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SONG.
TO the mirth-loving crew who can laugh
and be jolly,
Here met in full glee at the temple of folly ;
To ibe belles and the beaux, that are buzzipg
about ’em;
To wjfe-heads with tongues, and to block*
heads without ’em;
To Lords out of breath in the niidft of their
leisure ;
To Harlequins hoppers in minuet meafnre ;
To Temple-bar Highlanders—Scotch Fetite
maitres; ‘
To the whole corps of long (lets from all the
theatres;
To houfc-maids and hay-makers,'fair, young
and civil;
To dominos, peevish and black as the devil;
To petticoat gentlemen, ladies in breeches,
To (hepherds and sailors, wits, wizards and
witches;
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To non-defcript figures, automaton stalkers ;
To the toilers, the loungers, the leapers, the
walkers;
To the gtinners,*the growlers, the huffers
and plcafers,
To all the uncharafter’d charafter-teazers;
To clowns, sweeps and soldiers, nuns, rakes
and old women,
Kings, coblers, fools, conjurers, ladies and
gem’meu.
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ANECDOTE.
CERTAIN young ladies walking in the
fields, met in their way a (hephcrd,
who carried a lamb to market ; one of them
coming near, ftroaked him, and laid to her
companions, ** Look; how pretty 'ht' is ; he
has yet no horns” The shepherd hearing
that, replied, “ ’Tis bccaufc he is not yet
married.**
SOME time in the winter came to
my mills a red and white ox,
marked with a (wallow fork in the
Jett ear, aid an over keel and a
fwal.ow fork in th< ; right. He is
abou four >ears old, and his on i
hell tied with a piece of cow hide
untann?d. rhr above ox is on the
toll book of Dilz.tl Hunter, Esq
where the owner mult appiy to prove
liis property.
THOMAS GLASCOCK.
May rp, 1789. .
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SOME time in the latter end of the year
1787. I gave a bond to Grant Taylor, for
a '->out twenty or twenty-five pounds, which ‘
Loud I have lince fully difeharged, and fore
warned him from trading the fame to any
I’crfon whatever: I have since been inform
ed that he has fold this is to noti
fy the purchaser, that he may look out elfe
wbeie for paymetot, as I have, as before
meationed, fully difeharged it, ar*d before
wituefles demanded the bond, and forewarn
ed him from partiug with it.
JOHN HINSON.
May 15, 1789.
We do hereby inform the
public, that we will fell
Lots in Louifeville by pri
vate iale.
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]• shelman, y Cmm ' rt -
• The Printer of this paper informs the pub
lic, that be has enlarged the circle of his cor
respondence, so as to be able in future to give
to his readers fatisfadory details of the affairs
of the United States, in this interesting aud
splendid morhent of their politics; and also
to furnilh a coucife iketchof the gfeoeial con
cerns of Europe.—To be enabled to continue
it in this extent, it will be necessary that he
fliould have the number of his fubferibers
encreafed ; which he flatters himfelf, will be
very promptly done, when it is confid'ered,
that, besides the scope of iutelligeuce already
assured, it is his firft and immediate duty,
faithfully to detail the tjanfadions of the
state, the knowledge of which muff excite
the solicitude of every citizen,' id this cri!s«
of public affairs.
On this ground, he has taken the liberty
to nominate the following persons to receive
fubferiptions, whom he earueftly requests to
undertake the fame ; and to whom he will
transmit fubfeription papers, with the con
ditions.
In Chatham county- John Haberfham, Esq.
William Stephen, Esq. and Alex. Watt, Esq.
Ejfingham. Nathan Brownfon, Esq. and
Mr. Joihua Pearce.
Burke . Hon. Hugh Lawson, Esq. and Mt*.
Alexander Carter.
Richmond. At the Printing-Office, Gen.
John Twiggs, Hon. W. F. Booker, Esq. D.
Elam, Esq. rot. James M‘Neil, Rhefa How
ard, Esq. and Mr. Abraham Manhall.
17tikes. Hon. James Williams, Esq Da
niel Terondet, Esq. Mr. A. Jackson, Arthur
Fort, Esq. and Mr. Thomas C. Rullell.
Greene. Col. Henry Karr, William Da
rnell, Elq. and David Grelham, Elq.
Franklin. Hon. M. Woods, Esq John
Gorham, Esq.
Liberty. Col. James Maxwell, and John
Dollar, Esq.
Glynn Hon. Christopher Hillary, Esq.
and William Steven, Esq
Col. Jared Irvine, and the
Hon. Joffiua Williams, Esq.
Camden. Alexander Semple, Esquire.
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•Augujla , May. 29, 178^.
THE Officers ot the Second State Regi
ment are ordered to fend to me at this
place the time of their appointments, as soon
as poflible, that the fame may be transmitted
to a Board of General Officers, who are to
attend at the Treaty the 2Cth of June, in
order to fettle the ranks of the Officers.
THOMAS MARTIN,
lnfpettor - General.
STOLEN on Sunday evening the 17th inst.
near Augusta, a waggon HORSE of the
following defeription,'viz.' A yellow sorrel
about 14 hands and an inch high, branded
with small letters W E on the mounting
shoulder, fliort bushy tail, a small star in his
forehead, and frerti fliod all round.
TEN POUNDS reward will be given for
the horfe'and thief, or FIVE POUNDS for
the horfe' only, on the delivery of the
fame to Mr. Amafa' Jackson, merchant, Au
gusta, or to the fubfenber, Petersburg, at the
confluence of the rivers Savannah and Broad,
HARRY CALDWELL.
Peterjburgy May 23, 1789.
To be Sold
For Ca(h, tobacco, or Pierce’s Fi
nal Settl ments. a valuable
House Wench,
About 26 years of age, excellent
cock, walker and ironer. Apply to
* JOHN INGERSOLL.
May 29, 1789.
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*t* Blank Bonds, Blank
Writs* Deeds of Convey
ance, and New England
Primers, i
For 61k it thf
Major Hopkias, the Judge-Advocate, have
tag reported to the Goveraor the proceedings
of the Geaeral Court-Martial, on the trials
of Captain Ross and Lieutenant M'Avey,
whereby they were acquitted, his Honor ifc*
i'ued the following Orders ;
Orders by the Governor and Com
mander in Chief.
May 20, 1789.
The proceedings of the General Court-
Martial on the trials of Captain Ross and Lieu
tenant are approved. The material
evidence named on the part of the prosecution
did not attend, and the Brigadier who arrest
ed them is absent frbm the date.
The Governor and Commander in Chief,
cannot forbear to observe upon this occasion,
that theie is no crime which a soldier can be
guilty of more attrocious than- disobedience
and mutiny, and the mere imputation of
which men of honor will always avoid.—
Captain Ross and Lieutenant M*Avcy are
discharged."
TOWN-HALL, May 21, 1789.
THE Board of General Officers convened
by order of' the Governor, to inquire
into, ascertain and report the rank of the
Field Officers of the State Troops, orders*
and direfts, that the Infpe&or-General da
procure from the proper Officers certified co
pies of the laws and resolutions of the Le
gislature, refpetfing the establishment of the
said troops, and the appointments of the Of
ficers; and to have or transmit the fame to
the Rock Landing on the Oconee river, at the
time of the treaty with the Creek Indians, to
which place and time this Board adjourns.
Ordered, That the foregoing be published
in the Gazette for the information of all con
cerned.
By Order of the Board ,
THOMAS WATKINS, A. D. C.
to General Twiggs*
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, Wtlkes Courty , May 14, 1789.
THE subscriber, as Attorney at law for
Michael Cupp, gives notice, that he
has depofued in the Clerk’s Office of this
county, a copy of a bond, as near as could be
ascertained, from John Grigfby, William
Terrill, and Thomas Stark, to the said Mi
chael Cupp, for a negroe boy, in order to
have it established and recorded in lieu of the
original, which was loft.
FLORENCE SULLIVAN.
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WILLIAM Stiib, jun. Esq tolls a bay
Mare 13 i-a hands high, four years
old, has no visible brands, a small star in her
forehead, the inner part of her hind foot white.
The owner or owners of said stray, may
prove his, her, or their property, before
D. HUNTER, J. P.
Augujla , May 23, 1789.
ABS ALUM Rhodes tolls before
me a bald eagle horse, about
13 hands high, 9 or 10 years old,
branded on the mounting flioulder
A. The owner mu ft prove bis pro
perty before me, agreeable to law.
W. FREEMAN, J. P,
Augufia,' May 6/ 17.89
♦. Burke Couny , Aprs 6 t 1789.
TH E lubfcriber gives notice
that he has dep Tited in the
Clerk’s office ot this county, a copy
of a deed, as near as could be as
certained, from John Smith, late of
Burk*" county, deceased, to him for
two hundred acres of land, on Dry
Branch, Waters of Ogechee, in or
der to have it eftabliflied and record
ed, in lieu ol the origninal, which
was loft during the lace war.
oim WILLIAM JONES.
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