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Coror.cr'b Cuke, ChaiJiam Ccimtyr
Thoui^st Wiliiasus, D„.i_kson, Henry Tuck
jcv and Matthew Stone, having been duly'Sun?
stioned to attend a Jury of Inquest on the 15ti
August, 1310, on the body of a Negro Man, a
Wallace** wharf, and having made default,
notice is hereby given, that unless they d ,
severally, file sufficient excuse with-the clerk
cf the superior court qf*said county, within ten
-days, executions will be issued against them
ifor-the sum prescribed by law, and costs.
James M‘Annuity, c. c. c.
August 18 -M -09
• - ‘ »' ' ' ' ’ I' ■ I —"
Coroner’s Office, Chatham County. .
David Polock, George. G ore, James Watson,
William Stackhouse and Peter Shick, having
been duly summoned to attend a Jury of Inquest
on the 16th August, 1810, on the body of a Ne
•gro Man, at the house of-Dr. Kcllock, in Brough
ton.-^treet, and having made uefault, notice is
hereby given, that unless they do, severally-,
file sufficient excuse with the clerk of the su
perior court of said county, within ten days,
executions will be issued against them for the
amount.prescribed by law, and costs.
James jVI‘Annuity, c. c. c.
August 18 m 99
Washington Bridge
,1 Prize
NO. Jl.
SCHEME.
5315,000
T do.
.
5,000
- '30 do.
gl.000
10.000
SO do.
100
5,000
60 do.
- - 50
3,000
100 do.
- 20 -
2,000
2;5(j0 do.
•• - 8 • ►
20.000 i
3<722 Prizes
• w w V
'860,000
£
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7,278 Blanks
10,000 Tickets, No. 1 to 10.000 at g6 is 260,000
The prizes are subject to a deduction of 15
per cent, and will be paid 60 days after the
•drawing of said Lottery is completed.
The Managers inform the. public that they
Kave made such a contract for the sale of the
Tickets, as to render the drawing of the Lot
tery, at the time appointed, absolutely certain.
Thty therefore engage to commence the draw
ing afNew-Haven, on the 15th day of October
next, and to continue from 4hy to day, at a
rate not exceeding 600 tickets per day, until
the. whole are drawn. The drawing shall
positively be oomiileted by the 15th of Novem
ber next. The Managers have given bonds
to the state, with surety, 'for the payment of
the prises which may be drawn.
% ' -MOSES ROGERS, 1
* LEWIS B. STURGES, f
B. M. WOOLSEY. >
W. W. WOOLSEY, l
STEPHEN TWINING, J
?fcv>- Haven ffiuly bt/i, 1810.
IT* TICKETS in the above Lottery, for
Bale by the subscribers, who will pay all Priz
es in Savannah, purchased from them, subject
only to the deduction specified in the scheme.
itf“ Prize Tickets in other Lotteries receiv
ed in payment for Tickets.
Marquand, Paulding Penfield.
August 14 -97
THE NEXT LOTTERY.
That will be Drawn in the U. States.
SCHEME OF A
L O T T E R Y
FOR THE
Cultivation of Vines
IN THE UNITED STATES ;
JSuthjrised by an Act of the Legislature of the
Utah of Pennsylvania, to be drawn in the
city of Philadelphia the 29th of Oct. 1810.
1 Prize of
gisooo is g 12,000
1 , -
■m
8 000
8 ,000
1
m
4-000
4 COO
3
■m
2,000
4 000
1
m
1,500
1,500
8
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1.000
8 000
10
m
5 00
5 000
10
m
3.00
3 000
12
sa
2,00
2 400
30
m
1,00
3 OOO
102
O
50
5 1-00
200
-
20
4 000
5000
0
* -r
30,000
5378 Prizes,
12622 Blanks
.890,000
18 000 Tickets at Five Dollars each.
Fart of the
CAPITALS TO BE DETERMINED
AS FOLLOWS
First Brawn Number on the 5'h day,
8500
Do.
do.
ldh
500
Do.
do.
15th
500
Do.
do.
20th
1,000
Do.
do-.
25th
L000
Do. ‘ _ .
do.
30i h
1 500
Do.
-do.
35th
3.000
Do.
do.
40th
4,000
Do.
de.
45th when
only
200 Tickets
are in
the Wheel, the
First
Drawn Number to be a Prize of
8.000
|Q“ Prizes subject to a deduction of 15
per cent.
The whole of this Lottery being contract
ed for, and bonds given for the punctual
drawing and payment of prizes, it cannot be
postponed a single day, atid must be finished
in twelve weeks from the commencement.
80“ TICKETS for sale at A. WEY-
•MAN’S, on the Bay, in wholes, halves, quar
ters and eighths. Prize Tickets in the late
Union College Lottery taken in payment for
tickets in the above lottery.
The Managers List of Prizes in the
Union College Lottery, just received at the
above store, where all Tickets may be exam
ined gratis.
July 24—t—88
Notice.
My attornies during my absence are Messrs
Small & M‘Nish ; Mr. John Carnochan
and Me James Kills.
George Scott*
August 2-—-92
FOR THE EVENING LEDGER.
ELEGY, . -
wsittzs ova* an old minting rats*.
Many a feene commasdrthe tear to-flow
From foft companion's fympathetic bread,
For fell deftrnfiion levels, at a blow,
The rich, the poor, the bafeflt and the bell.
Many, who now in eafy'fplendor ride,
In death’s embrace, to-morrow may "be prone;
And, after fuch extinction of their pride,
Their praife be pnbiiih’d only by a Hones
•Nor ma leable, nor folufcle by art.
Is the cold marble, but yet men devffe
A pian to make it, when their friends depart,
A lying praifer by their praifing lyes.
No man’s exempted from the world’s diftrefs,
But each, to woe and defolation’s doom’d,
And each in ruin, like this printing prefs,
Mull fall at lafi, when vigor is confum’d.
Here, of a ft one, the mournful relics reft,
On which, when whole, the flory meant to cheat,
(By malice wrought, by human hands-impreft)
' Made it the fenfele s aider of deceit.
Truth (hall no more lament her-troken law’s,
Nor juftice mourn her proftituted name,
■By fa.fehood’s iffuing from this prefs’s jaws,
Or perfection's faaguinary flame.
On the fmocth papyrus df’Egypt, firft,
Were wholefome laws and moral truths impreH 4
Now, we give printing to defigns the word,
Who from it (hould receive effects the bed.
That noble art, by w hich the reas-’ning man,
Tho’ in his grave, contends with ftreogth for righti
Should fcatter wide, each falurai y p an,
The mind conceives beneath her reafon’s light.
What tends to curb, to foften ftubborn hearts,
To teach us wifdom, and inculcate good,
By printing, (honld be held as queen of arts,
The things fit fole’y for her piefaVfoed.
But from the pref9, fo fatelels-is her maw,
Midft counfels fage, and axioms abftruse.
In fpite of reafon and decorum’s law,
How oft (he belches fol y and abufe.
All learned arts, through printing we are taught,
Between her jaws all feienre is impreft;
And genius m nirns to fee her, like a fot,
i refer, to mental worth, the worthlefs jefi.
Yet ’tis not (he prefers, vaft gift of Heav’n,
Defign’d for ends ennobling to be us’d ;
But all enjoyment-, which to men are giv’n,
By men ungrateful-grossly are abus’d.
The fubtle pow’rs of intellect have dar’d,
To doubt the types of everlalHng tiytb j
And wicked art at fweet religion freer’d,
To tickle folly and to vitigte youth.
I ■
This prefs tells much, v.-hicR here in ruin lies,
Of life precarious, and of view left, fate;
Like it muft fall the filly and the wife,
The chiefs an warfare and the knaves in (late.
Though from this prefs’s once capacious jaws.
Thick iflti’d falfehood and detraction free;
Still I’d fall biifsful under nature’s laws,.
Could I, while hvmg, but as finlels be,
Long time it totter’d, ftrugg’ling with deeay,
Yet, while it flood, ’twas made to litter ill;
So ev’ry objetft vanilhes away,
From brutes that die, -to men who never will.
Cleans’d be the prefs, for reafon’s pure abode,
Fair as the morn, and vigorous is youth.;
Thus deftly it will prove a virent 1 road,
’Leading, who follow, to-eternal truth.
P.
Wants a Situation,
' As TEACHER of an ENGLISH SCHOOL,
a Young Man of considerable experience, and
who c m come well recommended. A line di-
r ceo to A. R. and left at this office, will be
duly a.tended t >. and immediately, answered.
August 18—c # —99
# Notice. - :
The subscriber will be absentfromthe state
for a few months, and lias appointed Mr,
Chri- tian Gugel and Mr. Joseph Jipson,
iiis attornies. The latter will, attend to his
professional business.
Lewis. Cooper.
August 18—99
To the Public.
I offer as a Candidate for CLERK OF THE
MARKET. If elected, will endeavor to dis
charge the duty thereof.
John Dillon.
August 9—95 _,i
. ■ - - i
Citizens of Chatham County,.
I offer myself a Candidate for CLERK OF
THE MARKET. If elected,-will do the duty
required by law. B. TIDD.
August 14 97
Clerk of the Market.
The subscriber respectfully informs his
friends and the public, that he will be a can
didate for clerk of the market at the ensuing
election, and solicits their suffrages.
John P. Oates.
August 9—95
Grand Lodge.
sT-
FROM THE ENQUIRER.
FOR THE EVENING LEDGER.
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
An attempt has been made to influence
your suffrages at -the ensuing general election,
by an anonymous author in the Georgia. Ex
press, styling himself “ Voter.” I am very
willing to believe that this writer in the publi
cation ofhis piece, relative to the attorney-gen
eral, John Forsyth, esq. has committed errors
more of the head than cf the heart. My induce
ments in thinking so, proceed from an exam
ination o'f the communication ; from the pro
fessions of attachment to the political princi
ples of Jefferson, which are analogous to those
laid down in our Bill ol Rights ; from an os
tensible attachment to the success of a genuine
republican congressional ticket ; -and from a
laudable enthusiasm in the cause of democra
cy ; which reign prominently throughout.
Viewing these circumstances as correct crite*
ria by which to judge of the sincerity of “ Vo-
101’s'* ostensible politics, I must think that his
procedure, in the instance of Mr. Forsyth, al
though elicited,-as I am very sincerely willing
to believe, with a view of subserving the inter
ests of republicanism, was an error of the head :
for, assuredly* if his design of injuring Mi. For
syth’s election does succeed, the cause of de
mocracy will, in this- instance, not only -not be
subserved, but will actually be subverted.
In scanning rfae piece, however, although
the design of Voter evidently is to injure the
election of Mr. Forsyth, still no reason can be
discovered therein, why you should withhold
from him your support. Votei does not
assert, that the attorney-genera' is now a fed
eralist i that he is not now a democratic re
publican ; he does not insinuate that the attor
ney-general’s political conversion is superficial j , case hinges-—which facts, therefore, should be
that he believes him to be a political vane, lia- contested and weighed with the utmost cau»
THE YAZOO FRAUD J•
The very first bar, which meets us in the ex
amination of these claims, is tire decision of the
supreme court of the United States. This Is
the Entering Wedge—xthich is to drive every
thing beford it—the rights of the nation,-as
well as tbe ties of public virtue. For, if we
may believe Mr. Peck, this very -document de
cides “ all the points in controversy in favor of
the Georgia grants”—the merits of these grants
were fully discussed, u the title of the purchas
ers, under the act of 1795, adjudged\alio, and
tiie rescinding Act of ire State of Georgia of
1796, declared null andqyiiD.” .
We might, indeed, meet the Yazoo hero on
the threshold ; as to the tru-h of his own as
sertions. For it is true that the supreme -court
j has made this very g&vebal decision, in
words; whatever may have been the scope
and spirit of their reasoning. The special case
within their contemplation was that of a pur
chaser for a valuable consideration, without
notice”—and what is the summary of theirr
decision, in wouds? It was, that the state of-
Georgia could not pass an act, by which 44 the *
-estate of the plaintiff, in the premises so pup.
chased, could be constitutionally and legally im-
! paired.” *
j But, let osjpass this over. We contend, that
; the opinion of the supreme court was impro-
i perly and incautiously pronounced. .We say,
| that this was a case where t-here was a fictitious
/issue made up between the parties; in such
i case is there not every possible scope for col.
! lusion to the defeat of justice ? May not parties
agree upon those facts, on which the whola
ble to be acted upon by every adverse politi
cal blast—No 4 the only object of Voter’s re
marks are, to attempt to convince you that
Mr. Forsyth was f ormerly a federalist ; that
when he was a young'man “ he eulogised Mr.
Adams, when in power, and in the pulpit of
St- Paul’s Church, in Augusta, ascribed things
to Mr. Jefferson as detrimental to the welfare
uon.f
Judge Johnson seems to have ended where
he ought to have begun. “I have been very
unwilling.” says he, “ to proceed to the decision
of this cause at all. It appears to me to bear a
strong evidence upon t«r face of it, of be
ing a mere Feigned case,” ^et his “confi
dence in the respectable gentlemen who have
of America, which be must have known were been engaged f©r the parties,'” banishes all hi*
done by M\. J’s predecessor?* All this m.ght j« scruples.” “ They would never consent to
j impose a mere feigned case upon this court.’*
j They 2 the lawyers! And pray, from wbat ro
mantic bar were the ideas of judge Johnson ex
tracted ? A>e the lawyers -of South-Carolina,
so many Wythes ? Will they never vindicate
cases which their consciences do not approve ?
Are not good fees apologies for every thing}
Was not Warren Hastings himself Fortunate
enough to acquire advocates ?—Besides, is it
Dot the interest of these respectable gentlemen,
“ to make the BAp appear the better rea
son i”—The “ scruples” of judge Johnson
would have been more creditableto him,if they
had but,persuaded him to pause upon the very
threshold of his argument. How much better
would it have been, if he had at once declared,
that he would not “ proceed to the decision of
this cause at all,” so long as there was such a
strong evidence upon the face of it, of its being
“ a mere feigned cause Y*
The parties to this suit were Messrs. Fle?eh«
er and Peck—each of them is a Yazoo claim
ant—and one of them sues the other, for tho
purpose of making good his own title. Is not
the interest of these parties the very same B
Fletcher’s interest is to secure the terei
firma which he Hks bought—and Peck’s, to
fortify his claims to .those extensive tracts, of
which he is “ the principal owner.” Each of
them would have regretted, if the other had
been baffled in his purpose. Was it, then, to bo
presumed, that Fletcher^ould have put fortK
all his strength to overthrow the pretensions of
Peck ? Is there nof a suspicion, upon the very
face of it, that this was a mere feigned-issue to
try the title to the land ? This issue par
ticularly rests on the third count in the declara
tion :
“ The third count recites the undue means
practised on certain members of the legislature,
as stated in the second count, and then alledges
that, in consequence of these practices and. of
other causes, a subsequent legislature passed
an act annulling and rescinding the law under
which the conveyance to the original grantees
was made, declaring that conveyance void, and
have transpired { and even allowing it, as a re
publican I only sympathise with o'hers, that
the attorney-genera! once was a federalis ;
that he unfortui.a ely once was devoted to prin
ciples which, by their odious tendency, when
reduced to practKe, worked their own antidote
in (he obnoxionsness of the-promoters of them
in the eyes of the people, whiclt, in -its turn,
was the cause of those in power being hurled
f’om their seals. But whilst I lament the at
tachment, a- any lime, of a man possessing
abilities equal to those of the at'orttey-gerreraL
to principles which a'e erroneously and so-
phisiicaily styled 4 ‘ ‘Federal f 3 whilst I t egret
that, in the days of his yruth, Mr. Forsyth en
listed himself in 'he banners of a set of men,
who, by their general conduct, deserve to be
politically known as pseudo federalists ; I, nev
ertheless, on his dereliction of those wrong
principles ; on his genuine political apostacy,
tender to him the right hand of political fellow
ship, and congratulate him on his accession to
the republican phalanx. Instead of abusing
him, as Vo'er dies, I would forget his
former error, and support him in his subse
quent public walks, so long as lie swerved not
from his adopted politics.
II you ask what proofs we have of the sta
bility Gf Mr. Forsyh’s political principles, I
answer—in his public annunciations thereof
in public assemblages in the upper counties ;
in his uniform, unrefrained, ingenuous expo
sition of his present politics, and in his frar-,
avowal o'fthem last month, to you, thro’ the
editor of a Milledgeville gazette. His politi
cal enermes do not charge him with an exist
ing tvant of attachment to republicanism ; they
do not charge him with an existing predilec
tion for federal principles, under the rose.
His dereliction, Fellow-Citizens, I believe,
both honest and firm ; his talents will not suf
fer in a competition^with those of any mem
ber who now goes to congress from Geor
gia, with the exception ofa member of the senate ;
he is. moreover, a native of your state ; and, if en
couraged in his political career, will reflect
honor upon you. His attachment to republi- | asserting the title of the state - 'to the lands* it
can principles 1 hope I have proved to be firm ; : contained. The count proceeds to recite, at
large, this rescinding act, and concludes with
his patriotism is not questioned ; why, there
fore, will you withhold vrnir sunpor* from him
in October. THE VOLUNTEER.
The Members of the
Grand Lodge of Georgia,
and the i-espective Lodg
es, by their proper rep
resentatives,*are hereby
notified te attend at the
Lodge Room in the Fila
ture, on the first Satur
day in September next, at 10 o'clock a.m. be
ing the Grand Quarterly Communication.
Bv order of the rt. worshpful G. M.
D. D. Williams, grand ssc'ry.
August II— —97
The following anecdotes are extracted from
a small volume lately published at Philadel
phia, entitled, The Life of Washington ;—
“ About the time the tearships were to sail
from England, Washington, being advised
thereof, spoke to lord Fairfax, then at Mount-
Vemcn—“ Well, my lord,” said lie, “ and so
the ships with the gunpowder-tea, are, it
seems, on their way to America !”
“ Well, but colonel, why do you call it
gunpowder-lea ? ”
“ Why, I am afraid, my lord,” replied W.
44 it will prove inflammable and produce an
explosion that shall shake both countries.”
Soon as it was known by the British ambas
sador at Paris, (lord Stormont! that the king of
France had taken part with the Americans, he
waited on the French minister, De Vergennes,
.and with great agitation mentioned the report
—asking, if it was possible it could be true.
“ Very possible, my lord,” replied the smooth
Frenchman.
«* Well, I’m aftor.ifned at it, fir,” continued
Stormont, “ exceedingly aftoniffied—America
fir, is our daughter! and it was extremely in
delicate of the French king thus to decoy her
from qur embraces and make a w—eof her !’’
“ Why, as to that matter my lord,’’ quoth Ver
geimes, with the true Gillie fhrug—“ there i .
no great harm done, for the king cf France is ven
willing to marry your daughter, and make ai:
boaeft wosaaa of her I”
ft
averring that, by reason of this act, the title of
the said Peck in the premises was constituripn-
ally and legally impaired and rendered null
and void.
“ After protesting, as before, that no sticb
promises were made as stated in 'this count*
the'defis dant again pleads, that himself and
the first purchaser, under the original grnh tees
and ail intermediate' holders of the propsrty,
were puichasers without notice.
“ Yo this plea there is a demurrer and ioin«
der.” .
We ask, then, if this defence was such a ono
as the state of Georgia or the United States
would have set up, if they had been a party to
the suit i Were those exertions.made to prove
the fraud and existence of “ such promises,’*
as the case required ? Above all, were the re
quisite exertions made to disprove the plea of
“ No notice,” on which this whole question
was made to binge, in the decision of tbe
court ? What is easier in such cases than-a
collusion between parties ? In the present
instance the important ingredient of notice, is
ipso facto, to all inteqts and purposes, relig*
<j*jished. Was the message of genera! Wash
ington, on the 17th of February, 1796, enfor
ced ? Was the 'special warranty of their con
veyances, enforced ?• Were all those eircum-
.n.ances, which were calculated to rouSe the
■* hole attention of the countiy. dwelt upon ?—»
Parties, indeed, always play a very safe game;
v *ien they can play into each other's handr—
icy foresee before hand the great point .on
uich the controversy pi inctpcliy turns; may
ey not take care so to shape ibeir tissue of
.acts, as to throw this great point in their favor..-