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Jmitable Irisli actor; as great in making
people laugh, as Mr.Cookmun in making
them weep, anil as efficient in ruining the
souls of men, as Mr. Cookmun was insult
ing them. And now for the moral of this
paragraph : In several of the leading jour
nals which we have opened this morning,
the name of Power only is singled out as a
loss to bo deplored, while not a single tear
is in store for the fate of other associates, of
nobler intellects and nobler callings!—
This is a strange anil thoughtless world.
Mr. Rives in favor of a National Bank.-
The Richmond Star says: “It is stated,
and we believe upon good authority, that
Wm. C. Rives has declared in favor of a
National Brink. We hope lie lias ; for a
largo portion of those who were once most
furious against such a Bunk, have now dis
covered that it is impossible for the busi
ness of tiie country to flourish without one,
and when a man finds himself in error, we
like to see him come out honestly and say
so.”
The “Special Term of the Superior
Court of Leon county,” for the purpose of
“ hearing and determining issues on the
criminal dockett” as advertised by the
Judge of Middle District, to have been held
on the 17th ilist, did not convene according
to the rule granted. The day came—the
jurors came—tho witnesses came—the
criminal docket was forthcoming—hut the
Judge had absquatulated.
Col. Willis Alston who lias been accused
of the murder of Gen. Read, and who is in
close prison under that charge, was very
anxious to have his ease disposed of; and
through the medium of his counsel, applied
for a trial at the regular session of the Court
which was then about to be held. But in
stead of giving the accused a hearing, the
judge adjourned the Court over tilt next
fall. Afterwards a rule for a special term
was granted. But it was not held ; the
judge of the Middle District was mis
sing oil the day named for the court, and
and no other judge of the Territory could
be induced to take his place. The special
term for the hearing ofcriminal cases con
sequently has not been held.
It is probably the purpose of the prosecu
tors and the judge, to keep the accused in a
close dungeon during the summer months,
where our climate and confinement will
work out for them that vengeance which
the law could not have been entrusted with
iloi ng,
Tallahassee Star, May 19.
From the Georgia Journal.
STATE BONDS.
What are State Bonds selling for l Such,
for instance, as Georgia may fer for sale,
with the understanding, that the proceeds a
rising therefrom are to be loaned to the peo
ple ? Can our neighbors tell us? If they
can, will they ? Os this we shall know
more hereafter.
These State Bonds are getting to be rath
er odious with the people. More so of late
than formerly. The people begin to see
that the selling of State Bonds is the selling
of the State to no very small extent ; and
the experience of other States, both in rela
tion to the State Bond System, as well as
the borrowing of money, by a State, to loan
it to the wealthy aristocrat, note shaver,
and speculator, is not altogether lost upon
the people of Georgia. They know that it
“ aint the thing it is cracked up to he, no
way it can be fixed and the attempt to
gull them, by Gov. McDonald’s State Bond
Scheme, will be visited with a vengeance
upon those who have dared to try it.
But the worst of this same State Bond,
State selling Scheme, is the insuit offered
the poor and distressed portion of the com
munity, whom, they pretend, they would
benefit. Now, if there were in the Central
Bank three millions of money to loan to the
people of Geoigia, how is that man to pro
cure one dollar of it, whose property is un
der execution, or who is too poor to procure
it otherwise ! Surely no man could get a
dollar of it without giving the Jest kind of
security 1 And who is it, that can give this
kind of security, but what may borrow
money, upon as good terms, as at the Central
Bank ? If the depreciation of the bills of
that Bank, be taken into the account, and
of course it should be, the answer must be,
no one. The truth is, the really distressed
portion of the community would get none of
the money ; hut the capitalist, the note sha
ver, the speculator, and the influential pol
itician, would ; for these could all give the
required security, and these very funds,
they would shave the poor and embarrassed
man with, or what is worse, buy up his prop
erty at a third of its value.
Correspondence, of the Madisonian.
New York, May 19.
The great topic of the week has been the
case of McLeod. It comes up before the
Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus,
on a motion of his counsel that he be dis
charged from custody, on the ground that
the offence for which he is held to account
has been deliberately assumed by Great
Britain as a national act, for which she is to
be held responsible, insjpai’aistJfny individ
ual. This motion has been amly supported
yesterday and to-day by Mr. Bradley, of
Lockport, and the Hon. Joshua A. Spencer
for the prisoner, and quite as ably resisted
by Mr. Wood, District Attorney for Niagara
county, and the Hon. Willis Hall, Attor
ney General. Os course the war of the
Giants was between Messrs. Hall and Spen
cer, who respectively made the closing
arguments ; but the efforts of the Junior
Counsel, were in the highest degree honor
able to their talents and acquirements.—
Mr. Spencer has nobly earned and long en
joyed the reputation of being one of the first
if not the very first, constitutional lawyer
~in the State ; but L#m sure ho will cheer
fully admit that he met “ a foreman worthy
of his steel” in Willis Hall. The great im
portance of the question at issue, the strong
excitement pervading *he public mind, the
ability ofthe advocates, the absence of all
petty cavils on technical points, and the
stupendous consequences which may hang
on the decision of this question, rendered |
the Court room a theatre of intense interest, j
and it was crowded thoughout with an in.
tently listening auditoiy. It became at I
length necessary to exclude many audi
tors.
Mr. Spencer closed the argument of the
case at half-past 12 to-day, and tho Court
passed to other business. Very probably, I
the decision will not he pronounced till the
close oftlie next week, as the Judges will
use all possible means of avoiding a wrong
decision.
I have myself very little doubt that the
decision of the Court will he against the
motion for McLeod’s liberation. lie will
then be remanded to take his trial—prob
ably here or in Albany.
Our Senate has finally concurred in the
Assembly’s amendment to the appropria
tion bill, fixing the total expenditures for
Internal Improvements this year at $3,000,
000. lii this shape the hill lias passed.
Sharp Shooting. —Mr. Biddle accused
some members of the Investigating Com
mittee with having no great interest in the
U. S. Bank, as they were small stockhold
ers. Mr. Massey, lie said, owned hut two
shares. In reply, the Committee state that
this is just double the amount Mr. Biddle
owns. “ Rats desert a sinking ship,” and
perhaps the ex-president saw far cnougii
into the future, to render it prudent to cut
loose from his disabled craft, except to hold
on by a single share. North American.
From the Raleigh Register.
REFORM.
All accounts concur in stating, that a
great and salutary change has taken place
in all the departments of Government at
Washington. Reform was necessary, and
this Administration was put in power for
tiie especial purpose of accomplishing the
great work, in which it is now engaged
heart and soul. Under the late Adminis
tration, it was not only deemed no sin, but
the broad turnpike to higher advancement,
for a Clerk to become the hero of a Street
debate, and devote bis time and talents to
tiie service of men, who came into power
by a sacrifice of honor. Thin, lie who
could write a political essay for the News
papers, filled with fulsome praise of the
matchless abilities and immaculate purity
of the Administration, was considered a
most accomplished public officer. But
these things have now changed. We have
taken new latitude and departure, and lie
w ho now desires to gain and secure the con
fidence ol the public, must first do his duty
to the public. A Clerk is not now appoint
ed to figure in the Newspapers or to brawl
in the Streets ; he is appointed to i|o the
duties of his office, and the duties of his of
fice only. The motives of the I’resident
and the Cabinet Officers may be slandered,
and their actions misrepresented ; but pois
ed on their own rectitude of soul, and sup
ported by the confidence of lire nation, they
will stand unharmed by the violence of the
storm.
BANK OPESAtISKS.
The New-Hampshire Patriot states that
by a recent examination of the Plymouth
Bank it is ascertained that the directors
have borrowed fifteen thousand dollars
more than was paid in on the capital.
The Union Bank of Mississippi fop voted
to discontinue business and wind #p the in
stitution as speedily as is “consistent with
the present condition of the country.”
Extensive Bonk Robbery—Large Re
ward.—lt will be seen by an advertisement
in another column, that the Frederick coun
ty Bank was entered by burglars between
last Saturday evening and Monday morn
ing, and pillaged of a large proportion of
its most valuable property. The thieves,
it appears, conveyed away in gold the a
mount of Sit),o49; in notes and bills of
other banks and checks, $3,733 ; in notes
of the Frederick co. bank, $134,907 ; State
0 per cent, bonds, $0,000; State 6 per ct.
certificates, $14,000 ; 0 per cent, sterling
bonds, $12,222; making in the aggregate
$185,970. At a meeting of the President
and Directors of the Bank yesterday, it was
resolved to offer a reward of SIO,OOO for
the recovery of the money, or proportion
ately for a part, and the detection of the
thieves as explained in the advertisement.
We learn that the key of one of the doors
of the Bank was found yesterday in a
creek about a hundred yards from the
building, and a dark lanthern was found
upon a bridge in the vicinity.
Baltimore Sun.
More Discoveries. —Farther discoveries
of fraud have been made at the Bank of
Louisiana. There is no knowing at pre
sent where the late rascality will end.—
The account of one gentleman appeared by
the ledger of the Bank to be overdrawn
$l,lOO, but on examination it was discov
ered that several entries which should have
gone to his credit, had been omitted. They
were pocketed by the amiable youths for
whom large rewards are now offered by the
Bank.— Crescent City.
Frankfort Bank. —The Stockholders of
this bank appear determined to have justice
done to its officers, if the law will reach
them. The President has been arrested on
a charge of swindling, on complaint of cer
tain persons interested, and bound over for
trial. Ihe substance of the charge against
him we understand to be, that lie took the
funds of the bank, sold it at par, received
pay for it, kept the profits, and paid the
bank for its funds used in the speculation in
wild land at s'2 50 an acre, which was
worth nothing ! There is considerable ex
citement in Frankfort upon this subject.
Bangor Democrat.
The Baltimore Sun of the 27th ult., says
“ We learned last evening that one of the
officers ofthe Merchants’ Bank of this city,
yesterday received a letter frpns an officer
of a New-Yorlt Bank, in which an account
was kept, stating that his “ last check for
$2,000 had overdrawn the amount on de
posite,” or words to that effect. The an
nouncement was somewhat startling, and
an examination took place, when it was as
ccrtaincd that the New-York Bank should
have some SB,OOO or SIO,OOO to his credit.
The supposition is, that another successful
forgery has been perpetrated.
BANK DEFALCATION.
Rumour was rife yesterday, founded up
on the authority of private letters received
in this city, that Macon has been the thea
tre of another Bank robbery, which lias just
been detected in the Branch of the Central
Rail Road Bank, in Macon. The Cashier
of the Bank is said to he the individual,
who disregarding the plain precepts of the
eighth commandment, lias lined his pockets
with tiie needful. We have not been able
to learn the precise extent of the deficit in
his cash account, but all seem to concur in
the opinion, that it is quite large, probably
twenty thousand dollars. A few more such
disclosures, as these Macon exhibits, and
Georgia will stand in the front rank of bank
robberies. This is another of tiie curses
of an inflaltd, irredeemable, non-specie
paying currency. The whole country be
comes deranged with the mania for specu
lation, and growing suddenly rich, and
some of those who cannot obtain riches by
fair means, steal whenever an opportunity
presents. — Augusta Chronicle.
Another Honorable Forger. —The Hon
orable Asa Child, of Norwich, lately Presi
dent of the Norwich and Worcester Rail
road Company, lias absconded with about
$40,000, obtained from that institution by
peculation and forgery. He was last seen
in Philadelphia, en route ii was supposed
for Texas. 11c was appointed District At
torney of Connecticut by Gen. Jackson, and
was a candidate for Van Buren Elector of
President last fall. In alluding to this cir
cumstance the Tribune of this morning
says, “Our neutral Locofoco journals arc
most vociferous in cackling over the vil
lainy and disgrace of Mitchell, because lie
was once trusted by the Whigs, hut they
have nothing to say of Child’s notorious ras
calities. Perhaps they do not consider it
so wonderful that a locofoco dignitary
should prove a rascal as they would if he
were a Whig. Mow is this ?
New- York Times.
The following additional particulars
respecting the bank robbery in Maryland,
we copy from the Baltimore American of
May 27.
THE FREDERICK COUNTY BANK
ROBBERY.
The Frederick Examiner of yesterday,
has the following particulars respecting
the recent Bank Robbery in that city:
The Bank was entered, it is thought, on
Saturday night last. A key was found in
the Creek, near the City Mill on Saturday
morning. A dark lantern of rude construc
tion was also found. The key was filed
off and filled up till it was made to fit ihe
lock oftlie exterior door oftlie Bank quite
as well as tho key which belongsto it. The
lamp does not seem as if it had been the
production of a workman and looks as if it
had been in the service before. We under
stand that two men were seen taking a box
to the corner oftlie bank and seating them
selves upon it for the purpose, doubtless,
of keeping watch while tho robbers were
progressing with their work. A spur with
the strap broken, was found in the vault.
The progress oftlie robbers was obstruc
ted by seven locks, some of them of the
most complex construction. The street
door must have been entered some time
since, and the villains have been at work
doubtless, for some weeks in discovering
tho secret springs of the three locks in the
outer door of the vault and of taking im
pressions for the purpose of making suita
ble keys.
All the contents of the iron chest, in the
vault, were taken without any discrimina
tion—including some of the issues of the
Frederick corporation notes that were laid
aside as unfit for use in consequence of
being worn out,&c. Os the silver, none of
which was in the chest, they took but ten
dollars.
This is one ofthe boldest and largest rob
beries that we have ever heard of, and the
excitement and commotion which it has
caused in our quiet town is such as we
have never seen here before.
Many persons suspect, and there are cir
cumstances which justify the suspicion,
that the robbers have gone to the south
west. It would be well that the police in
that and in all directions should keep a
careful look-out.
The doors of the bank were immediate
ly closed upon the detection of the robbery.
The capital paid in was $175,000 and the
amount of funds of every description taken
is a few thousand dollars more than the
capital paid in.
TO THIS PUBLIC.
To afford all the information in my pow
er, in reference to the robbery committed on
the Frederick county Bank, 1 have thought
it proper to submit the following statement,
on oath, as to the manner in which I have
kept the keys of the Bank.
HENRY DOYLE, Cashier.
I have been engaged in the Frederick
county Bank, as Teller and Cashier, ever
since its establishment, which was in the
year 1818. I have always had charge of
the keys of the Banking-room, and the
vaults of the Bunk, since 1 have become
Cashier, which was in 1833. It has been
my invariable custom to conceal in private
places in the Bank and Vaults, all the keys
except my key to the outer door of the
house and two of the keys of the outer
Vaults, which commands the entrance to
the vault, in which all the funds and valu
able books, papers and deposits arc kept,
and on which outer vault door the greatest
reliance for security is placed. These two
keys to the outer vault I always took home,
immediately after closing the Bank at the
usual hour in the evening, and locked them
up in a small drawer in tiie family sitting
renin of mv residence. The key of that
drawer I kept myself, and the room was al
ways carefully secured at night. The key
to the outer door of the Banking House, I at
all times kept about me in my pocket. On
last Saturday evening, after closing the
fvunk, tiie keys were disposed of by in.’ as
usual. On Monday morning I unlocked
the drawer in which 1 had deposited the
keys, and found them where anil as s had
put them. 1 went up to the Bank accord
ing to custom, and when 1 entered every
tiling, to outward appearance, was as I had
left it, on closing the previous Saturday,
the keys in the Bank were w here I had put
tin ni, and 1 was not made sensible that a
robbery had been committed until I opened
the iron chest in the inner vault, and found
that its w hole contents were gone. I would
also mention that the Book-keeper and the
Porter to the Bunk, each keep a key to the
outer or front door of tin* Banking House,
as well as myself. 1 will further add that
1 have never missed out of my own posses
sion, or from the places in which 1 have
deposited them, any of the keys of the Bank
under my charge.
HENRY DOYLE, Cashier.
On the 25th day of May, 1841, Henry
j Doyle, the Cashier of the Frederick county
| Bank, appeared before the subscriber, one
| °f the Associate Judges of the Fifth Judi
, c:a l District of the State of Maryland, and
■ made oadi on tiie Holy Evangelists of Al
mighty Cod that the aforegoing statement
is true. AB’M. SIIRIVER.
NOTES OF THE KNOXVILLE
BRANCH.
The subjoined letter from the President
of the Knoxville Branch of the S. W. R. It.
Bank, will show that the notes of that
Branch have been permitted to fall below
par ; and will serve additionally to confirm
our position that their credit ought to he
supported by the mother Bank in Charles
ton. Not only has the Knoxville Branch
never suspended specie payments, hut its
notes are receivable in payment of public
dues at the treasuries of S. Carolina, N.
Carolina, and Tennessee.— Courier.
“ Branch S. W. R. R. Bank, i
Knoxville, (Tenn.) May 18, 1841. \
Editors of the Courier, —I have observed
in the Courier, the notes of this brancli are
quoted at a discount of ten per cent. I hope
no holder of our bills has suffered loss by
this quotation. This Branch lias, up to
this moment, taken up its circulation in
specie, and the provision of the 26th section
of the Bank Charter makes its notes receiv
able at the treasuries of tiie States ofSouth
Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
1 have to request you to publish in the
Courier the section entire for the protection
of innocent holders of our issues A copy
is appended.
1 am, very’ respectfully, yours, &c.
J. G. RAMSEY, President.”
“See. 26. The Notes of the said Bank
shall be receivable at the treasuries of the
several States in which it is chartered, in
payment of public dues, so long as the said
Bank shall redeem its notes with specie.”
Cor. of the Charleston Courier.
Washington, May 28.
The city is thronged with members ot
Congress and strangers. Among the Sen
ators already here are Mr. Clay and Mr.
Preston, both apparently in good health and
fine spirits. They have such a distinguish
ed duty to perform at this session, in rc
moddeling the policy of’ the government.
Mr. Preston’s position is one of command
ing importance, for on his vote will proba
bly depend the late of some of the leading
Whig measures. It is now universally be
lieved that the President will abstain from
recommending a National Bank in his
Message, but that he will propose some
measure for the immediate relief of the
treasury and of the currency. The issue
of the government of exchequer bills, to
serve the purpose of a uniform currency, to
facilitate the collection of the revenue and
enable the government to meet its pressing
engagements has been favorably spoken of.
Mr. Calhoun, was, some time ago, in favor
of some project of this sort.
The message is looked for with extreme
interest. It will affect the value of some
two hundred millions of State stocks, and
of a vast amount of local stocks.
1 believe that all the candidates for the
Speaker’s chair, are now here. The most
prominent of them are Messrs. Dawson of
Ga., White of Kentucky, Wise of Va., W.
Cost Johnson of Md., and Cushing and
Briggs of Mass. There will be infinite dif
ficulty in agreeing upon a candidate.—
Merit and qualifications have little to do
with the choice. Local feeling has much
more concern in it. I hear that the north
ern and eastern members are averse to
settling the question in a caucus.
Messrs. F. O. J. Smith, of Maine, lately
a prominent conservative member of the
House, and Matthew St. Clair Clarke, for
merly and for many years Clerk of the
House, are the prominent candidates for the
clerkship of the House. Mr. Clarke will
probably be elected.
Bad Signs. —We are apprehensive, that
the Editor of the Enquirer will be disap
pointed in his expected nomination by the
Abolition Convention. These worthies it
appears, by the following, are wooing each
other, and have not time to make any
110 m in at ion.— Rich. I Vhig.
From the New York Courier.
THE PROGRESS OF ABOLITIONISM
The recent revelations before the assembled
wisdom of antislavery agitators in this ci
ty, are about enough, we should think, to
cure the Southern” chivalry” of its stom
archful fury fora fight with Nothern fanat
icism. There really is not half so much
of the commodity to be found North of the
Potomac as there is South of it. Indeed, it
must be the very worst kind of fanaticism
that, is so tar “out of its head” as to imag
ine, or pretend to in:agine, that there is a
ny tiling among the scattered and broken
down gentry, calling tin ms; Ives abolition
ists, worthy of a m nnent's notice —much
los-i of a incur in s ung.’i , or apprehension.
Both branches of tin: precious philanthro
pist, who glory in the name in which wo
have twice in *iitiom*d and therefore men -
tioned once too much, met a day or two
since iii this city, and inning quarrelled
among themselves they met in separate
conventicles. Ihe Tappan troops having
been properly denied the use of a respecta
ble church in Madison street, which they
have formerly desecrated by their black
and white bickerings, convened somewhere
in Thompson street. This “arm” of the
crusade is much the most rational and the
most respectable, and its proceedings wer
marked we understand, with rather the
most decorum. It was like the other part
of the concern, under Garrison, exceedin"--
ly and beautifully abusive of its fellow la
borers in mischief. Nothing has ever been
said ofeitherof them half so had as they
seem to delight in saying of each other.
Both assemblages represent their pros
pects in the gloomiest colors ; and, it’ wo
can understand the statistics of their aft airs
they are “growing no better very fast.”—
They are poor in purse, they certainly are
bankrupt in reputation ; and they find it
almost impossible to get money enough to
keep uji even the skeleton of an organiza
tion. They have been obliged to dismiss
their'principal officers for want of money
to pay them ; and on the whole their af
fairs are about as forlon as the worst ene
mies of evil, or the firmest friends of the
country could w ish. In one w ord, and in
perfect seriousness and sincerity we can
assure the people of the United .States, and
the very sensitive citizens of the South in
particular, that it is utterly ridiculous to
expend even a stray thought upon these
creatures. Contemptible as tin y are in
trinsically, they are managing to make
themselves more so, if possible, by the a
mount of contempt and contumely which
they bestow with so much unction upon
each other.
SOMETHING GOOD.
Mere is a delectable morceau from the
pen of Amos Kendall. It was written in
j 1829, after his appointment as Fourth Au
ditor, and published in the official journal
of that day. The heart of that amiable in
dividual must leap for joy at a prospect of a
speedy practice of his long cherished prin
ciples by a Whig Administration !
We commend the letter lo tho special
consideration of the howling Ogre of the
Globe and the disconsolate Fly-up-tlic-
Creck of the Enquirer :
“ Franklin Mills,) Ohio, Sept. 0, ’29.
“To reform measures, there must be a
| change of men. Without a change of men.
j fraud cannot he punished ; delinquencies
| cannot be detected; unlawful allowances
j cannot he stopped ; improper modes of do
ing business, and irregular practises in of.
1 lice, can never be corrected. Do not all
offices belong to the People ? Wluit right
have the incumbents to them more than oth-
J ers ? No wrong is done to the man who is
i removed, for he is deprived of no right, it
is the duty ofthe President, and all others
to whom tho People have entrusted the
power, to remove their subordinate whenev
er they believe the public interest requires
it. So fascinating is power, and so corrup
ting the long possession of office, that l be
lieve the chances fora pure administration
would be much greater were a limit ofeight
or ten years prescribed, heyomi which no
man should he competent to hold any oftlie
subordinate offices at Washington. It, is
the policy ofoffice-holders to create an im
j pression that their offices arc private rights ;
that they are wronged when removed ; that
they have a right to demand the reasons
for their removal, and have them formally
set forth. When the People assent to a
doctrine like *.his, you may bid farewell to
all hope of reform, however great may he
the abuses ofour Government. We shall
haveCierks, Auditors, Comptrollers, Regis
ters, Treasurers and Secretaries for life ;
bad customs will never be corrected ; erro
neous principles will prevail forever ; pre
cedent will take the place of laws; tho of
ficial corps at Washington will govern the
Union ; and if we do not have Presidents
for life, we shall have entailed upon us for
ever a succession from one office to another
preserving the unity ofthe official phalanx,
and perpetuating all their opinions and abu
ses. In my opinion, th : People have more
cause to fear too few removals than too
many. “AMOS KENDALL.”
TRA NSCE NI fENTALISM.
A correspondent of a Now York paper
asked, with great eagerness and propriety,
the meaning of the word “transcendental
ism,” which is considerably used at present
with reference to german literature and its
imitators. He is thus answered :
“Transcendentalism is the spiritual cog
noeence of psycological irrefragibility con
nected with concutient ademption of ineol
uminent spirituality and etherialized con
tention of subsultory concretion.
There can be no mistake about the mat
ter now. V. S. Gazette.
Important Decision. —lt has been deci
ded in one of the Pensylvania Courts, that
the arbitrary practice adopted by the Banks
since the second suspension, of entering in
the Bank book of depositors and of posting
the same over the counters, that the Bank
would not hold itself liable to pay deppsi- |
tors in any other funds than such as were 1
current at the time of deposite, is not law, j
and that the Banks arc all bound to pay j
specie for all their deposites: that such a
notice is not contract between the parties.— j
Bro. Jonathon.
Mormons. —Two hundred and thirty-se- j
ven Mormons lately arrived at New Or- ,
leans, from England. They, reached St. !
Louis on the 14th ult. on their way to I
Nauveo. TANARUS: 1
False Weight.:. —The iiiqstcoinn: on mode
of cheating, by menus of false weights, is
to have the balance so constructed, that
when both scab s are empty they shall hang
oven, but, at the same time, have one arm
of tjtc balance longer than the other; then
although the weights used may he just, yet,
being put into the scale suspended from the
short arm, much less than an equal weight
will bring the balance even. Tho best
mode of detecting the deceit, is to weigh the
articles alternately in both scales, when
tiie diftl fence ill the results will be itmn<
ately manifest.
Striker’s Settlement. —This settlement w ■
sii >ui(ln‘t care about living in, if any faith
is to he attached to the following advertise
ment taken from a V. estern paper:
I! ork Done. Cheap. —The subscriber i
prepared to do all the fighting for his neigh
bors within fifty miles. Men will be knock
ed down and dragged out at a reasonable
price, and payment received in grain, po
tatoes, or whiskey. Apply to Wilson Wil
liams, at his cabin in Striker’s Settlement.
i'ourih of c/iriy/.
■W” OT|( li—Those IrieiaJiv to a Temperain ■
i* Celebration oftlie FOLKTII OF JULY,
are requested to meet in the Baptist Church m
Saturday cvenim* next.
June 3,1811. 40
o l*otice
4 HE C- iii ini: s: oners oi the Boer School Fund
8 for ilkes county, will meet in Washing
ton on llv second Saturday ot the present
•no lth, at which time these who have claims un
der the Common School Act, will please attend,
having their demand': made out in conformity to
the law in such cases made and provided. No
demands will be attended after that meeting, as
the l onuuispioneis wail proceed to distribute tho
tunas to those who have their accounts proper!*.*
made out and presented oil that day.
J hose who have claims will take care to have
them ready be lore the time, and not wait as
heretofore, until the Commissioners are in ses
sion, and then a-1; how they must make them
oat.
ROYI.AND BEASLEY, Treasurer
to Commissioner.-
J unc 3,1811. 2t 40
I,”01 1! months alter dale application will b--
made to the 1 lonorablo the Interior Court of
Line,da county, while silt agas a Court of Ordi
nary. I’ -r leave to sell a Tract ot Land, known as
| t in* Wai'on tract, belonging to the Estate of
Win. Barks, late of said county, deceased.
WILLIAM M. LUAIBKLN, E.Cr.
Juno 3, 1841. mini 40
n months after date, application will bo
8 made to the Honorable the Inferior Court
o Wilkes county, while sit'ing as a Court of
Ordinary, for leave to sell a Negro mail by the
name ot Aaron, and ihe remaining part of the
personal pro; erty of Benedictine Crews, late of
suid county, deceased, lor the benefit of tho heirs
and creditors.
ELIZA MAN KIN, Adm’x.
June 3, 1841. w ith the will annexed.
i GEORGIA, i Whereas, Thomas Johnston
j /,’ bert county. \ applies to me tor Letters <
i .'.dmiuistration on the Estate of Richard Rice,
j deceased.
These are, theretore, to cite, summon, and ad
| monish, ail and singular, the kindred and credit
ors o. said deceased, to be and appear at my ci
lice, within the time prescribed bv law, to show
cause, (if any they have,) why said Letters
; should not be granted.
tiiven under my band at office, tins Ist da
| of June, 1841.
WILLIAM B. NELMS, Clerk e. o.
June 3, 1841. it 40
a-<aoMie...uM/tv.v mr in r ■■■ mu iw rn —^—
W ilkes feMieiift' '*& bales.
IN JULY.
WILKES SHERIFF’S SALE.
| \\ 41 t*e sold at the Court-llouse door, in tfie
Town of Washington, Wilkes county, on tin*
first Tuesday in July next, within the usual
hours ot sale, the following property, to-wit:
Four hundred Acres of Land, more or less, in
said county, on the waters of Newford Creek,
adjoining lands of James 1 filling, and others, lev
j icd on as tho property of John ]). Reeves, byvir
j luc ot a fi. la. troui Wiikes Superior Court, John
; Jordan vs. said Reeves. Broperty pointed oil*
by plaintiff this 28:ii May, 1841.
EDWARD I!. ANDERSON, Sheriff:
June 3.40
Albert &!fceriii ? s IS ales.
IN JULY.
ELBERT SHERIFF SALES.
WILL be sold at the Court-llouse door, in
Elberton, in Eibert county, on the first Tues
day in July next, between the legal hours
01 sale, the following property, to-wit :
One ! louse and Lot, containing one half an A
-of land, near Bowman’s Ferrv, on Savamn'i
River, and one half Acre Lot, unimproved, ad
joining the same, and fifty Acres of Land, more
or less, adjoining /,. Bowman, on Savannah Riv
er, ail levied on as the property of William l’r .
ter, to satisfy sundry ti. fas. vs. said Prater.
ALSO,
POSTPONED SALE.
One hundred Acres of Land, more or less, on
the waters of Cedar Creek, in Elbert county, ad
joining lands of Harwell Bobo, and others, levied
on as the property of James W. Kelly, to satiate
a fi. fa. in favor of Charles Fain vs. said Kellv.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, I). Sheriff.
June 3,1811. 40
IN AUGUST.
BLBEIIT SHERIFF’S SALE.
VST ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Au
i gust next, at the Court-House door in
1 Elbert county, between the legal sale hours, the
following property, to-wit:
Two Negroes, to-wit: Emiline, a girl about
ten years oid, and Isaac, a boy about eight years
old, levied on as the property of Christopher
’ Clark, to satisfy a Mortgage Fi. Fa. in favor n
j John M. Christian. Property pointed out in said
( li. la. and left in the hands of Defendant, by or
: <ler of Ira Christian, this 20th Mav, 1811.
WILLIAM 11. ADAMS, Sheriff
Jurre 3.4()
EVERY VARIETY
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