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ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 18,1816.
THE ALBANY PATRIOT,
n - nI isHED EVERY WEDNESDAY DORKIKn, IT
NELSON TIFT & SETH N. BOUSHTON,
Editors and Proprietors.
TERMS.
■nVO Dollar* per annum, if paid in advance, or
«w Dollar* at the end of the year.
Advertisements not exceeding twelve line*, will
, n *rtcd at One Dollar lor the first insertion, and
cents for each continuance. Advertisements
lit having the number of insertions specified, wUl
Wished until forbid.
Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Adminis-
Jtorsanil Guardians, are required by law to he
idvrttiscd in a public gazette, sixty days previous to
iVtbv of sale.
The sales of Personal Property must be advertised
,, like manner forty day*.
Notice to Debtor* and Creditors of an estate must |
'i# published forty days.
‘ that application will be made to the Court
,f Odinary tor leave to sell Land and Negroes, must
L puMUhcd weekly for four montli*.
Monthly Advertisements,One Dollar per square |
• .•etch insertion.
" y .-.\ll Utter* on btt*incss must he post paid.
POETRY.
UICII.IRB II. CIssiilK,
attorney at law,
Albaby, Geobc.ia.
Will practice in the Counties of Baker. Lee, Dcca-|
tor, Dnuly, Smnter, Randolph and Early, of tlie
s y'tisWcstern Circuit, Stewart, of the Chattaboo-1
iaef, awl Tliomas, of the Southern Circuit
p- OJffer under the “ Courier■” Office, Bruad st.
i. w. washes. tiios. n. Joan ax.
Warren & Jordan,
ATTO IS.VjE VS .IT L.l IV, |
STARKV1LLE, Lee County, Georgia.
ltcccuibcr 3,1345, 34 tf.
Wit. K. dc GKAI'FENRIED,
Attorney at Law,
BLAKELY, Early County, Georgia. |
Practices is the South-westeks Circuit.
Nnv. 5, 30 tf. *
d. m7seai*s,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EICON, Alabama.
1 Will practice in Bakeouk, Macox, Russell I
aad tlic adjoining counties. I
Knon, Ala., Oct. 8, 1845, 26 ly.
2L But 'iPIkLBSPs
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Aleaxv, Geoegia.
npril 1C. 1845. 1 tf
ALEXANDER A. Al.I.KN,
.irroa.vj3V.IT 1.111*,
Uniiihridge, Dci-atnr County, Georgia. |
July «, 1815 13 y
PETER J. STJttOSUBM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
nr t. r.uDXAx dease.
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the asure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there;
‘ She mingled with the gorgeous dye*
The milky baldric of tbs skies,
And stripped its pure celestial white,
With streakings of the morning light;
Then from his mansion in the son,
Site called her eagle bearer down,
And gave into Ids mighty band .
The symbol of her chosen land.
Majestic monarch of the cloud,
Who rear’st aloft thy regal form,
To hear the tempest trumping loud,
And see the lightning lances driven,
When stride the warriors of the storm
And rolls the thnndcr drum of heaven,—
Child of the Sun, to thee ’tis given,
To guard the banner of the free,
To liover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle stroko,
And bid its blending shine alar,
Like rainbows on the cloud of war,
The harbinger of victory.
Flag of die breve, thy folds shall By,
The sign of hope and triumph, nigh.
Wlien speaks the signal trumpet tone,
And the long line comes gleaming on,
(Ere yet the life-blood warm and wet,
lias dimmed the glistening bayooeO
Each soldier’s eye shall brightly turn
To where thy master-glories burn,
And, as bis springing steps advance,
Catch war and vengeance in the glance,
And when the cannon moothinga loud
Heave, in wild wreaths, die battle shroud.
And glory,—sabres rise and fall,
Like shoots of dime on midnight’s pall I
Thera shall diy victor glances glow, .
And cowering foes shall sink beneath
Each gallant arm that strikes below
Tliat lovely messenger of death.
Flag of the seas, on ocean’s wave
Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave,
When death, careering on die gale,
Sweeps darkly round tho Jx-llicd sail,
And frightened waves rush wildly' back.
Before the broadside’s reeling rack;
The dying wanderer of die sea
Shall look at once to heaven and thee,
And smile to see thy splendors fly,
In triumph, o’er his closing eyes.
Flag of the free heart’s only homo,
By angels hands to valor given,
Thy stars have lit die welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes die loe, but fall* before ns
Widi Freedom’s soil beneath our I'ect,
And Freedom’s banner streaming o’er us?
spril 16,1845.
Albasy, Geoegia.
MISCELLANY.
“ Good God! Where is she to be mar
ried—in church T*
No. At her father’s house.”
My dear fellow, I—1—yes—no, yes, I
have it. Have you any case coining on in
cither of the courts at II o’clock 1”
“Yes.”
“ Then fill me up a subpoena with the
bridegroom’s name. Don’t stop to ask any
questions. It matters not whether he knows
anything about the parties in the suit. By
heavens, Julia shall be mine!” -
His friend saw his object at once, and
promised to carry on the matter. The
subpoena was made out and placed in the
bands of a clerk to serve upon the unsus
pecting bridegroom the inslant he was seen
lo leave his residence, and he was dispatch
ed in a cab to* watch the house. About
ten minutes before eleven, ns the soon-io-
bc-hnppy man was about entering a coach
before the door of his residence, he was
served with the subpoena.
“ Can’t help it,” said the clerk, in reply
to his gesticulating about “not knowing
the parties,” “going to lie married,” &c.
“ We shun’i reach ifie Hail now In-fo e 11
—the case is the first on the calendar—
won’t keep you but ten liiimties. If you
don’t go, heavy fiuc, inprisomueqt for con
tempt, &c.
The bridegroom, who was rather of a
timid nature, Dually consented, particular
ly as the clerk promised to send a friend of
Ills who sal in the cab, wrapped up in a
lurge cloak, to ihe house ol his bride iu
expectation, explaining the reasons of his
absence. The reader can imagine who
this person was.
Eleven o’clock came, but still no bridc<
groom. The guests were staring at each
other—the priest began to grow impatient
—and the bride that was io be, looked pale
and agitated, when a carriage drove up,
the bell rang, and ‘Tbete he is!’ ‘There
he is!’ muttered many voices A gentle
man did indeed cuter, whose appearance
created almost as much astonishment as
that of Edgar Rjtveuswood in the hull of
Ashton Castle, at the luutriagc of Lucy
Ashton, in Scoil’s “ Bride ol Laimuer
moor.” The lady fainted—private capltr
nations ensued between her parents and
the lover—and the result was, that in ten
minutes after, the two real lovers were join
ed in the sacred bonds of matrimony, much
to tlie satisfaction of all.
The bridegroom that was to have been
soon after made his appearance, putting
and blowing. What lie said and what lie
did, on beholding his rival, and being made
acquainted with-the condition.ol utt'uirs
was really iragi-couiicnl.
The story ol the subpa na shortly after
leaked out, and lias created so much a-
innscment, that llie poor fellow declares he
will sue the lawyer tor $ll>,uOU damages,
in subpamaiug him as a witness in a case
of which he knew noihing, and by which
lie lost a wife. It will be a novel suit in
deed, if he should do so.
[Noah's Weekly Messenger.
thousand more in lawyer’s costs and nota
ry's fees. This is no fiction. It is actually
tlie history of a case which occurred here a
few months ago. If a negro is sold the
government receives a stipend ; taxes are
mid upon all boats, great and small, in the
larbor, upon licences for trades and em
ployments, for marriages, parties, balls;
thus are the people followed through life,
and when death comes, another tax is im
posed, amounting linearly $|ut>, and here
of course, closes the sccue of taxation in
Cuba.
The law is the favored profession : phy
sicians are proscribed—flicy rank below—it
is n favorite idea with the Spaniards “that
God cures the sick and the 'physicians get
the money.” They do not yet clearly sec
the distinction between a surgeon and a
barber 1- A dealer in drugs who confines
himself lo the practice of medicine has a
higher rank—he is respected fur science iu
chemistry.
Now you will naturally inquire how tlie
people like the arrangement—whether they
manifest nnv dcsiro to become a part of the
great republic. Tlie creoles, that is those
born on theislnnd, and they constitute tlie
great majority of the people of the island,
would prefer “annexation.” The govern
ment and those dependent unit lor sup
port and of this class is the most of those
In authority, entertaining different views.
This idea—the thought itself—will perpet
uate the powers of the island in the hands
of tho Castilians without frequent change*
[PUBLISHED by BEQUEST,]: • V
RULES OF PRACTICE.
Ordered, That the following Rules of
practice be adopted for tlie Ocmulgee
Circuit:
1. Upon the peremptory call of a cause
for trial, neither plaintiff nor defendant will
be called by the Sheriff.
2. After a cause has keen submitted 'to
the Jury, no witness will be called, or sent
for, imfcra he has been subpccnaed, ahd
was in the Court room when the parry fit
whose instance he was subpoenaed nli-
uounced his readiness for trial, and then
such witness shall be held liable' for a -con
tempt for his absence.
3. After a cause lias been submitted to
the Jury, it will not be permitted to bu
withdrawn even by’consciu of parties, un
less the Court is satisfied that such with
drawal is necessary to secure the ends of
justice and that no*default is attributable
io cither parly.
4. No continuance will be allowed for
the absence of a witness unless he has been
subpoenaed fire days before the silling cf
Court.. •
5. No second continuance will be allow
ed for the absence of a witness, when tho
cause lias been continued by the same par
ty for tlie absence of the same witness be
fore, ttnhss an attachment shall havo been
applied for against such n witness.
C. No continuance w ilt be allowed for
the absence of an officer of the Court, as a
witness, unless he lind been subpoenaed, cr
of rulers. Now when I speak of the de- „t e ., 8 taken to procure his testimony,
sire of the majority of the people here to 7. Rut one continuance will be allowed
be attached lothe American Union, I would
not be understood us saying that they have
any proper idea or appreciation of 1 lie prin
ciples of our Government. They Imve an
indistinct notion of greater freedom than
they arc permitted lo enjoy ; but I believe
they have no proper sense of the character
which such a people arc required to main-
lain in order to secure and perpetuate these
principles. If they wero Itec to day, they
would, in oilier words make themselves slaves
to-morrow. The government here is a na
ked unsophisticated military despotism, and
unless the people can be educated, unless
the rising generation enn be taught, (for
the present is loo corrupt,) to understand
something of the dignity of freedom and
of the responsibility which rests upon those
who enjoy it, they cannot be considered
prepared io exercise tlie privileges of self-
government. They yet require 11 strong
government, and when 1 sny this, I mean
that the masses are too deeply steeped in
the iniquitous practices of the past, in rob
bery and plunder, to lie trusted with the
slightest exercise of authority. The dis
cipline which in the States apply to out
laws and felons really embraces the true
THOMAS PINKNEY SMITH,
ATTORNE Y AT LA IF,
suri! 16, 1615.
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SERVING A SUBPIENA:
or, LOVE VS. LAW.
It is singular what shifts love will make
to accomplish us object. Bolts, gates aud
bars Hre of little avail against Cupid s ptek-
D &. J VASON, lock connivances—bis cunning will devise
VrcOItNEYa AND COUK.BUOM AT LAW, to UdJ
of this city, and it was supposed the two, iu
1 due lime, would hccotne “one flesh.”—
Some little quarrel, of a trivial nature, as
lover’s quarrels generally are, occurred.—
april 16,1845.
Albaxy, Georgia.
tf
HENRY J. STEWART,
\ T T 0 II N E Y AT LA W « Neither would confess the wrong to bo on
•it 1 uiiitiJ 1 11 a aj ih * „;,i„ presents and correspondence
TrOupviUe.
August 13, 1845. 18
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their side—pi — .
were mutually sent back—and the match
was broken off. The young gentleman
immediately started for New. Orleans, to
enter into commercial business, thinking
that distance would lessen the attachment
he really fell for the young lady.
When a woman is injured, or thinks she
on the ap|iearancc, by consent of parties— .
and none on his trial.
8. The Clerk will be required to have in
Court nit papers appertaining to his office
uiicnc ver called for, on pain of being fined;
provided, he may deliver to the counsel en
gaged, tlie original papers in a cause upon
his receipting therefore, which may be de
tained nut exceeding ten days; and provi
ded further, that no paper shall be deliver
ed from the office within ten days of tho
session of Court.
9. The Clerk shall at each Court, mako
out and certify the costs due each officer in
each criminal cause, and for -which the
county is liable, and be with the Sheriil'
shall make an exhibit of the fines and for
feitures received bv them respectively, and
bow disbursed, which shall be entered on
the minutes of the Court, and the vouchers
lor-all expenditures shall be presented to
1 lie presiding Judge.
10. At the opening of each term of the
Court, the Sheriff shall return the name of
every juror, grand and petit, summoned, as
well us those not summoned, and tho rea
sons therefor.
It. The returns of all Sheriffs, Consta-
remedies- for the great mass of the Spanish n,| cgj Coroners, and Justices of tho Pence,
population of this Isiond. Yet they nrej lo nil orders and rules, “shall be made on
prosperous! “Truly the lines have.fallen un th to he taken at tlie time of making
CU.UIL.ES S. OIIPiJST,
Attorney at Law,
Ilawliinirvillc, Ga.
Will attend promptly to »ny business in tlie I j 3 injured, by the one she loves, she is more
Southern ana South-western CircuiU. I than ihe mule sex lo “ bile off her own
\ov. 26,1845, 33 tf. | nose,” as the saying is,_to inflict pain and
— „ I be revenged on I lie offending object* A
Thomas B. Bonneuy, gentleman that the young Indy once re-
,i | j A r nflV at Law « fccted renewed his proposals, and was nc-
Aliorilty ttl Uttw, I copied within a week after her old lover
VIENNA, Dooly County, Georgia. |, a( | embarked for the south. On reaching
I Nc\v Orleans ho found that distance, in-
li 'Practices in all tlie Conrts of the South-west-1 0 f weakening his attachment, only
rm Circuit—Pulaski of tho Southern, and Houston ( |J e j n( jy dearer, and lie became mel-
u the Flint Circuit ancholv and low spirited. The first letter
ho received from New York from a friend
It irtunn u g, 1 IVON lof his, announced ihtrf his old flame was to
RICHARD F. OC J. L.YUiT, L s | 10rt | y married to another. Ills course
ATTORXIES dr COVNSELEORSATLA W. I wag ,.„j c |s,y taken—the next morning saw
ALBANY, Baker Co., Go. | him on board a packet ship bouud for Go-
Corresponienee if the Boston Post.
Havanka, Jan. 22,1346.
What relates to Culm somehow or other
-and I do not pretend lo understand, much
less ex plain why—is always read with in
terest by the people of the United States.
Well it is a strange country, strange in the
vastness of its products, for the amount of
labor employed, und the stranger still in its
peculiar form of government. Iuthe States,
especially in the West, great complaints
arc heard ugainst laxcs,state,county, town
and district tuxes—but these burdens are
nothing compared with the enormous ex
actions here. Every thing is taxed : the
bread you eat, clothes you wear, the furni
ture of your house, the horse you ride, the
carriage, the wheel-barrow, the ox, and ev
ery thing—and taxed too, immensely.—
One would suppose that the whigs of the
States had acluully originated, or if not, at
least fujly adopted tlie Cuba rule of politi
cal economy. But notwithstanding all
this, the people are prosperous and happy—
prosperous in spite of their burdens. A
country but little larger than New York,
and with half the population of that State,
including blacks, and paying in taxes year
ly, directly and indirectly, an amount con
siderably more than half of the current rev
enues of the United States, is still prosper-
I do not mean to be understood as
unto us in pleasant places, and we have a
goodly heritage.” How true and beauti
fully true is litis of the people of Cuba—
they arc happy ! .
They cannot be otherwise. In spite of
themselves 1 hey are prosperous—nay, more,
each returnand if the return be traversed
it shall be tried by n special Jury.
12. The returns of officers to money
rules shall state tbe fifa's levied—the pro
perty levied on—the time-sold—the aggre
gate amount of sales—the expenses and
they are liappv; happy in thetr profound | their character, and tlie nett amount sub
ignorance of wliatevur by other jienplu tsre-1 : t . cMo distribution, and;the rule absolute,
garded ns the nemn of civilization ; happy „| ia || ! ealo<cuch /i Ja and the amount paid
in the depth of a chttfch hierarchy ; happy i ,} lcrt . lo>
in their hopes of salvation hereafter, while |3_ The Sheriffs shall ni each term of
committing the grossest acts of outintrc n- t |, R (; oim bring j n their execution dockets,
gainst God and man, and Itnpphr still in 1 ,showing the disposition of every ji fa rj-
snjpposing their people the most accomplish-; , ( , rnn t,| e thercu/; legal measures shall
cd and enlightened on the globe, and their i | or ih\\ jih be taken to collect tbe costs of
government tire very bulwark of national iluise insolvent; ol those indulged or with-
endurnnre. j drawn, there shall be made a special scht-
They are prosperous because their tin-,,]„!(. and luruislicd tliu Clerk, and in cvfc-
nding summers taxes litem but lightly for i rv g0 | V citi case the Sheriff will be required
itthcr food or clothing. Their bananas co j| ccl the costs. At each term of the-
1 I — * .1 . I! ^Tmm nl a f liril irrsvIV .6 d -1 I m ji C On t«B|H A *■*
H AVE recently catered into a Partnership us ihe
Practice af Law, snd will continue the pne-
tiee ia the severe] Courts of the counties of
Raker* slit icon,
Tee; Booty,
Randoluh* Iterator.
Sumpter? IwlH-
•Ml matter* submitted to their care in nssyot these
' Jtmties, will meet with prompt attention, and be
“ought to a speedy conclusion.
*t>ril 30th 1845 *
J. LAW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Uainbrldgc, Qacatw County, Georgia,
Win attend punctually the Superior Courts of the
foantits of Esri^nSer and Decatur, ofthc Socth-
xestern, and of the County of Thonns of the °-~“-
em Circa*. ”
ldy9,1845, 13 v
The passage unfortunately was long,
and the poor fellbw chnfed and fretted so
much, that the passengers began to think
him deranged or else a fugitive escaping
from justice. The instant the vessel
touched the wharf he darted for the office
of his friend the lawyer. It is to be sup
posed the latter was much surprised to sec
his friend, imagining him a couple of thou
sand miles away. After the usual saluta
tions, he exclaimed— . . ..
“ Mv dedr fellow! you are just in tune
to see* tlie wedding. Miss , yonr old
sweetheart, is lo lie married this morning at
11 o’clock. To tell you tho truth, I donl
believe there is much love about it, and
that the gitl really thinks more of one hair
ofyout head than of the ferttmate bride
groom's wholo body.”
saying that the island pays lo tho royal
treasury at Mudrhl ibis iminenso sum, for
every dollar which actually reaches the
treasury, there is more than three dollars
collected from the people. The incidental
are much greater than the fixed burdens.
For iuslance, such arc the judiciary regula
tions that it not unfrequemly happens that
*2' 1,(1011 in a single sun, are taxed as costs.
This explicable machine, necessary in some
form in all governments, managed here in
all its intricate relations and windings, by
a few adepts in the legal practice, is un
doubtedly one of the mostgnevous burdens
of tho people. Its criminal deportment is
a perfect marvel. The complainant is
bound in all cases to pay the cost of the
prosecution, successful or not. Now if a
crime is committed, a counting room robbed
either I. _
and plantains—delicious fruits, that grow
almost spontaneously every where in the
island, nnd constituting their chief re
liance—has made them so. The creole is
g rand of his birth ; he looks ttpAn the old
paniard ns nn adventurer, nnci I am told
that this ignorant class get up an aristo
cratic party or ball, and of course exclude
cverv hotly from it who are not natives of
the Island. “Soyhijode In lierra 1” ex
claims the dingy, half dried creole ; and
the pride involved in this be would not ex
change for a throne in Antram 1 “ I am a
child of this earth!” exclaimed this trn-
icashed animal. Now this is the class ol
men, after all, who are in favor of annexa
tion, nnd by this instance you may judge
of the advantages of that word when ap-
pli»d to this island. Then if by any good
fortune Cubashould become a part of the
United States.these men woukM>e driven
away by the force of civilianioriln the at
mosphere of which they could no tnoic live
than the monkey or onrang outangr It is
said that the United States once had an
indigenous or native rat, but since tlie in
troduction of the Norway rat, the native
lias receded, and thni he can now be found
only among the Indians. So perhaps it
will be with the natives here, if Yankee en
terprise were once permitted tofind foothold
on nnd havo control of the affairs of this
Island. * * *
comlI1Illt:u . „ There have been discovered in N. Zea-
snv of *5,lMVt, ihe report circulate* in the land, the organic rem» ,n * '“J” 1 ’
morning; the authorities appear to the nn-i birds, that must have been
fortunafe to condole with him, and to in- teen feel n> bc.ght, ami
noire after the robber, the poor man is ac- responding .strength. Pio tradition exwt
(trolly obliged to deny the theft and all'inffkinong the notive* « relarionroihooe
knowledge of the rob&ry, for otherwise, he ( gigantic bipeds, they must have existed at
would bo hold to account for perhaps five I a very remote period.
Court, the Clerks and Shcritts will be re
quired to settle with each other costs, on
pain of being considered in contempt.
14. When land or negroes shall he sold
under ji fa's from a Justices’ Court, being
pointed out under the act ol 1842, othfcr
like Ji fa's claiming the money need nfir.
have the entry of “no other personal cslafe.
sufficient to satisfy th e Ji fa,” and where n
coutest arises bctw.een jija's claiming nioh-
ey, a Justices’ Court fifth will be allowed
to moke tbe said entity at any time, hav
ing preference back to the lime at whicu
th eh fa raising the money was levied.
15. When rules Jfiri are applied for m
vacation against officers of Court, the party
making the application, shall' cause the
same to be entered by the Clerk in the
minute-book, and upon the motion-docket,
and upon failure to do so, the same wyl
not be heard at Court.
16. All notices requiring the production
of books, paper* or other writings as pro
vided for in the Jndiciarv act of 1709, shall
I to served as follows: If the party, notified
reside in the countv where said suit is pen
ding, ten days before Court; if out of raid
countv and not more than one hundred
miles'distant, fifteen days; if over pius
hundred and less I halt two hundred miles
distant, twentv days; if two hundred miles
or more or bevonil the State, sixty days.
Anti when it sfinll clearly and satisfactorily
appear to the Court, that the parties has
used due nnd proper diligence, and cannot
refprind to wild notice, the caw 9haUve
the term of the Court to which the origin
al cause was made return able—tha names
