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The W ester* .Herald. VOL. I. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY O. P. SIIAW, AND Edited by A. G. FAIIBROUGH. ,£ erms . TI tree dollars per annum, payable witliin six .aoutlu after the receipt of the first number, or tour dol lus if not paid within the year. Subscribers living out of Hi) State, will bo expected in all cases, to pay in advance. * No subscription received for lees than one year, unless llio money is paid in advance; and no paper will be dis .•oiitinued until all arrearages are paid, except atthe op lion ofthe puolishcr. Persons requesting a discontinu >nce of their Papers, are requested to bear in muid, u set llpment of their accounts. \dykrtisements will be inserted at the usual rates; when the number of insertions is not specified, they will until ordered out. ij-js. All Letters to the Editor or Proprietor, on mat ters connected with the establishment, must be post I'aid ill order to secure attention. tCF Notice ofthe sale of Land and Negroes, by Ad ministrators, Executors, or Guardians, must be published sliTi dats previous to the day of sale. The sale of personal Property, in like manner, must be published forty days previous to the day of Bale. Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate must be published FORTY DATS. Notice that Application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for Leave to sell Land or Negroes,must be pub lished FOUR MONTHS. Notice that Application will be made for Letters of Ad ministration, must be published thirty days and for Letters of Di nmssion. tix months. We are authorized to announce G. A. Pt.RK.EIt, Esq. as a Candidate for Sheriff at the ensu ing January Election, luly 16.—15 KSrWe are authorized to announce the name of John M. Powel, as a candidate for Clerk of the Supe rior Court, of Lumpkin county, at the next January Elec tion. Oct 13,-28 (“V We are authorized to announce the name of James E. Foster, as a candidate for Receiver of Tax returns for Lumpkin county, attbe next Januaiy Election. Oct. 19,-23 (rt“We are authorised to announce Samuel McCarter. Ear), as a candidate for Sheriff, at the ensu ng J anuary Election. Nov. 9.—31 rVWe are authorised to annojuce Mr. REUBEN HUTCHISON, a candidate for the Clerkship ofthe Superior Courr of Lumpkin county, at the ensuing January election. rrVWe are authorized to announce SAM’L. TATE, Esq. a candidate forthe office ot Sheriff at the en suring election. POSSET. CHANGES. A child is playing on the green, With rosy check and radient mein; But Borrow comes —the smile’s departed, I le weeps as he were broken hearted : But see, ere yet his tears are dry, Again his laugh thrills wild and high; As lights and shades each other chase, So pain and joy flit o’er his face, And nought shall have the power to keep, His oyes one moment from their sleep: And such was I. A youth sits with his burning glance, Turn’d upwards to heaven’s blue expanse; What is it o’er his pale cheek flushing ? What thought has set the life-blood gushing f II is of many a deed sublime, That he will do in future time— Os many a struggle to be past.: Repaid by deathless fame at last; lie thinks not on the moments gone— lie lives in fiery hope alone: And such was I. Sunken those eyes and worn that brow, Yet more of care than years they show ; There’s something in that cheek revealing The wound that knows no healing; He lives, and will live on and smiTe, And thoughts he cannot lose, beguile; He’ll shun no duty, break no tie— But his star’s fallen from the skv: Oh! pitying Heaven the wret ch forgive, That bears, but wishes not to live, And such am I. THE FAITHLESS HUSBAND.—Percival, H comes not —I have watched the moon go down, But yet he cornea not —once it was not so Ho tliinks not how these bitter tears doth flow, The while he holds his riot in that town. Yet he will come and chide, and I shall weep; And he wiil wake my infant from its Bleep, (To blend its feeble wailing with my tears, O ! how I love a mother’s watch to keep, Over those sleeping eyes, that smile which cheers My heart, though sank in sorrow, fixed and deep, t had a husband once who loved me—now He ever wears a frown upon his brow, And feeds his passion on a wanton’s lip, As bees from laurel flowers a poison nip; But yet I cannot hate —O ! there were hours, When I could hang foiever on his eye, And time, who stole with silent swiftucs’s by, Strewed, as he hurried on his path with flowers, timed him then —ho loved me too—My heart Still finds its tondnasa kindle, if he smilr; The memory of our loves will ne’er depart- And though he often itung me with a dart, enom’d arid barb’d, and wastes upon the vile, Carrasses, which his babe and mine should share* Though ho should spurn me, I will calmly bear J His madness—and should sickness coinc and lav its paralyzing hand upon him, then “ 1 l would with kindness, all my wrongs repav t-mil the penitent shonld weep and sav-, Bow injured *nd how faithful J been. ACRARII, LUMPKIN COUNTY, GEORGIA. DEC MBE lit 14. IN THE OLD SOLDIER. He had been to the Pension Office. The generosity consists in deferring a benefit till the recipient is past the enjoyment of it—or the justice in withholding the veteran’s due till he is ready to go down to the grave—(generosity or justice, call it what you will ; we can call it neither)—had at last awarded to him his pen sion. An infirm old man ! The burden of old age, and hope deferred, had made him sick at heart, and sick of life. The death, film was even now measurably drawn over the eye, once sparkling ; the pace which once was firm and confident in the strength of youth and the pride of patriotism, had become irregular and totter ing ; and the manly form, once eiect and com manding, was bowed down. Age suffering had done it. He was a stranger in t,e Metro! polis . infirmity and neglect could break down his body, but his spirit had better sustained itself; and a bitter sense of the neglect ho suffered from those who should have remembered him, had kept him in solitude. He would not offer a living comparison between the condition of men who had achieved, and the men who have profited by the achievement, without exertion of their own. The conscious victim of cruel neglect and ingratitude, he considered the tardy justice of his country as a mockery, and nought but his abject poverty, and a wish to be ‘square with the world,’ had induced him to apply for it. He had applied, and received, and ‘ now,’ said he, “ I will pay my debts, and die.’ The c hange of objects in the city bewildered him. He gazed upon the spacious and elegant edi. fices w hich had in his absence superceded old and familiar objects; but h e gazed with hurried and irregular glances, as il doubting his senses. The bustling forms of a generation who have forgotten the Revolution, flitted past the old man, without heeding him; the pensioner was alone in a c ity ! Amazed that the lapse of time had wrought sucl, wonders, he felt like a stran. get in a strange land, and that, too, on the very soil he had defended. His venerable appearance attracted the no. tice of a passer-by, who, perceiving that the old man was bewildered, tendered his services to conduct the soldier home. ‘ Home! 1 have no home ! I was at home here in ’76, but I am for. gotten now.’ A transient glance of anger flash, ed in the veteran’s eye ; but in a moment it pas. set! away, and the vacancy of his countenance returned. ‘Where ami!; Oh, I’ve been to lake the gifl of Congress ; let me go pay my debts before I die. I can’t live long ; and I can’t live long ; and I don’t wish to. The gift!’; here again his eyes were lighted, and his bearing spoke the proud and wounded vpirit broken, but not subdued. An honest feeling of indignation mastered him ; striving, as if strong in the pride of youth, to avoid the impertinent and unfeeling curiosity of the crowd who sur rounded him, ho sank, exhausted, to the pave ment. “Take him to the police-office for a vagrant!’ said one of the crowd. ‘ Take yourself to the devil, for one of his limbs !’ retorted the honest fellow who had first a ..ressed the veteran. * But, (catching him by the collar, as he essayed to walk off,) stop first, and give me the aid man’s pocket book! I saw you take it—hand over directly, or I’ll tear you limb from limb !’ ‘Throttle him !’ cried one of the crowd—‘a scoundrel—rob a pension er !’ • Down with him !’—‘Strip him !’—‘Take him to the Police !’—and the old man’s wallet fell from the culprit, in the scuffle. The pensioner was recognized by someone in the crowd, and he passively suffered himself to be put in a coach. He was conveyed to a shelter—and having happily fallen into good hands, attention for a couple of days partially restored his exhausted energies. An indistinct remembrance of the events we have narrated, flitted occasionally across his mind, but he re membered the events of’76 better than those of yesterday, and the countenances of those who had been his companions in arms, were mor distinctly marked on his memory th in the new ones he had seen a day before. When about to be put in the stage which was to carry him home, the old man’s mind again wandered ; ‘That’s right, carry me to Congress ; give me my due , I have fought for it; Congress said I should have it!’ The old man’s wallet was put into his hand: *Oh yes, I knew I should get it; they could not so soon forget the old soldier; but so late ; let tne pay my debts, and die ,* I can live no longer ! But somebody stole it; they got it away from me ; they cotdd’nt do it fifty yeais ago ; but I’ve got it now have’nt 1 1 ; no, they did’nt keep it; they would steal the old man’s money ; they could not keep it; the God ofßattles would blast them for it ; God have mercy on them ; they did’nt fight for it ; let me pay off my debts, and die ; my children are all dead ; my wife died in ; inthepoorhouse; and me ; I don’t want to live any longer ; nobody knows me now ; let me die !’ The stage stopped at Hitherto, during the ride, the old man had been silent. Forget ful of the present. Inattentive to things about him, his mind was buck among other scenes. A long, long reverie, and one from which he was never to awaken ! His lips moved rapidly, though no sound was audible ; involuntary and spasmodic motions evinced the activity of his mind ;he was busily communing with the friends, and reviewing tho events, of his youth. Poor old man ! fifty years since seemed to him but as yesterday. One of the lone and isolated survivors of another and a better race, he hud no communioj) ‘vit.it tfcoge about L&g. pwqi- It comes, the Herald of a Golden World. ling upon the hardships, the privations, the dan gers, the escapes, the victories, of another age, his frame, infiun and old, could not support the recollection, as once, in the day of his strength, he withstood the reality. * Hark !’ murmured the old man. All eyes turned to him. He raised himself on his staff, and leaned forward. His eyes beamed with supernatural animation, and conti acted fearfully with his shrunken countenance ; his hat had fallen off, and his silver locks, moved by the breeze, gave additional wildness to his aspect; his lips compressed, bis posture firm. O God, was it his death-struggle ! The roll of a dis tant drum feel on his car ; he grasped his staff firmly, as once he had held his firelock ; A bug le sounded clear and full beside the coach ‘For Congress and the People, cha— ’ His voice ceased, he feel back to his seat, a husky rattling in hts throat succeeded ; The spirit of the Revolutionary Patriot had departed ! Lowell Times. Variety of Scolds. —“ln the whole course of my reading,” says a celebrated writer, ‘which has been both extensive and desultory, Ido not recollect having ever met with an essay on the science of scolding, yet that it is redu ced to a perfect system, and that the practice of it has long been a ruling passion with the fairer part ofthe creation, few men will deny. There is as much harmony comparatively speaking in the boisterous pipes of a regular bred, out-and-out scold, as in the astonishing cadences of Mrs. Wood, or the melting ap pogiaturas of Braham, indeed, even th most celebiated and experienced physicians assert, that it is ofthe most essential benefit in many cases, which I would attempt to divide into the following classes, viz; “First The constitutional scold, who prac tises for the benefit of her health. ‘•Second.—The beautiful scold, who is put out of temper, because she cannot bring her complexion to its usual pitch of perfection even with the aid of the captivating patch. “Third.—The authorative scold, who dischar ges her spleen to support her dignity, and will not permit the least infringement on the pre rogative ofthe petticoat. “Fourth.—The matrimonial scold, who reads certain lectures for the information of her hus band’s morals, recommended to the very an cient and numerous family of the hen-pecks. “Fifth.—The dramatic scold, alias stage shrew who endevors to convince the world that she can rant off the stage as well as on it. “Sixth.—The patriotic scold, who vocifer ates for the good of her country, to display her great knowledge and party principles. “Seventh.—The inebriate scold, who, hy forming a cordial alliance with certain strong liquors, is wrought ub to frenzy, in which she strikingly evinces the aident disposition of a women of spirit. “Eighth,—The cummon scold, though last, not least in fame, who may with the utmost propriety, he styled a professional virago, pos sessed of a volume of voice combining vast compass and inexhausted strength especially in the upper notes. She is so well established in the ancient art, mystery and practice of scolding that all others implicitly submit and leave her the undisputed heroine of the field of tongue.’ A Utile beyond the Yankees. —However ad.O l the Yankees may be in matters of manufactui u and traffic, yet they fall infinitely short of some others in slight of hand in matters of theives and robbers. The following circumstance which is said to have happened in a neighbor, hood city is a very happy illustration of this remark. A gentleman had a valuable watch stolen from his person and advertised that he would give the thief fifty dollars for its restor ation, and that no questions should he asked. A short time after, a man called on him and iuformed him that on payment of the fifty dol lars the watch should he restored. The money was handed to the stranger and the watch to its rightful owner, who remarked that although he was under an obligation to ask no questions, yet he had a curiosity to know in what manner he had obtained the watch and wonld make that inquiry, leaving hisanswer or refusal at his own option. The man readily inquired of him whether he did not recollect that on a certain night a man put his hand on his shoulder, sav ing how are you and instantly asked pardon for his abrupt salutation as he was mistaken in the person he supposed he was addressing at the same time patting him on the shoulder in the manner he did at the time referred to. The man recollected the circumstance, and the ! stranger said at that time he took his watch. The man was much gratified at the recovery of j his watch, and so much amused by the manner in which it was stolen, that he stepped into a j shop of his acquaintance to tell the story, i While recapitulating the circumstances he at tempted to pull out his watch, when lo it was ! gone again the rogue having stolen it the se cond time, while telling the manner he stole it the first. This certainly beats the Yankees “all hollow,” as the saying is.—. Yew england Weekly Review. Conjugal Love. —A late London Journal contains an account of a most extraordinary attachment between husband and wife, deman stiating how deeply the joys of wedded life may be implanted in the heart, and how fatal the consequence is of their sudden uprooting. The case occurred in Islington, it was this; —The wife of $ po.cr mail had di^tf —Jjs Jjad approach - ed the coffin to take a look at the once loved partner of his joys and sorrows between him and whom there had n< ver been heard, in Jffly years, the voice oi dissension. As his eye fell on the inanimate from, he suddenly dropped down, and before medi'-aluid could be procured died! The reader may fancy what must have been the happiness enjoyed by such a couple, during I the period of fifty years. How smoothly ran the stream of their joys—how blended their affections—how united their hearts! “Destiny’s relentless knife could not sever the tie which connected one of them to life without cutting asunder that which bound the other.—Phila delpliia Herald. “A man had a young wife—-took into his head to be jealous of a friend—no cause, dare say. Wasgoing from home, one day—meant to tell her to avoid company of said friend but by good luck asked advice ofanother—sensible man—knew better—said never do that!—way to make her think of him if, never did it before women do any thing tell not. Try her—tell her to be sure not to ride upon old Towler, great savage, watch dog, while you are absent—see what’ll happen. “Husband took friend’s advice—gave par ticular orders not to ride dog- wife stared laughed, promised—never dreamt of such a thing—afiaid ot dog too—soon, ha’ thought of riding a dragon , if had'nt been told not. Hus band gone, went look at Towler directly—gave him bones—got friendly by degrees; scratched his head; patted his back; lost all fear; got a straddle; had a tumble; scratched her face; no hiding that; when hasband came back, laid all the blame on him: said she fanci. and dog-riding must have been something very pleasant, or would not have been denied to her!” Caution to the Ladies. —A ludicrous scene came near being exhibited in the old church in this town a tew Sundays ago. We give it as i special admonition to ladies who wear capa cious great sleeves, to beware v.hat they harbor and conceal in them. The individual to whom we allude attended church, and during the ser vice, thought she felt a commotion inside of oik 1 of the frames w hich kept up the expanded di mensions of her shoulders. It annoyed her some and excited her nerves not a little, but she contrived to quiet her feelings until the ex ercises were over. When sho got home, she unloosed her gown and behold! a rat jumpeth out from beneath her sleeve-stiffner!! His in tention probably was lo remain there during the winter, hut for the present he suffers troni “hope deferr’d.” — Northamp. Cour. A respectable farmer not more than forty miles from this place has the singularly happy talent of not saying a word too much. A youtur man wishing to obtain his consent to marry his daughter, called upon him one duy when he happened to be in the field a ploughing with his oxen. It was past all doubt, a fearful mat ter for a diffident man to broach and the hes itating lover, after running a parallel with the furrow several times round the lield, and essay ing with all h : s courage to ulter the important question at last stammer and out, “I-I-I-I’v bi thinking, Mr. that—that--as howl-1 1 should be gl gg—glad to m—m—mannar icarry your daughter.” Fanner. Take her and use her well, whaw, baw. Buck. Fearlessness in the discharge oj Duty. —One of the convicts at Sing Sing, having been sub jected to punishment, had vowed the death of Capt. Lynds the first opportunity. This threat coming to Capt. Lynds’ ears, he sent for this convict, received him alone in his bed chamber and, without appearing to notice any thing peculiar in his manner, directed the convict <> shave him.—The convict performed t he opera tion without any attempt at violence. When it was over; Capt. Lynds dismissed him telling him that he had heard he had threatened bis life but that he knew he would not dare to attempt it; and that he had sent for him alone and with out arms to let him see how little he feared ffim. A spruce Yankee was boasting of his success among the fair, and among others declared that he might have “sparked it” one evening with a certain celebrated lady whom he named. ‘Why,’ said his companion, ‘did you neglect such a golden opportunity 1’ Because, he an swered, ‘she begged to be excused, and I was such a darned fool that I excused her. “Why do you not drink it before it is done foam ing sa’id a belle to her companion as she held a glass of mineral a fewlinches ofher lips wait ing for the effervcrcnce to cease. “ Humph, returned!” she, “do you suppose l am going to drink ii boiling hot—wait till it cools.”— Balt. I isiler. Anecdote.— ln a time of much religious ex citement and consequent discussion, an honest old Dutch farmer, ofthe Mohawk, was asked his opinion as to which denomination of Chris tians were in the right way to Heaven ? “V cl den, (said he) ven we ride our wheat to Albany, some say dis is de pest road, and some say dat is the pest; but I don’t link it makes inu-h in ference which road wc take; for when wc get dare, dey never ask us which way we come and it is none k ofdair business ij our wheat ii gr, GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. IN SENATE, November, 19^fl Resolution offered by Mr. structing the committee on free schools, tcPMP quire into the expediency el providing by law. lor the examination of school masters, who m %y teach the beneficiaries of the poor school fbojf- Notcmber 20, 1833. Committees appointed lo report Bills. Messrs, .•'pann, Walker and Burch, vesting Justices of the Inferior courts, and Grand Ju rors with power to incorporate county acado mies. j vlessrs. Baxter, Danicll, Hilihcusc, Gordon of Putnam, and Eckley, were appointed a com mittee, to co-operate w ith the committee of tho Senate, in investigating the condition and in quiring into the causes of the failure of the Mer chants’ and Planters’ Bank of Augusta, with power to send for persons and papers, Bills were read a second time in their order. Bills passed. i\> create anew division G. M. out ofthe tea counti s composing the Cherokee circuit end organize tie same. To incorporate the town of Etowa, in the county es Cherokee and appoint commissioner* for the same. To create election districts in the county of Cherokee, and punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. November 21, 1833. The president and members having repaired to the Representative chamber, both brnnehes ofthe Legislature proceeded to the election of a Senator, to the Congress ofthe United Stater, and on counting out the ballets, it appeared that John P. King, Esq. ofthe county of Richmond, was duly elected. The votes were King 142> Berrien 107, iehols 1, blank 1. November 22, 1833. Mr. Wofford introduced a bill instanter, to it* corporate the Georgia mining company. .Mr. Hammond, introduced a bill instanter. tor the relief of the late Cherokee county, in re.- lationto the payment of taxes. November 23, 1533. Committees appointed to report Bills lilt's passed. To incorpoiu'o the academy, at the county site, in Fo sytu c ounty, and appoint trustees for the same. November 25, 1832. Hills j) were reported. The bill to ii-. - ,'i by lottery, all the frac tions ofthe < hei it. “ territory, was read a third time and passed. JYovember. 26. The 8 nale agreed to the resolution of the housi directing an examination into the allairs* in the Mi rchants and farriers bank, but atn ended.jt by substituting :or a joint committee, rtam commissioners to te appointed by thg Governor. Ihe order of the day, being the resolutions offered by Mr. happeli ; was then taken up in committee <ri the whole. A substitute was qC— lerod by Mr. Baxter—Mr. Chappell, addres* sed the Benate a* length in support of the reso lutions iie u i otter, u, and was followed by Mr., 1 lesidciu C 000, tor the substitute, alter which t:io enut: adjourned. Wednesday, JYov. 27. Mr. Gordon of J. es, from th: Committee •m Bank;-, reporv.-j a biii inquiring the 1 erec tors af the c riial Bank, reported together with t!u Governor, to sell all the bank stock owned by the state (provided it be not sold below par) and vest the proceeds in the Central Bank— which ws teao the first lime. i ‘lie Senate resumed the consideration ofthe resolutions offered b Mr. Chappell, wnd Mr. Paxti t’s substitute. Expect the reports of some committees, and some other business of iittb; importance, the speech of Mr. Gordon o f Putnam, in support of Chappell’s resolution‘s and that of Mr. Towns for the substitute engu ged the attention of the Senate during the set* ting. Thursday, JYov. 28. The senate resumed the consideration cf Mr. Chappell’s resolutions and Mr. Baxter’s substitute. Mr. Neel spoke In suppoit ot the resolutions and was followed by Mr. Baxter for the sunbsiitutc, who occupied (he floor till tho hour of adjournment. EVENING SESSION. Mr. Daniel occupied the floor in support of Mr. Chappell’s resolutions till about 4 o’clock. Mr. Chappell then rose and addressed the Sen ate till 8. On mo.ion of Mr. Echols, the Senate then adjourned without taking the vote, Friday .Vor. 29. The Senate resumed the discussion of Mr. Chappell’s resolutions, and Mr. Cordon of Put nam, occupied the floor about two hours, in support of the resolutions of Mr. Chappell, and was succeded by Mr. Towns fur the substitute; who continued perhaps two hours, and was followed by Mr. Chapp: 1! and by Mr. Daniel, both for the original resolutions; after which the Senate adjourned. Tito final v..tc in favor of Mr. Baxter’s sub stitute, as amende!, o.i motion ot Mr. Wouo.’d w as -i'j to 27. Saturday, JVor.3o. Mr. Chappell r.rov.-d tor a reconsideration of so much e.f ih. journal of yesterday us related to the vote on . ’i. Vtoilord’s amendment of. Mr. Baxter's substitute. Hcconsideratiou of aput of any subject was decided by the Presi dent. to he out of oukr and the decission was v:stc.'.or.d by Messrs. Wolford end Tjv;. SO. 35.