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WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, ites, A' ' Vol. III.— No 3.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9.
The Southern Whig, published at Athena has
changed hands—Mr Jones the late Editor having
sold out to Mr. Benjamin Poore. The politics
of the paper will remain unchanged.
Exhibitions and Amusements.
The Moving Dioramas continue to prove them
selves attractive. This is tire last week of thei
exhibition in this place. Go and see them quick
l .. you may loose the opportunity.
Vhs beautiful pictures of “Adam and Kvc,”r
liich grow more and more beautiful the longer
you look at them, will also leave the city aflci this
week. They are not only splendid exhibitions
of the power of the pencil, but they arc sublime
exhibitions of the genius tli.it conceived them.
The Theatre too will be doubly attractive to
night. The Bedouin Arabs will appear—none
of your painted “Kavel Family** Bedouins, but
real genuine Arabs, from the sands ot Arabia,
and for aught we know, some of the same chaps
that caught Captain Riley and his comrades.
The following officers were elected by City
Council, on Saturday last, to serve for one ycar :
S. H. Ohveu, Clerk of Council.
John H. Mann, Collector and Treasurer.
Foster Blodcet, Marshal.
J. W. Meredith, Clerk Lower Market.
William Keener, Clerk Upper Market.
Washington Lawson, Jailer.
O. Danforto, Keeper of Magazine.
Edmund Martin, Street Officer.
E. G. McGolrick,'!
J. Timmerman, 1
L. Shop,
H. K. Watson, J
Edmund Martin, City Sheriff.
H. Robert, Clerk Court Common Pieirs.
W. D. Broome, Lamp Contractor.
Later f rom Trance.
By a slip from the office of the New York
Herald, received by last night’s mail, we Irave
dates from Havre to the 24th November, inclu
sive, brought by the packet ship Charles Carroll,
which sailed on the 25th.
Havre, Nov. 2!.
Cottun —Sales to-day have reached three hundred
and fifty seven bales, 'including every description.
Louisianas sold at f. 109; Mobile f. 105; Georgia
f. 101 a 103 ; Florida f. 89,50 ; and Uahia fB9 50.
We learn by the South .tii Recorder of Tuesday
the gentlemen holding public offices, annual
ly appointed by the Executive, viz , the officers
of the Central Bank, of the Penitentiary, Public
Store-keeper, &c., have been re-appointed to the
same, no change having been made by the Gover
nor—a sure proof that they have faithfully perfor
med their duties.
From Texas.
By the steam packet Cuba, at New Orleans,
from Galveston, Texas, dates from Houston to
the 20th have been received, by which we learn
that Wm. Bryan of New Orleans, has been ap,
. pointed Tcxian Consul, for the port of New Or
(:ans.
Congress was still in session at Houston. A
ill to establish a college with the public domain,
xcited considerable discussion in the house. In
I the senate, Mr. Wilson, from Harrisburg, was ex-
I polled on the 20th, for the use of profane language
I tin his place, and resisting the officers of the charn-
I ber. Preparations are still making for the effec-
I tual protection of the frontier, though the Indian
I difficulties appear to have subsided.
I Tost Offices in Georgia.
I Thcpostoffice at Marshallville,Houstoneoun-
I ty, has been discontinued.
I The following postmasters have been appointed;
I J. L. Cheatham, Hudsonville, Jefferson Co.,
■ J. H. Walker, Mill Grove, Cobb County.
I J. W. Hcriugdine, Long’s Bridge, Hancock
I ‘ County.
I ! .
■ . By slips from New Orleans, received yester-
I day morning, we perceive that the murderer
I Cooke, alluded to in the article published in to-
I days paper, from the Southern (Miss.) Sun, has
I been apprehended in Galveston, Texas, and is
I now confined in jail at that place.
■ The People’s Press, a semi-weekly paper, pub-
I liched in this city, has been discontinued. The
I following are the remarks of the editor, Mr. Rai
iS fool, in relation to the discontinuance.
I To our Patrons.
I We regret to announce to our patrons the ne
■ ctssity which compels us to discontinue the pub
» lieation of our piper. Wc shall issue no more
■ alter to-day. it is perhaps due that we should
I stale the causes which have forced upon us this
I unpleasant circumstance—but it is sufficient to
.1 Ba yi that notwithstanding onr patronage, in some
I respects, has been liberal, yet it was not of such
-I a nature as to furnish us readily, with money
I sufficient to defray our most economical expen
il ditnres. Advertising patronage, which furnish- j
I es the most ready money to a newspaper, was i
I limited with us, consequently our main depend- ,
I ance was upon the punctuality of our subscribers.
■ e hive tailed to meet from that sources mh
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amounts as were due, and such as were nccossa- ■
ry to the sustaining of our paper.
, ffj’’ she Office ot the People’s Press is ulfered
tor sale. Ihe materials are in good repair, and
comprise an assortment of Job and other Type,
tajual to any office in tire State. Any person
wishing to purchase, can do so upon the most lib
eral terms, by applying to the late Editor, or to
Dr. J. G. M’W hortcr, Augusta, Geo.
The New Orleans lice of the “d insl. states that
a letter had been received in that city from Veta
C ruz, one day later than that containing the new s
of the attack on that city by Santa Anna, which
mentioned not a word of the affair; but the Bee
thinks that the source from which the intelli
gence was derived was too positive to refuse it
credit.
The Mobile Commercial Advertiser states that
the failure of the Express Mail at that place is so
frequent, that they shall not hereafter make any
mention of it, but note it as an item of news when it
arrives. The editor says that it is now nearly as
far behind the times as an Illinois paper he re
ceived a few days since, which states that “Marcy
is undoubtedly elected Governor of New York by
a majority of 25,000 votes !! ! ”
A two year old colt named J. F. Robinson, by
Medoe, has been sold by his owners in Kentucky’
for £20,000.
Illinois.
Both parties have claimed tire ascendancy in
the Legislature of this Slate, and it is now deci
ded which was correct. In the Senate, on the
20lh ult., a question came up on the subject o
electing a printer; the vote stood, 21 Whigs*
and 19 Vunites. On the 21st, k Whig member
offered a resolution, in substance, reply bating the
practice of the Legislature, in electing members
of its own body to offices of profit and trust, which
was carried by a vote of 41 to 42, which is said
to be the relative strength of parties in the House.
This gives a Whig majority on joint ballot, of 4’
A letter dated near the mouth of White River,
in Arkansas, gives the following painful account
of a remarkable conliicl with a bear:
“There was one of the deepest tragedies here
two evenings ago that I overheard of. Mr. Har
ris, the landlord in whose house I am now stay
ing, went up the river to drive some cattle to a
Mr. Kean’s; on the way, heand Kean saw a very
large bear, which they shot twice, wounding him
mortally hut not killing him. They then follow
ed him with their dogs, and when they came to
where he was, Mr. Harris went into the cave to
get another chance to shoot him. The hear was
behind a tree, and Mr. Harris and the animal met.
Harris shot him the third time, but did not kill
him. The hear caught him by the hamstring and
bit the large artery in two. Kean, who was load
ing another gun, run to him, not being more than
ten steps off, with his butcher knife, to stab the
bear that now had Harris under him, but when
he was aiming the blow, the bear saw him, and
leaped at him. Kean sprung back, and Harris
jumped from under the bear, ran fifteen or twenty
feet and fell. Kean said “arc you hurt 1” “Yes,
I am killed,” was his answer.—Kean then jum
ped between Harris and the bear, as the latter was
rushing to another attack, and luckily shot him
the fourth time through the body, which weaken
ed the animal much, though he still fought with
the dogs for some time.—Kean ran next to Harris,
saw his haggard countenance, begged him to
speak, but the prostrate man expired in an instant.
Mr. Harris has left five or six children and his
poor wife.”
Lower Canada. —The Montreal Herald
states that it has from undoubted authority, that
the Americans are about making another attack.
It says, Bouchctte, the two Vigors, and Gannon,
arc now at Champlain, in command of a large bo
dy of men, Col. Bryant, alias Grand Eagle, is at
Aldburg, under the pretence of conducting a mil
itary school and lie certainly has an extraordinary
number of pupils, if they all pay fur their tui
tion, Malhoil and Dr. Cote arc at Swanton with
about 200 refugees and Americans, all of whom
are well armed and provided for. The immedi
ate object of these rebels and brigands, is the de
struction of the loyalistof Missisquoi Bay, in re
venge for their having been soundly thrashed
there, and their ultimate object is to induce them
to retaliate by a visit to the American side.— N,
Y. Express.
From the tit. Louis Gazette.
Loss of Menu, boats.
In the Gazette of last week, wc published a
list of ten Steamboats, all belonging to this
port, which had been recently lost in consequence
of running against snags and other obstacles.
Wc now add to that list the following catalogue
of boats lost in the same way, from the Cincin
nati Sun : the Clinton, Logansport, Chilieothe,
Washington, Corinthian, Curnanche, Renown,
Norfolk, Mississippi. The two lists comprize
nineteen boats, lost in one season, which, at a
fair average, may be set down as worth $250,000.
The probable value of cargo, lust with them,
would swell the total loss to some $450,000!
nearly half a million of dollars taken out of the
pockets, chiefly of our western people, in one
season —in consequence of employing wood in
stead of iron.
Distrf.ssi.vo Occurrence.— On Sunday, the
23d ult., a child of some six years old, the son of
Mr. James McCrary, of this county, accompanied
a negro boy into the woods, when the negro went
in quest of an axe to cut down a tree into which
they had run a rabbit; during his absence the lit
tle boy wandered oil', and could not be discovered
by the negro, who hastened to give the alarm to
the parents, who, with a large company of neigh
bors, scoured the woods, and continued an inef
fectual search until Tuesday midday, when they
discovered the child lifeless some three miles from
home. He had doubtless perished during (be
first night, which was one of intense cold, and
must have wandered eight or ten miles, in his ab
ortive endeavors to reach home. —Southern lle
cordtr.
From the Mississippi Southern Sun.
Through the exertions of John J. Smith and
Mr. White, sheriff of Scott county, the murder
ers of the unfortunate Silas D. Rives, which oc
curred on the 19th of September last have been
detected and one of them is in close confinement,
i John W. Carter, calling himself John W. Col
, line, was taken a few days ago, in Lauderdale
| county, and brought to this place on yesterday by
i Messrs. Smith and White. It seems that Carter
i and Cook had been a short time previous to the
' murder of Rives, prowling about Hillsborough, j
| in Scott county, seeking employment as well-dig- ’
gets; that for a week proceeding the murder they i
absented themselves with provisions sufficient to
last them eight or ten days. These provision
vvere found in the swamp where Rives was killed,
Suspicion resting upon them, they were imincditi
ntcly pursued, and were not heard of until Cook
calling himself Johnston, got within ten miles of
home, and gave S3O to ride ten miles. Cook,
with bis wife and children that night started lor
Mobile, and from thence to Texas. Carter was |
pursued and taken at his residence in Lowndes
county, where his property had been previously
levied upon by the sheriff, and upon his return he
paid up the executions and released it. Some of
the money he paid the sheriff, Ims since been j
identified to be Rives, it is unknown what
amount of money Rives had at the time he was
killed, but it is supposed he had about $10,500.
Cook, who is probably now in Texas, bus, no
doubt, the major part of this sum. From the
I character Carter gives him, he is as bad or worse
I robber than John A. Murrell, now in lire Peni
i tentiary of Nashville. He once lived in Florida
j but was compelled to leave for his crimes. The
following arc some of the crimes he committed,
according to his confession to Carter who related
them to me in the presence of Mr. Smith, at whose
request 1 wrote them down, and send to you lor
publication, so that the good citizens of Texas
may be on their ground, and if possible, bring this
demon to justice. From this short history of
Cook, he was, no doubt, one of the main instiga
tors of the late Seminole war in Florida. Carter
does not recollect the precise date there murders
and robberies were committed, but said it was
about the commencement and during the Seminole
! wir.—Carter states that Cook and u man by the
j name of Bryant, who lives at Lake Pnntrhar
train, killed a man by the name of Allen, in Tal
lahassee, Florida, and robbed him of SIBSO cash,
Cook painted himself like an Indian and headed
a large number of Sciniuoles, and butchered one
of the most wealthy families of white people on
the frontiers of Florida. After killing (lie whole
family, except a young man, tvho stood over and
fought for his sister until he was wounded by a
shot from an Indian—Cook then stuck an axe in
his head, and left it there sticking—robbed the
house of $llOO in paper money, and 70 or SBO
in specie. He kept the paper himself and gave
the Indians the silver.
Cook then went to Apalachicola Bay, and from
| thence to Bainhridgc, Decatur county, Ga. and,
| in company with a Virginian, with whom he had
i been travelling in the stage and supposing he had
1 money, at Cook’s instance, walked to the spring,
j there killed the Virginian, threw him in the river,
| and robbed him of slll9 —two $lO pieces ot
gold, and three smaller pieces. This crime was
committed in Dec. 1830. From Bainhridgc he
returned to Columbus, Ga., his residence.
In Tallahassee, Florida, lie saw a traveller pay
his bill. Discovering he had money, ho told the
stranger he was travelling his route, and, as it was
a dismal road he w ould be glad of his company.
The stranger thanked him, and they travelled
about seventeen miles, when Cook proposed they
should drink together, and while the stranger was
drinking out of the bottle, Cook shot him through
the back of the head, and robbed him of about
1 $063.
I Cook and his brother-in-law, Charles Hollis,
! killed the ferryman of 81. John’s river on the Au
i gustine trail, a Frenchman, and robbed him of 17
or $ 1800, and turned the flat loose to avoid the
possibility of pursuit.
Cook murdered a man not fur from Tallahassee,
and robbed him of $2,400, and $lB in cash.
lie then went into the Indian country, and pur
chased a pony, and stole 17 more, and hired an
Indian to assist him. When begot into the white
settlements, he then made the Indian drunk and
cut his throat.
I Cook and Capt. Minny (a celebrated pirate,)
j went to Snake Island, understanding that a vessel
was coming from Key West—murdered the crew,
consisting of 7 or 8 men and three ladies—plun
dered the boat of $17,000 in specie, scuttled and
sunk the vessel.
Cook was then taken in irons to Tallahas.se,
but was released, by force, from the civil authori
ties, and the irons knocked off. The names of
his friends are Augustus and Willis Austin of
Texas.
Cook and Capt. Minny came across a vessel
going from St. Marks to Almony Lake, laden with
provisions; murdered the white persons on board,
sold the provisions and seven negroes which were
on hoard, ami sunk the vessel. Captain Minny
died at St. Marks last wilder.
Cook then left for Columbus, Ga. his residence,
where he saw a traveller pay his bill, headed him,
took deliberate aim at him; his gun snapped,
which the stranger heard and fled.
Cook met with an acquaintance from Texas in
May or June last, in Clarke county, Alabama,
whose name was Win. Green. Green told him
that his old friends Augustus and Willis Austin,
were then in Texas, and were anxious that Cook
should go there, as they particularly needed his
services.
Cook thought there was no more harm in kill
ing a man than there was in killing a hog—did
not believe there was either hell or heaven—has
killed and robbed 40 or fifty men, and wmuld this
winter murder and plunder as many more.
Johnston Cook is between 26 and 30 years of
age, weighs about 140 pounds, has keen blue
eyes, and is very narrow between the eyes; his
face and hands are badly scarred with dirks and
knives, which he got by fighting; has been stab
bed through the muscle of the arm twice, with a
dirk, also in the hip; his hair is sandy, and one
of his fingers arc broken.
Society is deeply interested in the detection and
punishment of such a villain. From this state
ment the governor should not hesitate to offer a
reward for his apprehension.
Carter denies knowing any thing of the mur
der of Rives, although the chain of circumstan
ces connecting him with Cook, in bis tragical
deeds, arc strong and would go far towards bis
conviction before any intelligent jury. He is an
illiterate man, and no doubt was led on by Cook,
who is a keen, shrewd and intelligent fellow.
C.
' ‘ ‘ " '
i How to gain a Suit.— ‘'Pis not every lawyer
! that can gain his suit, even with a show of argu
! meut on his side, the following ease, therefore,
may be considered the mure extraordinary, where
there was not the slightest cause of action. A
few days since a black fellow came running in
breathless haste to the dwelling of a Grocer, whose
store is in Pratt street, stating that in removing a
hogshead of molasses at the store, it had bursted
and covered Mr. from head to foot; and that
he ha 1 been sent as fust as he could run to bring
him i other suit of clothes before he could move i
| out of his tracks. The kind lady of the grocer
did not wish to see her husband so entirely “bu- i
i ried in sweets,” and with becoming haste deliv- j
; ered to the supposed messenger anew suit through- j
1 out, with which the rogue decamped, pleased that \
his own villiany had furnished him with a valid !
excuse for disappearing in a hurry,— 'lronscript.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Washington, Jan. 1, 1839.
Neither House ol Congress was in session to
day. i lie President held a public Levee, as usu
al, from twelve till three o’clock. The foreign
ministers and their suits, officers of the army and
navy, many nl the Senators and Representatives,
and some hundreds, or I might say, thousands, of
strangers and citizens crowded the drawingrooms {
during these hours. The. President looked tin- I
commonly well, and appeared inline spirits. The
lady of Major Abraham Van Huron now docs the
honors of the mansion. A smaller, but a more
select number ot gentlemen and ladies paid their
respects to Mrs. Madison and to ex-Prcsidcnt
Adams and bis lady.
1 he holidays being over, the remaining part of
the session being Uriel, it is not improbable that
both Houses'may aoou attempt to do some busi
ness. The great measure of the session is the
Bub-l reasury bill, and that is not to come up in
the Senate until the House shall have acted upon
it. In the moan time, however, the subject w like
ly to be discussed in the Stellate upon resolutions,
yesterday submitted by Mr. Allen, of Ohio, which
the Globe calls the ‘•test resolutions," upon an
examination of these resolutions, you v. ill see that
they luruish a pretty strung and certain test.—
They also show that the financial policy, estab
lished by the 26th section ot the “act to regulate 1
the collection ol duties, rScc.,” approved July 31st j
1789, and by the 10th section of the “act to es- |
tahiish the Treasury Department,” approved Sept.
2d, 1/S9 is in strict conformity to tin Fundmnen
ta! principles ol the Constitution, and ought to be
restored. The resolutions propose that ali public
money be kept by individual government agents,
and that the government shall receive and pay
nothing but gold and silver—“under those modi
fications only ns to time and proportion, which
are required by the present condition of the coun
try.’ These modifications” of course mean Mr,
Calhoun’s plan of a gradual return to specie cur
rency, by receiving bank notes for a limited time,
and in certain proportions. Mr. Allen’s resolu
tions are, therefore, nothing more or less than Mr.
Calhoun’s proposition revived. Such a proposi
tion cannot pass the House, at present. If noth
ing be done on the subject, the law of 1789 for
the re-organization of the Treasury Department,
will remain in force, modified bv tiie joint resolu
tion of 1816, and by such parts of the Dcpositc
act of 1836, a.; allow of a restrictive use of bank
paper.
Washington, Jan. 2.
In the iScnati, to-day, Mr. Linn, of Missouri,
offered a resolution, instructing the Committee
on the Oregon 'Territory, to inquire into the ex
pediency of extending the laws of the United
States over that Territory.
Only one abolition petition was presented.
The Senate was occupied the whole day with
the bill to reduce and graduate the price of public
lands. The bill proposes to reduce the price ulti
mately to 50 cents tin acre, and l<> limit the right
of entry under the law to one section of land for
ewrti pnr.Jiasvr,
Mr. Clay, o! Kentucky, opposed the bill. He
said it applied to seventy-one millions of acres al
ready in the market, ami was equivalent to giving
thirty millions of dollars, belonging to the whole
country, to private speculators. The capitalists
Would enter millions ot acres, in different names,
so as to evade the restrictions of the bill, and double
their money in a few years. With a few excep
tions, every acre of land would sell for one dollar
and twcuty-ilvo cents an acre, at a future time.—
It the hill passed, no land would be entered at a
price higher than the medium of 50 cents, nor
even at that price, because speculators would wait
for another reduction down to 121, cents an acre.
Ho thought it necessary for the country, in the
present condition and prospects of the Treasure,
to husband all its resources. With a view to
make the bill us little exceptionable as possible, in
case it should pass, lie moved to rc-commit it to
the Committee on Public Lands, with instructions
so to alter it as to liinil the sales to actual settlers.
Mr. Clay of Alabama, Mr. Walker and Mr.
Preston warmly opposed this motion and advoca
ted the policy of the bill as highly beneficial to
the new Stales.
The Senate adjourned without taking the ques
tion.
In (he House of Representatives, (he first half
hour was consumed in disposing of a motion sub
mitted by Mr. Adams, the object of which v. as to
amend the journal, so as to secure a more full and
satisfactory notice of the manner in which lie had
introduced (on Monday last) the letter, dated
Montgomery, Alabama, ami by which he was
threatened with assassination on this day, forcer
tain resolutions introduced by him, calling on the
President for information in regard to the recent
controversy between Daniel O'Connell, Esq., a
member ot tin; British House of Commons, and
J. A. Stevenson, Minister at the Court of Bt.
James,
Mr. Dixon If. Lewis, a member from Alabama,
and the immediate representative of the town of
Montgomery in that Mtato, (die place at which
the letter was dated,) declared that there was no
such person as “ (Jouruld” resident there, and that
the letter bore internal evidence of its own bur
lesque.
Mr. Adams did not, be said, entertain any tear
for himself. But if a letter, threatening the as
sassination of a member for words spoken in de
bate, was a quiz, then murder, and forgery, and
treason were all a quiz.
The House refused to amend the Journal, but
the object ol Mr. Adamswili be effectually secured
by tlie motion which will thus bo recorded.
By leave of the House, Mr. Cushman made a
statement in regard to a Resolution presented by
Mr. Wise on Thursday last, which provided fur
the appointment of a Select Committee, to en
quire whether the conduct of Mr. Woodbury pre
sented grounds sufficiently strong upon which to
found an impeachment. Mr. C. declared himself
authorized to express the solicitude of Mr. Wood
bury that such a committee should be appointed,
and in expressing, on Monday, as Mr. Cushman
bad done, his objection to the"adoption of the Re- I
solution, bo was not influenced, lie said, by any I
doubts as to (be feelings of the Secretary. He ‘
knew tlgit that officer was willing and ready at!
any lime to answer lor himself. If Mr. Wise j
would modify this Resolution so as to have the
Committee appointed in the usual way, Mr. ('.
would withdraw his objections, and he would not
persist in his objection even to the selection of a |
Committee by ballot, if it could be done within a |
reasonable time.
Mr. Prentiss and Mr. Wise both endeavored to |
reply to this statement, but the House would not j
hear them—that is, a vote of two-thirds could not
be procured.
'The Reports of Committees were called for, i
hut there were none of a generally interesting:
diameter.
’The House then Went into Committee on the
President’s Message. Mr. Cushman made a ,
speech in vindication of Mr. Woodbury,Mr. Dun- j
can obtained the floor, and then the House ad-I
joiirncd.
( i’ rom the Athcmcum.J
The Death limincr.
[A young Pole, after receiving several deeper- i
ate wounds, refused to leave his ranks, and strug- I
gied on. He fell; and hie comrades taking his j
heart, placed it on a spear, and used it us a stun- |
dard in a successful charge against the Russian
squadrons.]
And art thou fallen, thou,
Thy country’s gallant one 1
The patriot’s arm is nerveless now,
The patriot’s goal is won.
Thy comrades cannot lose thee thus.
Again for Poland—cha'gc with us ’
Another charge—but one—
For all thou lovcdst in life ;
Come, where the war breathes darkest dun,
And light us to the strife :
VV ho shrinks from battle's whirling tide,
Thy heart our banner—God our guide 1
O rally ! rally ! all
That Poland calls her own—
• Swear to avenge a brother's full—
Swear by this heart alone :
Swear, ere wu burst on yonder horde,
The warrior’s oatii ; —the lifted sword.
I
Up v. ith it—'tin a star
That lighten'd o’er the field,
Dimming the fiery eye of war :
They reel—they faint—they yield.
The bloody banner holds its path,
Like heaven’s lightning in its wrath.
Yonder sec it gleaming,
The standard of the free ;
In its own life-blood streaming,
Brave heart 1 we follow thee.
In cannon’d thunder, fnernau’s shot,
In blood and flame we sever not.
On I—o'er their servile ranks
The pat riot’s charge has gone ;
Like mountain torrent burst its banks—
The banner leads them on ;
O’er riven helm and shattered glaive,
The crest of battle's fiery wave.
Belfast. J. K. B.
Who could have tiiouoht it I—Looking
over some old newspapers, the editor of the Lou
isville Gazette came across a Frankfort Argus,
published during the contest for the succcsson-hip
of Mr. Monroe in the Presidency, and at which
time Amos Kendall was its editor. He found
therein the following editorial paragraph ;
pRE»ii*UNTi al. —“'Tin; Nashville Whig pub
lishes some well written articles in favor of Clay
and Crawford, in consequence of which Jackson's .
friends threatened to poll down that printing of
fice. This is a specimen of what Jackson's ad
ministration might be, mere he elected."
Amos has changed his opinion since 1824. He
was not proof against political promotion, and
SSOOO per annuip. When ho sought office at
the hand of Mr. Clay, after Mr. C. was appointed
Secretary of Slate, he was offered a clerkship in
that department, with a salary of SIOO6. He
demanded S3OOO, and was refused. Jackson gave
if, and afterwards increased the sum to SSOO0 —
and Kendall became his worshipper and bond
slave. No wonder he is a democrat of the Jack
son school. He “must provide for his family,” as
the swindler in the play has it. He would have
been a flaming Whig now if Mr. Clay had given
him the S3OOO. An easy conscience is a blessed I
thing in litis money-making world !— Lynchburg
Yir,
From the \ew York Quarterly Review.
Adnuni.-lialion of Wa-tniigton.
A generation has passed away since Washing
ton closed his political life; —and when wo now
review all the acts of his administration, the
measures which lie adopted, the principles which
he avowed, and the resolutions upon which he
acted, to make the patronage and offices subser
vient to the interests of the whole country, and
not to surrender them to the base and grovelling,
and corrupting influences of party ; w hen we re
view these things, we cannot but confess our
selves struck with a reverential awe of Ids trans
ccndant purity and greatness. He gave no office
whatsoever, except to merit and for merit—to pri
vate viitue, and tor acknowledged talent, and for
the public good. He considered the patronage of
the government as a sacred trust, created fur the
good of the whole people, and to be employed for
tlie good of the whole. It never entered his head
to conceive, that the time could ever possibly ar
rive in this free land, in which tlie patronage of
government should be employed to bring down
the people to the footstool of their rulers, or to or
ganize a band of office-holders to manage elec
tions, or to intimidate, or corrupt, or influence
electors. In the presence of Washington, the
man who should have given utterance to the sug
gestion of such a system, would have shrunk into
absolute nothingness by a withering look, which
would have branded him as the foulest of traitors
to his country.
There was a pure atmosphere then in the re
gions of the halls and official residences of the
government. Men breathed freely then, and
thought and acted as freemen, who held their lib
erties in llteir own hands, and not at the mercy of
rulers ; and the first attempt to trample upon them
would have taught the usurpers the lesson—“who
would ho free, themselves must strike the blow.”
Let the young men of the present day read the
history of the administration of Washington, so
forcibly and truly written out in the pages of Mar
shall. It will purify them from a thousand vague
generalities. It wall recall them to the great prin
ciples on which the government was originally
framed. It will teach them the utter wot tillers
ness of all mere political theories, and the in
valuable authority of experience. It will teach
them that no republic can he well or w isely gov
erned, except by men of high intellect, compre
hensive knowledge, incorruptible integrity, and
disinterested patriotism.—lt will teach them that
the demagogue is the worst enemy of the people,
j and his kindred character, courtier, is the worst
enemy of the monarch. It will teach that the
truest course of ambition is not to bo found in its
favors and its honors, but upon the solemn judg
' inenls of the v ise and good, upon the distant
praises whose voice speaks from the hearts ot
millions, and give back from the tomb the deep
echoes of its own thankfulness.
I AW NOTH K.—The co-partnership heretofore
a 4 existing between the undersigned, at Munti
lellu and Eatonton, under the firm of F. Y. A J.
HILL, was dissolved on the 10th hist., by the elec
tion of the former as Judge of the Gcmulgee Circuit.
The latter will attend to the unfinished business of
the lat“ linn, as well as to any new business en
trusted to him. Office at Monficello, Geo.
EDWARD V. HILL, !
dec 1 w6t JOSHUA HILL.
8 AW NOTICE.— WIMSOHM J. LAWTON j
J having located himself at Jaeksonboro,Bciiven
! county, will faithfully attend to all business en- I
Inu-ted to him worn dec 12 i
(1/ A (5) t WA N TED.—Wanted to
£5 I .viUUI r borrow $12,000, for the term
of two years; as much as ten per cent., and na
more, will be given—interest and principal payable
at the same time, and the whole secured by land
and negroes to twice the amount. The property fa
be pledged is untramelled by liens of any dcscrip
t'on. -Apply to the editor of this paper for informa-
wit jan 7
A FEMALE TEACHER W ANTED.
riNIIK Trustee” of the Appling, Columbia county,
I female Academy, are desirous of employing a.
Female Teacher, to whom a liberal salary will ha
given. Apply to 1)K. THUS. 11. DAWSON,
Jan 9 4t Pres, of the Board of Trustees.
OTICE. —Will be sold at the residence of David
Langston, late of Columhia county, to the high*
eat bidder, on Friday, the 22d of February next, all
the perishable property, consisting of com, fodder,
(pork sailed) hogs, cows, sheep, and horses, house
hold and kitchen furniture, plantation tools, and
other articles too tedious to mention. At the same
time and place, the Negroes belonging to said estate,
will he hired until the 25th of December next.—
Terms on the day of sale,
jau 9 _DA VID LANGS TON, Adrn’r.
VI. S. HEATH AM) WM.A. tiTJICrLElf’’.
ATTOKMES AT I.AW,
HAVING funned a co-partnership, will practice
in the several courts of the Northern Circuit,
to wit: Willies, Warren, Hancock Taliaferro,Ogle
thorpe, Madison, Elbert, and Lincoln counties, and
Columbia comity of the Middle Circuit. Their Of
fer is in Washington, Wilkes county, Ga.
jan 8 w2m
LAND FOR SALE.
WITHOUT RESERVE, I will sell at public
outcry, before the court house door in the
town ol'Cassville,on the first Tuesday in Februaiy
next, a valuable settlement of 4SO acres of Land, at
the fork of Pine Log and Sulaeoa creeks, in the 7th
district of the 3d section. The premises embrace a
large proportion of Land, not surpassed in the qual
ity of the soil by any in the state, oiler desirable
advantages of water, and are well improved.—
Those wishing to purchase will please call at my
house on the premises, and examine for themselves
before the day of sale.
Also, a number of Lots, in sizes to suit purchas
ers, joining the town of Cassville, with a reserve of
a good Spring, convenient to all of them, fur the
joint benefit of purchases.
’)erms cash. A. D. SHACKELFORD,
jan 8 wtd
I,!ST oi - LETTERS”
Remaining in the PostOtlice at Waynesboro o the
Ist of January, 1839. ..
Allen Robert Lightfoot Caro
Allen William Lively John 11
Anderson Col A H Lumpkin John W
Bliss Lyman O 2 Lumpkin John B 3
Bync William 3 Loach H W
Burch Littlubcrry McKimic Dr John jr
Brown .Mr. cam of A G Whitehead
Bonds Miss Emily McKinnc John jr, cate
Bell Green .1 PC Whitehead
Bronson-Valina .Vnlkey William 2
Court Inferior Murphy Wright
Carsewcll Egnardus R Mack Michel
care of M Carsewcll McClain Janies L
Cutes Mr Moore Mrs Mary H
Crockett Floyd Ncpson Dr H
Clark William Nelson James
Court Inferior Palmer Miss
either of the Judges Patterson William J
Clerk Mon of Burke co Parrel Andrew L
Dickinson Ma j D F Peterson Mrs Eliza
Davies Arthur Roberts Charles
Dukes Mrs Mary Roberts Gieeu
D; niels Moses Reynolds James M
Dukes the orphans) of Rutland Reddick
T Duke Reese James
Evans Mrs Mary Ann Scruggs Mrs Alhoitha
Farrell Miss Therese 2 Seegar Charles F
Gobec James .Stations John
Gordon J E Thomas Gen Joseph D 4
Hatcher Miss E A 2 Tindell Miss MelCO.kx
Hicks Edmond Vantson Abner
Hatcher John Whitehead John PC
Hines & Word Whitehead Afrs Kutii J.
Hookes Michael Whitehead James
Hill Hughey Williams Miss Lnascn 2
Killpatric James II F care of M Carso well
ROBERT 11. GRAY, P. M.
Waynesboro, January 8, 1839. iv3t
LIST OF LETTFiIi
Remaining in the Post Office at Louisville, Ga.,
on Hi). 31st December, 1338, and if not taken out
before the 31st day ot March, ISS9, will he sent to
Post Office Department as dead letter:.
Brinson Moses 2 Mountain Fnincis
Hothwell David E 3 Moore Thomas
Bostick Littleberry Meadows Daniel
Bostick Filntaii Mathews Isasc
f. alhoun William Nimn Washington
Cheatham James Patridgc Henry
Cain Mrs Ann Pool A J
Connel Jackson Piervill John
Dupont Mrs Prichard James
Dillard Joseph Rowell Win B
Davenport Airs Z Redden James V
Ellis Thomas P Roberts Green
Fitzsimons Col Paul I Street Thomas
Gross Mund Stewart James senr
Gardner R H jr esq Simmons Columbus
Hampton Wade Simmons Claybom C
Hampton Mrs M I 3 Thompson Charles
Hayslip Jonas Thompson Burkett D
Houston John W Thompson Ohadiah
Deadly Mr Turner Henry P esq
Josey Samuel Watkins Arthur
King Henry Watkins Silas
Lcmle Miss Susan A Wooden David 2
Lynch Mancil West Elizabeth
Lewis Oscar F Wright Ezekiel
Milton Miss Jane M Young CW i
KEEN. BOTH WELL, P. M.
jan 8 w3t Louisville, Ga.
I AW NOTICE.—J. J. B. FLOURNOY has
j opened a Law Office in Waynesboro, Burke
county. He will attend to any business intrusted
to his care with promptness and despatch.
nov 10 wlm
VrOTlCfc.— James T. Bothwell, Attorney at
Law, Louisville, Geo., will attend to Jail
legal business intrusted to him in the Counties of
Burke, Jefferson, Washington, Emanuel, Tatnal,
Montgomery, and Laurcnes, and he flatters himself
by his diligence and attention to business, to share
a part of public patronage. All communications di
rected as above will meet with immediate attrn
t on. w3rn dec 12
JAW NOTICE. —'the undersigned having
i removed from Clark county to Limioliiion,
will attend to llio practice of Law in the siiipeiior
unit Inferior Courts ot Lincoln counly, and the au
jiiconl counties. Business intrusted to his care will
bo promptly altended to.
KENNING B. MOOUK.
References.—Hon. Charles Dougherty, Hon. A
•S. Claylun, Hon. Thomas W. Hams, Gen. Edward
Hanlon, AI hulls; C. J Jenliiiis, G. W, Cra wfiirti,
A. J Miller,Col. John Milledgo, William E. Jones,
Augusta Lincolnlcn, March 24,1838. utf
LAW NOTICE; ‘
r| HIE nedersigned having united in the praclic
ot l he LAW,offer their services to me public
They mil at lend the courts of JUtucogve, .Marion,
Stewart, Randolph, Early, Baker, Aeeand Sumter,
ot iheClmiinliooeliee Cin nit; Houston, of the Flint
Circuit; and Twiggs, Pulaski, Lowndes, TAomas,
Decoturumi Dool/, of the SouthertrA+rtffiit. Bu
siness entrusted to theircuro will meet with prompt
nltenlion. Their office is in Americas, Sumter
county, where one ot them mav always bo (bund
when nut absent unbiisiness.
LOTT WARREN.
o.tlO wtf WM H CRAWFORD
ADM ININTItA TO It’S KLAE.
ON the first Tuesday in February noxt w ill he
sohl at the court bouse door in Floyd cuur.tv,
lotof land No. 127,5 th district, !tb section, Chero
kee, now Floyd county, sold as the property of Wil
liam V. Kelly, for the benefit of the heirs and credi
tors of said deceased. HENRY EVANS,
November 29,1538. 3t Administrator.