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services, Congress directed a monument to be executed by 

 Mr. Cassiers, of Paris, to be placed in front of St. Paul's 

 Church, New-York, with an appropriate inscription. His 

 remains rested forty-two years in Quebec, and by a resolution 

 of New- York were brought to the city and deposited, on the 

 8th of July, 1818, in St. Paul's Church. Ramsey, in his Ame- 

 rican Revolution, says : " Few men have fallen in battle so 

 much regretted, on both sides, as General Montgomery. In 

 America he was regarded as a martyr to the liberties of man- 

 kind ; in Great Britain, as a misguided good man, sacrificing 

 to what he supposed to be the rights of his country. The 

 minister himself acknowledged his worth, while he reprobated 

 the cause for which he fell. He concluded an involuntary 

 panegyric by saying, ' Curse on his virtues, they have undone 

 his country.' " 



MORGAN. 



Boundaries, Extent. — This county is within the primary 

 formation. It is bounded on the North by Clarke ; on the 

 East by Greene ; on the South by Putnam and Jasper ; and 

 on the West by Walton and Newton. It was laid out from 

 Baldwin in 1807. The length is 17 miles, breadth 16, area 

 272 square miles. 



Rivers, Creeks. — The Appalachee and Little rivers are the 

 chief streams. The creeks are Indian, Sugar, Sandy, Hard 

 Labour, and others. 



Post Offices. — Madison, Ebenezer, Buck Head, Fair Play, 

 High Shoals, Park's Bridge, Rehobothville, and Double Shoals. 



Population, Taxes, Representation. — According to the 

 census of 1845, the population stands thus: 3,360 whites; 

 6,210 blacks ; total, 9,570. Amount of State tax returned for 

 1848, $4,859 04 cents. Entitled to one representative to the 

 Legislature. 



Towns. — Madison is the county town, situated on the 

 ridge which divides the waters of Sugar and Hard Labour 

 creeks, surrounded by a beautiful and fertile country. The 

 court-house is a spacious brick building, and the jail is con- 



