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but that the pieces fell much more rapidly. I
The shower fell about the middle of the j
day, while the sun was shining, and a few i
light clouds were in the atmosphere ; but |
nothing visible, that could bo assigned as a i
cause for the phenomenon.
Various opinions and conjectures exist
here about the matter. Some consider it
a natural occurrence, while others view it
as a sign from heaven. For my own part,
I arn not a Millerite, or ’43 man, as they
are sometimes called, and therefore cannot
persuade myself to believe it is sent as a
sign that the world will bo burned up this
year ; and 1 have heard no natural cause
assigned for it, that appears at all reasona
ble. So, having stated the circumstances
J as they exist, 1 leave each one to form his
own conclusions.
L. M. DAVIS.
District, S. C., 30, 1843.
NEWS AND GAZETTL
WASHINGTON, GA.
S THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1843.
FOR PRESIDENT,
We are in the habit oi receiving po
i etical communications, the publication of
which we must respectfully beg leave to de
i cline. We never could comprehend what
people call poetry, and never saw anything
in verse (except Tippecanoe songs) that |
could not be better said in plain prose.
f f
(Kjf* The Inaugural Address of Governor
Crawford, is just what such Documents
should be—concise and comprehensive—
! discussing no subjects foreign to the occa
sion, using no unnecessary words in pre
senting his views, and in this respect offer
ing a pleasing contrast to the interminable
I message of Gov. McDonald, who, as if his
production were not sufficiently long, spins
’ it out by a useless argument against the
Bank and the Tariff, topics upon which his
’ opinions are not worth a straw, and have
Ino weight with any body Gov. Crawford,
< in the Inaugural, delineates the course of
t policy he will favor and which, by the help
t of the Legislature, he will carry out. He
i declares in favor of the District System, a
| sound currency, equal and moderate taxa
• tipn when necessary to maintain the credit
I &uii honor of the State, opposes the sale of
! the State Rail Road, presses the necessity
of uniformity in the administration of Jus
tice, and the promotion of Education. The
people are expecting much from the admin
istration of Gov. Crawford, and the tenor of
the Address promises that they will not be
disappointed.
Cfeorgia Legislature.
The votes for Governor, as counted by
the Legislature are
for Crawford, 38,713.
Cooper, 35,325.
Crawford’s majority 3,388.
Since the Inauguration, which tool; place
on Wednesday of last week, the Legislature
lias been chiefly engaged in the election of
Judges and Solicitors General. Augustus
R. Wright was elected Judge of the Chero
kee circuit—Loo Warren, of the South
Western —E. Y. Hill, of the Coweta cir
cuit and W. D. Fleming, Judge of the court
l ofOyer & Terminer of the city of Savan
nah. The election for State House officers
was in progress on Monday when our let
ters left, there were we are sorry to say a
great number of candidates for each office.
M. Williams was elected Solicitor of the
Chattahooehie circuit for the unexpired
term of John L. Lewis, and John Campbell
Solicitor of the same circuit after the expi
ration of Mr. Williams’ term. Mr.R. Jones
was elected Solicitor of the Cherokee cir
cuit—J. J. Flournoy, Attorney General of
the Middle circuit—A. S. Wingfield of
Bibb, for the Flint circuit— Gabriel Nash of
Madison, for the Northern circuit —Mr.
White ofChatham for the Eastern circuit—
Mr. Love of Pulaski, for the Southern cir
cuit—Mr. Undeiwood for the Western cir
cuit —Mr. Patterson, for the South Western
circuit—Mr. Ashurst of Putnam, for the
circuit.
‘ifhe House of Representatives passed a
bill, on the 10th, to repeal the act of last
session which changed the time of holding
Justices’courts. The vote stood 160 yeas
to 23 nays. By a proviso in this act, two
days are allowed to the Justices’ courts in
January next for their session ; a similar
bill has passed the Senate. When this act
has received the sanction of the Governor,
Courts will be held monthly as
A bill to district the State has been in
troduced by Mr. Echols of Walton ; one to
extend the time for taking out grants, and
one to re-enact the law which prohibited the
introduction of slaves for sale in this State.
We are unable to give the result of the
| Elections for State House officer as the Post
I Masters on the route between this place and
] Milledgeville thought proper to stop our
I supplies yesterday and sent us an empty
rnail-bag.
{Charles A. Hoppin, the Whig can
didate for Mayor of Mobile, lias been elec
ted by a majority of 751. The Whigs have
also elected a majority of the Common
Council and Board of Aldermen.
OCt~ The New York Election for Legisla
ture and county officers took place on the
7th. About one half of the State has been
heard from and parties seem to remain
pretty much as last year—when the Locos
had a majority of 50 in the Legislature ;
this year their majority will be about the
same. The popular vote, however, shows
a large gain for the Whigs. In the city of
New York the Whigs elected their Sheri IT
by a majority of 957, and lost a member of
the Legislature ; the former large Locofo
co majority of 5,800, is reduced to about
400 !
(Kr The arrival of the steamer Britan
nia, at Boston, brings still more cheering
news to the holders of Cotton. The sales
of the week previous to the steamer’s sail
ing, amounted to nearly 100,000 bales, at a
small advance on former prices. It is said
however, that prices will not advance much
more, as there is sufficient on hand for four
months consumption.
Mr. O'Connell, the leader of the Repeal
agitation, has been arrested by the English
authorities and held to bail on a charge of
“ conspiracy and other misdemeanors.”—
The London correspondent of the New York
Tribune, to which paper we are indebted
j for an Extra containing the news, thinks
this arrest will put an end to the repeal
movements; the Editor of the Tribune,
however, thinks it will add impetus to the
cause.
Several other prominent repealers were
arrested upon similar charges. O’Connell
has issued an address to the People of Ire
land in which he conjures them to maintain
the strictest and most perfect tranquility.
Burning oi’ the Penitentiary
All the buildings of the Georgia Peniten
tiary were consumed bv fire about 8 o’cl’k.
on the evening of the Bth inst., except the
cell building and the book-keeper’s office.
Not one of the prisoners escaped. The
fire was communicated in five different pla
ces at once by the convicts, (as was con
fessed by one of them under punishment.)
by means of slow-matches attached to a
, rope dipped in spirits of turpentine and
stretched under the roof. Six of the con
victs, we learn, were in tiie conspiracy, of
which one Stevens a “delegate” from Mus
cogee and Wm. 11. Taylor from Lincoln
, county, were the principals.
It is to be hoped that in consequence of
this occurrence, some plan will be adopted
by the present Legislature, to reform the
present Penitentiary System. At present
it is yearly a great expense to the State,
the prisoners not earning their own living ;
one of the chief objects of the Institution,
the reformation of the convicts, is entirely
forgotten or neglected, and their labor comes
into ruinous competition with many honest
and industrious mechanics. If no better
plan can be adopted, put the convicts to im
proving the roads or working the iron mines,
or any thing else by which some benefit
will accrue from them in return tor the
support which the tax-payers of Georgia
now have to afford them, with no advan
tage, but rather a great injury, resulting to
the State. The removal of the Institution
would only carry the seat of the evil to an
other place, without curing it; there is no
city or town in Georgia, that we know of,
which would be willing to have its own val
uable mechanics driven away or ruined by
its neighborhood.
“ The Washington (Ga.)News,says that
Mr. Clay intends, on his visit to the Clay
Club, in Virginia, to pass through New-
Orleans, and when he returns to give South
Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama a call.—
This arrangement has been made for Mr.
C., no doubt with a view of obtaining their
support at the ensuing election for the Pres
idency. We ‘ have an idea,’ that he will
not meet with as cordial a reception in his
electioneering tour through this State as
his Georgia friends might wish.”
Edgefield (S. C .) Advertiser.
We “ have an idea,” that the Edgefield
Advertiser does not fairly represent the peo
pie of South Carolina ; and, despite the o
pinion of the Editor, we doubt not that the
people of Carolina, high-minded and hon
orable, though eccentric and visionary in
their political course, will give to Mr. Clay
on his first visit to that State, the reception
due to one who has for thirty years served
his country honorably and faithfully. Mr.
Clay is not so unwise as to visit Carolina
with electioneering designs, for he knows
that, will) the exception of a large minority
of good and genuine Whigs, her people are
irrevocably “joined to their idolhis vis
it would gain for him no accession of
strength, though it might cheer and encour
age the many steadfast friends he has a
mong them. The Whigs of GEORGIA
would cheerfully unite witii their political
opponents in doing honor to the “Great
Nullifier,” should he visit their State, and
we cannot think that Mr. Calhoun’s friends
across the Savannah, would willingly see
themselves surpassed in generosity by a
people whom they are accustomed to regard
as far inferior to themselves in the charac
teristics of “Chivalry.”
MAIL ROBBERIES.
Since the 25th October, the Western
mail to and front this city has been several
times robbed, of amounts already ascer
tained to be SIBOO to S2OOO. Suspicions
having settled upon the Post Master at Ca
mak, E. A Crandle, and a man by the
name of William Butler, who hail charge
of the mail on the Geo-gia Rail Road, they
have been both arrested.— Augusta Chron
icle.
Sudden Death. —Mr. William J. Vin
cent, of Charleston, S. C. was yesterday
morning found dead in his bed. It is sup
posed that he died in an apoplectic fit, as lie
was subject to them. The deceased was
about, attending to his business, on the day
and evening previous, and apparently per
fectly well ; and nothing was known of his
sickness and death, untill the servant cal
led in his room in the morning.— Columbus
Enquirer.
, CRIMINAL TRIAL IN HANCOCK.
Frank, a slave, the property of R. P. Sas
nelt, Esq. of Hancock county, was put u
pon his trial in Sparta, on Thursday, 2nd
instant. He was charged with an assault
with intent to murder, upon the person of
Joseph R. Sasnett, on the 11th of October,
1843.
The fellow is said to bn a notorious scoun
drel, and attacked Mr. Sasnett under the
most aggravated circumstance, in open day
time. He bad armed himselfwith a club,
and took a station on the road leading from
Sparta to his master’s plantation, along
which the latter passed every day. Ac
cording to custom, Mr. Sasnett left the vil
lage on the morning of the 11th of October,
to visit bis farm. Just as he reached a large
gate, near the house, and was stooping
down to open it, the negro struck him a se
vere blow, with a green hickory club, hav
ing slipped along behind him for one or
two hundred yards. The horse became a
larmed—wheeled round, and dashed off.
out of the negroe’s reach,and thus saved the
life of his rider.
The evidence fully sustained the indict
ment, and he was sentenced to be executed
on Tuesday, the 14th instant. Col. N. C.
Sayer for the State,” and Russel Miller,
Esq. for the Prisoner.— SaiulersviUe Tele-
SCOJIC.
STABBING.
A most attrocious act was committed
yesterday morning, on Cotton Avenue, in
this city, by the keeper of a small grocery,
by the name of George W. Thompson. It
snems that a small amount of money had
been lost bv a man named Winslow; Thom
son’s.name was accidentally mentioned,
when he immediately’ made a rush upon
Winslow with an open knife. In the scuf
fle, Thompson inflicted a wound on Wins
low, on the left side, about two inches ü
bove the hip bone. Winslow is yet alive,
but his situation is considered very preca
rious. Thompson escaped through a crowd,
who we hear, made no attempt to arrest
him. With the aid, however, of the Mar
shal’s dogs, and through the active exer
tions of McGregor, the Sheriff and other
citizens, he was caught, and is now safe in
custody— Macon Messenger, Otli inst.
THE RHODE ISLAND REBELLION.
Mike Walsh, in his speech at the Park
on Wednesday evening, made a statement
which throws some further light on the cha
racter of tiie late attempt to overthrow the
constitutional government of Rhode Island,
—or rather which corroborates and fortifies
the universal conviction that a more wick
ed and atrocious rebellion never threatened
the existence of any State. At about the
time Walsh said he had organized a band
of 300 men who intended to go to Texas to
seek their fortune. They were on the very
eve of starting, when they were applied to
bv Levi D. Slamm, Jo Hopkins, and other
prominent Locofocos, and asked to go to
Rhode Island and aid Tom Dorr in over
throwing tiie established constitution and
making himself Governor. They consent
ed, and left their employers to make all ne
cessary arrangements. But Mike said they
contented themselves with passing some
windy resolutions, declaring their readiness
to leave their bones bleaching in Rhode Isl
and, &c., and in the end did nothing at all,
—not a bone of them moving in that direc
tion ! Now the cowardice and contemptible
treachery of these men, base and infamous
as they were in themselves, shine like gol
den traits of character, besides the cold and
inhuman ferocity by which the whole move
ment in its origin was marked. Dorr and
his associated villians knew perfectly well
that they constituted only a small minority
of the freemen of the state, and that his
schemes could never be accomplished but
by aid from other quarters. And so, with
out the least compunctions, they came to
this city and bought their supple tools
Slamm & Cos., hired 300 bravos, every one
of them without the remotest interest in the
matter, to cut the throats of their fellow
citizens, and thus carve a path for Dorr to
the Governor’s chair. The whole scheme
was the wicked desire of a small knot of
unprincipled demagogues,who sought whol
ly their own elevation and scrupled not to
employ paid assassins to effect their purpo
ses. Dorr the ring-leader in this base busi
ness, thanks to his own fool-hardiness and
the vigilance of the Rhode-Island authori
ties, is in the hands of the Law ; and we
trust that the law will be firmly, fairly and
fully enforced. He will undoubtedly be
brought to trial immediately.
N. Y. Courier and Enquirer
OUR LITTLE NAVY.
We have just beet) presented with a copy
of the Navy Register of the United States.
A slight inspection merely of this pamphlet
has furnished us with much information
new to us, and which we trust will prove
interesting to our readers, when presented
to them in a condensed form.
1. Our Navy can boast at present of e
leven ships of the line ; of which four are
on the stocks, and two must be rebuilt or
razeed before they can bo brought into ser
vice.
2. One razee.
3. Fifteen frigates, of which three are on
the stocks, and one is, we believe, about to
be broken up.
4. Seventeen sloops of war, of different
classes, besides the six lately ordered to be
built.
5. Eight brigs of different sizes.
6. Eight schooners. .
7. Five steamers, now, since the destruc
tion of the Missouri.
8. Three store siiips.
This constitutes our whole effective force
in ships, viz: 68, large and small. Os of
ficers we find 68 captains, 96 commanders,
332 lieutenants, 136 surgeons of the differ
ent grades, 21 chaplains, 23 engineers, 31
masters, 123 passed midshipmen, 409 mid
shipmen, 9 muster’s mates, 35 boatswains,
40 gunners, 35 carpenters, and 35 sailrna
kers, making a total of 1493 persons who
receive liberal salaries, whether idle or on
duty. There are- besides, 1 General of
Marines, 1 Lieutenant Colonel, 4 Majors,
13 Captains, and 40 Lieutenants.
The officers of the Navy, receive three
different grades of pay, according as they
are doing duty at sea, doing duty on shore,
or doing nothing, besides being paid their
travelling expenses when under orders, and
receiving the pay of a higher rank when
performing the duty of that rank.
A captain at sea receives $4,000 per an.
otherwise employed, 3,500
doing nothing, 2,500
o tv
A commander at sea receives 2,500
otherwise employed, 2,100
doing nothing, 1,800
A lieutenant at sea receives 1,800
otherwise employed, 1,500
doing nothing, 1,200
A passed midshipman at sea
or other duty, 750
doing nothing, 600
Washington Capitol.
Mr Brooks, the Tyler Collector of the
port of Detroit, in accordance probably with
the conditions of his appointment, is in the
habit of addressing letters to the Michigan
Post Masterscommandingthem to subscribe
to John Jones’ Madisonian, on pain of dis
missal, and the displeasure of John Tyler,
senior and junior, Ahasuerus and all the
rest of the Royal family. A Detriot paper
says he lately sent a copy of the Madisoni
an to a Post Master in the interior contain
ing a slip with the following note :
“Dear Sir—Are you a subscriber to the
Madisonian? If not, you must be. Your
friend, E. BROOKS.”
The Post Master wrote the following an
swer on the back of Mr. Brooks’note, and
returned it to him:
“Dear Sir—l am not a subscriber to the
Madisonian, and never shall be. Your
friend, E. P. C.”
The faithful official has, we dare say,
sent this most irreverent epistle to Washing
ton, and before this time the Post Master
made a case for the Coroner’s jury—died
by an accident.— Cour. §■ Enq.
The New York Plebian affirms that most
of the 9000 votes cast in that city at the late
election in favor of twenty-one years resi
dence of immigrants preparatory to their
admission to the right of suffrage, and ex
cluding them from office entirely, were
east by what it calls ‘Democrats.’ Re
member this, adopted citizens ! when you
you are told that W higs seek to deprive you
of political rights while the Locos are your
disinterested champions.— N. Y. Tribune.
The Raffle jur the Presidency. —A writer
in the New York Evening Post, proposes
that Messrs. Calhoun and Van Burcn draw
lots in the National Convention, the winner
to be President, the loser to be Vice Presi
dent. Nothing can be done against Clay,
the writer thinks without a union of the two
chiefs.
The consumption of Coffee in the United
States in 1841, was 189,200,2107 lbs. for a
population of 17,000,000 ; in the United
Kingdom the consumption was 28,421,499,
lbs for a population of 200,000,000 being
an average consumption ofone pound per
head in England, and six pounds per head
in the United States.
At the late Democratic State Convention
of Vermont, a resolution expressing a pref
erence for Mr. Van Buren over all other
candidates for President was passed. The
vote was taker, by rising—three members
only rose in the negative, and one of these
during the evening session took occasion to
say that his preference was decidedly for
Mr. Van Burcn, but in consequence of pre
judices engendered against him in the can
vass of 1840, he did not think him the most
available candidate.— National Intel.
Natural Curiosity. —A piece of honey
comb, weighing about a half a pound, and
completely petrified, was left at this office
some days since, for the purpose of being
presented to the Illinois Historical Society.
It was found a few years ago in lowa, by
the Rev. John Gillham, formerly of this
county, and is in a state of great perfection;
the honey cells being mostly filled with pet
rified bee-bread and retaining their usual
form. It is one of the greatest curiosities
of the kind which has ever fallen under our
notice. Alton Telegraph.
A Wonder. —A western paper says, in
an obituary notice, that “ he had beeti also
for several years a director in a Bank, not
withstanding which, he died a Christian u
niversally respected.”
Augusta, Nov. 13 —p. m.
Cotton. —The market to day ho> been in
I rather an unsettled state, and few transac
j lions have taken place. Holders demand
1 an advance upon the rates of last week, to
which buyers have not yielded, and we are,
therefore, unable to give quotations, though
we note a decided better feeling in the mar
ket.
Exchange. —On Charleston and Savan
nah, pur; on New-York and Boston { per
cent prem. Central Bank bills sto 7 per
cent discount. We hear of no transactions
in State Stocks, which are very firm.
Chronicle and Sentinel.
Willis says—“l have had a moderate
laugh at the effect of a typographical error
in Dr. Julius’s German edition of his trav.
els in this country. The doctor is giving
an account of an abolition procession in
Cincinnati, and he records in English the
inscriptions on the banners. One, he says,
had the reproachful and pathetic senti
ment: ‘Altho’our shins are black our
souls are white.’ For ‘shins’ read skins.”
Appleton, the Digamist. —A Trenton cor
respondent of the Newark (N. J.) Adverti
ser says “a bill has passed the House to di
vorce Mrs Appleton from her husband, Dr.
Charles W. Appleton, late the agent of the
N. J. State Temperance Society, and who
figured in the papers some time since as a
polygamist. His last wife is an estimable
iady of New Brunswick, whom he married
some time since, lie had at least two for
mer wives still living, and children by both.
While the application was under conside
ration, several letters were read from Ap
pleton to two of his wives, together with a
defence of himself, which appeared in a
Philadelphia paper. They exhibit some
cunning, and quite a facility in the use of
the pen, but afford no apology for the base
ness of the man who has been, by turns, a
doctor, a Methodist preacher, a temperance j
lecturer, and last and least a professor of |
the profound science of Animal Magnetism, j
If he has the gift of clairvoyance, lie must
have seen to-day that the bill of divorce
passed by a unanimous vote.”
Distressing Occurrence. —Among our
obituary notices to-day we record the death
of Miss Isabel It. Keats. The circumstan
ces of the death of this lovely and interes
ting young lady were extremely melan
choly and distressing. On Saturday night,
she sat with the other members of the high
ly respectable family, of which she was an
ornament, until about 10 o’clock, conver
sing with her accustomed gaiety. At that
hour the family retired, but she, after go
ing to her room, returned to the parlor to
procure something to allay a toothache.—
Shortly afterwards, a loud report and a
scream was heard, and the family on rush
ing into the room, found her weltering in
her blood upon the floor, and a gun, which
had stood in the room lying near her. The
discharge had lacerated her breast and neck
dreadfully. The first impression was, that
the poor girl had committed suicide, and
her half-frantic mother exclaimed : “Oh,
Isabel! what made you do it ?” She re
plied : “I did not mean to kill myself!”—
The best medical skill was instantly called
in, but she died at an early hour in the
morning. She was able to converse for
several hours, and seemed calm, though
much distressed at the thought of parting
from the members of her family whom she
dearly loved. Her repeated and earnest
asseverations can leave no doubt that the
fatal occurrence was entirely accidental.
All who knew Miss Keats, intimately,
will long and deeply deplore her early
death. She was a niece of John Keats, the
young English poet, who was the friend
and the peer of Coleridge and Shelley, and
in her features she was a girl of genius,
and her heart was the home of all the high
and pure and beautiful affections.—Louis
ville Journal.
Malaga Grapes. —The Frederick (Md.)
Examiner says: A bunch of Malaga
Grapes has been left at our office, the fruit
of a vine which was raised in the garden of
Mrs. Brengle, in Second-street, from the !
seed of imported grapes, and it would net j
be amiss for others to act on this Lint and .
add this delicious variety of grapes to their j
collection.
Non Committal. —An old woman was
asked what she thought of her neighbor bv I
tbefiame of Jones, and with a knowing look
replied, “why, I don’t like to sav any thing j
about my neighbors ; but as to Mr. Jones, j
sometimes I think, and then again, I don’t]
know—but a’ter all, I rather guess, he’ll j
turn out to be a good deal such a sort of a
man as I take him to b”
Was not this old woman a wet nurse to
Mr. Van Buren ?
Complimentary. —A fellow wrote home
to his father as follows:
“ You had better come out to Sangamon
co. (111.) for almighty mean men get office
here,”
The three great Parks in London, St.
James’s, Hyde and Regent’s, are described
as forming a vast, nearly uninterrupted
expanse of pleasure ground—sward, water,
thicket, grove, arbor—rural advantages
without end. Hyde Park embraces three
hundred and ninety-five acres—woodland,
river, shubbery, avenue, serpentine walk,
circuit for carriages, rocky mound, garden,
with noble mansions in view on every side.
Regent’s Park is nearly as large, compri
sing three hundred and sixty acres, with a
charming variety of rural scenery. The
gardens of the Zoological Society are in
eluded in this Park, and had cost from 1825
to 1840, one hundred and eighty thousand
pounds sterling. Savannah Rep.
There is a man travelling over the Wes
tern States, preaching and exhorting, who
calls himself an Indian, and says he is a
brother to Osceola, the famous Seminole.—
He pretends to have been converted to
Christianity by a revelation from heaven,
similar to that which appeared to St. Paul,
and this happened when he was a child. —
He says the light was visible to him for ten
! hours of a dark night, during which he
. heard a voice calling him, which hi- after
wards ascertained to have come from hea
ven—but w hether it spoke in English or
i Seminole language, he has not disclosed,
j He boasts of having in bis possession the l
dentical rifle with which he shot down se
veral ofour follow citizens, and this, after
the heavenly revelation. The Americans’
are the most tolerant and best natmed peo
pie on the face of the earth, or the most
credulous and gullable. The story of the
supernatural light ought to set down this
fellow as an impostor or a madman, and in
either case, as unworthy of attention. — N.
O. Courier.
An Upright Judge. —“ I do not think,”
says a late English writer on law, “that
there is in nature a more glorious, heaven
ly sight than an upright, patient, knowing
judge sitting in judgment. If God ever
made man after his own image, I think he
must have made him in that character.”
astronomical.
EXTRACTS FROM A STAR-GAZER'S
DIARY.
Dear Punch, Crul-cum-guzzle, Oct. 10.
Mv worthy friends, Sir John Ilerschell
and South, have been sorely puzzled, this
week and more, by the spots they discover
ed on the face of Jupiter. Now, I main
tain, with all due submission to the astro
nomical knights, that the case is as plain as
a pikestaff. I think, however, that the best
way will be to give you an extract from my
Diary on the subject:
“Oct. 2. Thought I’d have a squint at
Jupiter—observed him through one of Dol
land’s telescopes (190 power)—discovered
a large spot in his centre.
“ Oct. 3. Observed Jupiter again—dis
covered three fresh spots of a reddish colour
on his disc.
“Oct. 4. Jupiter is covered with spots,
and his face is red as a turkey’s-snout. I
begin to have a suspicion of the truth.
“Oct. 5. It is as I suspected—there can
be no doubt of it—l’ll pledge my diploma
to the accuracy of my observations—Jupi
ter has got the— Measles !”
1 remain, my dear Punch, yours till death,
John Stump, M. D.
Extraordinary Longevity. —There is a
negro woman now living in the parish of
West Feliciana, w ho (tiie Bayou Sara Led
ger says) has attained the age of about a
century and a half. Incredible as this
may appear, it can be established by the
best of evidence. She belongs to a gentle
man whose ancestors were remarkable for
long life ; his father and mother both reach
ing the age of ninety ; they recollected her
in their infancy as a middle aged woman,
and is twenty years since they died. Shu
is an African by birth, left two children
there, and was owned by the family before
the father of her present owner was born.
(K?” Please send us those dollars you
owe us ; we shall publish a black list soon.
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
YV’ U. 1. be sold on the first Tuesday in Feb
* * ruary next, before the Court-House door
in Wilkes county', a part of the Real Estate of
William Hughes, deceased. Sold by an order
of Court.
BARNARD 11. HUGHES, ExT.
November 16, 1843. 12
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
YI7'ILL be sold on Wednesday the third day
” ’ of January next, at the res idence of Jo
seph G. Dupriest, late of Wilkes county, de
ceased, all the Perishable Property belonging to
the Estate of said deceased.
BERRY A. ARNETT, Adm’r.
November 16, 1843. 12
A DM INISTRATOII’S SALE.
Will be sold on tiie first Tuesday in January
next, before the Court-House door in Libert
county, agreeable to an order of the Inferior
Court of Elbert county, while silting as a
Court of Ordinary,
One Tract of L aid lying on the Beaverdara
Creek, adjoining lands of Elizabeth Tate, Thom
as j Heard and Beverly Alien, containing two
hundred Actes, more or known ,-.s the dew
•u Tract of Land. Soid as the property of the
tote Robert Middleton, doce -tod Tonne cash.
THOMAS J. HEARD, Adtu’r.
de bonis non on ttie Estate of
Robert Middleton.
November 1,1843. 12
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
Will be- iM on the first Tuesday in January
next, before the Court-House door in Elbert
county, agreeable to an order of tiie Inferior
Court ot aid county, while sitting as a Court
of Ordinary,
One young Negro man by the name of John ;
one Negro woman by tiie name of Silva, arid one
Negro girl by the name of Agga, belonging to
the Estate of M. C. Upshaw, deceased. Soid
for the benefit of the creditors. Terms on the
day of sale.
THOMAS J. HEARD, Adm’r.
November 1,1843. 12
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in January
next, before the Court-House door in Elbert
county, agreeable to an order of the Inferior
Court of°Elbert county, while sitting as a
Court of Ordinary, all the Lands lying in El
bert county, belonging to the Estate of Cla
born Sandidge, deceased, consisting of
Five hundred Acres, more or less, whereon
the deceased formerly lived, adjoining lands of
William 11. Adams, James Lunslord and others;
thirty Acres, more or less, on the waters of Bea
verdam Creek, adjoining lands of James M. San
didge, James Oliver and otliors, and twenty-eadit
Acres, more or less, on the waters of tiie Bearer
dain Creek, adjoining lands of Charles Satter
wliite, the estate of John S. Higginbotham, and
others. Sold for the benefit of the heirs of said
Clabor.. Sandidge, deceased. Terms will be
made known on the day of sale.
JAMES M. SANDIDGE. ?
ANDREW J. SANDIDGE, f" L
October 21, 1843. m2m 9
lAOUR months alter date, application will be
made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of
Taliaferro countv, while sitting as a Court oi Or
dinary, for leave to sell the Land and Negroes
belonging to the Estate of Thomas D. Borom,
late of said county, deceased.
GEORGE W. CARTER, Adm’r.
with the will annexed.
September 20,1843- m4m 4
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