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292 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.