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REMOVAL* .
J. W. Bridges,
*WAfI taken the House formerly
.111 perupied by P. BroWW. two
doors above Joan Mfixßtt*» w>d near
the Market, wliert he has On hand
An Extensive Assortment of
HEX GOODS,
Groceries h Hardware
t Which will be sold low by Whole
sale or Retail, for Cash or approved
Paper. JuueU.
Fourth of Jujy.
XR&OME&*OMX VTOhEAV ,
KEfcPFCTFULLY infortn the
Ladies and Gentlemen of Au
gusta and its vicinity, that Joyfully
fa eommemnrate the Annivertary of
American Independence, they will ex
hibit a handsome display of
FIRE WORKS,
at the emdosed lot near the Theatre.
•No pains.or expense will be spaced in
making convenient and strong scats
* ior llie accommodation of the ladies.
Order of Display.
At half past 7 a flight of Rochets will
be dim* hinged a-» a signal for com
•ujencement.
1. A Flying Pigion, width will set
site to an elegant Virti«*al Wheel,
various io shapes and colours*
3, A CpiupliraUd Venetian Pice,
forming in. its rentre. bine, green,
red, yeiiow. anil white Ribbons.
•$, The curious Battle of Don Quix
ofte, with the noisy wind-mill—the
old gentleman in character. ‘
4. A horizontal wheel, bearing in Its
centre a battery of Homan caudles
and water falls.
$, The battle oft he Butterflies—-their
different rotations.
6. A Sun of eight charges.
A Caprii.e throwing its fires in
different dire tions#*.^
•d, A Pyramid of 8u» Flowers.
Purther |H»rtieulars will be expressed
in the hills • ! the dav.
»■ ■ - ; ' ■■■*-
N ew Establishment.
rtf FTpiIIJS subscriber has taken the Shoj
' ’ lalety occupied bvn Mr. O’Ke* fe, n
IttvyilfOiQ nrvr Ov»i# w iwiimc 3
Where be intv|pi| c <riying o the
Coach Painting
4JfD THIMMIXI
Such persons as m-y fhi k proper (
intrust their work with him in the abort
• hne of business, may dip net < n its be.
jng done with neatm ss, puncu by am
dispatch. He fl tters himself tr m l*is
• experience in bu in*ss, am w ! knvwr
attention f t nine y ais in sngnst.», c,
Writ a geaerr-us s‘ arr f i-uhiic f t u s.
No wood, work willtv f’r-he x<p ah l -' **
may be under repair. H. fr Isti'eu'nvst
confidence In «ayim* f the wibnoiex
tort mure f ont his u tom than the
regular established p i< t'n i Avgusta.
Nicholas Long,
jlunr 28, f
0' m ~ 1 ~ '
Bolting (loths.
THE suhstrihi r his ju e received i
com-pl.t* ass .rtm to tgenum!.*
.Dutch Ba ting
ol all numbers, and will n tpa cmatan
supply eluting the reason.
J. S. Walker.
June 28. ii
— ;
Attention Company.
rip HE Augusta Indqtendrut Blu>t
1 are directed to attend at (lit
Globe Tavern at (he hour of hall
past nine o’clock, on the morning ol
the 4th July next, completely cqup
ped. with 16 rounds l»hi*»k cartrulgei
each man.— By ordtr of the ravtnin
1 J* HILL, O. 8.
June 28. ___
G. F. Norton, ~
' ..Of the Theatre—Direct from London
Respecting ULY*ii fm» tt.. La
* dlra and Gentlemen of ug'ista :.m
its vicinity, that he intends TEACHING
MUSIC in all Fs various brupchea • ir
p ♦ti'-u'sr the Fhite, Clarinet, Single anc
Double J?bgedetr», I'idin and Hautboy.—
Also loaches, tunes and repairs the Pian<
Forte, In down and country. He wil
commence teaching as soon as be gets t
sufficient number of pupils Aprdicalioi
can be n»e.d« to Mr. Nchton, at Mt,
. c *£** g »*»e Chronicle Office.
* S. Mir. Norton will repair such in.
Strument ss he proposes to t#ach, and
hapevto meet with encouragement frpn
the liberal citisuu of this place.
June *8»
m
r |TAS Just Received the following
- H Articles, which he will sell on
very low terms, for Cash or Town-
Acceptances: —
Sweeps and Russia Iron,
New Orleans St Jamaica Sugar
Green Coffee,
Double Refined Sugar,
London Porter,
Madeira Wine,
Holland Gin,
N E. W. I St J Ram,
l.iverpool Ground Salt,
Shot and Lead,
Hair Sieves, •
Jugs and Jars.
*-ALSO— —-
A quantity of Carriage Lacc, &c.
Friitges,
Plated bands & handles for carriages
1 Ditto Moulding,
Ditto Joints for Carriage Tops,
With a General Assortmcne of
DRY GOODS,
Hardware & Cutlery.
75 BbK Newark Cider,
Two Newark made Gigs with
Harness. ; June 28*—c
Bank of the State of Georgia.
I r 1 '(HE next regular discount «lay of
, Ji (he Ofilee yf Diaeount and De
posit at Augusta, happeuiqg oa Fri
» day the 4(h of July, on which day the
, I Rank will uot he opened—Notes fall
it»ic due at said ollluo on (hat day,
- must he paid on Thursday pre- ceding,
i uii‘l as (he B ard of Directors will
meet at Ra,.k on Thursday, the of-1
s feriug of paper must he made on j
a >Veduesday.—By order of the lioaid
of Dircfvtor-. , .
r WILLIAM JONES, cashier.
June *B.
" j N otice.
THE C'p fine Oitp <;f Johnson and
u Kunze w s dissolvt (hv-n tin Sih 1
“ ' Dt ctiM ' r I Th jBo having any d- ..
- m tn.'.s. gin i sudfi ro wiilpns'nUiitn.
n» J hu M. f i payment-& [host
Indebted, are r q i st'.d to make payment
Wi*h .\jf del>y « J * n Vl Kupz , ht; hr
p irg.-luly authiirjstd Ij settle ah accounts
n of the Lit firm.
a, Robert JoTinson,
John M. Kunze.
June 25, c
, FOR SALE,
THE H ast at prt stnt occupied by
Mr. Jacob fLnnet. on Broad*street
is good a sttind lor busines as any in
j the City. Fossesskn can be lud in Sep
tember next.
n Patrick Kel’y.
„ June/ 8. < ts
» NOTICE
it ALL thf'Sf indebted .to the bte frm
ii of Mess’s. JAMES A. BLACK,
c & Co. at e r« quested to call ao<? sets Ic
thur accoun t Messrs, A. Eugg. &
■ Co. who are fu i» auihnrised to settle the
business of the s.ii concern.
John Tanner,
Juno 18 * ' ts
i ■ ; ’ “
Vi Important
To Planters & Manufacturers.
A l«i ais ol C-VKUINCf, t.OR
kt IN(.BcSPINNING MACHINES,
f*»r in nufr.rtu.ing Ootton, are now optn
f»r insp-ction at the Ware House cf
I Messrs, bruxt3*Scurry, near the bridge;
~ when-'nil pea-.ns (wbc feel disposed to
patronise the labors - f g- nius, or rncou
rage D nusnr Manufactures) are inv«Kd
8 to cah atld examine th s. me, as it is pre
e sumed that their operation will afford
j- indisputable pr ofi of their ex elk nee,
j- which wil* supercede the necessity of be
stowmg that encomium upon tnem in
'* this advertisement, which they Unjustly
* deserve.
l * T' ese Machines are an improvement
on M ssrs. II Se Willson’s
p m and thi wo ktnanship is executed in
amann r superior toany which have hue
tofort be* n built.
t Any prrs -n wishing to purchase a sin
’ gle stt of the Machines, or the Patent
l * Right fir a State or County, will be ac
d ccmiTu dated on liberal tn ms; end should
» any person purchase the tight frr a ccr*
n tain Territory, vrn yin a reasonable time
rs be accon-mudated with any quantity of
- machinery on a reduced pi ice, us soon as
o they can be built, by applying at the a-
II hove mentioned place to
a S. Willson, and
* William Danford,
* or to Janies Barton,
i. in Augusta..
d 4. ts
" BANK CHECKS ;
{ ■ Formate at this Ofl.ce, !
- * I » S
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—^gyft
From
Views of the Southern States.
Extracts of a letter from a gentle
man on a tour of business in the
Southern* States.
MULKDQEVII.I.E, JUNE 27,1817.
I left Savannah a second time on
the 7ill ult. wishing its citizens that
success in the project they have a
doptcd to improve the health of their
city, which their public spirit and
private virtues eminently entitle them
tflr, Attributing the. autumnal fever,
which lias almost annually visited
dm metropolis of Georgia, and for-
Veda great part of its inhabitants to
spent] t heir summer abroad,to the prat?
liceofrul ivatiugrice on the surroun
ding lands, they have agreed to pay
ibo proprietors of these lands 40 dol
lars per acre to exchange their wet
cultm'e fora dry one: such as raising
o'.ton, corn, &<% which do not re
quire suiji excessive irrigation as rice
does.
Passing along the sea coast, which
from Charleston (u St. Mary’s, the
smit h eastern extremity of the United
Stale-, is uniformly low and flat, in
terspersed wi.h a great number of
swamps, I found the planters in Burke
ami t.ibniy counties complaining of
the excessive moistness of the season;
many of whom had lost their seed on
their rice lands, which were then in
undated, and some were waiting for
drier weather to re-sow their field?,
hunb rv, about 40 miles south of Sa
♦ w ,
vai.nub, ris pleasantly situated near
the sea, on a nv. rof the same name.
The ri h planters in its vicinity spend
the summer mo,mbs there in a very a
g: eeable inamier.
It is alumst a general practice a
inoug toe planters along the sea coast
jto remove, at the commencement of
June, to (b pine barrens or bogs, on
■he sea so re; there they res’de till
t’<e first frost < oears in the fall, in log
hut/-, forming small communities,
spending their time in teca i ii emenls
of buotiag, eonipaoy, they visit
their pla ita'i.ms usually once a week,
and dc;w (ben* supplies of provisions
from tbcin as o casiun requires.-
Some bad effects evidently flow
from tbisannual prapliceof removing.
The dwelling house on t|ie plantations
is less a family mansion than where
removals do not take place; it is per
haps a mere shell, destitute of those
improvements necessary for a com
fortable residence. There are some
instances of men of respectable cha
racters, worth 40 or 60.000 dollars,
living in houses formed principally of
logs, without being either ceiled, plas
tered or glazed. Although the soil
is genial, and the climate favourable
to horticulture,yet few or no good
gardens are (o be -cen, and orchaids
are generally neglected.
One w ould suppose that the planta
tion business during , the absence of
the proprietor, must be greatly neg
lected: but Ibis is not the i aso. An
excellent system prevails, as to the
management of negroes. The fields
are generally marked otfinto squares
divided info a space of 105 feel each,
bci <ga quarter of an acre. Two of
thc*c quarter acres are generally as
signed as a day’s task for a negro to
hoc; when ilor ehe may employ bis
time as be pleases. 1 found (bene
i groes working on this plan, labouring
wiih as-iduity, and an energy I bad
never witnessed in the states of Ma
ryland or Virginia. They rise and
go to work with the early dawn, and
many of them finish their daily task
before noon. This system renders
the duty of the overseer easy, and fa
cilitates die employment of black dri
vers; if renders coercion or castiga
tion almost unnecessary, and is high
ly favourable to the cause of human
ity. Though I have travelled thro*
so much of this country, and seen nu
merous gangs of negroes, yet I have
not as yet heard the lash of the whip
por the torturing cry of the suffering
slave.
After passing through Riceboro,* a
small town in rather a low situation,
I reached Darien, 62 miles from Sa
vannali, a thriving place, and extreme
ly well calculated for business, being
in the vicinity of the Aitamaha, Which
here receives two risers, the Oek
mulgee and the Oc me. Darien is
likely to become the depot for (ho
produce of an extensive and growing
back country. Several new houses
ate building, and the price demanded
for water lots is considerable; but 1
cannot con eive the scite it stands on
to be a healthy one, as it has some ex
tensive swamps iirits neighbourhood.
In my next I shall detail my jour
ney to St. Mary’s, and iny visit to
Amelia Island and East Florida,
*■ 1 am,
r-/•/,;'» It :■ JffSE Bth.
The diftWnfte from Darien to St.
Mary’s la 8b miles, through a coun
try very thinly populated, and likely
to remain so, on account of the lands
principally consisting of what is term- i
ed pine barren. The traveller is tir
ed of the uniformity of the scene, one
piece of land succeeding another e- i
qually flat, covered as the preceding
with tall pinfes and the saw palmetto, a
species of vegetable as useless as weed
Refreshment is only to be bad at »
very few places on the road, the bou
ses being 14 or 20 miles apart.
Jefferson, which is 60 miles from
Darien, is ilie scat o f jusrice in Cam
den county. It lies on Satilla river;
is a small place and not lung built.
There are some respectable jamil'ie*
settled cn (lie banks of the Satilla.
w hose informaion, manners, and po
lite hospitality, are well calculated to
render the visit «f a stranger ip this
distant corner of the United Slates
an agreeable subject of future recol
lection. ■ ,
St. Mary’s, first called St. Patrick’ v
then Newton, but since na ned afe»
tho river on which it lies, and wbieb
river is the hue which separates Geo -
gia from Kast Florida, wasa flourish
ing place during the cxi tence of tin
embargo and (he late war; but it bus
the appearance at present of falling
into decay. The neighbouring Island
’ f Amelia, being under the bpanish
Jurisdiction, formed a depot for Brit
ish manufactures a d A uerlcan pro
duce. Here smuggling fl lorished.
and the interchange of the goods of
ooe nation for those of another eff ret
ed per/'asuut nefas. formed a very
profitable! afic to the <o teemed, and
created a temporary hut fugitive khd
of prosperity on this frontier.
Still the people of St. Mary’s and
its vicinity anticipate the cessi m of
East Florida as (he harbinger of pros
perity to them. J four d the inhabit
ants on Amelia Island, and those I
met with in Florida, animated with
sim lar feelings, professing the stron
gest hopes that the cession would take
place, and that shortly. It must be
highly gratifying <o the friends of he
American institutions, to find their
neighbours so anxious to he incorpo
rated into (he same family, and wil
ling to welcome the American juris
i diction as the certain guarantee of
. peace, prosperity and happiness.
, is a company of Spa ish ar
j tillery at Fernandina, the only town
, on Amelia, the captain -of whit h is
. the commandant of the Is! The
. soldiers are the most slovenly, ill
( dressed, ill lockii g sons of Mar<, I
j* ever saw. One would not suppose a
drop of Castilian blood ever, eircula-
I ted in (heir veins. The soil and cli
. mate of Florida arc boh well spoken
I of. and said to be very good along the
, sea coast. Its peninsula situation is
up doubt highly advantageous, the
sea washing three sides of it. Itspro
f duce is excellent, the Floridian cot
. ton commanding i|ie best price in
i market; and the province being more
, southwardly tba.v Georgia, the pros.
, P"ct of raising sugar with success is
, greater than in that state. Near (be
t river St. Johns, (here are mo*t vain
[• able tracts of land, which would af
ford ranges for the pasturage of the
, most extensive herds of cattle. A me
j dical gentleman, whom I met, upon
. a botanisiug tour, in this province,
, confirms the existence of the nnmer
| ous species of plai ts mentioned in
. Bari ram’s travels, some of whit h sei-
I entitle men bad doubts of.
1 r i he cession of Florida by Spain to
the United States would be highly
i desirable in a geographical point of
view, as then the frontier of the latter
would be carried to the ocean, the
natural anti proper boundary of the
American republic; the sooner (his
event takes place the better for the
inhabitants of Georgia and Florida,
for the present indecisive destiny of
, the latter prevents the progress of po
, pulatioil and improvement on each
, frontier.
In (he neighborhood of St. Mary’s
and Darien, large quantities of live
’ oak and cedar have been felled and
prepared for shipping to the principal
maritime ports lor (he use of the U.
-States. Mr. Grice, who built the
Guerriere frigate in Philadelphia,
has been occupied in superintending a
part of this business on Blackboard's
Island, near Darien. It would be
good policy on the part of government
to institute an enquiry into the state
. of that invaluable eVergreen, the live
oak, as the preservation of it is of the
highest importance to the national
interest.
Major Pierce Butler, an old revo
lutionary officer and compatriot of
general Montgomery’s, has some very
valuable plantations near Darien, re
markable for the excellent buildings*
erected on them fur plantain rrp l
pose*, such as rice mSU, barns /■
A fine airy house is used as an b O JM
>al, for sick and convalescent negro!B
His crop of last year, on these'B -
rations only, netted him g 95,ooo! ?!■
is saidihat a Haifa million of dollJ®
has been offered for tills property yB
refused. "^B
St. Simon’s and Cumberland Ij I
ands, on (his coast.are very valuabil
on the (alter, at the house of *CI
#haw, whose wife is a daughter f I
the late general Nat. Greea,y OUP ' I
erous friend, admiral Coekbamfh l
ed Iris head quarters, while in
vicinage. The inhabitants, both
the Islands aw! the Main, lostagroaßi
nndiber of their negroes, by their™®
ing on board the British squadron®
<hry calculated the number to be
the majority of whom, they assert®
were taken away out of (he Vineria J H
wnters, after the signing of the dccla®
ration of peace. ,
CHRONICLE^I
■ ——■ -—» . SL
Wed a*ss.ay, July 2, 18177" ®
W E have bu n reqncsieJ to s'aie that th®
t Uowing is the arrangement for <he ceU-braß
ion of i e ensuing’anniversary of our Indtß
■ei'dcnC'
Ttie civil authrtri'y of the ql y—The O’.’tfo®
ts the d»y—Tne reader of 'h" v Decfaratlniioß
It depend' net—The Chaplain—Tne fierteraloß
Division—The General of Brigade, with i!,;®
respective suits—and tht officers of the It.?;®
men*, will convene at the Globe Tavern, at !'B
o’clock in he forenoon, on Friday the 4 h ins’®
from whence they will proceed to Chrnß
Ohuh'h, where they will be received by C
William .Jo.nes’, coinpanv of Augusta
den’ Rih-s, when an aporopriau Or.tton wlB
b ■ deliveje \ by Don or .lon v Carter,
ed by ’he reading of the D cl .ration of Ind®
peidence by Col. John H M mtgomeiii.
The most honourable and suhsta®
tial rpeepfiorf (he president has nuß
with in his four thro’ the Northei®
Sla'es, was from x flie ♦•American Sol
cicty for the encouragement of Inieß
riean Manufactures” in the city nB
New-York. He was unanimously m®
milted a member of that society, aB
were also James Madison, Thonia®
Jefferson and J. hn Adams. The uB
sual form of ballot was dispeiise®
with. From receptions like t!tis,weß
. may anticipate «ome real benefit t®
one country—atTeast, our Chief Maß
gisirate. asso iafed with well inforß
;nt*t! and enterprising men, will been®
abled more properly to appreciate®
the capabilities of our country, am®
render them subservient to its useful®
nes*. The unmeaning gibberish on
‘•holiday terms,” evanescent as thefl
breath upon which they float, dwindle*
into nothingness when compared wilhfl
a reception of this kind.
The following extract from WWnn-M
i sonNJlfrmnirspresentsuswilhaniu-e-B
resting incident in (lie life ofPresi-B
J dent Monroe, whirh we believe h®
; never before appeared in print. Itß
, adds another important item to (he®
I brilliant catalogue of his useful at®
patriotic services.
BATTLE OF TRENTON. I
“ ft was now broad day, and the I
j storm beat violently in our faces; ilia
attack had commenced on the left,and
was immediately answered by I'd.
Stark in our front, who forced (lie
1 enemy’s picket, and pressed into the
town; one column being close at |»is
heels. The enemy made a momen
tary shew of resistance by a wiid and
undirected fire from the windows «f
their quarters, whieh they abandoned
as we advanced, and made an ai tempt
to form in the main street, whi h
might have succeeded, but for a six
gun battery opened by ('apt. T. For
eti, under the immediate order of
(Ten. Washington, at the head of
Ki g*s street, which annoyed the en- I
cmy in various directions; —a d the
decision of Captain William Washing
ton, who, seconded hy Lieut. J AMES
MONROE, t now President of (hi U.
Stales) led the advance guard of the
left column, perceiving that the c «-
my were endeavouring to form a bat
tery—rushed forward, drove die of*
tillerists front I heir guns and Look two
pieces , in the act of fir ing ,
. “ These officers were bvth wound
ed, in the charge: the Captain in (he
wrist —the L ent nant through IM
shoulder. T hese particular acts of
gallantry have never been noticed*
and yet they could never have been too
highly appreciated , for if the ei emy
had got bis artillery into operation*
in a narrow street, it might hat*
checked our movement, and g‘ ve "
him time to form arid retie’t; a >«'t
be bad retired across the bridge in
his rear, and taken post, be would
have placed a defile between us.
which in our half naked , half ff
condition, he ought to have defend