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MILLEDGEVILLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1812.
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The Subscriber,
R ESPECTEULLY informs his friends
snd those who may wifli to employ
him ip his profession, that he has removed
to Twig** Court-Houfe, where he may u-
fually be found unlefs when on the circuit;
or for the prefent, immediately in the
neighborhood. MOSES FORT.
January 29 14—tf
Nine months after date applica
tion will be made to the honorable
the inferior court of Baldwin county,
for leave to sell 202 1 -2 acres of Land
No. 234, in the fifteenth district of
Baldwin now Morgan county. Al
so Lot No. 4, in Square No. 41 on
Green and Wilkinson streets in the
town of Milledgeville belonging to
the estate of James S. Howard de
ceased, for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors.
Ezekiel Ralston, Adm.
July 3 27—m9m*.
(jQ® All persons having demands
against the said estate, are requested
,to bring them forward properly
authenticated, and those indebted
will please make immediate pay
ment. E- R.
Notice
Will be fold, on the premifes, on the laft
Saturday in February next, a fquare of land
in the 4th -diftrict of Baldwin,, No. £46.
lying on Sugar creek, and drawn by Jona*
than Miller, deceafed—Sold for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors. Twelve months
credit will be allowed, by purchafera giving
bond with approved security.
Lewis Miller, Ex'or.
Mary Miller, Ex'x.
January 1 • 11 6t
GEORGIA, Baldwin county.
Personally appeared before me Wil
liam Johnston, a Justice of the
Peace for the county aforesaid, Ja
cob Marchant, and being duly sworn
saith, that he has lost or mislaid
three notes of hand made payable to
him by Samuel fteckum and Allen
Beckum—two of the notes for 25
dollars each, And the other for 22
dollars 25 cents ; all of them dated
the 23d November, 1808, and paya
ble twelve montliB from the date.
Jacob Marchant.
Sworn to before me this 6th Ja
nuary, 1812. JVm. Johnston, J. P.
January 7 11 —6t
Nine months after date application will
be made to the honorable the Inferior Court
of Putnam county, for leave to fell 402 1.2
acres of Land Lot No 150, in the 83rd
diftridt of Wilkinfon county, being the real
eftate of Cbriftian Millirons deceased ; for
the benefit of the heirs and creditors.
Henry Milliron , Adm’r
September 3$4S— mOm
Nine months after date application will
be made to the honorable the Inferior court
of Putnam county, for leave to fell two
4birda of a lot in the town of Eatonton with
the improvements thereon, known in the
plan of fa'id town by lot No 5, in fquare B
fold for the benefit of the heirs and credi
tors of John H. Baxter, deceased, late of
Hancock.
Wm. G. Springer. Adm’r
September is 47—mom
>nes, J >
I'H, i ?-
W ILL BE SOLD on Saturday the 14th
of February next, at the court-houfe
in Wilkinson county, between the usual
hours, the following tri'fts of land, or as
much thereof as will be fuflficient to fatisfy
the tax due for 1810 and cods.
202 1 2 acres pine land, 5th diltridt Wil
kinson county, No 106, returned by Jabue
Wilkin—tax due, 75 cents.
202 1 2 acres pine land, 3d diftrift Wil
kinfon county, No 192, returned by Charles
Mitchell, as parent, for Benjamin, Rebecca
and Elizabeth Mitchell—tax due, 2 dollars
15 8-4 cents.
5o acres pine land, Wilkinfon county, ad
joining j. Hardie, returned by John Gil
more—tax due, 56 1..4 cents.
B. Exum, t c.
December it. •—tds
Nine monts after date, application will
be made to the Honorable the Inferior
Court of Putnam county, for leave to fell
the real eftate of John W. Jones, late of Put
nam county deceased ; for the benefit of
the heirs and creditors.
Jesse Jones,
Benj. Hill
January 18 12—m9m.
-''Nine months after date application will
be made to the honorable the Court of Ordi
nary for the county of Greene, for leave to
fr|l Lot No 53, lying in the county of
Ttlfa>r, seventh diftridt formerly Wilkinfon,
drawn by the Orphans of Thomas Watts
deceafed, to be fold for the benefit of faid
Orphans.
Presly Watts, Ex’r.
81 ptember 11 *9—ns»m.
Nine months after date, application will
be made to the Inferior Court of Putnam
county, for leave to sell one Lot of Land
in faid county, drawn by Thos. Harrifon’s
orphans, for the benefit of faid orphans.
Carter B. Harrison,
july 21 40 • m»m.
*^NINE months after date, application
will be made to the Honorable the Court of
Ordinary, for the county of Putnam, for
leave to fell all the real eftate of Hugh Hall
dec’d for the benefit of the heirs and ere.
ditorsoffaid deceased.
Dixon Hall, 1
Oct 23 Francis Lewis, J
Dancing School.
The Subfcriber begs leave to inform the
ladies and gentlemen in the town and vi.
cinity of Milledgeville, that he will attend
at the houfe of Mr. John Downer in faid
town,on the 14»h and 15th of February next,
for the purpofe of opening A DANC
ING SCHOOL; and he hopes from the
encouragement he has received in his pro
feftion in the States of Virginia and North
Carolina, that be will be able to give gene
ral fatisfadtion to those who may feel dis-
pofed to patronife him; he pledges himfe'fto
pay every attention in his power to fuch pu
pils as may be fubmitted to his care. Terms
of tuition will be made known, on applies"
tion to Mr. John Downer.
James Walters.
January 22 13—tf.
Miscellany.
THE AMERICAN ARTS.
Acini s
N INE moths after date, application will
be made to the Inferior Court of Mor
gan county, for leave to fell Lot, No. 220,
4th diflrict Baldwin ; for the benefit of the
orphans of Christopher Williams, late of
Hancock county.
George Sims, Guardian.
Robert Clark, Adm.
January 22 13—m9m.
Billiard Room.
The Subscriber begs leave to in
form the Public, and his friends who
proved liberal to him, that his Bil
liard Table is now ready in his large
and commodious Room. It was
constructed by an excellent artificer,
and every part is geometrically true
Proper attention will be given to the
company by the owner, who has on
hand, Porter, Gin, choice Wines,
French Brandy, Spanish Segars, &c
P. MENARD.
December 11 7 tf.
The misfortunes or the follies of
European nations, it has been obser
ved, have contributed much to the
good fortune and the prosperity of
America—There is truth in the ob
servation—but we must be as careful
in guarding against false conclusions
drawn from acknowledged facts as
against falsehood itsell -A very
common inference drawn from the
acknowledged consequences of the
misfortunes of Europe is, that the
effect must be temporary—but this
is not true: because the good al
ready derived must continue, if we
have only the wisdom to protect it.
Another conclusion that is insinuated
rather than asserted is, that we owe
every thing to Europe ; that we can
not do without; in short that wc
must be dependant on Europe for all
the productions of art and genius.
Those who thus deceive themselves
cannot deceive the country. The
state pf the arts, & the progress of ma
nufactures in the U. S. give evidence
of a ripeness and ingenuity in every
branch of human pursuit, which re
quires only the encouragement and
protection of provident and efficient
laws, to place our arts and sciences
upon equal ground with any nation
of modern times.
The recent establishment of a steam
boat on the western waters, carries
in itself consequences much more
important and conclusive, than the
cabal of Languedoc of France or
perhaps the celebrated dykes of Hol
land.
The friends to American improve
ments will be gratified in learning
that this steam boat in all its parts,
engine, boiler and machinery, has
been constructed at Pittsburgh. The
western country is indebted to the
enterprize of two of our own citi
zens, Messrs. Livingston and Ful
ton, for this important improvement
in the navigation of the Mississippi.
This beautiful vessel 148 feet iu
length, 30 feet beam, has been tried'
with 140 tons of merchandise on
board, and advanced at the rate of ’3
miles an hour against a current of
2 1-2 on the 29th of October, in the
presetted of many hundreds of spec
tators. She left Pittsburgh for New-
Orlpans destined to trade between
that city and Natchez; and there is
little doubt that with care and per
severance, all the difficulties which,
were apprehended from snags, saw
yers arid planters, will be overcome,
and the company amply remunera
ted.
Let us now for a moment contem-
S ilate this new science ; this immense
eap forward in the useful arts ; only
five years ago it was considered im
practicable to make a useful steam
boat, and Livingston and Fulton
were universally rediculcd for the
attempt ; there are on Hudson’s ri
ver,
Between New„York and Albany, 5
Between New-Yorkand New-Brunswick, l
On the Delaware, I
On Lake Champlain, 1
On the Mifliffippi, 1
Bui'ding on St. Lawrence. 1
On Hudfon’s River a* a ferry boat, 1
Building for ferry boats from N. York to
Jerfcy city, 2
Total, is
This is more than two steam boats
a year since 1807, when Livingston
and Fulton built their first boat. In
every situation where they are esta
blished, their benefits are sensibly
felt and acknowledged ; what would
the United States take to be depriv
ed of this new art ? Could 100 mil
lions of dollars compensate these
states for the eternal privation of on
ly this one American invention ? Let
the political economist answer this
question. Have then two enterpri
sing individuals given to our coun
try an invention in its effects worth
100 millions of dollars ? Here we
learn to respect the useful arts and
the incalculable blessings they be
stow ? Have we guarded them bv
protecting and encouraging laws : or
are inventors, who are the most va
luable members of society, to be for
ever a prey to rapacious fraud and
cupidity ? Is not the exertion of
mind the highest order of labor ?
Does it not extend every success to
the benefit of whole nations, to milli
ons of individuals ? And shall itnot
in a wise government, among a wise
people, find complete protection,
while the labor of the hands, even
to a peck of grain, is guarded against
theft and plunder i
The productions of genius must
be protected in order to prosper—
with due protection the extent of A-
merican ingenuity will very soon as
tonish and surpass all other nations.
C Aurora. J
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grain. The memoirs may be writ
ten in Italian, Latin, Greek, or
French .—‘Weakly Register.
FEAR.—To dread no eye, and
to suspect no tongue, is the great
prerogative of innocence, and ex
emption granted Irmly to invariable
virtue ; but guilt has always its hor
rors and sblicitudes, and to make it
yet more shameful, is doomed often
to stand in awe of those to whom no
thing could give influence or weight,
but the power of betraying.
Cumberland has accuratelly descri
bed the blunders of the Irish : they
result not from a poverty but from an
affluence of ideas. Their ardour al
lows them no leisure to cull and se
lect. This is evident from another
consideration—that, in many i»3tan
ces, their meaning overreaches their
words, and we commit bulls by de
nominating them such. Of this class
is the following. The chancellor of
the exchequer is reported to have
said in a debate, some years since,
that the tax on leather would he se
verely felt bv the barefootedpeasant
try of Ireland. Undoubtedly it
would, because it would raise the
price of leather and compel them to
remain barefooted. He is further re
ported to have said, that the Irish
would, in the present war, spend the
last guinea of their property, to pre
serve the remainder. Very well, and
there may lie a remnant of property
not amounting to the value of a gui
nea, which they might -wish still to
preserve.
It may be a matter not too insig
nificant for inquiry, whence did the
expression Bulls originate ? Might
it not have been from the bulls of St.
Peter, after 1 he establishment ofpro-
testantism in England, when the
thunders of the Vatican wefe treated
with contempt ?
Friendship. Si many qualities
are rtqui. i e to the permanency of
triendship, and so many accidents
must concur lor its rise and its con
tinuance, that no wonder can be ex
cited by observing that the greatest
part of mankind content themselves
without it, and supply its place as
they can with interest & dependence.
The Horse.—A jocular fellow
meeting an acquaintance, informed
him of the good luck he had near
been in, by having a horse given him,
and that he and the owner parted
for one word only. How was that,
said his friend. Why, says he,
saw a man riding a horse—Master,
says I, give me that horse. No,
says he, and if he had but have said
yes, I should have had it.
GREECE.—-The Ionian Acade
my established at Ccrfu, has offered
a prize of 600 francs, for the best
dissertation on the means of render
ing the potatoe abundant in that is
land, in the shortest possible time
and also of producing an increase of
Comtrcriri.
House of Representatives.
Monday, January 6.
Mr. Grundy from the committee
of Foreign Relations, reported the
bill autlv "ising the President to ac
cept of volunteer corps, with sundry
amendments, whirh was coipmitted.
Mr. D. R. Williams said, liv an
act of 1803 a Regiment of Light In-
fantfv w.is di-.Tted to be raised.-—
This was considered by the secreta
ry of Wm as horse artillery ; but
the hill did not provide for mounting
them. He therefore introduced a
bill supplementary to an act for raft
ing, for a limited time, an additional
military force, which was twice read
and committed.
The House took up the bill for
raising an additional Military Force
which after speeches by Messrs.
Stanford, Bovd and Stow against
and bv Mr. D. R. Williams in its
favor, finally passed Yeas 94. Nays
34.
Tuesday, January 7.
Mr. Bacon, from the committee
of Ways and Means, reported a bill
making appropriations for the ex
pence of equiping and supporting the
company of rangers for 1812,
MUNITIONS OF WAR
Mr. Seybert called for the order
of the day mi the bill authorising the
purchase of ordnance and ordnance
s-ores, camp equippage and oth«
quarter master’s stores and small
arms.
The house having agreed to take
up this bill, it resolved itself into a
committee of the whole upon it
when the hill having been read
through, and the question being up
on filling the first blank, Mr. Sey
bert spoke as follows :
Mr. Chairman—The bill which I
have called before the cbmmmittee
is one of the first importance,
general report was heretofore made
10 the House, founded on the state
ments 8t facts which were comtnunica
ted to the committee by tlte Secretaries
of the War and Navy Departments
every position therein assumed, can
be maintained by incontrovertable
facts. Much had been said about
expence; in my opinion, when a na
tion has decided upon the great que»“
tion of war, every minor question
is thereby absorbed and obliterated
—this question amalgamates every
succeeding one—W T ar should only be
entered,into when considerations of
expence can have no influence on the
decision. Such appears to be the
present condition of this nation.—
We havq determined in favor of re
sistance to the unwarrantable and
unjust aggressions of Great-Britain
on our sovereign rights- - — we can
not stop, we cannot draw back, un
less she recedes and repeals her hos
tile edicts. When the war is com
menced, it Must be viewed’as an ap
pendage to the war for independence-
You’have already taken the previous
question on the subject ; you have
voted a regular army of 25,0Q0men,
in Addition to your peace ejtablish-
ment—they cannot be kept idle ;
idleness is the bane of the honorable
soldier ; to make them efficient, you
must supply them with arms. I have
heard it said on this floor, that a
part of your militia, the bulwark of
the nation, is supplied with cornstalks
instead of fire locks. If this lie truth,
0 I’fOr Heaven’s sake, apply aspee-
ly remedy.» you have the means
within your reach, at any rate, make
your regulars'as efficient as possible.
Need 1 detail to you again, that we
possess 53Q Operative forges, furna
ces and bloomeries ; 207 powder
nills ; that the iron Which is annu
ally manufactured is incalculable in
amount ; that your lead mines offer
superfluity of that article ; that our
esources for saltpetre in the western
states are extensively known, and
that the supplies may be made as a*
bundunt as the article is all impor
tant.
Sir, t<4 some the amount which
1 shall require iqay seem enormous.
It will be well applied ; and to gen
tlemen who iVel uneasiness on the
subject, let them rest easy when they
are told, that the greater part of the
articles for which the expenditures
are contemplated are such as are im
perishable from their nature ; so that
if Great Britain shall proceed to do
us justice, and I hope to God she
will without forcing us to arms, these
supplies will form a stock for the
nation in cases of future emergency*
Sir, I will read to you the esti
mates which have been furnished by
the proper departments, and wilL
then submit to the Committee the se
veral sums which are necessary to
le voted by the bill.
Mr. Seybert having read the es
timates to which he alluded, moved
to fill the first blank with one millt-
five hundred thousand dollars*
and the second with four hundred
thousand dollars, which motion waw
igreed to without a division. The
two sections of the bill then read as
follows:
“ Be it enacted, G?c. That the sun*
of one million five hundred thusandl
dollars be, and the same is hereby ap
propriated lor the purchase, under
the direction of the President of U.
States, of ordnance and ordnance
stores, camp equipage and other
quarter master’s stores for the use
of the army of the United States.
“ That the sum of foul* hundred
thusand dollars be, and the same is.
hereby appropriated fot the purchase
under the direction of the President
of the United States, of saltpetre and
sulphur, for making the same into
oowder, and for ordnance and small
arms for the use of the uavy of the
U. States.”
The committee rose, the House
agreed to the amendments, and the
bill was ordered to be read a third
time to-morrow.
DISABLED SOLDIERS.
Mr. Dawson then called up the bill
for the relief of infirm, superannuated
and disabted officers and soldiers ;
which motion being agreed to, the-
House resolved itself into a commit-•
tee of the whole upon it.
Mr. Rhea moved to amend the
bill by a new section, “ providing ar
pension for every n in commissiened
officer and soldier, who, by reason of
having a family, or other good cause,
may not be able to join the corps os
