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name of State Rights must be abandoned, and the name of Whig be
the one by which horeafter tin federal opponents of the republi
can party ate to be known.— lb.
STATE RIGHTS and UNITED STATES rights.
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'The friends of the Union are our friends.and its enemies, our enemies.'
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TUESDAY IWOBNING, OCTOBER 30. I
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Never has there been a clearer demonstration of the good sense and
patriotism of the genuine democracy of the country, than has been re
cently demonstrated in the elections north and west of Georgia ; and the
evidence which they furnish, conclusively proves, that wherever the
Bank and Sub-Treasury questions are fairly discussed before the people,
the federal party falls prostrate before the power of the Democracy.
In Pennsylvania, the seat of the money king, these vere the test ques
tions upon which the great battle has been fought, but the mammoth
sunk under their might, and the Goliah of federalism and Bank aristoc
racy was prostrated by the shepherd buys with their slings ; and the key
stone stands ere.it in the plenitude of her republican glory.
But how shall wo speak of Ohio ? She hid given ground to the ene
my, and was claimed as a conquered province. But her people have
burst their fetters, and rescued their principles. Here, as itt Pennsylva
nia, the Bank and the Sub-Treasury were the great questions; Allen
and Duncan leading the van on rhe side of the Constitution. She, too,
is triumphant.
New Jersey, too, has proved that her people are true to their country.
There the bank party would have moved heaven anil earth for victory—
the Bank was extolled—the Sub-Treasury was denounced—shinplasters
and rags were exalted to the highest pitch of excellence—hard money
was christened a humbug, and the administration abused and scandali ■
zed for all its acts; but the result was, that the people were not humhnged.
Alabama—Maine—Missouri—lllinois—South Carolina and Mary
land, have all spoken the language of Democracy ; while Georgia alone
has wandered ftom the ways of her fathers. But she will return to the
fold. Her people have been bewildered for a moment, but the cmuds
will be dispelled by the effulgent light of truth, and her people willshake
off the thraldom which has bound them, and come up once more to the
rescue.
The march of republicanism is onward, and will bear down all before
it. Opposition to a National Bank—to the Tariff—to Henry Clay and
Federalism, will be the watchword from the ramparts of Democracy,
while the Constitution, the Sub-Treasury, and State Kights, will be the
shout from one end of the Republic to the other.
Van Buren, with the Constitution in one hand, and State Rights in
the other, against Henry Clay, with a National Bank in one hand, and
the Tariff in the other—and who can doubt the issue ? No man who j
justly estimates the character of the American people.
The panic has done its worst—the distress orators have pealed their
last tocsin of alarm. The country has recovered from a mighty shock. ■
brought on by a system of excessive banking and wild speculation, uti
justly ascribed to the Government, for political effect, and the reason j
and patriotism of the country again stand erect. The bubble has burst, ’
which was blown up to destroy the Administration, and the people aie
no longer led astray by the tricks and devices of political demagogues.
Not many months ago, we were told that nothing could restore a sound
currency and regulate exchanges, but a National Bank, anil yet the cur- '
rency is sound and exchanges distressingly cheap, to those who sei l )
them, and we should not be much astonished to see them run down so I
low, that the money dealers will cry out for a National Bank to putthem
up.
The contest over the Bank and Sub-Treasury has not commenced in
Georgia, but the tug will come, and the day is not distant. In the late
campaign, the Union Party threw'the gauntlet to the whigs again and
again, but they would not take it up. They exhorted their party to
sticktogether, regardless of principle. They would neither discuss the
Bank nor the Sub-Treasury. Upon the Bank question they stood mute,
and if they spoke of the Sub-Treasury at all, it was only in “damnable
hints and diabolical inuendoes.”
But we say again, they must meet these questions. The “ stick to
gether principle'' will never sustain any party, and whenever they arc
forced to meet us in the open field of discussion, they must fall.
They have already expressed their diead of what they term “ useless
resolutions," but bitter as the pill may be, they must take it. We under
stand their policy. It is to evade all discussion, if possible, upon these
questions, and the merits of the two prominent candidates for the next
Presidency for the purpose of casting the vote of the State against Mr
Van Buren, at all hazards The stratagem cannot succeed. The State
was bamboozled out of her vote at the last election by packing Judge
White upon her. and the same game cannot be so soon played off again.
In the next contest, her voice will be hea d.
“ USELESS RESOLUTIONS. ”
Below, we give an article from the Georgia Argus, with the intro
ductory remarks of the Georgia Constitutionalist, in answer to the
admonition of the Southern Recorder, to vote down resolutions,
should such be brought forward by the Union party, expressing opin-1
ions upon the subjects of a National Bank, and tlvs Sub-Treasury.
I he Argus speaks to his friend the Recorder, a language wh ch will
every where meet the approbation of every sound republic in, and which I
canies with it a keen and cutting rebuke. We hope the Recorder will i
find neither sympathy nor support in its position, but that the legisla- ,
ture, of all parties, will come up boldly to these questions, discuss them I
freely, and decide according to their best judgment.
(LZ*Wc commented in one of our papers of last week, on an article
of the Southern Recorder, in w hich it recommends to its friends in the
legislature, to put down “some useless resolutions in regard to the sub
treasury and a national bank.’’ winch may he introduced by the Union
party. Upon the same subject we transfer to our columns the follow in" !
remarks from the Georgia Argus, a State Rights paper piiuted at Co- i
lumbus.-— Geo. Cors'.itutionalist.
“We hope that every member of the Legislature will go there fully
prepared to .investigate and .vote upon any question any person may
choose to agitate Good principles never suffer from investigation,
though they often do from the fear of their friends to meet the attacks
;Jiat are made upon them. Parties which exist merely for the purpose
,of getting and retaining power are a curse to any country; and as Ion"
as there exists among the people an honesty and independence, parties
/taiinot lung exist for such a purpose—to be stable they must be formed
upon principle. What has the State Rights party to fear from the ag
itation of any question in relation to a United States Bank? Has not
a bold and determined opposition to that institution always been one
4>f the caidinal principles of the party? Will it, can it change its posi
tion on that subject because the Union party has adopted its opinions?
Will it destroy itself by departing from the pi inci pies which most of its
members imbibed in youth and cherished in manhood? Wo hope not
Will those who claim to be the leaders es the party shrink from the
avowal and advocacy of their dootriues because they may hope by such
a course to attach to them al) the advocates of the Bank, and thereby
,maiutain themselves in power? If such is to be the course of the par
ity, jt deserves destruction.
“As to the Hub-Treasury, wo hope it will come before the Legisla
ture. and be fully discussed. If it is a bail measure, let it be exposed;
if it is a good one, let it lie approved. There arc thousands of the peo
pie of the State who do not understand the nature of what is called the
Sub-Treasury scheme: and there are three-fourths of the members of
the Legislature who are in the same condition. It is true that the peo
jple of Georgia, have elected the State Rights ticket for Congress, but it
was without reference to that question; it was not sufficiently under
stood to be made a test; but we can find in that circumstance no reason
why it should not be discussed and understood by those who mingle
most among the people, and will most enlighten them on the subject.
We believe the State Rights party have much more to fear from the
affects of the evasion of any question than from meeting ami discussing
it.
“Suppose those questions introduced into the Legislature; how will
the State Rights men put them down ? They must discuss them or
pass them by in silence. They must vote upon them i i some shape or
other. If they refuse to discuss them, and vote them down, they will
be charged, and justly too, with being afraid to meet them. No man
worthy to be the representative of a free people who is afraid to meet
and discuss any question involving the rights and interests of his con
stituents, and to vote upon it too. without regard to the consequences
to himself or others. If the principle or measure he a good one. the
sooner he adopts it the better: if a bad one, the more it is discussed the
better it will be understood, and the sooner repudiated.
“Then we say again, let the State Rights party bo ready to meet
and discuss every question which inav come before them. If there be
a measure or a principle they oppo-e or advocate, let their reasons for
that opposition or support go before the country. Let us not abandon
our vantage ground because our opponets chose to come to our aid in sus
taining the piinciples we h ive always advocated. Surely there can be
but little wisdom in abandoning a favorable position to get into a bad
one. simply to seek a contest in which ultimate defeat is certain. Upon
the question of the establishment of a United States Bank, or a Nation
al Bank of any sort, we hope that whenever it becomes the favorite of
a majority of the people of Georgia, the State Rights party will be in
the minority; and we hope, too, that it will always be ready to give up
power and go into the minority, and stay there, rather than fear or fail
to avow and advocate its doctrines.”
From the Savannah Georgian.
TO OUR READERS.
After an absence of some weeks, in pursuit of that, blessing, so neces
sary to arm the mind and body for daily labor, consequent upon our vo
cation, we again assume the chair editorial. Such separation from our
■ readers, though of few weeks duration, appeared yeaisof absence. Can
wo do otherwise, then, than in .simple language—the language of truth
deciare that nothing but a consciousness that an imbecile body has no
i abiding nlace for an anxious mind, would have i idticed us (we speak
I editorially) to sunder congenial ties, at so interesting a season as that
which has just passed—nothing but a delightful anticipation of renewed
sirength of body, and the hope of a capacity to labor more strenuously
in their cause, could have determined us to retire from a chair which,
however beset with thorns, is often a source of pleasing reflections. The
intercourse of an editor with his readers, is seasoned with that flavor;
which marks the character of all social intercourse, and properly encou
raged, in a spirit of kindness and social feeling, cannot fail to add a zest
to those moments, which a busy population daily steal from their pur
suits. Heretofore sustained by smiles, he again hopes to meet them, un
controlled by the vindictiveness of party zeal, or unchecked hy those va
ried opinions which he has to encounter in his path, and against which
he would only oppose the weapon of truth. With such a weapon, and
with such alone, he is content to triumph, or—to fall. But recently the
thuin-e.s of the popular voice have disturbed the elements of the political
world. While in our State, the advocates of principles identified with
the administration of our country, have been woisted by the combined
forces of ultra State Hights men and Hank Whigs the northern horizon
is bright with the blaze of popular feeling, and the Key-Stone State, with
her Porter, and the Empire Mate of the west, with her Shannon. call
upon Georgia and the democracy of the south, to rally on their flanks,
in support of the principles they cherish. The call must and will he re
sponded to. The principles of 1834, ’5 and ’6, will again triumph—and
the great republican family of the Union will once more be united in the
support of those principles which, with Andrew Jackson as their re
presentative, preserved the country from bank misrule and monied aris
tocracy.
But let us turn from the fate of States, as declared by the popular will,
and glance lor a moment to ourown flourishing city, where commercial
' enterprise go hand in hand with agricultural prosperity—and where the
' rich products of Georgia load her wharves, a id give employment to her
people. Although our lo’ has been cast, the few past weeks, on waters,
burdened with shipping, and in cities which American enterprise has
raised to consequence, we have witnessed no port where the smile of
commercial prosperity is brighter, than under the bluff of our own Sa
vannah. There the busy hum of commerce is heard, while the smoke of
the steamer, and the canvass of the gallant bark, break with beauty on
lhe view. We were borne up to the city from our good ship Trenton,
(commanded by the gentlemanly seaman Bennett,) with a host of hap
py passengers, by steam, and while a lovely sunset, with a Georgia sky,
| lit up the scene, th ■ wreathed smoke of the steam-mills, and the ship
ping at our wharves—among which we recognized more than one new
bark, bearing familiar names, which have glided, since our absence to
I our wharves, and been hailed as important links in the chain of our in
tercourse with other cities—gladdened the prospect. Welcome then,
thrice welcome, our dear Savannah. Welcome ourown Georgia, though
delivered for a time to the hopes of Whi"ism, we hail, in anticipation,
the day when thou shalt rise in thy might, and stand forth regenerated
and disenthralled-
Welcome, too, ye friends, who in our days of absence, have stood at
The Georgian's helm, and buffeted the waves of party hostility. Thank
Heaven those days have been forgotten for a time whi. h we can devote
to social and happy intercourse.
And welcome, too, ye young and old, the lovely and the fair, the gen
tle and the good—premising to the fair that we are still " single," and
anxious forthat “ happiness,” which our good friend so lately of The
Georgian, wishes toour “ married" readers. Gut good-bye until tumor
ow.
The following extract from an editorial article in the South Caro
linian of last 'Tuesday, throws some light upon the position assumed
by several of the State Rights Candidates elected to Congress :
“ In the Convention at Milledgeville, which nominated the State
Rights candidates for Congress, we still made tint Constitutional
Treasury a test question, and voted for none bill those whom we knew
or fully believed to agree with us on it. After the nominations,
Robert Dougherty, Esq., ;< member of the Legislature from Troup,
asked us if we voted for Alford, (of same county.) and, on our an
swering in the affirmative, if we knew that he was a United States
Bank man I We replied no, and could not believe it, having, from
our knowledge of the man, and his thorough-going couise against mo
nopolies, even to Railroad charters, unhesitatinglv taken it for grant
ed that he agreed with us; and if he did not, we begged him to tell
him that we had been most egregiously mistaken in him, and assured
ly would not vote for him at lhe election. Mr. D. said we were en
tirely too honest; and we replied that that was a singular remark to
come from one who was uniformly admitted to be a rigidly honest
politician. On meeting Col. Alford afterwards, in Troup county, lie
denied that he was a Bank man, and we were about to ask his opinion
on the Constitutional Treasury system, when we were interrupted,
and should have done so afterward, but that we took it for granted,
from what we heard from others, during a long stay in the county,
that he was in favor of it. In his published letter, he stated simply
that he was “ not a Sub-Treasury man.” Col. Nisbet, who was ge
nerally understood, when nominated, to be in favor of a Constitu
tional Treasury, has since against it, but rather vaguely; and
.Judge Colquitt, and Mr. Black, who were members of the State
Senate, we know to have been decidedly in favor of it, and of the
Resolutions in its favor, submitted to tint body by Col. Lawson.
The latter voted for them, and was an ardent advocate ; and the for
mer. (who was absent when the vote was taken,) declared incidentally,
in debate, (on another question,) that they could not go too far for
him. Yet, in their published letters, Judge C. slightly objects to
the specie clause, and Mr. Black considerably to the “ details” of the
Independent Treasury bill. Col. T. B. King, too, declared to us, in
Milledgeville, his approbation of the Constitutional Treasury sys
tem, and of lhe Resolutions of Col. Lawson, (though he afterwards
voted to lay them on the table, simply <>•’ lhe ground that there was
I not time to act on them, as did many others ;) yet, in his published
■ letter, he declares himself “decidedly opposed to the specie clause.”
' We have believed Col. Alford, Judge Colquitt, Col. King, and Mr.
Black, to be among the most honest, independent, and consistent po
litic! ins in Georgia, and thoroughly devoted to their principles; and
the last mentioned was one of the most urgent and anxious of those
who desired us to again become connected with the Press, on ac
count of our views on lhe Constitutional Treasury question. We
I have consequently been always a warm and zealous friend and ad
i vocate of them. But, as Sir Peter Teazle says, “This is a d d
j bad world, Oliver, and the fewer ive praise the better.”
Party Spirit.— The history of this hydra-headed monster is co
eval with that of man. Amidst the blooming flowers of Eden, Satan
planted the standard of opposition against the great jehovah, and by
cunning and falsehood, seduced our first parents from the path of
moral rectitude and honesty. From that time down to the present
era, the march of party spirit has been onward ; marking its way
with crimson, desolatio.n, and ruin. Like a mighty flood, it has
swept over creations, empires, find kingdoms ; burying them deeply
in the alluvial bed of corruption and anarchy. Beneath its mighty
powers, classic Greece and tepublican Rome, trembled, tottered,
and fell. Oceans of blood have been shed at its sanguinary shrine,
the fairest portions of the globe have been blighted by its poisonous
breath, the noblest patriots have been sacrificed upon its demoniac
altars. Like Nero, it delights in human gore; like Alexander its
ambition knows no bounds ; like the croaking plague of Egypt, it
penetrates the abodes of the rich and poor, the public officer and
private citizen. Mobocracy, fanaticism, bigotry, murder, and rapine,
march in its dismal Gain. It has produced pestilence with all its
ravages; famine with all its miseries; and discord with all its hor
rors. Ihe history of the past proves the truth of these assertions ;
the history of the present is ominous of the future. In our own
country, infantile as it is, party spirit has in ide rapid and fearful
strides within the last lew years. No reflecting man, who is a close
observer of the signs ol the times, \vho understands human nature,
can contemplate the accumulating mass of combustible materials,
generated and generating by party spirit, without trembling for the
safety of our union. Its silken cords have hern repeatedly stretched
to their utmost tension. It has been proclaimed in out legislative
halls, that it is a mere rope of sand. Politics are no longer based
upon sound reason, calm reflection, and moral Imnesty. Intrigue
and falsehood have usurped the place of truth tied fair dealing. The
old political landmarks, planted by the sages and patriots of ’76,
steeped in the. noble blood, and moistened by the richest scrum, are
overwhelmed and nearly buried beneath the new (angled notions of
party spirit. When democracy and federalism were honestly
arrayed against eaqh other, and the two parties were known by these
distinctive names ; where measures and not men were the order of
the day, the well disposed could act understandingly, and preserve a
wholesome equilibrium in the affairs of government. But this old
fashioned, straight forward course was too narrow to give elbow
room to demagogues. Black spirits and white, blue spirits and gray,
mingled and commingled ; a confusion of names and ideas ensued,
and he who can define the principles and expound the doctrines of
the political parties now in the field, is a wise man. This state of
things affords the richest aliment for the kind of parts spirit that
ruins and destroys. It is calculated to fan faction to a blaze, rouse
fanatics to action, and crown a mad ambition with ultimate success.
In every part of our expanded and expanding republic, this fell de
stroyer is laboring with an industry worthy of a better cause. Many
partizan presses arc in motion, that are converted into odious smut
machines, scattering scurrillity and slander far and wide ; regai dless
of our country’s good, or our national glory. Under the baneful
fluence of party spirit, our legislative hajls have been converted
into an arena of gladiators ; anathemas and recriminations have
banished common courtesy; and the dark panoply of personal
abuse, has waved over the fair fields of lucid reason, sound argument,
and coinmen sense. ’The political atmosphere has become so con
taminated with the miasma of intrigue and corruption, that men of
real worth and genuine merit shrink from it as from a Bohon Upas.
With these things full in his view, where is the man who can say our
Union is ii no danger 1 The pretension is a delusion. Dangers are
gatheting thick around us with each revolving year. But for the in
telligence of the great mass of the American people, a volcano would
have burst upon us before this. The torch of discord has been re
peatedly lighted by the breath of party spirit, and some of out
most eminent statesmen have been for some years making minute
surveys, radiating from Mason and Dixon’s line. Let every lover of
his country reflect upon these things, let every patriot watch
withan Argus eye, the advances of party spirit, lest the golden
bowl of our freedom be suddenly broken, and the far-famed temple
of ottr liberty be consumed, amidst the smoking ruins of anarchy
and confusion. Let us be true to ourselves, avoid the snares of am
bitious partizans. ward off approaching danger, and thus ensure our
safety.— Baltimore Sun.
From the Charleston Courier.
THE HEALTH OF CHARLESTON.
After making inquiries from sources which we deem good authority,
we consider it proper to say that the disease which has prevailed to
such au alarming extent in this city, for upwards of two months past,
has almost entirely subsided.
We could not ascertain precisely the number of deaths that have ta
ken place from Stranger’s Fever, during the week ending on Saturday
last, but are led to believe that they will not amount to more than ten
or twelve; and since that time, the weather has been quite favorable,
and the period when the disease will be entirely eradicated, cannot be
far distant.
Under the=e circumstances, we venture to express the opinion that
our friends in the Northern cities may at once commence their return
homeward, with but little if any fear of being subject to the attacks of
the fever after their arrival—and that all business men who tire now
absent, whose presence is of importance to their interests, should return
immediately, and afford their aid and assistance to those who have
borne the heat and the burden of the disastrous and melancholy summer
that has just passed away—their refreshed and invigorated energies are
now much wanted to sustain and support the enterprising and indefati
gable portion of the commercial community who have stood at their
posts ill the hour of trial, and who are hkely to he hard pressed within
the course of a few days, by the brisk and active, and we hope and trust
lucrative trade that will soon open upon us. The most extensive and
liberal preparations have been made to meet tiiis trade with spirit and
with promptness. Already are our stores filled with large stocks of
rich merchandize—the streets are alive with carts and drays addin”
daily to the supply—our wharves are covered with boxes and bales,
and packages, to swell the amount—and ship after ship is engaged in
disgorging valuable cargoes in such profusion as to insure a stock of
goods in all branches of business, amply sufficient to meet any demands
that may be made on our city.
Wc say then to our absent friends, prepare for your return—and to
country merchants who lay in their stocks in Charleston, do not delay.
Thu first of November should find our citizens at their posts prepared
to receive their friends and customers, and by their diligence and atten
tion and industry, make up for the few weeks that have been lost by
the afflictions with which an all-wise Providence has been pleased to
chasten us.
It is with great diffidence that we speak thus confidently of the reno
vated state of the health of the city, and we therefore feel it a duty to
give our reasons for so doing. In the first place, the atmosphere appears
to be pure, and for two or three days past, the air biting, as if frost
was only kept off by a fresh northerly breeze which has prevailed durin"-
that period—secondly, five or six new cases of fever are all that we
have heard of for a week past, although inquiries have been made of
seveial physicians; and thirdly, no case has come to our knowledge of
any one having been attacked who has returned to the city within the
last ten or fifteen days, during which time the arrivals of passengers
have been quite numerous.
That isolated cases of Stranger’s Fever may and will occur until a
black frost takes place is a fact which all acquainted with our climate
know; but they will be so few that none need fear, and can hardlv
arise among such as take ordinary care of their health. Three, four
or five deaths a week hy this disease, for two or three weeks at the close
of the season, should, and we know will not excite alarm in the mind
of any one who will reflect, any more than if that number should be
carried off by appopiexy, or any other ordinary disease.
We now close our remarks as to the health of the city, with the in
tention not again to resume them, this season, except to announce that
the fever has entirely disappeared, which we hope shortly to do by pub
lishing the official announcement of the fact hy the authority of the
Board of Health.
The Charleston Mercury, of 2Gth says, “ Wc have the happiness
of announcing that, with the exception of a few cases not of recent
origin, the Strangers’ Fever may now be said to have left our City,
and in the opinion of all Physicians, our absent frien’s may return
to their homes in safety, and strangers may renew their visits of bu
siness. The dull calm which prevailed in our streets is again broken
by the enlivening sounds of active industry; East Bay and the
wharves are again alive with the rattling of loaded drays; Cotton
is arriving in quantities from the country in wagons and by the rail
road; the number of workmen on the new buildings erecting is in
creasing again to a full compliment ; their work is rapidly advanc
ing, and Charleston again wears the old busy and cheetful October
aspect. The temperature of lhe air is cool and pleasantly bracing.
There has been a slight frost on the Neck, preceeded bv several
frosts in the neighboring country.
John Jacob Astor, of New York, is said to be worth the trifle of
twenty-five millions of dollars—more than twice the sum left by
Stophen Girard. This at six per cent, would produce one million
five hundred thousand dollars a year—one hundred and twenty-five
thousand a month—four thousand one hundred and thirty three dollars
a day—one hundred and seventy-three dollars an hour—two dollars
eighty-seven and a half cents a minute-—and nearly five cents a
second. lie will be rich by and by.
SHINPLASTERS.
How long do the people intend to tolerate these things? The
B inks have all resumed specie payments, yet shinplasters from
Florida, and the most distant parts of this State, stare us in the face
in every store in town. “ We’ll none of them !” and we here give
notice that from henceforth we will neither give or take a foreign
shinplaster ! Let others do likewise, and we will soou be rid of the
spurious currency.— Darien Telegraph.
Wo will follow the example, and neither take foreign or domestic
shinplasters.—iS/anrZarcZ.
Death ofCom. Creighton.— Com. Creighton of the United States
Navy, died on Saturday week, at the residence of his brother, near
Sing Sing, New-York’
[TIT” We are authorized to announce the name of WILLIAM L. GRIFFIN, of
thia city, as a candidate fur Door Keeper to the House of Representatives at the ap
proaching session*
KF We are authorised to announce the name of WILLIAM MARTIN, Esq. of
DeKalb county, a* a candidate for Door-Keeper to the House of Representatives, at
the ensuing election. 39—3 t.
ETWe are authorised to announce the name of E, H. CALHOUN, Esq,, of Macon
county, as a candidate for Door-Keeper to the Senate at the approaching Session.
Oct. IG. 39—3 t
FIAttO FORTES.
A FEW very superior grand ae
2U lion PIANO FORTES of the
fi |y I s latest style. ju*t received and for sale
Q | g ’’ ,o Milledgeville Bookstore.
S Also, a splendid assortment of Law
. . * I nnd other Books; English and Ame
mean Stationary, every variety; gold and silver pencil cases ; gold and
silver spectacles; extra line Cutlery, &e. &c.
..... . .. W. C. POWELL.
Milledgeville, Oct. 30, 1833. 3t
PERSONS indebted to the Subscriber, either by note or ac
■ Cou,,t ’ are requested to make payment, without further notice,
to Maj. John R. Anderson. B. 11. ROBINSON.
Milledgeville, October 1, 1338. 38—7 t.
fgIHE SUBSCRIBER is now receiving a supply of articles in his
H_ line, carefully selected/ and warranted to be of the best quality
He oilers them for sale in the confidence that they cannot be surpassed
in this market ; a few of the leading articles are enumerated :
Cigars, Coguiac Brandy, Chainpaigiio Brandy, Jamaica Rum, Hol
land Gin, Monongahela Whiskey, Peach Brandy, Apple Brandy, Ma
deira Champaigne, Teuerifle and Port Wine, Cheese, Cordials, Crack
ers, Sperm and 'fallow Candles, Salt, a variety of Candies, Sweet Oil,
Spirits of Turpentine, Almonds, Olives, Capers, Catsup, Gunpowder
I'ea, Smoking Tobacco, Figs, Nutmegs, Lemons and Apples, Smoked
1 Beef, Bologna Sausages, &c.
Also. 20 boxes and half boxes of RATSINS'of the new crop, all of
which will be sold at a moderate profit for cash.
N.H. JUH AN.
Milledgeville, Oct. 30. 41 it
GEORGIA :
By GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor of said State.
■’HOSTHEREAS. I have,as directed by the Act of the General As-
V V semhiy of this Slate, passed the eleventh day of February, sev
enteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An act to regulate the Gen
eral Elections iti ths State, and to appoint the meeting of the General
Assembly,” arranged and counted i.p the votes given to the several
candidates at the I'.’lectmn held throughout the State, on Monday the
first day of October, instant, for nine members, to represent this State
in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States,
for two years, from and after the third day of March next; from which
it appears, that Julius C. Alford, Edward.!. Black, Walter T. Colquitt,
Mark A. Cooper, William C. Dawson, Richard W. Habersham, Thomas
Butler King, Eugenius A. Nisbet aud Lott /Farren, have the highest
number of votes :
1 have thought proper to issue this my proclamation, hereby declaring
that the aforesaid Julius C. Alford, Edward J. Black, Walter T. Col-'
quitt, Mark A. Cooper. William C. Dawson, Richard W. Habersham,
Thomas Butler King, Eugenius A. Nisbet, and Lott Warren, are duly
| elected to represent this State in the House of Representatives of’ the
Congress of the United States for two years, from and after the third’,
day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and notifying each of
them to signify his acceptance of the said appointment, and to produce
the requisite proofs of eligibility in the time prescribed by the act above
mentioned.
, . Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at
< L.S. > the Capitol in Milledgeville, this twenty-second day of Octo
' ' her, iu the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty eight, and of the sixty-third year of American Independence.
GEORGE R. GILMER.
By the Governor:
Wm. A. Tennille, Secretary 7 of State.
Oct. 30, 1838. 41—sis
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGIA ;
By GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor of said State.
HAVING received official information that a murder was commit
ted in the county of Bibb, on the 6th day of October instant, up
on the body of WILLIAM W. THOMPSON, by George S. Lering,
and it having been represented to me that said Lering has fled from jus
tice.
1 have thought proper to issue this my proclation, hereby offering H
reward of TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, to any person or persons
who muy apprehend and deliver the said George S. Lering, to the
Sheriff or Jailor of Bibb county; and 1 do moreover charge aud require
all officers, civil and military, in this State, to be vigilant in eudeavor
ing to apprehend said Lering, in order that he may be brought to trial
for tho offence with which he stan Is charged.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at the,
< [ g ( Capitol in Milledgeville, this twenty-second day of October*
) ” ' S eighteen hundred and thirtv-eight.
‘ GEORGE R. GILMER,
By the Governor:
Wm. A. Tennille, Secretary of State.
DESCRIPTION.
Said Lering is a young mm 19 or 20 years of age, about five feet ten
inches high, rather spare made, sallow complexion, blue eyes* light hair,
inclined to be bow-legged.
Oct. 30. 41—
HENRY SHERIFF’S SALE—WiII be sold, before the Court
House door, in tho Town of McDonough, Henry couuty, on lhe
first Tuesday in January next, between the legal hours of sale, Lot of
land number 192, in the seventh district of Henry county, levied on as
the property of David White, to satisfy a mortgage fi fa, issued from
the Superior Court of Henry county, in favour of Aaron Cloud t-s. said
White.—Property pointed out in said fi fa.
Oct. 25th, 1838—41-st. JAMES L. HEAD, D. Sh’ff.
HENRY .SHERIFF’S SALES—WiII be sold on the first Tuesday
in December next, within the usual hours of sale, before the Court
House door in the town of McDonough, Henry Couuty, lhe following
property, to wit. 101 1-4 acres of land, being the west half of lot No.
59 in the 2d Di-t. in said couuty, lived on as the property of Gideon R.
Wheeler, to satisfy sundry fi. fas. in favor of J. R. Clark and others*
levy made and returned to me by a constable. Also, fifteen barrels of
com more or less levied on as the property of John Owens, to satisfy
one fi. fa. in favor of Henry Sumerslin vs. said Owens. Also, James
M. Smith’s interest in two lots of land, numbers not known, but in the
Sth Dist. of said county, whereon the said Smith formerly lived ; also,
four barrels of corn more or less, all lived on as property of James R,
Smith, to satisfy one fi. fa, in favor of Hugh M. Cunningham vs. said
Smith, postponed.
Also, At the same time and place will be sold Lot No. 80, in the Bth
Dist. and the north half of Lot No. 81 in the Bth District, levied on as the
property of James Sellars to satisfy one fi. fa. in favor of Shaw au<|
Banks vs. said Sellars. Also one hundred and seventy-five Acres of
Land, number not known, but it being the place whereon Elisha Co
ker's family now lives; levied on as the property of Elisha Coker, to
satisfy one fi. fa.'in favor of the officers of tho Court of the State of
Georgia vs. said Coker, property pointed out by Coker’s agent, John
Hall.
JAMES W. CROCKETT, D. Sheriff,
Oct. 22d. 1838. 41—5 t
PULASKI SHERIFF’S SALES. Will be sold in the town of
Hawkinsville on the first Tuesday in December next, between tho
usual hours of sales, the followi g property to wit.
One lot of Land being in the 19tb Dist. of originally Wilkinson, hut
now Pulaski county. Number one hundred and four, (104) levied on as
the property of Jesso Williams to satisfy sundry fi. fas. issued from a
Justice's court in favor of Willis Dassey vs. Jesse Williams, property
pointed cut by Andrew Hampton ; levied on aud returned to me by a
constable.
Also, Lot of Land, No. 125 in said District, where Ishmael Ayres
formerly lived in said county of Pulaski; levied on as the property of
saiii Ayres, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued hy the Tax collector of said couuty,
to satisfy his taxes for 1831 and 1832, levied on and returned to me by
a constable. JAMES DYKES, Sheriff.
October 19th, 1838. 41—5 t
PUBLIC MEETING.
A T a large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Milledgeville,
held on Saturday, the 27th iust. for the purpose of appointing
delgeates to represent this city and county in the State Convention to
be held in Milledgeville on the second Monday in November next, on
motion of Thos. B. Stubbs, Esq., Thomas Foaro was called to the
chair, and S. T. Beecher appointed Secretary. The object of the
meeting being explained by Maj. John R. Anderson, one of the delegates
to the Augusta Convention, R. 11. Hines offered the following resolution.
Resolved, That the chair appoint twenty-four delegates to represent
this < ity and county in convention to be held in this city on the second
Monday in November next.
The Chair appointed the following gentlemen:—Messrs. Iverson L.
Harris, A. 11. Kenan, J. Beall, S. T. Beecher, Green H. Jourdan, R.
J. Nicholls, Benj. S. Jourdan, John R. Anderson. Thus, B. Stubbs, R
M. Orme, F. V. Delauny, Thus. F. Green, N. M. Crawford, William
I) Jarratt, Isaac New all, Jas. T. Lane, John W. A. Sanford, Wm. S«
Rockwell, Roht McCombs, Seaton Grantland, M. J. Kenan, Tomlin
son Fort, Farish Carter, and John S. Thomas.
Resolved, That the chair appoint a committee of fourteen to make
suitable arrangements for the reception of the Delegates and to provide
a place for the deliberations of the Convention.
The following gentlemen were appointed. Messrs. George L. Dem
ining. J. U. Horne, Charles L. Hammon, Charles J. Paine, N. D. Juhan,
John 11. Brown, A. 11. Root, James 11. Shahan. John A. Doan, Thos.
M. Cook. James H. R Washington, John G. Park, William Ruther
ford, and Peter J. Williams.
On motion of Maj. Wm. V. Hansell, that the proceedings of this
meeting he signed by the chairman and secretary and published in the
Gazettes of this city.
The meeting then adjourned.
THOMAS FOARD, Ch’m.
S. T. Beecher, Secretary.
Oct, 30. 41—It
FBI HE Exhibition of the Junior and Sophomore classes of Oglethorpe
University will take place on Wednesday 31st October. Exercises
to commence precisely at 10 o’clock.
The patrons, friends, and public Rt large, arc respectfully lavitjfl to
attend. Oct. 80.
NOTICE.
WILL be hired at the late residenceot John Porter, deceased, on
the first Saturday in January next, two Negro Boys belonging
to said deceased. ___
JOEL L. PORTER, Adm’r.
Porter's Ferry, Oct 30, 1838, 41— Im
CA UTlON.—Those persons who have been in the habit of trespass
ing upon the THEATRE, for some time past, are informed by
I the proprietor that they will be visited with the penalties of the law,
' should their offences be repeated, W'jf