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Abstracts from Georgia Journal and Messenger , Macon,
GA 

15 April 1847 The name of the paper is changed to
"Georgia Journal" and "Messenger"

November 8, 1848 Vol XXVI No 32

ARRIVAL OF CHEROKEE This magnificent Steamship
arrived at Savannah early on Saturday morning last in
the unprecedented short run of 57 hours from New
York. She had on board one hundred and three
passengers all of whom spoke in the highest erms of
both the sailing qualities of the vessel and her
suprior accommodations. Had it not been for an
accident upon the Central Road, the passengers for
this city, and point beyound, would have gained two
full days upons the land route. As it was, they
gained one day.... Our neighbors of Savannah, seemt o
have been truly fortunate in their great enterprise.
They ahve at least shown one thing: that is is
perfectly practicalbe to run a line of steamers
between new Yor and Savannah in the same time
required to run to Charleston. This will of course
give the traveller from Georgia, Alabama and Florida
from one to two days advantage. 

SERIOUS ACCIDENT. on Friday evening, a gentleman
named Troup from Bibb County, GA was riding in a
carriage with his wife and a small chiold, along
Baronne St. near Julia, when the horses came in
contact with a baker's cart, became frightened and
efied the efforts of Mr. T. to hold them. They dashed
around the corne of Ulia street at a terrible rate of
speed, and were finally brought up against a wile of
wood near the new Basin. The shock overturned the
carriage and Mr. Troup in endeavoring to save the
child, fell with great violence upon his left arm,
breaking it just above the wrist. He also recieved
several severe bruies. The lady and child fortunately
escaped serious injury. 

DIED at the residence of his father in Pulaski
County, on the 15th inst. John M. Booth, eldest son
of Theophilus D. Boothe, aged 20 years, 10 months and
15 days. 

MARRIED on the 7th inst Pulaski County, by the Rev.
David Smith, Mr. Jas R. Boombs of Laurens County to
Miss Sarah E. Boothe, eldest daughter of Theophilus
D. Booth of the former place. 

VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE. I desire to sell my
home place in the northern part of Crawford County--
the place contains about 1200 acres of rich and
productive land, mixed post Oad and Hickory, with
considerable lime in the soil. There are 500 acres
cleared. I desier to sell because I wish to
concentrate all my force and attention on a larger
plantation below, on the Flint River. Samuel
Rutherford. 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold on the first
Tuesday in January next, before the Court House door
in Perry,Houston County, three lots of land lying in
the 14th District of said county, number not know,
known as the residence of the late Alatia COLEY,
deceased. Sold by order of Infer Ct of said county.
Also sold on same day, in Vienna, DOOLEY County, 400
acres of pine land on which land there are a fine Saw
Mill and Grist Mill, known as Coley's Mills. Sold by
order of Inf Court. John W. Wilkinson, Admr. 

EXECUTOR'S SALE. Will be sol din Marion, Twiggs
Counmty, on 1st Tues Feb, 5 Negroes belonging to the
estate of John Everitt, late of said county,
deceased. Sold under the last will and testament of
said deceased for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors. Henry E. Everitt, Exec 

CRAWFORD SHERIFF'S SALE. Will be sold on 1st Tues in
Dec, Knoxville, GA, the following property. One cart
and oxen, and two cows and calves, levied on as the
property of John Knight, to satisfy one fi fa issued
from Crawford Inf Court in favor of Bond & Murdock vs
John Knights. 

Also one lot of land, number 95, in the 1st district,
originally Houston, now Crawford County, containing
202 acres, levied on as the property of Alexander
Fitzpatrick, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Crawford
Inf Court, in favor of John McCrary, vs Alexander
Fitzpatrick. Joel B. Morgan Dep Sheriff 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold on Monday 18th
Dec, at the late residence of William Haddock,
deceased, alte of Houston county, all the perishable
property belonging to said deceased, consisting of
cattle, hogs, sheep, horses. mules several yoke of
oxen and carts, 3 or 4000 bushels of corn, fodder,
oats, rye, plantation tools, household and kitchen
furniture, and other articles too tedious to mention.
David M. Holmes, Atty 

EXECUTOR'S SALE. Will be sold at the courthouse in
Marion County, 1st Feb next. Lot of land, number 227,
4th district Marion, belonging to the estate of Joel
GAMMON, deceased, containing 202 1/2 acres. Sold
under a provision of the Will of said deceased for
the benefit of heirs and creditors. John Tompkins,
Exec 

November 15, 1848 Vol XXVI No 33

Much news about the ELECTION results of the Cass -
Zach Taylor for Presidency. "The majority in Georgia
alone distributed over five states would have given
Gen Taylor between forty and fifty more votes in the
Electoral college...It proves that he has a deep hold
upon the affections and judgements of the American
people. Gen Taylor has bribed no one, he has coaxed
no one, he has cheated no one into his support. It
must be to him a proud consideration that he is not
indebted nor his triump either to the abstractionist
of the south or the abolitionists of the North. 

HORRID MURDER. An old, and inoffensive man by the
name of Isaac Sowell, was inhumanly killed in this
city on Satruday evening last, by George Bassett, on
account of some slight difference in regard to the
recent election. Bassett fled immediately and has not
yet been arrested. 

MARRIED. On the evening of the 8th by the Rev. W.H.
Ellison, Mr. John E. Jones to Miss Arabella O. second
daughter of Mr. James Dean, all of this city. 

MONROE COUNTY. Whereas Asa V. MANN applies for
letters of administration de bonis non, on the estate
of Stephen A. Mann, of said county, deceased. And
whereas John Sharman applies for letters of
Administration on the estate of John K. Watson, late
of said county, deceased. Please shew cause why
letters should not be issued. E.G. Cabaniss, CCC 

FOR SALE. two hundred and fifty acres of land on the
Macon and Western Railroad, ten miles above Macon.
The situtation of this land renders it highly
convenient to person residing in Macon for a
provision farm. Washington Poe 

NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of the
late John Haugabook, deceased, of Macon County, are
hereby requested to make apyment immediately. Harried
Haugabook, Admx. 

CAUTION. The public are cautioned against trading for
a certain note made yb the undersigned and payable to
Wiliam Foster, a Cancer Doctor, for the sum of fifty
dollars, dated on the 12th October 1848, and payable
six months after date, as the consideration for which
said note was given has failed, and I am resolved not
to pay it unless compelled by law to do so. James
Foreman 

CAUTION. All persons are cautioned against trading
for a note made by the undersigned some time about
the first of October last, for four hundred and forty
dollars, payable on the 15th Dec to Lanier, Brown &
Co, as the consideration for which said note was
given has failed. Paul S. Dinkins 

EXECUTORS SALE. Willbe sold on Thurs. 28th day of
December, at late residence of James Gibson, Jr.
deceased of Upson County, all the perishable property
of the said deceased, consisting of household and
kitchen furniture, corn, fodder, seed cotton, one
horse, hogs, cattle sheep, one Jersey wagon, and
sundry other articles. James Trice Rx'or. 

ADMINISTRATOR SALE. Willbe sold at courthouse in
Macon, Bibb County, on the 1st Tues, Feb., the
southeast half of lot number 8 in square number 36,
in the plan of the city of Macon, containing one
fourth of an acree. Sold by order of court as the
property of Daniel L. Hawley, deceased. M.L.
Graybill, Admr. 

MACON COUNTY. Whereas Abner McCoy applies for letters
of administration on the estate of James Leaton, late
of said county, deceased. These are therefore to cite
and admonish all and singular the kindred and
creditors... W.A. Cobb, CCC 

FOUR months after date application will be made to
Inf Cout of MACON County to sell the real and
personal propery to Georgietta Shepherd, minor of
George Shepherd, deceased. Wiley T. Wilks, Guardian 

RUNAWAY from the subscriber in Houston County,
Georgia, on the 12th, a negro man by the name of JIM,
who sumetimes calls himself Thalus. He carried with
him a new black cloth cap, and a light snuff-colored
Tweed overcoat, a Watch, and some thrity dollars in
money. Said negro is about 24 years old, ligh
complected, pleasant countenance, large whiskers, and
fully six fee high. I feel confident that he was
enticed away by some white man, as he left to go to a
negro quilting, and had not received a censure from
the overseer, or a stripe in twelve months. I
understand that he was in the company of a notorious
villian called Jackson, belonging to Mr. Asa Thompson
of this county. In 1842, I swapped for this negro
from a man who had stolen him in Giles County,
Tennessee from George Malone, and I purchased him
from said Malone in the springof 1842. Jackson is
about the same age five feet 8 inches high, black
complexion and of bad countenance. I will pay a
liberal reward for the confinement of my boy in any
safe jail--I will likewise pay a considerable sum for
the arrest of the person who stole him with evidence
to convict him. Edmund J. McGehee. Houston Co,
Minerva P.O. 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold at the residence
of Altatia Coley, late of Houston County, deceased,
on Tues 19th Dec. all the perishable property
belonging to said deceased, consisting of horses,
cattle, oxen and carts, wagons, meat and stock, hogs,
corn, fodder, household and kitchen furniture,
farming tools, and a variety of other articles too
tedious to mention. John S. Wilkinson 

ADMINISTRIX SALE. Willbe sold in town of Jackson
Butts County, first Tues in Jan, the following
property of estate of William Jarrell, deceased; Lot
of land known as the McChuley lot, adjoining the land
whereon David Kimbell formerly lived, part of lot
number 93, the interst is said William Jarrell in lot
number 66, and his interest in part of lot number 67,
also will be sold at the same time and place, twelve
likely Negroes belonging to easi estate consisting of
men, women boys and children. Polly Jarrell 

ADMINSTRIX SALE. Will be sold Tues 26th Dec, at late
residence of Alphaus Beall, deceased in Thomaston,
Upson County, the Perishable property belonging to
said estate, consisting of Household and kitchen
furniture and one cow and calf, and on the next day,
27th, at his plantaiton, three miles nothr of
Thomaston, will be sold a quantity of corn and
fodder, 3 mules, cows, hogs one yoke oxen one wagon
and harness and plantation tools. Mary C. Beall,
Admrx 

MACON COUNTY. Wheres James G. Moulton and M.C.
Kenneth Taylor applies to me for letters of
Adminsitration on the estate of Thomas Taylor,
deceased. Please shew caus. W.W. Corbitt, CCC 

SALE OF NEGRO MAN. Will be sold in Thomaston on the
first Tues of Jan, a likely negro man named Toby,
about 40 years of age. Sold on a credit of 12 months,
to pay the debts of Joseph McKindley, deceased. R.B.
Lisle, G.H. McKindley, Exrs. 

NOTICE. All persons indebted to Joseph McKindley,
deceased, late of Upson County, are hereby notified
to make payment, and those having claims against him
will render them in according to law. Richmond B.
Lisle, George H. McKindley, Exrs. 

November 22, 1848 Vol XXVI No 34

LOST on Sunday the 19th, on the Milledgeville road
from this city, a common Pocket Wallet containing a
note on Robert Monson, due in Oct 1849 for $100; one
on Robert Haraway for $30 due 1st of January; one on
Sarah Eldridge for $25 due in October; also a county
order in favor of Champion Butler for $12; a receipt
from Isaac Scott for $4 and $3.50 in cash. Any person
finding the same will please retunr to David Flanders
in East Macon, and shall be reasonably reward. Jehu
Campbell. 

BROUGHT to Jail in Knoxville, Crawford Co, on the
8th, a Negro boy about 18 or 20 years old, five fee,
eight or ten inches high, dark complexion, says his
name is Dick and that he belongs to Needham Smith of
Houston County. Said boy has neight hat nor shoes and
rather a scanty pattern of clothing on at this time.
Joel B. Morgan, Jailer 

LOOK OUT FOR A STOLEN NEGRO. My boy, Henry, left my
plantation in Sumter County about the 1st of July
last, without provocation, and as I then supposed
with the intention of getting to North Carolina from
whence he was brought about 18 months since. But from
the circumstance of several negroes in this and
adjoining counties, having left their owners, about
and since the time my boy left, and being afterwards
taken, while under the care of white men--I am
persuaded that my boy has also been taken off by some
white person, or received such papers from them, as
have enabled him to pass as free. From information
obtained through a boy of Judge Duncan's. who was
taken from Dooly county by a man named Seth Mills,
then hailing from Jones county, and afterwards
arrested in Griffin, where he had been carried by
Mills, I am of the opinion that my boy was one among
several others in the possession of Mills, In Jones
County, sometime sin October last. What disposition
Mills amde of these negros, I have not learned, but
have ascertained intended taking them near
Glennville, Alabama. Henry is about 23 years old,
copper colored, face and jaws very full, and fond of
suffering his beard to grow long around and under his
chin. He is heavily built and will weigh 160-175
pounds. His countenance is heavy and rarely lighted
up by a smile or laugh. I will give a liberal
compensation for his arrest and delivery in any jail
or to myself near Perry, Houston County. T.M. Furlow.


DIED. In this city, on the 16th Capt A.D. Powell,
aged about 35 years. On the 18th his daughter, Mary
Elizabeth, aged about 4 years. On the 17th Mr. Arnold
Johnson, aged about 55 years. 

FOR SALE. The following Negroes: Woman and child,
cook and washer; Girl 14 years old, accustomed to
housework and nursing; Man 27 years old, prime field
hand and axeman. Sold for no fault, but merely to
change the investment. E.L. Shtrohecker. 

GREAT BARGAIN. The well known tract of Land known as
the old Pindertown possession, lying in the 15th
district of Dooly county, immediately on Flint River,
consisting of 1000 acres of Pine and Hammock Lands
mixed; between three and four hundred acres in
cultivation; and in fine repair, with a good framed
Dwelling house, gin house and screw, and all other
convenient out housese, now offering at the low price
of $5 per acres. It is a healthy situation--there has
not been a case of fever in my family in five years.
Any person wishing to purchase a fine cotton farm,
would do well to call and examine. R.G. Forde 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold on the first Tues
of Feb, Twiggs County, the following lots of land: 70
acres of lot number 79 in 27th dist, originally
Wilkinson, now Twiggs county; and also 130 acres part
of lot No 78, in 26th dist; orginally Wilkinson, now
Twiggs; 112 acres - lot no 50; all in 27th district.
All sold as the property of the estate of Samuel
Pate, late of Twiggs county, deceased and sold for
the benefit of heirs and creditors. James Averett. 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold at the late
residence of Andrew W. Butler, deceased in Upson
County on Wed. 3rd day of Jan; the perishable
property belonging to said estate, consisting of
household and kitchen furniture, wagon and harness,
one horse, lot of carpenter's tools, cotton, farming
tool. William H. HIcks, James M. Hicks, Adm, 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold at the late
residence of Daniel Lofley, late of Houston county,
deceased on 30 day of Ec. all the perishable property
..a horse, cattle, hogs, oxcart, corn, fodder,
plantation tools, household and kitchen furntiry,
also at the same time and place the Negroes hired and
land rent. Nathan G. Lewis, Admr. 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold at the late
residence of Samuel Kendrick, deceased of Upson Co,
on Thursday 4th day of Jan, all
perishable...household and kitchen furniture, horese,
cows, hogs, sheep, pork, and the crop of corn,
fodder, cotton. Archibald Kendrick, Admr. 

MONROE COUNTY. Whereas Bradford T. Chapman and
William J. Bryan apply for letters of administration
on the estate of Uriah T. Lockett, late of said
county, deceased. And whereas Asa W. Chapman applies
for letter of administration on the estate of Martha
Lockett, late of said county deceased...hew cause.
E.G. Cabaniss, CCC 

GUARDIAN'S SALE. Willbe sold on Wed, 3rd of Jan, at
the late residence of Mary Nolen, Butts County, all
the perishable property cattle, hogs, corn and
foldder. William Nolen, Guardiana. 

EXECUTORS SALE. Will be sold on first Tues of Feb in
Perry, Houston county, lot of land no 159 in 9th
distric. Sold as the property of the estate of
Timothy Matthews, deceased, and agreeable to court of
ordinary of Bibb. T.M. Furlow for Martha Matthews,
Exetrix. 

EXECUTOR'S SALE. Will be sold on Fri, 29th Dec. at
the plantation of Thomas D. Walker, deceased of
Twiggs county, all the personal property--horses,
mules, two yoke of oxen, cows and calves, stock and
meat hogs, one ox woagon, corn and fodder, plantation
tools. At the same time the Negroes to be hired and
among them a very good blacksmith. George Walker,
Senr Exr. 

NOTICE. All persons indebeted to the estate of
William Hobbs, late of Talbot county, deceased are
hereby requested to make immediate payment, and all
persons having demans against said deceased will
render them in agreeable to law. Wm Mitchell, Exr. 

NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of Daniel
Lofley, late of Houston Co, deceased are requested to
make immeidate payment. Nathan G. Lewis, Admr. 

FOUR MONTHS NOTICE. application will be made to Inf
Court of Butts county leave to sell the land and
Negroes belonging to Mary Nolen, an insane woman.
William Nolen, Guardian. 

BAKER MORTGAGE SALES. First Tues in December in
Newton, BAKER County, the following property.

Lots of land: 328, 232 in 1st District 6,7,
14,17,19,48,110,131,205,232,233,234,234,249,
261,263,300, 310, 311, 337, 394 and 395 in 2nd
District 21, 134, 135, 148, 160, 186,
187,214,215,224, 225,261,262,286, 4/7th lot 297 (142
85/100 acres), 298, 299, 303,333,
334,3342,373,393,396 in 3rd District
56,59,60,297,340, 380 in 7th District
21,41,79,82,162,173, 204,217, 306, 344 in 8th
District 357 in 11st Dist 67 and 238 in 12th Dist.
Each lot containing 250 acres, except lot @297 which
conttains 142 and 85/100 acres.

All levied on as the property of John Girard Caster,
Charles A. Hecksher, Edward Hecksher, James L.
Pettigru, and James Hamilton, to satisfy a Mortgage
tim issued from Baker Superior Court in favor of Hope
& Co, vs said John Girard Coster, Charles A.
Hecksher, Edward, Hecksher, James L. Pettigru and
James Hamilton. George W. Collier, Sh'ff 

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold at courthouse in
Macon, Bibb County, on 1st Tues in Feb, the Southeast
half of lot no 8 in square number 36, in the plan of
the city of Macon, containing 1/4 acre. Sold by order
of Court as the property of Daniel L. Hawley,
deceased. M.L. Graybill, Adminr. 

November 29, 1848 Vol XXVI No 35

SOLDIERS LAND WARRENTS. The subscribers are paying
the highest market price for Soldier's Land Warrants.
W.B. Johnston and Brother. 

NEGRO WOMAN for sale. A first rate Seamstress and
house servant, 27 years old with one child, a girl
one year old. Sold for no fault but merely for the
pupose of leaving her in the City with her husband.
Enquire at Graves, Wood and Co. Paul S. Dinkins. 

LOST OR STOLEN from the subscriber, residing near
Martin's Store, Macon County, the following notes: 

S.J. McCrory, Jr payable to R.M. Stewart
$25.00 H.H. Lumpkin, Jr.       "       S.J. McCrory  
47.00 James Beeland   "       S.J. McCrory           
50.00 E.B. Oxford                     B.J. Head      
9.25 Stephen Kemp                    B.J. Head       
17.25 B.J. Head               "       T.J. Harrell   
160.50 B.J. Head               "       T.J. Harrell  
56.87 Stephen May                     T.J. Harrell   
24.00 J.W.B. Harrell          T.J. Harrell           
500.00 Isaac Hart              "       Peter Stewart 
30.00 Isaac Hart              "       Peter Stewart  
30.00 Isaac Hart              "       Kenneth Stewart
7.00 J.B. Harrell    "               Wm Harrell      
200.00 Two on W.L McGee        "       Wm Harrell    
28.00 Stephen Smith           Wm Harrell             
40.00 Marlin Edge             "       T.J. Harrell   
65.00 There are two creidts on Isaac Hart's notes,
amounts not recollected, as is also a credit of $50
on J.B. Harrell's note. The dates of the above notes,
are not distinctly recollected; and this notice is to
forewarn all persons from trading for said notes, and
the makers from paying them to anyone else than
myself. T.J. Harrell ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. 5th day of
Jan at the late residence of Thomas Taylor, deceased
in Macon Co, the whole of the Perishable property of
deceased, horses, mules, cattle, sheep, pork and
stock, hogs, wagon and gear, household and kitchen
furniture, farming utensils, cotton gin and runnign
gear, corn fodder, wheat, cotton, amounting to 15,000
lbs or more. Also the land belonging to said deceased
to be renteded at the same time and the Negroes hired
for the year 1849. James G. Moulton, M.C. Kenneth
Taylor, Admn. AMINISTRATOR'S SALE. 1st Tues Feb at
American, Sumter County, agreeable to Inf Court the
following Negroes: George, a man, Amos, a man; Will,
a boy, Vina, a woman; Ellen a woman; Sally a woman,
and Rose a girl, as the property of Johsh J.C.
Jackson late of said county, deceased for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors. Jesse C. Jackson, Admr.
MONROE COUNTY. Whereas Thomas J. Saunders applies for
Letters of Administration with the will annexed on
the estate of Eliabeth Candler, late of said county.
Shew cause. E.C. Cabaniss, CCC POSTPONED SALE. One
buggy and harness levied on the property of Elbert M.
Davis, late of Crawford County, to satisfy fifa in
favor of James Moore vs said Elbert M. Davis,
principal, and Samuel Rutherford, and Wm M. Brown,
Securities.  Joel B. Morgan, Dept Sher'ff CRAWFORD
SHERIFF'S SALE.  Knoxville, Crawford County. Two
teaster bedsteads, one bed and bedstead, two trunks,
one brass clock, five common tables, one desk,
fourteen common sitting chairs, one pair fire dogs,
one Jack about ten years old, one black horse 7 or 8
years old, one bay mare about 10 years old, one mule
about 7 yrs old, one cotton gin, 500 bushels of corn,
39 pork hogs, 60 stock hogs, one tool chest and
contents, consisting of plantation and blacksmith's
tools, one bellows and anvil, one vice, 30 head of
cattle, one yoke oxen, 8 stacks fodder, two squar
bales cotton, 2000 pounds ginned cotton, one Jersey
wagon, three cow hides, one lot potatoes, 400 bushels
of cotton seed, one loom, one lot barrels, one lot
boxes, one lot jugs and bottles, two teaster
bedsteads and beds, bed clohting, one safe and
contenst, 3 ovens, one spider, one dinner pot, one
pair waffle irons, one broiler, two pair post hooks
etc. all levied on property of Elbert M. Davis,
deceased to satisfy fifa in Crawford Super Court in
favor of James Moore v. Elbert M. Davis, principal.
William M. Brown and Samuel Rutherford securities.
P.S. The sixth part of all the above lot of cotton,
excepted, it being the part belonging to Enoch B.
Knight, Overseer. Also one house and lot in north
part of town of Knoxville, containing 15 acres, the
place whereon David M. Causey, late of said county,
deceased, lived; levied on as properyt of said David
M. Causey, to satisfy fifa in favor of John W.
Leavitt and Rufus Leavitt, partners using the name of
J.W. & R. Leavitt, for the use of Isaac Dennis, Jr.
Also 3 town lots on the east side of South Street
leading from Knoxville to Traellers Rest and opposite
the Baptist Church, containing four and a half acres,
the place whereon Henry C. Copelan now lives, levied
on as the property of the said David M. Causey,
deceased to satisfy fi fa of J.W. & R. Leavitt, the
same being transferred to Isaac Dennis, Jr. vs. David
M. Cazusey. Property pointed out by G.J. Green,
administrator on the estate of said David M. Causey,
deceased. Joel B. Morgan, Sher'ff

December 6, 1848 Vol XXVI No 36


HUSK BEDS. An exchange says the husking season is the
time to secure the best and most durable of under-
beds. All the inner husk of the corn should be saved
for this purpose. True it takes a great many to make
a bed, but when once the sack is filled it is abed
for life, and is the lightest and softed thing of the
kind that anyone could desier. The husks curl up as
they dry, and never mat down afterwards. Moreover, no
insects ever lodge in them, as vermin do in straw.
They are perfectly clean and being os strong and
gough texture, they will not wear out for years. 

"Scientic American".

Every state carried by General Taylor has been by an
increased majority, whilst every state carried by Gen
Cass has been by a reduced one.

A test of genuine tea is a grain and a hlf of
sulphate of iron; genuine green tea has a bluish
tint; bolica a blackish blue. If adulterated it is
all colors. Cider drinkers, it is now asserted by
medical men in England, escape the Cholera. It
contains malic and tannic acid. The last time Gen.
Taylor was in Washington, was previous to his going
down to Corpus Christi [Texas] whither he was ordered
by President John Tyler to take command of the Army
of Observation concentrated near the frontier of
Texas. He will return on the 4th of March to make his
his report in person. The work of the telegraph. The
Detroit Free Press says: The unofficial vote of the
city of Boston and the returns from 91 towns in that
state were received here on Tuesday evening at a
quarter past 8 o'clock, and before the result was
known in the first ward of this city. The result in
Baltimore and Philadelphia city was received by way
of St. Louis via Chicago, in this city, before 12
o'clock at night. The vote of Chicago, Milwaukie, and
this city [Detroit] was in New York before 9 o'clock.
Receipts of Cotton. It will be seen that the receipts
of cotton in this city for the last 3 monhts , have
been unprecendently heavy, and the prospect is, that
they will continue so to the end of the season. We
would not be at all surprised if from present
indications, the total recipe by Railroads and Wagons
for the present cotton year, would reach 160,000
bales. If 1/20 part of this were manufactured in this
place, Macon would sustain 3 times her present
population. Gen. Taylor's Resignation.  We learn that
Gen Taylor has sent in his resignation as Major-
General commanding the Western Division of our army,
and that it will take effect after the 1st of Feb.
next. It is a remarkable coincidence that the late
order of the War Dept to Gen Taylor, in relation to
the transfer of Gen Twiggs from his post on the Rio
Grande to the commandlately filled by Gen Kearny, at
St. Louis, was dated 7th Nov, the day upon which the
people ordered the General to prepar to assume on the
4th of March next, the position of Commander-in-
chief. The National President. The National
Intelligencer notes the fact that Gen Taylor has
received 97 electoral votes in the Free States and 66
in the Slave States, being a majority of the
electoral votes in both sections of the Union.....he
is more than any other since the days of Washington,
a national President--the man for the times and the
crisis. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold at the
court hosue door in Fayettevile, Fayette county, on
the first Tuesday in Feb next, North half of Lot of
Land #166, in the 5th District of Fayette County,
sold as the property of the estate of O.H. Prince,
deceased.  Washington Poe, Adm. EXECUTOR'S SALE. Will
be sold at late residence of Robert LOUDON, deceased
in Sumter Co, on Frid 29 Dec, the balance of the
Perisahble Property belonging to said estate,
consisting of meat and stock hogs, one yod of oxen,
one bay mare, one grey mare, one mule, ocrn and
fodder, plantation tools. W.J. Ronaldson, Exec.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold before the
courthouse door in Macon Co on the first Tues in Feb
next, all the Negroes belonging to the estate of S.F.
Jones, deceased, late of Macon Co. Thomas Ragland,
Adm ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Will be sold before
courthouse in Blakely, Early Co, on 1st Tues March,
lot of land #302 in 6th district of Early, belonging
to the estate of S.F. Jones, deceased, late of Macon
Co. Thomas Ragland, Adm. TAKEN UP about 1st Nov, Bay
mare, supposed to be from 5-7 yr old of common size.
From appearance, it is probably she had been rod from
a distance, and came to my neighborhood about the
middle of Oct. The owner can have her by proving
property and paying for this advertisment and
reasonable expenses. Macon. Allen R. Stephens

December 13, 1848 Vol XXVI No 37


MARRIED. On the 28th in Hawkinsville, by Judge J.G.
Polhill, Maj Henry WOOD of Macon to Mrs. Casander
POLLOCK of the former place. "That come what may,
while life's gay pulses roll, Indissolubly thus
should soul be knit to soul".

On the 23rd November by Dr. W.S. Lightfoot (JIC) Mr.
Abraham JOHNSON to Mrs. Sarah G. EATON all of Jones
Co.

OBITUARY. Mrs. Sarah A. F. WILLIFORD, wife of Mr.
Williams S. Williford, of the city of Macon, and
daughter of Joseph FELT, Esq of the City of Savanhha,
aged about 27 years. A brief notice fo the departed
is justly due to the memory of Mrs. Williford. As a
daughter, she supllied an example of confiding and
cheerful obeience to the instructions and guidance of
her Father--preserving undimished, after her
marriage, the strong and tender Attachment ot her
only surviving parent, which she cherished in her
earlier years.  As a wife, and a mother, she
fulfilled her various duties under a sense of her
accountability to her Creator, and Redeemer--with a
constant regard to the comfort and happiness of those
around her. Free from all love of display, she
manifested a spirit of benevolence, which was felt
beyond the limits of her own domestic circle. Amidst
prospects of long continued felicity, she was
suddenly removed from her spere of active usefulness;
leaving a bereaved husband, and two small children
and other realitves, to lament the loss which they
have sustained, in her descent to an early grave. The
record of her worth is "on high", where it is hoped
she may meet all who were endeared to her on earth--
and enoy with them the promised blessedness and glory
of the "saints in light". DIED in Macon, on the 18th
ult, Miss Emily CARTER. Such was the violence of the
disease with which she was seized, that in two short
hours she was rendered insensilbe, and so continued
till her death. But though thus disabled from having
such testimoney in death, in regard to her eternal
prospects, as might afford consolation to here
friends suddenly bereaved, yet a period of twenty
years, about one half of her eathly term of professed
devotion to her Saviour, and a life during that time
of consistent piety, afford them a still better
evidence that she has entered into that rest that
remaineth for the people of God.  "Many fall as
sudden, few as safe".

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. UPSON COUNTY. Inferior Court.
Thomaston. Sale: three negroes: Alfred a man, Ned a
man and Mtilda a woman, also three hundred and seven
and 1/2 acres of land more or less, the dower of Mrs.
Mary Sanders, taken off. Two hundred and 57 and 1/2
acres of said land being in a body and consisting of
parts of lots 261 and 250 in 11st Dist, and 12 in
10th district of formerly Monroe, now Upson Co. and
the other 50 acres consistingof part of lot no. 135
in 16th district of formerly Houseton, now Upson Co.
Sold as property belonging to the estate of Nathaniel
Sanders deceased for benefit of the heirs and
creidtors of said deceased. Isaac Sanders, Richmond
Sanders, Admr.


December 20 1848 Vol XXVI No 38

A WORK OF SUPER-EROGATION. Governor Towns has issued
his proclamtion appointing Christmas Day as a day of
Thanksgiving and prayer. This we regard as "a work of
supererrogation". The day had already been set apart
by a higher power and for higher and more special
purposed and his Excellency in selecting it as a day
of solemn Thanksgiving and prayer for state blessings
has encroached upon the right of Providence as well
as upons thos of St. Nicholad and of all the little
boys and girls in the Commonwealth.

CALIFORNIA GOLD. Washington Correspondent. The
engrossing subject of conversation here is the
California God. Hundres of persons have visited the
President's House to see the specimens of gold sent
from California by Col Mason, our military commander
there to the Sec of War. The specimens are very richg
and are worth about four thousand dollrs. They are
mostly in small scales, but some are in grains and in
dust.....Lieut. Loser, of the Navy, brought over the
specimens with Col Mason's despatches. He says he had
to take a small craft to the Isthmus and pay nine
hundred dollars for her use". Mr. Carter, merchant of
Boston, came with him. He had taken goods out to
California and at exorbitant prices had sold them for
gold, taking the gold at eight dollars an ounce,
which is worth seventeen dollars. The quick silver
mines are believed to be even more profitable than
the gold mines....14th of August, "in the spring,
Messr. Marshall and Bennet, in opening a ditch for a
tailrace for a saw mill which had been built on the
American fork of the Sacramento, found some gold
which the current had collected in the bottom of the
race,"....persons left their homes and went to work
in the mines...there are now more than 4,000 white
persons, besides a number of Indians, engaged at the
mines and from the fact that no capital is required,
they are wokring in companies on equal shares, or
alone with their baskets....The epidemic was
universal. The crews of whale ships and other vessels
had deserteed for the enchanted region, as well as
the enlisted men in the United States Service.

CAUTION. All persons are forewarned against trading
for a certain promissory note made by the
undersigned, dated about 15th of April last, and
payable on 1st Jan (1849) to A.H. Hansell,
administrator, and Ellen Bryan, Administratrix on the
estate of Blackshear Bryan, deceased for $350.  J.H.
R. Washington

CHRISTMAS TOYS.  A large assortment of German and
Sugar Toys of all kinds will be received from New
York per Steamer Cherokee, also candies, raisins,
currants, grapes, prunes, cranberries, etc. which
will be sold at prices to suit the times and
customers.  W. Freeman CENTRAL RACE COURSE. The
members of the Central Club are requested to meet at
the Club Room, Floyd House, Macon on the 1st day of
Jan next at 8 o'clock to attend to business of
importance connected with the April Races. UPSON
COUNTY. Thomas W. Goode appleis to me for letters of
administration on the estate of Mrs. Mary E. Beall,
late of said county deceased. BIBB COUNTY. All person
indebted to Josiah F. Askew, late of Bibb Co,
deceased, are hereby notified to make payment at
once.  Green B. Haygood, Exec TO SELL. Six Negroes,
cheap for cash. A first rate young man 25 years old,
his wife, a fine mulatto woman about 22, accustomed
to the house and field; 4 mulatto boys from 10 to 1
years, all the children of the woman and the fellow,
except the oldest. I will sell the family together,
and the older boy separate.  E.A. Nisbet LAURENS
COUNTY. Rule Nisi. Andrew Y. Hampton, Exe on the
estate of John G. Coates, late of said county,
deceased, is missmanaging said estate and has removed
out of the limits of said County. Ordered that said
Hampton appear at next regular term of court to show
cause...so Court may expedite securing better
management for estate and the education and
maintenance of the orphans of said John G. Coates. TO
SELL. 100 acres of timbered land lying 3 miles above
Macon on the Forsyteh road, next to river.  E.A.
Nisbet.

December 20 1848 Vol XXVI No 38

OFF TO CALIFORNIA.  A number of enterprising and
adventurous young gentlemen left this city yesterday
morning for the "El Dorado of the Pacific". They go
direct to New Orleans whence they will take the
regular stearm to Chagres. From Chagres they will
cross the Isthmus of Panama where they will have to
take their chances for a passage to some port in
California. The gold fever is evidently raging more
violently than the cholera and we should ntot be
surpirse if it were equally feted in the hopes and
prospects of thousand. Thos those who have gone
hwoever we wish health, happiness, fortune and a
sonsummation of all their wishes. GEORGIA SUGAR CANE.
We have received from Mr. Isaac Johnston, Postmaster
at Marshallville, Macon Co, two specimens of Ribbon
Cane which are acknowledged on all hands to be equal
to any hitther to raised in the State. One of the
speicmens shows 19 matured joints measuring
altogether 7 feet 3 inches....give ample evidence the
can will reach quite as great perfection in
Southwestern Georgia as in Louisiana. The quantity
produced has increased ten fold in the last few years
and many of the planters are now porducing sugar not
only for their own use but for sale to their
neighbors and friends. This branch of industry we
feel ought to be encouraged especially in the
southern counties as it promises to become a more
profitable crop than cotton. STRAYED from the
subscriber about the 15th Nov last, a small by Horse,
about 7 years old, and a light by mare colt about 2
years old.  Peter E. Dennis, Talbotton GA Dec 27,
1848

CAUTION. On or before the first day of January next,
I bind myself, my heris to pay Abijah Thomas or
bearer, One Hundred Dollars for value received Dec
20, 1848. The above is a true copy of a note given by
the subscriber to Abijah Thomas. I hereby warn all
persons from trading for said note, as the
consideration for which it was given, has failed.
Jeremiah Walters. Traveller's Rest.

NEGROES WANTED. To work on the Western and Atlantic
Railroad for the ensuing year. For prime able
fellows, we will pay one hundred and forty dollars
per annum. We will insuree all negroes hired to us
against accidents occuring rom theri work. J.D. Gray
& Co.

NOTICE. Will be sold TWIGGS county, 140 acres Lot #
27 ___ Dist, originally Wilkinson now Twiggs cou.
Sold as property of Samuel Pate, late of Twiggs
county deceased. James Avrette, Admr.