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VOL. II.) ATHENS, GEORGIA: PRINTED BY ALEXANDER M‘DQNNELL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1809. ELECTION. - no. in . 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 -