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Columbian Centinel. VOL IV. No. 163] Three dollars per annum.) PUBLISHED BY GEORGE F. RANDOLPH, NORTH BROAD-STREET. (Half in advance. CONDITIONS OF THE COLUMBIAN CENTWEL. 1. THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL wi 11 be pub fished eve ry saturD Ay, on a demi paper, of an excellent quality, and on an entire new type, of which this is a specimen. 2. The terms of subscription will be three dollars per annum,one half to be paid at the lime of subscribing, and the balance at the expiration ol the year. 3. No subscription will be received for a less term than six months, and all subscribers papers will be continued from year to year, unless ordered to the reverse at the expiration of the year, or six months. 4. Advertisements will be charged sixty-three cents per square for the first publication, and forty-two for each succeeding, and in the seme proportion for those of greater length. The following persons have subscrip tion papers in' their hands for the accom modation of persons who may please to 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 dr 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