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Brigade Orders.
Avgust a, idtft 1817.
•w-qRQM the many complaint* made
• Jj* by citizens of the different eoon
f!ei, 'composing (ho Ist Brigade, 2d
Division, Gdbrgla Militia, ft* to Hie
pat role La w »»• being sufficiently
eoforred, and well knowing its im
portant? to community, tho citizen?
and inhabitants generally—l deem It.
essentially necessary therefore to i«-
this my order—Requiring every
Captain or Commanding < ffiwT of
Companies composing this Brigade,
to refer without delay to the law on
the subject, and fully inform them
selves thereof, as a strict compliance
thereto will in future bo required and
expected.
Officers may rest assured that steps
will be taken for an enquiry into their
. conduct, should they be found defn i
ent or neglectful in conforming to
• and enforcing this law. They will
be particular In appointing sober and
and orderly men as Captains of Pat
role, as the Captains so appointed
wilFbe accountable for the moderate
dnd correct behaviour of those imme
diately under their charge.
• # order of brigadier General T.
Glascock. #
W, BARTON, aid-de-camp,
• Q3* Lionels and Majors are re
quested and called upon to aid and
assist in seeing the above order fully
and rigidly 'enforced in their respec
tive Regimen*^and Battalions.
Wan e 7 « on Academy
WILL t<w opened or the first Mon
day in January n xt, under the
snperintendance of instructors who will
come Indisputably rcconuntncKd for a
biiujr and morality.—Terms of tuition
Witt be the s me as is mual in oihi.V re
gutcr seminaries.
G.ntccl Boarding can be had on mft
derate trims. The healthiness and salu
■v brity df Uie titu<>ti'-n, together with a
va-.ie'y >f other consult rations, it is hop.
ed will be indliu m-.nis to parents and
guardians to select this institution for the
ciiu> siion of y uih
* By ojder of the Board.
Thomas Gibson, Sec'ry.
August?. f cnlD&wlJ
SO Dollars Reward.
RAft AW AY on the 27th inst. a ne
gro man named JACK, about 5 feet
Q 01 7 pick's high, very stout made, of
» dark complexion, and has several of
bis fore teeth rotten or out, and about 25
jests of age. He was brought from
Itexington, Kentucky, by Messrs. Jacoby
ftnd Stone, negro traders, where I think
It is likely he will try # io get to. The a
bove reward will be paid on his being ap.
f refunded and lodged in any jail so that
inayget him, together with all reason,
ftblc expenses, it brought to the subs' rj.
ber living in Augusta* July 30. ts
Basil Lamar
(JTThe Editors of the L< xii.g n (Ky)
R- ; porter, and Nashville, (Ten.) R girter,
arc requested to insert the ub «v«- & we ks
sod f i vised' tbs ir accounts to this office
Cc3p pavun tit.
' SHERIFF’S Li'.
WILL I<K SOLD. on the firat Titesduy
in Sr/uember next at . he court house m
the own of Ha. tienborough Purke
"county, between he usual suit hours
CoO .Veits us land in Burke
count , .*n Vvannuh uvrt, adjoining
lands.v( Tvlfan and <»u»ct —L vku >n as
the property of Ch. rUs J nes, u> satisfy
an . x;cution in lavor of Wrkom Allen
»g inst Thomas Sanders, John A. God.
ley i nd Charles Jones—property pointed
out by Charles Jones, the defendant.
ALSO.
One bay horse, levied on as the
property of Wm Stuart,jun. to satisfy
an execution ffi favor > f Hardy Perry.
ALSO,
100 Acres of land lying on Buck
Head Creek, adjoining lands of William*
Gumn and otheis } levied on aa the pro
perty of Pukr 1. Goulding, to satisfy
sundry small executions in favor of Isaac
B. H rdin ; levied on and returned to me
by a constable,
. ALSO,
20 Acres qf land adjoining lands
of John Moresoto and John Steptoe, ly-
Ing on Pockey creek; levied on as the
property of Samuel L. Pnftroy, to satis
fy'an cx cution tn lavorof James Ander
son and others; levied on apd returned
to me by a cofist • hie.
J* hn Bell, 3 B.G.
August 3. - * ' - wjs
Georgia, Elbert County
r I'' \KKN up by John Turner, a sorrel
X . an .nare,‘)3or 13 years old, abcot
14 h nds„higli, with a small bell on her,
otended on the near shoulder with the
* Utter H—-a am .u star in her lace—also a
v-uall Spot 00 her hose, with three saddle
• n>U - n her back Posted before C. W
CbrisUuh, E q—Appraised by White
H* hurltk and Eliji Christian to Twen
ty D iiarsr Jo'* ’bv 8 0, 18*7.
L v Bailey Mi Wood, Cl’k.
*dy 23. * ™ c
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.A • «
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MfSCELL BNE OUS.
. —*f —■» ——— : As —
from moorb’s lalla rookh.
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Come hither, X'tnie hfiher—by night and by
day, ' . ■ #
We linger in pleasures that never are gone;
Uk« the w aves of the summer, as one dies
away, .
Another as sweet and ai shining comes-on.
And the L ive that is o’er, in expiring, gives
birth
To a new one as warm, as unequali’d in bliss?'
And oh! if there be an ElysiuYn on earth,
Vt is this, it Is this.
Here maidens are sighing, and fragrant their
sigh
As the Bower of the Arma Just op’d by a bee;
And precious their tears at that rain from the
1 J sky.
Which turns into pearh as it falls in the sea.
Oh! think what the kiss and die smile must be
worth, * ,
When the sigh ahdthe tear arc so perfect in
bliss.
And own if there be an Elvsinm on earth,
It is this, it is this. 1
Here sparkles the nectar, that hallow’d by
love.
Could draw down those angels of old from
their sphere,
Who for wine of this earth, left the fountains
above.
And forgot heaven’s stars for the ’eyes we
have here,
And, blest with the odour otir grtblet fives
forth.
What Spirit the sweets of his ftdfcn w'btlld
miss? >
For oh! If there bffan Elysium on earth,
It is tliis, it is this.
There’s a bliss beyond all that the minstrel
has told.
When two, that are link’d in one heavenly
tie,
With.heart hever changing 4nd broVr never
cold.
Love on through all ills, and loVe Crt till they
die.
One hour of a passion Ho saV.red, is worth
Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss;
And oh! if there be an Elysium on earth,
ft is «his it is this;
Tim collgcjoA.
< Gather up the fragments.
than InMvni persons become f mtrus byvem
dim? the abort of others. — NiOhodkmus.
INSENSIBILITY.
Frederick Morel Was translating Libanilisj
when some one came and told him, that his
1 wife, who had been languishing some time,
was very ill, and wished to speak with him.
“I have only,” said he, "tWo periods to trans
late, and I will then cotne to See her ” A se
cond messertger informed him, that she was oh
the point of death. “1 have not more than two
words to finish,” said Morel; “return to her; I
shall be there as soon as you ’’ A moment af
ter, another messengerbrought an account of
her deathi “I am very forty,” said fy-j “she
was a very good woman.” He cuhtinhed his
translation.
A gcu 1 lemah Was Waked ih the middle of the
night, for the purpose of being informed that
his father was deadi he turned again to sleep,
say mg' “ Oh! how I shall be grieved in the morU‘
ing, when I aw > ke again.”
PKTIF JURIES.
As we are indebted to an ingenious friend for
tit?* article, we shall give it in his own words.
It may not be unacceptable to the 'curious to
know the mnS’ probable reason «d;y this great
palladium of oUirtiberty is, in point of the
number that constitutes a jury, composed of
twelve.
As 'his form of trial was first established in
England by the Saxons, who doubt less had it
Ircm their ancestors, the great veneration at
that period in which remote institutions were
held, must tend satisfactorily to show how
sacred the number twelve was regarded on the
scroll of antiquity.
The i idiac, from the earliest period, was
divided into twelve parts or s.gns, and hence
twelve months ot the year.
Ti.ere were twelte dii vtnjores, or principle
gods of the heathens.
Troche tribes ot Israel.
Twelve apostles.
The Gr« cians heW the number in the utmost
veneration, as did also the Eeyptuns at a more
emly period, who both thought it contained
something mystical, as afterwards did the Ro
mans, and it was held in hke mannnr by all
the Northern nation in Europe.
Prom ffJese causes, therefore a strong pre
sumption arises, that a preference had been
originally given to that number in the forma
tion of so important a (joncem as Trial by jn
ry; and the more especially, fas popular preju
dices were so much in favor of it to any other
number whatever.
AMERICAN GALLANTRY.
From the Boston Patriot ,
Norratit On the late visit of the
President to the lodpendence 74,
coin. Bainbridge, with that attention
to the interests of those under his
command wliL-h so strongly ebarac
-1 terizespim, on presenting his officers,
1 detained acting midshipman King,
* while he mentioned his ?seape alone
’ in an open boat from Bermuda. The
following is the statement in the
words of midshipman King bitnseif.
•• 1 was takes in the U. S. brig Vix
. en, on the 22d of November, 1812, by
his B. majesty’* ship Southampton.
! • ommatided by Sir James Yeo. The
Vixen and Southampton were wreck-
I
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,' I .
> ed on ti on Lu* I
lie lslaJ,jpDe of the Bahamas AVt- '
were tjjen,off Utile Island by bis
majesty ship Rhodian, and taken to
Jamaica where we were kept prison
r' ers untithe 3d of April, 1818, when
.apart olthe Vixen’s crew were pa*
i ‘ roted, 'tfi selfamotig the number, and
». sent hole in the Rebecca, tfyins, of
Philadebhia. We enlrred the Del
aware ot the 2d of May, and were
i hoarded) »y tha Polctiers of 7* guns,
; coin marled by Sir John P. Berres
»l ford, wB» order us to come to anchor,
and toot all the officers and men be
i the Vixen on board the
Pcirtiers, for the purpose ot exchang
i«g them for some of his crew, then
prisoners at Philadelphia. The of- i
5 Jeers and men were released on the
‘ ‘loth of May, with the exception of
James Stevens, carpenter of the Vix
• ten,and myself, whom Sir John tho’t
proper to detain on the supposition
of our being British subjects. The
1 Polctiers sailed for Bermuda on the
12th. a.id arrived on the 25th of May.
Stevens and my self were sent on board
the guardship Ruby, of 6J» guns, then
commanded by com. Evans. The
Ruby had a flue boat which sailed re
mat kahly fast. I mentioned to some,
of my companions in captivity, that
we might ’venture to cross the gulf in
1 her without much danger, but could
them to join nle, with the
: exception of a man by the name of
ttyhn Black, who gave his a sent,
; atd gave his oath that he would join
mein any s-lienie for our liberty.—
Thinking that ] could pu» confidence
in this man, 1 next day sold some
shirts til some of the crew, and got
one of lie men belonging to (he Ruby
to buy me a pocket compass and four i
loaves *f bred. Being 6or 8 days
without getting any vliame to brake
my esetpc, and our mess being short
ct provl ions, 1 gave two of itiy loaveS
to the mess* The 2*th of July being
' Vet* stormy, add continuing so during
I the night,, 1 thought it would be the
best opportunity 1 could get of going 1
| eff with the boat, and accordingly 1
! Watched for the favouring moment
About 11 P’elock, P. M. a heavy
showed of rain c ame on, and the sen
try on she gang-way wc.it nr;dec a
shelter that was built over (lie main
hdMiway, and the officer of the <rie<k
. and quarter master got under the for
ward part of, the poop. Seeing the
Coast clear,! got my pocket compass
j and the remaining two loaves of bread
and called my companion. We got
down on the lower deck, and unship
• ped one of the gratings oi’the lower
J tic k port; lj»;ave my bundle to my
, companion, and told him to remain
t (here until I got the boa v alongside;
P I got out on the swinging boom and
. cut the painter and hauled the boat
\ close in to the side,* but what was my
astonishment when my companion,
I after handing me the bundle, said he
, would not go! In vain did I state to
him that wc should have fair wind
one half the way at least, owing to
. trade >%i»*ds prevailing in that latitude
. —he Hvid it would he impossible to
• cross the gulf in an open boat, and
[ mentioned the scantiness of our pro-
P vision?; finding that 1 could not pre
vail on him lo go, I shoved off, and let
i (he boat drift astern of the slip
; j When about a hundred yards astefti,
; ! they,struik the bell, and the sentry
[ cried Wl was well. I made sail as
, soon as possible, and at daylight was
86 miles from the ship. On missing
j the boat they sent several vessels in
j search of me as I have since been in
! formed by one of the prisoners on
board.
I had several squalls between Ber
; muda and the gulf stream. 1 suffer
[ cd a good deal for want of sleep, and
did every thing I could think of to
I I keep myself awake. My lips were
parched with the sun; 1 used to irri
[ tnte them with my fingers, to try if
the pain would keep me awake; but
• [ all proved ineffectual; I often got a
! j sleep, and sometimes when 1 awoke
would find the boat with a
baek and steering a different course.
After being out four days, 1 tried to
steer by tying my hand to (be tiller,
whk-b proved to be very useful to me
, the rest of the passage. 1 suffered a
good deal hi the gulf, otving to the
J eontluDCd motion of the boat. I saw
1 thinking that she was an
. English nian 1 was fearful of approach
ing her. ' I made Cape Henry on the
| 2d of August, about 4 P. M, and on
j approaching the light house, discov
-2 «d the British* io Lynnhaven bay. 1
J hauled to the southward, and beach
ed the boat about' 12 o’clock at night.
about 4(1 miles to the southward of
\ l,l « 1 unbent (be boat’s jib.
and carried it about a quarter of i*
! mil© from the boat and went to sleep
. f* K°#|» ahoui sun r%e next tnoroing
and gouto MtvWUiieUousc’* dweil-
I
/ , ‘ , * [.- *
ir g, urho treate l me with e;epy
ess that toy situation require# ; I
proceeded to Norfolk, after remain
log with Mrs Whitehoose two days,
when I reported myself to capt, Gas
sin, who advanced me funds io goto
Washington. I sold my boatHbr 30
dollars; the boat was about 22 feet
long, 7 wide, and 8 deep, with a fore
sail, mainsail and jib. She was bal
lasted with fresh water in break
ers.”
An old gentleman of the name of
Gould lately married a girl scarcely
nineteen years of age.—After the
wedding!be juvenile bridegroom ad
dressed to his friend Dr. 6 the
! following couplet to inform him of
the happy event:
“So you see, my dear sir, thn’ eighty years old,
A girlof nineteen falls in love wi'h old Gould ”
To which (he doctor replied—
“A girl of nineteen may love Gould, it is true;
Bui believe me, dear sir, ii is G»Sb without v ”
chronicleT
Saturday, August 16, 1817.
There has been two successive fail
ures of the Northern Mail—occasion
ed we presume by high waters be
tween Camden and Fayetteville.
In contrast with the adulatory at
tention which the President has re
ceived during his northern tour, wc
are much pleased with the honest and
simple, welcome given him by the
community of Shaking Quakers,
whom he visited at Enfield, Vermont.
[ He was met by the Elder, who came
i forth from the principal house in the
set dement ,and addressed him thus:—
** T Joseph (j'oodrich, welcome James j
Mnnroe to our habitation .” 1
Sweet and flowery expressions of
and pompous and high sound
ing terms of attachment, should al
ways be considered us marks of a vi
■ tinted, sycophantic, or designing mind.
! If the first, it should excite our pity ;
if (he second, our contempt; and if
the last, our indignation and resent
ment. The effusions of a good and
refined heart ate breathed out with
trembling solicitude, always anxious
to e ,oid the appearance of ostenta
tion or flattery—And a simple ami
blunt sincerity, which cannot be mis
taken, characterises the rough son of
nature whose heart warm* towards
his fellow-being.
Some observations in relation to
(he character of MacGregor’s expe
dition, and a statement that two prices
.had arrived at Amelia, ladened with
600 Africans, which we published
not long since, arp all flatly contra
dicted by the Savannah Republican.
The gentleman through whom the
information was obtained living re
mote from this place, prevents us at
this time, from replying to (he Edit
ors of the Republican in a proper
manner. We can inform them, how
ever, that they are mistaken in their
bravado.
As regards ourselves, we gave the
information as it was received, with
our impressions of its correctness.—
Our belief in its credibility was
, strengthened by our confidence in the
source from whence it was dprived—
and we shall still retain our opinion
until we are better and more satisfac
torily convinced of the contrary.
Whilst the spirit of revolution in
Spanish America, was marked with a
character conformable to the dignity
pf the purpose for which it was pro
j scouting, our feelings and our wishes
were deeply enlisted in its behalf.
But when its aspect is changed—its
interesting features disfigured by a
barbarous and revengeful policy, we
are desirous to see the conflict, in
which unsuspecting humanity only
bleeds to gratify individual ambition
and party animosity, excluded from
(he page of history.
That the revolution in Spanish \-
rocrica has shamefully deitoriated
smee the dissolution of the patriotic
Cortez, is a fact which every one
must know who has correctly observ
ed the progress of the patriots. At
(he commencement of the conflict,
die only man whose persona; influ
ence and commanding genius could
inspire the fervor of freedom, recon
cile the discordant materials of revo
lution, and give to its character the
imposing front of a moderate, digui
fled and well regulated authority, was
betrayed to the enemy by the avar ice
ind treachery of some of his fpllow
*rs. The talents of Morales, bows
er kept the flame alive for a little
vhile lunger, but it soon languished
-and now, only by fitful starts, feint
ty glimmers la the socket, Degeae
rated and degenerating, the
and unimportant successes of the n*, ’
rioU, have only tended to s 2
wider the field of carnage and desok
tlon, without advancing in the Bmal ,
estdegree the happiness or welfare
of mankind. Could We see the least
prospect for a probable amelioration
of the degraded and oppressed sV e
of the Spaqiaty!—could we see the
pure flame of a holy revolution burn
iqg tlroughout his immense provinces
—then might the enemies of his na.
ture he consumed upon the altar of li!
berty—and mankind hail the’ era
which would give another Republic to
the World. But, alas, for humanity,
the spirit ofa pure philanthropy hat
not yet been found in Spain.
SALES OF ALAbXmA LANHS.
The public lands now selling here
have brougts4 so far good prices
Prime river low grounds average
from 40 to 60 dollars. A fraction of
170 acres, par!, of the 71/g Bend of the
Alabama, sold as high as seventy dol
lars the acre. Other parcels adjoin
ing were bijl off ahoVe S 40 and g6o.
A large fraction, containing several
hundred acres of high land, on the
Ten vrhuh lies opposite
the Big Bend, and is said to he an
excellent seitc for a Town, sold lop
50 dollars an acre. In (hat Tow)},
ship, (No. 16 in Range 17) purchas.
ers it is believed, were found for every
section. Those best acquainted with
Ihe choree Alabama lowgrounds, as
sert, that its fertility is inexhaustible,
and that it will produce for almost an
indefinite term of years, in twnsiant
cultivation, 100 bushels of corn to the
acre! This insertion is repeated hv
so many respectable persons who
i know the land, that great as Ihe pert
i duct may appear, we an not suppose
there is anj exaggeration.— Georgia
Jouinial,
The northern mail due on Sahlrday
last has not yet arrived. There will
he three northern mails due here this
evening. The detention is owing to
(he severe storm m Friday, and high!
waters. Wc understand that all (ho
bridges between this place and Jack
sooborough are entif ely swept away.
One of the drivers ofthe northern mail
was drowned wc are told, on Friday
last, In attempting to cross the Salt-
Ketehers.— -Sav. Republican,
SavannAfc, Asm#.'l2.
On Sunday last, a sailor who calls
hirn-elf James F. Winn, arrived in
town and informed us that on Friday
morning, Bth inst. during the gale
the schooner Eliza, Wood, master
10 days frorn N. % oi-k. hound to Sa
vannah, with a fall cargo yvent ashore
near f eaufort bar—the surf running
high the vessel was soon knock'd to
pieces. Capt. W. and the crew (cx-i
cepting Winn) abandoned the schr
and endeavored to swim to the shore;
but they all perished. Winn says,
that he stuck to the wreck until the
long boat was torn from the deck in
which he goi and succeeded in gain
ing the beach, from whence he walk
ed to Savannah.
[For ourselves we d -uht the truth
of the above statement, as we have
examined files of New York papers
from the 20ih ult. and find no swell
vessel cleared for this port; besides - )
no person in this place has any know
ledge op advice of the schooner
Eliza. —Savannah Republican.
We understand that many report?
are abroad which have a tendency »o
render uneasy our friends at a dis
tance, respecting the unheallhiness
of Savannah (his seasonWe have
it iq our power to inform (hern, >hat
for the last fortnight, if has been un
commonly healthy. Few new cases
of shkness having occurred, and of
those that happened in the early part
of July, many have happily terminat
ed,— SdV, vriitviiilll. )
The Crops . —A gentleman from
Southward informs us, that the lalo
heavy rains have nearly fuined t\'*
cotton crops in that quarter;
I can be expected except from a few 11-
ver swamps. The corn plantation*
are also inundated. Our priolM
dependam e for a supply of these vai
uablo articles, must rest ou the upptf
country.— lb.
Commercially Important.
Spanish Consulate, Jftw-OrUuns, 1
* SOth June, 1817. /
His Catholic Majesty’s Consul ha*
received official eoimnunicau n |ha*
Ihe port of Vera Cmr is 1 a
gainst all foreign vessels, even
formerly admitted with provhijn 5
from these state*