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VOL. 11.
THE CABINET
Is published every Saturday by P. L
RUBINSOJV j War rent on Qeo. at
three dollars per annum , which may be
discharged by two dollars and fifty
cents i f paid within sixty days es the
time of subscribing.
Georgia, Campbell County
TO all arid singular the Heirs and
Distributees, their Attorneys, Pa
rents, Guardians or Agents of the
iestate of John Gibson, formerly of
the county of Warren but late of the
county of Campbell deceased, You
will take notite, that 1 Clary Gibson,
the widow and relick of the said John
Gibson deceased will apply to the su
perior Courts in the following coun
ties and at the following Terms of
said courts, for commissioners to he
appointed to lay off & assign my dower
out of the real estate, (hat the said Jrtb.
Gibson died seized and possessed
off to wit; in the county of W arren,
at October Term 1829. in the county
of Houston, at O tober TePin 1829, in
the county of Coweta, at October
Term 1829, and in the county *f
Campbell, at October Term 1829.
And *f which all persons interested
are required to tnke notice.
CLARY GIBSON.
June 27th 1829. 4m—4.
~MONAGHAN ACADEMt.
A public examination of the Stu
dents of this Institution, will com
mence the 25th of August; and close
the 27th.
By order of the Board of Trustees.
J \ :viES M. BLOUNT, Secretary.
July 11, 1829.
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ALL persons indebted to the estate
of Abraham Gneson late of War
ren c unly dec. are requested to come
for ard and make immediate payment.
And all those having demands against the
said estate, must render them in accord
ing to law. N
SUSANNAH GRIESON, Adm‘rx.
June 11, 1829. 40d—5,
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
X\T ILL be sold at the Court House
** in the town of Warrenton War
ren county, on the first Tuesday in
September next— 490 acres of land,
lying in said County on the waters o,
Little Brier creek and stamp Branch.
ALSO,
ON the first Tuesday in Novem
ber next at the Court House of Hah
et sham, Lot No* 141 and 10th dist.
containing 250 acres. Sold as the
property of Arthur Matthews dec. for
the benefit of the heirs and creditors
of said dec. Terms made known uri
the day of sale.
EDWARD MATTHEWS Adra'r.
June 27th 1829 tds—4,
FOUR months afterdate, apple*
lion will he made, to the Inferior
Court of Warren County when sitting
for ordinary purposes, for leave to
sell all the estate of Reuben Rogers,
dec.
JOHN ROGERS, admV.
May 9th, 1829. w4m--49.
WILL be sold at the Court house in
Warren County, on the first
Tuesday in October next, a lot of land in
the County of Muscogee, number 17 in
the 14th District/sold for the benefit of
the heirs and creditors of Joel Matthews
deceased. Terms of sale made known
on the day—And titles will be made by
the Legatees. —It is said to be second
quality, oak and hickory land.
REBEC CA MATTHEWS, 1
ILSSIHER MAI THEWS, s Legatees.
DAVID GREENE, J
July 11, 1829. 4m— s
Warrenton, July 18.
ntoM TUB VERM -NT TELEGRAPH.
ECONOMY.
Mr. Editor. —l send you the fol
lowing dialogue, which is Said to have
taken place between a Quaker aiid a
certain Judge of otic of the courts in
this State.
The Judge being on a journey fell
in company with a Quaker. Sir.
said the Judge, how is it that you
quakers always have fat horsed and
money in your pockets?
Q Bye and byt> I will tell thee.
Shortly after arrived at a ta
vern. The J udge called for a glass
of hitters, and urged the quaker to
drink, hut lie refused, saying, ( 1 have
no need.’ The Judge then called for
tw ? o quarts of oats for his horse, and
the quaker for four quarts for his.
Q. Now l will tell thee. We
drink no spirits at taverns. How
much didst tiioh pay for the bitters.
J. Six pence.
Q. How much for the oats?
J. Six pence.
Q. My oats cost me nine pence;
and what good did the bitters do thee?
J. They procured me an appetite.
Q. Abstinence gives me an appe
tite. Thus thou seest that we can
have nine pence per day in our pock
ets more than thou; and our horses fat
also—But I have not done with the
yet; l see silver bin kies in thy shoes.
How much did they cost?
J. Nine dollars*
Q. HoW long hast thou had them?
J. Eight years.
Q. Do they answer any better ser
vice (ban my strings?
J. No.
Q. With the nine dollars we should
have bought live stock: and at the ex
piration of five years we should have
had fifteen head of cattle. Here a
gain thou seest we can have money in
our pockets. Instead of wearing sil
ver on our slides, we have leather
strings.
J. But you wear the best of cloth.
Q. Yes hut not so much as thou
dost. Thou hast so many thickness
ess about thy shoulders, we should
think they toust be lame.
MORGAN! MORGAN!
If the following statement irom the
Hallowell (Me ) Advocate be true, Da
vid C. Miller ought to be compelled to
live on raw potatoes for the rest of his
lisp. [JY. Y Enquirer
Monsieur Tonson come again. —A
stranger called a few days since, and re
quested the publication of the following.
He has been a traveller, we are informed,
and is well known in Livermore and Jay.
[f u the advocate.]
Morgan actually found. —Nothing but
the most sacred regard to truth, and well
being of the public in general, prompts
me at this time to contradict the fabri
cated account of the murder of the late
Captain William Morgan, of Batavia, N.
Y, Respecting this wonderful person
age much anxiety has been felt. r i he nu
merous accounts of his being seen alife in
Turkey, at the foot of the falls of Niagara,
and many other places, are a mere farce
and perhaps to satisfy idle cut iosity. But
I, having known said Moigan in the state
of New York; previous to his abduction,
have since been able to recognise him,
I saw him at the Yankee Hotel in the
city, i'll Oct. 1325. He was a mason
of the first rank. He told me he had ta
ken seven degrees, that money was hard
to be obtained; that he should publish the
three first degrees of masonry, and knew
not but he should go further. Ihe mere
outlines, he said would satisfy the long
existing curiosity of the public; and he
would then pass through a sham abduc
tion, and thereby render his book salea
ble. In April last, I being at Mount De
sert Island, a suVal! craft appeared oft
the bachour, and shortly put in* She
had on board iu all nine men; they came
on shore. The third man 1 saw was
Capt. Morgan: lie had on a cambtet cloak,
glazed hat, thick boots, and mixed under
clothes. He approached tne, aod on pre
senting my hand seemed reldctfnt in be
ing discovered;—He weht by the name of
Herrington od board the schooner* I
then called him aside. He told me he
hid been at Newfoundland, that he was
then a British subject; that he was con
yeyeJadwD the St. Lawrence from fori
Erie [?]; that he should return to the U
nited States, and Miller had in his hands
money of his to the amount of
that he had been in the Bay fishery. By
his request I have promised to publish
this on my arrival in this town; let this
put all further speculation at rest, as 1
have had ocular demonstration of the fore
going facts.
EZRASTURGESANDERSON.
FROM THE C IIIOLIMAN.
TltE EDGEFIELD GHOST.
The following statement of facts in re-
I lotion to a matter which has produced 1
| much inquiry and speculation in this dis
trict, may be depended upon by the public, i
as having been carefully compiled by a
gentleman of piety and well cultivated
mind. We are not disposed to believe
that a breach has been made in the laws of
nature, without any useful purpose, hut
we have not yet heard any satisfactory,
explanation of the circumstances upon ra i
tional principles.
Messrs. Editors: As public curiosity
has been greatly excited, and many tales j
more or less true, have gone out, concern- j
ing the mysterious and invisible being,;
that has been heard at Mr. Isaac Bur- ;
uett s, in this District for some time, it I
seems proper that the Public should be in ‘
possesion of the facts relative to this ex- ■
traordinary circumstance. The voice!
was first heard in October last, imitating
various noises, such as that of the spin- {
ning -wheel, reel, ducks, hens, &c. It
was first heard by Mr. Burnett, about j
twenty yards froth the house, which led
him to suppo3e it was some of the neigh
bors’ children, hiding in the weeds and
rying to frighten his children. It was
afterwards heard in the loftof the house,
aud Mr. B. supposing it to be a bird, sent
a boy up to drive it out, but nothing could
be seen. It thus continued to perplex
(he minds of the family for some time,
until, at length, one of the children said
he believed that thing could talk and
commenced asking questions, which it
answered by whistling, pretty much like a
Parrot. This circumstance getting out,
many persons came to hear it. Mr. John
Shepherd, a pious and worthy citizen,
who lives in the neighborhood, conversed
with it in presehce‘of a number of witness,
es. To ascertain the extent of its know
ledge, he asked it various questions about
most persons in the neighborhood, and
their circumstances, which it answered
correctly. It told his name and the
number of children he had; also, the
names of most of the persons present —
He asked what it came there for. It re
plied, ‘Because it had no other place to
go to,’ It was asked if it came to do
the family any harm, it said no—it loved
the family. It was asked finally if it
loved Jesus Christ, to which it made no
reply, nor answered any more questions
which Mr. Shepherd asked. The eve
ning alter, it answered others, but would
not answer him. For the first three
months it was heard only once a month,
but afterwards itfurh oftener. It has
been heard at various times, both in the
day and at night, hut more frequently in
ihe day. Search has been repeatedly
made by the family and otheis, but noth
ing found from which the voice could
proceed. There is no place of conceal
ment about the house. It is a email
house with hut one room, a loft of boards
laid across the joists, and a piazza on one
Hide. The house is Dot underpinned,
so that you can see from one end to the
other, underneath. For some time the
voire appeared generally to pw'ceed from
the further end of the house, opposite the
fire-place and the upper part or I oft. If
any one, except the children, woaid go to
that end of the house, while it wa* talk
ing, or if any one would steal round ever
so softly to that end on the outside of
the house when it was dark, and whilst
others talked to it, it would instantly stop
atid when they returned, it would com
tftence again. This experiment was tried
one evening when a number of persons
were there, so that both the house and pi
azza were full Someone from the pi
at.za, without the knowledge of those in
the house, who were talking to it, went
round on the other side to see if they
could disfcover any bne, when it instantly
stopped. It has been known to whistle
almost any tune, either sacred or profane,
which any one would tell it.
Mr. and Mrs, Burnett appear to be sim
ple hearted upright and amiable persons,
serious in their dispositions, and a9 far
from encouraging any trick about them to
make spoil as any one. No one in the
neighborhood, who knoiVs them, believes
that they know any thing about the mat
ter. They have evidently been much
disturbed and alarmed on account of it,
bui having so far experienced no harm
from it, they have resolutely maintained
their ground. It manifests a great par
tiality for a little daughter of the family
who is about eleven years of age. This
so alarms her that she generally gels sick
whenever she talks to it, and she has been
known to quit the house precipitately,
when she has heard it alone in the hotifte.
Not long since however, she quoted to it
a passage of Scripture, which a pious
friend pointed out and advised her to me
morize for that purpose, (I Tim i. xv.)
and it hade her hold her jaw, but she
persisted in quoting the passage until it
hushed, and has not spoken to her since*
Since so many persons weht to hear it,
it has become very shy and is seldom
heard when many persons are about,
or when any pet sun is in the house
except the smaller children. They have
never been able to ascertain who or
what it is or the object of its visit.
Ithas told its name repeatedly, but can
not be understood.—lt will not answer
any serious or religious questions. When
asked whether it was a man or a woman,
it said it wks the foolishest question it
ever heard, and appeared to laugh.
The Rev. Mr. Hedged visited the fami
ly several times and held meeting, at their
request, without hearing any thing. How
ever, on the 25th of May, Mr. H being
in the neighborhood, and calling at the
house of Mr. N ; Mrs. N. informed Mr.
Hodges, she had just been to Mr. Bur
nett’s and heard the voice. Mr. rs. im
mediately rode over in company with Mr.
John Shepherd. Mr. S went up to the
house first, to get the children in the
house to talk to it, and after it commenced
upon a signal given, Mr. H went up to
the house and seated himself in the piazza.
A little boy eight or nine yeaia of age,
stood just inside of the door to ask any
questions whieh were suggested to him by
the company. It imitated various noises in
a whistle, such as the crowing ot the cock,
clucking of a hen, noise of a partridge,
&c. and answered a variety of simple
questions. There were but few answers
that Mr. H. could understand, but when
inturpreted by the family, who were more
accustomed to hear if, he could then
trace out some resemblance. Some words
however were pronounced very plain,
such as kitten, yes, no. goose quill, &.C.—
The family says, that it generllay spoke
much more distinctly and could be much
better understood than on this occasion.—
Mr Shepherd says the same. It wa* un
derstood, however, to say it knew Mr.
H. pronounced his name tolerably dis
tinct, said it got acquainted with him there,
and that it did not like him. When Mr.
11. spoke and said, ‘1 have come to drive
you awa ,* it was understood to reply
*I)o if you dare.* During the conversa
tion with it, which lasted about an hour,
no person was present except Mr. Bur
nett's wife, Mr. Shepherd and Mr. Hodg
es with the small children. The oldest
was the little girl above mentioned, who
No. 6.