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ir rmbers tn a r-’ ‘ Jvt body r ver vote in cafes i-'re their own c r even the i a . * •**; or a near rela te on is me km? At cd t..e. vote, and indeed in pie arid • uninformed as the author of No. I. appears to be, he tnioir have fmee heard, that when the chairman of the commit-’ tee, in the fit ft fhge of this bu fine It, was about to make the then un known report agaiuft: die perfonal conduce of the coinmiflioners, that one ef the fecurlcies, then delegate from the county of Clark, on the floor of the lower houfe, role from his feat and informejitht: honorable the fpeaiter and. members, Ci foil houfe then fining, that he was one of the comm Hi mers lecurims, and that he rt quelled of the houle the liberty of retiring from ail qotf* tions that nv* Abe profound :o re lative to that cafe during the flef fion, beeauft, he laid, he d,£ not w.fh to vote in a cafe which even tually might implicate him in di mages ar. ftcunty, &c. Upon which cornrnvnication he received me cordial and highly eIL-emed approbation of the houle for that 1 pecks of juft ice and candor to the heuft, and conihqucmly retired on the queft o >s. Well, bsnejly fee ms to be the topic of the .times, of which probaob; wc may have oc caflon in freak more at iurge in forne iubiVciicnc number ro the i.idstaftfton ot cur citizens:, with a tr v f pedal remarks before the firft K:i-nciav m uiceber, notwithitan > ing the fnormf.ft of the time. Since in:.- bod jargon of nvifro prudent-; on has been introduced, ob vie : fly to bias the voce's, anti to threcl: V)t fofF?r-gc- of our freemen, contrary to their own free will, by Gift ftatrmenrs. r ■ and to advkft them ;.i the ducdticrt of their, choice of en, wheft T? ■ • -eO’ is co rv ft <y>-j ---tr>z with their cm n, have harped much ucon the Co!—yet ho: hi or has been laid of a much higher ‘(.4- fi er than tr.m uf a Col and a can didate too, who has hui hi& name hovering .about the i ft of candi dates ft)r ft? ms time, fo'me timts for Lnator, fome tunes for the lower houfe, and at left condtfc uided to mater the lift of candidates fir the lower home. This hph ofneer, I fwta told, lias been honot ;d wi h tee appointment ot G.-oerA and eleot-rd io ft■ 1 an higher offi-e duo a ly of cur little county candidates now i tier tor. Is this the gentleman who wfaed the land lately acquired i w>m tbo Creek. Indians, funk into a from the Appalatchce to Ga in ulgee, rir her than the poor people c • Ge- * g■;v fhou 1 and have it divide J amongft them*, &c. dec. Sec. ! ! ! A 11 I* the fame gentleman, lam lore it requires but little judgment to fay that neither he, him left, or h.s inrereft is very like that of che people's. The author of No. I. would perhaps do well in his next number, if ae chines to proceed, to recommend the per fen that he would w.fti io cram down the throats of the free and republican white men in the county of Clark ; and that if he intends hone ft friend inip to the fret men of the county of Clark, he fhould dictate to them openly and rairlv, not to xjifguile himfeli oncer a fictitious name, as be has in his vague and filly com jpofitipn in No. I. I lament that occurrences, re aching from the iniireprefencarjons in No. 1, compelled this juft and veil dtlcrved reply, with a hope, that the freemen of the county of Clar It my uft their ownu nbi afed choice in the exer ifeef their own unalienable and indcfefible right of ft.ftftage a: the enfiling annual elec- rVoo; as well as at all other elegions to he h dden in, and throughout toe (iirrfren: counties in the iuie oi Georgia. I fhuii not appear often on ttiiS iubji'Ct. Cft\TO. To the Citizens vf Claik County. Front objtrving ihi fcur rthus ptfCJ of the id of September, 12 09, in the cr Foreign Correspondent Cs> Georgia Exprefsunder the fignature ct Franklin ; finding my reputation im peached and called in quefiion in n number of ridiculous interrogations , I ‘eel it c duty [ owe to my.fellow ci tizens to anfmer foiiie of tkof'e inter rogations. in his giving a lengthy caution io the citizens of Clark county , pointing vut the evil which may re jult. ff* ;t eleCing members to Jerve in the next legiJ2.iture—then comes down to Hay men Runnels , who the nn iter has bed in view in bis tntroduhUm, ‘There afks the freemen of the county of Clark , whether /am not bound in theJtim of thirty thoufand dollars as fecunty to one cf the commijjioners ? It is well known, and never denied by me, that / became f' cur tty to one f the can stiff;oners for felling the frac - tions ; and in the bond given there is a penalty of thirty tb'ufanF dollars. I was led to beer me fecurity from a ’ belief that he ti ns adequate to the truji repo fid in him, well knowing that Toe fed ‘comiifjjic-ner had receivee ’ riff.-revt asp?in?wcv f s fro*n the Jit cm of the Peace ‘when coi’cPeU that purpofe, and had riven reive hie fecuriiy in all his appoh in the county—then followed the pointment cf comm ffionem from the gijlature. In allthe.fi important ej print menu he bad received from fur,, to time, an and never having ct that time betrayed tie truji rrpefedin him, was t zi'’ zt roz-erned ms to become his ‘ecu my - l was no divine more ‘than 0- thf.rs who were fecuriiy. to difevveh what vs.is in bis heart 10 do, This a rat or t yes'ares cn the Party thoufand dimes, hwi and in what way it is to be Iff Jb vild tby good people of the enemy of Cla> h think proper to cleft me at she fn/v>.g ekftim Certainly this great ctator has not examined bis him authors to know whether it is a con eft principle laid do wn in o r will it be j'Plies that all penal bonds fhould be collected where the damage doth not appear to be afier tmined Con it be prefumed that any wife man cr fit cf men will fay that on a penal bond that thirty thoufind dollars jhali be received. J pr;fume not. lAn.d cs to the great orator of No. 1 he obferves tn his interroga tions, that / rely on the merry of ray country, to wit , the kgiflature , from the payment of the bond, on which fuit is brought, and that lint end waking no defence. How the Writer cam; by his , information or divination is ui known to ms, nor do leave, for I e;< petit to rely on a jury in & court of judicature, who will likely be nit blinded with prejudice nor reijed by party faff ions, as lam led to believe the orator of No., I. was when he wrote his long epijile to the people cf Clark county. When the people have fo long fleered clear cf party ifm he mu ft have been the tool of a party , who no and übt have aij covered that no other alternative would anfwtr tkeir fur pofes at the enfuing election but that of a party. Number one goes cn to ajk a good many ridiculous quejlUns , which I jhall not trouble myfelf to anfwer. He fates that my intereji an i the people’s are at war with each other—but at all times Icorfider my feij engaged in one common county's caufe. ihe orator of No. I. goes en in panting out queftions and anjwerhig idem hkr ex , cevv, Whu ~;s mjtgn^r- Cn:ii I'njitvi ions, endeavors to chirps ink the C9sK:>; jji.rLcrs of a,:ej*tles of junc tion:—ns j Lave p>m t&dir the ne (tJfjUycf publijbijng the denial of tba> in ibrte different gazettes in iris fate p r ior to this , that ail fitch propaga tions srfufptcicns, going to charge me as before mentioned, I declare that all fitch inj inuations are frife, malicious ad unfcundfd. Ihe orator goes cn ther io ji ate a number of quejlisus hoping in corifiqitencs cf my being a candidate . and wi thing tc fer-ve the people, draws a fair conclujton, that J cannot be an honed man. / call cn the )-■ hie writer ar.d all his affiliates to come forward before any tribunal of this fate, with all their bulwarks, end jheve in any one ir, fiance where I have ever ailed beyond that of an horejl man. But drawing to a con *• chjhn, and being unwilling to treu !e try readers with any further detail, I am led to believe that the orator cf No. J. baa no well founded opinion of his own, but mifil have been prompted on io dujOy fo as to become the cots paw of a party. For the prefent l will take have cf the fubfeft. HAR MO N ‘RUNNELS. j|nnp.roti; itw mill rrn ’maaewa ATHENS t SEPI. 9. Our papers of la ft evening contain ‘king’ very ‘important — Nothing nti Germany later ib.vi by the Men - ■y —From I vain we have nothing ■Mfhentic — Gen. Blake in.an attempt n Sarragofii , is (aid to be complete defeated with the lefts of bts big ins—King ftof ph ‘is fold to be marching at the bend of 40,000 men to Seville — Private letters from frid.'t.rsigton City mention the arrival cf Mr Jachfen , the Britifi) Minifier, a 1 fti (■■ 1 fOr 1. Phii. /vDi.i pal a, A’-guft ?. ft Tetter day arrived tbs fchoriiCr Swifts, Toting, >2O ‘days from Martin • ique ; by her we learn that the Bri - tjh fill continue to snail the heavisjl duties, and lay the greafift impofitions on the A, ter leans that they are able. it war fetid at ‘Aartinicb when the Swift jaded, that all the heavy Briti/b Jhips of war, except admiral Ccch rome's fid Pi who was bound to Hailt fax, were ordered fOr England, and that part cf tde gan if on was to be embarked for England at the jams urns, there being mors work for them in Europe ■, than in the JVejlindieSi .UI COMM UN I CATJ£D. DIED, in Frankim County on Sunday the lo.h irft. Mr. Tho mas Fahrar, aged 83 years ard tm days. He wasi. coufm to the late Prcfticnc Jftfferfon —-he exp re fif ed a great acx:ecy to be Utt from the burthen cf lift, and appeared to have no dread of death to his laft moments > a few minutes before he expired he the up In bed 2nd pofleifed his ulual mental faculties. He bifteved that all th ugs were made k i the glory of God, and any thing he could do, could not .chacge Ins purpoft; he was averfe to vice and revered moraffty ; but that there was no reality in enthufi aftic religion. He was completely emaciated; perhaps fuch a mufcular txhaufti.on was never before in aey liusnan creature i had che inregurnents been removed he woufd have,been a perfect Skeleton. FG R SALE. TWO yaluable tracts cf Land, in jackfoa county, in the neigh borhood or Jc tier lon (or Jack lon court-houfe) containing between 3 and 400 a,res taco, u?; dning the Ln:verfltv Lards on the rr:drift aOI IC ot ft 2 Oconee rive- ■ —— Ihe 11- tua: on of rhrfe Lock will be wed worth the attention cr pi.rcbr.fto ; one of the fud tracts lying within one mile of Jefferfon, the other a bout two. A further description h and med unneceffarv as no perfon, ic is pre famed, will pure ha ft with out viewing the premife*. For terms cpply to Reubei. H U, Efq. near Athens, or to the fuhicriber h Columbia county. J. APPLING. Augoft 8, 1809. 63 r 3m. ; N O T I C E. I F ile> dev the Co-pjirrnrrfhip between Richard Fatly tft Thornton Jones i* and flblveU in the Tanning bidincft All perions having any claims or * demands sgainft ibid firm, are de fied to come fot ward with their ac co mrts on or be tore the 1 \ h day of September next —And ail thole inot bred are rk tired to come forward and mike immediate oav ment or kquidate their accompts. The Fanning bsTmefs will be continue.d hv fad E flev. f*\ RICHARD K THORN TON JON A?. r ~ Augujft 12, 180 c. STRAYED TJ h ROM the fbhftrlbers about the 12th Auguft Irtfl, Two horfles(r.o wir) one Bl.uk horfe abqureleven years.>jd & aftout 14 1-2 band nigh, bl ed in the right eye, a frar in the forehead a H a fmall fnip on rhe no ft j a flwab Tail—the other is a chefnut forrcl lcvcn years old, light coloured main and Tail, toadied main v.n 1 f vsb about 4 fece 11 inches n‘4;h. branded buttle brands’ nor recollected. Whoever will de liver tint above deienbed horfes >r < I?her of!iiesn to ■. ft’v r of the fub - lei ibcr'3 itvirg near LhidiV. y*s bridge on the norm fork of the Oeorr* Riu in Jac kion county, ihT L 4 liberally rewan'ed by JAMES JONES, JAMES CARR!GIN. Sept, cdi 1809. NOTICE. ON Wranejltay t’ e 1 yen day of October Dcnr, w.H be fold at the lam reft 2’ nee of Abel Howard de cv ated ori Broad iiv r m G; lethoro • u c COut'll , f A LL the flock, of rattle belong ing to the rftare of fai l derraftd. GROVES HOWARD. Executor. September 4*-h 1809. GEORGIA, Clark county. ■ By John Smith, Clark cf the Court of Ordinaly of faift county. IVhereas James Ewing and An drew Ewing applies for letters of ad minijiration cn the ejlate cf I cm-.el Ewing, late offold county , decs ’fid. l'befte are therefore to. cite and ad monijb all and fmgular ih; kindred and creditors of faid decerfed, tv be and appear at my office within tie time pr few Id by taw, to jhew cauls, if any they have, why Jaid letters fhould not be granted. Given u.icftr my hand this 6.h day of September 1 So 9. JOHN SMITH, C.C. O. SHERIFF *3 BLAN IC IT fLE 5 FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE. BE A HIM -MAT .BE II aD FIT Ihil c G- ‘i-Uj