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AUGUSTA CHRONICLE.
VOL. XXIII.] FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND TRIAL BY JURY SHALL REMAIN INVIOLATE. [NO. I 199.
AUGUSTA ; PRINTED BY D. DRISCOL, NEAR THE MARKET. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1809. [THREE DOLLS. PER ANN.
Writing Paper ,
OFan excellent quality, from the
mills of Mr. VVaring, Columbia,
South Carolina, for (ale at this office.
Thole who arc friends to domcftic
manufactures, will, no doubt, en
courage the Columbian maimladurcr.
August 19.
Weare authorifed to ffatc
that Mr. JOSEPH GARRETT
is a Candidate for the Lcgiflature,
and Policies the votes and inteieft
of his fellow citizens of Richmond
county.
Auguftitj. (ts)
WE are authorized to fay
that CLAUDIUS MAG NAN
is a Candidate for the Ctefkfoip
of the Inferior Courts at the cn
fuing cteSlio’U
Augujl 5. (eow)
do announce to my
friends and fellow citizens of Co
lumbia county, that I am a can
didate for the Senate at the next
annual election.
ABEDNEGO WRIGHT.
August 19. (cowjt)
Notice.
I have lately removed to this place
and (hall for the future continue my
pradicein this diftridand in Barn
well as well as in the courts of E
quity of Orangeburg and Ninety-
Six diftrids, in Columbia coun
ty and also in Richmond county,
Georgia, when the Carolina courts
do not interfere—Mr. Wm. Jones
at Columbia Court-Houfc, &: Mr.
James R. Vince at Barnwell keep
my offices at those places, rcfpcdivc
ly, & that at Town Creek is still kept
up, where applications personal or by
letter by mail will be attended to.
On special cases I will attend any o
ther courts convenient not clashing
with the above—For information
of my clients and others, the above
courts meet as under: '
Barnwell the 3d Mondays in Oc
tober and March,
Edgefield the fourth Mondays in
those months,
Columbia county, Georgia, the
4th Mondays in August & February
The Court of Equity at Orange
burg, the Ift Mondays in February
and June.
The Court of Equity at Abbe r
dlle, for Ninety-Six diftnd, on the
2d Mondays in February and June.
The Constitutional Court and the
Court of Appeals in Equity at Co
lumbia, South-Carclina, on the 2nd
luefday next after the 4th Mondays
in Odober and March in each year.
Those clients who ft ill arc and oth
ers who may be disposed to place
confidence in me, lhall not find it ill
bestowed. »
CHARLES GOODWIN.
Attorney at Law.
Edgefield Court-lloufe i
July 29 th 1809. (cowjm)
r^topYhiefT
STOLEN from the liable of the
Suo (briber, on the night of the 20th
a DARK BROWN HORSE,
shout fifteen hands high, about eight
years old, fparc made, a blaze on
the forehead, fevcral white foots on
weathers, occasioned by the (ad
dle, both hind feet white, a natural
hotter, rides and draws with great
A reward of TWENTY
OLLARS with all rcaionqblc
c arges will be paid tor the horse a-,
! one , and ten dolhrs for apnrehend
lng the Thief'.
BENJAMIN HALL.
Augusta, Sc-*/ 2 . (ls)
Lawyers Office.
The Subscribers having entered
into partnetlhip in the Practice of the
LAW, refpeClfully inform the public chat
their Office is kept on the Sooth fide of
Broad Street, two doors above Mefirs John
Fox & Co. where all bufjnefs in the line of
their profeffion will be punctually attended
to. It is their intention to practice in the
Counties of
Columbia, , Striven, Elbert,
Warren, Washing ton, Wilkes,
Jefferson, Richmond, Green and
Bur ke t Lincoln, Har cock
as well as in the Federal Circuit
Court. The arrangement between them is
fitch, that one will always be present at the
Office, whilll the odier is upon the circuit.
Joseph Hutchinpn,
Richard IL Wilde.
Aogufta, Sept. 9. (ts)
Packing Machine.
THE Subscriber has set up a Machine
for Packing Cotton in Square Bales
on the river iireet at the lower end of town,
where he will pack or repack cotton in the
bed manner, and on the fhotteft notice, at
One Dollar per bale ; his bales are three feet
ten inches in length, and twenty two inches
in thickness, and will average three hunched
and fifty weight;—Alfo n excellent COT-,
TON GIN, and will Gin and Pack cotton
at One Dollar and fifty cents per hundred.
All rhofe who may please to favor him
with their custom mav depend on the flriCl
eft attention being paid to their business.
JAMES OLIVER.
N. B, The fame bagging will answer for
repacking, unless very much torn.
Sept. 9. 3*,
Stop Thief and Runaway.
Runaway from the fubferiber on
the iBjh,inff. a Negro man named
AARON, brought trom Maryland
by Captain G. Sibbald, and fold to
the late G. Walker Esq. He is a
bout 40 years of age, has a full suit
of hair which he commonly keeps
combed, (peaks (lowly, and is very
artful. He took off with him a
bright bay gelding, in prime order,
about 14 hands high, 7 years old,
with small and rather (imken eyes;
the brands on the horse (bands thus
S. I. the horfc is (pirited, and walks
and trots sass. It is (uppoled he
will wear an old blue frife furtout—
he took a bridle and coarfc country
made (addle, and a blanket with a
bundle containing a livery coat,
made of a ffriped light drab colour
ed brown caffimcre, together with
fufldry articles ofgood cloathing.
A reward of fix and a quarter cents
befidcs. all expences will be paid for
appiehendingand lodging him ma
ny lecure jail in the United States,
and twenty dollars for the horse,
(addle and* bridle, and bundle of
cloathing, on delivery to
SEABORN JONES.
Auguffa, Ga. Sept. 2.
Collectors Sale. >
On the 3 d day of November next, at the
Court house in the town of Waynesboro’
•within the usual hours prescribed by law,
the following property, or as much there
of, as will satisfy the tax due.
Will be Sold,
202- acres ofpine land in Wil
kinson county, ift dist. No. 244-.-and
140 acres Pine land in Richmond county,
returned by James Sims for ISOB, tax due
75 cents.
Also, 202- acres of second
quality ot la.id in the county formerly cal- .
led Baldwin, 20th dist. No. 199, returned
by Stephen Hayman as parent of Wm. Hay
man dec, tax due for ISOB, 6cents.
Also, 500 acres of.third quality
land in Altamt-ha fwarnp, and 500 acres ot
Pino land, and 350 acres of the third quality
of inland swamp, and 350 acres o f Pine land,
all in M'lntofh county, returned by Ed
ward Corker, tax due for 1807, 5 dols.
iz\ certs.
William D.. vis, 7. C. B. C.
Sept. 9. (3*'
Blank Deeds
For sale ar this Office •
rrr»~ lTr . mnnui. ****yf f r* 7r ~ rir m
The Celebrated Imported Horse ,
ROYALIST,
(Whip’s brother)
HAS comtnencfd a fall season at my lia
ble al Walhington, which will expire
the joih November next, at Twenty Dol
lars the season, payable by note the firft day
of January next, which may be discharged
by dollars within the season, with
one dollar ra the groom in every tnllanre
To in fare a mare to be in foal, Thirty DdJ-
Jars, fubje«ft to the rules of insurance. 1
nave as good paiturage as is in the state,
gratis, 8c will lead if directed at a moderate
puce.
WHIP Panels at Capt. J. Billup’s
near Athens, this Lll Icalbn, on the lame
terms as Royalift*
EDWARD JORDAN.
September 9, 1809. Ct
f 1
Notice.
The copafrnerfhip which existed between
S, Marlh.il and Thomas G, Davie in this
place is diflblved this day by the death of Mr.
Davie.
All persons indebted to the fat’d Him are
requested to call and fettle the fame imme
diately, thole having demands againll said
firtn will present them for settlement to the
Subscriber.
On Thursday the fifth day of OSlober iiexl t
nt SronjjnJlorough.
Will be Sold,
All the tock of goods belonging to the
above firm and continue from day today till
all is fold, Conditions made known on the
day offale.
Solomon Marftial. ,
Surviving C opart tier.
Brownjborough, Sept. 9. (^.t)
for sale^
4 likely Negro Fellow ,
Sober and honest; he is a toler
able Carpenter, a good Cooper,
and can make negro Shoes, and
in many refpedts, is very ufeful
on a Plantation; he is used to
the upper Country, and docs
not like to live in the lower
Country, for which rcafon only
he is to be fold; for further par
ticulars enquire of
Lafitte & fV. Brux.
Sept, a. ( 4 t)
Sheriff’s Sale.
On the firji luefday in October next ,
at the Market-house in the City
of Atigufla within the usual hours
the following property .
Will be Sold,
The Lots and improvements in
the city of Augusta, known in
the plan of the city by the Nos.
89 and 90, Bounded on the North
by green street on the weft, by
centre street, on the South by
Telfairs street, & on the East by
a !ot belonging to or occupied by
Mrs. Gordon, levied on as belong
ing to the estate of the kite Ana
nias Cooper, to fatisfy an execu
tion on foreclofure of a mortgage
infavour of Charles Snowden.
Also, 1 acres of pine land in
Richmond county, on the waters
of Cupboard creek, adjoining land
of Mrs. Bugg & Gen. Glafcock,
levied on as belonging to the estate
of Capt. Samuel Bugg dec. to
fatisfy hmdry Executions and
pointed out by the adm’r.
A. RHODES, Sheriff.
Septembers. . (f)
This day is published and For Sale
at the Chronicle Office,
Hn Ora ,
Delivered at Washington, (Wilkes
1 County, on the 4 th of July last,
By Francis D. Cummins Fsa,
Price 2 5 Cents.
Align ft 19.
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Anti-Dueling Aiibciation.
(Concluded from our la Q.) I /
The religion of the land is decisive.
That religion which is received by the peo
ple of the U. S. as of divine authority, and
Which has interdicted not only the matured
ad, but all iccitements to the commiflion
of it.
The laws of the land are decisive. They
fpcalc death to the man who kills a* other in
a duel. They fptak degradation and infa
my to every one who, in any manner,
affiftsin a duel. But the laws are merciful.
They will not allow of any avoidable rifle
of punifhitrg the innocent. And the guilty
availing himfeli cf their precaution, and of
the facility of cfcape, cleared by different
eludes their blow, and in the
very ad; of (blinking from this expression of
the public will, pleads public opinion in his
own vindication.
The private circles is decisive. Go
through theftate tromhoufe to hotife ; num
ber the patrons of dueling ; and when you
have found them, one in a thousand of our
independenteledors, begin to speak of their
opinion. Shall We, then, hear that our
opinions colledivcly are in diametrical con
tradidion to our opinions fcparatcly ? And
that the public applauds a pradicc which
every one who contributes to make up that
public, a handful of the dcfparate excepted,
pronounces to be fcnfelcfs and wicked ? Yet
strong as the fads arc : Full, peremptory,
solemn and habitual as are theexpreffions of
public opinion against dueling, without one
solitary expreflien in its favor, this baneful
pradicc, the offspring of barbarous manners
and bloody passions, is (till fathered upon
public opinion! And, what is deeply
alarming, gains rapidly among our citizens
-—gains, inoppofition to all the expoftula -
tinnsof rcafon, and all the fandions of re
gion ; in oppofit.ion to the rebuke of the
law ; to the testimony of the wife and good j
to the protestations of common humanity ;
to the tears of the widow and the sorrows cf
the orphan ; to the agonies of a father’s bo
som, and theyearnings cfa mother’s bow
els ; to all that is afreding in this world,
and all that is tremendous in the world to
come!
Arc we fathers ? Are we brothers ? Arc
we citizens? Ate wc men? And (hall
we permit a crime, the reproach of our land
and the feourge of our peace, to (talk openly
and impudently through our streets ? Are
we to tremble every hour of our lives, left
a brother or a Ton, on vvbom reds our faired
hopes j cross our thrcfhold in the morning
to be brought back, at noon, a vidira to
that Moloch—modern honor ? And, as the
fwerd passes through cur fouls, to be told,
that we invited its point and bribed the
affafhr, by our own complacency in his
charadcr.
But what (hall be done? Rcafon has
spoken and flic is disregarded. Religion has
fpokrn and (he is rnreked. The laws have
spoken aad they are not heard. Humanity
has fpe ken and (he is infuhecl. This is un
happily tiue. One meafore however still
remains. A me.ifujc simple dignified and
probably more cffedual than any which has
been tried hitherto. It is in the eledive
franchifc. The freemen of this state have
only to refufe their countenance and their
VOTE at the eleClicns to every man who
{hall hereafter be engaged either as principal
or acceflary in any duel or in any attempt to
promote one.—As the utmost art is used by
offenders in this way to fruftratc ihc law by
rendering the requisite proof itrpdfible, no
thing more is ncccffary to cut them off from
the Lendit of their ill gotten impunity, than
to make current report, or ones private per*
ftafion, by what means soever obtained,
the ground of withholding one's vote, ,
That the influence of foch a determination,
if generally adopted and aCted upon, would
he very great, cannot admit or a doubt.
Ihe only plaufiblc objections arc the two
following :
i. Thar a judgement founded upon pre
sumptive prou ! , such as common rumor, or
mi article in the public prims, might con
demn an innreent men : and
i. I hat the meafurc recommended may
interfere v. uh the t r eedcm of elections.
Upon the rft objection it is fifficient to
remark, that fhou,d the case occur, that a
candidate fer office fiioukl/wl in his eleCUcn
from an unjust fufpk ion of Ins having been
concerned in a dor !, it would fl ill he much
better <hat an individual (hould be kept out
of an cflioe so which he has no right but the
peoples gift, than that an atrocious crime
fliould go longer without coercion. The
injury if any, would flow, not from the
vote but from the fulpicinn which existed
/.rtcr to ir, & therefore could he no way oc
c.:doned by it.
But such a case is f.> ejerrerrefy improbable
at not robe of any weignt in the contcrn
;.l it ion of a grand feci ■! refirrtn. Amoog all