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AUGUSTA, April 11. j
Wcundefdand that a Pod-Officchas been
lately established at Spun® Hill, on the
ro«d leading from Wayenfboro so Louifvillc,
Mr. John Welch is the Pud- Mailer.
Lift Thorfday week, a fire broke out,
what means have not ifarned, in a
fjdder house in Sparta, which reduced Mr.
Roundtrees house and dons to ashes • < well )
as that of Mr. Sandford, and the Court
house.
At the rate we now buy frefh beef in the
Market ot Augusta (seven pence per pound,)
we arc led to believe that the farmers of
Georgia would find it more their intered
to rear and fend fat cattle to market, than ,
cotton, at the present prices. 4 <
At the iaft Sheriff’s Sale in this place,
One hundred acres of pine land (well im
proved) were bid off, at 1510 dollars—
this teds well for Georgia.
Flattering froffeßs for Fnglijhmen, on the
authority of the Bripjh Minijter.
c< In looking forward to the luture prof
pcfti of this country, there was no rational
pan who could calculate upon the return of
peace ; at all etents, it would be r.eccffary
tollook to the possibility of a long protrac.
ted waf,**
« The total amount of the funded debt at
nrefent was 530,35’ 1,689!. now linre( k cm *
“*•" __
s, Statement of the Public Debt if the Urn.
ted States ,
Dolls. Cts.
Os the firft Jan. 1801 81^996,26849
do 1802 78,750,669 83
do 1803 74,728,023 98
do 1804 85,349,744 35
do 1805 80,530,159 78
do 1806 74,5^39,05 8 75
do 1807 67.727,756 76
The debt has during thofc fix years, and
notwithstanding the addition made by the
porchafe of Loaifiana, been diminifned more
than 14,260,000 dollars.
Arrived at Newburyport, Maffachufetti,
capt. Adams, 170 day* from Calcutta,
piece goods, fqgar, Sec. valued at 250,000
dollars, the richest ship that ever came over
our bar. January 29, was overhauled by
the Britilh fl»ap of war Bermuda, had the
letters opened, and John Driver, Wm, Hall
and Thoma* Stephen*, with American pro
toftions, were pressed. Raleigh RegiJler.
The cjfefis of French Artillery at the Bat
tie of 'Jena.
What, however, mod furprifod these Of
ficers, (Prussians) was the French artillery.
The mod courageous soldiers coujd not ap
proach the Ihowers of balls wh.ch preceded
41)6 match of the columns, without trem-
Wing. The regiment ofLarilh, for exam
ple, °was 2000 men strong, and in a few
minutes only 150 man were left danding,
having been dationed opposite to a battery
of eight field-pieces,
During the retreat of the Britilh troops
in Holland, while they were floundering
through the mud in apart of the road uncom
monly bad, a corps of the guards were much
scattered, when the commanding officer
called out-to the men to form two d*ep.
« Damn me !” (boats a granadxcr from be
tween two mountains of mud, (t I arn too
deep already ; lam up to the neck.”
A countryman being on the London road,
but not knowing it, chanced to meet a
Quaker, whom he accosted as follows : "
This is not the road to London, is it ?” “
Pray what is thy meaning ?” said tbs
' Seer—“ Thou fird telled me a lie, and then
afketb me a queflion.”
DIED, in Columbia county, on the 4th
ind * Mr. David Walker, long, a re-
and ufcful citizen of Georgia.
‘ , ou the day following, Mr.
Walker, his brother,
on the fifth, in the fame county,
Mr. John Crawford.
U, on the aoth ult. in Wilkes county,
Mrs. Anna Talbott, the amiable con.
fort of Capt. Mathfcv Talbott.
To the Sheriff of jeffr/on County, Georgia.
Sir,
IT has been mentioned to me that you
have levied an execution on the lands
lying below Louisville, known at Gol.
phin Old Town, and have advertised it for
file. You will take notice that I have a
property in the lands afotefaid, & do here
by forbid you and. all othcra from felling,
and forwata all perfon* from purchasing
laid property.
F T. GOLPHIN.
Steel-Cretk, April n. [3O
< FOR SALE ,
A Negro Man,
BY the name of. Davey, formerly be
longing to Major John Browa decea
sed. The said negro is well qualified for
attending horfei, and house bufmefs. Any
person withing to porchafe, may know the
term* by applying to capt. Samuel M.
Smyth, of Augusta, who has the negro in
pificffion. . ESMOND BROWN*
April 11. [**3
To Architects, I
'"["'HE fabfcribcr being appointed to ob-
Jl taio plans and cftimatct, for a plain
substantial and commodious Brick Church,
* with ftecple and Clock, to be erefled in
thu city. He hereby offers a premium of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, to any
person who may furnifli to him on or before
the firft day of August next, the plan and
cftimatc of said building which may b< ap
proved of and finally auopted.
It is requcftcd that in such plans as may
be offered, special regard be had for ob
taining a copious admiffiion and fafe circu
lation of frefh air—Also that the pews be
lingle, and in number at lexft One hundred j
each fufficicntly large for the accommoda
tion of fix or eight pcifons.
Such plans and estimates as may not be
i approved of, will be returned (if dcfired)
in conformity to any infiruftions which
may accompany them.
JOHN MURRAY.
({3- Thofc Printers in Savannah, Charles
ton, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia,
New York and Bafton, arc tequefted to
insert this advertisement, and to forward
their bills to the Printers hereof.
Augusta, (Geo. l April 11. [3t]
Black-Smith's Bujinefs.
Dill & Metzger,
BEG leave to inform their friends and the
public in general, that they carry on
buGnefs in Augusta, on the lot where Mr.
Dixon formerly lived, in Washington street.
Thofc *'ho are plcafed to favor them with
their cuftoro, will find thfcir work executed
with ability, punctuality and dispatch,
N. B. Two apprentices wanted, about
1 6 or 17 years of age 5 boys of colour would
be preferred.
April i,i. ( ; f)
Patent New London Bilious Pills •
A Fresh Supply,
Just received from the Patentee ,
AND FOR SALE by the
Gross, Dozen or Retail, by the fabfcribcr,
ISAAC HERBERT.
November 29. (ts)
COMMUNICATION.
Messrs. Printers,
THE inclofcd is a copy of a letter that
came to me by mail, unfolicitcd : I con
ccivc it a duty I owe to the public at well
as myfelf, to give it publicity, through
the medium of your paper. The writer it
a native of Conucfticut, was lately profef
for of natural Pnilofophy at Yale College,
it now President of the University of Geor
gia, and is well known for his universal
faience.
S. H. P. LEE.
New-London, March ift. 1807.
Athens, (Geo.) January 24th 1807.
Doctor Samuel H. F. Lee.
Sir,
I have for a confidcrable time neglefted
the performance of a duty which 1 owe to
humanity ; the declaring to you my appro
bation ot the pills which sre fold here,
under your agent, Mr. Herbert of Augitf
ta. I had been convinced of their virtues
before I left Connecticut j and I have
found in this country, their great utility,
by a conftderable experience, both in my
own family, and among the Undents of the
University, I have no hesitation of decla
ring, that I believe Lee’s (New London)
pills to be one of the most ulefol medicinal
preparations the world has yet fecn ; and
that they a|e peculiarly uf;ful and beneficial
in southern and Bilious climates.
I am refpeftfuliy yours,
J. MEIGS.
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Ten Dollars Reward .
H RAN AWAY from the sub-
JL ufsP feriber about the 27th of
March last a negro Wench
BELLA, bad a vs
riety of clothes— flit is
well known in Augusta,
and its vicinity—lived formerly with capt.
Archibald Hatcher. 1
Whoever deliver* the said wench to the
fubferiber in Columbia county or lodges
her, in any Jail in this State, so that he
may get her, (hall receive the above reward.
G. G. TANKERSLEY.
April 11. [*n
| Ten Dollars Reward.
ABSENTED hcrfelf on
SF , Thursday morning last, a
mt negro wench of the name
.WsSSTM °* ROSIS* about 40 years
LJUL of age-—she is a short thick
wench; had* on when (lie
wentoff. homefp ja clothes, and a b’ue cot
ton handkerchief tied round her head.
Any person delivering the said wench to
the fubferiber (hall receive the above re- ,
ward, and any person harbouring her* will
be profecutcd to the utmost ligor of the
law-—lt is fappofed that she is harboured
iaorue.rA.pSa, ]SAAC HERBERT .
April 11 >*
!j • -J
Prospectus.
OF LEWIS & CLARK'S
Tour lb the Pacific Ocean, through thft
Interior of the Continent of North Ame
rica, performed by order of the Govern
ment of the United Stare*, during the
years 1804, *BO5, and 1806.
This work will be prepared by captain
Metiwcther Lewis, and will be divided
into two parts, the whole comprised in
Three Volumes, odtavo, containing from
four to five hundred pages, each ; printed
on good paper, and a fair Pica Type.
The several volume* in fuccefllon will be
put to press at as early periods as the avo
cations of the author will permit hiifi to
prepare them for publication,
Fart the fir ft— In Two Volumes.
Volume, first Will contain a
narrative of the voyage, with a defeription
of some of the most remarkable places in
those hitherto unknown wilds of America,
accompanied by a Map of good fizc, and
embellilhcd with a view of tiie great Catar
act of the Miflburi, the pfcn, on a large
scale, of the connected fills of that river,
as also of those of the falls, narrows, and
great rapids of the Columbia, with their
several portages, For the information of
future voyages there will he added in the
ft quel of this volume, some observations
and remarks on the navigatipn of the Mis
souri and Columbia rivers, pointing out
the precautions which mull necessarily be
taken, in order to insure fcccefs, together
with an itinerary of the moll diredl and
practicable route across the continent of
North America, from the confluence of the
Miflburi and Mifliflippi rivers to the dis.
charge of the Colombia into the Pacific
Ocean.
Volume Second— Whatever} properly
appertains to geography, embracing a
defeription of the rivers, mountains, cli
mate, foil, and face of the country ; a view
of the Indian nations distributed over that
vast region, shewing their traditions, hab
its, manners, customs, national characters,
fiature, complexions, drels, dwellings, arms
and domestic utensils, with many ether in
rereftiog particula/s in relation to them :
Also observations and reflections on the fub
jcCts of civilizing, governing, and main,
raining a friendly intercourse with those
riations. A view of the fur trade of North
America, setting forth a plan for it* exten
tion, and (hewing the immense advantages
which would accrue to the mercantile in
terfile. of shd United States, by combining
the fume with a direCt trade to the East In.
dies through the continent of North Ameri
ca. Ibis volume will he embclUlhcd with
a number of plates illustrative of the dress
and general appearance of fiich Indian na
tions as differ materially from each other j
of their habitations 3 their weapons and ha
biliments used in war; their hunting and
filhing apparatus 3 domestic utensils, Ac.
In an appendix there will also lie given a
diary of the weather, kept with great at
tention throughout the whole of the voyage,
flicwing also the daily rife and fall of the
principal water.courfes which were naviga
ted in the courfc of the fame.
Part thefieemd —In one Vo In me.
This part ot the work will be confined
exclusively to fcientific research, and prin
cipally to the natural hiftory of those hither
to unknown regions. It, will contain a
full diflertation on such fubjeCls as have
1 fallen within the notice c.' the. author, and
which may properly be distributed under
the heads of botany, mineralogy, and
zoology, together with some ftriCtures on
the origin of Prairies, the canfe of the
muddiness of the Miflburi, of volcanic ap
pearances, and other natural phenomena
which were met with in the courfc of this
intcrefting tour. This volume will also
contain a comparative view of twenty-three
vocbularies of diftinft Indian languages,
procured by captains Lewis and Clark on
the voyage, and will be ornamented and
cmbellifhed with a much greater number of
plates than will be bellowed on the fitft part
of the work, as it is intended that every
fubjeft of natural hiftory which is entirely
new, and of which there are a considerable
number, shall be accompanied by an appro
priate engraving illustrative of it.
This distribution of the work has been
made with a vkw to the accommodation
of every difctiplion of readers, %nd is here
offered to the patronage of the public in
such (bane, that all peefons widling to be
come fubferibers, may accommodate them
selves with either of the parts, or the entire
work, as it (hall he most convenient to them
fulves.
Detached from this work, there will be
publilhed on a large scale, as toon as a luffi.
cient number of fubferibers be obtained to
defray the cxpencc.
LEWIS 6t CLARK’S
MAP OF NORTH AMERICA , |
From longitude 9 deg, •weft, to the Pacific
Ocean , and between deg. atfd 5*
north latitude.
Embracing all their late difaoverte*, and
that part of the continent heretofore the
lead known. • This map will be compiled
from the heft maps now extant, as well
publilhed as in manufciipt, from the col
lective information of the heft informed
' travellers through the various portions cf
that region, and corrected by a leries cf
• several hundred celestial observations, made
by captain Lewis duriwg hi# late tout,
j For the convenience of fubferibers, these
\ several works will )»c delivered at the most
I
rcfpcAiblc ccmiuftrcial towns, and at the
feats of government pf the refpedlive Rates
and territories within the union t No ad
vance is required, nor will payment be de
manded until such delivery is made.
knowing that a very confidence pro.
portion of the cxper.ce of such publications
depends on the engravings which embdlifh
or form them, and that the precise number
of such engravings, particularly as it re
gards the second part of the work, have
not yet been fettled, it is difficult for the
author at this moment to fix a price on
them; he therefore declares to the public,
that his late voyage was not undertaken
with a view to pecuniary advantages, at d
pledges himfclf that the cftinaarc which he
will in this infiance set on bis literary la.
bors (hall be of the most moderate deferip,
tion ; his principal reason indeed for pro
pofiog a fubferiptton at all, is that he may
be enabled to form some estimate of the num
ber of copies to be struck off.
N. B. The map will most probably be
published by the latter end of October next*
and the firft volume of the work about the
ift of January 1808; the two remaining
volumes will follow in succession as early
as they can polfibly be prepared for publica
tion.
As eafly as a just estimate of the price of
the several parts of this work can be formed*
public notice will be given of the fame
through ihc medium of the Prcfs.
[ Suhfcrit turns taken at this Office,
THE LIFE OF
SOCRATES.
This day is pubiflied at this Officci
Price Eighteen and three quarter cents,
THE life of Socrates, by Plato, Xeno
phon, Sec, hitdifciplas; together with
many curious and inttrefting Anecdotes of
several Greek fhtcfmcn and Fhilofophen.
We are pretty certain that this little
treaiife wants only to be read, to be admi
red. We wetild recommend to cuf repub
lican Teachers to pot it into the hands of
their pupils.
April 4.
SHERIFFS SALE"
On the Jirji Tuejiay in May next, at*
Franklin Court-Houfa between the houri
of 10 and 3 o'clock,
Will Be Sold, -
4650 Acres of land in Franks
lb county, lying on the waters of the north
fork of Brofd river and Toegaloe* granted
to Anthony Verdell, adjoining Wm. Dunn
and others, taken as the property of laid
Verdell, to fatisfy Blaus and Biikefdalc.
ALSO, 200 aCres of land, more
or left, in laid county, on Broad river,
granted to - ■ Hinfon, adjoining Samuel,
Sewell and John Silman, taken at the pro- »
perry of Wm. Sewell, to fatisfy Shadrach
Deafy.
ALSO, 190 acres, «f land in
said connty, gtanled to John Blackwell,
bounded by vacant land, and taken as the
property of Edward Fowler, to fatisfy
Frederick Beall and Jelfe Blackwell, tbd
two last traAs levied on and returned by a
confiablr.
Conditions—Ca(h.
ft, TYRRELL, Sh'iF.
April iff. _ [jt]
GEORGIA, Richmond County,
WHEREAS Polly Jones hath apt
plied to me for letters of Adminiftta
tion on the ejlate and effießs oj Janes Jones
deceafei.
THESE are therefore to cite and admonijh
all and fmgular the kindred and creditors of
said deceased, to be and appear at a Court of
Ordinary to be held in and for the county a~
forejaid, on the fir ft Monday in May next, 1
tojhew cause {if any they have) why said let
tersffieuld not be granted .
GIFEN under my hand at office, this
qlh dey of April, 1807.
* ISAAC HERBERT, Clerk.
GEORGIA, Scriven county.
WHEREAS John M*Gotoen hath this
day made application to me for
Letters of Adminiftralion on the goods
and effictls of James M‘Gowen ftrfr dec,
Theft art therefore to cite and admonijh
all and fmgular the kindred and creditors of
theJaid deceased, to fit their objcßtons (if
any they have) in my office on or before the
ift Monday in May next, otherwise Utters
will be granted them ,
Given under my hand this ift day of April
1807.
TIMOTHY M'KINNEY, o c,
GEORGIA, Warren County.
WHEREAS Nanny Darden and Je»
thro Darden have applied to me for
Utters of administration on the ejlate of
Stephen Deer deni late of this county deceased.
THESE are therefore to cite aud admonijh
all and fmgular the kindred and creditors of
the fuid deceased, to he and appear before the
honorable Court of Ordinary, at Warren
Court house on the frft Monday in May
next, then and there to Jhew coufe, (if any
they hdvti) why said Utters of ladminijlration
may riot be granted .
Given under my hand and ftal at office,
this goth day of March 1807.
S. WEATHERBY, c. c. o, w, c.
Blanks of all kinds,
Executed at the ffiorteft notice
at this Office.
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