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has provisions enough for a year; there are no mines, but the ramparts are mounted with 11'3 pieces of cannon, modly of brass.” Our last letters from France bring intelli gence which must give pain to every humane person. . That country, labouring under a scarcity cf corn, is now likely to be reduced by a fa mine. The inclemency of she weather has destroyed the husbandman’s hopes in various parts of that kingdom, but particularly in Gascony. On the 15th of April lad a dreadful (hower of hail fell in that country: the flones were as large as those which, on the 13th Julv, 3788, completely destroyed the harvefl all over Acquitaine. The late dorm has totally dripped the tree 3 and vineyards of their ripening or budding fruits ; and the growing corn has been as ef fectually dedroved as if it had been eaten up. t Thus the whole face of the extensive pro vince of Gascony exhibits a feene of diock •ing devadation; its wretched inhabitants Jrave no other profped: but wretchedness and cMdrefs. On the loth of May, at four o’clock in the Morning, the Mayor of the city of Beavais, attended by the King’s Attorney of the Stew ard’s Court of that didritl, arrived at Mr. Neckar’s house at Versailles, and, unfe a toll able as the hour was, defiled that he' might be immediately called up. The two gentlemen being introduced to him, informed him that the objeft of their jdurney was to acquaint him with the alarm ing intelligence, that in the whole county of Beauvoids there was normore corn than would fuflice for the fudenance of the inhabitants for five days. The Minider desired they would inrtantly, retutir, and allure the people that a supply of corn lhould a. rive before the expirati m of the five days, that lhould be fufficient for their confuthption till the fiift of Jnlv ; and that in the mean time meatures lhould be adopted for procuring them a further supply. Such is the condition of France ; and yet the Commons of that kingdom in States Ge nera! adembled, indead of deviling means for the relief of the people, are debating about idle forms. BOSTON, Augufi 20. We are informed that a young iady at Milton lately spun seventy skeins of thread out of a pound of cotton, which another young lady wove, making as fine a pie;e of Muilin as ever was fabricated in that town. We are also informed that the Collector of this dirtrift has directed that the paper tiled in the Cuftotnhoufe Hull be of American nla'uu-' fafture". PHILA DELPHI A, Sept. 1. Extract of a letter from Fredericks burg , dated a ugufl 25, 1789. u Mrs. Walhington, the mother of our President, died this afternoon.” LEXINGTON, (Kentucke) June 13. On Wednesday the 3d ind. two men amF three boys were filhing in Floyd’s fork of Salt river, when a party of Indians fell in with them, killed the two men and took the boys prisoners. > We arc fir.ee informed, but one of the boys returned, and informs that the Indians gave him a tomahawk and kicking, and ordered him return and inform his people what had become of his companions. . About the 20th ult. the Indians fired on nine Frenchmen going up the Wahadi river, killed four and wounded three; coming up to the dead, they difeovered one of them to be a French trader, who was married to a daugh ter of John Brant, the famous Indian ( hies, on which they adided in pulling the arrows out of the wounded men v and then went off leaving them unmoleded farther. ao. On Saturday evenig lad two Indians came to Mr. Jacob Sturcher’a, on the North Elk Horn, near Labanon, and dole three hotfes. On Monday a party of about twelve Indians killed a lad about two or three miles from Col. John ton’s, near Capt. Herndon’s ; Capt. Herndon, who heard the guns, having a horse faddM, immediately rode to tie place, and feeing the lad killed, alarmed the nfighbouihoud, and in a very limit time rail ed abtUt fifteen men, aud purtoed the Indians; aftuittberof oilier# who collccUJ aturC’apt. ’ Herndon darted, followed aftpr : Capt. H:rn cun aud his party, after following lome >1 s tance, difeovered the trail of those who had dolen Stuther’o horses to cross those they were then in purluit of, and much easier to follow, and therefore thought proper to leave the former, and pmfuethe latter; in a lliort time they came up With them, killed two ani wounded the other, (there being only three) and recovered all the hot fes. CHARLESTON, Sept. 10. On Monday an jtottion was held in the fevera! wards of this city for Wardens to serve in City Council for the ensuing \ear, when it appeared the following gentlemen were eject ed : > Ward No, 1. William Read, 2. John Mitchell. 3. Thomas Corbett. 4. Thomas Jones. 5. Henry William Dcfapfture. 6- Charles Warham. 7. William Fraser. 8. James Lynah. 9. Daniel S,evens. 10 Thomas O. F.liiott -11. John F. Gnmke. 12. Tucker Harris. 13. John Robeitfon. AUGUSTA, Sept. 26. 4 On Monday the oth Aoguft, the following medige from the Prefidenc, was de lives ed to the House of Reprefemat.ves of the United States, by the Hon. Gen. Knox. Gentlemen of the H nfs cf Rep'efentati<vei y I have direcled a datement of tlie troops in the lervice of the United States to be laid be fore you for your information. These troops were railed by virtue of the Retolve.-ofCon grels of the 20th of October, 1786, a>d the 3d of October, 1787, in order to proted the frontiers from the depredations of the hodilc Indians, to prevent all intrufious on the pub lic lands, and to facilitate the furyeying and feHing of the fame, for the put pole of 1 educ ing the public debt. As these important cbjefts continue.to re quire the aid of the troops, it is necedat y that the eltabhlhment in all refpeds, be conformed, by law, to the Conditution of the United States. G. WASHINGTON. New-Vork, Auguf 10. A datement of the troops, now in service, accompanied the meda,t.e. The edabliihmcnt of a national bank ap pears to be an object of very general expec tation : Such a plan would give a spring to trade and commerce through the dates, by introducing a competent circulating medium; by enabling Cong refs and the fever al dates to realize to the public creditors some part, at lead, of their jud demands, and by ic doring a Confidence in the national faith, it would unlock the iron 'repofitories of many thousand rudy dollars, who have long been confined by the* wary proprietors, led they lhould, on being released, make tothemfelves wings of paper, and fly away. This plan will also conduce to diUng’hCn the nat'oml government, and remove jealousies rcf t cit ing particular accumulating wore, while they pay lejs, than th'eir proportion of rhe public revenue. For the bills ofthe nation''' bank being unlimited in their circulation through the dates, toperior indudry will add 10 the aggregate amount in any particular date. . The confidence which is already created in the new government bids fair to excite a rivalihip among monied men, in the terms on which they propose to make their loans for the immediate'exigencies of the Union, and if this is the case, as it must be undoubtedly, except we top pole that mankind are blind to their own intcrelt, a competition on tins tob jed may more reafonibly b* expefted among the fevera! banking companies in the Uuiicd States. • * The ditp Maria, Dcnnidon, fiom London; brig Nancy, M*Nie), from Havre de Grace ; and brig Favourite, M'lver, from Africa ami Madeira, arc arrived at CTutrlcfiou. We bear frotn’Hiiladelpbia, thtt the mer chants of that city arc about forming an af tociation, which will, it i* laid, thVltnlly ptevent fmuifgliug in e»cry just of tint date. T>!ED.] On Thursday, the i;th inst. in the town of Wailiingtou, Wilkes, Mr. Ste phen Meers, a merchant of this place. * EL EC'TION BERING Wii'wiiK fptrtt, is now abroad throughout the date, mar he lecn in the various £-r is of familiarity, religion or prof < alternately atluined by the canaille of candi dates, as,they conceive will enfute fucccfs ; but notwiihilandiug the depravity of the times, and ot Georgian manners, which it become a proverb; we hold a jevj charaders, who conlcious of ability and integrity, are above Hooping to the common modes of canvafiing: —And to do the public the fame jullicc in Georgia, which is done them eveiy whete cUe,' it mull be allowed th.ft men ot this de -Ici iutton have feblom been ovci looked : but, ‘ gtcat as the reform is, in point of reptefen lation, by our New Conltituiion \ we caiwot ■ even no-w find politicians to fiil up the num- Ler; And as the pen of the encomiaft and the tongue of malevolence would but, produce the l~.me elicit, wete et Iter of -them cxercifcd upon an) of the Je.-vi already rtetenbed ; it lemams only to point out those charaftcrs, ’ who, if they cannot be ufctul, will not he cangerous, and with whom we may fill up the remaining blanks The glioll of a deceafcd patriot, (Boh, Hen, or Banholomew Philan thropos) may have adopted a manner suitable to the oetonomy of the place of his prelate reiidence, in iilullrating lubjctfs'by negatives; but in this cur world, it were rather"too te dious a method to demonfirate, what a pre dicament is, or ought to be; by cnumeiat ing the various predicates, which do not, or ought not, to compose it:—l lhail chufe iltc more concise plan of attempting a politive delineation—Whether it is g:anted, that the populace poilefs that thaie of difeernment, which 1 have plated to their credit, or not, is a matter of indiffer cnee ; there being the high clt probability that June men of political me rit will be given to their country at the eu lumg Citrons. As it is a different char.tftec than ilte llatelmau or financier which. I ant ■ about to depict, it is natural to expett that . dtdetent tcijuiiitcs will compote that charaft ei ; —a plaiu muici Banding that will enable him to make proper dil'criminations; a.id when maoe, honedy to dfreit his oji.nious, and f|i mnefs to ptelerve them, ought to be the leading traits in futh a character let him be an enemy to faction—tme who is mmo covetohs ol hon.jl Jane, tlian of.ihat wealth, which, thn’ accumulated witiiout blame, may be acquired without honor, —and lafilv, let him tc fn far independent, that he be uncm b'arralied in his titcumflanccs ; led the hope oi bet.eiiiig Ins lumcd loitune, might induce him to do that, which would blalt his repu tation and injure the Republic. In fine, Ci tizens, after having given your fuffrages to men, whoie abilities demand them of you, makeup the number from among!* these, v»iiufe chaiaderiftics a:e honelly and good fenie, a lid whole ciicumfiapccs are neither . confined nor dubious: lo ihail we contribute to our refptciatiiny as a date, —create a mu tual confidence between our citizens and lcitillators, and the great ob-jetl of erta blnliing our political bap^mefs, ARISTIDES. * > *««* <* *93* • A A %S # 'tP. tP. BENJAMINE Jer.kms tolls be fore me the following Arays :—■' 1 wo young he'furs, and two large Aeers; one hciller bia k, wit a white face, no mark or b- and per ceivable *, toe other a pJe red, wichf fotrie white fp*its, marked with an under fl p in each' tar, no brand One red anil white Acer, the other blVck arid wh.t/, each nu*k d with atr*?p and half crop in each eir, nor lands perceivable *, the latrer has one (/i h s liorns dropped down in his face. '1 he owner or own rs umA p ove his or their property within the lime prescribed hyla v, b' fore j;Fosn-.a, j.p/