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Columbian Centinel.
VOL IV. No. 163]
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subscribe , end they are duly authorised to
receive the same,
Jfjgtersburgh:
Capt. J. f^prvatkins.
Elbertoh ;
Middleton Woods, Esq.
Ogleihorp County:
Win. H. Crawford,
Samuel Shields, China drove, and at
the Store of Major Phinixy, Lexington.
Washington , Wilkes County:
Col. Francis Willis. t
Maj. Patrick Jack. V A
Green County %,
Maj. Young Gresham, ,
James Nickelson, *
William Grant.
Jai kson county
Samuel Gardner, Esq.
Thomas P. Carnes, Esq.
Hancock County:
Hines Holt, Esq.
Boot. William Lee,
Eli Harris
Warren County
Capt. Tyomas Dent,
George Hargraves.
Lincoln County
John M. Dooley, Esq.
Charles Stovall.
Columbia ;
William Ware, Esq.
Solomon Marshall,
Burke County
William Whitehead,
Col. John Whitehead,
Col. John Davis,
Jefferson County:
George R. Clayton, Esq.
James Bozeman, Esq.
John Bostwick, Esq.
Scriven County
Reuben Wilkinson.
William Oliver, Esq.
Major Skinner,
Savannah: Seymour, Scco. printers,
Bacon and Malone,
Mclntosh County. George Baillie.
FOR SALE.
. A YOUNG and likelv corn-
J
try born Negro Woman, she is a good
cook, washer, and ironer, and sold for
no fault but want of employment....En
quire at this office.
July 19. 55
NOTICE.
ALL persons having any bu
siness with Capt. John B. Barnes, will
please call on the subscribers.
Nicholas Ware , I Anomies, for
James BeggS, y Ca ps- Barnes.
July 19.
NOTICE.
NINE months from the date hereof
application will be made to the
honorable the inferior court of Greene
county,for leave to sell one hundred and
fifty acres of land, be the same more
or less, lying on Town creek, to be sold
for the benefit of the heirs and credit
ors of Elias Cozart, deceased.
Robert Watt son, Admfr.
March 29, 1806. ;'/ 40
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Fractional Surveys ?
FOR SALE.
T X 7E the Commissioners appointed
V V by the Legislature to sell and
dispose oJkthe Fractional Surveys, of
the counties, of Wilkinson, Baldwin
and Wayne, do hereby give notice that
the sales will commence on Wednes
day the 27th of August next, and con
tinue from day to day, in the following
manner, until the whole are sold.
WILKINSON.
Those of the first district, on
the 27th of August next, and continue
from day to day, Sundays excepted,
until the 2d of September inclusive.
Those of the 2d. district, on the 3d.
of September, until the 6th inclusive.
Those of the 3d. district, on the Bth
of September, until the 10th inclusive.
Those of the 4th district, on the
11th of September, until the 13th ■**>-'
elusive.
Those of the sth district, on the
15th of September, until the 17th in
clusive.
BALDWIN.
yi Those of the first district, on
tlie 18th of September, until the 22c!
inclusive.
Those of the 2d district, on the 23d
tjf September, until the 30th inclusive.
* Those ot the 3d district, on the Ist
of October, until the 4th inclusive.
Those of the 4th district, on the 6th
of October, until the 9th inclusive.
Those of the sth district, on the
10th of October, until the 16th inclu
sive.
. Wayne.
Those of the first district, on
the 17th of October, until the 24th in
clusive.
Those of tin* -.-I the 2sth
of October, until the 27th inclusive.
Those of the 3d district, on the 28th
of October, until the 31st inclusive.
Terms of Sole.
Ot die purchasers-bond, with appro
ved personal security, for the amount
of purchase money, will be required,
in four equal, annual instalments, to be
paid in gold or silver ; the first pay
ment to be made, twelve months after
i date, in addition to which a mortgage
| on the premises will be required.
Moses Speer , 1 0
Reddick Simms, > 3
Patrick Jack, ) v
Louisville, June 26, 1806.
FOR SAIZ“~T
35 Tracts of Land?
LYINGpn Edgefield, Barnwell, O
rangeburg, Abbeville, Union, Green
ville and Pendleton district, in this state,
containing together about 25,982. For
price, terms and further particulars,
apply to Mr. Le Roy Hammond, Sur
veyor at this place, or to the subscri
ber. Such of them as may not be dis
posed of by private sale, before the Ist
day of October next, will on the first
Monday in December following, be
sold to the highest bidder at Edgefield
Court-House, by public Auction. In
disputable titles will be made to the
purchasers and terms made known in
due time.
CHARLES GOODWIN,
Attorney at Law,
Town Creek Mills, B. C.}
July 5, 1806. 5 5 i
FOR SALE ORTo LEASE,
And possession given the Ist of January
next.
THE subscribers House and Lot in
the Village of Edgefield, with a
well furnished Store House, Black
Smith’s Shop, Billiard Room and Ta
ble, and all other necessary out build
ings.
ALSO, an unexpired lease of four |
years, on one other House and Lot,!
with about 20 acres of Land attached
to the same—For further particulars
and terms (which will he extremely ac
commodating) apply to t.
Thomas Butler.
Edg field Court-House , }
August 16, 1806. $ 2m ‘ * i
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On the first Tuesday in October next, at
the court-house in Lincoln county , at
at the usual hours,*
Will be Sold,
ONE tenth part of the follow
ing tracts of Land, it being the distri
butive share of Jesiah M‘Call as one of
the distributees of John Gamble, de
ceased. ‘
ALSO,
150 Acres in said county, on
Pistol Creek, adjoining Jerrard Suddcth
and Thomas Cosey.
ALSO,
100 acres on said creek adjoin
ing Lot House and Isaiah Wellis, tak
en by virtue of an execution, Jesse
Mills vs. Jesiah M‘Call.
ALSO,
263 m les second quality, more
or less, in f-aid county on Savannah ri
ver, joining w -..a f»*-ftiuney,"taken
as the property of Minor Winn, to sa
tisfy an execution, Nathaniel P. Beach
vs. said Winn.
ALSO,
100 acres second quality, more
or less, in said county joining James
M‘Corkle on Loyd’s creek, taken by
virtue of an execution, Basil Lamar vs.
William Greaves and Alexander John
ston levied on as the property of said
Johnston.
ALSO,
100 acres ofland more or less,
joining Micajah Henry and Sarah
Webb, on .Loyd’s creek, taken as the
property of William Matthews, to sa
tisfy three executions in favor of Allen
Mabry vs. the said Matthews—return
ed to me by constable.
Condjfions, Cash.
JoiLn Stovall, o. sft. C.
August 23. * 5
SHERIFFS "SALE
On the .first Tuesday in October next, at
the Court-house in Waynesborough,
Burke county, at the usual pouts,
Will be Sold,
ONE black horse taken as the
property of Michael Collins, at the in
stance of Nicholas Ware, Esq.
ALSO,
One third part of a crop of
corn, fodder and cotton, ten heads of
hogs, and sundry articles of house hold
furniture; takers tlijp property, of
Thomas Wall, at the instJmcA of Joim
Wimpy and others.
ALSO,
One black Horse about ten
years old, was takep out of the posses
sion ©f Eli Johns, as the property of
James M‘Key, at the instance of Jqjnes
Welch.
ALSO,
One hundred acres of land ad
joining lands of Edward Telfair, in the
Long Ridges, called the Plank Land
ing on Savannah river, taken as the
property of Francis Parris, dec. at the
instance of Win. Stobo.
ALSO,
A likely young negro woman
about twenty-one years of age, and a
likely negro boy about twelve or four
teen years of age.
Conditions of Sale, Cash.
Gross Scruggs , S. B. C.
August 30. 6
BROUGHT to Edgefield jail
the 18th of August, 1806, a negro fel
low by the name of CARTER, (as he
says) and to George Hinson,
of Bryan Georgia, a likely fel
low, veryS'Wack, about 5 feet 10 inches
high, comriion cloathing, about 20 years
es age-
ALSO, brought to jail the 19th Au*
gust, 1806, a negro fellow by the name
of FREDERICK, and belongs to Lou
is Prudon, merchant at Washington
j Wilkes county, Georgia, (as he says)
! calls himself a French fellow, about
thirty years of age, very much mark
ed with the whip, about 5 feet 6 or 8
Inches high—-the owner is requested to
*ec>me forward, prove property, pay
’■charges, and take them away.
R. Whatley , Jailor.
1 August 30. 2t. 6
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1806.
FOR THE COLUMBIAN CK.YTINEI.
NO. X.
To the Member* cotvfiosing the fiinth
Congress of the United Stales.
" There cannot he a doctrine more fatal to
“ liberty and property, than that, which con
“ founds the idea of a supreme and an arbitra
“ ry legislature.” jvnius.
Gent lemcv,
I NOW devote to you this letter, on
the act predicated on Mr Nicholson's resolu
tion. The federal constitution, the treaty of
1794, and that act are before me. The last .
cannot be understood, and when understood,
cannot be applied, to the exigencies, it is whis
pered, called for such a measure without re
garding the other two. Were they, when that
law passed, so enti ely forgotten as to create
an opinion that you had a right of legislation
on a subject essentially interesting to another
independent community, limi'ed alone by your
sense of propriety ? Did you conceive that you
had only infringed the law of nations whose
flexibility lias become almost proverbial and no
longer contains any prnc’ple of mutuality? —
Uia you negrect to cast your eyes ovc: our
Constitution ? Did you avoid, as if they had
been contagion, the reciprocal stipulations of
the treaty of London? To judge properly of
this last and only successful step (I mean ort
your floors) levelled not merely at Great Bri
tain, let us view it as it respects the law of
nations, and the treaty just mentioned. I will
dispassionately see its hearings on them and
we may then discover whether you have acted
witli good faith, justice and sound policy to
wards that nation, whose rising rival in man
ulacturcs, shipping and commerce, last session
you announced us to be. The governmental
papers is industriously pursuing the flatteting
yet invidious theme 1 will next ascertain how
far .you have interfered with that treaty as the
law\of our land, and will shew whether you
have not exceeded your Constitutional powers to
the most alarming degree This will be the
most important consideration. For perish our
commerce, let the constitution stand. 1 will leave
this rival out of view as much as I can. Her
name appears to be a conductor of irritation
warranting haiyh measmgi...against her, even
to r*-- hazard ivftnir vWtv*f tvn sn ►utio rial safe-'
guards. Are we never to be done with these
Sanpittrme Inimiceticc? Years may roll over
our heads—Generations may pass away, but
the resentments against that nation are to live
for ever. One great natural effect of the revo
lution is to remain still a cause for the bver
tlirow of our constitution ; after a period of
''thirty years possession and experience of in
dependent power, should have taught better
lessons and made shrewder statesmen I will
afterwards remark on the specific provisions of
the act and bow they affect the union at large,
and especially how arbitrarily unequal they
will bear on the southern states when it goes
into operation, if its effects arc not yet felt. I
will see how it operates on our ewn relations
with Britain, whose manufactures it is to pro
hibit, on those with her commercial rivals,
whose manufactures it is to encourage, and on
the eastern and middle states, who appear
lately to sympathize with the latter. Whe
ther it will not be % bounty on all European
continental therein enumerated, and a
premium to w commercial and manufactur
ing states of the union ; and which bounty and
premium aro-itt immence proportion, to be
borne by the>«outh*rn and western people. I
will at iast deeply search whether you have
not purposely struck at (and which I have re
served as the crying political sin againt your
country) the pow'er raised out of the constitu
tion during Washington’s administration —I
mean the treaty making power; and which
power you may or not support by appropria
tions, but which you never can subvert. Mr.
Jefferson, although not the parent of this half
posthumous offspring of the constitution, has
since his accession to power, not only adopted
but fostered it. He has exercised it to as full
an extent as either of his predecessors. JT.e
senate have been very accomodating; they
have ratified all treaties, acquitted Judge
Chase, nominated by a casting vote General
Armstrong to Paris, and passed the, bill indi
rectly countenancing state legislative venality;
and, by fanning the dying embers cf Yazoo
speculation, may sanction the violation of all
laws human and divine.
You appear not to have dreampt of any re
sentment from England, perhaps under a loose
impression that their commercial, manufactur
ing and shipping interests would become our
allies and force by their clamours their govern
ment to make the concessions wanted- Fear
towards a sovereign power was to be the in
strument held forth to compel retributive jus
tice for aggressions, bearing no connection
with your adopted measure Even this prin
ciple was to be divested of almost all its force
by being directed actually against a small part
of that nation, and who have the least politi
cal weight in their government. Have you
"not heard that the commercial and shipping
interests have petitioned and remonstrated to
their parliament against the relaxation of their
naviga'ion laws, in favor of our shipping,
even supplying their West India possession.'*
with provisions ? Why did that nation strike
so bold and unexpected a stroke at Prussian
commerce as she has lately done Because the
king of Prussia interdicted British articles andt
manufactures from being brought into hi* do
minions at the instance if Fiance. From hence