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Columbia County t S<pt, 16, 1 &02. Mr. Smith, 1 HAVE fecn in several of your late papers some person ftvling hitnfelf A CL tixeitf and in different efl'ays, or numbers, / endeavoring to Ihcw the different claims that will comfe in for the land lately pur chased of the Indians over the Oconee, (hewing the propriety and impropriety of each claim, and has at length in number four brought it to this conclusion ; That the land had better be fold and the mo ney arising therefrom put into the treasu ry, which would prevent our paying tax, and distributing equal jullicc to the wi dow and orphans, and every individual would have equal benefit arising thete from ; he fays giving it to those that will fettle on it, widows and children, the most needy, will not get any—-I will afle the Citizen how widows ami orphans, and indigent persons which is well known, pay little or no tax, are to be benefited by money lying in the treasury ? I fay they will not be one cent the better for two million of dollars lying in the trea sury forever; but if the land is let out on equitable terms, so as every one may have a fair chance to get, numbers of theft poor people will be the firft out and get land, but money oilt of the treasury I am bold to fay they never will get any ; it 's not the man that will fay moil and loudest for the people’s rights and privi ledges, that is their grcateil friend, for that is the very w'ay many take in this County to blind the eyes in order to take the greater advantage. Who this Citi zen is, 1 know nor, but I exped he thinks he will (land a better opportunity to get money out of the treasury, than land over the Oconcc: He purs me in mind of a gentleman well known in this flare, that laid he would not have any of the Yazoo land, spake loud and long a gainst the sale of it, but after it was fold would go at midnight to make a grab on the money to /peculate in human flelh, in direfl violation of a law he was a sup porter of; for what pujpofe this Citizen wants two million of dollars in the trea sury I know not, without he intends to keep very near it, and get a part as it goes. 1 believe it is a tad well known m government, that a rich treasury is a Curie to any people, for as long as there is any more money than will defray the Cxpences of government, there is always villans that will be breaking in by night or day to take it away, so that I conclude ’ the fooncr the, land is disposed of on fair terms, the better, for wherever there is land or money belonging to the public, yon will always fee swarms of villans, • rogues and speculators, like greedy vul tures, preying on carcases. lam a Citizen of Columbia County, To the Citizens of Columbia County. PtUonv-CttizcfiSy f)N Monday next you will be called tinon to exercise one of your unalienable and moll facrcd of rights to give your fuffrages for men to reprefen t you in Ihe Legiilature of the State of Georgia, to make laws by which your lives and pro perty may be materially affeded, a right for the proper exercise of which you Hand accountable to God and to poilerity.— It would be well to paufc for a moment, and to confider feriouffy, how you will exercise so invaluable a priviledge. A priviledge that coll your country lb much blood and Treasure : Look at your pre lent repreientatives: Look at them and bltilli; is there one of them that has the qualifications requisite for a Legiilature ? Except indeed he may he a free-bolder. Is there one of them that has endeavoured to make himfelf acquainted with the hi- Hory, the laws and culloms of foreign nations, or even with those of his own country ? Is there one of them, that you would employ to draw an inllrument of writing by which you wilhed to secure a valuable piece of property ? Is there one of them when at the legiilature that knows how to draw up a bill or resolution with precision, even upon the moll trifling business ? Are they Inch men as you sent to represent you in ’76 and *77, when you were roused to a sense of the value of your rights and priviledges ? You know my friends that all these questions mud be answered in the negative ; why then in the name of common sense have you hi therto eleiled them ? Is it becaufc you think that less wifdora and sagacity are required to preserve them to procure your rights, or rather is it that you care no thing about them. If in *76, men had offered themselves to your choice, such your prefenc representatives, and with no other recommendation, than a loud 'nolle againil the Yazoo sale and fpccula ■■ * / tion, a bowl of grog, or even a barrel of taffy or brandy, which would you have done? You would, I am convinced, have hided them out of company, and treated them and their grog with merited con tempt. —Suppose ail the representatives in the dare were filch as you have hitherto chosen, what kind of a legillature do vou think |bey would compote? They could nor understand the nature of public bufi ncfs, they are not capable of acting them felvcs, or advising the governor, nor could they even answer his medages, Tnere are some times men of abilities e leCted from some of the counties, but they arc generally attornies; and there is a mong the ignorant numbers such a preju dice agaimt that class of citizens, that puts it out of their power to be of much service; they however would be appoint ed, as no o:hers would be able to draw up their resolutions and addredcs. My friends, thefc things ought not to be ; so you have men of abilities and in tegrity, who are willing to serve you ; but they disdain to stoop to the low syco phant practices, that are so plcafing to you: You will not fee them immediately before an eledtion, preaching and roaring against {peculation ; fawning upon and Ihaking hands with every one they meet, -vhether an acquaintance or not; they will not be deluging every company with their grog or their politics, nearly to pro mote their own election. No, they have more dignity of character. But you may fay that these men of information are all ambitious knaves, they will not regard our rights; give us honelt farmers who know and feel how the poor lives ; they will take care of our interest : my friends, there are but tew men in this country that are not farmers, and there are some of that class as capable of serving you as any other you could chose. Bur your ideas of an honelt farmer is one that has jult sense enough to carry on his farm to advantage; but when he has by reading and reflection improved his mind above the common level, when he has qualified himfelf to serve you : you then confider him as dangerous to your interelt—ls ho nelly then confined to the ignorant and illiterate, or is there not a greater pro bability of finding it among those who underltand their duty to God, and feel the force of that obligation that binds to gether the whole brother-hood of man kind.—Let us now examine what kind of honelty those men of your choice are pof felfed of. Your Senator has generally been considered as an honelt, upright and difintereltcd man, both in public and pri vate life. But in the feilion of 1794, when the loaves and fillies were dividing, your difintereltcd patriot could not wuh ftand the temptation; he would not take a part of the Yazoo lands; but like an honelt man exhibited his account against the Hate for some thousands of dollars, for his services as major, lieutenant colonel and colonel of the Richmond county mi. litia, from the 16th of April 1780, to the 20th May 1783, for which time your worthy senator was allowed pay and fubfiltence, and interest on the fame, up to the 26th December 1794.* It is a Well known faCt ro numbers of you that he did not perform three months service to the state within the aforefaid time. It is a pity that no provision was made for the officers and foidiers who were under the colonel’s command. The worthy Parson not having the sha dow of a claim to set up against the state, and not having the fear of the people be fore his eyes ; in a dark and midnight hour of temptation, grates fix thousand dollars from your treasury, for the vile purpose of trafficking in human flelh, in direct violation of the conllitution and laws of the state, which he himfelf aided in making, and frequently denied the faft, both publicly and privately. Yet this worthy representative of your's, this virtuous son and pillar of the church, af ter a suit was commenced against him for those fix thousand dollars, and notwith- Handing his declarations to the contrary, came into the superior court of Columbia county, and without a blnfh, on his so lemn oath declared,+ “ That the sum of money mentioned in the receipt or note aforefaid, was to be employed in the purchase of negroes on their joint account: That after the negroes so to be purchased (hould be fold, the sum of fix thousand dollars aforefaid were firft to be paid out of said sales—the expences were next to be deducted, and then the net profits were to be equally divided, &c.” and after making this declaration, the parson, with a folcmn and fanCtilkd countenance, de * See the Journals of the Leg future for 1794, page 66. + See his affidavit t filed tv the clerk's office rfi Columbia county , y dared to the court " that his reputation had hied for that tranfaftion.” tyly friends, is this a virtuous or a cor rupt ad in your reprefentatative ? Especi ally in a man who makes a profefllon of religion, and is a preacher of the Gos pel; is this speculation or not ? Yet these men effeift to be great friends to the peo ple, but they must be great patriots in deed, if they will consent to damn thcm fclves for your political salvation. These fads, and a number of others might be Hated. I flatter myfelf you do not know, or surely you would not place confidence in men who thus wontonly sport with your property, your rights and liberties; this, with many more of your errors, is the consequence of your ignorance of the principles of our government; for the people arc always right when well in formed. Strive, therefore, to get infor- 1 mation to judge for yourselves; in no country under heaven is political know ledge so neceflary to the exigence of the government, as in the United States; mod other governments are fupportcd by force or by fraud; your's (lands upon the opinion of the people; how neceflary is it, therefore, that you fliould be well in formed. A FARMER. Columbia county. Sept. 27, 1802. BERMUDA, Attgnji 14, The accounts received this week from the Weft-Indies, (late that the crops have been so very abundant as to lower the price of sugar and rum considerably in all the islands, and fufficient (hipping could not be procured to export them. Price of rum in some islands is only 2/1 this currency. NEW. YORK, Sept. 16. Mr. Balden, the publisher of the Com. t mercial Advertiser, was arrested yester day, at the separate suits of Mr. James Cheetham and Mr. David Dennifton, on a charge of defamation, damages 1000 dollars each fait, September 1 7. A letter from our correspondent at Cape Francois, of the 29th of Augull, mentions, that the market was fully sup plied with every kind of American pro, duce, that peace and tranquility prevail, ed at the Cape, and that the general (late of health became every day more favor able. The rumour which was circulated a few days since, received by the w'ay of Nassau (n. p.) of a frefh infurredlion on the part of the negroes, headed by Touf faint’s sons, appears to be totally unfound ed. GOOD NEWS. By the Spanish schooner, Santa Rofaal Lima, arrived here yesterday from Ha vanna, we learn, that there was every profpeft of that port being speedily open, ed to American vessels, loaded with (lock and lumber. Our informant fays, that when he failed, this question was before the government of that place, brought forward in consequence of a petition from the inhabitants, praying the admiflion of these articles, as lumber was very scarce. Capt. Barker, of the schooner Lively, from St. Euftatia, informs, that that place was on the eve of being given up to the Dutch. He also mentions a cir cumstance refpefting the conduft of Sir John Wadvvell, which he thinke a duty to mention, as a caution to those who may trade there, relative to the Engliih duties and port charges; which was, as. ter stipulating the duties on thefugar, and port charges, he being on the point of failing, Sir John levied an additional du ty ot 150 per cent, which capt. Barker was obliged to pay. Extraß of a U tter from a young gentle man on hoard the schooner Enter prize, to his parents in New. llampjhire, dat ed Cadiz, July 16, 1802. “All our frigates are employed in ccn voying vessels up and down the Sraighrs ; but notwithstanding their extreme vigi lance, our savage enemy have taken a brig belonging to Philadelphia In May we had an engagement with a Tripolitan gun boat of 90 men and four guns; it being calm (lie got away from us, and the next day we saw her in the har bour of Tunis. We have been into Tri poli, and fired at the (hipping in the har bour— 12 gun boats were sent out to en gage us; but w'e drove them all back. The Constellation was engaged by two Algerine gun boats, both of which (he funk. The Emperor of Morocco has declared war against America, and sent aw'ay our consul; in consequence of this dcclara tion, we arc ordered to cruise off the Gut of Gibraltar. The Algerines have taken a 44 gun frigate from the Portiiguefe. The victo rious veffol was the Crefcenr, a present from America—Thus, you fee, how for- lunate vessels are that arc buift J n Ame rica, even if they are manned with Turks' “ There are now' lying in this harbc r ‘ 50 transports full of French troops, b0.m.1 to St. Domingo.” a Extrahi of a letter from an officer of the Confcllation , dated May 24, jg 02 at sea. u Mr. O'Brien informs, that Spain i a order to avoid a war threatened by the Algerines, has very recently contented to pay to Algiers the enormous sum 0 £ two millions of dollars, and to alter he national colors. This, with the capture of the Portuguese frigate, has so dated the Algerines, th at our couful fays he ex pends the dey will flrortly, and at an Un . guarded moment, declare war againli the United States. I hope he may, and that we may have the honor of battering their towns about their ears. They will find in us a nation fir superior to either Spain or Portugal in the arts of war. By mak ing them feel our power, we should ren, der the United States feared and refpefhd by these barbarians, and insure fafety to the lives and property of our citizens in thole seas.—Enclosed is the account Mr. OBrlen gives us of the strength of the regency of Algiers. A correct liji of the Marine of Algiers, GUNS.’ No 1 frigate, Algerine built, copVd 48 2 American do. do. 34. 3 A xebec, Algerine do. do. 34. 4 do, do. do. 30 5 do, do. do. 24 6 do. do. do. 26 7 A Polacre Greek built, 22 8 do. do. do. 18 9 A brig u. s. built, coppered, 22 10 fch’r. do. do. 26 it do. do. do. 18 12 do. do. ' do. 16 13 A CarlafquHba Corsica built, 10 14 A small xebec, repairing 1 5 A Polacre Greek built (coafler) 6 Algiers has about 30 gun boats, half of the number could be got in order in 3- bout a month. They have about 200 fail of coasters with lattine fails, each 20 or 30 ions. There are about 6,000 Turks, about 6,000 half Turks : and with difficulty they could raise 50,000 militia or rabble. This regency has 50 or 60 millions of dollars and has in chained cap tivity 1500 Chriltians, and is permitted to be a iicenfcd plunder of all Europe. (Signed) RICHARD OBRIEN. Extract of a letter from the fame, dated Turns Bay, June 2, 1802. ** We brought with us presents from our government to the Bey of Tunis, they consist of four mulkets and four pair of pi stols, furpafling for workmanlhip and ele gance any thing you can almost imagine, be ing inlaid with gold and lham diamonds. You mull suppose they were elegant when I tell you that one of the mulkets cost 8001. sterling, the cost of the whole amounting to upwards of 70001. sterling. The Bey was much plealed with these presents, and obierved to our consul that they were? 1 worthy of a prince. The Enterprize ar rived here last evening from Tripoli. They tell us that there are four Swediffi frigates and one American (the Boston) cruizing off Tripoli, and blockading the port so that nothing can cither go in or our. The Tripolitans are in a state of (larvation, and will probably be willing to come to any terms, in the courle oi a few weeks. “ Yeiterday we had the gratification of walking over the ruins of the celebrated city ol Carthage, Mr. Eaton, American coniul, and captain Murray, being of the party. We were (hewn the plain on which Regimis the firil Roman that en tered Africa in a hostile manner, fought his celebrated battle, and also the plain where S Jpio and Hannibal fought a pitch ed battle. We favv the remains ol many of the ancient temples and city wails* But what remains more perfect than any thing else is the aqueduct,by which wa ter was brought nto the city from a moun tain, by a route of seventy miles. Wc ail dined together in one of the reservoirs, after fatiguing ourfolves by walking over the ruins. 1 expect we (hall fail to-mor row for Tripoli.” PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16. In addition to the printed accounts which we have received from Baltimore* Verbal information renders it certain that an uncommon degree of sickness, very ■ malignant in its features, prevails in that city. We understand, that although the removals have not been very numerous, yet the effect of alarm cn the business cl that place, has nearly equalled that which* is at present experienced in this city. | New-York appears Angularly exempt from the effects ol panic, notwithstand ing the frequent occurrence during season, of cases of malignant fever. Oar accounts from Boil on,, by **-•*