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THE FRIEND AND MONITOR. Three dollars per annum.'} Volume I.J For Sale, * • Seven hundred acres of land, in Wilkes county, lying on the waters of Beaverdam, adjoining'lands of Leapham and Thomas Chivers.—- This land isjo well known, and is of so good a quality, that 1 prefutne it unnecessary Jo fay any thing oft this head. Terms of sale cam. I JOHN B. NEI3SON. Ujflober 6, 1815.: —40 ts Home Os Entertainment . William G. Springer, takes the liberty of informing his friends and the public in general, that he has purchased that well known ta vern in the town of Sparta, form erly occupied by Mr. John Aber- where every attention will be paid to those who may think proper to call on him. Sfai|ta, August 15. Notice. caufe of the dissolution of co-partnership between Robt. Ghivers and myfelf is rafcality and illegal proceedings by Robert Chi vers. Also, I do hereby forworn nay person or persons whatsoever, from payiifg him any money on the Book of Harrison and Chivers for the year 1814. THEOD’K HARRISON. April 25, 1815.--rm 17th ~T. 1 \v st v 'Te.’ The subscriber informs thePub-* lie, that he has just received a sup ply of frefh goods, w hich he will dispose of on, reasonable terms for cash or produce. J A. H. GIBSON. ‘September 1 5. <crMß|gc jaasar t iJiitaiwi mi KywtwtawrtwMffgf if Georgia Legislature GOVE RN O R ’sCO M M UNIC A TION. executive n^f aktmf.nt, Georgia, Millrclgeville, November B,lßlb. FeUow-GitizcKa of the Senate, and House of Represenatives. It is known to you all that since the Legislature were last in session, the war which was then waging a gainst the American people, has been concluded by an honorable peace. Permit me to congratulate you on this event. A nation whose habits and pursuits make it at all times their interest to be at peace with the rest of the world, and whose inclinations correspond with their interest, has just reason to hi grateful to Heaven when they can enjoy that bieffing. In the mise rably diftra&ed state of the world which has been witnefTed for twen ty-five years past, it is a miracle that we should so long have escaped | the broil of war. And now after a short, and to us a-glorious struggle, the cloud has parted away, and we are backing in the sunshine of peace. The fubjefts w'hich appear pro per to be communicated to the Le gislature specially are not nume rous. Such as have occurred du ring the recess, and fall within this defeription, will now be presented to your view. , PUBLISHED (weekly) BY’ JOHN K. M. CHARLTON. FlftD/tf, NOVEMBER if. 1815. Notwithstanding the large drafts which the occafionsof the war have rendered neceflary on the state Treafury* yet the* amount of funds in that office at this time, nearly equals the amount of any former ” year. This is justly attributable to the wife policy adopted by the Le gislature, of adding 50 percentu m to the state Tax for the purpose of reimbursing in part tne amount of the Dire£l Tax afifumed by the state v to the. United States, ‘This year again, tjie quota of direst tax, tho* double the amount off he last year, has been fettled from the proceeds of thefales of lands in the Miftiflip pi Territory. In addition to the disbursements made under the ap propriation of the* I;&e session for the ereflion of formications on the sea coast there has been advanced • to the Quarter Mafier’s department of the army of the United States, the sum of twenty thouiand dollars, and to the. Contractor for the army the sum of thirty thdufand dollars. The firft was specially authorifed by the last Legislature ; but the fe cund was drawn from the military fund after the * netny bad invaded the state, at a perfod when the con tractor’s department was utterly destitute of funds and unable to fupplv die troops in service with out such aid. Both tfiefe advances of twenty and thirty thousand dollars have, however, been recognized By the War Department, and theis pay ment assumed. The Executive has not Ipng since been notified, that the funds were ready for r heir difeharge at the city of Washing ton, and the neceflary drafts have beer transmitted there for that pur pose We have also good grounds for the expectation, that the expen diture for fortifications on the sea coast will be reitnbuifed to us whenever the proper vouchers can be tranfmitfed to the feat of Gov ernment. The whole correspondence and ‘documents relating to these fubjefts will accmopany this communica tion. It is proper further to mention, that divers smaller advances have at different periods been when they appeared indispensable for the promotion of the public service. These have been so guard ed as to leave no dout of their re imbursement. |. The Legislature will nave an op | portunity to difeover, from perfon i al observation, the progress which j has been made.in the erection of the > Penitentiary edifice. A report will in due time be laid before them from the Commissioners, detailing the expenditure of the monies ap propriated for that objeft. It will be seen on infpe&ion, that much of the interior work remains to be done; and it is believed that a com pletion of the whole of the prefect building, including the neceflary wall, cannot be reasonably calcula ted on earlier than the next meeting of the Legislature. The interven ing time will afford an opportunity VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND SCIENCE. • for Reviling and rendering more the Penitentiary code- The i introduction of a fyflem of punish . ments entirely new in this state, & , the accommodation of that system (in a certain degree neceflary) to the existing state ojf society here, was a work in which jfjnuft reason ably be expeited thatitnany imper fections will be found on experi ment. Some it is believed will be difeovered on a refifion, which, require correction before th§ code goes into operation. TheLegifla ture alone can direCt the course proper to be pursued for the ac complilhtnent of this objeCt. I have received a requisition from Maj or General Gaines of the Uni ted States army, for two thousand militia, to rendezvous at Fort Haw kins. The objeCt of this requfition was, to have an effective force or ganized and in the field, fufficient as well to proteCt the Commiflion ers who are engaged in running the boundary laic, as our own frontier, front any hostile menaces of the Creek Indians. lam sorry to fay, that a compliance with this requisi tion has been much retarded by the system of fleCting officers for de tachments; And had an imme diate pyeffure been made by the en emy, wc might have had reason to regret serious disasters to the Com miflioners as well as our own fron tier. Whilst on this fubjeCt, I will a gain call the attention of the Legis lature to the condition of the vol unteer infantry and rifle companies. Os the latter in particular, there are many remnants thro* the state, who in point of faCt are complete exejnps from the public service. The authority to consolidate them, given by the aCI of the last session, is infufScicnt, owing to their dis persed fixation. Both deferiptions ought, by law, to be thrown back into the line, ancPhone fuffered to remain in the charafter of volun teers any longer than they shall preserve their full compliment of men. There is one fubjeCl, to which it is believed to be important that the attention of the Legislature should be seriously direCled, without delay. We have felt by fatal experience, the injurious effeCts of being over taken by a state of war, without possessing the neceflary means for prosecuting it. A state of peace is the proper period for providing and laying up those means.—The ample funds now at the command of the state, and the facility with which the proper arms, artillery & ammunition may be procured and transported, would appear so favor able to the purpose, that to neglect the opportunity would leave the public councils inexcusable to the state. Experience too has taught us the kind of asns tnoft efficient in the hands of an American folflier. * These are rifles of the proper con firmation, and light artillery. Os mulkets we have a considerable ; fuppiy with their proper accoutre- j ments; and this fuppiy mult antiu- i £. Payable half yearly. ally increase by the operations of the a&pf Congrofs, of the 23d day of April, FBOB. In the present untoward state of the world, we are the only people on the globle, who can with truth call theiufelves free. This freedom so dear to us, we are bound by the mod sacred ties to protect ancf pre serve. “An armed nation is in vincible.” In proportion as we prize the great bieffing, so are the. inducements to transmit the fame unimpaired ,to pdfterity. In pro portion as the enmity or hostility of qthers may tempt them to attail it, so are our obligations of and uty to be prepared to repel their efforts. In reviewing our own bfeflings, it would afford consolation to every philanthropic mind, if profiting by the example of our condition, o ther nations would be wife enough to direst more of their'energies to wards the obje£t3 of true private and public happiness. But it would appear as if Heaven had, for a time, given up the nation? of Europe to be scourged by tfifeir own madness. Even now, when he, whose arnbi ton was considered there as the great destroyer of the peace of Em pires is no longer able to molest or destroy ; the improved condition of Europe, is atiefted by she daily groans of millions, who dare not confider their houses as their homes. These feenes parting in actual review before the world, may contribute to make an American citizen prize as he ought his own happiness. When we confider how apt a free people are to hold in too little efli mation the high destiny to which providence has conduced them, it is not impious to fay, that for us it is fortunate these things are so. The lesson may be a falufarv one ; for although we might for a while prize as we ought our diftinguiftied state of happiness, yet it ought to be borne in constant recolle&ion, that we are liable to fliipwrefl on the fame rocks which have proven fatal- to other republics. The feenes before us may serve to retard the catastrophe. There i§, howe ver, one advantage we possess over former republics, and indeed over every other nation, ancient or mo dern, which if properly improved inay serve us to the end. Our peo ple are better enlightened. This circumstance will save us, so long as it shall be properly appreciated. It is the pivot on which hangs the political salvation of the largest and faireft portion of the Globe. Who then can duly appreciate the value’ of those abundant sources of edu cation which are spread ever the u nion ; or who be infenfibleto the weighty duty imposed on each in his own fpHere, of administering to them nurture and support. Fellow-Citizens—Permit me to recommend to you harmony in your deliberations. If peradven ture matters of difeuffion flioyld a rise, 1 in which different opinions prevail, let not paflion assume the empire of reason. The former is i not the road which leadt, to the fNuMRER 45.