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Carriages tfJHgs
* FdK sale.
THE subscriber has received an ad
ditional supfcly of Gigs and Car
riages of a superior quality, made by
David Beach of Newark, and warranted
good —They will be gold on accommo-
Doable Breasted COT
TON GINS, of from 45 to 65 saws,
made by Boatwright & Glaze.—-apply to
CL B. Marshall.
September 3. tf_
“M" HA VE appointed Alexander M‘Kin
-1 stry my attorney during my absence
from Augusta. L. C. THOMPSON.
September 3. tt
To Rent,
ffllfE lower tenement of the House
■ ' at present occupied by Mr. John
Sharp, upper end of lirohd Street.
John M. Davenport.
August 16. t ts
STOPPED
"tIROM a Negro Fellow, a Post Note
JP for a considerable amount, which
the owner can have by giving a satisfac
tory description of it. Enquire at this
office. August 27.
Bolling Cloths.
Tfi subscribers have just received a
complete assortment of the best
quality DUTCH BOLTING CLOTHS.
Edwarb Quin, & Co.
June 55. ts
NOTICE.
15 B STOUTEN BURG is fu’ly
5® authorized to act as my Attorney
during my absence from Augusta.
John Miller.
May 3. ts
FOR SALK,
Ji Second Hand Philadelphia
made Gig, with harness.
Apply to
John Sharp, & Co.
Upper en* Broad-Street.
August 30. p
Prime Bacon,
FOR SALE BV
T. «C E. Flewelli-n.
August 30. ts
tl HECKS on New-Y«rk, for sale by
J THOMAS GARDNER.
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AT SHORT SIGHT,
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August 23. ts
' FOIL SALK, ”
njNWO LIKELY YOUNG FEL
-9 LOWS—excellent Bricklayers.—
Enquire at this office. v
August 13.
For Sale or to
A HOUSE and LOT at the upner end
of Br<md-st. as good a stand for
buying produce as any hi the city —For
particular■; liqure of T, PYE.
August 27. kw
A LL persons having claims against
J\ the estate of Daniel Hubbard, dec.
are requestedfkrender them jn properly
attested, witlmf tin* time prescribed by
law; and those indebted to the estate, are
requested to make immediate payment to
Hannah Hubbard, adrafc.
May 3. w6m
For Sale.
{iOTH of my Mills, on Spirit creek,
I containingaDout twenty four or five
hundred acres to each tra& r Presuming {
that no one will purchase with out view
ing them, I have thought it useless to say
any thing more than that the terms will be
made known by applying to me, or Mr.
G. Shearer, and if not sold before the.
first Monday in November, will be sold
or leased for a term of years at public
auction, with the stock on the place, and
the household furniture—and on the first 1
day of December, all my lands on Brier
creek with the stock on that place, known
by the name of the Iron Works.
William Cowles.
Jaly.flk 2mßt
V/ r L are authorised to announce Ed
w T ward ifasseFa candidate for re
ceiver of tax returns for Columbia county
at the ensuing election, J
August 6
are authorized to announce Jas.
▼ ▼ Hutchinson a candidate for Tax
Collector of Columbia county at the eo
»umg election, Sept. *3.
From the New-York Herald.
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Towns in the Alabama Territory.
Much valuable information to emi
grants and others, is contained in the
following letter from a gentleman now in
the Alabama Territory, to his friend in
New York;
Dear Sir—ln answer to your inquiries
respecting the commercial towns already
located in the territory of Alabama, as
well as the most eligible sites for such
as have not yet been established, I sub
mit the following view, with such obser
vations as appertain to the subject.
The town of Mobile is situated on a
low sandy pine plain, ontl.e west bank
of the wlTst mouth of Mobile river, with
in one mile of the bay. It was founded
by the French upwards of one hundred
years ago, and is older than New-Or
leans. Its population does not Exceed
eight hundred souls, inhabiting one hun
dred and twenty tenements, of very in
ferior size, and nearly all of an ancient
g'dhick appearance. The inhabitants of
Mobile are of various descriptions: A
bout SOW are people of cplour, of every
shade, who are generally free snd pos
sessed of real estate, sc. The balance
are whites, of a heterogeneous character.
The manners and customs of the
French and Spaniards at present appear
to prevail. There is no bouse of public
worship there, except a small Roman
■chapel, in which a Spanish priest occa
sionally says mass.
The trade of Mobile is very inconsi-*
derable, but is increasing as the up-coun
try setlles. There are at present 15
good stores and a few groceries.
The want of good fresh water in Mo
bile is at present a serious inconvenience
and disadvantage to. that place. New
ly all the potable water used there for
six months in the year is drawn by wag
gons, &c. in kegs and barrels from a
creek 3 miles west of the town. During
the winter the river alfords wholesome
water for every use. It is, how ever, 1
believe, in contemplation to have water
conducted into town,by aqueducts, from
a branch of the above named creek, whose
fountain is said to admit of it, about four
miles from Mobile. ,
With respect to the facilities of ship
navigation to Mobile they are not so great
as eould be desired.
Although Mobile Bay admits vessels of
twenty feet draught, and those of fifteen
can ascend within ten miles of its head;
yet those over twelve feet caanot enter
the mouths of Mobile River. Owing to
the shoalness of the shores of the Bay, no
town can be erected below the outlets of,
the rivers consequently the seaport for
the Alabama Territory must inevitably
be on the river: and on account of the ex
treme crookedness of the river, and the
imposibility of ascending them, with prac
tical economy, with Atlantic shipping,
the emporium of trade upon these v aters
will forever be confined to the head of
Mobile Hay.
Whether the town of Mobile is to be
come the great commercial city, which
appears to be about rising up at the outlet
of the extensive and interesting waters of
Tombigbee and Alabama, or some other
place, time will soon determine. How
ever respectable the town of Mobile has
become by its great age, the Americans,
who are emigrating to that country, seem
.generally to turn their attention to a new
town laid out, in pursuance of .an act of
the Territorial Legislature, on the east
channel of Mobile river.
This place is styled in the law the
Town of Blackely .” It lies six miles
north of xVlobile Bay on the east margin
of the main direct ship channel of Mobile
river; which, from near Fort Stoddari
down to the Bay, is denominated “Ton
sa”—This channel subdivides in front of
Blakely, and its principal modlh runs
southwestwardiy to near the centre of the
head of the Bay, where it forms a junction
with Spanish River, (which is the main
channel into Mobile,) and both make
•»ne common channel over the bar, 12 feet
deep at high water—there being but two
feet flow of tide ordinary; and but one
Hood and one ebb in 24 hours in Mobile
Bay. The other four mouths of Mobile
river have not more than 8 or 9 feet at
: high water on their bars—Vessels draw
ing more than 8 feet water must pass up
Spanish river, (which is the third mouth
from the high land) and double an island
six tntlfes north of Mobile, and then, with
a northerly wind, drop down to town.—
Vessels of the same draft pass directly
from the sea into the port of Blackely,
without the least delay. The hartior of
Blackely, is' spacious, convenient, and
secure, having bold shores on all sides,
and entirely land-locked close in. The
high lands on which the town stands,
shield the shipping entirely from all
easterly and southerly gales, (the only
dangerous winds in Mobile bay.)
The town of Blackely is regularly laid
out, with streets 99 feet wide, running at
right angles, east and west, north and
south. It is situated upon two general
branches of land;—the one in front on
the river (300 feet from the margin) is 25
feet in bight above tide-water; then about
one quarter of a mile back the ground
rises gradually for half a mile, till it gains
an elevation above the level of the sea of
one hundred feet—thence a beautiful
plane for nearly a mile, when the land
rises into a ridge of two hundred and fif
ty feet above high water made.
~No town in the United States is better
■ supplied with fresh ivater, than Blackely.
A great multitude of never-failing copi
*• ■ V ■ - t
oussprings of the purest water issue from
the high table of land within the plat of
the town, as well as from the high rylge ,
in its rear. So that however extensive*
the town may berime in process of time,
all parts may. by means of aqueducts, be
accommodated with a plenty of the best
of water —Such a privilege is rarely to .
be realized in seapoi ts, especially in so
warm a climate as that on the coast of
Florida.
The numerous groves of majestic live
oaks, interspersed over the site of Bla
kely, will, with judicious reservations of
such as fall within the streets, not only
become a grat ornament to the town, but
be a source of much comfort to the inha
bitants during the influence of an almost
vertical sun.
This promising town is rapidly impror
ving—Some of tiie principle merchants
at Mobile, and also several mercantile
gentlemen from New-York, Boston, N.
Orleans, and elsewhere, have recently
purchased lots of the original proprietors,
and are now erecting suitable warehouses,
stores, and dwelling-houses in Blackeley,
preparatory to extensive business there
in the fall.
There is, present, a great competition
between the proprietors of Blackely and
Mobile.
Which town is to take the lead in trade
is at present unknown. It will depend
much upon the force ot ‘capital, and the
description of people, who are not yet
in either town. For the capital
there now is very inconsiderable, and the
population small.
St. Stephens is a flourishing place, and
promises to become a town of considera
bje importance. It is situated on the west
btnk of the river Tombigbee, about one
hundred miles from Mobile by laud, and
much farther by water.
Though this place is marked on many
maps ft the head of tide water, still the
effectiof tne tide is never perceptible, ex
cept yhen the river is at its lowest stage,
duriui dry weather. No river can. how
ever, le better adapted to large Barges
and steam-boat navigation, not only to
St. Stephens, but at least four hundred
ini'es ibove there.
Thii town has at present more trade
than t|ie town of Mobile. A few miles
above St. Stephens there is a shoal across
the beil of the river, when it is very low;
but tlife obstruction is a soft chalky stone,
whichcan, with a small expenee, be shap
ed so is to turn all the water into one
channel, and render it passable at all
seasons with five feet water.
At the falls of the Black warrior, (the
east blanch of Tombigbee,) a very flour
ishingltown, in all probability, will ere
. long be erected. This place being the
natural head of boat navigation on that
river in the heart of a fertile country, ami
dicing a village of some trade, no doubt
can be entertained of its immediate pros-,
perity. The lands, Imwever, are not yet
surveyed, and it is uncertain, therefore,
when they will be in market. It may be
remarked that merchandize destined to
Huntsville in Madison county, (A T.)
passes from this place over land to Ten
i nessce river. I think these fal
miles by water from St. Stephens. On
the main Tombigbee no place is yet loca
ted for a town as 1 recollect.
At fort Claiborne, on the Alabama ri
i ver, 100 miles from Mobile by land, and
i 40 miles east of St. Stephens, a conside
rable village has been made since the
war, where there is a brisk retail tiade
to the settlement in its vicinity. Itjies
on the east side of the river, on very ele
vated ground, called the Alabama heights.
The town of Jackson lies on the east
1 side of Tombigbee, ten miles below St.
1 Stephens, near what is called Bassett’s
Creek. It is regularly laid out and in
corporated; has 8 or 10 stores, and is a
handsome place, and well watered.
: At the falls of Cahaba river, which
• runs into Alabama, nearly 100 miles
■ north of fort Olaiborue from the north
‘ west, and is a fellow to the Blackwarrior,
i a town of some importance will probably
! be established when the lands are sold,
i floats ascend to this place with facility,
> in dry times. Considerable set
: (lenient are making on this river.
‘ I At the mouth of this river, or in its vi
> (unity, an important town will undoubt
l edly, soon be located. The lands are
■ how selling at Milledgeville in Georgia;
' and the* most extensive body of good
i land lies east of Alabama and about this
I place of any part of the Creek cession.
i It has been thought by many that a
■ large town would forthwith spring up at
I Fort Jackson in the fork of Coosa and
, I'allap oosa rivers; but, as the Indian
t boundary is within ten miles of that
I place, in my opinion it will not be the
>' case, till tiie United States acquire the
! lands up those rivers. Fort Jackson is
» 500 miles from Mobile by the meanders
I of the river, and good barge navigation
} extends to that place at all seasons.
It is impossible to foresee where every
flourishing Jnland town is to be perma
-1 nent in a new country; so much depends
on the effect of capital, and leading roads,
1 where head of navigation does not settle
i the question.
i Great speculations are constantly agi
t fating the minds of the adventurers with
1 regard to the location of towns, and eve
s ry discerning prudent man will calculate
f for himself on this subject.
• Huntsville, in Madison county, and
I now in the Alabama Territory, is a very
- prosperous inland town; it lies north of
the Great Bend of Tennessee river, neqr
r the 55th degree of latifute or south line
of the state of Tennessee. -The extensive
- bodies jf land of the first quality, which
- ‘V’.v'' ' fa, '/*' ,vt ' ‘
lurrovmd it, will ensure its permanent
prosperity. Its population was, accord
ing to • census taken last year, 14,260
souls, 10,000 of whom were whites. Ma
dison county is twenty three miles
square, has been settled but ten or twelve
years, and as I have been informed, rais
,ed last year 10,000 bales of cotton.
Huntsville has upwards of 30 stores in
it. The planters in the county have be
come wealthy by their own industry in a
few years, in the worst of times. Though
slavery is tolerated in the Alabama Ter
ritory, there are but few slaves in Madi
son County; their cotton is chiefly rais
ed by the whites, which is a proof that
this valuable staple of our Country can
be raised in abundance without the la
bour of slaves
The purchase from the Chickasawln
dians, last fall, of territory sufficient for
six counties a» large as Madison, each,
which lies on th sides of Tennessee ri
ver. about the Muscle Shoals, opera an
odic great field for enterprising people
oft ad descriptions!
This extensive hotly of land lies with
in the Alabama Territory.
The trade not only of the north part of
our territory w ill pass into the waters of
Mobile, but, East Tennessee Too will find
it, her interest to turn her trade into the
same channel.
The navigation of the Muscle Shoals
is dangerous, and New Orleans too re
mote for reciprocal dealing, to advan
tage. Considerable merchandize lias al
ready passed into Huntsville, byway ol
Mobile, and the fallsof the Blackwarrior,
on much better terras than by the former
routes.
Considering the great extent of the
territory of Alabama—tiie vast bodies of
fertile lands every few months coming
into market, the principal part of which
will be purchased at two dollars per a
cre, in a country too, which is congenial
to the culture of one of the most valua
ble staples the planter can raise—privi
eged with three nobie riveis, of exten
-ive.casy and safe navigation—blessed
also with one of tne most debghtfiil cli
mates in the world—where the delicious
products of the vine and olive are about
to How in abundance within its borders
I say, with all these privileges iftid
iuxunous bounties of nature, which are
not mere creatures of fancy, but sub
stantial realities, who is not ready to ex
claim that the Alabama is an American
Canaan.
v Respectfully, your most obedient,
Samuel Raines.
MEXICO,
New-Ohleans, July 25.
From an intelligent and well informed
gentleman, arrived last night in 24 days
f rom Soto la Marino, we learn the follow
ing particulars:
General Mina has been successful in
his match. From the favorable disposi
tion o the inhabitants towards hinj, his
'o.ce has been recruited to the number
oi three thousand men. The royalist
chiefs dare not approach him for fear of
being abandon- d by their soldiers, who
are badly paid and badly fed Mina
has taken possession of a place near St.
Ander, where there are gold mines, A
Spanish frigate which blockaded Soto la
Marino, took to flight on the approach of
the Mexican Congress independent pri
vates, of 12 long 18 pounders. .
Tiie same gentleman informs us, that
the Governor of Vera Cruz, had made
up the sum of 150,000 dollars to lend to
Mina, but his purpose having been found
out, he was obliged to decamp—no body
knows where,
July 26.
By an arrival from Galveston, we
learn that commodore Aury, with four
armed vessels, has sailed, it is presumed,
for Amelia Island, to co-operate with
general MacGregor.
From the Charleston City Qax. 28 th ult.
CITIZEN GREGOR MACGREGOR,
General of brigade of the armies of New
Grenada and Venezuela, and general
in chief of the armies of the Floridas,
with commission from the governments
ffMe xico and South-America.
Soldiers'
I loose not a moment in expressing
to you the satisfaction and pleasure I
nave derived from y«mr soidier-like con
duct o late, and the progress yon have
made in military discipline and subor
dination. This is the foundation of all
military enterprizes, and renders supe
rior numbers of enemies of no avail in
action. Continue to follow up the ex
emplary line of conduct you have so no
bly begun; it not only inspires yoiir
chief wi th sentiments of the greatest ,con
fidence, but will also fill with terror tire
rank of the slaves of Ferdinand the 7th.
The most active measures have been
taken for the speedy movement of the ar
my, and I trust soon, at the head of
such troops, to plant the green crass of
the Floridas on the proud walls of St.
Augustine.
Royalists heware! —The republican ar
my of the Floridas fight in a just, great
and holy cause, and their motto is victo
ry or death.
GREGOR MACGREGOR.
Joseph Dk Yribarrkn, Secretary.
Head-Quarters, Fernandina , lltA Au
gust, 1817, 7 and 1.
DECffARATIOJv’oF BLOCKADE.
Gregor Macghegor, brigadier-general
of the armies of the united provinces
of New Grenada and Venezuela, and
general in chief of. that destined to e
mandpate tlie provinces of both pi I
das, under the commission of tu B
preme government of.Alexis "'TI
South-America, &c. &c.jkc u
requißite ’ iD
the hostile operations by me bndSß
against the possessions of the kb jl
&pam, in both East ami West-K'
and holding the maritime forces TJB
pen sable for carrying into effect a form!
blockade. Be it known-to all fl
these presents shall come, that fiJ^ 0 "!
after the. fifteenth day of fiM
next ensuing, all ports* rivers, b av9 ft !|
inlets within the coast of bqth Finn,l I
beginning from the south part (1 f
island, to the river Perdido, are t hJ
considered in a state of strict and riJU
rous blockade—Wherefore, 1 do will
notify to aH the neutral nations, a9 31
as the friendly governments of jW I
America, Mexico, and the free P) o ri I
das, that the aforesaid ports will b i
blockaded, agreeably to the usa» es aiu »|
practices of other nations; and that such!
blockade being necessary to the su ccm
of the undertaking entrusted to my C a re
by the above jrav’B
o rnments, for the emancipation of E as tß
and West-Florida,l hope that the trade ®
to the Spanish possessions in the Flori-B
das, will not risktlnpr property by sen-B
ding it to them, as from the fifteenth ofß
September, all vessels bound to .saidßl
blockaded ports shall be warned off: but Hi
incase they should prove refractory,byli
endeavoring to hold a communication I
with tfie enemy, all those found violA- fll
ting the blocka'de the second time, shall I.
be considered and held as good and law. I
ful prizes.
Given at the head-quarters of Fernandi-B
na, (Amelia Island) on the 21st of'Au-B
gust, 1817— 7 & 1. I
/ GREGOR MACGREGOR. I
Joseph De Yribarren, Secretary.
Fernandina—R. Findlay , printer to'the I
government.
MARINE ?EHTENT’. j
“Punish Leviathan the crooked Serpent,
and slay the Dragon that is in the sea.”
Isaiah xxii 1 See also Job xii.
boston, August 21.
A gentleman who has been in Glouces
ter, has given us the following account of
this animal.
It was still seen in the harbor of Glou
cester on Sunday afternoon, and Monday
afternoon. On Tuesday the weather was
rough, and he did not make his appear
ance. From what has been observed of
his habits, it seems that he approaches the
shore , and shews himself above thesur
f ce, when the water is smooth and the
weather warm.
On Sunday and Monday very distinct
views were had of him by various persons.
Gentlemen who have been at Gloucester,
and attended to the accounts of those
who have seen him at different times, and
in different situations, think there can be
no doubt that the animal is a serpent, on
kind; that he is at least eighty, and mote
probably an hundred feet long, and near
ly of the size of a Hour barrel, at the larg
est place. As to the bunches, or protu
berances, which have been mentioned,
’hey arc thought to be nothing more than
the appearances occasioned by his man
ner of motion. He does not wind later
ally along, as seipents commonly do,,
but his motion is undulatory, or consist
ing in alternate rising and depression,
somewhat like the motion of a caterpillar.
Mr. Johnson, a young man, who wentin
a boat to visit a vessel in the harbor, on
Sunday, in the dusk of the evening, came
very near to him, before he discovered
him, so that he might have reached him
with his oar. He was quite still, and
appeared to be reposing. He was round
and smooth, and had nothing like bunch'
es. His head, though in its front it is
circular, is not flat, like a common ser
pent’s but the top is elevated, prominent
and round; and owing to this latter cu>
cumstance a side view of his head a little
resembles that of ado’s. Captain Beach,
who appears to have examined him very
often, and sometimes in favourable situa
tions, says his head is the size of a com
mon bucket. He has seen him with hi*
mouth open, his under jaw and teeth like
a shark’s, his head round, with appar
ently very thick scales, and its whole ap
pearance very terrific. Credible persons
aver, that they have seen him swimming
into the harbour with great speed, hol
ding his head 8 feet above the water.—-
M_pre often he moves along, with his hea4
under water, showing the line of his back
or with Ins head immediately above the
surface. He appears to be rouud with
scales, which, when he contracts his
folds, gives a rigid appearance to hisback,
• but when he extends himself toe scales,
inclose and do not prevent his appearing
i smooth. His general color is dark brow n;
his head dark brown, intermixed with
i white. He often turns very quick, bring -
ing his head near his tail, and putting
himself into the form of a staple. Capt
r John Beach, jr. has completed a drawing
, of him, which is to be engraved. As he
has seen him several times, it is probable
■ his likeness will be tolerab'y just. The
; people of Gloucester however intend _to
■ be able to give a better account of him,
if he should stay longer in their harbour,
Seark hooks, variously baited and at
tached to buoys, have beah set afloat in
- the harbor, and several boats, well man
ed and armed, were destined to attack
him yesterday, if he showed himself.
I THE SEA-SERPENT.
» Captain Doyle, who arrived this mor
-1 ning in 3 days from Cape Ann, informs
• us, that a day or two before he sailed, t»