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I SATURDAY, Dcccmhci 4, 1 80a.
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
I AND
I GAZETTE OF THE ST A T E,
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I FREEDOM of the PRESS and TRIAL by JU R Y shall remain inviolate. ConJHtutio* of Georgia,
I, AUGU S T A: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, near the market. [3 Dolts, per Annum. ]
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7 ujl r.ece'tvrd, and now opening) m ad.
dititn to my former Stock ,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
DRY GOODS
and G RO C t
Which 1 offer for file 07i mode tale terms
for CASH or PRODUCE,
THAT IS TO SAY :
35 pieces faperfke blue, black,
mixed and coaling cloths
15 do. blue, blaA, orovvn, buff, white
and green calii meres
3 do. Iwanfdown
2jo London dullil blankets 7-4. and B*4
160 do. role do. 8-4 and 9-4
800 yards planes
j 2 dozen worded hosiery, aborted
24 do. cotton do, fancy ribbed
30 pieces durants
10 do. red, green, blue and white flannels
Bombazett and bombazenes
BLk anddo'.e colored India luteftring
Ladies black, white and fancy fiik gloves
• 2 pieces florentine, fancy ihipe
jc do. fupcriinc fancy prints
40 do. lappet) plain, black and jaconet
mullins
6 dozen fancy silk hdks. assorted colors
24 do. pocket do. do. do.
2 do. ladies red and dove coloured lac
• ed cloaks
Sail duck
D c ell IB eeting
, 1 q pieces Hollands
i 2 bolts German oznaburgs
60 pieces z I,ifh linen
ipetfe. coiorcd nuns, and shoe thread
80 pieces cotton bagging
1 joft twine
Mens, womens and youths hats
Cutlery of various kinds.
8 puncheons 4th prool Jamaica rum
6 do. New-Engiand do.
3 pipes bed Hollands gin
Sugars, white a*d brown by hhd. orbbl,
C iffee by the barrel
• 12 calks nails, 4,6, 8, 10 &20 penny
3 cherts tea
A handsome assortment of cartings
800 gallons ilone juggs
coo bulhcls alum fait
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20 crates crockery ware,
SAMUEL M. SMYTH.
November 27.
1 he Subfcribcr
Is now opening , in the bouje lately occu
pied by Mr. Veter lVnghl t and next
door below the Brick Hovfe of Mejfrs,
Brown & Gardner,
AN ASSORTMENT OF
GOODS,
A/nongf which are-~
Role and dulhi blankets
Kendaii colons
Coarfc am! line cloths
Cuflimcres and fwanfdown
■ Cparfe and fine hats
Linens, callicoes, muflinsandhumhums.
An AJj. rtment of
Hardware, Saddlery , GROCERIES, &c.
To be fold cheap for cash or pro-
X DUCE.
JOHN CARMICHAEL.
November 20.
f N O\T IQ E.
IDO hereby torVarn any one whatever
from ftoreing cpttpu in future in my
V are-House, (coirymonlycalled call’s)
except wi r h Mr. Herbert, to whom
i have leafed a part of Idle buildings,
t TIioMAS>GLASCOCK.
November/iz. '
TO RENT,
• And immediate Poff'Jion given ,
The STORE and HOUSE,
at present occupied by Mr Thomas
Jones, as good a stand for bolinefs as
any in this pbce.
DAVID URQUHART.
Oftchcr z,
GEORGIA.
GEORGIA.
By his Excellency JOHN MILLEDGE,
Governor and Commander tn Chief cf
the Army and Nary of this State and of
the \l •/ '•-; thn-f f\
A Proclamation.
\KT HEaEA • John .vlilledge, one
of the Reprefenmtives ot this (late
in the Congress of the United Stares,
who was elected and coaimidioned to fill
that feir and aft as Rich until the fourth
day of March next, ha h made vacant
that appointment by accepting the office
of Governor.
AND WHEREAS in and by “An
Aft to regulate the General Elections n
this (late, and to appoint the time of he
meeting of the General Aflcrr.blvp..ff
t.d he nth day cf February, i 799* it is ;
among other things declared “ that all
I writs of elections to lid vacancies that j
may happen for Members of the General
Assembly of this Rate, or House of Re.
piefentativcs of the United States, (hall
be directed to the Just ices ol the Interior
courts of the rofpeftive counties, who
arc required to give public notice thereof, |
and eaul'e the fame to be held in manner )
and form as herein before pointed out, a- £
grccably to such writ."
.. I have therefore thought fit to issue this
my proclamation, hereby notifying, di
. resting and ordering the Julticcs of the
Inferior courts of the refpeCtive counties
in this fla'e, to confider the fame asage
ral writ of election for the purpose ot lil!-
irtg the vacancy of a Member in the House
of Repreftntativcs of the United States,
occafioncd as herein before pointed our.—
And I do hereby require and charge
the said Jultices to give due notice that
the find election will he held in the re
fpeftive counties of this state, on Wed
nesday, the fifteenth day of December
next.
And 1 do hereby further require that
due return of such election be made to the
Executive Department, as in and by the
said aft is prescribed.
Given under my hand, and the Great
Seal of the State , at the State House
in Lou Isv I LIE, this ninth day of
November, n the year of our Lord
one ih-ijand eight hundred and two,
and of the Independence of the Unit
ed States of America the t<wen*y-fe
venlh.
JOHN MILLEDGE.
By the Governor,
Horatio Mareury, Scc’y,
GOD SAFE It IE STATE.
Tors 4l e, ~
THREE hundred acres of land in Bry
an county, inland swamp j 300 a
cres in Burke county, oak a.nd hickory,
of second quality , zoo acres in Colum
bia county, half pine half oak and hick
ry ; 200 acres in Bulloch ; 1 zoo acres of
pine land in Effingham ; 200 acres in said
county, pine ; 200 aCres in said county,
pine. The terms will be made easy to
the purclufer. Apply to
JABEZ BOWEN, jun.
FOR S A L E,
THE P Rotation whereon the febTcri
ber lives, near Augufla, confiding
of fifty acres, thirty of which arc clear
cd, and under good fence and ditch.
ALSO ,
His House and Lot, the upper end of
Broad-flscet. Eor terms ap !y to
M, VERDERY.
OS!VELL EVE & Co.
HAVE now on hand, a quan
tity of R U M. didilied at thei - DilfiL
lery, which they flatter themselves is at
least equal to any imported from either
of the dates; They now offer it for falc
low by the Puncheon.
V GIN and WHISKEY as usual.
\ few barrels of TAR are wanted.
Good- Ale, mar Av.gufia, 27.
y ,„,v.
COMMUNICATION
Os his Excellency Governor Tattnall,
to both Houses of the Lpgiilaturc, on
his resigning thegovernmcniof the Hate.
Fcll'i’w-Citizi'tndf the Senate , and of the
IJoufe of iieprefenMtweu
IT will appear extraordinary that I
sh ulid address the Legnfaiure of the ilate
front Savannah, and not as usual from the
Executive oifice at Louifviile, the feat of
Government, at which place the conlli
toted authorities arc annually convened
on the full Monday in November lor
ihepurpofcs of Legillation, and where the
pretence of rhe Chief Magistrate of the
state, is'conlequcnily indifpenfabiy neccf
fary. The imperious caufc however bc
i.’g known, it will not be con fide red a de
reliction o: duty, or a want of zeal lot the
public good.
In the month of June lad I was severe
ly attacked at this place with a copious
difch.irge of blood from the mouth, which
mu it have proceeded from a rupture of
Tome velle! near the vital parts, and which
threatened my immediate dissolution, and
whas ilnce left me so weak and debilitated
£ that I a n incapable of supporting a ride of
£ more than three or four miles on a smooth
F road. In such a fuuarion and under Inch
circumrtances, with no profped before mo
of Bettering my health, without going a
broad and leeking it in fume climate fa
vorable to the removal ol the disease, I
feel it fellow-citizens a duty incumbent
on me to refig'n the government of the
Hate into your hands—and I requell this
may be cortndered my resignation accord
iW£fy—in order that by your immediate
choice of another person to fill the office of
Governor, all obstacles to the operation
of the several Departments of the Govern
ment may timely ccafc. And vvhillt X
feel rnyfclf conftralned thus to ad, 1 beg
of you, and my fellow.citizens throughout
fhtf Hate, to be allured that were I bleffcd
wl/hfufiictent health hoth duty and inclina
tion would forcibly urge me to a continu
ance in office for the cohftitutional term :
indeed were this not the case, I should be
deficient in gratitude to my country for
the distinguished marks of favor and con
fidence I have so frequently experienced,
which claim, and I trull 1 may be per
mitted to add, fccure my lading alFedion
and devotion to her fcfvice....Feeble as 1
amT at present, being almoll incapable of
writing, and at a distance from my office,
to which it would ,be neceffury to reforr
for various information, 1 (hall be com
pelled to abridge very considerably my
observations, and to notice only such fub
jedls as are the moil prominent.
A purchife of land’ having been made
by the United Stares Commilfioners from
the Creek Indians, at the treaty held in
June last, the particulars of which as to
Situation, boundaries and quantity I have
direded to belaid before you, and should
the fame be ratified by r the proper authori
ties, it will rest with you gentlemen to
determine upon the disposition to be made
of the ceded Territory ; and I beg leave
to express a hope, that large monopolies by
individuals may be guarded against, the
baneful effects of which are already too
visible in our country, and the hiilories
of other nations, ancient and modern, fut
nifh abundant proof of thedertrudive con.
sequences of these encroachments upon the
naturai and common rights of men. In
republics especially monopolies should be
carefully avoided, for as large Handing
armies are opposed to both the spirit and
the fafety of them, it is neceilary to in
crease the llrength of the nation by that
kind of population, which will not only
produce numbers but such for defence as
feel an interert in the foil.
The Militia Laws of the Hate require
revision. The ad of 1792, withchead
dirionof sundry clhufes taken from ads
lubfequetnly puffed with a few corrections,
might be framed into an efficient fyflem ;
as there at present exill a varfc*/ of laws
on this fubied, and chafes of some re
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pealing parts of others, and in some in
stances in terms so general that donuts a
rise as to the extent of the operation,
they arc rendered complex ; whereb; U th
offieers and privates arc fubjeted to y
t'rrors. A committee ot military men ic,
lected from the two, branches of the Le
gislature for the purpose, would by devue,
ing a lew hours to this highly important
luojeet, remedy all the inconveniences com*
plained 01. And whillt we have in view'
the militia ot (he Hate, permit mo earned,
J>’ to recommend to your attention the a*
doption ot means whoteby they mi) be
armed and equipped for actual service
the mod it not all of our lifter, Hates have
already attended to this highly ctiential
objcdt-.-che principal bar which has hi,
t her to, and which does Hill ,e\id, to the
citizens pioviding iheirdelvcs wiili ;nuf«
icets and accoqtrcmcnu, proceed# uam
the utter impofliunity, more particularly
in the upper country, of par, hating Jk .o .It
any price—to rente ly therefore this evtj,
and to render toe (apply as speedy as pof
liblc, and .he caliber of the myfc/s of one
lizc throughout the Hate, i ,voaid recom
mend that provision be made to enable the
Executive to contract tor one tourth at a
time ot the number of muikets, hoikmens
piltols, (words, Scz, required,—wb tell
lliall under !vis directions be dtlpolcd ol irt
dtderent par.s of the Hate at cull and
charges ; and the proceeds again veiled in
another fourth ol the qaandt/ required,
and thus continued till the whole ate pro
vided...! an aware that dou.is will a ale
as to the lutnciemly rapid lale of the arms.
Sec. bat il the olficer» will rigidly enforce
the penalty ol the law on all delinquents
so long as a mil Ike t or other article requir
ed remains unfold at the sue or depofite
neared to h;s dillrict, I have not the lead
douot ot the object being vciv Ihorcly at
tained; it is but reafonaolc affq to prcfuuie
that a large proportion ol our fellow-ci
tizens wilt readily perceive their conve
nience as well as iutereft con fill ted in the
measure, I have reason to believe there
will be sundry propofiiions made for (ap
plying the Hate with arms, &c. one has
already been received from Mr. Georg*
Wheeler, of Virginia, which 1 have di
rected to be laid before the Legiflauire,
At the extra fcilion of the Legillarure
held in June lull, Charles Llirns, Esq,
was elected Judge or the EaiU.rn Dillrict,
in the room ot Judge M‘Alllifer, who
had re fig i icd; since ihkt lime, there has
been no court in that diftricl, Mr. Hum
having declined accepting tlicit appoint
ment, I bis fuuation is not only injuri,
ous to the inhabitants ol part ot the
Hate in general, but has no doubt been
productive of lerious injury to individuals
as well in a civil as in a criminal point
of view, flufe enlarged with offences
are deprived ot a speedy enquiry into their
innocence or guilt, and iuuors so unrea,
fonably delayed that it aim oft amounts to
a denial of jullice, and ruin often follows
as the ultimate contl-qucuce. Unpleal’ant
as this fuuation of the Dillrict has been,
I have not had it in my power to arfbrd
relief. Gentlemen to whom the public
could confide the important duty ol de
ciding upon the lives and fortunes of their
fellow-citizens caiynot be induced to aban
don their privatfe pursuits, and devote
their time and talents to fcrvice of
the Hate without a just and reasonable
competition, nor ought it to lie expected,
their salaries fliould at least be fully ade
quate to their cxpence*, which 1 am per
suaded is far from being the case at pre,
sent. Hence 1 have not been able to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
ot Judge M'Alhfter, and the subsequent
refufal ot Mr. Harris to accept. Whilst
upon this fubjeCt permit me to recommend
to your serious attention the melipration
ol our criminal cotie. The handlbrec and
learned manner in which this subject has
recentlj been difeufted in the public tri
bunals of the country and dfewhere, fu
pcrccdc the nccclficy of my entering fur
tiler into it upon the prefen: oecafioa.