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f / ryr y place. The gun, oitqarged, U Y from ho .)odv. Other corojcrarv g , f Tilloc«s , appeared in the teftimom . V /iot of the Inqiel, ** Wilful murder, u./-k father, J lTc Wood, aoetted by his /n H zrkiah." ■ ' "’he deceaf d, we are informed, wasabuut . eirs of age, and had recently been mar r... rhe father upwards of 50, and Ton H itkiah, about 22. The gun was loaded with a heavy clvarge »f flag {hot, the whole of which appeared to have entered his right breift, and to have put an immediate period to his exigence. NATCHEZ, July i. The following very extraordinary cir cumstance occurred a few days fmcc. At about two o'clock, p. m. an Indian vm difeovered by the family entering »he foath end of colonel Gi rank's lane. He drew their attention, being painted in ah yrKomr.on manner, his whole body appeared red, he held in his right hand a gun, which h: hrandifhed with many gesticulations, in Jus left a bottle ; he was attended by two <vhcr Indians in rather a sober pace. At the oppefue end of the lane some more Indi ans were difeovered, among whom was a man pointed in like manner, but unarmed ; Jr h'/T? field and detained by a woman, but wh n the one brandishing his gun came with in "wenty (lep>B of him, he hurft fr.m the embrace of his wife and rallied towards his sntaiwniu— at about four yards distance they bmh halted, when the unarmed one present ed his naked bread to the other, who took deliberate aim, but appeared to recollert him fclf, he dropt Ins gun, took a drink from the bottle which was tied to his wrist—the other patiently and resolutely holding his bread open and presented ; 11 this time—hav ing finilbed his drink and given a whoop, he took fref.t aim, and in an instant the other dropt aimoft at his feet j this done, hi loaded his gun with all potTshle speed, gave it to a by dander (son to the deceased) lie then in turn bared and presented his bread, and was inftantancoully sent ir.to eternity. The dead bodies were carried each the way thev had come, and by their refpe&ive ftiends interred one at each end of the lane. The wife and relatives of the unarmed ore, who was firft killed, howled over his remains three days and nights. They then disap peared. On Friday lalt they returned again, jired fcveral guns on approaching the grave, gave a general howl about a quartsr of an hour, and retired. We learned frem one among them, who speaks broken Englifti, that they had quar reled over a bottle some considerable. time aCro, when the Indian who was firft killed hi had his finger bit by the other in such a manner, that his arm inflamed ; he decla r'd h<* was “ /polled and that they must b -. li die, they agreed and formed the ar rangement as related, CHARLESTON, Aueusrn. Captain Chester, of the schooner Renartl, arrived at New. York, informs, that on Friday, the 2j h. ait. in hit 52. 50. lung. 72, he fell in with Jerome Bonaparte* squad ron, fleering w. n. w. The fleet was then about ten degrees to the caftwatd of this place. *■ Captain Kanifan informs, that the French fleet, when he patted from them, were ly ing to the southward of Charleston, and used to form aline every night, waiting for the homeward bound Weft-India fleet 406 fail. Ccptain H. likewise informs, that he saw a Spanifli gentleman at Curracoa, who infer, intd him that he had the examination of the prisoners taken in the schooners beloning to Miranda's squadron. Eight of these unfor tnnatas had died in prism, and fifteen were condemned to he hanged, among whom was a captaip Gardner. Alt the ports on the Maine were opened on the Bth July, to neu* tral reflVls, The privateer schooner Pengu in, bound from Curracoa for Purto-Calvo, had been taken by the boats of a Britilh fri . ga:c, At Adams (M (T.) on the i8 s h ultimo, Miss Esther Allen, of that place, hung herfelf by a Ikcin of yarn, No cause for this aci isaffigned, nnlefs it may be attributed to» gloom fixed upon her mind form ohfer ving>hc eciipfe of the fun on the 16th. ZENO ON LOVE. Zeno being told that love was unbeesm a philtdopher; If this wete true, replied Zeno, the fate of the fair ftx would be la mentable ; not to be Icved but by fools. Died, yefterdav morning, after 2 :ew flours illness, Mr. Jones, late of the Charleston Theatre. From the Richmond Enouirer* . When our lalt winter appeared, it was mild aimoft beyond- the memory cf man. This fine weather was succeeded in Marcu l>y a few days of equally intenfecold. The farmers were much alarmed about ticir crop® cf wheat } but their fears proved to be ex aggerated. Then fucceedi d the boft of caterpillars, of infects of evety kind, aod among the rest, the poor Lombardy poplar worm; innumcrabe eggs of these animals having been no doubt preserved by the mild uefs of the preceding winter. Meanwhile the harvests proved aftonifliingly fi ie ; the heads of wheat not uncommonly numerous, but uncommonly full. At lengthy a D cugnt has facaceded, not less rcmaikablc and much more alarming than the plioeacmcna which h.;d preceded if. It has now extended to every part of Virginia from which »c have had any accounts. There has been no rain in this city for many days; the Ihowers which we have enjoyed, have been rare and penurious. But let the dtgrec of the drought be told by its effects j 1 Many of the fpnngs and wells of water have been dried op : Several who have de pended upon their own springs for a supply, have been compelled to resort to o her fticamr, and Come who possess wells, that have never failed, before, are now obliged to fink them federal inches or feet lower, in search of a more abundant vein of water. Most of the running streams of water, which supply our Corn-Mills, have ex patented the fame drought, and the farmers have either resorted to the Hand-Mill, or lent their corn to distant mills, situated cn the rivers, or on mora abundant streams. It is a fnft that corn has been sent more than sixty miles to the mills in Richmond and its vicinity. The James River is proVably lower than ever it has been within the memory of man, A great part of itsfhore is laid dry, and so (hallow at err time was the canal, (that g:eat artery of our city) that boats could scarcely defeend it. To remedy this incon i veniencc, the dirc&nrs of the Jerries River Company, have formed a dam, extending nearly half over the river, to force into the canal a larger volume of water. But our crops of Indian corn are likely to fuffer mod by the drought. It is now in that state, whan it mod particularly req tires light and frequent (bowers. The tassel be comes parched and withered up; and the farina is confcqucnti; impeded in its growth. Should the rain b 6 suspended for several days longer, it is impoffiSle to estimate the dc ftruCtion which will fail upon our crops. Some ha ve calculated the loss at a fi f fh ; a fourth j and forac even at one half; but these calculations arc moil probably ex aggerated. > Snssxxvi. 1 ■■ol Governor M*Kean*s NEhorisM, probr.bh, in imitation of the popes es Rome, Governor M*Kean, in his distribution of the “ loaves and fithes," seems, to be mindful that “ charity be, ins at home," and to remember eh? example of the provident (leward in the XVI chapter nf Luke. A mong his appointments to (fire, arc the following: Joseph B. VLKean, (his son) attorney. general of the commonwealth. Thomas M‘Kean 1 hompson ( hisnephew) fecreta.y of the cwm a veal Thomas M'Keaif, (mother Jon) private (■-Cretan". Andrew Pettit (bis fen i» law) auc u neer, and mlpedor of Sower for the citv of Pbdade phia. George Buchanan (anoth <r son in taw) phvlician to the 1 ■zaretto e.liablifh er . How many, or whether any, nv re [then are a few more /] of his near relations have been provided for by lim, we know not. Os these, several of the appointments took place under very unfa vou-able circumdanccs. From the Aurora. To THOMAS M’KEAN. The constitution of Pennsylvania, art. 8 fays t —‘ Tnc governor (hall appoint all ‘ offi eis, vvhofe offices are eftahliflied by (his * Ci.n(litution, or (hill be cifabliihed by law, * and whofu appointments are not herein o. ‘ therwife provided for ; but no p erf on shall * be appointed to an office 'within any county , * avho Jhoirnot have been a citizen and tit. * habitant therein one year next ' before his * appointment feV &c. Was ytrur (on in-law, Dr. Buchanan, of Baltimore, a citizen and inhabitant of par county, or of D laware, * one yeat* previ. ous to his appointment as Lazaretto physi cian ?—•lf he wa* nit, is his appointment constitutional ? As a citizen (who fought for the liberty of my country.) 1 conceive I havea right to fati f ft try anfwerson these queitions. Should you fail to make ihc ap pointraent appear to be conftitotional, I hope the next Jegillautre will nets, c that &nttme. rous other acts ofan arbi rary nature of your doings, & convince you, that v • u (hall not sport and titfl with :he conlfitution 6c a»s, or with the rights md reput ifton tfns (late as you pleafc, to enrich your own family. A MAN Oh * 7 S. r - n~|~ ■ - We cannot help expie(fiog our fatisfadicn (fays, Beil's Mefllngtr ot the tBih May,) at seme intelhg nee which !ia'> now reached us, that every thing is t«kb g a pacific turn, and that, under the mediation ot Prussia, the continental powers are on the eve of peace. It is reported with eq tal confidence, that the BritiOy Mmifters have not lent a deaf ear to these overtures, but that, yielding to circumdances which they could not controul, or alter, they rue rather employing their ef forts in procuring a due weight for England in the pending negotiations, than in endea voring to renoer these negotiations Iruitlefs. Such is the general report both in the cry and at the court end oi the town, and for cur own parts we have no hesitation to lay, that we so far give it credit ihat we aoft af furediv expect ycacs before the conclusion of the | re sent year. Wc do not think i' juftifiablc to fay more upon this fubjetl; but of this mu.ii our readers may rett alTitcd that a conftdnt co.- refpondenne, part. fficial and partly private, exiftt, his exiUtil, for a long time be tween the two cabinets of France and Eng. land ; and that this matter has proceeded so far, that the question of war is lupportcd by a very small majority of his tnajeify's mini sters. We have therefore to repeat, that ’ we shall not fee Michaelmas next, without a treaty. Perhaps the tardy—we had almost said the nugatory pregrefs ot Mr. Windham's mili tary fyflem may be imputed to his confidence of approaching peace. Every thing is at prefrnt evidently relaxed from that ardour and prepartion which we saw ferae tnomjbs past. If this be not a proof, it i»«t least an argument on our fide. We think that the present Mintfters arc the very lait men who would be thus negligent upon the eve ot a new campaign and a new coalition. There is nothing of very primary import ance in the intelligence of the week. An Extraordinary Gazette was pnblithed on Friday, announcing w hat is called a peace in India. This is the third time* peace has been announced within these two years. Inttrsji'itg (ind important experiment in the culture of Wheat, On the Bth of Acgufl, 1804, a g€ntk men took a plant of wheat which had been sown in the beginning of June, and divided it into eighteen parts, and putting them into the ground, let them remain till the latter end of September, when he again took them up, and fubdividiog them into 6~] parts «f roots, replanted them ; they re roained in this Kate till the end of March, and the beginning of April, when the plants were a third time taken up* fepanted into 500 roots, and again replaced in the garden. Earley in the season he reaped his Ijltle har vest, and found that, by this prccefs, a Jingle grave had been made to produce twen ty, one tholifmcl one hundred and nine tars, hundred and/eventj thousand grains, meafuting three pecks and three quarters, and weighing 67!!;?. Lon. paper, r-rr \un li*** - r 1 ' j~ ‘ r AUGUSTA, Augujl 23. AS yet the accounts Irons all the Sea.port towns are flattering—no instances of the Yellow fever. The Mayor of Charleftoo m..kes a mod pleafmg report of that city, as to health. Parr, Ca'Hy and Monroe, who were lately removed from Richmond Jail to Baldwin, have had their trials latt week, and were convitfcdof the murder of a Mr. Rogers, many months back, at a filhtrap, ic r Fort-VV likinfon—they arc to die cn Tu<‘fday nex r , w« undeilland. J..a!t Monday, Fait, who made his es cape from Sparta Jail, and being re-taken, was confined so lo ng in this City, was re moved to the former place—at the time of his cfcapc, he was under fetuencc of death. Vaj:s in the Nation, who had Ihot a man tome time ago, has been (hot dead on his turn. The Savannah papers (late that the cater pillar has made its appearance on the Sea. coast, but we do not learn as yet, that the j cotton has fufjered materially in ccofcquence. Cotton this week fold from jS to tg cent*. ‘ COivIiViUNICA 1 lON: • With tnat fmcere regret, which the me lancholy occalioti is calculated to ex ire, we announce the death of Mr. Joseph G, Cor mick, merch mt ot this place. Mr. Cormick was a native of Ireland, and in the 26th year of hia age. The qualities of this young man's quid, were ui no com. mon older, pofl'efled ot an understanding na turally vigorous and comprehensive, he had improved it by the edmmon opportunities of education, and by such reading, asabccorn ing thirlt tor knowledge recommends. From the society of some of the molt tplendid men of the age—of men who have enlarged the dominions ot knowledge, who have deligh ted by their eloquence, and enraptured by their wi>, he emigrated to this country about four y eats ago, and those who were favour ed with his intimacy, were convinced that he had not enjoy ed fdch society in vain. He was informed in the ufeful, and in tome of the ahftrufc branches of the mathematics; he was conversant with the mod important aeras of ancient and modern history—his mind had taken a wide range in the regions of polite literature ; and some of the fine ar;s, he polleHed a tatteexquifuely polilhed, and elegant. His virtues partook of the chara&er of hii- undrrftanding—he was benevolent and brave, ftcruly upright and feelingly humane. --Nor were bin manners less estimable than Inis other qualities. They were the result of a happy combination of native mndefty and a knowledge of the world—‘•exhibiting, as occasion required, whatever was dignified in reserve, ot pleasing in familiarity. Go ! lamented youth ! Peace rothy manes! Thy merit is embalmed in the hearts of thy friends, and thy memory foall be cherished wiih fond recolleftion. The presents made to his Majclty the Em peror of the French, by the Ambassador from the Ottoman Porte, are of uncommon beauty. One of the diamonds is estimated at do.ooo dollars. The box prefen:cd to the Emperor is of a curious nature. The necklace prefemed to the Empress, is valued at 15,000 dollars. It is remarkable that ic is the firft time the Porte cyer made such val uable presents, Paris paper. The It. States not fear the arf-iffifaf upon this fuhjcft, but famcthing wil g.-v -ern which is beyond argument. Ntclfiry will govern in all. America caumt do her ufuai budnefft with G. Britain, it that coun try docs net abandon its /honefull AJmi. rmltj its impreflmems, its p-.c -tended blockade, and other irregularities- We must fatk remedy by ending a number of her onjtu laws, mutatis mutindiu * • , hut, luieiiigcncfri It appear! from the report of the Rafcn Von Ko.acbne, in his recent travels thro' Italy, thitr the boflnefs of unrilling ih« Herculancan MSSi proceeds at Poriici va der the direfllonof Mr. Hayrcr w iih faetifs and rapidity.—One hundred and ihiny manuferipts have already keen unrolled or are enrolling, and Mr. Hay ter does rot dcfp.iir of being able to decypher the 600 extant. Eleven ynnrg perfoqs a e coi fia* t« Iy ctnplojed in or.fold 11 g the MS. and two others in cop ing them, all nndcnhc direc tion of Mr. Ha) ter, and at the txpencc cf his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Another wotk has been d.fcovereel rs Phi-, lodemus, treating of vices, which bolder on virtues; bdides a work ol Epicurus, o( Plse drus, Demetrius Phalerus, Sc Colotus, the Jaft in reply to Plato on FriemKhip. Among f, - ven Latin MSS. M. Hay ter, has found an hiftortcal work writtrh in the ft) le and man* ner of Li«y ; and> amor g theGrcnk ones, the entire works ot Epitutus in the bell ft;.te of preservation. For Sale, On very low Terms, 6 Hhd* bed green c ffVe, 75 Pa-reli Mufcava-o Sugar, t Hhds. do. do, $ Chert’ 'refb Hyfon Tea, a B xe» No. 8 Colton Card*, 1 do. No. 10 do. do. 2 Bagg» Pepper, <, aooo Wt. green Coprafs, 10 Barrel* N rthward Rum, 2 Hhds. do. do. 2 Hhda. Jamaica do, 2 do. W. I. do. 2 Hhd*. Mrlaffcf, 1 Ton B, Steel* | do. Get man do. 20 pi c«a Cotton Bagging* 1 Crate* Crockery Ware, 36 piece* Lw. price brown Holland*, 1 Case fov? pri r knap*d Hat*, 22 piece* long La'*i s, 1 Trunk low price Callicc rs, jo dr. Cotton Stripe*. All of wH< h wM be foid at whofafale 0* retail for'Cafli m Produce, by haurtson & Hamilton. Oa Cc.mnr.ffi n, 1500 tn(h:.» ground Sat. Augusta, Anfenft 15, (t r ) Thirty dollars Reward, 0 AMAW,.V lr m ihe XV ShVTcribrr, living ?n Bt jSSmr' Hancock co- nly, on Shv>ul« deib.;nr, lire miiea iron* mtipSyllllllß Spafta, and one mile from gWMyf* A JOfP Major Andrew Eax'cr'* Mill*, .n the tft of 'hi* mm:h, two Nr. groei; me fellow b*; the name of JAIV ES, about 28 year* old, o ; a joliw coa.jrlcx' ion, about 5 feet 4 inches high, well trade,* f a pleasant countenance, fj taki plain Sc live ly— the other a woman, low ano well made, black compltflcd, by the rameofMAF Yj when clofcly viewed, the mark of the po‘ k may be difeovered, m t much 'inclined to facak when fpokm to ; of a fallen di/j t fi tion, fpeaki broad and breker- he above reward will be paid to any perfnn that will fecurc them in any ja I in the Pair, so *bn I get them ; or 15 doj.ar* far either; and if brought, all cx t cnce* paid. SAMUEL DENT. *3* [ 3 Ten Dollars Reward . tji AN-,AWAY.um the Su l fcriber, on /lie wKvJijd of last moiit 1 , an /f- V&sila FFk ~san Negro Maabout 1 g or 20 year* of age, 5 fact 4 or 5 itches high, ha* rc»ark-b> fmallfeet and band*, hit coun try mark* »reou * ach fide of hi* bread ; had on at the time he WCf, t ft a hort l fpu» fh*t and pantaloon*. a r ‘d * fawll h;ark 3 *_ * fnrehafed thf rrgro lift Mawh o* Mr* William Wilbourn, who live* in Franklin cconty en Tugalew river, and 1 have every rrafon to believe that he ii g re far th»t place ; he is *n attfal fabow, aid 1 txp'fi will dtnv hit tigff Riffle*'* name Any perf n tlat will apprehend the fa id fellow and bring him to me, in Lincoln county near Ray* Million Little River, wrconfi.-.o him in fame Jail, fa that I get him, (hall re ceive the above reward fa'm me. WILLI \M EVANS. Jluyvft 73. * (3 ) Now in Scnven Jail . BROUGHT to Jail on the <> b inftantw N'*g7o Woman rn«ed MARY and fay* far hefang* t« Mr. B ux a F in AaC;C^ a 3 ~r,e W rc't fatched fett* wif|| her, no clo?'h't kot »h«t (he had ou, which i* a brown Cloth Ccat with ■ body of the fame. The owner i» hereby desired t« ome forward, prove hi* pr operty, pay cxpenca and take her away. Wk. SMITH, J. *. c. Augujl 23, l*-*>