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■ v e ua for a pound, sinctf the du ft' Educed ?” inquired a Vermonter ■f ke eper. “Wby 1 guess” was the H 6 ' ). shall have to let you have a ■ f o r about four and sixpence. H uHbition is, to live under ft* ■ MOWERATiOIV. aatsuafcSa ■ M. ri: iiIOIIT’S ADVOCATE. JuUEVILLE, JUNE 19, 1833. j BL, authorised to announce j n \WFOIiD, oi Hancock, a H„, for Governor, at t«»e eis I rol BTII OF JI I.Y. meeting of the Volunteer ;; '/place, «l>e propriety of celebrating H,.. v ,y of American Independence hav ■ red, the following committees y i,u the part of tho Corps, to con committees (should such be appoint* citizens) and co-operate with them in Hjj pie necessary arrangements for the to select an Orator.—Messrs. A. H. McNeil, \V. G. Lane and Hlaunay. of Arrangements.—Messrs. John L. 1). Buckner, Wrn. J. Davis,and ® ll«r. ■ aunittce to select an Oratorfurtheday,™ of their charge, have selected Hiiure, Esq. who, they have the pleas of the appointment, of arrangements will report in due time. June 19, 1833. correspondents. —“ Macon” on Banks, I Hed. An Cration de'ivered at LaGrange, j Bounty, on “State Rights,” is received— Blue tor to-day’s paper. It is forthcom ■ next. "HI LLS OF COURT,” which have ‘n: as tortb-coming from this office, |Hm weeks past, are now nearly coinpiet- He I have been much earlier, if we ■re*; the copy as waeexpected. Those 1 f -warded their orders are informed will be sent as early as they are bound. ■ Convict in the Peurtentaary, named wiio had been sent from Chatham - iii.iiibiaughu r, w as drowned in the ()• near this place, on Sunday last. It Ho ian niion.aly, bow a convict, being H c uM be drowned, as in the above case ; ••' . requires thisuxplanatiou. Keni- H.-noi within 25 days of the lime he for, and as is usual, with one ■ ... • iiim.-elf satisfactory in the Peniten , ■«cd some priviledges, and confi ■b- re lie was permitted (one of the guard Inin; to visit the river to bathe. It is B. he was taken with tho cramp. ■ r.< i i; ,: e. has been established at Jones- county. John Jone 6, Ksq. Post Honthorir Agriculture, Ac. was called to this subject a few ■ : conversation with an intelligent farmer, m his operations, and successful in He iulerrogaled us, “ Why we were so deficient in public spirit and Whilst we admitted the fact of supine neglect of the uses of the rich bequests ol sere not so ready to give an answer to 'O. Il was not, however, because there t the deplorable fact, that the South. ar ■ liemishcd with a frigid inditicrence, spirit, and divested of those exalted ii triple, aaj consequently their general jßf . Oar peoplo are unambitious to make grow where but one had grown be. hey have not the enterprise to project, or w t.r.'cute those improvements of public ornar.ioat, which give vigor, and life, to a community. While this stale of (and we fear it will too long) no n r , ran be indulged, ol onr approach to -Id. May we not, however put tho “ flat. H our eoul,” that Georgia, peculiar will v \ will Soon awake, from her “ Rip. ' " f »p, aaj take fri sit spirit and incrcas. hi r slumber. She can nor, we be. uat, loot; calmly on, and see her noble H Ci ' i" ! spirited sisters, marching forward |^B ,Ir ' _ without some tfTort to fairly struggle . put her capabilities into action, to ru,-. -.he good race, with honored cele not successful conquest. painful reflection to the true Georgian, who :r ' l fleered and interests entwined to the “ *'u l l home," to contrast the advance. B ■ ‘ science of agriculture and public ini- H' 1 ' v rich hae been so rapidly and success- by her sisters, with the want of it B : ' v ' state—(wo sav native —not literally so, early identified it as our home, and “blown with our growth.” and increased K!') '/ w ith a soil hs favored as “ God’s sun —with a climate that almost vies with ntmosphere—with a peoplo naturally patriotic ami industrious, and endow, qualifications wh-ch form tho consti. of a great and flourishing state - of facilities, adequate to reward the "V in every branch of science, of agricul. ! ii'f'liamcs—with fine natural channels, ■' ™ taaieriel which are wrought into pro. “notifying use, by the hand of theani. ■ mth « “gnarled oak” to gold, “ pure gold"— numerous undiscovered and buried sufficient to repay the scholar, IFI and the naturalist, in their researches— B'. l,| , a | '^ cse advantages, and more, we are a t'Mnrgot ixg reopt.t—plodding the paths B‘ lters Hod, under the dogmatical error, ' *®y. was always the right way. Nor in so bad if iD practising from their a -opted 'heir virtues • but instead ol which, ns arc made on ahetr good precepts and and until they are, commingled with past ■ “nd the abnee of present advant iges. ■ ' r contrast the smiling, improved, and ► lace of country of onr more Northern o:, r exhausting and neglected fields— |B I”u adorned end flourishing cutes, our'Uecayed and delapidattng towns andjtriUfes— whether their magnificent public edifices, spired churches, and arched bridges, (surpassing the best conceptions of the imagination) with our rickettv and tottering semblances of such, and which are but mockery of what they pretend to be -whether their improved streams, constructed rail roads, and well paved turnpikes, with our slovenly systems of navi- j gation and ‘ road-rail highways,—whether their sys. j tematised and well.governcd seminaries, and uni. | versal education plan, with our ill-digested, tttisma. j naged, ignorant, an pauper.like schools, mere at- 1 tempts “to learn the young idea how to shoot”— | we say in all these comparisons, it in every instance j in which the improvement of man and of nature’s gifts can he compared —(except hereinafter provided) ( in whatever light we look at them, we have pre. I sented to ourselves a beggared and haggard aspect, 11 at which our senses sicken, and our fancy dies. \, It is true, we acknowledge no superior people to ’ our own, in the innate principles of right, honor and , ambition. No people on the globe are more sensi. j i tive [to use parlance style] “of the high principles i of honor,” and “on economical principles,” than our people. It is our boast, that we are Southron, 1 by birth, in feeling, and by residence, yea, we hope 1 to be even until death: but with the best conceptions i of our section and people—with our determination to abide by and with them through time—“ through 1 good and through evil report”—yet we are tree to 1 admit, and with mortification, too that we are far be. hind our con.temporary brethren, in improvements, in rational and local improvement, in all improve ment, save our paramount effort “to do the thing that is light”—and in our superior understanding of the science of government, and its bearings on the rights of freemen, and of liberty. In our honest opinion of these saving exceptions, we have our mind [touse the expression] “fully made up,” and will maintain the position now and ever, at any and all hazards. We had not designed extending this article to it. present length, nor to have given it the features it wears : but our feelings and enthusiasm were wrought on by the unpleasant reflections which are. trospcct ol things and places have produced; and, like “ the tear of affection and sorrrw.” by us pos. sessor, we have been some rel eved by shedding our ink. Rut our main object, in the outset, was to present the following extract from a communication in an Alabama paper. It will be perceived that its direct application was to Alabama; but it w ill never theless bear transportation and use in our meridian, w e shall, at a future time give our views, and tri fling as they may be, to endeavor to awaken the people of Milledgevii.le and the sub jacent country, to a sense oi their interest. Me shad endeavor to show that it is a want of energy and public spirit, why our metropolitan and te.ntrical state town is on the wane—and that by a proper direction of public spirit, enterprise, and effort, this seventy-hills’ town, might be arrtsteil from its downward march, and rise, Phomix-like, from its ashes. The following extract is pithy—Read it, and with an understanding sense : EXTRACT. “ There is nothing, perhaps, which shetfs the want of enterprise in the southern people more than the neglect of our agricultural affairs. i.i is to me a matter of the utmost astonishment, (T ha.l almost said mortification) that in such a i community as this, numbering so many farmers j of intnlligenee and wealth, that no associations j have been formed, for the purpose of adding to i the common stock of the Agricultural knowledge of the couutry. In this community, composed of] men, whose only profession is agriculture, not a j syllable have I seen written upon that subject! I verily believe, that we inhabit the best pottion i of the southern country. Shall we make no effort j to sustain our lands under our exhausting sys- j tem of agriculture 1 How can we promote this I great object so effectually, as by Agricultural i Associations, by means of w hich the whole com- \ inunity will be enabled to profit by the experience 1 and skill of each individual ?—Let us recollect, ] that our section of country has most of the advan-1 tages of an older country. —Let us recollect, that although we may kill our lands here, and find . fresh lands in the western wilds, that it is a most [ difficult matter to find . fertile & healthy' country,' lying upon one of the very best rivers iu the U. j States, and convenient to an extensive and excel- j lent market for all the produce we can raise, j Such is our section of country. We have it in j our power, either to abuse or improve the advan-! tages which nature lias so profusely bestowed ; epon our country. “ Wliat's in a names” Is the innocent inquiry of the tender and rnipas sionate Juliet— “ that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” So think not the political jugglers of the present day : They firmly believe (their actions induce 1 us to think so) there are some names so tainted, that they offend the pure organs of republican j freemen : therefore, they arrogate to themselves j a name utterly regardless of its applicability.'—j We have been led into these remarks by observ-! ing the eager avidity with which the talismanic ! title of 4 Union’ has been caught np by those who ! once blushed not to wear the badge of Federal-; ism; their sincere zeal to propagato principles; which have been long since repudiated; and I their wily endeavors to cloak these exploded j doctrines of a past age, under the »pecieus cogno men of ‘Union’ principles. We allude to those | who are just putting forth (heir claim to be the! exclusive 4 Union’ party of Georgia. It may be * an inquiry of no small interest to ascertain what i this title means, and what ‘ Union’ it is that hat* j at this late day, thus loudly called forth their ad- j herence. Is it a 44 Union” of tho dispersed and ; discarded fragments of a •andered party? Aj ‘Union’ Gs time-serving politicians, of office-, seeking partisans, of all whose heretical and pre posterous opinions have heretofore rendered them obnoxious to the charge of being Federalists in disguise ? Is it a 4 Union’ of those whose ac tions have occasioned a withdrawal of public confidence, and a dismission from public service, and are they now seeking to regain their lost scep tre, and Tide upon this popular hobby triumphant, into the affections of the people ? Or is it meant to typify that party who would make the bond of affection that once united these freo and sovereign States for tho purpose of common defence and general welfare, an iron fetter to enchain to gether in indefeasible allegiance to one consoli dated government its discordant and distracted portions ? Is it to be construed Union if you choose, if not it shall be as we choose ? If si ch be the meaning that this once consecrated epithet now wears, the Federalists, have wilfully pervert ed the term, or mistaken its obvious import; and we in all reverence suggest for their adoption, the title of the Fetter-lock and Shackle-bolt party, as being far more appropriate, and possessing the advantage of a derivation from the times when Quixotic crusades in defence of opinion, and the palsying rule of fanaticism and priest-craft, were more in vogue than at present. We trust if such be the meaning of this cabalistic abracadabra of Federalism, that the freemen of Georgia will ne ver he numbered w ith the worthippers at the tty?* political if it means those who are, in the expressireJaiiguage of one of our national songs 44 Rallying round our Liberty,” firmly resolved at ail hazards to maintain the j treedom bequeathed to them by their ancestors, — ; 10 preserve that Union cemented by the blood that flowed like rain from the heights of Bunker Hill,in 1 whose defence the plains of Carolina were strew ed vvuhthe dying ami the dead,when the polluting fool-step of the hostile invader was upon our shores, and lus armed navies darkened our waters : If this! be its meaning we fully understand the term. If to defend tiie principles of *76 be the object of the 44 Union party,” we would respectfully ask its self-coaslituted leadi rs how they propose to el feet so desirable a consummation ? By riveting , the liuks of consolida non on the unwilling limbs of the free ? By betiding in servile meekness at; the foot of Northern avarice? l>y lending; themselves the willing tools of a cratiy aspirant for office? By sacrilegiously defacing aud obli terating the ancient landmarks of the true faith,, aud overturning the barriers that have so long set the overwhelming wave of sophistry at det-! ance ? If these he the means by which tiity | would effect their aun (aud of the truth ol the I conjecture, their present course affords ample ev-; ideuce,) we pity their delusion. Why ws are are for ‘ Union’ too. A Union to preserve which we would peril all and do all that a patriotic cm- , zen might do—a 4 Union’ transmitted to us as our; patrimony, under which we were born, and under wfilch we wonla die—a Union of free sovereign and independout States. CONVENTION. Since the subject of ratifying the proceedings of the ‘late’ Convention is fairly before the peo ple of Georgia for ratification or rejection, we would call their attention to the anomalous char acter of that body. Conventions according to our limited notions of political matters, are the highest enacting au thority known in a representative government.—! Emanating as they should, directly from the peo-; pie, the source of all power, they should come to | the task before them unfettered and unshackled. 1 The grievance is laid before them, and their du- 1 ty is to point out the remedy. They canuot by any principle except such as govern party tactics, be restricted to any particular method of acting ; but it is their undoubted, nay their imperious du- . ty, to pursue such a course as is most conducive j to the general welfare, to adopt such a remedy as 1 will most effectually’ remove the grievance on ! which they are called to act. The Convention, j whose late session will confer equal honor on the .State with tlier history of the Yazoo fraud, could lot properly be called a State Convention, As sembled by and under the authority of an act of the Legislature, they could not assume “ ob ori gine” te represent the sovereignty of the State. Who clothed the Legislature with power todirect the action of the sovereign people of Georgia,; when assembled hy their delegates to correct an error which their Representatives had once and again refused to rectify ? Who strengthened the arm of the servant that he might dictate to tho master the path ho should pursue ? Who robed ; the Legislature with the right to say to the swel ling wave of sovereignty, “ thus far slialt thou j come, and no farther?” The Legislature in this, [ usurped a power with which they had never been ! gifted. They might recommend, farther than this j they could not go, and when their recommenda-; tion assumed the authority of an enactment, they | overstepped the limit assigned to them and es- j sayed to grasp the sceptre that had been confided ! to other hands. But it is said that the people in \ electing their delegates under the law, adopted i and sanctioned its provisions. This we deny.— j We pronounce the proposition most preposterous ly absurd. They only adopted the recommenda- j tion of their Representatives as to the time and ! mode of election. Jf the fact of their electing delegates under the law, is evidence of their in tention to adopt and sanction its provisions, | how comes it that they elected delegates not qualified to represent them according to the terms j of that act ? Did they adopt a part and reject a part of the law ? If so, what evidence is there j that they did not reject that portion which made | ! it incumbent on the Convention to allow each ! county one Representative at least? Now the fact is that there were members in that conven ! tion who were clearly disqualified by tho terms jof the law from holding their seat. And yet thej', elected in defiance of its provisions, felt them, selves bound to respect the enactment of the le j gislature. Admirable Logic! Glorious consis i tency ! The Delegates of the late Convention i at least a portion of them felt the embarrass j ments under which tho far-grasping wisdom of j the Legislature had placed them. A portion of them with a praiseworthy persevernneo endoavor ed to remedy the evil that had thus called forth the energies of the sovereign pcop!e._ They were borne down, by the drilled regulars of an in trigueing party. Their efforts paralised, their schemes to advance the public weal rendered a bortive, hy the narrow-minded policy they had to encounter, and finally the great interests of the state were bowed by the majority to their own selfish notions, and their circumscribed and in terested ideas of personal advancement. These things, people of Georgia were not done in a cor ner, they were planned, published and acted in j open defiance & utter disregard to your interests. The Halls of the Capitol were disgraced by such scenes of political traffic as we hope nevor to witness again. But the day of retribution is at hand, when the voice of an indignant people will be heard, arid those who have dared to tamper with the public good will bo made to feel the weight of public indignation. The Slate of Texas. | This people until now known as a Colony, j have lately held a Convention of De'egates for that purpose, to frame a Constitution for their in dependent government, which has resulted in j the establishment of the Constitution of the j State of Texas. Its form of government is Re publican, and partakes aimost. entirely of oura— j heing as we he|j e *r ( taken mostly from the Con i stitution of Georgia and of the United States.— Among the framers of it are three individuals, and perhaps more, familiarly known to the peo ple of this State, to wit: Jared K. Groce, for | merly ot Augusta—Charlton Thompson, former ly of Macon —and Gov. Houston, formerly cf Tennessee. The Constitution has a clause, which prohibits paper currency, or any other, ; than gold, silver and copper. i Cj’The dinner to be given by the citizens of | Monroe county, as a tribute of respect to John i M. Berrien, will take place at Forsyth, on the ! 20th inst. We learn thata number of distinguish ed individuals are expected from the neighbour ; ing States of S. Carolina and Alabama. Many of i Georgia’s most talanted sons will be there, to do j 1 honor to Mr. Berrien, and among them, we ascer- , ; taiu, our distinguished fellow citizen, George M. j Troup. —Oeorgia Macengtr. 1 NULLIFICATION. ; “ What is this much abused XuUificution ?” ! Let it he taken up and inspected—let every can- j i did and impartial man, “ not haring the fear of Jackson before his eyes," look upor. the following i true picture of nvUifieution, and say whether he : can see in it the terrible featurts the hideous de formities, which have been given to it by the cun- | ning art and debavchtd conceptions of its oppo cents ? Let them look to its origin, and sav ! whether He who first “discovered and revealed to the people this new light” deserves to be dr-1 nounced as a “ discontenteu f.ictionbt and ambi- j tious disorganizer”? Who that respects truth 1 ; and values his reputation for candor, can deny, l since the publication of the original draft of tho i Kentucky rosoluttons in the proper hand writing j ot Mr. Jefferson himself, that he was father of i this much abused doctrine of nullification ? Is not the fact so plain that “he that runs may read,” and that he that reads must understand ? Do they not expressly assert in so many words, 44 that nullification is the rightful remedy” ? And yet we find men among us, hardy enough to declare that nullification derives no support front the authority of Mr. Jefferson. Too cowardly to come out openly and honestly, and denounce j the doctrines of the Virginia and Kentucky reso-1 lutions of *9B, they seek, by the most artful cun ning and daring hypocrisy, to give to, them a false meaning, or rather to prove that they have no meaning atall. And thus the mischief has been effected—thus the peoplo £ have been most grossly abused and betrayed—the name of State, Rights has been hypocritically assumed to cloak the practice of ultra-federalism, —and the authori ty of Jefferson, “the great apostle of Liberty,” and the Father of Nullification, has been daring ly invoked ass sanction for doctrines subversive i of State Rights and destructive of all liberty. 1 Why this attempt to mystify and falsify the doc trines of’9B? For what purpose has riouth-Car olina, and the mode of redress which she has thought proper to select for her and our wrongs, been so sparingly condemned ? Let the people of Georgia look "to the source and examine the motives whence all this clamor comes. Can it be possible they are so credulous as to believe in the sincerity of those who, whilst they profess: the most unbounded devotion to the people, are openly and decidedly opposed to every efficient mode of protecting their interests and securing their rights ! Will they confide in the motives of men, assuming the name of “State Rights,” yet violently and recklessly assailing a remedy designed specially for their defence ? Principle’ is no guide to such men in their opposition to nullification. The, interest and safety of. the Southern people are nothing to them, compared with their schemes of political preferment, to ac complish which it became necessary to dis tract the people **ith false and exaggerated re presentations of a doctrine which was designed for their benefit, and lo degrade the man who was Rs supposed author. Such are the motives which havd dictated the course of John Forsyth -and his party in Georgia. To secimWheelevation of Martin Van Buren to the Presidency—to gain po litical power and popularity for his patron in the South—to degrade a dangerous rival, who had generously put to hazard his fama in the success of his scheme for vindicating Southern rights, this recreant*son of Georgia and his deluded lol lewere have bartered away the true principles of the Government, and left their betrayed fellow citizens defenceless, and exposed to the ravages of a remorseless avarice. —Georgia Messenger. From the Hickory A T ut. . REDUCTION CONVENTION, &e. Nothing can be further from our intention than to indulge in a tyraile, against the constitutional amendment now before the people. Perhaps we have already acquitted ourselves of unrea sonable obligation in this matter, by giving our readers, the amendment; the table representing the statistical basis upon which the Senate and} House of Representatives are proposed tc be Constructed : and some of the most decisive argu ments of intelligent editors against the mode of reduction, toto carlo, in nil its features throughout. Neither weight of authority in matters of opinion, nor ability and pre-eminent information in the de tails of this subject belong to us, in so distin guishinga measure, that we should ;i9sflme to enlighten and lead the public judgment to a de cision. We affect no profundity in political lore, and certainly profess no dexterity in politicaltac tic3. Enough however we do know and see to determine ns against the ratification. If either the principles or the form of the amendment are materially objectionable, there certainly is no ur gent necessity in the case that it should be swal l lowed with our eyes shut, or like the juggler’s ! svrord, to show the world what a prodigy we are I capable of performing, without hazarding pnliti i cal suicide. Thank heaven thealiedged pletho ra in thq legislative bodies, which theconven | lion was especially convened to shrink and re j dtiee, is certainly not so unwieldly and enormous ;asio prevent their convenient and Competent j movement, through the common circle of duties, j or to require such immediate extremity of com i pressiou and excision as to endanger ail reasona -1 > le symmetry ; and for the sake of a little expe dition and economy, at the present, to hazard the future vigor and stability of their constitution. The advantage gained would not be equivalent to the violations done to justice and equality. Is it true that the sceptre of representative power has been arbitrarily transferred from superior numbers and contributions for tho support of government, to less populous and contributing portions of the community ? If so, justice forbids ihc ratification. In the Senate this is clearly the case. Stubborn statistical facts provo it; laggard argument on that point has no vocation. Through the four views of actual voters, representative population, white population is equally conspicious. In the first, from 2,793 voters, the amount of the most populous district to 300 that of the smallest—in the second, from a representative population of 30,084, the highest to 2,711. the lowest—in the third, from a white population of 17,831, the largest, to that of 1,371, the smallest —and in the i fourth from a taxation levy of 13,4720.i, the ; maximum lo one ot #6OO, the minimum, we have the extremes between which tho most conspi cuous inequlaity presents itself throughout the whole catalogue of the proposed senatorial dis tricts. To obviate objection to this, shall it be alleged, that the senate is based upon territory ; and does not and ought not to rest upon popuht* I tion and taxation ? Will its advocates liken the s'atc tv that of the United States ; and tell us that Delaware w ith its st;*p of territory aarl handful of <-t people has as much strength la the Senate as New-York, an empire in extent and numbers ? I’Ue precedent cited is inconsequential from our premises and iocmicl u&ive to the argument. The equality cl tne Suites in the federal senate, was i tbs necessary consequence of the condition ol the Buus witen they entered the Union; ait claiming lobe equal iu sovereignty and actually beingsot and curiously deunmati'g that provi sion in the composition ol tho senate, to preserve i them so. The counties in this or in any oilier j state are in no such position, l’hey arc nothing ! like sovereign, ki tire mere civil uivisßns of the J stale ; created and defined lor the more cottimo- i dious application of the laws, fertile moreeffec-j tual reuress of injuries and vindication of rights, ( j aud for the more convenient exercise of the elec-j live franchise and internal police. As contain- 1 log Iragmeuis of tiie great mass of population, j they art lo be regarded however upon a looting of j pcrtect equality m tfie whole amount ofrepreseu- j lalive numoera ; in reference to the exercise of po.iiuaii power. Il not; if itumeiise dispropor tion ale insiuuateddjy the means of arbitrary ge ographical arroudiseiiients and and partitions ;it tiie greul)nass is so divided and the districts so contrived that olie bundled citizens hi one section ot the Slate, exercise as much political power in lue enactment of laws and the appomtuieutofoi hcers, as 1000 do lit another, it results as plainly as a senool-tio).'s sum tu plain figures, Urdt nine kundred citizens are dlslranchlsed or nullified * ami entirely submerged, by every such arrange- j mem. ul such policy be confirmed hy tiie,en lightened and sober citizens of Georgia i In iheir hurry and impatience to rid tho legislative bodies of some slight dropsical sympiuns, will they madly lend iheir strength to the Hand of *m- , nries ; who would lip so ucep through the viials of equality as to eiioaiiger the very existence ol a tuige proportion of the elective lranchise ! W e will here take the liberty to say, that with [ us the very auspices under which the convention j sprung into existence betokened no very salutary , result. It was horn with the manacle ul restric tion by ordinary legislation about it; and went into the hall at MiUedgcyllle, not with the lofty port and independent aspect of tne sovereign peo ple, whose concentration and reflection it pur ported to be, but with the lameness of subordi nate delegates and the mortifying consciousness of petty ageijts, fettered hy a special power of at torney, signed, scaled and delivered by self-corn stituted and unconstitutional principles. The ignominious badge of lowly servitude was upon them from the beginning. They took their seats and proceeded in their labors with the ap parent stigma and reproach of confidence with held, and suspicion ensiamped upon their creden tials. . It was a. strmige nnomoly ; a raostj notable solecism, that the sovereign people sli mid ho seen sitting in convention afraid to trust themselves, and should complacently Submit to i lie trammels forged by a set cf organs, Convened in subordination to tho constitution, and limited in their acts by that instrument to definite objects. That, a constitution making power, should be ordered and directed hy an assembly pretending ! to no such'attribute was singular and passing! strange. The Senate in the State of Georgia has co-or-! dinate legislative powers with the House of Representatives ; and in practice «tTv and does present an effectual harrier to any and al) legisla tive acts- Its influence on the destinies of the public is as potent and constant as that of any other branch, for it can neutralize, small as it is, every proceeding of the other, by withholding its concurrence. It is therefore as directly connec ted with the people, as powerfully operative up on their lives, theif fortunes and their sa cred honor, as tho other branch, and should life, as is intended by the theory of the existent charter, as fairly, completely and fully the representative of the whole people. Tiie community have a9 much concern and as deep a pledge in their acts, and should have an equal participation in consii ting the Senate as in returning the House of Rep resentatives. Indeed they may he considered as j nearly wne and tiie same tntrtg; and equally brief i in th< irtenure of office. 'Hie chief advantage, as | things are constituted, in leaving the two different j legislative chambers] is that measures are thereby : retarded in iheir passage ; infected hills are coni peilrd to ride a longer quarantine, and are more i likely to expire in their detention, or lose their; deleterious Dint, and mischievous tendency, by i a longer exposure to the air. These thing* being so away with every contrivance that should make the senate the allusion of par'y cn -rents, without respect to representative population ; that should bring its majority from a lean and unyielding mi nority of the people, thinly dispersed over unim proved and almost unimprovable districts ; that should, to use an allusion that some will under stand,'deal out a full hand of honors, trumps and cards of command, (or dummy, to ho played off successfully against the vital ‘takes of the leading interests of the State, by such political sharpers a-* may through all coming time infest tho Sen ate chamber! We however believe that tho duty chiefly in cumbent upon the corps editorial now is to arouse the citizens to a faithful appearance at the polls, It is elearthatt.be Jate Convention was chosen hy a very comparatively small portion of the voters of the Brate. The day was bad, the apathy was great, and the independent voters were few. The second election,for delegates, had marched in secret and quietness: and thousands who ought to have repaired to their posts, forgot tiie occur rence or were too inert to discharge thir July. They now stand in a different Attitude. They are called upon to exercise the highest function at any time within the pale of their privileges; tosay whether the constitution of the State shall be permanently changed, in a feature of funda mental importance ; and if tve arc rightly founded in our impressions, in a way that will eminetly affecl-the fountains of legislation and the interests of thousands. We think that neßhcr the obliga tions to look to this matter, not the interest, to counteiact the efiecis of misconception, will he abortive upon the public mind, and that the whole suffragan force of tiie State will rally in dense ar ray around tho constitution to arrest tho effects of tho injurious innovation. We aro aware how bald add disjointedaro these remarks. Any thing like systematic examina tion of the objectionable amendment was certain ly not contemplated. We have said nothing whatever of the total excision of federal basis, because that has been already honored with com ment due. in the extracts which we hpve used. As the judges say in charging juries upon high prosecutions; gentlemen, if you entertain a rea sonable doubt, you are bound to acquit; so say we, Fellow-citizens, if you entertain area sonable doubt of tho juotice, equality and and wisdom of tho amendment you are bound to your selves, and to your posterity, to acquit the country of tho er ror and culpability of adopting it. The Fanners Bank of Chattahoochee. —There lias recently been a branch of this institution establish ed at Clarkesvilie, Habersham county —Coi. Samuel -i. Wales, President, aud Paul Has signal, Esq..Cashior- It is with painful emotions, we have just learned that ROBERT LIGON, sen. Esq. died on bis way homo last evening, whither his af flicted family were conveying his mangled,and almost lifel'ss fcr dv. Hia death was occasioned by a blow on tne head, given by one Jesae Brawn in this place on Tuesday list. • On an enormity so outrageous, we forbear further comment, ns the community are already suffi ciently excited. Brown is safely lodged in Gainesville jail. Anraria Herald. Many of the paragraphs in the English pa ; pers relative to the affairs of this country, aro j exceedingly amusing Lorn the blunders they j contain, and, in general tho gross ignoranc.o 1 they display, not merely of our institutions j and laws, but of the verv geography of the j country. The following piece of information is from a late Liverpool paper : The bill to | abolish nil militia training has passed one I branch oi the legislature of Pennsylvania, bv i a vote ol 08 to 52— the Turijf question is theres—e at an end!" 7’he Baltimore American of the Bth inst- says, “The President yesterday received visits of the citizen? from noon until half past one uclock. Before that houi he made an ex. cun-ion through the city on horseback, ac companied by the Mavor and other gentle men. He will leave the city this morning, witlrhis suite, in the steam boat Kentucky for Philadelphia. One Sense! ! —Our philosophical readers, who have hitherto valued themselves on the possesion of f ee sense*, and our less instruct ed friends who have talked in common par lance of being frightened out of their seven senses, will, to use the phraseology of parlia ment petitioning, lie filled with consternation and dismay at learning that it lias just been settled there is but one sense. Men, the bead of created beings, enjoy only one sense, it is touch. Ilis eye touches spectral objects his car touches sounds, bis nose touches smellr; bis palate ‘ouches flourers—in short his wholt* life is but touch and go.— IVfifer.a Palladi um. Macuied—ln this plane, on Tuesday evening by the Rev. Mr. Harrison, Mr. Wm. Jackson to Mrs. 11. B. M. Everett. Dies, in this place on Sunday morning, Mr. John R. Wootan, who had long been in a cor; sumptive decline. n'tScGehce's PRIZE OFFICE. Drawing Received. r JXHF. following are the Drawn Numbers of the * NEW-YORK CONSOLIDATED LOT TERY, Class No. 8, for 1833. 64....32 .62...52...42... 12...41...22 ...27.. 55. itis l iijw j. cm: s»% WILL attend the Superior Courts of the Counties of 7ln*c6gee, fctimptcr, Harris, Mewai-S. Maiiou, Meriwether, Randi)l>ii, Talbot, Troup aud i Let*, Epson, Heard. Ellerilie, Harris esunty, June 19 23—6 t NOTICE. 4 LL those indebted to the estate of Henry Bes well, late of Jasper county, deceased, aro requested to make immediate payment: and all those having remands against said estate, will render them in duly authenticated according to law. MILLEDGE ROBY, Ex’or. Juno 19 23—ts I*H ESENTMENTS Os lit? Grand Jury for tlu; Comity of Eotvitdes. at May Term, IMS. VNTE the Grand Jury, selected and sworn for M thecounty of Lowndes, do present;'* a grievance, the conduct of James Touchstone, for frequent and repeated overcharges in setting per sons over the River at his ferry on tho Alapahaw, in thecounty aforesaid —Witness, William Ro berts, Isben Giddensand Benj. Sirman. And taking into consideration tiie badness of the roads, do earnestly and respectfully recom mend to the honorable Inferior Court, to use all | diligence in enforcing the road laws for the im provement and keeping iu good order our public ! roads. And also, having performed the duly devolved : ott ns, in the examinatipn ofoor comity records, together with tho records of our Poor SrUml Fund, find them correctly and neatly kept, and from an expose of the funds by the Treasu rer in cash and good notes, find that the amount exhibited corresponds with the books. \Ye cannot take leave of his honor, Lott \Vas ien, without tendering our thanks for his strict attention to the business of our county, and for the good order which he lias enforced during tho present term. Also, wo tender our thanks to tho Solieiter, Stephen I\ Miller, for his polite at tention to our body during the present term, i We toquest that these our presentments be pub i lishedin tiio Milledeeville papers. WILLIAM BLAIR, Foreman. | Jeremiah Wilson, Isben Girldens, Jesse Lee, Aaron Mattox, Nathan Hodges, James Wade, James Rountree, Benjamin Sirman. Lewis Blackshear; Joßn Lawson. Elijah Beasley, Ilani Boyd, William Alderman. Alexander Campbell, Jeremiah Tilman, Francis Jones, Simpson Strickland, William Hendry, William .McMullin. William Burman, son- Thomas Self. ! On motion of Stephen F. Miller, Solicitor General, it is ordered, that the foregoing present ments be published according to tiie request of the Grand Jury; I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a truo i copy from the minutes of the Superior Court . W ILLIAM SMITH, Cierk. I June 12. TSIE NFMERIC'AE BOOK _ Os (Hi! Prize* A Nl) drawers names and residence, in the Gold Lottery, lately drawn, is now preparing, and will shortly issue from the Geor gia Times Office, price Ten Dollars, hound. Orders for the ;ame, will be received by M. D. J. SLADE. May I, 1833