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FEDERAL UNION;
-T( ason and “argumciit," nave been “exhausted'," and they authority in w hich 1 have confidence that many of the
•now ‘'stand ly" abase ana sewrilily. You have been de
nounced as Federalists and many other vile and oppro-
bious epithets cast at you. Heed it nut. Return not
railing for railing—your cause needs the aid of no such
despicable means to sustain u. We know that while we
were all endeavouring to give the election of Governor
and Electors of President and Vice-President to the peo
ple, that, many of our oppressors strenuously opposed it.
"bulhl that pass." It isa fact which the Journals of
both Branches of the Legislature will clearly prove; our
oppressors trill not deny it. Remarks might be repeated
about the ignorance oj the people—too much democracy and
"a litt’e monarchy” and names mentioned if necessary—
"but let all that pass"
But your oppressors tell you that 3 T our members “turn
ed them all oui” in 1S25. A poor contemptible argu
ment indeed. Do the wrongs and aggressions of • me
man, justify the impropriety and wickedness of another?
if s i the human family stand always acquitted of evt ry
crime and offence they may commit. Let us however
examine a little into our political history anterior to that
year. Gen’l. Clark was first elected by the Legislature,
Governor, in the year 1819, by a majority of thirteen
•rotes if I mistake not- In that year also the Judges—
{Solicitors General—and State House officers were elec
ted—and how 1 emphatically ask, were they divided.
More than one half of the Judges and Solicitors General,
were our oppressors and the "State House officers smod
equab Was there any tiling like partv proscripti; n in all
this? I defy any man to disprove my statements—Gov
ernor Clark went out of, and Col. Troup into office, in the
year 1823 Contrast this picture with the aspect of af
fairs from that, to that of 1825—When the Union or
Clark party had the ascendency in the Legislature. One
[for the federal union.]
Messrs. Editors.—I do not pretend to write to
I .„. w e deprecate theclaimsoi Air. Gilmer to the Executive j
-Judge, one Stare House officer, and two Solicitors Gen- j Chair—not to abuse that gentleman out of counten- )
citizens of Newton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Walton, Jack-
son, Franklin, Hall, Habersham, and Rabun, went
to the nation to dig. And that they were “pressed," there
solely by the hardness of the times—and not “with the
hope of acquiring great wealth with little labor”, as the
Governor has asserted. Those are the men whose suf
frages j .iaced G ov. G ilmerin the Executive Chair of Geor-
gja—and this is the grateful return he has made them—
i o the gold diggers 1 now address mvseif—Remember
the first Monday in October. The “Ballot Box” is the
place lbr you to redress all your political wrongs—and it
is there that you caii avenge yourselves upon Gov. Gil
mer—A few words more and 1 have done— Certain little
l : y politicians in Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham and Rabun,
i.nv j attempted to prejudice the minds of the people and
“gold diggers, against their Senator and Representatives
for not voting against the whole Bill, because the latter
w ere excluded from a draw. Now I want the people
and “gold diggers” to see if these very same politicians do
not endeavor to sustain Gov. Gilmer for his agency in
tins transaction—Look attentively, and make the enqui
ry, and it will he found that I am not much in the wrong.
Iliey may wish to ‘‘keep dark" but it is a duty whicL
you ow e to yourselves to "bring them out." I have been
your friend in all stages of the business—and it is this
winch has induced me to offer this brief exposition, to
shew’ you who your worst enemies were. If necessary,
your rights shall again be defended and your cause vin
dicated, by the pen of JUSTINIAN.
trary to the known wishes of the People, and without
authority from the Legislature.
12 th. Because lie has been the Governor of a partv in
stead ot being the Governor of a State. Nothwithsiand-
mg the pmdgo publicly, solemnly, and voluntarily given to
the contrary.
’U e the People have calmly and impartially heard all
that the council of Mr. Gilmer could urge in his behalf—
and neither they or himself have denied either of the
aforesaid adegations—We therefore order and decree,
that the said George R. Gilmer be removed from the of
fice o1 Governor on tlie first Monday in October next,
and the said Wilson Lumpkin elected in his place--and
BALDWIN SUPERIOR COURT,
AUGUST TERM, 183!
FJNHE Grand Jury of Baldwin county, for August
JL Term, having performed the duties wiuch devolved
upon them, beg leave to state, for the information of the
community, that >n compliance with the law of 1829, they
have made ah examination of the books, papers, ire. iir
the offices of the Clerks of the Superior and Inferior
Courts, & that they found iliem in a condition creditable
to those officers.
Tiiey have not been able to ascertain whether all the
estrays have' been properly accounted for. This difficul
ty lias arisen from the fact that all sums for estrays, sold
■ ( ; f .1 ■ , . 1 — ailU -J J.r.o III lOVU HU1II un. liu-l ValUb Oil DUIIIS- 1U1
J bf m , ier olcl ered, that our Representatives and Sena- ( by the Justices of die Peace, are paid to the county T
e next Legislature do, on the first W ednesday surer, who keeps no record of the particular estray for
m iNoi ember next, carry the aforesaid orders into effect, which die money is paid. The Jury*recommend to the
c , . THE PEOPLE. Inferior Court to prescribe such a mode for keeping die
aie oj Georgia, August 16th, 1331. books for estrays as may enable future Grand Juries to
ascertain who may be in dbfault. The Clerk of the In
ferior Court reports a balance in his hands, arising from
the sale of estrays sold bv him, of 37 dollars 47 cents.
Thi s suia is retained by him, subject to a charge for keep
ing an estrav, which has been referred to the Inferior
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT AND ANTI-TAR
IFF PROCEEDINGS.
At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens lllg au cslra v, wmen m
ol Jones county, this day held, pursuant to previ- ‘ Court far their decision,
ous notice, tor the purpose of appointing Delegates, | They have not been able to ascertain the condition of
to represeut this County, in the convention contem- i t - 12 P°or School Fund, the Trustee not having his vouch-
plated to be held in Eatonton, on the 26th Septem- ; ers > at command. The Grand Jury, therefore recommend
ber next, for the purpose of taking into considera-I to t,ie Inf ericr Court to make a rigid enquiry into this
tion, questions relating-to Internal Improvement fund ‘
Peter Kolb Esq. being called to the chair, and Dr.
A. H. Flevvellin appointed Secretary^ the follow
ing preamffie and resolutions were submitted and
agreed to.
Whereas a meeting is contemplated to be held,
lul public services, enjoying the full confidence and
approbation of bis constituents, and the public
generally) thus abused and reviled, by the ungen
erous and hollow-hearted leaders, and understrap
pers of a factious party.
As to the claims of Mr. Gilmer to the Executive,
I conceive he lias none, and his party knows that
fact well enough—but as he is their oniy hope, they
cleave to him with a desperation—that shews it
to be their last struggle—and in this etfort, so en
raged are they with desperation and disappoint
ment, that intrigues, assertions, and names, that
would disgust, every generous and noble minded
man—are grasped at with an eagerness, odious,
and false as they may be, that would astonish a
madman.
The people of Georgia know too well the long
and faithful public services of Air. Lumpkin—not
to appreciate them; they know that he has honest
ly discharged his duty towards them and his coun
try, always endeavoring to promote the best inter
est ol the South, he lias not been unmindful of the
general good. They know him to be too firm a re
publican, to countenance a disunion of this great
and flourishing republic, lbr light and transitory
causes; and if lie may be friendly to Air. Calhoun,
they know him to be too noble in soul and generous
in disposition to disclaim the friendship ol a fellow
citizen and fellow man, merely because they may
differ in opinion on other subjects, of which every
freeman has a right to enjoy his own sentiments.
It is a matter of astonishment with me Messrs.
Editors, bow a set of men, so fully aware as they
, 1,1) 1 Aviii cling to H as a sate a ( - must be, of the guiltless conduct, and the uniform
clior and the last hope oi lioerty. * Gen. Jackson is at ,> M T ? • iiAfo • .
our head. He has openly denounced the Secession and con ect deportment o Mr. Lumpkin, both private
-V.diifying doctrines of Cel. Troup. And the contest aud P lI, j“ c » can have the effrontery to conjure up so
will lx-, should iie uts’onie a candidate*—between Goner- j tnuch abuse and pout out so much groundless slsn-
«l Jack on. ;iie Union, and their friends on the one side, : tier on tnis honest and upright man, in the face of
and Col. Troop, Cecnshn, <5* Nullification, an-l their friends j an enlightened people—do they calculate that such
o.i the other. In Mad; a cause and against such ud versa- j a course as this, V/i!l blind the people to their own
A’lcs, we need not doubt. Victory is certain. j interest, or do they think the ditizeps of Georgia a
I owe you &;> apology my friends for obtruding im- j sel () f ignoramuses, who do not know abuse and
«il upon your aftfeimon in tins public manner, The -
therefore resolved:
1st. That delegates equal in number to that of
eral, were all that remained to tell the fate of their com- j mice—I cannot condecend to follow or imitate the 1 in )^ wn pf Eaton-
panjons and friends, ' ~ “ n in ,o ° ~ -
•‘one by one until a
soldier whose Con
ed and wasted in 1:
*rd. He had dared
pnd 1 ir which he had fought and hied—and far that, lie
was hurled headlong down the abyss of woe—But a
•generous, grateful and patriotic people have elevated
him high above the heads of his oppressors—"And let all
that pass."
I)o our oppressors cxpoct us at .all times to raise our-
©oives superior to am frailties of our nature? Do they ex
pect us to discard entirely the feelings of resentment,
which have a habitation in every breast? It would ap
pear that they did—For I avow now as 1 did then, that
the Union or Clark party betrayed an indiscretion and
imprudence in the year ls25, tiiat I consider reprehensi
ble— i et I must say that they had abundant excuse for
wna; they did. They had been borne-down, oppressed
and persecuted with a vengeance well calculated to m-
jfeme their feelings of resentment and goad them to in-
'ch scriininate revenge.
Much has been said about the conduct of Gen. Clark
•while Governor. Even he has now to share a portion
find a goodly one too, of the malice, envy and detraction
wt our oppressors. lie has gone from among us never a-
j»am I presume to return. I have know n him long atm
>;vn him well—and I say with candour and sincerity
that I never knew an honester man or purer patriot.
I have recently had occasion to iravel much m the mo6t
populous par of the State, and I have a confidence as
Tinriiaken and permanent as integrity use It, tiiat a tn-
•Xnnpfiant success awaits us. VVe have a candidate for
Governor against whose private or jxilmcal cnaracterno
jnan can say ought and “tell the truth"—and as yet none
^ftavc been so totally regardless of reputation as to prefer
•one specific allegation against him.
Rumor says tiiat our oppressors having seen all hopes
*«f electing Mr. Gilmer vanish “like oust before the sun,”
• intend bringing Col. Troup before the public. Be not
dismayed—A very .large majority of Georgians love the
Union of the S«atee—'They
They present William B. Snead for vagrawrey—Wit
nesses, Thos. J. Shinholser, Thomas F. Green, Charles
Rail and John H. Curry.
They allow Robert Alicklejohn, tax collector fo? the
year 1330, the sum of 64 dollars 94 cents, being the
amount flf his insolvent list to the State tax, and 11 dol
lars 28 cents for the amount of his insolvent list for coun
ty tax, as per list annexed to these presentments.
We further recommend tiiat the Collector be allowed
the amount charged in the case of Richard A. Blount’s
return of taxable property, he not being au inhabitant of
this county at the time,
While we should scorn to complain of .any difficulty
indispensably connected with the discharge of our duty,
arduous and detrimental to our private interests, as it
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
THE MAMMOTH LOTTERY
Wilt positively draw on the 21 st instant
new-york consolidated Lottery*)
Extra Class No. 19. tor 1831.
BRILLIANT SCHEME.
36 Number Lottery—by Ternary Ttrnau «•*on—6 a ruled
Ballets.
\ PMZE OF $50,000*
1 ** 40.000.
50.000.
20 OOO.
10.000.
5.fcfcO.
1 w
1 «
i *
O PHIZES
44
2.500.
12
PRIZES CF
$1,000
ISO
PRIZES
q*
*s6
12
do.
ii
500
180
do.
u
50
24
do.
44
300
?,340
do;
it
32
60
do.
44
200
15,660
do.
ii
16
Which are warranted
to draw half.
ae;t npon your attention in tins put
grear solicitude which I have to see you placed upon a
level with men to venom I know you are equal, has alone
pr vnp'ed me to raise my voice in your behalf. I am an
humble individual living upon a little farm—-fur *. einoved
ir..,n the busy scenes of men; which with my own hands
1 a.-east to cultivate. 1 survey the scenes as tiiey pass be-
Abre me at a distance, without I believe, either prejudice
or partiality—I have neither expectation or wish to leave
<£ny retirement-—Vet lavish success to the cause in which
yen are engaged—believnigasl do, that it is the cause of
Truth, Justice and the Union of the States—and that the
on .• may prevail ana the other be perpetual, is the earn'
ffst'prayer of CINCINATUS.
[COR TtlE FEDERAL TNIONr]
COY. GILMER AND TILE GuLD DIGGERS.
No act of the last Legislature has been viewed as more
"tuiequal, unjust, and oppressive, titan the one excluding
the gold diggers from a participation of the benefits cl
the contemplated Land Lottery. Many of the members
•Jia ve been censured le r not vot mg against the whole Lana
Bid* because of their exclusion—but in my opinion no
jnan is so justly liable to blame as Gov. Gilmer.
The Governor is placed by the Constitution as a guar-
*lian over it—and upon him it peculiarly devolves to pre
serve it from violation by indiscreet, excessive, or impro-
j>er legislation—lie lias also been constituted an indepen
dent department of the Government, as an additional se
curity to the enterests and rights of aN classeasof the
community. It is his bounded duty to prevent the pas
sage of any law, by whose operation burthens arc impos
ed upon one portion of our citizens more than another.
Thyse being his acknowledged duties, let us examine the
{fidelity with which he has discharged them.
1 consider the law by which so large and respectable a
portion of our community art deprived of a chance < r
draw, not only unjust and oppressive, but unconstitution
al. It annexes a punishment to an alleged offence, to
which there was none affixed at the time of its reputed
commission. It makes that criminal, which was not so
*mtil the passage of the act—and it is unequal in its oper
ation—These things combined, form a test by which the
constitutionality of this law may be tried—No penalty
is, or could be, inflicted upon the citizens of other States,
or upon those of our own who had already drawn land.'
Bat the whole of the vengeance of the Executive and
juis particular friends in tfie Legislature, was dealt out
xmon those of the citizens of Georgia, who had not been
pu fortunate as to draw land in any of the former Lotte
ries—and had been by the cxampie of others, “tempted
-into the geld region”—1 make the declaration fearless of
contradiction, that the prominent friends of the Govern
or in both branches of the Legislature were most decided
ly opposed to the “gold diggers.” Names can be given if
necessary—The Governor knew that the section of the
J_aw in question was partial and unjust in its operation,
^.s well as unconstitutional, and lie ought by the interven
tion of his Veto to have prevented its passage. This, it
its to be presumed, he would have done, hau he not enter
tained the most vindictive, bitter and hostile feelings to
wards tliis persecuted and unfortunate class of our fellow
citizens. I am not the advocate of vice or immorality.
I plead not for those who have knowingly violated our
laws. And the Governor expressly says in his message,
that no law of the State “had matlo it criminal to take
{file minerals from such lands.”
, For myself, I consider the Governor the primary
cause of excluding the “gold diggers*”—it was be w ho
first officially denounced most of them as “idle and pro-
fligate”—it was he who first described “the thousands
t hus collected together,” the citizens of our own State in
cluded, as exhibiting “a scene of vicious indulgence, vio
lence, ajid fraud”—No exception is here made—The word
“All” is used—and employed in such manner as to “em
brace within one sweeping denunciation, the whole of
the “gold diggers”—Examine the Governor’s Message,
and particularly the sentence last quoted and it will be
perceived that I have given his very words. 1 know ma
ny of the “gold diggers” personally, and I know them to
be as honorable, high-minded men, as any in our commu
nity "JJis Excellenitf’ not excepted. Some of whom
have! been for years reputable members of the Methodist
and Baptist Societies—and upon whose conduct or char
acter no man but Gov. Gilmer ever cast reproach. So far
as I am acquainted—and I know many personally, those
who went to the Cherokee mines were generally sober,
honest, industrious, but poor men—men who had families
to support and who thought they were committing no im
propriety in doing that, which the law had not forbidden,
and especially as they know that many of the citizens
of other States were engaged in the same pursuit. There
wffie it t*uc, ejce'ptiops, Injt I qjgj iqjfopncU.by 1
slander from argument—and truth from falsehood—
there may he a few, (a misfortune if there are)
who are deaf to justice and consistency—or who
are not a ware ol the snares that are alluring them
into error—go heedlessly on into the whirpooi of
corruption, their own political ruin, and direct op
position to the public good.
Yet Messrs. Editors, notwithstanding all those
undue, unjust, and ungenerous exertions of the
I enemies of Air. Lumpkin, to prejudice tlie minds of
the honest citizens of Georgia, against his interest
and the interest of the community, he is gaining
ground, the eyes of the people are opened to jus
tice, they know they can rely with confidence upon
au honest man, and, they know that they can find
him in the person of Air. Lumpkin—they have tri
ed him and lbund him pure, and they tcitt try him
again.
It is with pleasure, that I can inform you of the
universal expression of public opinion in favor of
Mr. Lumpkin in this part of the State, and there
is nn doubt but what tliis opinion prevails in a con
siderable majority throughout the State—the puny
efiort3 to sustain the tattered cause of Air. Gilmer
must fail—there is no ground for a single argument
in his favor, as equal to Mr. Lumpkin—and hav
ing no argument to exhaust, they stand by abuse and
slander, to support a cause already desperate.
I congratulate the people of Georgia on the fa
vorable prospects—of soon having an executive
who will regard their best interest—and promote
their general good—and who is firm and inflexible,
able and well qualified to administer the goven-
ment as it should be.
FORT GAINES.
our representatives in the General Assembly of this must necessarily be, we conceive that we have a right to
State, be appointed by this meeting to meet such require of parties and of the court, that no hardship, no
delegates as rr.av be appointed by other counties P nvation » should be needlessly imposed. The incarcer-
to aid in the deliberations, and more particularly to atKm V° whi ^ h mcmbers de , taded \° ac ^<? n s P ecial J uries >
• -» • • - • • 1 - J are subjected, appears to us a rehc of barbarous ages,
useless to the parties and derogatory to freemen. We
are unable toconceive what mischief could result from a
permission to the jury at night, after mature deliberation,
and interchange of opinions upon the case, to return to
their respective places of abode, wherein retirement they
may review the subject, and be much better able to ar
rive at correct conclusions than in a noisy room. Hav
ing lmd some unpleasant experience in tills matter, we
state our conviction, that the confinement of the Jury at
night, affer they have declined further discussion, de
prived of the ordinary comforts of life, is calculated to
effect their health, to disqualify them from attention to
business, on the subsequent day, to produce disgust and
aversion to the service, that it is demoralizing in its ten
dency, (a remark intelligible to those who have been
similarly circumstanced,) illy adapted to produce a just
result, and last and worst, tiiat it is calculated to torture
men into perjurv.
They recommend that bills of indictment should be di
vested of all circumstances of exaggeration. They can
not comprehend by what process of reasoning a juror
should be required to pronounce that, on oath, a correct
sta’ementof facts which, as a man of veracity, he should
blush to communicate in the streets. The custom tends,
as we think, to diminish that punctilious regard to truth,
which it is incumbent on all to maintain. It affords us
oleasure to observe a manifest improvement in this regard,
hut the process of erasure lias not yet been carried suffi
ciently far.
The Grand Jury congratulate their fellow-citizens,
upon the improvement in the state of eE-iety as manifest
ed by the decorous conduct of the numerous persons con
gregated about the court-house; an improvement, as they
think, mainly attributable to a perceptible decrease in the
represent the interest of this county, at the conven
tion specified in the foregoing preamble.
2nd. That the following five named gentlemen,
Dr. Thomas Hamilton, Dr. Abner H. Flevvellin,
W m. S. C. Reid, Esq. Col. Thomas Aloug’non,
and James Gray, Esq. be appointed and constitu
ted delegates for this county to tiiat convention.
3rd. Tiiat in the event of any of the delegates
appointed by this meeting, declining toserve, his or
their vacancies, shall be filled by those of the dele
gates who shall attend the convention.
PETER KOLB, Chairman.
A II. Flevvellin, Secretary.
August 31, 1831.
The following preamble and resolutions were
then submitted, and after some discussion, the
question being put—on agreement, were carried
| without a dissenting voice.
j Whereas tliis meeting influenced, no less bj^a
sincere attachment to the Union of the States, than
by considerations of our own immediate interest and
happiness, and viewing the tariff of 1826, as a
measure clearly violating the spirit of the federal
constitution, being unequal, unjust, and oppressive
in its operation, and manifestly designed to effect
an object ne\ r er contemplated by the framers of that
instrument; deem it a solemn duty to encourage
every manly and peaceable measure, having for its
object the equalization ol benefits and burthens, bv
such a modification af the tariff, as willl bring it
within the constitutional purposes of revenue only.
Be it therefore resolved.
1st- That this meeting do highly approve of the
Anti-Tarifl AIeetin<j l® be held in the city of Phil
adelphia on the SOtli §entemher next.
2d. mat Uiis meeting do also mgniy
the meetings held at Athens and Savannah,
and the selection made of uefegnfeS t-9 ICprgsept
the State of Georgia in the Convention mentioned
in the foregoing resolution, and that we make use
of this occasion earnestly to request the gentlemen
chosen, not to let this opportunity slip, of rendering
to their State the important services which their
presence at that convention, with the talents and
patriotism lor which they are distinguished, would
most probably enable them to perform.
PETER KOLB, Chairman.
A. H Flevvellin, Secretary.
p!ea.->
PXICE OF TICKETS.
Whole* $16—Halves pS—Gtuarters —Eights
Packages of Tickets in this Lottery, are obligee to
draw half the amount invested, and have a oliauee for
any of the Capitals—Each package contains 12 Tici et&
or shares.
PACKAGES of wholes $192
do do halves 06
do do quarters 4 8
do do eights 24
Adventurers, who wish to invest in the above splendid
Scheme, will do well to send their orders soon/as the
Tickets will be very scarce towards the time of drawing.
Orders end<'Sing cash or prize tickets, (in any Lottery)
will be promptly attended to, if addressed to
, II. COSNARD, Augusta, Gat
N T . B—A printed Scheme, explanatory of tliis Lettc-
rv, will be sent to each adventurer, with the ticket or tick-
ets ordered. Sort 8, 1SM.
J
«Jackson Hall.
GLORIOUS CROPS, GOOD an lb’ y . RAP
LIVING, COME AND SEEi
f'gll IE subscriber havim added four
^JL commodious Rooms to hir-
ESTABLISHMENT,
making upwardsofjortyjire p ices, s..xisene.o> c. . Li sr.us
and the public generally, to fo ive him a can, when i;e
flatters himself, from his long experience in business, to
give general satisfaction. Ixe is well supplied w.th all
the country and town affords—bis terms will be moder
ate, agreeably to the hardness of times.
He has also purchased the Ferry near bis "own, on the
town commons, known by the name of fluids l erry, and
has discontinued liis former Ferry. r i he upper terry will
be attended to by an honest, attentive ferryman, always
ready. He will be thankful to tiie public 1<>r iheir custom.
SAMUEL BUFFINGTON.
Mil'edgeville, Sent. 8, T631. - y—,i
’ iAKkIEl—In Leri,n, Conn, on Thursday the 3.',tl, ultimo, Mr.
BRIAN NEWELL, of MiHedgeville, Geo. to Mis3 ANN A. LOVE
LAND, of the former place.
_ [Communicated.]
Departed this life on Thursday, the I8th of August last, in Hall
county, JOHN E BER HART, Esq. For two years he had feen an
orderly member of the Presbyterian Church, and died hr fnh hopes
oi peace and joy near the throne of God. He was an honest man,
and much esteemed by his friends and acquaintances.
T
WILSON LUMPKIN, ) r .. . ' ,
7 f Case pending before the peo-
GEORGE R*. GILMER. ) P* e °S Gtur S ia -
We, the People of the State of Georgia, do decree, or
der, and adjudge, that, the plaintiff, Wilson Lumpkin, re
ceive the Executive office of the State, of the said defend
ant, George R. Gilmer, for the following good and sub
stantial reasons.
1st. Because the said Wilson Lumpkin lias proven in
nil the various public stations that he lias filled, tiiat he
is the friend of the People.
2d. Because from his letter to Gov. Clark, it is clearly
proven, that at that early day he saw the great impor
tance of extending the benefits of Education to the poor
and destitute | -art of community, and of improving our
great Market Roads—and that although he was in favor
of certain reservations to enable the Sta‘e to accomplish
these laudable purposes, he was decidedly in favor of the
Lottery System—And be.reving as we do that his ene
mies have fabricated the statement about his being in
favor of selling the land to do him an improper injury,
we pledge ourselves to give him the warmer support.
3d. Because lie is opposed to reserving the “gold
mines” to the State-—and because he believes tiiat the
poor man is equally entitled to a chance to draw one as the
rich man is.
4ih. Because he is opposed to the indiscriminate ad
mission of Indian Testimony in our “Courts of Justice
where a white man is a party.”
5th. Because he considers that part of the Act dispos
ing of the Cherokee Territory which excludes a portion
of our citizens from a draw, because they dug for gold,
unjust, oppressive and unconstitutional.
fi'Ji. Because he is opposed to rebuilding the Peniten
tiary un'il the People through their representatives shall
have ordered it.
7th. Because the said George R. Gilmer has manifest
ed in his message, and by his administration generally, a
total disregard or perfect ignorance of the wishes and
feelings of the People—either of which shews his unfit
ness for the Executive office of the State.
8th. Because he has abused and denounced the gold
diggers as ‘‘idle and profligate" and vicious, violent, and
fraudulent.
9th. Because he lias recommended the reservation of
the cold mines, and assigned amongst others the reason
that “wealth suddenly acquired, leads to prodigality.”
10th. Because he lias recommended the admission of
Indians as witnesses in our Courts of Justice, where a
white man is a party—thereby exposing the lives, liber
ty, and property of our fcllcw-citizens, to the prejudice,
ignorance and corruptions of the Indians.
“ ll*h. Because he is rebuilding the Penitentiary con-
XTTESTIOSV
IE MeiiiLers iue Vv aslimgion Troopof Cavalry
are requested to attend the Funeral of Brit tan
L. Hopson, at the house ofCapt. William Hopson, on
' unday, the 2d day of October, at 10 o’clock, A.M. in
complete uniform—fail not.
It. N. IIICKLIN, Captain.
September 9, 1331. 2t
AN ORDINANCE
FOP. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TOWN OF MIL-
LEBGEVILLE.
IT OR'OAu j^, oy .i.e attendant ana Commis
sioners of the Town of -Milled"eviHe, T hat the car
casses and parts thereof of all dead animals that may be
found m said town, or on the common thereof, witlim
three hundred yards of any inhabitable part of said town,
shall be forthwith removed by the last owfier, keeper, or
manager thereof; and if such person or persons snail neg
lect or refuse to remove die same within one hour offer
notice and request to do so, it shall be the duty of the
.Marshal to cause such removal at the expense of such
B 1
use of spirituous liquors. They view with much
tire, the laudable conduct of candidates in ref: aining from
the reprehensible practice of treating. They consider it
surprisintr, that their fellow-citizens should ever have
tolerated fer a moment., a practice so ins ltinc to them
selves, ana in its tendency so destructive to our free
institutions. They fondly indulge the hope, that the i usu-ict
time aTl!! Speedy when 'tUe nftliej ;and, uL
elective franchise shall he so correctly appreciated by ^
every freeman in the CdUhtry, that he will rej>e! with in
dignation, every effort to purchase his vote at any price
short of incorruptible, integrity, and superior qualifica
tion, for tlie office sought.
„ Iy ak “S ® respectful feave of his honor Judge LA-
a• Au, they (feem jt but justice to bear their testimony
to his punctuality; to his assiduity and uniform suavity
of manner; and although the session has been unusually
protracted, they are satisfied, that it has resulted from
causes which no diligence could surmount.—They avail
themselves of the present opportunity, to express the
pleasure they have experienced at »he well merited ele
vation to the Bench of their esteemed fellow-citizen; and
their earnest wish, that the country may long continue
to receive the benefit of his services.
The thanks of the Jury are likewise due to the Soli
citor, Mark A. Cooper, Esq. for his polite aftenrion, and
for the fidelity with which lie has discharged his duties so
far as they have come under our cognizance.
We request that these our presentments be published
in the Milledgevdle paoers.
WILLIAM D. JARRATT Foreman.
DISSOLUTION.
T HE Coparmersmu iiereioiurc oA.s-jiig between th®
undersigned, under the firm ot b'i iEEtt FAN-
K UN, is this day, by mutual consent, dissolved. The up
set! led business of the firm will be closed by both. Per
sons indebted to the concern will make payment, &. chose
having demands against it will present ilie'same to either
BENJ. ED Vv. STILES,
A. B. FANNIN. .»
It is hoped to close the affairs of this concern hi an eaic
ly day, to tlie satisfaction of all interested. The parties
above, will conduct business on their individual account
m futui e, and solicit tne patromige ol tueir lucnds and
acquaintances.
Savannah, August 25, 183h n
50,000 ACRES OF LANBJ
r T l.o. .-nr,ff
John Miller,
J. S. Calhoun,
G. TV. King,
J. M. Carter,
TVms Rutherford\
R. H. Smith,
John R. Smith,
Edwin Whitaker,
B. Hepburn,
Terrell Barksdale,
Ezra B. Jones,
William Whitaker t
Benj. JJ. White^
S. Boykin,
p. C. Guieu,
W. F. Scott,
Samuel Fuller,
W. D. Scoggin,
John Sharp,
Horatio Barksdale.
On motion of Sol. Gen. "Mark A. Cooper, It is order
ed, that the foregoing presentments be published agree
ble to the request of the Grand Jury.
A true extract from the minutes, this 5th day of Sep
tember. 1331. WILLIAM J. DAVIS, Clerk.
MASONIC HAIX.
a PRSfisnraa of ioo do&x.ars
W ILL be paid for a Plan of a Masonic Hall to
be erected in the town of Milledgeville. The
owner, keeper, or manager; and in case there be no J building to be fire-proof—three stories hi Mi, the base-
owner, keeper, or manager, within the lmnts of the town,! ment. story to be of stone, the other stories" of brick—to
then at the expense of the corporation. be placed on a corner lot fronting south and west. Ba*e-
2. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That; ment story to be occupied for stores—cost not to exceed
it shall lie the duty of the Marshal* and he is hereby au- j $15,000.
thorised and required, once a week and oftener, if in his * *
judgement it shall be necessary, to inspect all reservoirs
and sinks in which stagnant w ater or any other offensive
liquid may be contained, whether on private lots or any
other part of the town, &. to cause the same to be tlu-owu in
the common drains, and in case tlie said reservoirs or
sinks are on private lots, to collect of the owner or tenant
die expense of removing such stagnant water or other off*
Tensive matter, should said owner or tenant refuse to do
so.
3. And be it further ordained by.the authority aforesaid,
That it shall be the duty of the Marshal, and lie is au
thorised and required so to do, to go round immediately
after a rain and oftener, if in his judgement it shall be ne
cessary, and examine all cellars within the corporate lim
its of this town, and see if there be no water in the same,
and it shall be Iris duty to notify all owners, or the tenant
of any building where there is a cellar which contains
water, or his, her, or their agent or attorney to remove
the same, and any person refusing or neglecting, after no
tification by the Marshal, to remove the w’ater out of any
cellar, the Marshal shall remove the same at the expense
of such person; and any person or persons refusing to
permit die Marshal or Deputy to enter and make such
examination of his, her, or their cellars, shall be fined the
sum of fifty dollars.
Read and passed this 5tli day of September, 1831.
(Attest.) E. E. PARK, Intendant.
N. B. Juhan. Secretary.
EORGIA, HENRY COUNTY.—Tolled be-
Uf fore me, in the 498th district, G. M. by John
jackson, one RED SORREL FILLY, supposed to
be three years old last spring, about four feet 9 or 10
inches liigh a small star in her forehead and a white ring
around her right hind foot, slender made—Appraised by
Eli Strickland and William L. Cravton at Thirty-five
dollars. THOMAS D. JOHNSON, / P .
August 25, 1831.
A true extract from the Estray Book, this 23tli August,
1831.' (3t) G.-W. SMJTIU c.p cV
The plans to be directed to the Secretary of the Board
of Commissioners of the Milledgeville Masonic Hall Lot
tery, on or before the 1st day of November next.
R. A. GREENE, Secretary.
Millledgeville, Sept. 6, 1831. *
P. S. Brick can be purchased f,*r $1 50 per 1000—and
stone for $3 00 jier perch of 25 feet.
*.* The New-York Courier <fc Enquirer, Aumsta Courier, nn.'.
Charleston Courier, will give the above three insertions ajirl for
ward their accounts for payment. R. A. GREF.NE,
Sept ? 9 - tf Secretary.
PENITENTIARY.
H AVING rebuilt the Work-shops since tlie late fire>
we are now ready to resume many of the usual
branches of business followed here. We have on hand,
a variety of Coach, Gig, Jersey and Wagon
HARNESS,
well made and of good materials; a Jersey Wagon and
a Sulkev, a Mahogony Side-board, Bureau and Sofa,
Cribs, Pine Siabs, Folding Table, Fancy and Windsor
Chairs, Clock Reels, and a variety of Cedar Vessels,
Cotton Gins, Fine and Coarse
SHOES,
BOOTS, made to measure,
TiLZi.oaxxja done with neatness and dispatch,
at low prices for cash. PHILIP COOK, P. K.
September 8 9 3t
-NOTICE.
B Y order of the Inferior Court of Emanuel county,
will be sold at the court-house door in Swainsbo-
rough, on the first day of November next, one hundred
acres of Land lying on the waters of Canoucliee, and ad
joining Edmund Canady’s land. Also one negro wo
man by the name of Lucy—being the propert y of Will
iam Wiggins, late of said county, deceased. Sold for
the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said deceased.
JAMES \\ IGGINS, Adm’r.
Septembers 0 . ids
T liE undersigned protases to «eh * U ;y
Acres of fine Land in what is called the Western
U of Tennesse, among w hich is some of W best
dtet, Situate Oil the waters ofLoosoatehee, Big Hatchee
Forked Deer, Obion and Mississippi river:a i<o, e r <>r ’
tion of which is the (rest cotton land in ihe Eait, and
well adapted to the growth of Corn, Tobacco and every
other production common to the same-latnude, li is s.f’.
uaied between latitude 35 arid 56-301! Is, new coun'rv
possesses more advantages. Ten years ago ihe v hole
jjopuiaiion scarcely exceeded five liujidrcu souls, n now
contains largely upwards of one hundred thousand oh
increase beyond example, considering the v.-fiole District
is not more than 90 niilcs square.
Among, the great advantages this fertile District ha*
over all others, are the facilities afforded fo trade ;)m | na
vigation:—bounded cn the W ert oy the mother of lin ers
the great Mississippi, and on tlie Last by the T'enne-.stA
River, both navigable ar all seasons of the year, by the
largest class of steam boats;—the main tributary streams
are navigable with keel and fiat boats— : aird the small
class of steam boats piy regularly up B.gLiaichie, as far
as Boiiva, which is situated near the centre of the District-
a large portion of tlie above lands fie oh this stream and
South' of ir, immediately in that section where .here are
already many large cotton farms. At this time, this sec
tion of country offers to capitalists great inducement s-—
land is unusually low—the population of the most re
spectable character, industrious, intelligent and emer-
prising. Schools and academies are iiow in operation
equal to the best itt the state, and emigrants are daily
coming from Virginia, North and South "Carolina, Cecil
ria and Alabama; and many farms have been opened to
the extent of 3 and 400 acres producing more cot on to
the acre than any other land in the same latitude. Twelve
years experience has tested the salubrity of the cl’xate—
nor new country was ever blessed with a greater share rf
general good health. Another great advantage pccuiia’*
to this section of country is, that navigable streams arc
so dispersed, that, there is no point at which a settlement
car. be made, that will exceed a greater distance from na
vigation than twenty miles, and tiiat the Mississippi riv
er is easy of access by land carriage at many convenient
points within this range of country,—whereas at no print
below Memphis, until you beach tire Walnut hills, a dis
tance of 400 miles, can you approach this great River at
high water cn either side from the back country bv- land
carriage,—owing to tlie extensive sv.amps and lakes on
both sides below the southern line of Tennessee. Anoth
er advantage may here be suggested to cotton planters
the great distance west from the Allegany Mourn a ins
as a decree west from said mountains is considered by
judicious and experienced cotton planters equivalent to a
degree South for the production of cotton.
Such is my exalted opinion of this fire country, ff.a rH
reasonable price would induce me at this time to part from
so much of my lands, did not the situation of my affairs
make it absolutely necessary to raise funds to aischorge
the heavy debts which .have been so long and harrassim -
ly pressing on me—For the reason last mentioned*the
undersigned wishes to make ov.e large sale, which wiii en
able lmn to close up his business at once/ JCU^iF 50 -
000 acres cart be disposed cf at one sale,'l will rivea
great bargain on the most liberal credits, say from one to
ten years, by such instalments as may be agreed nrx—
I shall be absent for the next sixty days, during which
time, those who wish to purchase" can find a list of the
different tracts at my office, in Nashville, or they can arfi
ply to L. P. Cheatham, Esq. who is in possession of my
price and terms. When I return, I will she^v the lands
to any desirous of purchasing.
JOHN C. McLEMOf H
August 11,1831.
V The Richmond Enquirer, Huntsville Democrat, rind Fedc-i
Union, Mitterteevjiie, will insert the above once a week to
amount of 25 dollars each, and forw ard their account to“the sail
scriber tor payment. JNO C McLEMORfi.
WMTE are authorized to announce Mr. LEWIS J. V.~:
W ▼ KRAATZ a candidate for Clerk of the frift#!.-
C..HJ-I of Baldwin county.
lAMPBELL SHERIFFS SALE.
A.g^
-Wid ; k
sold, at Campbellton, Campbell county, on the firs-
Tuesday m OCTOBER next, the State’s interest In n
fraudulent Lot of Land distinguished in the plan cf sur
vey by No. 26, in the eighth district of originally Cow
eta, now Campbell county.
Sept 8
N. NICHOLSON, Sheriff.
grjlOLB months after date application will be made fo
®- the honorable the Inferior Court of Heard couim.
while sitting as a court of ordinary, for leave to sell a ;
the property both real and personal, not willed, cfU.fi
estate of John G. Smith, iats of said county, deceased
guy w. smith,
8 Adm’r; with will anny.^Tf-