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I ''Augusta!! a.
I tender the homage of our
I profound regard to the Editors of the
I Savannah Republican, and respectfuliy
I inform them,* that on Saturtlay next we
■ xviil endeavor to gratify their patient
* anxiety,fand delicate moderation, 'they
I vill excfcu.se tu however, if we do not
II in this slace, reciprocate their compli-
I ments ip a kindred manner^— because we
■ are fearful of producing a nausea a
|| moug our readers, winch the most qual-
I itVmg medicine would not be able to ncu-
I tralize. i
-4, The Editors of the Republican, in r.o
--f (icing some of our remarks, sneer at the
I l word extensive, as it stands in relation
I T to thcfnuinber of our respectable subsetfi
bers; *md with much solicitude, express
I a friendly doubt, that we may lose a
I “few? of them.*’ Should we unfortu
nately lose the patronage of any of our
%. countrymen, for endeavoring to guard
I them/ against the intrigues and delusions
■■ of a foreign adventurer—and for ardent- 1
I■ \y wishing that otiFgoyemcient may main-
I tain* on the occasiaii, a dignified policy,;j
I we would lament indeed—not for our-
I selves, however—hut lor the credulity of
I those, if any theic he, whose native and
■ nob£e prejudices could be made die avc-
V nuefto their deception. Under such cir-
K cunistances, we might afford to lose a
I few hundred, and then more than dou-
I worthy friends aforesaid.
I JSftrnct of Hletter from a gentleman in
I iMohile, to his friend in this cily, da
rn : < iec *
■ ' ; “Mobile, July 2rtli, loir.
I If ear Sir,
I, I The Ltuids, advertised to be sold
I 4t Milledgcville in August ensuing, are
f Situated from about 40 miles above Fort
Claiborne, on the Alabama River: ami
I bordering thereon, to die Indian line, a
/few miles above Foit Jacroon. Oi the
I /general quality of the land, I can say but
I /jittjc from personal observation, but,
I ifroin information obtained from persons
I / that hare travelled through it, there can
I / be but little doubt but there is a large
■ / portion of valuable land, and what uuy
1/ be termed first rate. There is, however,
I a large quantity of land, commonly (but
I improperly) denominated pine barren:
v lids land (although vastly inlerior to the
Jtivcr Bottom, and some Wlies’of superi
or high land) is ascertained to be ol a
9 productive quality; and with care and
■ attention will raise good corn and excel
lent cotton, and admits ot a profitable
9 culture.
1 conceive there will he considerable
tisqwy in purchasing, without previously
exaaiUiing the country, us one might be
!| much (disappointed from a reliance on
t the returns and reports of the surveyors.
: With regard to the commerce ol the coun
try, it i/» at present not considerable, hat
is daily becoming more important. It is
yet too new to admit at tins time a large
I . consumption of goods, though in a few
I years there can be no doubt hut the trade
I will equal any seaport between those of
I New-York and New-Orleahs. —Powes-
| sing a much greater extent ol Dar k couu
i: try, than any otlier port between those
9 places, the produce of which cun only
I find a market through this channel.
1; From some recent experiments it is
I satisfactorily ascertained that East-Ten
| nc.ssee can be supplied through this rout
Vi a much less expense, and considera-
I hly shorter period than the way th' y have
I hitherto obtained their goods. Hence, if
I goods cannot in future be furnished here
1 4 upon as good terms as at Kew-Y ork, the
“I of Tennessee will purchase in
vi ” New-York. and order them lor this place,
I to be forwarded.
pi ; The want of capital and enterprise
pj.: 'vita,the mercantile community m this
I section of the country, is a great check
| to its commercial prosperity. The pria
■ clpal part of the goods vended in this
9 country are brought coastwise from Ncw-
Orleans and New-York, and the cotton
■ sent chiefly to these markets; consequent
t ly there is a considerable loss by this cer-
V yuitoHs traffic. Where goods can be
I ’ imported, and the produce exported di
rect to foreign ports, to and from this
.place, at the sainesf if not a less expense,
than to New-Orleans; particularly from
the Wcst-India Islands which are more
jmpvjenient to, tbisfplacc; add to this the
1 %|iHh^^m , to hf made
\ .o.se places, will pro
j Imra-of from
v
which gradually shoals to a bar
‘ across ffe’bay*9 miles Wfelow this place.
‘ t)n the bar there
water, so that vessels of more tl(|n Ip 1
feet draft, have to discharge and take in
their cargoes below the bar. After cros
sing the bar the runs continue deep to
the junction of the Alabama and Tom-
V&U'.aV: . : ■ ' .
this place,
ilie Forabigbee is navigable for bulges
drawing not more than 5 feet to its con
fluence with the Black Warrior River,
and I understand that the hi ter rim
can be navigated as far as (he falls, with
thy same draft of water. From the falls
ol the Black Wan-im* to the navigable
waters of the Tennessee River, is a dis
tance of from fcO to DO miles through a
| Ract of country where may be had aif ex
cellent road. It is reported.that with a
trifling expense this distance can be rc
, laced about 25 or SO miles. The Tom
bigbee is a very gentle current, posses
sing few shoals, and but little interrup
tion by strong currents during the sum
mer and lull months. The Alabama has
a much stronger current, and many
shoals and rapids, 1 yet during-the driest
seasons barges drawing not morethan ,5
leet water can ascend to Fort Jackson,
500 miles above this place, i OntHeUoo
sa » miles above Fort Jackson, hre situ
ated the Great Falls, which may be;con
sidered the head of navigation of that ri
ver. The Tallapoosa urtiy be navigated
with little difficulty with small barges
as high as the Indian boundary line.”
‘V^ ?.;» p*i«ißrii
COMMUNICATED.
OBITUARY.
f. have learnt, ami announce with
the deepest,sorrow, the loss which our
country has sustained in the death of
Fkteu Early, Esq. who died at his re
sidence in Green County, on Thursday
The 15th inst.
e had heard some days since a vague
rumour of this afflicting intelligence, but
were unwilling to believe what wC hoped
to be untrue: it is now, howevet, too
confirmed, and instead of men
tioning but to contradict it, which vve
hoped would liave been our duty, we are
assigned the melancholy task of record
ing what we deplore.
The death of such a man, in such a
country as ours deserves to be lamented
as a public calamity; for he combined in
his character, many of those qualities of
a great statesman and a true patriot,
which even among patriots and states
men arc most rare, and most wanted.
Vigour of intellect, quickness of percep
tion, promptness of determination, rapid
ity ot cxcculio/;, unshaken firmness and
inexhaustible resources; these, all allow
ed him, and these during the late war,
made Ins services invaluable tu the state
over which he ruled, lint in (hat civil
courage which does an i dares every tiling
in the discharge of duty.—in that stern
magnanimity winch admits ol no compro
mise between the right and the expedi
ent -in that integrity of purpose which
presses directly forward to great ob
jects in utter scorn of all artifice or indi
rection—in that glorious self-devotion
which sacrifices to the honour of our
country, all the honours we derived from
her, and while immolating all, to do her
unwelcome service, moves onward in sol
itary grandeur, unshaken by tiie curses
of her phrensy, or the blessings of her
gratitude—in these and not in those
alone, he lowered above his compeers
pror.dly pre-eminent. He united a real
love of tue people, a sacred regard for
theft’ rights, ami an undeviating pursuit of
their interests, with a cool contempt for
all tin* arts of popularity. Between him
and the political demagogues of the day
of any, and of every party there was no
point of similarity or attraction. Such
inert could find no avenue tu his heart:
they hated him therefore with fiery /.nil.
He revenged himself only by despising
them in frozen silence.
There was a calm severity about him.
which while it repelled flatterers and
sycophants and parasites, equally denied
access to the machinations of intrigue,
the hints of malice or the whispers,of en
vy. When men of lit lie minds approach
ed him, with,their petty schemes, their,
cobweb snares and tiny stratagems, and
all the pitiful artillery of-that miserable
■ warfare, which cunning wages am! would
fain call policy, they were awed into in
significance, and without venturing an
attack retired in despair, astonished and
confounded at their own temerity. They
did not admire, indeed, what they couid
not understand; but they wondered at
the height to which lie was elevated above
, them. "They found no lurking crevice
of vanity—no projecting prejudice—no
unguarded out-post —no point of anivoy
t ante —no vantage ground of a-satiit.
. All wgssmooth, and bare, and hard, and
■ perpendicular,ami inaccessible.
1 In dispatching public business jhc had
the talent of cutting short all Unneces
-1 sary explanations which is said to have
■ been so particularly diet! righi,shed in the
• greatest man of our time, and which has
« been made familiar to every one by an
• imaginary character in the most cclebra
i ted work of a lady who is certainly at the
. head of what has been ingeniously terra
-1 ed “ the low church of fiction.”
Such was Mr. Early, while Governor
t of Georgia; and m that station one would
: think his countrymen should have been
■ proud to retain him while he lived. But
1 they, ho less fickle than the people they
unitated, were tired of the name of Aris
. tides the .just. . . . ,
The power which the constitution hart
• entrusted to him, he dared to use for the
. purpo>e,.of preventing a violation of that
t constitution. ,
. This wjjk his offence. He dared be
i honest in the worst of times, and to ad
- monish others of the duty which honesty
> required of them. Every one knows Hie
- rest: and upon subsequent events it is
' V j>*
'■noi our purpose to remark further, than
by hazarding a conjecture that the fu m
ncss of the Governor probably ciicoura
gc«l the judges to draw up their drown
ing honor by the locks. Neither do we
H.U'in! to enter upon the debatcable
ground which was opened by the decis
ion (>t the bench, nor into any of the Jior
der W ars that followed it. Thus much
only will we add to all that has been
done and said ami written. The Extc
utiycpower wields the sword;the Legis
lative commands the parse of the nation;
the Judicial run do nothing but weigh
die rights of die citizen. Jf against
these, the gold of the one ami the iron of
the otner. may be cast at pleasure into
the balance, it is easy to conjecture
which scale must descend. Jn such a
state of things nil rights become a mock
ery, and justice herself is made the in
; strument of wickedness,
i Before his acceptance of some of the
principal offices under the State Govern*
, ment, Mr. Eauly had been a Represen
tative of Georgia in the Congress'of the
|United States. He distinguished him
self there on several occasions, particu
larly as one of the managers of the im
peachment against Judge Chase; and
when he retired left behind him a degree
o! reputation not easily detained, ana in
(hcat.ve of talents, which few, who aie
not acquainted with that theatre where
the master spirits of our age and country
contend for fume and power, will justly
appreciate. ;
Mr. Early presided for some years as
a judge of the Superior Courts iii one of
the Circuits of this State. As U judge
he was all the great"philosopher of
common life wished to be, and more than
lie was. The bench was his proper sphere,
and those who havfe once,.'seen him there
w ill not, easily forget him 4 .
This is bat a sketch. The hand of the
historian must finish the picture; for to
history he now belongs. His fame is
interwoven with the fame of his country,
and that page of her annals which was
sullied by folly and injustice, will be pu
rified and redeemed /in the eyes of pos
terity by the splondour%fhis name. This
feeble outline is no piece of pious flatte
ry intended to beguile the idlliclion of
his kindred, it is indeed the work of
one who cannot enrich his tablet with the
skill of a master or,the recollections of a
friend; hut who having admired and re
vered, at an humble distance, the man
whom' lie praises, is forced to con tent
himself with paying a tribute to that
worth, which, were Ids powers equal to
Ids wishes-, he would seek to Canute.
HIED, at his residence on (he Sand-
Hills, on Friday evening last., Mr. Tho
mas Saxdwictt,ttrthc* o4llt year of las
age, a native of England, but for about
2H gears past, a resident near this place.
He was aOl-cted for 18 months with a se
vere and excruciating disease which com
pletely balded the power of medicine.—
For some weeks previous to bis dissolu
tion, so great was his agony, that be was
compelled to take ;KKJ drops of laudanum
each day. Yet throughout his dreadful
afiiictibn, he evinced a degree of Christi
an fortitude and patient resignation, sel
dom witnessed in cakes of less nrgni
tude. lie died in full po-seasion of his
reason, and with a strong confidence of a
glorious resurrection.
, Mr. S. was a respectable teacher of
Youth—and ably and conscientiously
discharged the important duties of Ids
or ifesssioji. He was charitable to a fault.
The poor in his neighborhood have lost a
fosler-faHmr, lie has left behind him a
widow and four children to lament his
loss.
V No farther seek Ids merits to disclose,
Nor draw Ids frailties from their dread
abode ;
“ There they alike in trembling Lope
repose,
“The bosom of ids Father a nil Ids God/’
Dim, on the 2al!i nit. in South Caro
lina, Edirfield destrictj Klcitn<r
II much, ft or an illness of twer. r-foui
hours; aged 70 years,
a fff **u*t.‘.-.* ->WAWSUKSK ZZBBMntrZWMn fIK2B#SCTaCMP3
THE MEMBERS
OF SO DIAL LODGE, No. 18, are rc
qhested to attend a regular meet
ing at their Hall on Friday evening next,
at 7 o’clock.—By order.
R. MALONE, secretary.
1 Septembers. a
MOTILE.
i A N ELECTION will be held at the
/11 courthouse in the city of Augusta,
on the first Monday, being the 6th day of
October next, for a Senator and two
Members to represent Richmond county
in the next generic;• -senibly of this state.
; —By order of the Honourable the Infe
i rior Court.
v John H. Mann, d’k.
: September 3,* . tdc
■ : MOTILE: ~ ’
By order of the JTnn. the Inferior Court
of Richmond county^
1 HEREBY call on the representatives
of those men, formerly residents of
I this county, who sacrificed their lives in
defence of the United States, in the late
war with Great Britain and the Indian
, Tribes, to report me the number and cir
. cumstances of the families of the dcccas
’ set!, that a return thereof may be made
to the next General Assembly of tins
State, according to a joint and concurred
resolution of the 2d day of December,
: isle.
j John H. Manu.c.i.c.n.c.
5 September s, ** M
,v ’. p m
A Lt/T OF LRTTRUS
In the Post-Office, Augusta; Ist Sep. ISI7
A Win. ‘lntyre ’
C'ilas Averit Miss Sarah Mackey
Robert Atkinson Wm. M'Beati
George Adam Charles M’Ketizlc
Sarah Adams i Holland M‘Tyro
Mary L. Allen Jesse Mercer
James Adams John S. Mills
B John M‘CaskiU
Tames G. Blunt David Martin
Joseph Bevin 3 Jao.D.M’Uushland
Bejainin Dustin N
J. G. Bay lis Leavan M> Noble
Moses K. Brown 2 O Neal
Wm. Bruce i’olly Keal
Eliza A. Bryant Daniel Nail
G. VV, Butler Thomas Newmart
Mrs. Elite. Brown o
1 homos Bouchum Moses Overstreet
C 1>
J >!m B. Covington Hugh Patrick 3
ui/hn A. Clarke I'hoona Parkin 3
Foliver-Cox Thcophllas Parker 2
Anthony Collingier Rohm t Pelletier
Lewis Calfrey Matthew VV. Pool
John Co.y 2 David Patterson
Ansoil Crowd Harrison Posey
H* artwright Gideon Purdue
Nelly XJarrabuo James Perry
Cocjuillan Q
Calvin Curtis 2 Charles Quia
Fanny Cunief Thoi. Quizzen berry
1) 11 J
JamesM.Dun s*co. Eliza S. Roberts
Robert Dioiel Elizabeth Robins
Doctor Duel Julius Robis
E Thomas Reynolds
Thqs.Eyeringhaui John Ross
• Charles Easter Francis Rosenbohm
Timothy Eastman Edmund Roberts
Joseph Eve Shadruck Ilozar
F Hardy Revel
Jacob Forman Eliza*Ricker
Lt. R. M. Forsyth Julius Robinson
Glover Forman Abner Robinson
G S >
Giles Griswold Catharine Scott
Jesse D. Green 3 Sophos Staples
Henry Griswold Mary Slighter 2
George Gibson Alexander Ste Wart
Wm. Gienilyuing David A. Strpbber
John Griffin Henjanin Stelson
• Jacob Gay ton Levina Sneed
H Eliza Silbert
Tippo S. Hannon Wm. Stuckey
Christian Holts Thomas B. Smith
Jeremiah Hatcher CliaiTca D. Stewart
Thomas Hall
Henry Herford 3 Tabltha Turman
D. I Cirri son Joseph Thomas
Robert Hays John Turpin
Waltor-Harris J. M. O. Thompson
Win. B. Holt Edward F. Tatnal A
Wm. Holt Adonian Treadwell
Henry 11 ersey Amelia Tinbrook
Wm. U. Hardy IT
John Harmon Catharine B. Utqu-
Jus. G. Huchingaon hart
J Win. Underwood
Wm! Jon son VV
R. P. Johnston John Williamson
FaUi k’Jrrmany Joseph Worsham
Thomas Jones . Bart etnas Wccaks
Thomas H. Jones JamcsP. Wilkinson
Eliza Inlow Marv Ann Wilson
Mary Jones Elijah Walker 3
K. Dorcas Washburn
John Keek George W. Watkins
Ctesar Kennedy 2 Thomas G. Walton
——— Killingsworth J. Willy
Daniel Kirkpatrick John B. Wilkinson
L Mary Walker
James Lang & co. Willy
Allen Lambert 2 lames Willy 2
Freeman W. Lucy , (ohn Whitehead
Robert Lake Tliomas Wood
Samuel Lark Asbey Washburn
Lucy Loviess Wm.B.C. Walker 2
M VVm. Wliite
AV'. J. MiddlctonS V
Tomas P. Mallory Ira Youngblood 2
John McDaniel 2 r / 4
Eli/,. M. Motmger Nancy Zackry
Janies Fraser, p. m.
Rcptrmber 3. ct
Marshal’s Sales.
On the first Tuesday in Vcfobe.fjxe.vt,
4 T'the market house in the city of
J\ Augusta, between the usual hours
of sale—will be sold,
One House and Lot in dm town of Pe
fersburg, adjoining lots of William Al
len and Samuel Grab am.—Also, one
small tract of land on Savannah river at
the month of Cold water creek in Elbert
county, formerly known as a Boat lan
ding. The above property levied on to
satisfy an execution issued from the 6th
circuit court of the United States in fa
vour of John Clendcniog vs. William
Patterson.—Conditions cash—purchasers
to pay for bills of sale.
Thomas T. Triplet, d.m.ij.g.
September 3. tds
SHERIFF’S SALE,
Will he sold at Lincoln court house, on
thejirst Tuesday in October next, he
tirecn the usual hours, the following
property — viz:
rjjIHRKE NEGROES, say, Millev,
a Hannah and Warren a child, all
taken as the property of Wm. Goolshy
to satisfy two executions, one in favour
of David and Adam Cerson, vs. said
Goolsby, and one in favour of William
and Felix Gilbert, vs. said Goolsby.
ALSO
One mare and colt and two cows and
calves—taken as the property of Ralph
Kilgore, to satifv an execution in favour
of Lewis Stovall, survivor, vb. said Kil
gore.-^ —Conditions* cash.
John sji’ff.
September tds
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PaM ic“Xotlcn is ImrebyrG Lvcn.
TH IT THE
TOWN OK ALABAMA,
Id established at the site'fen-Mife-filu.T,
on the East side of Alabama River, %
whore a variety of
TOW N LOTS
IPill be exposed to public sale on the Sd
Jfwdatj in
silo ot the town ishi<*hand com*
SL mantling, ami supposed to be one
hundred feet above the love) pf the wati*r
in the river opposite tr* the town, and is *
entirely rotnoved from swamps, lagunes ■’
rnd morasses. In addition to this, the
purity ol the water, the salubrity of the
air, and the contiguity ofa Mineral Spring
to the Town Spring, will ensure to its
inhabitants the most perfect health.
in point ot commercial advantages,
tins town cannot be surpassed, as it stands
at the nearest eligible site to the head of
navigation on the Alabama river, and is
u 'dv km miles by land to the junction of
the Coosa and Talapoosa rivers.
ihe tortilitjr ol the surrounding conn
t. yhas bean tested during the present
sales, where the Alabama bottoms have
average IJSSO per acre, and the hickory
lands in the immediate neighbour
hood of the town, have sold from tea to
14 dollars pv4 Acre. These last, lands have •
long been pronounced by the late Agent
colonel Hawkins, to be the best body oEj'
up-land in the Crook cession, and in fact
(he town concentrates all the good lauda
embraced in the present sales.
ihe immense capital concentrated id
and contiguous to (he town, is the surest
pledge that can be given of its success to
the various classes in society, may
fed disposed to purchase lots.
John Scott, Millcdgeville, Ga.
James Manning, Madison,M.T. 3
Wapuy Tate, do. do. f.
luOmasßibb, do. do. 2.
A. I*. Haynk, Nashville, Tcnn. I f
/. Lam au, Milledgev lie, (»a. s
('kahlks Williamson, do. do. ZT
Wm. D. Scone, iJsn do. <T
John I)oNALsoN,jr. Nashv.Tenn. HI
Wm. K. Bum, km, do. do. S
J\ m k.s Jacks '>n, do. 'do. r
Millcdgeville, Sept. 3.
Alabama, and Talapoosa
LAN 1)8.
THE subscriber having purchased a
considerable portion of the low
grounds on the above rivers, a great partt
ol which is cleared and now under culti
vation, is disposed to treat with the occu
pants, or others, ai it rejects the future
enjoyments «d thca§ fineljotlimu.
He therefore proposes to lease any
tract lor two years Irom the date of the
purchase, for a consideration of twenty
live per cent, on the amount of the pur
chase money, or sell the same at the ave
rage price bought at; upon receiving
twenty-five per cent in money—the pur
’.baser (0 make the future payments to
the government. The fertility of th«so
lands is such ns to produce 100 bushels
corn to the acre, which is now worth for
the standingcrop, twodollars per bushel,
and expected to continue so another
) car; alter which it is probable the value
will Ini about one dollar per bushel—the
lands being situated on navigable waters,
in the heait of anew country, second to
none lor the culture of cotton, which w ill
become the staple commodity as soon as
the population is sufficient to raise surplus
produce for exportation.
in the neighborhood, and adjoining the
river lands, the subscriber has a number
ot ((-acts of upland for settlement, which
will be disposed of upon the same, or
other accommodating terms. The soon,
er application in made the better, as the
price will be enhanced after the first of
October next. Descriptions of tho pro
perty may be seen at the Land-Office in
Millcdgeville, or by application to the
subscriber in Augusta, Georgia.
James S. Walker.
September 3. ts
7\()TICk. "
HEZEKIAH DICKINSON having
purchased the interest of Mr. Eaton
Flewellin in the concent of T. & E. Flew
cllin, tho business will in future be car
ried on under the firm of FLEWELLIN
and DICKINSON at the establishment
of the late firm, where they have an ex
tensive ware-house &, commodious stores,
for the reception of all kinds of produce
and goods. They tender their services
to,their friends ami the public generally,
and only ask for such encouragement as
their attention and punctuality will en
title them to.
Taylor Flewellin,
Hczckiah Dickinson.
September 3. ts
FACTOR AGE
AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
r JMiE subscribers having formed a co-
X partnership under the firm of Hak
hart, Ganahl Co, and rented the
and convenient Ware-Houses of
Maj. Phini/y, will be ready, after the
first of October, to receive goods or pro
duce forstorage at customary rates, and
to attend to any business in their line—
and hqpe their industry ami attention to
business will entitle them to a liberal share
of public patronage.
•T. Hauhart,
J. Ganalil,
11. Stoiider.
September 3,1817.- , cgj
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