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the hcufe. ile had not proceed ed far on his way home, when lie was again met by the lame young f. Hows as at firll ; who, after fome difficulty, again got the puppy into their poflefiion, and replaced the pig, The boy went home, and was immediate ly filled by his milter whar the parson laid ?—lt was a puppv fir.”—A puppy ! you ralcal ! whit do you mean ?—“ It cer tainly was a puppy !’’—The gentleman, unable to compre hend the boy’s meaning, ordered the bag untied, when out came a Pig\ —The boy, ail or ifiicd and terrified at what he law, and be lieving that there was witchcraft in the buhnefs, exclaimed, that “ it could be a Fig when it pleas td t and a puppy when it pleased !” THE STROKE OF DEATH. A FRAGMENT. “ I am worth a hundred thou sand pounds,” laid old Gregory, as he alrended a hdi, part of ai eltate he had just purcuafed, “ I am now worth one hun dred thou land pounds ! (laid okt Gregory, as he attained thc Jumav.t of a h.U, which com ; mantled a full prolpectof his es~! tate) i and here (laid he) i’ll j plant an orchard; and on thai {pot Til have a pinery; “ ‘Ton farm-houfes fliall come Gown (fa;d old Gregory) ; they interrupt my view.” ‘*l hen what wdl become of the farmers r” asked the ltew auJ wno attended him. I haTs their bufintfs,” an fW•rreu dvi Gregory. And'that mill mull not {'•’ upon the dream,” laid old Go go i y. i hen how will the villa f ‘ grind their corn?” alk-.d i ;e llcward. “ l ha v ’s not my bufmefs,” anJwered old Gregory. So o;d Gregor, returned home —ace a hearty iuppcr--dia:,k a bottle or port —finioaked two pipes of tobacco—and fell into a profound Dumber, from which he never more awoke. The far mers reside on tue.ir lands—the rrial (lands upon die dream ; and the villager* rejoice in his h. Sheriff; Sales. AT the Court house in the City of Savannah, on the firft Tuesday in July next, will bt fold, i"etween the hours of Ten and Three o’clock, one undi vided moity of a Craft of land, containing by original survey, One Thailand acres,ficuate, lying, and being on Savannah river, in the county of Effingham, oppo site Purisburgh, bordered by lande formerly Pattons and Lew ises. The said tract confining of River fwatnp, abound witr, fine Cyprufs, Seized and taken under execution, as the proper ty oi Bartholomew VValdberger dec'd, to latisfy a Judgment obi Mined by Aaron and John Gun .mgham —Pointed by the E .ecu or of WT dberger. T. Robertson, s c. c. M ’V V-- 8 r bidriißlt t u j.'iL,co ON the firfi Tuesday in July next , will be fold at the Court- House in this city , between the hours of t>n and three o'clock, V WILL BE SOLD, ALL thole buildings firuat:- on North halt part of lot No. Decker’s ward, owned by theeftateof Philip Mines, the property of Maurice Lehdf, now of Joseph Arnold. Three lots being part ol a five acre lot for merly the property of John Cur rie. ALSO, G A Negro man named Cae sar, and a fifty acre lot known by the No. 8. Also, the houle in Anson’s Ward, at present oc cupied by the defendant, seized under execution as the property ot Joseph Arnold, surviving Cos. at the suits of Benjamin Bufiey lurviving copartner, and Benja min Bufiey junior. Continued from Mav sales. Conditions Cc-)h. T. ROBBRTSON, s. c. c. May 30 Si IJ PUB LICA N. SAVANNAH, June 6, ißc6, t T ; f-KMa.-aak.Ui weUtzs I'very improvement tending t 0 alleviate the lnfierings of markmd is entitled to the praise and recommendation of every in dividual, and as luch we fieelv offer our administration of the newiy-inventcd inllrurnent for the extraction of balls from gun- Hiot wounds, the success and happy effedls of which have been tfnblilhed by general ex perience in the Military Hofpi cals, both at home and abroad, and he Eafl India Company are so w ell latisfied of the ulefulncfs of this inllrurnent, in preference to the common forceps, that they have ordered a proper fuppiy to be fert for the uie of the army and military hospitals in their different colonies and t flabiifh ments. Mr. Ruspini, surgeon Demis, in Pall Mall, the inven ter 0! this newly-invented inftru it.er.t, has been honoured with ihe approbation and fandion, of die principal part of the medical proieffion in London for his in genious invention, which is on an eiaitic cor.ftrudion, and fol lows the ball ar.d tlFeits the ex traction withouc expending the wound, or Catifing any extraordi nary pain or effuuon of blood. [ > o- don Paper. ] The surgeon of the Petterell (loop of war has been tried by a court-martial, !or negL-Ct of du ty to a wounded seaman on boa-d, found guilty, and lenten ced to twelve months imprison ment in the Marsha! lea, and to be rendered incapable of ever officialirg again in his majefly’s lei vice. ibid. The fa!e of the late Marquis of Lanfdown’s colledlions of paintings, took place in London ■n March 1 all; They broughi upwards of nine thousand pounds. A portrait of H- ctfih ingten, by Stewart, was fold for 515 guineas. LONDON PARAGRAPHS. A letter from Madrid, dated February 23, fays—“ The bu rial places, church-yards, &c ail through Spain, are now com pletely removed out of the ci ties, towns, and viliaces.” The effieds of the storm of the 27th ulr. extended from the roads of France and England over Holland, the North an South of Germany, to Stalz. At Walcerfhaufen, near Gotha, at four in the afternoon, the iightning ilruck the lofty spire of the fine fleeple, and let fire to the woodwork within fide, so that the whole fleeple was burnt. The bells were partly melted, and partly broken by the fall The chain of telegraphs be tween London and Plymouth, will be completed, and fit for wot king in about a fortnight In clear weather, information will be communicated from London to Plymouth (a distance of 220 miles; in about twenty .nxu.es. The fclloivirg anecdote is related in a pamphlet containing the clifcoveries or captains Lewis, Clark, &c. and lately communi cated to Congress by mrjfage Jr pm the pr eftdent. About 2o years ago a party of thele Indians (Hietans) pair ed over the river Grand to Che wawa, therefidence of the gov ernor general of what is called the internal provincesj lay in am buffi for an opportunity, and made prisoner the governor’s daughter, a young lady going in her coach. to mass, and brought her off. The governor sent a mefiage to him (my informant, with a thousand dollars, fiy the purpose of recovering his daugh ter ; he immediately dispatched a confidential trader, then in his employ, with the amount of 1000 dollars in merchandize, who re paired to the narhv, found herd pur'chafed her mi lon . but rc his gre-r firprife, file refuled to return to her father, and lent by him the following irefTjgc ; rh the Indians had disfigured her race by tattooing it according ro their fancy, and ideas of beauty, and a young man of them had taken her for a wife, bv whom flic believed htrlelt pregnant; that file had become reconciled to their mode ol life, that fine was well treated bv her r.t ib nj; that (he would be rnoie unhap py by returning to her father, ur,- der these circumflances, than bv remaining where Die w ; s.— Which mefiage was conveyed to her father, who rewarded the trader by a present of jeo dol lars more for his trouble and n dotty j and his daughter is now 1 living with her huiband in the nation, by whom fie has three children.- Northern paper. Charleston, June 3. When captain Dove left St. Bariholornews it was reported, that in confetpierce of orders received from New-Fork, the Ex, edition un der command of Miranda, was on the re turn for that port, without having attempted a landing on the Spanish Main. Accounts from Antwerp of the Both of March, received by the (hip Amiable, date, that Rice was m confidence demand th.-ie all at market had been fold at V J dolls, duty’ fifty cents. Sliort-ftaple Cotton also meet a ready (ale at q ; cents, duty 6 cents tier pound. LATE FOREIGN NFJVS, Per the /hep INDEPENDENCE, capi. Walker, 36 days from Greenock, arrived at Charirjion. LONDON, April ig. The full flag of truce from France brought a dilpatch from Bonaparte, con taining general expreffious of a ddire to put an end to the calamities of war. An anfwerwas returned by our Cabinet, ciprefiing a iitnilar wifli, but adding, that no negociation for peace could be entered into, unlcfs Rufus was a party to it. 1 l".s lafl iiipiilatioii, it iu reported, was infilled upon by Lord Grenville, contrary to the willies of Mr. Fox. April 2 1. Oi 1 uefday afternoon, the Industry, Gardner, and yederday morning the J Scarthingwell, Gray, arrivtu at Hull, [ both from Pillau, which they left, the j former on the 3d, the latter 011 the 6th I inllant War between Bruflia and this I country had been talked of for fome i time, but had ceafeel to excite much ap prehenfion ; and nothing had then trail fpired to induce a fupp.-fiiion that the Britifli vefl'Hs (here at present would he detained. Capt. Gray fays, that the Ruffian troops on their return from Han over, were to march through Konings- Ijfrg, in two or three divifious, on the 6ih and following days, it was general ly reported that 280,000 Ruffians, were Rationed upon the Prussian frontiers. The Scarthingwell, paifed tbe Sound on the 10th, at which date nothing was Lid refpettinjsj its being Bnt ifh vtffels, iior did he learn that there <-ere any Damlh fliips cf war in prepar ation for fta Captain Gray corrobo rates the accounts brought hy the mails, of the great diff-itisfadtion which the condudt of the King of lhuffia had ex cited among his troops A cabinet counci- was held on Satur day, upon the dispatches brought hy the flag of trace on ie preceding day—they were from M. Talleyrand to Mr. Secre tary Fox. After (he cabinet council broke up, a mc.Tenger was dispatched be tween 11 and 12 o’clock on Saturday night, with the arjfwer of Government, which lord Keith was ordered to fend off with all poflule speed. Jt may be tie ponded upon, we repeat, that the dis patches by these flags of truce, do not re late to a cartel, but to peace. The re ports about a cartel have been very p:o ----perly thrown out by rniniffe ‘bj u.t a cloak to conceal the real nature of the inter course between the two governments. We uoderitand the Emperor of Ger many has acceded to all the demands made by Bonaparte of a pa flag e for the French troops through Ibtieinia and I flria. Lords Elgin and Yarmouth, and Col.’ Abercrombie, who have been detained in France, fir.ee the commencement of the war, are permitted to return home on their parole. A serious misunderstanding is said to have arisen between the Prince of Wale.St Mr. Fox. The nature and cause of tide rupture v/ill be made public ia a lew days, Port of Savannah . AkRIVED,— R'ig Georgia, Joce lyn, New-Fork ; Schooner Experiment, M'Lcan, Chatlejlon. CLEARED, —Brig Sally, Anfdeli, Philadelphia ; Sloop Par.let, Sweul, St. Augujline. ASSIZE for June, iRoS. ‘_r,HE' _ r , HE price ol FLOUR being nine dollars -t per barrel, U read mult weigh, VJZ. 1 2 i-a cents I.naf I * i-4 cents Loaf *!b. 5 oz. | lib. 21-* oz. Os which alt Raker’ ard Sellers of Bread are to ta-ce and ie and particular notice. j 1 gu iLERj City Treaturtr. : GRAND ICDCR. j r pHE Mem! >•.* of th- C anid r.o I, . I 1 of Georgia, and the rrfpn'divej Lodges by their proper Rcprefcntatives. ; are notified to attend at tl e 1 o.Re Ro •; I in tl.e Filature, the firll Saturday in June next, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, being a Grand Quartet !y Comm imita tion. By order of the Right Wcrfhipful Grand Mailer. S. H. STACKHOUSE, May 30 —79. Grand Sepry. FOR CHARLESTON, • tvCV 7he Schooner EXPERIMENT, v A--* Allkn M'Lfav, maStr. For freight or pajfage apply to tie tr.ajlrr j on hoard, or to jftacon &: Muloi r. Jane 6. J r For KEIF YORK or It FRO V, I The fait failing sloop •jfZjt'&ffo. PACKET, Join Sweat, nuts- 1 tcrvvlll fi,i! wi ' ll al '‘ poffibe ! dispatch, for freight or peffage, h ivir.g good accommodations, apply to the mas ter 011 board, at Stark’s wharf, or to WOODRUFF ist 81l !NT. j June 3 80 R. 6s y. Bolt fiy HAVE received hy the l) IsiP.i'FGif from LiVl: RPU'. 1., air: offer for Hale, \j Crates well assorted l . HOC KF R Y War f., viz. j Plates of all fixes, Diihes, I Coffee & Tea Pols j Wash hand batons art’ Ewers Tureens, Cups and Saucers Bowies, Pitchers, &e. &e. 20 Crates of Porter Bottles. Ry the IViII!AM from L,l, ERPOCL, jo Sets 2 Vola. each Jays family diicotfi’ fes, written by the Rev, Mr, Jay> of Bath, in England. ON HAND, Mufcnvado Sugar;, pr. lihd. Loaf Sugar in barrels Stone Lime pr. Calk- May 30 6t. 79. Hemainin.v on Hand, A Variety of PRINTS, ia hand feme Gilt T - antes. Ca LOCKS small and large j Gold trinkets and plated ware Riga Baifom pr. jug or V’t-d Grinditones ; Cologne Mill Stones A quantity of inferior Cotton Bagging Seltzer water pr. hamper or jug A quantity of Iron wedg>3 Stone jugs and jais Double and fingh’ barrel Guns, and O'ber Goods. —For Lie on very low terms by CURTIS BOLTON. May 30 61. 7<l A, Scribner . Cos. RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public in general, that they have received by the lateil arrivaia from New-York, A Complete ijfarlmcnl of BOO! Sand SHOE S, Os the firft quality. With a variety of other articles, which thev offer low forcalh, at their store on the Bay, opposite the Exchange, and r.txt door to Dr. Berthelot. [May 30. 79 30 Prime Africans, Just Rfceived, ano for Saf. i; nv JOSEPH 11IJ.E CLARK, Smith Sf Pamir’s wharf. on Hand, And w'dl he fold low for Cwh or I’ppr vv ed Notes, 60 Cafles Brown Stout, i Hhda. N. E. Rum, 2 Pipes London particular Madevia Wine, a few Puncheons Jamaica Rum, Jriitto Bids. Prime Coffee, } iiito Cheft* Idyfon Skin ‘Tea, A quantity of Northern wiiitc Pine Boards and Sf ars. May 30. <p. 79. SUGARS. A few hegliieads piime SUGARS fide, a; 60 day • i -r approved paper. LEVY ABRAHAMS. June 3 80 TO 15 E KEN TED. THE valuable WHARF LOT. and improvements, belonging to the estate of John Morel ; poff-ffion will he given on tlie firft day of Augull next Proposals will be received by either cf the fubferfoers till the fecund week in June. J'>hn G, Will'arnlon, W. B. Bulloch, Executors. Sav. May 2a 76 N )TICE \I.L persons having any demands Rgainft . tne efta-e ot Mrs Margaret Moil, cl-- celled, are requcfled a.r* 1- i.d tliein in pro perly attelted, and thole, who are mdeb'td t-- make payment to Henry Bourqtiin, Bentdidt 801 icpnn, E yet utnri. J mci f * T\ T IT., f>Ar*NNJii, J.i-r 2, lK<.<s G “hliliPnce to to til :>! ,1 I COUlt cil of the 19 h May, tl ‘ , P ort- N 1 1! at he had te enteed upon ;!ie ft Imvtng Lots, in the name of liie City— vi/. : Franl'in Ward —Lot Vo. 17, rr. Ftan'd-.n A er.v JVtird— Lot No. y, to. li Jinn Ward —Lot No. 2, 3, 7, 17, 18 /!Whiojten Ward— Lot No. >O, 12, 21, 23. /alerty Ward —Lot No. 22. Loitnr.iia triad —Lot No. 8, 10, 11, 21, 22. Gtr.n 1 drj— L't No. t,C, 7,8, xi, 12- 16, 17, 18, 33, 40 E.btrt Hind —Lot No. 22, 27, 35, A Spring Hill —Lot No. 6, 9, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20. H ie-capo-, it is ordered, That the City ■’ ■ sh .. do ex pole 1 fai 1 I, t to jul - b i, upon toe terms piefiiibtd by the OriM-nnces of the City, :.t the Court ! ‘ (,r: •’ atnrvlay the 1 i*.i. in i. giving 10.ee ‘.’l fuel 1 ira .ided 1.a., l-y aiivc r tifcuieut in the t.lnztits of the ,;ty. dxtt.i: ‘from thr Mi <:\s. . J. M. U’lLLlii. , <>7. C. IV compiNUKc u irb the • bov.- order, (do here I '/ </i vt Votirr, U.at ! -,vi!l on S!atur<!.-p, tin; j4i.11 inllant proceed to the Lie of the above Lots he lv ’ ;en the hours of 10 and 3 o’clock, at l ' ,l ‘ *■ \i(c iii this city, in u-m 3of ‘he Ordinances in lueli e.d. made aiul | provided. CHARLES COPE, C. M. June 2. 81. marsh \i v, sali^ .'•1 ILL l<E SOl.l? on tht firfl 7 usfday in J uly next, m the j Court-tJOUje in Savannah, ot ’ tween the hours of *i and c \ o'clock, I Nn expired Lafr of Lot eJL ‘V >■ 10, Wilmington Ty ;:!i'uu, Darby Ward, with the ;oui.(jin;;s flier. on, rhe property ; joiijs Mr, Jo.on G *rJineiv A1..9Q i An un xpurd leufe cf IjOt 3, * iea.i son 1 yd:iika [) ,k - v * a,( j tvdici Mr Smitlirclides. A LSO, Fit yen Nl” GROT'S, viz. j Nancy, Patrick, John, Q! iV , T> J finer, Geoipe, Mm*.y, Moiiy, iClia.loite, {...izcrte, A [Jager, ; ihe above lcizc.l and taken jin t xenioon an the f-rupco ty cf j 1 inith, Sons and Ar;;h-t/rn, ro fi ” a nt obd i, eel hy ■ I homas ...a 1 James b words olf ! New- V irK. EE hi iVt.LL j\i n. c. N| a y SUGAR, 6cc. 40 llh 10. ) .. .. Mul.'.nvado £>UARS. i I (Uni MOLASSES, j f if M < { ) l i‘ l .le. Landing from tlie (loop Benjamin, j from i iiuiaa j, for Lie by S. li. Gtacki.ou c . ) M'V n 74 ? (Mp FHE SUrf.Cisidc.R.,, | ljjHtOM th-: want of punAuality in ilio -L ■■iter immlier of thole lor whom they luive l en toilirij, afliduoully for iVveral years i palt, find tlu-ml- lve.-i embaiuK'ed hy demands 1 ney cannot anlwe-r. I ry ait tli -rt (re I compelled tncall iti this rri.ini.fr uj. fin all ; 1 hole indclued ro them, to par >h” .■ h, !e, a ; parr, or liquidate ilm lame h. tin hilt day <•!’ I |uy in \f ; alter that and ite every unl-jpi 11- nd b ,ok iteot to th • commencement of the preb-nt year, will l,e pi ied in ibe hands of . 0 iutorney lor vollf cuon KolLck cc Parker. April 18 NO 1 ICE. S Iff. Bonki of F.yon ?i Morle ure Ir.ilg- A rd 111 the bands of Mr. Siilcn Thofii who r. ilb to I'iv • funs are rcqueltid to r. ,1 spin him vvitiiout delay ar.J make the nu c. liar/ payments. Curiis Dolton. June 4t 80 Picked Up i ¥7* Corifuwharchiu, about the rr.id'V of lad iirtontb, a promilfarv no**, mad- by Jod.u.i freeman and \Vm Harper, in favorof .Vl ornon lirue, for lixry ti re dollars ; which tbe owner may have bv applying at this oflice and payii jr f>.r this imlvertiltment. May •(). jcj. T O K E NT. STORES Nos 7 and 10, in the Fxe j change. For terms app!y at my office THUM/iS PITT, Sec'ry 1 November z 9 if G. ii ! J i. v 1 TT/MM. hf thankfully rec ivtd at the VV POOH-HOUSK, in this city, there lieuijj reat call ior them. Mfoses Sheftail, o. r. May - 7 7 1 Tr Any ptrfon r aving in their pof ftlaoi, h time D. tr, not tnttr own v 1 oblige the o#ncr by givi 1 • itiforr.iui..oa liereoftoth.* Pri-H t. “liy 5. \V i :V 2 7 D A Ne>rro I ir! to attend a small child. Enquiie ai this o*U;c. May 2*