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oct. 1830
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therance of justice would tie very acceptable to
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arduous and important undertaking. However,
not reiving altogether on hi- own experience of
having been a member of the legislature during
the passage of’he most of the Laws now proposed
to be published, and at the administration of
them for eight y i ars, as justice ol the inferior!
court, in a county where much business of an in
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inent in the law, who alter a strict and careful ;
examination have politely tendered to him the
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f have examined a digest of the Laws of Geor
gia from I*2o to inclusive, bv A. Foste,,
esq. and think tho work executed with great judg
ment and neeuraov. The work is intended as a
continuation of Prince’s Digest, and is. in my opin
ion, well calculated to answer that valua de pur
pose Although the author is not professionally
a Lawyer, he seems, in ascertaining tne statutes
now of force, to h ve added much care examina
tion and'studv, to h’s advantages as a practical le
gislate, during most of the period embraced in his
work.
JOHN P. KING
Augusta, July, 1830
Augusta, July 28, 1830.
I have attentively examined a Digest of tt
La-vs of Georgia, from 1820 t*2 1820 inclusive
and find the work is executed with much j"d_
ment and accuracy, b> A Foster, esq.of Colum
bia county,. i have no doubt the work will
prove valuable to every :iti<en who feels desir
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tices of the inferior court, justices of the peace,
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week as soon as published.
THOMAS GLASCOCK.
Wrightsborough, sth June. 1330.
Sir—As far as I have yet had an opportunity
of examining the manuscript copy of your digos.
ot the laws of the state of Georgia, I highly ap
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time canuot fail to answer well the purpose for
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correction shall be found to be necessary and
proper
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and which are often difficult to be tound; among
which a-e th’se i relation to the naturalization
of aliens the remaval of eases from the state to
tho United State courts, the mode of voti g lor
president and vice president, by electors, and of
making the returns, and the time of holding such
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TERMS
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NOTICE.
FOUR months after date. application will
made to the' Honorable the Inferior couit of
Muscogee county, when settmg f-r ordinary pur
poses for leave to sell the real estate of Elijah Jew
•ti, late of said county dec’d
JOHN LOOMIS, Ex’r.
Oct, 16th, 1830 l-w-4-m.
NOTICE.
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their demands in teims of the law,
Ult * JOHN LOOMIS, Ex r.
Oct Ifi, I&3D. »-<>w
COLUMBUB, GEORGIA, SATURDAY yOP MNC, NOVEMBER 27, 1830.
From the N. Y. Journal of .miner ce
A GHOST STUR« 1
About four years ago, a ccnurc/J female
. presentee) herself iu the Police Office, ana
related under oath, withm/i the it-run Hp
pearattce of any aberration ot intellect, the
following story. She hoi baeu a s*rvan\
in the employ of several iiighly respecta
ble gentlemen of this city, was married and
afterwards removed to Poughk.esiu. Du
ring the absence of’ her husband, a tall,
slim man, with dark brown hair, and yel
low complexion,about 25, appeared to her
one night, and stated that he ntd been kil
led by two females, who infused poison in
to some l.quor he drank, and then robbed
•uni of S7O, and his g Id watch worth about
J*3oo. fie then suldtny disappear*!.—ln
a lew intuuies, she distinctly heard tho pat
ting of feet along the chambm li> or, though I
sise could not at first distinguish any objne . j
At length the form hecim- visible, as it
moved 11 wa ds tier bed, —-md when it be-
gan to address nor, alio obs'-rved that it v
a different poison from tile other, wrapped
iu a windin -sheet, with light hair and pale
blue eyes.. Il piucee<ied to infill to tier
licit lie also had btieo mu den and uy 'lie same
females, and robbed ol $ 180.— that he was
levelled hy them with a uuge club pounder
andafer being beaten to death, iucl<>
sed iu a lage Russia sheet yud thiown hy
two men into the dock oear New Sl'p, "ti
the L isi River. The phantasm, as it fin
ished the relation, underwent a horrible
change, and (iisappeard, leaving her spell
bound and terrified at what she had heard
and seen.—A third ti ne, a similar tiead
was heard upon the fi ihr, an i a figtue ui
marble look <nd deathlike cheeks, appai
en3y about 45, stood beside her. i. (old
h. r that he was the third victim ol the un
hnllowed crimes of the two females and their
nssuciatea:—dint they rushed on him wiM*
drawn knives, utit'iilsg Horrid imprecations,
and buried them in tus blood ; he staggered
and ft ) ; aud though ho lifted up his hands
for mercy as he wan in the agouies of death,
ne only plunged their Knives the deepei,
until he fell back and expired,
The deponent gave names, and dates &.
daces- and accompanied her story with np
n opi into expressions of hot ror at die crimes
od invoked the eternal judgement of Hea
n upon the heads of the perpetrators,
had come down from Dutches County,
he said, for the solo purpose of giv.ug this
ii'formation :—site had no peace day or
night, aod the same images often aj puared
■o her.
The Magistrate had her statement re
. .riled, not as there was it., hing in her
•mnner of deportment to believt her ' osa.it,
io regarded it as an idle illusion of her im
gination.
About tbe niiddlo of the lust week, an el
erly man of very respectable appeatanct,
n.ut smy years of age, in tho garb of a
Quaker, entered tbe Police Office accom
panied by a goodlookiug colored woman,
• and called one of the Magistrates aside, tel
ling him that they had a revelation of horri
ble import to communicate. Tiny weir
interrogated by Mr. Stephens, the chief
clerk, who soon recognsz'd the resemblance
of their story to the features of the onb- he
bad heard about fmr years ago. The fe
male related the same details, agreeing in
manner, dales, &c. with surprising accuru
ry. The Quaker Aeclaied that he had
known the woman who came with him a
bout five years; and had often been told by
her that a number of persons had been nt it
dered in this city, whose ghost had, at oft
en times appeared to her, haunting and dis
tressing her. That he was fully gatisfi’d
ot the truth of her story believing that be
ings of another world may have communion
with this, and possess a powei to mingle in
the transactions of men, to an extern of
whicn we are necessarily ignorant; That
ho himself was once accosted in Broadway,
and asked for a few pence, by what lie first
supposed to be a tnan, dressed like an old
revolutionary soldier, who suddenly disap
peard, leaving no doubt in his mind it was
a ghost; nnd that he was apprehensive if the
murdererg spoken of had a chance, they
would kill both him and the woman. That
he had conversed w ith one of the si' ll des
cribed is a participator in the murder, who
had admitted to him that he saw i man mur
dered in Thomas-st., and that the drops of
blood had never been washed from the
fl or where it was penetrated.
Such is the substance of the story, which
we give in its tru<* colors, without gloss or
j exaggeration. I' affords a remarkable ins'-
anceofthe power of imagination over a
mind in other respects rational.
Woma.n’9 Tongue. — A Doctor visiting hi* pa
tient, a Lady, requested to look nt her longue. —
is he oponed her mouth and put tbe end of it out;
the Doctor said put it out a little further, madam,
and was under the necessity of repealing it sever
al times; the Lady only putting it oui a trifling i
, distance each time. At length the Doctor re
marked, put it out as far as possible, madam
. “Mercy Doctor,” says she,“you rnusl think there
i is no end to a woman’s tongue ”
Irish mode of challenging a Jury —An Irish of
ficer, not very conversant in law terms, was lately
tried for an assault. As the Jury wore coming to
be sworn, the J udge addressing the major, told him
that if there were any amongst tlieiu to whom he
had any objection, that was the time to challenge
them. ‘ l thank vour lordship, said the gallant
niisoner, “but, with your lord.dhp’s permission,
1 11 defer that ceremony till after my trial; and if
they dont acquit me, by the piper of Leinster, I’ll
challenge evoiy mother’s son of them, and have
them out too.”
A Singn'ar Fart. —lt is mentioned as an histori
cal sinjrularity, that all the English Kings who
married French Princesses, incurred the displea
sure of their subjects, and suffered violent deaths;
*s Edward 11, Richard 11, and Charles I
THE BLACK L AKE
Strange thoughts at times come o’er me, thoughts
that firing
A withering and a bligh' ;—pangs have I fi.lt,
But nut the pangs of guilt.
My ctiiiiii was <it times a moody sort of a
I fellow, ii would sit lor hours with his el
!bow on bis t tile and ids feet crossed over
the <n i displace iu coinpleia abstraction.—
Whenever he had tulteu into one o( muse
rev«ri.*rs, farewell o college duties' his
books'.veie thrown aside, ami you might us
well interrogate a statue as attempt to draw
hi t, into conversation.* These sis liowevei
were periodical, aud weie geu< tally suc
ceeded .<y a correspondeut elnvat.au of spir
its, as the sun always shines after a sioim
Notwithstanding tins however, lie Ins uii
versatly ranked among the ‘good fellows’
ol (he class; and I never knew one who
could mote agreeably entertain a merry
circle when in his humour, or help to w hile
aw iy a tedious hour. He was none of your
dry i etuilers of common place remarks or
thrice told tales; his was tire language of
genuine feeling, the spontaneous outpoui
mgs of the soul. Often however something
like a shade of melancholy would come
over him even in hi* gaiety, and this lem
• o additional interest to Ins conveisatioii.
There appeared to be something connect
ed with his early associations wrnch at times
crossed him with a blighing intluence, and
which lie eitliei brooded over with unavail
ing sorrow, or so stiove IU vatu to forget.
I’ll secret, however, whatever it was, was
stiff red to fi-s'er in his own bosom, for he
seldom spoke of himself, unless it w tie to
relate some insulated occurrence from
which nothing satisfactory could be gallie.r
--"1. It was at one of these nines, a cold
evening in December, wueu we had throw u
nr hooks aside and drawn around lire fi.e
'till some ot our most inveterate stuty t< I
ters who had been amusing us with talcs ol
ii© marvellous, that he ri luted the follow
ing:
'L———and R -—were my first an ! I
might almost gay my ouly associates. YV'
had nuucled together in tbe tenderness ot
m/incyaiid the ret klcsness of boyhood,
our spurs and pursuits had ever been the
same, and from a long and uninterrupted in
tercourse our feelings had become entirely
assimilated. The petty disagieemeuts com
mon among children never existed between
us, even in our » hool boy days our mli
m icy was proverbial, in ail cases of trou
ble we were each oilier'a champions, and
an insu It offered to one was resented by
all. These were the halcyon days ol luuo
cence and peace,—-the school boy rumtde,
the moniiug walk, the evening recreation,
and the holiday sports all wete ours, and it
in?* .'Vfvlditioual pleasuio that we were
permitted to share them together.—There
is something connected with (ho attach
menis of our childhood that operates on
us like a spell, which the world with its
routine of pleasurus and cares may weaken
but cannot destroy, aud eveu lue dim eye
of age will biigtiieu at rite recollection ot
those days wnen with light and merry heart
he sported A" ay tile’s morning. lam still
young with the hopes and expectation of
youth beating high within me; but were it
in my power, 1 would not exchange one
hour of those eariy days when our toeiings
were tenderness and our hearts all love, for
all rite college bonouis that can be bestow
ed. But iam becoming sentimental.
’Yuais iolied on, aud brought with them
joyous anticipations and brighter pruspecu,
without leaving a pang to embitter the rec
ollection of the past. We had exchanged
the iaicty and lomuntic dreams of childhood
for the buoyancy and more determined ar
dour of youth, aud beheld lie future spread
ont before us iu bright prospective, without
a cloud to darken its sunshine. At the
time of w hich i am uovv speaking we had
returned home to spend a spring vacation
after having completed a course of st.idy
preparatory to euteriug college W itli the
true classical maun of the youthful votary
of science, we wandered among the haunts
of our childhood, exausted our vocabulary
of ancient mythology upon its hills groves,
and fountains harrangued the Fauns and
Drvads with murderous quotations from
' Vigil’s pastoials, corn ted me muses by the
woods and waterfalls, iu the barbarco*
Groek ’till the very Liras were frightened
from their h Hints, and to complete all wiote
sonnets and repeated poetry by mount.gut.
A tide of a'bums mime iately flowed in up
on us. We coftld meet no friend aud attend
no parties of pleasure but one ot those un
welcome visitants stared us in the face; and
could the mosi ardent hopes ands iendly
advice that was ever conceived in wretch
ed apologies for poetry tor the benefit of
those of whom we knew as little as we car
ed, have conferred beauty, happiness, or
honour, shuiely that village h id beep, a Par
adise of the Peri, and ourselves immortal,
i detest an Album From the humble du
odecimo of the school miss with its ruled
foolscap and marbled sides, to the superb
fulio of the fashionables with its morocco
dress aud peifuioed gilt embroidery, they
are a farrago of love knots, drawings, and
j keepsakes of black and yoliow hair, inter
] spread with odious specimens of penman
ship in sublime qu< taiiorvs, orgitial dogger
el, threadbare compliments, and sickly seu
tiin«iiialisoi. True the pure aud g* nuiiie
expressions of affection and estei m w ill ot
« Bsia tally shine forth from the nm)st of this
garbage; but it is like'iie taper in the laza
retto, serving but to light up its loathsome
j lies:-. —Bui it is nme to pass to a subject of
' more painfll interest, a subject winch
brings with it the most harrowing reo If' -
lions, which has ii-.unted mv day dreams A
| my uuduight * umber*, aud thiown over me
’VOLUME FIRST— NUMBER 7.
m my ho.iis of gaiety the bean cbii dp
groom n| tlie eiave.
*lt was one of the liveliest mornings of
My 1 shift not attempt a description, tor
P r "* e ' s hot Ibe lunttu igu ol t ii* Inver » I in*
tin e, aud since reading my* last sonnet m
J <: " and blood 1 nave abandoned all thoughts
ol dying a poet. IV had wandered out to
w fell tho grade if and. velopement of its beau
ties lioiti the dim twilight aud grer dawn
the matin song of the bird, lo the shooting
of the fiist sunbeam: and to propose re w
plans ot enjoyment for Cue day. Ihe re was
a solitary lake which lay a lew miles dis
tant among the mountains, remarkable for
tbe romantic scenery which surrounded ft,
and (<>r the dark transparency of its w.ilms.
It was declared by the. oldest settles to ho
in many places unMthoniahle, the credulity
ot f.n mer limes nid in igiufi a us wonders,
ami it Was the scene of many nust* rtous
la e and traditionaiy legend. To the timid
1 hero w -s something fearful hi the ve,ry
(nought ol a hottoio e-s hike, and im ing to
tins and other wild and supeistiiious notions
which still pi evaded, it was little frequent
e i; u-.r among the numerous fishing exploits
of our boyhood, had we at any time the
hard hood to visit it. Cot now the very
ii"Velty of the Imig was a sufficient induce
'""tit, and me piuposul of an t xcursion to
*B o k L-.ke* was no sooner made than ho
ceeded to by all A small seine was imme
diately procured aud our pteparaiions be
ing lieivly completed, long before the mid
dle of the day we had clambered over the
intervening rocks, threaded the pathless
I nickels of exuberent bushwood, and were
standing on the side of one of the loveliest
I *kes I ever beheld. There it lay, spread
• >ut in its solitary beauty, its dark waters
coniiastiug with the deep green verduie of
it* sides. Hid i» fl cing the amphitheatre of
hills around, with lb* ft gieep sides covered
with living foli ig<. Hn* aud there huge
masses and broken fragments of grey rock
f-r ned ns fi owning aud precipitous sides,
while beneath the birch and water willow
hung over their long slender amis a* if stoo
ping to kiss its waters, or sported their yel
low tassels upon its surface. There ap
peared but very few (daces where the de
clivity us the bank and the shallowness of
the waier would aomii the drawing of the
seine; and even then a suitableness ot depth
wis nardly to be depended upon, owing to
the sudden slope of iht ledges. IF wever,
alter some examination il was tliougnt an
expe.imeiii niigtit lie haao dotl. IVi l tleler
mined (hot R , aho was ever a c w
ard iii the vv.r»M, stioidd wade near tne
shme with the end of the seine, I wis to < r
copy the middle, while L , i bold and
vigoious swiiiiiiier was to sweep out with
tiro other into tbe lake. Wo had proceeded
in this order for somo d'stance when a sod
den jerk of tne cord in my hand, and at the
same time a hall still -d cry from poor R
———, admonished me that he had step
ped from Hie treachcSkius ledge into ibe
deep wateis. I instantly hastened i» Ins
relief, and (dunging after him, endeavoured
in the liutry of the moment to size him by
the hand. He was lin n struggling violent
ly at the bottom to extricate himself from
the net to which he had dung,and in whicn
bv his exeitioi © he had become entangled.
But I had scarcely reached him when he
fasten and on mo with the convulsive grasp
of despair, that deprived me of ail nope of
rescuing him or even of disengaging my sell.
O the agonv of that unman'! L’te with
all its euj yments, friends hopes, and hap
piness, contrasted with the foaifui death
that now stared me in the face a I rusln and
through n>y mind, in m iddoning succession,
Aud then to be ilius linked as it were to trio
grave,—to bo involved in the expiring snug
gles of a drowning man,—what was th re
no release !—I felt the chilliness of death
creeping ov r in , and with an atmost su
perhuman effort I tore myself from him,
srose strangling and ex 1 usted, with s< ire
sufficient strength to reach the shore. The
rem-lining part of this tragical scene I wit
nessed an appalled and powerless specta
tor L—-—bad by this time reached the spot
and with a benevolent lecUfssness of tlis
and inger of the attempt, prepared to descend
where R was plainly visible through
the clear transparency, apparently tel xing
in his exertions, and idly grasping at some
thing ho fancied above him. There was a
plunge,—a dark whirl of the waters as tii«
ending eddies came up tipt with fiaro, and
when tranquillity wns ag.iined restored I
saw him fiercely tugging to disengage him
self from the death grapple of the dr* wil
ing man. It was in vain. He had bt ea
niiidtid once, and his s iffeuing hand' re
tained its hold with a power that defied tus
utmost exertions. II»w long this continu
ed I konw not, —time with me Was aurnhi
ted, sickly sensation came over me, and my
last recollections are'coufusedly mingled
with the struggles of the dying, and the
rising of a f w bubbles to the surface to tell
all was over. Z.
Rural Rrpository
Our Minister to Russia. —lrifirinaflon received
at New York aod Boston, from St Pctoisburg,
confirms, indeed aggiavates, tlio te counts lately
published from the Journal f Commerce, ot the
strange conduct of our Minister Extraordinary to
Russia; the details of which might gratify the
curioJity of rune, but could give pleasure to few
of our readers We had tiard; v news of this Min
ister’ having reached Ins destination, wh n it ta
officially announced in our government paper, that
, he has returned to England, win h«r lie went, iu
the fi *t instance, OB tus leaving the United .’states:
1 amlaltli >ugl» the cause of liis so quickly abandon-
J mg Ins post is ascribed by our official paper o sud
,,w decline of health, yet the g >vern!iieut >. er
; gives us to understand that it is wi'li *!.- appro
* ballon of the President, that (he Mi ter gees to
j spend luo winter in France lfthi*be o, he ii 'St
| tcavo carried til*: President’s consent to this ar-
I rung uumt out With him.—-Vcl. ha.