The Georgia mirror. (Florence, Ga.) 1838-1839, April 09, 1839, Image 1
BY GARDNER & BARROW.
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate
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:,H L ..ters on business must be vnst
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Bus. Walton A Mart; stfjf ,
a-sori ted theinse ves, in the
Drnenee of Me ri -ine a Surgery, respectfully
osier then Profcvvional services, ,othe Citizens hi
e !nr. ui ■*. and the siirfoundmc country. i h-rii
Wg s Dull be n s ulated by a majority ofttlie
i > h> , siciai!s of Stewart County.
One or both, in always.‘re found at tbeirof
f.ee on Broad Street, lately occupied by the Geor
gia Minor.
M arc ii J 251 839. 50
2is*. Wsii. Hardwick,
LUMPKIN, GA.
g 1 AN, at all times be found by those wishing his
x J servii es, at his office, or the house of M.
Medullar, K“ ;. when not professio- My'’ngaged.
.» in J(i 4K
i)r«. vex
... 5 \\ 1\ (i peri- rtcnt.lv ' cated themselves in
j! i. FLORENCE, respectfully tender their
professional services io the citizens thereof and
tha surrounding country.
From ihe success which has heretofore attend
cii th' ir practice, they flatter themselves that thny
will be » .tided to give general satisfaction to their
patrons.
One, or both, n.»y he found at their ofiice when
not ptolcssionallv engaged.
Jan 2$ and
florKnce academy. .
f jjlllK exercises of the Male Department of the
fi Florence Academy, will commence on Mon
day next, 7th inst. under the superintendence of
Mr. George J. McUlkskey, who comes well
recommended as an instrueter ot' youth. The
following will be tin* rates of tuition, por quarter:
Orthography, Reading and Penmanship, $4 00
do do do with Arithmetic, 5 00
English trammar and Geography, 6 00
Higher English Branches, 8 00
Languages, 10 00
'Pile Female Department will commence on the
same May, under the direction of Miss Marga
ret Harvey, and the Department of Music un
der the charge of Miss Wright. Os Miss Har
vey's qualifications the Trustees deem it unneces
sary to speak, as 'hey are too well known to re
quire any recommendation from them. Miss
\V iglit brings with her the best evidences of her
' anability to discharge her duties with the ut
■i is: satisfaction, and the Trustees do not hesitate
to recommend her to the patronage of the public.
Hue terms of tuition, will be the same as state
above, and for
Drawing and Painting, 12 00
Music alone, 16 00
do wit 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.
ALABAMA LAN I .-S
FOll SALE.
V HALF 9 14 30
1 ’ • S. half 4 14 30
N. half 8 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 23
S. half 34 19 23
N. half 36 19 29
S. half 36 19 29
\V. half 29 16 26
N. half 6 16 30
E. half 21 22 26
E. half 22 13 28
N. half 33 20 26
S. half 32 18 28
W. half 26 15 24
S. half 29 16 25
E. half 2 18 25
Any of the above Lands will he 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
notice:
ALL persons indebted to the estate of John
J. Sims, late of Sumter county, deceased,
are requested to come forward and make payment;
and those having demands against said estate, will
present them in terms of the law.
J. W. COWART, AJm'r.
Aufgric'O?, March 10 G’t 49
NEW COJIHISSIOX HOUSE.
« THE subscriber* have associated
T JTthemselves together as COMMIS
'■RON MKKCHANTS, under the
.Sit3l. V ii*. 1 rt VTS *V to.
They have purchased the commodious WARE
HOUSE and CLOSE STORE, lateiy occupied
by Jernigan, Laurence A Cos. where they will re
ceive COTTON or GOODS iu store, amt advance
only upon cotton in their possession and under
their control. Their charges will be as customa
ry.
The business will be conducted by John D.
Pitts. We solicit the patronage of the public,
and are prepared to give Columbus prices tor Cot
ton. JNO. D. IMTTS,
M. J. LAURENCE.
Florence, Nov. 10 33 tl __ _____
J. B. STARR,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
Bn I3ie t'iij of Nt. Jcsffih, I-'la.
January 39, 1839.
DRY GOODS.
rill IE subscriber having recently replenished
l lus stock, invite their customers and the
public generally, to call and ex mine for them
selves, llis goods are neu> and wellselectedand
he is offering them on as good terms as any in
th@ market. His stock consists iu part ot the
following:
Woolens, Sattinetts,
A variety of Broad Cloths,
Circassians. Merinos,
Bombazines and Bombazettes,
Red and White Flannel,
A good assortment ol
Etiaftif Clothing.
A large supply of 800 l'S and .SHOES,
gentkemen’s and t-Mlifs
Saddle*. Bridle* *V Marlin^al*.
Crockery, Hardware and Cutlery,
With a varietv of other articles suitable to the
season, which lie takes great pleasure in offering
to his customers and the public, at his new
store on the North side Centre street.
Jan 12 40 TUP: GARDNER.
NEW STORE.
rglflF. undersigned having associated theni
* Chcei name am* st\!e oi i.atvoy
A Chastain, offer for sale anew and well selected
'Dock of Goods. Wares, and Merchandize, from
Charleston, viz. ■»
Broad Cloth,
Sattinetts,
Eme.rnetts,
Merino,
Silk Lustring and Mattronas,
French Muslin,
do Ginghams,
do Prints,
Scotch Ginghams
Anew assorted Stock of English and Ameri
can Prints, Furniture Prints, Bonnets. Hats,
Shoes, of all kinds. Bridles, Saddles and Ma*t
tugales. Besides a variety of other articles too
tedious to mention. Which will be sold low for
cash or undoubted creditors.
The public are requested to call and examine
for thanjselves.
JOHN P. HARVEY.
MORGAN CHASTAIN.
March 26. 1839 50
NEW STORE.
TUST RECEIVED and for sale, a general as
sortment of
.Yetv English Gootls.
all of the first class, and which will be sold ( H LAP
and on accommodating teuns. The public are re
spectfully invited to give ns a call.
SMITH fc WINFREY.
Dec. 1 35 _ __
Tf iITSTJRSCRIRERS have just received a
select lot of
GROCERIES,
which thev offer on reasonable terms for Cash.
ROOD &TALMAN.
Dec 15 37 ts
THOMTs GARDNER has just received a
good supply »f
White Lead,
Linseed Oil,
Lamp Oil,
Sperm (land* s,
And Soap,
Which he offers to his friends and the pub
lic cheap, for Cash.
Jan 12 49 ____
DISSOLUTION.
THE firm of Rood & Seymour is this day
dissolved by mutual consent, the business
will be settled by either of the late firm.
\. P. ROOD,
C. B. SEYMOUR.
Lumpkin. Jan. 16, 1839. tl _
NOTICE.
THIS is to inform the public that a Bond.
given by Jesse Simmons to George W. Gai
laway, for Titles to Lot of Land No. 127, in the
22d district of originally Lee now Stewart county,
for which the said Gallanay gave two Notes, one
for SSOO, payable 25th December 1837. and th*‘
other for $540. payable 25th Daceinbcr 1838.-
The titles to have been affected the 25;1i J)rc.
1838. The said Gallaway having failed to com
ply with the contract by not redeeming the above
mentioned notes, tier can neither be found nr
heard of, tlie sub-'criber will not consider the
bond any longer binding upon him. unless lie
shall come forward within 30 days withflve bond
and redeem the notes, when he may obtain the
Title.
JESSE SIMMONS.
. Maringo Cos. Ala. March 26,1339. 60 3tj>
FLORENCE, GA. TUESDAY, APRIL 9,1839.
SSO REWARD.
•©3 ELOPED from McLeods Feny on
jA the 18th inst. u negro man named ('liarles,
a carpenter by trade; lie worked the most
, of last year about lrwinton, Florence, and
in the neighborhood of the latter place, lie is
about 40 years of age, black, tolerably stout
made, his left leg is a little shorter than the right,
consequently he appears to hop a little when
walking, his ears he e been injured by frost. The
above reward will be paid for liis delievery to jne
on Sandy Creek, 5 miles above Ft. Gaines, or
525 for securing him in r.ny Jail, and giving in
formation so that I get him.
WILLIAM TONEY.
March 22, 1839 50 3t
QUIDNUNC.
rpHE season having ctunmen
’/x'Sfc ce *l on the first of March,
, * l ‘ s l ,Hrse stand at Lumpkin
atid Florence, each, alternate
ly, three days at a time. Persons may know
where he may be found, by counting 'die days
which he remains at each place. He wasin Flor
ence on the 3d. 4th and sth : in Lumpkin 6th, 7tb
and Bth, and from thence by my house and Wm
Porter’s on his return to Florence, every week reg
ularly, thereafter.
Any solvent gentlemen who will make up a
company of 12 mares, shall receive the 12th the
season gratis. T. W. PEARCE
March 12 48
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f
American Merchants. --The following high com
pliment to the integrity of the American tuer
chatitila community is contained m rite Loudon-
Morning Chronicle of the 11th December.
“We are happy to say we have it iu our power
to communicate a circumstance which will rather
astonish, and, no doubt, much mortify our con
temporary of the Times, and those who, durin?
the panic, spoke of the Americans as a nation of
swindlers and unprincipled blackguards, who ou
ly took advantage of the peculiar state of things
in the United States to relieve themselves of their
liabilities, and contended, at the same time, that
none of the American firms, who were compelled
to yield to the pressure of the times, would even
pay 10 per cent, of their debts. The event to
which we allude is the fact that the protested
bills, to the amount of two millions— lice mUliuns
sterling— which were sent out by the Bank of
England for acceptance, have been all paid, with
the exception of c£4oo---four hundred pounds
out of two millions—and of fit is sum £7O has been
amply secured, while the balance is considered j
good eventually. Mr. Cowel, the agent of the j
Bank of England, is expected to return in the |
spring; and Mr. Elake, who went out with him \
as one of his assistants, lias come home in the j
Great Western. We will take another occasion j
to dwell upon the result of the American panic, !
arid point out, in undeniable terms, the errotie- j
crus views which so tnanv ofmir contemporaries, i
like the Times,have taken, and continue to take, ,
in regard to American matters, and show how j
perfectly ridiculous are all their labored articles j
on the subject.”
From the Southern Literary Messenger.
Boreas Lindsay:
OR, THE BACHELOR S WRITING
DESK.*
BY THE AUTHOR OF “TilE BACHELOR'S DEATH
BUD.”
( Continued.)
For several days after the arrival of Dorcas aud
Tylei, a growing change in the disposition ol
Mrs. Harris was universally perceptible. Her
tour oi voice was subdued and bland; her ad
dress to inferiors considerate aud mild ; her in
tercourse with equals se'f-deniviig; and all her
aims, to promote the general happiness. She
was conscious that such a change must ueces
savily excite wonder, and a most finished plan
did she adopt to prevent it from appeariug unac
countable.
One day, when seated aloue with Tyler, she re
marked to him seriously, “there is one thing, niv
sen, that, ever since your return, I have been
anxious to confide to you. About a mouth ago,
1 found in my head a white hair, and it has had
upou me the strangest etiect imaginable. 1 am
continually haunted by tiie thought (hat the day
is not far distant when my head will be entirely
silvered over; and when 1 think that from that
stage of the journey of life it is but a handbreadth
to tlie tomb, the question repeatedly occurs, ‘am
1 prepared to die ?’ Oil Tyler, 1 canuot tail you
what 1 have felt. I canuot speak to you of the
sleepless nights 1 have passed, aud how much
worse than sleepless my nights have been, when
slumber has chanced to fail upon me. The mid
night visions, the livid forms, the semblances of
the other world that have affrighted me, are
known but to myself and to Him who sent them.
Os late I have felt more peace. Your return;
the dear disposition of the angel whom )«u have
brought home with you; her fondness lor me,
(for our souls have become perfectly knit togeth
er in love) itave all liao an assuaging influence ;
but “li! that 1 might hope my peace proceeded
from a higher source—that He who pierced me
with the arrow of conviction has had compassion
on me, and bouud up the wound with the oil ol
His grace!” aud here applying hci ’kerchief to
her eyes, she sobbed bitterly.
Tyler paused a few moments, aod replied, “I
am sensibly effected, my dear aunt, by your dis
closure, aud only wish that my competence to
give you spiritual counsel equalled my solicitude
in your behalf. But 1 shall t ide by the parsonage
this morning, and should be happy to invite the
i minister t? '•ah upon you.”
“Do not ask ui:a to day, Tyler. 1 Will send
for him ; hut just now i »cel as il l could unbosom
myself better so one of my own sex, and of these
l know’ of none in whom 1 could eoufide unless in
our own dear Dorcas.”
“Aud a truer Christian you will not find this
side heaven—let me send her to you now.”
Tyler left the room to lultil his commission;
and that evening Dorcas told him, “1 had beiore
been bound to your aunt by the ties ot nature
and affection, but to-day anew tie has sprung up
between us—the bond of Christian fellowship, i
do love her next to the best friend 1 have on earth,
aud if you knew how devotedly she speaks ol him,
you would not wonder at the sire, gtli ot my at
•tachment.”
At the next communion season, it was publicly
announced that Mrs. Harris had connected her
self with the church; aud the simple peasantry
remarked that the Lord had not performed such
miracle since the day of Pentecost.
Since the arrival of Dorcas, Walter Roberts, a
young man residing a few miles off', had been an
almost daily vister at Bellevue. He was oi fas
cinating address, and possessed of every accom
plishment, but at heart an unprincipled libertine.
He had, however, the discretion to keep his prin
ciples, or rather want of principles, to himself;
andjn cousummate hypocrisy, his only superior
was*Mrs. Harris. He was very familiar with po
lite literature, and had always an abundance ol
news, which made him what ladies call a right
charming fellow. He was more showy than Ty
ler, and perhaps generally more agreeable as a
companion. There was this difference between
them: The one had read a great deal, but
thought very little; the other was a man more
fond of communing with his own thoughts than
those of others. The one had read more from a
desire to pass with tlie crowd as a man of parts ;
the other looked upon knowledge as sacred spring,
and felt too much reverence for the holy fountain
to letits bubbles flash up incessantly to wtr the
admiration of the common herd. The one was
calculated to be caressed by the many and des
pised by the lew ; tlie other to tie cherished by tlie
few and overlooked, not despised, by the many.
Roberts had a ready selfconceit that gave him, in
his own opinion, a high place in the estimation of
others; Tyler, on the other hand, had a distres
sing humility that made him think others as blind
to his real merits as he was himself.
Roberts, on his visits to Bellevue, was general
ly accompainied by his sister—a young lady who
embodied manv of the follies and a few of the
virtues of her sex. Mrs. Harris, during their
riding and walking excursions, invariably managed
it that Miss Roberts should be under the charge
of Tyler, while Dorcas was handed over to the
charge of Roberts himself. This part of the plot
was the more easy to be effected, because Roberts
on n party of pleasure, would not of course be
expected to gallant his own sister, any more than
would Tyler to devote himself exclusively to
thereof his own household. So that indeed it was
hiirdlv necessary for Mrs. Harris to interpose her
agency here, for matters went on just as she
wished, without her interference. This was an
art <>f hers. She had a most profound knowledge
of human nature, especially of its weakness,—
for these she had a chart within herself-—and she
knew exactly w hen it was necessary for her to
cotne forward with her open influence, and exactly
when it was necessary ior her to remain behind
the curtain <Tnd pull the string in secret. She
Vwl. J.—No. 52.
knew the fascinations of both the Roberts’; she
knew that Waiter was the directly opposite of
Tyler, and tiarah equally so ol Dorcas; and
therelore that any partiality shorn, by Dorcas to
Walter would be as grating to Tyler, as any par
tiality manifested by himself to ISarah would be
unpleasant to Dorcas; because naturally if one
person seems partial to the known opposite of
another person, his regard for the latter of the
two is tupposed to be proportionally weakened.
This was the reasoning of Mrs. Hairis, ami she
knew that tiie goldeu chain of sympathy once
Broken, her triumph would be complete. .Bhe
would therelore take occasion to incite the co
quetry of Sarah, by imploring her not to make
such sad havoc of her nephew's heart, aud w ould
have treated W alter in the same way, but as sho
saw he was sufficiently bent on taking the castle for
himself, she only threw out occasional hints oi en
couragement.
In the meantime she was to Dorcas the teuder
est of mothers. She ingratiated herself thorough
ly in her confidence, and used many unobserved
arts to draw forth her feelings in telerencc to the
attentions of Tyler to Sarah Roberts. But Dor
cas was a high-souled, queenly girl, and seemed
to cherish not even ior a moment the thought that
liis alfeclion for herself was weakened. She was
conscious in her own breast of such a wealth of
devotion to him, that judging of his feelings by
her own, she would as soon have thought the
needle false to the pole, as to have indulged the
suspicion, that she had ceased to be his cynosute.
.She saw that he was attentive to Sarah, and only
loved him the better for bis politeness ; and as to
the attentions of Walter, they were even disa
greeable to her—not that she suspected them to
be designing, but beause to one ol her nature the
attentions of any one, beside the. one, would bo
unsatisfying. Yet she would laugh and chat with
him as freely, as if he were entitled to the great
est iotimacy ; lor she was so perfectly artless and
innocent, that it would have done her as much an
noyance to suspect another, as to be herself sus
pected.
Not so with T yler—and for the simple reason,
because he was a man. Men are, naturally, more
jealous than women, iiecaute they are, naturally,
less constant, He was moreover, as we have sad
before, of an humble disposition, and when he
reasoned with himself he felt rather surprised that
Dorcas had found any thing at all in him to ad
mire, than that she manifested a superior admira
tion for another. Yet when they were alone,
with no rye to gaze on them, she would pom out
.to him such (ond tokens of tenderness, that she
would beguile him insensibly from his desponden
cy. But when the succeeding day would brin/i
with it the unwelcome form of Roberts, who hail
become enamored to distraction of Dorcas, he
would fall back again upon his own gloomy
thoughts, unless when piqued to make himself
as agreeable as possible to Sarah.
Mrs. Harris saw the state of his mmd, and was
rather at fault to perceive nothing like it in Dor
cas. A great mind may thoroughly compre
hend a little one, but a little mmd can never
understand a great one. Mrs. Harris had the
right theory iu regard to the every-day charac
ters we meet with ; but Dorcas Adelmar was as
far above these, as the heavens ate higher than
the earth. She was as infinitely remote from
every petty jealousy as the east is from the w est,
aud she could not possibly have been aroused to
discover any im; ropriety In the attentions of Ty
ler to Sarah. He was happy, aud that was enough
for her. Mrs. Harris soon learned better than to
make any unguarded attempts with this design ;
or, if she was iu this one instance too blind to
see, she was too prudent not to feel her way.—
She soon found out where she could direct her
exertions to the advantage, and accordingly
begau with Tyler. She observed him one dav
when his countenance was sad, and having with
drawn with him, she sat for sdlne time with her
hands folded and her eyes bent downwards. At
last she said—
“1 yler, my dear eon, do I love you ?”
“Yes, my aunr; I cau believe that you love
me, though 1 doubt all the world besides.”
“And my dear boj, does the world contain anv
in whom you have a tight to trust, yet whom voir
are forced to doubt ! J
“Aunt!”
“Nay, Tyler, my own son, I cannot see griei
working its way through your heart without tee!
ing a correspondent emotion in tr y pwn. Wo
need not talk in secrets. My dear boy, let me en
treat you to hasten your marriage with Dorcas.
.She is a dear, good girl, Tyler, and you may nev
er meet with such another, should you lose her.”
“Aunt, you have been to me a mother, and in
this have proved yourself more than a mother ;
but do not be offended that 1 follow not your ad
vice—-1 reject it simply because there seems to
be a necessity f“r its being given. W hat I have
fel* and do feel 1 can never express, but the reason
you give for hastening our marriage shall be to
me a reason tor deferring it; and it iu the mean
time Dorcas is confirmed in her attachment to
Roberts, I will release her from her engagement,
though the act should release my soul fiom rr.y
body.”
Mrs. Harris gazed upon him as he left the room
aod hardly waited for him to get out of hearing
before she exclaimed triumphantly
“Why, the very fates are in my favor* I could
not possibly have turned out so, unless, they had
interfered. But to improve advantages—-ah i here
comes Dorcas! the very thing !”
When Tyler left the room, he walked moodily
down stairs, and met Dorcas in tlie hall. “Oh !’*
said she, running gaily up to him, “I lur-e just
been out to walk, and i met Mr. Roberts, and he
sai<] he would ride with us to-morrow—-but, dear
Tyler! what is the matter ?”
“Nothing; I have a headache, and waa going
ot.t to enjoy the fresh air.”
“I on will let me go with you ?”
“No, Dorcas; I had rather be alone. I fhr.ll
return soon.” She gazed at him as he went out,
and stood inotiouless. It cam© »pyn Jytr like «
tiSyceuT, that he had ttfrtre TTumi 6tfre v> i»i*