About The Athenian. (Athens, Ga.) 1827-1832 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1831)
1,1ST OF ACTS—[Continue!..] 4. To incorporate tlic Beneficial Society of AllgllsM. . 5 To nuthorizc the Justices of the Inferior Court of Gwinnett comity, to define anew the prison hounds of snid county, and adapt the g'lmc to the site of (lie new jail. 0. To repeal the 8t ti section of on act pass- cd December 9, 1S18, entitled an u< t to alter and amend the road laws of this State, so far ns rcla'os to the county of Jackson, and to point out und define the duties of the Justices of the Interior Court and Overseers of roads in said county, so far as relates to the width of mails and causeways. 7. To repeal an act passed December 18, 1827. entitled an act to establish an additional election district in Captain Anderson’s district in the county of Pulaski, and to establish an election district at the plnro of holding Justi ces Court, in Captain Silus M. Lester's dis trict. 8. To separate and divorce Eliza Boon and Thomas C. Boon, her husband. 10. To authorise the Jus'ices of the Infe rior Court of Wilkinson county, to relieve Abraham T. Fairchild, from the pavincnt of a Judgment entered into against him. as the se- curiiv of Carrol VI scry, upon a forfeited recog. nizancc. 12. To separate and divorce .John S. Pru ett and lln-aiiiiiili (alias) Kodaii Pruett, his wife, formerly Rnduh Story. 1.1. To authorize and require the hoard of Commissioners of politic roads on St. Simons’ lsluid. to appropriate hands to open a road, canals and ruts on snid Island. 17. To incorporate the Baptist Church of Britshv Creek, i■■ the county of Burke. 19. To separate and divorce Elizabeth Cook Curtis, formerly EltZibeth Conk Ste- vents, and Eteritt Curtis, her husband 19. For the relief of the securities of John Bellali, tax collector of Morgan county, for the year 1829. 20. To incorporate the town of Hawkins- villc, in tho county of Pulaski, and to appoint Commissioners lor the same. 21. To authorise and empower the Justices of die Interior Court of Morgan roomy, to establish an nstitmion in said county, for the relief of the invalid poor thereof, and to invest in said Court corporate powers, for the go vernment of the same. 22. To m iko permanent the site of the pub lic buildings in the town of I .umpkin, Randolph county, and to incorporate the same. 23. To incorporate Jefferson Academy, in the county of Putnam, and appoint trustees for the same. 24. To separate and divorce Bershebn Beard, and Mathias H. Board, her husband. 25. To separate and divorce Cheirv Mc Rae, and John McRae her husband, and to change the name of said Cherry MeRac. 26. To change the place of holding elec- linns at tho church oil St. Simon’s Island, to the House of James Frevin, in Frederica, to appropriate the rent of certain public lands on raid island, to the support of a free school in the same, and more effectually to provide for tlic education of the p .nr in Glynn county. 27. To repeal an act entitled an act. for the relief of the butchers and venders of meats in the rilv of Augusta, pussed on the 4th Decem ber, 1829. 29. To authorize tho Justices of the Infe rior Court of Jasper county, to remit a forfeit ure incurred bv Henry Dillon, nf snid county. 29. To change the name of Josnph Smith to ihat of Joseph Fletcher; tho natno of Lavi- ii i Wheeler lo ihat of Lavina Duke ; and the name nf Jackson Hogan to that of Jackson Matthews. 30. To amend nnd explain the several laws heretofore passed, in relution to the villuge of Salem in Clark county. 31. To incorporate the Methodist Episco pal Church, in Decatur, DeKulb county, and to nppoint Trustees for the same- 32. To incorporate the Methodist Episco pal Society at Old Church, in Burke County, nod to vest in snid Society the lot of land on w liu li snid Old Church is built. 33. To establish mi additional election dis trict in the county of Bulloch, nt the company muster grounds, or place of holding Justices’ Courts, for the 47th district of Georgia Militia. 34. To establish election districts in the enmities of Newton and Monroe, und punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. 35. To separate and divorce William P- Thomas and Elizabeth his wifo, formerly Eliz abeth Messer. 36. To alter and change the names of cer tain persons therein minted. 37. To extend to the city nnd port of Da rien, tho health nnd quarantine law* now in force relating nnd applicable to the city of Su' vminah. 38. To amend an act passed May 16, 1821. appropriating the fines nnd forfeitures arising from criminal prosecutions, in tho duality of Lincoln, to the use and benefit of the Lincoln' ton Academy, and to authorize the cimfltte* pi.,tiers ol‘said Academy to loan out their uca- doin.eal lunds at interest. 39 To amend an aet establishing election districts in the county nf Jasper. 40. To nuthorixe the Governor lo issue n grant to the Presbyterian Church l<>r u lot in the town of Columbus, fur religious purposes. 41. To alter mid change the time of hold inn the uinter term of the Inferior Courts of Troup county. 42. To incorporate th*‘ town of Fort Gaines in the county of Early. 43. For the appointment of three additional -Commissi*tiers to the Mineral Spring Acade my of Wayne County. 44. To separate and divorce Warren An drews and Nancy Andrews his wife. 45. To separate sod divorce John Long and Nancy Long hit wife. 46. To make permanent the site nf the pub' IS" buildings in Morgan County, at the town of Madison, und to incorporate the ratno. 47. To amend an act entitled an act to com pel Dio Clerk of tho Superior Court "I Limit - uct County, to keep his olfioo at or within live miles of the court house of said county, passed December 24. 1825. 49. To revise und amend an act passed Dec. 20, 1826, entitled in net tu incurpurnto the Brunswick Can.il Company, nnd for other purposes, in relation to tho establishment of said company. 49. For Ilia relief of Henry II. Hall and Irvine Hull. 50. To amend an net passed Dec. 22,1929, making constables elective bv tho people, and to raise fees, so far as respects tho counties of Wayne, Liberty and Glynn. 51. To incorporate and appoint trustees for the Mount Pleasant Academy, in Oglethorpe county. 52. To amend an act entitled an act to make permanent the site of the public buildings in the town of Hamilton. Harris comity ; m the town of Newnan. Coweta cuunty ; in the town of Talhotton. Talbot county ; and the town of Greenville, Meriwether county ; und lo incor porate the si mo, su far as relates to the said town of Newnan. 53. To incorporate the Baptist Church at Buck ll"nd, in tho county of Burke. 54. To incorporate the Augusta Theatre Company. 55. To separate and divorce Richard S Thomason and lmdia Tlmmason his wife. 57. To change the first section of an act entitled an ad in establish election districts in the county of Lowndes. 58. To authorize the holding elections at the house of Walter I.. Campbell, in tin* 717tli district, Georgia Militia, in tho county of llmistnn.and to pontsli those who may attempt to violate the provisions of this act. 59. To establish election districts in the niiuly of It iv ii. nnd lo punish those w ho may attempt to defeat the same 60. To authorize tlic members of the Inde pendent Fire Company of the city of Augusta, to raise hv lottery a sum of monev therein mi ned. for the benefit of suid company. 62. To repeal so much of the 14'h section of an act entitled an act to revise and consoli date the Mililin laws of this State, and to re peal the cavalry laws now in force, pnssed Dec. 19, 1818, so far as regards tho county of Jones. 63. To alter and change tho time of hold ing tho Inferior Court of the county of Frank lin. 64. To separate and divorce John Wnns. law and Snrnb Wnnslaw his wife. 65. To provide for the payment of one of the presiding magistrates from each election district in the county nf Ware, fur attending at the court house on the day after the election, for the p rpnse of consolidating the returns. 67. To relieve John A. Jones. John D. Chapman, John R. Mahone, and the legal re presentatives nf Miner Hammond, deceased, from the payment of certain money, as therein mentioned. 69. To separate and divorce Sarah Randal and Washington Randal her husband. 70. To amend an act passed tho 11th day of June, 1825, lo establish election districts in tho counties of Irwin. Appling and W ire, and to punish those who may attempt to de feat tho same, so far as it regards the county of Ware. 71. To add nt? additional election district in the county of Jefferson, to those already cs. lablishiid. 72. To provide for the payment of the ex penses which have been or may he incurred hv the counties of Carroll, Dr Kalb. Gwinnett, Hall nnd Habersham, for prison fees in the prosecution of crimes committed in the territo ry claimed by thn Cherokee Indians, which tvns added to the aforesaid counties, by an net passed Decomher 19th. 1829. 74. To separate and divorce ReubenThorn- ton nnd Ann Thornton his wife. 75. To incorporate tho Manners’ Church in the city of Snviinimli. 76. To add n part of the county of Houston o the county of Crawford. 77. To alter and i.mend the 3d section of an art entitled un art In alter and amend an act entitled an act to alter the place of holding the election for county officers in this Stato, passed Dec. 16. 1811, so liir as reflects tho '•unties of liuitrv nnd DeKalb, passed Dec. 19. 1827. 79. To amend an net entitled an art to umend thesoverul acts respecting tho court of common Pleas nfthe city of Augusta. 80. To vest in Georgo A. B. Walker and Valentine Walker, Executors of Freeman Walker, deennsed, mid ilioir Executors nnd Administrators, forever, all the right, title, mid interest of the State of Georgia, in and to all that lot. piece or parcel of hind, situate, ly ing nnd being on Washington a> d Green Streets, in the city of Augusta, and known in the plan of snid city ns lot number forty. 96 For the relief of the purchasers of the State interest in lands which have been con demned fraudulently drawn, in the counties of Bibb. Houston, Crawford, Monroe, Upson, Pike. Henry, Fayette, DeKalb nnd Newton. 98. To render legal and valid the elec lion of Mnyor of the city of Savannah and hamlets thereof, also nil the ordinances, resolutions, roles, regulations, acts, nnd doings, of the Mayor nnd aldermen of said city nnd hamlets ■ hereof, since the 1st nfJulv, 1830; also to point out the number nt nldernten who shall compose the board to transml business during certain periods of the year; and also the num ber of aldermen who shill he authorized to elect a mayor, nnd l<) empower the present and future mayors of said city, to perform the duties of said Mayor, until a successor shall he elected and qualified. 99 To provide for the temporary disposal if the improvements and possession* purchas ed from ceilain Cherokee Indians and resi dent*. [ teclion 1 The Governor lo nppoint an agent In rent, for one year, from the 1st of February next, *U (Tic miprovomonts purchas-nl from the Cimrokeoalying within the limits of Georgia, at public nut-cry at the court house of the counties tu which the territory is st udied, arul in which lim l"pro*•m® n h , maybe. Nu person renting, allowed lo dig for gold. Section 2. In tuie of failure nt public outcry, the agent Ins power tu rent by private'voutriicl, lo citizens of Georgia only; the persons renting; lo give notes with good security, payable on the first day ol January, 1332. Section 3. Tho ngent lo he furnished by the Gover nor ivilti a list of liie improvements, and lo proceed im mediately to the discharge of Iris duties, and to make ret hi n lo tho Treasury of his aelinga and doings, &.c. .Section -1. Th*r Guvoruor is authorized lo employ forco to deliver possession oflha improvements lo the persons renting, and to protect them in iheir po-ace sions. Sections 3 ft 6. The agent lo give bond of J3000 and In ret nit as lull compensation for his services, ten per cent, of liie noles received by Inm.J 100 To providn for surveying and dispos ing nfilio unappropriated islands in Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers, and for granting the same. 101. Amendatory of an art to provide for the improvement of the roads and rivers of this State, passed Diicemhor 18, 1929. [Section 1. The superintendents to employ tho hands ami overseers on the several market roads, sir nartsof I lie same, as they sen lit. They have authori ty to call into service any county or other surveyors, tor laying oir or measuring existing nr projected roads. Section 2. The overseers to receive 3300 per annum, and rations. Tho superintendents In receive $1200 per annum, without rations. This section provides u! so lirr the rations, clothing, &e. of liie public hands. Section 3. Tho superintendents are authorized lo e uploy portions of liie public hands, on rivers, not cx- reeding two months in oils year, except on Flint river, where tho hands may he employed nat exceeding six months in the year. Scclinn 4. t ho superintendent* authorized lo takr ami convert lo the public use, timber, stone, gravel, fre Section 5. Tho Governor authorized lo sett incom petent hands. Seclinn 0. Five thousand dollars heretofore appro priated lor the improvement of Broad River, to be in vested in the purchase nf hands to work on the road leading from Augusta via Goshen, Petersburg, Elber- Carnosville, and Glarkcsville, lo Claylon, in Ra bun county.J ilthens, Jan. 11, 1831. To Corret/umiUnl}.—“ Innominatum,’’ in answer to Plain Pads," is received, and will be inserted in our next paper. Tho proceedings of thp “ Anti-Semi"Tr-mprranee So ciety” arc alto on hand, and shall be attended to. Appointment} by the Governor.—Col. J. W. A. San. ford to be General Agent in the Cherokee country, and Commander of the Guard for the protection nf the Gold Mines, with power to lease relinquished improvements. Col. Charles H. Nelson, Agent, acting under the order of Col. Sanford. Both tho abuve gentlemen hnvo proceeded to their stations—tho latter passed through here last week. In a late number of the Augusta Constitutionalist, we notice the following sentence: “ The Athenian lately rejoiced at the success the Col lege met with at Milledgevillc, but its gratification seems Hindi lo have abated, in consequence of the amendment offered by Mr. Blair of Habersham to thn Collego Bill, and with which it passed.” It is true our "gratification" was much "abated,” on (he first perusal of this amendment; but on a careful examination of the uAole act, tve cannot see that Mr. Blair has thrown any obstacle in the way nf the pros, parity of thn College. The amendment is inserted af ter the annual appropriation of gfiOOO is made, and pro poses to educate the poor young men, “out oflhe funds hereinafter mentioned.” Now, ns no funds are after- wards appropriated, except (10,000 for the specific ob ject of rebuilding the edifice recently destroyed, it fol lows that tho amendment is utterly incomplete and in- operalive, having no funds wherewith to carry its pro visions into effect; and consequently, that the prosper ity of the College can neither be advanced or injured by it. IVe arc Inld tint the friends nf >he University in the Legislature, seeing that no harm could be done to tho institution bv Ibis ridiculous appendage, chose rath er to vole for the bill in ils present shape, than by vo. ling against the amendment, to endanger the success of the bill. The Conslitutionafist says, "We shall see how the College Union Party will get along with this difficulty.” Fray, Mr. Constitutionalist, do you, on second thought, see any difficulty in this matter ? If you do, we must confess that ym can sec what we cannot. Query—Is the writer of the remarks alluded to, the same parson age who rung so many changes on " the College Union Party,” in his recent eojmirn at Milledgevillc,and who, with all the energy of a "Casar,” advocated the remo val of the University I Again—the Constitutionalist professes to " regret ex ceedingly the situation of Franklin College,” and wishes it ernfid be "restored to the situation it occupied when the venerable Dr. Waddel left it.” If this is intended as an indirect allusion to the gentleman who now fills tho station of President of this Univetsity, grovelling indeed must be the being that uttered it. It is only necessary to say, to counteract the little influence this libellous innuendo may have, that the prosperity and reputation of the Collego has been equally as great since, as before Dr. Waddel retired from it; and we doubt not that the friends of the institution, whatever might have been their regrets tt losing the ecrvices of the former worthy President, feel, notwithstanding, the utmost confidence in the talents and acquirements of the present incumbent. Georgia Legislature.—For tho last three months this lias been tlic caption ot some one of the paragraphs in neatly all the newspapers of the State ; and from the long continued recurrence tn the proceedings of that body, it would be no more than reasonable to suppose that many mighty, magnificent and momentous efforts of genius and talent had been displayed before a cred ulous and admiring public, and numerous acts passed for their behoof. What else could have been expected from the "collected wisdom of tho State”—those tal ented and vigilant sentinels over the public good, and the public pocket? But have our expectations been realized? Have we witnessetTthc perfectibility ofhu- mait wisdom in all their proceedings? In short, what. have they done 1 Why, they have passed me hundred andsiity-serenactst And what are they ? One of the first effects of their legislation was to leave the exten sive and valuable gold mines in the Indian territory, a picy to untamed savages and foreign depredators, and that for a long Itmo after they were convened lor the express purpose of preventing it. After a tiresome se ries of irrelevant and fruitless debates, the bill to survey and lottery Indian lands, (still in a state of doubtful ex pectancy,) when their title should become extinct, was passed. Then came—nav, don’t be alarmed, dear rea der, wo will not compel you to undergo the pain of reading an enumeration here, but only refer you to one more in which they have shown their tender regard for the people. Tho following severely' ircaslic, ironical, and very pertinent remarks, are from the Columbus Enquirer; “ Among other things, wo find that a laiv providing for thn compensation of petit jurors linn been passed— The afflictions and privations and sufferings of that in jured and oppressed portion of the community, lias been for years operating most powerfully upon the tender sympathies of those, whose modest merit needed some thing to biing them nut, and show their great devotion to the people. One little man was, we believe fairly, styled the " weeping philosopher," from the tears lie shed in the Legislature over the sufferings of the petit jurors. Some who have urged this matter most ve hemently, and who have sworn “’twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful,” that a petit jury should not get pay for their services, have been unkindly charged with wishing to use it as a luibby, on which they might ride into favor snd popularity. If they have used it in that wav, we apprehend some of them will be thrown offin- to the mud. Wo regret very ranch that some plan could not have been devised, bv which the people should be compensated for working on the roads, anil for do ing militia snd patrol duly. Oh ! the people the people! how thev do suffer from rho exactions nf tile laws ! " Bitter indeed must he Iheir svjfrrincs, when they can afford tn pay two hundred and sixteen en four dollars per day, for Bixty-scven days, to weep over them. Two hundred and sixteen men employed for sixty-seven days at four dollars per day—let’s see, that’s fifty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars,besides incidental expenses to tho amount of several thousand more! Oh, it is a wonderful hardship that the people should be compelled to lose a week, once perhaps in two or three years, in serving as jurors; yet they can afford io pay this enormous sum, to have a few people divorced wlm have married without reflection, and quar relled without reason, and tn have a few schools and academies and churches incorporated, which have no more use f -r corporate powers, than legislators have for those principles whieli seek the good of the country in preference to the advancement of their own inleresi. Ifany appropriation is asked for something that will he useful, or to poy a debt of the Slate, the legislature is wonderfully cureful of the people’s money; hut they can vole away fifty-seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars, to pay themselves for guarding the Treasury, without any remorse. It reminds us of the fable of the man who employed the weasle to guard his choeso from the depredations of the mice: It was faith fully guarded front the mice; but the weasel destroyed more in one night than the mice nibbled away iit a month. " But to the Ian- to provide for the compensation of petit jurors. D provide? that the jury shall receive three dollars for each verdict; two of which are to be taken from the attorney’s tax fee The result will be that the juries will receive no poy ot edl, except inliliga ted eases—heretofore the defendant in plain eases wnnld put 'iirns- lf to no trouble to eonfe-s judgment, ss he eotild save nnlv one dollar by it—hut ns he call now save three, he will think that a saving worth hi? trouble, and fer Ihat the juries will get no pay. If it be necessary that jurors should be pnid more than a< pres ent, some provision should be made, hv which theii rumpensatinn should be an equivalent for the services rendered, nnd the time necesssrih lost in the discharge nf iheir dunes, and not dependant upon circumstance w hich may subject them to the same labor and loss of time, and yet render their pay uncertain and fluctua ting.” We shall have little confidence in the affected sympa thy of our Legislature for petit jurors, until hy a reduc tion in their numbers or salaries, they provide s fund from which they may bo compensated. When this is done, the honesty of their intentions will be no lunger questioned. Foreign Affairs.—We regret exceedingly that our lim its will not allow us to lay before our nailers a mine full and satisfactory account of the late important events in England. Suffiriont will bu seen, however, under the usual head, tn show that the condition of that coun try is far from being enviable. Although we had anti- cipaicd and predicted, from the commencement of the late French revolution, that the spirit of reform would eventually pervade the whole of Europe, yet we were not prepared for this sudden change in the aspect of political affairs. It is said that the new ministry will be more favorable to the views and wishes of tho people, but wo greatly mistake the British character, if they taller in their onward course, till they have effected an entire and radical reform in the complexion of govern ment. Their ears and eyes have been (or a long time wido open—they have listened attentively to the remo. test sound of relief or oppression— they have watched, with Argus-eyed scrutiny, the course of events as they transpired, until thp opening of Parliament—and find ing there all hope »f relief cut off, tlic blow lias been struck. They have accomplished something, hut the fire is not yet quenrhed. It will continue to burn until the chiff is destroyed—till tho drones and pantperr-d sycophants „f a corrupt and profligate court, are driven from their high places, and the King taught to know, that even in a monarchical government there is msjes- ly in the people. Out news from the continent ie deeply interesting— Throughout nearly the whole of Europe, “the cry is •till fiir war!” It is rumored that Russia has declared war against France; immense bodies of troops are as sembling on the (rentiers, prepared to carry death and destruction through the country. In Bdginin affairs are still unsettled. The National Assembly at Brussels, have declared that the Mouse of Orange (Nassau) are forever excluded from the 'hrone ; but it does not ap pear what steps had been taken for their future gov ernment. Disturbance! have also taken place in Den mark—In fine, the peace of Europe seems to be at an end, at least for the present. —<i&— The Hon. E. K. Kane, hsa been elected in Illinois, tn tho Senate nfthe United 9tales, for six years, and Gen. John M. Robinson, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. lohn M'Lean. TV* understand that os Monday Inal, John Ross, the President of thp Clternkees. wrent min the Executive Office nt Milledgeville, and served.on the Governor some process from the Supreme,Court, ift contravention of the juris diction pf Georgia over the Indians, hut not signed, like the former one, by Chief Justice Marshall—entering ahrutlv into the office, and retiring from it quickly without saying a word —perhaps anticipating—what we understand waff intended had he been subsequently found —that the Governor would return the compli ment. by serving some process, quite ns ab ruptly, on him, under the nuthorily of the laws of Georgia to suppress the Indian Gov er - ment—winch make it a penal olT-nce, pi, msh able by four years confinement in the Penii? n * tinry, to exercise any authority whatever uq' der the sanction of that government. la Chronicle. / ° V From the Georgia Journal, of January 1 8 |, During the past week the Governor receiv. ed the following letter by special mnsseng-r • Head of Coosa, Cherokee Nation,) December 20tb, 1830. j To his Excellency George K. Gilmer, Governor of tu State of Georgia. c Sin,—You will please to take notice, that „„ Saturday the 5th day of March next, ut ih u City of Washington, in the District of Colum. bis, the Cherokee Nation will, by their Conn', ael, move the Supreme Court of the Undid Slates, which is expected to be then nnd there in session, for an injunction to restrain the Stale of Georgia, the Governor, Attorney Ge neral, Judges. Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs Deputy Sheriffs, Constables, and all the other officers, agents and servants of that State,from executing and enforcing the laws of Georgia, or any of those laws, or serving process, o; doing any thing towards the execution and enforcement of those laws within the C'hero. kee Territory, as designated by treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Nation; The motion will be made on tho grounds set forth in the bill, a copy nf which will he hand ed to you with this notice, which bill will he supported by the necessary affidavits and do cument. JOHN ROSS, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nbtion. The bill referred to in the letter, consists of nineclnscly printed foolscap paces, and is endorsed thus: SUPREME COT UT OF TUF. UNITED STATE 1 * THE CHEROKEE NATION w. THE STATE OF GEORGIA. BILL IN CHANCERY. It commences thus :—“ To the Honorable the Chief Justice, and the dissociate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, si (ling in Chancery." “ Respectfully complaining shew unto your honors, the Cherokee Nation of Indians, al'o- reign Stale, not owing allegiance to the Uni ted States nor tn any Stn'e of this Union, nor to any other Prince, Potentate, or State, other than their own,” &c. &c. And concludes, after n detailed statement of their grievances, thus :—“ In lender conside ration ol'all which, and inasmuch as your com plainants are wholly remediless in the premi ses, except hy the interference of this honora ble rnurt; to the end, therefore, that the snid Sluto of Georgia, one of the United Hiatus of America, may be made defendant hereto, with apt words to charge her as such, and that she may, hy Iter proper officers, according to the established forms of proceeding in this court, itt like cases, true, full, and perfect an-wer make to all and singular the premises, as folly and particularly os if the same were herein again especially repealed, and they thereto particularly interrogated; that the said Nlato of Georgia, her governor, attorney genet al, judges, magistrates, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, und all other her officers, agents, und servants, civil and military, mtty le injniii* cd und prohibited from executing the laws of that State within the boundary of the Chero- kco territory, us prescribed by the treaties now subsisting between lh> United States and the Cherokee Nation, or mttrfering in any manner with the rights of self government possessed by the Cherokee Nation within the limits of their territory, ns defined by treaty: That tho two laws nf Georgia before men tioned as having been passed in the yeanr 1828 mid 1829, mny, by the deorco of this honorable court, be <e•-lured unconstitu tional und void; and that the Statu of Genr- gtu, und all her officers, agents, and ser vants, may bo forever injoiued irotn inter fering with the lands, mines, and other t r p- erty, real and personal, of the Cherokee a- tion, or with the persons of lint Cheroluo people, for, or on account of any thing di.no by them within the limits of the Cherokee ter ritory ; that the pretended right of tho State of Geurgia to the possession, government, nr control of the lands, mines and other property ul the Cherokee Nation, within their territory,, may, by (his honorable court, be declurcil to he unfounded and void, and that tho Otero- kues may he left in the undisturbed possession, use, ami enjoyment nfthe same, according to their own sovereign right and pleasure, and their nwu laws, usages, and customs, Irco from am hindrance, molestation, or interrup tion by the Stale of Georgia, her officers, ugents, and servants; that these complainants may bo quieted in the possession of all their rights, privileges, and immunities, under their vurmus treaties with the United States ; und thut they may have such other and farther re bel as this honorable court may deem consis tent With equity and good conscience, and as the nature of thntr case may require.” Little Rock, Nov. 10.—Emigration.—Tra vellers from Memphis informs us that tho road on this side of the Mississippi is full of movers—principally emigrating towards the western conn ies of this Territory. The throng at the ferry at Memphis, we understand is sometimes so great, that movers are not un« frequently detained a day or two before their turn lor erossing over arrives. It is estima ted that 1500 souls have crossed at the ferry since last spring, who wet c destined for Wash ington county. emigrants by this routo are principally from Tennessee, Alabama, llto Carolitias, and we learn from travellers, ihat the rage for emigration to Arkansas, from these States, is still increasing. Mysterious Circumstance.—Considerable excitement lias been created in the city by the following ad of during villany, the motives for which are mill enveloped in mystery. About half past 11 o’e oek on I’itursda.v night, a respectable young lady aged 18 srs, waff
