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sere uce between him that playe, and
lie that plays gets it.*
When you arc reduced to the low
est extremities of poverty, remember
that you can get no lower.
When you have been subjected to
every possible vi< issitdde in life, sing
‘The world is all a fleeting show.’
FROM THE GEORGIAN.
A magnificent project is at present in
‘agitation in the city of New York. It is
that of erecting a bridge from the foot of
NVlaiden Lane to Brooklyn, high enough to
allow the largest ships to pass under it*
The length of the bridge between the toll
gates on each side, will be 2100 feet, the
height of the piers, from high water line to
the level of the flour way, will be 160 feet,
and from the floor way to the extreme
point of the suspending pier, 65 feet. It i9
contemplated to have two carriage ways
each 11 feet wide, with a centre passage
of four feet for foot passengers. The
heaviest part of the work, will be the stone
abutments and suspensions of piers.
will form a solid work of granite, of grad
ual descent, with a fall of one foot in eve
ry ten; and if the abutment is fixed at the
foot of Maiden Lane, the ascent will prob
ably commence from Pearl street, leaving
light and airy arches over Water, Front
and Sooth streets for travelling. It is
computed that upwards of 2800 tons
weight of Ir on will be required to com
plete the suspension part of the bridge,
and the aggregate estimate of the cost of
the work will be something more than
$600,000. It is supposed SIOO,OOO are
annually paid in ferriages across the East
river, and on a reduction of one third of
the present rates, th° nett receipts of trn;
bridge, with the increase of travelling
wiil be 150,000—and New York and
Brooklyn will resemble London and West
minster. The rise of the property in
litooklyn alone it is said will defray the
expense of the project. It is also sug
gested that the bridge may be the medium
for the conveyance of good water from
Brooklyn to New York
GEORGIA LEGISLA LUKE.
SENATE.
Saturday, November 11.
On motion of Mr. Tait,
Whereas Much vice anil immorality
have grown out of the practice of rc
tailing spirits, anil it is bt-lieved the fa
cility afforded by the act passed the 15th
Dec. 1809, to such retailers of spirits
ha* increased the above evil, for remedy.
Be it resolved, That the Judiciary
Committee be instructed to enquire into
the expediency of providing some more
effectual remedy to suppress said evil,
with leave to report by bill or otherwise.
On motion of Mr. Anderson,
Resolved, ‘That the Judiciary commit
tee enquire into the expediency of inak
ing the judges of the superior courts of
this State elective by the people of the
circuits over which they are to preside,
with leave to report by bill or otherwise.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Saturday, Nov. 14.
The notices of yesterday were taken
Up, and the committees appointed
The Secretary of the Senatus Aradem
icus laid before the house, an extract from
the minutes of the Senatus Academicus,
which was referred to a select committee
consisting of Messrs. Shorter , Blacky
tfi/in, Wofford, Pearman , fVanier,
Chciltmu Iverson and Bailer/ on the part of
this house to join such as may be appoint
ed on the part of Senate.
Mr, Cleveland reported a bill to ap
propriate monies lor the support of Gov
ernment, for the political year 1830,
w hich was read the first time
Mr Buley reported a bill to authorise
and require his Excellency the Govern
or to make a distribution of the fund set
apart for the education of poor children
to such counties as have or may hereof
ter make a return of their population, in
terms of the law.
Mr. Mann—To authorise the grand ju
ries of this state to rectify mistakes made
by tax receivers.
Mr. YVelcheH.—To prevent white
persons residing in the Indian nation, and
who have abandoned their white families,
from giving evidence in any court of jus
tice in this state.
Mr, Pearman—To specify and make
certain a time, from and after a probate of
Avillfrf after which time they shall not be
set aside or in any mauner altered by
caveat, bill or otherwise.
On MrShoiter‘s motion,
Resolved, That the joint judiciary com-!
mittees be instructed to enquire into the
expediency of so amending the first sec
tion of the act of the constitution of this
state, so as to authorise the institution of
suits either at common law, or in equity,
against all parties who ought to be made
defendants thereto in the same way and
under the same regulations applicable to
suits against joint obligors and joint prom
issors;—and if prepared, that the said
committee prepare and report a bill for
that purpose.
A number of bills were read the 2d
time and put on their passage.
Monday, Nov. 16.
Committees were appointed on the no
tices of yesterday.
The bill to compensate grand and petit
jurors was taken up, in committee of the
whole, Mr. Hudson in the chair, and after
various amendments, and a long discus*
-ion, in which, Messrs. Wofford, Ryan,
Dougherty, Iverson, Shorter, Warren,
Burns, Bates, Turner, Hutchins and War
ner, took part the committee rose and re
ported that they had disagreed to the
bill.
In the house, on a motion to that effect,
it was decided to lay the bill on the table
for the remainder of the session, ay a vote,
of 61 to 64.
lu A •
n.IHIIKATO.Y, A'or, 21, 1829.
The Editor of the Augusta
Chronicle is hereby ic sped ful
ly informed, that the Hon. John
Forsyth, late Governor of
Georgia, was on the sth day of
the present month, elected by
the Legislature of this, State, a
Senator in Congress, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resig
nation of the Hon Jbhn M. Ber
rien, who has accepted the ap
pointment of Attorney General
of the United States, by a vote
of 148 against less than 60
scattering votes cast for several
other gentlemen; aiuT that a
motig the number received by
Mr. Forsyth several were given
by good and substantial Clark
men.
O! Mr. O, you dont seem to know,
Whether a Clarkman’9 a Clarkman or noj
for it is broadly insinuated in
the Chronicle of the.3lst ult.
that no Clark man wo Id vote
for him.
This settles two important
points in our controversy,
namely that you possess little
knowledge of, and less influ
ence over, the party over which
you assume unqualified dicta
tion, and the contradiction, by
the event, to your assertions in
that regard, places your veraci
ty in a very questionable predi
cament.
Your predictions on the
course of Mr. Gilmers admi
nistration, and your confident
expectation that he will divide
the patronage of the govern
ment with the Clark party re
mains to be realised, and I here
predict, and beg you to bear it
m mind, that you will pass ma
ny a doubtlul day and anxious
night of sickly misgivings, be
fore that thing cbmes 4 to pass.
You are, however, not the
first man who Ims been disap
pointed in his political prognos
tications, or in his hopes of flat
tering the honest and prudent
from their course. The dirty
work of unprincipled factions
has never been wanting in
instruments to prosecute its
schemes, and well have you ac
ted your part. But the flimsy
covering which veils the malig
nity and corruption which ran
kle in your bosom is too thin to
conceal your purposes from
the penetrating discernment of
George R. Gilmer-— He knows
and appreciates your purposes,
and will disappoint your hopes,
and 1 tell you now, that you will
one day be constrained to con
fess that you have caught a Tar
tar.
For the Chronicle to prate a
bout u reckless scurrility and
defamation’* is ineffably redi
culous—
“ Say did you never chance to meet,
A mob of people in the street,
Ready to give the robb’d relief,
And all in haste to catch the thief,
While the sly rogue that filched the prey,
Too close beset to runaway,
Stop thief-. Stop thief- -exclaims aloud,
And so escapes among the croud.”
It is for me a favorable cir
cumstance, that my character,
and that of this paper are not
entirely at your mercy, and that
you form but a solitary unit in
the great body of that commu
nity which sits in judgment up
on my conduct as a man, and
upon the merits of the Rural
Cabinet as a public journal. Be
fore that tribunal I join issue
and fear not the result.
From our Correspondent .
“MILLEDGEVILIiE, Nov 19.1829.
The bill to be entitled an act
to provide for the improvement
of the Public Roads in this
State, occupied the whole of
the day on yesterday in the H.
of Representatives. An attempt
was made and failed by a small
majority, to i econsider the third
section—that which points out
the roads to be worked on in
the first instance—that ic, the
road from Augusta to Gains
ville, via Appling, Washington,
Lexington, Athens, Jefferson—
and from Augusta, to Warren
ton, and then the hands assign
ed to this road are to be divid
ed, the one half to work on the
road from Warrenton to Ma
con, via James Shiver’s Mill,
S arta, Milledgeville and Clin
ton— the other half on the road
from Warrenton, via Powelton,
Cooper’s Bridge on the Oco
nee, Katonton, Monticello to
M‘l)onough in Henry county.
After the road from Augusta to
Gainesville is completed, the
hands to be put on the road
from Powelton to Decatur in
De Kalb county, via Greenes,
boro’ Madison and Covington.
After these roads are complet
ed the public hands are to be
employed on such roads as
the Legislature may direct.
The improvement of the roads
disignated in the first part of
the section are to commence at
i Augusta, Ihe hands £suppos
fed to be between 80 and loo]
are so divided that 40 are as
signed to the Road from Augus
ta to Gainesville, and the resi
due on the Road from Augusta
to Warrenton. A section was
adopted to appropriate $25090
including the $ 20,000 hereto
fore [conditionally] appropriat
ed for the improvement of the
Savannah River above Augusta,
to be applied to the improve
ment of the roads from -Savan
nah to Macon, via Marion and
Dublin—the road from Macon
to Columbus, via Forsyth—and
that from Columbus, via De
catur to I aurenceville in Gwin
nett county. The section
provides that the Negroes con
templated to be purchased,
shall have been inhabitants of
this state twelve months pre
vious to the time of such pur
chase.
The House progressed in the
Bill as far as fixing the salarV of
the Superintendants. A n otion
was made to insert SIOOO and
lost—The House then adjourn
ed. This day the Hos Repre
sentatives passed the bill with
some small amendment, not
affecting the principles of the
bill—yeas 82—nays 47. t'he
Bill to form anew circuit out of
the Southern and Chattahoo
chie Circuits was taken up in
the H. of Representatives and
made the order of the day for
Wednesday next.
We stop the Press’ to announce the
result of the Elections which we re
ceived this morning, by the stage,
from our attentive correspondent, that
took place at MilledegvilJe yesterday,
for State House officers and a Mj.
Gen. in place of “that gallant soldier
and distinguished officer Gen, John
Floyd.”
Secretary of State .
Everard Hamilton, jjj
James Bozeman, jor)
Scattering,
Treasurer .
Hines Holt, 123
George R. Clayton, gg
Comptroller Genera!,
Ist Baliottmg.
T. Howard, 100
R. R. Ruffin, 4 j
Robert Randolph, 33
Peter J. Williams,
Myles Green, n
Blank, f
2d Ballotting.
Howard, no
Ruffin, . 48
Williams, 30
Randolph, 13
Greene, 4
Surveyor General.
John Bethune, jjy
——Rutherford, 47
—— Thomas, 33
Scattering, 0
For Jlaj. Gen. of the first Division of
Georgia Militia. .♦
David Taylor, l3 j
- Floyd, * 77
Blank, £
From [he Journal, 18tA'iwsf.
On Monday the Senate into com
mittee of the whole, on the bill to repeal
so muce of thr 36th section of an art pas
sed 16th Febiuary, 1799, to revise ami
amend the Judiciary system of this State,
as vests the power in the clerk cf the
Superior court to hold, at the same time,
the office of clerk of the inferior court of
the same county, so as to render any per
son ineligible to two officas at the r ame
time, Mr. Powers m the chair. Alter
idebate, the President resumed the chair,