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recollects conversing with natives and
< i tzi ns oi the. Cherokee nation about
their boundary, aid always, till 1821,
understood that the line commenced
at Suwatina old town, on the Chatta
hoot hy, and ran on thenre to a creek
called JUa/t Kulsrt (advancing line)
down the said reek to the Hightower
river, near Sixas old town, and down
said river to the mouth of Wills Creek
Has understood that in 1821, an ar
rangement was wade bet wren the
chiefs oi the two tribes, by which their
line was removed, so as to commence
at a point 50 miles lower down on
the Chattahoochy, called the Buz
Roost, and from thence to the
month of Wills Creek—That there
was no while man person when the
last line was run—-has never under
stood that it was ratified or recogni
Z'd by the government of the United
States.
Elisha Winn of Gwinnett, livid on
the frontier in Jackson county, at the time
of the tieaiy of 1018, with die Creeks;
and at the time of the treaty of 1 7.
with the Cherokees. Then the dividing
line between he nations was, what
called the Hightower path, running from
the high shoals of the Appalachie, to Su
wanna old town, irn the Chatlahoochj,
thence to Sixas old town, on the High
tower. —John K’ s who had married
t berokee woman, claimed a receive hi.
mediately south of said path; as a Chero
kee, under the treaty of 1817, ami th
General Government, would rot suttc
hi i to retain it, because lie had take i. i
upon Ci ei k lards.
Jumps Gilbert, of Gwinnett, h#sliveda
the upper part of So wanna old town sine
18 If); at that time understood the dividing
line to be the Hightower path, erns-i ■
tl*e (. ’• tahooch) river at said (own,
and imn-i <r nto th Q Hightowe
riv r. Thsune w’as understood by at 1
to Im* the line between the two nations, till
another line was mad* , i ommencmg as li
is informed, at the Buzzard Konst, fa>
Peril- vn the Chattahoochy. Hasundei
st"‘ and from the that the point
atwf'i h the Hightower puh r ossed th
C hnttolioocby, of Sowanna was called the
Buzzard Roost, before the new line wa
tiiade.
Tin in Jl illiams of Gwinnett was liv
ing at the II g Mount in fi-* fli.nn* time b
forr the trea’y of IP 1T with the Chemkees
—has u■ derstuod from iliose who had be
cotre <it'/.) ns of the Cherokee nation b*
ma rmge,t t the dividing line between
the two naf ons, was an old trail crossing
the ('ha tali ochy at So wanna old town
and running on, and striking the High
tower river at a p’aoe called Sixas old
town.
Robert Venable , of Gwinnett lived on
the frontier ol Georgia 28 years, and
•Kites that he has fnquentlv (Leo in th
Cherokee nation; and understood from
white men who had married in the Chero
kee nation, that the old original line be
tween the Creek and Cherokee t<ib*s of
lrufane, was a line crossing ’the Chatta
hnnchy river at Suwanna old town, and
running on and striking the Hightower
river in the neighborhood of the Sixas old
town.
George M. Gresham , of Gwinnett says,
that Packer Collins, who had intermam
ed w ith a Cherokee woman, and who wa
living a short distance below Suwanna old
town, on the west of the Chattahoochy.
and below the old trail that was said to be
the dividing line between the Creeks and
Cherokees, a few years since, moved and
settled above said trail; and that it was re
ported that the object of his removal was
to get off from Creek land and upon Cher
okee lands.
James M C. Montgomery, of De Kalb,
was superintendant artificers in the Uni
ted States in 1814, and stationed at the
Standing Peach tree, on the Chattahoochy
for the purpose of building b. ats to tran
port provisions down the river. While
there, he understood, from the Indians in
that vicinity w we chiefly, or entirely
Cher-kees, that the land on both sides of
the river belonged to the Creeks. Some
iinip prior to 1814 he ob ained a decree
of the Cherokee nation against a certain
( awdry, who was then.at the head of an
Indian family—was informed by the s
Cherokee Indians that the said Cawdry
ran his property to the standing peach
ree. On enquiring whether the land
there was ( reek or Cherokee, was inform
ed, by several who were leading men in
the Cherokee nation that it belonged to
the Cieek , and that any claim or title the
Cherokeeg had to the land theres was by !
permission of tim Creeks—That it was
common for the two tribes, being connect
ed with each other by marring . t> occu
py each others land—The standing peach
tree is from 10 to 12 mites above tue Buz
zard Roost, tiie point from whence the
temporary line between the two tr cc- now
starts—(Joe John Woodall was permitted
to erect a mill &c on the west ,-uJe ol the
Chattahoochy, irmuediatiy below the pe;ch
tree and Koily Mclntosh, at the head of a
party of Creek Indian.*, as deponent un
derstood, came up and and str.v and said
Woodall’s crop and mill. Pcponout ha*
often seen the ruins of the same.
Such is the testimony collec'ed by Col.
Wales; and it surely is quite enough to
est.blish the fact that the true line be
tween the two nations is, as deacibed in
(he evidence.
The following facts are as reported
by Col- Wale*.
The 11 on, Wilson Lumpkin, under the
treaty of 1818, tan the line between the
two tribes, ami made a corner on the west
side of the Chattahoochy, at Suwanna old
t<wn, half a mile from the river.
Gen. Wm. M’ lntosh married a Chero
kee woman, ar and was made a chief of th- t
nation.—The year before his death the ng
ion broke him as they call it. saving
‘ they had trashed away h\s power.” IL
epiied that he, “ uould wash away then *
lower l\ne ”
Krnm all (he inhumation that has beer
•btained it is inferred that the land he
tween the old and new lines, embraces the
>est part of the Cherokee, country wilen
he limits of Georgia—that it properly h
ongs to Georgia, as has been already oh
etvi'd; ami tliat there is enough of if {;
oake three or four respectable counties.
That the Cherokees themselves indulge
he belief that Georgia will succeed in os
tahlivhing her claim, is evident from th<
Hot that since the subject has been agitaj
t and, a deputation has been sent to Wash i
ngton City. j
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CABINET,
irjtia t n av, Ftn 14, t Tv.
Tn 1 ] fin iiihvi rmftwtlHl
CENTIUL RANK. |
The first official notification
t>f the proceedings oi’the Pre
sident, Directors, £sc. of this
institution will be found in this
day’s paper. The measure
now promulgated has caused
no small sensation, in and a
bout the seat of tiie Mothei
Bank of Darien, and the Da
rien Phenix, is both free and
caustic in its censures ot the
contemplated issue of the Da
rien Bills We publish the no
tice, although it is deemed, it
would appear, unnecessary that
it should he known beyond the
immediate circulation of the
Milledgeville papers and the |
Macon Messenger, in order that
sou e other readers mav he
timely informed, more parti*
cularly of the provisions of
Rule 11. and Rule xxn. as ap
pended to the Resolution for
the loan of the Darien Bills.
The following distich we co
py from the Albany Gazette.
Journal.
YY U R YY U B
1 C U R YY for me.
We give a place to the fore
going. not because it is so much
after our own taste, but seeing
it is going the rounds, it having
first made its appeal ance in the
capital of New York and reach
ing us through the capital of
Georgia, by the ‘-half barn
door” paper, it might be deem
ed presumptuous were we t
give it the go by as partaki .
100 largely of the pueiile and
childish slang of the nursery
as a lit companion,
w * -.rive tiie following remini
scence of our boyhood,
XU R X U B
O U R XX lor me.
COURT TABLE.
We believe the following exhibits a
rnrrrc t calendar i.f the sitting* of the
Superior Courts , in this State, for
1829. —Maeo n Jlesse nger.
Spring .] Counties. [Fall.
Jan, 5. Chatham, May 18.
19. Taliaferro, July 20.
Feb. 2. MnsiT-gee, Aug. 5.
9. Clark. 10.
CBaldwin, Craw-1
16. < ford, Walton, t 17.
L Wilkes. J
23. Upson, Jackson, 24.
f Men iwether, 1
March 2. < Morgan, IMke, t Sept. 7
(. Randolph. j
3. Tolbot, 10.
” Columbia, Greene, ‘
9. •’ Gwinnett, Madison, ► 14
. Marion, Fayetie, „
12. Lee, ’ 17
f EUu-rt, ft*!!. Has •'j
1G < ris, Henry, I* 21 ;
loam. J
HT r rwig t gs, Se[it. 28;
10. Biilloeh, Oct. 29. |
oq f Newton, Tr<up. *1
‘ I \Vasl,v (K t,„, } Se P 2B
f Warren, B itts."^
J (Laurens, <)rt. 7 j
April G. \ Cdwet.a, the Bth, • Oct. 5
Camden Nov. 9) r
NV ilkinaoit,
v Wav ne. J
f Pulaski, [M ,„t
)3 1 some,-} Ol JJ 1
, Hancock, D: 1
UKalb. Monroe, J
: latuali, [lily m. ,
I*3 1 16th Nov. Ra l 12
l hurt, Oi l. 15 J
(Habersham, Hwiv. \
) tor; Led air Ogle- (
) 1 hoi pe. Japer (
v ('a opbeil, j
Emat-uel, 15th Oct. )
20- viclntosii, l h l
Nov n:b j r, j
23 0 rr dl, Irwin,
& Appliiig, I ran* io, Jones)
27 vLi < 010, [Fidierty, D. c. ) 26
(9. Si riv* 1., 19tb Oct. S ■
30 Ware, [ll ya.i, Dec. 7] 29
Miv 4 ) Burke, [LownU or
’ > 21 November, \ * C \
~ Dooly, 20*
, , S Decatur. fEffi .gham }
) Dec. 14 J i >'o.9
14 T on as, 12
19 Jeiterson, (Early Nov. ;6) 9
25 Richmond, jg
Very lately, bays the Savanna
Georgian, a sample of s >me 30lbs. o
*'otton grown in the English colony o
New Squill Wales, w r as exhibited t
several persons in Manchester. It ;
1 epresented as being of very (>•’
qualty, and equal to the best oft lit
description of Sea Islands.
On the first inst. a Seal was kil and
by Mr. Thomas A Houston, in Sa : -
lo nver, about three miles fro 1
Southerland’s bluff in M*lntosh rnuu
ty. From the nose to the end of th
hinder fins, it measured seven fee
four and a half inches, and across th*
breast inches. The blubber
on the sides was fully two imhe
thick—The Darien Phoenix is of o
pinion that it is the first animal oi the
kind that has been killed in Georgia.
The population of Philadelphia, ac
cording to Mr. Hazzard‘B Register in
1828, was viz; in the city
82.780, and in the county, 103.650-
being an increase since the census of
1820 of 504,30.
MAIL ON FIRE.
The mail w hich arrived al poy les
town, Penn, on the 11th ult. was
found to be on fire—some, letter t ,ick
gos were much injured, others near
ly ('unstinted. *Froin the appes.rancf.
ol the mail, the fire must have been
communicated inside of the linen let
ter bag, as the newspapers were but
iftie injured. But how it should havo
originated, it is impossible to say
The editor of the Boston Daily Ad
veriiser has employed an accomplish
ed ‘accident maker ’ to fill his columns
with the rare and wonderful. \V
jiv the following paragraph as a
specimen of the talents of the writer.
BAD AFFAIR.
Miss Judiili Toughenough, arr--
spe table maiden lady in the town of
Sewk sbury, on Tuesday morning,
m climbing to a shelf in the cellar
closet, for the purpose of examining
the condition of her favorite plant,
die bachelor’s button, and to aucer
tain whether it had survived tiie re
cent frost, unfortunately made a false
step and was precipitated head fore
most, into a barrel of soft soap, which
had been carelessly left uncovered.—
Her long absence caused some
- rm, and the family on searching for
her, found her feet and ancles protru
ding from the barrel, which not a
particle of her body could be seen.
The situation was truly peculiar.
She was drawn forth, and in a few
minutes discovered symptoms of life,
b * hurling a pot lid at the head of poor
Susan, the cook, for leaving, the bar
rel uncoverd,
I it for tat —The passen
gers on board an Aberdeen
smack were most grievously
annoyed by the nocturnal visi
tations of myriads of hungry
bugs. T hese little blood suck
ers were so incessent in their at
tacks, that the close of an eye
was utterly out of the question
—nay, so severely did some
suffer, that in the morning,,
when all hands were mustered
in the cabin, their physiogno
mies were to be recagnized
with considerable difficulty !
One night their agonies became
so intolerable, that they bellow
ed out to the master of the ves
sel, ‘O, maistei! maister! the’re
biting us!’ What the deibs biting
ye? cries the master. O, sire,
the—bugs. The* response of
the master, if not consolitory,
was admirably laconic—Weel,
care fa’ ye, canna ye bite
THEM AGAIN?
M ‘RRiFD, Hi L'.dusiiiiia coun--
y, on the l2(h inst. by the Hon. Q.
L. C. P RANKii?t, Mr. Haynes S.
Ryan, of this county, to Miss’ Cather
ine Dozier , ot the former place.
W hen love and beauty both combine
To form the bridal bands
Then nuptial bliss is so refned
It joins both hearts and bunds.
GEORGIA, Warren County.
WHEREAS, Hardy Pitts,applies for
Letters oistiiissory from lire adminis
tration of the eia(e of William Thomas,
late of said county dec.
These are, therefore to cite ard ad
monish *ll persons interested to l e and
appear at myoffoe, wilhin the (’me prej
scribed by law, lo file the>r r ec 1 n%
T any they have) why said I<9 rs • uld
r *ot be granted.
z nnKrnv rk. r 0. tv. c.
ii. ?t:■ s l l i;• 1, . it. j,. lice Law
the (Nmuties of Coweta, Carroll,
Pr >op, Mus ogee. Mcrriweiht r, Har
is. T’nlliot, Dekalb and FayeUe.
All business entrusted to his care
will meet with prompt attention.
He will examine lands, free of
cb \rge, in the Comity of Coweta.
Direct to Newnan, Coweta County.
WILLIAM M. BEALL,