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claim from New Jersey, and let them,
j ltV e too th* disputed *eat in Virginia, th'-
»i I I s»«a pirttes at) a tie tints far. In]
thelatt House, the states to eleet weie rep-
I by 9 wing* anil 3 loco focus---give l
the loco to :os a g nn of three ami tltere Will
0 ,ly be t tie .in trie w mb' house, This to
th "in > s presenting the most itrorabie side
of the picture. Let ns take the Xrtr Jersey
a ,| Virginia disput 'd lelegates nfwhicil we
are sure, and we slidl hive 127 wings to
115 locot’i.: <s. a-n tj irity of T«v L.VE, wliich
will, we think be tb<* true result upon the
cauutiag of noses- Bi.rimnc Ciro.iide.
From the If io<ior IVhi<r.
PUBLIC KXP EN D ll' CRES.
An iuq ury .vis nr in foil i few years
since to ascertain the comparative expense
of supporting a lepuhlicau and a *nonarclii
cal T e ->veraaient. but with 'vital success ive and
not now recollect, nor is it of any pradica
rMli'v, since the superior advantages of a re
teihiican governm mt to the people, over al
otter forms, more than compensate for any
nHitional exp via r. Bit it is important a.
all times, and every where, that public an-'
private economy should prevail. Especially
it is important that our government should
he administered with the strictest economy
so although til' vast domains now led I by
thi genertl goverum :nt in public lands, arid
the sales o. which produce a great revenue,
a id relieve the people from in ich oftlie in\
ueceisirvtj support tlta goverum eat, ii
should be re u 'inhere.l, th it this domain
p obibly belongs to the people of tin*
States, and should, in th ’ exercise of a com
mon justice, go to the several States if not
to the people of the several S’at»?a. Besides
in the exercise of a prudent foresight the
people should see to it that habits of extrav
agance do not grow tip in the government,
tint by a i I by, wh *a the means, for gratify
ing it, now a hard I by the sales of public
I ni ls, shall b r cut off, they may be called
upon to pay out of th or own packets bv a
uirect tax, or the government go on contract
ing a nitio i tl and ebt liae tita' of Kiigtand.
To ’ jealousy of tin* people was greatly
aroused to this subject during th ■ admim
t ation of Mr. A lamp because for till the
e .pen litttres of the goverum oit, it required
about thirteen millions ol dollars per annum.
J. there was cause of complaint at tins sum.
"hat shall be said of the forty millions of
il liars na v required by a reform, economi
i I, locofoco administration ? li the pent It
w ro alarine I and in lign int at the former,
w ill what feeling ought they to consider the
l,i ter !
Let us lake a few facts to account for this
vait difference in tiie aggregate annual, ex
pc tditures of Adams and Van Buren.
The patent office under Mr. Adams’ ad
t;i lustration, e.nuloyed four officers, with a
j i nr salary of three thousand seven hun
dred dollars. 11 now has twenty live officers,
wi.li salaries amounting to twenty-five thou
sa ol dollars. An increase of mute than
twenty-one thousand ilo'lars.
In 18.18, the revenue amounted to twenty
th ee million two hundred and live iltousaud
fi; • hundred and twenty dollars, and
it s collection cost tie govern
m nt eighty-nine thousand three hundred
it a • twenty-seven dollars This was deitouu
cj ‘as extr iv igance. But in 1838, the first
v<: rof Mi Vin Boren’s administration, the
co lecii ti of eleven uiliion o:te hundred and
s'x y- Bine th ujs.tnd two huirlrevl and ninety
o ) bus cost one million lour Hundred and
if. i -tv seven thousand two hundred and se
v 'ty live doll ’rs. Here is a large increase
ii 'he expense of enlleclia •• g. though the
t o nine colleeie I amnuiited only to about
o i h ill" that of I'.‘B.
a ■ e<pen ft,ire fir interna! nnptovements
il i in » the four ve trs of Mr. Adam’s admin
i sit ation, averaged four hundred and five
lit tis.ind one hundred and seven dollars per
iii uni. And the people were told over and
n/v again, tint, this sort of extravagance
w ■ il l ntin the country and iii ike her buik
r i t ; am I to put an effectual slop to it, the
pi 'y was opposed to interna! improvements
1. tlie genual government, except of a par
t alar character, which iiiusl necessiirily be
I: lied.
i!ut we see that in 183 ~. the sum of one
r.i lion tti le li rudre.l and sevent y til iisiind
111 ee hun Ire 1 and seventeen dollars was ap
pt .pii.ited I'm that purpose. An increase,
I > one y nr, of in ire than one million five
h mired t lions uni dollar*.
It cost thirteen thousand dollars to pre
] -i- the President's house for the reception
ot Mr Adams, but Mr. Van Buren requires
n letcen thousand for tiiesame purpose. It
• .t ilia |M! >pl ! six limits 111 I dollars more
t ' a pro'ess I deinncrat than fora real one.
In 1828. the war liep.n I inert enq.loyul
t enty officers, wi ll it joint sabuy of thirty
• • gilt thousand six hundred dollars,
i tiiea managed the business of the Indian
<i parttn-iit. In 1837. the war depaitineut
• st t ic people sixty three thousand i igiu
]t im)red and ten ibdlars. It then employed
I sty clerks; and ti;c Indian department was
> imaged as a separate concern, by lilteen
< ffieers, with a yearly salary of nineteen
t lotisatid four hundred dollars. An increase
< i only fifty lour thousand five I tint!red and
r ixly dollars.
The Government in 1838, had to pay the
following sums for newspapers subscribed
tor by the President
Post Office Depaitment, -5397 00
War departnieiit, 881 (It
Treasury Department, 077 93
Navy Department, 839 75
Total, _ 62 099 71
Besides the expenditures which are enor
tmiusly increased over the reported extrava
gant administration of Mr. \d.uiH, we find
it also stated that tire following among other
similar sums have been paid out oftlie Yrea
suty in 1838 and which smacks a littU* more
of official extravagance than we think the
■people ought to be willing to support:--
ii.,)sa bushes for war department, tiliy-six
dollars and siity cents—dinners at taverns
for clerks of the Post Office department,
, one hundred and eighty-ei iit dollars and
seventy-four cents —ice lor Treasury depart
ment, ei'Mii-nine dollars sixty-six and a hall
cents-—bust for Secretary Forsyth, six dM
lars.
‘Are the people to be gulled with the ob
jection to the greatly increased expenses of
the government, and to its abhorrent extrav
agance, that the President is not responsi
ble, because lie does not make the appropri
ations \ and that the party is not responsi
ble; because it does not p i]) out the money.
Tim kind ol game may answer for a tiu.eio
amuse the readers of tile Belfast Journal,
but it is too I line and sick an I sore tost and
against ilia prying gaze and close observation
of a free and industrious and intelligent
people. The gold furnished official may
approve and pass alone any tiling fur an ob
jection against what helps him. b"t the hard
tuiling freeman, willolace tlie responsibility,
with the majority, where it belongs; and il
the plea is," that this administration is com
posed of men who have denied tlieiracroiin
ability to God and men, we shall not be
disposed to doubt it, but earnestly desire a
-change i.i men, manners, principles and
practices, in the high places.of our coun
try, that she may go onward and upward in
the path of honor and safety.
From the XashvilU Banner.
ORIGIN OF THE TERM WHIG.
The Whig newspapers throughout the
Union are copying lit in the Tcunesset
Telegraph the fol'owiiiu spiri'ed and true
definition olthe trim *-\\ lug,” as g. veil by
Col. Gentry, cl Williamson, iiieiiib r ot
Congress elect, in one ol his recent speeilie
I e or; the people of Ins District.--—Tu«
I’eiegr tpb says :
•‘When did the name Whig first make
its appearance in Tennessee !” That ques
tion is often asked by the presses a,id orators
of the administration party. We heard it
uiswered a few days since by Col. Gentry,
the Whig candidate for Congress fro in tins
district. The “name Wing, said the
. leaker, made its appearance in Tennexse**,
ben power first began to encro. eh on tlie
gfits oftiie people: It made its appi ar
mce in England when the Kingly power
muglii to destroy every vestige ot human
iberty! It made its appearance in the
lirti’cn colonies when tne British mown
attempted to l isten cords of slavery on the
p topic, and compel obedience to the dicta
tion' ol a single man ? Is the u nite a re
nroarh 1 Then do all those patriots- who
have stood up tor the rights • t the people,
io opposi'iou to tyranny since tli*- foundation
of the world hear tne stain, for they all
were Whigs. Thettam-.; implicsopp sition
io power, and that opposition was exercised
n Tennessee as soon as tlie enemies of
political liberty endeavored to stretch their
dominions so as to include her lam a
Whig, and I am p oud of I lie n ante ! ”
Inc n.iection with the foregoing, which
was uttered by a freeman and a Tennesseean
whom th" Whigs in Congress will lie proud
of as an eloquent and fearless co-laborer io
the g’*:ai work ol rescuing the liberties of
the country from the grasp of the Spo'lers,
the Richmond Whig copies the following
passag s from the speech of John C. Cal
houn. delivered on the Ctlt .May, 1834, on
the President’s I’rotest :
•I am mor'ifie I (said Mr. Calhoun) that
a this country, boasting its Anglo Saxon de
■ent. | Any man of respectable standing, inuoh
less the President of the United States,
sltold be found to entertain principles lead
ing to such monstrous results ; and I scarce
ly believe myseil to be breathing tlie air of
our country, and to be within the walls ol
this Senate Chamber, when 1 hear such
doctrines vindicated. It is proof of the
wonderful degeneracy of a total loss of the
true conception of constitutional liberty.—
But, in this degeneracy, 1 perceive tlie
symptoms of regeneration. It is not my
wish to touch on tlie party designations that
have recently obtained, and which have been
introduced in the debate on this occasom
I, however, cannot but remark, that the re
vival of the party names of the revolution,
alter they had so long slumbered, is not
without a meaning -not without an indica
tion of a return to those principles which
lie at the foundation of our country."
“Gemlenten ought to reflect that the ex
tensive anti sudden revival of these names,
cotilit not be without some adequate cause.
Names are not to lie taken or given at pleas
ure. There must be something to cause
their application to adhere. If 1 remember
rightly, it was Augustus, in all tlie plenti
tude of his power, who said that he found
it impossible to introduce anew worth—
What, then, is that something ? What is
there in the meaning of Whig and Tory,
and what in the character ol tlie times,
which hvs caused their sudden revival, as
party designations, at this time ? I lake it,
that the very essence of Toryism—that
which constitutes a Tory—is to sustain
prerogative against privilege—to support the
Excretive against tlie Legislative Depart
ment of the Government, and to lean to the
side of Power against tlie side of Liberty;
while the Whig is, in all these particulars,
of the respective parties, Whig arid Tory,
the opposite, and the parallel runs through
their application in till the variety of cir
cumstances in w hich they have been ap
plied, either in this country or Great Bri
tain. Their sudden revival and application
nt this time, ought n* admonish my old
friends, who art* now on the side of tlie Ad
ministration, that there is something in the
times—something in the existing struggle
between the parties, and in the principles
and duct tines advocated b\ those in power,
which has caused so sudden a itvival, anti
such an extensive application of firms. I
have ni*t contributed to their introduction,
nor am id shuns of s i;ing them applied—
but 1 must stylo hose who are inlet este', hat
they should not be, that nothing but heir
reversing their course cm possibly prevent
their application. They owe it to them
selves— they owe it to the Chief Magistrate
(whom tiiey support) as the head ol their
party, that they should halt in their support
of despotic and slavish doctrines which we
hear daily advanced, before a return of the
reviving spirit of liWriy shall overwhelm
them with those who are leading them to
their ruin.”
The cry is still they conn—mal e room for
the Sitb- Treasurers —From the Boston
Mercantile Journal we extract the following
letter, chronicling the cventlul history c>!
another £>ub-Trrasuter.
.Mire Rigurn/. —lt \vi 1 heseenby the fol
lowing Idler which we have received, that
there lias been quite a -'flare up” in the
pleasant village of Exeter, N- 11. in con
cousequence ol rotigery in the l'ost Oifice
ut that place.
“Exeter, N. 11., Aug. 20. 18.39.
Dear .Sir—Our quiet village was thrown
into a state of excitement this morning by
the arrest of Hiram Wliitteniore, Assistant
l’ost .Master,at this place, by process issued
by the United States Attorney, for purloin
ing money from sundry letters as they pas
s’d through this office. It seems ti>at sev
eral parcels of money directed to Dover,
have been missed, which led to suspicions
of persons in this office. And Mr. Smith,
the Postmaster at Dover, wrote to the de
partment, and got authority to search the
mails as they passed this and other offices
and yesterday lie caused I* itrrs, containing
money, and directed to Dover, to be mailed
H< Haverhill and Kpping, and t'.en followed
the mail from this place to Lamprey River,
and there opened it and found one ol the
Irtfi rs mailed by him missing, and the mon
ey taken from the other two. lie then re
turned to Exeter, and last evening caused
the As-i-u.mt Postm tsteu to he arrested and
examined—and the i/critical bills contained
m the two letters, which had been marked
by bin were found on 11 is person—and the
other found among the waste p toer in the
office. M. Wmtteinore is son of Jude
Whittemoro of Pembroke, one ot the or
ruimrnla\ Judges of our county, and mar
ried to the daughter of .'Jr. IJoif, our Post
master. He is full-bloq'let} |ocjtoco, and,
as it seems, of the Harrington, Price. q»<{
S'vartwout school. He is npw in jail.
The purity of tlie. Elective Franchise.
—The Louisville Journal say*; During the
Tennessee election, G*n. .Tacksun, * pent
the whole day at tiie Hermitage Precinct,
fighting like a madman against Cannon ami
Bel!—nevertheless the v >te as given lor
Cannon at.d Beil iu tI»C precinct, compared
with tb.-rt given to th«lr opponents, was
nearly aw tow i« one. The roar of the
'outhless lion has lost its t rror.
'IP*
THE MIRJIOII
£ntiii*4lay, XopL 7.
For Preside ill,
GEORGE M. TROUP.
ror Governor,
€ll UlLii:* IMH €Sifi:iST Y
FOR TIIE LEGISLATURE.
SEX ATE.
LOVERD BRYAN.
j: /; r n e.s e. y ta n i r.s.
WILLI \RD BOYNTON,
JOHN WEST,
JOSEPH WOOD.
Owing to tlie unavoidable absence of the
Editors last week, many errors crept Into our
columns which otherwise would not have
appeared. lor the purpose of correcting
those in the Grand Jury Presentments, we
republish them today ; and cheerfully cor
rect those that appeared in the communica
tion of our valuable correspondent “’9B,’’
by giviug place to the following note from
him :
To tlie Editors of the .Mirror:
Oj;xrlk mk x ln yoi next number,
please make the billowing corrections of
typographical errors winch appeared in the
publt* ation of my communication, of last
week. ’<)g.
At the 41st tine, for party ‘renow n’ rea l
t arty rancour. At the 40th line, for ail the
•honors,’ read all the horrors. At the but
line, for ’past’ it over, rend, pass it over.
COTTON.
We learn front the last Macon Telegraph
that new cotton begins to arrive at that mar
ket pretty freely, and is selling from 9 to 10
cents.
The Centra! Bank will not, as heretofore,
receive the bills of the Darien Bank and its
branches in payment of debts due that in
stitution. The affairs of the Darien Bank
must be in ashy way to induce the Direc
tors ol tlie Central Bank to take such a step.
We learn from our exchange papers that
(he fever which has been raging for some
time in Augusta has moderated somewhat.
Thenumberof deaths that occurred in that
city from the 18th ult. up to the Ist. iust.
was thirty-three. Citizens are advised not
to go to or through Augusta until the fever
has entirely ceased.
In Charleston tie fever has become sta
tionary. During the week ending the 15th
tlie number of deaths was 15. The three
weeks preceding the number was each week,
14, 12 and 15.
Dr M. Bartlett, the Editor of the Macon
Telegraph, is a candidate for the House of
Rcprerentativcs, on the Van Bure** ticket in
the place ol R. McCall, Esq. who declined
the nomination.
OUR TOWN—ITS HEALTH.
We have understood, with regret, that re
ports have been cite idol mg I li rough ; he coun
try relative to the health of our flourishing
town, calculated to do it immense injury
and to deter persons from settling among, or
even visiting us. W** therefore, feel it our
duty t*> -set the community right on this sub
ject and correct, so far as we may be aide,
these maliciously false and exaggerated state
ments.
Tlie reports of w hich we have heard are
something lik■ the following: one fellow
travels the road and states as lie goes, that
our ci.i/.eus are all sick, and one is not able
to help the "i her to a drink of water! Ano
ther proel..iios that Florence is so unhealthy
whole families are demoting the place to
seek a more salubrious clime!! While an
other publishes it through the land, that dis
ease and death prevail here to such an ex
tent that we bury from four to live here daily,
and that the principle employment rtf those
who arc aide to work, is the making of cof
fins 11 I
In reply to tlie above reports we arc com
pelled to sty that they are entirely unfounded
in fact, and maliciously false, and their pro
ag.ators should not be believed even when
they speak the truth. The time has never
been when there was not well persons enough
in Florence to attend the sick ; neither have
our citizens deserted the town because of its
mihenlihiness—some few, it is true, have
left during the summer, as they do every
where, because they do not care to be con
fined to the dull monotony of a town during
the summer months ; and as to burying four
or five daily, there has scarcely been tint ma
ny buried here of our own citizens, in eigh
teen months* The number of interments
within the past year has been only sou
three of them were children, one who died
from the effects of worms, and who was sick
when lie arrived here, tint other two of the
bpwe) affection, occasioned, we beu3 v c> Irom
teetlijng; and a negro man who died a lew
davs after lio arrived hero, being taken on
the road to this place- So it will be perceiv
ed that {he few deaths that have occurred
among us, cninqf he attributed to the local -
ity of the place.
We Jo not however, to say there
has been no sickness here, by no means
•* lorence, as well as elsewhere, has had her
hate of disease, but it has been of such
a character that very little clanger was ap
prehended only in a fear cases ; and to say
that we have fared well, wl>en compared with
the fatality of disease experienced elsewhere,
wou'd not be overstepping the bounds of
truth. We hope, therefore that hereafter
thesetalse rumors will be silenced, and trust
that he who may in future, be so base as to
fabricate and publish such falsehoods, may
receive a liar’s teward.
THE ELECTION.
As the electiou draws nigh, our opponents,
as usual, throw up their hats and shout vic
tory, before tis won. But, least they may
lay the unction of success to their souls
with too much satisfaction, we will take the
bberty to ititorin them, from what we can
learn lh;ir prospects arc a little worse than
they were this time last year, li was pro
claimed last fall, just before the election,
that there was no doubt but the Van Biireu
Congressional ticket would be elected with
out a struggle, and this year the same song
is sung, and they sound itlar aiiTl wide that
tli-ir Federal candidate for Governor w ill be
elected by an ovet whelming majority on the
first Monday in October next.
Now we would ask our Van Buren oppo
nents what more cause have they to rejoice
now than then? Has any vitalchange come
over the feelings and opinions oftlie people
of Georgia, that they have censed to look
upon Federalism as a political sin, and are
w illing to elevate the advocates of those doc
trines to the highest office within their gift ?
No; they cannot indulge in that belief.—-
What then, has changed the minds of the
freemen of Georgia ? Have they found out
that Georgia was wrong in refusing obedi
ence to the mandate of the Supreme Court
in the Tassel's case, and that Judge Mc-
Donald and the eleven others who voted
with him, was right, in wishing her to yu Id
such obedience, and place her rights, sove
reignty and independence at the me.cyof
that tribunal, and now wish to atone for their
former error by placing in the Gubernatorial
Chair a man who believes that the Supreme
Court has exclusive jurisdiction in ail cases
of dillerence between the Slates and the
General Government, even where the domes
tic interests of the State arc concerned, and
who, if he were Governor, would not liesi
tale one moment to obey a summons ema
nating from such a source, and thereby .an
nihilate, at otic blow, the liberties of the
people and the rights of the .State ? Nn ;
they cannot believe the people of Georgia
so corrupt and vassallaling. What then, we
again ask, do they tumid their hopes of suc
cess upon, that they are kicking up such a
dust about, and shouting, victory I victory!;
before the battle has been fought? Why
nothing; they perceive the hopelessness ol
their case, and being anxious to have a day
• n which to exult, they have thought pmpev
to improve the opportunity before the elec
tion, least, should they wait until alter that
time it might be too late, as it unduubtejly
would.
So far as regards the election of Judge
Dougherty, we feel pretty confident; and
while reports are circulating in relation to
the prospects of tlie candidates in other sec
tions of the State, we feel it our duty to in
form the friends of State Rights at a dis
tance, what are their pros; eels in this.—
And we are happy to state that they are
bright and cheering, and so far as we can
jettrii from the adjoining counties, il is w ide
spread and flourishing. But of our own
county we can speak with more^confidence,
and take pleasure in informing our friends
that Stewart will do Iter duty iu the ap
proaching content, apd do it well. She >s
completely disenthnmed from the shackles
of Van Burenism ; and k’cdera lism dare not
show her deformed head within our limits
without being frowned into utter insignifi
cance. Judge Dougherty will obtain a large
vote here, and of this fact our opponent as
well as friends m ty rest well assured.
Correspond! nee of the Surth American.
New-York, August 21, 1839.
Stocks are down ag.iin. The fall to-day
is \a 1 percent. There is no relief in the
money market, and moneyed men stand oil
once more to see where things w ill go to.
Our merchants generally are in no trouble,
and we have had no failures these three
weeks.
Exchange for the Liverpool, to sail on
the 24th, is beginning to attract interest.
On France thegeneral quotation is 51, 24c.,
and on England, prime hills are held at 9
prent. though out of town names, deemed
quite safe, can lie had down to 8J-
Cotton is very flat today, and it s lies crow
ded, in th': lower qualities, they could not be
effected so well as last week, (food lair and
upwards is belt! still, for some advance though
there a.e very few buyers.
Flour is a'so dull, and remains much in
the stale I quoted yesterday. Common
brands of Genuessee are offered Ireely at
•86.50, ami.Southern of the common kinds
at 55,25.
The Yellow Fever rages cxrensively and
very fatally in New (Jrieaus; it likewise
prevails, we understand, to a considerable
extent in Mobile, la Charleston we are in
formed the same disease rages extensively,
although the cases, »ve notice by ihe papers,
have been treated more successtuily than in
New Orleans. We should clearly think it
highly imprudent and unsafe, even to pass
through Charleston northwardly. Wc be
lieve some cases have proved fatal in the in
terior, with those who have only passed
through that place; of one wc heard who
died, of the disease, who had no' remained
in the city probably over two hours.
Augusta has recently It it! some disease of
a malignant character, originated, we h*vc
fro urotten pine apples and other of
fensive matter being thrown over the river
bart 1 * and left exposed; this being attended
to by tlie ’Uhper authorities, it is hoped and
believed that ‘ "iM at once be rcstor
eil to ita usual •aluiiMtJP' lieebratx.
Our most recent accounts irom A.ugmtn
are, ill it a fever (we know not what name
the physicians g.ve it.) was prevailing to
sqfflg extent, latal, nod hat
many people were leaving m consequence of
lt * ... Messenger.
A difficulty seems to he brewing between
the Territoiy of lowa and tlie State of Mis
souri. The Legislature of the latter, at its
last session, laid claim to a certain tract of
land, which the former claims to be within
its limits. The Missouri officers ha*e been
recently assessing the people within the dis
puted district; and Gov. Lucas of lowa be
ing advised ofit, has issued his proclama
tion, warning all persons against exercising
the lights of jurisdiction within tiie organ
ized boundary of said Territory—aid threat
ening fire and sword against all who shall re
fuse to desist.
We are not advised of tlie action of Mis- j
sour, since the appearance of tiie proclanta- j
t ion.— Richmond Wtiig.
HINTS FROM A LADY. '
A subscriber to flu* National Intelligencer
who can vouch for rite efficacy of the en
closed remedies, will frel gratefully obliged
it the Editors of the National Intilligencer
will allow them a conspicuous place in their
columns. Many lives have been saved
tin ’ough the means ofthese simple remedies ;
anti at this season of the year, when children
are suffering so much from the summer
complaint and whooping cough, it is a point
of < oitscit-nce not to withold font the pub
lic w hat will so immediately alleviate.
WashinotoS, Aug. 17.
CURE FOR THE SUMMER COM
PLAINT.
Six drops of laudanum to half a tumbler
full of rice water; half a tumbler of the
mixture to be taken every three er four
hours. This simple remedy may he given
to ii funts, children, or at any period of life,
and has never tailed in giving immediate re
lief, and, if persevered in lor a few days, it
invariably effects acute, however violent the
disorder,
CURE FOR HIE WHOOPING
COUGH.
A teaspoon full of castor oil to a table
-pool) (till of molasses ; a teaspoon fit 11 of
the mixture to be given w henever the cotaeli
is troublesome. It will afford relief at once,
and in a few days it elfeets a t me. The
same remedy relieves the croup, however
violent t lie attack.
CURE FOR INFLAMED EYES.
Pour boiling w ater on some elder flowers,
and steep ilimu like tea; when cold, put
three or four drops of laudanum into a
small glass oftlie elder flowers, and let the
mixture run into the eyes three or four
vim s in the day, which will become perfectly
strong in the course of a week, il this
ren edv is constantly applied.
CUKE FOB A WEAK STOMACH,
AM) THK DYSPEPSIA.
Fill a-tlennjohn half full of wild cherries,
and then fill the demijohn entirely with the
best of Old Jamaica Spirits; half a wine
glass lnt!s , be taken of tins liquid twice in
the day ; if preferred, it may lie mixed with
water. No sugar must be put with it, as
sugar destroys the tonic and strengthening
effect of the wild clieities and old spirits
Tilts liquid has in innumerable instances
proved a complete restorative.
Well Thnie. —’Who struck Jim Patterson ?
who struck Jim Patterson ?’ demanded a
voter elbowing though the Crowd assem
bled at the poll and iutimating a bloody nose
and black eyes to any one who dared to
use the first person, singular number, in
his reply—only show me the man who
knocked Jim Patterson’—and his little red
hands resolved themselves into fists, and his
little voice struggled up into his belly in
an attempt deep—‘only show me :lie man
that knocked down Jim Patterson?’ ‘I
knocked him down.’ said a voter stepping
from the crowd, ‘and what have you to say
about it?’ ‘By my soul, but you did it like
a man’ replied our Mars, bowing very cour
teously.—Spirit of the 'Times, Thi\a.
llow to crow Rich. ---Nothing is more
easy, says Mr. Paulding, than to grow rich.
It is only to trust nobody—to befriend none
-—to get everything and save all we get—to
stint ourselves and everybody belonging to
its—to be the friend of no man and hare no
man for our friend—to heap interest upon
interest, cent upon cent; to be mean,
miserable and dispisetl for some twenty or
thirty years, and riches will come as sure as
di ease and disappointment.
MED,
At the residence of her father, in Ameri
cus, Sumter county, Ga. on the 21st ttlf
altera short, but severe illness, which sit
bore with Christian fortitude, Mrs. Louisa
[Lii.l.. in the 26th yearof her age.
‘Blessed are tliedead who die in the Lord.’
On the 27th ult. at the residence of her
father in Amerieus, F.lla An.v, infant daugh
ter of Francis and Mary Fayet weather, aged
1 mouths.
The Her. *!/#•. Spivey
will preach in the M. E. Church in
tins place, this evening at early candle light.
Stetre vI Sheritf sales.
W ILL nes M before the Court House
door ii tin. town of Lumpkin, Stew
art county, on the Ist Tuesday ;n OCTO
BER next, between the usua' hours ol sale
thc following property, to wn:
One wagon, two Mules and harness, ta
ken as the property of Tal ir >ati C. Pickett,
to satisfy a ri fa issued out of the Superior
Court of Stewart county, in favor of An
derson Ma hews.
Also one etgli ill part of Lot No. 143, in
the 19. h district of Stewart county, taken
is the property of Derrell D- Bridges, to
atisfy a fi fa issued out of the Superior
Court of Oglethorpe county in favor of
John Wood, it being the undivided interest
of the Deft.
Also, No. 242, in the 24th district of
Stewart county, taken as the property of
Stephen Glover, to satisfy sundiy fi fas
issued nut of a Justice Court ot Stewart
county, in favur of Jesse \V right and
others.
Also, No. 235. in the 24th district of
Stewart county, taken as the property ol
Joseph Scott, to satisfy sundry ft fas issued
out oi a Justice Court of Stewart county,
in favor of William l). Butts and others.
Also, thirty head of (fclikely Hogs, taken
as the property of David P. Fosset*. tosat
isfy a li fa issued out ol Stewart Interor
Court in favor of George K. McKelvey.
Also, No 64, in the 33d district of Stew
art county, taken as the property of Wiley
Burk, to Mtisfy sundry fi fas issued out of
a Justice Court of Coweta county, iu favor
of Charles Wood and others.
M. M. FLEMING, Sheriff.
August 30, 1839.
To Holder* of Taxable
Property.
r ff3IIIRTY days from this dale, I shall
I proceed to collect the taxes due the
corporation as directed by the Ordinance
to that effect.
- M. 1. L kURSRCE Ass’*. & Col.
iy.
Ware* House A Commission
B US INE S S.
iubscriber respeet-
O -■ fully notifies his fneuds
~ _ and the planters of Stew*;;
county, that he will be pre
pared to forward Goods and Cotton the en
suing year. He has ms;d** every necessa j
arrangement to secure the safety of Cotton
and Goods consigned so hint.
He hopes to be able to give satisfaction,
and respectfully refers the public to those for
whom he has done business in tjiis line here
tofore. H. w. Woodward.
Florence, Sept. 7 eow3m 22
Money II 'anteil—ontl ,?foney
I must have,
ML’Ok SALE or RENT, by
J- the subscriber, a house and
lot on Centre street, and in the
Centre of the business part of
town. The House is large and commodi
ous and well calculated for any kind of bu
siness, and now ready for occupancy ; pos
session given immediately. Terms reason
able. G. POWELL.
Florence, Sept 7. 22 3t
PRESENTAJENTS
Os the Gland Jury, of Stewart Superior
Court August Tents, 1839.
VI7" E the Grand Jurois, selected, choseri
▼ v and sworn for the County of Stewart
at August Term, 1H39, fi el it their duty to
make the following Presentioeuts: We
view with great regret the neglected con
dition of our Roads and Bridges generally,
and believing as we do that the present
Road Law may be much amended, we
would th« refore respectfully recommend
that our Senator and Representatives, bse
their influence at the nrxt Legislature for
the passage of a special Law to alter and
amend the Road Law now of force, so far
as relates to tl ** County of St» w art, vesting
the power in the Inferior Court of this coun
ty, to levy and vollect a Road Tax, which
shall he applied to the opening and r« paring
public Roads aid the building and reparing
all necessary Bridges and Causeways, all
of which work to be let by contracts by said
Court.
* We would respectfully urge the Inferior
Court to cause the immediate collection of
all rents due for offices in the Court House,
and apply such amount as may be necessary
to the repairs of said Building. We would
further recommend that the several officers
be placed in the possession of their county
offices for whom they were intended, and
that such officers he held responsible to the
Court for any damage done their office*
during their ttrin of occupancy. The
premature dilapidated appearance of our
Court House prompts us to suggest to the
Court die propriety of placing the Building
in the care of an appointed officer, whose
duty it shall be to keep the House in good
order, to be used fortliose purposes only for
whit It it was intended. Taking into con
sideration the grow ing popuh tion and w ealth"
of our county, the rapid increase of the
elements of litigation in our Superior
court, and the grrai and vexing delay of
public justice m consequence ol the time,
now allowed by Law, being far too short for
the increased and increasing business of the
Court, and believing, moreover that a change
of the Term of tlie Court would greatly
add both to the comfort and health of our
citizen* generally. We would therefore
recommend to our Senator and Represen
tatives at the next Session of the Legisla
ture of the State to procure the passage
of an act to amend the act so far as relates
to the sitting of our Superior Coutt, so that
they may hold their sitting's, commencing
on the first Monday in March and Septem
ber, a.id ■ La; the* be «n extension of the
time to two weeks. Being perfectly
satisfied that the extension of the Term 1
now recommended, and which is absolutely
and imperiously necessary, will gVeatly in
crease the labors of the presiding effieers,
already sufficiently and perhaps we might say
oppressevily arduous, we would therefore
further recommend to our Senator and
Representatives in the next Legislature to
use their best exertions to have the Circuit
divided.
We would recommend the Cos). Com
manding to c.iuse tlie collection of all Pub
lic Arms, ammunition and accoutrements
belonging to the .State or United States, ar:d
report the same to the Governor. We re
commend the Inferior Conrt ro take into
consideration the Kiuchetoona causeway on
the Travelers Rest Road and make sueh
appropriations as they may deem expedient
and proper, consistent with the present state
of the fmancies of the county. We would fur
ther remark, that large assembles ofour col
oured population are permitted in the coun
ty Towns and Villages, which show a total
neglect of the e nforcement of the Patrol
Law, we tvouhi therefore recommend the
proper officers to discharge that part of
their duty. We p-esent as a grievance tlie
total neglect of duly on the part of our offi
cers, w ho are the administrators of the Law,
by permitting a horde of gamblers to prowl
through our country unpunished, and it is
witfr great pain we arc compelled to say-that
the Law is made entirely nugatory by the
protection they receive from those persons
of whom better things should be expected.
We have examined the Books of the Clerks
of the Superior, Inferior and Ordinary
Courts, and the Books of the County
Treasuer aNd find them neatly and correctly
kept. Having examined the Books of the
Tax Collector, we have credited him for his
insolvent list, the sum of 5? 17,75, fbr amount
overcharged, and the further sum of
$1258,294 which we have ordered lum
to issue executions and have the several
amounts paid over into the hands of the
Clerk of the lulerior Court, ss by Law' di
rected.
In taking leave of his lion. Judge Welt
born, we offer him our hearty thanks for
the able and disinterested manner he has
discharged his high and responsible duties,
and tender to him our best wishes for Lis
health and happiness.
To the Solicitor Gen. Henry L. Benningv
Esqr. we return our thanks for the pronqtt
discharge of his duties, and his sonrtesy
toward this body. We request the Solici
tor to have the above Presentments publish
ed in tlie Georgia Mirror, Florence, and
Sentinel and Herald. Columbia.
THOMAS GARDNER, Foreman.
Mathew McCnHar, David G. Rogers,
Aro.hahald Spears, Blount Trotman.
William H. Brooks, W. P. Carter.
Thomas E. Rodgers, Robert N. Hardwick-
Abrahaiw Prim, Allen Tiirrentme,
John S. Rice, James Webb,
James B- Brown, John Crficker,
fly. W Woodward.
.Murdock M. Wards worth
It is ordered on motion Af the Soliciter bj|
the Court, that the presentments be pul? r
fished as the .rand Jury request.
A true extract from the minute# of Stew
art Superior Court, August Term >839.
E. PEARCfc, Cterk.
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