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essential medium upon which it is neces
sarily based. Again—in the language of
M\ Crawford :
’ “ The right to create a hank is exercised,
because the collection of your revenue, and
the safe-keeping, and speedy and easy trans
mission, &c., of_your public money, is not
simply facilitated ; but, because, these im
portant objects arc more perfectly secured by
the erection of a Bank, than they can be by
any other means in the power of human ima
gination to devise. We say, therefore, in
the wdrds of the Constitution, that a Bank
is neqjssary and proper, to enable the Go
vernment to carry into complete effect, the
right to lay and collect taxes, imposts,
duties, and excises.”
As I must be brief, I will only say upon
this point, that while by any other process
the transfer and disbursement of the public
funds will involve great and constant ex
penses, the Bank of the United Slates col
lected, transferred and disbursed for the
Government, more than four hundred
millions of dollars without the cost to it of a
single cent. Again, such a Bank is useful,
and has shown itself to be eminently so, in
affording the country the means of prose
cuting war with the least pecuniary disad
vantage, and consequently with the most
certain success and promotion of the public
interests. That it afforded a salutary check
to the issues of the State Banks dispropor
tionate to their specie on hand, none will
perhaps deny. Such an effect all will per
ceive to be wholesome and desirable, fori
presume there arc none but do at all times
wish to see the Banks, not only payirm
specie professedly, but able to do so upon
any emergency. Take this check from the
Banks and they will as they have done, in
flate the currency beyond the wants of the
country,and the limits permitted by the spe
cie on hand. That such a Bank has a happy
tendency to prevent an inordinate increase
ofState Banks will appear from the follow
ing, and needs no further comment or ill us
tration. At the time of the charter of the
second Bank in 1791, there were something
under 20 banks in the Union. The chai”
ter of that hank expired by limitation in
1811; there were then 88 banks in all in
the United States. From 1811 to 1816 the
period during we had no United States
Bank, the number of State Banks increased
from 88 to 246,being 152 in about five years,
a greater number than was created during
t he whole of our previous political history
is a§iation. From the charter of the last
bank in 1816 to 1830, the period at which
it was believed that the hostility of General
Jackson would destroy it, the banks in
creased from 246 to 329 being in all 83, an
average of sir a year. From 1830 to 1837
the State banks increased in number 429
(from 329, to 823) being an average of
more than 70 a year. From the above it
will be perceived at a glance, that with a
United State! Bank the State banks increa
sed just in proportion to the increase of pop
ulation, and Ihe general and commercial
wants of the country ; without one, they
sprung up like mushroons all over the coun
try as if by magic. Why so ? because the
great regulator is withdrawn from the sys
tem, and wilt confusion and derangement
follow as a necessary consequence. Ex
amine the abve in a different light. The
whole number of banks created from the
revolutionary war to 1830 was 329, from
183 Qto 1837,the number created was 491.
Hence itwillbe seen, that the policy of
Gen. Jacksonand Mr. Van Buren gave to
the country iiwir years a far larger num
ber of State baiks than existed in the whole
preceding period of our political Union,
more by 165. Let the reader examine the
above and reftet upon it. This is making
ours a hard money government and coun
try with a vetgeance, and after this policy
has thus showered down upon the people
bank bills amishin plasters as thick as hail
in a hail stdm, producing wide spread
mischief and dsmay, the friends of Gen.
Jackson and IVr. Van Buren cry out that
it was the bank; that produced the mischief,
not the governnent. With as much pro
priety could aidrunkard excuse himself by
charging his ijtoxication upon the liquor
he had drank,.or a murderer excuse him
self by laying|he murder to the knife which
had been plung'd into the heart of his neigh
bor. Time wll not permit me to dwell
longer either icon the constitutionality or
utility of a Unled States Bank. It will be
readily seen hjw such an institution will
facilitate and qieapen exchanges, and ad
vance all the geat and best interests of the
country. Thu will the more plainly ap-
pear when it is known that the bills of the
Bank were nevM- at any period of its exis
tence at morethan \ of a per cent, below
par, at any—tip most remote points of the
Union. Nor cat the position that exchan
ges were dear iij 1817, ’lB and ’ID avail,
when it is recolfected that the institution
was establishedin 1810, just after a trou
blesome and exjensive war, while all the
banks were in astate of specie suspension,
iand the whole ccuntry embarrassed beyond
precedent. It nay be added here also that
in the outset, frcnds and foes admit, that
it was managed without due discretion and
financial ability It is not denied that a
bank can do ham, but it is contended that
it is the least of evils. Its own interests,
its very continuance will be always a guar
anty of its proper and salutary manage
ment. In the outset of what may be said
in reference to the subtreasury plan, it may
be well to state that upon its first presenta
tion to Congress, it received but one admin
istration vote, was denounced by Gen. Jack
son and his official organ the Globe, in the
most unmeasured terms. In truth, at that
time the administration was afloat upon the
wide and uncertain ocean of experiment.—
Upon the rejection of the subtreasury sys
tem, it became necessary to resort to some
other financial scheme for the government.
The State Banks became the hobby, were
made the depositories of the public funds,
were lauded to the skies, answered every
purpose as fiscal agents for the Govern
ment, cheapened exchanges, and were su
perior in every respect to the United States
Bank ! Nothing all this time is said about
a hard money Government. The State
bank scheme however soon fails, and Gen.
Jackson who had praised them to the skies
now said of them that “the history of the
world has never recorded such base treach
ery and perfidy as has been committed by
the Deposite Banks,’ &c. It then became
neoessarv to resort to some other plan
They were again upon the ocean of expe
riment. They had forsaken the tried paths
of experience and were too proud to return.
The previously repudiated subtreasury sys.
tern is again brought before Congress, and
notwithstanding its rejection at three differ
ent times by the representatives of the
people, it is pertinaciously brought up after
each defeat until at last the dictation of the
president has succeeded and it is now the
law of the land. It may bo first urged a
gainst this system that it is less safe than a
United States Bank or even the plan of the
State banks. Why ? because individuals
called Receiver’s General are made the de
positories of the money and can run off with
and embezzle it more easily than a Bank.
This needs no argument, ll increases Ex
ecutive patronage, because, the sole direc
tion of the public funds is placed in the
hands ofthe Secretary of the treasury, who
retains his office at the will of the Presi-
dent. Let him displease the President or
refuse to do his bidding and he can be (as
was the case with Mr. Duane) removed at
once without accountability to any tribu
nal whatever. It establishes a currency
for the Government different from thtit pos
sessed by the people. It requires all the
dues ofthe Government to be paid in gold
and silver, and requires all debts of the
government to bo paid in the same. Con
sequently, it becomes oppressive to the pub
lic, debtor who often can obtain specie only
at enormous premiums, and is partial to the
public creditor who receives his dues in the
precious metals. The president’s salary of
25,000 dollars per year, is paid in gold and
silver which he may sell fora premium and
thus realize a sum as much greater than
his salary, as the precious metals maybe
more valuable than the medium received
in exchange, but whioh will answer his
purposes and pass for as many dollars as
his nominal salary. This additional sum
may vary from 12 to 2590 dollars. In the
same way will the other public officers and
creditors be benefitted by the favoritism of
this measure. It cannot regulate the cur
rency in a way wholesome and beneficial
to the country. There are but from GO to
80 millions of dollars of gold and silver in
the United States, 3.o*>r 40 millions in the
vaults of the Banks and the balance in cir
culation among the people. Suppose then
the Government in consequence ofa war or
other emergency should need 30 or 50 mil
lions a year. Where can it be obtained ?
Not from that in circulation among the peo
ple. The Banks to afford it, must wind up
their concerns, call in their debts and spread
universal ruin over the country, or else to
sustain themselves would be necessitated
to suspend specie payments. Suppose them
already in a state of suspension, how are
they to be relieved and resume? Os course
by getting a sufficiency of specie ! How
can this be done or how could it be retained
with the constant drain of it from them to
meet the specie wants ofthe Government ?
•This whole subtreasury scheme is imprac
ticable for adverse and dangerous crises in
the country, and if practicable in times of
peace and when the wants of the Govern
ment are at the lowest estimates, can be
put into operation only at the hazard of the
prosperity of the country. For it is clear
to all, that in proportion to the abstraction
of the precious metals from the vaults of
the Banks are the limitations of their dis
counts and the consequent scarcity of mon
ey and restriction of trade and commerce.
Some of the friends of the administration
profess to admire this scheme, because, it
will have a tendency to break down the
Banks and make specie the universal, cur-
rency of the country. Nothing could be
more absurd or more dangerous ifeffectcd.
There are payments made in the United
States annually to the amount of more than
5,000,000,000 of dollars. To make this,
at least 350 or 400,000,000 ofdollars would
bo requisite. Whence could this vast a
mount of specie be obtained. Not from Eu
rope, for they have there even less than is
wanted. Not from the mines of Mexico,
for with all the mineral wealth of that coun
try, the relative proportions of the gold and
silver of the world, as now distributed and
at present wanted, can with difficulty be
maintained. But some urge that with a
inetalic currency prices would fall to suit
the quantity. This might do for the credi
tor, but it would.grind the debtor to pow
der. To effect such a revolution all the
property of the Union would change hands,
at least, all that in the hands of the poorer
classes, and while they would be kept poor,
the rich made richer, would continue so. —
An attempt to bring about such a state of
things as this, would result in the destruc
tion of the happiness and prosperity of the
country and the dissolution of the Union.—
Phe experience of our Government has
shown that while it has lost but little by
Banks it has lost millions by individuals.—
Look at the prostitution of public officers
for the last few years, while the subtreas
ury has been practically in operation. Did
ever a previous administration stumble up
on such plunderers and rogues as the pres
ent l Can we not see that it is in part ow
ing to the facilities afforded the corrupt, un
der the system of individual deposites?—
But the country is frowning indignantly
upon our present rulers and all their vain,
absurd, and dangerous experiments. The
good old halcyon days of our national pros
perity and constitutional purity will soon
be restored under the auspices of one, whose
star is rising rapidly and brightly in the
west, commingling as it does the brilliancy
of the successful hero, and the placid lus
tre of the virtuous, able, and honest states
man ; under the guidance of such a man,
sustained and counselled as he will be, we
may expect a speedy repeal of the subtrea
sury law, and the re-establishment of a
United States Bank. With such an insti
tution as a nucleus, around which the
State Banks may gather, relieving them of
the pressure for their coin, because, of the
receivability of its bills in dues to the gov
ernment, and the equality of their value
with gold and silver, trade and commerce
will soon revive, all interests of the country
flourish, industry be amply rewarded for its
labor, and universal prosperity be restored
to the people. MADISON.
Washington, Wilkes County, Oa.
October 20, 1840.
Harrison , Ti/ler and He form !
MEWS km GAZETTE.
PRINCIPLES and MEN.
WASHINGTON, Ga!
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1840.
“ A Voter” is in type, but unavoidably
crowded out.
KrWe are informed by the gentleman
appointed to take the Census of this Coun
ty, that the population of Washington is
1,300', being about 200 increase since the
last enumeration two years since.
The Presidential Election.
The first struggle between the two great
political armies is over ; and we have con
quered—gloriously conquered. The final,
and infinitely the most important contest,
is to take place on the Second of Novem
ber next.
The friends of our good cause must be
up and at work. Their opponents are
beaten, but not entirely subdued. Lotus
not become lukewarm and indifferent by
victory. Our course must be yet onward.
We cannot, remain stationary without
shame. The foe is now rallying his forces
for the closing conflict ; and will make a
last, a desperate effort, to recover his lost
ground.
Every man among us must be ready.
Every man must be watchful and firm.
Let every one believe that the fate of the
country depends upon his single vote ; that
our deliverance from a long reign of op
pression, usurpation, and knavery, from
the mercenary and unprincipled partizans
of the present Administration, can only be
effected by a “ long pull—a strong pull—
and a pull altogether.”
They are going to play off upon us, an
old and favorite trick of theirs, by which
they have won many an election. They
will tell us, with much pretended sincerity,
“ Oh ! there is no necessity for you, Mar-
rison men, to turn out to .the polls ; we,
Democrats, are beaten ; it is of no use for us
to turn out—we are going to stay at home.”
Trust them not! believe them not! We
have said, and we repeat it, they are orga
nizing for a lust dying effort. Don’t let us
think to win an easy victory ; they will stir
heaven and earth to beat us on the first
Monday in November. Don’t let them
cheat us out of victory.
Look out for handbills, pamphlets, &c.
The Locofocos will sot them in circulation
before the election, to a certainty. The
fact that they are scattered abroad, too late
to give opportunity for contradiction, is con
vincing proof that they are not worthy of
credit. Reject them at once, as falsehoods
from beginning to end. Let no cunning
deceive us. Let no circumstance keep us
from the polls oh Monday, the 2d of No
vember next; then GEORGIA EXPECTS
EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY.
Tlie next Legislature.
We hope the first care of the next Legis
lature will be to reinstate the credit of the
State, now in a most deplorable condition.
We cannot expect this to be done at once,
but the work of reform can be commenced
at the ensuing session, and be perfected
hereafter. We cannot hope that the effects
of the wild and ruinous policy of the party
just ousted from power, can be remedied at
one session, its correction is a Herculean
labor and must be the work of time.
The people expect that something will
be done with that monster of folly, the Cen
tral Bank. The law authorizing it to put
its bills in circulation, never was a favorite
with the people ; indeed, we will venture to
say that two thirds of the thinking portion
of the community were opposed to it, but
the Van Buren party passed it supposing
it would prove a means to keep them in
power, they had the majority, and the
State Rights party, protesting against it,
were obliged to succumb.
The consequence has been, that the cred
it of the State,represented by the bills of the
Central Bank, has declined in proportion as
its issues increased, until the community
knowing that they were “promises to pay”
by a corporation which had nothing to pay
with, refuse to circulate them except at an
enormous discount. This should be rem
edied.
The people have been tampered and dal
lied with long enough by the other banks.
Relying upon the forbearance of communi
ty, they have refused to pay their just obli
gations, and kept their parcel of intrinsi
cally worthless rags in circulation, which
the people are compelled to take for want
ofa better medium of exchange. We know
not why a bank should be more favored
than an individual. If the latter refuses to
pay his just debts, the law lets the Sheriff
loose upon him, and banks should be serv
ed in the same way. Make them pay spe
cie ; if they cannot do it, let them break.
Perhaps it would be well to give them some
time to make their arrangements for resump
tion, so that as little distress as possible
may be produced among their debtors ; but
let that time be as short as possible; and
make them understand that this game of
promising without performing will not do
any longer. We are no enemies of banks,
but we go for compelling them to fulfill
their contracts, and if these things are not
rectified, we promise to give the aid of our
feeble talents to the advancement of the
hard money scheme, and help along the
great locofoco cause, so far as that scheme
is concerned, for we think it better to have
our money stolen in a lump than to he tor
mented by having it frittered away bv
peiceineal.
We trust no more banks will be charter
ed. The General Banking Law, passed
two years since, embodies the true princi
ples ofßanking, for it gives every man a
right to bank who can secure the commu
nity against loss. The only institution es
tablished under the law, that at Ruckers
ville, enjoys deservedly the confidence of
the community beyond any other. It has
never suspended specie payments, and its
bills pass current from the Savannah to the
Chattahoochie.
We view these things in a plain, matter
of fact manner, divested of all those subtle
ties with which bankers and financiers mis
tify them. We feel the effect of the present
state of things, and we know the imme
diate cause, the cause oj that cause we nei-
ther know nor care any thing about; we
know that the people will not endure this
state of things much longer, and we know
that they look to the legislature fora reme
dy. W hile we are on this subject we may
as well speak of another connected with it.
The community is infested with shin
plasters. Perhaps this isowing to the sus
pension of the banks, and when they re
sume, perhaps they will disappear. If they
do not, let the severe law against their cir
culation be put in force. It has hitherto
remained a dead letter upon our statute
book, but if any enterprising individual
feels disposed to make a large fortune with
little trouble, he may do it by only taking
a stand upon the cars of the Georgia Rail
Road and watching the agent as he deals
out his change bills; for every shin plaster
he puts in circulation the company is liable
to a penalty of SIOO, one half to the infor
mer. To be sure they attempt to evade
the law, by making their change bills pay
able in “rides,” but there can be no doubt
but that they come under the true mean
ing, spirit and intent of the statute, and arc
liable to the penalties of the same.
&TATIE [£LlE©Yi]@M®.
Georgia.
We have thought it advisable to give one
more insertion to our table of Election Re
turns, that we might revise and correct it,
which we had no opportunity of doing last
week; and that we might supply the re
turns from the counties wanting in our last.
The table is now complete, and may be use
ful io our friends for reference hereafter.
The vote this year is larger than ever
polled in Georgia ; being over 75,000 —
and exceeding the vote of last year nearly
20,000. • Dawson, the highest on our
ticket, has a majority over Cooper, the high
est on the Van Buren ticket, of 4,050 —a
result far exceeding our expectations. Our
lowest candidate is ahead of their highest,
3,572.
In the Senate, parties stand 4S Harrison,
to 44 Van Buren, and a tie in Coweta ; in
the House, the Harrison majority is about
30.
The following is the aggregate vote for
Congress :
ANTI-VAN BUREN.
Dawson, 39,619
Nisbet, 39,399
Habersham, 39,379
Foster, 39,306
Warren, 39,297
Alford, 39,275
King, 39,257
Gamble, 39,254
Meriwether, 39,141
VAN BUREN.
Cooper, 35,569
Colquitt, 35,562
Black, 35,496
Lumpkin, 35,417
Campbell, 35,379
Pooler, 35,362
Hillyer, 35,357
Iversojn, 35,311
Patterson, 35,291
Pennsylvania.
The first returns (from the city and coun
ty of Philadelphia) were unfavorable to
the Whigs. But the news received from
the other counties, show a large gain for
Harrison and Tyler. Twenty counties
have been heard from, where the gain has
counterbalanced the Whig loss in Phila
delphia.
Ohio.
This State was fixed on as the ground for
a desperate contest. livery exertion has
been used by the administration to beat
Harrison in his own State, very few returns
have been received, but thev show a very
large gain for the Whigs.
New Jersey
lias nobly rebuked the party who dared
to rob her of her rights by turning her Rep
resentatives out of Congress. The Whigs
have elected a majority ofthe legislature,
securing the election of a United States
Senator. She will give 1 larrison 2000 m- j
jority.
03“ The Locofoco papers assert, that
British gold has been used to buy up Demo- 1
cratio votes. We have known some ofthe
honest among them, change their opinions
from the force of argument; we did not
think the party was so abandoned and un
principled, that it could be purchased by j
British or Benton gold. But the truth-tell
ing Van Buren editors, say it is so; of
course, we must believe them.
Poor V an ! even his own partizans abuse
him for his bad luck, and some of them say
they hope he may not get a single State.—
So it is ; when a man is going down hill,
every body gives him a kick.
Summary Justice. —Several Packages of
the Extra Globe and other Documents, sent
to Lee county by the Hon. John Forsyth,
to be used in influencing the Elections,
have, by an order of the Inferior Court of
that county, been publicly burnt by the
Sheriff.
The opponents of Gen. Harrison, have
almost abandoned every argument against
him, except that of Abolition! How tri
umphantly has the slave-holding part of
Georgia refuted their slanders in this par
ticular ! Almost every county in that part
of this State once derisively called the
“ black belt,” has gone for him, and in those
where the Van Burenites have had the as
cendency their majorities are generally di
minished. They have, as they always
have had, the supremacy in the Cherokee
counties, which hold few slaves. In the
counties of the Northern Circuit, where the
people possess a greater proportion of slaves
than in any other, not a single Van Buren
man has been elected to the Legislature !!
Mental Sub-Treasurers.
Amos Kendall says his “thoughts some
times run away with his pen.”
Port rail of Wm Sturm.
We invite the public attention to the fol
lowing extract from a Speech delivered at
the great South Western Convention, re
cently held at Nashville, Tennessee, by the
Hon. Mr. Crittenden of Kentucky. It is a
portrait of Martin Van Buren drawn by a
master.hand, and no New England man
need be told that it is “ true to the life.”
Mr. Crittenden said he did not believe
Mr. Van Buren possessed either the head
or the heart to be the President of this proud
and independent nation. He was nurtured
in the'Albany Regency school of politics,
and had not the capacity or the warmth of
heart to know, or feel like a politician of
the West. He was emphatically a free
trader in politics, buying where he could
purchase cheapest, and selling where he
could command the highest prices. He
hail been for the war and against the war.
Should the Federalists say to him, Mr. Van
Buren we can support no man who support
ed the last war, which ruined our commerce
and brought the country so deeply in debt, !
how readily could he reply, gentlemen, who
took more decided ground against that war
than I did ? Madison I opposed and gave
my influence to Clinton, your own favorite
candidate ? Should the Republicans, on
the other hand, approach him and say, we
can support no man who did not support the !
last war, how readily he would assure them
that he did support it, and point to his re
ports and speeches in its favor, made after
Madison’s re-election, and the war had be- j
come popular.
Take the subject of Abolition too.—
Should leading abolitionists tell Mr. Van
Buren they would like to vote and use their
influence for him if they could only have
some evidence that he would help to carry
out their principles, why, who could fur
nish them with more strong and enduring
proofs than Mr. Van Buren, of his firm at
tachment to their principles? How sin
cerely*would he point to his vote instructing
the New-York Senators upon the Missouri
question—to his vote in the New-York con
vention in favor of extending the right of
voting to Negroes—to his vote in Congress
to restrict slavery in Florida—to his decla
ration, for the public eye, that Congress has
constitutional power to abolish slavery, any
day, in the District of Columbia—and to his
recent rescript, that he saw nothing in the
admission of negro testimony into court a
gainst a gallant officer of the navy that call
ed for his interference ! On the other hand,
should the anti-abolitionists say to him, Mr.
Van Buren, what guarantee will you n-ive
us, that if we go for you, you will not favor
the schemes of the infamous fanatics ? How I
gravely he would refer them to his repeat,
ed declaration that he will apply the veto
to any bill having for its object the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia !
Upon the subject of Internal Improve
ment too, he is equally ready. To one
party he points to his vote to establish toll
gates upon the great Cumberland Road,
such was hr love and zeal for Internal Im
provement. He points also to his approval
of numerous hills making great appropria
! tious for works of that nature. To the op
i posite party, he will say he is against In-
I ternal Improvements by the general govern
j ment, and points with apparent exultation,
j to the complaints of the friends of the great
j National Road, that he asked for no appro
priation whatever for it in his last table of
| estimates for expenditures!
On the subject of Federalism, lie occu
pies the same ground also. To the Feder
alists. he can turn to his ardent support of
Unfits King, their great champion, and ex
hibit the book he wrote in his favor. To
the Republicans, lie can point to his sup
j port of Daniel I). Tompkins.
Mr. Crittenden asked if he was not justi
fied then in pronouncing Martin Vanßu
i ren a freetrader in politics? He asked
w hat he had ever done to advance the true
j interests of his country, or promote its pros
l perity ? “ The answer,” he said, “ Would
be. No ! For the very good reason that he
had done nothing. Whv,” said he, “if
old Plutarch were to burst from his tomb,
and be called upon to write the life of Mar
tin \ an Buren, and record the services he
has rendered his country, great God ! what
a blank the old historian Would present to
the world !”
lie asked, what reason the people had
for advancing such a man to the highest
office in their gift. Call over his name—
does it fill the heart with grateful emotions?
No. At the name of WASHINGTON
of even Jackson—and of Harrison, the
heart glows with emotion ! But sound the
name of Van Bu r e n —tis as cold as
a tomb-stone—aye, as Van Buren himself.
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Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M.
CLOSES.
Sunday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M.
ELBERTON MAIL
ARRIVES. CLOSES.
Thursday, at 8, P. M. | Thursday, at 9, P. M.
LINCOLNTON MAIL.
ARRIVES. CLOSES.
Friday, at. 12, M. | Friday, at 12, M.
(LY” We are authorized to announce Mr.
J-C. WILLIAMSON as a Candidate, at the
election in January next, for RECEIVER
and PAX COLLECTOR forthe County of
Wilkes.—Oct. 1. (5) t s.
!■ ADI ES’ FAIR.
i A FAIR by the LADIES of the
Baptist Sewing Society, will be
held at the Court House, in the
GRAND JURY ROOM, on
TO-MOIIROW EVENING,
at Seven o’Clock.
Situation Wanted.
\ LAUV from the North would like a SITUA
TION in a respectable SCHOOL or PRI- ‘
VATE FAMILY as TEACHER. Address,
M. 1I ost Office, Washington. 8.
‘J! A LL !) y/l
( ’ASH will be paid for TALLOW, by
„„ R. 11. VICKERS.
Washington, Oct. 22, 1840. 8 3t.
I lie Press will copy three times,
To Rent,
•TUIE LAND belonging to the ESTATE of
1 BENJAMIN CATCHINGS, late of Wilkes
comity, deceased, trom the 10th of December
ne ;Y u „ ANN ARNETT, Adm’trix.
Oct. 22, 1840. 8 ts.
• Tegroes to Hire .
I WILLHIRF, out the NEGROES belonging
to thc ESTATE of BENJAftfIN CATCH
ot Wilkes countv, deceased, on the
LOlii ot December next. ANN ARNETT,
Oct. 22, 1840. 8. ts. Administratrix.
WILKES SHERIFF’S SALE.
Will be sold on the FIRST TUESDAY in DE
CEMBER next, at the Court House door in
the town of Washington, Wilkes County, the
following property ; to wit,
/"XNE TRACT ot LAND, containing Sixty
Acres, more or less ; being on the waters
of Little River, adjoining lands of Ilen-y Terrell,
and others. Levied on as the property of Solo
mon Wilder, to satisfy a Fi. Fa. issued from the
Superior Court of Wilkes County, in favor of
Ann Arnett, vs. Solomon Wilder, and H. L Em
bry, security. Property pointed out by said
Wilder. THUS. R. EIDSON,
(let 22, 1840. 8 Deputy Sheriff.
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE OF PERISH
ABLE PROPERTY.
Will be sold on Thursday, the 10th day of De
cember next, at the late residence of Mildred
Carlton, deceased,
ALL the PERISHABLE PROPERTY be
longing to the ESTATE of MILDRED
CARL ION, late ol V tikes county, deceased,
consisting ot Household and Kitchen Furniture;
Stock ol Horses, Cows, Hogs, Corn, Fodder, Sic.
Terms will be made known on the day of
Sale. ANN ARNETT, Adm’trix.
October 22, 1840. 8