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THE TIMES, and states right advocate. JANUARY 15, 1533. To tlic Palroiis of file .Tarou Advertiser. FAREWELL ! With feelings of regret, we close the connection which b«» long bound us to the community of Macon, as the publisher of a paper ; and in taking our leave of them assuch, it becomes us with grateful recollections of the past, to tender to them a respectful and endearing fare well ! and painful indeed is the separation from those whose acquaintance and friendship we have 90 long en joyed. It has, however, been deemed necessary, and more than all beneficial to 113 to withdraw from the scenes of youthful associations and endearments—from those with whom, in the sunshine of prosperity we have mingled in all the luxuriant hopes of balmy hours and prosperous expectations. yt. B>. J. SLADE. SALUTATORY. With feelings of piide and gratification tve present to the public to-day our Paper in another drcs3. Though we have'donned anew garb, and wear anew title on our front, our course will he characterized by the same devotion to the principles that have so often triumphed in our State, and to which we have hitherto •clung as the only conservative o. State Sovereignty. Os the measures that in former times rebuked the ar- rogant assumptions of Federal Power, and placed the State of Georgia among the most ardent and energetic supporters of the doctrines fought for, and transmitted to us by our fathers, we have hitherto been feeble, but firm advocates; and now, when the political horizon is clouded, and the gathering darkness announces the approaching tempest of more than ordinary fearfulness, we shall not shrink from lighting up our beacon fire. Principles that have been repudiated for years, that caused the elder Adams to be hurled from the Execu tive chair of the Union, by the indignant voice of a free people—Principles that have-slumbered in the tomb of the Capulets since 1801, have been raked from their charnel house and ushered forth to the American People under the high sanction of Executive authority. Revolv ing calendars have brought back to our times the days of Federalism and Republicanism : Again we must fight over the battles that have once been won—again we must rally under the banner reared by our fathers, and signal success wc hope, will again crown, our exertions. In the contest now about to be waged between the Federalist on the one hand, and the Republican on the other, with a consolidated government, an absolute monarchy, and a splendid aristocracy, consequent on the triumph of the former, and the sovereignty of the States, constitutional Ihnitation of the General Govern ment and Republican simplicity, awaitiugthc victory, of the latter, we can have no hesitation in adopting our course. Republicans we have been, Republicans we are still, and Republicans we will continue to he. We are not willing to see the great cause of the Democracy of Georgia trampled under foot by Federal legislation or .Executive misconstruction. Still less are we prepared \o have the doctrines of the President forced down our Yoats at the point of the Bayonet. Anxious as we 1 lave been in common with our fellow-citizens for the re. election of our present Chief Magistrate, our joy at his success has been deeply clouded by the pubiicaii'w of the high toned federal doctrines contained in his proc lamation. Doctrines that might have been looked for front an Adams, an Otis, or a Webster, but which we never dreamed would again come from the lips of an American President: Much less did we expect from Andrew Jackson the menace of an armed force to com pel South Carolina to bend before unconstitutional pow. er. Neither could we have believed, that his hand would have dealt to State sovereignty this fatal blow. Such opinions cannot obtain in Georgia save with those on whom the Federal stamp is yet uneffaced. Threats of military coercion will weigh as little now with the ad vocates of State Rights, as they did with the advocates of the same doctrines when Troup proclaimed that “when the argument was exhausted we would stand by our arms” in defence of our rights. ft ill becomes us to thtow obstacles in the path of of South Carolina, whose succt»s is an advantage to our cause, whose defeat, death to our hopes. And be sides, if the President is sincere in the demonstrations of his purpose to execute the laws of the Union accor ding to the views of the constitution as published in his proclamation, he is bound by every moral and political obligation to command Georgia—make ample expia tion to the m incs of the murdered Tassels— surrender the lands drawn by her citizens to the Indian iords of the soil, and finally acknowledge •bo independent and sovereign nation of the Che. rokees. But will Andrew Jackson pursue this course. We know not. When South Carolina is re __ doced into subjection, which will only he when li r free citizens shall slumber beneath her soil crimsoned by the blood of her own sons, when the ccarinents of the grave shall palsy the arm that has stricken its 1 1st avenging blow for freedom—Georgia may be looked upon as 'he next victim for immolation at the altar ofeonsoiida* hon. The Federal presses of the North are already tinging fortli their pcans of joy, that obedience to the un limited power of the National government is to ho con strained by the drawn swords of the United States ar m), and insisting, that the same measure of justice (Heaven bless the mark !) shall be meted out to refrac tory Georgia. The contingency may happen. Itbe hotes us therefore to he prepared, to organize our ranks and set ourtorccs in battle array, that the onset of the foe may neither be unexpected or unwelcomcd. We arc not disposed to draw down upon our heads the fate of Cassandra, or we might predict that a lew revolving 'Una would place us, too, m an attitude of resistance to 'he far-reaching arm of the National government. E- Cl it» already unfold themselves with so much rapidity f 'h* l poll tic tans stand aghast. Ji is impottant then that wc alwuld be vigilant sentinels on the watch-tower. Whilst turmoil A confusion wait upon tnc acts of those around us, Goorgia should stand like Atlas amid the tliunder clouds, majestic and immoveable,ready alike to shelter her citizens from the storm or ward off its fury. Remedies against Federal oppression have been propo sed for our adoption, A in a government like ours, sway ed by the opinions of an intelligent people, of how great moment is it that each political theory should be scru tinized with a jealous attention. That our people should not be subjected to a partizan influence and repudiate principles instead of men. The doctrines of State Rights has ever been a theme of stirring nature to every citi. zen of Georgia. In its defence her most talented sons have exerted their energies,and weeannot believe—we will not b lieve, that the great body of the people, the yeomanry of the States will now desert its standard. To Subscribers. We shall send “ The Times and State's Right Advo cate,” to those who were subscribers to the “Macon Ad vertiser,” at the time wcccased publishing it, leaving it, of course, optional with each of them, to agree to it— which wc shall consider ns being agreed to, if the papc.rs are not returned. EXCHANGE PAPERS. Those printers wtio Live heretofore exchanged with the Macon Advertiser, will please continue to scud to us directed “Times,” Milledgcville, Geo. ' NEW PAPERS. I 1 sending forth our own, as anew paper, we, at the same tunc make known, the recent publication of the “Standard ok Unio>', and Free Tkade Advocate,” printed at Sparta hv I’. L. Robinson, Lsq. and edited by Thomas Haynes, Esq. We have not read its politi cal tenets, hut it has out good wishes. yiR TOWN’S SPEECH. It must not lie cons tiered that every sentiment which appears in our columns when written by others, is con siquently approved hy us. Thus, whilst we cheerfully give place to Mr. Towns’speech, and respect him ns a gentlemen, wc Cannot second the false theories, and he resies which are contained in the Speech. Differing as we do, with .Mr. Towns in politics, and especially, in some of those sentiments which are to be found in his remarks, so devoid of the spirit of liberality—and so strongly spiced with acrimony, with censure and denun ciation of those, who have the mis- (we mean fortune) fortune! to have variant views to Ins—we say, so differ ing, we cannot fill our position to the public, without warning them not to fall into his misguided, and wc think, dangerous sentiments. (Ky The following gentlemen have been elected Dr rectors of/he Branch Bank ofDarieri, in this place* SAMUEL ROCKWELL, PARISH CARTER, JAS. BOZEMAN, W.M. H. TORRANCE, G. A. BROWN, JOHN' WILLIAMS, ♦NATHAN McGEHEE, *JOS. B. GREEN. * New Directors. OUR I.ATE LEGISLATURE. The actings and doings of the Legislature that has recently closed its session, have placed Georgia in no very enviable position in regard to the difficulties be tween her and the Federal Government. The resolu tions adopted, calling a Southern Convention, with the amendment of Mr. Bates would doubtless astonish their wise projectors, if they should have the effect of estrang ing from our sid • those who have heretofore made com mon cause with us. The impotent and puerile vitupera tion hurled against a sist< r State, who is, as it were, strugling “ in the last ditch” for CONSTITUTIONAL principles, was unworthy the exalted character which our beloved State has hitherto maintained. Amid the painful regrets, wc experienced, in looking back upon the course of the late Legislature, wc have one consolation—We believe the people are not the pliant tools, which the resolutions would make them. At home, we predict a feeling of indignation, by the constituents of those representatives who have over stepped the duty assigned them, and attempted to chain their constituents to the car of federal oppression.— Abroad, our course,(pardon usgood people ofGcorgia)— the course of our Legislature, is by turns, the object of pity, ridicule, and (we are ashamed to say it) contempt! A majority, deaf to the voice of patriotism, berren of the feelings which should characterize noble and generous freemen, but tremblingly alive to their self-interest, have blotted our State’s proud escutchion. Tiie hand of eve ry Georgian should be stretched forth to wipe the Mot away, Already has primary meetings becu held in some cour.tiss, true to virtuous principles, and there in the simplicity, but beauty of our Republican govern ment (when administered rightly) declared to the I’resi. dent of the United States, that they have been deeply pained and disappointed by his professed federal doc trines as contained in the late proclamation—that they regret his menace of an armed intervention to adjust the difficulties between the South and the general gov ern ment, and that the state of Georgia, cannot, after the belief of the correctness, and the triumph which has at tended them, see the doctrines she has so often contend ed for, decided, and by no means, put down, by the bayonet—even though attempted, by the man of our choice, and the renowned hero of Orleans. We repeat, that the voice of the people should come forth, as in Troup, in Newton, and othcrcounties, and be heard at this momentous crisis. Gen. Jackson, like Brentum of old, may cast his sword into the balance, but it yet re mamssfor history to tell, if tbo citizens of the United States are the conquered slaves, or the proud masters of a government themselves have created. The following letter pourtravs, in lively colours, the position in which the wisdom of our rulers has placed our State. We speak for it the attention of our read ers : Extract of a fatter, tlattd Washington C'iTtr, Dec. 20th, 1532. ‘•You cannot well conceive how unpopular the Presi dent’s Proclamation is. with the Republican and State Rights’ party. Indeed it is universally believed, by all his friends, lie would give anything, it was in his pow er to recall it. When he perceived that Webster ap proved of it, and said it contained the very doctrines he had been contending for. When he saw Otis, that old broken down Federalist, come forward, under all theinfirmatives of old age, to give it his hearty 9ii| port before a large meeting of Manufacturers, in Boston. When he observed all the Federal and Tariff papers, bailing it in eve:v part of the North, as the good old federal doctrines and that now they would whip the South into obodience and submission to their avaricious demands, with taxes raised from their own labour, and fleets and armies which their hard earnings have so long supported. When he noticed that the fanatics of the North were seizing its doctrines, to effect a triumph over Georgia in the Indian and Missionary questions. And further, when he saw that Virginia, that good old republican State, denounce its principles and determine to oppose them with the whole weight of her influence. That North-Carolina tr ai«-d them w ith contempt and refused to publish the proclamation, (for there, as in Georgia an old Federalist made the attempt to have it done.) in fine, when his best frinds in Congress, un der the gibes, and taunts, and sneers of Federalists, Manufacturers and Tariff men, could not raise their heads in its support and complained bitterly that the President had paralized their efforts, you may depend upon it the whole administration, with the exception of the Federalist at the bead of the Treasury, who advis ed and penned it, cursed the day the proclamation ever issued. Under these circumstances how do you think our Georgia Legislature must feel in rushing so incon siderately into the support of its principles, by voting to disseminate its doctrines among the people, before they had duly examined the consequences to which it would lead. Before they saw how the other Southern States would take it. 1 will venture to say that Geor gia, if the Legislature speaks the sentiments of the peo ple, which 1 by no reason believe, for 1 think they are a more intelligent, consistent and high minded people, will be the only State from the Potomac to the Missis- i siDpi who will approve or countenance the doctrines con tained in that proclamation. Already lias Virginia and North Carolina rejected them,and Alabama and Missis sippi will follow their lead, and it will be left for Geor gia, because some of her leading men do not like the leading men of South Carolina, to give up the very doc trines, repudiated by this proclamation which she has avowed overandover again, which arc to he found thrice repeated on her legislative records, which she ordered to he entered on the archives of the Senate of the Uni ted States, which she contended for under Troup in her struggles with the General Government about the old treaty, about the Tariff, about Tassels, about the Indi ans, and is now hung up about the Missionaries, and which in a few days will break out in all its accustomed fury. Georgia too, suffering as3hc does under the Pro tective System, and next to South Carolina, has said and done more to evince her'determination to Resist the op pression of the manufactures, docs it not look strange beyond any thing which even the most inconsistent peo ple could do ?- I will not say the people, for 1 do not be lieve the pedpie pf Georggi will sustain such measures. If they do I confess I aill'dt,£eived in them. Yes, it is strange and it is so considered herej yuP_:ne*'. with the remark at every corner, always connected Witn it Jau£..,~- that even Georgia reprobates the high-handed measure* of South Carolina—wonders what Jias got into her! YVhat! oppose the Gepcral Government! threaten to resist her! Set at defiance her laws! Stand upon her own rtghts! Dare to declare a law unconstitutional! Assert that she is sovereign, that she lias got sovereign rights! And finally threaten to disregard the SUPREME COURT! Oh, shame South Carolina! “We abhor” such doctrines and warn our good people not to give in to such cut-breaking, and disotgan iztng conduct—remain ns erer v a meek, quiet, submis sive, loyal, obedient people—support the laws—regard the treaties, respeot the decisions cf the Courts, and subject yourselves to the authorities that he” ! ! ! Now this is the language of the Georgia Legislature and so you may hear it from a hundred mouths in this place.— With-what kind of face do you suppose her members in Congress can rise to defend her with such a shower of ridicule as this pouring upon them from every quarter. The first man that rises in her defiance will be over whelmed from the North, East, West and South.” ■CONGRESS. We had hoped, that with this paper, we should be able to have informed our readers what Congress was a bout—-but from all our papers, we can learn nothing that would interest ourselves enough to set the types, or our readers,(in estimating for then) to read the matter, were wc to clo so. We hope this will not last. Tlie Voice oi the People. The citizens of the county of Monroe are about as sembling in their strength for the purpose of expressing their opinions in relation to the doctrines contained in the President’s Proclamation. Troup County hasalrca. dy declared an unqualified rejection of that instrument, the pervading sentiment of her people. She has also answered in a prompt, energetic, and spirited manner the address of South Carolina to the People of the Uni" ted States—The proceedings of that meeting are to he found in our columns. THE MISSIONARIES PARDONED! The long agony is over. The lofty tone assumed by our State Authorities, in regard to the Missionary Con victs is now silenced. The prison doors of the Peniten tiary have been opened by the order of the Governor, and these “martyrs to Liberty” have come forth with a full and free pardon. We lay before our readers the ex traordinary letter which led to this most extraordinary measure—a measure, which we think will be generally reprobated. It is known that Gov. Gilmer offered these men a pardon provided tiicy would comply with the law of Georgia, and take the oath required hy that law. This compliance they refused, an ! were consequently incar cerated as violaters of the Statute law of the State. But the present Governor, as il infected with some strange terror of the interposition of the General Government in their behalf, has cautiously removed any probability of its occurrence, by prostrating the dignity of the Stale of Georgia at the feel of Northern fanatics. Have the Mi s sionaries taken the oath required hy the law’un'dcr which they were convicted ? We pause for a reply. Penitentiary, Milledueyille, Jan. 8, 1833. Charles .1. Jenkins, Esq. Attorney General of the State of Georgia. Sin—ln reference to a notice given to you on the 2Eth November last, by our counsel, in our behalf, of our intention to move the Supreme Court of the United States, on the 2d day of February next, for further process in the case between ourselves, indi vidually, as plaintiffs,jin error, and the Sta'o of Geor gia, as defendants in error ; we have now to inform you, that wc have forwarded instructions to our counsel, to forbear the intended motion, and prose cute the ease no further. We arc your's respectfully. Signed, S. A, WORCESTER, ELIZUU BUTLER. THOM THE UAXXER OF TUK COSSTITV«ON ■ THE CAUSE OF STATE RIGHTS. It may now be considered as set*led beyond the pos sibility of doubt, that North of the Potomac there is but one voice in reference to the President’s Proclamation, and that voice is, to sustain it at .ill hazards. The i 'fl oral Party behold in that paper an earnest of the resto ration of liieir lost powei—their recovery from the lata! blow inflicted upon them by the political revolution o! ’9S, which resulted in the triumph of Mr. Jefferson and his principles —and they feel all the enthusiasm which was once displayed by a distinguished leader ot their party, when he exclaimed inextacy, “’Tis done— the long is over— the Hourbons are restored .” Urcatly as -.vc differ from that powerful and influential party, in their views of the nature of our Government, yet we can j not but respect their consistency in unanimously receiv ' ing with open arms into their embraces, the professor of Democracy, who has so effectually accomplished for them, without on effort on their part, all that they have been seeking for, during the past four and thirty years. •They have now the consolidated empire for which Ames and Morris, and Pickering, and Dayton, contended at an early period of our history, and for which W ebster so manfully fought in the Senate chamber, three years ago. And hence it is, that we see the Otis’s, the Perkins’s, the Adams's, and the W'cbstcrs, at Boston, the Kings, and Jays, and Kents, at New-York, assemble in town meeting, and the National Gazette, the United States Gazette, the Philadelphia Gazette, and the American Daily Advertiser, at Philadelphia, unite in applauding to the skies the doctrines of the man whose name and principles they execrated but six days before. That they have cause for gratulation, all must admit, and whilst we .ainrnt their triumph, we honor their confor mity to their principles. Ages of argument could not have effected 'or them what has been accomplished by Andrew Jacks in, by a single stroke of his pen. lie has brought ttg< ther into one harmonious bund of af fection, the most discordant minds, and lias converted into Federalists of the true Old John Adams’ School, the whole Democratic Party. If we are not pleased at this display of the workman’s power, we at least can tes tify that the work has been effectually done ; for we can assure our friends at the South, that the man who should at this day, in this quarter, undertake seriously to ar gue, that this Government is not a Government possess ing no constitution hut the will of a majority of Con gress, would be considered in precisely the same light as one would be at St. Petersburg, who should insist that the Autocrat of all the llussias had no right to com pel the Poles to submit to bis arms. As to the Tariff Party, of whom a large portion would shudder at being called Federalists, they also find in the Proclamation the great protective principle tor which they have sighed. They now feel assured, that, even tho’a reduction of the Tariff might take place the pres ent session of Congress, popular schemes for appropria ting funds, beyond the incans of the Treasury, will soon be devised, which will render an increase cf duties ne cessary before any great lapse of time. They are also assured by the President, that no State Remedies exist for infractions of the Constitution, but the right of rebel lion ; and they are well persuaded, that no State will resort to this expedient, after the coercive (lowers of the Federal arm shall have once been displayed against South Carolina, Since the date of our last paper, wo have seen a great nggiticr of comments on tiro Proclamation, published at the Non!, arlk 1 'key all coincide in approval of the political thcorics'bi the President. 1 hey all believe them to he in full and strt'ci accot\J?ricc with the pro positions laid down in the Boston Kcsoluik? o ®! .3* the true old genuine doctrines of tlio Federal party . Deni' ocrats and Aristocrats, Anti-inasons and Nationals,.Tack son men and Clay men, all cry out with exultation, that Jackson has restored the true reading of the Constitu tion—and amidst this horrid din, not a voice lias been heard, North of the National Capital, to weep over the prostrate rights of the States, except that which has found utterance through the columns of this paper.— Such unanimity has never before been seen upon any political occasion, and we again repeat, that as far as the North is concerned; the great question of State Rights is irrevocably is settled. If the Southern Staten should be equally unanimous in reference to the oppo site side of she question, then have we arrived at that fearful moment apprehended by Washington, at which a geographical line hns commenced to divide parties. Henceforth the North will be arrayed against the South and the South against the North, entertainining irrecon cilable opinions as to the very fundamental principles of the compact by which they have been thus far united; and no one can failtosee, that in this relation to each other, their connexion cannot long subsist, without rup ture which must terminate in tho establishment of h Southern Confederacy, or, what is far more probable, when the relative strength of the parties is considered, in a Southern Submission to a Government of unlimited powers. And should this sad catastrophe be the ultimate issue of the impending crisis, who will the victims have to blame for the result? Nobody but thernselres. Their own devotion to man • Worship, will have occasioned their downfall. Had they put forth their moral strength be fore it was too late, had they united in a common strug gle for Stat; Rights, instead of splitting hairs about State Remedies ; had Virginia not been denouncing the doc trines of South Carolina, of ’32 whilst she professed ad herence to her own, ’9B; had N. Carolina been cherish ing the jealous principles of liberty, which kept her vol untarily out of the Union fora year after it had been for med by the co-Statcs,instead of quarrelling about Bar bour and Van Buren; if Georgia had not been professing abhorrence of the projected Nullification of laws made for the protection of manufacturers, whilst she was actu tually herself nullifying laws and treaties made for the protection ot Indians; then, wc say, the existing posture of affairs could not haV<^occurred. It lias been noth ing but the belief universally entertained at the North, that South Carolina stood alone tn the pending contest w ith the Federal Government, having not only the want of the sympathy of her neighbors to contend with, but the actual hostility within her own bosom, of two-thirds ofherown sons, which prepared the public mind for the favorable reception of the President's Proclamation. Andean any man in his senses believe, that that Procla mation would have been issued, but for the suicidal apa thy, supinenss, and hostility, to which we have above referred? As faithful and impartial historians of a time which w ill be referred to with intense interest by pos terity, when ail the living prominent actors on the polit ical stage shall have been consigned to infamy or fame, wc record ourevidence in the negative; and we more over assert, that to that Proclamation is mainly due,’.he embodying of public sentiment and giving it a mural force, by concentration at the Noitb, which it never could have acquired, had it only existed in the scatter ed paragraphs of newspapers, liable to all the, modifica tions and explanations so usually resorted to by igno rant or unprincipled writers, for selfish or patty purpo ses, and of w hich an abundance was seen during rhe memorable six days which intervened between the Mes sage and tile Proclamation. If people, therefore, desert principles for men,they mustcxpect to suffer the pcncl ty of desertion; if they turn idolators, they must uxpcct to bo punished for their idolatry. In making these remarks we were actuated by no un kind or uncharitable feelings. What we say, wo utter, in sorrow, not in anger, and, would to God, no occasion for repinach had existed. For ourselves, we believe most conscientiously, that there is no security for the liberlio of the An ricau !’• nplc, but in the ID served! rights of the Ktati «, and it in, tlieiefore, with the d< opest affliction that we hi- • .».tncu.ed the recent blow w hich has lai I them prostrate. As indr. ideal*, wc have ss lit Uittfevt lift niftier ** «n* tdhtf h'i'ubit indite l,orn citizen. We have no political ambition so gratiN Wc have passed the meridian of life; wc shall leave the world without descendants, and have, therefore, not et i n the solicitude for posterity winch most other men expe rience. But as patriots, as philanthropists, us friends of the human race, and as lovers of liberty, we cannot behold with indifference the fairest institutions vouch safe'l to man* bv a bcnificent Providence, destroyed by those whose 9 > t 0 tr#n * D,t them unimpaired to R 2 C ® TO TIIE PI SILIC. Wa shall shortly submit to i!.'d public, a i rospec tus, in which will be embraced our opinions on sortie of the most prominent subjects of the duy; a.id when oi.sc lud before them, we fear not, that sucll is the gen uine character of our sentiments, associated with thn purest republican principles, and our ardent attachment to the Constitution as it whs designed to be, tve shall stand before our lriends, with their approbation. Express from Washington to Charlector.— On Sunday morning last, between 5 and 6 o'clock, an express arrived here from Washington City, bear ing a packet for Charleston, the contents of which are totally unknown to any one here; but from this rapidity with which it travelled, and she procmitiortN taken by the Post-Master General to forward it without delay, it is presumed to be of great conse quence. From I.ouisburg to this place, a distance of 89 miles, was travelled in six hours, not withstand-' ing it was night. Conjectures are of course many as to the cause of this movement, but it is perltajw most prudent not to give currency to any of tliem, since a very lew days will remove all doubt. In the mean time, the heart sickens with the apprehen sion of some step calculated to ignite the combusti ble-materials existing in South Carolina. Though not much given to looking at the dark side of the picture, we confess that our forebodings are of evil. Since the above was in type, we learn that the package was addressed to Mr. Gilchrist, U. S. At torney for the district of Soutli Carolina, and was franked by the Secretary of the Treasury. Its com ing from that Department is calculated in some measure to diminish the anxiety- previously felt on the subject.— Fayetteville Observer. B.T Severs! communications unavoidably postponed. Wr arc authorised to announce I.EWfS .9. \\ . K RAATZ, a Candidate for Clerk of the Superior ‘ourito fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation ot \V. J. llavis. DRAWING POSTPONED. IMON HOTEL PROPERTY. THE Drawing has been postponed till the first Saturday in March-next, when it will positively be drawn. J. B. BATEMAN, Proprietor. Tlmmaston, Dec. 23. 1— . TIN WARE MANUFACTURER. (Mulberry near Third steet, Macon, Ga.) VjXllE subscriber continues to manufacture Tin Ware in -“- every variety, and lias now on hand a general assort ment, which lie will sell wholesale or retail at the Savannah or Augusta prices. Ho Iras also just received an assortment of Japaned Tin Ware, consisting of Uruns. Sugar Boxes, Waiters, Bread Pans. Canisters, Sugar Bowls, Milk Cups, Tumblers, Pep per Boxps, Graters, Toy Cups, Hatties, Candlesticks, Lamps, Spit Boxes, Sand Boxes, and Pocket Lanterns, ftc. Ac. Also, Patent Bakers, Foot Stoves, Block Tin Tea Pots, Plates, Basins, Tumblers, tfc. tic. Job Work done at tbc shortest notice. WILLIAM 8. ELLIS. Macon, January 2, 1833. 1 .... AN ACT TO provide for the call of a Convention to .reduce the num ber of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and for othsr purposes therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the first Monday in April,eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same is hereby designated and set apart as The dny on which the citizens of Georgia qualified to vote for members of the Leg. shall at the several places prescribed bylaw for holding such elections vote for delegates to represent them in Convention, in number equal to their representation in both branches of the General Assembly; such elections to be con- , ducted, managed and certified under the same laws as are of force in respect to elections of the Genprul Assembly. • Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That it shall be the du ty of such managers to transmit to bis Excellency the Go vernor the result of said elections under the laws now offorco for conducting, managing and certifying elections for mem bers of the General Assembly as aforesaid, within thirty days after such elections —Whereupon it is made tlio duty of Ilia Excellency the Governor to issue his proclamation declaring the result ofsaid elections by naming the individuals several ly-elected to rep resen ttlic good people of Georgia iu Conven tion as contemplated by thisact. Sec. .3. And be it further enacted. That every citizen of tho United States shall be eligible to a seat in said Conven tion who has-attained the age of twenty-five years, and been an inhabitant of this State seven years immediately preceding the day of his election, and who shall have resided one year in the county for which he shall have been elected. Sec. -I. And be it further enacted, Tout each member re turned as duly elected, shall previous to taking Ids seat in said Convention, take the following oath, or affirmation, viz : 1, A. B. do solemnly swear, that 1 will not attempt to add to, or take from the constitution cr attempt to change ar alter any other section, clause, or article of the constitution of the State of Georgia, other than those touching tho re-presenta tion in the General Assembly thereof; and »hnt I have been a citizen of this state for the laetseven years, so help m* God. And any person elected to a scat iu said Convention, who shall rr fuse to take the oath aforesaid, shall net be allowed to take a seat in said Convention. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, Thatfhe members of said Convention shall assemble on the first Monday in May after their election, at Milledgeville, in the Representative Chamber of the State House, lor the purpose of entering upon and consummating the great objects of their convention, to- . wit: a reduction & equalization of the General Assembly; shall have power to prescribe their own rules and forms of busi ness, and determiue on tbcqualilicatioirs of ikeir own mem bers; elect ncces-'aiy i-fficers, and make aB orders which they may deem co-.ducive to the furtherance of the object for which' such Convention shall assemble. Ss". G. And be it furthe; enacted, That it shall be ths dn ty of His Excellency ‘he Governor to give, pobjjc-ey to tfie alterations and air.endincnts made in the "Constitution in ref erence to thv direction [reduction] of the number of the mem bers composing the General Assembly, and the first Monday in October next, after the rising ofsaid Convention, he shall fix on for the ratification, by the people, of sur-h ftmcmtmrnfs, alterations, ornew articles as they may make for the objects of reduction and equalization of the General Assembly only : and if ratified by a majority of the voters who vote on the ques tion of‘•Ratification” or “No Ratification,” then and in that event, the alterations so by them made and-ratified, shall bo binding on the people of tills State and not sthcrwNe. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That it shall be a fun damental arliole in the formation or amendment of the consti tution, that each county o' the State now organized or laid out, or which may hereafter be created by law, thall be enti tled toat least one representative in the representative branch of the General Assembly, Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That so soon as this act shall have become a law, His Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby required to cause it to be publish#J in tho Gazelles of (Ins St ile, once n week until tile and, V fixed on by this act for ihe election of delegates t<, »,n! Convention; and that all Uw* and parts of laws initialing ajp assist this set, be, and the same sre hereby repealed, Asiiuuy HULL, Speaker of the House of UeproseHtsttvea. THOMAS STOCK*, Resident of fits (Senate Assented to, Oecaißbei 21, I old. WILNOV LCII'KIN, Gf-wsor.