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AXZWEmm**. amid ara IP&MAILIII&J*
r , U e children sat on tho shote weep
lJ! '. riv; at length they were filled with
b rb “,, p'siffht ot a canoe approaching the
/ b - Rufthov soon discovered that t was
I^;.. ith Indian;- —their delight was chang
. a nd they lied into the woods.—
,nto |iiat the savages had murdered
llC '-pf- and were now come to seek for
lCir ,h -vcrouchcd under the bushes hiding
“ c ® :* a' Sfcai like a brood of young part
n,briU The Indians having kindled a lire
•“'Sf- n . a cefally around it and began to
ll * 'their morning meal; and the eldest
she peeped out from her hiding p ace
*'n to think that they had not killed their
she reflected too that they must in
;tl‘ , K . starve if left oil this lone island,while
.here w . possibility of
ino tinJlv treated 1), Hie India™. flic
stoooflier brother and sister who had
' :r)C * ° „ ill „ piteously for food had pierced
hean D and "wakened all her energy. She
i.he little ones, over whose feeble rn.nds
t spirit had acquired an absolute sway
Liui) and go with her; then taking a hand
she fearlessly led them to the In
' fire. Fortunately the savages
Srstood our language, and when the little
deserted children kindly,
•. Jcontiuctcl them to the nearest ot our
:; wn s where they were kept by some bene von
i,-nt people until their own relations claimed
them. . ,
ORIENTAL MAXIMS.
Men show particular lolly on five different
a*(visions —-when they establish their fortune
*ho ruin of another—when they expect to
excite love-bv coldness, and by showing more
m:tfks of dislike than attention—when they
scok friends without making any advances ot
friendship; and when they are unwilling to
succor thei. friends in distress.
The world is too narrow tor two quanci
sotnc- tools to live in it.
Avarice is the chastisement of the rich.
Your white hairs are the avai t-couriers of
Ydir (ieatti.
’ Kj who ha3 not his hand open has lus heart
9Ut, . r *1
True prudence is to see from the com
jencemeiit ot an allair what \\ ill bo the end
it' it.
Be of good cheer when your emmies are
divided among themselves, but fear when
hey arc united and of one accord.
V/iiat is easily acquired does not long cm
Aire.
In whatsoever house you enter, remain mas
ter of your eyes and your toiigAe.
Why repent a second tiiiioot an action of
which we have already repeated ?
If you wish that your own merit should be
recognised, recognize tine merit ot others.
Never give counsel when it is not asked of
roil; especially to those who are incapable
f appreciating it.
How short life would bp, if hope did not
give it extent! .
The body increases by sleep,-the mind ac
cumulates ii*- watching.
Do not shorten the long nights by slumber
nor prolong the short days bv wickediiesfi.
The mu;, that watches by night, rejoices
bv day.
To teach a knave, is to put a dagger into
the hands of an assassin.
A wicked soul is capable of all the wick
edness it can conceive.
Think on those who have gone before you
—consider the empires which have passed
awav, and of all which has ever been, nothing
remains hut the traces of virtue.
The wisest of men is he who has the most
complaisance for others.
Two things arc embarrassing; to be silent
Mien we ought to speak, and to speak when
we ought to be silent. _____
wiKts/rv.
From the iV. Y. Constellation.
Editorial CRr.DVi.rrv. — One would sup
pose on reading the newspapers, that tlie corps
editorial was made up of the most credulous
beings in the world : that they were never
accustomed to examine into the ‘ruth of any
thing; but took every thing implicitly and
upon trust. This however is not the case, as
any body may easily discover by conversing
with the individuals of whom the editorial fa
culty is composed. They will generally Ik
found to be men who are accustomed to rea
son upon and to sift thoroughly the truth ot
any proposition, as any other edass of people ,
and, tor the most part, arc men of too ninch
sense and information to he imposed by every
improbable storv, or every shallow artifice
With which mankind arc assailed.
How comes it then that \*. e find in their
publications, from the bed-blanket daily down
to the seven by-nine weekly, shell ridiculous
instances of that upparont credulity with which
they arc almost continually charged? VVe
Jeavc them to answer this question tor them
selves, while we proceed to give a few sp ci-
Jnsns from our exchange papers, by way of li
bation.
Important Discovery. —We have recently
had the pleasure of examining the model ot a
machine for digging vessels. It begins to ex
cavate at the bottom instead of the top, and
thereby saves the labor of throwing out the
< arth, as in the ordinary mode. It is thus a
great saving of expense, as well as a preven
tion ot danger IV . n a recoil of the earth, for a
Mill may be dugin one part of the tint
1 moinonly employed for that purpose —an l it
is self evident, that if the earth be not thrown
’’p, it cannot return upon the head ol the dig
g'T* • . .
The inventor of this-ingenious machine is
a Mr. Mole, a young man of this neighbor
hood, who has politely explained tA ns tlio
operation of dm model; and who, we arc l>ap
l>y to understand, intends to apply for a patent,
flic invention is, of course, entirely his owti;
though, with a modesty which dot s him nfi
r*ito (redit, ho acknowledges that lie derived
r • n first hint from the operation of the ground
s'Piirrel, which,it is well known, always hc
: ins digging at the bottom of its hole.” — Cob*
hiiil (*~eite.
I lUib’r cure for u no l '• —Mrs. Ilorc*
""■id, wr>i* known as a remarkably skilUil
_ ; in f’.i? 'own. has lmrn (
gcod enough to furnish us with the following
recipe for the cure ot colds, coughs, and con
sumptions ; and though we have not yet had
the pleasure of trying it on our own editorial
selves, we have no manner of doubt of its en
tire efficacy. It is simply this : Take the
upper leather of two old shoes—burn them
crisjr, so that they can be conveniently redu
ced to a powder. To tli .-.c add the izzards
ot two setting liens, also burnt or dried so as
to be easily pulverised ; after which throw
in a single handful of dried cuinhurnblc root
—>and grind them well together in a mortal*.
Then add six table spoonfuls of molasses;
three ot neats foot oil, and a small ouantity of
green cumcandlestickibus, together with just
rain water enough to give the mixture a sort
of demi-semi-Huidity. Then take one table
spoonful of tiie mixture every hour, until the
cough and other sympioms abate.
M e are not sufficiently acquainted with the
modus operand* of medicines, to giv, any ve
ry exact account of the manner in which this
wonderful imubc'nc effects a cure. But as
far as we cah understand the matter, it does
it.; work chiefly by operating en the pie-glottis
which is a kind of clapper or valve, situated
at the opening of the wine pipe, and w hich,
during a cough, flies back and forth with infi
nite violence, causing all those uneasy sym
toms which attend on that complaint—but
which is reduced to astute of tin- most com
fortable quiescence by swallowing a very few
doses of the above incomparable medicine. —
We would not wish any of our friends to he
afflicted with a cold, cough, or consumption,
gratis; but should any of them he soalflictcd
hut should not hesitate a moment in recom
mending Mrs. Ilorehound’s infallible reme
dy.”—Flewcllcn Adv.
Extraordinary Incident. —A very singular
incident happened in this neighborhood a day
or two since. Miss Periwinkle, an elderly,
hut respectable maiden lady who resides with
her brother, Lieut. Jeck.onia.ii Periwinkle,
went into the eellar just before dinner, to get
some butter which had been placed there to
keep it cool, when a very strange noise was
heard by the family upstairs, who immediately
proceeded to investigate the cause—and, as
tonishing to relate !—they found tha . Miss
Periwinkle had fallen plump from the cellar
into the garret ! But, what is very remarka
ble, though the house is three stories high,
she was not in the least injured by the fall.—
Bhe was, however, monstrously frightened,
and wc understand lias scarcely yet recovered
from the shock.
So extraordinary an incident is almojt be-1
yorui belief, and we should be very much dis- !
posed to doubt its truth, did it depend oa the j
evidence of our own sight. Hut fortunitely j
we have better testimony-—that of the lady [
herself—of Lieutenant Periwinkle, her #ro- !
thcr—of Mrs. Periwinkle, her sister-in-law \
and her Kitty Cabbage, Mrs. Periwinkle’s i
hired girl. The fact .then is beyond doubt,!
but to account for it, we must confess, is en-1
tirely beyond our ability, it is, as every bo- 1
knows a principle m natural philosophy, I
for heavy bodies in failing to desuend, and I
not ascend. Light bodies, we know, will in-!
continently mount upwards. Put levity, we
are bound in justice to say, formed no part of
the character of Miss Periwinkle, on the con
trary she was a la<ty of singular ana V ItOVVi,
edged gravity. How then are we to account
for her falling upwards! But we leave the I
subject for the discussion of abler pens, just
observing, in the language ofllamlet, the
Moor, “there are more things in heaven and |
earth, than are dreamt in moral
Remarkable Phenomenon. —We arc credi
bly informed that a Mr. Daniel Mouscr, who
resides about three miles from this place, on
Sunday afternoon discharged’ from his sto
mach tune living rats, two of which are lull,
grown, ami the rest young ones, apparently
about a month old. "Mr. Motiser had been
for some time complaining ot a strange affec
tion of the stomach, and otten declared that
he verily believed he had something in him—
what it was he could not tell—but be was
persuaded it was some living animal Or other,
for fie distinctly felt It kick, especially alter
fasting longer than usual.
This is one of the most remarkable pheno
mena ever exhibited. We sincerely hope it
will not become a common practice for ani
mals of this description to burrow in a man’s
bread basket—especially in that of apoor ed
itor, who finds it sufficiently difficult to pro
vide for his own wants, let alone those ot the
rats.
P. S.—Since the above was in type we un
derstand the nine rats are on tiicir way to New
York, for public exhibition, where we have
no dou.t they will successfully compete with
the Ourang Outang and the two cannibals. ’
Rattitut Gcz. and Weekly Adv. •
A limit at last. —Wc understand, that, as a
delegate to the bite Abington Rail Road
Convention was returning home, ho overtook
a drove of several hundred cattle, when the
following dialogue passed between him and
sonic of ihe drovers:
Delegate. Well, gentlemen, you have
muddy times of it; but m a few years you
may possibly have a better way of getting
your cattle to market. •
Drover. In what way, stranger ?
Delegate. Why hn\u’t # you heard that a
rail road was to be made from Knoxville
down to Lynchburg?
Drover. 'Veil, what has that to do with
driving cattle ? Suppose they can t travel on
a rail-road ?
Delegate. No; but it is said they may be
taken ni liens ori a rail-way. What would
you think of a large pen, containing fifty or a
liundred beef cattle, mounted on w heels* and
travelling along a rail-road at the rate of ten
or fifteen miles an hoar ’
Drover. Now stranger, do you think it pos
sible lot such a thing as that to be done ?
Delegate. Why, such tilings arc spoken
of.
Drover. Well —it may lm so—l never saw
a rail-road —but I II be if 'ieneral Jack
son himself could do it.
The following exhibition of Kentvckyim
is mado by Mr. Jlackctt, in the character of
Nimrod Wildfire in the play of that name,
ft is the chief merit, of Mr. H. that, keenly;
observant of phrases and provincialisms, he
e.f*- thetm 'Kfether, and is, by tin :r nt.*-1
;sf u; ition in a lamp, enabled to give as fair a
, specimen either of the western or Yankee
j. character, as it is possible to unfold. He is,
in sooth, alive‘Mown caster,” or a “roarer”
irom the Mississippi. He never coins an ex
pre> ion, or manufactures an epithet: for he
has heard them all. The Subjoined adven
ture of Nimrod Wildfire; is mw going about
in the papers ; and although ;• little hirsute,
is nevertheless graphic in the extreme: —
*;I was rulin' along the Mississippi in my
waggon,” (says Nimrod), when I came acrosL
u feller floatin’ down stream, seii.n’ in the
st am of his boat fast asleep! Well, I had’nt
hud a fight for ten days —felt as tho' I should
hare to ktver myself in a salt barrel to keep
him so Wolfy, abo it the head and shoulders.
So, say, 1, “huHoa, stranger! if dont take
keer, your boat will run away with you!” So
he looked up at me slautindicklcr, and i
looked down on him slant r idickler—he took
out a chor o’ tobaccer, aud says he, “I dont
value you tat amount to that!" and then the
varmrnt flapped his wings and crowed like a
cock. 1 ris up, shook my mane, crooked my
neck, and neighetl like a horse. He run his
boat plump headfufmost ashore. I stopped
my waggon and sot my triggers. “Mister,”
says he, “J can whip my weight in wild-cats
and ride straight through a crab apple or
chaul on a flush of lightning. Clear meat ax
disposition—the bes. man, if Ia n’t, I wish 1
may be tetotaciously exfhincted!”
The two belligerents join issue, and the
Colonel goes on to say—
“lie was a pretty severe coit, hut no part of
a priming to such a fellow as me. I put it to
him mighty droll —in ten minutes lie yelled
enough, and swore I was a rip staver! Says 1
An't I the yallerjlower ofthe forest! and I’m
all brimstone hut the head and dial’s aquafor
tis!” Says lie, “Stranger you're a beauty, and
If I only luiow’d your name, I’d vote for your
next election.” Says I, “my name is Nim
rod Wildfire—-half horse half aligator and a
touch of the airtbquake—that’s got the pret
tiest sister, fastest horse, closest rifle, ugliest
dog in the District, and can i it run, out jump,
throw down, drag out and whip any man in
allKaintuck.”— Phil. Gazette.
“NOT AS YOU NOSE ON.”
Mr. Printer :—The following literary and
orthographical morceau, was found on a sign
post in the interior of this state. By giving
publicity to it you may ascertain whether any
jMjrson nose of such cattle in this quaver.
NpTISE—I wold Be glad ,f enny person
Nose of enny Cattle Marked a Crop in the
Rite yeure and A Swallerfalk in the Loft
ycarcDG if enny pursoii nose of q iirCfi Cat
tle infom Mr of them.
Logical 1! lustration. —A layman in Pro vi
de nee, who occasionally exhorted at evening
ineetiegs, thus enpressed his I lief in (he ex
istence of Deity : “Brethien, i am just ascer
tain that there is a Supreme Being, as I am
that there is Hour in Alexandria—and that 1
know for certain, as 1 yesterday received from
there a lot of three hundred barrels fresh su
perfine, which I will seßas low as any other
pcvxon in town.”— New ISe.lford Gazette.
WWJI 111 MMII MM [■HWiMI
TIIE TWO SEXES.
The following true and elegant paragraph,
is from the peri of Mrs. Sigourney, whose
mind is in the dwelling of light and beauty.
“Man >night he initiated into the varieties
ami mysteries oi needle-work; taught to have
patience with the feebleness ami wayward
nets ot infancy, and *o steal with noiseless ;
steps around the chamber f(|ft s j e j i; a|K j j
w>men might tic instructed tocontcuu •. j
| pami f science; to pour forth eloquence in
i senates, or to “wade through fields of slauglt
1 ter to a throne.” Yet rcvoltings of the soul
1 Would attend this violence to nature, this a
! btise of physical ami intellectual energy;
I while the beauty of social order would be dc
faced, and the fountain of earth’s felicity
broke U|*. Wo arrive then at the conclu
sion.—The sexes are intended for different
spheres, and constructed in conformity to
their respective dominations, by Him who
bids the oak brayc the fury of the tem
pest, and the Alpine flower lean its cheek on
the bosoms of eternal .mows. But disparity
docs not necessarily imply inferiority,. The
high places of the earth, with all their pomp
and glory, : rc indeed accessible only to the
marcii of ambition or the grasp of power; yet
those who pass with faithful and unapplcud
ed zeal through their humble round of duty,
arc not unnoticed by the “Great Taskmate’s
eye,’"—and their endowments, though ac
t counted poverty among men, may prove
| durable riches in the Kingdom of Hea
ven.”
From ihe American Farmer.
HOW TO KEEP BEEF
A country house-keeper,®o whom a surli
on or a steak is not an every day treat, lias
been tuuiilit by necessity, how to keep beef ;!
a.i art unknown in towns, where daily access!
can be bad to markets; but is a most valua-j
ble secret, equal to tint of keeping venison ;
so highly prized by the Quins and Aldermen j
of England; and 1 here propose, without the
prospects of any other reward than the hope
,nd honest fame, to communicate it to the
American public.
Beef is never fit to be eaten in steaks un
til a week after being killed. If a piece ol
beef is suspended by a hook and strung in a
dry cellar, so us not to touch the wall, it will
in our hot climate in the hotest season of
summer, keep from one to two weeks, without
a particlo of salt; and in winter it will keep
eight to ten weeks, 1 have this winter kept it
two months, with a constant and great im
provement to the last, and have no doubt 1
might with increasing benefit have kept it
for a month longer. No one, without the
proof,can believe bow asiojiisliingly it will
improve in tenderness and flavor, after being
kept a duo tint*); and it is doubtless much
more wholesome than the recent rank, tough
beef, that is laboriously rii- Heated to become
a cruise of disjrepsia in some, and billions fe
vers in others, as the town doctors assure us.
1 beg to recommend this keeping ot beef to
all hoese-keeper.? in town and country, satis
fied that after one fair trial they would no
more feed on a recently slaughtered ox nan
i tfir-v w ould on an Ahysinian steak with Caffra
r:an garnishments.
MACON. .
\v (I; .si .Ik >!, .. j
Fridav, Mov. 4, IMH.
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COTTON
Is coming in rapidly. There has been little
or no change, we quote at from Of to 71 —princl-
palalo7i. Our streets are crowded, and pre*
sent -.inactive, business-like appearance.
Freights to Savannah, $3 oO per bale, and a
very low river.
iJAMEN It.IXK.
This Institution, as we suspected, has given
no occasion for the suspicious character which
appeared to exist against it, from the refusal of
the Augusta Banks to receive the bills of it. The
public will be satified in regard to the Darien
Ban';, w hen it learns, as is tho case, that the bins
of that Bank, are at hut I to H per cent, discount
in Augusta.
KEW M VP OP GEORGIA.
The Journal, of yesti .day, makes know’n, that
anew Map of this State has been published by
John Bdhune, Esq. Surveyor General. It. is said
(besides other merits) to delineate, “ very dis
tinctly, the sections, districts, water courses,;
roads, missionary stations, gold regions &c. and
is finished beautifully, ’’
BATOSTOX COXVETIOX.
When this body was about adjourning, the
I procodings of it, were requested to be -pub
lished ; yet, they have just appeared in the
Geo. Journal. For ourselves, we were pre
sent at that assemblage, and substantially
gave an account of tvhat transpired; a trans
fer of which has gone into most all the papers
at home and abroad. But, a respectable
member of that body, Col. Cumjiiw, of Au
gusta, having awaited sometime for an official
j report to appear, (and not hayipjj hoe;;
Utcry Written to the Secretary; in which
a ,‘cquest was made to have it published, aud
expressed a delicate Complaint that it had j
not bt’en previously attended to. Mr Tioinkr,
the chio-f secretary, excdlpates himself, in a
letter in -reply to the Colonel ; in which, he
states, leaf he was Impressed with the opin
ion that tuc copy had been forwarder! to the
Georgia Jour.till, without delay, rAc. This
was not rIoHC sjxmtaneoualy. hut after tv n in o ■
received it, tht was do-;
laved, from the pfT'ss of much local and po
litical matter then on hand. We have thought
proper to take this mdice of the Entente*.
Convention, because an official account ot it
has just appeared; although the substance
I the deliberations *f that boiiv> vv; Jf tAin
; notice ot%> , IS . im ncdialy after the Con
vention adjourned. It would, therefore, be a
“twice told tale,” to copy the proceedings.
Mlt. M XPKIS’S VACANCY.
A dilemma awaits the Troup party. We regret
to oMorvi- such a desire aud advance for the va- j
cant seat —because it is calculated to injure the j
prosperity and strength of the party- f rotn all
that we learn, we perceive a strong inclination to ;
forward the pretensions of diff'.'iaat '-"vtLales ;
but the last iligrttgv-viDe papers, (the Journal
ami Recorder) deprwate a result fraught with
so much mi-chief. It is therefore proposed, by a
respectable and calculating writer, in the last Re
corder, (Cincinnati!®) that a Caucus be held, and
for it to determine who shall be the candidate. In
no event, do we wish to see a contest in our
own ran ks : it produces division, and consequent
ly defeat. Charles E. llavnes, Esq. is alrea
dy announced a candidate. Various other gen
tlemen are spoken of, but in the absence ot a re
signation from Mr. Lumpkin, the names of some
prominent individuals, have yet been withheld;
hoping, that by the time Mr. Lumpkin does re
sign, there will be an active co-operation amongst
ourselves. As far as we oas learn, Robert A.
Beall, of Twiggs county, is thought to have high
qualifications, and to deserve the support which
would be extended to him by both partios. For
ourselves, we shall be satisfied w'ith an expres
sion of popular choice, yet that may not be
until after the election; we repeat ioxpoprdi—
it is all-powerful and must prevail.
GEORGIA AND MISSIONARIES.
Below, will be found a communication, from
Messrs. Joses and Shorter, members of the Au
ti-Tanff tJonveutioii, from Georgia, who, being
then a' the North, and seeing that improper opin
ions were forming in regard to our State and
her authorities, took occasion tuus to write, and
thereby correct the very erroneous opinions which
had been assumed, in many instances against us.
The people of Georgia, (for the vigilant, patriotic
and valuable, services of these gentlemen, in 1m
Convention,) will highly appreciate th: m, and
their efforts to defend their Slate, against prevail
ing and popular error, and prejudices, will en
sure the gratitude of all thorough-going Geor
gians :
l OR Till: PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE.
Wc have seen With [ .in and mortification,
a spirit displayed in many of the papers, pub
lished in the Northern and Eastern States,
to misrepresent the facts out of which lias
grown the unple-aant controversy between
j the :State oi Georgia, and a few Missionaries
lately residing in tho Cherokee nation. It
is but sheer justice to the State, that the facts
should all be accurately IcrtOwn, and that none
of them shoy’d lie wilfully suppressed. The
course which her revilers have deemed it pro
per to pursue, lias been to publish iothe world
in the most aggravated shape, every allega
tion, no matter from what source, or upon
what authority, tending to put her ill the
wrong; and to withhold every fact and explana
tion however well authenticated, shewing her
justTcation.
Wo only ask that she shall not he condemn
ed by the moral and religious portion of the
American people, until after that peo
ple shall ho made acquainted with all tho
facts.
We are both native Georgians.—wc have
resided from our infancy within her borders,
and we have attentively and we trust, impar
tially observeed her acts and policy, partic-1
ularly in regard to the existing controversy, I
and may therefore he permitted to say, that 1
her course has been misrepresented, and is |
not understood by the community by whom j
we arc at this time surrounded. The object
of this note, is to dispel as far as we may be
able, the errors into which many of our fcllew
citizens have been led in reference to this j
subject, and to provoke a spirit of impartial \
investigation, and inquiry such as may re-1
suit in the ascertainment of the truth.
The state of Georgia, after many years of
forbearance, c'orcised her unquesjionaolc
constitutional right of extending her law sand
jurisdiction over all persons residing within j
her chartered limits. In the exercise ol this
right she did no more than hud previously
been done by many of her sister States, sonic
of whour (struuge as it may be)are now her
most relentless revilers. That she did not
in this step transcend her constitutional pow
er, lias been asserted by the President ot the
j United States, and virtually by Congress, and
tho Supreme Court. In justice to Georgia,
it should bo remembered tliat she forbore to
exercise the power under consideration, un
til aftnf the headmen of the Chcriokeo na
tion had devised, agreed upov, and
1 led a regular and permanent form ofgovern
-1 incut of the State. In this aspect of affairs, it
! was not to bo expected tlfat Georgia or any
j other sovet. igii State, would remain silent
j and inactive, and permit within nor own 11m
i its, and upon her own territory, three seperate
i independent and inconsistent governments to
exist. To prevent such a state of tilings,
she extended her own laws over that portion
of the Cherokee country within her limits,
and abrogated the -"s and f>™i of
other things the laws
"ovoffi
u, tne State provided that all white persons
(whether citizens of Georgia, or persons coin- j
i„g frow -*,. Ct-t-sYudMi shouia - , j
siding upon the Cherokee territory within
the limits of the State, on or after a particu
lar day designated in the act, should take and
subscribe an oath to support the constitution
and laws of tire State of Georgia, or be held
,mi ei .isldercd guilty or a high misdemean
or, subject to indictment therefor and oil con-
viction, to be punished as therein specified.—
When the day mentioned in the act arrived,
many white persons were found residing up
on the territory, some of whom removed, and
many took and subscribed the oath required;
but a few absolutely refused to do eitiier, and
among and at the head of the_j here the
Missionaries. They were then respectfully
notified by the authorities of the State, of the
provisions of the law, and urged to a compli
ance with them, but they utterly and peremp
torily refused. Their arrest was the necessa
ry and inevitable consequence- They were
however discharged from their first arrest up
on the ground taken by themselves that they
| were agents of the general government.
; This was subsequently ascertainc not to be
! the fact, and they were again respectfully no
; tified by the authorities of Georgia, that their
; continued residence was unauthorized and il
j legal; that they should have if desired
a reasonable time within which to rc
; move or if they chose to remain they could do
‘it by raking & subsbnbing the requisite oath,
j — They again braved the authorities and
j law i of the State, took to themselves the right
to decide upon the constitutional power of the
' State to pass the law in question, and made
known their determination to disregard its
provisions. It was dot to have been expect
ed that a sovereign and independent State
j would have suffered herself to Ire browbeaten
by a few men, though they were in holy or
ders. The State was thus forced to the al
ternative of either p. rmitt'jig her laws to he
; delibera-ely violated with impunity, or to
(cause the missionaries to he a second time
! arrested. The latter course was promptly
pursued; the missionaries wgre not only ar
rested, but indicted, tried; convicted and sen
tenced in the due ffirm of lam And to show
hew tenderly the state was disposed to act
towards those misguided and uiifortunniertien,
and how regardful ahe was of the rights of o-j
tilers, wo will in conclusion state, that af l ;
ter these men had arrived at the Penitentiary !
of tho state .as convicts, aud before their coin
mitnient, flic Governor of the State tendered
to each one a full and ample pardon, on con
dition of an assurance that they would in the
way rno.t agreeable toitb>sti9eH'C3 obey the
/
! laws of the State. One of the missionaries.
| (Mr. Trott) and eight other men not mission*
j aries, promptly accepted the pardon, but the
other two, Messrs. Butler and Worcester—
maintained 1h r original ground, that the
State had no right to pass the law by which
they were about tube punished, and rejected
the pardon.
We now beg the favour of you to publish
in your paper in connection with the forego. 1 ,
ing, the passages in the Savannah paper here
| with inclosed and marked. We also request
! you to procure and republish in your paper
the correspondence between the Governor of
i Georgia and the Missionaries ; the Utter of
the Governor to the Rev. .John Howard; two
letters from the latter gentleman on the same
subject. The documents referred to may be
found in the Georgia Journal or Macon Ad*
vertiser of tho early part of last month.
When those documonts shall have been
consulted, and when the facts which they
shall devclope shall have been made public,
no one we think can believe, that the .Mis
sionaries have paid that regard to the lavs of
the land, and to magistracies, which is most
plainly enjoined upon them by the Holy Scrip
tures of which llieyprofcss to be the heralds.
They utterly deceive themselves—they are
not martyrs to the cross el Christ, but they
are martyrs to their own foby and stubbor
ness. If it were necessary to the defence of .
1 the State, we apprehend there would bn but
; little difficulty in establishing ft further impor-
tant fact, td wit : that these Missionaries hn<l
.
most active and mischievous agents in cxcit*.
ing the Indians to h course hostile to tbr>
mild and philanthropic policy of tho General
Government toward that unfortunate people*,
and in engendering the most unfriendly feel
ings towards Georgia ami her citizens. But
we forbear to insist upon tins for the present,
and centent ourselves width the foregoing
1 statement of facts, l>y which it will appear
manifest, that unless the Missionaries were
j clothed • ith power to resist the State of
1 Georgia, and nullify her legislative acts, the
reprobation of an enlightened community
must full on them and not oh the State whoso
j sovereignty they haye denied, and whose au
; Ihoritv they have Contemned and defined.
[ ELI S. SItORTER,
SEABORN JONES.
Philadelphia, 10th Oct. 1831.
STARVING JI'RIES.
Me do not recollect to have seen the an
tiquated absurdity of starving Juries into u
nuiuiutty of opinion better hit off than in •
the ul lowing pa Digraph from the Loudoii
Tiinis
“He nre ashamed to lock posterity in tbo
face-, and acknowledge the law. Of some pe-.
euliar fashions of the present day-, wc can
hardly imagine how they will be regarded
hut ol this trick of ancestorial wisdom,we cau
have no doiiht bow it w ill he CCgT-rded. Our
They WiV.ts that posterity will not believe it.
gard for the memory- vifijjfex Jjavy any re £
that it is absolutely impossible, that a r.aO'in
;d wise as the English, in the 19th century*
i could ever have been guilty of the aWinli* ;
of shutting men up, without food or fire, to-
cotnpel them to be unanimous. Moreover,
it is not fair to the jurymen .among each o
ther; for some men fas* lo*ref than o
tliers, and, pcradvcntiii*-, some of the
may be belter prepared than others. The
swearing of the jury, under these circumstan
ces, is ridiculous as well as profane. If they
1 sweat to judge according to evidence, they
! must be supposed to exercise their judge.
; ment; but, suppose tli • they were requested
to take an oath that they would all be of the
same opinion, would rat the proposal be a
mockery of the solemnity of on oath, and no
; insult to titan’s common sense tuid understand
-Img ? Oim might bo tempted to imagine,
I that, requiring unanimity of jury, and en
! forcing it by such a dreadful penalty, was
! done to render trial by jury absurd and un
[ popular. It is a sad thing for • man, w! n
lie ts summoned on a jury, to think that ho
is in danger 6f haring to rheuso between
starvation aud perjury.”
•Jcttrrirdy
In this county, on Thursday evening las', by*
the Re*. James Humphries, Mr. John Lvu r, to*
, .Miss Mary Hardin, all of this county.
I, . P
In Craw." rd county, on the 27th dr, Mrs.
rah f/aitoinon, consort of Eaton Ilollomon, in the
. 38th year of age. Mrs. M. has been a member'
jof the Methodist Church, for four year*—a truly
I piousnnd affectionate woman; beloved by all who
I knew her—has left a httshand amj fof ebtldvcu
Ito mourn their loss. In her last expiring
| moments, she bill'd to her bedside, her uffiirtt'd
j family, and expressed to them a foil assurance
inf a Mossed immortality. Tht bltustd n&ru'f off
• beki in erer/iretin" remembrance.”
hi rwit i stJUFE'E.
lIJSKRY TURNER
CONTINUES to occupy his Old Stand, <4l
Bridge street, where lie has to hire
HORSES, CIOS, SI LKIES, and
BAROI ICHEB,
and will acermmodatohia friend sand t?i 0 public
on moderate terms. and
November 4, 1831. up
MONROE SALES.—-Hill ho sold at tho
Court-house in Forsy tit, on the first Tue®e
day in December.
| Oiie bay mare, otie cow and calf, levied oh,S
the property of Samuel F6rd, tosatisfv afifa in
favor of Elijah Wells. . '
A. Con IRAN, Dcp. Sheriff.
MAPS OF MACOtf’ &
Far Safe at the .Idterticrr Offu-\
Some few will bp put on Rollers, ind jif
. Those who wish them inVtbevVay, wiQ sinc.rye
the same, innuodistely, as noiip will be fratccd'-r
with Rollers, unless ordered.
M. D. I. BIJW.r
Macon* fi, *B3l. ffc ml
•i . *