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slate; and so 6n without end. I was fairly
liothered, for no two thought alike, and
thentwas no pleasin nobody. Then every
man that voted for me, wanted some favor
or another, and there was no bottom to the
obligation. I was most squashed to death
with the weight of my cares, they was so
heavy. _______
Marcus Cicero Stanloy, said to be a
brother of the Member ot Congress from
North Carolina 1 has been accused of com
i,litting several robberies in London, and
was vied on a charge, made by Mr. Catlin,
of stealing from him, and was found guilty,
and sentenced to six months’ hard labor in
the House of Correction, six weeks of the
time solitary confinement. He was short
ly to have been married to a rich heiress.
At the solicitation of Mr. Stevenson, the
American Minister, he was ably defended
by the celebrated Charles Phillips.
It is a little curious that, of the few
Whigs in the Legislature of South Caroli
na, all of them come from Mr Calhoun’s
and Mr Preston’s districts. The verdict of
the jury of the vicinage is reputed a strong
indication of the just sentiment of the com
munity. Four out of five of Mr Calhoun’s
neighbors are against him, and four out of
fiveof Mr Preston’s are for him.— Boston
yl tlas.
A learned clergyman in Maine, Was ac
costed in the following manner by an illit
erate preacher who despised education :
“ Sir, you have been at college, I suppose.”
“ Yes Sir,” was the reply. “I am thank
ful,” rejoined the former, “that the Lord
has opened my mouth to preach without any
learning.” “ A similar event,” replied the
latter, “ took place in Balaam's time, but
r such things are of rare occurrence at the
present day.”
Tennessee Senate. —There will bo no po
litical change in the Senate, it is said, in
consequence of Mr. Grundy’s death, as the
Legislature meets but once in two years,
and there is no session the present winter.
It devolves, therefore, upon Governor Polk
to fill the vacancy, whose political views
are in favor of the present administration.—
The state at the election gave a large ma
jority for Harrison..
United States Bank, — Kentucky. Reso
lutions have been passed by the Legisla
ture of Kentucky, recommending a United
States Bank. Another resolution strongly
ijfcges the passage of Mr. Clay’s Land Bill.
‘fhc justness of the later bill will, we ap
prehend, ensure its passage during the
present session of Congress; certainly at
the next session. The sale of the public
lands it is estimated will average upwards
of ten million of dollars annually during
the next ten years, if properly attended to.
This amount distributed among the differ
ent States, would prove highly beneficial
at the present time, particularly to those
States which have entered largely into in
ternal improinents.— North American.
Clinging to the Spoits. —The last Globe
contains a long list of appointments made
by the President, to take effect after the
4th of March ! This certainly is a deli
cate movement on the part of the Great
Defeated. When Mr. Adams was Presi
dent, he made a few appointments to actu
al vacancies, during the last session of his
term, and the Jackson majority in the Se
nate, of which Mr. Van Buren was one,
lorthwith laid them upon the tabic, toa
wait the accession of Gen. Jackson. The
sentiment then prevailing was, that after
Mr. Adams knew he was defeated, he
ought not for a moment to have thought of
exercising the appointing power in a single
instance. The popular will had been pro
nounced against him—and he had no rights
remaining—it wes indecent and unbecom
ing in him to supply vacancies actually
existing.
We now have a characteristic commen
tary upon this doctrine in the present con
duct of the expiring faction. Van takes it
upon himself, in contempt of his own pro
fessions, to fill not only vacancies existing,
but all which occuv on the 4th of March,
when his reign will be over. In this, he,
in the estimation of every man of just
sentiments and correct feeling, trenches
upon the authority of his successor. Gen.
Harrison will owe it to self-respect and to
the rights and dignity of his office, to an
nul every appointment thus made, and to
evict the incumbents thus uncourteously
thrust upon him.— Richmond Whig.
Jefferson s Principles. —Equal and exact
justice to all men, of whatever sector per
suasion, religious or political ; peace,
eommercc and honest friendship with all
nations, cutangling alliances with none ;
the support of the state governments in all
their rights, as the most competent admin
istrations for our domestic concerns, and
the surest bulwarks agaist anti-republican
tendencies; the preservation of the general
government in its whole constitutional vig
or, as the sheet anchor of our peace at
home and safety abroad ; a jealons care
of the right of election by the people ; a
mild and safe corrective of abuses, which
are lopt by the sword of revolution, where
peaceable remedies are unprovided ! abso
lute acquiescence in the decisions of the
majority, the vital principle of republics,
from which there is no appeal but to force,
the vital principle and immediate parent of
despotism; a well disciplined militia, our
best reliance in time of peace, and for the
first movements of war, till regulars mav
relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil
over the military authority; economy in
public expense, that labor may be lightly
burdened; the honest payments of our
debts, and sacred preservation of the pub
lic faith; encouragement of agriculture,
and of commerce as its handmaid : the dif
fusion of information, and arraignment of
all abuses at the bar of public reason :
freedom of religion : freedom of the press :
and freedom of person, under the protec
tion of the habeas corpus: and trial by ju
ry impartially selected.— lnaugtirul Ad
dress.
MR. WEBSTER.
The Van Buren federal press aro car
ping at Mr. Webster, because it is rumor
ed he is to be Secretary of State. And
why? Because, as they allege, he voted
against some of the measures intended to
advance the war of 1612. Well, now sup
pose this allegation were true —docs it prove
him anti-democratic? Are bis accusers for
equal rights, and equal justice t Then let
us see to what they lead us.
Mr. Van Buren, it is said, was privy to
an anti-war meeting, where a resolution
was passed with his approbation, opposing
the enlistment of militia in the public ser
vice; and it is well settled that he intrigued
against Mr. Madison in flagrante hello.
Yet in the estimation of these gentlemen,
Mr. Van Buren is a patriot and a demo
crat.
Nathaniel Macon, we believe, voted
habitually against every measure, and took
pride in doing so. Yet, in the opinion of
these same gentlemen, Mr. Macon was a
patriot, a democrat, and is now’ almost a
saint.
Mr. Giles, of Va. opposed Mr. Madison’s
war measures with great strenuousness;
yet he was elected Governor of Virginia
by the Jackson party, and is now regarded
by these Van Burenites as having been a
prominent disciple ofthe democratic church.
Mr. Buchanan of Penn., made a very
energetic, if not immoral, oration against
Democracy, Madison, and the war, and yet
Gen. Jackson honored him with a mission
to Russia, and he is now enthroned on the
affections of that kind of“democracy” repre
sented by Mr. Van Buren.
Mr. Taney was a conspicuous Federal
ist, and yet Gen. Jackson made him Secre
tary ofthe Treasury, and afterwards Chief
Justice of the United States !!!
Mr. McLano, another leading federalist,
was Gen. Jackson’s Minister to England,
Secretary ofthe Treasury, aud then Secre
tary of State!
Mr. Bleecker signed, if he did not write,
the Congressional protest against the war,
and yet “modern democracy” honors him
with a mission to Holland.
From Mr. Jefferson w as perhaps derived
the theory of nulification, and yet when it
was about to be carried into practice, Gen.
Jackson relied very much on Mr. Webster’s
talents and patriotism to avert its conse
quences.
It is quite a remarkable phenomenon
that the same liberality cannot in some de
gree be extended to a citizen of Mr. Web
ster’s extraordinary genius, which has been
so abundantly lavished on men of less cali
bre, and greater political sins. Can these
exclusive patriots point us to a solitary
sentence in all that Mr. Webster has ever
said or written that is anti-American in its
character ? Let them try.— Madisonian.
The White House. —A Cincinnati cor
respondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser thus writes:
General Harrison has been in town for
some days. It is said he is already besieg
ed by applications for office by a host of
expectants, and some amusing anecdotes
are told of the manner in which he dispo
ses of those who annoy him in this way.—
I am pleased to find that the conduct of such
men meets general censure ; and from all
I can hear, they will not find their cause
atall advanced by their unblushing avidi
ty for the spoils. It is said to be the Gen
eral’s intention to leave here in the course
of two or three weeks for Washington; but
this is mere rumor, and I am unable to say
what degree of credit it deserves. The
same authority informs me that Mrs. 11.
will not go to the capitol, but her place
will be supplied by Mrs. 15. Harrison, the
widow of the General’s son, who is a daugh
ter of General Pike, and is a most accom
plished and amiable lady. Many of our
citizens are preparing to visit Washington
on the 4th of March, in order to be present
at the inauguration; and I presume that
Kentucky and Indiana will send a small
army on the same errand. This will be
joyful news for the hotel keepers, and they
will doubtless profit by it.
A correspondent of the Western Journal
of Medicine reports the particulars of a
case, which possesses uncommon interest
for the philologist as well as the surgeon.
One of those unfortunate beings, a deaf
mute, having been taught to read and write
in one of the noble charities of the North,
established for tl.e instruction of such per
sons, by the study of medical authors came
to understand the nature of his infirmity,
and became satisfied that it might be rem
edied by an operation. Finding no sur
geon willing to undertake tho operation
proposed in such cases, lie resolved on per
forming it himself; and, by ar. instrument
devised by himself, actually succeeded in
puncturing the drum of his ear, and re
storing the lost sense. The most remark
able feature in the case is, that, from not
being able to articulate a sound at the time
of the operation, he acquired the use of lan
guage in a few hours, and in four days
was capable of taking part in a sustained
conversation, as the writer expresses it,
on “metaphysical subjects.”
Louisville Journal.
Two scenes in Richmond are thus descri
bed by a writer in one of the papers of that
city. They relate to the night in which
Fanny Elssler recent appeared in the The
atre of that city, and the first briefly des
cribes that scene:
“She floated about like a fair, hut very
voluptuous looking spirit, and cut her toes
hither and thither, and swayed her body
to and fro in a way which was a caution to
all inflammable young gentlemen, grey
headed or not. The lovely creatures who
graced the scene, looked on enchanted,
and made all bright with their smiles; the
vast crowd of men shouted and applauded
with their whole might, and the beautiful
dancing woman giving them an extra flirt
or two, which set them off” in a perfect ag
ony ofdelight, made her bow—the curtain
dropped, thedear Fanny tapped her Wring
your-neck-ofF, upon the shoulder, said,
‘dove, dere isteone tousand dollars almos’
—now let us go.’ But the audience said
no, and they shouted and screamed, and
thumped for her to come out and
“At that moment, in an obscure hovel,
open in many parts to the cold, biting winds,
without fire, alone sat a poor woman, hold
ing to her chilled bosom her sick and dy
ing babe, while upon a rude pallet of straw
lay two shivering little creatures, her
children too. Her eye was heavy with
watching, her check sunken with hunger
and suffering, her heart filled with the ve
ry gall and bitterness of life. Still how
truly, oh ! how truly, answered that heart
to the pang of a mother’s love, as she gazed
in the innocent lace ofthe dying babe; how
fast flowed the tears from eyes which had
known little but sorrow and weeping tiiro’
many weary days—bow deep and fervent
was the prayer which came up from the ve
ry fountains of privation and grief. There
was no heart near to sympathize, no kind
hand to aid, no soft voice to soothe—the
physician’s healing urt —charity's angel
arm came not to soften the dying moments
o( her poor babe, and as life flickered and
waved in its fair urn; and die sobs of the
mother sounded in that solitary room, as
in the agony of grief she exclaimed, “a
few pence would have saved thee to me,
my sweet babe,” —as the sleepers on the
pallet of straw murmured in their uneasy
slumber: ‘Mother, dear mother, give me
some bread’—as the keen wind came thro’
the crevices, & she clasped the dying child
to her bosom ; at that moment, a dancing
woman, a stranger, with her wealth of
thousands, and her ingots of gold and sil
ver—made her last graceful bow, and took
the princely sum which was hers for a few
moments pleasant labor.
“As the spectators gave their last shout,
the babe’s innocent spirit winged its flight
to heaven, and the mother gazed in des
pair upon all that remained to lier of the
little pratler whom she dearly loved.
“Such is life.”
THE PERSECUTION OF TIIE JEWS.
The eyes of the Christian world have
been turned towards the war in Syria, witli
great solicitude, from a belief that the re
turn of the Jews to the land of their fathers
would be, in some way, connected with the
downfall of the Turkish Empire. Contrary
to the expectation which has been indulged
on this most interesting subject, the Turks
have become, themselves, the champions of
the oppressed and persecuted Israelites.—
The Grand Sultan lias issued his firman,
proclaiming to all the subjects of the Sub
lime Porte, that the Jewish nation shell pos
sess the same advantages and enjoy the
same privileges as are granted to other na
tions who submit to its authority, and that
the Jews shall boas perfectly protected arid
defended. The redemption: of Syria from
the yoke of the Egyptian tyrant is, there
fore. an important link in the great chain of
events connected with the restoration of the
Jews to the land of their fathers. We shall
revert to this subject, and publish the firman
ofthe Grand Sultan.— N. Y. Atlas.
Capture of St. Jean d’Acre. —The
New York Courier remarks that the reduc
tion ofthis fortified place, (so celebrated in
the time of the Crusades, as the seat of the
order of the Knights of St. John ; and in
modern times for the resistance it success
fully made to Napoleon during a siege of
two months,) bv the British and Allied Na
val forces, in tho short space of four hours
—would seem to indicate either a great im
provement in tho art ofguunery, or in the
kind of artillery now in use. We see it
stated in the report of the Austrian officer
in command that the British war steamers,
were, from the heavy calibre of their guns,
enabled to take up a posttion out of the
reach of tho artillery of the fortress, and
that their guns were all of the construction ;
of Paixhan. It is to the use of this newly j
invented piece of ordinance, that the speedy I
demolition of the fortress is to be atributed. |
The Egyptians fonght gallantly, and lost j
3000 men (partly by the blowing up of a |
powder magazine,) the English, Austrians, i
and Turks had only 18 men killed ! Some
idea of the havoc may be gathered from the
fact that the ship The Princess Charlotte
fired 4400 shots, and tho Belleroplion dis
posed of 14,033 lbs of powder, and of 65,-
908 lbs of iron shot. There were 400 guns
of the heaviest calibre, at Acre, worked by
French Bombardiers.
From the Savannah Republican.
INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT
NEWS FROM FLORIDA.
It is with much gratification that wfe
spread before our readers the following de
tails received from an officer in the army,
arrived in town on Friday morning last.
From sixty to seventy Indian warriors
have come in to the different posts with
their rifles which they have surrendered,
thus manifesting a willingness on their
part to close the war. It is pertinent to ob
serve that since its commencement sucli a
thing has not happened. This fact, joined I
to the report brought by those who have ;
surrendered, that many of their brethren j
are about to follow their example, affords
a strong ground of hope that the war may
soon be terminated.
At Fort Fanning, eleven warriors came
in on or about Christmas day. At Tampa
fifteen warriors came in on Christmas day.
Seven of them came to Fort King in quest
of Gen. Armstead —they afterwards left
that post to seek him at Tampa Bay. At
Cedar Keys, either seven or seventeen war
riors surrendered themselves, our informant
does not recollect which.
Several others (numbernot known) came
in ait No. 4, a post between Cedar Keys and
Fort Fanning. Among those who have
surrendered are but two or three Mickasuc
kies, the most indomitable of all the tribes.
It is supposed that the presence of the del
egation from Arkansas has contributed to
produce this state of things. Some of the
delegation are with the Commanding Gen
eral, and some with the enemy. They com
pose at present a very weak tribe in the
West, and are desirous to strengthen them
selves hv the addition oftlmsein Florida.—
| The white flag was flying at all the milita
| ry posts where this information had been re
j ceived.
Major Faunti.khov, while on a scout on
the 30th ult. captured seven Indians about
7 miles front Tampa.
Oil Monday last, 26th ult. at 4 P. M. two
baggage wagons belong to the Quarter Mas
ter s Department, were temporarily seized
by three Indians near Fort Holmes, and one
of the teamsters killed. These wagons had
started in order to overtake a detachment
of recruits, hut were three miles in rear of
it when attacked. Maj. Riley, Lieut. Mc-
Kinstry mid Lieut. Foote came up on them
while they were rilling the baggage—when
the Indians made good their escape, carrv
j i"g with them some blankets and a few un
| important articles of baggage. They had
: taken Foote’s trunk into the woods, but were
unable to open it. Hot pursuit was imme
diately made for the enemy, but with the
usual result, “the bird had flown. ”
Mr. Webster. —A writer in the Boston
Courier speaks thus of Mr. Webster:—‘ln
1812, or IHI3, (says the writer,) Mr. Web
ster was a member of a large meeting in
the state of New Hampshire, when the
rights of states were expressly recognized,
asserted and contended for. And in a 1
; speech, at a large company in the state of!
i Ohio, in 183S, where a dinner was given
to him, as lie was passing through the west
ern country, he fully declares his opinion
in favor of state rights. His theory is that
| of Mr. Madison, that the general govern
: ment is partly federal and partly national;
: that the powers not given to the federal
| governmet arc reserved to the seperate !
; states, and belong only to them to exercise; <
but that the powers dearly and expressly I
granted toCongress bv the constitution, and j
established by the people, ‘for the general |
defence and welfare,’ are to be exercised !
by the general government, for those pur- j
poses; and that these powers and govern, i
merits may he and should be studiously kept;
distinct; and then there could be no discord j
or collision, but all would be harmony and I
concord.”
A Convention of planters was held at
Greensborough, Alabama, on the 14th ult.
at which it was ascertained that from sev
enty six plantatons iu the counties of Green,
j Marengo and Perry, there will not be more j
than eight thousand hairs of cotton the j
present year. Last year, there was raised
on the same plantations upwards of seven
teen thousand bales—a falling off of more
than half.
NEXT HOUSE OF REPRESENTA
TIVES.
A statement ofthe political character of
the members of'the House of Representa
tives elected from the fourteen States, where
elections have been held, has already been
published The National Gazette remarks
that it the three vacancies in Maine and
Massachusetts are filled with friends of the
present administration, the members elect
will stand 8-‘f Harrison, 01 Van Buren.—
The result of the Presidential election in
the different States and districts yet to
choose members, indicate, without further
changes, the following as the probable di
vision ofthe members to be elected.
Stales. Time of Election. Ear. V. B.
New-Hampshire, March, 1841, 5
Connecticut, April, “ 0
Virginia, April, “ 11 10
North Carolina, August, “ 8 .">
Kentucky, August, “ 12 1
Tennessee, August, “ 8 5
Indiana, August, “ 7
Illinois’, August, “ 1 2 I
Alabama,* August, “ 32!
Rhode Island, August, “ 2
Maryland, October, “ 7 1 I
Mississippi, Nov. “ 2
I . 07 21
i Members elect, inelud’g. vaean. 83 G 1
150 92
Harrison majority, 58
* It is possible that the Whigs may lose the
3 members in Alabama, if the Legislature alter
the mode of Election as proposed, from districts
I to a general ticket. i
THE CATAWBA INDIANS. \
We perceive, by the report of the South
Carolina Commissioners appointed to treat
with the Catawba tribe of Indians, that they
had dwindled down to 12 men, 3G women,
and 40 children. These red men have lea
sed the land they own in that State, and for
several years past, have wandered through
the country without homes or fixed residen
dence. They have lived in the midst of a
dense population for more than half a cen
tury ; and, during the revolution, several
& their chiefs rendered much service to the
American cause. The commissioners say
that they were never known to he in a tory
or British camp during the whole crisis, and
that sindo then, although surrounded by
civilized inhabitants, they never have heard
ot a dishonest charge made against a Ca
tawba. They have a desire to move to the
“far west,” and the State is about making
an appropriation for that purpose.
Temperance. —Father Matthew in his 3d
visit to Ireland has administered the pledge
to 40,000 persons, a number of them from
the weal.thy classes. He was first incited
to his work, it is said, by some of the mem
bers of the Society of Friends, one of whom
offered him £IOOO to aid him in his work,
which he refused. Simultaneous prayer
meetings for the cause of Temperance, are
to be held throughout West-Scotland on the
last Sabbath evening of the year. The
good effects of these exertions are shown in
the dimunition of crime, and the increase
of habits of economy. The Richmond pri
son, in Dublin, has 100 cells vacant, there
having been a dimunition of 1184 commit
ments for the last year, and the Smithfield
prison is shut up, not being needed. The
increase of depositories in one Savings
Rank in 140 bevond ’39 is 1520.
Mil. Wii.dk.—A correspondent of the
New \<>rk Signal, writing from Rome,
I says : —“At Florence I found Mr. Wilde,
the lioorgiati, who wrote the lines begin
ning,
‘My life is like the summer rose,
lie is engaged in making laborious re-
J searches lor the life of Dante, which will
be the most complete, wo have ever had.”
Good.—A person said, in our hearing
the other day, that editors, for the most
part, were a thin, pale faced set. A lad
! standing near, made this witty observation
to bis churn : —“There, Bob, I told you
Iliad often read about the editorial corpses.
A Fall Docket. —The docket ofthe Cir
cuit Court of Adams county, Mississippi,
which lias recently cohunoneed its session,
comprises a list of twenty.three hundred
cases, among which figure many violations
oft ho gallon law.
I) 1 E l> .
On Tuesday, the 12th inst., at the resi
dence ot Mr. L, Weems, in this place,
Mrs. ELIZABETH HANSON, in the
ninety-third year of her age.
■"'i- aaßbs—-..” I
To Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of JOHN
I . DODSON, late ot Wilkes county, de
ceased, are required to make immediate pay
ment, and these having demands against the said
Estate, are notified to present them, duly authen
ticated, within the time prescribed by law
JOHN DODSON, i ,
SAMUEL DODSON, ( hx rs -
January 14. fit. 20
To Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of JAMES ‘
BOA 1 \\ RIGHT, late of \\ dkes county,
deceased, are required to make immediate pay- :
meat; and those having demands against the ]
said Estate, are notitied to present them within !
the time prescribed by law tor payment.
X. SMITH, Adm’r. 1
January 14. (jt 20
i lo Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of BEN
EDICTINE CREWS, late of Wilkes
county, deceased, are requested to make imme
diate payment, and those having demands a
gainst the said Estate, are notified to present the
same in terms ol the Jaw for payment.
KLIZA MANKIN, Adm’x. with the
Jan -1* Jd 20 Will annexed.
GEORUIA : l “YLKTHEREAS Stephen G.
H dkes County. ( * l’ettus, and John Ret
” J tus, apply to me fur Letters
ot dismission as Administrators on the Estate yf
Charles fettus, deceased, late of said county.
lids is, therefore, to cite, summon, and
admonish, all and singular, the kindred and
creditors ot said deceased, to he and appear at my
oliice within the time prescribed by law, to show
• cause, (it any they hate,) why said'letters should
I not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, this 4th of
January, 1641. JOHN 11. DYSON, C. C. O.
I V‘ rl ’ 1 mtim
GEORGIA, iTiniHREAS John li.
H itl;es County, s ** Greene, Executor of
- Lennard, deceased,
applies for Letters of dismission.
These are, therefore, to cite, summon,
I an< l admonish, all and singular, the kindred
| and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at
my office, within the time prescribed by law, to
show cause, (it any they have,) why said letters
should not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, this 12th of
Jan. 1641. JOHN li DYSON, Clerk c.o.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE,
j YA’ ILL be sold at Fiber ton, on Tuesday the
I 2nd day oi March next, a part of l’erisha
; ble property, of Thomas Jones, dec’d, consisting
. of a lot of Blacksmith’s FOOLS, and other arti
j rles not here mentioned ; terms will be made
I known on the day.
JOHN 11. JONES, .
ROBERT HESTER, ( A,Jrnrs
’ Jaminrv 14, 1841. eow 3t 20
1 GEORGIA :
•# Proclamation.
By Hi, Excellency Charles J. -McDonald,
Governor and Commauder-in-Chief of the Ar
my and Navy of this State, and ofthe Militia
thereof.
-dgtfigjgSfej. WHEREAS, bv the
.first section of an a
the Governor on the First day of January, eigh
teen hundred and forty-one, to issue his'l’roda
matioi:, requiring tha* the several Banks of this
Slate, their Branches or Agencies, which have
heretofore, failed to redeem their liabilities in
GOLD and SILVER, and all other Banks in
this State, shall on or before the first day ol
FEBRUARY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED and
FORTY-ONE, pay to any person or persons,
(Ranks and Brokers excepted,) in SPECIE, ev
ery bill, note, draft, check, receipt or money on
deposite, (except in cases where such deposites
are by terms of existing contracts, payable oth
erwise than in specie,) issued or received, or
which may hereafter bo issued or received by
them respectively, upon demand or presentation;
I do therefore, in conformity thereto, issue
this my Proclamation, hereby requiring the sev
eral Banks of this State, their Branches, or
Agencies, which have heretofore failed to re
deem their liabilities in Gold and Silver, and oth
er Banks in tills State, on or before the first day
ol FEBRUARY, eighteen hundred and forty
one, and thereafter, to pay to any person or per
sons, (Banks and Brokers excepted,) in SPE
CIE, every bill, note, draft, check, receipt or
money on deposite, issued or received, or which
may hereafter be issued or received by them re
spectively, upon demand or presentation, except
in cases where such deposites are by terms of
existing contracts payable otherwise than in spe
cie. And Ido hereby charge and require each
and every of them, to be careful and punctual in,
the strict observance and faithful performance of
all the duties enjoined on them by the aforesaid
recited act of the General Assembly.
Given under my hand and the Great i-'cal of
the State, at the Capitol in Milled geviile,
this the first day of January, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hui id red and
forty-one, and of the American. Independ
ence the sixty-fifth.
charles j. McDonald.
By the Governor .-
Wm. A. Tennille, Sec’ry of State.
January 11. ■>( jp
Receipts and Expenditure*
Ofthe Town u: Washington, 1840.
By amount of former Troasnrer, lieingthe
amount on hand, 107 30
fly amount Taxes collected up to 1641, 731 43
Do. Licenses do. do. 26
Do. Taxes collected up to 11th
January 1841. ‘*4 65
DR- fsflA IJ7
To amount paid for Account Book, 12jj
Raid to R. V inkers’, 3 qrs. salary
for keeping Clock, 27 (Ml
: Raid Secretary, 1 qrs. Salary, 10 (X)
Raid F. V. Armstrong, for 3fHK)
| feet Lumber, 112 00
Raid hiring bands, hauling,&c. 204 3ti(
• Raid for Ditching, 1.3 (X)
Raid repairing Market-House, 5 12.1
j Raid Lock Weems, for Lumber, 3* (Mi
Raid fnreot hands, hauling, Sic. 112 00
Raid James M. Hawkins, lor 0
months salary, commis
sions. hire ot hands, ami
attention to hands on
Streets, &c. 34] 1-J
Jan. 11. 1841—Raid R. Heaslev,
part his account, 7 mi
#H7I 51
Raid J. M. Hawkins, on ac
count rendered t his day, 10 4.*
Balance, $4 71
J Ordered that the above be published once
in ttie Washington News and Gazette.
MICAJAH T. ANTHONY, Rres. pro.tom.
January 14, 1840. It 20
For Hire.
2 NEGRO WOMEN—plain Cooks. Can
wash, iron, &.C. Apply to
January 14. 2t SAMUEL BARNETT.
[POSTPONED?]
WILKES SHERIFF’S SALE.
Will be sold on the FIRST TUESDAY in Feb
ruary next, at the Court House door in the
town of Washington, Wilkes County, the fol
lowing property ; to wit:
One negro woman by the name of MELIA.
about thirty years ot age ; levied on by virtue
ot a Fi. Fa. from the Inferior Court, John Wil
kinson vs. Archibald Little, and sundry other
Fi. Fa’s, against said Little.
ALSO,
All YV illiani B. Little’s interest in a negro boy*
by the name ot GEORGE, about eighteen years
01 age, the same being one third ofthe remain
der after the lifetime interest of Mrs. Little;
levied oil by virtue of a Fi. Fa. B. W. Hender
son vs. W illiani B. Little. Property pointed out
bv plaintiff's attorney.
GEORGE “W. JARRETT, D. Sh’ff
January 7, 1841.
PROPOSALS
FUR I’UBLISHIXG BY SUBSCRIPTION
A FULL REPORT OF THE
GEOL93ICAL & AGRICULTURAL
SURVEY OF TIIF
©tayis ©iemoqa,
TIT HE Legislature, at their last session, deetn
-i- ed it expedient to discontinue the salary of
the State Geologist, in consequence of the em
barrassed finances of tlie State. By this unex
; i' el te<l movement, the subscriber is deprived of
| the means of completing the survey of the State,
I on the original plan: if done at all, it must be
at individual risk and expense.
It is needless, perhaps, to represent to the en
lightened citizens ot Georgia, that by following
out the plan so happily commenced in 1637, and
pursued with unremitting energy to the present,
the State has been contributing her mite, hum
ble as it may be on the part of her agent, to the
cause of general science in our country, and the
advancement of intellectual improvement amon>r
her citizens, in accordance with other States of
the Union. There is but one alternative. In the
present situation of the survey, the work must
either be abandoned and the important informa
tion obtained by lour years investigation of the
Geology of the State,’lost to her citizens, ortho
subscriber must depend for support, on individ
ual patronage. He is determined to make an ef
fort for the benefit and honor of his adopted State,
to proceed with the survey. From former ex
perience of the unbounded liberality aud gene
rous hospitality of his fellow citizens, in differ
ent parts of the State, he is confident that, in
making an appeal to their sympathy and patron
age, it will not be made in vain.
Lbat a complete survey may be made ofthe re
mam mg counties of the’ State, and the whole
consolidated and published for the information
and benefit ofthe citizens, public patronage is
most respectfully solicited. A work of this kind,
I is much needed in Georgia, a State comprising
an area of sixty thousand synarc miles, beinu
I destitute of a single correct Map, Geography, or
| history oi the same. A majority of the citizens
must, from necessity, he unacquainted with the
| rich mineral resources and agricultural capari-
I ties of the different sec'.ions. Favored as the
subscriber lias been, by four years labor, as
State Geologist, in different parts of the State,
in collecting materials for a complete report of
I an Agricultural and Geological survey and Na
tural History, iie trusts tliat heshalfbo able to
meet the approbation ol his fellow citizens.
The subscriber pledges his honor, that the
proceeds arising from subscription for the work
shall be appropriated to the completion of the
survey oi the remainiu<r counties of the State,
and that they shall be finished us they will he
needed for publication.
JOHN RUGGLES DOTTING.
Slate Geologic.
Hedge villo, Janury Ist, 1841.
iY R It is impossible, at this time, to desig
nate tiie number ot volumes in a set.
CONDITIONS.
1. The work shall be printed on royal octavo
form, on line pajier and with new type, and will
contain complete reports of a Geological and Ag
ricultural Survey of every County in the State,
with a Map of the same, Drawing.? of remarka
ble places, sections, the., together with an ac
count of the Natural llistorv, Botanv and Agri
cultural statistics.
~. The first volume will contain a system of
Agriculture adapted to the soils and ciimale of
the South, with a table of analysis of soils from
different counties, and remarks on their improve
ment ; with other useful agricultural tables—
Also, a complete Glossary of Geological and
Agr,cultural terms.
A. Each volume shall contain 600 pages, in
cdoth binding, at 50 per volume, to subscri
bers ; to non-subscribers, §4 00, payable on
delivery.
4. The printing shall be so arranged, that a
volume may be expected during the session of
the Legislature, in each year, until the whole
set is completed.
5. Should there be sufficient patronage, a largo.
Geological and Agricultural Map of the State,
will be constructed, 6 by 4 feet, on which inad
dition to Geographical delineations usually on
Maps, all the Geological and Agricultural fea
tures of the State shall be accurately sketched,
and colored. Price on Rollers, >5lO 00,
The papers of this State giving the above a
few insertions will be entitled to a copy of fhq
work, gra'is.