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, > TO MISS OF ABBEVILLE. *.
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:vv I cunnqt. forget thee, sweet Lady! thine imago
k Liko a atKr has been caught in memory's stream;
[:. ? ^ And clings to my mind with a vague mystic plea;
9 sure,
' * As a Lov'd recollection of somo Heavenly dream.
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* ;I cannot forgot that bright bluo cyo's expression,
4 Nor tho soft light it flings o'er thy soul beaming ;
1 smilo;
These, momory treasures as " Holy Land relies,"
To aid fancy's visions of Eden tho while.
All! who could forget ? but once having seen thee? -j
That faco ah ! how strangely it clings to the mind ;
As a strain of soft music our senses entrancing,
Spontaneously round the rapt soul is entwin'd.
I cannot forget thee ! long wearisome hours,
Aro illum'd hy the thought of that fairy-Iiko form ;
And a vision of light breaks o'er my lone spirit?
Like a rain-bow of glory 'mid sunshine and storm.
I cannot forget thee ! nor woui.u I sweet Lady !
A green spot in mcin'ry's drear wasto thou shalt
stand; *
And my very last look shall linger upon it,
As dwelt the old Patriarch's 011 Canaan's fair strand.
Forgivo the rudo warmth of a stranger's devotion,
Wl.n.,0 l.?~ a.J <" t-:-- 1
uiuu^uio IUU HHU 1U1 111? Jidip ? LUWLY
swell;
And believe hiin, it is with deepest emotion,
TllOll LOVELY UNKNOWN ONE, llO bids tliCO FAKEWELL
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Fort Mournful. The Luckless Student. '
THE INQUIRY.
Tell mo, ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do ye not know some spot
Where mortals weep 110 more?
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some valley in the west,
Where, free from toil and pain,
The woary soul may rest ?
Tho loud wind dwindl'd to a whisper low,
And sighed for pity us it answered " No."
i en me, inou migniy aeep,
Whoso billows round me play,
Know'st thou soino favored spot,
Some Island far away,
"Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sighs,
Wlicro sorrow never lives
And friendship never dies?
The loud waves rolling in perpetual flowStopped
for a while, and sighed, to an^vv^r "No."
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And thou, serenest moon, / >
That with such lovely facxi
Dost look upon tho earjk',
Asleep in night's cmKaco,
Tell me, in all thv^oimd
Hast thou not some spot
"Where miserytnc man
Might find/Jiappier lot?
Behind a cloud Vie moon withdrew in wo,
And a voice s^et, but sad, responded " No."
rr> jti ?A..t
/ ./rn hiu) itiy bt'uit'i pjuiii,
3! tell mo, hopo and faith,
Is thero 110 resting placo
From sorrow, sin, and death !
In there no happy spot
/ Where mortals may bo blessed,
/ Where grief may find a balm,
yAnd weariness a rest ?
Faith, hope, and love, best boons to mortals given,
Waved their bright wings, and whispered, " yes, in
Heaven."
, * From the Farmer's Cabinet.
- REPORT ON MANURE.
' * The Committee on Compost and other
Manures report, that they have had some
experience in collecting and combining difmm
^ferent materials for the purpose of making j
tft ^^mahure, and the results have not produced
conv^ct,on favorable to the system as a
^|^||means of improving the soil. The expense
of carting out and mixing the different sub.
istancei. added to that of removing them to
if- ^tlie fields, is a very considerable item ; that
*< ** wiM PaV l^e exPensei your committees
are not disposed to doubt, for any plan of
Trmanuring,the most awkward or expensive
appears to be better than none.
anr rvn CJ i ?w -J ? P !
. <wtu ut/v/igb uiiiiiiiuiis uwueu it larm
r; :!; about five miles from Washington; he im
/ proved one of lus fields by drawing manure
?,,v ^from.the city, which cost him, delivered,
three,dollars per cart load, spread it at the
rate of twenty loads to the acre, making
gixty dollars for the manure, which was
more per1 acre than his farm would, have
. eojjl for, yet the increase in the crops justi*vSedjJie
?xpense. The question therefore,
, 1-a. certain application of ma1
jaiireia profitable, but whether the expenditure
Cro^bor and capital in any particular
application of manure, such as making
. ^ :;^r^mpo?ts in New Pa8t!e U"t^' ^a8 ^van'
question your committee, answers
the jnejgati^e; they do not believe that
' < ?ny known plan of making compost has adii
i iiiifTii iiiiil to recommend it to the
'N6^: Castle county as most pro
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attested facts, led us to the opinion that it is a
sure way to impoverish it. Yourcoinmittee '
believe that socond crop clover, hay, straw,
and chaff', will uialce more manure, left
upon the land, ?han when passed through
the animals.
William Pollc, of Cantwell's Bridge, a
strong minded, sensible man, who has obtained
a large slock of practical information
on this subject, says he increased his
corn crop ten bushels per acre, by turning
in the second crop clover, over other parts
of the field which was mowed for the purpose
of obiaining seed.
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I jl \jui wiiiiiiiikCL uuijbvi; mm mu iiiuuuiv;
j of New Casilc county is greatly diminished
i by the burdens of animals, under which
ilie land seems to groan It is the great
object of every prudent man to investigate
and inquire into the circumstances that surround
him, and accommodate his practice
to the most profitable employment of his labor
and capital ; and the interest of no one
is greater than that of the farmer in carrying
out this principle.
In the far west, and in the interior of the
large States, where land is cheap, and almost
inexhaustible in fertilliiy, the raising i
of animals may be the most profitable course, '
it is an indirect way of transmitting their
heavy crops of grain to a good market; but
in New Castle county, where a few cents
per bushel will carry their grain to the
highest market, a calculation of profit and
loss will show a different result. The veg- j
etation consumed in raising the thousands
nf mttlo nnrl hnnrc in !
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would make double the profit in grain, if .
permitted to die and decompose upon the j
soil. A yearling calf, not stinted in winter |
feeding, well sold, will bring as much as it
would have done if sold to the butchcr at
six or eight weeks old. A fat hog will sell
for about the same that the corn he has eaten
is worth, so that.vastamount of vegetable
matter consumed by these animals, is a j
total loss, a drawback upon the manure heap, j
Your committee, therefore, suggests the j
propriety of testing some of those facts in
relation to stock impoverishing the soil instead
of making comports.
I There is a field of eight or nine acres of j
corn within one and a half miles of Wil- }
mington :?Some of the acres have been !
measured, and found to yield more than !
ninety bushels of sound corn; it has not;
been limed, nor received more manure than J
nthnr InnH ntmn tlio fni-m ilmt
V. .vtwv. .?jjwas bAiv JUllUj lllUk uao IlUVCi
produced over sixty bushels of corn to the
acre. It was manured last spring with a
dressing of unmanufactured poudrette, a
powerful manure it is true ; but it is nothing
more than is applied every year to much
of the land around Wilmington, without
any such results. The cause of this extraordinary
crop, therefore, must be found in
some other quarter than the application of j
manure drawn upon the soil. This field
has not had a hoof pastured upon it tor six
years 5 it was mowed every year, and the
second crop allowed to die upon the ground.
The clover soon worker! nut nnrl wnc cnn.
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plied by a strong, deep sward of green and
other grasses.
In grain growing districts, and such, in
the opinion of your committee, is New Castle
county, most of the inner fences, may be I
dispensed with, which is an item of great ,
expense in grazing districts; a few acres
of low land containing water, (if it be con- j
vcniently found,) may be permanently en- j
closed for the animals necessary to carry on
the farming operations. It is very difficult
to remove old customs and habits, and so
inveterate is the propensity to follow on in
the path of our ancestors, that some poeple
even love an old error better than a new
truth; and in the case before us, we are j
aware that the prejudice is strong and deep
against any plan tending to lessen, the manure
heap in the farm yard.?The experiments
of Liebifr. Johnson nnrl nlhnrc Viot/o
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of late years, given a new spring to investigation
into the tertillizing properliesof urine
ar?d the excrement of animals all of which
we feel no disposition todisprove; we would
rather make use of them as an argument ;
in the support of our theory. It must be
evident to the most superficial observer, that
whatever the animal leaves behind, in the
shape of urine and the excrement, it carries
away with it more fertilizing properties in
the shape of benf. pork, tallow and lard ; all
of which are extracted from the soil.
The prejudice is strong against cropping
as a means of impoverishing the soil, and ,'
we admit this Dreiudice isrtn hp. fnunH<?rl Jr. !
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fact| but we deny it to any thing like the i
extent that is attributed to it. We believe '
the real cause is to be found in the droves
ofall Ui?ldsofanimals which,like the locusts
of Egy^c, " eat up every thing." The moment
the last sheaf of grain is out of the
field, the destroyer comes in the shape of I
hogs, sheep, horses, colts, donkeys, horned |
cattle, geese, ducks, turkeys, fowls, that
come and go when and where -they please.
If upon and old worn out field a tiny stalk ,
of clover survives the spring frost and sum
mer sun, it ig snappe&up oMrampled down: ,
and its fertilizing root and multiplying seed j
lost to all future time. 1
The impression, is almost universal, that i
ah.v snare crass UDon a farm is lost, if ?nmo <
kind of stock cannot be procured to devour j
it, which is, as we think, a very great mis- ?
take, . ,
This h^fity sketch of what we believe tp
be a mode of manuring land, far preferable ,
to composts, of the accutanjation oflarggP
rnA'lilUf kit nnlmnlr. .-j
confidence that the surest guide to knowledge
in .agriculture, as in every thing else,
is free investigation, connected with a regular
and systematic course of experiments.
Samuel Canby,
Dr. James Couper,
John Wr. Andrews.
Henry Du Pont,
J. R. Brinckle.
INFATUATION OF GAMING.
A Mr. Potter in the reign of dueen Anne
possessed one of the best estates in the county
of Northumberland ; the fee of which, in
less than twelve mouths, he lost at hazard.
The lost night of his career, when he had
just perfected the wicked work, and was
stepping1 clown stairs to throw himsell into
his carriage, which waited at the door of
a well known house, he suddenly went back
into the room where his friends were assembled,
and insisted that the person he had
been playing with,should give him achance
of recovery or fight with him ; his rational
proposition was this: that his carriage, the
trinkets and loose money in his pockets,
his town house, plate and furniture, should
be valued in a lump, at a certain sum, and
be thrown for at a single cast; no persua
sion could prevail cn him to depart Irom Ins
purpose; he threw and lost. He conducted
the winner to the jicor, told his coachman
thai was his masteV, and heroically marched
forth, without house, home or any creditable
recourse for support.
He retired to an obscure lodging in a
chcap part of the town, subsisting partly on
charity, sometimes acting as a substitute of
a marker at a billiard tabie, and occasionally
as a helper at a lively stable.
In this miserable condition, with nakedness
and famine staring him in the face,
exposed to the taunts and insults of those he
had once supported, he was recognised by
an old friend, who gave him teu guineas
to purchase necessaries.
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rie cAjjeuuni uvu m procuring ueccni
apparel ; with tlie remaining five, he repaired
to a common gaming house, and increased
them to lifty ; he then adjourned to
White's, sat down with his former associates,
and won twenty thousand pounds. Returning
next night, he lost it" all, and after
subsisting many years in abject and sordid
penury, died a ragged beggar, at a penny
lodging-house in St. Giles.
Be Something.?There is great grandeur
in tne tnougftt,?" I nave made myself."?
The world may wag their heads and you
may be denounced, but if you are concious
that integrity of purpose has always characterized
you. and that you now stand on an
eminence, placed thire by your own rectitude
of heart, you have nothing to fear.?
You had not the influence of wealth, nor the
God speed love of powerful friends ; but
you had more?a heart fixed and determined,
and this lias made you what you are.
Go on?add virtue to virtue?look steadily
at the goal before you, and at last your most
treacheous and artful companions will acknowledge
your superiority, and feel proud
of being among the number of your friends.
The man who is resolved to be something
in the world should have nothing to fear,
and when he little dreams of it, honors
.1 _ t . 1 * 1 1 n
gamer aooui nis neaa ana an influence goes
out from him, which is exerted, silently but
surely, for the good of thousands.
Rome and Constantinople.?You may
have learnt a singular fact from the last
Journal de Constantinople, viz: that Shekib
Effendi is to take Rome in his way to
Vienna, in order,-in the name of the Sultan,
the head of the Mahomedan religion, to congratulate
the new Pope, the head of Catholicism,
on his accession to the Papal throne.
This is the first time any compliment, official
or other, has ever passed between these
great representatives of creeds so hostile to
each other. The event may be regarded
as a very significant sign of the times It
seems to betoken a subsiding of theologic
hate on the part of Islamism towards Chris
nanny, arising irom mcnnerence or lack ot
conviction. The mission of the Sultan to
the new Pope, especially under thooc circuinstances,lis
most remarkable. Whatever
interpretation may be put on it, it is a
proof that the softening and assimilating humanity
of thought and feeling, which form
the great bond of sympathy among nations,
are now fast pervading the minds of Otto- i
man Mahomednns, despite the careful seclusion
of Turkish life, which is intended
to exclude nil such influence.
Correspondence London Chron. i
The Civil War in Massac, III.?The
Springfield correspondent of the Alton Telegraph
writes, on the 2d, as follows:
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xx uuiiiiiiuiiicmion was iaia oeiore me
House, to-day, including the proceedings of ,
a. meeting hold in Massac county. These <
proceedings state, that the Regulators are
still pursuing their works of cruelty and villainy
in that afflicted county. They are
beating, torturing and abusing, in every possible
way, men, women and children; tur- '
ning them out of doors in the the night time, !
and destroying their habitations. The pro- j
feedings go on to say, that they have lost i
ill confidence in the Legislature, who are
consuming the time of thfc people in making
BuncOmb speeches; and they call upon the
governor to come to their aid on his own rel^nsjbility,
They threaten, unless soma
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Bad Company.?The associations young '
men are apt to form in large and growing
cities, result in disgraceful and melancholy,
ends. Bad company is the pest of society,
and while it ruins thousands, it likewise
lirinrrQ nmn orwl m Ienrtr In mnmr n fnr?<l o rwl
fe- f? " ??"? ~
affectionate parent. Young men who are
easily weaned from their once-loved homes,
must lac'c firmness of mind, and connot be.
well acquinted with the deceits of the world,
would they but listen to the voice of experience,
and be more willing to obey the
wishes of their guides, bitter remorse would
be a stranger indeed to their abode, and
joy and comfort would reign in its stead.
*'k Life in Death.?A woman, named
Honora Powers, residing at 370 Waterstreet,
New York, and aged 42 years, went
to bed in perfect health, with a fine infunt,
on Saturday night, and in the morning was
found dead. Her child was clasped in her
P.1Y1 hrnro nrwl vvnc VirontliinfY fnnrftilltr I n
deep sleep. When the father awakened it,
it looked up and smiled, and reluctantly
left the bosom of its dead mother.
By a recent statistical return, we learn
that the European population of Algiers,
which in 1831 only amounted 3,228, was
in 1844,75.354; and that the public revenue,
which in 1831,amounted to 1,048,479',
amounted in 1844 to 17, 695,996f.
Great additions are making in Texas to
the quantity of sugar cane already planted.
In one county three hundred hands, heretofore
employed in the raising of cotton, have
been turned to the culture of sugar.
Tiiade in Food.?Eleven vessels cleared
at New York on Saturday, for England,
Ireland and Scotland. Their arrival at
their ports of destination will be hailed as a
blessing by the starving multitudes.
Pensioners.?There are now on the
Commissioner's list 27,600 names?6616
of whom are in the State of New York.?
During the year 1846 only 17,000 were
paid, which circumstance lenders it probable
that numbers have racenlly died.
The St. Andrew's Society of Savannah,
held a meeting on the 18th inst., and appropriated
$500 out of their funds, for the relief
of the suffering poor of Scotland. The
members present also contributed $180 in
addition.
The eit^Io is sulci to flir nt ths r<ite of one
* "w llJ ^*v* i,v' 4v M,v v%*^
hundred and fifty miles an hour; wild geese
ninety miles ; swallows ninety-two miles ;
and the common crow at the rate of twentyfive
miles an hour.
The Legislature of Wisconsin has ordered
300 copies of the governor's message to
he printed in the Norwegian language.
There are .some thousands of natives of Norway
in that State, and excellent citizens
they are.
The trade of St. Louis in the item of flour,
for the year 184ft, roached ail aggregate of
half a million of barrels. Less than ten
years ago, nearly all the flour was brought
to St. Louis from the Ohio river.
Eleven vessels loaded with provisions
cleared at JNcw York on the 13th for Eng.
land, Ireland and Scotland. 'Their arrival
at their ports of destination will be hailed as
a blessing by the starving, multitudes.
Jonathan Hunt, estimated to be worth
$1,500,000 ; James Lennox, worth $3,000,000;
and, Peter G. Smyvesant, worth $1,500,000,
of New York, are all bachelors !
A Cincinnati paper states that a firm in
that city made $75,000 in one day, by the
advance in flour occasioned by the news by
the Hibernia.
Ths moon pass the month of tfebruary
tliis year, without a full. She has not been
of a similar omission in thirty-six years.
Nearly $500 have been collected in Wil.
mington, Del., for the relief of the sufferers
in Ireland.
The Board of Brokers ofthecitv of Npav
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York, have subscribed $2000 for the relief
of Ireland.
Mr. Packciihum, thq British" Minister has '
recently given $20,000 for the benefit of
the suffering Irish.
The ship Bavaria, at New York from
Havre, brings $400,000 in specie.
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To all Administrators, Executors and Guardians,
Take No.ice.
Those who are in default, and have not made
your annual returns, are required to do so without
fail, the commencement of the year.? I
Th# re are a number of defaulters.
Jan 18th tf40 D LESLY.Ord'y.
DR. JOHN W. McKELLAR, ~
Having located at Winter Seat, Edgefield District,
Respectfully offers his s.-rvicea^to the
citizens of the vicinity, in the various branch*
nC > U? e :?
CO l/l IIIR piUK'&BIUIIt
Jan. 6, 1847. ? . 46 3m
. Notice to Creditors. '
Notice is hereby given to the creditors and
debtors of the Estate of Landy G. Shoemaker- .j
dec'd, to present their demands, and mnlce ' <
payment to the admimstiator, as the assets of A
the Eatnte will be entirely insufficient to pay >
all. The eatnte will be cloeed in Ordinary, on
the 8th oj April 1847, or before.
Jan 8 40,tf J GT CANNON, Adm'r.
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Notice in Krinitv. *
Guardians and *gj$$iteiEi*, {
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The State of South Carolina,
ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. Wi
TJV ROTTFTV ' . li
Wiley Pullim and ethers, vs. Thomas Byrd
and others?BUI for Injunction Specific
delivery <$-c. " ^
It appearing to my satisfaction that Frances &\s
Mitchell, Anna Cooper, John Pullim, Zacha- fly:
riah Pullim, Robert Pullim, Harriet Ware, and
James Ware her husband, Caroline Stewart
and Mark T Stewart her huBband, Agrippa . *|S|
Golstonv Zachariah Golston, Burrel Ball,
Parka Ball, Lewis Ball, Elizabeth Wardlaw
and her husband Joseph Wardlaw, Richard -<g|i
Pullim, William Pullim, Sarah Christopher
and her husband William Christopher, and fv
E izabeth Dobb8, parties defendants in abovestated
cose, reside beyond the limits of this
State. Ordered that they do appear, plead, ^ ,
answer or demur to the said bill, within three
months from the publication hereof, or the |
same will be taken pro confesso, against them.
Jan 25. 48 3m H A. JONES, c b. a. d. j :
The State of South Carolina*
ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. & j.
In the matt-.r of John Calvert1 s Will.
Notice. a|
Whereas, Sila3 Ray and wife, James ShiUito
and wife, and John Davis, some of the next of
kin of the si id John Calver* dee'd, have this 1
day filed their notice in Ordr rv requiring the
paper admitted to probate i iion form in
said Cour', to be proven in ? ni of law."
These are therefore, to cite P Patterson,
and MasonCalvert, who ai ,-iu to be ab<?
sent and without the limits of this State, and
may be entiled to distribution of said Estate,
to be and appear before me in the Court of
Ordinary to be held on or before the third
Monday in April 1847, at Abbeville C. H., and
plead thereto, at which time I shall hear and
pronounce for or against the validity ot the
same. DAVID LESLY. Ord'y.
Jan 12th* 1847. 47 3m
The State of South Carolina.
ABBEVILLE DISTRICT.
Iii the Court of Common Pleas. ?
Benjamin F. Spikes, who has been arrested,
and is now confined within the bounds of the
jail ol Abbeville District, by virtue of' a writ
of capias ad satisfaciendum, at the suit of
Wade S Cothran and James Sproul, having
filed his petition, with a schedule, on oath, of
his whole estate and effects, lor the purpose of
obtaining the benefit of the Acts of the General
Assembly commonly called "the Insolvent
Debtors Act ?Public Notice is hereby given
that the petition of the said Benjamin F.
Spikes will be heard and considered in the
Court of Common Pleas to be holden for Abbeville
District, at Abbeville Court Hou.se, on
the third Monday of October next, or on such
other day thereafter as the said Court may
order; and all the creditors of the said Benjamin
F. Spikes are hereby summoned persons >. -
ally or oy attorney to dc ana appear tnen ana
therein the said Court, to shew cause, if any
they can, why the benefit of the Acts aforesaid
should not be granted to the said Benjamin
F Spikes, upon his taking the oath, and executing
the assign/nent required by the Acts
aforesaid. J F LIVINGSTON, Clerk.
Clerk's Office, Dec 26, 1846 44 t3mO
The State of South Carolina.
ABBEVILLE DISTRICT.
In the Court of Common Picas.
William A. Cobb, vs. James Knox.?
Foreign Attachvient. ,t
The Plaintiff in the above case haying this day
filed his Declaration in my office, and the Def?>ndant
having no wife or attorney known to
be within the State, upon whom a copy thereof
mhy be served: It is Ordered that the said
uerenuam do appear ana pieaa inereio witnm ;
a year and a day from this date, or judgmeut
by default will be given against hun.
JNO. F LIVINGSTON, Clerk. yAm
Clk's Office, March 14, 1846. 3 ly p.J
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Notice to absent Legatees.
The children of Margarett Brown dee'd, Le- M'legatees
of Samuel Miller dee'd. are notified,
that their legacy in money, is ready for them,
and deposited with the Ordinary of Abbeville
District So. Ca. A. H. MILLER, E'or. .&*$>?
Jan 27, 1847. 49 Iro3m
Notice to absent Distributees.
The Distributees of James Webb dee'd, will J|||pi
take notice that the administrator of the Es- '$$0$
te te, is ready 'o settle up I he same, and Will
nraiuia/] f n nlnoa f Vin aim i I krt 1 1 Mi s%F A nvtl T'
pi uiccu iu Vsiuo^ lib o li aii i ur ? no a avis wi xi 11
next, in tbo Ordinary's Office, from wbich mm
time he will not be responsible for the interest
of the funds, so held for them, in readiness.
ANDREW DUNN, Adrn'r. |||
Jan. 11 1847. 47 3mlm
' Notice. "
All persona indebted to the estate of Maj, John
Chiles, dee'd, are requested to make payment; .u
r?nd those having demands against the estate
to render them in properly attested to William
P Sullivan or Mrs Chiles at the late residence^ -
or to me. THOS C PERRIN, Bx'or
Nov 25,1840 39 tf
Notice.
WHITLOCK, SULLIVAN & WALLER, ??g?
laving1 placed all their NOTES and AC*
HJOUNTS in our hands for collection,'with gl&l*
special instructions, those indebted by Note
jr Book Account, would do well to call and
nake payment as' soon at convenient. Paynent
is not to be made to either of the partlcrs,
but alone to us. aK|p
PERRIN & McGOWEN.
July 22,1846 %l*f H
House and Lot for Sale.
? : ? The subscriber offers ifor sale hiq
ffRffe his HOUSE and LOT, situate on f,5^
lilfHUthe main Htreet in the vfllaare of Ah- a
ialagSh.'vill'f. The house 14 in good repair, f?i
vith pllncotfwary out jn"j?in|^ miltoN B