'- Senatorial Districts, composed of two contiguous Comities : snd in the event of the creation of any new county, it shall be added to roine contiguous Senatorial District: aid. that the said Convention shall not disturb the Federal basis, in apportioning the representation in tha General Assembly of the State of Georgia. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so soon ns this Act shall have passed, his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby required to i ause it to be published in the gazettes ot tbisStite, once a week until the day fixed ou by this act for the election of Delegate, 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 and returned during the present year. Sec. 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 the 1 reasurerlor 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. GEORGE 11. GILMER, Governor. TABLE, Showing the Representation af the several Counties oj the State by the late Act of Apportionment. Appling, l Laurens, 2 Laker, j Lee, 1 Baldwin, 2 Liberty, 2 Bibb, 3 Lincoln, 2 iluliocb, 1 Lowndes, 2 Units, 2 iUmpkin, 2 Burke, 3 Macon, 2 Bryan, 1 Madison, 2 Campbell, 2 Marion, 2 Carroll, 2 Mclntosh, 2 Cobb, 2 Meriwether, 3 Cass, 2 Monroe, 4 Columbia, 3 Montgomery, 1 Crawford, 2 Murray, 2 Coweta, 3 Morgan, . 3 Chatham, 4 Muscogee, 4 Clark. ' 3 Newton, 3 Cherokee, 2 Oglethorpe, 3 Camden, 2 Paulding, 1 Dade, 1 Pike, 3 Decatur, 2 Pulaski, 2 DcKalb, 3 Putnam, 3 Dooly, 2 Rabun, 1 Early, 2 Randolph, 2 Effingham, 1 Richmond, 3 Elbert, 3 Striven, 2 Emmanuel, 1 Stewart, 3 Fayette, 2 Sumter, 2 Floyd, 2 Talbot, 3 Forsyth, 2 Taliaferro; 2 Franklin, 3 Tattnall, 1 Gilmer, 1 Telfair, 1 Glynn, 1 I’hoinas, 2 Greene, 3 Troup, 4 Gwinnett, 3 Twiggs, 2 Habersham, 3 Union, 1 Hancock, 3 Upson, 3 Heard, 2 Walton, 3 Henry. 3 Walker, 2 Houston, 3 Ware, 1 Hall, 3 Washington, 3 Harris, 3 Wayne, 1 L'Vin, 1 Wilkinson, 2 ■h : esx 3 Wilkes, 3 3 Warren, 3 ';u a son 3 Total, 205 4 V J »<2 4-, frb » \ GEN . .. > > -same ot ALI.EN A CAKE: I !•.. hep 10 my store ou the 12th inst inf< rm and n th >•- liv tg 11 tb set tlement with a j• . ' > bv hr 1, •, of Joel ilorn. Bein racquaint! . 1 . . i relied 011 his word, ..ml while .« vei .••.«£ w.iii him. lie offered me a live unbar bill and. the Commercial Bank of Florida, width 1 refused. He stated th u Mrs. Horn hud mm t it by him to pawn tor some change thm she needed until her husband returned fr m Maeon. As I took him to be a gentleman, fie offered to make a bill, which I con sented to. and traded to the amount of S3 3?£ cents. In a few minutes, i found out that he was a Loafer, strolling through the country, and pur sued him, but never -vertooU the villain. The said Carlisle, as well as 1 can learn from Mr. Horn, came from Crawford county, Georgia. In a row witli a gentleman there, lie bit his ear oft", and was running away. I will pay TEN DOLLARS far his delivery in Sumter county, Ga. or FIVE for information so that I can get him. The said Car lisle is common statute, dark complexion, 25 or 30 years of age, riding a bright sorrel gilding, black tipped hat, dark over coat, nothing more particular recollected. JAMES EVANS. 1 Friendship, Sumter co. Ga. Feb.'6. 3t 45 oj/® The Southern Recorder, Georgia Minor, Federal'Union, and Georgia Journal, will please insert the above three time, and forward their ac counts to Friendship, Sumter county for settle ment. J. E. NOTICE. VLL merchants, shop keepers and other tra ders of Florence, are hereby requested not to trade with ary of my slaves for any article whatever w itliout they have a written permit from their Mistress or Overseer, during my absence. THOMAS j. STELL. Florence Feb. 18 1839. 45 3t CAUTION A LL persons are cautioned against trading for IIL a promissory note given bv the subscriber and made payable to J. I*. Cock or bearer, for one hundred and seventy odd dollars, given sometime in December last, and written payable twenty-fifth December next, as 1 have never received value for the same and am determined not to pay it unless compelled bv law. john McClendon, jr. Liccco.i'ebl 45 fit FLORENCE, GA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1539. % V "•% ... . -v ■ux-'grt* b LINES, Penned by Major Thomas J. Stkll, ou leav ing his home in Stewart county Georgia, for Texas. Farewell, my dear friends the time is at liatid, That 1 must be parted from yout social Laud, i leave you at home in peace apd at rest, Wlille I’m seeking a home in the far west. Farewell, my dear country, with all of your charms, In the days of tliy troubles I stood to my arms, Many conflicts and Buttles Pve fought in thy cause, To sustain untarnished your honor and laws. But now I must leave you, an exile to roam, Like a poor wandering pilgrim, without house or home, I’ll travel and seek, nor never will rest, Till 1 find me a home in the far west. My Brothers and Sisters, I bill you farewell, Li '-wise my dear Mother whom Ideally love well, !; I never more see you till this body’s at rest, Pray, cl a thou, lit after me to the far west. ■i . b i.-vi Companion, and Children so dear, I it‘Hv you a while iny our country’s kind care, Lei not our p itin ; t iuse grief or distress, it is lor your good J go to the ivpst. When many miles from you, in a foreign land, I’ll often think of you, and write if 1 can, Some tidings of joy, how we will be blest, When we’re safely settled in tiie far west. So farewell, dear friends, wherever you are, The prospect before me, looks bright and clear, I'll boldly go forwnr 1 and at duty’s reqeust, I'll shoulder mv guner, and defend the far west. T. J.S. From the Philadelphia Visiter. Ats Autobiography, Or Memoris and Reminiscences of a young Man. CHAPTER 111. The nurse and the doctor—the tom-cat — Mrs. Crosby—-my recovery—dinner at Crosby's-—be come a member of the “ Philo”—a laughable scene in "Hamlet"—expulsion from membership, hyr. fyc. When next 1 opened my eyes there was a light burning in the room. I tie window shutters were closed, and it appeared to be some time in the night, Mrs. F'eatherstoues was in a kind of a doze rocking herself to and fro in a large arm chair, with a gray cat purring in her lap. Feel ing a slight pain in my head, 1 cone,lulled it best not to worry myselt with conversation, aud con s- queutiy remained quiet as if still asleep. The ohi aoman's face seemed to me to be won derfully »ed, and i fancied 1 could detect upon her features a smile ot singular good humor— indeed, take her altogether, she appeared as if she was quite happy aud { Cased with herself. I had thus lam awake about live minutes perhaps, when I heard a blight tap outssde of the chamber door. Mrs. I'eathcrstones perked up her ears, turned her lai e towards the door, and ; a suasory voice, and cm red the applicant for admisson, whoever it might be, to ‘walk in.’ < in olden tunes, our forefathers, when they open <! a door for the purpose of ingress or egress were accustomed to lift a latch; —in these days of improvement w<- do the thing more genteel— we turn a knob. On the present occasion the knob was turned, the door was opened and Doc tor It undrum walked into the room. Mrs. Featiierstones, howd’ye do this evening ?’ ‘All, doctor, it’s you, is it V ‘Yes, ma’am. One moment 1 am here, the next lam there, and sometimes no w here. For the sake of mv patients 1 should like to be every where,’said lie, putting his broad brimmed hat on the bureau, ‘iiow is our patient ?’ ‘lie is mending lust.' •Net too fast, i hope. Is be asleep?’ ‘He is’ replied the nurse, with an arch look at the doctor that was to mem explicable, b imper fectly intelligible to him 1 suppose. ‘He has slept for the last six iiouis,’ she added. •All’s right then,’chuckled the doctor, rubbing his hands w ith satisfaction, winking slyly at her, aud silting inmseil down uj>on the chair which sl»e handed to him. ‘Don't stop,’ said he, ‘but give him more of the pills—keep him asleep. These arc hard times, Mrs. F'eathersiouts, and while we have a lucra tive matter like this on hand, we are truly culpa ble if w e do not contrive to make the most of it. Remember, mu* in, 1 hov f| wife and ten children to maintain; two of them at ihe breast.’ •Twins/’ •Yes; the last pledge of our affection was a double one.' ■How proud of them you must be, doctor?’ ‘Very!’ he ironically ejaculated. Then chang ing the subject,—-are you sure the young man is asleep?’ ho asked. ‘Ves—sure,’ was the reply. ‘When he next awakens be careful to give him another pill, and’—lowering his voice to a whis per almost-be particularly careful to allow him but verv little sustenance.’ ‘I shall do as you advise,’ was the deferential answer. ‘lt was hut this morning that he ex pressed a wish for an apple dumpling.’ ‘Beware of him, then, Mrs Featberstoocs.— , If yon permit him to hare food, he will most as- • ’ surely be well in a day or two. Don’t let him , eat—by no means, ma’am. What! did he talk j of an apple-duuij ling, do you say ?’ 1 ‘lie did. 1 told him 'twould choak him.’ •That was right. You have au eye to business, I perceive.’ .Saying which, lie seized liis broau : brimmed hat. and intimated liis iutention to j leave. j ‘Why in such a hurry, doctor? It’s not very ; pleasant ovt doors such a night as this. It’s I quite disagreeable.’ ‘Suppose you take a little of something to keep the cold out, doctor ?’ •I thank you, Mrs. Featiierstones, but I never drink.’ •Do, doctor.’ ‘No, I thank you. ‘Do, doctor—do; it’s_such a damp night —you will be liable to take cold, and who knows what might be the consequence—inflammation ( of the lungs perhaps, or consumption of the kidneys’ ‘True, Mrs. F’eatherstoues, I might take cold ; physicians are but mortal like the rest of man kind.’ Then, do, doctor, take something.’ ‘Well, to please you, Mrs, Featiierstones, J will. T‘hat's a kind soul. A drop will do no one any harm. I have used it for the last five and twenty years.’ Five and twenty years, ma’am V ‘Yes—brandy.’ ‘Used brandy five and twenty years, do you say ?' ‘As a medicine merely.’ ‘Ah—l comprehend yon now. You use it to keep the cold out. Very correct in you, Mrs. Featiierstones. A stimulant in certain instances is undeniably very essential.* •Just so, doctor; I agree with you ; I always considered it so.’ .So saying she went to a closet at the side of the mantle-piece, took a bunch of keys from her pocket, inserted one of the keys into the key hole. and unlocked the closet-door. She then produced a long-necked, black bottle, which she placed upon the table, with a couple ol glasses ami a pitcher of water, requesting the doctor to help himself. ‘Shall I have llie pleasure,’ said he, ‘of pour ing out (or you, Mrs. Feathcrstones?’ ‘lf you please, doctor.’ The doctor accordingly grasped the long-neck ed, black, bottle around the waist, and poured a portion of the exhihrating liquid into each of the glasses. ‘Here is your very good health, ma’am,’ said he, placing the glass to his lips. ‘Thank you, doctor ; the same to you. •Thank you, ma’am.’ Down went the aqua vitae; and both smacked their lips with that peculiar twang which is so comprehensively indicative of a gratified palate. The dector then took up bis hat. and, subse quent to some further directions in regard to ‘lie pills, departed. After he had gone, the nurse helped herself from the bottle, re-corked it and replaced in the closet under lock and key. Her face was now as red as the rising sun. .She again sat down in the arm-chair, and Tommy jumped up in her lap. Tommy, as 1 have said, was a gray cat; he was enormously large for one ot his species, very sleek and very sluggish. No sooner did the echoes of the doctor's foot steps on the stairs cease to be heard than 1 began to stir; 1 gaped, rubbed my eyes, aud pretented to have just wakened. The nurse came to my side, and inquired if I felt better? 1 answered affirmatively, but stated that 1 was very hungry. “Hungry !’ said she. ‘Yes, ma'am—very!! I replied. ‘Hungry!’ she repeated-’—‘it can’t be.’ ‘AVhy so, ma’am ?’ 1 asked. ‘You are too sick to he hungry,’ she replied. ‘I am not sick,’ said I decide!)’; and 1 could perceive that the emphatic tone in which 1 spoke startled her. It was entirely unexpected, and she knew not what construction to put upon it. Her next question, hy the manner in which she uttered it, was intended, I suppose, to be very conciliatory. In a quiet voice, and with a tone that was ridi culously bland, ‘What does your appetite crave.?* said she. ‘Corned beef and cabbage,’ said 1, solemnly. At this the old hypocrite affected to almost shriek. ‘No !’ she exclaimed, accompaning her denial with a negative head-shake. ‘I cant let you have it; Doctor Hundrum expressly ordered that I should let you have nothing of the kind.’ ‘Well,’ I continued, ‘if l am not to eat any thing, will yon allow me to quench my thirst?’ ‘Thirst sir?’ she echoed, as if such a thing was improbable. ‘Yes,’said 1, lam extremely thirsty,' ‘What would you like?’ she interrogated.— ‘Some water ?’ ‘No,’ said l—‘brandy,* ‘Brandy ?’ she exclaimed. ‘Bless me, child how you talk !—brandy ?’ ‘Yos, ma’am,—brandy if you please said I. ‘There isn’t, said she, ‘such a thing in the house that 1 know of.’ ‘That's a lie,’—l had like to have retorted; but at that instant the door opened, and the agile, fairy-like form of Nancy Sykes glided into the apartment. Without the slightest hesitancy she j flung her arms around my lieck and suffused me • with kisses. I was wonder-struck. An, expla- j nation ensued—an explanation by which 1 was made acquainted with the unexpected fact that Nancy was no longer Miss Sykes but veritably Mrs. Crosby. ‘What!’‘l ejaculated, ‘are you indeed mar ried ?’ ‘1 am,' she replied. She then went on to stato, that upon the night of my fracas with Crosby, inasmuch as I dissented from* being taken home,*they concluded to call a carriage and have me conveyed to the house in ; which I now found myself. The house it ap peared had been furnished hy Crosby in anticipa tion of his marriage with Nancy Svdies. V<jl. I.—No. 46. ‘We rented the house,’ said she. ‘and had our furniture in it two ot three days before that ac cident between you arid Crosby occurred. It was ready lor us to go into as soon as the uuptial cer emony should be solemniz'd, which important event in my existence,’ comlred she, -was to have taken place upon the very day subsequent to the accident. You were brought here, put to bed, and fora day or two your recovery was deemed beyond hope. My feelings at that time I cannot attempt to describe, and Crosby's were more in tense than mine. He was wiid, a* it were, vith remorse. lie did little else but wander to and fro, with gesticulations, invoking upon himself the bitterest of imprecations. A friend of ours wrote a letter from us to your parents on ihe day following,stating the case and icquesting them to hasten to your bedside. While your recovery was doiitful their grief was intense, and, in ad dition to our own sorrows, we were the witnesses of theirs. In about a week, however, you were pronounced out of danger, and at the suggestion of your parents, Crosby and 1 began to take into considara ion the propriety of consummating our nuptials; which we effected one evening, shortly after,in (lie presence of the clergyman who offi ciated and a few intimate acquaintances. A our parents have visited you daily, Lutyou have not, until to-day, recognized any person. This will be indeed glad tiiiingsio them, and 1 will comuri cateitto them without delay.’ Cos saying she pulled a bell, and desired the servant who en swered it to bring her pen, ink, and paper. ‘We have, 1 hope,’ she resumed,‘done every thing re quisite for you ; and, although your recovery has been slow, lam happy to think that it is sure. It is mniuly to the assiduous kindness of the nurse, and lo the skill of the eccrentric but erudite j oe tcr Hundrum, that weave indebted lor you con valescence.’ •Hem IVthought I, ‘I should have been well much sooner if her kindness and his skill had been dis pensed with.’ But I did not say so; 1 was con vinced that all had been done in kindness on the part of Nancy and her husband, and 1 concluded it best not to throw a clamp over the warmth of lirr prsent joy, as T unque uotiab'.y should do if 1 exposed the conduct of the doc or and ins female in complice. The sen :.r.t returned with the writing materials, and Nancy sat down to a table and addressed a no'e to my parents. In half an hour they were at my bedside, and their joy to see that 1 recognized them was at once evident. This subject, however, growing rather prolix, and to be brief, 1 will here state that 1 took no more of Doctor Hundripn’s pills, that Mrs. Cros by supplied mo from her own hands with piopc-r nourishment, that I was soon so far recovered as to be capable of being removed home; and it: a comparatively very short space of time I was perfectly restored to health. Crosby and 1 were better friends than ever; and ns for his pretty wife (although 1 was but a boy at ti e lime) 1 really be lieve tint I loved her as fervently as he did ! In fact she w as a being that no one could look upon without experiencing one or the otin r feeling, ad miration or envy. Os thetwosentations, how. ver, she was more calculated to excite the first Her face was pretty, her figure so neat, and she had such elegant style of doing up her hair! Hot manners too, were captivating; and n> gentle man had need to beat a loss for conversation v\ bile in her company, for il he didn’t talk she would. Talk ! she could talk incessantly. Crosby at this time was just twenty one years of age; he had been, an efficient clerk since his boy hood in a large commercial house, and was now admitted into the concern. Consequently br and his v. "fe had every necessary ol comfort about them and a fair prospect < f happiness before them. Anew range ot duties henceforth occu pied their attention, and prudence dictated to them the propriety of handing in their resigna tions to the TMatoni-m, which they did. Nancy still cherished the predilection for the drama though, and displayed it in many ways, one of which was her penchant for theatrical portraits, pictures, dee. with which the walls of her resi dence were profusely decorated. Dining at their table one day, about a month after my restoration to health, I took oc casion to divulge the rogue y of Mrs. F eather stones and Doctor Humdrum. r lhcir astonish ment was great. “Is it possible!”exclaimed Crosby. ‘‘Who would have believed it?” cried his wife , pa’e almost with anger, and swallowing between her prerty lips a glass of wsue, to allay, in some degree, the excitement ol her feelings. “Tite wrectches!—wbo would have thought it!!’ The conversation, though, changed to another subject; Mrs. Crosby soon forgot her anger, aid; rising from the table, we adjourned to tlicir hand somely furnished parlours, consisting of two"’ rooms with tolding-doors, a beautiful Turkey carport, mahogany stuffed seatchairs, tolas, nift rors, vases, Ac. Ac. —and nr. thdwalls a prctii sion of paintings and engravings in richly gilt frames, the subjects ot w hich (as i have previous ly noticed) were mostly of a dramatic nature. “See here,” said she', directing my attention <S a large painting ot our national tragedian; Mr. Forrest, in the character of Metatucra-—Whfi. think you of this ? Is it not admirable ?* I acquiesced. ‘Ais truly, ’ fcffid I* “asfltfi* painting.” - ")tisP' she etrphatticahy retpcttricd, gWyf’g, upon the painting with the rapture of ah ftStfsC And whilst her eyes sparkled with detigfcttsao went on, speaking ot Mr. Forrest in highest o terms, pointing out to me the beauties ol coloring; and expression ot the paiuting, and a.>se;|liig bite., to be a man of very superior talents. “ i lie name of Garrick,” said s'be, “occupies the highest place in flic historv oi tne Littisli drama—aud in my opinion,” she added, “Mr. honest is dtetir.ed tv art equal pre-eminence upon tUe records of American stage.” I assented. ‘Ami what do you thiuk, ray dear 1" she aekctlr turning to her husband with u playful smile an#'