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LukeKced <SfCo.
H \TK JUST KKClirVROii
And are now Offering for Safe,
VfEN’S lined and bound Shoes, Ist,
2d and Sd quality
Boy’S -ditto
Men’s fine calf -kin Shootee*
Ditto Morocco ditto
Ditto Ditto Pnnrps
Ladle’s fine Morocco Shoes, Ist qual.
Leather ditto.
September 3 > c
Carriages <Sf Gigs
FO!l SALE.
v THTHK subscriber has received an ad-,
JJ ditiona! supply of Gigs and Car-'
riages ni a superior quality, made by
David Reach of Newark, and Warranted
good —-They will be sold on accommo
dat ng terms.
ALSO—-Several Double Breasted COT -
TON GINS, n>f from 45 to 65 saws,
made by Boatwright & (Haze.—apply to
G. K. Marshall.
September 9. r f f
NOITCIv.
A N HLETTlONwillbeholdcnontlie
third Tuesday, being the 21st of
October next, for Justices of the Inferior
Court of Richmond-county, at the court
house in the city of Augusta.—By order
of the Hon. the Inferior Court.
John H. Mann, cl ! k#
September 5. tdc
AN ESTII V.
WILLIAM LOVEL tolls before me
one grey horse, no brands 'ir
Aarks, works well, supposed io be ten
. years old—appraised by Samuel Germany
And Janies Pearrc t.* thirty dollars, this
9th of August, 1817.
Samuel ('rUmp, J. P.
In district No. 3.
A. Crawford, c.i.c.c«c.
September 2. c 4
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Bank of Augusta.
22d .1 uly. 1817. '
A T a general meeting of the & took*
holders, on Saturday the 24th June,
JBl7;in pursuance of public notice, it was
resolved, that the capital slock should be
increased; and the ’Hoard of Directors
was authorized accordingly to carry the
said resolution into effect.
Notice is therefo. e hereby given, vliaton
Saturday the first .of November next,'at
10 o’clock a. tu. at the. Batik, will be put
up for public sale* to the highest bidders,
■2sooShares ut New Stock,of 100 dollars
each, in portions not exceeding ten
shares.
The increase, whatever it may be, over
100 dollars, per share, to be paid down-
At the time of sale, (he remaining 100
dollars on th«22i) November next, which,
being so paid, will entitle the proprietors
AfNew Stock to full dividends of profits
to be made by .the Bank, from and im
mediately after the next dividend, which
wjll be op the 1 rth November, 1817.
Bills of any of the Chartered Bank’s
in Georgia and South Carolina will be
taken' in payment. ;
By order '
Augustus Moore, Cashier.
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Ji Second Hand Philadelphia, 1
made Gig, with harness.
Apply to
John Sharp, & Co. J
r cw:« Ihruad-Street. J
August 3b, p
Prime ,
FOR SALE BY f
August .30. ts
ateli.il ■ »*■ —I ■■ I mmm rnm,mm
ATHECRS on .New-1 oik, tor sale by
V' THOMAS GARDNER.
_ Vugust 16. ts
Bills on New York
AT SHOUT SIGHT,
For Sale by
A Slaughter & C. Lnbuzan.
August If ts
Bills on New-York
Fur safe by
M4Cenz\e, Bennoch &Co !
August 20. d !
Bills on New-York
For Sale by
Benjamin Picquet,
August 23. ' ts
KOK SALK,
TWO UKKLV YOUNG FEL
LOWS—excellent Bricklayers.—
Enquire at this bfiTfce.
For Sate or to Rent.
A HOUSE and LOT at the upper end
it of Hr iad-gt. as good a stand for
buying produce as any in the city—For
particular-* inqure of T. PYE.
August 27. kw
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ALI, persons having claims against
the estate of Daniel Hubbard, dec.
\ro requested to render them In properly
aty-sted, witMn th«* time prescribed by
iaw; and th*)3e indebted to the estate, are
'. requesved t» >n ike immediate payment to
Hannah Hubbard, ndra**.
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ini 1 f i»i7,.»‘g-juwßg :
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Office SlercantUe Advertiser ,
August 21.
LATEST FROM EATGJJiJW.
From an obliging correspondent at
Boston, we have been favored with the
following proof sheet of the news by the
Martha, arrived at this port in 37 days
from Liverpool.
Private letters from Boston to mer
chants in this city, state the price of Ame
rican flour at Liverpool on the 9th ol Ju
ly, at 625. per barrel
A Liverpool Price Current of the Bth.
quotes flour at 66 to 07; and cotton a?
Hid. to2od. for uplands, about the same
for the latter article as former quotations.
Chronicle and Patriot Office, August 18,
noon. sr
Ky the Martha, arrived at this port
this morning, in 37 days from Liverpool,
we have received Hell’s London Mes
senger to the 6th July, and wc are in
debted t<> Mr. Hooper, keeper of the ex
change coffe! 4 house books; lor other Lou
don papers to the 7th, and Liverpool to
the 9th.
Parliament is expected to he prorogued
on the 16th iust. There will be no dis
solution this year.
~ A bill has been brought into parlia
ment for limiting the circulation of bank
tokens and dollars to the 25th March
next. The proclamation for issuing the
new sovereigns was signed on Wednes
day. The old guineas of full weight are
still to remain i« circulation.
The right honorable G. Ponaonbv, has
been attacked with a paralytic, while in
the house of commons, and it is feared he
will loose the usc of one side.
The frame breaking bill, by which
death w-as inflicted on the offenders, but
which was sometime since changed to
transportation, lias been re-enacted.
Lord iGcorge Cavendish is to be the
.new lender of the opposition,
Mr. Sargeant, w ho went to London on
business for the Bank of the United
States, has satisfactorily completed all
his air ligaments, and was on the point,
of embarking.for America.
The Morning Post snjs—“The ac
couclnncnt of the amiable princess Char
lotte of Coburg is expectecrto take place
in October next.”
It is rumoured that the grand s&gnor
intends to open the Dardanelles ami the
Bosphorus, to the ships of all nations,
upon the payment of a duly similar t*
that paid at the Sou ml.
There is the prospect of an abundant
vintage in Frame, and the corn in manv
districts is sufficiently ripe for the sickle.
Liverpool, Bristol, Lancaster, and
other great trading ports, are all in hus
tle with shipping on merchandise for the
Brazils.
Talleyrand arrived at Bordeaux on the
23d June, on Tils way to the waters of
Bareges.
Tlic project of dissevering the wreck
of the Royal George, has been abandon
ed, and (ho buoys which were moored
upon the bearings of it, have been taken
up.
The price of the quarter loaf in Dublin
is at present Is. •« J
London, July 1.
'General‘Savary, who was lately spoken
of as having arrived at Smyrna, under ai
borrowed name, with the intention of
proceeding overland to Persia, wc have
bean assured (having subsequently al
tered his plan) landed at Trieste, where.
he was seized by .the Austrian local au
thorities, and from thence sent as a state
prisoner to one of the castles in Hunga
ry. It is also said that a number of Bo
naparte’s officers have found their way
to the Persian court, and having entered
the service of Fultz Alby Shaw, king o*’
Persia, Talievan, are now employed un
der the orders of the Shah Zaba of Tc-,
briz. v „; , * ;
July 7.
We continue to receive the most cheer
io;, and gratifying accounts from nil parts
of the -country, *.f the universal promise
of a plentiful harvest.
The deficiency of the present quarter
upon the whole of the revenue, as com
pared with the corresponding quarter of
1816. is more than
Price of Stocks this day at 12 o'clock.
3 per cent, consols 76 5-7 8-6 1-8 1--J
--ex. div.—4 per cents. 98 5 8 3-4 S-8 3-4
—5 per cents. 104 7-8 105
Paris. June 28.
From all quarters we learn that s ; nce
the setting in of the hot weather, the
vines have shot in a surprising wanner
and utiord tlie finest appearance.
From Reims w e hear that the prevotal
court has tried the individuals taken up
during the late troubles. Three havebeen
condemned to 20 years ih irons; two to
ten; and three to five. The other per
son# accused, ten iu number, were ac
quitted.
The king came to Paris yesterday in
an open carriage, and returned to St.
Cloud at six in the evening.
French funds 65f. 20c.
July 3.
A general and another superior officer
were apprehended yesterdaf. In the
evening the sister of Madame de Mon-,
tholon experienced the same fate. Cause
not yet known.
tEGiioRN, May SI,
A report is in circulation here, that 4
troubleshave broke out at Malta, and
.it is to this circumstance that we art to
ascribe the unexpected departure, of the
English governor from Corfu, aud of ad
miral Penrose for that island,
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pjteBAKOR, %
We had a good supply of wheat from
Essex and Rent, this morning, efdusive
of a large.propoi t ; on of last week’s arri
vals, which remained over, and the de
mand being small, the trade was exceed
ing y heavy at a decline of from 6 to 8s
per quarter. Earley is full Bs. per quar
ter cheaper, and scarce any sales could
be made. Beans, peas, and oats are 2s
per quarter lower, and go off slowly at
that abatement. *
L’VKurooL, July 8.
fflioat and harly each Gd. yesterday;
and oats to sd. per bushel. Good malt
fully supports its price. Beans arc 2s
per quarter; American floar 3s per bar
rel and oatmeal 2s. per load cheaper.
Import of American ftour, during the
week ending July 7 —20,939.
THE RED DIVER CO UNTRY.
FROM THE VI U GIN IA REPOSITORY.
Letter from a genileinan residing at Nitir
chit aches, to Ilia friend in Jefferson
county, Vn. dated July 2, 1817,,
Since my last letter to you, I have
.made an excursion to the upper part of
tied River. I accompanied a detachment:
of United States’ troops commanded by
major Kiddle. Our object was to drive
some squatters off the lands claimed bv
ti.e Caddos, and to arret t some unlicens
ed traders who had gone into the Indian
villages contrary to law. We travelled
np the south side to a place called by the
Indians Air Nad, so ho, by the French
Pecan J’oinfc—then descended the river
through the great Raft to this place, ma
king in all a distance of nearly one thou
sand miles., I am astonished that we
mould in possession of so fine a coun
try and know so little Hbo«t it; nor can
the hasty manner n hich I travelled thro’
it, enable me to give you any thing like a
just or minute it to
say, that 1 think it one of the finest conn-,
tries on earth. The soil is of the first
quality, having the benefit of many fine
s, rings, and'largc streams calculated for'
water works; the low grounds are from
four to ten miles in width, and the coun
try boarderiug on them rises gradually
into waving land, interspersed with nu
merous beautiful prairies, with a suffi
ciency of fine timber, for all the ordinary
purposes of man. Probably no river in
the United States, and perhaps in the
world will afford so extensive settlements
as Red River. To say nothing of the
country below +he Haft, (a distance- of
near three hundred miles,) it will admit
an uninterrupted settlement for near
eight hundred miles, and (not like the 0-
hio and man verifier fine streams whose
banks are often.found inaccessible on ac
count of hills and cliffs jutting in,) it
maintains a regularity on its banks self.
clem to be found oif any river, and is eve
ry where easy <Jf access,
1 desccndca it nearly four hundred
miles before reaching (ho Raft, and found
in that distance biit three bluffs, and they
elevated but little above the common sur
face—the alluvion lands, the Spanish
moss, and fogs cease a short distance a
bove the Raft, and the air becomes salu
brious, the prairies arc very fertile, am
abound with every species of wild game,
line timber arroumi litem, good water,
salines, dj'c. in short one is led to believe
nature has been lavish in her favours, lea
ving little else to be done than the intro
duction ol the plough to produce every
tiring comfortable to man.
The supposed difficulties the Raft has
presented, discourage adventurers am
almost forbids Jtm being explored, pre
suming it was useless to settle a country
when its products could not find d mar
ket; this is a great mistake—with but lit
tle trouble and a small expense it coult
be made navigable near half the year; five
keel boats have already passed it this
year.
I regret that J cannot give you an ac
curate description of the Raft; it wnuli
require much time, and be attended with
great difficulty to explore it. This stu
pendous deposite has been the labour o'
nature for centuries, the water constant
ly pressing against the banks above,
-crumblos them into the river, and all the
timber with them, arc Carried to the gram
deposifitlie next fresh. In this way near
ly one \undred and fifty miles are ren
dered for ever impassable, the sediment
md logs became Consoled a ted and pro
duce vegetation of almost every kind;
trees ot considerable size are found grow
ing on it, every swell adds to the deposite,
stops up old channels and opens new
ones, (still keeping open channels for the
ordinary purposes of navigation,) forming
new lakes and increasing old ones and
continually changing* the face of the
country under Us influence. Fifty years
ago, Lake Uebdo was little more than a
cowmon bayou, the Raft closed up its
mouth, and it is now between twenty and
thirty leagues in length; its progressive
effects are very/ apparent, especially on
the formation es lakes and on the timber;
where it first formed, the lakes have no
timber, higher up old stumps, still higher,
trunks of old trees; lastly, trees with
bark on, and others yet green.
This short hasty sketch may serve to
give you some idea of the American Nile,
a river which holds out greater induce
ments to settlers, and will accommodate
a more, numerous population than any o
ther in America.
It is ranch to be regretted that this
Eden of our country cannot be legally
settled; it would strengthen our frontier;
it would soon render Red River indepen
dent of the Ohio and Mississippi for sup
‘V tig
if • -Tylpap v,
piles of flour, hacofi, wiskef ariUftry
necessary articles, for which we now pay
e xoibita n t prices—-besides, i t w 0« I d brea k
up a neftt of/tlfe most abandoned wretch
es, who hive there fbund an asylupi, to
screen them from the just punishment
tlieir crimes merited elsewhere, and who
now, huffily subject us to all the dread
ful consequences of the tomahawk ami
scaiping knife.
Crops of cotton and corn arc very pro
mising; we have also several fine fields
of sugar cane. Bread stuffs have been,
(and are now) very high—flour dol
lars is the value of a flour barrel full ol
corn iii the ear, twenty five dollars per
barrel for flour, and many other things
in proportioni
SJ VAGE WARFARE.
L V OOIRA, Jdly 1
General Mprillo landed at the island
of Margaretta on the 14lli instant. A
column of Ids (the Royalist) troops march
ed immediately to attack Porlamat, which
they took possession of after a desperate
resistance. Three hundred of the insur
gent band were killed, and many woun
ded and made prisoners. The remainder
of the band fled to the mountains. It is
believed that the whole island will remain
altogether cleared of insurgents in the
course of this month. The island is now
surrounded with 20 Spanish ships of war.
Several small ships laden with insurge
(amilys who endeavored to escape, were
already taken.
All these evils are caused here by fo
reigners. who have nothing else in view
but to plunder nnd desolate this beautiful
e ttntry; and therefore it is a measure a
d .pied by general .Murillo, immediately
to put to the sword all of them that are
taken bearing arms. Many of this de
scription have already met with this con-,
digu fate.
A writer in the New-York Columbian
. says the King of France has granted one
of his ships to the Bishop of New-Or
leans, to bring from Bordeaux to Anna
polis, (Md ) that Prelate and 40 other
Reman Catholic Priests, who are to offi
■ date on the borders of the Mississippi:
and that she was to sail on the nineteenth
June.
Mr. Woofer was still in prison; he
1 was brought into the Court of King’s
: Benchon the 19th of June, but reman
’ ded to prison by Lord Kllenborough.
In the debate of the. 26th, as given in
1 the Courier of the 27th of June, the at
torney-general said, that lest, Mr. Wool
lor should complain that by reason of
• the new trial, lie had been kept in con
! finemffnt, he had ordered him to be libc
■ rated, if lie chose, on his own recogni
■ zance, to appear to receive judgment, if
: he should be convicted on the new trial.
’ Sir F. Burdett said this conduct on
the part of the attorney-general was ve
i ry proper, and Mr. Wooller he thought
I sliould accept the offer,
r N. Y. Columbian.
> We understand that the honourable
• Jonathan Russell, lady and daughter,
have taken passige-in the Persia captain
lUilliams, to sail for Amsterdam on the
v 2Cth instant.
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; KIDNAPPING.
Thompson, who was convicted at the,
• last sessions of kidnapping several ne
r grows, was brought up on Saturday last,
to receive his sentence. Inconsequence
of the negroes being set free oy Ins con
viction, which had coat him several thou
*’ sand dollars, the court did pot exercise.
' the privilege which the law allows, of ex
■ acting a fine, but committed hiua to the
penitentiary forihree years, at hard labor,
lie is a native of Georgia, and has a large
: fiuail y.~~.New-York' Gazette
4 , v , —~ ’
Mr. John Quincy Adams left N. York
on the 15th inslafllg on a visit to his pri
vate residence in Massachusetts anu to
1 his venerable farther, previously to enter
ing upon his duties as secretary. We
understand he will piobably not be at the
■ seat of government before the end of
> September. f
The secretary of the treasury is at
.present, absent on short visit, with his
■ family, to Virginia—3 Nat. Int. 20th inst.
Uncommon Perseverence.' —The War
■ cestcr (Ohio) paper informs us, that Jo
seph Bicker, having penetrated through
-a rock four hundred and forty feet, has
- it length obtained salt water, so strong
r that 100 gallons.will yield a bushel of
s salt. An idea is prevalent in the west
i ern states, that fealt water may be ofitain
-1 ed at any place by penetrating the earth
; to a certain depth; and that when the
» crust, as they te*fra it, which covers the
i salt strata, is broken, the water will rise
» to the surface, It must be confessed
I that facts and experiments seem in a
• measure to warrant the correctness of
i this theory. Salt water has been found
; in a great many places, where no indi
• cations of it appeared upon the surface
> by boaring through the rock to a certain
1 depth—The vast salt works upq&rtfie'
Great Kanhawa, are supplied from ts&p
‘ perforations through rock xlcpUi,
• of from 150 to 400 feet. fSucc«snil at
• tempts have been made; in varioift other
5 places. A gentleraali from Lake Erie
■ informs us that an individual has expen
ded about 4000 dollars in boring upon
4 the banks of that Lak£. He penetrated
r more than 300 Aet, when his means
> were exhausted; but so strong was the
' confidence of success on penetrating to
■ the depth of 400 feet, that a subscription
•
■ msdde him to
We Wnot remember to have hc-.nl
any instance, before, where t!.o e' -l
ment was pcrscvcjtd in to the deiin.
440 feet. 1,111
' • FROM THE COMPILER, 1
Tl;e brilliance of theMorpin* Star
tins season of,the year, has not ne r u
attracted general notice. e 1
It may ue stated as true of evert 1-m
nous body, that any obstacle intent
casts it shadow on the othcrVide ot it
This is as true of the farthing enni
which merely-lights a room, as 0 f ,
stars that twinkle in the Heavens. I
every star, therefore, is a shadow; and
this view of it, many .-in the open air«.
clear night, may be considered ; 1S u
ing inumerablc shadows around hi
himself a shade, surrounded by e
doWs- y ' * .
These shadows are not indeed s C
because the rays of the stars from so fa
a brush of light on the remind, that <
dull eyes cannot discern when they !
cut off by an intervening bod v. J
The lovely plunnet whichhas attra
ed these remarks, forms, however,an
ception. The mass of light which it cn
is so brilliant,that when it is intercept
it forms a distinct shadow. The mo
alone of all thejieavenly bodies that shl
by night, lias been generally thought,
liable of casting a shadow. The pVat
Venus, less bright indeed than the mot
emits considerable light from her surfa
—which, if intercepted, forms a verv d
tinct shadow.
On Tuesday morning about two
throe o’clock, I had occasion to rise, a
passing by a window which opens inti
dark passage, my attention was can;
by what I at first considered moon lie
upon the wall. I recollected in a menu
that there was then no moon above j
horizon—and turning round, I saw ,
mild and lovely shir of the morning d
ting its full beam u my face. lag
turned to the wall, where my shadow*
distinctly cast.
Bright and interesting little plar
that changes thy position in the heav
at the different seasons of.the year
one time, and evening star in the west,
vealing thyself the first after the desc
of the sun: at another, a morning s(
beaming the last upon u 4, as if to us
in the luminary of day; thou hast dra
the attention of many at every age
When the other fires of the night li
twinkled unheeded, thou hast alw;
commanded the notice of mortals.
Wooing his observations in so ni;
positions, with the mild and lovely beai
the classical genius of antiquity has
bribed to thee the name and the attr
tions of the Queen of the Graces. '1
poet has strung Ms harp to thy honor; i
the lovier lias sought thy inspiration,
he mused upon his love. I thank t
for the beam that thou hast Hung uj
one gloomy moment of my existence!
A STAR-GAZER
From the Boston Weekly Magaxin
THE TEAR OF PITY.
EXPRESSION OF COMPASSION AT A CA
TABLE.
—So Miss Hectic died this morning
a consumption—She was no more tl
seventeen., a fine girl!—
Ah! is she dead!— Poor thing! fVha
trumps? •
—The man is dead, my dear, vvh<
we employed to clear the mouth of tl
well behind the house, and which he {
into—
Is he? I thought he would not rcc(h
—Play a spade , ma’am.
—T here were upwards of a thou
killetl in the last engagement id 1
East-Indies—How many childless \
rents are now in sorrow!
Ah! many indeed— That add (rick
our’s. $
—That captain is now reduced to su
poverty, that I am tqjd it would be chi
ity to send his family a joint of meat
That’s hard— l have not a hart indet
sir.
—He fell on his head, and has be
delirious* ever since—and the physicia
have no hopes that he will recover 1
use of his reason—
Qh! I recollect, he rode against son
body!— Play a spade , if yon pleased
—’The prospect of the poor at prese
i‘i dreadful indeed—there will be apo
erful appeal to the feelings of the rich.
Yes—one really gives so much in ch
ity— l HI let you a crown on the b
club.
—Pray, ma’am have you-heard of t
dreadful accident which has happ ene “
Mi*. ?
What! her son drowned! 0 yes —I
are eight, you can call.
—George! ma’am, George, lam sor
to say it, put an end to his life lastlu
day— *l-.
You dnnt say so— l had two honor*
wy own hand—
— as misfortune never cci
alone,"his. mother and sister arc in.a sti
I ofdistnmfplJnjnU i;'•&.** *
| Bear, single,
and tk&rnW
.3 il WE appointed Alexander M‘K'
JL stry my attorney
from Augusta-
September 3. * “
WE are authorized to announce,
Hutchinsoma candidate for
Collector of Columbia county at tie e
j suing ejection. **