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WASHINGTON, GA.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1841
FOR PRESIDENT,
aiadiiAs (bilalo
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD.
FOR CONGRESS,
ALEXANDER STEPHENS.
Legislative Ticket.
For Senator,
GEORGE W. CARTER.
For Representatives,
ROBERT A. TOOMBS.
WILLIAM Q. ANDERSON.
LODOWICK M. HILL.
We direct the attention of the citi- j
zens of this County to the extract from the
Ordinances of this Town which we publish
in our advertising columns. We are glad
to learn that the town authorities are deter
mined to enforce these regulations against
all offenders/by which means the practices
of with negroes, and of suffering
them to hire their own time will be abol
ished. It is to be hoped that owners in the
country, whose slaves are suffered to visit j
and to live in town and givS us as much or
more trouble than those belonging to our
own citizens, will take some trouble to sec
ond the efforts of the Town Commissioners.
The Crops,
In all parts of the South, are reported to he
excellent. In this respect this section docs
not differ from others. The crop of Corn,
notwithstanding the unfavorable prospect
at the commencement of the season, is bet
ter than common, and there will be, unless
cut short by an early frost, or by other mis
fortunes, fully an average crop of cotton.
It is said to he well-boiled, and to he as yet
entirely free from worm or rot.
03= Colonel Stark, has kindly .consented
to accept the nomination of the Democratic
Convention. Mr. Stephens has also ac
cepted the nomination of the Whig Conven
tion, and the Candidates arc, therefore,
fairly in the field. Major Cooper and
Colonel Stark, against Mister Crawford and ;
Mister Stephens. How fond our Democrat- \
ic friends are of titles !
03“ The Address of the Georgia Demo
cratic Convention has been published and
is in mucli better style than those hereto
fore promulgated by them. It contains the
usual rigmarole about coon-skins,Jog-cab
ins, pepper-pods, &c., which the Democrats
hate with a perfect hatred, on the same
principle that a rogue hates the cow-hide
which has threshed him. It repeats some
of the old libels about Whig and Federal
ist—gives a very asinine kick at a National
Bank—professes a holy horror of Henry
Clay—advocates a Tariff’ for revenue with
incidental protection, (the Federal Whig
doctrine,) and destroys all Calhoun’s hopes
of getting the support of the Democratic
party in Georgia by ordering the. party to
■support the nominee of the National Con
vention, the nomination of which Van Buren
has already safely secured for himself.
03“ One of the coolest pieces of impu
dence ever witnessed is now being display
ed by the Democrats in relation to tho ap
preciation of the value of the Central Bank
Bills ; their presses and petty politicians
have the audacity to assume credit for it,
when in reality the whole is due to Whig
policy. Had the measures proposed by
the Democrats been carried into effect, had
the Central Bank been suffered to distribute,
more of its issues as they proposed, had the
tax-law of 1840 been annulled, which they
denounced so violently but dared not re
peal, bad the Bank been allowed to go on
in its career of corruption, its credit would
have now been worse than cwr-dryot they
claim credit for the effects of Whig measure s
which they dared not counteract, butadop
ted after abandoning their own ! Has such
brazen effrontery ever been equalled !
0 3” Avery beautiful quarrel is now go
ing on between the “ Globe,” the former
great oracle of the Democratic party, and
other papers of that party, both North and
South. The “ Globe” accuses its former
k comrades of attempting to injure the pros
pects of Mr. Van Buren and of truckling to
gain the favor of the present Administra
tion, with which it desires its party to have
- nothing to do—the others retort by charging
I the “ Globe” with unfairness, arrogance,
I and a wish impertinently to dictate to the
I immaculate “Democracy.” Some choice
1 Hscimens of billingsgate pass between the
• parlies, and altogether it is a very pretty
quarrel as it stands. It is for the interest
of the people that the contest should he kept
up, for “ when rogues fall out, honest men
get their due.”
Mark A. Cooper versus the Clergy. —See
the opinion that Mark A. Cooper, tho pres
ent “Democratic” candidate for Governor
of Georgia, expressed of the Clergy, in’his
“Circular” in 1840! North and South—
Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian—even
the Pope—every Minister of the Gospel, in
every quarter of the world is included in
this sweeping slander, and even the Gos
pel is declared to be subversive of civil lib
erty!
“They (the Clergy) are the efficient a
gents throughout Christendom, for accom
plishing the objects of Abolition, in face of
your Constitution. They propaga
tors and supporters of the “sublime rule of
action” coming from God, which has au
thority overruling the Constitution, there
fore subverting all civil rights. They too
j are the expounders of this rule. The con
| necting link is formed from this, to England
! and Italy. The authority of the Pope has
j already been appealed to; his Bull lias gone
| forth; and, even in the United States, is
| flourished at yoiir domestic institutions in
i menace, especially in Mississippi and Lou
isiana. Under such circumstances,it would
J be faithless in me not to disarm our oppo
; nents of every weapon.”
j
o is” Terrible ! Terrible!! — A writer in
the Constitutionalist, over the signature of
an “ Old Stale Rights Man now and forev
er,'” (that is, in this world and the next,)
has given the Whig party its quietus. He
seems in a fearful rage. Hear him, how
awfully he swears—worse than “our ar- ,
my in Flanders !”
| “For my own single self I had as lief
not ho, as live to be in awe of such a i
tiling, as I myself; and I now spiemnly
vow on the altar of my country’s good, in- ■
fluenced by nj personal consideration, I
will not support Henry Clay or his meas
ures. I will not support those who support
Henry Clay or his measures, so help me
God. I will oppose Henry Clay and his
measures, I will oppose those who support
Henry Clay and his measures, 1 will sup
port those who oppose him and them, until
this abomination modern whiggery is ban
ished the land, so help me God.”
Alas ! we fear Mr. Clay is a “ used up
man,” he can't possibly survive such a tre
mendous cursing, as an Old Slate Rights
Man in this world and the next has adminis
tered to him.
Democracy anti Federalism.
What iscalled “Democracy” niTiv is very
much like what used to be called “Feder
alism” in former days, and some of the
measures now opposed by our adversaries
were thought democratic in days not very
I long past. The Federalists were for
j strengthening the Executive at the expense
of the Legislative branch of the Govern
ment —so arc the modern Democrats, they
support the Executive in the tyranioal use
of the veto, by w hich he has been enabled 1
to defeat the will of the people expressed by
their Representatives. Mr. Jefferson the j
great leader of the old-time Democrats, al
though elected for two terms himself, disap
proved of the re-eligibility of the President;
the Whigs agree with him, the Democrats
of present day differ from him. lie and
Mr. Madison were in favor of retaliating
the restrictions placed on our commerce by
foreign nations and of discriminating in fa
vor of those nations which favored us—this
is now the Whig doctrine—Federalists of
their day (as the modern Democrats do
now.) violently opposed any such measure
and advocated free trade! The original
democrats were opposed to direct taxation
and in favor of raising a revenue by a tar
iff—is it so with the modern democrats?
answer ye Culhounites. Even a protective
Tariff was not thought very Anti-Democrat
ic when Jackson, Van Buren and other
much greater men favored it; it is terribly so
now ! Distribution of the proceeds-of the
public lands must have been democratic or
Mr. Van Buren neyer would have advoca
ted it as he did in 1820—it is not democrat
ic now, oh no! Tho Whigs stand precise
ly on the same ground, which the illustri
ous Washington and also which President
Madison and the democrats of 1810 occu
pied with regard to a National Bank—new
fashioned democrats oppose a National Bank
as did the Federalists of Madison’s time?
And so it will be found to be with most or all
of the questions which divide parties at pre
sent.
If then we judge our opponents by the on
ly true standard, the prominent and unwa
vering policy of the old democratic, party,
we shall find that they have usurped a
name to which they have not the shad
ow of title. Henry Clay was a democrat,
and until this new (angled party arose no
one thought of dfsputiug his right to that
name—he and the Whigs are so yet. The
federalists of former time have, it is true,
now taken the name of Democrat, and we
are willing they should have either that,
or, that of Locofoco, which their party
in some parts of the Union prefer and glory
in, though we should hardly think however
i the name of a Lucifer match could be very
i acceptable to tire respectable and decent
men of which there are many among them ;
let tlion take what designation they choose,
the people are beginning to see the differ
ence between names and things; but let
them abstain from fulsely calling ns “fed
eralists,” & “Federal Whigs” ordesigna
ting our policy as “federal”. Wo have a
name wo are proud of, short, convenient &
very appropriate as Mr. Calhoun once has
allowedjand which Mr. Jefferson, were lie
now on the stage of action, would consider
we wero amply entitled to, as coming ful
ly up to his well known definition of‘Whig.’
Publications.
The Ladies Companion for August, came
to hand with its usual.punctuality. It is
ornamented with three beautiful steel plates
and filled with the contributions of the host
writers. We recommend this sterling
Magazine to the patronage of Ladies in
want of a literary “ Companion.”
We have received a specimen number of
the !i Magnetiserand Phrenologist,” anew
monthly paper devoted to the subjects which
its name indicates. As we have not devo
ted much attention to Animal Magnetism
and Phrenology, and being rather sceptical
as to those Sciences, we are not qualified to
determine on its merits. Any person so
disposed can, however, judge for himself,
as the paper is published at the low price
of 25 cents per annum, by J. R. Colon,
Philadelphia.
The Poor School Fund. —The Milledge-
Journal says: “For the two last sessions
of the Legislature, the Democratic Party
have had the full control of both branches,
the Senate and tho House of Representa
tives. The responsibility therefore of not
providing a fund lor the education of the
poor children of our State, rests exclusive
ly with them. Why has this subject been
neglected? Is there a State in the whole
Union, no matter what may be its embar
rassments that has been thus neglectful of a
solemn duty ? Democratic rule took from
the people, in the first in’starice, this fund ;
and onr Democratic rulers appear to have
no inclination to restore it. Let the parly
answer to the people for their act, in depri
ving the poor, in the first instance, of the
benefits ofeducation, and for neglecting to
make provision for the future ! But enough;
a word to the wise is sufficient.”
Gov. McDonald has issued his procla
mation, directing an election to be held on
the first Monday in October next, for a
member of Congress, to (ill the vacancy oc
casioned by the resignation of Maj. Cooper.
FROM CHEROKEE.
A prominent and influential member of |
the Democratic party, an old Clark and
Union man for the last thirty years, who
has represented one of the strongest coun
ties in that country in the Legislature, (al
though not for the last year or two.) whose
influence in that country wc know to be,
and to have been since its settlement, very
potential, in a letter requesting our paper
to he sent to him, gives us cheering news
from that region. He says he shall vote
for Mr. Clay, because it is through him a
ione lie hopes for the attainment of objects
of the first importance to the country. He
further says, (we quote his letter,) “there
is a number of Bank Democrats that will
vote for Crawford, and if I am not greatly
mistaken, we will make a stand off in the
Cherokee country.” He adds some other
causes for his course. We quote again
from his letter: “ For the last thirty years
I have been led step by step from a Clark
man down to the Tariff; then by the Clark
and Tariff leaders in opposition to nullifica
tion ; then assumed the name of Democrat;
and now that Colquitt and Cooper have to
he forced on us, 1, for one, have flew the
track*; they have spurred me a little too
hard.”
We place the name of our respected cor
respondent with much pleasure upon the
list ofeur readers; and shall be happy to
hear from him, especially pending tho e
lections, as often as may be convenient for
him, to let us know how things are going
on in Cherokee.— Millcdgeville Recorder.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
North Carolina. —The election in this
State took place bn the 3rd. Nine mem
bers of Congress are to he chosen. We
have no means of judging the probable re
sult. In 1840, this State gave a majority,
of 12,594 for Harrison. Last year, More
head, Whig, was re-elected Governor by a
majority of 4745. If, therefore, the State
had been fairly districted, the Whigs ought
to have elected a majority of the members
of Congress. This has not been the case
however. The State has been most unfair
ly gerrymandered ; and the result is very
doubtful. The gallant Stanly is a candi
date for re-election in the Washington dis
trict, and Kenneth Rayner in the Currituck
district, where the LocoFoco Legislature
have endeavored to prepare for them
sure defeat, but where the result is not
hopeless. We shall have full returns in a
little more than a week. Four Whigs out
of nine are said to be all we can hope for.
Wilmington, N. C., August 4.
Yesterday the election for Members of
Congress took place in this State, and we
suppose that in many of the districts great
efforts were made both by the ’Democrats
and Whigs. In this district the opposition
to Gen. McKay was considered so insigni
ficant, that the Democratic strength was not
brought out; we judge this to have been
the case throughout the district, from the
small number of votes taken at this place.
We cannot give our readers the exact num
ber of votes polled, as we were compelled
to put our paper to press before the votes
were counted.
The vote at 5 o’clock was for McKay,
dem. 1 for Leach, whig. 21 — Messenger.
FOREIGN NEWS.
We have European intelligence to the
10th of July, by the arrival at Boston of
the steam-ship Acadia from Liverpool.—
Nothing of importance of a political nature,
only that the insurrection in Spain is spread
ing every where, and that tho Regent, Es- ,
j partero, will have to quit tho country,— j
Ireland continues to occupy tho public |
| mind in England, O’Connell continues to
j deliver speeches on repeal to a vast con-
I course of people.
Commercial matters in England were in
la good condition. The cotton market had
j improved ; better prices had been obtained,
i and holders were less disposed to press
| sales. Constitutionalist.
O’Connell’s Pay, or ‘Rent,’ is thus ex
, plaints] : When lie was first elected to Par
| iiament, in Clare, his practice at the bar is j
j said to have been worth £IO,OOO ($50,000) \
’ a year. As an M. P. he gets no pay, arid
in enable him to support-his fami- l
ly, then numbering ten children, from 22
down to 8 years of age, and devote himself
| to the public service, his countrymen in
stituted a fund to which every Irishman j
would have the opportunity of contributing !
iiis portion. One day was set apart for the [
collection of the fund, which a member of
the Dublin Repeal Association writes, has !
frequently reached $70,000 annually. It
has been as low us $50,000 only twice.—
Pretty good pay for public service, certain
ly.
.FATHER MATHEW.
Tile editor of the Albany Evening Jour
nal, in one of his letters from Ireland, says.
“ The portraits we have drawn of this ex
cellent man arc so faithful, that had-I met
him accidentally in the street, I should
have recognized and spoken to him as ‘Fa
ther Mathew.’ I say that I should have i
spoken to him, because there is so much of
gentleness and benevolence—so much to
admire and love—in his face and form, that
you could not pass him. I have never seen .
so many of the bright and beautiful virtues |
as bloom and blend in this good man’s heart,
displayed and revealed in tho ‘ human face
divine.’ ”
A SINGULAR CIRCULAR.
The Nevv-York Herald says : “Wo j
have in our hand a circular of the English |
government, signed by Lord Aberdeen, and
addressed to all its commercial and other j
agents in this country, requiring the most j
minute information in relation to slaves and I
slavery in all its details—the physical force !
of the negroes—their relations to their mas- j
ters—their general treatment, general cha- I
racter and propensities, &c. &c., with very I
full statements as to sources of informa
tion, moans of judging, &c. The end ami
object of all this espionage has not transpir
ed ; but it is pregnant with meaning, if we
consider the many points in dispute be
tween the two countries. The circulars
appear to have been issued immediately on j
the promulgation of the threat in the United
States Senate in relation to the Oregon
question.”
Hoaxing a Governor. —Some time since
it was proposed to invite President Tyler t#
visit Cincinnati, a large number of signa-’
tures were obtained to the invitation, or at
least one of them, which were afterwards
affixed to a petition for the pardon of aeon- ;
viet, named Green McDonald ; and the pe- I
tition being sent to Governor Shannon, the
fellow was let out of “durance vile.”
From the Baltimore American, Aug. 2.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF
THE POST-MASTER GENERAL.
We regret to state that a most painful
occurrence took place yesterday on board
the’steam-hoat Georgia of the Baltimore anJ
Norfolk Line. It appears that the boat on j
her passage to Baltimore took on hoard at
Old Point Comfort several passengers, a
mong them the iion. Mr. Wicklifl’e, Post-
Master General, his two daughters, and
several other persons and a young man na
med J. McClean Gardner, son of Col. C. K.
Gardner, of Washington City, formerly
First Auditorofthc Post-Office Department.
During his stay at Old Point, the conduct
of Mr. Gardner was remarked by the visit,
ers as of a very singular character, and the
belief was generally entertained that he
was laboring under mental derangement;
a belief which was strongly concurred in
by Mr. Wiekliffe himself, with which he
had several times been in conversation.—
About half past one o’clock yesterday,when
the passengers were summoned to dinner,
Mr. Wiekliffe, who was standing on deck,
offered his arm to the ladies who were with
him, and while in the act of so doing, Gard
ner, without any previous intimation, sud
denly sprung at Mr. Wiekliffe, and aimed
a powerful blow with a clasp knife at his I
breast. The blade of the knife struck the |
right breast bone with much force, and tra- ]
versed the bone without, it is believed, in- !
juring the lungs, or making a deep inci
sion. Lieut. Bradford, of the U. S. Navy,
standing close by, instantly seized Gardner
in the act of making a second blow at Mr.
Wiekliffe, and prevented his design. The
knife was immediately taken possession of
by Lieut. B. and Gardner placed in con
finement. Remedies were immediately ap
plied to Mr. Wickliffe’s wound, and on his
arrival at this city, he was attended by
Professor Smith, who, we are happy to
learn, entertains the opinion that the wound
is not dangerous.
Immediately on the arrival of the boat, j
Gardner was committed to jail.
Rather Wolfish. —A silly fellow named j
Cunningham, has challenged three persons
(the President and two Vice-Presidents of
a barbacue celebration of the 4th of July in
Abbeville) to fight him because they omit
ted to call upon him for a toast. He must
have a wonderful appetite for cold lead
seasoned with powder. The challenged
parties appear not to have relished the en
tertainment he proposed any more than they
did his toast, and, like sensible men, have
“ left him alone in his glory.”
Columbia S. C. Chronicle, ;.
j Removal of the Last of the Indians From !
Ohio. —The Wynndotts, tho last tribo of
’ j Indians in tho State of Ohio, have departed
■ for their now homo west of tho Mississippi.
I A delegation from the tribe, consisting of j
j three principal Chiefs, visited Coin mbits on 1
! Saturday week to hid farewell to the Gov
! ernor, and, through him, to the people of
Ohio. Jaoquis, the head Chief, delivered |
a beautiful address on the occasion, to j
which the Governor replied, assuring them
j of the good tooling of the people of Ohio i
| towards their brethren, and wishing them!
happiness and prosperity in their now home.
Old Hundred. —The music of this popu
lar church tune was composed more than
300 years ago. The harmony of the June
has since been altered, though not for the
better.
I) I E D)
At tho White Sulphur Springs, in Meriwether
county, Ga,on tho 6th instant, in the thirty-ninth ,
year of her age, Mrs. ELIZ A ALFORD, con- •
sort of the lion. Julius C. Afford, of Troup conn- i
ty. Her life was suddenly terminated by he- j
. morrhage from tho lungs.
J’
03” The discussion at Simstown, yester
day, was all on one side ! There was a
plenty of good eatables—a kirgo collect; >n
of the people, and several Whig speakers
present, but neither Calhoun nor Van Bu
ren had a champion on tho ground—they
would not ‘come up to the scratch ’
00“ A meeting of the Democratic Party i
| of Wilkes county will be held at the Court j
House in Washington, on the first Tuesday !
in September, for the purpose of nomina- j
J ting a Ticket to represent the County in the
j next General Assembly. 49 td
J. A. CLEVELAND, Dentist.
HAS arrived, and will remain in Town about
two weeks. Office at. the former rei : -
! deuce of L. S. Brown, Esq.
Washington, August 1(1,1843. 2t
Factory Cloth* *Vr.
rp HE Subscriber has just received from Poul
! JL lain Factory:
4 bales Cotton Yarns,
4 “ very heavy Negro Shirtings,
1 “ line do. do.
23 pieces Cotton Bagging,
- Bugging Twine,
Which he offers on very reasonable terms, for
Cash. G. P. OOZART.
August 10,1843. 50
’ B&20M.
A prime lot of MIDDLINGS, for.sale hv
■ R. 11. VICKERS.
August 10, 1843. 50
Fockcfaliook Cost.
ftp IIE Subscriber lost his Pccket-B ..a r. , tfio
-1- 4h instant, between Lexington and Oulia
way’s, containing a small amount of money, say
about Ten Dollars Central Bank Bills and six or
eight Dollars in Current money, with some Bills
of uncurrent money; the Receipts anil Notes in
j the Book are of importance to the Subscriber
; who will suitably reward the finder. The Book
will be easily . identified by tho receipts and
notes. PETER LAMAR.
P. S.—The finder will please leave it at. this
office. P. 1,.
August 10, 1843. 50
STATE OF GEORGIA,
WILKES COUNTY.
Pursuant to a Writ
I of Election issued by
j his Excellency the Go
m. HV. Pf vernor, and to us and
- j>&STl£y'’ reeled, requiring us to
/wdn cause an Election to
-(Pytwpjffil ■LB’CyV he held on MONDAY
rwfeSL j fits'i he second dayot OC
fejT T TUBER next, f o r one
=hfj ReprcsrntaliveAn the
Housed Represent it ’ ves oi the Congress of the
United States, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of the Hon. Mark A. Cooper. We
the Justices of the Inferior Court for the county
aforesaid, hereby give notice, that an Election
will be held at the Court-House in the Town of
Washington and at the several Election Pre
cincts in said County and State aforesaid, on
MONDAY the second clay of OCTOBER next,
for a Representative to fill tho aforesaid vacancy.
LEWIS S. BROWN, j. i. c.
HEZEKIAH L. EMBRY, j. i. c.
JAMES HARRIS, j. i c.
WILLIAM Q. ANDERSON, j. i.c.
A. S. WINGFIELD, j. i. c.
August 8, 1843. 50
TOWN OBfiINANOL
j Extracts from an ORDINANCE of the
Toicn of Washington, relating to Slaves
and Free Persons of Color :
Section 05—Free persons of color arriving
within the Corporate limits, shall within ten days
pay to the Marshall, Ten Dollars. Ih case of
neglect or refusal to pay the same, such person
of color shall be committed to the county Jail,
there to remain until the same is paid, or he be
released by order of the Board or by other due
course of law.
Sec. 66.—N0 person of color shall occupy a
ny house but that of some white person residing
on the same square within fifty yards thereof,
without a Licence for each and every year to the
owner, hirer, or guardian of such colored person,
| who shall pay ten dollars for the same, and to be
j granted at the discretion of the Board. If such
license is granted, the applicant shall give bond,
! with approved security, in the penalty of fifty
j dollars, conditioned for the good behaviour of
such person of color, and for'his keeping an or
derly house during such time as the Board may
prescribe ; and also, for the payment of all fines
that may be imposed on them within that time.
But such bond shall in no wise tend to prevent
or supercede the ordinary process of collecting
such tines. Such licensed residences shall be
subject to all Ordinances respecting dwelling
houses. White persons permitting the occupan
cy q 1 houses contrary to this Ordinance, may be
fined two dollars for every day, and colored per
sons so occupying shall be liable to receive five
stripes for every day.in which they shall so oi
fend..
Sec. 67.—N0 slave within the Corporate lin i's
‘] shall hire ins own time from his master, orhavo
, the use of Ins own time therein by virtue of any
contract made with his master out of those lina
■ ! its, unless in either case a duplicate license shall
! have been granted by the Board, one to the mas
ter and one to the slave, expressing therein the
length of time within which he may do so.
Sec. 68—Nor shall a free person of color hire
! himself within the Corporate limits, unless a dfi
i plicate license as aforesaid, shall have been
| granted to his guardian and himself. Any white
| person offending against this Ordinance may he
| lined one dollar for each and every day, and cve
i ry colored [icrsou so offending, shall be liable to
receive five lushes for each day in which such
perso ot color shad bo thus illegally employed;
ami die ‘net ol any person of color being found
employed under ins own contract and not produ
cing his license, shall be presumptive evidence
against him ; ..si found so employed alter no
tice toli ... “ or guardian of his having ot
tered to hire • c ed, it shall be presumptive evi
, deuce ■/i .. such owner or guardian and suffi
’ dent or , cm Action if not repelled.
Sec. GD.—No colored person shall be consid
j ered as a hired or house-servant within the mean
, ing of tins Ordinance, when the person to whom
he is such pretended servant exacts only a par
tial or casual or nominal service from him.
Sec. 70.—Any slave residing within the Cor
porate limits and not under the control of some
white person therein, or any free person of color
r siding therein who shall not have a guardian in
‘lie county, may respectively be treated as run
aways.
rice. 71 —No person of color shall retail spir
ttons liquors within the Corporate limits, nor
shall. .... i pero .: set up or keep a table or
otherwise sell or hawk any beer, cake, dressed
or other victuals or drink oi any kind in a street,
public place, or any house not occupied by a
wiiiie person, within the Corporate limits, with
out a license, for which license they shall pay
fifteen dollars. If any such person shall be found
offending herein, it shall be the duty of the Mar
shall to seize all such articles, and he shall so
: seize and sell the table stands and wares whereon
! ‘lie same shall be exposed and inflict on each of
| fender five stripes.
Sec. 72.—Any white person trading with a
j person of color within the Corporate limits on
I tho Sabbath day, shall be fined fifteen dollars;
or on any night after nine o’clock and before a
halt hour belore suu-rise, without permission in
writing from the owners or employer to trade in
the sterns n W;, - hington, (winch permission in
w., i ;. shall be ,a.: only excuse,) slia’l bo fined
nve del. rs, :■;.■! a y colored person so offending
shall be ■ receive live lashes, and if free
-.on i more .no .. tbio to the fine aforesaid,
and .i any ce'ored person shall be found on the
Sai.v:. n uay or v. ‘li n tne aforesaid hours of any
nigh: m any store or tipling-shop or in the yard
or enclosure appertainyig thereto, unless sent
thereby the person having the charge and di
rection ot him, ,t shall bo taken as presumptive,
and unless explained, shall be conclusive ’eva
de against such colored person and against
the iv neraiid keeper of such store-house or tip
a'p ot a violation oi this Ordinance. And
in dl m. h e:r es, it sinll be tho duty oi the Mar
shall to report, such person or persons to the next
•nee. be B.i i, to he dealt with according
10 tho Oi (finance ; the party being verbally noti
e ,vo days be r ■ ;i.e meeting by the Marshall
o ii_d . Board.
ec.7' : —No wluie person shall trade with a
pe * .. i a; any time within the Corporate
i , rcliase, sale or barter, in any cotton,
J b , on it, flour, corn, or other grain whatever,
r any “hncco, meat or poultry, unless such col
ot ed person has a written permission from hi i
•vnei or employer or guardian, specifying the
k edand quantity of such articles, under the pen
al v of being lined in a sum not exceeding five
do.lars Any person of color offending as afore
said or trading-with a person of color in any of
she articles aforesaid, the buyer and seller shall
he liable ro receive five iashes, and if free shall
moreover ho subject to the line aforesaid. But
colored persons are perinioed to sell without
permit small fresh fish, brooms, mats, baskets,
collars, wooden ware, melions. garden vegeta
b'es, and such oilier articles as in the opinion of
die Board are ge’ orally vended by them for their
wo use, and it shall tie the duly of tiie Marshall
1 1 seize ali such articles as may be discovered
y linn and sell them.
o. 74—No colored person shall keep any
nn , coined cattle, or hogs, within the Corpo
i rims. It shall be the duty of the Marshall
i.e up any of tho aforesaid animals that lie
ma, and, ami after five days advertisement, to
,-eb liiein and pay the proceeds thereof to the
Treim urcr, deducting besides hi.- other costs, for
i-> ’ -es uve dollars, for horned catlic •• e dollar,
and tor hogs twenty-live cents each tor taking
up. But the owner of such animal being a
white person, or the owner of any slave so of
fending, may have such animals by making affi
davit that ho is the owner belore any member of
the Board, or may have the proceeds of the sale
thereof on making such affidavit and paying the
said lees and cost to the Marshall. Provided
that whenever any property shall be seized un
der the provisions of this Ordinance and claimed
as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Marshall
to report said claim to the next meeting of the
Board of Commissioners, and give five days no
tice to the claimant, which shall determine on
said claim, and if the decision shall be against,
said claimant, the property so seized shall be sold
in the manner prescribed by this section if a
gain found in possession of said colored person.
Sec. 75.—Any person of color not usually res
ident. within the town limits, being found therein
ou the Sabbath day or on any holiday, without a
written permit, and apparently not sent by those
having the charge or management of them, or
having or offering at any time to sell or purchase
any prohibited articles, or being drunk or behav
ing in a disorderly manner, may by the Marshal!
bo confined during that day and until fifty cents
to the Marshall and all costs shall be paid.
August 11), 1843. It 50
In Wilkes Fail*
t Brought to Jail on the Bth of
August instant, a Negro man, who
1 says his nqme is MATT, about
thirty-eight years of age, five feet
five inches high, and stout built.
Ba y s he belongs to the Estate of
—E.a.*-= Major Henry Pope, late of Lee
county, Ga. The owner is requested to come
forward, prove property, pay charges, and take
him away.
R. 11. VICKERS, Jailer.
Washington, August 10, 1843. 50
mo./us after date, application will bo
made to the Honorable the Interior Court
of \Vlikes county, while sitting as a Court ot Or
dinary'. for leave to sell the Land and Negroes
belonging to the Estate of Mildred Carleton, de
ceased, late of Wilkes county.
ANN ARNETT, Adm’x.
August 10, 1843. m4m 50
. EVERY VARIETY
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EXECUTED AT THIS
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