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and painted; Among the documents re.
ferrpd to v in this article, is a letter front
Sai ta Anna, in wliich he remarks that “ the
temple and the monuments of Palenque
are worthy of a paralel with tho pyramids
of Egypt; and whether they were erected
in honour of glorious events', or elevated
by the magnificence ofpiinces, they would
not have less celebrity than the Egyptian
monuments, if history had trasmitted to
posterity their origin and the names of their
authors^”
NEWS AND GAZETTE.
I’RINCIPLES and MEN.
WASHINGTON, G V.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1840.
FOR CONGRESS,
COL. HINES HOLT, OF MUSCOGEE.
. . y.Election on the first Monday fin Januani next.
Elections.
We hope our friends Will keep in mind
the election for member of Congress, on the
first Monday in January. Col. Holt, the
candidate of the Harrison party, we arc as
sured, is a gentleman of high talents and at
tainments, in every respect, excellently
qualified to fill the station, with honor to
the State and to himself.
The importance of the elections of county
officers, it is needless to dwell upon. The
Justices of the Inferior Court and of the
Peace, have apporerw r er placed in their hands
which should never be Confided in any but
honest and competent men, a power which
has more immediate- influence upon the in
terests of the people than tiiat of many high
er offices. It should, then, be the desire, as
it is for the welfare, of our citizens to trust
this authority to honest and capable per
sons; all the Candidates for Justices of the
Inferior Court presented to our readers to
day,possess the requisite qualifications, and
they can choose from them a ticket to suit
themselves.
t)r. James N. Wingfield, of this
county, has been elected-Brigadicr-Gener
a! of the Ist Brigade, 4th Division, G. M.
(fj~ The Harrison and State Rights
party met in Convention at Milledgevillc
on the 17th instant and nominated the Hon.
Wm. C. Dawson, as their Candidate for
Governor, at the next election..
Csr The Van Buren party have nomi
nated for Governor, Hon. Chas. J. McDon
ald; for Congress, Col. John 11. Watson.
Gieorgia Legislature.
Dec. 14.—The Resumption Bill as a
mended, passed the House by a vote of 144
to 33. It requires now only the signature
of the Governor to become a law.
The bill to provide for the .redemption of
the bills of the Central Bank, &c. has pass
ed the House, and a motion to reconsider
it was lost by a large majority. The foi
lowing message from the Governor was re
ceived by both branches of the General
Assembly:
Executive Department, )
Milledgeviile, 14th Dec. 1840. y
Gentlemen of the Senate,
and House of Representatives.
Since your assemblage on the 2d ult.,
the Cotton crop of the present year has
been generally gathered, and the quantity
raised has fallen so far below the most'rea
sonable calculation, that, without a for
bearance on the part of creditors, not to be
expected, the pecuniary distress of the peo
ple forthe next year, will be unprecedented
and ruinous. I feel it my duty, therefore,
to call your attention to this subject, be
fore your adjournment, that you may adopt
such constitutional measures for the relief
of the-people, as your wisdom may sug
gest as expedient afid proper. The Cen
tral Bank, burthened as it is, and neces
sarily nnlst be, by appropriations for the
support of Government, cannot, extend fur
ther accommodations,’apd'if you concur
with me, in the opinion that the exigency
demands at your hands some effort for the
aid of the people, through the difficulties
ofthG ensuing year, disappointed, as they
are, in the usual means of meeting their
engagements by the almost total failure
~of the Cotton crop, in some places, and
its great diminution every where, you can
not turn your attention too soon to the sub
ject. Being unapprised of any measures
proposed by you for this object, and not
being willing to incur the expenses inci
dent to an extraordinary session of the Le
gislature, when it is as well known now,
as it can be some months hence, that the
necessities of the people will certainly re
quire relief which none but the supreme
authority can afford I venture to place
the matter before you, not doubting that
ftll will be done by you, that can be, to
avert the consequences of a calamity that
could not have been foreseen, and that no
prudence could have guarded against.
Charles j. McDonald.
Upon its reception in the House, Mr.
Toombs offered the following resolution,
which was agreed to, “His Excellency the
Governor having in a special communica
tion to-day, called the attention of the
House to the present and anticipated em
barrassments of the good people of this
State, —Be it therefore resolved, Tha't his
Excellency the Governor be and he is here
by respectfully requested to suggest to the
consideration of this House, at his earliest
convenience, some definite measure for the
relief of the people.”
A similar resolution was agreed to by
the Senate. A resolution was adopted in
tlie Senate directing the commissioners of
the Western and Atlantic Rail Road to
provide for the completion, as soon as pos
sible, of said road from White Hall to
Cross Plains in Murray county.
Hon. Horatio Webb, member from Jack
son county, died suddenly, after the ad
journment.
Dec. 13th. The House passed a bill to
! repeal the charter of the Darien Bank and
to provide for the winding up ofits concerns.
! The following message was received from
the Governor, by both branches of the
General Assembly, and referred to Coin-
I notices : _
Executive Department,)
Milledgevillc, 15th Dec. 1840. y
1 had the honor, yesterday, of asking the at
tention of the Genera! Assembly to such consti
tutional measures of relief to the people, from
the calamitous consequences of “ unpreceden
ted failure of the cotton .crop, .as .their wisdom
might suggest as expedient and proper, leaving
the selection of the means by which so desira
ble an end could be accomplished, unembarrass
ed by any specific recommendation from me.—
llut as each house of the General Assembly pas
sed a resolution on the same day, requesting me
to suggest to its consideration some definite mea
sure lor this purpose, 1 accordingly proceed to
state tiie result of my reflections, as to the most
i appropriate method of effecting ii The Central
Bank having exhausted its means,’and new de
mands being about to be made upon it to pay the
appropriations of the present session, which must
be met witli its own bills, for tlie redemption of
wliich there is no fund, except tlie notes due
that institution by individuals, cannot be relied
on, in its present condition.
The suspension of the operations of the law
would infringe a wholesome provision of the con
stitution, r u violate the monthly of private con
tracts. Tlie sale of State bonds to an amount
adequate to the purpose, and the deposite ofthe
proceeds in the Central Bank, by which that in
stitution would be enabled to afford tlie lie; essa
ry relief, under such restrictions as the legis
lature may prescribe, seems to be liable to few
er objections than any which suggests itseli to
me as practicable.
As the measure proposed is one ol relief, and
no! intended to atford facilities for speculation,
tiie funds should be distributed to tliose alone
whose embarrassments require it, they paying
An interest equal to that paid on the bonds, giv
ing unquestionable security to save the State
from tlie possibility of loss. Tne money used
for this purpose being raised upon the credit of
the State, to supply the deficiency of the cotton
crop, the borrower should be required to repay
it within such reasonable tune as tlie Legisla
ture may prescribe. As this is a temporary ex
pedient to meet the present emergency, the
measure should be confined to tlie contemplated
object, and the borrower should not be encoura
ged to hope that tlie proceeds of their industry
might be applied to ■ iw engagements, unneces
sarily contracted. If the plan now T proposed, tor
giving effect to the measure be deemed by the
General Assembly Objectionable, I would earn
estly recommend to them to devise some other
more faultless, in support of which they will
have my co-operation. The people of an adjoin
ing State have derived immense benefit from a
similar measure. By laboring industriously, and
observing a rigid economy, they have been ena
bled to discharge debts without a sacrifice of
projierty, which, it pressed, would have bro’t
ruin upon them. The matter is again referred
to you with these suggestions, which should
have accompanied my tormer communication,
but for an apprehension tiiat it might have been
construed into an indelicate intrusion ot tlie o
pinion of file Executive as to the de’ails of a
measure which he had submitted in the usual
manner to the representatives of the people.—li
I be correct in supposing the condition of tiie
country is such as to demand some act of rebel,
1 think it important, and required by tlie public
interest, that you should provide tor it, before
your adjournment, rather than draw upon a trea
sury already exhausted lor the enormous expen
ses of an extra session. But if you should de
termine against it, 1 shall have the expression
ot the legislative opinion, that no measure of this
sort is demanded by our constituents which will
render superfluous your special assemblage lor
this purpose.
. Charles j. McDonald.
Dee. IC. The committee in the Senate
to whom was referred ths Governor’s mes
sage of yesterday, reported a I*lll in con
formity to the plan proposed in the mes
sage.
The hill to empower the banks to issue
post notes, which are to be made payable
before the Ist of January 1842, passed the
Senate.
The House reconsidered the bill to . re
peal the charter of the Darien Bank. Sev
eral Tax bills wliich have been proposed
have been rejected.
Dec. 17. In the House a bill was pas
sed to establish the State Lunatic Assy
lum.
A tax bill similar-to the act of 1840 pas
sed the House.
A motion to reconsider the Post note
law prevailed.
Dec. 18. The bill to authorize the
Banks to issue Post Notes was taken up in
Senate and passed, by a vote of 43 yeas, to
35 nays, with some amendments, which are
that no Post Note for less than 850 shall be
issued, and that such notes shall always
be taken in payment of debts by the Banks
issuing them.
The bill reported by the majority of the
committee to whom was referred the gover
nors relief message, and which provided
for the issue of State Bonds in conformity
■With the message, came up and was laid on
the table for the balance of the session.
Dec. 19. The House was engaged up
on the bill in relation to the controversy of
this State, with tho State of Maine, uftcr
much animated discussion, the bill prescri
bing a quarantine upon the property and
persons oftho citizens of Maine, was adopt
ed as a substitute, and passed the House by
a vote of yeas 89 nays 79.
The Senate was engaged in the discus
sion of a resolution offered by Mr. Miller, hi
relation to restricting the President of the
United States to one term. Tlie resolution
was rejected yeas 33, nays 45.
We regret that we have no room this
week to publish the report'd'MessrsToomhs
Stiles, Chappell, and Crawford, the majori
ty of the Committee to whom was referred
the Governor's relief message. It is unfu
vorablc to the adoption of the measures pro
posed by his Excellency lor the following
reasons. Because the Committee deem it
unwise and impolitic to use. the means and. ;
credit of the whole people to relieve the
wants of a part. Because the mode propo
sed must inevitably result in the imposition
of burdensome taxes upon the whole people.
Because there is no prospect that the State t
bonds can be sold without great loss.— I
The Committee farther,state that they know
of no method of relief except “ uneonstitu,
tional, vnwise, unjust, and oppressive legis.
lation between debtor and creditor.”
That excellent magazine, the Ladies
Companion, pays a very high compliment
to tlie work called Georgia illustrated, by
the Messrs. Richards. The people in this;
State, who are most interested in the suc
cess of the work, are anxiously expecting
its publication here, and we are glad to
learn that the agent of the Editors has
already arrived in Augusta.
(0~ Hon. Levi Woodbury, has been e
lected U. S. Senator, from New Hampshire.
Doubts are entertained of the legality of
this election, Mr. Woodbury, not having
been a resident of New Hampshire, for sev
eral years.
OfiT The 15th of January next, is ap
pointed for the resumption of the Philadel
phia Banks.
Q3r Wherever, in the following extract
from the Boston Atlas, the word “Post” oc- ’’
ours, our readers w ill please substitute,,
“Constitutionalist,” and it will be O. a. : i.
“BRITISH GOLD.”
The senseless clamor of the Locofocos*
in relation to the alleged interference in
our elections, we had hoped, from pity to ;
their party, had ceased. We had suppo
sed that this vilest of slanders, after prov
ing inadequate as a political watch-word’
would not be revived. But habit has pro
duced in their leaders, such a rfeckless dis
regard oftruth, such a callousness to the*
dictates of conscience, that they adopt any
means to effect party objects. We venture
to say, that no one ever for a moment be
lieved the charge to w hich we refer. It is,
too absurd to be entitled to credence. Un
doubtedly, foreigners keep a watchful eye
upon our movements, some with a strong
interest in the perpetuity of our Republi
can institutions, and others with as strong
a desire of their overthrow. This general
interest, so natural from tiie novelty of our
position as a nation, has been increased of
late, by the rapid communication now ex
isting between ourselves and our neigh
bors “across the water.” We see this in
their public journals,where are to be found
comments upon our internal affairs.—
Were not such an acquaintance with our
situation manifested by them, it would
seem tiie veriest affectation of ignorance.
How is it with us ? Do we not always
look with interest upon the prospect of any
change in the administration of their Gov
ernment ? Do we hesitate to express our
feelings of joy or of regret, as the case
may be ? Do we for a moment think that
we shall be accused of interfering in their
local politics? The idea is preposterous.
But the party has now discovered some
ground lor their charge of foreign influence
upon our elections, and the great mystery ,
ofour success has been developed. The
Post of the 9th inst. introduces to its read
ers an extract from a St. Louis paper, un
der the caption, British interference proved,
and adds, “The developements which have
taken place ill the proceedings of the Mis
souri Legislature prove conclusively that
efforts were made by British Bankers, to
influence our late national election, and
to their influence is the result in a materi
al measure to be attributed. ’ The devel
opments here referred to, arc two letters
addressed to Mr. John Smith, President of
the Bank of the State of Missouri, by Fred.
Huth 6c Cos. Bankers of Loudon. The
first letter acknowledges the receipt of cer
tain bonds of the State, which had been
sent to the writers by Mr. Smith, to be
sold in the London market. Alter expres
sing their conviction of the impossibility ot
negotiating the bonds at present, Messrs.
Fred. Huth & Cos. observe, “The atten- j
tionofour capitalists and others engaged
in American affairs is now turned to your
internal politics, and if the prospects for
your next Presidential election held out by
the last accounts should be realised, this
circumstance will contribute more than
any other to restore general confidence.”
The second letter, written three months
after, speaks of the impossibility of nego
tiating the Bonds unless at very low rates,
and says, “If, however, your election to
the Presidentship should have the result
now anticipated, it is very probable that
an impulse will be given to all the State
Stocks,” <fcc. These extracts,, as they
are the only opinions- expressed in the let-
ters, tho rest of them being entirely of n
business nature, constitute the ground of
the charge of bribery and corruption, which
is brought up against tlie Whig party. —
These are the “developments” to which
the Post alludes. A scries of resolutions
was offered in the Legislature of Missouri,
one of which we give for tiie amusement of
our readers. “That these letters show u
design on the part of the British Capitalists
to bribe the Ainericun people with their
own money.”
The resolutions procedd w ith good grace
from the State of the “Great Humbug,”
and the writer of them possesses some of
the characteristics of Oily Gammon, Esq.
in the first place, to make out an appar
ent case, they should show that Messrs.
Fred. Huth & Cos. (of whom, we must con
fess, we never before heard,) represent and
speak the sentiment of the Bankers of Lon
don. And were this tlie fact, wo should
award to them due credit for sagacity, for
their opinion, that the stability of our in
stitutions would be insured, and the condi
tion of State Stocks improved, by a Whig
administration.
Mr. Editor, —Please to announce the
subjoined ticket"for”Justices of the Inferior
Court, to be chosen on the first Monday in
January next. ‘
11. L. EMBRY.
JOHN T. WOOTTEN.
LEWIS S. BROWN.
DANIEL LEE.
BENJAMIN WALLACE.
T — V
FOR THE .NEWS AND PLANTERS* GAZETTE.
Castle Garden, Washington, Ga. i
December 12th, 1810. $
Mr. Editor : —I wish in the most polite
manner, to introduce myself to your ac
quaintance.—Good morning, Mr. Editor, j
are you well sir ?—how is your fam—, oh !
ask your pardon; believe you are not so fe
licitously happy; pleasant weather—hem !
The object of this first visit, is, to direct
your mind to a few subjects which seem
heretofore, to have escaped you. I am sur
prised knowing your acumen, that an in
sight is never given, to things as they arc-,
in our Town. You cannot plead want of
subjects; but you are thrown back upon
the true reason, your indolence. You are
in the possession of the social feelings, and
how comes it, you arc so indifferent ?
Many occurrences transpire, upon which
it would be delightful to dwell, and com
ment, in piuce of soliloquizing with a pipe
,as you were some weeks since.
Editors have privileges that common j
people do not ; they are to community,
what the sentinel is to the army—so much
Indeed, depends upon them, that I came
near saving, what steam is to the rail car,
j they are to the public. For verily ’sir,
| but for your honorable corps, who would
| know in what manner the latest style of la
dies Hats were worn and the dear creatures
never would know when Collars 4” Cravats
were and were not fashionable.
Indeed sir, but for your information,
they could never know, what was most in
vogue, Grecian Bend or Broadway straight
ness. For one, and I speak in behalf of
the ladies, allow me to request you when
. agriculturalizing, do not forget heartieul
ture, or Pianoculturc, for the beautiful
mademoiselles of our Town, are but little, if
any interested in your accounts of prodigi
ous potatoes and how to raise swine. Aou j
should speak often and softly of the beauti- I
ful daisy upon the mountain top, of “many
a flower doomed to blossom, and waste
its sweetness upon the desert air.”* For
the present, I beg leave to stop here my
suggestions.
Uncommonly respectfully, I am yours,
Mr. Editor, BAIINABY, Jr.
* Barnaby has quoted incorrectly.—Here is
the true reading of the passage :
Full many a tlower not wortli a button,
Blooms in a ditch and is forgotten.
Post Offices. —There are more than 12,- i
000 Post Offices in the United States. By
the law of the land, the annual couipen- j
sation is not to.exceed 82,000. In only i
36 offices does the regular commission or [
percentage allowed to Post Masters amount
to that sum. Os these, seven only are in
tiie New England States; six in New
York i four in Pennsylvania : two in Mary
land ; two in ihe District of Columbia;
three in Virginia ; three in Georgia; two in
Alabama ; three in Ohio ; and one in each
ofthe States of North Carolina, Louisiana,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana
and Missouri. In SO Post offices, the com
pensation ranges from 81,000 to 82,000.
Avery large number of Post Masters re
ceive a compensation from 8500 to 81,000.
Census of South Carolina. —The total
population in this Stale, by the Census
just taken, (says the Courier,) is 594,439,
showing about our natural increase often •
years. In the statistical report of the Mar
shall it appears that 30,000 lbs. of sugar
were produced in St. John’s, Colleton, du
ring the year 1839-40.
The Model Message. —The message of
Governor Zell, of Arkansas, is but tho
fourth of a column long, and is as much
to the purpose as some which arc sixteen
times that length.
We have often beard of the man who bit
his nose off, but the Van Buren presses
have improved upon that. They hfc talk
ing of the people having “ bought them
selves up” at the recent election.— Goshen
Democrat.
From the Georgia Journal.
It is with pain we have ftranwoimte that
Jefferson J. Lamar, Esq, died on tire 15th
inst. at his residence in Stewart county, iw
Consequence of the wound which he recei
ved at the hand pf John Reynolds, about tlie
Ist of October last. Wo know of no indi
j vidual whose death will be more regretted ;
for if fliere was one, in our State, whose ur
banity, kindness,.and gentlemanly'deport
ment entitled him to the respect of bis feJ
low’-citizens, that one was Jefferson J.
Lamar. But he is gone ! The hand of
the assassin effectually aimed the deadly
wound ! Let justice be administered in
this case, and. occurrences of a similar char
acter will cease to take place in Georgia ;
but so long as the ruffian is protected bv
the withholding of the “ strong arm of tlie
/•,” just so long will the livesofour citi
zens he exposed to the fiend-like vengeance
of every dastard. One. .hanging will do
more good, however, than a thousand lec
tures. .... ■ •
“Spring Hii.l, Stewart c.o.’ Dcc. 1840.
- *
Mr. I eunar died this morning about 10 !
o’clock, Os the wound be received oil the
evening preceding the election ,in October
last. He’continued to decline, from, the time
you left home, until he finally wasted a-’
way aiid died ; poor njail,” v “
TIIE OI HO VOTE.
r>- V • • t-;. / ,.**. ...
It lias been repeatedly .charged by the
Globe and its Loco Foco mouth pieces, thut
the Ohio returns show a larger number of
votes than there are .voters in the State.—
The total .vote is 273,824 —an increase of
72,000 v.otes ou that of 18.30. The last Cin
cinnatti Chronicle ,makes the following
conclusive statements, which satisfactorily
account for the increased.vote :
1. The greater degree of excitement and
interest has called out thousands of voters
wlid.did not vote before. ,
2.There are 20.000 aligns naturalized with
in the last year, of whom more than two
thirds voted the Van Buren,tic.ket, and.thus
caused the increase of their votes.
3. The State of Ohio, strange as it may
secm/lraS'garift'd'lft least “three’ hundred
thousand iij its population within the last
four years. These are reasons enough.—
But independent of this, the entire vote falls
short ofthe entire taxables over 21 years
of age, at least 30;000.
The Census of Ohio just completed also
shows a population but a fraction short of
1.800,000. In point of population, -she is
already the third State in the Union.
A SINGULAR BET.
The followi/R; bet,'or “rather singular, I
proposition, we fmd in-a late St. Louis Ga- I
zette : - -- ..** ■■■■•■>•>•
A ,uriti Garrisonian triads the following
pro|)osition to-day—which, however was,
not taken up. That he would pay B'2oo
to any mart, who would’Agree to “give him
one. kernel of coffee for the first single vote,.
Harrison got over Van Buren’s whole vote,,
two for the second and so on in geometrical
progression.
-Thera,’being, sortie .'little curiosity- to
know what the ’result might be, sundry
grains of coffee'were’ weighed, And it was,
ascertained that 2500 grains of Java coffee
weighed, a pound.
Supposing, (hen, that Harrison runs a
head of Van Buren 30 votes, the amount
of coffee to be paid over would exceed'332,-
000,000.
The gentleman,, who declined tlie bet,
was probably very prudent.
BaTlTvays. -
A correspondent of the National Intelli
gencer thus notices an improvement .which
it is thought might be made upon railways :
—“ It is strange that, while rapid improve
ments have been made and are making
in all the appurtenances of railroads, such
as engines, cars, 6cc., no essential improve
ments should be made in the road itself. A
very great improvement would be to have
the track of a road, .instead.of, as now, only
about four feet,wide, aj least six or eight
feet wide. The. advantages, of a wide track
would be incalculable. A few ofthe most
beneficial results would be: it would en
able the engine builder so manufacture a
far more, powerful locomotive—it would
greatly reduce the strain upon all the car
riage wheels—greatly enhance the value
of roads by enabling them to transport great
er burdens with fewer cars—and great! v in
crease tlie safety and comfort of passengers
in comparison with which manifold advan
vantages, the very trifling additional cx-!
pense of constructing a road a few feet wi- |
der than usual is absolutely; nothing. The j
scientific, the theoretical or practical arti- i
zan engineer, need hut give this .subject a
half hour’s calm tjalculajfomto.be convinced
of its utility.” ... .. ,
A Singular Blunder lias;.been committed
by the board of canvassers of New York,
according to the New Yqrk American, and
which they have regularly signed and cer
tified to be correct. They declare that the
whole number of votes given at the late e
lection in tiie State of New Aork, fqr elect
ors of President and Vice President, was
fourteen millions four hundred and ninety
one thousand.three hundred thirty-two.—
The 14 millions being taken awgy, gives |
tlie correct vote of the State.
Important Legal Decision.~\t is Stated
in the Express that the Assistant Vice
Chancellor of the first Circuit; of Ni A’ork,
has recently decided in a case before him,
that a mortgage of goods and chattels, un
accompanied by an immediate delivery,
and not followed by an actual and continu
ed change of possession, is in the absence
of all fraud, good and valid as against cre
ditors, &c. where the same or a true copy
thereof shall have been filed, pursuant to
the provisions of the statute of 1933. This
decision of the Vice Chancellor is held to
be the more important, as the Superior
Court of New A’ork, had heretofore held a
different view.
An important recommendation in the late |
Messageo.PGov. Gilmer to the Legjsla-
| tore of Virginia is tli.Y erf the abolishment
of imprisonment for debt altogether. “Ini
i prisommnt, as a remedy, not necessary
! to the creditor’s rights,”; -say's- the Mes
j sage, “and,, as a punishment,’it visits the
misfortune*, • not tlie crimes of its victims. ”
The recommendation is thus concluded-:
“By rendering final process on judgments,
lo reach lafaisvW/io.ve.v (a action, justice may
be.done wiihojtf retailing-ignominy as one
of its attributes.”
- A Doubtful Story. —Tim New York Sun
contains.the particulars of a mos* painful
rumor in.relation to tlie adduction o£,some
fifteen or . twenty, young women from that
city .w;itbin the last two years. .Jt is stated
that they were taken to,.tho •coast of Africa,
and sold to the native clijefo. Negro slaves
were received in return ; and in some ca
ses as many as fifty slaves were exchang
ed fora white girl. Th*ese,young women,
who were of abandoned character, it is sta
ted, were enticed on board of a slaver, in
the disguise of a passenger vessel, under
the representation that they were to be ta
ken to Ha,vana s . Once in the possession of
the wretches yvho.had deceived them by
false rcprjpentatious, they were taken to
the coast of Africa. _ and sold or exchanged
for slaves, as .stated. We are incli
ned to look upon the* whfdestory as a plau
sible frabricatjotL,.
Decision in <j : Sfiuiplafipr .Case*~rJusXice
Scalier, of Baltimore, lias giveji a decision
in the suit brought against.a notorious’ is.
sue of sli.inplaster currency. Tlie Justice
says: .. . V ~ ,
“I ani ofthofipjnioii that-jf a man gives
promissory notes, ajwl in Sjucji light I view
the issnes of the i'efrnilaj.it—rhe cannot bn
allowed the plea that “they must be -pre
sented in siims of five dollars” in. order to
evade the payment of hja issues of one dol
lar, there being no propfadduced on trial
that those issues were put in circulation by
ijeftndant invariably in spins of live dol
lars. I hold that every issue is a separate
’contract bearing on its face the evidence of
tlie intention of the ma-ker. . Judgment for
the plaintiffs.'” 4 -
Law in the West. — Gentlemen of thp. Ju
ry,’said a lawyer, in.defencc of his .client,
‘I say that ere magnanimous sunshines in
the heavens tho’ you can't see it, kase its
behind a cloud ; you know it, tho’ 1 can’t
prove it. So my client lias a good case,
tho’ he cant prove it. Now, ifyou believe
what I tell you about’ the sun, you are
bound by your Bible oath to beli -ve what
I tell you about my client's case ; and if
! you don’t, why, then', you call me a liar;
i and that I’ll be’sqliataw’d if i’ll stand any
how ; sO'iCyou don’t want to swear false
j aiid hive? trouble', you had better give us
a verdict I .’ ’
Newspapers.-—l)6 Tbcqde'ville, in his
itViamerica,” makes use ofthe
followingTorcibl’e expression in reference
to the importance of newspapers :
“A newspaper* can drop tlie same tho't
into a thousand minds at the same moment.
A-newspaper is an adrlsgr..who does, nos re
•quirc'lo sbii'ght, bht who comes to you
of his’owh jicc’ord, and talk|. to you brief
ly evefy day of the common weal, with
out distracting’ vbur private affairs. News
papers, therefore, Become more necessary
in proportion as men become .more, equal,
and individuals more to be feared. To
suppose that'they only serve to protect free
dom wouliTbe todiminish their importance ;
th'ej’ maintain civilization.”
MARRI E I) ,
On Thursday evening, the 17th instant,
by the Rev. Isaac N. Bolton, Mr. BENJA
MIN B. WALLER, to Miss ELIZA,
daughter of Mr. Henry Reins, all of Ogle
thorpe county. -~
(ff/” We acknowledge the Cuke.
o ir WE are authorized to announce
CALEB SAPPINGTON as a Candidate
for Justice of the Inferior-Court at the elec
tion on the first Monday in January lFwt.
December 14. .17- f'2t
Look at This:
! ALL persons indebted to us either by
NOTE, or ACCOUNT, are earnestly re
quested to call and seltl-o p. Those who
have suffered their Notes and Accounts to
stand ov.er ever-since we commenced bu
siness without making any payment on
them, cannot expect longer indulgence ;
and will find them .in the hands of an At
| torney, unless paid very shortly.
BURTON sSt PELOT.
! December 24. , 1-7 2t.
ADMINISTRATORS ALII.
Will be sold aCEll&rto'nYim tji’p JFirsl Tuesday
in JANUARY the usual hours
of sale, the foi low ing’pr. ipe r ivq to wit,
ONE HUNDIIED ACRES’of i.AND. more
or less, lying oil Reiver Dam Creek, adjoining
Haley Butler and others.’* Sold’as the properiy
of Violetta Turman, deceased, for the benefit of
the heirs and credito. ■>,
WILLIAM PULLIAM, .) Adminis-
TIIOMAS ,!. TURMAN, j trators.
Nov. 5, 1910. 10 in-in
GEORGL\, i VIJHUREAS Thomas Fa-
Wiikcs county >’ * yor apples to'me for Let - ;
’ estate of MATTHEW FAVOR, de -cased,
i Thoseare, therefore, to ci'e, summon, and ad
monish, all and singular,the kindred and credit
ors of said deceased, to be. and, appear, at my W
flec’, within the time prescribed.by Lw, to.shew
cause, (if any they have,) why said letters .should
not. be'granted.
Given under my hand at office, this 2d dry ot
December, 1840. •
JOHN H. DYSON, C. C. <>■
GEORGIA, J VjyHEREAS Christopher
WifAes County > * * limns applies to me lor
estate of JOHN W. JONES dec. These are
therefore, to cite, summon, aud'adpjoajsh, ais a;idj
singular, the kindred and creditors of said de
ceased, to be and appear at niys?ffioe, within, the
time prescribed by law, to show cause, (if anv
they have,) why said letters should not be granted.
Given under my hand, at office, this 2nd of.
December, 1840.
! ’ JOHN-II DYSON, C.. Ct Oi