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II.JIUtK.YTO.X .7.1. • 9 1830
The election for C ounty of
ficers, which took place on
Maui ay last* resulted as
follows in the county of War
ten. • -
Sheriff.
Hardy Pitts.
Clerk Sup’r. and Inf’r. Courts.
Thomas Gibson:
Tax Collector
William Castleberry.
Receiver Tax Returns.
James C. Gibson.
Coronor.
Andrew Bush.
Coilnty Surveyor
James Pace.
‘We arc indebted to the Ma
con Telegraph for the leading
a dele on our first page—the
i> loi mation it gives in relation
to the organization of the judi
ciarv of the State, and the time
of holding the Courts m the
Several Counties, must be sat
isfactory to our readers. A
mistake occurs, however, in re
lation to the gentleman who is
said to act as the Solicitor Gen
eral of the Northern Circuit—
N. C Sayre, lisq. declined a
re-election —Benjamin F Har
*dimun is the present encum
bent of that office.
TIUS PUHI.IC UoADS.
At tin- sp i \'t instance nml re
quest of Riciim no, in tlie Geor-
Courier >f <ho 4th inat. the Itu
ral Cabinet has -pa used his essay; and
in order to evidence our disposition
to g-> even beyond shis ,rcbp clful soli
citation, wo have deter*, incd to at
f i(\ our readers all the gratification
wuifli can be derived from the infor
ms tion and suggestions of Richmond.
Jin subject is truly one ol \it: I im
portance —and much v we would say
every thing, connected with the future
pi -s peels of Georgia m regard to the
improve in cut of the great market
r ads of the State, depends upon the
man er in which the incorporations,
in whom so much discretion has been
vested, shall direct the laoor of the pub.
!i hands, at the inception of the sys
tem. Public feci -g is alive, and the
pe p|e look with anxious eyes, to the
course that may be persued by the
‘.Cry Council of Augusta.
Tin’ President's Message reached
N. Orleans in less than live days and
u hall* fr>tn Washington City-^
Tub Virginia Convention.
The opinio.- appears to bo gaining
ground in Virginia, that tho Conven
lion will terminate its labors without
agreeing to submit any constitution
to the people for their approval.
COJS GUESS.
In the Senate on the 2i)th ult. on mo
tion of Mr. Forsyth,
Ordered , That the papers now on file,
on die bubject oI the dividing line between
Fhe ida and Georgia, be referred to the
Comniitte on the Judiciary.
In the 11. of U on the £2d ult. “a
resolution was introduced by Mr. Thomp
son, of Georgia, to instruct the Commit
tee on Post C' Hires and Post Kuans to cn
quire into the expediency of establishing
a mini route* from Athens to Jefferson,
Ja ksun county, ba. so ns to transport the
man Iroin Milledgeville to Jefletson, with
th.; least possible delay/ and one by Mr,
Voster, to establish a mail route, from
Covington, Newton co. Ga. by the way of
Latimer s St*re. and Decatur DeKaib co.
Sanrown Campbelton, and Pumpkmtou,
to Cai roli county, in said State.
Among i.ie resoltitioire introduced were
the following:-
By Mr. Haynes, That the Committee
on Military Affairs be instructed to in- J
quire into the expediency of re-appropria
ting the unexpended balance of the sum
of one hundred and twenty five thousand
three hundred and seventy five dollars
and sixty six cents, winch sum was appro
priated for the settlement of the claims Os
thn militia of Georgia, for services ren
dered agreeable to the estimate of Constant
-Freeman, by 4he act making apyropria
ations for the military service of the
United States for the 3 ear 182.', passed
on the 2d Match 0! that year.
THE ARMY.
It appears from the official report of
Gen 3faccrrrtb to the Secretary of War,
that the numerical force of the army
under its present organization, s as ‘fol
lows; —1 J/ijor General, 2 -Brigadier Gen
erals, 1 Adjutant General 2 Inspector
General*, 1 Quartermaster General, 4
Quartermasters, 1 Commissary General
ol Subsistence, 2 Commissaries, 1 Sur
geon General 8 Surgeons, .45 Assistant
Surgeons, 1 Paymaster General, 14 Pay
masters, 1 Commissary General of Pur
chase, 1 Assistant Engineer, 2 Jlfilttary
Storekeepers, 12 Colonels, 12 Lieutenant
Colonels, 19 Majors, 120 Captains, , 148
First Lieutenants, 148 Second Lieuten
ants, 11 Sergeant .Vjivri, 11 Quarter
master Sergeants, 354 Sergeants,; 424
Corporals, 14 principal Musicians. 212
Musicians, 103 Artificers, 56 Enlisted
Men for Ordinance, 4452 Privates, ,546
Commissioned Officers.
The Eastern Department condsts of
,03 Companies, 233 Commissioned Ofti
cers, and 2662 Non commissioned Officers
and Privates.
4 lie Western Department consists of
53 Companies, 178 Commissioned Officers
and 2285 Non commissioned Officers and
Privates.— &uv Georgian
N. CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
A bill has been reported to the.
Uotise of Commons, by a£ special
committee appointed for that purpose,
authorising the building of al'eniten
li try in Hi at State. — lb.
PROM THE QEORGIA COURIE*.
Least some of our public Journals u4y
mislead our City Coulicit and the People
in regard to the “true interest and mean
ing” ot the late Road Law, ‘for the im
provement of’ the main Reads and Rivers
of this State,’ it is deemed necessary more
explicitly to define what was understood
in ihe Legislature, among a-li the members
from the Northern and Western counties,
to be the true intent and meaning of the
tet—al least so far as relates to the 15
hands,to be placed on such main ‘Roads as
may be directed bv the City Council *of
August,.*
-liter the original bill passed the House,
where it originated, and was sent to the
Senate, it was entirely remodeled in that
body anda substitute was, after muchde
bale and compromising, adopted, passed
and sent back to the House, but at so
late a day of the session that there was no
alternative, for want of time, bat to con
-1 cur with the Senate, or let the whole ses
sion pass without doing any thing for the
improvement of die Roads.
it was understood that ihe original bill
had been thus lemodeled and entangled,
in of the work, with the City
: Councils, in hopes of defeating the meas
ure, which would then have left the public
bands as they were, under the control
and disposal ot the River Commissioners.
To deleat those who were aiming at such
a result it was thought best to receive the
substitute in the House, and concur with
Senate, without ottering any amendment;
in as much as it would go to change the
current of the public funds, so as to give I
7b hands at all events. to commence an
improvement of the main Roads from Au
gust to Athens and Gainsville arid from
Augusta to YVarrentou and Milledgeville;
and from Waarenton to Monticello, Eaten
ton, Lc.
It will be perceived that, the city coun
cil are not compelled by law, to direct:
that the 75 hands shall be woiked at all
on the river—this is left discretionary;*—
and to satisfy many members from the
northern and. western counties, (which
trade to Augusta,) a pledge was given that
we did not want ihe hands to work upon
the bavaanab river, oor within the coun-.
ty of Richmond, but to work constantly on
the main road leading to Athens and
Gainesville, and to Warrenton, and so on
And to do as much equal justice to the
back counties as the force w ould, at pae
ent, admit of no doubt was entertained
but the Council of Augusta would so di
rect, that 40 hands would be placed upon
one of these main roads leading into the
interior, and 35 upon the other.
This is the tiue intent a.d meaning of
the act, so far as regards the 75 hands to
be placed at Augusta—the term fat Au
gusta ’ was Understood to be merely nom
inal.
It is expected by the members of the
Legislature, and the people of the noith
ern and western counties, that this will
be the course by which the council will be
governed in their part of the business, du
ring the present year; and at the next
Legislature, the act will be emodeled into
a more appropriate shape, and the above
main roads to he worked on, pointed out
in the Act, and the control of the hands,
and every other mat er, to be done in the
premises, will be left to the management
of the Governor and the saperinteodents,
as it should he.
‘I be object is to benefit the back counties
by facilitating the wagon transportation of
Cotton to Augusta and goods for internal
consupmtion, in return; which can onlyjbe
done by straitening and improving the
main arteries through the State to the head
-of the Steam Boat navigation, without any
regard whatever to county roads, These
roads, the State has already liberally con
tributed to assist in keeping in repair, by
permitting each county to retain half its
taxes.* and as the county of Richmond re
tains upwards of £7,000 per annum, for
that, aod other county purposes—and as it
is the Jtradg beyond the limits of the coun
ty, which we want to faci itate and in
crease to our city, to prevent it from di
verting into other channels, it is hoped
that our Council will 60 direct their part
of the business, as io cooperate with the
views of the legislature on the pass-tge of
the act, under the circumstances above
stated.
It we succeed well in straitening and
improving the main roads towards Athens.
Milledgeville and Eatonton, it will not ou
1y lay the foundation for turn piking them
hereafter, but insure us additional force
of hands at the next General Assembly
The great principle of equal justice at
issue is, this—between seven arid eight
hundred thousand dollars of the treasury,
have hitherto, been appropriated and ex
pended with a view to Internal Improve
ment., for the exclusive ben fit of the
South Western and Sea B aid counties,
and if the money has been injudiciously
applied, it is not the fault of all those more
(Mtpulous and wealthy counties, from
Putnam to Rabun, who trade to Augusta.
It is, therefore, nothing but justice that
all these Northern and Western counties
should now have \he\r turn m the im
provement of their main channels (roads)
to market, and that 100, without being
compelled, to give the South Western and
Sea board counties 115 Negroes, while
they are to get but 75, who have hereto
fore, had none of the benefits of the their
public money back from the Treasury,
for the improvement of their mam chan
nels ol trade to Augusta, here i.ip.B tdf.
rub: —These old counties, and those from
Putnam, Gwiuett, DeKalb, Hall, Haber
sham and Habun, have always been liberal
towards those counties South, and upon
Sea board and now, the balance of justice
in return, is denied them.
What little justice they have got for the
first time, in the road bill, they have had
to purchase at a rate of nearly two to one,
notwithstanding that full three fourths of
the cotton made in the State, (except the
Sea Island,) is hauled over the most a
bominable roads to Augusta, which, of it
self, is sufficient to show where the popu
lation anil the greatest interest of the
State lies. RICHMOND.
j It is somewhat amusing to observe
the expedients resorted to in order to
fix something like censure on the
President**.’ Message.—The newest
of these, is an attempt to show that
Gen. J arkson has borrowed , or as one
of the opposition papers civily ex
presses it, “pirated*’ from Mr. Jef
terson‘B message—The National In
telligencer has collated a- passage
from the message of the present ses
sion with another from one of Jeffer
son s in_ 1807* in which the resem
blance consist si ri two important par
ticulars. first General Jackson uses
the phrase, ‘either from some dele t
in the law or its administration,’ and
Mr. Jefferson says, the defect was in
the testimony, in the law, or in the
administration ofthe law.” Secondly
Gen. Jackson, a few sentences fur.
ther on uses the wgsd “remedy** an !
Mr. Jefferson uses the word ‘remedy’*
also. It is a flagrant casefof plagi.
arisra truly, hut the original rub buy
was committed by Jefferson himself,
who, it will be found on exainiiiation,
took every 01 c of the words in qiue
tion from the dictionary.
A*. F. Ev. Post.
Magnolia , Middle Florida , Abr. 9.7.
We have -been favored with the
perusal of a letter addressed to hit;
father in this town, by. Mr. Andrew
Cunningham* who so providentially
escaped from the wreck of the schoon
er Magnolia, giving an account of
his deplorable situation while on the
wreck, and almost miraculous escape.
M lien the vessel upset, there were
four persons beside himself on deck.
On recovering his recollection, after
the shock of upsetting, he found him.
self buried in the water under the ves
sel. He succeeded in swiniiiiiiig to
the Reside, p.nd was so fortunate us
to get t old of the main drains, la
ibis situation he soon f <und it inipcs*
ibio to maintain himself—<desir*uia
as it appeared at first to be. The sea -
was running tremendously, and every ’
wave buried him several feet under”
t ater, awl threatened to dash him a
gain into the sea. He pulled off bis
shoes, and by dint of oautioir. and:’
vigorous exertion, crawled upon the
bottom ofthe vessel and clung to tho’
keel. ‘
Hia companions who had been with
him on deck, had ail disappeared—.
Lite night was dark and cold, and his
present situation seemed but a mo
mentary reprieve from the fate ho
had so narrowly escaped. No means
of relief presented—scarce a ray of*
hope could be found amidst the dismal
scene—the tempest roaring around
him, and he alone of all the souls op
board, the solitary tenant of the
wreck—the horror of his situation can
scarcely be fully imagined. In tho
midst of this situation tie heard, in the
intervals of the abatement of the roar
ot the sea, a noisp and kuockiog iu tho
’ abiu under him. lie answered them
by knocking with bis knife on the
cabin. The joy of those who were in
that hopeless condition he says cannot
be imagined on knowing that some on®
was near them. He could hear and
distinguish some of their voices,-?and
they continued to respond to each oth
er by loud hallowing during the time
he remained on the wre k. though Uie
roar of the sea was too great to admit
of being understood.
He remained in this situation from
Thursday night at one o’clock, till Sa#
turd ay noon, 36 hou? s when ho swam
to the boat, which had also been upset
—succeeded to rigging her and get
ting her free from water. He found
the ensign and pennant in the boat,,
which lie supposes must have floated
out of the cabin window. Os the form
er he made a sail and reached the
shore in safety, though lacerated*
bruised and exhausted almost beyond
human endurance.
He expresses in t lie warmest terms
his obligations to €pt. Chase, at
whose house he was received on land
tug and by whom he Was treated with
every kindness, hospitality, 4 nd at
tention to his suffering condition,
.3 Father and his two Sons hilled .
Last week, James Hensworth, of
Garfurth, near Leeds, sent his son
John into a well, which had been cov
crcd up for sometime, to fetch out a
pick axe. The young mao, uncon.
scious of danger, descended by means
of a rope. When he had nearly
reached the bottom, his father perceiv
ing a tremulous motion in the rope,
suspected that ail was hot right, and,
drew it up; but before the youth had
reached the top he was so exhausted
as to be obliged to’ let go bis fi .Id,