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a. THE GEORGIA MIRROR, IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, By B. Gardner A J. ft.. Bull, 4 Editors and Proprietors.) At IHIREE DOLLARS a year, if paid in advance, or FOUR DOLLARS, if not paid until the end of the year. Advertisements will be conspicuously inserted .it One Dollar per square, (15 lines or less,) the first, and 50 cents for each sub. sequent insertion. All advertisements handed in for publi cation vithout t limitation, will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Execu tors, Ad ninistrators and Guardia us, are re quired by law 10 be advertised in a public Gajtette, sixty days previous to the day of ' sale. 'Hie sale of Personal property must be •dver ise< 1 in like manner forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for four months. yy All Letters on business must be post i’Ain to insure attention. JOP,7iIINT LN(7. (CONNECTED with the office of the J MIRROR, is a splendid assortment of s&J* *£ ■JfifiSj And we are enabled to excute all kind of Job work, in the neatest manner and at the sliort et notice. „ of every description will constantly be kept on hand,such as Attachments, Justices’ Executions, do Summons, J.iry do S ibpiems Clerk's Recognizance, S fieri Facias, Appearance Bonds, < la. Si. Declaration —Debt, Declaration Assumpsit. Sheriff Deeds, Tax Collector Executions, Blank Notes. <Ve y'cnr Cfidkinhtiioit Il4>ii*e. ‘ f a s 11E subscribers have as- 9f JL sociated themselves to pgjnviw;®*® getlier as COMMISSION MERCHANTS, under the .BOSBX BP. t’BTTS JT Cos. Tlu‘v have purchased the commodious \V V'tK-HOOSK and CLOSL S J ORK, lately occupied by Jernigan, Laurence & Cos where they will receive CO 1 ION or GOODS instore, and advance only upon cot ton in their possession and under their con trol. Their charges will be as customary. The business wilt be conducted by John I). Pitts. We solicit the patronage of the public, and arc prep ired to give Columbus prices for Cotton. p ITTS , M. J. LAURENCE. Florence, Nov. 10 3d J. B. ST Alt It, F3IWARIIM j A V H COMMISSION MERCHANT, SI. Jo*e;»h, Fla. January 10, 1833- dry goods. riA'lE subssriber having recently rnplen- X ished bis stock, invites his custom ers and the public generally, to call and ex amine for themselves. His goods are neic and well selected and lie is offering them on as good terms as any in the market. His stock consists in part of the following: Woolens, Sattinetts, A variety of Broad Clotlrs, Circassians. Merinos, Bombazines and Bomba/.ettes, Red and White Flannel, A good assortment ot Bteadtj JtMarte Clothings A large supply of 800 PS and SHOES, ° sexteuen’s a9i> L\ntt:s SADOLES, BRIDLES AND MARTINGALS. Crockery, Hardware and Cutlery, With a variety <>l other articles suitable to the season, which he takes great pleasure in offering to his customers and the pub lic, at his uew store ou the North side Cen tre street. Jan 12 40 THO : GARDNER. \cn Good* ! I\ew Goods ! ! riMIE Subscribers have just received, per X Steamer SIREN, a fresh supply of STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS AND READY MADE CLOTHING. Broad Cloths. Sattinetts, Cassemeres, Cam bists, Merinos, ShaHeys, etc. etc. Low for cash or to undoubted creditor*. HARVEY & CHASTAIN. July C, 1839 13 ' Ors Walton A: Laiir HAVE united thomsclvcs in tin Prae tice of MEDICINE AND SURGERA. and tender to the public their services in the various branches of their profession. When not professionally engage I, they may be found at their officr, (occupi ;d also, by Maj. J. L. Bull, as a Law office,' oppo site Mr. T. Gardner's store. May 6 4 __ For Sale. seuSMjh T■ 1H B subscriber offers for sale •t&EjgSS. -L on reasonablo terms, Lot of Land No. 133, in the 22d dis trict of Stewart county, with 6- •her lands adjoining, 65 acres well improved with good buildings. Any one desirous of purchasing a good settlement of Land would do well to call and view the premises, ■nd tialf miles from Ftorenr* 5. B- STRICKLING. July 5 31 0 THE MIRROR. FLORENCE ACADEMY. fid HE exercises of the Mule De| artu ent A of the F'orcuce Academy, will com urence on Monday next, 7th iust. unucr tbe superintendence of Mr. George J. Mc- Cleskey, who comes well recommeudcd as an instrueter of youth. The follown g will be the rates of tuition, por quarter: Orthography, Reading and Writing $4 0, do do do with Arithmetic, SOC English Grammar and Geography, 6 Os Higher English Brauches, g o r Languages, 10 Oi The. Female Department will commenc* on the same day, under the direction oi Miss Margaret Harvey. Os Miss Har vey’s qualifications the Trustees deem it ua* necessary to speak, as they are too wall known to require auy reconnneudation froj them. The terms of tuition, will be tii same as stale . above, and for Drawing and Painting, I*2 0' Needlework an extra charge of ( 3 0 Board can be had, for males and famalee in the most respectable houses, at reasons hie prices. Jau. 5 39 BY THE TRUS.E.Iu. CABINET FUKNI TUBE. George h. & wm. j. willeas respectfully inforni the citizens of Florence and the surrounding country,'hat they have permanently located themselves in Florence, and arc prepared to execute in tin; most neat and workmanlike style, Side- Boards, Bureaus, Tables, Chairs, Work and Wash Stands, and Furniture of every description used in this section of the coun try. They flatter themselves, from their long experience, that they will be able to give general satisfaction to those who may favor them with their patronage. April 9 52 J. A. H. UIACOIV, ATTORNEY AT LAW, STARKSVILLE. LEE COUNTY. GEORGIA. W1 L L attend the Courts of the CIIAT T A HOOCH EE CIRCUIT. Nov. 25 35 ly WILLIAM It MAY, Attorney at Law, STARKSVILLE, Lee county, Ga. wil’ practice in all the counties of the Chat tuhnnehee circuit. March 10 48 ly I>r. Win. Tl llartUvi LUMPKIN, GA. (TAN, at all times be found by those wish- J ing his services, at kis office, er tDe house of M. McCuliar, Esq. wlicu notpro- engaged. Jan 20 42 L A \\T NOTICE. riTIIE undersigned have associated them. X selves in the PRACTICE OF LAW, under the firm of Bull ft Mitchell, and will attend promptly to all business entrus ted to their care in the Courts of the fol lowing counties, viz. Stewart, Sumter, Muscogee, Lee, Ga. and Randolph, Barbour, Ala. J. L. Bum. maybe found at his office ii Florence, and J. M. Mitchell, at his office in Lumpkin, Stewart co. G». JESSE L. BULL, JAMES M. MITCHELL Feb 1. 47 er JW t ice—BP is sol u tion. THE late partnership existing between tbe subsetibers in the mercantile bu siness in the county of Stewart, in the State of Georgia, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, ever *inc® the 4th day of the pre sent month. John S. Rice is authorised to close the business of said concern. JOSIA'H DICKINSON. JOHN S. RICE. June 11,1839. 11 6t ALABAMA LANDS J Oil SALE. AT HALF 9 14 30 i-N . 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 28 S. half 34 19 28 N. half 36 19 29 S. half 36 19 29 W. half 29 .16 26 N. half 6 16 30 K. half 21 22 26 K. 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 be sold on terms to suit purchasers- by application to John D. Pitts, Esq. Flor* .ice, Ga. or to the subscriber, at Macon. July 26 18 J. COWLES. S2OO Kli WARD. •ax pANAW A Y from the subscriber, XX on the 21st of March, ult. ane gro maunanied STEPHEN a r.ar penter, by tradesaid negro is a bout five feet 10 inches high, and is about forty years of age, dark complected, speaks very quick when spoken to, and has a large sear over his left eye, and another on his led shin occasioned by the kick ot a horse, lie has a small white speck on his right eye I and is a very intelligent negro, lie has. no dou K * urocured free papers from some white person. I purchased him from Mr. David ’’lice, of Stewart cou” ,v ,D l * ie ,a ** 18 i7 ’ * i.- . * „bt cone to Stewart and he has no u,,.. * , „ a wi f e ar >,l county, where he says he ■>.. children. When he ranaway he had on « new beaver hat, a pair of old boots, a red flannel shirt anil saftinet pantaloons, apd he also, took with him a bag containing many other different kinds of clothing. Any per i son who will apprehend and deliver said ne gro to me in Hamburg S. C. or lodge him in some safe jail so that 1 can get him again, Shall have tlje above reward. T. G. SALDAVIA. Hamburg fS. ip, fc| 24 1839, 52 <&a* irKMT Tfce Den lit of Wro. Bt EDWARD MATUKI.N. Concluded . CHAPTER V—THE FLIGHT. The goading* of crime, the apprehen sion of instant death, and the iticapability ol satiating vengeance ou those whom wrongs aud persecution had invested with a superi or power, rose within the tyrant, as, in flight, he cast a lingering look upon the palace of his pride, his power and his guilt. Mingled with the ceaseless cries of a.san guinary and determined mob, rosethe sweet and silvery tones ol Iter whose attachment had, for the moment, subdued the horrors of his fate, and lent a respite to i»s p.un It fell on his anxious and nervous sense like the music of the Mermaid's voice, when she sports amid the strife of the waters, ami braids her tresses that float on the wing of the tempest. “He leaves me,” dwelt on his memory with a melancholy, anticipative of a separation, he felt, would be final. Still, on he rushed: he knew, he cared not whith er. In the delirium olthe moment he sank on his knees, aud supplicated Jupiter that the earth might yawn, and Curtius like, that he might sink into her womb. The drtail silence which prevailed around, giving to prayer the mockery of its own echo, fell on iiim witlt the appalling sense that even the gods had fojsaken him. He started front his knees, and uttered a shriek of wildness and terror. He clasped his hards to his eyes, as amid the shades of evening he des ciied a figure rapidly apnroach'iig. lie flew from the spot ; he stopped for a moment, but could not summon resolution sufficient even to look behind. The footsteps became still more audible. He was evidently pur sued. Flight was his only refuge, t.nd his last hope was to anticipate the blow of his enemy. Fear and despair lending rapidity to his flight, he darted onwards, lie was not far from the Tiber, and on the moment resolved that its waters should be histomb. He was already on its banks—-the foot steps rapidly gained on him—he stopped over the edge, the clear cold stars were sleeping on its bosom—he involuntarily started back, as, in the attit jde to plunge, his reflected image met his eye. A momen tary courage throbbed within Ids heart, like the deceptive gleam of hope which lights the eye of the dying man; he drew his sword, and resolved to withstand the comer. Tears and surprise for the moment sus pended the power of utterance, as he re cognized in the voice of the stranger, his freedman, I’haon. The faithful servant, kneeling, pressed to his lips his masters quivering hand. “Rise, rise,” said Nero, hastily, “this is no time for the cold forms of duty. Save thy Prince; or even where he stands let thv hand end Ins pain.” As he spoke the tears gushed freely, and with a treinenoous hand and averted face, he presented I’haon with his sword. “Strike!” cried Nero, in a hollow, trembling tone. In silence he awaited the fatal blow, and turning round, beheld the sword at his freed ntati's feet. “How is this I” he exclaimed his voice scarcely strong enough to assume the tone ofanger, “how isthis ? Said I not to thee, strike! YVouldst see thy master hunted like a beast, when thor couldst save him from their fangs ?” “My lord,” replied Phaon, “I will save thee, but uot at the point of thine oivn sword. Nor shall it be said, I showed my love by an act of bloodshed.” As Nero heard ’.lie last word his face be came still more ghastly, In avy drops course his contracted brow, at and hi • whole trained was affected by a violent shudder. He tot tered to the shoulder of his freedman, and leaned on him for support. In that one word, as in a mirror, the guilty man review ed his whole life of cruelty and horror. “My io r d trembles;” said Phaon, as the emotion of Nero rendered it difficult to pre serve his station. “I—l- -it will «oon pass,” rejoined his master, with hesitation,' endeavoring to sup press the agitation which ootrayed his tears. “Speak, speak! ” contin jed Nero, alter a pause, “save me if thru caiist. Whither wilt thou lead me ? W here can 1 hide till this Rtorm subsides, and Tty pursuers weary ? Speak, speak !” Hi* eyes, glowing ard dilated, were fixed upon Phaon in the agony of suspense and fe.tr; and as the freedman inet iheir glance he involuntarily shuddered at their wild and distorted expression. “I will lead thee,” replied Phaon, after a pause, “where hatred cr.ln.ol pursue, nor suspicion find thee—even to iny own villa. The obscurity ofthe place will favor thy concealment. It is but four miles distant from Rome. Cassar shall be safe beneath his fieedman’s roof. I will watch thee by night, and desert thee not through day. Fear ine not,” continued the freedman, with afi lelity worthy of a better object. “I will maintain a secret communication with the city, and thou shall know as well the pro ceedings of the Senate as the People.’! ‘‘Thanks, thanks !” exclaimed Nero, seiz ing his favorite’s hand, tlie terrois and hu initiation of the moment mergina all sense of distinction; “thauks---l fly with thee this moment. We ran enter the palace privately. Wc must provide ourselves with steeds.” On entering the gate of tlie p lace in dis guise and haste, tii-y found no impediment to their progress, nor any disposed to ques tion their purpose. The palace in the ab sence of its master, seemed to have forgot ten its splendor and pride, and had even al ready assumed an air of loneliness and de solation. It resembles, to its awestricken monarch as he stood within the solit'ry space before it, a temple, in whose destruc tion and neglect the wrath of the Oods had anticipated the decay of Time. Huge and dark it rose against the midnight sky, the starlight but faintly depicturing the irregu larity of its outline, or brightening the dense shadow which slumber ou it like a cloud. T>i ß a l 7r“ , '°n and revolt were evidently pro _ • Wul cr.'-»«inty f for the gates grPMiflg wpn a,— -ns hau al were and (}ip f'reu,,.... rearjy joined their associates it) the camp- Nero paused (or n *nomcn}’ to contem plate the surrounding wreck npd detail itiotl. Uriel and despair could 'do longer he res- deep groan 1 burst f»oii> him.; it rolled through the surrounding B|Ui*t ---it e ehoed like the lamentation of }t>jip, when sht weeps apid the solifudf s}it jrr^ple. CHAPTER VI.—THE TYRANTS END. At dawn of day The Tyrant commenced his last aud feariul journey. The decay of power was marked in the scantiness ol his retinue. No courtiers followed in his train to flatter ami vatut his praises to the sky. Not a Pnetoriau followed the blighted for tunes ol his master, lie whose minstrelsy, poetry, and dramatic attainments had called lurth the exulting shouts of his people, and extorted even decrees from a Senate, scarce ly less debased and servile, was now fly ing as a slave from the very city where he had ruled as Lord ; and compamonless, save in two attendants, was glad to abandon the pride ol a palace for the humble security of an obscurity of an obscure villa. M ith the mysteriously silence of men whose errand may be death, the forlorn par ty slowly emerged from the palace gale. Not a word was exchtnged. They even shuddered to look upon each other, lest fear, too palpable in the visage of each might daunt the courage despair had given. The small body followed in a line. Phaon, with an attachment which might have bor rowed lustre from a better cause, led the way, his arm prepared for any causal resis lance, and his eye vigilant for any enemy who might oppose their expedition. The wretched fugitive, divested of all imperial insignia and wearing nothing save a close tunic, covered by an old and tattered cloak lor (he purpose of disguise, followed his freedman. His head was partially covered by the cloak aud his lace oencnaled by a hamlktrchiefhe held before it. In this sor ry and degraded plight followed the Em perior oj Rome. The rear was closed by Ep nphroditus, his Secretary, whose fidelity shrank not from sharing the vicissitudes of his master’s' fortunes. They had just cleared the palace, as the rising day flung its cold grey mist on its huge and sombre mass. A dismal gloom hung on every object, which even the reno vating touch of light, seemed unable to clear or dispel. The spirit of darkness-still 'sib in hered there, as though light, and life, and all the refreshing influences of day, refused to bestow their gifts where guilt and blood shed had so long fixed ifieir abode. A mist, deeper and heavier than the gathering shades of evening spread like a curtain, blending into one vast, iudisiinguishable pile the va riations of shape nod outline. He checked his steed for a moment, and flung on it a ist look, in which memory painted the re vival of many a scene of horror; and, as un able any longer to endure the strife within, waving his hand to Phaon, the troop push ed their horses to a gallop. Rigid and immoveable as statues, they bestrode their steeds. The hands of his at tendants were braced to their sword-hilts. Not a word escaped them, as they sped their wav. The ristid firmness of the horse man bespoke his resolve not to quit his seat with life. As thus they advanced, a wild and dis cordant shout broke the surroumline silence. The horses pricked their ears, and the firm ness of their riders was disconcerted by sur prise and uncertainty. They checked their steeds abruptly, while Ph 'on and Epaphro ditus unsheathed their swords. The st°a dincss and resolution ofhis followers, was strongly contrasted by the fear and coward ice of their Prince. The bridle fell from his hand, and his steed becoming unruly, was seized a“d checked by Phaon. Ihe shout had died away, and a stillness deep 'and gravelike'succeeded. It wasonce again broken by a clantor from the same quarter, wilder and louder than the last, and accom panied >y expressions so plainly heard, as at once to announce to the tyrant the certainty of his doom and the inutility of flight. The words “Gaiba ! Gaiba !” came distinctly on the wmd Animation seemed to forsake his check, and uttering with difficulty, “It is the Prsetorians —fly!” their journey was resumed at a quickenwl pace. They were not far from the free'man’s villa; their horses, at the same time, push ed almost to full speed. On a stidtleri the steed Nero drew up abruptly, his ears were drawn back, and he snuffed the air with vio lence. The faithful Phaon dismounted, and seizing the bridle, endeavored to lead him forward. The animal only retrograded more violently, and rearing, almost dislodged lus rider from his seat. The Emperor could uot restrain liis impatience and fear, but vented both in words of threat and exec ra don. The delay seCmedotiiinoUs of advan tage to the speed of his pursuers. Phaon, unable to account for the obstinacy of the animal, relinquished the bridle for a moment and cast liis eyes searchingly around him. The cause at length met his view, and he started back with instiuetive horror. As Nero looked 011 his terror-strickeu counten ance, fear suppressed curiosity; at length, in a muffled and indistinct lone, scarcely removing the handkerchief from his tace, he said, “Speak—quick—whatseesl thou ?’ “The form of death,” replied Phaon; “unburied lies a corse by the road side.” ‘Curses on this steed!” muttered Nero, “tliev may be on us even now.” As he spatte, he lashed the horse violent ly, the noble animal reared as before, and casting' a side-long glance where lay the ob ject of its timidity, plunged forward. The suddenness of the motion jerked the veil from Nero’s-Hand, which he hitherto held to his face- Misffirnine seemed to in sert hei threads in the very web which hope was weaving. At that moment a veteran, who had been dismissed the service, passed. He at once recognized Ins master, and salu ted him by name. Nero hastily waved liis hand—he was discoveredt—bis flight would,, no doubt, soon reach the city. “Forward:” he exclaimed, at the very top of his voice. Their horses were now at full speed. The expected asylum at length rose to view. Within a short space* of it they dis mounted, and counselled as to the policy of future measures. “It were not safe to enter it by the public gate, my lord," said Phaon, “your person may be recognized. Informers are frequent. Servant* are seldom proof against the gold which buys their m3? ,Pr ‘ , . , -- "ood Phaon, rejoined “lamintnypm—;*■ , f niy sa f e . Nero, ‘ resolve, and quickly tor my entice ipto the house,” said rhy ent. , nrivale* Cfoss Phaon, hastily, “must be J that field, and lie concealed till I hav* tna e i for thee in that remote walloftbe house. Leave thy steed with me. Epa phrobroditus and 1 will do all.” The wretched man listened to the strata gem with the meekness of a child, who bears submissively from his elders what he dares not resist or dispute, lie cast on them a look, more expiesslve from its silence, and hasteued to the appointed spot. Faint with excitement and tear, the wietch .stooped and raised in the hollow if his hand some impure water from a ditch. “Is this, then the cup they have reduced Ctrsar to drain?” he said while the tears mingled with the water. “Well, well, sothe draught is no bitterer, f am content.” As he raised his eyes to the appointed quarter of the house, he observed a hand waving him onward. It was Pbaon’s. He darted to the spot with the precipitancy of one to whom speed was life, and with diffi culty was squeezed through the excavation they had made. The field lie had quitted was scarcely more barren or desolate, than the apartment to which he was now conducted, and which was destined to witness the last struggles of Rome’s Emperor. The walls and floor were nofonly destitute of covering, but befaced with squalor and filth. He surveyed itfor some moments in silence, but could no longer restrain the bitterness of insulted pi ide, and 'the degradation which met him at every step. He burst violently into tears, and fell on a mean and tattered touch, the only furniture in the apartment. While he lay alternately the victim of cries and passio-, his atfend iants, who had withdrawn to the remote end of the chamber for the purpose ofconference approached him. "Danger presses, my lord.” said Phaon, kneeling, “and there is but little hope.— They who have met us ou the road will •conjecture thy retreat, from beating my company.” He paused to observe the ef ,fect of-li is words, and the tone of his mas ter’s feelings. “It is but a moment,” he proceeded with hesitation, “and the cares of life are forgotten, and with them the hatred of thine enemies.” “Must I then die ?” said the tyrant, slow ly rising from the couch, surveying the naked chamber with a wild and glassy eye, “Must 1 then die? Is there no hope?” “None,” replied l’liaon. Courage and resolution seemed to rise with the answer. He hastily dashed the tears from his eyes—his manner became firm and collected. “If they hum they shall not reacli me,” he said, “this day shall be my last. Let my pile be collected, and mark, let not a Cicsar sleep without a lnou ument—-I would have some marble on iny giave.’” His momentary firmness forsook him, and. turning his face to the couch, the violence ol his giief sent a dull and heavy echo through the chamber. immcVf'iaYeYy a , *nesßenger."nc , corduig to the private instructions of Phaon entering, pre sented him with papers. “From Rome ?' said Phaon, in a subdued tone. The words acted with the power of a talisman on Nero, who recognized in them the consummation of hope or despair ; and starting from the couch, he seized the packet. lie perused it with eagerness, but the tears which fell, and the trembling of his hands and frame, fully interpreted the nature of the intelligence. “A public enemy”—“aucient usage"—- were the only words they could hear.— “They have outlawed me from mine own realm,” he said at length, with difficulty summoning courage to speak of his late, “and the Fathers have condemned me to die recording to the rigor of ancient usage." His voice failed him, and the tears which choked it, were exchanged for a violent transport of rage. He tore the papers into fragments, and trampled on them. He fol ded his arms with sternness, and his figure for the moment assumed a rigid composure “What is aucient usage?” lie asked after a pause. The attendants, as unwilling to disclose the severity ofthe punishment decreed, ex changed sileni looks. The task at length fell on Phaon. “Pardon, my lord, the question and your condition demand truth for the answer. It was the law of the old Republic, that every traitor should die a lingering death beneath the rod ofthe Lictor; his head fas tened between two stakes, and his body en tirely naked.” An agonized expression, combining shame and pain, overspread the countenance of Nero, as he heard this detail. He started from the spot, as though he already writhed beneath the stripes of Ibe Lictor. He stop ped short again—his respiration became' short and hysterical—he drew ffOrfi his bo som two poignards, and feeling their sharp ness gazed on them intently. He suddenly turned to his attendants, and extending the daggers—“ Has none," he cried, with bit terness, “the courage to show me how to die ?” The words were no sooner uttered, than the trampling of horses was heard at hand, A troop of soldiers instantly entered the room, and surrounded the door. Nero saw that hope was at an end---the inonarslMucJ indeed fallen from the high estate, which once commanded the flattery of men. Jhe officer disregarded all obeisance, and procee ded to disclose the nature of his mission. “The Fathers," he said, “have decreed Cirsar as a traitor, and ordered him into my custody, to be conveyed Back to Rome to sutler punishment. Soldiers, your duty!’’ Two or three advanced to seize him, hut despair at length nerving resolution, he stabbed himself in the throat. 1 lie blood flowed copiously, but the wound was not mortal; he tottered fora moment, and 1 fell to the ground, llis eyes wandered aiouud the chamber with the 'languor of exhaustion as imploring some friendly hand to complete the work. “Will ve,” he at length exclaim ed in tears, “will ye see Cscsar without a friend ?" . Epaphroditus rushing forward, seized a dagger, and having previously uiavked the fata! spot, with averted face plunged it luto Nero’s bosom. A violent shudder convulsed his frame, and, raising himself slowly from the ground and casting on the officer a smile oftriumpli and derision* the last of the Csesar wasuo more. ;»> “So great,” says Suetomius, “wax the .07 exhibited at Rome the intelligence IT ’D l of his death, that the people ran to and fro ' through the city, with caps on their heads.” The ominous acclamations of the Piaelo rians werj realized, and Gaiba. shortly af<* terwards entered Rome us ita future Empe ror. WHAT IS EDUCATION. n The great end of education is not to train a man to get a living. This is plain, because life was given for a higher end than simply to toil for its own prolongation. A com fortable subsistence is indeed very important to the purposes of life, be it what it may. A man Half fed, half clothed, and fearing to perish from famine or cold, will be too crush ed in spirits to do the ptoper work of a ma*- He must be set free from the iron graap of want, from the constant pressure of painlul sensations—from gripding. ill-requited, toil. Unless a man be trained to a comfortable ‘support, his prospects of improvement and happiness are poor. But if his education aims at nothing more, hisjjlile will turn to little account. . 1 ?. To educate a man is to unfold his faculties —rto give him the free and full U6e of hie powers; and especially of his best powers. It js first to train the intellect, to give him a love of truth, and to instruct him in tbe pro cesses by which it may be acquired. -It is to train him to soundness of judgment, to teach him to weigh evidence, and to guard him against the common sources of error. It is to give him a thirst for knowledge, which will keep his.faculties in action throughout life, it is to aid him in the study of the out ward world, to initate him into the physical sciences, so that he wilt understand the prin ciples of his trade or professions, audnwiU be able to comprehend the phenomena that are continually passing before his eyes. It is to make him acquainted with his own na ture, to give hiei that most important means of improvement, self comprehension. ,t- . In the next place to educate a man, is to train the concience, to give him a quick, keen discernment of the right, ts teach him duty in its great principles and minute ap plications. to establish in him immoveable principles of action. It is to show, his true position in the world, his true relation to God, and his follow beings, and the immu table obligations laid en him by these. Jt is to inspire him with the idea of perfection, to him a high moral aim, aud to show how this may he maintained in the commonest toils, and how every thing may he made to contribute to its accomplishment. - ; Farther, to educate a man in this country is to train him to be a good citizen, to es tablish him in the principles of political science, to make him acquainted with our history, government, and laws ; to teach him our great interests ns a nation, and the policy by which 'hey are to be advanced, and to impress him deeply w \ hhis resppgjsUliJj/.Vci ll ested patriotism as the citizen of a free state. • . , s Again—to educate a man is to cultivate his imagination ,taste, to awake his sensibility to the beautiful in nature and art, to give him the rapacity of enjoying the writings of men of geuiiis, and to prepare him for the innocent and refined pleasure of literature. 1 will now add, that to educate a man Is' to cultivate his power of expression, so that lie can bring out his thoughts with clearness and s'rength, and exert a moral influence over his fellow creatures. This is essential to true enjoyment aud improvement of soci il life. * According to these views the laboring classes may as yet be said to have few mear.s of education, excepting those which Provi dence furnishes in the relations, changes, occupations, ami discipline of Rfe. The great school of life, of Providence, is indeed 1 open to all. But what, 1 would ask, is dose by our public institutions for the education of tbe mass of the people ? In the mechani cal nature of our common schools, is it ever proposed to untold the various faculties of a human being, to prepare for self improve ment through life ?. Indeed according to the views of education now given, how de fective are our institulioi s for the rich as well as the poor, and what s revolution is erquired in our whole system of training the young ?— Chavning. Our Revolutionary Sires The follow ing is an extract from John Neal’s Fourth of July Oration: ‘When the young alone ’rear sway, rash-' ness and headlong presumption prevail. When the old have exclusive dominion, there is always a want of courage and liopa of generous adventure and heroic enter prise. There should be a mixiure of both the young and tile old, to carry us and our beloved country through the storm that is gathering about her. Cast your eyes o ver records of her greatness, and while- you find that Alexander Hamilton was hardly of age when he began to play his part in the awful drama ofthe revolution, being - only . twenty when he was taken into the family-of our commander in chief, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; you will find also, that Benjamin Franklin was 50 be lore he be gan to be heard of; Samuel Adaufts 44,; Janies Otis 48; Josiali Quincy 40 ; John Hancock 38; and Thos. Jefferson 32 ; be fore tliev were grea’iy distiguished. And so with "all the actors of this age. They were full grown men—working men—rip ened with toil aud strengthened with long habits of endurance and independence. Let; it be forever remembered that the men of the revolution were all working met*-- those of New England especially—Greene was a blacksmith, Frauklioa printer, Roger. Sherman a shoemaker, Putnam a Farmen They were doctors and Preachers, attorneys and shoptkeeps, and not a man of them a bove hi* busiues* or ashamed of his- cal ling, “A Tougher.” —Some one was telling Sam Hyde about tbe longevity of the mud turtle—" Yes,"said Sam, "I know all about that; for. lionce found a venerable old fellow in my meadow, who wa* so old that lie could hardly wriggle his tail, aud on his back was. carved (tolerably plain considering all things) these wordat Parudis*, EWr 1. Adam.” The Penitentiary about being erected ifi, the neighborhood ofWetnmpka, has beefg contracted lor by a Mr. Thomas, of NasW vitie, at 384,939 Western