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Jciiic 15i I iSAD*
For Governor ,
CiURLKS DOUGHERTY.
We had the pleasure on Thursday last, of
•.ttendin" the Examination of the pupils of
the Female Academy, in this place, under
the management of Miss Margaret Ilarvey
3 a l Mrs. Ann Taylor. We have, however,
only room and time to say, that the pnpi's
acquitted themselves handsomely, much to
the honor and credit of themselves and those
wl„* have had the management of the insti
tution*
In publishing, in our last paper, the pro
cea lings of the meeting held for tile pur
pose of making arrangements for celebra
ting the 4th of July, the name of John D.
Pitts Esq. was inadvertently left out of the
committee of arrangements.
A MURDERER.
(lov. Gilmer has issued his Proclamation
offering <t reward of Two Hundred dollars
for the apprehension of John Roy who co n
mitted an atrocious murder upon the body
of Ja nes J. Dooly, iu Columbia couuty, on
the 19th ult.
An additional reward of Three Hundred
dollars is also offered by Judge Dooly the
t über of the deceased, for the delivery of
the murderer to the Jailor of Columbia
county.
Ray is about five feet, ten inches high,
stout built and square shoulders, weighs
about 150 or 160 pounds, light hair, and
heavy eyebrows which are of lighter color
than his hair ; lie has lost the first joint of
one of his fiugeis, has a considerable scar
on tile crown of his head, ruddy complex
ion, and full large eyes ; about 25 years
of age and of rather ordinary appearance.
THE FLORIDA WAR AGAIN.
As might have been expected, Gen. Ma
comb's cowardly treaty with the Seininolcs,
seems to be utterly and sregarded, by those
untamable and merciless beings. No soon
er was it proclaimed throughout the coun
try, that the war was ended, and that fami
lies who have long been banished f.om their
i. 'sol ited homes, might rerun in peace and
safety, than tiie murderous tomahawk is
again raised, and innocent blood again made
to flow like water upon the ground.
Denying as we do, the propriety of treat
ing with these Indians at all, utterly insen
sible as they have often showed themselves
tj be, of the obligations of a National con
tract, and who have long '.go exposed their
faithlessness in matters of this sort, we are
no! surprised that they should take advan
tige of the fancied security, in which Gen.
Macomb’s Proclamation, was calculated to
throw the inhabitants of the Territory, and
continue their hortid butcheries in violation
of any Treaty that can be made with them.
Devoid of the least principle of honor
or magnanimity, and worshipping cruelty,
deception, and cunning as tlieir only vir
tues, how could it be expected that the
Seminole Indians would conform to, or
•bide by stipulations, which curtinl the ex I
tent of tlieir roaming grounds, deprive them
0! the gratification of rioting i:i human
flood, and restrain, the predominant pro
pensity of tlieir nature, the disposition to pil
lage and murder? Hardened and used to
war, and accustomed to meeting with but
tew obstacles in the accomplishment of thtiir I
bloody purposes, how could it be presun-pj
that they would relinquish their spo” a ,j on .
I' ,hC 1 r y e *' cf,hc r 'Ove-..ncm'‘of th»
‘".ted States, (even t> j 0 ~ lh , la( ,
. ' .11 that promise,) when
tor four year*- ,> , ~ . ,
j • J V.iey have effectually resisted
'* e military pow er of that Govern
lr“ nt • Acting under a boast, that they
Vl ould war with the whites “until their bones
Were strewed upon the soil where their
tnther3 were buried,” and having succeeded
in desolating every portion of the country
where the whites had effected a settlement,
and feasted and battened upon the plunder
theyhad seizeJ.hovv could it be imagined that
t!i«y would retire from the contest so long
asthe same causes are in existence tl>at.im
pelled them to it, simply because Mr Van
Buren and his cabinet have acknowledged
them conquerors of the land?
We say again, that we cannot look upon
this affair of the treaty in any other light,
than as a foolish, shameful, aud disgraceful
piece of business, performed in wanton dis
regard of the rights and feelings of the ag
grieved, insulted, and injurcdjnl.abitants of
Florida; and we hope for the honor of the
land, that it may meet with the scorn aud
disapprobation of every good citizrn of the
United States.
The Van Buren party, to use a common
place expression, ‘‘measureevery one's cu;n
by their own half-bushel.” So accustomed
are they to do things indirectly, that they
know they never could accomplish directly,
they affect to believe that the State Rights
party act in the same manner, particularly in
ielation to the next Presidential election,
and assert, with unblushing effrontery, that
the State Rights party are oot sincere id
their opposition to Mr. Clay, but are endear
ing to secure his election by advocating
the claims of a Southern candidate, and, in
i very disengenuous manner, attempt to
nake the people believe that we are coin
u« lied either to be Van Buren or Clay men,
lecanse they a r e the only candidates before
the people who stand any chance of success.
Admit that the one or the other will suc
ceed, we woul I respectfully ask every candid
man if any paity is compelled to advocate
the claims of either, because there is nopos
sibiliry for the success of the mau of theii
choice? Would it be consistent with lh<
Republican principles of o.;r country, tli<t
two individuals should be brought before the
people for the highest office within the : r gili.
who were highly obnoxious to a portion o>
them, that they should be compelled to sup
port one or the other, because one of them
would be most likely to succeed ? We think
not; but if so, ihen are the boasted liberties
of our country as a ‘‘sounding brass and a
tinkling symbol.” We have often said, and
again repeat, that between Martin Van Bu
ren and Henry Clay the State Rights party
should have no choice. They advocate prin
ciples as entirely different from those of the
Mate Rights party as day light and darkness,
and as widely separated as’the East is from
the West.
A great deal is said of Van Buren being a
“Northern man with Southern principles!”
in fact, tins is the constant and incessant cry
of the Van Buren press; but we should like
to hear of the first or the last Southern prin
ciple advocated by this celebrated go be
tween politician. When or where has he
ever put forth his arm before or since he has
disgraced the Presidential Chair, in defence
of Southern principles? Without taking
time to repeat his many sins and transgres
sions committed before his election, and
which ol themselves, should be sufficient to
damn him in the estimation of every South
ern patriot, we would ask if it was support
ing “Southern principles” in endeavoring to
fulfil his promise to “follow »n the footsteps
of his illustrious predecessor, to accomplish
the work so gloriously begun” by that great
hero of tyranny ? No; it could not be, b“-
cause this remark was made in direct refer
ence to the dangerous and destructive mea
sures pursued by Gen. Jackson to put down
Southern rights and Southern principles.—
Were his “Southern principles” made mani
fest, when he assured the Cherokee Indians
that, if they desired it, they might remain
two years longer upon the soil of Georgia,
after the limitation in the treaty had expired
and the time had arrived for them to remove
to the west? That could not have been a
Southern measure, for, so far as Georgia was
concerned, she felt a deep interest iu their
removal, and had Congress carried out his
recommendation, and the Indians accepted
of the anangement, ten thousand sword*
would have leaped from their scabbards and,
in defiance of his “Southern principles,” the
law would have been nullified, the Indians
driven from our soil, and Van Buren receiv
ed the condemnation of every true Georgi
an. Is it a Southern measure to acknowl
edge the United States conquered by a band
of Seminole Indians, and forthc purpose of
securing peace cede a portion of the terti
tory to them, and jeopardize the lives of a
portion of our Southern people, and place,
at the same time, the militia of the United
States to protect the ruthless «avage from
the vengeance of the widowered husband
and the childless father? No. Heaven for
bid that such a measure should be claimed
as Southern. There is yet too much chival
ry in the South to recognize or give coun
tenance to such a measure, and the held and
daring Call, together with those who flock
to liis standard, will show to this imbecile
President, this “Northern man with S'utk- i
cm!! principles,” that his c* urt s to secure I
l peace in tUk- territory of Floiida, will be as
unavailing ns they are disgraceful ar,d con
temptible. Such “Southern principles will
never receive any quarter from true Southern
men, and we arc when the matter
conies before Southern people, they will
support *Vseir principles in the rejection of
| 'b.a man, whose conduct gives a direct con
tiadietion to the assertion of his friends that
he is a "Northern man with Southern prin
ciples,*' _
With Mr. Clay we agree fully, in only
one particular, that is, opposition to Mr.
Van Buren, and which alone constitutes the
difference between him and the Van Buren
party, To the leading political tenets of
this gentlemen’s faith we can render no sup
port ; but must acknowledge ourselves un
compromising opponents to his principles
and doctrines. It is unnecessary to enu
merate them—they have been repeated over
and over again, and those who have perused
the columns of the Mirror know very well
what are our objections to him, and that,
holding these objections, we cannot yield
him any support and be consistent with the
principles xve advocate.
We then, entertaining th se opinions, are
loud in favor of a Southern ccndtda'e, and
believe this feeling is prevalent with a large
majority of the Southern people, at least
with those who have the interest of their
country more at heart, than the success of
a corrupt and designing politician. We
have hitherto been too indiffereut in relation
to this matter; we have stood silently by
and seen our rights trodden under foot by
those wlu claim to be brethren ; and listen
ed to their commands with such abject sub
mission, until they conceive they have an
undoubted light to dictate to us in every pat
ticular, and that we are implicitly bound to
obey; It is therefore, high time that we had
aroused from tins lethargy and supineness
that seem to have tqken h ild of us, and
proclaim our rights as freemen, and maintain
them as become the descendants of the pa
triot!} and sages of’76; and though we may
not be able to elect the man of choice, let us
be found doing our duty, and then if "Rome
fulls , we (ire innocent,”
VAN BUREN AND ABOLITIONISM
We beg ’eave to direct the attention of our
readers to the communication of our cor
respondent “ Gcorgianus The circum
stances thil have called forth this commu
nication are, indeed, of a startling and im
portant character, and the people should
consider well how far Mr. Van Bureu’s
Southern principles -O, before they sup|iort
him as a man of Southern feelings. If Mr.
Leggett was an Abolitionist, and none dare
gain say it, with what indignation and con
■ empt should the people of the South view
Martin Van Buren; and how revolting
diould it be to the feelings of every South
rn man to indulge the idea of yielding him
his support ?
Let the people remember that this man
Leggett, who was appointed by Van Buren
i< his confidential ageut to a foreign gov
ernment, advocated doctrines at variance
with the bes* in.erest of the Sou’ll, which
would have subjected him to the most igno
minious punishment had he promulged
them within the limits of Georgia, nor could
thenaineof Van Buren been any protection
to him underany circumstances. Yet there
are men who claim an identity of feeling
and interest with the South, yea, even claim
the South as the place of their nativity, who,
notwithstanding these facts, are using all
their influence and bending all their energies
tc secure the re-election of Van Buren, and
unblushingly tell us that he advocates Sou
thern principles and Southern interests.
We have always heard, from childhood,
ti.at Van Buren was a shrewd, cunning and
designing man, calculated to deceive the
people aud win their affections by the magic
of his ways; but we never could have be
lieved, did we not see fir ourselves, that any
portion of the people of the South could be
so badly deceived as some appear to be in
reference to this man. Van Buren,
has found it no difficult matter it ap
pears, to dupe Southern people—all that he
deemed necessary, was to make a few vague
and indefinite promises, from which some
favorable deductions might be drawn, and
his object was accomplished ; he then, has
felt p**rfeetly safe in retaining all his former
pernicious and dangerous doctrines; to ad
vocate Tree Negro suffrage ; violate South
ern treaties; ackt-ou ledge the United States
whipped, and send an agent t<> sue for peace >
and appoint an open and avowed Abolition"
i»t as liis confidential ambassador to a for
eign government, and yet receives the vote
of a large portion of the South! But read
the communication of our correspondent,
and then ponder well the position Mr. Van
Buren sustains hi tore the countiy, and
act as your principles, feelings aud interest
dictate.
FOR THE GEORGIA MIRROR.
ABOLITIONISM.
The appointment of Wm. Leogett, Esq.
(a confirmed Abolitionist,) to be the confi
dential Agent trom this Government to the
Republic of Central America, is not only
an outrage upon the character of the South,
but a direct insult to rlie very Constitution
which Mr. Van Buren lias solemnly sworn
to “PRESERVE, PROTECT and DEFEND.” Who
now, of our political adversaries are so fool
hardy and reckless as to deny that he, the
Chief Magistrate of these United States, is
not ardently and attached to the
Abolition conspirators—to ’hose incendiaries
and fanatics who are striving to rob us of
our chartered rights, and involve the South
in all the horrors of a servile war? is the
confidential embassy of Mr. Legsett inten
ded to concentrate the action of foreign and
domestic Abolitionists, for the purpose of
enabling them to wage a more successful
war upon our immunities? Let the people
of Georgia put the question to themselves,
and then recollect that Mr. Van Buren is a
Missouri Restrictionist and »» -•'- vocate f or j
\ZZ ..egro suffrage, and they will not hesi
tate to answer the interrogatory in the affir
mative,
l have been led to there remarks by an ar
ticle upon the same subject, which lately ap
peared in the New York Courier and Enqui
rer. Publish rhat article—and let every man
who is a friend to the South, seriously read
aud deeply ponder upou it—and then, with a
“conscience void of offence before God and
man,” support, if h« dare, the hollow pre
tensions of Martin Van Buren. Welland
truly do the editors of the Courier and En
quirer caution us in saying, that they hope
we “will learn from this ‘confidential’ em
ployment of an ardent Abolitionist, to place
a due estimate on the Anti Abolition profes
sions of Mr. Van Buren, and to understand
that while he courts the slaveholding inter
est at the South, he courts with equal assi
duity, Abolition at the North.”
GEORGIANUS.
P. S.—-Since writing the above, I per
ceive that the death of Mr Leggett has been
announced in the New York papers. He
expired at his residence at New Rochelle,
on Wednesday, the 29th ultimo. “Requi
tscatinpace. His unexpected demise start
led me. At this peculiar juncture of our
affairs it seems to be a signal interposition of
the protecting hand of a particular and over
ruling Providence. G.
FOR TUF. MIRROR.
SEMI NOL E 1N DEM N l TIES.
Messrs. Editors—According to the laws
of nations, when one people invade the Ter
itory of another,, it is customary that the
conquered party in treating for peace,should
submit to the terms proposed by the eon
querers, on w hich a peace shall be estab
lished. In the late desperate struggle for
ascendenc” between the American and Sem
inole nations, the former, it would seem has
acknowledged herself genteelly thrashed;
this inference is presumable from the fact
that the United States Government have
sued for peace, and have entered into a
ticaiy with the Semiuoles, by which a cer
tain portion of Territory has been assigned
to them by the treating party as a condition
for the cessation of hostilities. As lam not
well apprised of what other concessions the
conquering party may have dictated, I do
uot assert it positively, but it is reasonable
at least, that they may have required in
demnities lor depredations on their property,
I deem it presumable from the fact that the
United States, having beep out eeneraled m
war, were also out-witted in the treaty of
peace. Well Sirs, if so where is the money
to come from? The old Tennessee Liori,
you know, laid his paw upon the public
purse and scattered it to the four winds of
Heaven—the little reinnaut of its resources
by collections for revenue has been abstrac
ted (as Mr. Van Buren very politely terms
it) by Sub-Treasurers iu corrupting the
Elective Franchise and in the support of
mercenary pirtizut presses; or Swart
wovted in public lands or sun ptuous ban
quets iu Europe! iti short. Sirs, the United
Slates Treaiury is bankrupt. How theu
can the indemnity be paid ? If our coun
try’s national honour has been bartered away
by a pusillanimous Administration, lei usas
Americans, not complete her disgrace by
the forfeiture of her Natioual Integrity!
To obviate this dilemma 1 propose the fol
lowing plan:
Let each State as an integral part of the
Union, contribute its proporiiuiiate part of
the amount requisite to indemnity the Senii
nolcs. As to the quota however which
Georgia would be bound to raise, there
might seem to be an impossibility to arise—
iu money nutters, she is not only poor but
beggarly. The iiusrulers in her Councils
for the last teven years of darkness . have so
squandered her resources that she lias
barely inonoy or credit enough leit to buy s
dram to soothe ihe it collection of her past
follies—ins.ance, 820,000 sunk in the Chat
tahoochee, which has created almost the like
amount of impediments in its navigation—
thousands upon thousands iu other ruinous
experiment attended with the s mie success,
till finally sirs, the tuckenaua is sucks chet
Tile Ccntrjl Bank says “can’t accommodate
you sir.” Tne Treasurer says “callagi.iu
to-morrow”—but all this dont “raise ihe
wind”—and Uncle Sam bristles tip aud says,
•‘ifyoudont pay up, I’ll sell you off,” which,
you know, he would have a right to do ac
cording to the doctrine once advanced by a
certain distinguished member of a certain
party in Georgia! So i( it conn's to this, 1
propose to relinquish to the United Elates
in payment of Georgia’s «ontribution, cer
tain tracts of country, known as the wire
grass districts, and distinguished as the
counties of Appling, Irwin, Wayne and
Ware, together with all the undiscovered
region (be it more or less) within the limits
the last mentioned county, commonly cal
led Okefenokee, with a quit claim title for
ever to the aforesaid premises, and to all
and singular its aboriginal inhabitants, in
cluding stock of every species, such as
suakes, toads, gophers, snapping-turtles,
alligators, Ac. Ac. Should there still be a
deficiency in the quota, 1 further propose
to convey io North Caroliua the couuty of
Rabun, and to Tennessee and Alabama the
counties of Gilmer, Dade, Murray and
Chattooga. This plan, sirs, proposes a
two-fold advantage ; first to pay off-a debt
with little inconvenience; secondly to rid
the State from veuy unprofitable property.
By an official exhibit of the taxable return
from these counties, it appears that they
pay into the State Treasury an amount
barely sufficient to defray half the expenses
of their Senators aud Representatives. In
stead of unprofitable, 1 should rather have
said burdensome to the State ! 'The nine
counties in question pay into the State
Treasury, the aggregate and enormous
amount of .$818,62, whilst the two coun
ties of Chatham and Effingham return an
aggregate tax of $10,8224, consequently the
relative political influence which these
counties hear to each other, will be this:
whilst the taxation of the two counties of
Chatham and Effiughain in reference to the
nine counties in question is as 13 to 1, their
political power is as 1 to 4 ! yet accoidiug
to the political economy of the Great-Wes
tern, the people ars taught to believe that it
is equalization! France once boasted ol
her Neckar. England of her Pitt— let Geor
gia raize an imperishable monument to the
transcendent genius of her Great Western !
Mr. Editor what think you of my plan ?
STEWART.
The following letter from the Hon.
Charles Daugherty signifying his accep
tance of the nomination tendered by the
late Convention, places him fairly before
the public as a candidate for the office of
Governor; for which letter we are indebted
to the Athens Whig of the 31st ult.—Of
the claims of Judge D. to the office tender
ed him we shall not now speak. Paving be
fore expressed the opinion that his nomina
tion could not be otherwise than acceptable
to the party generally. At a proper time
these claims will be pressed upon the con
sideration of the public,
.j# Augusta Sentinel.
Athens, May 30th, 1839.
Gentlemen ;—1 have received your com
munication, iuformiug tue of mv nouiiu*-
tion hy the State Rights party, asthejr can
didate''for Governor, at the election in Oc
tober next, and requesting my acceptance
thereof.
1 hereby tender my acknowledgements to
the party, for this renewed * expression of
their confidence, and in accepting their
nomination remark, that it is done, to grat
ify no selfish feeling, but alone in conform
ity to their.wishes, and from a sincere de
sire, to advance and suslaiu, as far as I may
be able, those principles, on which in iny
humble opinion, depend the preservation,
in their purity, of the political institutions
of our State and country.
Please accept for yourselves, assurances
of my respect and esteem,
C. DOUGHERTY.
Indians. —The St. Augustine Herald
of the 18th inst. says; ”A few days since
three Georgia volunteers passing along an
old trail about nine miles from Black Creek
were fired upon by Indians, probably out
hunting. And old man named Beazely was
killed and another man wounded, Gen.
Macomb’s armistice appears to be all on one
side, for this is the fourth murder that has
occurred in that quarter, since orders wen
given that the Indians should not oe moles
ted.
“Gen. Macomb’s plans are probably bet
ter known to himself, than to publie turnout
for we cannot believe that the insane pro
ject of permitting the Indians to remain in
any party jof Florida, is entertained in any
quarter The settlers of the interior who for
four years have seen wives and families
weekly murdered, will shoot any Indians
prowling about whatever may be the terms
of treaty ; and then innocent families will
again be massacred at Indian river to aver
age injuries sustained on the Wkhlacoohie.
After one Indian isslio' (and many would
be) every family from Chattahoochee to
Cape Florida would be in peril.”
From the National Intelligencer.
FROM MEXICO.
The correspondent of “the Louisianian,”
under date of May 11, states that the re
cent defeat of the Federalists in the vicini
ty of Puebla is a mortal blow to their par
ty. “Santa An a,” he s iys, -‘has become
‘the idol of the day. llis name is the coin
‘mon w«rd in the mouth of the people, and
‘such is the frenzy of those who are in a
‘majority that if his excellency chose to
‘make himselfking, emperor, dictator, in
•one day the Central Government would
‘disappear, and l,*e replaced by a tyrant and a
‘troop of slaves.”
The writer of the letter from which this is
extracted goes at some length into a state
ment of his views of the politics of Mexico
and the probability of Santa Aca superse
ding Bustatnente, which at this distance
does not appear to us probable, at least Dot
immediately so, since undoubtedly they
are acting together in a common cause with
such a good understanding as has, by the
defeat of Mexia and his lotlowers, led to a
complete success. Santa Ana, it apjiears
after the battle ofPubela. returned forth
with to tue city of Mexico. “He has re
turned to Mexico,” says the correspondent
above quoted, “where lie was received with
‘extraordinary honors. He had rejoicings,
‘balls, illuminations, public plays, tor an e
•vent over which «*ery good mail grieves.
•The populace admires the hero of umpi
‘ro ; patriots deplore the miseries of civil
‘war. One party weaves garlauds for the
‘victor the other is tilled w ith grief; on one
‘side you hear songs of victory, on the other
•wailimrs for the dead. Time will show the
•end of this medley of things.”
The Superior Couit to' this county, after
silting two weeks, adjourned over on Sat
urday last till next week to give his honor
.Indue King an opportunity to attend the
usual Convention of.Judges ir Milledgeville.
During the sitting, much business has been
disposed of. among which we notice (he
following cases on the criminal Docket.
Jason Faulk, convicted of furnishing a
slave with spirituous liquors—fined S3O
For retailing without license—fined SSO or
30 days imprisonment. For tarrying un
lawful weapons—fined $125.
Wm. Sheffield, Assault and Battery—
finul Sloo.—Carrying deadly weapons—
fined slso—N< gro stealing, convicted oil
two cases, and sentenced to 10 years im
prisonment on each, in the Penitentiary.
John Carter, an associate with .Sheffield
in the above cases, seutenced to the Peni
tentiary for eiglit^ears,
James Jackson, for passing a raised hill,
was sentenced to the Peuiteutiary for two
years. —Macon Messenger.
An honest Rogue.— In looking over the
•orrespondence between Levi Woodbury,
Secretary of the Treasury, and his pecula
ting underlings, we fell upon the following
rare specimen of honesty in a rogue. He
had gorged himself with the public money
under the eye of the Secretary, who would
not remove him, and he had the frankness
to confess his own villainy, and throw up the
office of which he coufessed himself un
worthy.
New Oileann, Feh. 26, 1839.
Dear Sir. With this, you will receive my
account current, aggregate of moneys re
ceived, and account with the Treasurer of
the United States, which have been delayed
in their transmission by my leaving the office
and their being no mail at Greensburg du
ring the last month.
In this I also tenderyou my resignation as
receiver of public moneys, being no longer
worthy of the trust; and in conclusion,
must recommend Mr. T. N. Baylies as a
gentleman more worthy to fill the vacancy
than any one of the present applicants.
Respectfully, vour obedient servant,
' PARIS CHILDRESS.
Hon. Levi Woodbury,
Secretary of the Treasury, Washington.
Childress was and is a defaulter to the a
mount of $12,1 18 76. Rich. Whig.
Questions Answered.--- The Democrats
in 1796, were opposed to putting more
power into the hands of the Executive.
They were for taking power from the
President and his ministry, and giving it
to the people. What are the modern
Locos about? Are they for taking power
from the Executive? No, indeed. Why
do they call themselves Democrats, then?
Fur the same reson that a rogue keeps
the title of an honest man a* long as he
ca~'; for it helps him to couceal his
roguery.
Dedham Patriot.
Fratricide. A few days since two broth
ers in Lincoln county Mo. of the name of
Plummer, got excited in a family quarrel
and in an unguarded moment, one of them
struck the other dead with a pitch-fork.
Both of them had wives, who were spectaors
of this bloQiiy tragedy.
Homicide. Ou the 14th an altercation
took place near Huntsville between a Mr,
Mann and a Mr. Liverman, in which
the latter was shot do.vn dead. Maim has
I been comitted to jail.
NOTICE.
TIIE SHERIFFS’ SALES of Sumter
county, will, hereafter be published in
the Georgia Mirror.
JOHN KLMMEY, Sheriff.
G. M. WHEELER, D.Sh’ff.
Americus, June 3,1839.
FOUR MONTHS after date, application
will be made to the honorable, the in
ferior court of Sumter county, when sitting
for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell the
real estate of Uriah Fuller, late deceased,
of said county.
WALTON W. FULLER, Adm’r.
May 13,1839. _ 10
M A SONIC CEL E Bit A TION.
]IHE MASONIC LODGE NO, 13. at
Atnertcus Sumter County, will cele
brate the 24th of June inst. it being the
Anniversary of ST. JOHN. All brethren
ol the Order are respectfully invited to at
tend. There will also be an address, suitable
to the occasion, prououuced by the Rev.
Thomas Gardner.
WM H. PEGG Jr. ) Com.
JOHN IIAMES. > of
JOHN H. BLOUNT. > Invt.
Americus, Juna 6, 9
~Tum pkin acade .\Ty.
THE subscriber respectfully takes leave
to inform the public, that the exerci
ses of the Lumpkin Academy will be re
sumed on Monday the Ist, of July next.
WILLIAM FOSTER,
June I, 1839 9_3t _ Principal.
GUARDIAN’S SALE.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday
in August next, between the legal
hours of Sale, before the Court House
door at Starksville in Lee County, a lot
of land lying in said County, known as lot
Number Twenty Six [26] in the second
District, containing two hundred two and
a half [2024] acres, drawn by William H.
and Sydney Ann Edwards, Illegitimates;
sold for tha benefit of said children.
Terms at the sale.
HENRY W. MASSENGALE,
Guardian.
Wrigbtsboro, May 28, 1839. 9
MARSHAL’S SALE.
WILL be sold, on Saturday the 15th
inst. in the town of Florence, one
Grey Mule, about four years old, owner not
known, taken up while running at large in
the s'reets of Florence, and sold to defray
the expenses of keeping and impounding.—
Terms, cash.
JOHN P. HARVEY, Marshal.
June 1,1339.
Executive Department, Ga.
Milledgeville. 29th May, 1839. *
II ULKKAS, by an Act. ol the Gener
?T al Assembly, passed the 26th De
cember, 1635. entitled “An Act, to
provide for the call of a Convention
cr educe iLc u Do cr ol li e Cuuai Aa
sernoiy of the bune of Georgia, aud foro
ilier purpurea therein named,” it is provided
that it shall be um duty ol His Excellency
ti e Governor to give publicity to the alter
ations and amendments made in the Consti
tution, in reureuce to the Reduction of
the number ol members compo; ing the Gen
eral Assembly, and the first Monday in Oc ,
tuber, next alter the rising ol said Conven
tion, he shall fix on for the Ratification by
the People, of such emendmenu, altera
tions, or new articles, as they may make for
the objects of reduction ant* equalization of
the General Assembly only, and if ratified
by a majority of the voters, who vote on the
question of RATIFICATION” or “No
RATIFICATION”—then, aud in that
event, thealteratiocs so by them made and
ratified, shall be binding on <he people of
this State, and not otherwise.”
And whkaras, the delegates of the peo
ple ol this State, assembled in Convention
undertlie provisions of the before recited
act, and agreed to, and declared the follow
ing to be alterations and amendments of the
Constitution of this State, touching the rep
resentation of ilie people iu the General
Assembly thereof, tu-wit:
The Convention assembled under an act,
“to provide lior the call, of a Convention
to reduce the number of the Gent ral As
sembly, of the State of Georgia, and lor
other purposes therein named," passed the
26tli day of Deceml er, 1838, having met un
der the Proclamation ol the Governor, on
Monday the Gth day of May, 10 9. propose
as the filial result ol their deliberations, the
following to be amendments to the Consti
tution of the State of Georgia, and present
the same to His Excc'lt ncy the Governor
ol the Slate, that publicity may be given to
said alterations and amendments, according
to the si> th section of the act, under which
the Convention assembled.
AMENDMENTS T«> TIIE CONSTI
TUTION.
OF THE
STATU, OU GEORGIA.
The House of Representatives shall be
composed of members from all the counties
which now are, or hereafter may be inclu
ded within this Stale, according to their
respective numbers of free persons, and in
cluding three-filths of all the people of color,
to he ascertained by an actual enumeration,
to be mads from time, to time at intervals if
seven years as now by law provided Each
county shall he entitled to one member.
Each county having a representative popu
lation as above specified, of six thousand
persons, shall be entitled to pne aditiooal
member, and each county having such rep
resentative population ol twelve thousand
persons, shall be entitled to two additional
members, but no couuty shall have more
than three members.
The numbers of which the House of Re
presentative will be composed according to
the aforesaid ratio, and the last census, shall
not hereafter be increased, except when a
new county is created ; and it shall be the
duty of the Legislature, at their session,
to be holden next after the enume-
for by law, so to regulate
the ratio of representation, as to prevent
such increase.
The Representatives shall be chosen an
nually on the first Monday of October, until
such day ol election shall be altered
by law.
The Senate shall consist of forty-six
members, elected annually on the first Mon
day iu October, until such day of election
shall he altered by law and shall be compos
ed of one member from each of the forty
six Senatorial Districts following:
1 Chatham aud Effingham.
2 Scrivenand Burke.
2 Richmond and Columbia.
4 Lincoln and Wilkes.
5 Elbert aud Madison.
6 Habersham and Lutnpkiu.
7 Union and Rabun.
8 Forsyth and Hall.
9 Jackson and Franklin.
10 Clark and Oglethorpe.
11 Green and Putnam.
12 Taliferro and Warren.
13 Hancock and Baldwin.
14 Washington and Jefferson.
15 Emanuel and Montgomery.
16 Liberty and Brysn.
17 Tattnall aud Bulloch.
18 Mclntosh and Glynn.
19 Camden and Wayne. .
20 Ware and Lowndes.
21 Telfair and Appling.
22 Laurens and Wilkinson.
23 Pulaski and Twiggs.
24 Bibb and Crawford.
25 Jones and Jasper.
26 Butts aud Monroe.
27 Gwinnett and Walton.
28 DeKalb and Henry.
29 Newton and Morgan.
30 Gilmer aud Murray.
31 Cass and Cherokee.
32 Cobb and Campbell.
33 Coweta and Fayette.
34 Merriwether and Talbot.
35 Pike aud Upson.
36 Houston and Macon.
»7 Dooly and Irwin.
38 Thomas and Decatur.
39 Baker and Early.
40 Lee and Sumter.
41 Randolph and Stewart.
42 Muscogee and Marion.
43 Harris and Troup.
44 Heard and Carroll.
45 Paulding and Floyd.
46 Chattooga, Walker and Dade.
And whenever hereafter the Legislature
shall lay off and establish anew couuty, it
shall be added to the most contiguous
Senatorial District, having the smallest re
presentative population.
JAMES M. WAYNE,
President of the Convention.
Attest:
Lucien Latastk Sec’ry of the Conventioo
1 therefore, in conformity with the pro
visions of the before recited act, to hereby
give publicity to the same, and enjoin each
voter for members of the General Assembly
of this State, ou the first day therein spe
cified, to-wit: ou the first Monday in Octo
bor next, to give his vote of “RATIFICA
TION” or •‘RATIFICATION,” as provi
ded in said act, and the presiding officers
certify the same to this Department accor
dingly.
Given under my hand and seal of the Ex
ecutive Department at the Capital, in Mil
ledgeville, this the day and year first above
mentioned.
GEORGE R. GILMER.
By the ftivMim,
Jour* 11. Stssuu See. Ex Pcpt.
FOREWARN Ji persons ol Georgia
aud Alabama, from trading with Martha '
Elizabeth Foster, ou my account, as 1 con
sider myself no longer accountable sot be»
contracts. JOHN B. FOSTER.
Randolph co. June 10 3tp