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•j* «iV* jpr -&■ . v «, - &***' ! * ‘ ———— m ■ ■ii ■■inmi i n ■■" i -—~—m »-**■ THE Subscribers having united their interest in the Augus ta Chronicle % Georgia Gazette, this paper now appears under that title. They hope their joint ex ertions will he such as to ensure them a continuance of the liberal patronage they have heretofore en joyed, and for which they tender their w armest thanks. The extensive circulation of the Augusta Chronicle & Georgia Ga zette, will, render it an object of consideration to mercantile and other advertisers, who wish to give general notoriety to their pub lications. Days of publication, and terms of advertising, the same as for im rly observed by the Editors of the Chronicle. J. E. KEAN, B. T. DUYCKINCK, G, W. S. VEAUIIE. Beware of Counterfeits!!! IHAVK detected T. W. Diott, a Druggist in Philadelphia, in the habit of counterfeiting my “ Patent Xew Zrwndonßillious Pills”—and disposing of his spurious imitations; with the intent of deceiving the public as for my genuine Pills, so well known and approved.— Having reason to believe, that he has sent some of his counterfeitis for sale at Augusta, and other Southern Ciies, 1 deem it to he my duty to caution the citizens who are familiarized to the ef fects and operations of my genuine Pa tent Pills, as well as others, to be on their guard in purchasing as the false Pills are, and of course must be entirely a different Medicine. The counterfeit bill of direction on each box, is an exact copy of the true bill, but the letter in the signature of my name 8. 11. P. Lee , is by mistake of the printer made like an “jQ ” *< whereas in the genuine bill the letter is made thus ” a description so notorious that by only casting the eye to the signature in script type,always re membering that if the letter is brought round at bottom like an jQ instead of terminating to the left with a dot, it is certainly counterfeit. The Counterfeit Box hasiny name S. H. P. LEE stamped upon the covers, without any indentation of the tin; but the genuine stamps make a depression the width of the letters; the top part of the letter P. in the genuine stamp upon the covers of the boxes, is perceptibly lower than the line of the others—the counterfeits are on a line, a handsome letter, and stamped without depressing the tin—the counterfeit Pills are of a dark brown coulour—the genuine are of a bluish cast. Caleb Tatler, and Peter Lehman Druggists in Philadelphia, have also been detected counterfeiting my Pills; both have omitted (knowing it to be for gery) affixing my name to the covers of the boxes, or bills of directions; Lehman puts his own name to the covers of the boxes, and Taylor upon the bill, and leaves the cover of the box without any letters—• These are so palpable, that the purchaser can at once preceive their false character, in the want of my name at the bottom of the bill and upon the covers of the boxes. I trust an intelligent and discerning public will, from motives of safety, frown upon such nefarious at tempts tp deceive them, and destroy their wicked designs by carefully observ ing the above caution in purchasing. My genuine Pills as usual, may always be ad of ISAAC HERBERT tsq. Augus ta—and Likewise at the Druggist Stores of Dr. Joseph Kirkland and Willian Bengoine in Charleston, S. C. who have them di rectly from my Factoiy Dispensary—al so of Messrs. Ormsby and Fitch, Drug gists, Columbia, S. C. and Harral & Worrell, and Dr. A. Habersham, Savan nah—and Dr. George Harral, Druggist and Chemist. Philadelphia. Samuel Hr P. Lee; Patentee , Sole Preparer , Member of the Con necticut Medical Convention , sc. JVew-London (Con.) July , 1817 Georgia , Richmond County. By Isaac Herbert, Clerk of the Court of Ordinary for said county. WHERfeAS David M‘Kinney has applied for letters of administration on the estate and effects of Samuel Brant, •ru count y aforesaid, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admo msh ail and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to file their objections in my office (if any they have') withm the time prescribed by law, oth erwise letters of administration will be granted to him. Given under my hand and seal at of bee U1 the City of Augusta, this 23d day ot August. 1817. J ■ I SAAC HERBERT, Clerk. '.I ,'M i FROM THE PORTXOO. SCENES JN THE MISSOURI. Mammelles near St. Charles , (Missouri,J 1817. My Dear Friend —l this morning left St. Charles, (a flourishing village on the north side of the Missouri river, about 20 miles from the mouth) for the purpose of enjoying a view of the countiy which the inhabitants consider the finest in it. I left the town fully impressed with the idea, that, as usual, native prejudice had paint ed the scene in much more glowing co lours, than the reality would present to me. After travelling a northern direc tion about two miles and a halt, I found myself on an elevated point of land, or more properly speaking a mound, termin ating abruptly, on three of its sides, in an extensive level country. From this spot, which is one of the last projecting points of high land, between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, the most lovely and picturesque view is pre sented to the eye, that mine ever wit nessed. Imagine to yourself, the mighty ungo vernable Missouri, tumbling along on your right; the mild and limpid Missis sippi meandering on your left; the slug gish, yet beautiful Illinois, insinuating its stream into the Mississippi, at the dis tance of ten miles; imagine to yourself the whole eastern shore of the Mississip pi as lined by a high perpendicular wall of limestone, which alternately assumes the different appearances of a well built street, a ruined town, or a gothic tower; Still picture to yourself the circumjacent landscape (which is nearly as extensive as the eye can survey) as beautifully checkered by alternate bodies of prairie and wood land, the former of which to the eye of the beholder, seem highly cul tivated farms. Let the imagination paint all these things before your mind’s eye, and still my friend, I am confident you can r form but a very faint idea of the ex tatick emotions which I now experience. It is almost needless to observe, that the land around this beautiful spot, is as rich as imagination can conceive, and as it regards health, the neighbourhood is con sidered the “Mount Pelier” of this salu brious climate. So much of an enthusiast am L that I could not resist the impulse of giving you a description of this spot, while the objects were still before my eye; and as I now have my inkhorn and paper out, I will fulfil the promise given in a former letter. You well know that the original Euro pean stock of inhabitants, who peopled this country, was principally derived from the French settlement in Canada. From thence they came to this country byway of the lakes. From all that I can learn, the state of the society was of the most simple kind, each head of the family being governor thereof; and such was their sense of re ligion (they are all strict Catholics) and parental authority, that rebellions against this mild and natual sway were exceed- rare. The village state of society was the only one that existed. This was probably necessary, to guard against the attacks of Indians. The govern ment was in the habit of granting to the villagers, small narrow tracts of land, adjoining each other near the town, and the.se common fields, as they were called, were enclosed under a common fence, and were cultivated, sometimes in common; but if any individual chose, he had a right to cultivate his land sepa rately The principal and almost only circulat ing medium of the country was deer skins, and other descriptions of skins and pel tries; and so little law did they have a mong them, that deeds between individu als were scarcely ever required; even now, altho’ the country swarms with law yers, it is rare for a Frenchman to bring a suit. The natural vivacity of the French character exists in all its purity. Danc ing was,and still is, their favourite amuse ment ; and inrihis exercise they excel. A singular custom exists among them to 'tills day: if a widow or widower mar ries, in a short time after the decease of the former partner for life; or, if in the second marriage there should be a great disparity of age, the villagers collect in a body, at night; two of them are dressed most fantastically, one in a male, and the other in a female dress, the male with a pair of buck’s horns encircling his brows; and then with all the horns, bells, tin pans, and other discordant instruments they can raise, and a number of candles, they patrole every street in the village, making the most horrible noise. At inter vals the noise ceases; and some one cries out three or four times, “ Charivari.” upon which another enquires for whom the ii Charivari,” asthev call it, is made; the names of the new married couple are then repeated and the whole party again set forward with their noise and yelling. _ They finally make their way to the re sidence of the new married pair; and con tinue their exercise until they make their appearance, and either give, or promise to give a ball#,,. When we consider how despotic the Spanish government is, in Old Spain, we we are at present at a loss to account for the remarkable lenity which the territo rial government was administered in this the principles of the government were as despotic here as in the mother country -J* They had not the benefit of what an En tlUhman and a citizen of the United tates consider the most valuable of pri vileges: viz. the trial by jury. But their total exemption from taxation, and the gratuitous manner in which the govern ment disposed of public lands to the inha bitants, attached them very strongly to the Spanish government. These great advantages had induced a great number of the .citizens of the Unit ed States to emigrate to the western side of the Mississippi, previous to this coun try’s failin'; into the hands of the United States. ' £he present, seat of government for this territory is St. Louis, the emporium not only of this, but of a considerable portion of the Territory of Illinois. It is situated, as I before informed you, on the Western bank of the Mississippi river, fifteen miles below the mouth of the Missouri, between the 39th and 40th de gree of north latitude. The site of the town is a high rocky bank elevated above the effects of inun dation, which rises gradually and beauti fully, towards the West, and terminates in an extensive plain. The situation is the most beautiful one for a town that I ever saw. The present population cannot be less than three thousand, and its numbers are increasing daily. The building are gen erally small and indifferent, but a num ber of spacious and commodious brick and stone buildings are now erecting.— There are in the town twenty-three com mercial establishments, that do business on a pretty large scale. There are also two banking instituti ons, with a capital of nearly one million of dollars. Yours sincerely, L. A. From the Boston Sentinel. We understand that several of the Bricks brought by Capt. Austin from the ruins of Babylon, dfc. have been re ceived in this town, to be presented to the Jithoeneum, and other Institutions. We have been favoured with the follow ing from a correspondent:— Jin extract from a letter , written by a companion of Capt. Austin in his excursion up the Euphrates and Tigris to a friend in this town , dated Feb. 7, 1817. “It is 700 miles from the Persian Gulf to Bagdad, and 600 from Bassora. Our journey was principally in boats, but du ring the four last days, it was on misera ble horses, over a desert covered with ruins. The palace of Ctesiphon, called Tauk Kisar, or Kassarah, the Arch of Kasar, is about twenty miles south-east of Bagdad. Neither the Turks or the Arabs know any thing satisfactorily • concerning it. They are at a loss to de termine whether it was a religious tem ple or a royal palace. The length of the east face, by an exact measure ment is 300 feet; in the centre is an arch 85 feet broad, and 106 feet high.— The arched room is 150 feet long from east to west. The niches in front re sembles those of English abbies. The pillars are defaced 4 and walls on the west side much injured. The tradition among the Turks is, that Tauk Kasarwas built • by a son of Shirewan, who was king of the country, and resided here. “About a mile eastward of the Arch, is an ancient n.ud wall, three sides of a square, looking east, west and north; the river being on the south. The wall is ab >ut 40 teet high, thirty feet thick, and each side a mile in length. This was probably a citadel for the protection of the ancient town. From the ruins in this vicinity many Persian coins have been liken. A quarter of a mile from Tauk Kasai? is the town of Solyman Park, who was the barber of Mahomet, and whose memory is greatly revered by his coun trymen. He was a favourite of the Pro phet, lived to an advanced age, and was considered as a man of extraordinary piety. We passed through a handsome porch, and found a large square court surrounded with small clean rooms or cells, made to lodge those who come to pray. They gave us a welcome recep tion in a neat apartment where we were treated with hospitality, and spenta com f sortable night. “The Tower of Babel, which I visited the 10th of last March, is about 13 miles in nearly a north-east direction from Bagdad. The height of the ruin is 126 feet, the largest diameter about 100 feet, and the tower is by many supposed to be solid. The circumference above the ru bish is about 300 feet. The part of the wall which is standing, is entirely of square brick baked in the sun. There is a layer of reeds for every third course. Both the brick and the reeds are as perfect as when they were first put together. The suiroundiag mass of ruins extends sixty paces from the tower, and'is filled with bricks which are fire-burnt. “The tomb ofZobeidah, just without the walls of Bagdad, is a fanciful pile, haying an octagonal form, built of burnt bricks, and is about 40 feet high. On this there is a cone somewhat resembling a pine apple, 50 high, making 90 fee*t in all The inscriptions are in the pre sent Arabic characters, show that this is the tomb of the favourite Wife of Haran al Raschid, who was buried here abont 900 years since. It is esteemed an holy place, and the pious daily visit the spot to of fer up their prayers. • ’ , v.,* From the Connecticut Courant. THE BRIEF REMARKER. It often happens, not unfrequently, that when we set ourselves to straighten a crook, instead of making it quite straight, we crook it the contrary way, or carry things.from one extreme into the other. A youth, of an ingenuous liberal tem per, is apt to be not regat dful enough of nis own interest. He esteems money as trash, and scorns to employ his cares a bout it. As it came to him easy, it goes from him freely. He gives, he spends, he squanders, till at length, ex periencing embarrassments, he resolves to become frugal and provident. But such a youth seldom stops at the true point, but leaps at once far beyond it.— Heartily sick of extravigance, he makes a covenant with avarice, and changes to unfeeling, illiberal and miserly. The extreme of confidence often runs into the extreme of jealousy. Os those who live to a considerable age, very few perhaps leave the world with as good an opinion of mankind as they had begun it with. To the eye of the ingenuous but inexperienced youth, the world ap years bright and charming. He looks to meet with justice, candor and honor, in his intercourse with his fellow being.— Fancy gilds and bedecks the objects of his hopes, and whatever is promised him by hope, he regards as sure and certain. Presently, however, the illusion begins to vanish. He meets with disappoint ments; he experiences cold-blooded sel fishness, deceit, fraud and perfidy, his confidence in men turns to suspicion: the world, he concludes, is a cheat—he has tily says in his heart, that all men are rogues and liars; and he becomes sour and misanthropic. By how much his o pinion of mankind was too favorable in his young days, by so much is it too un charitable in his advanced age. Self converted credulity is apt to run into scepticism; and so also, a zeal to free themselves from all shackles of supersti tion is sorely apt to drive men upon the the fatal rocks of infidelity and irreli gion. Some men, of impetuous tempers, but of feeling hearts, are possessed, by turns of ferocity, and, on the other hand, of an undue measure of indulgent feeling. In their gusts of anger, the house is made to ring from side to side with their vocif erations. Hard words, and sometimes hard blows, are dealt out for petty offen ces, or for none at all. But no sooner is the tempest subsided than they deeply relent; and, passing into the other ex treme, they smother their little ones with caresses, and indulge them in every thing. A certain nobleman of former times is said to be so remarkable in this repect, that his domestics threw them selve in his way whenever they saw him angry, in order to be beaten by him: well knowing that he would reward them bountifully with gifts as soon as his pas sion cooled. Again, some fathers frame in their ow r n minds a system of paternal govern ment, that is fine spun in theory, but im practicable. They will govern by fule and plummet. 'They will begin betimes, and effectually whip old Adam out of their children. So they do begin, and so theyproceed,sternly marking every child ish foible, till, finding their efforts baffled, they rather cast away than remit the reins of government, and let their chil dren do as they will. It is observable that the children by a second marriage are often treated with a great deal more indulgence than those of the former one; and it is no wise unaccountable. For besides the consideration that the children of a second marriage are, not unfre quently, the children of old age; when a father is conscious that he has been se vere overmuch towards the first brood, that consciousness alone will incline him to be too indulgent toward the last.— Thus, by opposite extremities, injuring, if not spoiling both stocks, and setting his family against himself, and at varince with one another. Beware of extremes. Several of the minor virtues of our nature degenerate to folly or vice when carried beyond the due measure. Sensibility is not more lovely in its proper degree, than con temptible in its extravagance. A senti mentalist pulling over an uprooted flow er or a maimed butterfly, excites dis gust rather than sympathy. Good hu mor, candor and generosity, may each & all be carried to extremes. If our good humor render our moral characters flex ible, and our hearts too yielding; if our candor degenerate into a sort of indis criminate approvance of truth and error, of right and wrong, of the good and of the evil; if our generosity infringe upon the sacred laws of justice, bv an hospital ity exceeding our circumstances and means, or by giving gifts in preference to paying honest debts:—in these, as in divers other cases, too much of a good thing turns it to bad. FOR SALE, TWO LIKELY YOUNG FEL LOWS—excellent Bricklayers.— Enquire at this office. August IS. IC® We are authorized to announce Major DENNIS DENT, a candidate at the ensuing election, to represent the county of Columbia in the next Legis lature. August 13, n Lofcsi /rom Grea* Bntain-~r>[ ' I, ft arrival last evening, ofthe ship Tea Pi! ■ capt. Brown, in 42 days from Li VC| '?S the editors of the Commercial Advert 1 have received fromtl.eir corre 3pon ,w| London papers to the 19th, and Live J pool to the 21st of Jane, inclusive. 1 The trial of the state prisoners ,® high treason, closed on the 16th of J UII ® They were acquitted and set at libemß The trial of Watson lasted seven dav® An interesting account ofthe closj scene will be found among our extract® below. ® We have also given below some nM count of new disturbances at Leeds anfl at Nottingham. H Liverpool, June 21. Although the imports have been ex® tremely heavy this month, cottons luvl supported their prices very well,and ou| quotations can be realized, but the hi<d® est extreme is only attainable forchofc® parcels, of which the market is very bar® it is now reduced to a state that rende® selections necessary to procure what il called good cottons; and to the circuit® stance must be attributed the unusual variation in price that is apparent.--1 With this chief portion of what is novl brought forward, East India cottons bel gin materially to interfere, and as it iJ not likely that the latter part of the croJ of uplands will be of better quality, apprehend that this will occur to a still greater extent. In the late imports ol Bengal cottons, we preceive most disl tinctly a very considerable improvement in the staple. The principal part ( of the uplands now here are of the owest dc scription, and of course unsaleable; ant the Orleans is not so fine as was antici pated. We therefore conceive that tea fine cottons will be much in request at the end of the year. The stock of tobacco is not large, but sales are with difficulty effected. A very unexpected demand for flour, for France, has taken 0ft’55,000 barrels during the month, and 79 shillings has been paid for small parcels; it has receded 3t04 shillings, inconsequence of the or ders being completed; however, from the nature of the accounts from that quarter, we expect that they must shortly be re newed to a considerable extent, when there will be a further improvement.— The weather precludes the possibility of holding over flour with any degree of se curity, and it has of late become so very favorable to crops, that if the export de mand should cease, the annexed rates cannot be supported—upon this point therefore the whole currency depends.— The stock of fine wheat is nearly exhaus ted; the supplies from the Baltic are ve ry large but the quality' inferior. Rice has advanced’ considerably, the whole of the stock having been purchas ed for shipment; the demand for home use is very limited. American war loan 104$; dollars fal ling, 5s Id per ounce. Prices. —Cotton, upland, 16 to 20d; New-Orleans 19 a 211; Sea Island, 18 a 19d, Wheat, 9s 6d to 18s per 70 lbs, Flour, sweet, 75 to 78s, sour 63 to 68s« Rice, 43 a 465. Bark, 18 a 235. Pot Ashes, 53 a 595; Pearls, 58 a 63; barrel staves 10 a Zl3 00; turpentine 13 a 15. tar 13s 6d a 16s 6d. June 17. American flour dull—76 a 78. The quantity of flour from America imported into Liverpool, during the week ending 17th of June, amounted to 45,994 barrels, and 1992 half barrels. Corn Exchange , Tuesday , June 17. There was a considerable Falling off in the imports of Wheat and Oats this week; Barley was in fair supply, and American flour abundant; it was in request as well as all descriptions of corn, at last week’s prices. Wheat, English 19s a 20s per 70 lbs New 12s 6d a 15s do. Foreign 17s 6d a 19s 6d do. American flour, 77s to 79s per barrel of 196 pounds neat. It appears by accounts from the Not tingham Review, ofthe 14th of June, Sf the Leeds Mercury of the 14th that dis turbances had been of a pretty serious nature in those parts of the kingdom. On Monday the 16th great numbers oi people had assembled at Alfreton, and other neighbouring villages, in Derby shire, and excited considerable alarm— the guards were doubled, and the magis trates held a close consultation. mours of these movements reaching Not tingham, troops were sent for to parade the market place. Things however, re mained quiet until the next morningj when information was received that a party of armed men were on their way towards Nottingham. The magistrates assembled, and swore in 1000 consta bles to keep the peace. It appeared that a body of men had asemblod at boutb Wingfield,and,after arming themselves, preceded towards Nottingham. ')u Thursday they committed some outra ges, anti attempted to force all they met tojoin; but were disappointed in tneir expectation of volunteers on the road, none of that description appearing. A about seven in the morning they reac Eastwood, where they had about - armed with guns, pikes, ‘S c - a ' some with bags of bullets on their bac _ * Here they found their greatest and from thence declined in nurnbet At Kimberly, 5 miles from Noitiugc|*‘ TI J they had but about 20. Mortified .>'■ alarmed, they then threw away