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Newspaper Page Text2 AUGUSTA, the couiu e~r7’~ - H y .J . G . M’Whortcr. TERMS. Thi- Paper i< ptfblGhnd every .MONDAY, WEDNES DAY’ edrt FRIDAY afternoon, al ijO per annum, pa.v able in advance. 2OUNTRA' PAPER—Published every FIIIDAY ufier n.or. als3 per annum, in advance, or el at the expiration of the'year. j .No Subscriptions received for less tine than six months. I ADVEiITISEMEN'TS, not cxceiHliitua square will be iaserted the first time at “hets, per square and 37i for each conti nance. Advertisements of one sqnnro. published Weekly, a' 75 cents for tile first insertion, and s'Jeents, for each contiu ■auce. Perrons a Ivertisiug by the year will be cha'ged 30 dol lars including subscription and will bo entiled to one square in each paper. When p ersons hnv ■ standing a<lye’tisement* of several j squares, special contracts may be made. No deduction will be mnde in future from those charges | All advertisements must have the number ot inserrious I marked on them; otherwise they will be inserted till for- | hid, and charged accordingly. SHERIFFS, CLERKS, and other public officers, nil ! have 25 per cent deducted in their favor. OLD SOL’S MESSAGE, T* both Houses of the Georgia Legislature. Gentlemen —As the curtain is about i to fall on our Legislative la bors, it again becomes my duly to address you, before we both depart from the tcenes of our official acts. In your two houses may be found al most as great a variety of character as is seen in our house. You cannot be lack ing in wisdom, for you have a Solomon and a Daniel— No one can doubt your ability to do yonr work well, for you are well provided with Mechanics; for in stance, you have a Taylor, 2 Bakers. a IFrigAZ, 3 Smiths, a Cooper, and a Chan dler. You have sent away to Washing ton, a King, to do what formerly required a Troup to perforin—Yet you retain one King among you, and a Prince writes down your doings. You have a Hall, and there you sit, Day and ( K) night, and (sometimes Morrow,) surrounded by Bush, Woods, Groves, Graves! Fields, and Rivers; and not content with what you can procure from your own Ho(l)mes, you have a Holland-ev, two Moor(.e)s, (be sides a Jfwor-ish stenographer,) and one yet Wilder ! Though there are no buy ers among you, I am told you have had plenty of Sellers. You have no riders, but can boast of two excellent Walkers. You have a Hard(e)man from Ogle thorpe, and a Hardman from Jasper— and a Little doctor from Wilkinson—- Two of your number will never be. too old for members, for they are sure to re main Young always. One member (without deserving to be so,) is a Butt of the Senate, and another, tho’ really a brave man,bears the name of a Cowart — While you unfortunately hive but one Free-man among you, and but one who is Well-born. Notwithstanding this heterogeneous mass of which your honorable body is composed, I arn happy to say your pro ceedings have mostly met my approba tion. It is true, two or three times I.was tempted to let oft' a Proclamation, a Veto, or a Protest at you, (I mean when you was about to “ use up" Judge Hooper,) but perhaps “ ’tis better as it is.” Our sister State of South Carolina, I am glad to say. has settled her domestic difficulties, by each party agreeing to understand the oath of allegiance just as they each please, which agreement I have officially ratified ; and the happy effects of the compromise are beginningto be ap parent in the altered lone of the ne vs papers. In New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and other States, elections have lately been held, and I now official ly state to you, that in almost every in stance those candidates who had a majori ty of votes, were elected. In Ohio, Mr. Washington Mason, who lacked 47 votes of beating my friend Ro bert Lytle for Congress, is recommended to Maj. Jack Downing (when h? is elect ed President,) as a fit person to ibrm his Cabinet—as 1 know IVasA to bt a first rate Cabinet Maker. A Mr. Thompson, from Great Britain, is lecturing in Massachusetts against Sla very ; and as Negro Slavery does not ex ist there, it is recommended that the phi lanthropic gentleman be invited to visit us at the South, where his labors would be properly appreciated and rewarded. The U. S. Bank seems to have received its final sentence, and must go down ; but to break its fall, and in a spirit of good feeling, which 1 hope will always char acterise men in high official stations, I have issued a circular to my Box Officers, directing that its bills and drafts be receiv ed in all payments due this Department You are aware that before we again meet in our official capacity, it will be come the duty of our constituents to choose a Governor. I have not yet made up my mind whether to give my voice for Groce or Davis. When 1 hear from Colonel Crockett and Mrs. Royall on the subject, you shall know. An Eclipse of the Sun took place on the 30th ult. according to announcement, and was a well got up affair—the Moon had a bit of an Eclipse also, (on the 15th ittrt.) but it was rather a failure. Messrs. Garrison &. Tappan seem to be losing ground at the North—it is re commended that they travel to the South for their health, where they would be presented with some essence of pine, which abounds in this region, and some goose feathers. Graves, the Indian murderer, (notwith standing Judge Baldwin’s Citation,) has been hung—Hogg Smith ditto. From foreign powers I continue to re ceide the most gratifying assurances of friendship, which it is our interest as well ns wish to cultivate. Since my last mes sage, my friend Don Pedro, after driving his illustrious brother Don Miguel, from the Portuguese throne, and placing his gracious daughter, Maria de Gloria, on it, has *• left this stage of fools”—but before he made his exit, he received the full re ward of his “long enduring toils” —a most munificent token of affection from his Royal child—payment in full of all demands—the order of fiddle-de-de-addle- ( urn 1I ! My young friend the Queen I writes me that this gift, bestowed in the , very nick of time, (just as his imperial ; Majesty was giving his last kick,) made I the Royal Pedro go off in a paroxism of j gratitude and delight. In a P. S. the I young Queen suggests that if we have ; tiny Kings or Princes here who can i. ’race their ancestry a few generations : .back of Noah, she has no objection to hear from them, previous to making up her Royal mind on the many applica tions which have been made for her gracious hand—l have accordingly des patched a messenger with letters to Black Hawk (who seemed to make a considerable impression on the Yankee Ladies summer before last,) and when his answer shall be received, I will lay the correspondence before you. Don Carlos of Spain has applied to me for assistance against his august Sister-in law: but I conceive it to be our proper policy to abstain from all interference with the affairs of Spain at present —as Mr. Rothschild has lately been considerably bit by dabbling in Spanish Stocks. “ It becomes my unpleasant duty to in form you that this pacific and highly grat ifying picture of our foreign relations does not include those with France at this time.” The King of the French, has neglected to plank up the amount of In demnity agreed on by treaty. For full particulars of this business, I refer you to the President's message. I deem this the proper.-course for myself, as General Jackson might object to my interference in a “co-ordinate branch of the govern ment.” I must hasten over the other matters which it is necessary to communicate to you: Yankee. Hill has gone to New Orleans —the Wandering Piper is now in town —Cotton bears a good price—the Charter of the Darien Bank has been re newed—tne Gas lights are in successful operation at N. Orleans —U. S. Bank Stock is worth 107—-the Dutch have ta ken Holland —Tecumseh is dead—Fan ny Kemble is married to her Butler—l wish you a merry Christmas —and (now we come to the point) my benefit is to take place this evening. Done at the Executive office of the Theatre, this 29th day of December, in 59th year of American Independence, , and of my management in Georgia the third. SOL. SMITH. NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. Tiie new French Ministry is compo sed almost entirely of fresh materials —M. Pessil being the only member of the old Ministry who is retained. It is compo sed as follows: The Duke of Bassano, Minister ofthe Interior, and President of the Council. M, Teste, Minister of Commerce, M, Bresson, “ of Foreign Affairs. Gen. Bresson, *• of War. Char. Dupin, “ of Marine. M. Passy, “ of Finance. It is not supposed that this change of Ministry indicates any change of policy in the affairs ofthe Government. Its an nunciation, however, occasioned a mo mentry decline of ofthe funds. A cor respondent of the London Morning Her aid gives a briefout-line of the characters snd history of the new Ministers. The Bassano, “the Corpyhoeus of the party,” wos born at Dijon in 17G3, and of course is 71 years of age. So long ago as 1797 bearing then the more republic name of Huges Barnard Maret, he became Chief of a Division, as it is claled, in the Fo reign office, uuddr Lebrun Tonnere. When the Brittish Monarchy began to display its extreme hostility to the ptoce dings and principles ofthe French rev olutionary Government, Lebrun des patched Maret to London in all haste, to endeavor to avert the storm he saw gath ering. Although nominally holding in tercourse with Lord Grenville, only, Ma ret had many interviews with Mr. Pitt, who much respected him. He did not leave London untill February, 1793, when the Execution of Leu is XVI, had destroyed all hope of success from his mission. On landing at Calais, he found himself nominated Chief Commissioner of the Lower Countries On his arrival lin Paris the reign of terror had commen ced. In order to avoid the danger ; which menaced every puelic man at that 1 j epoch, he accepted the employmen of Am- i bassador to the Court of Naples, and sei i out for Italy with M. de Simonville, who, I conjointly with him, had been charged I with a mission to the Italian States. I They were, as is well known, arrested • by Austtin agents, even on neutral territo-! ry, loaded with chains, and thrown into a dungeon in Mantua. From thence they were transferred to the Tyrol, where they remained nearly two years, which time M. Maret spent in composing several dramatic works, much admired in those days, and which formed, many years af i terwavds, one of the. grounds on which he successfully demanded to be made a mem ber of the Institute. He some time afterwards, (that is, in the year 1797) was appointed one ofthe. Commissioners sent to Lille, to nggoci ate with British agents a peace with Eng land. That negociation having failed, he was recalled to Paris, but during his stay at Lille, he had necessarily opened com munications with Commanderin-Chief of the army of Italy, Napoleon Bonaparte, which influenced his future life, for thus ; commenced his relations with that great i man. He was connected with Sieyes, Roederer, and others, in preparing the way for Napoleon’s arrival atthesupreme power, in 1799-1800, and was named by him Secretary of State. From that mo ment he never quittted his service, and and rarely his presence. His influence over his Imperial maslei may be conceiv ed, from the fact of his having induced him, through, perhaps, a very question able palicy, to repudiate his empress Jo sephine, to marry a Princess of Austria, the. heartless Maria Louisa. That in-| fluence is said also to have been Stillmore ruinously proved, in his having counsel led and prevailed upon Napoleon to reject the terms offered him in 1813-1814, at Chatillon; but no intimation of dishonesty or treason has ever been breathed again st him. He accompanied Napoleon to and was in the second restoration exiled. He was, however, permittee to return to France, after five years of banishment. From that period to the present, the Duke Bassano remained unemployed by the. State. Il would have been fortunate for him had he continued idle in other respects; but pour se destreire, perhaps, he entered upon a variety of speculations which were so unfortunate as to cause to hime the loss of all he possessed in the world, and to compel him to take up his residence in furnished lodgings. His daughter married Mr. Francis Baring a couple of years since, as you will recollect; a second daughter married M. Bail! tde la Tour, a Member of the State of Belgi um. The principles of M.Maret are said tobe monarchical in a limited sense, but under Napoleon no such limitation could have entered his thoughts nor been persevered in if they already, existed there. He is not the man likely, therefore, topreach moderation in tnat respect to his present master —a man. by the way, not less des potic, aufond, than his former one. In another respect, I fear he will be found not a very acceptable minister in you r eyes He was notthe patent ofthe Berlin and Millia decrees, which declared the con tinual blockade, it is true; but he must have concurred in their policy, and must not hence be regarded as either liberal, enlightened, or friendly to that reciproci ty and commercial intercourse, with out which all political conexion of France with England must be looked up on and considered as a farce. He is a clever, experienced man,-but he is 71 years of age. Napoleon declared him to be an extremely honest man; but, as in the case of’M. Thiers, his predecessor in office, every signal made by the Tele graph, will be said (however untruly) to be applied by him to aid and mend his for tunes by speculations on the Bourse. Mr, Bresson, the new Foreign Minis ter, is a Regularly trained Diplomatist, as ever graduated in Downingjstreet. His father, has been the cashier in. the foreign department during the last 30 years, and bred him up in that office. He has been successfully employed in a diplomatic oc cupation at, Bogota, as Secretary of Lega tion in Washington, anq during some years Minister Plenipotinthry of France at Berlin, His political character is to is the amountof his qualifi cations for the office to which he lias, to the surprise of all Paris, been appointed. General Bernard, the nav War Minis ter, is an excellent enginetr, but unac quainted with the science olpolitics. He wasexiled, after “the handled days?* and havig sought refuge in the United States, was admitted in the servicebf the Union. It was he who was the authar ofthe plan for fortifying the States and kimself super intended its execution. When Lafayette visited, for the last time,the United States, General Bernard was associated with him in the compliments paid io France in their persons. He returned to Europe after the last revolution, and was imme diately on his arrival in Paris, appointed Aid-de-Camp of the King, am} since laid down the plan of embastiling this capital bj’ a chain of detached forts. He is a man "of unquestionable merit h his pro fession. His father was a market-gard ener in Savoy. M. Teste, the new Minister of Com merce, was also a Bonapartist.. He was a clevei lawyer under the empire, and paid by his exile for his attachment to Napoleon. He is said to be agood man. M. Charles Dupin, is the saranZ so well known in England by his literary works. M. Pasy is a very respectable young man, who in various reports or the Bud gets of several Sessions has displayed un doubted capacity, for the office to which I he has been appointed. M. Persei, the persecutor of the Press, requires not a word from me tocharacter ize him. M Sauzet. who will probably be the Minister for Public Instruction, is not much known. With such a Cabinet, guided or direc ted by the King, it will be seen that no al teration in the political relations of France is to be expected or apprehended. T URF’CONWE NT I ON. In consequence of an understanding between a number of gentlemen in this State and South Carolina, a Convention will be held in Charleston, during the Races of that city, in Febauary next, for the purpose of fixing the time of the sev-r eral Annual Races in this section, so that they shall not conflict with each other; and that as far as the convenience of each and, all will permit, they may be so ar ranged as to follow regularly one after the other, with suitable intervals between so as to form a general circuit out of the whole, which may be regularly followed by all the distinguished gentlemen and horses of the turf. It may also consider the-rules of Racing generally, with the view of making them uniform through out that circuit; and as efficient and per- J feet as practicable. And it must be obvi ous to every one who takes an interest in these matters, that all these objects are peculiarly desirable, and well calculated to enhance the value, interest, character, , and respectibility, not only of each club that takes part in it, but also of the Turf and its sports generally. A Delegation of three members has already been ap pointed by the Augusta Jockey Club, to attend this Convention. Similar Dele gations will certainly be appointed by the Columbia and Charleston Clubs, and no doubt by the Savannah Club, also; and probably several others. And it is ho- ped that such other Clubs in this and the adjoining States, as may see the great ad vantages of-this arrangement, and desire to avail themselves of them,’ will appoint Delegations accordingly. in this and the ad joining States, and the Turf Register also are respectfully requested to publish the above, or notice the object of it.—Chron icle. ADDRESS ~ Os the Minority of the Legislature of South Carolina to the People, explaining their reasons for accepting the Report of the Joint CommillcePon Federal Relations on the amendment of the Constitutional Oath of Office., with accompanying Do cument. To the People of South Ca rolina. We the minority of the Senate and House of Representatives, feel it a duty we owe to ourselves, to our constituents and the country at large, to state the course they have pursued, during the pre sent session of the Legislature, in relation to the absorbing questions, which have been before it, and the principles on which we have acted in accepting the terms of accommodation, which we hope and be lieve will restore harmony to our commu nity. When the legislature had been in session a few days, the bill to amend the Consti tion of the State, which in the last legis ture had been proposed by a constitution al majority, was presssed to a hasty read ing, with the understanding, that two thirds ofthe whole representation in both branches would pass it At the same time a bill was introduced to define treas on, end notice was also given, that leave would be asked to bring a bill to amend the Judiciary system ofthe State. These measures led to the conviction on our minds, that the majority were determined not only to pass the amendment of the Constitution requiring an oath of allegi ance to the State, but to give it a construc tion, which we regarded as violating the Constitution of the United States; and to enforce that construction, without leaving us any of the ordinary peaceable means of resistance. When therefore,the amendment was finally passed in our respective hou ses, we gave notice, that we should enter on thejournals'our solemn protest against it, But before it became necessary to do so, a report was made by the joint com mittee of both houses on federal relations on sundry petitions and memorials of cit izens from various parts of the State, a gainst the new oath of office, in which it distinctly declared by the said committee, that “ZAe allegiance required by the amend ment is that allegiance, which every cit izen owes to the State consistently with the Constitution of the U. States." When that report was taken up, it was adopted, in both houses, by large majorities of those who supported the amendment of the con stitution. This we regarded as an offer of rconciliation, and a pledge that the bills defining treason and to amend the judi ciary were not intended to be passed; and to shew our confidence, that this was the course intended to be pursuetf by the ma jority, we immediately withdrew our no tice of protest, and waited events These have not disappointed our expectations. The bills to define treason, and to alter the judiciary have not been pressed to a se cond reading, nor passed. We have therefore, decided for ourselves and recommend you, to withdraw all ob jections to the new oath of’office, now in corporated in the constitution according to the forms of our government, by which while we shall pledge ourselves “tobe faithful and true allegiance bear to the State,” we shall also swear, "the best of our abilities, to preserve,protect, and de fend the Constitution of the United Stales." It is, fellow citizens, under these cir cumstances, and with these views, that we have accepted the terms of accommodation in the same spirit of kindness, a/id with the same anxious desire to restore harmo ny to our distracted State, with which we believe they have been tendered. We ' ask not ol tho majority to surrender any [ opinions,which they conscienciously hold, nor on our part do we intend to surrender ours. We consider this effort at concili ation, thus happily successful, as we be lieve the majority regard it, to be the un derstanding between the two great politi cal parties of the State, that the new oath of allegiance shall receive that construc tion which is consistent with the Constitu ticn of the United States. For ourselves! we accept it, in the full confidence, Zhat it | means no more than that we be faithful to • to the State in performing all her constitu | tional requisitionsand will bear her, “true allegiance” to the full extent of all her reserved rights and sovereign powers, and that is not inconsistent with the*obli gations/we owe, and the allegiance we bear to the United States to the full ex tent of a[l the powers conferred by the fed eral constitution. And we do not deem it in consistent with the good faith in which we have accepted this accommodation, and intend to maintain it, to declare, that while we are swearing to be faithful to the State, we intend “to support the Con stitution and Laws of the United States, made m pursuance thereof, as the supreme law of the land. Councellor C ,of Georgia al- ways succeeded best in his forensic efforts when he had the advantage ol a little ar tificial stimulus. On one occasion when he had to appear in au important case be fore Judge D , he directed the Sher iff to prepare him a pitcher of grog and set it down by him when he commenced his argument. The Judge, said he. will not know but it is water. So the counsel lor spoke and drank, and drank and spoke for two or three hours; when beginning to [ speak pre’ty free, familliar and saucy, and perceiving that the Judge, (who was not exactly a temperance man) looked ra 'iherdryand weary, he poured a glass full from the pitcher and said, IVYII your honor take a glass of water? If you please said the Judge, and it was handed to him. He drank it and turning to the sheriff’he said. Bring me that pitcher C looked blank enoirgh, not knowing what was to come next. The Judge took the pitcher and finding it emp ty or nearly so, he turned again to the sherifi'and said Mr. Sheriff, take this pitch er and bring me a pitcher of water, and see that you bring it out of the same spring from which you brought the last. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. Among the acts passed by the Legisla ture of Georgia, at the last session, are the following:— To alter and arntffid an act entitled an act regulating the commission of tax-col lectors and receivers, in the several coun ties in this state. To extend an act, heretofore passed,enti tied an act for the incorporation of the Steam boat Company of Georgia. Authorising any person to apply to a justice of the peace for the removal of ob structions to fish in Broad and Savannah rivers. 1 o authorize the inferior court of Jef ferson and Bibb counties, to levy an extra tax for county purposes. To amend an act, passed December 23d, 1833, to compensate one ofthe justi ces ofthe peace, who may be a superin tendent of the elections at the several el ection precincts in the county of Warren. To compensate one ofthe justices of the peace, who may be the superintendant of lhe elections at the several election pre cincts for the county of Burke, and bro ther purposes. To repeal to the seventh section of an act entitled an act to define the dnties and authority ofthe commissioners of Wash ington Wilkes county, passed December 7, 1834, together with so much ofthe sth section thereof as relates to the town lim its; aud the duties and authority of the commiseioners, imposed and conferred to be exercisedtherein, to the corporate lim its mentioned iu said act, and to make the phrases ‘corporate limits’ and ‘town lim its,’ wherever occurring in said act, of e quivalent import, To legalize the acts ofthe Senatus Ac ademicus, in November, 1834, and to make certain grants mentioned therein, valid and receivable in evidence in the se veral courts ofjustice in this state. To authorize the Cherokee Indians to dispose of their improvements for pubiic purposes. To define the mode under which costs undei the act entitled an act to revise and amend an act for ascertaining the fees of public officers of this state r passed Decem ber 8, 1792, shall be tacsed and collected in future; To establish a t-urnpike road, and sot constructing airebkeeping t»p the same, from Dahlonega, m Lumkin county, by the way of Ellijay, in Gilmer county, to the Tennessee line, so as to intersect the federal road at or near where the said road crosses the said- line. To<amend an actentitledan-act to make constables elective by the people; and the mode of taking their bonds, and point out theiirduty in certain cases; To amend an act entitled an act more effectuallly to provide for the protection of the Cherokee Indians within the limits of Georgia, and to prescribe bounds of their occupant claims, and also to author ize grants to issue for lots drawn in the late land and gold lotteries in. certain ca ses, and to provide for the appointment of an agent to carry certain parts thereof into execution, and to fix the salary of sue bagent, and to prosecute those persons who may deter Indians from enrolling for emigration, passed. December 29, 18- 34. To- authorize certain persons therein named, and their associotes their heirs and assigns to build a bridge over ihe Sa vannah River, at or near the end of Me Kinne street or Mill-street, in the city of Augusta. To alter the times of the session of the superior courts of the southern circuit. To impose, levy, and collect a tax in support of Government, for the political year 1835. <fcc. To authorize executors administrators end guardians, to have recorded all re ceipts showing final settlement, tec. To repeal the last section of an act to make banks and other corporations,subject to garnishment, and to regulate proceed ings against garnishees in certain cases, passed December 24,1832. To amend an act concerning free per sons of color, their guardians, and colour ed preachers. To make penal the hiring of their time to slaves by their owners, or other per sons having charge of them so far as re lates to the counties therein named. To authorise the issuing and serving of attachment and bail processes in certain cases on the Sabbath day. To altar and amend a part of the first secticn of the third article of the constitu tion ofthe state, To alter the several laws on the sub ject of the poor school fund, so far as re lates to the time of disbursment by the trus tees, To regulate the fees on grants for lots ten and one hundred, heretofore set apart for academic purposes. To revive and continue in force an act to admit certain deeds to record, and to authorise the same, or copies thereof, to be read in evidence, and also thecopiesof certain other deeds, assented to Decem ber 23, 1826. -• To amend and consolidate the acts heretofore passed, incorporating the Brunswick Canal and Rail Road Com pany. To aid the opening of the port of Bruns wick to the central and interior parts of Georgia To authorise the fecpvcry of meSM profits, and to prevent a action lor mesne profits, and to restrict the operation of judgment for the same. To require the justices of the inferior courts of this State, while sitting for or dinary purposes, to declare an intestacy in certain cases. To incorporate the Georgia Lumber Company. To appropriate a sum of money, to cut out and put in order the road lately marlin ed from Columbus to St. Mary’s. 1 o make all cases returned to the Sep tember term, 1834, of Elbert superior court, stand for trial at March term, 1835. To sell with the consent ofthe inform er, all lots of land drawn in the gold lotte ry, in the Cherokee territory, returned and condemned as fraudulently drawtu To incorporate certain persons under the name and style of the Richmond Fac tory. To alter and change the time of hol ding the inferior courts ofthe county of Henry. To amend an act to exempt from saler for debts contracted after a given time, cer»- tain articles chiefly necessary for the >ub~- sistence of the debtor’s family. To alter and amend the 4th and Btb sections ofthe Ist article of the constitu tion of the state of Georgia. To extend the civil jurisdiction* of cer tain justices of the peace of Richmond, over the city of Augusta. To establish election precincts in the several counties hereinafter named, and to repeal certain laws passed for the es tablishing election precincts, and to pro vide for the punishment of persons who> may commit frauds at said elections. To give master masons and master carpenters liens on all buildings erected by them, and for materials found, and to repeal ail local laws in relation thereto it the several counties and cities therein mentioned. To amend the several acts relative the issuing of summons of garnishment, and procedings against garnishees. To repeal in part an act entitled an act to authorize the clerks, Sheriffs, and oth er offiers in any of the counties ofthe Southern, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Western’ Circuits, and of the county of Warren, to insert their advertisements in any ga zette published in Milledgeville, &.c. To change the time of holding the supe rior courts ofthe Chattahooche circuit. To incorporate the Atlantic and New- Orleans Seaboard Line Company. To authorize the justices of the inferior courts in the several counties in this state, to grant private ways in certain cases. To amend the several acts in relation to the court of Common Pleas of Augusta. No authorize the Courts of Ordinary ofthe different counties in this state, to issue commissions of lunacy, and to re gulate the proceedings thereon. To authorize and premit such persona as may have drawn l lots- in the late land and gold lotteries ofthirstate, which may be in the occupancy of Cherokee Indians, • or other persons claiming in right of In dian families, to test the same for gold and : operate thereon under certain restrictions, either by themselves or persons legally authorized thereto by said drawers. To authorise and empower the City Council of Augusta, and the Trustees of Richmond County Academy, to convey to the Athens Rail Road Company in fee simple, ten acres of the town com most' lots of Augusta. To'make valid Constables’ Bonds in< certain cases. * . To appropriate ippoey for the support' of government for the political year 1835. To alter and amend the 2d-section of an act to incorporate the town of Lincoln ton, in the county of Lincoln. To extend the charter of the Bank of Darien To establish a turnpike road commen cing on the Tennessee line, where tho old federal road intersects it, thence run ning to the eastern bank of the Etowah; Georgia, Richmond Countj- WHEREAS, George M. Crawford ap plies for Letters of Administration on* the Estate of David Bowers deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all persons concerned to be and appear at my office' within the time prescribed by law, and show cause (if any) why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at office this 29th dajr of Dec. 1824. * « GEO. M. WALKER, 0.C.0. Dec. 29 154 The Justices of the Inferior Court for the County ©’ Richmond, will on the first Monday in January next, proceed to appoint a person to take charge ofthe pool House for the term of twelve months. Applications must be in wri ting, and the terms can be made known by ap plying to any member ofthe Court, or to the un dersigned. By order of the Court. JAMES McLAWS, Cl’k. Dec 24 3t 153 KNGLISII GAHDEN HEED. AVERY large and general assortment, em bracing almost every kind and Imported, put up, and for sate by R. B. HAVILAND* Co, Also, a few Barrels of superior Top Onions, A Card to the I.adies. MRS. C. HOFFMAN, Broad street, three doors above J. K. Kilburn's RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies of Augusta and Hamburg, grateful for past favors, that she has received and opened a new PATTERN BONNET, of latest fashion, with some beautiful figured Silks, Ribbons, Flowers, and Patterns in Dress Making. She hopes to be worthy the attention of the Ladies, and to merit their call and patronage. December 15 5t 149 NEGROBS FOR SALE. ON the first day of January next, will be sold atEdgfield Court House, Sixty-five Ne groes, consisting of field and house servants. Among the number, arc a first rate Carriage Dtiverand body servants, several excellent Cooks, and other valuable house servants. Teims of sale—Twelve months credit, ELIZA BACON, Adm‘x. Dec, 22 td 152 The Augusta Courier and Hamburg Ga laxy will publish the above untill the day ot sale.