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/ 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
