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THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31.
FOR CONGRESS,
HINES HOLT, Jr.
Os ICKOCU.
'Election on Fit it Monday in January.
Adam» for scale.
A power press of tfcje above improved patent can |
be obtained at this offipc at a redaced price. It is ■
in perfect order —’-Mg * enough to wo,k a sheet 21 i
by 35 inches, turns tiff ei~it hundred sfreis per j
hear and does its work in superior style.
This day being set apart as a day of thanks
giving, and to-morrow being New Years day. no j
paper will issue from this office before Monday j
next.
We therefore craarace this occasion to say a
word to our friends or the subject of the election j
of a member of Congress, which takes place on
Monday next. —We do hope that none of you will 1
fad. to deposit© your voles in the ballot box on
that day. Foiiow up your late triumphant victo
ry with another decisive defeat, to the Loco Foco
party, aad our word for it, they will not soon be !
able to rally. This is an important election; if !
we are successful, (and that we will be, there is i
no doubt, provided wc do oar duty) we will place I
another true Whig by the side of the faithful six !
who will dcposite his vote against that destructive j
measure, the nib-treasury , and whicn may in a. 1 !
probability be the means of repealing it.—Let no j
ordinary circumstances prevent you from coming
to the poll", he on the alert, and the day is our». —
“ A word to the wise is sufficient.”
Augusta Directory.
It will be seen, by reference to an advertisement
in another column of our paper, that Messn.
Woodward, Browki k. McCafffrty, propose
publishing a City Directory. The necessity cf
such a work mud be felt by all. We therefore
recommend the work to the favorable consideration
of the cilizt ns of Augnsta, as being not only valu
able, but indispensably necessary. Besides a Di
rectory, it will contain other important matter,
which will be both useful and interesting.
The Secretary of State has received from Mexi
co a copy of a decree cf the Mexican Government
respecting the importation of gunpowder and armii
Into that Republic, of which the following is the
substance: —Tha importation of Gunpowder into
Mexico L prohibited, that article being among the
number of those subject t » government monopoly.
All gunpowder hereafter imported will be l.able
to confiscation. Fire arms of the sort commonly
used in war are subject to the same rules.
A bill has been introduced in the Missouri Le
gislature agiinst betlir gon elections. It provides
for fining both the bet’:ei* and stake holder to the
amount of money or property bet. it also pro
vides for punishing by line any person who may
publish a bet or assist any way in rnakaig it.
Reasons lor Thanksgiving.
The Boston Courier, of Thursday, the 26th
alt., the day appointed for thanksgiving in Mas
sachusetts, delivers a rich homily to the several
classes of its readers,setting before each some pc- i
culiar cause of thankfulness. The article is in 1
Mr. Buckingham’s happiest style ; and is so re
plete with genuine humor and good natured sa
tire. that we cannot relrain from treating our
readers to some portions of it. It is divided in
to several heads, from which we select the fol
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lowing :
Let us. in the first place, be thankful that our
electioneering warfare is accomplished—that its
turbulence and clamor have subsided—and tha*
nothing remains of its senseless hurly-burly but
an occasional groan from the defeated, or a shout
from the victorious. Whether you be Whig or
Democrat, reader, you will rejoice and be thank
ful that the ballot-box, and not the sword nor the
war-club was the weapon which gained the vic -
tory—thankful that the age of extras and express
es is parsing away, and that you have time to*
attend to business and business to be attended tc
—thankful that the expenses of the campaign
have not quite devoured your substance, but have
left enough to enable yor to dine upon lurxey
ami pium-pudding to-day, and to send a chick
en to your poorer neighbor. If you are a Whig
you will, of course, be thankful for the success
of your party, —that, though processions and
banners, ami hard-cider, have made
sorrowful abstractions from your purse, there is
left a contingent remainder, wherewith to drink
the health of “ Old Tip,” and, though prodigal
has been the expend lures of gundowder, yet,
thanks to the liberal »j>rth, there is still salt-petre
enough in her “ harmless bowels,” if compound
ed with proper ingredients, to fire a volley on the
fourth of March, that shall cause “Old Tippe
canoe and Tyler too,” to stop the portals of their
ears with amazement and admiration. If you
are a Democrat, you ought to he thankful, —as
we know that you are, —that you have escaped
from the conflict with a whole akin, —that you
have not been cribbed in log-cabins, nor drowned
in hard-cider—that though beaten, you are not
dismayed, though cast down, you are not utterly
expunged —that though you have l>een defeated
in the Empire and the Key-stone States, you are
safe in your granite fastnesses of New Hamp
shire, and your tobacco breastworks of Virginia,
whence you emerge, for another campaign,
like, “ a giant, refreshed by the slumber of ages.”
Rejoice that you arc, for a season, relieved from
the unprofitable task of singing hallelujahs to the
wicked in high places—that you have the glori
ous privilege of finding fault with their succcs- I
sors. and a disposition to exercise that privilege
m all its length and breadth, its heighth and
depth, and, moreover, have the notable example
of your late opponents, which you will doubt
less “ execute, ’ and we presume you have deter
mined already that “ it. shall go hard, but will
better the instruction.”
Art thou an office holder 7 Be glad and re
joice in all the riches thou hast gathered, and be
thankful in the remembrance of what thou hast
enjoyed. Consider how many thousands of thy
friends and neighbor* have sighed for tby place,
and perhaps have wrestled with the powers that
be, in order to obtain it, and thank thy good stars
that thou art the man of a thousand. Be thy
pay and perquisites small, thank Heaven that
they are no larger; else thou mightst have been
tempted to follow Swartwout to Paris or Har
rington to Tc .a*. If they be large, be no less
grateful that thou hast bad virtue enough to re
sist tempations have lea so many of thy
fellow-servant* .a defraud the public, and by run
ning away, cheat the scaffold of its glory, or
swindle the penitentiary out of its proper claim
to thy service.
Art thou, reader, u President or mGovena or ?
and didst thou court the “sweet voice” of lb*
people to perpetuate thy dignity and honor 1 anti
have they, emphatically, said, we will not have
this man to reign over us; and set up thy rival
in thy stead? Dost thou mourn over the loss
o S popularity, and ia thy heart cun* the way-
f wardness of fortune, the instability qf friends,
the unfaithfulness of crawling dependants, the
shortsightedness of counsellors, and the ingrati
tude of the republic. Comfort thyself, that it is
« the sober second, thought of the p<jople” that
ba»h wrought out for thee this tribulation; that
thou art not the first that has been called to tread
the thorn path of disappointment—
Priam from fortune’s lofty summit feel;
Great Alexander, midst bis conquest?, mourned;
Heroes and demi-gods have known the sorrows;
; Caesars have wept, and thou —
i having received thy blow, art thou one of this
! noble army of martyrs. Rejoice that thou art
! soon to be released from the plagues and care* of
| office. Thou knowest how “ uneasy lies the
head that wears a crown; thank Heaven that
thy bead is no longer to oe decorated with such
a thorny covering, and say manfully to thy suc
j cessor: let not him that girdeth on the harness
j boast himself as he that putteth it off. Beside,
even thine enemies can but say : thou hadst the
crown, and that is glory enough for one of such
moderate desires as thyself. Suppose thou art
doomed to raise cabbages at Kinderhook.or to fish
for alewives at Taunton; theie are more inglori
ous employments than these, and well mayat thou
j thank God that he has suffered thee to escape
from the hell of politics with virtue enough to
be employed in so harmless and honorable action.
Non-Resistants, Grahamites, Alcolites, Fan
ny Wrighiites, Teetotalers, Come-outers, Trans
} cendentaiists, Dialists.&c. dec. &c. Be thankful
< that you live in a country of so much freedom
I that a man is not obliged to shut himself up in
hi* own house when he is ambitious of playing
the fool—that every one has perfect liberty to
obey the precept, “ Let your light shine before
( men,” without danger of persecution. Think
I how highly you are favored in not being obliged
to fight in defence of non-resistance, to eat the
• saw-dust you recommend, to five your own doc
trines, to understand your own theories, or to fur
nish understanding for others. If these are not
to your own minds sufficient causes for thanks
giving, Heaven help you to grateful hearts ?
The special session of the Legislature of Illi
nois closed on the sth inst., after two week* la
bor, without maturing a single bill!
The Close of the Year.
EV CEOBOE D. PBEHTICE.
Gore ! gone for ever ! — Like a rushing ware,
Another year ha* burst upon the shore
Os earthly being—and its low tone«,
Wandering in broken accent* on the air.
Are dyir g to an echo.
The gay Fpring [leaves —
With its young charms has gone—gone with its
Its atmosphere of roses—its white clouds
.Slumbering like «eraphs in the air—ill biids
Telling their loves in music —and in streams
Leaping and shooting from the up-piled rocks
To make earth echo with the joy of waves.
And Summer, with its dews and showers, has gone.
It* rainbows glowing on the distant < loud,
Like spirits of the storm —its peaceful lakes
Smiling in their sweet s eep, as if tfacir dreams
Were of the opening flowers, and budding trees,
And'oveihanging sky —and its bright mist*
Resting upon the mountain-tops, as crowns
Upon the heads of giants. Autumn, too,
Has gone with ah it? deeper glories —gone
With it* green hills, like altars of the world
Lifting their rich fruit offering* to their God —
Its co d winds stra} ingmid the forest aisles
To wake tneir thousand wi ;d-harps—its serene
Anl holy sunsets hanging o’er the west,
! Like banners from ine battlements of heaven—
And its still evenings, when the moonlight sea
Was ever throbbing, like the living heart
Os the great Universe. Ay —these are now
But sounds and visions of the past —their deep,
Wild beauty ha* departed from the earth,
And they are gathered to tne embrace of Death,
; Their solemn herald to Eternity.
' Nor have they gone alone. High human heart*
Os Passion have gone with them. The fresh dust
Is chul on many a breast that burned erewhile
With fires that seemed immortal. Joys, that leaped
Like angel* from the heart, and wandering free,
In life’s young morn, to look upon the flowers,
Tne poetry of nature and to list
The wov< n sounds of breeze, and biid, and stream
Upon the night air have been stricken down
In silence to the dust. Exultant Hope,
That roved :oi ever on the buoyant winds,
Like the bright, starry bird of Paradise,
And chanted to the ever listening heart
In the wild music of a thousand tongues,
Or soared into the open sky. until
Night’s buminggems seemed on her brow,
Has shut her drooping wing, and made her home
Within the voiceless sepulchre. And Love, 4
That knelt at pa*sion’s holiest shrine, and gazed
On his heart’s idol as on some sweet star,
Whose purity and distance make it dear,
And dreamed of ecrtacies until bis soul
Seemed but a lyre, that wakened in the glance
Os the beloved one —he too has gone
To his eternal reeling place. And where
Is stern Ambition—he who madly grasped
At Glory’s fleeting phantom—he who sought
His fame upon the battle-field, and longed
To make his throne a pyramid of bones,
Amid a sea of blood ' He too has gone !
His stormy voice is mute—his mighty aim
Is nerveless on its clod—his very name
Is but a meteorof the night of years
Whose gleams flashed out a moment o’er the Earth
And faded into nothingness. The dream
Os high devotion —beauty’s bright array—
And life’s deep idc! memories—all have passed
Like the cloud-shadows on a starlight stream,
Ur a strain of soft music when the wind*
Are slumbering on the billow.
Yet why muse
i Upon the past with sorrow f ’ Though the year
Has gone 10 blend with the mysterious tide
Os old Eternity, and borne along
Upon its heaving breast a thousand wrecks
Os glory and of beauty —yet, why mourn
That such is destiny ? Another year
Succeedest to the past, in their bright round
The seasons come and go—the same blue arch
That hath hung o’er u«, will hang o’er us yet —
The same pure stars that we have loved to watch,
Will blossom still at twilight’s gentle hour,
Like lilies on the tomb of Day—and still
Man will remain, to dream as he ha* dreamed.
And mark the earth with passion. Love will spring j
From the lone tomb of old Affections—Hope,
And Joy, ana great Ambition, will rise up
As they have risen—and their deeds will be
Brighter than those engraven on the scroll
jOf parted centuries. Even now the sea
; Os coming years, beneath whose mighty waves
Life’s great events are heaving into biith,
Is tossing to and fro, as if the winds
Os heaven were ’pn-oned in it* soundlcs* depths,
And struggling to be free.
Weep nr t that Tima
Is passing on—it will ere long icveal
A brighter era to the nations —Hark !
Alont the vales and mountains of the earth
Tnere is a deep, potentous murmuring.
Like the swift rush of subterranean streams,
Or like the mingled sounds of earth and air
When the fierce tempests, with sonorous wing,
Heaves his deep folds upon the lushing winds.
And hurries onward with his night of clouds
Against the eternal mountains. —Tis the voice
Os infant Freedom —and her stirring call
I* heard and answered in a thousand tones
From every niil-top of her western home—
And lo—it breaks across old Ocean’s flood—
And ‘ Freedom I l 'Freedom is the answering shout
Os nation? starting from the spell of years, [vens!
The day-spring!—see—Mis brightening in the hea-
The watchmen of the night have caught the sign—
From tower to tower the signal-fires flash free—
And the deep watch-word, like the rush of teas
That herald’s the volcano’s bursting flame,
Is sounding o’er the earth. Bright years of Hope .
And life are on the wing !—Yon glorious bow,
Os Freedom, bended by the band of God,
Is spanning Time’s dark surges. Its high arch,
A <vpc of Love and Mercy on the cloud,
Tells iVnt the many storms of human life ,
Will pass in >-t*oce, and the sinking waVes,
1 Gathering the form* of and of peace.
Reflect the undinuned brightness «f the heaved.
Tn the race of Dadd E. Patoa vs. The
Ki'-amunfi Turnpike Co., tried ia the buper
C> urt, the jury awardee $2500 damages for tV
plaintiff, a-* a compensation forihe injury receive
on steamboat Samson on the 4ih <
July, 1830, by the failing of the promenade deck
upon him.
We publish below the Tax Bill parsed by the
Legislature of Georgia The Finance Commit
tee which drew op the bill, stated that the amount
of taxes raised under its provisions, would ex
ceed $250,000.
A Dill,
To be entitled an act to impose a tax for the sup
port of Government for the year eighteen hun
dred and forty-one, from thence, afterwards.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re
presentatives of the Stale of Georgia in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same, That the act passed on the
twelfth day of December, “in the year one thou
sand eight hundred and four,” and all acts a
mendatory thereof, so far as the same shall not
be inconsistent with the provisions of this act,
be, and the same are hereby enacted, and declar
ed in force, for, and during the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one ; and from thence,
afterwards, until the same shall be repealed.
And be it further enacted. That during the
time this act shall continue in force, the tax on
bank stock, on capital employed in the business
of brokerage, and capital employed by Insurance
and Trust Companies in this State, shall te thir
ty one and a quarter cents on every hundred dol
lars so invested; on money employed by private
individuals in lending at interest, and shaving
and discounting notes, bonds, and executions,
and on all other notes on solvent debtors, bearing
interest, excepting such notes as shall be founded
on sales of property, or merchandise, or on ser
vices rendered, and shall not have been renewed,
and upon which no interest shali have been paid,
shall be eight cents on every hundred dollars so 1
lent and employed ; and that all bridges, ferries
and turnpikes, shall pay a lax of ten cents on
every hundred dollars worth of said bridges, fer
ries and turnpikes, and factories, and a tax on
every billiard table of SSO per annum.
And be it further enacted. That so far a? any
acts or parts of acts *hat may be construed or con
sidered to be now in force, make taxes now im
i posed, greater or less than i ; provided for in the
aforementioned tax law of December, one thou
sand eight hundred and four, and in the second
section of this act, the same are hereby repealed.
And be it further enacted, that .he Receivers of
Tax Returns for the several counties in this State
shall make a general Digest of all the returns <
taxable, and of the proj*erty or defaulters, in th |
manner heretofore prescribed and accustomed un- j
der existing laws; and each and every Receiver, j
shall make out three copies of the Digest of, and I
for his particular county, and shall, on or befor; I
the first day of July, in the year one thousand I
eight hundred and forty one, and every year after
wards, deliver one copy of said Digest of Tax
Returns, to the Tax Collector of the oounty, and
one to the Clerk of the Inferior Court, and shall
on or he fore the first day of August thereafter, j
deliver one copy of said Digest, to the Comptroller !
General of the State, under the penalty of one !
thousand dollars for each and every ommisslon to j
deliver said copies, or either of them, in the man
ner, and within the period* aboved specified. And
the Tax Collectors of the several Counties, shall
proceeded at once to collect the taxes oi: their re- i
; spective counties, according to the Digest, and
j asses ment thereof, delivered to them respectively
! as aforesaid, by the Receiver of Tax Returns of \
.their counties respectively. And the said 'Tax
; Collectors shall pay the taxes so to be collected, |
into the treasury, on or before the first day of De- ;
cember, in each and every year, beginning with j
the year one thousand eight hundrred and forty 1
one, subject to such deductions and allowances, i
as existing laws authorize for compensation to
! the Receivers and Collectors, and olh« r causes.
And be it further enacted, That an act passed
j on the 21st day of December,! 839, entitled “An
; act to impose, levy and collect a lax for the poli
j lical year 1840, on property both real and perso- j
! nal, and to inflict penalties for refusing or neg- ;
j I ‘cting to comply with the provisions of the :
same,” bo and the same is hereby repealed ; and
the returns and assessments of taxes, made under
i and in pursuance of the same, be and the same ‘
j are hereby annulled and superceded entirely by j
| the provision of this act.
And he it farther enacted, That Ihe tax re
ceivers of the present year, 1840, shall receive !
compensation from the taxes to be collected in :
1841, in the same manner as if their hooks of
returns and digest were not superseded by this
act.
List of Acts.
Passed during the session of the General Assem* ;
hly of the State of Georgia, in the year 1840.
To legalize the adjournment of the Superior
Court for the county of Thomas, and to change
the lime of holding the Superior Courts, in the
county of Bulloch.
To pardon James Hunter, at Chattooga coun
ty*
To create and organize a new Judical Circuit,
to be called the Southwestern C ircuit, and to ap
point the times of holding the Superior and Inter
ior Courts, in said circuit.
To repeal an act to establish a General System
of Education, by Common Schools, assented to,
29th Dec. 1838, &c.
To amend an act incorporating the Bank of
Milledgeville, &c.
To authorise John J. Dodd, of the county of
Floyd, to established a Ferry on his ewn land a
croas Oostenawly River.
To change the names of certain person therein |
named.
To repeal an act, entitled an act, to exempt |
certain persons from jury and militia duty, in the
county of Mclntosh, passed 21st Dec. 1839.
To change the time of holding the Superior
Courts of the Cherokee Circuit, so far as relates
to the counties of Union, Gilmer, Murray, Wal
i ker Chattooga, Dade, and Floyd.
To authorise the Justices of the Inferior Courts
of the county of Pike, to apply the county funds
of said county, for Hie support of the invalid poor
of said county.
To amend the charter of the city of Macon, so
far as respects the time of holding Charter Elec
tion of said city.
To authorise Justices of the Inferior Court of
the county of Macon, to levy an extra tax for the
year 1841.
To pjrdon Jackson Mahon, of the county of
Baldwin.
To alter and fix the lime of holding the Infer
ior Courts in the county of Muscogee.
To amend an act, entitled an act, to establish
a tribunal for the trial of slaves within this State,
passed 16th December, 1811, so far as relates to
the county of Mclntosh.
To legitimatize and change the name of Steph
en Handley, to thatot Stephen Harrin.
To repeal an act. assented to, 29ih Dec. 1838,
to compensate grand and petit jurors in the
county of Macon, and to compensate the petit
Jurors, of Jones county, ao far as relates to the
county of Macon.
To add a pa.t of the 25»h district of Chattooga
county, to the county of Floyd, and more fully to
define and provide for the running of the divi
ding line, between the counties of Chattooga and
Floyd.
To incorporate the Upaon Riflemen, and to give
to the members thereof, certain privileges.
To consolidate the cfficea of Receiver of Tax
Returns, and Tax Collectors of this Slate ao far
as relate* to the county of Appling.
Authorising the Sheriffs of Lincoln county, to
insert their advertisemec js in one of the newspa
pers published in the city es Augusta, or in any
ne^-upper published in the ."Northern Judicial
Circuit.
r** compel the several Banks of this State to
'edeem their respective liabilities in specie. and in
provide for the forfeiture of the char»<:r or char
ters of such as may refuse.
To exempt James Hall, Sen., of Irwin county,
from the several provisions of the acts of the Gen
era! Assetnh ! y, concerning Pedlers, and to »u
--iborifce hun to engage in that business without
license.
i o repeal so much r f an act, entitled an act, to
compensate grand and petit juries,of certain coun
ties therein mentioned, so far as respeota the coun
ty of Emanuel, assented to, 23J uav of December
1837.
1 o amend an act. entitled an act, to regulate
slaves and free persons of color, in the counties of
Mclntosh and Liberty, assented to, 21st Dec.
1839.
To form additional precinct? in the county of
Houston.
Amendatory to an act relative to the several
Tax Laws of this State, which was approved on
the Bth Dec. 1810.
To authorise his Excellency the Governor to
j cause to be paid over to the proper authorises of
j the several counties in this State, ail money due
| to the Academies and Poor School Fund under
I the act of 1637 and 1838.
To authorize the return of Sheriff, Consta
bles, Coroners and Justices of the Peace, to be
traversed, and to point out the manner in which
i the same shall be made.
To alter and amend the ninth Section of the
i Judiciary Act of 1799, and the first Section ol an
: Act relative to Executions, passed Dec. 14th.
! 1810.
To repeal so much of an Act passed 20th
Dec. 1837, as relates to the consolidating >f the
offices of Fax Collector and Receiver of Tax re
turns in the county of Floyd.
To authorize the Clera of the Inferior Court
of Clark to advertise Estrays in one of the Ga
zettes published in Athens.
Fo change lie place of holding Elections in
the county of Talbot. Irora the house of R. A.
Hall and Frederick Minford, to the house of Ro
bert Carson, in said county, and to establish an
election precinct in the county of Hall.
1 o authorize 1 homas H. Huson and Compa
ny to erect a Bridge arms? the river Etowah, in
j the county cf Cas?, and charge and collect lull at
; the same.
To amend an act passed 23d Dec. 1839.
to change ihe county site of Dooly county.
Fo authorize the J. I C. of Oglethorpe coun
:ty l pv y and collect an extra tax for the purpose
i of building a new Jail in said county.
7 o amend an Act entitled an Act to incorpo
| rate the Habersham Iron works and Manufactd*-
] ring Company, passed 25th Dec. 1837.
For the relief of securities.
To regulate the trial of Divorce cases. •
7’o amend an act granting to Thomas Bpal
ding and his associates the right of constructing
, a Rail Road of wood, or digging a Canal from
the Ocraulgee to the Flint riser, &c. r passed in
; 1827.
To appropriate money for the payment of Ar
i thur Stotesburg.
Fo make deaf and durnbs person idiots in
! law, so lar as to authorize the appointment of l
i Guardians in certain cases.
To alter and amend the forty-third section of
j the fourth division of the Penal Code.
7'o amend an act incorporating the Augusta
] Waynesboro’ Railroad, assented to 31st Dec.
j 1838.
To regulate and appropriate the Common
School I und, so tar a? respects the county of
| Wilkinson.
To appropriate money for the political year
| 1841.
1 7 o amend the rent laws so far as relates to
the city of Augusta, to confirm the purchase of
j the Bridge, &c.
7 o repeal an act, altering and amending an
| more effectually to secure the solvency of all
the Banning Institutions in this Stale, 'passed
; 24th Dec, 1832, &c.
j To repeal the act compensating the Grand and
Petit Jurors of Bibb county.
j To amend the act incorporating the Georgia
Railroad and and Banking Company,
i i o authorize Constables to serve processes,
i and perform other acts pertaining to their duty,
; in any district in the county, &c.
1 \or the relief ol Executors. Administrators and
Guardians, in certain cases, &.
! 7V. alter and amend the 30lh section of the Kith
division of the Penal Code, passed Dec. 23. 1833.
1 o remove the election precinct from the house
of John Lovejoy to the house ofWUonzo P. Mor
ris, and the establish a precinct at Pittsburg, in
■ Henry county.
Fo authorise the Governor to draw hi? warrant
upon the 7 reasury in fav„r of the 7'ax Collector
of such counties as have paid into the State
7'reasury the tax collected, under the act of 1839.
To niter and fix the time of holding Ihe Supe
rior Courts in the Eastern district.
To regulate the times of holding the Superior
Courts in the counties ol Laurens and Thomas.
To establish addiiional election precincts in the
counties of Irwin and Campbell, and to chage an
election precinct in the county of Marion.
To incorporate the “ Georgia Episcopal Insti
tute and Christ College ” at Montpelier, in the
county of Monroe.
To incorporate Sandy Spring Academy in the
county of Murray, and Mount Pleasant Acade
my, in the county of Muscogee, and appoint
Trustees for the same.
To incorporate South River Academy, in the
| county of Butts, &c.
To alter and amend the act compelling Clerks
I of the Inferior Courts of the differeat counties in
; this State to claim estrays, levied on by Execu
tion, passed 2Gth Dec. 1831.
To incorporate the Milledgeville Turnpike or
Railroad Comj any.
7’o alter the Militia laws, so far as relates to
the 27th and 23d Regiments in the county of i
Franklin.
To change the name of the Farmer’s Bank of
Chattahoochee, and for other purposes.
7'o require tne Commissiontrs of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad so to arrange, as that at
least one of them shall be always on the road,
personally supervising the Engineers ana Con
tractors.
To alter and amend an act, passed 30th Dec.
1836, appropriating money to improve the navi
gation of the Big Sat.lla river.
To incorporate the village cf Palmyra, in the
county of Lee. &c.
For the relief of Sarah Mansfield, of Decatur
county.
To incorporate the Female Academy in Fay
etteville. Fayette county. &c.. and to repeal tne
act incoiporating Fayette county Academy, pass
ed 24th Dec., 1836.
For the relief of Wm. W. Stanford.
To revise, amend and consolidate the rules for
the Government and police of the Penitentiary ol
the State of Georgia.
To consolidate the offices of Receiver and Tax
Collector of Effingham county, and to authorize
the Inferior Courts ol the counties of Richmond
and Lee to levy an extra fax, &c.
To compensate Grand and Petit Jurors of
Dooly county.
To alter and fix the time of holding the Infe
rior Courts of Fayette county.
To make it the duty of the Judge of the Cow
eta Circuit to continue the Court in Troup coun
ty two weeks.
To change the place of bolding election* in
Pulaski county.
To alter ami fix th* line between the counties
of Marion ana Muscogee.
-To charge n.r,c of ft, ToAJ, »«
that of Modern G. Bryan,of D*oly covin*}*.
To extend the ccrpoia‘o of the town r, t
T albotton.
To change the pltc*? of c'rcoon precm -<> rn
the sever counties therein r>a utd.
To impose a tax for the support of Govern
ment for the year 1841, and from thence after
wards.
To add the rc-idcnce of E'y Jones of C ary?,
in the county of Walton, and residence of J -' n
18. Means of VV al'on, to the county of Newton.
To authorize David D. Bostwi* k to keep np a
ferrv on the Ocmulgre river, near the Lone;
Shoals, on hi* own land.
To admit Tax Collector’s deeds in evidence,
in certain cases therein named.
To amend an act to prevent persons from ob
structing the free passage of fish up the Altama.a
river, l*y the use of gill nets or seines over fifty
feet in leng : h. assented to 23u Dec. 1830.
For the relief of John H. Mount.
To authorize the Inferior Court of Ja=p?r
! county to levy an extra tax to piy for the erec
tion of a Court Hou*e in said county.
To author.ze tne letting and discontinuing of
Bridges in the county of HancocK.
| To establish and fix the Ires of Sheriff*, Con
. stables and other officers, in certain cases.
Touching election precincts in the county *»,
I Dihh.
j To amend an act to authorise the Sheriffs cl
the counties of Decatur, Thomas, Lowndes.
Ware and Wayne, to sell the fractions in said
counties, and for other purposes, passed 23d Dec
1831*.
To alter and amend the Judiciary Act, pa-sed
IGth February, 1709, andtodefine more particu
larly (he fees of Clerks.
To incorporate the Irw in Manufactory Com
pany in the county of Irwin, and also,the Luo*' -
kin county Manufacturing Company in the
; county of Lumpkin.
To alter and fix the times of holding the Supe
rior Courts of the counties of Marion. Harris,
and Stewart, of the Chattahoochee Circuit, -nd
to regulate the mode ot drawing two panels and
summoning Grand and Pent Jurors in and for
the counties of Stewart and Talbot, in said Cir
cuit.
To incorporate several Churches therin men
tioned.
For the relief of Wiiiiam Conyers and James
H. Martin, aecuriiies of H. Rainey.
To extend the time lor fortunate drawers in
all the land lotteries, and in the gold lottery, tu
take out their grants, except the counties therein
excepted.
To incorporate the first Presbyterian Church
of Savannah.
To repeal an act passed 2 1st Dec. 1839, a
mending the act incorporating the Central Bans;
to provide for the protection of the circulation ol
the hills of said Bank, dec.
To enable persons owning lands to maintam
the action of trespass without being in the actual
and occupancy thereof, dec.
To extend the corporate hrnita of ihe town of
Athens, n the couniy of Clarke, and to change
the place of holding the elections fur offi.ers ui
the corporation in said tow n.
Toinco porate the Methodist Episcopal Church
at New Hope, in Lumpkin county —also. Pine
Grove Baptist Church, in Richmond county. & j
To incorporate the Presbyterian Lhurch, of
Boswell, in Cobb county.
To incorporate the Habersham and Union
Turnpike Company, dec.
To cause the line between the counties of
Walner and Dade to lie run, and to provide for
the payment of the same.
To alter and change the names of certain per
sons therein named, dec.
To change the name of James Riley Bryant,
of Pulaski coun'y, to that of Janus Riley Dykes,
&c.
To amend an act incorporating the Mossv
Creek Methodist Camp-meenng Ground, in the
county of Habersham, passed 24ih Dec. 1832.
To incorporate the Shearer Springs, in Henry
county, ar.d to constitute the resident Board of
Trustees of the Mercer Umiversity, commission
ers of the town of Pe,.fie!d, in Greene county.
To change the names oi' cert ;in persons men
tioned therein, &c. *
To authorize Steth H. Ingram to establish a
ferry across Lillie River on his own land, and to
fix the rates of ferriage for the same.
To amend the act to extend to all persons im
prisoned for d* bl, the privilege of prison bounds,
approved 22d Doc 1820, and ihe amendato-y act
thereof approved 241 h Dec, 1821.
To set apart a fund for the payment of the
interest of the public debt of the State of Georgia
and Me g adual reduction and ultimate payment
of the principal.
lo authorize Joseph Wilson of Cass coun'y
to establish a toll bridge across the Oosianaula ri
ver on Ilia own land, and to fix the rates of toll on
the same.
To incorporate a Volunteer Rifle Company in
tho city of Augusta.
To alter and change the name of John Tho
mas Richardson of Stewart county, to that of
John Thomas Smith.
To point out and regulate the manner of taking
testimony by commissioners in certain cases.
Po provide payment for individuals who
taught school in the county of Hall, under the
provisions of the poor school law in 1838, who
have not been paid.
I o authorize the Mayor and Council of the
City ol Columbus to define the limits of Bay
Street to lay oil aed sell water lots, &,c.
To define the liability of the several Railroad
Companies in this State, for the loss of Sto.k
killed or wounded bv ihc running of cars, &»•.
To incorporate Post Oak Level Acad* my of
Pike county, and appoint Trustees for the same
and also for Amsden Academy in the county of
Columbia.
To make Win. H. Ellison the adopted son of
James Edison of Bibb county, and make him
capable of inheriting as heir at law to the said
James Ellison.
To attach the Volunteer Company of Macon
county, called the Flint River blues, to the 2nd
Brigade of the Bth Division, G. M.
To incorporate Bainbridge Female Academy
in the county of Decatur.
To repeal an act to alter and fix the time ol
holding the Inferior Courts in Twiggs county.
To incorporate the village of Houston in the
county of Heard, and to make permanent Xhjt
election precinct at said place.
To authorize the Inferior Court of Habersham
county, to levy an extra fax for county purposes.
To extend the corporate limits of the town ot
Bainbridge, in Decatur c< unty.
To appoint additional Tiu=tecs for Habersham
county Academy.
To repeal the act establishing o r Ad
jutant General.
To am nd the acts incorporating the city ol
Darien.
To authorize Wm. Dudley of Elbert county to
establish a ferry across Bn ad river on bis own
land, and to regulate be same, and of Henry E
Nash’s ferry on said river.
To compensate the Grand and Petit Jurors in
the counties of Ware and Chattooga, and to au
thorize tho Inferior Courts of said counties lo
levy an extra tax to p.*y said Jurors.
To extend the lime tor taking out granis for
lands in the counties of originally Early, Irwin
Appl r>g, Hal*ersham and Rabun, and to pro id**
Fur the disposition of the same if not granted
within the time extended.
To point out a tribunal and mode for the Iris!
of questions of ciiizenship in certain ca rs; ami
to declare what shall be evidenc* in the same.*
To authorize the Sheriffs and Clerks of tbe
Superior and Inferior Courts of ihe county oi
2J!i
nV. arri county, "' ~ c *** aio i'< precis
'I t CU*; 4 gi* 14 r; I, fr ,r . ~.
U ‘ nuer<*o ( s to the V\ bite ’" M ° n,fr om
, r a P rto too D-tof 23 J •n'
&r.<scr. certain pe Jso^
l u change the line tatween i! ld
Gwinnett and Dekalb, so as t. in i C ,° Umi <* of
r.i consolidate il c offices of Co , Unt f
(-oi lector .*{ the counties of Macon and f * 5
cry and Clark. nd Montg 3D) ,
To ai er and a «»nd the road | aif , nf „
gornery county. s 01 Mont.
To chintre the names of certain per, ong( L
tr> namex. &c. r Albert.
I o au honze »!ie Inferior Courts 0 f W u
and rio - d counties to levy an extra tax Lr"
ty purposes. lor cottn.
To w rporale the Oxford Female W
&e.. m tic county of Newton, & p ' " adeai l-
To cra'e anil establish a free system of e.
ra.,on bj common schools i, the coa„,
For the relief of Felix Arthur of Ca? s *
■J'o rr.-k ■ perrr.or.pnt the site of p u M i( .
at Eijay, in Gilmer countv, and
.ale the lame. - v > lo tncor po .
To « end the corporate limits of , he ,
McDono>;|>.n Henry county, ant] ,o confer ce-*
r«hs v d privileges upon the Comm,*”'
ers of sad town. un ‘
To «ts korizethe Justices of the Peace with
t lie corf.-rale limits of -he city of Mapon’io l u
th'.ir Coins in the Court House of said'co U m!“
ami to tulhorize their Justices of the p eace ;
require .osts to oe paid or secured,'before J°.
are comnenced.
To aid tne -residence of John Mulklev
Hooslot to the county ot Macon. ;
To incorporate an Academy in the city 0 f §•
Mary‘s. in Camden county ; also to incorporate
an Acccemy in the county of Cobb, ft-,
'J’u e t .hlish certain election precincts, and to
change othe rs therein nanitd.
Th ircorporate the several Academies therein
named. <kc. &c.
'f° auhorizi orer=?erp of roads for Coafooa
in } F dun countie? lu appoint warnerr, and u.
define l.eir duties -
i’° Dear!: Springs Academy in
thecouityot Harris, 1
Abolshing election precincts in the county of
Jasper.
To establish election district*, and to alter
some already ef.abl shed, in the several counties
therein named, t-.d to regulate the s-ame.
i o ajtn.irize Seat.orn N Jones, Leonard C.
birpp>oi an.i ot’ieis to plead and practice law,
i o a. j an additional section to theSlh divi
sion • f the penal code, &c.
i’o r.peal an act altering the act for the be ter
selecting and drawing g r and anu petit Jurou,
&c.
To repeal the'pmviso of the 2J section of an
act to consolidate the offices oi Receiver ant
i ax Collector f Lumpkin county.
I’o rep al the act authorizing the Inferio-
Court of O.irokce coan y.to create and lav out
any n»w disiiicls or change and alter the lines ot
ih-i>e already laid out, passed 23J December.
1839.
T«» incorporate the Cross Plains and Clay
Branci R ilroad Company of Georgia.
Amendatory to an act p.^ed,appointing Com
missiuiers for the Washington county Academy,
&r.
For the relief of Mrs. Sarah H. Aifriend.
Detlaralory of the force ami validity of tne ex
ecutions or judgments issued or ente.ed up in
belial of copartners or against copartners, when
the style is used or set forth, &c.
To “grant the rights and privileges of citizen
ship o certain persons and their descendants, a
the Cherokee and Creek tribe of Indians.
Tt require the Sheriff and Coroner es thf
couny of Muscogee, to hold their sales at tin
MaiF t Hoi.se in U;c city of Columbus, &c.
'J\ repeal the act compensating the grand Ju
rors )f I’dfair county.
T» a!if-r and change tne name of Salem, in th
couriv of Dade, to liial of Trenlon.
T« autnu izo the Tieasurtr of the Coraraffl
I Sclbol fund of the counties of Montgomery,
Etfttouel ami Lowndes, to loan out said fundi
! &c.. and to ault onza the Treasurers of the Coni'
i mun School Fu .i of Franklin and Jacksoc
coun’ies to pay cert fin accounts.
To compel pc. ns who leside without the
j Minis o this Stale, tsho may own or hcrcaltet
| Qwa a plantation and slaves in any of the coun-
I tit s at this Stare, to pay taxes f>r the same, in the
cousty where the same may be situated
r io amend an act, togi e to .wasons and Car
. pemers an incumbrance for debts due. on account
-for voik done, and materials furnished. &c.. and
j to r*pea. all liws on the subject, so tar as relates
' to tre counties of Richmond snd Mclntosh,and
| in he cities of Savannah. Macon and Columbus,
pa«ul 22<i December 1824, so a? to give to pain’
j ten in the citv of Columbus, the like sc-curityi
j&f.
To alter and amend an act, passed 21st Dec.
| 1839, to aiter ami amend an act of 1938, in re: '
I ertnee to the aupropriation and Commissioner 5
j for the Canoochee and Ohoopee rivers, d:c.
Amendatory ot the Act of tS39, to authorize
I the Inferior Courts of the several counties of this
| Side, to create new districts, and to change tliotf
ai cady created. .
To authorize the purchasers of city lots anJ
*»f ,'ands in the reserves ot cities oi Macon
aid Columbus, which have bt conic forteited. W
gantthe same, upon paying the principal anil
j iiirre.'l due on said purchases.
To repeal the act of 1839, prohibiting t '
j Fianks of this State, from selling exchange s'
nore t!"n 2 percent premium, &c.
To „ honze Shuball 'Tenney to open anJ
leep open th.* North O onee river, from Athens
10 Chandfcr’s bridge, and to ve&t in him, his heir*
and assigns certain privileges in reference iheief
’ >r ten years, &c. ,
'To compel the Commissioners of the roß ‘j
irom Di'donega by Elijay.&c. to the Federal ioa
in Murray county, to make settlement with -L “
L, Dtckerso#, George Brock, and Henry
and to define the mode of making said settlemeo*
All of the above have been approved by
Governor.
In Greenwood. Abieville Bistii t, S. C.,on t
mirniiigot tlie 24th inst., t»y the nev Mr.
Mr. i.ewis Potter, lor-ncrlyof St. Johns burg, •'
to Mis-* h.MiLY E. Hart, formerly of iieriin, ton ‘"
In Stewart county, Ga.. on '1 hur'day evco' ni |
the 24th inst , bv the Hev. Jeremiah it. wain.* 1 "
William Lewis to Miss KMi' Y Jane PesKi* 5 -
'i’licir loving heaiti have lonT been louad,
By affection’s ties and piigliled vows;
By wedlo' k’s bands he now rnt-vined,
Cemented by Heaven’s appioving smiles.
Replete with joy was the nuptial eve,
So.may their da,) s on earth e’er be ;
And when theii eailhly bli s shall end,
May they to glouous Heaven ascend. j q
House Painting,
P.u.er Hanging* . „
a..a GiazmC-
R. P. SPELMAN.Jr*
'hop near the Upper Market, Broad-st., Augu-^ 4 *
(O* woNoaY, mntn, a»» vtU ’
dec it) u