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COSA9K EMIR BARTLETT-ETRTOIL
DfiSocSAT*"
IS PUKI.ISHF.D EVERY WEEK IX
COLUMBUS GEORGIA,
, BY
C. E. BARTLETT &. R. SLATTRR.
at Throe Dollars per annum if paid in ndviinee
or Four 1) U.irs .at the end of the year It is
/•xpectrl tit,at all application for anliseriptioit
from a distance will be accompanied .vith the
money,
Advertisements will he inserted at. reason.',ble
rates. Sales of land and neeroes, hv adminis
trators, eveeutors <>r ffttardians. arc rrquireii bv
law to he he'd on the first tnesdav in the month,
between the hours of If o’clock in the forenoon
3 in the afternoon, nt tlio court house of the
eo<mty in which the property is situated Notice
of those siles mint he iriven in a public Gazette
girt v days previous to the day of sale.
Motion of the sale o r personal property must
he /river in a like manner forty days previous to
ho day of sale
Metine todehtors A creditors of an estate must
be published forty days.
Notice that all application will he. made to the
court of ordinary for leave to sell land must be
puiilishcd four,months.
iU*l,nttcrs on business must be Post paid to
insure attention
(TT*tVe arc authorised to announce JOHN M
P \TRICK as a candidate for fax Collector of
Mm cogeo county, at the ensuing January elec
tion.
Feb. 13. fde
are authorised to announce O W.
PILLTARD ns a candidate for Clerk of the Sup
rior Court of Muscogee county, at the next Jan
ary election. Feb. 12. tdc.
HENRY B. MERSIIO.K
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
irW AS located himself in Talbotton, &
M *■ wilt prac ice Law in the neighboring coun
ties. * w3nl.
Talbotton, May 14 131.
AW NOTICE.'—J. T. Camp and John
JLdSchley, have associated themselves toee'her
ui the practice of law, in Columbus. One of thorn
v. ili attend all the Courts in the < hatahooche
circuit. Letters upon bud ness will he addressed
ta Oamp & Schuy—J. T. Camp will continue
to practice law in the courts of A'ab.uma in con
nection with David Golightlv Esq.
J T CAMP
JOHN SCHLEY.
Feb 12th, 1831. 18 ts
- JOHN TAYLOR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in the several counties of Mus
cogee, Randolph, Stewart. Lee Marion,
Talbot, Harris, Meriweather, and Troup, in the
Chitahoochee Circ it: and in the Counties of
Thomas, Decatur. Early, Baker, and Dooly, in
the Southern O.rouit.
He may bo found, when not in attendance on
the circuit, at his room at Mr. Dillard’s Tavern
in Columbus. Feb 12th No. 18 t f o.
DOCTOR FITZGERALD BIRD,
T- i AA S returned to town and resumed
* tlio practice. Prompt and undivi
ded attention will be given to ins professional
engagements:
May 25!h 1831—ts.
Hooks Missing!
5T ffJFfE Ist and 2d Vol. Byron’s Poems, ihoTo
dJL ken for 1831, Ist Vol. Ossitms Poems, 2d
Vol. of the Spy.
Persons having the above books are request
ed to return them.
R. SHATTER.
May 28, 1831.
MATHEMATICAL IN .STRUM EX TS
For sale by
L. J. DAVIES & Cos.
March 13 23 ts
MERIWE TIIEH SALES.
A|WidL BE SOLI) on the first Tues
w w in Jane next, at the Court House in
Greenville, Merriwether ceunty, between the
usual hours of sale, the fallowing pioperty, viz:
Lot of Land, 2<c2 1-2 acres, more or less, be
ing No. one hundred and seventy-two (172) in
the stoon/1 (2) district originally Troup now
Merriwether county, levied on as the property
of Thomas Taunt, to satisfy three executions
from a Justices court, of Richmond county in
favor of Wm. Glover iY others; levy made and
returned by a constable.
HUGH LOCKETT, Shff.
.Vuii 7 1831.
CARROLL SJSEIJII SALE.
he sold oil the first Tuesday in
• » June next in the Town of Carrollton
Carroll county, between the usual hours of
sale, the following Property, to-wit.
Lot of Land No. 113 in the 7th district Car
roll county, levied upon as the p-operty of Will-
Jam i\l irran, to satisfy a Ji fn. issued from Jas
7"*v Superior Court in titvor of John Hill vs. said
William Morgan.
l ot of Lard No. 53 in the second district. Car
rid! county levied upon as the pioperty of Sarn
;rd VVadn, to satisfy two small Ji. fits, issued
from a Justice’s Court in V nrron county, in fa
vor of James Story vs. said Wade; levied and
returned to me by a Constable.
HENRY CURTISS, D.ShfF.
ALSO AT TUB SAME T 1 .WE iV PLACE Wit t BE SOLD.
Lot of Land No 3.5 in the sth District, Car
rod! county, levied on as the property of Jolm
Burke’, t isaiisfy a Ji. fn. issued from Fayette
Superior (Joint in favor of Edwaid Quin vs.
said Berko.
THOMAS BONER, D. Sheriff.
May 7, 1831
'TALBOT HIIERIPF’N WALKS.
he sold on the fust Tuesday
” in June next in the town of Talbotton,
Talbot county, between the usual hours of sale,
tiro foil owing property to wit: -
Three Negroes as follows, Dicey a negro girl
seventeen years old, Isaac a bov fourteen years
old, mid Gincy a trirl ten yea a obi. all levied on
ts the property of John Ousluy, to satisfy a fif’a
from Putnam Superior court infivorof Hector
T. Goodwin Against John M ( lark, Jesse As
leirv arid John < Mislay.
One Negro woman nanreri Hannah and her
child, levied on as the property of Pleasant
Lawson to ra'isfy four su.aH fi fan from n Jusli
•es court iu Talbot, county in favor < f Jo eph
f.ovd and sundry other files in ,ny hand against
■' e' Lawson, ltvy made and returnen to n.e bv
MMK3 P. PORT 18, Sheriff.
April uJvh ir<is.
roiitlissrs, GEORGIA, gAT£TOg>A V. 1 831.
Tlimi) VOS,I BIK OP
THIS lirMl VIA^
ANi) SOUTH URN DKMOC RAT.
We would respectfully inform our notions at and
the public that we contemplate suiun v new ar
iaogeuionts, and improvenients, in the fath
coming volume of ‘the Irishman'," and ivh !e
we gratefully acknowledge our obligations ibr
past encouragement, we uust ;hat an augmen
ted liberality will enable us to carry those pro
jects into execution. Indeed the political as
pect of things, and the relative position in
which we have voluntarily placed ourselves,
would seem to demand a corresponding energy
and enterprise on our part;—Tor we cann t con
ceal from ourselves that a crisis is approaching
very rapidly—if it has not already arrived—
when every advocate for good order, and the
“ integrity of this U»i .n, must be bold in
avowing, and zealous in propagaling the due
doctrines of the Constitution. The enemy is
rallying his forces, and augmenting his mears
of annoyance—the most powerful engines that
talent, ingenuity, or low cunning can bring to
bear, arc, or will peedily be levelled at the ven
erable fabric of our institutions—and however
feeble our efforts, they must not be wanting to
“resist the foe.” With this view, wo piopose
enlarging onr sheet, and giving to it the ‘ form
and pressure” of the ordinary vehicles of infor
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and respectfully solicit the co-operation ol our
friends.
A renewal of our political professions may be
considered as somewhat gratuitoui at this peri
od of our career; but such is the general boule
rersement of parties, such the open tergiversa
tion, or contemptible trimming, which cliarac
tejizo and disgrace the period in which we live,
that, the honest Journalist owes it to himoelf.no
less than to his patrons, to recur frequently to
first principles. In accotJanco with this con
viction, we now avow our full determination to
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ted us in the outset— lrish Disenthralment,
and the Integrity of the American Union!
Every thing hostile to the first, we stand sol
emnly and irrevocably pledged to encounter,
whenever contempt or a less exeuseable feeling
will permit us to do so; whatever militates a
gainit the last—no matter whence it proceed,
or under what specious exterior it may he dis
guised, be it open suggestion, Nullification, or
Hartford, or any other Convention—as Aineri
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ington and his last precious legacy, we shall lift
up our v >icos. “trumpet-tongned, against its
deep damnation!” Opposed as wo are. and have
ever been to the Tariff, Internal Improvements,
and the whole hostof kindred abominations, wc
shall never cease to oppose them with coii titu
tional weapons; but that policy which would
tear down a magnificent edifice, reared at in
calculable cost and labor, and sacrifice, be
cause its latter tenants inay have appropriated
it to other uses than were oiigiuaily designed,
is indicativt of such wanton folly', or reckless
ambition, as to leave us no choice between im
plied acquiescence and unqualified reprobatiin
W th such measures and their authors, we can
hold neither council nor communion. Wo view
them as destructive to the very last degree, of
every thing estimable or sacred in our political
existence; and comparatively insignificant as
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uion. “It must be preserved,” has nheady
been wafttd from a quarter, whose warning
tones are at once the summons to exertion, and
the harbingers of conquest. Let us not be un
mindful of the call.
As legarilx the ensuing Presidential election,
symptoms by no means equivocal, have already
begun to manifest themselves, to the uttter dis
comfiture of every previous prognosis Nor
docs it require any refined sagacity to discover
their proximate cause—Jackson "has had tlio
firmness and consistency to frown on ihe mach
inations to which wo have already adverted A
lienee, some of those that rang the loudest note?
of praise, are beginning to ivail their feeble
cries, or to fulminate their coarsest anathemas.
To c-i.ll this only political defection, were a fee
ble phrase: in our opinion it involves a much
unite serious charge of gross moral delinquen
cy, lor it must puzzle even nullification sophis
try itself to point out the vast discrepancies
between Jackson the idolized, and Jackson ‘.lie
jorsaken! In what lias he fallen short of the I
glorious anticipations, ofßvhich those very men
wore the vouf! tors and proclaimers? What du
ty lias lie neglected? What responsibilities has
lie evaded? What recent occurrences have cast
their darkening shadows over a iife of unnaral
lelled devoledncss. and incalculable public ser
vices?—For ourselves as we were among the first
to support, we arc now confirmed in our confi
and nee in tiie man, by the very measures that]
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to swerve from onr fidelity, it would most assu
redly he of a more important character than a
pcrson.al difference with Mr. Calhoun, with
which tiie public have, properly, nothing at all
to do. Andrew Jackson we now proclaim to he
our last, our on///, and we Rhall yet live,
we trust, to add, our ovocr.'srvu OaniuuAlE:
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early, but not too early to counteract the subtle
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C harleston. April 22
coLujfnrs
11 AT STORE^
IYJOURSK & CLARK have removed to the
L anew brick building noxt south of Smith 4-
Morgan’s store in Broad Struct, where they of
fer for sale on the most accommodating terms,
a general assortment ot Mats of their own man
ufacture. among which are White. T.'rab, and
Black Beaver, Otter avid line Ror im Hav.
N A will tie cons'anUy receivfug fresh
supplies fioni their factory, ami of tho latest
fashions.
/.Lh-O—Get'tleincn'H ready i—aJo clotimi"'
con. Is!in rof elegant. Dress and Frock Oat-,
Pamiri „.„l Vo -a
| CoLuiahuJ, .’uiiy 14,1031.
TifiJl’HY. w
Behold, o'ns, our days we • s/e
lljic rain tk» y br, hate Soon they trull
BEHOLD
llow short a span
Was long enough of old
To measure out the life of man;
In those well temper'd and time was then
Survey’d, cast Up, If found but threescore years
and ttn.
ALAS
Ar.J what is that?
They come and slide and pas?
Before iny longue can tell thee what,
The posts oftime are swiss, which having run
Their seven short stages o’ur their shortlived
task is done.
OUR DAYS
Begun vve lend
To sleep, to antic plays
And toys until the first stage end;
12 waning moons, twice 5 times told we give
To unrecovored loss; we rather broathe than live
VVE SPEND
A ton year's biealh
Before wo apprehend
Wat ’tis to live in fear of death
Our childish dreams arc filled with painted joys,
Which pleaso our sense awhile, A waking prove
but toys
HOW VAIN
Ilow wretched is
Poor man, that doth remain
A slave to such a state as this !
llis days are short at longest; few at most;
They are but bad at best: yet lavished out, or lost
THEY BE
The secret springs
That make our minutes fleo
On wings more swift, thaneagle’s wings'.
Onr life's a clock, and every gasp of breath
Breathes forth warning grief, till time shall
strike a death.
HOW SOON
Our jacw-born light
Attains to full aged noon!
And this,hour soon to groy-hair’d night!
We spring, wo bud, we blossom. & we blast
Ere ive can count our days, our days they flee
so fast
THEY END
When scarce begun,
And ere we apprehend
That we begin to live, our lilb is done,
Man count thy days; and if they fly too find
For thy dull thoughts to count, count every day
the last.
fiONG— BY A DIFFIDENT MAN.
Oh, 'tis a fact, I’m a diffident man,
For 1 start at tlio sight of a belt or a curl,
And 1 stammer as badly as any one car;
When I try to converse with a g —g —g
Give mo a sight of a damsel fair,
And 1 wish that I could but just handle hor
glove;
But when I come near, so bewitching girls are,
I never can talk about I—l—l—
I would talk, the next time wc should
moot,
And a thousand most excellent things I have
planned,
But oiy a-,ve-stricken eye would drop down to
her feet,
And I d.:red not to touch her white h —h—h-
Honest I was and most ardent no doubt,
And mv face must have imaged it well;
For somehow' or other sdie found it all out—
'l he thing which I never could t—t—t !
CHORUS.
Then here’s to our (liHuimt friend who has sung
And let every suitor, moreover,
Pat as much of a clog on his t—t—l—t—
’Twill make him a fortunate lover.
[Little Gentleman.
From the Lady's Book.
STANZAS.
The flving joy through life we seek,
For once is ours: the wine wo sip
Blushes like beauty’s glowing cheek,
To mec,t our eager lip.
Pound with the ringing g!a?s once more;
Friends of my you'll and of my heait,
No nia?ic can thi ; hour restore—
Then crown it ere it part.
Yc are mv friends, my chnren ones—
Whose blood would flow with fervour true
For me—and free as this wine runs,
Would mine, by Heaven! for you.
Yet mark me! When a few short years
Have hurried on their journey fleet,
Not one that now my accent hears
Will know me when we meet
Though now, r-erhap-, will, p—"td disdain.
The otnriiim< llionght ye scarce wit! br-ok.
i ket truet me, we’ll be stronger* then,
Iu heart as well as look.
i Fame’s luring voice, and woman’s wi!c,
Will noon bleak youthful friendship's chain,
Bat shall that cloud to nighlV glad sn.de?
No—pour the wmo again'
MISCELLANEOUS.
m the London literary Suarenir.
IHK LAST OF IIIS TRIBE.
BY RICHARD PENN SMITH.
I ho forests of North America are now
unceasingly groaning under the axe of tin
backwoodsman; and it is no uncommon
J spectacle to In-hold a village smiling on
ihe spot which a few months before Was
an almost impracticable forest, or the
haunt alone ol the wild beast and the sav
age.
‘‘ Great changes!” I exclaimed, as I a
lighted at the door ol a log building, in
front of which hung a rude sign to arrest
the steps ol the traveller. “ A few years
ago there was scarcely the trace of a
white man to be seeu, where I now behold
a flourishing town and a numerous colo
ny of inhabitants—a large tract of forest
land enclosed, and corn shooting up a
nnd the dying trunks of its aboriginal
trees.”
“ .Our village thrives was the laconic
remark of a tall slender personage, who
was lounging against the sign post of the
village inn, around which half a dozen
idlers were assembled.
“ True; civilization has made rapid
strides, but the red men, I perceive, have
not yet disappeared from among you.”
(Four or five Indians were lying stretch
ed upon a bank at a short distance from
the inn door, basking in the rays of the
setting sun.)
“Not yet was the reply. “They come
into the village to sell their peltries; but
at present they are not very well satisfied
with the intercourse we have had togeth
er.”
“ How so; do you take advantage of
their ignorance of the value of their mer
chandise!”
“Possibly we do; but that is not their
chief cause of dissatisfaction. They still
prefer their council grove and summary
punishment, to our court-house and pris
on.”
“ Court-house and prison! Cannot so
small a community as this be kept togeth
er without til's aid of such establish ments!”
“I know not; but few- communities
however small are willing to try the ex
periment. As yet our prison has had but
one tenant, and to his fate may be attrib
uted the surly deportment of yonder sav
ages. They belong to the same tribe.”
1 expressed a curiosity to hear the par
ticulars ofhis story. My communicative
friend led the way into the tavern, where,
as soon as we were seated, lie commenced
his account in nearly the following
words:—
“Tangoras wns the chief of a neigh
bouring tribe of Indians. He is now ad
vanced in years, but still retains much of
the vigour of youth. Brave, expert in
the chase, patient in fatigue, and beloved
by bis people; Ins voice is a law, for he is
looked upon as the sole remaining exam
ple of wiiat the tribe was before the whites
appeared among them.
“ He seems to have beheld the progress
•of civilization with the same feelings as
the shipwrecked mariner watches the ap
proach of the wave that is to wash him
from the rock on which he has attained a
foothold. The land of his fathers had
been wrested from him. He defended it
bravely until resistance was found to be
fruitless; and when he became subject to
the laws of the pale faces he viewed their
proceedings as tyrannical, and himself as
little better than a slave.
“They told him that his condition
would he but they would not
suffer him to be happy in his own way;
and, unluckily, for the old chief, no one
can define happiness in such a manner as
will accord with the conception of anoth
er. All imagine they comprehend its
meaning, and all differ. From the cradle
to the grave we are struggling to grasp it;
but, like the delusive vessel formed of
mists, it vanishes when considered near
est, and leaves its hopeless and alone in
the midst of a turbulent sea.
“ When he complained of the injustice
done him, they urged that the earth was
given to man to cultivate, and that he
who rcuusi-s to iunu me condition, loses
his title to it. In vain di 1 the old Indian
argue from the same authority, that the
fowls of the air and the beasts of the field
were also given to mail’s use, and that he
therefore preserved his hunting grounds
inviolate; that lie cultivated as much as
his wants required; and that he who does
more, brings a curse rather titan a blessing
upon his fellows, by introducing among
them luxury and its attendant evils.
“They also told hint that the Christian
religion confers upon its professors, who
are the immediate heirs of heaven, a right
to the soil paramount to any human
claim. The old cliief as he bowed to
lliis decision, calmly replied—“ While
you who profess Superior knowledge, are
taught to pursue a line of action as per
fect as can come within the comprehen
sion . of human intellect, wherever the
cross htis appeared, instead of awakening
the Lest feelings of your nature, the de
mon of destruction seems to have l»cen
roused within you, and death and de-ela
tion have followed. Though you tell me
it is the emblem of peace to all mankind,
to us, at least, it has been the signal of
war, of exterminating and merciless war.”
“But to proceed with my story:
“Tangorus seldom entered the villages
i of the whites, and refused to make use
VOL? I—TtfO* ft 2*
of our manufactures, lie drissed J.irr.-
self in skins instead of the Llai l et?,
which bis people hud adopted: for b* said;
be won! live as 1 is lathers h: and lived, and
die as they had tiled. Al out a year age,
at the head of a do-en of his tr be, he de
scended yonder lull by the narrow path
which winds over it. His followers were
laden with peltries; hut the old chief
marched erect, with h s umuix only in his
hand, and las huiiting-ktufe stuck in his
trirdle, for he scorned to Le a paek-httfse
for the pale fares.
“As he entered the village, h's coun
tenance was stamp and with more than a
•itial austerity. I spoke to him, hut he
made no reply. He refused to enter our
cabins, and turmd away from food when
it was profit-red him. He s:rcti bed him
self beneath the shade of flic cypress tree
at the hig spring, while bis followers pro
ceeded to dispose of their metchat.dise.
“ If so happened that four or five Indi
ans lx longing to a tribe inhaiiiiinga tract
of country somewhat lower down the riv
er, were in the village at the same time. '
They had made tju.’ir soli sand purclw
ses, and were about to depart as Tangoras
and hi? joeople appeared'. They soon
mingled together, and a low guttt ral con
versation ensued. From the volcnce of "
their gesticulations, we concluded that the
subject was of deep interest. A tall
handsome savage of about five and twen
ty years of age, active mid athletic, kept
aloof from the crowd, and appeared to
he the subject of conversation, from the
ferocious glances cast at him by the tribe
of Tangoras. He was evidently uneasy;
and as he slowly receded, as if intending
to leave the village, lie kept his and irk eye
lowering suspiciously upon the crowd.
He had already passed the furthermost
house, and drew nigh to the place where
Tangoras lay, too much wrapped in his
own reflections to attend to what was go
ing forward.
“The sound of footsteps awakened his
attention: be slow ly turned his Herculean
frame, and appearing to recognise the
young savage, sprung in an instant upon
his feet. A fierce yell succeeded, which
the distant hills re-echoed, and the next
instant we beheld the stianger flying like
the affrighted deer from the famished wolf,
towards the mountains. _ Tangoras fol
lowed close behind. They crossed the
plain with the rapidity of an arrow from a
bow, and at intervals the fiend-like yell of
the old chief, startled the eagle as lie en
joy'd his circling flight in the upper air.
“While crossing the plain, the youthful
activity of the fugitive Indian enabled
him to exceed the speed of his pursuer;
but in ascending the opposite ridge, it w as
evident that he was losing ground sen si
blv. A shout of triumph which the e«
vening breeze carried from mountain to
mountain, proclaimed that Tangoras wa9
aware of bis advantage. The rest of the
savages watched the chase with intense
interest, and preserved a dead silence.
They scarcely breathed as they leaned
forward with their eyes fixed upon the
parties ascending the rugged and winding
path. The young Indian now stood up
on a bate rock on the brow of the ridge.
He paused for a moment to breathe.
The motion of his body did not escape
us as he drew a deep inspiration. He
cast a look downwards upon his pursuer,
who followed close after him. It wns but
a momentary glance; and the young man
disappeared on the opposite side of the
mountain. Tangdras sprang upon the
rock, sent forth a yell, and the next mo
ment was out of sight also. He did not
pause to breathe, nor did he slacken his
pace as he ascended the ridge; he could
have kept on from the rising to tin; setting
of the sun without fatigue or without n
bating his speed, for be united with the
strength of the rugged bear the activity of
the deer; nor did he fear to wrestle with
the one without a weapon, or to hunt
down the other without a dog to keep him
on the trail.
“They were no sooner out of sight than
the savages in the village started in pur
suit of them. As they sprang over the
plain, they yelled and leaped like a herd
..<• flmiwica wutu. on me scent ot their
prey. It was indeed a wild sight to be
hold them rushing along the narrow path
over the mountain.
“The fugitive pursued his course down
the western deckvity with increased swift
ness. It was the race of a maniac. He
leaped from rock to rock at the hazard of
his life, and bad gained considerably up
on Tangoras, who followed with his eve
fixed upon his victim, and without slack
ening hi3 speed. At intervals he sent
forth the piercing war whoop, and the
fearful sound increased the speed of the
fugitive.
“At the base of the mountain was a
river deep »r,d rapid. The fugitive came
rushing flown with the ungoverued velo
city of a thing inanimate. He reached
the green hank of the river, and without
pausing sprang into its waves. The cur
rent bore him rapidly along, and *he cool
water refreshed his burning body. He
had not swam far before Tangoras stood
upon the bank, and immediately with a
heavy plunge desired into the. river; he
beat aside the waves with his sinewy arms;
his head was elevated, tlnd his broad chest
: piffled the water, even ns the prow of a
j vessel. He glided niton the surface us
I thouirh be bid been a creature of the elc
; ment, and the small waves leajted about
Ins brawny neck in playful wantor.ness-