Georgia Historic Newspapers

    none to which Georgia is a party, which
would bo at all infracted by a cession of
this territory;—we know of one with the
nited States which is quite as solemn as
any they have made with either white or
red “ principalities or powers” and which
zvill be grievously broken unless Georgia
gets this land. Nay, we know of two— the
other is the treaty made by Messrs. Camp
bell & Merriwether, which must be carried
into effect, or the United States will “ vio
late (our) rights and the solemn obliga
tions” imposed both by it, and the com
pact of 1802. If the Government, act
ing unwisely, has at any time entered
into an obligation to become the guarantee of
the Creek possession—it is neither our aulif
nor our business. Turn then as she will,
she must violate a treaty and not me. If she
performs her duty to Georgia, site may be
faithless to the Indians; if she adheres to the
guarantee, she breaks her solemn and pligh
ted faith to us. If such a dilemma exist,
we are sorry for it—but we must injustice
to ourselves, call for the fulfilment of the
contract with us. Again, our enemies ar
ray themselves against us because they
would protect the great principles of Chris
tianity lalas!—and we affect not piety—
that so holy a theme should be invoked to
the aid of so gross an aspersion. The party
to which we belong, as has been repeatedly
avowed, desires to obtain the land within
our limits upon fair principles —to be just
to the United States and to receive justice
at their hands. That party if we understand
any thing about it, is anxious to disseminate
true political doctrines—to improve our ju
risprudence—to sustain “ public educa
tion”—to enlighten the people and protect
their rights and interests. And shall we be
told that we are running counter to the priii*
ciples of Christianity ?—He who makes the
assertion wants grace himself or is blame
fully ignorant of the domestic politics of
Georgia. But Governor Troup is the vio
lent leader of a violent party. We deny
it. The Governor has no malignity in his
composition ; and in this respect is wholly
unlike—if we may compare great things
with small—the insolent writer of our text.
He is energetic as a public officer--and mild
and amiable in his private relations. He
speaks strongly but “ he would sacrifice his
life to maintain the Union but for a single
day.” For the rest, let the party be polled
--and it will be found that the great majori
ty are opposed to violent men & violent mea
sures. They are attached heart and soul to
the Union, and would govern-- since in re
publics the greater number must govern
by addressing the understandings ami not
the passions or feelings of their fellow-citi
zens. We have perhaps enlarged too much
—but it was incumbent upon u.» to repel a li
bel, dark—mischievous and unjust.
Executive Appointments. —ln pursuance
of the resolution of the Committee of the
late Legislature, on the case of Crowell’
Governor Troup has appointed Col. Seaborn
holies, Col. Warren Jourdan, J. Torrance,
Esq. and Col. William W. Williamson, to
collect and receive evidence in the same,
with power to send for persons and papers,
&c. The last of these gentlemen is the
Brother-in-law of General Clark.
ffav, Georgian,
ALTERKD NOTES,
A discovery has been made which will
perhaps, at least for the present, put a stop to
the circulation of the numerous altered Bank
notes with which the unwary have been de
ceived for a time past. One of these notes,
a one dollar bill of the Darien Bank, alter
ed to a three, was offered at a store on
Thursday night, by a person whose appear
ance excited suspicion. He was followed,
and discovered in the attempt to pass the
bill, in another store ; in a third, he was sei
zed by Mr. Ruckhill the Comity Consta
ble, in the act of passing the same ))ill.—
'The offerer was immediately taken before
Justice Barton, where he was identified as
the same person who, the day previous, had
attempted to pass an altered note of the
Bank ot the State of South-Carolina. He
was the same night accompanied to his
House, by Justices Barton and Russel,
where a search took place. Among the ar
ticles found were the implements of his
trade, consisting of pens, hair pencils, &,c.
three vials of composition, supposed to ex
tract the ink from the genuine notes, and
fill them up; and several genuine one dol
lar bills. The prisoner gave his name as
James Smith, from Elizabeth City.—
Smith, (which it is believed is not his real
name) appears to be a foreigner, a Spaniard
or Portuguese ; and, when apprehended, had
on a straw hat turned up behind, light pan
taloons, and a light striped jacket. He has
been in the city, we understand, three
aveeks. He was fully committed for trial
in tne Superior Court, in Januaiy next, on
a charge of altering a one dollar note of the
Bank Stale of Georgia to five—a one dollar
note of the Bank of Darien to three, and a
one dollar note of the Bank of the state of
South-Carolina to two. 'The means by
which these bills were prepared, was by ex
tracting the true denomination by a chemi
cal preparation, and then altering them by
means of a pen. The alterations, however,
were easily discoverable on examination.
[ lbid .
-«*#•—
The house of Samuel Amok, near Clinton,
was struck by lightning on Saturday last,
and Mrs. Cook instantly killed. The house
w’asconsiderably damaged.
Macon Messenger.
i. FOR the constitutionalist,
j VlawvVmvg “ W.^iuinVceucea.”
r NO. 1.
1 Mr. Editor,
1 Having seen in the Hamburg
: Gazette, an article purporting to be “ Ya
zoo Reminicences,” 1 was led by curiosity
to give it a slight perusal, and I ton ml that
ihe editor of that paper had given a pledge
to expose, what he terms, “ that nefarious
■ transaction,” with a view of “ drawing in-
J Terences” applicable to the present spirit of
• the times in misstate. In a paper of a pos-
I terior date however, lie turns over the task
t to a new hand, who is so obliging as to fur
■ nish a “ communication” on the subject.—
; | Unfortunate we are as a stale, that we
! |sliould have such eagle eyed-critics to scan
! }our actions, and repeat to the astonished
"j world, what the world would not in all pro
fitability have ever dreamt of, had it not beenj
; ;for the warnings of these Mentors Sen. and
3 Jun’r.
' The writer appears to have been deep in
die study of Bailey’s Dictionary, and to 1
'[have culled out from thence “all those names
"l which virtuous and enlightened patriotism
’ so well knows how to bestow on delinquent
representatives.”—Such essays, or rather
ijsuch principles are not worthy of argument
I I to confute. Raised by hypothesis, to at-j
t tempt to counteract them by sound reason,’
would be equally absurd with the principles'
11 contradicted. They only deserve to be
“Treated with a contemptuous ridicule, or,
[with that jesting pleasantry with which we 1
■ would listen or reply to the embittered
t drgamings of madmen.
e (irave and sententious in his style the au-I
r thor strives to hide his want of knowledge
B on the subject by bold assertions and well;
‘ rounded periods ; and evidently protract
‘ his remarks, for the purpose of having it
supposed that “ the subject requires to be
f deliberately gone into,”—What has produ
ced this dreadful attack, or what circum
f j stances at ihe present are so precisely simi
lar as to require a “ detailed history” of a
• transaction somewhat more than thirty years
1 j dead, or why—or when—or wherefore, we
“jare yet to learn. Were I capable of giving
s j them advice. I should tell them, that adepts
13 as they are in the political history of tieor
• gia, in her “ financial destiny”—“ with
• anecdotes relative to” and “ important
- communications from “gentlemen of high
0 standing and respectability” and “ persons
- well acquainted with the circumstances”
• they had better burn their “ authentic docu
ments” tear their “valuable MSS.” des
- troy their “ Letters to the Editor” anil out
1 of compassion to their readers, give their
• little wits a holiday. Hannibals as they are
in the war of words, they should recollect,
a writers “ facts” as well as a Generals men
E will something become scarce—and as out
e ofa large army we often find but few vete
rans, so, from a great compilation of words.
1 however well they may think them attested,
. lew are believed, and moreover for their en
" tire instruction and amusement, I would tell
> them that even Hannibal once said, afterall
’• Ids boasting and inveteracy, Ego Hannibal
e peto pacern, which (hey may find, if they
know where to look for it.
It is but fair that all kinds of favors should
he reciprocated ; therefore as “ I am well
acquainted with the History of” Hamburg
1 and “ the Bank of Hamburg” so named,
3 known, called and denominated; and as I
c am likewise acquainted “ with many inter
- esting anecdotes relative thereto” and ex
. pect “ important communications” contain
■ ing “ authentic documents, from “ gentle
> men of high standing” and persons “well
• acquainted with” the “ facts” (I do like to
>■ quote thats the truth of it) I shall weeklv,
3 as I compile them, furnish you with such''a
-history that it will astonish them and cou
- found creation.—But of that hereafter—
Quid sit futurum eras, fuge qncerere
■■ Citrpe diem,
s (Vou Mr, Editor, who are acquainted with
I such things, know that a history got up with
3 so many helps, must needs he amusing and
3 I bespeak your good humour on the occa-l
• sion. This I say to you in parenthesis, bc-l
. cause I wish there to be a good understand-!
■ ing between us.)
3 Genius may sometimes be an excuse fori
• imprudence, but where it is unenlightened
-by the smallest spark of ethcrial fire, what
I apology can be made for it ? None—that is 1
- just what I say. But it appears I differ rna
-3 terially from the writers in the Gazette afore- 1
■ said. They think (I reason from facts, or 1
I as they say “draw inferences.” Draw in- !
1 ferenc.es—Hogarth never did that ; they 1
! “ draw inferences”—had they confined their 1
■ genius to drawing him off boots or on night
» caps, I had not minded it, but for them to
3 talk of “drawing inferences ” puts me quite '•
I out of patience. Where did I leave off
i oh—) They think that provided impudence
3 is supported by a bold exterior if I may so
r call it, a da hittg, head long, hare-um-scare- i
i um, daredevil kind of style, that if these I
1 appendages are not received as an apology,! I
' they should at least serve as a check. Now '
if we vcceive truth as the criterion of rogu-l
- larity, I should say such an opinion is an h
I omalous—(by the way that anomalous is anl l
, awkward word, but as it is intended for the!'
benefit of the writers in the Hamburg Ga--1
Izet’e alone—viz. on the Darien Bank—and (
I Yazoo, to tell the truth I wish to send them
>| to their dictionary to discover its meaning ; i
, I hid no other earthly purpose in using it, I
3 and besides as this number is merely intro j
ductor>, 1 shall not mind its being a little 1
j desultory.) |
•* There is” says Horace, “no joke in
being malignant,” 1 beg leave to differ a
little, yet I may be in the wrong. None
have as yet accused Horace of wanting sense,
except probably when he wrote his ode of
Quanta laboras in charybdi
Digne, peur, meliore Jtama.
but let it pass as it may, if any dispute the
fact that malignity may become a joke,
and a very good one too, I beg leave for
their better information to say tint the vvri
, ters in the Gazette made a desperately cour
ageous attack on the state bank.—lt was
• the most laughable thing in the world.
They sent an advance guard of remarks,
supported by a corps de reserve of “ docu
ments” against that of Darien : So capital
. was the joke that even grave Aldermen ■, al
i most split their sides at it: And now they
i rake up ashes which have been lying thirty
years to scatter on the four winds of heaven,
|that all the earth may echo with merriments ;
and this surely is the best thing that ever
was.—They have certainly a great advan
tage over many brothers of the quill, for
they have the majority of laughers on their
i side; not with, however, but at them. Yet
i as long us people laugh the end is answered,
and it can make but very little difference to
; them, provided they ever discover it, wheth
■ er it is at, or with.
People may say what they please ; Watts’
I may descant, and Locke reason, but never
theless Shaftesbury is right after all. " Ri
dicule is the test of sense,” and I was never
. more fully convinced of the correctness of
■ the principle than lam at present; there
nis one thing more I should like to know, and
I beg the Hamburg Gazette writers, as they
jappear to be quite knowing on all subjects.
.Ito answer particularly this,—-What is the
. test of impudence?
There are many things which are ra
jther too insignificant to be angry with ;
[we should be ashamed of ourselves should
jwe get into a passion with a fly, or al
low ourselves to burst w|th rage at a mus
quitoe, however they might hum, buzz or
bite. It is for this reason that so little no
tice has been taken of the writers in the
aforesaid Gazette, and they, because we
have treated them with a silent contempt,
imputing silence to fear, have grown so hold
| that forbearance is no longer a virtue with
regard to them. We have suffered them to
make merry with the sound of our music so
long, that they begin to think they may claim
the entire fiddle in their own rights, t hey
are right welcome to it, but I will make them
pay the piper nevertheles.—Byron has said
“My Poem’s an Kpic and isn>cantto bn
** Divided iii twelve books Pitch book containing’’
Os “ Rad and Black m;<rks” u full history, '
Hamburg, aijd JJank of Hamburg.
Byron, did not write nor say the two last
lines and to tell the truth, he never wrote
too such lines in his life—but take the four
lines as they speak my moaning exact
ly. To speak positively, I shall divjde my
discourse into twelve parts or more if I think
proper; provided you Mr. Editor have no
objection to my breaking a lance with them,
and your paper as the lists of the tourna
ment. “Be thou the Achilles of the lists,
the Patroclus I.” We may in the course
i of time teach them the wisdom of a remark
made by one of Shakespears characters to
his comrade “ I am sorry I beat thee” this
we shall say adding the ballance of the sen
tence byway of admonition “ but remem
ber as long as thou livest to keep a good
tongue in thy mouth.” Shakespeare I be
lieve says hc&d, bpt were I to allow them
heads, they would claim the brains in the
bargain and I should object to that. To be
sure it is in the first plac t a terrible tiling for
one to be so outrageously attacked, but af
ter one discovers, that one is fired at with
j blank cartridges, why one don’t mind it so
much. Their attack looked somewhat seri
ous at its commencement. They had char- i
ged heavily with powder, but having no ball,
(they have plenty of lead if one may judge
from their heaviness) they rolled up a most
curious wad, thinking it would answer their ■
purpose every bit as well. To speak with
out figure, as they had not truth to support c
their charges they fumbled up a tale which
(they thought Would look quite as well in
j the distance; and they talked and talked .
[and talked. It is true 1 acknowledge it,
[some might have been alarmed at first, but ,
[they looked only at the appearance without
listening to the voice. Had they read '
Ksop they would have known better. They
[should have listened and not looked [vide
I the Ass and the Lions skin,] For as soon as
the voice was heard, the difference between /
their braying and the expected roaring was
so great, that the frighted animals laughed
at their former fears, and to complete the v
fable, I intend right gently to strip them of
their skins: metaphorically speaking.—
Heaven forbid that 1 should be so inhuman
as to do it any other way.
CHOAKKH.
In celebrating (be arrival of General La- *
faveti r. at Geneva, a Captain Parsons was Vj
killed by the explosion of a swivel. The
following are the particulars of the ac
count :
A number of villagers had gathered in the
morning at Earll’s tavern, and hail several -
times fired a small field piece, or swivel.
Two individuals then loaded it extremely <t
heavy, aid to complete the climax of impru "
donee, rammed down oakum on the top of
the load, driving it solid home wiih an axe !
One of them, it is said, attempted to fire it,
but failed. At the instant, Capt. Parsons
was returning across the street from his
■ breakfast to the Mill, knowing nothing of u
I the manner in widen the piece was loaded, a
i touched it off, and was killed in an instant,
i Die piece of course barsted, and he was lite
' rally cut in two just above the hips, and
, shockingly mangled.
The statement in several of tho papers,
(says the New-York Mercantile Advertiser)
• that a trunk belonging to Gen. Lafayette,
which was lost in the Ohio has been re
covered, we are sorry to say is not correct.
Hlarriefc,
On ThnritlHV Evening last By the Rev. Thoa. Gardner, Mr.
K)HN S. LOTT, to Miss SAHAH ANN, daughter of the
Rev. John Liverinmi—both of this city.
GEOIUiIA I'L.VUVVUiViS.
Y'U ur« hereby ordered to appear at your
I’ir ule (.round, in (root of the City-Hull, on
t "ONOAY the 4 b Ji;|y next, at 9 o'clock, A. M.
ai med and equipped, as die by laws of the Corn-
J pany direct—W ith six rounds of blank cartridges
by order of Lieut Stuhoes.
J. Morand, Act. 0. S.
? June 2d 2i 1
A rri< , NTIuN ,
La Fayette Riflemen !!
f A PPEAU on vonr parade ground on MOND AY
I /I next, the 4tb July—completely armed and
i equipped, agreeably to company bye laws—with
i ox round of blank cartridges.
Hy order of Cup'. Coi.l)WEpp,
J. M. Cooper, O. S.
June 28 2 1
Irish Volunteers I!
'SdSTU.I. Parade on Monday the 4tbsJnly, at 9
»* o’clock. A. M. in Creen Street, tbeir left
on Jnckson-Street, completely armed and (quip
ped.
By order of Capt Coiimick,
Kayficld, o. e.
June 28 2 1 1
ATTENTION !
Hamilton Riflemen. J
APPEAKon Parade, in front of tin City Hall,
'I nul iv the U i of July, at 9 o’clock, A. M. 1
armed and equipped, according to the by-laws o(
die corps
By order of Capt. Cummin o.
Grant, o. s.
June 23 2t I
To-morrow morning, 1 shall -
cun me ice killing ail DOCS, touml running ai
arge, inthe s’re'ls at Augu ta.
John W. Read, C. M.
•Lin** 2$ It 1 *
—S—. *—— St
y AjU demands against Marshall
and Stewart, n iccui it o, in. New Wharf, art
requested to be nanded ih immediately to U. II i
Wiliams for payment. f
.lun 28 It 1
STiapfk -
'IAIR subscriber, admitted to practice in the f
A several Cou Is ot I.aw and Equity in this
•) »te, offers to the public bii proiessional serf,
vices in ilie Courts of
Hthb, j Henry, j Jgneo, I Crawford,
Jitonrge, j Jasper, ( I'wU't's | Pike.
Washington Poe.
n | j
Macon, Hibb County, (.Ca.J / ,
Jtt .28 1825 ' 5 1 j!
AUIfIiWAOB. LL.UVLt. ‘
BOXES fust quality CHAIEAU MAE I
...LX CI.AHE l ,
For Hale hy
Pillot & Leßarfiier.
MMr 1 H LAFirVL’S. broad Street
June 27 4- 1 ,e
srmpe.vior PwuvUaj V\uur, ~
RARRIiLh first quality How-Jr
• U street FLOUR, warr.ni < f’rtuh tr/ound. ( J
JUS I RKLFJVKI* HY < .
William 11. Egan. 01
June ?8 2i t
_ in
& VV anted at this office, a youth, f t [
irotn 15 to 16 >earn ot age, o: industrious habits, qt
as an apprentice to the Printing Business,
wwmw& 9
TftlS WAT,
WILL BK SOLD,
Without lieserve,
By ft. TICKET,
fi BARRELS GLV,
11 Hluls Whiskey,
12 Bum Is do
10 illuls. Hum,
15 do Molasses,
40 lilies and 3 Barrels Coffee,
3 Hoses Prunes,
ALS—
O-16 Bales white Shirting,
10 do Sacking,
* iso—
-1000 Bushels Corn,
—a i.sn—
' 25 Boxes Sfgars.
8 Cases Glass Ware.
—ALSO—*
50 Barrels FI ur.
Terms liberal and declared at sale.
June 28 2( 104
WILL BE LEAS Est
On Saturday 2d of July on the pre
mises, for a term of years,
By H. PftqUET,
SEVERAL Valuable LOT'S well situated for the
purchase of Cotton, or Grocery Slurp, being
opposite to Messrs. Apsley 8t Snead's Ware-
House.—By nrder of the Executors of the late
.lohn Milledge, Eiq.
June 28 2t 1
A flue, PVauo VorVe,
For Sale by
B. Picqnet.
June 28 2t 1
BOXES Windsor Glass, 8 by 10 Si 10 by 12
4 do London Mustard,
2 do Grass Cut Tobacco,
10 Oaths Superior London Porter,
5 do London pale Ale,
15 Barrels Green Coffee,
6 Cases Tumblers,
i 4 Hilda. Philadelphia fTy e Whiskey, six
years old,
1 Bale Oznaburgs
4 Kegs Pearl Harley,
7000 Neal Cabana Segura,
10 Bbls. 4lh proof Philadelphia Rye Wins
key,
20 do 3d proof do do
■lust arrived In
William 11. Egan.
Tune 28 1
(0* VVm. I). Abernkthv, is du
ly authorised to trsn.act business lor me during
my absence from this place.
Adna Rowe.
P. S.—The subscriber has on hand a general
assortment of seasonsb'e
DRY GOODS,
And will he occasionally receiving fresh sup.
plies through the aiiminer. 1 '
Adua Rowe.
June 28 6t I
ivEW AN ft UlPaOYEft
®i©a*?r(Ds? (sasrs.
The Subscriber
HAVING been appointed Agent for JAMES
Id I ILK & SONS, Manufacturers of Cotton
(ims, will attend to order soy the same of any di
mentions with promptness, and assures the Plan,
(ers that the same slia/l be executed in tin; best
style of workmanship on the newly improved
principle.
The Gins will be delivered at bis Ware House
for the prices charged at the Manufactory
William 11. Kgan,
Upper purl south side Broad-street.
—ft ii ft and—.
I GIN nf thirty six Saws.
June 2h 4i t j
TT TO RKNT,
1-> -a From the first of October next.
The Brick store, lately occupied by Messrs. W il
,on and Cochran.
—ALSO —
The commodious I? welling House,
immediately in the rear thereof, on Ellis-Struet.
Apply to
M. A. B. While.
June 28 1
M)TICE.
THE undersigned has appointed John fj, ■
Mann, Esq. his agent during his absenca
tom Augusta.
And has also to Kent ,
[mi?! A Commodious Dwelling
House, with a good Garden, Carriage-House,
di other needful out houses, situated near the
liagle'Tavern, on Heynold-S reel.— Possession
a be given on the first of Oct >b, r next.
Asaph Waterman.
June 28 1
Wanted to Hire,
4 VOTING Negro Woman, one who has had
l». some expenei ce in Nursing, would be pre
- red. —ih quire at tins Ullice.
Jim* 2n It 1
TAKE.V ~
ITVtOVI the back part of the house belonging to
’ J.mes Fra-er, Esq. in Ellis-street, a Liquor
:..se, with Bottles—the case tiad been just painted
uiiogany color, and being put out to dry was ta
en ort. Whoever will return it to the place
-onn whence it was taken, or leave it at the Au
uaia Hook-tore, or give information of it, so that
ic owner gets it, shall receive a reward if fe
inted, together with the owrtm’t thanks.
June 24 IU4