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• aii. approved on the following*
‘l' n ! ’| JV the Colombian Generals
Vlaiiqae and Padilla- Its princi
pal provisions art that Morales and
.jj t [ loS e attached to him are to
the country, and that they
, m , to he considered prisoners of
war until exchanged. Morales
l. icl been sent to Cuba, and the
j.gjt were to he taken at the ex
iise of the Colombian Governor
meat.
General Pacz had gone from Ca
ractas to summon Porto Cavello,
now the last hold of the Royalists,
to surrender-
In consequence of this decisive
intelligence, illuminations at La-
Guavra and Caraccas had taken
place,and were to continue for three
days.
Thus after an arduous contest ol
upwards of twelve years, has Co
lombia overcome her oppressors
and established for herself an hon
orable name among the Nations.
Her struggle has been similar, and
even harder than that of the U.
States in the establishment of our
Independence. May the result be
cquallv propitious to her happiness
and glory.
RECOGNITION of independence.
A preliminary treaty of peace
has been concluded between the
Spanish government and that of
Huenos Ayres, on the footing of an
independent nation, which may be
considered the first step to the pa
cification of South America. The
articles of the treatv were first an
nounced at a meeting of American
citizens engaged in celebrating the
Fourth of Juli/at Buenos Ayres—a
dav auspicious to republicanism
anu independence. The convention j
agreed upon provides, for the im
mediate cessation of hostilities, in
which the Spanish forces in Peru
are to be included. As soon as it
shall be ratified by the representa
tives of the republic of Buenos Ay
res, it is further provided that the
latter shall negociate with the gov
ernments of Chili, Peru, and the
othei provinces of the Rio tie la
Mata for their joining in the same.
V project of a law is published
Mth the treatv, which is important,
isshewing the temper of the re
mblicansof the south, in regard to
lie question at issue between Spain
md France, and contains a proviso
iffording to the Cortes, a spe
fc.es of assistance of which they
itand peculiarly in want. The pro
let is signed bv Rivadivia, minis
ler of foreign relations,and declares,
liat as “ the war which Louis the
■Bth is preparing to make against
lie Spanish nation, is directly and
Irincipallv against the principle re
lognized by the first article of the
luv of the 10th March, 1822, the
Iwvernment is authorized in case
■he said aggression be realized, to
Regociate that, after the celebration
Rt the definitive treaty of peace and
Riendship \vith his Catholic Ma-
Rsty,on the basis of the law of the
loth June, preliminary to which is
lie convention of the 4th of July
I the present jear, there be vo
id between the American states
■e cognized as independent in con-
Iquence of the said definitive trea
■’ * or the support of the indepen-
Ince ol Spain under the represen
|tive system, the same sum of
■ ent Y millions of dollars, which
B>r the destruction thereof, the
■lumbers of Paris, in the month
■ March last, have voted to their
eminent.” Another project of
■ * a 'v, proposes that the army in
■uu, called the division of the An
lp, shall be considered as part
■ the permanent army of the pro
■ncei Georgian.
■ The Royal Gold Coast Gazette,
■*cit ed at the Boston Patriot Of
■ ,Vcs a melancholy detail of
■ c J nur der and piracy committed
the American brig Edward—
■ lcr .ipy had passed the African
[ l*P e fhiee Points the hands mur
■iia the captain while asleep at
■ stein of the vessel by stabbing
V 1 1 lr °wing him overboard. —
H” ‘ then made a division of the
■K- P .u rty and settled the vessel,
‘ K ! sun k with so much rapidity
■ compelled to aban-
■ ll their bloody treasures to es-
I ‘'*th their lives. Three mon
uve been arrested and are
I tii-' V ltwa 'ting the sentence of jus
■e.
is reported to have
I T' 1 ill at - V Weßtou l hc 3Uth ult.
atiweiws,
.Months, Sept. 29, \S23.
£
(&* Otiing to an alteration in
the arrival ami departure of the mail,
The \l*ss(*iger will in future be pub
lished on Wednesday instead of Mon
day.
Next Monday our election comes on
for a Senator and Representative.
C A NDID AT F.S SV mill'.
TIMOTHY MAT FUR WS, Esq.
CHARLES BULLOCK.
Representative.
On. S. M. INGERSOL.
c. w. RAINES, Esq.
STEPHEN WILLIAMS, Esq.
IQ” The following section is to be
found in the Militia Law of 1818:
Sec. XXXVII. VII officers whilst on duty,
and nny juilitini called to musters or parades,or
lo cou-ts martial, or to courts of inquiry, hav
ing to pass over toll bridges, ferries, or through
turnpike gates, shall pass toll free, going to and
returning from such mu.-ter, parade, or court
as aforesaid.”
\V c will only ask, if ferriage was
not demanded of, and paid bv almost
every militiaman who was obliged to
cross the river to muster in Macon on
Sat urday last, and at a former muster ?
—and if such exactions were not un
lawful r
We understand a murder was com
mitted a few days since in Pulaski
county, on a Mr. Haddock. Our in
formant says: Haddock was in conver
sation with a Mr. Briant, who was a
candidate for the Legislature.—Had
dock told him that he never had voted
for him, and he expected he never
should; on which a quarrel ensued,
and Briant beat his antagonist very
severely. A short time afterwards a
Mr Rouse and Haddock quarrelled,
and Rouse beat him; he died that night.
N\ e understand that Rouse is confi
ned in jail, and that Briant has made
his escape.
Since that time, in a riot in Twiggs
county, a Mr. Johnston struck a man
by the name of Mosely with the bol
ter of a Jersey-waggon, knocked him
down, and beat him very severely ; af
ster which, Mosely got hold of the bol
ster and gave Johston a blow with it,
which produced instant death.
At the date of our information, Mose
ly had been before the proper authority
two or three days, but no decision was
made as to what should be done with
him.
Another Murder has lately been
committed in DeKalb county, of which
we have not heard the particulars.
Daniel Sturges, Esq. Surveyor Ge
neral of this State, died in Milledge
ville on the 17th inst. Benjamin H.
Sturges, his son, has been appointed,
to that oftice by the Executive.
Presentments of the Grand Jury at the
iSuperior Court, Bibb county, Sept.
term, 1823.
We the Grand Jurors of the county
of Bibb, view with deep concern, the
want of public funds wherewith to
build a court-house utid jail ; the great
necessity that such buildings should
be immediately prepared for the
public use; the total absence of
any means within the reach of the
county to obtain this object, without
resorting to such enormous taxation
mi the few inhabitants of this small
county as would operate as an oppres
sion, and drive our citizens to more
fortunate counties, as well as prevent
the emigration of those that might oth
erwise be disposed to settle here. MS e
are compelled by an act of the legis
lature to set our public buildings in
the town of Macon, with tour acres of
land as the site on which to build our
court-house and jail ; and all the mo
nies arising from the sales ol lots in
said town, go directly to the State,
while in other counties west ol the
Oakmulgce, the Inferior courts have
had the privilege of selecting the sites:
for their public buildings, selling lots
for a county town, and receiving the
profits arising from the increased val
ue of the land and lots. ‘I here are
but few counties in the state that have
been compelled by acts of the Legis
lature to place their public buildings
in particular towns ; and these lew
have been amply compensated by the
state for that restriction, and enabled
to erect suiiatdc publick buildings
without resorting to taxation.
W e therefore earnestly solicit the
best exertions of the members from our
county in the ensuing session ol the
general assembly, to engage the atten
tion of the legislature, and urge them
to grant us relief by bestowing the
tents of the reserve lands and publick
property in the county, o; such a num
ber of lots in the town of Macon, as
will enable the inferior court to raise
ample funds for the erecting of publick
buildings in said county.
We return our thanks to his honor,
Judge Shorter, for his assiduous at
tention to the <1 uties of his office,
and the steady administration of jus
tice during the presen tterm : Wo also
approve of the prompt attention of the
Solicitor General, McDonald, to the
duties of his office; and feel thankful
for his aid and co-operation with this
body in their endeavours to suppress
vice and immorality.
We request that the Clerk of this
Court, serve our Senator and Repre
sentative elected from this countv,
each with a copy of the above present
ment.
We request that these presentments’
be published in the Messenger and
Georgia Journal.
TIMOTHY MATTHEWS, Foreman.
John W. Griffin, .Fumes H. Rogers,
Daniel Wardsworth, Archibald Darrngh,
Thomas Tatum, Moses Pettis, sen.
George It. Bryan, Frederick Holmes,
Henry Bell, Irwin Bullock,
Moses Pettis, Jun. Josejdi Childs,
John Jones, Randal Me wart,
Spencer Riley Thomas Moody,
Leonard Sons, Isaac Phillips
Robert Coleman, Harrison Smith
Extract from the minutes of the Su
perior Court of Bibb cdunty, at Sep
tember term, 1823.
N. W. WELLS, Clerk.
A load of prime Cottlon was sold
a few days ago in Augusta at IGA.
A letter published iu the Savannah
Republican says “There will not be
half crops of cotton made in the coun
ties south of Bryan. The caterpillers
have very generally made their ap
pearance.
COMMUNICATED.
TO FLOKIO.
Alas, alas, poor Florio,
What makes you sigh in sorrow so,
Women may sometimes cruel prove
But trust I only meant to try your love.
Return and now no more despair,
Nor he your bosom filled with care,
For since you write such poetry,
I cannot keep from loving thee.
And maugre reason, you may hope,
Nor let your spirits longer droop ;
And when at length old age shall come,
You’ll find a calm and happy home.
Return and the beautiful rose you may gather,
In spite ot the wind and the weather,
For who is there so cold and chill,
That would again treat you so ill.
The thorn it shall not wound your hand,
As you are the prettiest poet of the land ;
And I w ill not he like Barbara Allen cruel,
Fos that w ould be adding fire to fuel*
And since you would not injure me,
But always kind and tender be,
Mv thanks to tree are surely due,
As one who will always prove true.
But ah, with wiial woful pain I read
In that good pV. e which you have
That womankind you think is frail,
Alas, l cried, what can him ail.
But this I can for once forgive,
As twas m a moment of mental grief,
So once again, i say, return,
Nor e’er my proffered favors spurn.
M* * *
* Tranposition of words admissible in Poetry.
University of Georgia. —At the late
meeting of the Trustees of this insti
tution, several important changes were
made in its arrangements. Dr. Hen
ry Jackson, who has heretofore had
charge of the department of Natural
Philosophy and chemistry, now de
votes his attention to that of Natural
Philosophy, in addition to this, he
delivers lectures on Botany, which
students may attend or not as they
[think proper. A separate professor
[ ship of Chemistry has been established,
i in which James Jackson officiates. —
Mr. Church attends to Elementary
Mathematics and Astronomy as here
tofore. It is in contemplation to re
establish the professorship of Langua
ges, and to place in it a man who will
teach something more than the mere
conjugation of Greek and Latin verbs.
The President’s duties remain un
changed. Journal.
A few days since a large New-
Foundland i)og, having been du
ly levied upon in this place, was
sold at constable’s t for twenty
dollars. This is the first case of
the kind we recollect to have heard
of.—Whether Cats are not equally
liable to execution, might perhaps
be a legal question worthy of grave
dis cussion. Those of the W hit
tington breed would probably sell
well where rats were plenty, and
many persons would gladly perhaps
see even the rats themselves dispo
sed of, bv execution or otherwise.
Aug. Chron.
An affair of forgery was recently
tried iu the city of New-York, in w hich
it appeared, from the opening of the
case, that the wife of a person named.
Weir had aided and assisted a Mr.
Colburn, iu counterfeiting her hus
band’s check on a bank for 8800 which
they obtained and fled with, the hus
scy leaving her children behind. The
wretches were arrested, and 8755 of
the money recovered—and, though a
presentment had been made against
the woman, the testimony of her hus
band was not received, as s!.e might
be a party to the matter ; and so her
partner was acquitted.
On the evening of the sth inst.
a Cross was raised on Brovklyn
heights, dedicated by the ladies ot
New-York to the cause of the
Greeks. It measured twenty feet,
and has on it the following in
scription, u Sacred to the cause
of the Greeks.” Gen. Swift, who
superintended the planting of the
cross, made some patriotic obser
vations to the persons assembled,
after which Dr. Mitchell, advan
ced and delivered a very appropri
ate address, which he closed as fol
lows :
“To the Ladies who have caus
ed this proud Monument to he
prepared for erection, greater praise
is due than any I have heretofore
bestowed on the milder sex.
“ To the scientific and distin-!
guished gentleman, mv excellent I
friend, through whom the offering!
is presented, I offer my express
ions of felicitation, that he should
have been thus highly honored.—
May the object it contemplates be in
its attainment.”
HUMOR —M. M. Neali, Esq. editor of live
New’-"York National Advocate, in reply to the
charge that he is “a British born subject,”
gives the following humorous account of his
birth, education, fcc.
“ 1 was horn long after the peace,
in Water-st.at Philadelphia,in a yel
low house, up two pair of stairs, fac
ing the water, on a hot July day. I
emigrated earlv to New-York, went
to school to old Latham, in Garden
street, opposite the church, who
used to make us sing, “ when the
rosy morn appearing.” Half my
political companions in arms, I
mean pen*, were classmates at the
same school. We all rode the old
white goat, Billy Warner, belong
ing to the stables in New-street,
and went down in shoals to Coffee
House Slip, to eat molasses with a
straw out of the hogsheads. lam
Englishman ! Poh !”
AMERICAN LITERATURE.
Two volumes of a work published at
Edinburg, entitled the “ Coronal ,”
consisting almost entirely of Ameri
can productions, and the proof sheet
of a third (which will be published
next year,) devoted exclusively to our
literature, have been received at New-
York. In the third volume it is
said that Washington Irvine, will
again appear in the prose department;
and the poetical productions of Mr.
Brooks, (the author of “ Florio,”)
Duct. Percival, and a poem entitled
“ Ontwa,” with numerous fugitive pie
ces from Newspapers, Magazines, &c.
w ill complete it.
An advertisement in the Lan
cacter Gazette announces the per
petration of a most daring robbery,
which was committed on the night
tot’ the 29th ult. Marietta, Pa. by
three villains who seized the Cash
ier of Marietta and Susquehanna
trading Company,on the back porch
ot the banking house, and presen
ting three pistols to his breast to
enforce silence, dragged him into
the hank and compelled him to un
lock the vault, from which they
took out and carried away all the
books and promissory notes and
other valuable papers belonging to
to the bank, and a large quantity
of bank paper. One ot the villains
held the Cashier with a pistol to
his breast, until his two comrades
had sufficient time to escape with
their plunder, and then made his
escape. The villains were well
diguised and masked and spoke
only in the German language.
‘The trustees of the Bank offer
a reward of One Thousand Dol
lars for the apprehension and con
viction of the villains.
Latest from Europe.
London and Liverpool papers have
been received to the 30th and 31st
July. ‘The following is a summary of
the most important intelligence con
tained in them, respecting the war in
Spain.
The affairs of Spain have taken a
new aspect and tlie Spanish character
brea ks out with all its original bright
ness. The French army are scatter
ed through her territory and are now a
prey to the Guerilla system, which
they have so much occasion to dread,
w hile the Cortes, safe in the Isla, pur
sue the even (tenor of their way with
dignity and resolution. In one in-!
stance, a party made its appearance
within 25 miles of Madrid ; the Empe
cinado is spoken of with dread and ter
ror wherever he appears; and Mina,
the indefatigable Mina, so often de
feated and destroyed, is, it is said,
again in the rear of Moncey w ith,9ooo
men.
The news from Galica is amply con
firmed. The French were repulsed
in all their attacks on Corunna with
great slaughter.
The attack commenced on the 15th
of July with 500 men (so the account
states) and lasted till the 19th, when
the French made a hasty retreat, and
left their heavy artillery and conside
rable baggage and munitions of war to
the victors. The Spaniards were pre
paring a force of 1200 men to pursue
and annoy their retreat, while Sir Rob
ert Wilson was to embark for Vigo to
hasten the movement of a much larger
force iu that quarter for the same pur
pose.
The London Run of the 28th says,
“ We are just enabled to give the most
positive assurances that our govern
ment lias received no such information
as was announced in the Courier of
Saturday last, respecting the alleged
intention of the French government to
withdraw their army to the Ebro ; and
that, on the contrary, the statement in
question is believed to be a gross fa
brication.”
Whether the Duke d’Angouleme
chooses to retire beyond the Ebro or
not, at the present moment, is nor of
much importance. It is quite proba
ble, from the course of present events,
that he will lose the only good excuse
for that measure, the improbability of
reconciling the discord existing among
the Royalists, who will perhaps have
the pleasure of accompanying him in
his flight before the victorious Consti
tutionalists.
Intelligence from Cadiz of the date
of the 14th of July, states that the ut
most determination prevailed among
all classes to defend the Constitution
to the last. There were in the Isla
22,000 troops, and the city full of mi
litia and volunteers. An order had
just been issued by the Governor of
Cadiz for every inhabitant to provide
himself with six months provisions.
Mina. —Ar. article dated Baris, Ju
ly 28, says—“ The latest information
announces that Mina with 9000 men,
is marching from Upper Catalonia, by
which means he may again get in the
rear of our army, and cause some con
fusion on the frontiers.”
Sorties continue to be made from
Seu d'Urgel; on the 16th and 19th,
brisk actions took place, in which a
number on both sides were killed and
wounded, but no important result fol
lowed.
A convent in Madrid was set fire to
on Sunday the 2tith July, in three
places while the Duke d’Angouleme
was at Mass. The perpetrators were
not discovered, though many arrests
had taken place.
It is mentioned as certain, that the
Duke of Angouleine will leave Mad
rid in a few days. General St. Priest
passed through here yesterday on his
way to the Duke’s head quarters. —
There must be some very important
communications to make to require
such a messenger.
I ■ II ■ ■! ■ ■■ I ‘ ■-■II ■
(jfj* A Communication on lying,
fyr. lias been received, but is unavoidably post
poned until next week.
.AtU\uuisVv\tors Si\\e.
ON Monday, the 10th day of No
vember next, will be sold at the
late residence of George Wilson, late
of Bibb county, dec’d.
The \)evsmuv\ property of
said deceased,consistingofHousehold
and Kitchen Furniture, Farming uten
sils, one Horse, some Hogs, Cattle,
Corn anti Fodder, and other articles
too tedious to mention.
Terms made known on the day of
Sale.
JAMES PEARSON, Adm’r
Sept. 26th, 1823. tds—2B
SViev'ifTs Sale.
ON the first Tuesday in November
next, will be sold at the house
of Maj. John Keener, the appointed
place of holding Court for Bibb county
—between the usual hours of sale—
the following property, viz.
330 acres of land more nr less, it
being the plantation on which Leonard.
Sims now lives, well improved—to-
S;ether with one Saw and Grist Mill,
ying on Swilt Creek, and in formerly
Twiggs, now Libb county, the Nos.
not known—aL levied on as the pro
perty of said Leonard Sims, to satisfy
two li las in tavor of Charles Bullock,
administrator on the estate of Wm.
W. Dawson, deceased. Terms cash.
EDMUND C. BEARD, Sh’tt.
Sept. 29, 1823. tds3B
YUi.WIY G. KOSS,
BAS removed his Stock of Goods
to the store lately occupied by
Robertson & Granberry,
Fort Hawkins, Sept 22.