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m/m M’’• Bite kslic.ir—l he hettci to secure
,j| >he citizens of this slate as may hold
HHE' S 0,1 1 ,ir M ‘ ‘Hd iin \ iguble wait is uu reof in
titles to the same.
Mr. i . Miti hell—To amend the .Id scc
■■l’ . ‘’ “ ct pointing out the duties of sheriffs
lands under execution.
By Mr. Harris—To amend the laws respect
ing dower and to make provision for w idows in
certain cases.
Mr. Blackshear pffered a resolution for ap-
com titter to enquire what will lie the
H|?e 1 ‘"ode of disposing of the fractional surveys,/
ISHh ui ned as net, sold for want ol a bid and non
naming urgranted.
4 '— ll v/as rcxoL’rrt, on motion of
Montgomery, that a committee be appoint-
to ('tin such as may he appointed by the house
W of representatives, to enquire into the expedien
-1 cy ol disposing of the territory lately ceded to
mi he state of Georgia hy the Creek and Cherokee
and that they have power to
or otherwise. ‘
H Mr. Walker presented a John
John Cormick (g Cante-
Wu, in behalf of associates,
p composing the Savan^y^ cr Navigation Cum
pany, praying to which was rc ■ j
kjU'i red to a specify committee.
m by Mr. Rutherford foFthe
ot a <mainline to prepare and re-
to repeal the-odd and Had sections tlf
restrict the introduction of slaves, j
■ Mr. Powell presented a petition from several
Hid/.ens of this state, praying remuneration for
TMg roes long since slqieTi by the Indians, which
referred to the committee on the state 1 f the
I MirJ'hompson gave notice of his intention to
committee to report a bill more elkr
■f to reipair and keep in repair tnc public
bridges, kc.
r s.—Mr. ilenly moved for the ap-
ol a committee to report a bill anien
y ot and supplementary to the judicial y ac l
J 9.
■P vl 1 Boc klicart gave notice of his intention to
W™ lor a <: ° nn, tttec to report a biil to alter
amend the 7tJi section of the Ist article of
tnc constitution. [Apportioning the representa-
lK, n * n die house of representatives.]
-Mr. Grant'land gave notice that he should move
for a cofiTMttie to reporta bill authorising an
extension )f the streets of Milledgeville to the
Q cone a ri > r, and lay out and sell twenty acre
lots on the town common, lying above the mouth
of Fishing creek and the adjacent river. He al
so gave notice that he should move for a commit
tee to report a bill to alter the Ist section of the
Bjd article of the constitution. [This alteration
the establishment of a supreme tribu-
B of law.]
6.—Many bills were this day rc-
agreeably to notices previously given,
jHjLlt'b are adverted to in the preceeding sketch.
“•—-dr. Montgomery laid on the
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of eomniitlees to pivnafv
BBBjjB I ‘dll n>r (lie !-)i i..g pm pi/.-,;
iugiieu!—!\ amend ti e v>m;,:
Sioeks—l or increasing ilm
public officers.
By Mi’- Sheitall—Relating to the necessity of
the 7th section of the loth division of
penitentiary code. [The section proposed
repealed abolishes the offences of lbrestui-
engrossing, etc.]
■!. v ' ; .By Mr. \\ ellhorn—To dispose of the trac t of
lately acquired from the Cherokee In-
Htns.
. B'b Mr. I'. I. Moore—For amendiii”- the pat-
laws.
V !v the same gentleman—To adtr.it as test',mo
gß all hills ol sale for the conveyance of personal
which arc legally proven.
BW die same' —For altering Unit “ \ri of th< pc
code wliieii relates to the introduction* of
into this state.
resolution was laid on the table hr Mr.
H[Btuli, requiring the treasurer to lay before
He the amount (.! nie-ni. , in ;he i.v.tsurv i,u-
Hojuiatcd, together vith Pm .;iu< ■::r of Mock
tliis* state m ihe diffci cut hanks and cor-
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II) Mr. T. I. Moore-— To make amcndincnts
to tlic penal code, if any beso ttu i ne cessaty.
By Mr. Birdsong—For amending the militia
laws.
Bathe same—To amend the 13th section of
the 4th division of the penal code. to
: homicide.]
November s.—Notices for the appointment of
committees to report bills were given follows :!
By Mr. Branham—To amend the 9th section
of the 3d article of the constitution. ( Relative
to the mode of granting divorces; applications;
for them having become so numerous of laU:
years as to be a pes/t to the legislature.]
By Mr. Wellborn—For establishing a turn
pike road from Washington, in Wilkes county,
to Augusta.
By Mr. I ewis—.Tfi” amend the act passed in I
1817, imposing an additional tax on pedlars.
Mu •ray —To alter the 12th section of;
an act passed in 1764 relating to the duty of exe
cutors and administrators.
By Mr. Gilmer—To repeal an act to create
and establish a fund for the support of free
schools. The same gentleman laid on the table
a resolution, to request the Senatus Academicus
to report a system of public education for the
state, etc.
Mr. Sheftall laid on the table a resolution re
quiring the secretary of the state to lay before
the house, the original act passed last session, to
alter and amend the Ist section of the 3d article
of the constitution. [This act provides for tilling
the oftice of chief magistrate until tiie meeting
of the legislature, if the governor and president
of tho senate should bnt/i die or resign during
the recess. Ii the act be re-passed at the pre
sent session, of which there is little doubt, it will
then be a part of the constitution. ]
November 6. —Bills to incorporate the “Furm
mer’s and Merchant's Bank of Augusta ,” the
“Agricultural Bank of the State of Georgia ,”
(now M‘Kinne and Shultz’s) and to authorise
the “ Marine and Fire Insurance Comfiany of
the City of Savannah” to issue their own n; tes
and discount bills at six per cent per annum,
were respectively reported and read the first
time.
Mr. Sheftall reported a bill to alter the 9xh
section of the 9th division of the penal code.—<
[ Flie object of the proposed alteration is, to
strike out of the s. ction against gaming that part
which makes it criminal to play at certain games
of chance v. ithout betting.]
A communication was received from the gov
ernor, laying before the house such proposals as
have been received by the executive, for the pur
chase of confiscated or reverted property.
.Yovember 7.—The bills to incorporate the
Newport Baptist Church in Liberty county; and
to pardon Rebecca Wootten, arias Rebecca Ea
ton, were, after the 3d reading, passed.
Notice was given by Mr. Gilmer, that he
would move for a committee to report a bill to
put a stop to the issuing and circulation of the
uncharted banks, the bills and notes
change-bills. I ****' #
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To the intcliigeiikMF < * T^cmt who fmayffiod the iate
rcstinjj ajflw’ lhat
less obligation than we do.— Georgia Jmimal.
Messrs. Gryntlands— ln compliance with
your request, gentlemen, I have thrown toge
ther a few observations, respecting the upper
tract, purchased from the Creek Indians by ge
neral Mitchell. Omitting the gusset of land, be
tween the county line of Morgan and Jasper and
the Ulcofauchatchie river, the main body of the
land is bounded by an undulating line, beginning
at the high shoals on the Appalachie, crossing
tije Ulcofauhatchie, or the Alcovie, at a well
trail, b Spring gradually northwest
erly, stT'TfciMi^ii-ChatalßPßiie fiftecn m*W*(abote
the Jikedf at Ford,
where > i- crossed byXs>4ijd Hightower trail, a
distance of about Tfrwtm xt line stretch
es up the nmtmcash
miles, to me Old Suwanee town. The noi'Wiern
boundary, runs from thence due east to the head
of the Appaluchie 8 j miles. The Appalachie,
from the head to the High Shoals, forms the re
maining boundary, about from 35 to 38 miles.—
These limits, comprehend, 1 presume, more
than 600,000 acres.
The general aspect of the country, is rugged
and broken; especially as the heads of the water
courses are approached, the land rises into in
numerable hills, inaccessible to cultivation.—
Many large areas are aiso met with, remarkably
level, consisting entirely of granitic rock. Much
the larger proportion, however, of the surface,
presents a succession of gentle elevations and de
pressions, interspersed with level land, lying fa
vorably for settlements: The whole tract is abun
dantly supplied with numerous creeks and bran
ches of exccllant water. Speaking of the soii in a
general way, it is light and thin—the best, proba
bly not equaling good second quality land. On
the water coin's s, are many small pieces of low
land, that lie well, and promise an adequate re
ward to industrious exertion. It is to be lament
ed, that the large stocks of kittle which have
been kept In the country for many years, have
greatly impaired the value of the range; but it
will be tolerably good fora few years. Though
hickory and oaks, of various species, are inter
spersed, chesnut, blackjack, gum, kc. arc the
predominant growth.
The whole region is an immense granitic mass,
varying in the northern into gneiss and micacious
schist, mixed with disseminated quartz. These
materials, in various stages cf pulverization, con
stitute the soil, which is far more productive,
than its appearance leads one to expect; indeed :
die crops have been much better there this sea- \
son than in the slate. This tract, lying mostly 1
between the 34th ami 35th parallel, cotton will 1
cultivated as a crop, and the soil seems J
to the growth of small grain than
l’"'” : ' u ’ 1 T. ‘ region. !;• aitli 1
j s{em to have fixed her head-quarters —I could
hear of scarcely any sickness.
On the whole, considering, that the bodies ot
rich land, with one or two exceptions, are ex
’ tremely mall, and the spots on which comforta
ble settlements can be formed, at considerable
distances from each other, this tract presents
small inducements to the opulent, but numerous,
! facilities for advantageous establishment to the
: industrious poor man; and it will support for the
’ state a hardy and valuable, though scanty pooula
! tipn. The calamity most to be deprecated ij>
their situation, is the formidable difficulty of im
parting lo their children and young people, the
inestimable blessings of moral and refigrous in
struction and useful learning.
who constitute the present legisM’nre, hold in
their hands, the character aiy4 destinies of this
portion of their future” citizens—the en
; lightened liberality directed the legisla
ture of Georgia, op me subject of education, in
the last three scs**>ns, during which I have enjoy
ed the mag of personal observation, affords
every confidence, that they will adopt measures
•HjrMrfft to avert the evil (inevitable but tlifough
tyffr interference,) and for bestowing on tTKdir
fellow citizens the greatest blessing, that one por
tion oftiie human family can confer on another.
My reliance is so entire on their disposition and
competence to perform their duty in these par
ticulars, as the honor ol'the state and the interests
of virtue and humanity demand, that I would
not indulge myself in one interfering intimation.
They will thus, in the right sense of the expres
sion, merit one of the noblest titles, “the poor
man’s friend.”
Whatever of value, attaches to the observa
tions on the soil, growth, capabilities of produc
tion, kc. is due to the judgment and intelligence
of the gentlemen with whom I had the good for
tune to be associated in designating the lines,-i-
Wilson Lumpkin, esq. and colonel L. Battel.
With great regard your’s, See.
William Greex.
JMiHedgcville , November 9.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
The ship Belfast, captain Bunker, arrived this
morning in 43 days from Liverpool. By this ar
rival we have been favored with the Liverpool
Mercury of the 18th September.
The queen of England continued very ill.—
The bulletin of the morning of the 16th Sep
tember stated that she had passed a good night,
and w?s easier that morning.
The British sloop of war Griffon, which left
St. Helena on the 2d of August, and which has
arrived at Portsmouth, brings the information
tiiat the squadron on that station was extremely
sickly, and that several of tne ships had buried
a large portion of their ciews, from dysenteries
and liver complaints. The colony aiso was very
sickly, from the prevalence of the same diseases,
which are there peculiarly fatal. The governor
sir Hudson Leave had an alarming attack of bow
el complaint in the beginning of July, front
which he had recovered. Captain Bunn, of the
hon. company’s store ship Mangles, died on the
29th July, and captain Paisley, of his majesty’s
ship Redpole, on the 17tfi July, of the prevailing
dysentery. Bonaparte had not been seen out of
doors for several months, and continued very ill
with a liver complaint. The Griffon buried mr,
Dunning, of the Conqueror, a passenger, and five
men on her voyage home, ail of whom died of
fever and dysentery. Mr. O’Meara, surgeon to
Bonaparte, arrived in the Griffon.— New- York
Com. Advertiser.
From the Liverpool Mercury, September 18.
Polar Expedition. —At length the official
despatches from the ships employed on the dis
covery of the northwest passage have been re
ceived, and we understand are most satisfactory.
They arc dated July 28, at which time the Isa
bella and the Alexander were in lat. 75 degrees
30 minutes north, lon. 60 degrees 30 minutes
west, well over to the American coast, the wea
ther serene and pefcctly clear. The variation of
the compass, by accurate observations repeated
ly made on board both ships, was eighty nine de
grees, and the dip eighty four degrees thirty mi
nutes, wich led them to conclude, that they were
approaching very nearly to the magnetic pole.
It had been perfectly calm: the sea was as smooth
as glares for three or four days, and the current
drifted them to the southeastward, which raised
their hopes of an open passage round the point
of America, from which quarter it appeared to
proceed. All the way up the middle of Davis’
staits, they skirted an unbroken field of ice on
on the left, but as they proceeded it became thin
ner, and apparently rotten, and they were san
guine that the moment the breeze sprung up,
the ice to the westward would open to them a
passage, and allow them to reach the northern
shores of America. The utmost harmony pre
vailed among the officers and every part of the
ship’s company, and all were in perfect health.
Such is the substance of the accounts that we
have been able to learn. There are abundance
of private letters to the friend and relations of
those who have embarked in this most important
and interesting enterprise. The following is an
extract of one:
From his majesty’s shipnsabella, at sea, lat. 75, 25, lon.
60, 7, variation 88, 48—July 25.
Dear I) , This is our last opportunity this year;
therefore 1 could not let it pass without writing, al
though nothing has passed since my last. We are now
to the northward of all the ships that are fishing; we
see some a long way astern; the boat with despatches
is going immediately to one one of them; they have
followed a great way this year, and have been very
kind in giving us every assistance when in the ice. The
coast begins to look more and more miserable: as we
get north, it has more the appearance of a chain of ice
mountains than land; the sea is one solid field of ice as
far as the eye can reach. When the wind bldws from
the north, we find narrow passages in it, and through
them we pass on: sometimes the whole of our men are
on the ice, dragging the ship along the edge of the
flaws. From the great variation, we cannot be a great
way from the magnetic pole; you will see the variation
by our last observation on the head of the letter.
From the Savannah Morning Chronicle oj the 16th ms:. *
COMMUNICATION.
In the Darien Gazette of the 9th inst. the editors give
to their patrons a detail of hat General Jackson oirr lit
■not to have done, as well as what Congress ought to
do [l], by way of punishment. It is unfortunate for any
country, that those who write for the information of
the people should undertake the investigation of sub
jects, with which they are not acquainted i.2]j particu
larly when the conduct of the government, ov the ch a
racter of its affairs, are the subjects. Gene ral Jackson
is charged with disobedience of orders, a violation of
neutral rights, an infringement on the Constitution and
and thepractice of unprecedented cruelty upon two sub
jects of Great Britain [3]. ft is natural, and it is right,
that every man should feel an attachment ferthe people
that gave him birth [4], and the country that protected
our younger days; but tve had a right to expect diffe
rent sentiments from the public professions [s] of 51r.
M’lntire who is believed to be the writer.
The circumstances which rendered it necessary fur
Gen. Jackson to pursue the hostile savages into the ter
ritory of his Catholic Majesty, are sufficiently under
stood; therefore the reader can neither be informed,
nor misled, by any thing from Mr. M’lntire or myself, up
on that subject. Gen. Jackson’s orders, authorised
him to pursue the Indians into private dwellings, vil
lages, towns, cities, and fortresses, where they were
secreted or protected; or they authorised nothing [6].
It will he recollected that this same officer was obliged
to enter Pensacola [7] in search of the enemy during
the late war with Grcatflritain. The plea of the Span sh
governor was, that lie had not force to prevent a com
munication between the enemies of America and the
Indians. The Same plea [B] was made respecting the
Seminole Indians; that he had not at command a suffi
cient force to resist either the requests or demands of
tlie Indians, for munitions of war or any other articles
they wanted. The treaty between the United States
and Spain, provides, that a force shall be kept up by
both parties, to check savage hostilities. Spain had not
a sufficient force to comply with the article of the trea
ty, and Jackson was obliged to furnish it for Spain [9],
or leave the war, or any check upon it, in the same
condition that it was before he entered the nation w ith
his army [lo]. So soon as the Spanish Government is
in condition to put a sufficient force at Pensacola [ll]
and St. Murks, the United States are ready to deliver
them up to the proper authority.
The Editors say that there is hardly a parallel to the
execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister, recorded in mo
dern history [l2], and that they were put to death by
Gen. Jackson. From the whole tenor of the piece, one
to whom the subject was new, would inf <*, that the
usual forms of trial had been dispensed with and that
these culprits had been put to death by the mere man
date of the General [l3]; but it is to be recollected that
these men had a fair trial which filled a quire of paper,
before a military tribunal, composed of many of the
most respectable officers of the United States arm\-,
and of which Gen. Gaines Y\ as President [l4]. The
charges and specifications were for aiding, encourag
ing, and supplying munitions of War to the Indians and
Negroes, then engaged in an exterminating war against
the United States and the citizens thereof) without re
gard to age or sex; and that these charges were satis
factorily proven by a variety of credible witnesses and
their own allies [ls]. Gen. Jat kson had no other agency
the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister except by
ordering a court for their trial, and approving of the.,
sentence [l,6]. Suppose an American agent was to gif’
among amongst the Indian tribes in Canada, and give
the same aid to the savages there, that was given by
these culprits to the Seminole Indians against the Unit
ed States, what would be his fate [l7]? The rope un
questionably.
1 would not have noticed this Editorial remark at so
great a length, had 1 not been unwilling that a state
ment, so incorrect [lß], should take wing over the Unit
ed States, and probably find its was to Europe. The
brief remarks which 1 have made respecting Arbuth
not and Ambrister, I know to be true, because 1 have,
seen a copy of the proceedings and sentence of the
Court [l9].
[l] And what djd we say that congress ought to do?
hang, shoot, or burn him?— Editors JJarien Gazette.
[2] It is so: and the writer unfortunately exemplifies
its truth in deed as well as in word.— ib.
[o] Ihe writer is mistaken: we said that they “me
rited their fate, and are pitied butbv few unprejudiced
persons in this or any other country!” Their criminal
ity however could not have warranted general Jackson
in trying them by laws foreign to the province thev
were m and which had there an ex post judo or retros
pective bearing, (which is a direct infraction of the con
stitution:) it was also usurping the sovereignty of an
independent power upon lii.s own responsibility, in dis
obedience of superior orders.— ib.
[4] M’c think it just and and natural, that every man
should feel the most attachment for the country i;i
which lie has met with the kindliest treatment and
whose form of government responds to his opinion,
especially when no ties of consanguinity remain to
bind him to the land of his nativity. Disapproving il
legal acts in general Jackson is, everybody knows, one
thing and attachment to a foreign nation another.— ib.
[s] “'I he delinquency of no national servant (what
soever may be his party, his office or his standing in
society) shall, should it come to our knowledge, pass
unnoticed ’ —was the private as well as public promise,
and shall be strictly observed.— ib.
[6] l his is meant, we suppose, for a dilemma. Let us
test it. General Jackson routed and drove the hostile
savages into East Florida, beyond the pursuit of the
friendly Indians, before he entered a Spanish fort: so
his orders amounted to something.
[7] Ihe place, at that time, was garrisoned by Eng
lish troops, awaiting the arrival of Packenham's army,
in order to make a simultaneous attack on New-Or!eans,
the result of which was of the utmost importance to
the termination of the war with Britain.
[B] Other authority than the w riter’s mere assertion
is needful to support the statement, when it is remem
bered that the governor held out, some (lavs, against an
army which the combined hordes of savages dared not
to face. If general Jackson battered the Barrancas fin
sheltering the enemy, why did he permit the Indian in
it to depart with the Spaniards? or if he was authorised
to occupy the town and fortress, what can induce the
president to restore them -without condition to Spain?
—ib. 1
[9] Cannonading the Barrancas, for instance!— ib.
[lo] If the occupation of St. Mark’s and Pensacola by
our troops be considered as fulfilling that part of the ■*
treaty with Spain which she was unable to perform for
herself, or, in other words, to effect the submission of the
savages in tlie Floridas, the measure was certainly in
adequate, had they not been broken-spirited and hope
less, as there was nothing to prevent them from
emerging from their coverts and precipitating them
selves on the ignorant frontier settlers of this st ate who
engrossed so much of the general’s paternal care!—
If the savages still retained their courage, and were bent
on rmchicf, he should, we suppose, have pursued them
southwardly to the promontory of the peninsula, and
thus given protection to the frontiers of the ignorant
Georgians instead of marching* from St. Mark’s west
ward!)’. If this was unnecessary, on what pica could
he have seized the Spanish fastnesses.— ib.
[ll] l his place is to be given up unconditionally to
any Spanish officer authorised to receive it.— ib.
[l2] If this be a misrepresentation let him cite in
stances to prove it so.— ib.
[l3] Executions in camps are usually attributed to
the officer commanding, and not without plausibility,
since courts martial sit but by his order, and his appro
bation is indispensible to the enforcement of their sen
tences: indeed his power is almost despotic. It matters