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1 JNO. D- PITTS,
M. J. LAURENCE.
Florence, Nov. 10 <35 tl
J. I*. STARK,
F3mvnm AM3 COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
W!. Joseph, Fla.
January 19, 1839.
DRY GOODS.
r TVIR subscriber having recently replen-
L isheJ his stock, invites his custom
ers and the public generally, to call and ex
aniiue for themselves. His goods are new
stud well selected and ho is offering them on
as goad terms as any in the market. 11l
stock consists in part of the following:
Woolens, Sattinetts,
A variety of 15r0.nl Cloths,
Circassians, Merinos,
liomha/.ines and Bombazetles.
lied and White Flannel,
A good assortment of
Heady divide Clothing*
A large supply o( 1K)0 and &11UKJ5,
oehtemrn’s A*l> f.VOIKS
SADDLES, BtdiDLES AMD MARTiNGALS.
Crockery, Hardware and Cutlery,
With a variety of other articles suitable
to the season, which he takes great pleasure
in offering to his customers and the pub
lic, at his new store oil the North side Cen
,rCJan7l»' 40 TIIO : GARDNER.
IVcn Goods! Sew ! !
rnUE Subscriber has just received, per
.1. Steamer SIREN, a fresh supply oi
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS
AND READY MADE CLOTHING,
p,road Cloths, Sattinetts, Cassemeres, Cam
-I,lets, Merinos, Shallevs, etc. eic. Low
for cash or to undoubted creditors.
JOHN P. HARVEY.
July 6, 1830 JDS
For Sail*.
rw 111 E subscriber offers tor sale
« *- on reasonablo terms, Lot ol
Land No. 133, in the 22d dis
trict of Stewart county, with o
tber I,mo- adjoining, 65 acres well improved
with good buildings. Any one desirous of
purchasing a good settlement of Land would
Ho well to call and view the premises,
and naif miles tiom Florence.
S. 15. STRICKLING.
July 5 31 3
OK THE FIKST TUESDAY Iff SKPTEMBR NEXT*
"IT7TLL be sold before the Court House
Y door in the Town of Lumpkin, un
.ler and order of the Interim Court ot
Stewart county acting as a Court ol ordi
nary. Lot of Land No. 171, in the 21st.
district of said county, sold for the benefit
of the heits ami creditors of Samuel En
nerson, deceased of sfiid county. I ertns
made known on the day of sale.
MARGARET EPPERSON,
June 27, 1839 19 Adm rx.
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FLORENCE ACADEMY.
1 1 >HE exercises of the Male De| irtti ent
A of tlie Florence Academy, wdi cum
uience on Monday next, ?tii inst. un‘,crtb r
superintendence of Mr. George J. ?lr-
Cleskey, who comes well recon mended
as au instructer of youth. The follown g
will be the rates ol tuition, porquaiter:
Orthography, Reading and Writing $4 o'>
do no do with Arithmetic, 5 0
English Grammar and Geography, (j Os
Higher English Branches, 8 (F
Languages, 13 Os
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on the same day, under the direction cl
Miss Margaret Harvey. Os Mis3 Hir
vey’s qualifications the Trustees deem it u>
necessaiy tc speak, as they are too wall
known to require any recommendation Iron
them. The terms of tuition, will bo tli'
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 so nalce
in the must respectable houses, at r.insouß
ble prices.
Jan. 5 39 B Y TIIE TRUST E
cabinet furniture.'
1 1 EORGE 11. <N WM. J. WILLEh.B
VT respectfully inform the citizens of
Florence and the surrounding country, that
they have permanently located themselves in
Florence, and are prepared to execute in
the most neat and workmanlike style, Side-
Boartls, Bureaus, Tables, Chairs, Work
and Wash Stands, and Furniture of every
description used in this section of tlie 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 !) 52
J. A. H. TIAC'OA,
attorney at law, ’
STASKSVILLE. LEE COUNTY. GEORP-IA.
’ST7TLE attend the Courts of the CHAT
>V t a hooch eh circlti.
Nov. 25 35 ly
WILLIAM R MAY,
Attorney at Law,
STAIIKSVILLE, Lee county, Ga. will
practice in all the counties of the Chat
tahnochee circuit.
March 10 43 ly
Hr. Win. M. Ilai'dwi A:;
LUMPKIN, GA.
{1 AN, at all times be found hy those wisli-
J ing his services, at kis office, ar tae
house of M. McCullar, Esq. when notpro
fessioe-Jly t ngaged.
J in 2G 42
LAW NOTICE.
rpilß undersigned have associated them.
A selves in the PRACTICE OF LAW.
under the firm of Bull & Mitchell, and
will attend promptly to all business entrus
ted to their care in the Courts of the tol
lowing counties, viz.
Stewart, Sumter.
Muscogee, Lee, Ga. and
Randolph, Barbour, Ala.
.T. L. Bull may be found at his office ii
Florence, and J. M. Mitchell, at his office
n Lumpkin, Stewart co. Ga.
x JESSE L. BULL,
JAME SM. Ml TCII ELL
Feb 1. 47 8t
.Vo / # cc mm l9 is sol it I ion .
f|!llE late partnership existing between
the subset ibers in the mercantile bu
siness in the county of Stewart, in the State
of Georgia, has been dissolved, by mutual
consent, ever since the 4th day of the pre
cut month. John S. Rice is authorised to
close the business of said concern.
JOSIAH DICKINSON.
JOHN S. RICE.
June 11,1839. 11 6t
ALABAMA LANDS
FOR SALE.
XT HALF 9 11 39
i. x . S. half 4 11 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
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 be sold on
terms to suit purchasers, by application to
John D. Pitts, Esq. Florence, Ga. or to the
subscriber, at Macon.
July 26 18 J. COWLES.
s2o© REWARD.
i > AN AWAY from the subscriber,
$4 XAs on the 21st of March, ult. ane
gro mannatned STEPHEN a car
penter, by trade; —said negro is a
botit five feet 10 inches high, and is about
forty years of age, dark complected, speaks
very quick when spoken to, and has a large
scar over his left eye, and another on his left
shin occasioned by the kick of a horse,
he has a small white speck on his right eye
and is a very intelligent negro, he has. no
doubt procured free papers from some white
person. 1 purchased him from Mr. David
Price, of Stewart county in the fall of 1837,
and he has no doubt gone back to Stewart
county, where he says he has a wife and
children. When lie ranaway he had on a
new beaver hat. a pair of old boots, a red
flannel shin and sattinet pantaloons, and he
also, took with him a bag containing many
other different kinds of clothing. Any per
son who will apprehend and deliver said ne
gro tome ini Hamburg S. C. or lodge him
in some safe jail so that 1 can get hint again,
6hall have the above reward.
T. G. SALDAVIA.
Hamburg S. C. March 211839, 52
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‘ May 6 4 THE TRUSTEES.
3S33t>.Ti3aAmnM»Trfl,
From Bentley’s Miscellany.
TIIE BRIDEGROOM’S STAR,
lu nights calm aud clear, ’mid the nrbs‘l
n, Uy ’
1 o trace her bright home in the beautiful
sky;
And I gaze ousome star, till in fancy I see
The far-sbining Spirit still smiling on me.
Mirror. Anon.
* * • * It is the fifth, and on the fifteenth
1 shall be the happiest of mortal men. Ten
short days!—no, ten long, long days’—
must fade into longer nights, before I can
call my Marion mine. Ten days! why,
litre are more than two hundred—almost
three hundred hours to be passed; but will
not Hope lighten them, will not gentle
•Sleep enclose some of them within her for
getful curtains, and every moment of time
bring me nearer to the goal of all iny wishes
and all my prayers! Y’et lam wretched
with excess ol Joy—the excess of Joy, at
whose approach Fear has grown into excess
greater still. Ah! how like to far travel is
the journey of life! While distant from its
object and its home, the mind feels but lan
guid longings lor their attainment, shadowy
and unabiding presentiments of possible
evil; but as we near them, as the intervening
.space ditni'fishes, as tlie thousand miles
shorten into one, how beats the pulse as the
blood rushes through every vein ! how
throbs the heart to bursting! how weary
seems tlie way ! how dreadfully arise the
spectres of unheard of change or fatal ac
cident ! —The last brief tide is the voyage
round the world—tlie last few hours is tlie
sum and history of human existence.
* * * And well might Henry Sturmund
flius dwell on the date of his appointed
uuion ; for if ever angel were embodied in
an earthly form, it was in the idol of his de
voted affections. Marion was the loveliest
of the lovely, the sweetest of the
sweet; so bright, and yet so soft;
so wise, and yet so simple; so noble,
and yet so tender; that whilist ardent pas
sion bent in holy warmth before the bloom
ing girl, a feeling allied to adoration hal
lowed the presence of the perfect woman.
What a countenance was hers—tlie model
fixed, but the expression ever varying ! On
her ample brow sat Intellect enthroned ;
and round that throne what radiance of
auburn gold. In her deep hazel eye now
lightened the glance of spirit uni essence,
now rose and fdi the indescribable meaning?
of love. On her rosy lips the smile of play
ful innocence was cradled ; nor did the
suckling leave its treasure bed unless ex
iled for a moment by the advent of sympa
thy for sorrow, or of son ow for misery.
Such was Marion Delmnr in face, nor was
she in person less admirable. Natme had
set her seal upon the most precious casket
that ever enshrined an immortal gem,—the
setting the proudest and most glorious pro
duction id' earth, the brightness within an
emanation of Heaven.
* * * An.l old Time wore on, as trom
the creation, regardless alike of the sighs
of love, the pangs of disappointment, the
delights of pleasure, the shrieks of pain,
the shouts of mirth, ti e groans of woe, the
levels of sports, the terrors of death.
* * * Os ihe ten days, eight were flown ;
and whither had they flown, laden with all
these millions of blessings and curses?
They had flown back in mystery while they
seemed to hurry onward—they had returned
to that abyss of eternity from which they
sprung, and darkness covered them.
** * “To-morrow, Henry,”said Marion
clasping his hand in hers, and looking with
measureless confiding into his watchful eye,
“ to-morrou L , I would be alone.” To a glance
that seemed of the kindest reproach, she
replied, “Yes, my dearest Henry, on the
next morn l will be yours for life and unto
death. It is a sohnu act—an act I will fu!
til with a devotedness of heart and soul that
would satisfy the mast avaricious tniser ol
love ; but let me have cnly this one day to
prepare myself to be worthy of you, to
seek that aid which alone can malfe- our
fate what every human promise tells us ii
will be—a fate of lasting affection, and
joy. Indeed, my dearest Henry, l would
10-rnonoiv be alone!”
“Then give me now, for my consent, one
more, one last eve of wandering bliss ; let
us visit, together tfie spots sacred to our
loves—the grove ringing with the song of
birds ere they seek their downy nests, the
bank redolent of flowers, and the stream
gurgling its music in requital for ttieb
ouors, the romantic fall where first 1
breathed my vows of eternal truth, and the
ruined abbey that o’erteps the scene where
those vows were accepted and ratified by
her to whom I owe life—more than life;
all that can make iiie acceptable, what life
can never repay.’’
* * * The dawn of morning! On a lied
of sickness, of agony, lay Marion Delinar.
Writhing in the torture of that 'ell disease
before whose appalling might youth and
strength were swept away as grass before
the scythe of tire mower. Alas, for Hen
ry ! the stern commands of skill forbade
him even to approach that bed of infection
and deatii. Jsriel was its awful struggle.
Distorted were tiie ghastly features of
matchless loveliness, but last night beam
ing with intelligence and hope; the rosy
tints ol health were gone, and that pure
solor which had marked ilicsheains ot vita!
principle, violets strewed, among roses
on i wreath ol snow, no longer natural in
motion, had usurped the livid corpse.
* * * The tenth day arrived. The vil
lage church was decked with bouvhs and
blossoms; for the disn al tidings had not
reached the sexton, and ho was surveying
his cheg,, u j work with an approving glance,
when, lo ! the summons came to prepare
an immediate grave. In that grave, within
an hour were deposited the remains of
Marion Delinar, haidly attended to that
final abode by the dead-stricken living, whom
terror kept from that plague-spotted couch,
and whom terror slew in their flight from
danger.
* * * Not even Henry Sturmond was
there to‘sec laid in the cold clay, her whom
at that very hour lie was to Ijrve led to the
bridal altar. But it was not fear 'hat de
tained him ; it was not despair. The blow
had stunned bill) into utter insensibdity ;
and to have embraced, and kissed, and eu
dcared the horrible wreck of all he loved, or
to have witnessed it hurriedly shrouded and
tossed into the foul ground, irpuld have
I been the same to him. Reason was dead.
* * * But not forever. She gradually
murmuring river, the splashing fall, the
mouldering ruin, and Ileury trod the patlis
of yesterday, but he trod them alone.
’•Oh, God! oh, God!” he cried aloud in
bis agony ; “is there .mother and a better
world ?”
He dung himself upon the broken stones,
once tlie tomb of a warrior knight, and scat
tered neat the shrine where kings and abbots
had knelt in splendid worship-—he flung
himself down, and he essayed to pray.
But his lips were parched and powerless,
and his tongue clave to the roof of bis
mouth. Ifhe prayed, it was the voiceless
aspiration of the crushed and overburthened
resumed her empire, and with it cam*
images of Marion, full of life, and warmth,
and perception, and thought, and grace, and
love—of Marion struck with disease, tor
mented, dying, passive, dead—dead even to
1 his love.
“To-morrnw is here,” he exclaimed, a fr>
morrow is here, and she is alone /”
“The shades of evening had descended
upon thejocnral grove, the enamelled bank,
soul.
* * * As if awakening from a hideous
dream, he cast a look toward the calm and
starry heaven, and, amazement ! to bis
sight was revealed anew an dazzling Star,
bright, and soft, and sweet, and lovely, se
rene and glorious as his Marion, whom it
so splendidly resembled* in every attribute
and quality. “It is my Marion!’ lie gasp
ed, “it is herself. She is not lost—she is
not alone! We are together, for ever and
for ever. Come to me, darling of my
breaking heart, or take me to thyself.—
Come.”
* * * In an instant the orb, the new and
brilliant lustre of the sky, burst from the
•phere, and sunk to the earth, leaving a
long white gleam of light behind. It was
but an exhalation of the air—a vision for
the moment, more unreal and transitory
than the mortal brightness which distem
pered fancy had elected it to restore.
Prone fell the lover to the dust; the
sp;irk of life, like the perished Star, was
cxtingiiifPhed.
* * * Were they united for ever and for
ever? They slept together, side by side,
ill the same village churchyard, and on a
single marble tablet was sculptured—“A
FalliSu Star.”
Religions Courtship. —A young gentleman
happened to sit at church in a pew adjoin
ing one in which sat a young lady, for whom
lie conceived a most sudden and violent pas
sion, was desirous of entering into a court
ship on tlie spot, but the place not suiting a
formal declaration, the exigency of the ease
suggested I lie following plan ; he politely
handed his fair neighbor a bible, opened,
with a p>n stuck in tlie following text. 2d
epistle of John, verse slh. “And now I be
seech thee, lady, nor as though I wrote a
new commandment unto the, but that which
we ha I Irofn tlie in ginning, mai •»••
one another.” She returned it, pointing to
the following: 2d chaptei of Ruth, lOtli
verse. “Then she fell down on her face, aud
bowed herself to the ground, and said unto
him, why should 1 find grace in thine eyes,
that thou shouldst have knowledge of me,
seeing lama stranger?” He returned the
buck, pointing to the 12th verse of the epis
tle of John ; “Having many things to write
unto you, l would not write it with paper
and ink, but I trust to come unto you and
speak lace to face.” *' rom the above inter
view the marriage took place tlie ensuing
week.
Beautiful Coincident. — During the morn
ing service Jon Sunday last, at Christ Church
Salem-stieet, an incident occurred which
would have been interpreted, by the ancients,
as a signal of Divine approbation. ’J he
Rev. Mr. Marcus, of Nantucket, the offici
ating minister, gave out to be sung, the 84th
Psalm, in which is the following stanza :
The birds more happy far than 1,
Around thy temple throng;
Securely there they build, and there
Securely hatch their young
Whilst he was reading this Psalm, a dove
flew in at one of the windows, and. alighted
on the capital of one of the pilasters, near
the altar, and nearly over the head ol tlie
reader. A note of the Psalm and Hymn
to be 6ung had been previously given, as is
customary, to the choir; otherwise, it
might have been supposed that there was
design in the selection, tor the minister an
nounced, for the second singing, the 79th
hymn, commencing.
Conic, holy spirit, heavenly dove
With all thy i|uickeuiiig powers;
Kindle a flame of sacred love,
Jn these cold hearts of ours.
The preacher was inconscious ot the pre
sence of the bird until the close ot the ser
vices; and then the innocent visiter was suf
fered to “depart !!> peace.”
Boston Transcript..
Scandal-—A Fragment.— “ There are
people,” continued the corporal, “who '"an t
even breathe without slandering a neigh
bor.’
“You judge too severely,” replied my
aunt Prudy ; “no one is slandered who
does in>t deserve it.”
‘ They may be,” retorted the corporal,
••but I have heard very slight things said of
The face of my aunt kindled with anger.
'Ale!” she exclaimed, "Me /—slight
things of me ! what can any body say of
me /”
“They say. ’’-answered the corporal grav
ly and drawing his wordslto keep tier in suse
pense, “that—that you arc no better than
yon ought to be.?” 1
Fury flashed from the eyes of my aunt.
“Who are the wretched?”
“I hope they slander no one who does
not deserve it.” re narked the corporal jeer
hrgly, as he left the room.
The feelings of my aunt may well be con
ceived. She was seneibly injured. True,
She had her foibles." She was peevish and
(refill; but she was rigidly moral and vir
tuous. The purest ice was not more
chnate. Tit**' jwp.e Vmn«elf GCPW 1101 boast
more piety. Conscious of the eorreetri.
oi lier conduct, she was wounded at the re
mark of the corporal. Why should her
neighbors slander h e s • She could not con
jecture.
Let my aunt be Consoled. A person lybQ
as*
can live in this world without suffering slan*
der, must be too stupid ol insignificant to,
claim attention..
I Vat’s in a name. —There is a firm ia t
Boston which flourishes, under the nomen
clature of Neal' and Pray. In Madesfone
England there is another,of David Shot tc
Gbliah Fell. After the passage of a law in,
England requiring every man who owned a.
taxed cart, to have his name and place of a
bode inscribed thereon in lull, very general
exception was taken to the act, and various
devices were resorted to puzzle the inform*,
ers. The best of all wax practised by a Mr..
A.mos Todd, of Acton, in Kent who not on
ly bothered the officers of law but complied
with its demands and expressed his opinion,
of it at the same time in the following line
painted in hold characters on his vehicle ;
“A most odd Act on a Taxed Cart,” which,
can be read, Amos Todd, Actou--a Taxed,
Cait.
A southern planter having frequently w.«
nessed the depredations committed on his,
onion beds, concluded that a young negro,
hail stolen them for the purpose of supply
ing his neighbors. After vainly attempting
to extract a confession from blacky, hcgaVe
him a sound thrashing, thinking, no doubt
if he was not the thief, he should serve as a
proxy un'il the real depredator was found.
On the following morning, the negro, see
ing a strange animal lurking about the gar
den, succeeded in capturing lmn and
took him in triumph to his master, who
saluted him with, “What do you bring that
skunk here for ?” “Me bring him here dat
mnssa no more trash poor Rigger;-—bun,
stealsmassa’s injun, jist smell he breff.”
From the Knickerbocker.
BEARDING A SEA LION IN I1IS;
DEN.
by j. N. rev Isolds, Esq.
The island of Sfiilrn Land, which lies,
south cast of Terra d-1 Fuego, from which
it is separated by the Strait le Maire, whetl,
seen from a short distinct, has a most bar- .
ren aud forbidden appearance ; but such is
not its teal character. The tops oLthe
mountains, composed ol immense masses ;
of granite, produce, it is true, little, vege
tation ; but on their sides, and what may be
called the low lands, there is a rich thick
mould, formed by the decomposition of
their natural productions and beautified «
with the most laxuiiant verdure.
Near the entrance of Fort Hatches, is a
cavern, long known as the retreat ol a few
patriarchs of (he ocean, to whom its deep
recesses had been until the period of which
lam about to 8| eak, a safe protection. The
opening of this sea-lion's den is about thir
ty feet in width, its base being on a level
with the sea, at low water mark. The
whole length of the cave, beneath the basis
o< the precipice, is two bundled and twenty
paces, beautifully arched over with stable
mites, and in some places changing its -
course Horn a mreci imc, «uii ru.
apertures, which communicate with the
main entrance.
To enter this cavern, explore its secret ’
chandlers, ai.tl provoke a combat with the
ancient holders and proprietors of this wdd
citadel, was the object ot our boat excur
sions. Preparatory to our advance into this
‘cavern liot.
That stands all lonely on tlie sea-beal
shore.
Fires were placed one after another, within
a distance of 30 yards between each .two,
to answer the- double purpose of guiding
our progress, and ot securing a speedy re
treat should we be too roughly received by
the old phoca, who, with a number of clap
matches in bissuite, liad taken up a position
in thejfariher eouer ol the den.
With lighted torches we now advanced
into the abyss, which the ancient Romans
would have consecrated to deified nymphs,
and the Persians have assigned as the seat
of iheir god Mithras. The fires cast a dim,
flickering light, which rendered visible the
darkness in our rear. Every thing around
us seelfted to partake of the gloomy silenco
of the tomb, until the stillness was suddenly
broken by the roar of the old lion, more ap
palling, hy far, than that of his fierce name
sake of the Moorish plains. Having ap
proached so near that we could see the
monster's glaring eye-balls, we discharged
our muskets, and continued, alternately re
tiring to load, and advancing to fire, until
our ears were stunned, and our heads bewil
dered, with the reverbertions ol the reports,
mingled with the roarings of the whole
maddened group, now close pressed and
severely wounded.
Our lights failing for an instant, we re
treated to replenish them. The lashings of
the waves at the mouth ofthe cavern, though
distant, echoed and rumbled so loudly
through the vaulted passages, that we could
not hear each others’ voices. As we again
moved forward, to discharge our pieces, the
old sea-lion broke out into anew paroxysm (
of rage, tearing up the gravel ami, rocks with
his elaws and teeth. The white foam,
mixed with blood, dropped from hislurg#*
rr.l ,on g4>e 5 while so nuarsC, so loud Ami
deafeuiog, washi* bowl, that we v ere obliged
to stop our ears *itb our hands, to pievent
being pained by it.
The scene aroutnl ns had now indeed bo
conic one of inconceivable wildness and hor
ror! Two hundred paces within the mouth
of a cave which man had never before en
tered. the dim flickering light hf our torches,
and tne decaying fires in our rear, together
with the suffocating smoke from the frequent
firing, rendered ii necessary to retrogade.
Nor did we commence retreating a moment
to soon. Wounded and infuriated the old
lion now began to move toward us. as We
gradually returned, step by step, throwing;
stones ami firebrands, tok'Cp him in cheek,
until we had reached so near the mouth of
the cavern, that With deliberate aim, Capt.
Palmer, of the Perignin, shot him. This
was h'S death wound, although he ha<F
previously received no less than ten balls;
After recruiting our fires w ith the blubber
of our victim, we returned to the charge i
an l soon succeeded in taking the reniajurtijf
five females and their pups. The obi sUa
lion (pkoca juhata) measured ten feet tff*
inches in length, and eight foct tnt;»d .tire,
shoulders; and, as wc supposed, could no*
vvci—h less than four hundred pound*. TKW
females were from six to sevea itv leojph',
r ; r,d of a more slender frrd>. '**