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\ LI.(IISL ATI RL. jjjJjWm I’- Si m i i,—,\*> HBm ‘ I, 1..!- the appointm 111 Ilf ( cm 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 |||§§!lP|§|B 11 ’ ■ wggawfß i:,c • ; : . v.. Hra r i --i \ii —. ra^ra** Miß- are attac iied tin ir l the r.oti. s, 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- *'• HBB i'm; j id ; >. ■■c'■ ; .i. . , SEHSB; < ‘ ■’ 1 I BHHNk “ 11 “ ‘Bllov. s: “i-’ Hk. rarara^y fete ‘Be ’ ‘lr., 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 ****' # TClPO^Uij^ffw 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