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VOL. II.)
ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY ALEXANDER M‘DQNNELL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1809.
ELECTION.
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I COME now to the examination
of the particular claims of colonel
Runnels to the clemency of the
flare, as one of the fecurities of the
fraction- felling commifTioners.———.
The difficulties which prefent them
felves at the threshold of the ex
amination, are fufficient to deter a
man of but ordinary induftry from
its further profccution; but as this
enquiry forms but a fmall part of
my original plan, I will endeavor to
wade thro* it as fpeedily and as ca
ll ly as 1 can.
Such has been the nugacity of
the colonel’s public Itfr, that I am
diftrefted to find out one fi ;g!e ad
which will entitle him to the repu
tation of talents or enterprize. Ail
before me is one barren wafte, a
naked cheerlefs heath, deftitute of
one Angle cultivated fpot, upon
vdvch the eye of the weary travei
lcr can rtfb with delight.
It, however, lam conftrained to
make a ielection of that one of his
• political avfls which rtfl.&s the
higheft credit upon his talents or
enterprise, I midi fix upon the e
le&ion or Obadiah Echols as a
cominifiioner for felling the frac
tions, as that one. I have under
- flood that the colonel was the par
ticular patron of Obadiah, and that
he took great credit to himfelf for
the fuccefs of his friend Echols.
< It is true that the colonel had
furficienc influence to have a law
palled to admit his fon Howell
to practice law, without being exa
mined in the ufual manner. I ac
knowledge that this is feme evi
’ dence of enterprize and influence,
i but when we reflect that Ebenezer
H. Cummins, without being a
member, had previoufly had luifi
cierr influence to get himlelf ad
mitted upon the fame terms, it muft
be admitted that this act is but very
i proof ot the one or the
other., It will be in vain to fearch
the records and archives of the
date for the evidence of his public
icrvices, unlefs indeed his Ample
yea cr nay will be received. Ido
pot mean to aflert that the colonei
was a very inadive member ; as far
as unintelligible reafoniog and bad,
wretchedly bad EngHfh will go, he
was sftiyc to an’excefs. But I rn*an
to declare, and I do explicitly de
plare that as far as I have been aide
to learn, 1 verily brlicve that the
colonel cannot confcienticufly take
•to himlelf* i.hc credit of having de
viled, draw n up, or by his influence
palled a firg-e law cf any importance
to the fif.jye.
1 w ill dot .purine this enquiry any
lurcher, beoaue the re Cult would
furniih an example to deter, rather
than a pattern Ihr idotation. From
the foregoing review, die colonel
Foreign Correspondent
7T “ &
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
MANY SHALL RUN TO AND TIIO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED.
cannot claim a releafe from his
bond upon the fcore of public fer
vice, unlefs his vanity fhould be as
g’gantic as his underitanding is di
minutive.
I come now to the examination
of the colonel’s eligibility. This
is a very delicate queftion > and its
delicacy is greatly cncreafed by the
colonel’s having threatened to hold
every man accountable to him ac
cording to the modern laws of chi
valry, who Ihall have the hardihood
to believe that he is not eligible.—
Pray my dear colonel keep your
temper. If you vapor at this rate
I fhali be frightened fa completely
out cf my fenles, that it will be im
pcffible for me to proceed in this
inveftigation. I will admit that the
colonei is as fen Able of his liability
to the flare for the fum of 30,000
dollars, as any other man, and that
he is better acquainted with the va
lue of his eitute, and the debts which
he may owe to otner people than I
am. With a full knowledge ot
thtfe rails, he has offered his far vi
ces to the county as us fenator,
thereby indirectly declaring that he
is able to pay the fum cf 30,000
dollars and Hill retain a freehold t. fi
nite of 500 dollars, or other taxable
property to the value of ioco dol
lars. Pard on mr*, my dear colonel,
if I venture to believe that this de
termination was made in a fit of
lunacy, and that in ycur firft: lucid
interval you will retrace your Heps,
and take down your name as you
did laft year. I fear, however, mojl
awfully feaT) that this lucid interval
will not arrive until the day after
the next general eledton. Do you
believe lir, when you have paid the
Hate 30,000 dollars, nay 10,000
dollars, and the reft of your jull
debts that you will be eligible, or
even out of jail ? I fear not my
dear fir. Of this however your near
neighbors can judge more correct
ly than I can.
FRANKLIN.
——— Qnf*"<*^'><g> < C” ■■ -
LONGEVITY.
There died in February, ißco,
at Gloves, near Athenry, in Ireland,
of a Aiort illhefs, Dennis Coorobee,
or Bailend.angih, aged 117 years.—
The life of this man was remarka
ble, not only for its duration, but
from its exemption from moft cf
the evils of humanity. He retain
ed his mental and corporal faculties
in full vigor to the laft:. Three
weeks before his death he walked
out and heme 26 miles in one day,
and read the finalleft orint without
giafiks as tiiftindly and eafi.y as a
boy of 16. Two days previous to
Lis death, he never remembered to
have any complaint or ficknefs
whatever, tooth-ache only except
ed. The firft fifty-fix years cf his
i fe pafied entirely free from even
the tooth-ache. After that period
hk- teeth began 10 decay t but in
the courfe of fifteen years a nevv fet
appeared, of which he continued in
poflefiion till his death.
Of his moral character, it is only
recorded, thet he was fteadfaftly an
hone ft man ; feber, regular, and
perfectly upright in his deport
ment. His mind was naturally
ftrorg and acute, not dilciplined by
a literary education, but enriched
by observation and experience.—
He fpent his life in the cultivation
of the fame farm, the property of
which he had acquired early in life,
and bent his attention chiefly to
agriculture, in which he was gene
rally allowed to be eminently profi
cient. He was one of the eariieft
who 1 introduced and propagated the
potatce, which he cultivated for the
I aft feventy years.
Pie was feven times married.—
He was firft married at the ag;e of
2i. With his laft wife, who fur
vived him, he lived longer than
with any of the previous ones, that
is, 24 years, having married her
when 93 years old. In general,
they were Ihort lived, and were
young women of his immediate
neighborhood. The years of his
widowhood, taken together, a
mounted to 11. All the. children
born to him were forty-tight,
which, it on an average, is one for
ew-ry two years, fince the firft year
of his marriage. He had three lets
of twins ; and his third wife bore
him 11 children in 12 years.
Kis grand children were in num
ber 236, which is a little more than
sto each child. His great grand
children amounted to 944 which
is more, proportionally, than 4to
each child. He had twenty-five
great great grand children, the old
eft of whom is now 4 years old.—
Of 1253 defendants of his body,
487 lurvived him.
By his Eft wife, he had fix fons,
the youngeft of whom is a fine lad
of 13.
Theft Eels are extrc&ed from a
regiller kept by the old man, of
the names, births, marriages, deaths
and general fituation cf his wives
and ddeendants. The keeping of
this rtgifler was his principal a
muftmem: and his defendants be
ing fcattered far and wide over the
earth, he took great pains to make
a catalogue txad and complete.—
It is to be hoped, that iome curious
perfon may refeue this document
irom oblivion, by committing it to
the prefi. It muft certainly lt2d to
fome very valuable inferences, as to
the conftitution of human bodies
and of human lociety.
A FEW COPIES
Of a Sermon Preached in Vindication
Of Revealed Truth , and m which
u producedfome of the ji rong
eji Arguments that re
ligicn admits of
v OP. SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
(No. C 9.
NEW-YORK, Auguft 26.
IMPORTANT— if TRUE !
[From Meflrs. Ruffe 11 and Cutler’s
Liverpool Coricfpondcnt.]
Liverpool, July 9, 1809.
c< LEITH, (Scot.) July 6. The
Quail, lieut. Ofborn, has juft
eu from Heligoland, which iK
on Sunday.—The commander rc;>
ports, that while quitting the har- <
bor a rm-ffenger arrived from the
feat of war with news of the Auf- ‘
mans having obtained a clecifive
vidlory over the French, the 26th
June. Two Marflials, 20 Generals
and 40,000 men, killed, wounded,
and pnloners. Captain Malcomb,
who left Heligoland 5 hours after
the Quail, brings a Proclamation of
the Archduke Charles for a Te
Denm for the vidury.”
Captain Rogers, of the ftiip Cla
ra, from Sc. Croix, informs us, that
he was hoarded on Ids pafiwge by
the Britifh brig of war Snap, capt.
Barclay, who informed him, that
about the 2d of Auguft, ftvc ral
Britifh frigates and Hoops of war
were loft cIF Guadaioupe, in a fe
vere gale of wind.
A mail from Goctenburg arrived
to day, which broughc the follow
ing articles of intelligence :
Ex trail cf a letter dated Carlfbam a
June 22.
tf We have received information
here by way of Danczick and Col
berg, that a revolution had taken
piace at St. Pecetiburg, chat the
emperor was dethroned, and his
mother had taken the reins of go
vernment fur the prefent j and that
WoronZO, and his party had been
maflkered. You rnuft not place
too much confidence in this infor
mation, though it is a thing likely
to happen.”
July 8.
The following fhort extract of n
letter from Heligoland is from a
gentleman at the head of a refpedla
ble and refpcnfible office to a pub
lic body.
“ I have feen the official difpa fcch
es of a victory by rhe Auftrians o
ver the French. Thirty thoufand
of the enemy were killed, and two
French marflials were taken prifo
ners.”
Dutch Decree , June 30, 1809.
Akt. 1. The lift of articles al
lowed to be imported, by the ad of
31ft March, fhall be extended to
the following :—rice, (laves, bark
and other drugs uftd in medicine;
cotton, Georgia, Louifiana and Ca
rolina j java ceffee, fugar from
our colonies.
Art. 2. BtTides certificates of
origin, required by our ft**
the director of •’
(hall -
