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On MONTI)AY, the 7thof November next,
WILL BE SOLD
At Public Auflion,
At the Houle occupied by the Suhfcriber, the
Following Articles of
F URNI T U R F.
t Mahogany Side Board.
1 Ditto, Dining Table, with Ends.
a Ditto, Tea Table.
3, Fair ditto, Card Tables.
1 Ditto, Sophia,
2 Dittd, Bedheads, *
1 Ditto, Bureau,
i Ditto, Walh Stand.
Dozen White Chairs, including 2 Armed
Chairs t
The above made in Philadelphia, in the
moll fafhionable manner, and have only been
in use Eight Months.
1 Pair gilt Looking GlafTe*.
a Case White Ivory handle Knives and Forks.
1 Pair Pontipole Urns.
1 Tea Set of China, complete with Waiters,
a Pair China Punch Bowls.
2 Large Carpets.
J feather Bed, with Bolder and Pillows.
1 Set Callors, fdver tops.
* Fair Fafhiunablc Andirons, with Shovels and
v Tongs.
1 Fender,
s India Tea Cadie.
i Dozen lmall India Waiters.
1 P.iir Plated Candledicks.
1 Ditto, Japanned ditto.
2 Pair Cut Dec anters.
1 £ Dozen do. Wine Glades,
a Pair do. Salts.
Dozen do. Tumblers,
i Pair do. Patent Lamps.
1 Dozen Black Ivory Handle Knive9 &c Folks
Sundry articles of China Crockery, &c
Also, KITCHEN FURNITUTE.
The Above may be jec% at any time previous
Us the S ale.
Robert Watts.
Savannah, Ottobcr 25. 68-<}t
Hamilton & Hartridge.
O 7
Have Imported from LONDON, per the HAR
MONY, to this place , and GADSDEN, via.
Charlfjlon,
A WELL CHOSEN & EXTENSIVE AS
SORTMENT OF SEASONABLE AND
Fa (hi on able GOOD S,
Herig all fleCted l 'by Mr. Hartridge, vs ho zoos
then on the spot.
Which will be offered for SALE, in a few
days, at the Store lately occupied by Messrs.
Kenedy and Parker (the Corner of Bav and
Whitaker Street) —at an unusual low advance,
for immediate payment only.
Savannah, Ottober 23. 68.
r 'To be Sold at Privale Sale,
ATraft of well timbered Pine LAND.
containing 1170 Acres, except about 50
Acres, which is good Provision Land, fay,
Oak and Hickoiy, well known by the name
of New-Form Mills, situated 1 mile from Sa
vannah River, between Ebenezer and Major
Dalhcrs, and 23 miles from Savannah. The
situation is healthy and agreeable On the
premises are about ‘twenty Acres under good
fence; one Mill that works two Saws, and
one Grid Mill ; another Saw-Mill is now build
ing on the fame dam, that will also work two
Saws. The Mills are 50 yards from’ each
other ; the latter will be let high, so a to work
with the surplus water in vyct leaions.nnd will
work by the middle of November next.
This advantageous situation, being so near to
market, that Ralls may float from the Mill tail
to Savannah in two days, at any fcafon of the
year, affords an advantage over many Mills in
this State.
The above Land, Mills, Oxen, Ox-Carriage,
and other neceflary Mill Utensils with the
Buildings, are offered for Idle, for no other
reason, than that ofclofing a Partnei Blip Con
cern. A reafinable Cudit may be had for
part of the purchase money, md the Condi
tions known, by applying to Mr. Abraham
Bird, on the Prcmifes, or to me at Savan
nah.
Julius H. Scheuber.
Sept. 30. 61 -t.f
L O S~,
LAST Thursday, on Ogechee between Duh
li* and Sanfoucic Plantations, 1 r,o Dol
lars in Bank Bills, rolled up in a piece of white
writing paper, among them was a Charlcfton
60 Dollar Bill, and the reli of smaller fums(of
what amount or Banks they were issued from,
the owner docJ not recollett.) Ten Dollars
will be paid to the person finding the above
money, on delivering it to the fubferiber on
Ogechee(Bryan County.)
JONATHAN RO3ENSON.
Savannah, Ottober a8 69*.^.
Ranaway,
FROM the fubferiber, a NEGRO FEL
LOW named JACK, about a6 years of age,
five feet ftfven or eight inches high, has a large
lcar on his right arm, occafioncd by a burn ;
he is well known about Savannah as a Porter,
Jobbing Carpenter and Painter, was purchas
ed of Mr Merrick of Charlcfton, and it is ex
petted he would attempt to get there, as he
was heard to fay fome time before he was
miffing, he would go there or to fome of the
Northern States ; he will probably attempt to
pass as-a free Fellow, under the name Cuffee.
Any person who will deliver the (aid Negro
to me at Savannah, or give information so as he
n '*'j C , un< *> receive a handsome re
ward, and all teafonable charges paid.
Elizabeth Course.
Savanna fe Ottober 2i. f)7 . tf
Demy Printing Paper f or Sale.
Apply at this Office
Columbian jftluCeum, &c.
jfor t\)t Columbian fpufnun,
A Suhfcriber in your paper of the
28th ultimo, has given a few hints
for investigation, on the fubjed of elec
tors of President and Vice-P re Aden t of
the United States.—The public ought to
be obliged to him for his watchfulnefs,
for I acknowledge it an important mat
ter ; but I cannot agree with him as to
his conclusions, though I should have
been happy to have heard his remedy, if
an error be committed.—l think how
ever there has been none, and I found
my opinion—
First, by enquiring—What is the Lc
giflature under our State Constitution ?
Article full, fedion firft, declares—
The Legislative power (hall be vested
in two separate and diftind branches, ta
wit, a Senate and House of Reprefcnra
tives, to be styled the general Aflembly.
Here is the Legislature fully defined.
Sedion ift, of article 2d of the Con
stitution of the United States, declares,
” Each State (hall appoint, in such man
ner, as the legifiature thereof may diret 7,
a numl)er of electors, equal to the whole
number of senators and representatives,
to which the state may be entitled in
Congress.—Here clearly is the power,
under the federal constitution, given to
the legislature of each state, to appoint
electors, in such manner , as that body
may dircß. —They might be appointed
by a law, which required the executive
fandion j by the legislature itfelf, with
out the ("mailed interference of the exe
cutive, or by reference by the legislature
or general aflembly to the people at large,
the legislature by the federal consti
tution of each state, having the power of
dire SI mg the manner .
Secondly.—l will enquire the mode
hitherto pradifed, and prove from
thence, that the present mode is at lead
as valid as that formerly pradifed.
In 178911 washy resolution and elec
tion of the general aflembly, which al
though it was composed of one branch,
had its laws revised under an express ar
ticle of the constitution, to become bin
ding, previous to paflage by the Go
vernor and Council , no revision by
them ot the resolution to appoint, how
ever took place, and the then Governor
was one of the appointed electors. In
1792, under the law of Congress of the
firft o( March of that year, the Legisla
ture being in feflion within thirty-four
days preceding the firft Wednesday of
December, as therein preferibed, the .el
ection of electors took place .by a concur
rent resolution of the two branches.—
In the fame way our senators to Con
gress have been chosen by concurrent
resolution, and joint ballot, or separate
vote, as the two branches agreed, with
out any interference of the executive,
which was as much part of the legifla
tiv e power then, as at the present day ;
and fedion third, article firft, of the
United States Constitution, fays, f< The
fenatc of the United States lhallbe com
posed of two senators from each State,
chosen by the Legislature thereof. 5 ’
On the ground of the Suhfcriber's rea
soning then, the State is not now, nor
has it ever been represented in the fen
are of the United States, because the
Governor 5 # fandion was not obtained to
the resolutions, under which our sena
tors were appointed ; nor has the Piefi
dent been constitutionally appointed, as
(ar as refpeds the rote of Georgia, on
the fame principle.
I have been informed the fad is, that
in last January feflions, held under the
amendment of the State Constitution,
by the late convention, when the Le
gislature took up the fubjed, they found
that very unfortunately in this, as ma
ny other cases, the meeting of the le
gislature had been postponed by those a
mendments, from November, which
would always have been within the
time preferibed by the law for the ap
pointment of Eledors, to January,
which would always, by the present
law, be without the time preferibed by
the United States. It was thought that
as precedent lay before them, and the
votes under those precedents never had
been doubted, a resolution would be
equally effedual now for the eledion as
formerly, and it pafled accordingly, and
I- with all deference think it valid—
the manner being direded bv the legis
lature of the state, of which the Govern
or po lie lies no part, but in certain afeer
tained cases. ] here is certainly a dif
ference between a diredion for’a bare
eledion, and a bill for a rule of adion,
and here I think the Suhfcriber has
mistaken. That resolutions of both
branches are neceflary under the consti
tution of the United States, or even or
ders and votes, where the concurrence
of both brandies are requisite, appears
by an express article thereof—7th fee-
tion, firft article, as follows : “ Every
order, resolution, or vote, to which the
concurrence of the Senate and House of
Representatives may be neceflary (ex
cept on aqueftion of adjournment) (hall
be preferred to the President of the
United States, and before the fame (hall
take effed, (hall be approved by him, or
being difapprovcjl by him, (ha!H>e rc
pafled by two thirds of both houses, ac
cording to the rules and limitations pre
feribed in the case of a bill.” But there
is nothing of this in the State Constitu
tion, and all eledions are constitutional
ly left to the two branches ; and an in
finity o( resolutions of great import, on
different fnbjeds, have pafled the two
branches without the executive fandion,
which the executive, as in this case have
always obeyed. I confider the two
branches at peried liberty on this head,
and the cuftomof the State, as to reso
lutions, is binding.
1 cannot perceive from the Govern
or's proclamation, whatever form the
resolution be under, the room for the
criticism of the Subicriber. It fays,
“ Whereas in and by certain rofolutions of
the General Affembly ’ —it does not from
hence appear that he has not given his
ailcnt to it, and the proclamation itfelf
is an assent. no hesitation or dif
ficulty son the fubjed— I The question
must have been with the last Legisla
ture—< ‘Will you leave this to the people
at the day of general eledion, or call
the Legislature to be in feflion, thirty
four days preceding the firft Wednesday
in December, when by the Constitution
it must meet again in January, owino*
to the alteration by the Convention, at
the expense of eight or ten thousand
dollars to the State and her Citizens ?
A PLANTER.
To the E LECTORS of Chatham County.
Tello-w Citizens,
WHEN the intcreft and welfare pf •
my country L interfered with,
and its mod fee red rights violated, I
cannot beat rest—l will not be. silent.
The act, entitled, u An ad for appro
priating a part of th-a unlocated territo
ry of this State, (or the payment of the
late State troops, and for other purpos
es therein mentioned, &c.’ s —pafled at
Augusta the seventh day of January,
one thoufend, seven hundred and ninety
five—dilpofing ol Western territory of
this State, has been fully demonstrated
unconstitutional ; and the legislature,
1795, annulled the said ad as usurped
and surreptitious, and no man poffefles
an opinion of the defect of the said an
nulling law. Yet notvvithftanding the
case is as dated, intcreft has so powerful
an operation on the human mind, that
those who are concerned in this attempt
of refqueing your privileges and pro
perty, will hefirate at no means of effec
ting their objed.
Sullen policy, nurtured at the silent
midnight hour, when the honed disinter
ested naind is in natures calm repose, will
be used in introducing its influence, and
lliould there be one amongst you so dif
honcrable, money would be applied for
its operations. Men who attain this
precious ingredient, by unfair means,
will not pauie in appropriating great pro
portions to ensure the remainder. They
who purchase from individuals, proper
ty that do not belong to them, and
which they had no power of felling, do
it at their own rifque ; tire contradis
a void one, and they must fail in their
title. No man can ad for another be
yond his authority, is a fixed principle,
and it—hold here—
Territory purchaled of the legisla
ture legally, and under, and by virtue of
the constitution, would decide its own
claim ; its features would cftabiifh itfelf,
but in this case, it is diredly the re
verse : The sale was an illegal one, be
ing corrupt, and if it had even been le
gal and incorrupt, it was unconstitution
al, and the foundation being unsound, the
whole must go to the ground.-
Still these men will purfuc their finful
system, and with uniformity; they sowed
the feed in corruption, they carried their
point in corruption, and they will
now, by corruption, endeavour to de
feat the annulling law of 1795, unless
your firmnefs is exerted.
Those who are reprobating the mea
furcs of the last legislature (in restoring
your rights and property, and who de
serve well of their country) and loading
individuals of that body, with approbri
ous appellations they da not deserve,
and which rigidly apply to themselves,
are the men who ought not to have your
confidence.
It is immaterial whether they belong
ed to the legislature of 1794, or they
who purchased of them ; theaccelfery is
as guilty as the principal.—They who
aid in murder are equally guilty with
those who kill, and they who receive
flolen goods, are also as guilty as th
who dole them. S ya s they
Let no one be deeded to reprefem
yvho has been in any manner concern
“ tl,us <„ deprive you j
your privileges and rob you rs “ „
properly. No man concerned inw/onel
can iupport rights. They who cal™
late on making fortunes, in breaking
down ,he constitution of your count^
(the basts of republican system, an d bar
rier between defpotifrn and republican*
i.m) are unfit to represent a free p eop i e ’
and I trust, will meet your decided L’
ception. cx ~
Look around, and you will find char
adlers in whom you may confide, and
who are disinterested- who have fen
ed their country, and with faithfulnels”
and have not contaminated themfelvn
in this bare business. Such men I re „
ar cl n / at^ rCCC * ve ) ,our feffrages
An unprejudiced Citizen.
, September 9.
Tnere is no official news whatever
since our last, from our armies. A p-/
titular letter from the army in I ta i ‘
vvhich was inferred yesterday in the
Nouveiles Politiques, contradicts the
Frach bei,,K m ' m^r
“ Further reports fay, that Jourdan
uas 1 trcceeded to reunite his forces ; that
Prince Charles was obliged to abandon
With his 25,000 men, the Army of
‘> arteulleben, to reitft the marches of
Moreau, it poflible, and in so doiim he
left it in the power of Jourdan to attack
Wartenfleben.
_ The ill successes of Jourdan will
soon be remedied. But may they fur
uifli a lelion, how dangerous iris to di
vide an army too much, and todiftribute
them over a large country ! The un
limitt-ed fuccefles have often occasioned
more damage than profit. Why do wc
not profit of so many fuedeffes to obtain
peace ?” Journal of Perlet.
■■ —ihm
LONDON, September 9.
The bank has lately refnfed to dis
count the bills of feme of the rnoft reft
peftable houses in this city.
1 he order ot council (or pennittinp
remittances to be made from England”
to countries in the occupation of the
L rench, is chiefly intended to procure
purchasers from Holland, fer the im
mense quantities of goods with which
the vvarehoufes of our East-India com
pany are filled, and for which there is
no immediate demand in England. This
order has been fondly, but rashly, fepl
posed to be a fymotOm of an approach
ing peace. Its objeft is folelya com
mercial one, that of* inducing countries
to make payments here, which would
of course withhold them, it they were
prevented from receiving any in return.
September 10.
His majesty, we are well assured, ir
decidedly in favour of an immediate
peace, and has exprelied his determina
tion to uie every means in his power ta
bring about that deniable object, with
as little delay as poflible.
Mr. Elsworth, a treasury messenger,
was - la-ft night dispatched with letters to
the court of Naples, which are said to
be ot the g reate ft importance. The
general report at the treasury is, that
they contain the terms which this court
intend topropofe to the French directo
ry, in order to obtain a general peace.
A messenger was lent off to Vienna
on Thursday, with the determination
of our c abinet to propose terms of peace
to the f rench government.
The party writers are now moreen
raged at Mr. Pitt’s condua? than ever,
because he has determined to make pro
pofais to the f rcnch of so liberal and
equitable a nature, that if peace doea
not result from them, the failure will
not be imputable to the Britifli cabinet*
The indirect means lately had recourse
to by ministers to obtain peace, wac
deemed by those writers arrogant and
filly, and the open and honorable line of
condud now adopted by them is termed
a degrading humiliation.
September 12.
It appears at present to l>e the deter
mination of ministers to affcmble parlia
ment on the 27th inst. unless fome new
occurrence should intervene to render it
neceflary to poftpcnc the meeting to a
later period. The proposed negocia
tions with the French diredorv are in
tended, in the mean time, to be carried
with the utmost zeal.
It appears that by the middle of Au
gull last the French had conquered no
less than 120 fevereign dates. Five
circles of the German empire were al
ready subdued, and the remainder were
either neutral, or apparently disposed to
surrender to the vidorious arms of the
republic.
No. 71.