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Cnmdeu, 1
Glynn, 2,911
Wav m*, 1,273 4,16-1 1
Mciiilo.'b, 3,932 7 0
Liberty, 5.086 £
Brvau, 2,168
Btilluch. 2,51: 5,032 1
Chatham, 3
Effingham, 2.072
jv'i iveti, 3,832 5,904 1
Emanuel, 2,704
Montgomery, 1,88. 4,566 1
Tati: a 11, ’ 2,202
Appling, 1,771 3,973 1
Iru in, 1,0 29 l
Dooly, 2,7-7 (
r. .ker, VMO l ,
Early. 3,698 j
Randolph, 1
Lee, 2621 ?
{-uniter. 3,625 j
Stewart, 2
Pulaski. 1
Laurens, 1
JJurke, 2
Jefler.mn, 1
Washington, 2
Wilkinson, 1
Twiggs, 1
Houston, 2
Macon, 1
Marion, 3.687 } n
M tisco :ce, 16,172 j
Harr.-, 2
Tilth* t. 2
t’raw’urtl, 1
Bibb, 1
.lone', 1
Baldwin, 1
Ii unlock, 1
W tirell, 2
Jv lon ok!,' o
<‘oluiulna, 2
Lincoln, 1
Wilkes. 2
Taliaferro, 3.753
Greene, 6,171 —12,212 3
putnaiu, 2
Jaspei, 2
Lulls, 1
Monroe, 3
I | MO. 2
Eike, 1
Meriwether, 9
'l'ro up, 3
1 leant, 1
* 'mvet.-i, 2
1- aviule, X
Homy, 2
IveutoH, 2
Wuitnti, 2
Morgan, I
C lark, 2
Oglethorpe, 2
J/berr. 2
Franklin, 2
Mail.sou, 1
Jackson, 2
Gwinnett, 2
Hr Kalb. 2
Cainpbell, 1
Cam,ll, 3.8(1
j auhlin.', 2,22(1--5,057 1
1 mill, 1
I us.ill, 1
lllil. 1
li am, 1
Ramin, 1 ft';;
1 i:i,ui. 2 U'-J—4,056 1
1 - i.n'-i 1 ~ 1
Glicroi-.cv, 1
I 'ass. 1
Floyd. 1
ll:! ivr, 1 131
Mmi' iv, 3, J2s—-4.511 1 •
Ghattoo-a, 1
'Walker, 5,160 J 1
D.160, 631 )
111
The number of members in both branch
es oil, o' Legislaiuin, sl>all nut be ineieas
e-i, luii « Inn a new County is formed, it
, ill be a ladle. l to llie most eon iguous
I'Fiiatorial District, ami shall continue a part
ifilie county or counties from which ii may
1-ne been lal-i u, lor llio pin •1: .. nl Pavui*
1 s si,an- j,, ij ~ , let ton ot Representatives
1 util the r.rxi M.e. eeiiirg Feptcnuial enti
)■ '-ration.
'I he legislature mty, from time to time, if
uac-s-ary, after eaeh Sju.en iial cmiumer-i
--i uijatYaiige ih" Scnaloiiol aiid Uepref-enlu
i.vo Di, ircls; !,ui shall, on no account, im
pair or liimiiusli toe political equality of
<oil (. 1 limy in tlie election o .Senators:
: oil the equality of ii:|ii'<'sei,la:ion on the
t 'lciallius.s in the House of Kepn-sciuativcs
lu-a-oriiiag ti, such ratio as the Legislature
'- iv lix, shall always he loaintaii.til. The
i>e|)rcscntaliv( 8 shall be <leeteil on the
fa.ue clays appoint *1 for the election of Seu
(: or-, until cm h day be altered by law.
[NO. '•]
Substitute i v 2*l r. Uu.lare ■/ Marion
J lint the 'J bird Stctn.n <1 the First
■'M iule <1 the _jL'mi.siit|iti(iii rtn.ain ; s at
pai sent, allow itig to each county a I" r tuitoi,
th Scnat'* shall be <i(c:ed, am 1 ally, on
ihe first Monday in LctoLtr. l.ui.i aheied
la law.
Jilt U-vnsc es Hri reset tilth ts flail I <•
*■ pi.oil ol one memher Ii cm i-sicli county
(1 evt-i v 7000of rentesenl.itive population
' " h 1 0. may contain under the la'Se cnuiruT
: 1 ion.such countv shall he entit'ed intvvu rep
>'st illative# ; nml for every twelve tluutsatid
H'picsentative ja pi.lath n cat h 1 < 1.1 ty may
contain, such county shall l.e <1 titled to
•hree members, ttutl 10 more. 'J la- I louse
■°l Representatives shall be elected on the
hist Monday in October, a tin. ally, i.i.til al
tered by law.
[NO. 7.]
Substitute hy Mr. idatdner of Ftivarl.
The House ol Fc presentatives si all I e
eniposeil of members from all 'lie counties
v -'inch now are, or hereafter may he. inclu
ded within this Slate, according to their
respective numbers of free white persons,
including three filths ol all tlie peo| le of
< o *or, to he ascertained by an actual enume
ration, to |>e made from time to time, at
intervals of seven years, as now by law
provided. Each county sir-ill be entitled
*° one member onlv, who, on ail questions
"he:i the Ayes ami Noes of the lliiu'e art)
called lor, and in all elections cf the House,
•feliall he entitled to vote as follows: For
a representative population under three
thousand. one vote ; fora representative pop
ulation of three thousand, two votes; lorn
representative population of seven thousand,
o votes; and for a representative population
of t w vlve thousand and upwards,four votes.
[NO. 9.]
Substitute by Mr. Cowart, of Suintrr.
The Senate shall consist of forty-six
members, from forty six Sen itorial District,
and shall be elected on the first Monday in
October, Iron time to lime, until such elec
tions shall be altered In law;
•Njid that both hi.vnches of the next Legis
lature sliaM meet in the representative
Chamber, for the purpose ol apportioning
Ba| d Senator''!' Districts by adding any two
contiguous counties together as they in
Ihier wisdom may direct: and whenever
hereafter the Legislature shall lay off nod
a new county, it shall bo added to
•8 most contiguous Senatorial District;
. * •
THE MIRROR
;«igs3v§go ( -a-x.
Tuesday, May *2l, (
for imoteraorj
CHA SSL2:S COICH^RTY.
ANOTHER INDIAN MASSACRE.
Capt. Brown of the Steamer Irwinton,
which arrived at this place on Wednesday
last, brings the distressing information that
lie and his crew on Sunday 12th itist. buried
one woman and 5 children who had been
murdered by the Indians on Friday and Sat
iml iv nights previous, the lady and 4 ofthe
children were buried at bluff and the
bov at Slid inulgn bluff, u :e Appa'achicola
River. One man escaped from eai h place
who state that the number of Indians at
each numbered from 20 to 30; one of
the men escaped with but liitle injury, the
other was shot tlrtough the body in two
places. Capt. B. states that lie carried
the wounded man to Apalachico'a Lay,
and is certain that by this time he
most he dead.
We understand a band of strolling In
dians ate lurking about St. Andrews Bay,
supposed to be of the Creek Nation; these
Indians have as vet done no damage as far
as ran be ascertained ; but unless they are
limited up and rooted out there is no telling
how soon they may commence their work ol
death and devastation.
THE ESSENCE OF WORTHLESS.
NESS.
In our pap.cr of the 7lii inst. we were com
pelled, in sciVuelenc.e, in notice tile conduct
of that worthless, contemptible and drunken
wretch v.ho has, (to the great injury of the
ciiizeus about that place,) charge of the
Boat Uiii-.e iu Lumpkin, called Dr. A. L 5.
l'ope. At the tune we regretted that we
weie compelled to tne discharge ot that du
iv, as we uuve .d‘* ays looked upon the leliow
with io.iiiiin.; an it disgust. And we ate sure
it hu ni.isier at Wasuiugiou were lo get a
. isc nl iws countenance, he would dis
miss i, int iiiuucoi.iioiy I rum an oiiicu which
b's 100...5, a. aeli as sns conduct disgrace.
in tire last I uiuiiibji fSeutruul, this worth
less wretch has attempted a reply to oui
c, large, and endeavored (o prove that we hate
ucd, because we stated taut our paper was
malice! regularly lion; l us place every Tues
day evening, by shotting tnat it had becu re
ceived tiieiH stiice wo cornu.cuccd its pub
ii- arioiiA. dt.iereut tums. \v r e Lnu>. ilia;
wo have Hot mailed our paper every Tues
uty trout our neither did
we wish any one to believe so, for two very
goad iea»um; one that we have not publish
ed altogether oil Tuesday, and the other,
that there was no mail running from
this place to Lumpkin on that day. lie
also proves that we scut our papers out by
private conveyance frequently, ami that tire
[ ackagc.s have been loft there once with
tl,c envelopes off’. Which is also the lact
provided the pink of coutempiibility had pu,
the proper coloring upon it, which is as lid
lows; when we published on Thursday or
Fridav, and there was no mail to Lumpkin
until Monday, v, e not unfrequently, for tin
accommodation ol our subscribers, sent tln ir
papers by a li iem-V, aud on sever.fl occasious
we have carried them ourselves, when they
would then be delivered with the envelope.-
off’; but while the mail lias been running 011
Tuesday, and wchavc published on that day,
we have mailed our papers regularly, and if
they h.tvenoi been received by oursnbscii
hets, vve say again, it is the fault ofthe Lost
Master at Unit pi *ce.
As to the ma lagement of the Post Office
in Lumpkin, we of course, know notinng_
only w hat our triends inform us, and the lik,
which this trilling puppy is so fond of using,
rests between liiro and those, who (or res
peccability and honesty, stand as far superi
or to him as truth is to fatsehoi and. Since
the publication of Ihe Mirror vve have, as
vve stated before, heard many complaints ot
the mantlet the Post Ofilc*' in Lumpkin is
conducted, and these complaints are not con
lined to the State Rights party alone, we
have heard them from those who belong to
the party that has been disgraced by having
so vile and contemptible a wretch in its
ranks.
This fellow says, were lie to suppress any
paper at all, it would be one that was capa
ble of doing more injury than the Mirror.—
Now vve fiever expected to have the good
will or the good opinion of this contempt!
ble lump of nothingness and God forbid w e
ever should, therefore his impertiuence and
si mg excite more our visible (acuities, than
they do our anger or hatred. W e cannot
find it in onr hearts to become insulted at
any thing emanating from so low and con
temptible a source, and will-ilisitiis the sub
ject by publishing the following certificates,
after apologizing to our subscribers, for oc
cupying so much ol our paper with this iii
thy fellow, when, in reality the most proper
way to handle such a mass of filth would be
with a couple of chips.
The first is an extract from a letter vve re
ceived last summer, the object of which will
be perceived upon the perusal of it. I lie
otiiers will also speak for t!u*nselves.
“Lumpkin, SOih July, 1«?38.
•‘Enclosed I send you a letter t« the office
of the Enquirer which 1 wish you to mail.
The letter is ordering my paper to that
[Florence] office from Columbus; which 1
wish you to take from the office and send
me by private hands, together with yourp.r
--()• r. as i am determined lo do no more paper
busiuess through the office at this place, be
cause 1 can m-vur get my paper ns a man
ought to do; and SIIOIIIJ be glad if tire of
liee here eannui be better managed that 11
could be discon'iuued.
“ V our attention iu the above will confer
a favor on yours, rcspectfullv,
-M. GRESHAM.
Fi.nKK.NCK, May 16, 1839.
Gentlemen: At your request, I certify lliat
I liave acted as assistant Lost Master at tin.-*
place for -1111 ic time, and liave been intimate
ly acquainted with its management ever
since the establishment of tire Mirror and
tor s niietinie previous, and can testify that
you have been very particular to have your
papers sent to Lumpkin regularly, and have
always manifested a considerable degree ol
interest to have them mailed at the proper
time. 1 do fuithe: certify that they have
not been sent out by private conveyance hut
once this year, and that was last Tuesday
"hen tlie mail day was changed ; but on the
contrary have been put in the mail bag reg
ularly every Tuesday evening as stated by
you in your paper of the 7th ; I can further
siate that I have frequently beard your sub
scribers complain «l the bad management ol
(lit Post Office in Lumpkin, and that they
did uot receive their papers regularly.
JOHN P. HARVLV, U P. M.
In the absence of the acting Lost Master,
I t.ikegreat pleasure in certifying lo the'or
rectuess of the above.
THUS. D. HARV HY, Ass't.
Lumpkin, Ga. May 1 8, ’839.
Having given Dr. Lope a certificate testi
tying that I' e “Mirror” was very irregular
m its arrival at the Post Office in this place,
while I was in the office, I will state that the
reason why they were irregular was, because
there was no mail from Florence to this
place at a tim- to suit the publication of the
paper, and the Editors then, for the accom
modation of their subscribers, sent their pa
pers out by private conveyance, sometimes
on one day ami sometimes on'another; where
if they had not done so, their papers would
have been a week old before they could have
arrived by the regular mail, and when thus
sent were in as good a curdition as if they
had come by the mail. P. D. HILL.
I do hereby certify that, from some cause
or other, I cannot get my paper from Flor
ence, which is sent to the Lumpkin Post
Office, oftener than once in three weeks ; al
though it is applied for every week.
JOSEPH GLENN.
Stewart co. May 18, 1339.
This is to certify that I liave, on several
occasions experienced consult! able difficulty
in receiving the Georgia Mirror, directed to
mv addres-, and sent to the Lost Office in
Lumpkin—sometimes receiving one number
published a week or two anterior to the la
tesl date receited the tveck before. I do
further certify that on one occasion, during
Ihe past year, if my memory serves me, |
called at ihe Post Office for my paper, and
was told there was none forme, ■ nd on look
'll.; around, saw a paper lying, either 6r, the
count* 1 or liner. I do uo* 'recollect which,
md on picking it Pp found my name upon
(he margin—me paper was was also consid
erably scribbled upon.
THUS. J. GARRETT.
Stewart co. May 18, 1839.
DOINGS OF THE CONVENTION.
We scarcely know iu what terms to ex
press the astonishment and surprise, with
which vve were struck, 011 reading a report
of the proceedings of this body. Anxious
as vve were for Reduction, and willing to ac
cept almost any plan, that scented reason
able nndjust, so that it was but calculated to
effect that object, wo were not prepared for,
nor did our wildest fears suggest the possi
bility of their adopting a scheme, so con
trary to every sense of justice and propriety,
as the one partly adopted by the Conven
tion. In speaking of these things we would
lie mild, vve would forego harsh language,
and permit ourselves to be guided by sober
ness, but in all earnestness, vve must cry out,
"O temporal O Mo res!'
What a spectacle is here presented 10 the
wm!.l ! A Convention purporting to tep
■sent tiie will of an enlightened people,
ai'ed together for no other purpose than to
reduce tne number of our Legislators, and
thus relieve the people of a burden that
hangs ’ike a mountain upon their shoulders,
i -grading itself into a mere political ma
chine, and contrary to every principle of
magnanimity and honor, wielding the power
of a majority, granted them by the unsus
pecting, yet mistaken liberality of their op
ponents, in securing to their own party, the
ascendency in all future legislation, and of
attempting to engiaft into tire constitution
an aitiele, which, would throw the whole
political power of the Siate into the hands
of one third of the population, aud that
third having for its motto, “to the victors
belong the spoils.” It is a spectacle upon
which the honest and patriotic cannot look
without loathing, and deep regret.
At this time, however, we do not care to
give utterance to all the feelings that an
imate us on this subject. We will yet hope
for better things before the Convention
finally adjourns
In our paper of to day, will he found the
report of the committee nl thirty, together
with a number of substitutes offered by dif
ferent 11 :-.nbers; and it will be seen that by
far the most odious and objectionable on e *
that presented by the notorious old Billy
'Springer, was, at the latest date under con
sidetation, and had been partly adopted. By
this scheme the counties arc to be tied up
in such manner as to secure a representation
of Van Buren men from 29 Dictricts out o
the 4 i proposed. Thus, by tacking to
gether the counties of Bibb and Crawford,
they destroy the polities of Bibb, which has
heretofore been a Slate Rights county. By
tacking together the counties of Rtmloht h
and Stewart, the small State Rights major
ity of Stewart, is made to g.ve way to the
large Van Buren majority ol Randolph. By
joining the cottntjes of Morgan and Walton,
a large State Rights in ijority in Morgan is
ma le to yield to a still larger Van Buren
tnarjority in Walton. And so on tl rough the
Cliapier. If this does not exhibit political
jugcling, Wc k now not the meaning of that
term.
From our Correspondent.
Mu.LKOGEVii.LE. Monday, May 1L
i he Convention has been iu Committee
ol tire Whole since Friday last, on the re
port of the Committee of Thirty, which vou
have; a variety of substiluies were oliaied,
and quite an animated discussion took place,
in which Jenkins of Richmond, Gamble of
Jefferson, Wayne of Chatham, Berrien o t
Chatham, and Jones participated. Gamble,
\\ aynea >d Berrien couteuded that the Con
vention should, as near as practicable, follow
out the arrangement recommended by the
Legislature. Judge Wayne earned the ob
ligation further than the rest of the genii
men on that side of the question, by argu
ing that he considered the Convention bourn
by the oath they had taken, at least, he.
hi.uself, felt houiid, to carry out tliv enact
ment of the Legislature ; Gamble ami Ber
rien o\l_v contended for it as a recommen
dation ol the Legislature, sanctioned by the
people in the election of their delegates.—
Jenkins ami Jones took opposite ground ami
utterly denied the right of the Legislature
to prescribe an oath or restrict the Couven
lion in the exercise of their judgement in
the manner in which reduction and equali
zation were accomplished. These argu
ments were iniended to liave a bearing 011
ihe organization ofthe Senate; one side
wishing to carry out the two county Senato
rial districts, lie other wishing to divide the
Stale into Judicial Senatorial districts, al
lowing about 13,000 federal population to
eacli Senator. What will eventually he the
decision ofthe Convention is hard to tell, the
repott of the committee of thirty, with some
little alteration in classification of the coun
ties lor Senatorial districts, has passed in
committee of the whole. Stewart and Ran
dolph have been linked together; an at
tempt was made by the Stewart delegation
to be united to Sumter, but ihe Sumter del
egation violently opposed it, and called upon
the other side of the House to sustam the
arrangemeut, it being Springer's arrange
ment and supported by a party vote on ilia*
side, and sustained by the Sumter del
egation on our side, it was carried by a large
majority, so that Lee and Sumter are to.
gether, and Stewart and Randolph A ma
jority of the Convention seem determined to
disregard equalization , and reduce with a
much greater inequality than before. To
morrow cotnes the tug of war, Greek wi!)
meet Greek, and great will be the conflict.
If the report of the Committee of 30 should
be carried, 1 hope, for one, that the people 1
will not ratify it. Jonts, Jenkins and Daw- I
son deserve great credit —i’ney liave planted'
themse]vrg on’.he rights of the people; they
contend for 1 lie true Republican doctrine,
that the majority and not the minority should
govern, and the people, whenever it is sub
mitted to them, will sustain it—every thing
so far has been yielded to territory.
PUBLIC MEETING.
Starksvillk, May 11th 1839.
Agreeably to previous notice, the citizens
of Starksville and vicinity, (Lee county,)
met at the Court House. On motion, the
Rev. Wm. W Maund was called to the
chair, and \V r M. R. Mav, to act as Secretary.
The object of the meeting was, in an able
an eloquent manner explained by the Chair.
After a short and eloquent address from the
Rev. Harrison Jones, the following preamble
and resolutions were submitted tind unanim
ously adopted:
Whereas, we, the citizens of this county,
and particularly of this village, feel that we
are, and have been seriously injured by the
practice of gambling, and the vices which
follow iii t's train; -• r:yl that the circumstan
ces with which we arc surrounded, call loud
ly upon us to act in defrnce of ourselves and
the community in which we live; and to use
all lawful means in our [lower to suppress it.
As merchants and citizens, we sustain hea
vy pecuniary loss, from the idleness and dis
sipation it is calculated to produce; v-e ;uc
prevented, to some extent, from collecting
our debts, and, from the vulgar and immoral
conduct of such individuals as usually fol
low such practices, good citizens are pre
vented from coming to our village with their
families to pnrehasegoods ; the price of pro
perty is kept down, for, notwithstanding we
are surrounded with the finest cotton grow
ing country iu the South, and lands bring
high prices, yet. properly in this, is selling
much lower than in the surrom duigji i logos ;
good citizens are prevented from settling a
rtiong us ; we can have neither schools nor
churches, all of which are indispensably ne
cessary to elevate the character,-and render
a village pleasant toils citizens and useful to
the community.
And whereas, we believe the youth of the
country are frequently seduced from a high
minded, honest and industrious course of
conduct, bv a set of sharpers crow ling our
village in lime of Court; and who ..re en
couraged to coive hither by the reception
they meet with from individual* among us,
constituting a group, horning eacli other, as
so many cattle, insti <t ot' making an honest
livelihood, whereby many a piomising youth
is made a nuisance to society, and also, saun
teririff about villages and grog shops, watch
ing an opportunity to take advantage of the
Irunken, innocent and unsuspecting, by
which defenceless females are exposed to the
cast of a die ; are defrauded cf the irilieii
tance of a prudent father; herself and chil
dren reduced to want and wretchedness.
And, whereas, we are fully convinced that
the practice, ami its attendant vices, have,
and always will, lower the character, depress
tlie morals, sow dissemions, encourage fraud,
and produce corruption in any community.
Be it therefore, Resolved, by tliis meeting
composed of citizens of Starksville and its
vicinity, that vve will not gamble ourselves,
and that w*- will suppress the practice as lar
as our influence extend-.
Beit fur'her Resolved, That vve form our
selves into a society, to he called the Starks
vilie Anti-Gambling Society ; that the So
ciety elect a President, Secretary and Trea
surer ; and that tlie said Lresidcut, Secre
tary and Treasurer shall hold their respec
tive offices for one year
Ir shall be the duty of the President to
president all meetings'of ihe society, and to
see that all debate# resolutions and proceed
ings of the society he conducted according
to Parliamentary usage; to call a meeting
of the society whenever he shall be request
eh to do so by five or more of its members,
and, in case of the absence of the President,
the society shall elect a President pro tent.
It shall be the duty ofthe Secretary to
k»ep a book in which shall be entered all pro
ceedings of the society.
It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to
take charge of th« funds ol the society, aud
to pay tin 111 out by older of the society, and
10 keep a fair record of his receipts ami ex
p nd it ores.
It shall be the duty of each member to at
tend ad meet ugs of the soc etv, and use
eveiy lawinl means in his power, to Oetect
aud find out any individual or individuals,
who may be guilty ol the vice of Gambling,
and lo rejiort him together with the proof by
which the fact can be established in a Court
of J ustice.
It shall be the duty of the society to
prosecute all who shall be so reported guilty
of gambling iu this place or its vicinity, and
to raise such tunds as shall or may be oe
> s;ary to meet the expenses of the same.
Be it further resolved, that we pledge our
selves to sustain edch other in carrying out
the objects of lit society and that we solicit
lie aid of our fellow citizens.
Be it further Resolved, that we will use
■ill Lawful means to prevent truiding with
negroes, lo have the statute of the .State fully
enforced on that subject, and also to prevent
keeuiug open doors 011 the Sabbath day.
Resolved, that the society hold tegular
meetings everv two months.
Resolved, that the proceedings of this
meeting together with the re-olutinu* be
signed by the Ciiairmin, and countersigned
by the secretary and published iffthe Gie gia
M' r and Maeon Messei ger.
MTLLI \ M M. MAUN D, Chairman.
\\ illiaj* K. May, Secretary.
From tl e ( o'n mi us Krtqvirer.
THE SOI TIE—PARTIES.
The Hon. Robert Y Ha) ne, in a late
letter, whilst speaking of .the possibility,
of .lie contest lor the next Presidency,
terminating between Chy and Van Bumi,
makes in substance*, the folloing remark:
"In that conflictf says he, • 1 shall take no
pnrl---l trill. I hope, to the r.i tent of my
feeble abilities, be belle r employed in ad
earn ing the true interests if the South, by
the developemcat of her immense resources,
(indlhe fuitheranccofher greut schemes of
Internal lm/ rovemeuf.’
We quote the it mark# cf this great states
man and unspotted patriot, not only to snow
the only true and consistent position ofthe
State Right Party, but to evince that our
own little bark is still iu (nil view of one of the
brightest beacon lights, which shone during
the dark and stormy night of Nullification.
We keep aloof from’ both sections of our
old enemies, disdaining alike the venial
coruprions of the one, and the political
heresies of the oilier ; and at the same time
preserving onr integrity of principle, and
imlcntity nl parly.
It »*■ 11:1 b-istnnd correctly the State
Right doctrines, anil the character of tHe
men who first promulgated them, we are
safe in saving tiny never originated in base
and selfish purposes-; nor were they em
braced as ladders, by which to scale the
highest office, and plunder the public Treas
ury. They were in thehandsof virtuous
men, trite patriots, who were alarmed at
encroachments of E„. Cui’ivc power, and
me centralising tendencies of the genera!
government. Their adherents have been
the objects of the most nnremitted persecu
lion —have mote th in once suffered politi
cal martyrdom, at ti.e decrees of both the
factions vv ho are now courting an alliance,
and bulling I' or their influence. Shall the**
things occur ! We have fought long and
well, we arc in the ascendancy, and have
it in our power to preserve our name and
character unpolluted. Are vve in the sham
bles? Shall we barter away our independence.
Shall we forsake all principle and embrace
a contemptible '* choice of etuis," at tli is, the
very moment of triumph? Would it not
be well for those, who are striving to promote
discord and division, to reflect upon the
position of this great and wise politician ?
Do Southern interests require them to rush
thus headlong into a profitless aud unpat
riotic contest ? We say no : The experi
euce ofthe past and the prospects of ttu
future answer no! Is it not plain that the
South must look more to her State Institu
tions than to the (Jeii'-ral Government ? She
has depended too much upon political
movetnet#, and the trade of President
'unking in days past, and too little upon her
own resources, her own energies, her own
industry and wisdom. She has attributed
perhaps to the General Government conse
quence#, the causes of which, were to be
found in her own inertness. It is therefore
important that she should turn her attention
upon herself. A season of respite from
political strife and pollution would tend to
purify the morals and chasten the feelings
*if her citizens. It would extend inforniatoti,
fosterenterprise, and lead to the great results
couteinpla’ed in the remarks of Mr. IJayne.
lb the mean time let those who choose lo
laku part with our oppressors in sustaining
the odious lnf.-stirrs ofthe Tariff, tlie Batik,
or the Force Bill, reap the lewnrdg of tl.eir
base • liiance. Let them as ocirnte them
selves with Van Buren and his corruptions,
with Clay and his Bank, or with Benton
and his newly proposed abolition of the
compromise act, and his re establishment
of an oppressive Tariff", and they will
precipitate the crisis to which wc are looking
fovvard. ’I he -kies already darkening, the
storm will soon break. < lur domestic rela
tions have been unwisely aud wickedly con
nected with political destinies. The treache
ry and iuriiicrrity of these party aspirants
will be unmasked, the first breath of popular
favor which would lead to new combinations
for plunder and for place. Is it not impor
tant then, that vve should piepare ourselves
for the eftastrophe? StiouM it fail to fall
u[h>ii us, we will not be injured by too
much preparation; but if it should find u
unprepared our fate may be sealed forever.
We assert, that nothing but base and cor
rupted seif interest, now iudentifies a portion
of the North with us. Let the North
West only increase, until she can over bal
ance us in the scale of political influence,
and we will be spurned by our present mas
ter. Nay, we have indications of this result
already, in the bold and impudent proposi
tion of Mr. Benton, to renew the Tariff'.
The lure is intended to * .’ch the North
Western, interest, whilst Mr. Van Buren
himself is catering for tlie South. Shall
wc consent to 1.-e thus used fur our own des
truction? Shall we therefore, as Southern
men, wedded to our own pe u liar institution
|Aolessing the only true Republican creed
in politics, sell our birth right to either of
the present aspirants, far the first office, in
the land ? Would it not he better to re
tire wiih Mr. liayne from the ct nAmt
and help ourselves first knowing that Her
cules will then he more lilely to extend Lis
powerful arie in our behalf.
From the Auvusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
“Money, the sweet aflurtr of our hopes.
Ebbs out by oceans, and conies in by drops.
Wc are not sufficiently acquainted with
the history ofthe hard upon whom we have
drawn for the above couplet, to decide the
question whether or uot he ever was con
nected with a newspaper office, but one
tiring experience has taught us, and that is
that there is uo business of life to which the
sentiment is more applicable. The debts
due to a printing office are all small and
generally scattered over a large extent of
country, rendering it aturosl iinpossiole lor
tne proprietor to urge pctsuLui.y upon uis
pairoos, tuetr prompt ..mi punctual f,<.)uieM.
indeed they may be emphatically called
debts *>l honor, tor ui nine cases out 01 <eu
the prosecution o. a suit at igv 101 itleir re
cove. y, iiuuiu cost motc man lue ueo* us
ed, in 11. e waste oi iiuk, iiouoie aim expense,
ii a distant suoscuocr slops our pa, er
without paying ms arrearages, me most w<*
cun do is to write him a icllei enclosing uw
account, and Ihetj attend upon tiis honor
lor me payment. 1 uere is no man in our
tree country, where industry is uot only un
lettered by taxes, out where it can always
command houurabio employment, who can
not pay at some | eriod ol the year, the
small amount of a subscription to a ue«s
paper. And yet how dittereut is our txpes
rieuceas to the facts flow litany hundreds
are theie, who with ample means, will take
a newspaper lor years and then move away
to some distant section or Slate, and not
pay up for it. but U<>l even uotny the pro
prietor ol' tiieir intention to r< move, and
leave lo the Postmaster, the unplesaiit task
of notifying him that the paper is not taken
from the »Jjice and that the subscriber bail
left the country. Iu some instances it is
the result ot forgetfulness, and we who lose
our labor thus, are apt to feel that it is crim
mal t'oigetfuloess. In other eases it is the
result of dishonesty; the subscriber feeling
that the distance between himseli anil their
publisher is a safeguard against lieinir har
assed by duns, in person o» coerced by iavv
hardens his heart against ihe stings ol con
science, and the demands ol honor and right.
There are itch ed some, who appear to think
they router a great favor upon at* editor by
subscribing tor Ins paper; never think of pay
ing, become offended when vve employ an
Agent at great expense to go to their boo
ses to collect that which should have been
paid at our office, and pet haps dismiss burr
at last without pay, and with a curse upon
his bead and half a dozen upon ours. Ma
ny act thus, without proper reflection upon
the nature of onr rights and their own just
and honest obligations.
To our distant subscriber# and advertis
ing patrons we nay once for all, vve de; end
upon your honor to say its —we never ex
pert lo resort to the courts of justice to en
force our small demands. While thus re
ennntiiio, however, our troub’es :>nd hopes,
vve feel itto be a duty incumbent upon us
to say that we have very many patrons who
honorably and regularly pay up their sub
'i.riptious once every year without failute r
and with many expressions of satisfaction
for the ample benefits they receive from our
labors. If all would be made agreeable
and ourtime, by being unoccupied in rim
ing and sending after those who fail to fol
low that good example, would be wholly
devoted to tlie improvement of our paper
for the bcuefit ol all. Otir expenses arg ve
ry bf. aV y antl must be paid in cash,—bat
how can vve meet tlum if those upon whom
we depend, disappoint ns? The money
we pay for paper and rent and w ages comif’s
up by the hundred and the thousand, while
our claims upon our patrons count up by
three-, and tens—the former in the expres
sive language ofthe poet, “ebbs out by o
ceans,” while the latter “comes in hydrops.*
We have written these remarks with a
view of impressing upon our debtots the
justice and necessity of paying for thei- pa
pers and advertisements and that quickly
and punctually. If they do not know the
amount due, let them send something—as
near the amount as they fan conjecture—
but send something. If they send more
than is due, it will be placed to their cred
it, and those who are long in arrear should
feel no reluctance in paying up all that is
Jne and something in advance.
JKeligioun dVolire.
The Rev. T. Fowler, of the Methodisf
Protestant denomination, w ill preach in this
place oil Friday, 7th June next, at candle
light.
LAM) FOR SALE.
TIIK Subscriber would sell the follows
ing Lots of Laud low lor cash:
No 58, lfitli dist. of Dooly.
No. 229 do. do.
No. 2. 15th di*=r. of Early.
No. 511, 7th (list, of Jruin.
No. 408, 28th dist. of Early.
No. 130, 1 mli dist. of Dooly.
Apply to tile •Subscribd in Monroe cour*
tv (la. JOHN PITMAN.
May 15. 1839 6 3t
("GEORGIA, Sumter Comity.—Agreea-
JT bio to an order of the Honorable ln
•crior Court of Sumter county when sifting
or ordinary purposes, will be sold on the
first Tuesday in August next, before the
Court House door in Americus,Sumter
county, a tract of Land, known as Lot No.
220 in the 30th District of formerly Lee
now ,Sumter county, containing 2024 acres.
Sold for the benefit of John Mathews minor
and John Mathews idiot. Terms on the
day of sale.
MOSES MATHEWS, Guardian.
Americus, May 10. It-‘<9 0
rpHK Snbsc iber will attend to the collec
■ tion ol all debts (iu i the lata firm of
Gardner A: Barrow, up 'o April, 1839.
Persons indebted to said firm will please
make payment immediately
April 30 H H RARFOVV
I7AOI R Months after date application
will be trade to the Honorable th«
Justices of ti e Inferior Court of Stewart
county, when sitting for ordinary purposes,,
for leave to sell the land belonging to the
estate of Albert I!. Shepherd, deceased-
JAMES M SMYTH, Adm'r.
ANN E. SHEI HERD, Adt’Tx
Msv 14 1839 5 4 m
FAOUR Months aftei date application wil
be made to the honorable Inferior-
Court ofSumter county when sitting for or
dinary purposes, for leave to sell the real es
tate of Uriah Fuller deceased.
WALTON W. FULLER, Adm’r.
Marc.hf, 1 49 4m
FA OUR MONTHS afterdate application
will be made to the honorable the in
ferior court of Sumtercounty, when sitting
for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell a part
of the real estate of Edmund Jones, minor
of Wiley Jones, deceased.
WINNEY JONES, Guardian.
Feb. 4,1839. 45
R MONTHS after date application
. will be made to tne Honorable Inferior
Court of the. county of Sumter while set
ting--for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell
lot number fifty in the twenty eighth dis
trict, of formerly Lee no v Sumter county to
be sold as the property of Willis Jernigahjde
teased, for the benefit ot the heirs and cred
itors of said deceased.
BRYANT JERNIGAN, AtW*
yyiprtf Hi F»*h. 1 45 4 ITT
Iliauk Deeds,
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICR.