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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1841)
it against the Whigs, aro as moderate ami ! reasonable as the expenditures of the Gen eral Government during the Administration of Martin Van Buren, and which rendered necessary the very duties now complained of. X. Y. Giving away the Public Lands. —The Lo eofocos complain of giving away’ the pro ceeds of the public lands, by the distribu tion bill. And to whom pray is this mon ey “ given ?” To whom hut to t ho people 10 whom it belongs, whose ancestors won it by their valor and to whom it was especi ally ceded; and who have repeatedly de manded it ofthe temporary trustee, for such only is the general government. For the past twelve years, the proceeds of the pub lie lands, with the exception of the portion divided amongst the slates, have been in deed given away, thrown away. The re ceivers confined their duties to the literal signification of their office. They received the money with the most scrupulous fideli ty ; no man could complain of them in this respect; but when they came to paying over, they seem to have had constitutional scruples. Oisome sixty receivers, over fif ty we think were reported defaulters by the Secretary of Treasury. This was apply ing the proceeds of the public lands, the locofocos think,to a proper and legitimate purpose ; but to divide them amongst the States, to be applied to purposes of educa tion, internal improvements, <Yo., is “giving them away.”—Providence Journal. Disgraceful Ignorance in a Member of Congress. —Mr. Wise, in the course, of a very violent speech in the house of Repre sentatives on the revenue bill, said : “Already had cotton bagging three and a half per cent, protection; and this bill, in direct violation ofthc fourth section of the compromise act, now proposed to give se venteen and a half per cent, additional pro tection.” This Loco Foco convert knows nothing at all of the matter lie is talking about.— The present duty on bagging is not 3 and a half per cent: it is three and a half cents on tfie square yard or thirty-six inches ;and as bagging now manufactured is forty-four inches, this commodity is at present sujeet to duty of a fraction over four cents a yard. The revenue bill, so furiously assailed by Mr. Wise, proposes to make it subject to a duty of twenty per cent, ad valorem-, which, as twenty cents per yard is the ave rage yaluo of the commodity, would be a duty of four cents per yard— actually afrac tion less than the Present duty. So instead of its being true that “cotton bagging lias now three and a half per cent protection,” and that the new revenue bill “proposes to give seventeen and a half per cent addition al protection,” the bill actually proposes a reduction of the duty below what it now is! And yet Mr. Wise, whose ignorance of the subject is as profound as that of a Dutch boor, stand up and declaims about it as con fidently and as oracularly as if he had made it the study of a whole lifetime ! Louisville Journal. Elegant. —Mr. Benton remarked in the United States Senate on Tuesday, in the course of one of his tirades against the pro posed fiscal agent, that he did not value such a bank ‘three skips of a louse.’ The Senator from Missouri had good authority for the phrase, viz; The learned Mrs. Montagu, who if'old stories be true, once used the same contemptuous expression in a conversation with Fox. Upon which the wit, without hesitation, replied : ‘•Says Montagu tome, and in her own house, I do not care for you ‘three skips of a louse.’ I forgive it—for women, however well bred, Will still talk of that which runs in their head.” Fox probably did not imagine that his impromptu would apply to a grave Senator in the United States of America.— Boston Jour. Ignorance. —-We take the following from the Federal Union to point out to the Van Buren party the ignorance of those prints which attempt to lead and teach them. Su gar and Salt have both for the last half cen tury paid a heavy duty, and now it is not less than 25 per cent—in 1842 it will he reduced to (and not raised) 20 per cent, by the Compromise Act. The Whigs of this State will see how hard run the Van Buren party is, to find fault with Dawson, and we hope in October they will nail all such calumnies to the counter by a cool 7000 majority.—Savan nah Republican. The Sugar and Salt Tax. —Mr. Dawson voted to lay a Tariff Tax upon sugar, of 20 per cent. It is embraced in the same bill which Taxes Tea, Coffee, coarse woolens, blan kets, &c. - The aristocracy think sugar is too sweet for poor folks—therefore they Tax it as a luxury. This is another item of the relief which was promised in 1840. But what will the people think of his vo ting for a Tax on SALT ? Is salt a luxury ? It would seern that the whigs intend to make it so, by laying a Tax on it, to tune of 20 per cent. A young man named Ferris, was killed in Courtland, Ala., a short time since in an affray with Mr. J Swope of that place.— Ferris had become bail for his brother, who was charged with robbing Swope, and hav ing heard that Swope had made some offen sive remarks, sought a meeting for the pur pose of caning him. Pistols were drawn, and after Ferris had discharged two with out effect, Swope shot him through the heart. Beat it Any Body. —One Jacob Earl, some where in Illinois, has recently built a framehouse one and a half stories high, sixteen feet by twenty-four, has weather boarded it, covered the roof, and ceiled all story with boards ; the whole e ven the pins, from one oak tree! So says the Vandalia Free Press. ANOTHER FISCAL AGENT PROPO SED. Not disheartened at the failure of one hill for the establishment of a Fiscal Agent, nor taking umbrage at its rejection by the Pre sident, the Whigs in Congress, with a gal lant perseverance, have returned to their labor, and begun the construction of anew financial agent. The Mouse of Representatives having yesterday resolved itself into a committee of the whole, took up the Bank bill report ed some weeks ago by the Currency Com mittee of that House, and Mr. Sergeant mo ved to amend it by striking out the whole of that bill, and inserting a series of new sections for establishing a Fiscal Corpora tion unlike any measure of the kind In . tofore proposed in Congress. We have no room to-day to publish it entire, and must content, ourselves with stating the leading particulars in which it differs from the fis cal Bank bill, heretofore passed by both houses, and disapproved by the President, viz : 1. The capital in the former bill was to be thirty millions of dollars, with power to extend it to fifty millions. In the new bill it is to be twenty-one millions, with power to extend it to thirty-five millions. 2. The former bill provided fop offices of discount and deposite. In this there are to be agencies only. 3. The dealings of the Corporation are to be confined to buying and selling foreign bills of exchange, including bills drawn in one State or Territory and payable in ano ther. There are to be no loans, or what is generally understood by “ discounts.” 4. The title of the Corporation is to be changed. These are the differences b tween the leading features of the two bills ; of course there are minor differences, to adapt tie details to these changes. The amendment which is very long, was read through ; and then, on motion of Mr. Sergeant, the committee rose, and the a mendinent, was ordered to be printed for the information of Meinoers.— Nat. Intelli gencer. Daring Robbery. —On Thursday night last, tho store Messrs’ Charles Cambell & Cos. was broken into and robbed of tho iron Chest, containing their money and papers, besides a large quantity of title goods. It seems that robbers entered through the out side cellar door into the cellar, thence into the store above. Wagon tracks leading from the door were traced, next morning in to the swamp. a mile distant, where the iron chest was found, broken open and ri fled of its contents. Suspicions being a roused through the promptness of Messrs. Willis 11. Hughes and Bennet Adams, to gether with the City Marshal and Deputies, before night five negroes were apprehended and most of the money arid goods found.— They were found to bo part of the gang which has committed so many depredations ofa like kind in this city, within the last year or two. The negroes are safely lodged in jail. It is useless to expect fidelity in our ne groes while so many inducements to dis honesty are held out to them by unprinci pled white men. It is these who encourage them to steal, and l;uy the stolen goods from them! Within three miles of the market house, there probably 50 white men who gain a livelihood by this illicit trafic. We understand some important disclosures have been made respecting these miscreants by the above mentioned negroes.— Macon Telegraph. ! PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN TEXAS. Tiie Colorado Gazette gives the following deplorable account of tho habits of Houston and Burnet, the rival candidates for the Presidency of Texas. The Gazette advo cates tho election of Houston, and, there fore, we cannot suppose that, in relation to him, it admits more than the truth : for the same reason, it may, perhaps, be proper to receive what is said of Burnet with much allowance : “ In common with tiie massof the people we deplore Sam Houston’s drunkenness.— Not that we have sympathy with him, per sonally, for if with all bis mind and energy he will make a beast of himself, we a.e very willing that be should bear the conse quences oil his own health and happiness. He richly deserves it. But we deplore his drunkenness because at this time it is a na tional calamity, for lie is the only man now before the people who can carry through measures which will redeem the country, and restore it to the condition in which be left it when he vacated the presidential chair His drunkenness, if persisted in, endangers his chance ofa successful administration, and therefore aro wo thankful that Sam Houston is now surrounded by domestic as sociations, such as iti themselves have re deemed many a drunkard with a soul, and Houston withal! his faults, lias a noble and generous a soul as ever beat in a man’s breast. He will find in his duties as Pres ident, much more excitement than hereto fore. Indeed, no one ever had a more dif ficult and delicate task than will fall to his lot; for the sum total of corruption, unac countability, and browbeating impudence, which have crept into the administration of public affairs under the poet Lamar, and the critic Burnet, is sufficient, if not stop ped, to break us up as a nation root and branch in two or three years. The hercu lean task of reducing chaos to order, and re forming abuses, will go far towards making Houston a respectable citizen, which he cannot be, as long as ho is a drunkard. It is in this particular that he is equalled by his competitor Burnet, the President of the Texas Bible Society, who sends chal lenges, and (if we mistake not) is the big gun ofthe Texas Temperance Society, who keeps a whiskey bottle ready primed on his sideboard. Burnet although he never com mitted the sinful indiscretion of being seen drunk in tho streets, yet manages to keep his coppers well heated at all times, He’ll never burst liis boiler—but ho is burning it out. In fact, it is well known that ho in dulges as regularly and very much in tho same style in which old women take their tea.” FOB THE NEWS & GAZETTE. Mr. Editor :—The increasing spirit of enterprise among our citizens, which is manifested by the erection of new buildings, induces me to believe that a few articles, selected principally from an old standard work, illustrating the method by which Artificers compute their work, may not be unacceptable to some of your subscribers. NO. I. Artificers compile h ir works by s ver al different measures. As, Glazin'.,* and Masonry by the foot; Painting, Plaster, ing, Paving, &c., by the yard of 9 square toot; Flooring, Partitioning, Roofing, Tile ing, Arc., by the square of 190 square feet 1 At Brickwork either by the yard of 9 square feet or by the perch, or square rod or pole containing 272 j square feet—in practice the | is omitted. BRICK-WORK. Brick-work is estimated at the rate of a brick and a half thick ; so that if a wall be 1 more or less than this standard thickness, ; it must he reduced to it. as follows : Multiply the superficial contents of the | wall by the number of half bricks in the I thickness and divide by 3. Tiie dim nsions of a building may be ! taken by measuring half round on the in- j sid, and half round on the outside ; the sum i of those two gives the compass of the wall, to bo multiplied by the height, for the con- , tents of tiie materials. Every 4 courses of proper brick-work, including the .1 inch joint of mortar, mea sures just 12 inches in height. Those who choose may apply the above j remarks to the solution of the following ex amples : Ex. 1. required the content of a wall 02 feet (J inches long and 14 feet 8 inches high, and 21 bricks thick ? Ex. 2. A triangular gable is raised 171 feet high, on an end of a wall whose length is 24 feet 9 inches, the thickness being 2 bricks ; Required the contents? Ex. 3. The end wall of a house is 23 feet 10 inches long, and 55 feet 8 inches high to the eves ; 20 feet high is 21 bricks thick, other 20 feet high is 2 bricks thick, and the remaining 15 feet 8 inches is l g brick thick ; above which is a triangular gable of l brick thick, which rises 42 cour ses of bricks—what is the whole content in standard measure ? Will someone solve the above examples and publish the results next week ? Q. * G lazing is generally computed by the num ber of lights. a FOR THE NEWS Al GAZETTE. Mr. Editor : —This brother Farmer of ours up in Elbert, need not have jumped lip so quick, I did not intend to be in the way of iiis electioneering letters “To the Vo ters of Georgia.” 1 didn’t say he wanted to go to Congress ; no patriotic statesman ever seek these appointments; they are forced upon them by the choice of the people.—■ This is the reason, I, as one of the “ Voters of Georgia,” suggested to the rest, tho pro priety of the nomination mentioned in my last. As to his “ thanking me kindly for my kindness to him, I have to remark, they are not due, because I did not effect the ob | ject for which I wrote. The object was, to ! inculcate the maxim, though not in so many | words expressed, “that little louts should | keep near shore.” But the brother reminds j me of the “ mourning duck” he speaks of j in his last communication, none the better for being washed. My design in this, is, to answer his ques tions. 1. “Is there not a big School at A tliens called a College, or some big name?” Yes. 2. “Is there appropriations made yearly by our Legislature to that School ?” ies. If like tiie Banks and some Farmers, it can’t pay its debts. 3. “ Does not that money come out of the taxes of the peo ple?” Yes. YVhere else could it come from ? The Banks aintgot none, and tiie “ poor Farmers” don’t make any. 4. “ Does not a student have to und’ rgo an examina tion before lie can be ailmitn il into that school ?” Yes—and right enough too. “In short,” sth. “ Docs not the poor Farmer’s tax go to educate the big man’s son ?” No. If you could mention more, they are not known to my dishonor. “ You have the constitutional right to express your opinion in relation to any subject.” So have !, “ and am not afraid to do it,” and 1 think it is a hard case that a Farmer should attempt to make a Lawyer out of me. A FARMER. Wilkes county, August 24, 1841. P. S.—Aint tlie Elbert Farmer a subscri ber to your paper ? If not, send him a copy, lie ought not to borrow his neighbor’s. He is, so don’t trouble yourseif.—Ed. News. From the Baltimore American. IMPORTANT FROM THE DISPUTED TERRITORY. The Bangor Whig copies an article from the Woodstock (N. B.) Telegraph, from which we learn that great excitement pre vails in the neighborhood of tho Boundary Line, in consequ nee ofthe proceedings of the American party of exploration.—The Telegraph says : “ We have been informed that they are running anew line East ofthe old bounda ry, cutting down and leaving a space of from forty to eighty feet wide, and making the United States Boundary Line. The an gle formed by this new direction ofthe line is said to be so great that several extensive clearings belonging to our farmers in the back settlements have been taken in and included as American property. We have heard .of several farms losing from 50 to 100 acres, and one in particular, we have been informed, bad been entirely included in the State of Maine, and an idea held out that those persons must become American Subjects, which has caused an unusual do gree of excitement.” Tiie Telegraph adds, that it would not be surprising if a collision should take place. Attempts have already been made to interfere and prevent the Commissoners from proceeding, and it is probable that be fore they rt aeli St. John they will be obliged to desist. The editor is willing that tiiey should explore any where through the pro vince, but that they have no right to run a line of their own construction, and make it as the Boundary of the United Stales. The same paper states, that Major Gen eral Sir Jeremiah Dickson, K C. 8., Com mander of the Forces, and Staff, accompa nied by Col. Bazalgatte, (J. M. G. , bad ar rived at Woodstock, and proceeded irntno d!a‘ ly to Grand Falls. SELECTED i t'EMS. Another Girard 7 lead. —The rich Henry Brevout, of Now York, died on Sunday last at the ago of 100 years. lie witli two other brothers, bought originally three strips of land running from the Bowery to the sth avenue, between 9th and 14th streets, New ; York, lie held on to his share, and al | though it cost but SSOO, it is now worth | over two millions of dollars! France. —The Boston Post says that in France, out of a population of thirty-two millions, twenty-two millions have but six cents a day to defray all expenses—food, lodging, raiment and education. The Scoundrel Caught. —We learn from the National Intelligencer, that the leader of the party which was guilty of the insult to tho President on the night of the 16th inst. has been arrested and held to bail. The Public Money. —The receiver of | public money at Boston, under the Sub j treasury law, has been instructed to pay o | ver the moneys in his hands to the Mer chants’Bank of that city, which has been chosen as the depository of the public mon j eys. A Choice Boy. —“ Come, Simon, get up j mv good boy ; it’s after sun-rise.” “ What ob dat, Massa?—what if it be sun yise ? Spose if sun yise two hours ’lore day, poor Simon must get up, ’cause I sun-yise, eh ?—don’t come dat game o’er I disnigger, no how.” The Custom House Investigation , —The Commissioners are still at work in New York. In the course of their sittings, it is said they have examined over 200 witnesses including Custom House Officers, Impor ters, Brokers and Financiers, and have over 800 folio pages of evidence. The Chapmans — Another Crow. —Four of the Chapmans have been elected to the j Indiana Legislature. The editor of the In j dianapolis Sentinel, so famous for his crow ing, who is of the number, says one of them may yet be President ofthe United States, and therefore he crows most lustily. Another Rascal Off. —Merril B. Sher wood, the Cincinnatti Gazette says, con cerned in the Galliopolis Bank and Bank of Steubenville, has decamped. It is un derstood that a warrant was out for Sher wood’s arrest upon some fraudulent sale of fndianna Bonds, and, that getting wind of ] this he made his way to Philadelphia, and ! quickly embarked for Europe, in too much i haste to stop for passports, with about S2OO, j 000 of his plunder. A Hundred Years in Prison. —A late French paper states that a young man aged eighteen years, in 1724, was condemned to the galleys in France, on account ofa high crime, for the long period of one hundred years, whicli was probably intended by the Judge to confine him for life. Remarkable as it may appear, in 1824, the man being in perfect health, after an unremitted seri es of hardships for one entire century, was discharged, being exactly one hundred and eighteen years old. “ Hold your tongu efora fool,” was the polite recommendation of an Irish husband. “Sure, then, you’re going to speak yourself are you ?” was the polite reply oi the wife. Cochineal. —Tin's insect, which furnishes a brilliant and valuable dye, is found in great abundance on the willow trees in tho parish ofSt. Mary in summer. The Edi- j tor of the Franklin Banner thinks they j might be cultivated with profit.—N.O.Bee. j Too Hot Entirely. —They have very hot weather in New Orleans ; so intense lias been tiie heat, the Crescent City says, that the people there have been compelled to draw their breath with corkscrews. Huzza for the Girls. —J. 11. Croskili, Esq. editor of the Hailifax Morning Post, a few days since had the misfortune to be whipped by some milliners, and what is worse, was compelled to pay £5 for the privilege, he having committed the assault upon them, as they allcdged. The Governor of Louisiana has issued a proclamation, ordering an election to be held on tho 31st August and the two days following, to supply the vacancies in the Legislature, occasioned by the resignation of Messrs. Burke, Debays, and Ferriere. Caution to Builders. —A ‘mechanic and builder showed us this morning a sample of nails which his men had been using in e recting a staging, some part of which had fallen before it was used. On examination it was discovered that there was no strength in the nails, being readily broken with tho fingers like a pipe stem. It was fortunate the discovery was thus early. Two casks were purchased together, one of which was good, the other bail. They are supposed to bo made from railroad iron, und are entire ly worthless. It is even said that this iron ! is imported free of duty, solely for this ini 1 quitous purpose. Lot it he looked after, or ! frightful accidents will result from tin ir use.— Boston Transcaipt. Sickness in New Orleans. —The Bulletin of the 19th ult says by the rc port of the Board ol Health, published this morning, it will be seen there were were 62 deaths in I four days, from noon of Saturday last to the ; same hour yesterday. This is an increase of about 25 per cent, over last week. The deaths from yellow fever are 10. This disease though not yet considered an epi demic, nevertheless appears to be steadily on the increase. Thumping won't make a Gentleman .—Two eminent mempers of the Irish bar, Messrs. Doyle and Yelverton, quarreled some years ago, so violently, that from words they came Ito blows. Doyle, the more pow erful man j (at the fists at least.) knocked his adversa ry twiee, exclaiming with vehemence, “you scoundrel, I'll make you behave yourself like a gentleman.” To which Yelverton, rising answered with equal indignation, “No, sir, never ; I defy you, I defy vou ! your can’t do it!” THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE WORLD. The whole world is bankrupt, or nearly so. In England, the Ministry are about to call anew Parliament, in order to increase the revenue. France finds herself deficient $180,000,000. Austria, also, obtained a loan of $175,000,000. Russia, Prussia | Spain and Portugal, aro in the utmost pecu | niary difficulty, and would all borrow nion |ey if they could. Turkey and Belgium, have obtained loans, and Egypt lias been obliged to raise the duties on produce.— The King of Naples has raised five millions jof ducats for Sicily. Things are no bet- I ter upon this continent; Mexico and the ! South American States have not a dollar jto spare. Texas is a borrower in Europe, and Canada is about to accept seven mill ions from England. Lastly the United States, with abundant resources, by follow ing the example ofthe “twenty foreign gov ernments,” is reduced to the necessity of raising a loan of $12,000,000, to carry her through the year.—[A7o;t. Dcm. AMERICAN SILVER, j The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette says j that Mr. F. Blackburn has placed in the Exchange a sample ofsilver, entirely pure, from the Washington mine, Davidson coun ty, North Carolina. The mass weighs 277 ounces, and is worth about 400 dollars.— As we do not remember to have seen ariv silver from mines in this country before, we made some inquiries as to the manner of obtaining it, and the chance of getting more ; and the following is the result: The company went into operation, under a very advantageous charter from the State of North Carolina, about the first ofSoptcrn ber, 1840, the mine being then but partial ly opened, and showing the bed of ore to be of very great extent, comprising millions of tons of ore, of the richest kind. In the ear ly part of 1841, one furnace for smelting was put into operation, which up to the pre sent time, has produced 25 tons of mixed metal, (lead and silver,) the early smelting, from which this sample is made, yielding only about from one hundred to two hun dred and fifty ounces silver to tho ton, and ! gradually improving up to this time, when j it yields five to six hundred ounces per ton |of mixed metal. Within the last few weeks, two more furnaces have been put in ’ operation and three more, making in all six, j will go into operation very shortly, when 1 the yield will equal from 1500 to 2000 per day, valuing from $525 to SBOO. The proceeds of the one furnace have been suf ficient to more than pay the expenses of the mine since going into operation, up to the first, of September, from which period the dividends ofthe company will commence. TIGHTER. In tiie good old blue-law times in donnec ’ licut thegirls were in the habit of tying their hair so tight on the back of their heads, | that it entirely prevented them from shut -1 ting theiroyes or mouths,even if they ever | felt inclined so to do. The consequence j was, that their lovers were compelled to uti j tie the string before they could kiss them. Tighter.— We were informed last sum ! rner in Philadelphia, that some ofthe ladies in that city were in the habit of hooking their frocks so tight behind, that they were obliged to loosen them before they could sneeze. Tightest.— A Boston paper mentions an instance of a dandy there who strapped his pantaloons down over his boots so tight that when he raised his foot to step he could not get it down again, hut was obliged to stand i on one leg like a goose, until the strap was taken off. FEMALE PATRIOTISM. The following incident ofthrilling inter est was related by Col. John McDonald, of Ross county, at a public dinner on the 3d July. “ In 1782, Wheeling was besieged by a large army of British and Indians. So sud den was the attack made, that no time was afforded for preparation. The Fort at the time of the assault, was commanded by Col. Silas Zane ; Col. Ebenezer Zunc, the senior officer, was in a block-house, some fifty or a hundred yards outside the wall. The enemy made several desperate assaults to break into the Fort, but on every onset they were driven back. The ammunition for the defence of the Fort was deposited in the block-house, and the attack was made so suddenly and unexpectedly that there was no timeto remove it. On the afternoon of the second day of the seige, the powder in the Fort was nearly exhausted, and no alternative remained but that someone must pass through the enemy’s fire to the block house for powder. When Silas Zane made tlm proposition to the men, to see if any one would undertake the hazardous enterprise. at first all were silent. After looking at each other for some time, a young man stf>p, ped forward and said lie would run the citance. Immediately half a dozen offered their service in the dangerous enterprize. M bile they were disputing about who ! should go, Elizabeth, sister of Zones, canto forward and declared she would go for the powder. Her brother thought she would flinch from the enterprise, hut ho was mis taken. Site had intrepidity to dare, and fortitude to bear up in heroic risk of life.— Her b rot hr then tried to dissuade her from the attempt, by saying that a man would ho more fleet, and consequently would run ! less risk of loosing his life. She replied ! that they had not a man to spare from tho ! defence of the Fort, and if she should fall, ! she would scarcely he missed. She then I divested herself of such oi lier clothing as would impede her speed. The gate was opened, and Elizabeth bounded out at tho top of her speed, and ran till she arrived at | tho door of the block-house ; her brother, Col. Zane, hastened to open the door to re | ceive his intrepid sister. The Indians, when they saw her bound forth, did not fire a gun, but called aloud ‘ Squaw l squaw! squaw P When she had told her brother the errand on which she had come, he took a tablechoth and fastened it round her waist, and poured into it a keg of powder. She then sallied hack to the Fort with ail the buoyancy of Hope. The moment she was outside the block-house, the wlioleof the en emy’s lino poured a leaden storm at her ; but the balls went innocently whistling bv, without doing her any injury. She after ward married a Mr. Clark, raised a family of children, and is yet alive, living near St. Clairsville in this State. Such was Eliz abeth Zane.”— Circlcvillc Herald. Vermont Elections—The abolition candi date for Governor in Vermont has declined.— 1 There are now but two candidate:'—Whig anil | Loco foco. Election takes place on the 7th inst. DIED, At the house of Col. Thornton, in Gainesville, llall county, on the morning of the 18th ultimo, Major EGBERT B. BEALL, of the city of Au gusta. Died in MiiicJgi vtile, at the residence of i.- brother Col. Thomas I Dynes, on Sunday morn ing hist, Dr. CHARLES EATON HAYNES, . of Sparta, formerly a Representative, for several j years, in the Congress of the United States, from this State. His remains were conveyed to Spar !la for interment. A large family and numerous ’ friends, are Jett to mourn at their sad bereave ment.—Journal. Washington ; rfipllE third Term of the present year, will 1 B commerce on Monday next, 6th Septem- I her. JOHN JAMES HUNT. Washington, Sept. 2, 1841. It ffleti Melton, BV order ofthe Board, a reduction of It) per cent, is required on all paper running in tins Bank—to commence on Saturday 2nd Octo ber next. Bank Slate of Georgia, ) Branch at \\ nHiington, Ainnist 21, 1811. > SAMUEL BARNETT, C bier, i August Ltj. 5t 52 JYotlce • \f it. w. w. WALLER, is here! mithonz jlfa.ed to act as my Agent arid -V ey dur ing my absence. A. A. CLKVi Ni>. August 26, 1841. 52 • Ifotice, j I%l‘R. WILLIAM M. REESE, is i autlior ila ized to attend to ray Professio. uslness i during my absence. ROBERT . OMRS. July 30,1841. 49 {kT* We arc authorized to an nounce WILLIAM M. BOOKER, Esq. as a Candidate for Receiver and Tax for the County oi Wilkes, at the approaching Election. July 29, 1841. 48 (Q 3 ’ We are authorized to an nounce JOHN B. JACKSON, Esq, as a Candidate fur Receiver and Tax Collector for the County ol Wilkes, at the Election in Januarv next. August 18, 1841. 51 Votive, ON the first day ot September next, will he offered for sale, a Life Intereit in the Tract o! LAN 1) containing 660 Acres, in Lincoln coun ty, oil the Road from Washington to Augusta, between J. Mabry’s and Raysville. One half of t be purchase money payable next Christ mas, and the other half one year thereafter. The sale to take place on tiie premises. FRANCIS GIDEON. Jane 10, 1841. eow td 41 months alter date, pj.lication will ho fi made to the Honorable the lufcrier Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of < >r dinary, for leave to soil the LAN I) belonging to the Estate of John T. Dent, late of said county, deceased. THOMAS BLA KEY, Adm'r. July 8, 1841. mini 45 jLMJUR months after date application wilt lie made to the Honorable tiie Inferior Court of i Lincoln county, while sitting as a Court of Ordi nary, for leave to soli a Tract of Land, known as the Walton tract, belonging to tho Estate of Win. Parks, late of said county, deceased. WILLIAM M. LAMBKIN, Ex'r. June 3, 1841. m4tn 40 EjfOUR months after date application will be made to tiie 1 louorable the Inferior Court of \ Wilkes county, when sitting for Ordinary purpo ses, for leave to sell the NEGROES beioiin*ing to the Estate of MarthaQ. Smith, late of”akl counti-, deceased. HENRY P. WOOTTEN, Adm'r. September 2,1841. iu4m 1 GEORGIA, 1 TXTH&REAS Mary S.Rob- H i/ki's County. > “ * ert, Guardian of Rich — yard W.Joyner and Elizabeth Joyner, applies for Letters of dismission. These are, therefore, to cite, summon, and admonish, all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said Minors, to be and appear at my office, within tho time prescribed by law, to show cause, (if any they have,) why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at. office, this 12tli of August, 1841. JOHN 11. DYSON, Clerk c.o. August 12. ni6m 50 fm yjiTxrrm®* EXECUTED AT THIS 0) f p ] i£ _
