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august 38. 4fc Str
MIRROR OF THE TIMES.
fOR THE MIRROa.
MefTrs Starnes & Co,—As n
Subscriber I take the liberty to
hand you a few remarks, which
I will thank you to give place in
your paper if you think them
worthy of publication.
I have for some time been
viewing and feeling the great in
conveniences and danger that
the worthy aud honed part of
our citizens are laboring under
from the fufpeofion of law,
which can anfwcr no purpoie
only the views of a few rii fa die
ted characters, or thole on the
eve of inlolvency ; and l fvar
ihere must have been forae of
that cast in the legislature at the
| time of i;» pafiage, else it would
not have been carried into died
So readily. 1 fear the child un
born will fee! the baneful in.
flucnce of an actual ime Terence
of the legillaiure between debtor
and creditor. Let us take a
view of the misguided and mis
placed cornpalliou they liave for
a part of our citizens. The mer
chant and thole who are indebt*
ed to citizens of another liaic
what a deiparate situation they »
arc placed in, their persons anti
propeity are at the mercy of
their creditors and a prey to Fe
deral Court executions, while
two thirds of the debts due from
citizen to citizen in the btatc of
Georgia are barred ftotn collec
tion. The debtorj, rcgaidlefs
of that innate principle of hon..
efty, that golden ruie, do umo
ail men as you would they Jhiuld
do unto you, avail themletvca like
broken gamblers of that faddy
toned Alleviating Law, itnd are
pleased with the degrading height
they are placed above their cre
ditors. Every honed and in
dustrious man has to bear the
buithen of the idle, the fpecula.
tor, aud neaily inioivent par; of
the community. From not be
mgabie to collect their just dues
and demands, alt confidence i»
destroyed in this state, and a ge
neral depravity taking place, a
cateleis attemios to thole duties
which bind man to man in a
state of lociety, which can be al
cribed to no othei caule but the
| fuipenlion of the faluiaiy taws
I formerly in force in this hate,
< which fufpeofion I conceive
j more dangerous than the Yi zoo
ipeculation evei was, lor I have
no doubt, should it be continu
ed, but it will be a political lpc-<
dilation before long. I daily
lee the danger that attends it —
the people ate more and more
anxious to run in debt, and pay
nothing'--they wiil fell their cot
ton so. call) for twenty fcve or
fifty cents less in the hundred
than they will in dilcharge of
their just debts, pocket the mo.
ney and laugh at their cieditors,
and will iometimes lay it out for
frivolous uses or idle fpeculati
-1 on —ihefe are faQs and I believe
every day oractiled through the
ftate* Do we ever fee a man
offering to fell any part of his
property with a view to pay his
debts ? No, but we fee them of
ten wilhing to buy more on a
credit.
How many orphans estates arc
here in this county which have
>een fold on a ctedit, and their
support and education depend
entirely upon the collection of
iholc very debts which our bo
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norabie Law or Constitution
breakers (as they ought to he
termed) forbids th-* collcQion,
ofcourie thole orphans and their
efta-es must fuller greatly, and
their education entirely neglect
ed. Is it reafonabie to fitppofe
that property of all kinds should
be so high when cotton, our fta
pie commodity, is so low ? land,
negroes, horfex <Xrc. are as high j
as they were when cotton fold j
for twenty live cents per pound. I
From prefen: appearances I
and the relation we hear to £u- j
rapeari nations ffbrbids -he idea-i
of the prige of cotton being high ;
for ion ie time, perhaps tor feve. j
rai years, and fbali our laws be
fufpeuded that length of time ? |
When is there to be an end of j
such corruption P Admit cotton !
Ihouid be worth only ten cents !
1 lay every ho net and indulii- j
ovis planter can pay his debts
and live better than in almost j
any other {'.ate in the Union.— j
Some people when they are con. j
tiahting a debt have no expec- !
tation or wilh ever to pay it,
and are the worthy and iriduL
trious to fuffer on that account ?
Our crops are very great this
' year, every planter within my
knowledge has made, as much as
he can well manage, and with !
tolerable economy, admitting j
the low prices, can pay their
debts or io far as will enable
their creditors to indulge them,
and leave nothing for the Le
giflaiure to ad Upon refpetitng
the alleviating !-w. But should
they think proper to fuipend the
operation of the law again, 1
think it nothing but realonablc
that they Ihould third their own
wages, and as to p*cu»iary mat.
ters dclcend to the level oi their
coaftmuants.
COLUMBIAN.
Columbia county, Not. 18.
LATEST FROM PORTUGAL
BOS i ON, Nwv. l.
By the L»ng Comet, captain
Baitlett, Irom Ltlbon Sept.
It is said, that British troops
were arriving daiiy at Lilbon— |
that nothing of moment had ]
taken piace between the French j
diid the allied armies knee the
battle of Talaveta.
The following articles ate
(elected Irotn tnc papers brought
by tiie Comet :
Lisbon Sepi. 24,1809. — The
head quartets ot utc B;uilh ai- |
my is at Badajoz. Ins tup- j
poled with the iate t tin force- ]
mentj to be auout j
fltong, The quanci* ol
tiie Pot fugues army is at Caftte
Branco, but the iaigcr part ol
the troops aie diftnbuted in
different places, many ol them
at a confiuerabie diilancc. Ihe ;
French array near the Tagus is j
iuppoicu to be 60,000 ttiong,*i
and occupies Piacenza, AL j
morez, porno del Arcobifpo, j
, and Toledo, under gene ats !
Soult, bebaiiianiand Victor.— ,
Ncy u at Salatn*»ca. Tne bpa*
nifh airoy occuptes poliuons j
near the bierra Morena.'*
Seville, Aug. s°* A leilcr
fro.n get). Venegas, dated 22 i ,
mentions an aifair, m which
a pau ol his airay had been
engaged, in which he had
kiiled, 99 wounded, and 242
milling. The French had 800
L
wrenwm in +w~XKLXij9Bijom
kiiied end wwunded—.among
the latter, three generals one of
j whom afterwaids died at Ma
: arid.
Sept. i 2, A letter froao gen>-
|erai Blake, dated tamp of Pe
drol, September 2, mentions
tint he had caufcd a supply of
provisions and a divjfion of
frefh troops to begot into Ge~
| rona.—
Badujoz , Sept. 16. -Infor.
motion has been received from
our bead-quarters at Truxiiio,
. dated the rotb, mentioning that
t l
of 14,000 men is at Salamanca ’
j and us vicinity, fronting the ar
-1 my of the marquis de ivoir.ana,
I now commanded by general
j Mendizabcl.
Soult has his bead-quarters
!at Palancia. Mortier lias his
; at Taievera.
Molina, Aug. 30. A junta had
i b&en cltabhlhed at Siguenza,
ito acclcratc the pairioiic and
j general armament. We arc \
| frequently engaged with small
French detachments,
Londom Oct. 2.
Mr. Preceival fuccceds ihc
Duke of Poitlaud, and so re.
tains the office of Chancellor
; of the Exchequer.
Mr. R. Dundas fulceeds
Lord Caltiere«*gh, as Secretary
of state for war and colo
nies.
Oct 5.
Lord M«lvil!e has been lent
for from Scotland by his ma
jesty’s command, and fie is ex
pected in twon early next
week.
Lord Harrowby will receive
the leal of the foreign depart
ment, as soon as Mr. Canning
is able to go to levee.
Tie Duke of Portland was
conlidered in a dangerous state
yesterday.
It is intimated that Bona
parte has made a valuable pre
sent to an Außrian minilter,
and from thence, speculations
are made by each party, some
think it augures peace ; others, j
that war will rather be the con- .
fequence —ineie speculations 1
The armies on e3ch fide, a»
may naturally be luppoled, are
kept in rcadinefs, and the ftiong
holds reinforced,
•Accounts from Vienna as
late as the 19th ultimo, are ii
lent ©u the prolongation of the |
arinduce, which teimiuatcd the
aoii); but letters from Siraf
j burg of the a*d, publilhed in
| the gazette ot Rotterdam, state
! that it was prol®nged lor one
i month j and ihat hoftihtics fiiail
not recommence until fix wetks
after the notice fhail be given
of an intention to recommence
holtilc operations.
The German papers con
; tain 44 a proclamation from the j
j emperor of Auliria ; which by j
no dieiois breaths the language
* of delpondency \ on the con.
I trary,mere is a Ipirit ot lirm
■ n els 6c independence throughout
the whole of it, which proves
i that the emperor Francis is deter. ,
( mined again to try the fortune j
;of arms rather than lubmu 1
j to difgraccfu! and humiliating
terms.”
It is laid South Beverland is
nearly abandoned by the French
, troops, & that at Antwerp very
i lew remain; whether theft:
I troops arc sonc towaids Au
t
MONDAY, November 27, 1303.
*“**•*•*■'•■*-•« -'■» wrinnWA *. Mrxjuss. Wmcj*»
; uria or Spain, is uncertain.
The dilcafe at Walchcren
amonfcft tue British, is fair! »o
have been caused by drinking
large draughts of {lagnant wa
ter, after the body had unde-*
gone much fatigue. Those
who were firff; taken, used to
drink the gin separate ; but
those who mixed it, escaped
the disease. The fickncfs be*
‘ gins to ilacken its fatal effefch
NASHVILLE, (77n.) Oct, 20;
To record the untimely end of a
brave and prudent officer, a kar^*
i this column of the Clarion is ush
ered to the world in black. Ou the
night of tiie 10th Inst. Mkjuwe*
Ther Lewis Escj. governor gene
ral of LJpper Louisiana, on his way
to Washington city, came to tho
bouse of Mr. Grinder near the In-? \
ilian line in this state —sailed for
his supper and some spirits, of
which he partook and gave some
to h:s servants—Mr. Grinder not
being at home, Mrs. Grinder reti
red A oih« kitchen with her children,
aud the servants (alter the gover
nor went to bed, which ho did in
good order, went to a stable about
three hundred yards distant to sleep
—no one m the house with the
governor-—and some time before
midnight Mrs. Grinder was alarm
ed by the firing of two pistols in
the house—she called to the ser
vants without effect—and at ih«
appearance of day light the ser*.
vain* came to the home when the
governor said he had new done for
himself—they asked what, and he
said he had shot himself and would
die, and requested them to bring
him water, ue then Dying on the
floor where lie expired about seven
o’clock in the morning of the lltln
He had shot a bail that grazed thg
top oi his head and another ttrrougf)
bis intestines, aud cut his neck,
arm and ham with a raaor. When
in ins best senses he spoke about a
trunk of papers that he said would
be of great value to our govern*
incut. He had been under tn« in.
flunnee oi a deranging malady for
about six weeks, tue cause ot whit U
is unknown, unless it was from a
protest to a draught which he drew
on the secretary at war, which ho
considered tantamount to a disgrace
by goverument.
in the death of governor Lewis
the puhii* belild toe wreck of one
ol the noblest of men—lie was a
pupii of the immortal Jefferson—by
1 him he was reared —oy nun »m won
instructed in the tour of the scien
ces— k y hiuu lie was introduced to
public lilt, when hi* enterprising
soul, great botanical knowledge, a**
cute penetration and peuonai cou
rage soon, pointed o u i as the most
proper person to toflQiiiand a pro
jected exploring party to the ooria
west coast of the American conti.
newt-—he accepted jnc *trd u ons
command on the condttton that ha
might take Mr. Claikc with him—
they started ; the best wishes ot the
American people attended ihe m#
j Alter mu absence ot lwu year#> to
us of anxious solicitude, we were
cbeertd with the joyful return of
our countrymen. A new world had
been explored——additional know,
ledge in »!l tlic sciences obtained,
! at a trifling expense of blood and
| treasure. Ihe voice of fame echo,
ed tiie glad tidings through the ci
vilised world—ihc name of Lewis
was the theme ot universal praise.
The national legislature voted a
complimentary donation to tins
brave little bond.
Scarcely had the governor time
to pay his respects to a widowed
mothtr, befoie he was again cal
led into publick service, iho
territory of Upper Louisana had
been torn to pieces by pa/ty
I feuda, no person could be more
j proper to cairn ueot —he appeared
and ail was quiet*
The limit assigned this notion
do not admit ot a p«rticulv sD
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