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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1843)
--■■■ n i ■ „ ’ *— - - . . ... / Judges in Arkansas. —The Arkansas Judges appear, hv (heir own account, to have a hard time of it. The foll&vving is W from the late Charge of tin- Hon. John Field, *• Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, to the Grand Jury of Hempstead County : “In some parts of Arkansas it is really dangerous for a Judge to protect his station from insult, or assert his authority. If what he doos or says is not exactly agreeable to the taste of some, he is in danger of anni hilation. One or two Prosecuting Attor neys, in the northern part of the State, have been waylaid and murdered for doing their duty. In another part a Judge was bar red out of tbe court-house by the populace, and his life put in danger mere! v because he wished to hold his court asthe law directed. Another Judgo was near being attacked whilst on his bench, for exercising his au thority in keeping silence in the court- house during business hours- Another judge was forced by an armed ruffian to leave the bench and drink with him, and this whilst the court was in session.” NEWS AND GAZETTE. WASHINGTON, GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1843. FOR PRESIDENT, • mtBSNOT FOR CONGRESS, Gen. DUNCAN L. CLINCH. (Election on the first Monday in January next.) CO” We are indebted to Hon. John M. Berrien, A. H. Stephens, A. H. Chappell, and Howell Cobb, for early copies of the President’s Message and other documents. OCT’S. A. Holmes, of Augusta, has for warded to us several new and interesting works, such as the “Travels of Monsieur Violet” by Captain Maryatt—“The Bank er’s Wife” by Mrs. Gore, &e &c. These, and others can be purchased at the store of J. Mayer, who is agent for their sale in this pi ace. Georgia Legislature. The following letter of our obliging cor respondent comprises all we have received from Milledgeville. Tiie mails which are provokingly irregular between Milledge ville and this place, brought us nothing else yesterday. Our subscribers there and in other places VVest of this, complain that they do not receive their papers regularly. assure them that it is through no fault of ours or of our excellent Post-master in this place, as our paper is always forward ed by Thursday’s mail. It is owing to the negligence of the Post-masters on the route. Where is that Post-office Agent ? Some body send him along here, he is badly want ed. • Mili.edgeville, Dec. 10th, 1843. Dear Sir :—The past week has been one of business and excitement in the House. Tiie Court for the Correction of Errors bill passed the House by a majority of one role ! It is thought it will pass the Senate.— Thus we have reason to hope that our Con stitution which has been broken and viola ted for the last eight years and by those too who were sworn to support and conform to it, will be rescued from disgrace, and that tiie people of Georgia w ill ha.ve some other security for their rights of life, liberty, rep utation and property, than the uncontrolled will of one man ; whoever throws a single additional security around those great rights, is entitled to the thanks and gratitude of his countrymen. Many bills of great importance to good Government and sound legislation have been acted upon in the House. Among others, a bill has passed the House so to al ter the Constitution, that members shall not vote on their own pay, but each Legislature to fix the pay of their successors. This will take away the temptation of interest, and deprive demagogues of a fruitful topic sos popular delusion. Many members vote against a just reduction of their own pay from selfish and mercenary motives, and then to evade the popular disapprobation raise a clamor in favor of the poor. Take away the temptation of interest and they will be much more just to the people when fixing the pay of others than their own. The House was earnestly engaged dur jAttg tbe greater part of two days of last week upon the bill to provide for the Education ofthe Poor. It is a question of great diffi culty ; but I believe all are willing to adopt the best plan proposed. Gov. McDonald & his Central Bank friends, who you know ar£49fjji'at construing a law to suit them / selves, construed the Act of 1841, stopping operations ofthe VV. & Atlantic Rail-road in such a manner as to take away from the Poor School fund the one hundred and sev enty thousand dollars State Bank Stock, and eighty-nine thousand dollars of Augus ta Bank .Stock, which had been sacredly pledged to that object lor more than twenty years. Their object in doing so was to make it appear that their miserable pet the Central Bank, was better olf than it really was. This is their Patriotism ! With con stant professions of attachment to the poor, they rob all the poor children of the State of their only means of Education, ibr the purposo of sustaining a Bank which they broke in the business of manufacturing votes. On Monday, the question will be taken up again, and you may rely upon the Whigs restoring the fund to those to whom it belongs. You will perceive from this, tho means which Governor McDonald used to make out a plausible Message to deceive the peo ple. Look at Major Meriwether’s Report from the Finance Committee, and you will see some of his trickery exposed. The De mocrats left the Whigs their usual amount of pecuniary legacies in other things. The ‘•'■able and efficient” keeper of the Peniten tiary presents us a debt of thirty-two thou sand dollars against tho Penitentiary, which we will have to pay. Swarms of creditors against that Institution from New-York, Charleston, Augusta and elsewhere, are here demanding payment for their claims ; we must pay them. Then you will hear the cry of Whig extravagance, for paying debts (he Locos have contracted The multiplicity of such business has kept the Legislature engaged all day and the Com mittees at work nearly all night. The Whigs are heartily tired of such “illustri ous predecessors.” The Senate has got along very slowly and indepd done but little. Their majority is at best but two. Some of them being wrong headed men, and the Democrats then availing themselves of even the momentary absence from the Hall of a single member to obstruct and defeat the public business. Their whole policy is to prevent the Whigs from doing any thing, to inflict all the inju ry they’ can on the public interest, and at the end of the session to charge the Whigs with doing nothing. To give you and the people an illustration of this policy, I will refer to one or two movements of theirs : A resolution was reported by the Internal Improvement Committee last week request ing our Senators and Representatives in Congress to procure the duty on our Rail Road Iron to be delivered in Savannah this month, taken off. It passed unanimously iii the Committee ofthe House and I under stand in that of the Senate also. Its opera tion was to save Georgia about eleven thou sand dollars duty. It would seem that no honest Legislator could object to it—yet, Iverson and his friends opposed it—opened and continued a discussion for three days upon it ; wandered off into every variety of National politics; the Presidency, Van, Clay, Calhoun, Tariff, Bank, Distribution, Sub-treasury, “the great principles of De mocracy lying at the foundation of all hu man liberty,” (Bah!) and every thing else that a strong head and a bad heart could think of, to consume the public time.— Having an accidental majority, they voted down the resolution requesting the duty on Rail-road Iron to be taken off, and voted in some Democratic jargon, about the “ sove reign State of Georgia,” Compromise, &c. The next morning tin vote was re-consid ered, and the question is just where it was. Their right of Debate is wretchedly a bused for the purpose of injuring the peo ple. The people shall know it. But the Whigs will carry out those great measures demanded by the people at ail hazards, and will stay here till they do it. Yours, &c. VV. Report oi* Ihc Committee on Finance- This report is rather severe upon the fi nancial conduct of Governor McDonald, and directly accuses him of having appro priated tbe money ofthe State to purposes unauthorized bv law. We are unabie to publish the whole document, but will give such an abstract that our readers may un derstand in what respect, in the opinion of the committee, Gov. McDonald misconduc ted. The Legislature in 1841, with the praise worthy view of reedeeniing the credit ofthe State enacted that the money that was a bout to be obtained from the Federal Gov erument on account of military claims, and all other funds (except taxes) that may be paid into the Treasury of tiie State should be appropriated to the payment ofthe pub lic debt : “The Committee, upon an investigation of the expenditures made from the funds, before designated, deeply regret to find that Governor McDonald has almost entirely failed and neglected to carry out the pro visions of the law. He has, it is true, de posited, the funds as required—but so far as the practical effect goes, he might as well have thrown them into the general mass of funds in the State Treasury, to be applied indiscriminately to all objects of expendi ture. He has applied them to objects for bidden by the law, to objects for which dif ferent provisions had been made by the Le gislature, for the payment of expenses con trneted since the pnssage of the law for the ordinary operations of the Government, for the salaries of some of its officers, and lor the coostruetion of the Western and Atlan tic Rail Road, while that delicately situa ted debt of Reid, Irving & Cos., which might have been redeemed in principal some $70,- 000 (by which an earnest would have been afforded our creditors, that we could, and would pay our debts.) beyond the interest, has not received one dollar of payment.” Os the $122,908 43 (which was the sum paid by the Federal Government,) the sum ofonly $53,421 85 was appropriated by the Governor to the payment ofthe public debt, while much tho largest portion, to wit, the sum of $09,540,60, he used, without au thority of law, for the payment of the debts ofthe Penitentiary, for the construction of the W. & A. Rail Road and for the pay ment of salaries. Yet the Governor in formed the Legislature in his message, “that there is a balance on hand of this fund of $36,520 07 to the credit of the State in the Central Bunk. Upon enquiry at that insti tution, the Committee are informed that such a credit exists, and that it was made by the late Executive, ‘ in the notes of the said Bank.’ Thus is this fund consumed, and but little applied to the purposes con templated by law ; for this latter credit made in the bills of the Central Bank, shows that the fund received from the Fed eral Government, being a specie fund, was used to redeem so much of the circulation ofthe Central Bank.” The Governor in his message further in forms the Legislature that there is a sum 0f574,796 73 yet to be received from the Federal Government, of which he had en gaged to appropriate at least $50,000 to the reduction of tiie debt of Reid Irving & Cos. Now it appears that there is only $34,000 to be hereafter received from the Federal Government which is all that can be applied to the payment ofR. I. & Co’s, debt, Georgia having heretofore received $40,725 36 which is charged against her on the Books of the Department and was to be deducted from the said sum of $74,796- 73 as the Governor was well apprised of. The Committee also dissent from Gov. McD’s estimate ot the resources of the Treasury—according to his estimates, the. receipts will exceed the expenses sllO,- 816,80, this is shown to be an error, he hav ing counted every thing that was countable, in making this estimate of the balance, such as Counterfeit, Central, Macon and Darien bank-bils, funds already appropri ated by law to specific purposes, and the military fund at $74,797,73, which ifavail able at all, is only $34,000. The commit tee show that the balance is the other way, there is a deficiency of funds, of $20,060,- 47 instead of the Governor’s boasted excess, i the Governor having thus made a mistake in his cyphering of only about $130,000 ; the committee, however, indulge the hope that this deficiency will he supplied by the retrenching measures adopted by the pre sent Legislature, without further taxation. “ The committee are decidedly opposed to any increase of taxes beyond the rate as sessed in 1842. They desire if possible a reduction from these rates. Yet the future condition of the Treasury cennot now be so clearly foretold, as to authorise, in jus tice toiho public interests a proposition for a reduction ot them. Yet they think it but fair to leave to the Executive, as fu ture circumstances may justify it, to re -1 quire such a reduction in the taxes as the diminished wants of the Treasury may au thorize ; and they submit a bill for that purpose. The committee feel that unne cessary taxes upon the industry of the country, are alike oppressive and paraly zing. Hence they have been disposed, in the absence of an annual session of the Le gislature, to avail the country of all the ad vantages resulting from any improvement in our finances. The Committee look to the resuscitation of the public debt, as a matter of the deep est interest in a pecuniary point of view to our citizens, and of high and elevated pat riotism to our State. The crisis through which our people have passed, has been most searching and fatal ; yet bv economy and industry, they have well nigh attained safety from its dangers, and are now rea dy to sustain to the utmost, the plighted faith and honor of the land of their nativity and adoption. Honor demands the pay ment ofour public debt, and intrepidly will the requisition he met. Duty demands the restoration of public credit, and its injunc lions will not pass unheeded. The Com mittee feel that they have discharged the obligations imposed upon them in their res pect, and they have an abiding confidence that the Legislature will discharge as free ly its obligations. They have reported bills tosettle and pay off the debt of Reid, Irving & Cos., to restore the State Treasury to specie payments, and for the restoration to par value of the bills of the Central Bank—and they entertain not a doubt, that by the adoption of these measures the bonds ofthe State will at once be advanced to par value. ‘These vital ends, should never escape the public vigilance—they should ever be kept before the public gaze, as among the first, the last, and the greatest of obligations of the Legislature; for they bring them a public and private benefit, working into the various relations of society, for the pro motion of its interests; and should these measures produce the effects contemplated, the Legislature will have acquited itself well, of these embarrassing and perplexing questions which have been thrown upon it.” CHgTf*S. The,meeting of this body, which has been expected with more than common in terest in Georgia, on account ofthe irregu lar election of our members, took place on the 4th instant. The question as to the qualification ofthe members elected by general ticket was dis posed ofin a summary manner by the House. The Clerk, in calling the roll and coming to the names of the members from New Hampshire who were elected by general ticket, was stopped by Mr. Campbell, of S. Carolina, who enquired if they were elec ted in accordance with the requirements of the apportionment law. The Clerk replied that he had the certificate of the gentlemen from New Hampshire that they had been duly elected members ofthe House of Rep. resentatives. Cries of “Go on with the call” from all parts of the Hall, and Mr. Camp bell withdrew the subject for a time. The calling of the roll was then resumed, and finished without further interruption; after which Mr. Barnard, of New York, in his own name and the names of about fifty oth er members, protested against the legality ofthe proceedings of the House in organi zing with the aid of the members from New Hampshire, Georgia, Mississippi and Mis souri. The protest was not allowed to be read, and a long discussion has taken place consequent upon the attemptof Mr. Barnard to have it placed on the Journals. The qualifications ofthe members elected by the general ticket, will, without doubt, be de cided on hereafter, and we may expect that they will be admitted to “full fellowship,” as it is not customary for a Loco-foco Con gress to respect the laws of Congress, al though they expect other people to obey them. The House then proceeded to the election of Speaker, and Mr. John VV. Jones, of Virginia, (Van Buren Democrat, whose seat is contested by Mr. Bolts,) was elected by a majority of 79. The mem bers were then qualified and took their seats. The “ one hour rule” and the rule a- gainst the reception of Abolition petitions were again adopted. On the sth, the President’s Message was received by the Senate and House. This document is negatively good—that is, there is nothing very objectionable in it The annexation of Texas, which it was suppos ed the President would advocate, is not pro posed directly, and the whole subject is talked at very carefully and tenderly.— Mr. McNulty, of Ohio, was elected Clerk of the House. Gales &s Seaton, Printers to the Senate, and Blair & Rives, Printers to the House. Notices of introduction of several hills have been given, among them Mr. C. J. Ingersoll gave notice he should introduce a hill for the re-pavment of “ Gen. Jackson’s fine.” We hope that, when the bill comes up, it will pass unani mously, since the old General seems to want it so much, and his understrappers beg for it so pitiously. Hon. A. 11. Stephens is said by the Washington papers to have been very sick, but was fast recovering, and at thin time u: j probably at his post. The Van Buren party “ rule the roast'”! completely in Congress, over Whigs, Cal- I hounites, and all other parties, as is indica- ! ted by the elections for Speaker and other officers. DO” The Steamer Acadia arrived at Bos ton on the 6th instant. The news is unim portant. Little or no change, favorable or otherwise, has taken place in the Liverpool cotton market. O’Connel’s trial was still progressing very slowly—being much de layed by the squabbles of counsel on techni cal points. The present proceedingsagainst him seem likely to end in jhe quashing of the indictment. The New-York American gives the fol lowing capital incident, which it says is en titled to the merit of truth as well as excel lence : “A discussion arose in one of the liar lem rail-road cars between two men, one a Whig, the other a Loco, as-to the merits and prospects of the different candidates for the Presidency. After some considerable talk the Loco observed, “at all events we have one advantage over you Whigs—we have half a dozen candidates from whom to choose, while you are pledged to one man.” “Admitted,” replied the Whig, “ we go for Harry of the VVest, as our first and only choice.” “ How absurd,” replied his an tagonist, “ suppose Clay dies, what will you do then ?” “Do ?” answered the Whig—“what will I do? By Jove, I’ll vote for his Executors /” THE TREZVANT CLAIM. Our readers have seen so much of this claim for years past, and its justice has been recognised by so many Legislatures, that they may like to know something about it. It appears that on the Ist October, 1779, the Executive Council of Georgia, author ised a purchase from Robert Farqubar, of clothing for troops quartered near Savan nah,. under command of Gen. James Jack son. The pureiiase amounting to some £7,500. In 1787, after the failure of Georgia, to pay this debt, Alexander Chisholm, execu tor of Farqtthar, brought a suit in the U. S. Federal Court against the State, when a full hearing verdiet was rendered against the Stato. in December, 1793, prn'lente life the Le gislulure solemnly pledged its faith that it should be paid if found just and true. The claim was audited in 1794 and found just, and certificates wero issued for the amount in favor of Peter Trezvanl, le gal representative of Farquhar, then de ceased. Certificates to the amount of £5, 009, are still held by the heirs of Trez vant, which have not been paid, though their validity has been solemnly and repeatedly acknowledged. It further appears that tho petitioner is willing to receive State bonds, bearing nn interest ofsix per cent, payable in ten yea is, and accordingly tho Finance Committee of the Legislature have reported a bill, au thorizing the issue of said bonds to the a mount of £5,000, to he delivered to the heirs of Trezvant on the surrender of the certificates. These bonds arc dated back as far as 1839, when the report to the Le gislature ofWilliam Law, Joseph H. Lump kin, and David E. Campbell, to whom the matter was referred, solemnly confirmed |he validity ofthe claim. In conclusion, the Legislature has me rnoralized Congress with great propriety to reimburse the State of Georgia for the pay ment of the claim, which Congress is evi dently bound to do. We doubt not that this Legislature will not fear to render justice long delayed. Savannah Republican. CLAIRVOYANCE. The “Learned Blacksmith,” Mr. Bur ritt, (says the Boston Post,) has undertaken to find out what is going on in the moon, and to ascertain the language spoken by the inhabitants there, through the power of clairvoyance. Hero is an extract from his letter to the Rev. Le Roy Sunderland, which is supremely ridiculous and absurd, as any thing that was ever hammered out | upon the mental anvil of any man, “ learn \ ed” or unlearned : “ A few months ago I received a comnui nication from a gentleman residing in a re mote part of the State, to this effect. He had sent a lad, in the clairvoyant state, to the moon, where he had made many discov eries with regard to the inhabitants, &c. Having found his way into a building re sembling a school.house, he detected a book, which, upon opening, he was unable to read. At the request of the magnetiser, he copied off twenty-eight well formed char acters, as different from each other as the letters of our alphabet. These were for warded to me to compare with the charac ters employed in the Oriental languages. A few weeks afterwards I received another letter from the gentleman, containing the \ results of another tour of discovery to the i moon. The lad saw things more definitely this time, and took drawings of a monu ment and a metallic horn. Upon the mon ument was an inscription, written in the very characters which the boy found in the ! book. I have just written to the gentle man, requesting him to begin anew series of experiments upon the moon, simultane ously with Mr. Shepherd, and send the re sult to me. 1 would therefore propose that you do the same witli your subject, and to publish the result of the three series togeth er, should there be a striking correspond ence. The course 1 have proposed to Mr. S. and the other gentleman was, to take their subjects to the north east side of the moon, let them proceed through to the south west side, then from the west to the south east, from north to south, and from east to j west, describing what they saw, as would i be natural to a traveller journeying through | anew country. When each of the three j subjects has been gone through in the above order, it might be of great interest to com | pare notes on the moon.” A tall hunt—Crack Shot—Big Meat. — Under this caption, Thorpe, ofthe Concor- j dia (La.) Intelligencer, and the author of j “Tom Owen, the Bee Hunter,” relates the i following anecdote, j Talk about tall hunting—we heard of a < shot the other day, perpetrated by a friend i of ours, young in years, but old and expe rienced in woodcraft, which as the fellow said who told us, “paralyses with any thing you've ever beam on stranger.” Our friend, it will be remembered, is a crack shot, a perfect Leather Stocking so far as love of “still hunting” goes. He would with pleasure, track a deer half a day at any time ; and as to turkey hunting, he is equal to our notable friend “Stoke Stout.” When a turkey gobbles within half a mile of him, he is just as certain of eating a piece ofthe breast as if the golder was al ready cooked and carved—so admirable is he at imitation that the most experienced and longest bearded of the flock cannot de tect hisgobling—thus lurjd to his fate, he is necessarily victimized. The hunter has tried all sorts of game ; we heard, months since, of a splendid shot ofliis which killed a noted bear dog a hun dred and twenty paces—and then there was a noted grunter laid low by his uner ring rifle ; but these doings compare not with the shot made by him a few days since. At early dawn he was equipped for a ‘still hunt,’ wandered far and wide, jumped a big buck but was not successful in get ting a shot; his misfortune preyed so hea vily ou his mind, that he determined not to return until he had “slain some meat.” His keen eye was arrested, about twelve o’clock, bv the dun bide of an animal seen through the dense undergrowth at about ninety yards; upwent“Old Knock-nasty,” his favorite gun ; she was levelled with his usual unerring aim, a fine sight drawn, and the shrill crack re-echoed through the swamp forest—followed by an unmistake able lowing, a sound familiar about milk pans; he stood thunderstruck, and might have petrified, but that old L. the stock driver, came galloping up on his swamp tackey, hallooing at his topmost voice— “Ei)! eh ! mass****, you brought down de meat dnt time—eight hundred pounds— 1 and do finest, and do fat—fat—fat—fattest cow you overdid sco! V iock ! vock ! yoelt ‘ 1 told ’em you’d do somethin’ dis time —ami you is dona it—and—old Mulltyh. dead.” There will be four Editors in the next Congress—Luther Severance of Augusta, Maine, Edmund Burke of Haverhill, New Hampshire, John Wentworth of Chicago, Illinois. We believe that Voinov E How ard is elected from Mississippi, who lias al so been a prominent Editor in that State.— Newark Post. COMMERCIAL. ,j AUGUSTA MARKET. Friday Evenixg, December 8. COTTON. The same firmness and activity which has been noted in our market for the last week, con tinues, and whatever is offered is read.iy taken at lull prices. We continue our quotations of 7 to 8 cts as extremes—principal sales 7.) to 7jj cents ; which is an advance of 1 cent on all des criptions upon the ruling rates of last week. EXCHANGE. Checks on New York, Charleston and Savan nah, are abundant at par—-Central motley firm at 4 to 6 per cent discount—State 6 per cent Bonds 85, with an upward tendency. SAVANNAH MARKET. Ordinary 7a 7j middling 7 f a 7middling fair 7<J a 7 j fair and fully lair 8 a 8j good far 8J ! aBJ cents per pound.—Sav. Hop. 9ih test. MAItR I E D , On Tuesday last, hv the Rev. Mr. Herrin, Mr. JOHN THOMAS, o's Elberton, to Mrs. ELI ZABETH BRADFORD, ol this county. Central •Ho aey rjIAKEN at par, for GOODS, at the I’hila .fl_ delplna New (’ash Store. DR. J. MAYER, still continues to practice DENTISTRY, and warrants every piece |oi work done by him. Cull at his Store. ('barges moderate. I December 14,1843. 4i ltj CLASSICAL & MATHEMATICAL • Hale Seminary, |T i* the de-igu ot this Institution e nt youth tor any Class ot College, for Commercial or I’rolessional ide. The new year will commence the first Monday ot January and comprise uvo j Sessions of five months each, leaving June and j December for vacations. At the end of each session, a public examination of the Scholars will take place. The annual charge tor the in struction ot each Pupil, either in the higher or lower branches, is Forty Dollars. The number oi Pupils is iimiled to twenty, and no pupil can enter his name for a period less than a Session. I Any particular information in relation to Books, j &c. can be obtained by application to the Sub j scriber. Terms, per session of five months, S2O. A. M. SCUDDER, Principal. Washington, Dec. 14,1843. 3t 16 AUGUSTUS STRAUB, [from NEXV-YORK,] Offers for Sale, (until the first of January next,) very low, a rich Stock of JEWELRY & CUTLERY: CONSISTING OF €1 OLD and Silver Watches, Music-’;-,.e , ® Breast-pins, and Rings, set with rca stones. Ear-rings, Neck and Head 0r,.; ■ .. . Bracelets, Lockets and Clasps; Coral Neel-- ... Silver Pencils, Gold Watch-chains and K- Real good silver tea, desert and table Spi-ms— Butter-knives and Thimbles. ALSO, A superior quality of German-silver Spoons and Butter knives—Spectacles; Knives ; Scis sors, Razors, Razor-straps, (Chapman’s patent Razor Strap;) Shaving boxes and bruslie - ; Hair brushes. Also, a lino assortment ol Sl ; . side and Tucking Combs; fine Ivory, ai.d different Metal combs, Pocket and redding combs, &c. Very line Pocket-books, Money Purses. Very tine Ladies Silk Work-pockets ; Looking Glas ses, Snuff Boxes; line Soap, Cologne Water, I Hair Oil, &c.&c. Old (’ ! and Silver taken in exchange. Ladies and Gentlemen are invited J to call and examine, at the tenement next door to Bolton it Nolan's, lately occupied by Dr. i Ficklen. j December, 14, 1843. 2t SN>VJ(DIBo PERSONS indebted to the Estate of the Rev. Jesse Mercer, deceased, by No's, are hereby notified that the interest act ruing upon the same, must be paid by Return ;),iv, or else they will find their papers in the bauds of an At torney. F. FICKLEN, 1 „ , WILLIAM F. BAKER, \ r,x rs ’ December 14,1843. 4t 16 m 4 LL persons are forwarned not to trade for a Note given to John C. Stokes, tor one hun dred and three dollars. Any person Wishing to trade for the said Note will run the risk of losing it., for I am determined not to pay it unless I am compelled by law. The said Note was given the 27th of September, 1843, payable one and .v after date. ‘ THOMAS'F. PRATHER. December 14, 1843. 3t 16 ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE VI/'ILL he sold on Tuesday the twenty-third * * day of January next, at the iate residence of Timothy T. Smith,deceased, in Wilkes coun ty, all the l’erisliable Property of said deceased, consisting of Horses, Hogs, Cattle, Oxen and Ox-cart, Corn, Fodder, &c. &e. Also, the Plantation will ho Rented for the en suing year. Terms on the day. EDWARD R. ANDERSON, Adm’r. December 14,1843. 16 GEORGIA, Wilkes county. Tolled before me by Stephen G. Pettus ofthe 164th District, G. M. ifM *” saH * county, one small dark bay p’VJ MULE, in low condition, having ***’ nr< tipi I no particular marks. Said Mule came some months since to the Plantation of Mrs. Nancy Slone, about one mile West of Washington, on the Greensboro’Road. Said Mule was judged to be about 12 years old, and worth ten dollars. Appraised by John It. Semnies and Cordy Bulloch, this Bth Jay of December, 1843. M. J. KAPPEL, J. P. A true copvfrom the Estrav Book, ROVLAND BEASLEV, e. t. c. December 14. 3t 16
