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T»IEA tre ox Fire. Presence of Mind | During the Performance of tlie .‘Married 1 Rake at the Trenmnt Theatrtou Friday evqping, iiiiinediately upon the exit of Mrs Barrett in the supper scene, leaving Miss Mcßride and ‘Long George’ on the stage, fee latter in opening a door ‘in flat,' found it obstructed by a wing in the rear ofeit, which he shoved out of the wav — not perceiving that in so doing he had ijpset the hglits attached to it and brought them in contact with the floor and bottom of the scenery. ► The light had fallen behind the scenes and.the accident was not obser ved by the audience generally, nor by those behind the scenes ; indeed we be lieve that it was unnoticed by all hnt three or four individuals in the pit. the half inch space maintained by the lers, between the bottom of the scenery j. ill flat and the lloor, they observed t 1m- lights in apparent dangerous proximity to the combustible scenery, but supposing those behind would attend to it, said noth ing until the incipient flame hurst from the bottom of the painted canvass in sev eral places, and it became apparent that the people on the stage, were* entirely ig norant their danger. I'll cry fire and let the audit nee know their peril!' exclaimed one of the few who had noticed it, much agitated. ‘Not jor irorlds !’ said a gentleman who sat in front of the speaker, rising quickly *and grasping Iris arm. ‘.l /unite at tin. moment is wore to be tlritith and than thtflre ! Keep stilt, Tl/Jie it.’ Then fuming and raising his caueto catch the eye of Mr Barrett—who was rattling away in char acter—he pointed to the burning scenery and said very cooly, ‘ (•corgc, your scenery t is on Jin (jfeorge observed it, and with the grea-! . left self possession, went to the wing and ordered water to be brought. 11 did'nt l£omequick enough and the fire, though small indeed was fast increasing, when, Mr Barrett, with great presence of mind, settled the difficulty at once, In seizing . from the supper table a decanter of stay: trine, and on the pnnrijdr that a stitch in time sens i.iftr emptied it upon the flame to its utter extinguishiriei.it. Miss Mc- Bride and Mr Barrett then instantly pro ceeded with their acting as undisturbed as though nothing had occurred, nml wore loudly applauded ! It being the last night of his engage ment, at the conclusion of the piece, Mr. B. was called out by the audience, and made a very happy and pertinent address. [Boston Herald. A Posr.n. The late King of Englaud j was subject t > tits of abstraction in the most numerous company, and uiider such circuiyst;mcos would give utterance to! the feelings of an lmnest hearty At the j time Talleyrand first (fame* aver ficrc as’j Ambassadors, he was one day dining at | ' St. June's with most of tlie foreign Am-> basSadors. * News had been received that jiCasimir l’cfricr was lying dangerously ill j with the cholera. The first words llfej King uttered tit the table was to ask Tal-j levrand w hat was the last news of Casimir l’errier. ‘lleis dying, if not dead, your Majcs-j ty,' he answered in his sepulcharal voice. The King sighed heavily, and remain ed silent at first ; but presently be bpgtin saving to himself, ‘Whatapity.wiiat pity ! *fhe only trulv honest statrsman in France j dead—the only man capable of ruling suclia pick of sun ruinary rogues. Is ii ■notfso V .added the King, suddenly turning) to his nearest neighbor, the Baron do N—. ... t * The latter diplomatist, much emharnm sod. looked unutterable things and unit-' torn! unintelligible ones. Tiie whole: corps di’doniatiqne, not daring to look at one another, looked down on their plates, bursting with scarcely i iprc-ffhle laugh ter, and Tallevraml s spo*m worked Iron; hissoup plate to his mouth as rapidly a- 1 tlie paddle of a high procure steamboat. Caution. .Nutmeg, in large do>es. is a j virulent poison. 'J’lic writer has witnes sed the effects t.f it in two instances. The 1 first case last -pring—tlie second 1 a t e vening. The fir t was a voting unmarried lady of rather feeble health. The second was a young unmarried lady of a perfect ly sound constitution and sound health. Tlie first ate one whole nutmeg—the second one and a half-—to use her own language, ‘good fat ones.' Symptoms. S olden and alarming agi tation ol tie ihi-,uus system —niinilinis' of the tongue and face —iutuh raMe dis tress ill tin eyes—de-crilx and u> a sens.ition of whirling or viftiont misting—death like sickness at tlie stomach, and faint ness—intolerable vertigo, ringing in the ears—and the most intense mental agonv. The stomach is rende red almost perfectly insensible to the action of tiie most slim-; ulating emetics: Tins is a very imperfect j snetch, but enough has been sMd to warm the reader to be careful haw be*-eats nut megs quantities. Cloves, oil of Peppermint, Spear mint,Tansev, ’ 6c., taken • in large doses, are often attended with dis astrous consequences. March of Improvement in Ironing. It is sa«i that in the town of Marblehead, Iha girlsha*e mad£ improvements in iron ing which, beat the steam engines on coin mrw> ail hollow ! They spread out all the efothes on a smooth platform, and fasten the flatirons to their feet and skate over them, ad libitum. This is combining the recreative with the useful and orna , mental, .* Johnson, the Lcxicogfaphor, once made a l>ot with Boswell that he could go into the fish market and put a Bijlingsgate ! woman in a passion w ithout saving a word jlhat she could understand. We do not jnappen to have the original version of the i anecdote by us, and shall therefore, tell the st ory in our own wav. ’Fhe doctor commenced by silently indicating wi th his nose, that her fish had passed the state in which a man’s olfactories could endure their flavor. The Billingsgate la dy made a verbal attack common in vul gar parlance, which impugned the classifi*. cation in natural history, of the mother. The doctor answered—“ You are an article, madam.” “No more an 1 article than yourself, vou bloody, misbe j gotten villain!” “ You are a noun, woman!” ■ on—vou—you,” stammered the wo man, chobkod with rage at a list rtf titles i she could* not understand. “Vou are a pronoun !” The beldame shook her fist !in speechless rage—“ You are aver adverb—an adjective—a conjunction—a preposition—an interjection’” solemnly j continued the doctor, applying the liarm- I less epithets at proper intervals. The j nine parts of speech completely conqner i ed the old woman, and she dumped down hi the mud, crying with rage at being thus blackguarded’ in a set of unknown terms, which, not understanding, she could not j answer. [Times. London and Birmingham Rahway. Tlie rail road from Birmingham to Liver pool is now in regular operation ; that iroui London to Birmingham, which is a more expensive undertaking, is nearly ebmpleted. The first portion of it from London, extending beyond Watford, was opened early in July,and a further por tion, extending sixty miles, was opened the Ist of August. The fare from Lou don to Birmingham, for the first class of passengers, it is said will be 23 or ‘J t shil lings. A London paper gives the follow ing particulars respecting the cost and | construction ol this road. The cost of levelling, excavating, tunnelling, &.c. a verages .iViU.tKJO per mile ; one mile a lone, cost .<.'300,00'), in consequence of the extraordinary obstacles which presen ted themselves. The grand entrance, or portico, at the hack ot Eiislon-imuarf, will not be completed under TBit,ooo. The masonry at the mouth of the tunnel, by Primrose lull, will cost T 7,000. It is composed ot the finest l’ortlaud stone, and when finished, will have very hand some eff Tt. Tiie blocks ofgranite upon which the iron rails rest lor a considera ble potion of the line, are u guinea a . pair. The total amount of capital inves-j ted in this speculation is upwards of se ven millions. Win n about (lit miles of the line are completed, two classes oi car riages will tain : the speed of the first ctiiss wtll average BO miles per hour, and . of the secoifd, 18 or 20. At Birming ham the t*oad is connected with the line I recently opened to Manchester, ami,; when tiie whole is completed, the journey | from London to Liverpool, will he perfor med in iS 1-3 hours. On the trains arri-1 viug within a utile ot London, the locom otive engines are to he taken off, anil a! rope, worked by stationary steaiu-machin- i ory, is to be attached to the carriages,and thus they will he wound up, as it were, to the place of their destination. Nr.w Method or Engraving. —A new method of etigrav ing, hits been dis covered by Mr. John Burnet. We do not mean that any of the effects which hi ts enabled to produce by t Ins new proves are finer than could have been produced heretofore, hut simply that they are admi rable, and yet that the price at which In can otter copies in the public is so small as to bring works of the highest class of an within the reach of all tint the very humblest classes. What, for instance, will the reader say to a series of engra vings from the Cartoons of K itt’aelle, the paper of each to Lie of the finest quality, and of tlie size of 3 l niches by “I, and the si/.e of the prints only accorduig to the shape of the original, each to lie sold tor lour shillings instead of four guineas! The thing is scarcely credible to those who know that probably f>o per cent, is the allowed protit to tin; trade, that .30 percent, of tin- remainder is the expense of the paper ami the printing of cacti sin gle engraving, and that not more than one shilling therefore can remain to re- numerate the artist 1 \Vc have seen on ly one of the proposed series—Paul preaching at Athens ; the style of winch is broad, hold, and admirable, superior, in our opinion, for all artistic purposes, to the over-wrought works of Holloway. Copies W this work, framed in the chea pest possible manner, like an almanac, if the economists so desire it, ought to be lmng up in every school-room and every Mechanics lnstiiute*iii the kingdom. Here jis a myiafts of education otiered which | costs nothing either of money or time; ! and it-would make itself felt now or here after, not only in its moral and humani i zing influence; but in the arts and manu factures of the country. We earnestly j hope that this subject will be considered worthy of attention by all whose voices are potential for good or ill in the con duct and management of such institutions. [AthenaHim. A Gnur Shot. One of the Western papers expresses some surprise that Mr. \\ ebster,while I attending a deer hunt Urwhicb he had been in i vited, seized a rifle and brought down a young I doe from a great distance. The editor was not probably aware that Daniel is one of the bert shots the whole country affords. No) BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. j on* in 20 of th" fefd Buckeyes of I the West, could RemT* bullet with a truer aim. He has been known to bag a snipe so small, that you would not suppose his large black eve could see it, from a distance of twenty rods—fair measure. [ Tints. ' Til i: A U VO( ATJE. BRUNSWICK, (G a. y OCTOBERS. 1837. - ----- =3s Tiie Georgian and its Pa.negyrjHU. In our last paper we noticed at some length the preposterous arguments used by tlie Georgian in regard to the health and business facilities of Savannah. We attempted to prove that her position was such as to incapacitate he. from ever becoming such a commercial city as the South requires, and will eventually possess.— Were all other facts wanting, we think it wiil require mueli ingenuity, to reason away the force of tlie argument derived from the passage of much of the produce of Savannah river to Charleston. Why is it, if Savannah is capable of transacting tlie business of the Great West, that the products of her own river all pass by her w harves, and seek a better market in Charleston. For a century she has had op portunities offered her by nature, and yet she lias not been able to avail herself of them.— Rail Roads are no better than rivers—and if all the roads in the country should centre in Savannah, if w e may reason from experience, tlie business would jiass to Charleston, anil the Northern cities. If Savannah bn incom petent to transact the business ofter own riv er, how shall she be able to control that of tlie great West. The same motives which induced tliermoil- I ost Editor of tiie Georgian to bestow such an | eulogiutn on his city, we w illingly admit influ | mice our conduct; we desire to see Brunswick | advance, and shall use all honorable efforts in her behalf. But the publication of the truth, and deductions and inferences drawn from it, are tiiu only instruments we shall use., Tiie superiority of Brunswick over every other port in Georgia, Ae conceive to be in the accessi bility and safety of its harbor—the healthiness of tin; port, and its position oil the South of tlie Altumaha—making it the point best adapted for the Atlantic terminus of a Rail Road to tlie Gulf of Mexico. For the satisfaction ©f the Georgian, we re publish extracts from the Report of tlie Coin missioners appointed to examine into tlie pros pects and capabilities of Brunswick. These I gentlemen are tin* political friends of the Geor- ! gian, and we leave it for them to settle with | that paper lor tlie opprobrium which it has at tempted to cast oil all, who are disposed to fa vor any other port, but that which to the mis- j fortune of Georgia, has been so long ‘‘her! only seaport.” But this title she will be allow- ! ed to arrogate for a short time only. At no 1 distant day, a communication will be opened j between Brunswick and the interior, and tlie j Georgian will then learn that a healthy port, | which shi|>s may enter or leave in three hours' with a head wind—where sailors can be sale j from sickness, and the population be permit- j neatly settled, must and will take tlie trade of tho .State. Every attempt to infringe upon! the laws of commerce is an injury to tiie ag- j riculturui interests which create that commerce j and will in the mid prove fruitless. Tlie plan- j ter will carry his produce to the market w hich | pays him the greatest price for his crops, ami i that market can afford to pay the highest rates, j w hich is best situated in regard to ingress and j egress, and contains a population unaffected j by the change of tlie seasons. Cotton it is j well known declines m demand and price, as 1 the sickly season approaches, and for very ob vious reasons. But as we have no sickly sea son in Brunswick to run away from, cotton will at all times and in all months command a fair price, can come tor loads at any season, and bring return cargoes from Europe direct, instead of being compelled to go to .New York. Tins is one great cause of the present languid state of Southern commerce. Ships during the W inter season carry away her products, but dare not return with tlie proceeds—they i are obliged t-> make New York its resting; place, until the season of death has passed.— | The consequence is that New York transacts ! the importing business of the South. And this she will continue to do, until a Southern port shall hold out equal facilities, and when that shall be found, .the laws of commerce, to which there is no change or shadow of turning, will at ftice create this the Emporium of the South. We will close for the present by furnishing the Georgian with the opinions of the Commis sioners expressed in a Report which met the approbation of the Legislature ot the State. ! The first and most important inquiry for tlie! people of Georgia is: Have we within our o" n State, an outlet for our immensely valua ble productions, and an inlet for hie foreign' necessaries and luxuries of life, that may b&, made to vie with the large sea ports in other {states' that may enable us to command thej lily best prices for the- fur me r, and obtain the&ri-; ter at the cheapest rate to the planter and fee 1 farmer? Your Commissioners do not hesitate to answer this question for tlie people of Geor gia in the affirmative. In the town of Brun swick properly connected with tlie interior, we could have a commercial emporium that | might rival any on the Atlantic coast, south of Baltimore. The only obstacle now exis i ting to tlie connexion of this noble port with fee heart of Georgia,and wife the great wealth and densest population of the State, is the narrow slip of land, of little over eleven miles, between Turtle river and the-Altumaha; and this obstacle, we have already stated, can, in our opinion, be overcome by the trifling sum of from 850,000 to 870,000. But suppose it should cost *IOO.OOO. tlie expenditure is a tri- He in comparison With the immense advanta ges it would yield not only to the Treasury of the State, but to the great body of the people. „ That the immense product of our soil year ly descending our rivers, and transported in w agons, should pass by the wharves of Darien and Savannah to goto CharleHon, in another State, at a heavy expense, and our supplies re turned by tiie same circutious and expensive j route, must be humbling to tiie State pride and • patriotism of every true hearted Georgian. Georgia at tins moment presents the specta ; cle of a robust man, rich in the vital fluid, sub mitting to have the veins of both arms open ! ed, and bleeding to death ; while, by the ex -4 ertion of his own strength and enel«-v, he ! might save himself from destruction.— sfa van nah we fear is prostrated by the completion of •Charleston rail-road to Augusta. Our pro duce already goes by her wharves, because ; the farmer and merchant can get better bar gains in a foreign market. All the produce on tjjat noble river, which goes to Augusta, is eventually destined to Charleston. On the other side of our State, the rich country a ) long the Chattahoochee is draining its products j into Florida.—While we are thus losing the : advantages of our trade on both sides of r the State, the hotly of the State is perishing, or finding a scanty subsistence, abroad, for"" the i w ant of that commercial nourishment at home i which tlie resources of tlie State and the cap ! ital of wealthy individuals in it are amply suf ! ticient to supply. Under this state of tilings, j for the want of one manly and vigorous exer tion, we shall soon become like North Caroli j nu, tributary to our sister States. Open the Port of Brunswick to the interior, and the enterprise of seamen will soon bring the ships there ; and your cotton, your grain, your sugar and every other article of home production w ill go there, and the merchants of large capital wall soon find it to his interest to invest it in Brunswießi The commerce of j these rivers, and the trade of the whole inte ! rior of‘Georgia, belong by nature, to some sea i port on our coast. Let the most eligible, and the best be selected. Let no sectional jeal • ousy impede the enterprise. Such a sea-portg w e think, Brunswick might be made, being decided of opinion, that it affords advantages I for a large commercial city, if no superior, at least equel, in every respect, to any on the south- ern Atlantic coast of the United States, and decidedly superior to any in Georgia. Georgia has not a moment to lose in re deeming her own commercial character in sa ving to her treasury, to her merchants, to the whole agricultural, professional, and mechan ical industry of the State, the great blessings Jto be derived from her ample resources. Pat i riotism, Stste pride, pecuniary interest, all de mand, that the great wealth of one of the fi- I nest portions of the w orld, should be so nmr i shalled as to increase our own domestic pros perity and happiness, by cultivating tlie means J which the bountiful hand of indulgent Provi ! deuce has placed so entirely within our reach j and under our control. | The Federal Union some weeks since ! tained a reply to the enquiries of our corres- j pondent. Not being particulaijy pleased with j | its tone, we did not publish it “Volunteers” furnishes the requisite information, and will I doubtless satisfy those who feel an interest in j the question. The Florida War, we observe, has already been brought before Congress, and an investigation will undoubtedly be had into | its management Such a course we are con fident must establish the foresight of General} Clinch, and bring home the conviction that bail. his advice been followed, this inglorious War would have terminated long ago. It will also t expose the causes which procured the removal of this gallant soldier from the command of the j troops, at the time he had proved himself w orthy j of the trust. Gen. Clinch, Gov. Cuss, and' Gen. Call have appealed to the public for jus-. titicat ion of their conduct; for one we consid- j er the vindication of Gen. Clinch as co.nplete,j and regtvt ti iat the country should have lost the services of such an able officer. .Mr. Editor,— Sometime since, an inquiry! was made through your valuable columns, for the reasons why tlie Glynn and Camden Vol- unteors, late in the service of the U. S. in Florida, were not paid. i Being well acquainted with the circuaff, stances, I will briefly state that every exertion has been made by tlie Captain commanding ; those Volunteers to have them paid. He can at any time show a correspondence between’) j himself and the Army Paymaster at Augusta: ; and subsequently, one with the Comptroller General of this State, from which it will be l seen ting, in tlie first, objections were made to t the Volunteers-not being regularly mustered [ out of service —and in the last, that tlie act of ! this State does not provide for the payment of Volunteers regularly mustered into the U. S. Service. There is no doubt these Volunteers, (the first from Georgia, together with those from patriotic Richmond, under the standard of the gallant Clinch.) will soon receive their pay: at least everything is now in a fair train to accomplish tlie same ; and although repeat edly foiled in his just demands, the Captain’s j efforts arc still untired, as he is aware nut only j of tiie justness of the claim, blit the sendee it wdll render many Volunteers. Camden County. Oglethorpe House. This establishment, binder tlie charge of Capt. John we | believe gives general satisfaction to visitors.— ! Every erihrl is made by the” landlord, to famish i his table with alt the market affords, anil, we can safely say, we have fared much worse at the fashionable hotels in the Northern cities, both as regards the table and accommodations gen erally. An impression prevails that there is no stable to tlie House. We assure those at a distance, they will find every conven ience here for “mail and beast.” . ae_ The Palmetto Road. An avenue has • been opened ataSuch expense by the Company . from Purvis’ Point to the Hotel. The road ' saves at least half a mile in distance, and as i much more in point of comfort, oc it has been constructed with much care and is equal to any road in tlie County. Visitors to Brunswick w ill find it altogether snperior to the Public Road. PUBLIC MEETING* At a meeting of the citizens of Glynn holden at Brunswick, on Monday, the 2d of Octoter, Col. Henry Dubignon was called to tlie chair, and J. W. Frost, chosen Secretary. On the motion of F. M. Scarlet, tlie Chairman nomin ated a committee of three to present to the meeting the names of two individuals, to rep resent the County in the Augusta Convention, which committee reported tlie names of THOMAS HITLER KING, GEORGE HOUSTON, ! who were unanimously accepted. The fol : low ing resolution offered by F. M. Scarlet was 1 adopted. ** | ‘'Resolved, That the Delegates from this County, be instructed to present the claims of Brunswick to the consideration of the Conven ; tion.” It was then / otetl, To publish the proceed , mgs in tlie Brunswick Advocate, and the meet ing adjourned sine die. HENRY DUBIGNON, Chairman. J. W. Frost, Secretary. To the Editor of the Brunswick Mvocate : In your paper of last week, there is a com : inmiication signed “Public Rights” in which that gentleman attempts to show, among other | tilings, that the land called the Brunswick Commons belongs to the people of Glynn —to the Academy or to the town of Brunswick, lie does not seem to know to which. But he is quite certain that Mr. Thomas B. King has done the people a very great wrong by “run ning up” these lands and he states without rea sons that tho commons w’ere not vacant at tlie time Mr. King laid his head rights upon them, & c. j Without noticing tlie gentleman’s flourishes ! orstopping to answer all his fallacious and | nonsensical arguments,-! shall proceed to ex amine his “first question” which he says “is really the most important point at issue;” “are the commons of Brunswick vacant lands.” 1 purpose to show that these commons werej . vacant hinds before Air. King run them. JF! admit, however, the gentleman’s argumewj*] | that if they were not vacant no one had a riglit] j to mn them ; but Ido not admit that the “bur- I den of proof,” rests with tlie persons running I them this position is too absurd to require refu tation. However, as the gentleman says “we | require proof and not arguments,” I w ill en i deavor to furnish some “which may not he vc ,ry p datable to them. Mr. “Public RightiL I says—vacant lands arc such portions of the flfll j main of tlie state as have not been appropria : -• ted by the competent authorities to |he use of individuals or for public purposes” and that ‘the proof of the appropriation is to be found i either in the original grant” or “in the statutes of the state.” This is certainly true. The ■ gentleman does not pretend to claim these ! commons under nny grant—the title he sets up he says is derived from the statutes of the state, should this fail, his claim must of course ! 'a lost. 1 will now proceed to examine the dif jfeent a.itues of tlie state respecting the town I and commons ot Brunswick and to give such : extracts from them as have any bearing upon the question under consideration. Had Mr. ! “Public Rights” given all tlie law he would have sued me some trouble. I presume, how ever, that he did not w ish the public to know ■the whole truth. Tlje jyfestion is, had tlie state yielded or parted with the title to these I lands before Mr. King run them; in other words were these lands vacatjJ*.? ’ f The town of BrunsuiekWas laid out by i some persons during the time of the colonial ' government, but it was never incorporated, nor was ever any law passed by that government respecting Brunswick or the land called the <Bruswick commons. The persons who laid out Brunswick called all the lands lying near the place,commons, and no doubt they intended ! to have the town incorporated and these lands given, by the government to the corporation,for the useot the town, but this was never done j and tlie title to these lands still remained in the state. The first law to be found q,mongthe statutes of Georgia respecting Brunswick or the Brun- I swick commons m the following.—“An act for appointing commissioners for ascertaining the boundaries of the towns and commons of Brun ; swick and Frederica in the county of Glynn” passed Feb. 21, 17iHi. This act appoints five commissioners and enacts that they shall have power to lay out the town of Brunswick to o pen tlie streets, and have the lots staked off &.c. They are also directed to have the commons of tlie said town resurveyed and an acurate map I thereof together with a plan of the town retur ned to tiie Surveyor General’s Office with:n two months after the passing of this act. Tna second SecUon directs tiie commission ers to advertise their proceedings and to levy a tax of one dollar on each lot to pay expences i &c. The third section directs the commission ers to sell all lots upon which the tax has not been pajjl &c. The fourth section is in these words—“And be it further enacted ; That the \ Oommtsstoners shall have power to rent ‘or lease the whole or any part of the said commons of Brunswick as to them may be dei med best for the SPEEDY SETTLEMENT OF tue said town of Brunswick.” i The sixth section enacts —that any person or persons who may attempt to run any part of j tlie said commons or town* of JBnmswick or ( Frederica, Ac. 6hall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars to be recovered in the Supe rior Court of said County &c. i The next law respecting the Brunswick commons was passed Feb. 13, 17!>7. This act directs the Commissioners of Brunswick to sell five hundred acres of the said commons of Brunswick in fifty acre lots and to make titles to the purchasers Ac.—one half the proceeds to be applied to the use of the Academy and the other half to the use of the Court House and Jail. The Legislature in 1814 passed an act appointing new Commissioners for the town and commons of Brunswick—the last section ot this act repeals all former laws appointing Commissioners for the town and commons of Brunswick, and consequently the law of 1796 is wholly repeated by this act The next act respecting tlie Brunswick com mons was passed Nov. 30, 1826, —it is—“An act to alter and amend an act, entitled an act for appointing Commissioners for ascertaining the boundaries of the towns and commons of Brunswick and Frederica in the County of Glynn ; passed Feb. 21st 1796. Be it enacted Ac. That Robert Hazlehurst, James H. Cou per, Charles C. Cooper Ac.—be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for the towns of Brunswick and Frederica and they or a majority of them shall have power to lay out the town of Brunswick aforesaid as nearly as possible to the original plan thereof and cause the streets of the same to be opened and the lots plainly marked or staked off: and shall al so cause the commons of said town to be re surveyed and an acurate map thereof together with a plan of said town returned to the Sur veyor General’s Office in twelve months after the passing of this act, there to be recorded. Section 2d And be it further enacted. That the above named seven Commissioners for the town and commons of Brunswick be and they are hereby authorized and required to carry bdo full effect all the provisions and intentions of the law of 17!k> so far as relates to the towns and commons of Brunswick and Frederica.” It will be perceived that this last act only re vives the act of 1796 so far as the commission ers can carry its provisions into effect—that is —they are required to perforin all tlie duties iin posedupon tlie commissioners by the act of 1796 and nothing more, otherwise this would 'hot have been an act to alter and amend that aftt * consequently that part of the act of 17!Ki which declares that persons who may attempt to run the commons, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars, is not revived. The law imposing this fine having been repealed can not be revived by implication nor in any way except by an express enactment". No Court jurisdiction of common law'to assess this, fine, the Court cannot therefore act in the matter without express authority and no authority be ing given by the act of 1826 to any Court the fine cannot be collected- But even if ffie fine could be collected it would not, in the least, vitiate the grant of the state to Mr. King.— The act of 1822 has no bearing upon this question. In 1835 the Legislature directed the Com missioners of the town of Brunswick to sell tliree hundred acres more of the town commons in five acre lots—to make titles to the purcha sers and to apply one half the proceeds to tlie support of free schools under the direction of the Trustees of the Glynn County Academy and the other half to augment the funds of said Academy. The prooceeds of this sale amoun ted to more than fifteen thousand dollars- The above acts of the Legislature contain all the laws to be found in the statute books having any bearing upon the question under consideration. “And now” Mr. “Publfe Rights” “with these acts before you and particularly” of 1796 1797 and 1835 how will you prove your position that this land was not owned by the state and vacant ? Before you can do so you must show some law not recorded on the statute Books of Georgia. In 1796 when tlie Legislature appointed a gents—for these Commissioners were nothing more nor less than agents of tlie Legislature and liable to be removed at any moment and directed these agents to survey these,commons and to rent or lease them to promote the spee dy settlement of Brunswick —in 17! *7 wdien the Legislature directed these agents to sell at public sale five hundrnd acres of these com mons of Brunswick and make titles to the pur chasers—in 1826 when the Legislature appoin ted the gentlemen last named Commissioners of Brunswick and directed and required them to carry into full effect the law of 1796 and in 18753 w hen tlie Legislature directed these same last mentioned agents to sell at public sale throe hundred acres more of these same com mons.—where, let me ask and in whom was the title—the fee simple to the Brunswick commons ? was it in the Commissioners of tlie town and commons of Bmnsw'ick ?—was it in the town of Brunswick ; was it in the people of Glynn County ? was it in the Trus tees of the Academy ? Because if the title to these c ammone were in either of or ajl the above mentioned parts every act ctf fee leg islature, above retered to, is null and void a»d the titles acquired by purchasers under the acts of 1797 and 1835 are also void and worth nothing ; and the party hcddidg the first title from the state can at any time recover tlie land sold by virtue of tlie above acts. Since any thing has been -known of the Brunswick commons the Legislature has exer cised all tlie rights of ownership over them, by appointing agents to-rent them and to 1