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i ' * A .<»•, *** wt. u L Njlk, * ■.■l' ■ ! i mm ‘" ■ J 1 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 1 IV -—*-»■ ... y■ i ■■■■■- 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. ~ ' vwT*UK ”, 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 *-*,■ . ■ ..I. 1.. | .. 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**. , • B*. w«m 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, * i (TV* ijJMkriLit H ■ 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. , #. ; 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. **