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egular and fair administration of justice
would be interrupted and prevented, . Thus
C Jr Courts and judges should be clothed
Wth plenary and summary powers. Indeed,
swf-preservation makes this grant of power
Absolutely necessary ; but 'the protection of
tnfe liberty of speech, of the press, and of the
citizen, forbids that it should be extended fur
ther. liisof primary importance, that the
press, the palladium of our civil, political, and
religious rights, should not be fettered. The
trials,' arguments, proceedings and decisions,
which arc had in our Courts of justice,-should
constitute legitimate subjects for examinations,
and praise or censure. If the report or criti
cism be full and fair, there should be no com
plaint. If grossly erroneous, or calculated to
bring the Court or any of its members into
disrepute, let the party aggrieved resort to
that redress, so amply afforded by this code
against libels and their authors.
Verbal slander is as often, and perhaps of-
tener, the cause of a breach of the public
peace,than a libel or written slander; and yet the
former is only a civil injury, for which the
party slandered must seek redress by a civil
suit for damages within six months after the
words spoken—whilst the latter is not only a
civil injury, but also an indictable offence,
punishable by fine and imprisonment. Is there
any good and sufficient reason for this great
difference in the mode of punishing these two
species of slander, when iu fart they both lead
to the same consequences ? The undersign,
cd think uot; and therefore they made verbal
slander an indictable offence ; and have au
thorized the defendant in an assault and batte.
ry, to give in evidence to the jury opprobri
ous and abusive words used by the prosecutor.
Trespass to real property, as the law now
stands, is only a civil injury, but this is not, in
many cases, an adequate protection to the
rights of our citizens, and therefore it has
been deemed proper to make it au indictable
offence.
The disinterment of human bodies from the
grave or other place, where they have been
deposited by their friends, whether the act be
done from mere wantonness, or for the pur
pose of dissection, has been universally con.
sidcred as an outrage on the feelings of the
friends and relations of the deceased, and a
violation of the rights of sepulture, which de
serves to be criminally punished—and accor
dingly a section has been added to the code,
making this an indictable offence.
By thelaw os it now stands, it is an indict,
able offence in any minister, judge or justice
to join a man and woman in wedlock without
a licence.
By the code now presnted, this provision
has been extended so as to make it also pen-
al in any such person to join together any
man and woman where either, in the knowl-
edge of such minister, judge or justice, is in
sane or disabled by law to marry.
In the code now presented, it is made pen-
al and indictable to personate a witness and
answor interrogatories in such assumed char
acter—to make false representations of one’s
own solvency and thereby induce another to
become an endorser—to deface or remove
mile stones, or posts, or guide boards, on the
public highway ; and the penalty on n puta
tive father of n bastard child, has l^ccu fixed
at the sum of seven hundred dollars.
The right of peremptory challenges ofjurors
having been granted to prisoners, and in ef
fect denied to the State, by the existing laws,
i/hereby the ends of justice are sometimes
defeated, it has been thought advisable to
change the law in that regard, and to allow
tine State one half the number allowed by
liiw to the prisouer.
The codo of 1817 declares that when a
'''prisoner pleads guilty, the plea of not guilty
shall nevertheless be recorded, and the pris-
oner put on his trial before the jury. In such
eases the prosecuting officer generally makes
a witness of any individual in the court house,
who heard the prisoner plead guilty, and
proves by him the fact, which being the ac
knowledgement of the party against himself,
is, in law, the highest species of evidence, and
a conviction is the necessary consequence.
This proceeding is considered absurd,' and
therefore the undersigned have abolished it
from the code now presented.
For the purpose of producing uniformity m
the different courts of the State, a form of
oaths for jurors and witnesses, in criminal
cases, lias been prescribed, as also the form
and manner of trying jurors, in criminal ca-
scs, to ascertain whether they be indifferent
between the State and the prisoner.
The great number of commitments and in
dictments for capital felonies in this State,
with scarcely a conviction, would lead us to
suppose that public opinion had determined
that the scaffold, like the rack and tho stake,
should cease forever to be the ensign of pun-
ishment—that it should be known only as the
“ melancholy mark of barbarity in other ages
and countries.” Still we hate not felt it a
duty to banish death entirely from the penal
code, as the end of criminal justice in certain
cases of great enormity. In crimes however,
where it is still prescribed, we have vested in
the court the power to commute it to perpetu.
al imprisonment in the penitentiary, provided,
the conviction be founded wholly on circum-
stantial evidence. We feel fully persuaded
that this change will prove beneficial. The
idea of doubt and acquittal being synonymous
terms, will no longer be resorted to and urged
os the strong hold of tho prisoner’s defence,
\ False humanity coupled with fear of convic,
ting an innocent man, will cease to predomi
natein the minds of judges, jurors and witnes
ses over the public justice, find the increased
certainty of punishment which will follow,
will be a greater terror to evil doers than its
> -severity.
It sometimes happens that a convict after
sentence of death, and before execution, be
comes insane, .and that a female convict
proves to be quick with child, in: either of
these cases, humanity forbids that execution
should be done pursuant to the sentence, and
yet there is no provision in our penal code for
such a case. The sheriff must cither disre-
gard the dictates of humanity, or violate the
law, either of which alternatives would place
him in a very unpleasant situation. Again,
there'is no provision in case a convict sen
tenced to death should escape and be at large
until after the day fixed for his execution.
All these cases we .have endeavored, to
provide for in'SUch* manner as to effect . the
ends of justice, without disregarding the voice
of humanity and’ we have also limited the
court in regard to the time in which tire sen
tence shall be executed.
A crime of the deepest dye might be com
mitted directly on the boundary line of two
counties, and in such case, there being no
low on the subject, it may be doubted wheth
er the offender could be tried in. either of the
counties : and sometimes the mortal blow, or
other means of death is given in oue county,
and death ensues in another, and for such a
case our laws have made no provision. These
omissions we have supplied in the code now
presented. *
Convicts sentenced to confinement and la
bor in the penitentiary, are morally and physi
cally incapable of discharging the duties of
any public office or private trust, and yet our
laws have heretofore taken no notice of such
cases. In the code now submitted, we have
endeavored to supply this deficiency by de
claring that upon sentence, the convict for
feits all offices and trusts.
In jurisprudence, as in the medical science,
prevention should be esteemed better than cure.
And, in that system of criminal law from
which ours is mostly drawn.; and from which
most of our opinions and ideas on that sub.
jeet havd been derived, the attempt to commit
some crimes of great enormity has been de
dared criminal, whilst as a general principle
to be applied in all cases it has no application
in that system. If the principle of preventive
justice is sound, why not apply it in all coses ?
The' English law punishes an attempt to com
mit murder and some other of the higher of
fences—and also an attempt to commit a
battery, whilst there is notice taken of the
great body of offences lying between these
two extremes, and our own laws have hereto-
fore contained the same provisions. Being
altogether unable to discover or assign any
satisfactory reuson for the omission, the un
dersigned have thought proper to extend the
principle, which is admitted by the common
consent of the legal world to be a sound and
salutary one, to all crimes whatever. In do
ing so, they have endeavored carefully so to
graduate the punishments as to make them
bear a due proportion to the guilt of the of.
fence, had it been actually ' committed. In
one of the most enlightened of modern nations,
the intention with which any act is done is
alone inquired into before her correctional
tribunals. This principle to its full extent
the undersigned are not prepared to adopt
or recommend. Still, should the intention
be developed by some overt act, and the per
son fail in executing his purpose, he should
be held amenable to public justice. Let one
example suffice by way of illustration.
Should any one wilfully and corruptly procure
or suborn another to commit perjury, he is
guilty of a felony by our law—is he innocent
if he offer a valuable consideration, or attempt
by any other means to procure a person to
swear falsely, and fail in p erpetrating the mis-
chief through the honesty of the witness ?
Certainly not. The very fear of failure
would in this, and most other cases, prevent
the effort being made, anil thus society will
be protected by preventives, rather than vindi
catory justice.
Cases may occur, as one actual’y has,
where owing to public exci tement, it is impos-
sible to procure a competent jury in the
county to try the defendant, and yet by the
constitution, os it now stands, he can be tried
no where else. We would therefore respect-
fully recommend to the Legislature so to
amend the first section of the third article of
that instrument, as to lodge a power some
where, to change the venue iu capital felonies,
in such manner and upon such terms, as they
may think proper to' impose.
All which is respectfully submitted.
WM. SCHLEY,
JOS. HENRY LUMPKIN,
JOHN A. CUTHBERT.
cided lost—The question was then taken by
yeas and nays on the final passage of the
bill, and resulted, Yeas 44, Nays 28—16 ma
jority ia favor of the passage of the bill.
T{ie President of the Senate had his name
recorded against the passage of the bill.
Tuesday, Nov. 26.
The Senate agreed to the resolution of the
house directing on examination into the affairs
the Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank, but
SENATE.
Saturday, Nov. 23.
The Senate had before thorn the proposi
tion for requiring each voter at the next gen
eral election, to endorse on his ticket the
word “ Federal” or the words “white basis”
but did not act decisively upon it.
On the third reading of the bill to prevent
trespassers on real estate, proposing to make
them punishable criminally, the general ppli
cyof criminal prosecutions for such acts as civil
remedies have heretofore been found sufficient
to protectywas denied by Mr. Chappell. At the
suggestion of Mr. Baxter, who notified the
friends of the bill that as a general measure
ho should vote against It, the se^orter, Mr.
Walker, consented to an amendment confi
ning its operation to the county of Richmond.
It was then opposed by Messrs. Gordon of
Putnam, and Andrews of Glynn, because of
its local application, who objected to making
that criminal in one county which was not so
in the others, and so progressively forming
a criminal code for each county. Messrs.
Walker, Towns, and Wofford, defended the
general policy and local necessity of the
measure. On the final question it passed,
yeas 40 nays 31.
Monday, Nov. 25.
The Senate resolved itself into a commit
tee of the wliqlp on the special order of the
day, viz—the consideration of the hill to
dispose of the Fractions in the Cherokee
country by lottery, and having spent some
time therein tho President resumed the chair
and tho-bill was reported to Senate.
The bill was then taken up by sections,
and gone through with, when Mr. Muncrief
moved to lay the bill on the tablo.ibr the pur
pose of ascertaining whether some of the
names had not fallen out of the wheel during
the firo; which motion, on a division, was de-
amended it by suhsititnting for a joint com
mittee, certain commissioners to be appointed
by the Governor.
The order of the. day being the resolutions
offered by Mr. Chappell; was then taken up
in committee of the whole. A substitute was
offered by Mr. Baxter—Mr. Chappell, ad-
dressed the Senate at length in support of
the resolutions he had offered, and was fol
lowed by Mr. President Wood, for the sub.
stitute, after which the Senate adjourned.
The following is the substitute offered by
Mr. Baxter, for the preamble and resolutions
of Mr.' Chappell:
Whereas the people of Georgia are deep,
ly interested in the preservation and perpetu
ation of the Union and Constitution of the
United States, and the reserved rights of the
States :
And whereas, principle's have been advan
ced upon which is predicated the right of
either of the States composing the United
States, to nullity and abrogate within her own
limits any law passed by the federal govern-
tnent, which may be deemed by the State so
nullifying as unconstitutional: principles in
compatible with the genius and spirit of the
constitution, and which, if allowed to prevail,
must first inevitably terminate in a dissolution
of the Union; next, in fierce..and sanguinary
contests between the. States ; and finally, in
the establishment of despotism on the ruins
of the republic: y
The Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly
met, protest against such principles, for the
following reasons:
1st. Because the history of the United
States furnishes instructive..lessons upon the
dangerous tendency of such doctrines: The
New England States having , upon tue, same
principles justified their opposition to the em
bargoandthe late war; aud upon thesameprin.
ciples did a neighboring State plant herself
in opposing the revenue law of the United
States. .
2d. Because, that when reduced to prac.
tice, the unavoidable effect will be, to subject
23 of the 24 Slates to ' the government and
control of one.
3u. Because they must lead to a dissolu
tion of the Union, and the prostration of the
Constitution of the United States.
4th. Because they repudiate the republi-
can maxim that majorities should govern, “ the
vital principle of republics,” and for their
practical success must resort to force, “the
vital principle and immediate parent of des
potism.”
5tb. Because they are destructive to the
independence and reserved, rights of the
States; by withdrawing from the smaller
States the protection of the Union, they are
placed at the mercy and disposition, of the
large ones.; when they must become depen
dant on foreign powers; or the fcoble and
hapless appendages of their more powerful
neighbors.
And whereas, the crisis demands of the
respective States a clear and explicit avowal
of their opinions upon the structure and fun
damental principles of our form of govern
ment:
Be it Resolved, « That the Constitution of the
United States is the result of a compact en-
tered into by the respective States, by which
they surrendered a part of their sovereignty,
and vested the part so surrendered in the
United States.”. . u , i
Resolved, “That the.government of the
United States is partly popular, acting direct
ly on the citizens of the several States ; part,
ly federal, depending for its existence and ac
tion, on the existence and action of the
States.’
Resolved, That among the attributes of
sovereignty retained by the States, is that of
watching over the operations of the federal
government, and protecting its citizens against
their unconstitutional abuse, and that this can
be effectually done:
1st. By remonstrating against it to Con
gress ; by an address to the people in the
exercise of their elective franchise, to
change or instruct their representatives.
By an address to the other States, urging
them to co-operation in effecting a repeal of
the unconstitutional law.
By proposing amendments to the Consti
tution. * ~
And, finally, if the law be intolerably op-
pressivc, and they find the federal govern
ment determined to persevere in its enforce!
ment, then, and not until then, by a resort to
the natural right which every people have, to
resist intolerable oppression. >
Resolved, “ That the alleged right of
State, to put a veto on the execution of a ]aw
of the United States, which such State may
declare unconstituonal, attended,(as, if it exist,'
it must be,) with a correlative obligation on
ny of the States; for which he deserves the
undiminished confidence of the people of
Georgia.'
Wednesday, Nov K 27.
Mr. Gordon of Jones, from the Committee
on Banks, reported a bill requiring the Direc
tors of the Central Bank, together with the
Governor, to sell all the bank stock owned
by the State (provided it be not sold below
par) and vest the proceeds in the Central
Bank—which w&s read the first time.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
the resolutions offered by Mr. Chappell, and
Mr. Baxter's substitute. Except the reports
of some committees, and some other busi
ness of little importance, the speech of Mr.
Gordon of Putnam, in support of ChappelTs
resolutions, and that of Mr. Towns for the
substitute, engaged the attention of the Senate
during the sitting.
Thursday, Nov. 28.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
Mr. ChappelTs resolutions and Mr. Baxter's
substitute. Mr. Neel spoke in support of
the resolutions, and was followed by Mr.
Baxter for the substitute, who occupied the
floor till the hour of adjournment.
i. EVENING SESSION.
Mr. Daniel occupied the floor in support
of Mr. Chappell’s resolutions till about 4
o’clock. Mr. Chappell then rose and ad
dressed the Senate till 8. On motion of Mr.
Echols, the Senate then adjourned without ta
king the vote.
Friday, Nov. 29.
The Senate resumed the discussion of Mr.
Chappell’s resolutions, and Mr. Gordon of
Putnam, occupied the floor about two hours,
in support of the resolutions of Mr. Chappell,
and was succeeded by Mr. Towns for the
substitute; who continued perhaps two hours,
and was followed by Mr. Chappell and by
Mr. Daniell/both for the original resolutions.
Mr. Wofford offered the following resolu
tion as a substitute to the last resolution in
Mr. Baxter’s substitute, relating to Gen.
Jackson :
Resolved, That this General Assembly
highly disapprove the insinuations,-censures,
and denunciations directed against the ven-
erable chief magistrate of the United States
for his patriotic sentiment, “The Federal
Union—it must be preserved,” and for those
provident measures of his administration, by
which he succeeded iu preserving that Union
in a most eventful crisis, and in saving our
beloved country, from all the crimes and hor
rors of a bloody civil war. The General
Assembly feels unfeigned gratification, in af-
firming, that Andrew Jackson is entitled to
the gratitude, the confidence and the affec
tions of the people of the United States, and
more especially of the people of Georgia, for
the skill and valour, with which in the field
he has triumphantly defended our national
safety and honor, and the wisdom, purity,
economy and energy with which, in the cab.
inet, he has maintaiued all those rights of the
people, which have been confided to his care,
So long as he shall continue to act on those
republican principles, and that sacred regard
for tho constitution, which have heretofore
marked his administration, he shall receive
our most cordial support.
Mr. Jones, of Morgan, offered the follow,
ing amendment to the substitute offered by
Mr. Wofford:
Resolved, That wo willingly accord to Gen
eral Jackson, all the fame to which his mil
it^y services during the late wars, so justly
entitle him, appproving all the acts of his ad-
ministration, which have been in strict-accor.
dance with the republican principles of ’98
and ’99; at the same time, we do disapprove
and condemn the doctrines maintained in the
proclamation and force bill, as destructive of
State rights and State sovereignty.
The Senate agreed to receive Mr. Wof.
ford’s substitute.
The question then was on receiving the
substitute offered by Mr. Baxter, as amended
by the adoption of Mr. Wofford’s resolution
and decided os follows: Those who voted in
the affirmative, were: '
Messrs. Allen, Andrews, Awbrey, Baker,
Baxter, Beall, Burch, Butt, Cargile, Cleve
land, Cochran, Cone, Cooper of Gilmer,
Cooper of Stewart, Dunnagad, Echols of
Coweta, Echols of Walton, Fields, Freeman,
Fulwood, Gordon of Jones, Groves, Hall.
Hammond, Hemphill, Henderson, Howard.
Leggett, Liddell, McComb, McConnell, Mor.
gan, Moseley, Muncrief, Pearson, Potter, Pri
or, Rogers, Safiold, Smith of Sumter, Spann,
Swain, Towns, Walker, Wall, Wilborn, Wil
cox, Wofford and Woolbright.—49.
Those who voted in the negative, were :
Messrs. Avery, Chappell, Collier, Darnell
Eckley, Gordon of Putnam, Gresham, Hill
house, Holloway, Hubbard, Jonv, Kellum
Kittles, Lewis of Burke, Lewis of Greene,
Lucas, McFarlan, Mitchell, Neel of .Decatur,
Neal of Newton, Nesbit, Newton, Sharp,
Smith of Bryan, Stapleton, Surrency, Wald
thauer of Effingham, Waldthauer of Liberty,
Whitaker and Wiggins.—30.
the part of the United States, to refrain from
executing it; and the further alleged obliga
tion on the part of that government, to sub.
mit that question to the States, by proposing
amendments, are not given by the constitu
tion, nor do they grow out of any of the re
served powers.”
Resolved, That this right of State veto is
not sustained by the Virginia or Kentucky
resolutions, os interpreted by their authors
by the contemporaneous exposition of the con
stitution by its framers, and tiiose who partici
pated in its discusssions previous to its ad
option.
Resolved, That the firm and independent
course of the present executive of the United
States, in relation to works of internal im
provement and the United States Bank, prom,
ise to bring back the government within its
legitimate sphere,and re-establish the harmo-
general elections for members of Congress,
&c. from the 1st Monday in October to the
first Monday in September. ’
A bill to lay out a public road from Colum-
bus t6 Newton, iu Baker county.
A bill to compensate the owners of such
slaves as may be executed for capital offen
ces, and to provide a fund for the same.
. A bill to alter and amend .the act restrain-
ing the circulation of bills under the denom-
ination of five dollars, [so as to permit the cir
culation of $3.]
A bill to prevent white men from hiring
themselves to Indians and from working lands
of Indians.
A bill to clear out obstructions to the free
passage of fish in the Chattahoochee river.
A bill to alter and amend the 4th and 8th
sections of the first article of the Constitution,
so as to dispense with the property qualifications
of Senator and Representatives in the Legis
lature.
A bill to sell , all the public hands, mules,
horses, dec. fcc.
A bill to provide for the payment of cost
on criminal prosecutions in the Cherokee
Circuit.
A bill repealing the act compelling the
Judges to meet in convention
A bill to alter and amendthe tax laid upon
lands.
A bill to put elections of Judges in the
hands of the people,
A bill declaring that all elections by the
General Assembly, shall be by the members
voting viva voce.
A bill to alter apd change the. 6th section
of the 3d article of the constitution, po as to
place the elections of clerks of the courts of
Ordinary in the hands of the people.
And a bill to establish a Botanic Society
A . Monday, Nov. 25.
A bill was reported by Mr. Perdue of Mer.
iwether, to amend the cstray laws.
The house took up the special order of
the day, being the reconsidered bill to limit
and define the possession of the* Indians,
and went into committee of the whole.
The object of this bill is, to limit the right
of Indian possession, and allows as we under
stood it, to each Indian family, the whole
tract improved or unimproved of 160 acres
on'which their dwellings were at the time of
the survey, and such improved land, and that
only as the surveyors lines may have thrown
on other tracts. But grants are nevertheless
to issue to the drawers for these tracts reser
ved to the Indians. The bill also provides
against double reserves to the same Indians,
against frauds by white people.* under Indian
rights, and divests White men who have taken
Indian wives and became members of their
nation, of all rights as citizens of Georgia.
Tuesday, Nov. 26.
The House had-before them to-day the bill
on its third reading to divorce Abram Walker,
and his wife late of Athens. The evidence
was partly read but the rest was dispensed
with, and the question taken on the passage
of the bill. Passed, yeas 123, nays 24.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
' Saturday, Nov. 23.
Mr. Starke reported a hill to remove the
seat of Government to the Indian Springs,
Butts county, or within 5 miles thereof.—
Read 1st time.
Bills read the 2d time.
A bill to appropriate $20,000 for a survey
of a rail road route from Savannah to Macon,
and thence to some.point on the Ghattehoo-
chee river, and empowering the corporations
of Savannah and Macon to employ an engi
neer at the expense of the State., -
A bill to pay the delegates of the Reduc
tion Convention [at the same rate as mem
hers of the Legislature] and to defray the cth
er expenses of the convention.
A bill to distribute the academical and poor
school fund, according to white population
A bill abolishing fill election precincts in
this State. ‘
A bill requiring all elections to be held and
carried on viva voce. ;
A bill to change the time of holding the
ffiftngral jnUlUgencc.
Cot. Berk.—The Commercial Advertiser
states that the life of Col. Burr will be writ
ten by Matthew L. Davis, Esq. and consul
ers him well qualified for the task. Colonel
Burr lately had a paralytic attack, from which
he is slowly recovering. It has not affected
his speech, nor his spirits, nor his mind ; but
at the age of seventy-seven, he is as commu
nicative and as collected as ever. The at
tack was severe, and his physician was appro
hensive' that he could live but a day or two.
He sent for his friends, conversed with great
laid .him in an honored grave. But Burr has
contemplated his own ruins, for more than a
quarter of a century?—has had, during that long
and bitter term, the poisoned chalice presented
daily to his lips, he has eat anddrank and
slept with the Hisses of the'World ringing fa
his ears.
He has been guilty ; buthisguUt has gen.
e rally been misunderstood. It bad^Bothing
sordid or craven spirited in it. . Burr’s trea.
son was not the treason -of Arnold: and
though deserving of censure, he isalsodeser-
ving of commiseration. He was ambitious—.
^' wa * a grievous titbit,
But grievously hath Caesar answered it."
From the Brighton (Eng.) Guardian.
Steam Carriages.—Steam travelling on
common roads appears to be making rapid
progress. , We had scarcely recovered from
our surprise at witnessing Mr. Hancock’s ex.
hibition of his carriage a short time back,
when our attention was called to the arrival
of another, the property of Lieutenant Col.
onel Sir Charles Dance. Th:s gentleman has
spared neither trouble nor expense in his en,
deavours to perfect the machine in which he
arrived here on Friday last, accompanied by
several passengers; among whom were Mr.
Gordon (author of a treati8e oq, steam travel,
ling,) and Mr. Field, of the house of Maude,
sley and Field, whose name as an engineer
would give sanction to any undertaking in
which he was concerned. This engine di£
fers materially, from Mr. Hancock’s. It is
composed of two separate carriages, the one
containing the passengers, the other the en.
gine and machinery. This latter acts as a
drag, and can readily be detached. On theu*
arrival at the Gloucester Hotel, the vehicles
were separated, and the steam-carriage was
removed to Messrs. Palmer, Green, and Co.’s
foundry, where it was examined by several
persons, some of whom, conversant with ms.
chinery,admired the simplicity of its construe,
tion, and the precaution that is taken in the
formation of the boiler against the possibility
of any accident occuring from that quarter.—
It is difficult to divest people’s minds of fear
where high pressure engines are used ; but
here the steam is generated iq tubes, and any
one at all conversant' with.* the subject must
know that whilst thpre is small probability of
a part of the tube bursting, yet were it to
take place, it would bq attended with no mis.
chief whatever. Sir Charles Dance had de.
termined to return to town the following day;
and at ten o’clock on Saturday morning everv
thing was ready. The carriages were linked
together, and the passerigers, among whom
were one or two gentlemen of this town, took
their seats. The party then took a turn round
the enclosures of the Grand Parade, intending
to have-proceeded further into totvn ; but the
crowds of boys and children that'accompanied
and surrounded the carriage made the gen-
tlemep in the inside fear that from their heed,
lessness some accident might happen, not.
withstanding all the precautions taken by the
steersman ; and they, therefore, determined
to proceed on their journey ut once, mid Sit
Charles gave orders to that effect. The car.
riage proceeded at a moderate pace till it* got
beyond Preston, when the speed wasincreas.
ed. Nothing could exceed the ease with
which it passed along ; it ascended and de.
scended the hills without tiic smallest inter
ruption, and the steersman seemed to have
the most perfect command of it, guiding it
with facility, and checking or accelerating it
at his pleasure. The rate of travelling was
carefully timed, and varied between ten and
twelve miles an hour. The first stage was
about ten miles, when they stopped to take in
a fresh supply of fuel and water; and here
cheerfulness, and gave several directions con
ceming his papers ; he also answered, with
perfect readiness, every question relative to
the most important incidents in his life ; and
we have no doubt that his biography will pre
sent truly many, events which for years, have
been misrepresented to the world. There is
no person better qualified as his biographer
than Mr. Davis, not only on the score of abil
ity, but a close and confidential intimacy with
Col. Burr for more than thirty five years. We
know of no work that will comprise so many
subjects of deep interest, or will have a more
extensive circulation. Every politician, states
man, and professional man, will have Colonel
Burr’s Life in bis library.—Evening Star.
Of the above named celebrated individual the Phil
adelphia Daily Intelligencer remarks :
The long and troubled career of this gifted,
but wretched man, approaches its close. His.
tory, in its lengthened gallery, has not a sin
gle portrait on which the student will gaze
with more admiration and regret, or the phi-
losopher with more surprise and doubt, than
that of Aaron Burr. To this moment he is a
puzzle. The early part of his career was
all brightness ; and eveu up to the moment
when, caught in toils of a superior mind, he
was dashed to the earth blasted and destroy
ed—we know not whether more to admire or
condemn. Even if his guilt were written on
the page of his country’s history in colours
too glaring to be doubted—his penance has
been a long and bitter one. He has lived to
see his name shrouded in infamy ; coupled
with the imprecations of his country, and held
aloft os a beacon light to guard the unwary
from the wreck of ambition. He has lived to
see and feel all this, to creep where he .has
soared, to be the object of prying and insult
ing curiosity, or of averted and scornful dis
trust, where once he was the first and the
brightest, the centre of all hopes, the observed
of all observers. ^ :
He has trod, silently and abstracted, around
the walking crowds of the metropolis of his
country, earning his daily bread in bitterness
of soql, and schooling his high and soaring
spirit to endure its degradation, the mockery
and scorn of his country, and his age. His.
tory has no parallel for such a picture. Ca-
millus’ disgrace was brief and terminated by
a glorious reward; Marius left the ruins of
Carthage to feed fat his revengfe upon his en
emies ; and even Belisarius was doomed to
beg his obolus for a few days, when death J
our informant left' the carriage. Accounts,
however, were received on the following day
from one of the gentlemen who travelled with
it to London, that they performed the journey
in five hours ar.d fifty five minutes, including
fifty-six minutes for stoppages, so that the time
occupied in travelling was within five hours.
When the steersman becomes better acquain
ted with the road, so as to know when to put
on the full steam and when to husband it—
also when better arrangements are made fiv
supplying fuel and water at the different sta
tions, even with tho carriage in its present
state, the actual time of travelling will be
much shorter; and it may he made to accoai.
plish the journey in'less time than the fastest
stage coach. With the improvements which
may be reasonably expected—for this mode
eftravelling is quite in its infancy—a sufficient
speed may be given to answer the expecta
tions of the most rapid traveller on common
roads; but it certaidy will neve” be able to
compete with that effected ton rail roads.— 1
We understand that a prospectus is issued
for forming a company to travel by steam on
common, roads; and it is well known that ac
tive measures are taking to establish a rail
road. It is impossible that both can suc
ceed ; and it may therefore be a question
which should ho adopted. The rail road
would no doubt carry the day; b.it the cap
ital required for the one is a million, while the
other .might be carried irto execution fc?
about £20,000. '
GEORGIA, GWINNETT COUNIT.
W HEREAS Hudson H. Al!?n and Sail;
Wardlaw apply for Letters of Administrate!)
on tho Estate of James Wardlaw, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased ^to
be and appear at my office within tho time prescribed
by law, to shew cause, if any they have, why said
letters should not be granted. „
Given under my hand this 30th day of Nov. 183.i-
WM. MALTBIE, te. c-o.
Dec. 7-38—30«L ' •
GEORGIA, FRANKLIN COUNTY.
4^S/HEREAS Seth Strange, sen. applies to at
T w for Letters of Administration on the EsW*
of John Strange, deceased : ,
These are therefore to cite and admonish nfl j
singular the kindred and creditors of said dr.cca:
to bo and appear at my office within tho time prescri
bed by law, to shew cause if any.they have, why said
letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand, this 3d day of Doc. Ico-J..
THOS. KING, c. c. <k
Dec. 7—38—303. ' !