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COSAM EMIR BARTLETT— EDITOR.]
THE
aVASNAH aSERCFinr.
tv ‘! be published every day, in Savannah, Geo.
j ‘-*9 tne business season, and three times a
the summer months, at Eight Dollars
in advance. * j
’ 2IIE ARC*ITS
tvu be comped from the Daily Papers, and pub
’ l‘j nirprv Saturday morning, at Four Dolkrs
l" hf - n Sor Three if paid in advance,
p-*’ ; ‘ ;) r ' fr tfsrments will be published in both pa
- cents per square of 14 lines for thefrst
ItTS'tinned1 tTS 'tinned 37 rents for each continuation.
tn< en’ dll Communications respecting the business
Ofi*’ must be addrtssed to the Ed i*or,post
Ecffgs of land and negroes by Administrators,
v l c .goTS or Guardians, are required by law, to
£ eld on the first Tuesday in the month, between
• ’ Unrc often o’clock in the forenoon and three
?Ke afternoon, at the Court-House of the Conn
{! i n which the oroperty is wtuated Notice of
these sales must be given in a public Gazette
siztu davs previous to the day of sale. !
Notice of the sale of personal property must be
given in like manner, jorixj days previous to the
S v I
JS T otiee” to s he debtors and creditors of an estate,
fliust be p"blished for forty days.
Notice that ap;lication will be made to the Court
©f Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be pub
lished jour months.
MACON SALES
Ap THE reserve lands, the town
LOTS, AND
tiie bridge,
‘TT’TLL commence on Wednesday the first day
VY of next October, and will continue from j
dav to day, with the exception of the first Mon- •
day and Tuesday of that month. We shall then
expose to sale in Macon, to the highest bidder, in
conformity with a late act of the G eneral Assem
bly •
All the town lots not heretofore disposed of;
ceing upwards of one hundred in number; pn the
western side of the river : among them are twelve ;
adjoining the river, and a few other choice lots for j
business'! The residue are in more retired situa- ‘
tions,and generally afford good building sites in a
pleasant and growing part, o? the town.
Forty-two gaidening lots of 10 and 20 acres
each; laid out from Ito 11-2 miles distant from
the town in two ranges around the Western Com
mon. Also, twenty eight lots on the Eastern side:
that is to say, 4 cf twenty, 8 of ten acres, and 10 of
cne acre each These last include the place some
times known cs Newtown; and will be sold, sub
ject to certain leases from the United States, to
expire next January.
The residue of the lands in the two reserves,
are laid out in tracts of 100 acres, and fractional
parts of such tracts. Os these, the uplands will
be next offered; the last numbers first; beginning
with those on the western side.
On Wednesday the22d of October next, at 11
©’clock A. M. will be offered at the place of the
other sales the
BRIDGE AT MACON,
Together with one acre of land on the eastern side
of the Ocmulgee river, as one of the butments;
and the privilege of using so much of Fifth or
Bridge street on the western bank as may be ne
cessary for the other hutment of the Bridge.
On Thursday the 23d of October, we shall pro
ceed to sell the swamp and bottom lands within
the Reserves, those on the Western side first ; and
continue from day to dav until completed.
The particular numbers that will be sold on each
day cannot be specified ; but it is intended to put up
the several kinds and descriptions in the order here
mentioned.
The Reserves are generally well watered and
Contain several good mill seats. The area of the
whole cannot be exactly know n until the platting
is completed; but twenty-one thousand acres is
the estimated quantity contained in both Reserves
tnd the adjoining fractions, exclusive of the town
•urreys. Perhaps no body of land of the same
extent can be found that embraces a greater va
riety in its surface, soil and timber. Situated just
in that region where the pine of the low er country
changes to the oak and hickory of the upper : it
includes both these growths, and soils in most of
their varieties; in some portions entire, in others
interspersed or blended. Tracts o. very hilly land,
©? shut which i3 qui + e level, or gently undulating,
may be had of almost every quality ; cither of oak
and hickory, or pine, or river lands ; and several
cf these kinds occasionally united ; m tracts of
10f’ acres and fractions of various sizes, adapted
tc most of the purposes for which land is wanted.
From the pressure of the times ; and more es
pecially from the quantity of lands and towui lots,
that will have been lately in the market, these
must unavoidedly sell low. And, lying at the
head of navigation, immediately around the third
town of the fctate in population and trade, thera
is every reasonable prospect of their soon rising
in value. s
Purchasers have now an opportunity, and appa
parently the last that will soon offer, of obtaining
cn cheap and very indulgent terms of payment,
choice situations for residence, for trade - or for
farming.
TERMS OF SALE.
Purchasers of lands and lots are to pay the Com
missioners on the day of the purchase, one fifth
part of the purchase money in Cash or current
bills of chartered banks of this State ; and the re
6‘duem four equal annual instalments. No secu
rity inill Ijg leqnired.
Ihe Bridge will be sold on ! he same terms ;ex •
cept that the purchaser will be required to give
O'aid with two or more approved sureties for the
payment of tne four subsequent annual instal
ments.
W. N HARMON, )
C. B. STRONG, s Comm'rs.
O. H. PRINCE, )
Macon , July 5, lfe23.
tFE The Editors of the Charleston City Ga-
Wtte,the Tuscaloosa Mirror, and of the several
public Gazettes in this state, will publish the fore
going weekly, nine weeks, in their respective pa
jk > I r ?\ ail< f forward their accounts to MARMA
RPKE J. SLADE, Esq. Clerk of the Commission
's, in such time as to Teach him by the Ist of No
vember.
3 ul y 14 22—-us
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COMMENCEMENT.
FRANKLIN COLLEGE, >
THt nivereity Georgia, 23d June, 1823. (
. final Examination of the present Senior
,u, ass , ln i. niS Institution, will take plane on Mon
jP’ 7th July- The examination of the Fresh
•n Ulass, on Wednesday the 30th, and of the
•'Paomore Class, on Thursday the 31st of the
h'nf lnr T‘ th - Dll Friday, the Ist of August, the
the M n 88 wi ? be examined, and on Saturday
On sit can fiidates for admission into College,
will kj k* *4n r< E a commencement Sermon
ol e delivered in the Presbyterian Church in
rneef nS ’°m Monday the hoard of Trustees will
of th ’ T ° n Tuesday, the sth, a part of the members
in Cos 1 Unior Dlass attached to the two Societies
Po’ itil ? G WI U deliver Orations of their own com-
Wit iJV. ° n Wednesday the 6thday of August.
©c< a8 ; nn 10 annua ! commencement. During the
Clavtnn ’ an orat ‘on wall be deliv -red by Judge
t u S °ii by Ju< % e . Berrien > as . Repie-
Societies” Demostkeman and Phi Kappa
* ASBURY HULL,
iulv 4 err ctary of Lniversity of Georgia.
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THE ARGUS.
j WE ONES DA Y M ORNING, JUL Y 23, 13237
We congratulate the Republican on its appear
ance in anew, neat and handsome dress, and
doubt notbift the improvement in outward style,
will add to its already well-earned and extensive
popularity with the people. The Republican from
its long and consistent course in the support of
the fundamental principles of our government,
merits and deservedly enjoys, the confidence of
the community to a great extent. And although
during the heat of political excitement, it has been
our fortune (perhaps we should say misfortune) to
differ with that press in regard to many measures
of expediency, and even sometimes in regard to
points of doctrine, yet we have never failed to
award to its editors due credit for the indepen
dence, boldness and zeal, with which they have
’ advocated many of the best interests of our coun
try. We sincerely hope the Editor may enjoy
| the full reward of a long course of honest and per
, severing industry.
“” “” S 1 1,1
Georgia must manufacture for herself; her agri
cultural interests are depressed to that extent
that she must resort to strong measures for their
relief. They are depressed, not by the Tariff—
by oppressive laws of the General Government—
but by the unwise policy pursued by Georgia her
self. She has been too exclusive in her views—
| her labor has not been sufficiently diffusive and
expansive ; her whole energies have been wasted
upon Cotton—cotton—cotton—nothing but cot
ton—until the cultivation of that article has been
pushed to an imprudent extent. There has been
more made than could be sold at a profit; the mar
ket is glutted with the article, and the price has
gradually fallen from 30 to 7 cents; and it must
j still continneto fall, if the supply is not shortened.
With this prospect befor us, what is Georgia to do?
Shall she still go on in the old way, wasting her
resources upon Cotton, endeavoring to encrease
the quantity as the value diminishes ? Not so. She
must change the course of her industry; she must
withdraw a large portion of her labor and capital
from the cultivation of cotton and direct them in
to new channels. The cultivation of cotton has
been carried too far ; the business is overdone ;
make less, and that little will bring a better
price. It is not the schemes of the manufacturers ;
it is not the Tariff, which has lowered the price
of cotton—but it is that uncalculating spirit of
speculation an; mg the cotton-growers themselves,
which has pushed the business to an unwarranted
extent. They have planted cotton—nothing but
cotton—and depended upon ollftr states for their
supply of bread, meat, and horses! until cotton
has almost become valueless, and they have nei
ther money not credit to buy provisions ! It is the
ruinous effects of this policy, which is now press
ing so heavily upon Georgia People may talk
about the usurpations of Congress, the cupidity
of the manufacturers, and the Tariff; but it is all
nonse The people have made cotton, sold it
for little, that little they have expended in sliow^
and luxury, and run in debt for their meat and
their bread. Why, we have been told by a very
intelligent gentleman in the up-country, who has
taken note of these matters, that the people of
Georgia cannot, at this moment, be in debt to the
hog and horse drovers of Tennessee, Kentucky
and Ohio, to a much less amount than half a mil
lion of dollars.
People of Georgia, it is this unwise and impru
dent policy, which has introduced distress into
every class of your society, and poverty into your
most splendid dwellings. You must change your
system. You must diminish your cotton planta
tions, and increase the size of your cornfields and
potato patches. You must cease to run in debt
for foreign luxuries ; you. must dress in horiie
j spun, and learn to live on hominy till you can
’ raise your own hogs. Your Resolutions against
the Tariff, your threats to secede from the Union
j will neither pav your debts nor raise the price of
your cotton. If the value of Broadcloth should
rise in consequence of the Tariff, learn to do with
out it, and lose no time in setting up manufactories
among yourselves. It is by these means that you
can most certainly avert any evils which may be
dreaded from the operations of the Tariff, and
overrule the machinations of the wicked [if such
you persist in styling the friends of the American
System] to your great and permanent good.
We take the Editorial Article, which appeared
in the Georgia Journal of the 14th, and alter it
so that it may correspond with the facts of
the case.
11 Treason.—ls the manufacturers, for the pur*
pose of promoting their interests, hold a conven
tion or congress at Harrisburg or elsewhere—it is
all well. Because their objects were all pro
fessedly peaceable, and the meeting of citizens on
peaceful purposes is not unconstitutional.
u Now sec how circumstances alter cases ! If the
Southern States, for the avowed purpose of taking
“ an attitude of open resistance to the laws of the
country,” for the purpose of severing the Union
and stirring up a civil war, hold a congress at Wal
terborongh, or elsewhere—it is TREASON ! and
the instigators, aiders and abettors of such a mea
sure, for such declared purposes, deserve the doom
of traitors ! Witness the Colleton Address, the
writings in the Charleston Mercury, and the Sou
thron.
“If the ofFranklin College get’together
and prate about the Tariff, the operations of
which they understand as little as they know of
the motion- >’ the man in the moon—it is all non
sense. Because these lads had better be kept
at their sttudies.”
Murk now how circumstances alter cases !
Another Rattle-Snake was killed in our city
yesterday morning.
SAVANNAH SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1828.
Health of Savannah. —We state for the infor
mation of our absent that the health of
Savannah continues uninterrupted. The weather
has been remarkably fine, the o cter gen
erally ranging from 75 to 86, with pleasant show
ers and refreshing breezes. We hear of no cases
j of fever ; and (saving the Doctors) our citizens en
joy fine spirits, and evince a disposition to “ keep
cool” in spite of the Tariff. Neither the Dengue
’ fever, nor the Walterborough mania, has yet cross
ed the Savannah.
Inveigling Slaves. —David Brown, a free man of
color, was on Monday last, brought up before a
Court of Magistrates of this city, consisting of
Justices Beers, Russell, and Sheflal, charged with
an attempt to inveigle away out of the State, a fe
male slave named Sarah, the property of Robert
Taylor. As the number of slaves whict have been
inveigled away during the present season, lias
j been such as to excite considerable alarm, and as
this was the first detection, the case excited con
siderable interest. The charge was most clearly
proven. Brown was steward on board the ship
Macon;*he enticed the girl to go on board the
vessel ; promised to convey her to New York ; se
creted her in the rim, under the ladies’ cabin on
Saturday night ; the vessel was to have sailed on
Sunday morning, but was prevented by head
winds ; tbe girl was discovered by Captain Porter,
who gave immediate notice to her owners.
The Court, after mature deliberation, found the
prisoner guilty, and proceeded in the following
charge and sentence :
“ David Brown—after a fair and impartial trial,
you have been found guilty of the crime which is
charged against you. The Court, in deciding on
the evidence submitted to them, have weighed
every part with mature deliberation, and are sor~y
j to say, that no circumstance has been elicited * >
make your guilt in the least doubtful, to extenue ii
j or mitigate it.
“ The crime of which you are convicted, vlule
: of frequent occurrence in this port, is concealed
i by many secret measures on the part of those con
cerned in it, that but now and then a discovery I
follows it—Plans for inveigling away slaves are
laid with so much adroitness, that we are inclined
to believe there is a system matured which de
mands the most active efforts on the part of ma
gistrater and” citizens to destroy. In your case
the Court is restricted hy law, to the infliction of a
punishment, altogether inadequate to the crime
of which you have been convicted—and you have
reason to rejoice that a law less sanguinary than
that under which, in several instances capital
punishments have followed a similar offence, is
resorted to in your punishment.
“ The punishment now adapted by our laws to
the offence of which you have been convicted is
mild, we fear too mild, to have in its infliction the
effect we desire. The Court, however, hopes that
tue example which will be made in your punish
ment, if it do not entirely deter others from the
commission of the same crime, will at least be a
salutary check and a warning somewhat fearful.
“ It is considered and ordered by the Court,
that you, David Brown, be remanded hence, to
the jail of Chatham county, and there remain un
til it be the pleasure of the Governor of the State
of Georgia to send a sufficient guard to conduct
you to the Penitentiary of this State, where you
are to remain, at hard labour, for and during the
term of one year—to commence from the day of,
your reception at the said penitentiary.”
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We have received the first number of anew
paper, published at Beaufort, S C. by M. J. Kap
pel, Esq. entitled ‘ The Beaufort Gazette.” It is
neatly printed, and the editorial articles evince
considerable talent and ingenuity. It is a strong
Jackson and anti-Tarilf paper.
The last Georgia Journal says that “in the Chat ,
tahoclne region, rich land can be obtained, it is
said so rich, so very rich—that, as we are credibly
informed, a man one evening, after using an iron
hand-spike, usually called a crow-bar, stuck one
end of it in the ground and left it; and in the
morning when he returned to his work, lo and
behold, the crow-bar was covered with ten-penny
nails that had sprouted out during one single
night ” —Fact ‘pon honor.
It was stated in the Boston Recorder a short
time since, that the journeymen printers of that
ancient city, as a body, were much given to vice
and intemperance. This charge is repelled by the
Typographical Society with great spirit, and said
to be a base slander.
CO MOTfICATED.
THE COLLETON CREED.
I believe in the perfectability of my own judge
ment—l believe in the infallibility of Governors,
and State Legislatures ; and in the total depravi
j ty of the President, the Congress and the Federal
judiciary,
j I believe that the Northern Manufacturers, the
Farmers of the middle and western States, and
the Horse, Hog and Mule dealers of Kentucky,are
the most avaricious and unprincipled of the hu-
Iman race, and have leagued together to rob and
impoverish the South by a tax on British broad
cloths and other articles of prime necessity.
! 1 believe that the Tariff was originated by the
j Devil; and that the whole catalogue of colonial
wrongs, as enumerated in the Declaration of In
dependence, were gracious favors, compared with
i the present duties on certain Articles of foreign
merchandize.
I be 1 ieve in the virtue of resistance, open and
unqualified, to the laws of the Union, and that the
time is, “ noio ”
I believe that no civil or military officer is bound
by his oath to maintain and support the Constitu- j
tion of the United States, after the same shall, in j
his opinion, have been violated by Congress, or so ;
declared to have been, by the citizens of Colleton,
at Walterboro assembled.
I believe tWfct the 10th section of the first article
of the Constitution of the United States is an in- f
terpolation, clandestinely introduced by the ene’ j
mies of State Rights ; and if not, that it is wholly j
inoperative; as it is absurd to talk of the so ve i
reignty of States which are expressly (not u con
structively ) forbidden to make war, treaties or
alliances to coin money or emit bills of credit—
lay duties on imports or tonnage—maintain in
time of peace even a corporal s guard of troops,
or put a gun on board an old canoe—to enter into
any agreement or contract with another State , or
with a foreign power— or to do any thing else
which a sovereign State ought of right to do.
I believe that South Carolina would be perfectly
justifiable to free herself at any moment from
such degradation, even at the risk of civil butch
ery and national anarchy
I believe that Colleton, with the neighboring
Districts on the coast, are capable of resisting
successfully the whole military and naval force of
the Union; but in case Gen. Jackson should be
elected President before a separation is effected,
and thereby become obligated to enforce the in
fernal Tariff act, he might give us some trouble
in the event of wdiich, an alliance with our old
Parent over the water, would fiecome a matter of
prudence, perhaps, as it has long been of choice,
with certain political foxes among us.
j I believe that the Union of the States has rob
bed South Carolina of many millions of dollars ;
that without its shackles her staples would ad
vance ffifty per cent—and she would speedily be
come a great nation, worthy the superior genius
I of her sons, her vast territory and immense popu
lation.
I believe “ prudence to be a rascally virtue”—
and that the non-consumption, homespun, econo
mical system which our more western brethren
are disposed to adopt, is a cowardly business, un
worthy the spirit of “ our native rattlesnake,”
which, failing to strike its enemy, nobly destroys
itself!
Lastly, I believe that George McDuffie and
James Hamilton, Jr. are the wisest, most tempe
rate and most disinterested Statesmen in the
Union ; and that they never envied Henry Clay,
and others, their superior talents, eloquence, in
fluence, or station.
The Albany Chronicle gives an account of a
great Administration meeting in Whitesboro, O
neida County, N. Y. at which about one thousand
persons were present. After assembling in the
Court house, the company were compelled to ad
journ to the Presbyterian meeting house. Dele
gates were appointed to the Utica Convention.an
elector for the district was nominated ; and a vote
of thanks to Mr. Storrs, the Representative in
Congress from that district, was passed.
A letter from a gentleman on board the U. S.
ship of the line Delaware, to a friend in Norfolk,
dated Mahon, 24th April, 1828, says—“ The Por
poise, schr. sailed yesterday on a cruize in the Ar
chipelago. The frigate Java, and sloop of war
\\ alren, will follow her in a few days. The pi
rates in the Archipeiago have sworn vengeance a
gainst the Porpoise, and it is said, have fitted out a
much superior force, to conquer her or die. The
spirits of the officers of the Porpoise, are quite an
i imated, and I feel confident that should they meet
them, the result will be worthy America’s sons.
The Southern Patriot states that, twenty-two
thousand dollars of the first instalment of the South
Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company’s Stock,
subscribed in March last, have been loaned upon a
security of State and undoubted local Bank Stock,
at par, at the rate of 5 per cent per annum, for a
few months, or until the country be surveyed, and
the funds wanted for the prosecution of the work,
which will not probably be before December next!
We learn a further sum of twelve thousand dol
i lars may be had upon the same terms.
Commercially important. —The official Gazette
of Martinique, of the 11th of June, contains a roy
al ordinance, abolishing the 12 per cent export
duly, heretofore paid by foreign vessels trading to
that Island.
! Counterfeit Coin. —The New York papers of
the 10th inst. state that within s short time, a per
son has .arrived from England with a quantity of
composition sovereigns, which are so ingeniously
fabricated, that he has succeeded in palming off a
good many, upon different brokers in that cTity.
Their appearance is perfectiy good, but they are
found to fall short in weight about penney
weights. v,.*
A Connecticut paper says that seventeen broth
ers named, Camp, by one mother, met at Royal
ton, Vermont, on the sth of June, for the first time
in twenty three years. This was areal Camp
meeting.
A French Journalist, noticing Irving’s Life oj
Columbus, remarks, as a singular circumstance*
that a North American as narrated the subjection
of the Southern Continent, from documents fur
nished by the Spaniards, who knew not how to
use them.
Great Despatch. —lt is noticed in a New York
paper of the 10th inst. that the workmen were
placing the roof on the Bowery Theatre, erected
on the ruins of the one so lately destroyed. The
building is an immense pile, and the time occupied
in removing the ruins of the old Theatre was
greater probably than that spent in thu3 far con
structing the new one.
Electric Phenomenon. —The remark in a New
Haven paper, that the electric fluid, in its recent
discharge on the Tontine Hotel in that place, might
have been attracted by a Volume of heat and steam
from the kitchen chimney, notwithstanding the
immediate vicinity of iron conductors, appears to
us to be not altogether improbable, from a sugges
tion made yesterday afternoon, by a plain, unsci
entific citizen. He is the proprieter of a lime kiln
in Stanton street, which was burning on Tuesday
last, and struck by the lightning in a thunder storm
and the kiln with 600 bushels of lime destroyed.
As the top of the kiln was rather below the surface
of the street, and a number of two story houses
within 2 or 300 feet of it, some surprise was expres
sed at their escape, while the humble vault receiv
ed the discharge. The proprieter remarked, that
it astonished him very much, and he could account
for the fact only by supposing that the stream of
heat and vapour, which probably rose some dis
tance higher, than the houses, had attracted the
lightning ; and that if he ever repaired his works,
or carried on the business again, he would never
have a lime kiln with out a lightning rod for its pro
tection.
We have heard of numerous instances where
the heat of new mown hay has been supposed to
attract the lightning to barns containing it, which
have been struck and burnt. But we pretend not
to be sufficiently versed in this interesting branch
of natural philosophy, to decide on the correctness
of this theory or principle, although we cannot but
term it of consequence enough to merit the con
sideration of such as may be interested in the case.
Another remarkable fact, which may be account
ed for on the foregoing theory, is that a steamboat
while in motion has never been known to be struck
with lightning, notwithstanding the
ron about its machinery. The hot vapour ascend
ing to the higher regions of the atmosphere, forms
a conductor at some distance ehind the boat,which
has advanced without the sphere of attraction, be
fore the electric fluid descends. It is remarkable
that the philosophic mind of Chancellor Livingston
anticipated such a result, before the fact had been
ascertained by an experience of many years. i
N Y. Statesman.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Military Court.— The Court Martial
for the investigation of certain charges pre
ferred by Brig. Gen. Rutherford, against
Lieut Col. Reuben J. Crews of Upson,
has been sitting in this place since the first
inst. and naay probably continue sopie weeks
longer. The nature of the charge we un
oerstand is, disobedience of orders, and un
officer-like conduct The Court is com
posed ot Brig. Gen. Wellborn, president;
Colonels Darrah, Rush, Beall,’ Redding,
Watson, Henrv, Lieut. Col. Slitter, Ma
jors Wright, McCarter, Cowles, and Cap
tains Halloway, and Danelly, besides two
or three supernumaries. Upwards of forty
witnesses have been summoned—about one
fourth of whom have given in their evi
dence. The novelty of a trial of this sort,
and the taking down all the evidence in
writing, necessarily produce considerabe
delay Tracy, judge advocate; Strong,
counsel for prosecution; Cuthbert and
Campbell for defendant, N. Barker, re
corder.
The Season.—Accounts from all parts
of the country are favorable for the pros
pects of an abundant harvest. Good sea
sons for a week or two longer, will place
the corn crops beyond the danger of
drought, and make the staff of life plenti
ful and cheap. The price of Corn has al
ready fallen—present price in this market,
62 to 75 cents per bushel.
Columbus Georgia, July 12.
The sales ot the Lots in, and the reser
ved lands near and adjoining this place,
commenced on Tuesday last, according to
appointment, and aie now going on very
briskly. Seventy Lots have been sold, at
the average price of 366 69; th© highest
price eiven lor any lot is $1400; the low
est is $93. Many persons from distant
sections of the country are attending the
sales, and it is presumed that all the lots
will be sold at a good price.
Enquirer,
MURDER.
Some time last week a Mr. Redner, re
turning to this place from a visit to Mont
gomery, Alabama, having arrived within
about thirty miles of Columbus, was attack
ed ly an Indian and a Negroe, and most
cruelly beat to death with a hatchet. The
perpetrators of this foul di ed were pursued
hy a large number of the Creeks, and have
been overtaken and brought to justice.
They were condemned by the Chefst of
the Nation to suffer death, and were to
have been executed on Thursday last, by
the infliction of blows upon their heads
with the same hatchet they used in depri.
ving the innocent subject of this item of his
life—this is the law of their nation. The
murderers confessed having killed him for
the purpose of “getting his money. ”
We understand that Mr. Render had
been on a visit to his family, with whom
we drop the tear of sorrow for their unex
pected loss.
ib,
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The season continues dry and the river
low, the weather, for two or three days
past, has been remarkably cool and plea
sant for July, indicative of there liavjng
been rain and hail to the north and west of
us—our city continues remarkably healihy.
Our steam boat communication with the
sea hoard is entirely intercepted lor the
present.
VVe are happy to learn, however, that
the crops to the westward are promising a
rich harvest In this vicinity, and below
Augusta, we understand that rain is much
wanted. Augusta Cons iiutionalist.
From the Baltimore Com. Chronicle.
Extensive Robbery and prompt apprehen
sion us the Robbers.
On Saturday afternoon about 3 o’clock,
Messrs. Ross and Riggs* two of our most
efficient police officers, received advices
that on the night previous, at 11 o’clock,
the locked room of the dwelling of his Ex
cellency the Chevalier Hutcens, the minis
ter near the United States from the Ne
therlands at Washington, had been opened
by three of his servants, and plate and jew
ellery of great value, and money to the
amount of S3OO, taken therefrom. The
officers above named, with their usual
promptness and sagacity, at once delibera
ted and decided on the course most proper
to be pursued ; and at half past six, (in
three and a half hours from the time they
received the information ) had two of the
culprits in custody, and probably nearly alt
of the valuable effects of which ihey had
purloined their master. Mr. Ross having
taken a different direction, Mr. Riggs took
the York road, and about four miles from
the city, at a tavern, caught the three in a
roam, napping , but one of them succeeded
in making his escape. Their names are
Francois Auguste Michaud, aged 26; Fer
dinand Michand, aged 25 ; aud Jean Da
vid Guerraz, aged 22 ; the second one es
caped ; but will probably be apprehended
his stature is about 5 feet 6 inches. The
property found in their possession consists
of three boxes of jewellery, a trunk of sil
ver plate, (among which areßo table spoons
and several packages which have not been
opened,) and sl3l in notes principally of
the Georgetown Bank; all of which have
been ch posited in the Mechanics’ Bank, of
this city, and a detailed list of the articles
may be seen at the office of Colonel Shep
pard, the committing magistrate.
Great credit is certainly due to Messrs.
Ross and Riggs, for their activity in this as
well as iu many other instances; and in
whatever light the public may estimate
their services, they will enjoy the pleasure
of having done their duty.
[No. 9— Vol. 1.