Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-06-20


of Public Moneys at the latter place, but
was not confirmed by the Senate.
ASSASSINATION and Suicide.
On Thursday evening last Captain
March was shot through the heart, at his
house in ST. Louis, by Samuel Williams,
late resident of the Marine Settlement,
in this county, who fed the same even
ing to the mouth of Missouri, and the
next day, at Belle Fontaine, put an end
to his own existence.
The Governor of Tennessee has issued
proclamation to convene the legisla.
ture of that state, at Murfreesborough,
on the 26th inst. for the purpose of taxi
ing into consideration the distressed ST.
tuation of the country, and of passing
law to prevent sacrifices of property UNI
| der execution.
In compliance with request Of seve-
raj respectable citizens of this county,
we have procured, for publication, CO.
pies of the following papers
Edavardsviile, 5th June, 1920.
GENrLEMEN--Herewi are submitted
propositions for the erection and com
pletion of a Courthouse and Goal for the
county Of Madison, as donation, includ-
ing fifty lots in the town Of Edwardsville.
We beg leave to refer you to the propo
sitions themselves for the terms and the
spirit in which they arc made, with this
addition, that any security which may be
required for their fulfilment will be
cheerfully given; and the hope that the
liberality of the offer, and the high adj
vantage resulting to the county from its
acceptance, will operate as sufficient
inducement on your minds to adoptthem.
BEN. STEPHENSON,
I. w. SMITH,
For themselves, Winian EdzoaYds,
and the other frofrietors.
The Hon. Samuel Judy, George Barnsback,
and William Jones, Commissioners of the
| County of Madison.
Impressed with the importance and
necessity OF the speedy erection OF the
public buildings for the county of Madi
son, the undersigned offer to the county
commissioners, in consideration of locat
ing such buildings on lands belonging
to them, and forming part of the town
of Edwardsville, to cause such buildings
to be erected without delay, at their own
expense, and to make a donation thereof
to the county and to give, in addition
thereto, fifty lots in the said town, with
a complete title in fee, with warranty,
and for the use of the county, to be dis
posed of for the benefit of the same.
They propose thatthe buildings shall be
at least feet in front and rear, and
in depth feet, two stories high, with
sufficient rooms for the holding of the
circuit and county commissioner courts,
as also convenient offices for the clerks
and the sheriHs of the county all OF
whose offices, it is respectfully suggest
ed, should be contiguous TO each other
at the seat Of Justice, and to which it is
presumed those officers will cheerfuly
assent. The buildings to be of brick.
The Goal to be feet square (; the
walls feet in thickness windows
well secured with iron bars, and to be
finished within months. In making
the offer herein suggested, the under
signed are lead naturally to answer
question which might be asked: they
have no wish to conceal the motives
which actuate them. They conceive it
not only perfectly honorable, but lauda-
BILE, and that, although it is one which
may possibly enhance the value of their
property at some distant period; yet that
the inhabitants of the county are more
Immediately interested in its acceptance,
and are those who are certain to be di-
rectly benefited thereby. The conven-
fence of the Inhabitants will be greatly
promoted in the early establishment of
the public buildings. The present state
of them is such, that they unite not only
expense with much inconvenience, but
that they badly answer the purpose for
which they were designed; and the Goal,
in particular, as has been eyinccd by re-
peated evidences of.the fact, is wholly
insecure, and worse than useless, for the