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No. 27*~— Vol. Vl.]
; Administratrix’s Sale.
O'N the first Tuesday m February next,, will
be sold at the Court-house in Warren coun
“ One tract of land and premises
belonging to the estate of David Cody, deceased,
situated on the waters of Williams’s Creek in said
county, and now. occupied by Maj. Wilkinson,
containing 700 acres, more or less, adjoining Maj.
R. A. Jle.dl and others. The purchaser will be
required to give notes with approved security,
one half payable at twelve months, the other two
years after date The above land sold by order
of the honourable the Court of Ordinary of War
yen County.
LUCRET I A CODY, Mm'x.
Warrenton, Dec. 29, 1824. 22—tds
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD,
ON Friday; the 7th of January next at the res
idence ofthe Widow Lewis, all the perisha
ble, property of David Lewis, deceased, consisl
ihgofi .
Household and Kitchen Furniture,
Stock of every description, one
Road Wagon one riding carriage,
and oniimber of other articles too tedious to men
tion. I'he land will be rented and the Negroes
hired. Terms made known on (he day. Sale to
continue from day to day until all is sold.
R. S. iIAUDWICK, Adtn’r.
Tort Creek, Hancock go. Nov. 29, 1824.
Notice.
Ob the firs! Tuesday in February next,
‘IIMTILL be sold at the Court-house in Sparta,
Hancock county, the following property,
to wit—
-357 acres of laud, more or less,
lying 1 near’ said county; fifteen
likeiv,.Negrm-s, consfft.ifepßft men, women and
cliiinren.lVov s And girlfjyfne property of the late
johi/F,. Denson, dleaM6, sold fur the benefit of
the h?ir and creditorsW said deceased. Terms
Cash.
~ Also—On Thursday, the 20th of
January, will be sold at the, fate,residence of said
deceased, all the stock, consisting of horses, hogs,
out tie and sheep, crop of corn and fodder, plan
tation tools, household and kitchen furniture'; ail
sold as the property of said deceased—this on’a
credit—theaime made known on the day. [ ,
FRANCES DENSON, Fjx'x. ‘
JNO.N. DEXSOX, l ■ ■
.. ROSS CONYERS, \ ‘
December 1. 1824. . 1d23 ■ . ‘
Administrators Sale.
‘'KSTILL be sold'at the court house in Warren
V 7 county on the first Tuesday in January,
next. FIVE NEGROES, one man. two womeryi,
two'boyry helanging tiethe estate of Wm. Kin/ey
deceased. JOHN W. KhNSEY, Adu/.
Sept. 28, 1824 \ . . /
Sale.. /
AGREEABLE to an order ts the Hhftoorable
the Inferiour Court of Haucocl/ comity,
when sitting for ordinary purposes, wil/>e sold at
the Court house in the town of Spyta, in said
coaiaty, on the first Tuesday ip Fe hr fury next,
SIXTEEN NEGROES,’
Men, Boys; Girls, Women and Cf.ildAn, feeing
the personal estate of Peyton” Lti'kljtj’.dsceaied,
sold, for the benefit- of the heist ;aud ♦editors
of said deceased. ‘ J ujgratiaL ‘
fourth of the money for” the said ‘ egroi <•
will he required,on the day of s ,ie, the pth< r three
‘fourths, on a credit until the fits', h .1 angary. 14186.
. .jOtfr’ J. c.’j.ltKi; r, Ain't.
.flliH. 1824. ■* , i -M
Adiniriistr.Ttor.s’ Sale,
T|7ll.L he sold on Saturday, tin; 22d da/ of
*t January ‘ext, at (be late resydeupeof ,ohn
,'i'ijlinan, deceased, iui Hancock cbijntwEllwnr’
Wticlesof pirisbutile property b<denying to ‘♦{•e'es
tate of mid deceased, consistinsr of i'.atfe,h<!S'nj
. and sheep, hoagl Sftfd amt kitchen turmtnfe.Jfcc. 1
‘i’cmis rI - the day, T-‘ |
r ifPi& . f
■TaiKl and iWraeb
.■i * y •riff’ yeapy
A 0 RfiEA Honourable
* V'dnf'’i;t- <Cc?#fi|ot"'*H'|fico ; oi; county, when
Ht will he sold, on the
•*next, two hundred acres
n*> the waters, of Lngdam
I d'imnd Jac.knn and others.
rw eii * is* Laachi.d Jimmerson, boys,
lleitjriea ‘woman,\ and .her child’ Seymore, Win
(p-y and Sarah, fifl*! ‘.the property of the estate
of VYiihatn” Haiper, deceased. Terms made
known on the day of sale.
RES.LLUIX J. HARPER, Adrn’r.
October 25, 1824. to 19
Adfhinistrato.rs’ Sale.
“SJP7 I LL be sold at the Court house in the town
Ts of Spurt a, H gncock county, on the first
Tints day iu March next, agreeable to an order
rif the Inferiour Court of said, county, sitting for
ordinary purposes, .
A Negro woman, % the name of
tidy, belonging to the estate es Jesse Minton, de
ceased, for the benefit Os the heirs and creditors
of said deceased. Terms mate known on the
day . BYRD W. bKaZIL, Adfh'r.
NANC Y Ml NipN, Adm'x.
(fe\j)ec 9, 1824.
, , Administrators’ SfelK
the first Tuesday in March next. w j|| be
\Jjirpldat the court-house in Warren c,y n ty l
Qjjk tract of land jia the \vi* ers
T"T~ Trnrcp unfy aforesaid, wh.^ on
t3P!WHK ,oIts deceased, formerly lived, (~X l °
°"" er ) I’e'ng ‘he real estate of sf[i.
heS^d" 0 * atl<l >old f ° r the benefit ofYJii
LOCKHART, > . . , -
FONTAINE, ( Adm’rsa,
.. No *llffyr)B24. “mgs 1
dNolice.
A L k persons having demands against the estate
ZX of James Reese, are requested to
lay them in as the law directs.
„ i „ -IAS. ft ELSE, Jr. Executor.
Hancock co. Nov. 2t), 1824 22—6 w
THE MISS 10N AR V.
Georgia Legislature.
From, the Recorder of Dec. 21.
The Legislature adjourned sine die on
Saturday night last. Some of the most im
portant bills brought before the two Hoti
ses, particularly those to establish a Board
of Publick Works,—to new organize the
Militia System,—and to incorporate the
Georgia Canal Company, were either re
jected or not decisively acted on. An ap
propriation of ten thousand dollars was made
to defray the expense of surveys, &c. pre
paratory to commencing such works of In
ternal Improvement as a future Legislature
may deem advisable. A small appropria
tion was also allowed for collating, arrang
ing and preparing for publication, the old
records of the Colonial government, calcu
lated to shed light on the early history of
the state. The following resolutions for
the reception of Geo. Lafayette, were pas
sed unanimously in both Houses:
“ Information having been received that
Gen. Lafayette, the early and zealous de
fender and devoted friend of American lib
erty, will probably visit this State during the
present winter:
“ Resolved , by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Slate of Georgia, in
General Assembly met, that His Excellency
the Gbvernour be authorized and he is
hereby requested, lo receive the General
in such a manner as in bis judgement may
evince the gratitude of the people of this
State, for bis distinguished services.
“ And he it further unanimously resolved,
that His Excellency be authorized to draw
on the contingent fund of the State for such
sums of money as may be necessary for car
rying the nhject ofthe foregoing resolution
into effect.”
The following communication was sub
mitted lo the Legislature by His Excellen
cy the Governour, last Thursday:
Executive Department, Georgia, >
Milledgeville, 17th Dec.. 1824.
Asa reasonable expectation ought to be
indulged that the treaty now bolding with
ihe Creeks, after the negotiation has been
thoji far protracted, will terminate in a fur
ther acquisition of territory, I recommend
to you before your adjournment, to pas 9 a
provisional resolution requiring the Gover
nour in such event, to convene the Legisla
ture, and at such season as may best com
port with vour convenience.
(Signed) (j. M. TROUP
This communication was read and refer
red to ;i select committee, who subsequent
ly presented a resolution, which was adopt
ed as follows:
Rpsnlved, that should the contemplated
acquisition of territory, in (he discretion of
the Executive, require a called sessidn of
the Legislature, the month of Alay would
suit the convenience of the members.
Yesterday week the House took up the
resolution offered some days before by Dr
Fort, in the following words:
“ VVhqreas it is important that the will of
the people should prevail in all important
elections, apd io none is it more so than in
that of President of the United States; and
it being manifest that Geo Andrew Jack
son, if not the firsl, is decidedly the second
choice of the people of this State; and that
his popularity in a large portion of the U.
gfitates, and .especially in that section io
fjghich we are placed, is far greater than
rrnat of any other individual; and believing
t .as we do, that on this subject, we act in con
‘formity with the wishes of our constituents:
“ Be it therefore resolved by ihe Legislature
of Georgia , That in the event of the elec
tion of President of the United Stales com
ing before the House of Representatives,
and it appearing that Air. Crawford, who
has received the Electoral vote of this
State, cannot succeed to the Presidency,
our Representatives in Congress be, and
th''y are hereby requested to give the vote
ot this Slate to Gen. Andrew Jackson, he
being the second choice of Georgia.”
.And the same being read, Mr. Foster, of
Greene, offered the following as a substi
tute, to wit:
“ The General Assembly of (bis State,
having already expressed by the election of
Electors of President aod Vice-President,
its decided preference for William H. Craw
ford for the Presidency of the United
Slates: /V'-
“ Resolved, That it is inexpedient for the
Legislature at this time to give any further
opinion on the subject; and that should the
election for President come into Ihe House
of Representatives of the United States, we
have full confidence in the wisdom and in
tegrity of our Representatives, to whom it
belongs, to give the vote of this State on
this important question.”
Mr. Lumpkin moved that the original
and substitute lie on the table the remain
der of the session, which was finally agreed
i'fck.feas 63, Nays 43.
The apportionment of representation ie
rat counties, agreeably to the late
last page] increases the number
* d *® ,e roDn 1 H to 124.
OTil of the Commissioners for selling
!factions, Messrs. Loving, Jackson ami Adri
atfyftefrtSrflie High Court ot impeachment,
was postponed to the next meeting of the
Legislate
„, L j. ... , . mio ‘•'£ world, and preach the Gospel to every creature —Trnu Chri.i
all the dtgposdiong and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and indispensable Washington.
MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK COUNTY, GEORGIA,) MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1825.
[We select the TolloWing from the list of Acts i
passed by the Legislature at its last Session, omit
ting the most of those which are of local or indi
vidual interest.]
To cause the Justices of the Inferiour
Court to lay off three lots of land on the
common of the town of Madison, whereon
the Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist
persuasions have the right of buildin*
churches. °
lovest in (he Hib'emiaq Society of Sa
vannah all monies arising from the sale of
escheated estates of Irishmen in the county
ofChatbabi.
To authorize A. C. Middlebrooks of Mor
gan county, and John W. Graves of Clark
county, to establish a toll bridge over the
Appa'achie, at Hacks’ Ford ;—and U. S.
Park, of Morgan, to erect a toll bridge at
his mill on the Oconee.
To exempt all aliens within the State of
Georgia from ordinary militia duly.
To amend the act passed 9th Dec. 1819,
to impose an additional tax on Pedlers.
To repeal an act passed in 1817, to pro
hibit the introduction of slaves only on cer
tain- conditions.
To revive and amend the sereral land
acts now in force in relation to lands sur
veyed on head rights aad bounty warrants..
To incorporate the Walnut Creek Bap
list Church in the county of Jones.
To change the time of holding the Infe
riour court of Hancock county, so far as re
gards the summer session.
To pardon Thomas F. Hall of Chatham
county.
Fo alter and amend the 2d section of
the 2d article of the constitution of this
state.
To make valid certain grant* to land with
in certain reservations to the Cherokee In
dians.
Io extend the time for fortunate draw
ers to take out their grants.
To authorize a lottery for the purpose
of building a Masonick Hall in the ciy of
Augusta.
‘I o prohibit the Judges of the Superiour
courts in this state from practicing as attor
neys in the district and circuit courts for
the district of Georgia.
To repeal an act to regulate the inter
coure between the State Banks and the
United States Bank, so far as regards the
demands which may be made for specie by
the latter on the former.
To discharge females from the perform
ance of patrol duly.
To change the tipje of holding the Supe
riour courts in Bnrka county so far as re
lates to the Spring term.
To amend the law prohibiting slaves
from selling certain articles without li-.
cense.
To repeal all laws and parts of laws
which authorize the selling into slavery of
free persons of colour.
To prescribe the mode of choosing elec
tors of President and Vice President of the
U. States.
To raise a tax for the year 1825.
To amend the 3d section of an act point
ing out the duty of Sheriffs in selling land
under execution, passed in 1308.
To authorize the Governour to appoint
commissioners to contract for the bnilding
a Bridge across the Ocmulgee at Macon,
and for other purposes.
To authorize the Justices of the Inferi
our court of either county to build bridges
over water courses dividing counties.
To authorize Ebenezer Jencks to con
struct a canal from the Ogechee to the Sa
vannah river, and to vest in him and his
representatives the proprietary interest
thereof for the term of 60 years.
LA FAYETTE.
We were witness, yesterday, [Dec. 9.]
to the reception of General Lafayette by the
Senate of the United Slates. It was a scene
of simple but imposing dignity. Lafayette
is the only man who ever was, in his per
sonal capacity, pnbiickly received by the
Senate of the United States. General
Washington in all the brightness of his fame,
and all the plenitude of his popularity, in
vested, besides, with the dignity of the
Presidential Offiee, when he came to the
Senate, by appointment, to consult respect
ing a Treaty, was, indeed, received by them
standing, uncovered, as in the present case*
but even he was not attended and introduc
ed, as Lafayette has been, by a committee
of the most venerable members of the Sen
ate. On his introduction, yesterday, the
good old General was received, as a broth
er, rather than as a stranger—as one of a
loving family, come from a distant shore,
after a long and weary absence, to revisit
the friends of his youth. The respect
which has been shewn to him here, since
he arrived among us, is great, but it was all
due. No parallel case can ever occur.
Wbat has been done cannot be brought into
precedent; and there is no danger, in pay
iug respect to this worthy mao, that we
shall incur the charge of adulation or man
worship. At one o’clock this day he is to
be received by the House of Representa
tives.—National Intelligencer.
Washington Citv, December 10.
RECEPTION OF LAFAYETTE BY THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
.At I o’clock,, according to previous ar-
rangement,General LAFAYETTE appear
ed, attended by the Committee of twenty
four Members ofthe House of Representa
tives, and was introduced to the House by
Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Committee.
On the Oeneral’s entry, the Members
and persons admitted on the Uoor of the
Hoase, rose, and remained staoding, uncov
ered.
Mr. Speaker then rose, and, in behalf of
(he House, addressed the Nation’s Guest in
the following eloquent strain, adorned by
those graces of oratory for'which he is dis
tinguished :
1 General : The House of Representa
tives of the Uaitad States, impelled alike by
its own feelings and by those of the whole
American People, could not have assigned
to me a more gratifying duty than that of
being its organ to present to you cordial
congratulations upon the occasion of your
recent arrival in the United States, in com
pliance with the wishes of Congress, and
to assure you of the very high satisfaction
which your presence affords on this early
theatre of yoor glory and renown. Al
though but few of the members who com
pose this body shared with you in the War
of our Revolution, all have a knowledge,
from impartial history, or from faithful tra
dition, of the perils, the sufferings, and the
sacrifices, which you voluntarily encounter
ed, and the signal services, in America and
in Europe, which you performed lor an in
fant, a distant, and an.alien people; and all
feel and own the very great extent of the
obligations uoder which you have placed
our country. But the relations io which
you have ever stood to the United States,
interesting and importantas they have been,
do not constitute the only motive ofthe res
pect and admiration which this House en
tertains for you. Your consistency of
character, your uniform devotion to regu
lated liberty, in all the vicissitudes of a long
and arduous life, also commands its highest
admiration. During all the recent convul
sions of Europe, amidst, as after the disper
sions of, every political storm, the people
of the U. States have ever beheld you (rue
lo your old principles, firm and erect,
cheering and animating, with your well
known voice, the votaries of Liberty, its
faithful and fearless companion, ready to
shed the last drop ot that blootl which, here,
you so freely and nobly spilt in the same
holy case. * ..‘
u The vain wish has been sometimes in
dulged; that Providence would allow the
Patriot, after death, to return to bis coun
try, and to contemplate the intermediate
changes which had taken place— to view
the forests felled, the cities built, the moun
tains levelled, the canals cut, the highways
constructed, the progress of the arts, the
advancement of learning, and the increase
of population. General, your present visit
to the United States is the realization of the
consoling object of that wish. You are in
the midst of posterity ! Every where you
must have been struck with the great chan
ges, physical and moral, which have occur
red since you left us. Even this very city,
bearing a venerated name, alike endeared
to you and to us, has since emerged from
the forest which then covered its site. In
one respect, ybu behold us unaltered, and’
that is in the sentiment of continued devo
tion to liberty, and of ardent affection and
profound gratitude to your departed friend,
the father qf his country, and to your illus
trioos associates, in the “field and in (he Cab
inet, for the multiplied blessings which sur
round us, and for the very privilege of ad
dressing you, which I now exercise. This
sentiment, now fondly cherished by more
than ten millions of people, will be trans
mitted, with unabated vigour, down the tide
of time, through the countless millions who
are destined to inhabit this Continent, to
their latest posterity.”
To which address, General Lafayette re.
plied,in a tone in which energy of character
and (sensibility of feeling were most interes
tingly blended, to the following effect:
Mr. Speaker, and gentlemen of the House
of Representatives:
While the People of the United Slates
and their honourable Representatives in
Congress have deigned to make choice of
me, one of the American veterans, to signi
fy in his person their esteem for our joint
services and their attachment to the prin-
ciples for which we have had the honour to
fight and bleed, I am proud and happy to
share those extraordinary favours with my
dear Revolutionary companions—yet, it
would be, on my part, oncandid and ungrate
ful not to acknowledge my personal chare
in those testimonies of kindness, as they ex
cite io my breast emotions which no ade
quate words could express.
“ My obligations to (be United States, sir,
far exceed any merit I might claim. They
date from the time wheta f hare bad the
happiness to be adopted as a young soldier,
a favoured son of America. They have
been continued to me during almost half a
century of constant affection and confidence,
and now, sir, thanks to your most gratifying
invitaiioo, I find myself greeted by a aeries
of welcomes, one boor of which would more
than compensate for the publick exertion*
and sufferings of a whole life.
“The approbation of the American peo
ple and their Representatives, for my cen-
[Price $3 50 per ann.
duct during the vicissitudes of the European
Revolution, is the highest reward I could .
receive. Well may I staud “firm and
erect,” when, in their names, and by you,
Mr. Speaker, i am declared to have, in ev
ery instance, been faithful to those Ameri
can principles of liberty, equality, and true
social order, the devolioo to which, as it has
been from my earliest youth, so it shall con
tinue to be to my latest breath.
“You have been‘pleased, Mr. Speaker,
lo adude to the peculiar/felicity of my situ
ation, when, after so long an absence, l am
called to witness the immense improve-’
ment*, the admirable communications, the
prodigious r-atipns of which we find an ex
ample ip tbia Cily v wvjwvo4j an j rt ia n
venerable Palladium; ta a word, t.l’. M
grandeur and prosperity of these happy
United Stales, which, at the same time they
nobly secure the complete assertion of
American Independence, reflect on every
part of the world the light of a lar superiour
political civilization. •
“ What better pledge cAn be given of
a persevering national love of liberty, when
those blessings are evidently the result of a
virtuous resistance to oppression, and of in
stitutions founded on the rights of man and
the Republican principle of self-govern
ment. JSo, Mr. Speaker, posterity has not
begun for me—since, in the sons of my
companions and friends, 1 find the same pub
lick feelings, and, permit me to add, the
same feelings in ny behalf, which i have
had the happinees to experience in their
fathers.
“ Sir, I have been allowed, forty years
ago, before a Committee of a Coogress of
thirteen States, to express the fond wishes
of an American heart. On this day I have *
Ihe honour, and enjoy the delight, to con
gratulate the Representatives ofthe Union,
so vastly enlarged, on the realization of
those wishes, even beyond every hutpaa
expectation, and upon the almost infinite
prospects we can with certainty anticipate.
“ Permit me, Mr. Speaker, and gentle
men of the House of Representatives, to
join, to the expression of those sentiments,
a tribute of my lively gratitude, affectionate
devotion and profound respect.”
Alter the General and the Members had
resumed their seats, and a short pause oc
curred, 0
Mr. Mitchell, the organ of the Committee
of reception, moved an adjournment.
The motion was agreed to, and the House
was adjourneJ to Monday.
The Speaker then descended from the
Chair, and most affectionately saluted the
General. His example ivas followed by
the Members of the House, individually,
and some lime was spent in Ibis agreeable
manner before Ihe General retired.
MILITARY COURTSHIP.
Henry VIII. wished to unitp the crowns
of England and Scotland, by the marriage
of his soa Edward with Mary, Queen of
Scots. Edward and Mary wer theu chil
dfen, and James V. the father of Mary, bad
recently died. Hefiry made Ihe proposi
tion for marriage to Ihe Parliament of Scot
land. At first they consented; but hangb
ty demands on the part of Henry disgusted
the Scots, and they ilecliued ratifying the
bargain. Henry, enraged at this indignity,
sent an army into Scotland, under the Earl
of Hertford, with the following orders:—-
“to put all to fire and sword—to burn Edin
burgh to sack houses and as many towns
and villages about Edinburgh as ye may
conveniently. Sack Leilh and subvert it,
and all Ihe rest, putting man, woman, and
child fire and sword, without exception,
when any resistance shall be made against
yon: and this done, pass over to Fifeland,
and extend like extremities and destruction
to all towns and villages whereunto yon
may reach conveniently.”
All this was done to induce the Scots to
acquiesce ia the proposed alliance, and to
revenge a soppnsed affront.
“These barbarous orders,” says Dr.
Robertson, “seem to have been executed
with a rigorous exactness.” In confirms
tion of this remark he gives a report of what
the Britons effected in fifteen days in the
secoad year of the war in two counties only.
“ They burnt, razed, and destroyed io the
counties of Berwick and Boxbtiry—Monas
teries and Friar’s houses, 7; —Castles,
towns, and piles, 16;—Market towns, 5;
Villages, 243!”
“ Such rough courtship, as the Earl of
Hunily humourously celled it, disgusted the
whole nation; their aversion to the match
grew mto abhorrence.* But this manner
of courting was continued several years, and
was not closed when Henry died. After his
death the Earl of Hertford was make Duke
of Somerset, and he reigned as Protector in
the minority of Edward VI. He pursued
Henry a plan of courtship, and entered
Scotland with a great army, and caused the
death of 10,000 Scots. But after all this
havock, devastation and horrour, the object
was aot attained. Mary was never married
to Edward Vj.
What we have now before us is a fair
sample of what have been called, “just and
necessary wars” in Christendom. Whoev
er will be -at the trouble of examining his
tory iu respect to the numerous wars which
ChjfHljttn prions have waged, within the