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About Georgia republican & state intelligencer. (Savannah, Ga.) 1802-1805 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1804)
Georgia Republican, AND STATE INTELLIGENCER ~BT LrON and MORSE. SAV/TnNAH, September 14, 1804 We are requested more particularly to notice the circumstances attending the tnclancl.olv death of the tv o children of Mr. ‘Nclfon, occasioned by the falling of a chimney in the late hurricane. They are the following. Mr?. .Nclfon, alarmed at the violence of the wind and dubious of her f*tua_ tion, which was m the chamber, retir cd to a back room, with her children* and seated herfelf a’ 1 ! them on a fmaH bed, Mr. fitting near. Mr. Nelson b.ing called a moment from the room, heard the fall of the chimney and the fireams of his w ife, flattening to her rtl tt, he found her covered to the reck and Mr. Stamon to the breast in the rr.ii. v By his exertions aided by Mr. Batielle, they were soon refeued, when she w s fca-ce able to fignify that her children were Hill remaining com ply ely covered. After considerable ft Arch, they w„re found, but so brmifed ts it n > exertion* could produce a fymp n of returning fife. The children wj i. u foil of 10 years of age and a daugh ter of 3 years and Uaif. Mr. Seamon is muc > bruised but is re covering Mrs. Ntlfon is yet danger ously ill, but her recovery is hoped for. Accounts continually funifh details of damage and distress-occasioned by the late calamity. The plantations in the vicinity have fuffered with the severity of defilation. The rice, as w'ellab'the cot ton, is now 1011, and scarce a of re ward fi>r the toils of the feafo ’i he fuff-, rings of the ensuing winter are expected to be great in confequencc of the th ft; urriiion it has made. We have 1 “"t been able to learn its extent. rue lill of fufferers in the city v'hi >. v.-erc omitted in our last, art the foil, u.gs 1 .e court.houfe injured. Bank partly unflated. ‘Fiie jail, almost wholly untiled. “*1 he Filature, both chimney’s down. Tobacco house, roof broke in. John Barron’s new house. jult prepa red ior the reception of his family, com - pletely blown down, together with the outbuildings. Not long since, Mr. Ba ron’s house in Louisville was burned down with considerable property. Harden’s brick buildings, pai dally un tiled, Bacon and Mahlcne’s, chimneys and cuthoufes down. B. B. Bellinger’s, chimney down and houle unroofed. j Ilartftene’s chimney down, roof in jured, Judge Stephens’s, one chimney down. Cxi urge Andtrfon’s, chimney down, roof fallen in. J. Mr Berrien, J. Fowler, Philip Young, E. White, H. M’Niih, Wm. Spencer, and Gen. M’lntofti’s houses have their chimney’s blown down. Oneoi R. Sc J. Bolton’s flareson their upper ‘wharfis unroo and. Thomas W. Rodman’s ft ore broken on ail iidesaud the g eattit part o£ its cor,tents and tlro\td. hi r. Rodman is a fnoug ihr prii c’pal fufFcrers. C'iay’s new brick, and fione flores, part ally ui t ft cl. A fn.ail fi re on Hunter and Minis’s whats, occupied by VV. Kean a retail liquor ilore, one part carried away anu nearly all its contents loft. The store occupied by Dennis Sc Wi! Hams, which was completely destroyed, was anew ftorc, the property of S. mu el H. StackhouL. D. Mtigs, (tore broken in and con tents loft. Montmollin Sc Heron, conftdcrably in jured. Gumming 8c Harman's (lore beat in and piincipal part of the contents loft. Col Gordon’s ftorc broke in and con tents loft. From a rough estimate of damages sus tained, \ve believe it is at least not fliort of the following for the city only. Buildings Dolls. ICO,COO Wharves 50,000 Goods I CO,COO Shipping ioojcoo 3J0,0c0 Mo ft people are of opinion that half a million would not r‘ ice gcodth^iiifferers. Some luppofc that ico negroes were loii Hutchiiifon’s lfiand and the S. Carolina fulc. correct ulimation can n< t h iumtodia'ely obtained. r I lie damage to plantations is immense, but it would at prelent be impossible to edimate it on any probable grounds. Some idu j may be'for' me dos the force and violence of the latefiat m from the’ tra ces it hat left at Coth/pmr. On that Jiarui not a vefige of the former buildings is re maining, and the furfaee is much be!c<w its former Light. el Cannon ’zi'hnh weighs j) Scclbs. was carried thirty or forty j set from its pfiti on. A bar of lead, Weighing *><*} tarried a hundred feet, enjet of Canis ter Jhot were tarried from 100 to joe feet and wjkets ate featured ad ever the J- Jltind We have Cuccoui last obtained a mere particular account refjpe&imr the fate of t he foldkrs u ho were .{ Fort the account they pv € of their fituation.it was truly dUlrcfiing. At aboutten o’clock on Saturday morning, the water Jtaj covered the Whole furface of | island ; The soldiers and three of their wives with two of their children, and a. son of Captain Nichols, afeended m the house, as the water rose ; bt this was fo extremely rapid, that it was with dim-, culty they were enabled to get or. the roof of the house. Here they continued for fome time with the wind blowing 10 high, that it was as much as they could do to keep in this lituati-jp, add to this, theinceffant fail of rain, prevented them from feeing twenty yards in any direction; about one o’clock P. M. the hoefe gave way, and every person on the roof Float ed with it, not long after the ract parted and they were all separated, fome fciied hold of part of the reel, others got plank or Fcantling, which were afloattrom j a vessel that bad previously gone to ■ pieces below them, loaded with lumber apd in this fituatfon, ihoie who were saved (8 in number) drifted o \v liming* tou island, after having remained seven hours in the water, during the time they were in the water, the lumber to which they held, fometiiues would be carried out of the water fome dittance by the! violence of the wind, and fome were vcr) much bruised by pieces falling on the 1 being previously raiftd in this way.'— I The survivors fupDofe that fome of tßnr comiades were killed by blows fuin of lumber, one of the soldiers by the name of Lacy, was drowuei, in attempting to save the life of Capt- Nchols’s son, another was saved b’drif ting in the top of a tree and came iiKWen* ty lour hours after the reiL Lieutenant Piatt conunanding officer of the Fori, with five of his men were saved. by a ; fortunate accident. Finding it ablo lutely necessary to have frefii water, went with his boat and hands, to procure fome, on Friday morning, when he came high enough up the river to obtain it, the gale incicafwd so much front N.L. and a ttrortg flood tide, that he was ob liged to come to thiscit), and after that it was impofiible for him to return ; many of the loldiers who escaped are very much bruised and wounded by nails, &c. The men who were loft; were. Reuben Armstrong, Corporal, William Crafts Muiician, Danl. Lacy *] Thomas Moor, Jofeph* Whitaker, Privates. John Glynn, Samuel M’Williams, James S. Nicoll, {on of capt. Nicoll, COM MUNIC A 7 ‘JON, Mr. Morse, In making fome observations during the ftonn, on Saturday last, I observed that the rain had a saline taste, accor dingly to convince myfelf of the truth of this, I iubjeded fome of the water which fell in a cleg i tin veflel, to analy tic, the result of winch was, that the wa ter was very highly impregnated with Jen fait. This can probably be accounted for, only, from a supposition that the water came from the ocean, and was principal ly a spray forced up by the violence of the wind, for the quantity that /ell (4. 29 In.) was immense during the lime (it continued ; This opinion is farther corroborated, by the water being fait in the river opposite the city, and even for 15 miles above it. The sand was likewise blown into the upper stories ofhoufes at a height of at ! Itall go feet above, the furface of the earth. Although the wind continued in an F.aftwardly dire&ion, yet its variation between N Sc N.E. was tnceflant ; al though the wind was so high in certain fi-uations that fome ptrfoos could not keep on their feet; yet we may reasonably iuppofc that this violence alone, would not have done such great injury to ahnoft cvvry tKhig .xpoj, j ru the ttoim, had it continued from one point only ; for in the Tornadoes of hot climates, , the damage done, is often owing more, to the whirling of the wind, than to its projee tile force. $, j For the Georgia, Republican’ Mtffrs. Printers. Political bigotry may be justly rank ed as the firft among the vaiicua causes | which warp and bias the judgment. It , vitwgeverythingthroiighthe lllufivenuft o f i prtjudice,& infallibly precludesiis frorathc j difccrnment of truth. It is the jaundice jof the mind w hich gives to all objeds J the fame falfe coloring. The learned and ! the illiterate ; the moil enlightened, as j well as the melt ignorant, are not secure 1 from its influence. Thele observations, the dictates of experience are amply con firmed bv a very recent occurrence—l allude ;o the pcrfecution of Col. Burr Issie ihamefift and unparraiied length to which this pcrfecution has been carried through the intolerant and implacable fpi rituf party, rcfleAs the highelt dtfgiace upon the federal faction—The public prints have been loaded with the moll | violent and indecent invectives against the vice prtiident. They have repre lcntcd him as the vilcft and moft aban doned of men. Nay, they have in the bittet nefs of their wrath, and m the wild frenzy of difappomtmcnt, assumed the prerogative of heaven and dared in defi ance of its precepts, to denounce his future puniffiment. They have dosed, the door* of repentance. They have not scrupled to judge his aaions such horrible outrages against humanity as to be incapable of expiation, or that,’ at :eatl his heart lias become indurated to a degree, precluding all hope .of amend ment. Ih fliort they have fairly exhapft., Ue lar.gp?geof rep Torch. If this ■kondutH is intended to f a vc p art y p Ur p o . Jes, they have a fu: redly, in the eicefs of their teal, overlapped the bounds of prudence.’ For the human mind natur ally rcvyfts front oppression—Men of the ’ least liferahty mutt turn with indigna tion anc disgust from juch unjoft aud un generous proceeding?. For uy own part I am not ar, advocate of Col. Burr,nor do I confider the prac tice of duelling juftrfiable. But I can not admit \hat he has eemmited a crime jt io heinous and outratreous a nature. Had vie affaflinated General Hamiton, and cut him off, without waning, *in the blofoips es his fins,” it woild hardly have been poflible ;to hay; been more profufe and ft were |in invectives and reproaches again ft ( ‘him.; But hn condu& wm directly the ro- Iverjfe ; possessed of a high sense of honor, I and a delicacy of feeling, which could | u*t brook an imputation again ft his good funie, in an unhappy moment, and un- Llcr the impulfc of pafihn, excited bv die conduct of Gen. H. who had certainly taken more liberties ’ with his character than mere political cppofition would war rant, he did it is trite, in compliance with the spirit of the times, tyke a method of vindicating his injured reputation which 1 never can coniider as juftifiable. But ftiould we not make allowances for the frailty of human nature for the influence of cuftoman.i example ? Should *ve not conii ler that to the man of nice fenfibili t\, life without honor is regarded ns worthleis? 1 know that thefc cdnfiderations wiil have 110 weight with a’ certain cltifs of nr<i ; but to those I do not add refs my- I felt—i speak to the candid and !>’erel. | Taruny own part declare l an. not a partisan of Mr. Bu-r, r.~>v am I influenced by any confide lat ion but that ofjuiLcc. VERITAS. Th: ccmmittee appointed to afcertiin the true line of low wa ter m-.rkm Savannah River, will 6nd tie oocaiion the hc teft ojporrjnity which can ever offer. It is the wish of the wharf holdeis and of the city ard it will be a negle6l o; duty to let f Lira chance tfeape. When the line is once, afeer ca; Bea, it will be worth the atten tion of council, her all whar ves shall not i 1 future be bviilr with a solid [jer head to the line. Had this been the case in the fate hurricane, much Ids damage have been fuffered. Bu a mote convene reason is the pre liirvacion or the health of the ci 7. Where wharves are bu’li /n the manner of platforms, as many of ours were, filth lodges under them, becomes a fruitful nursery of weeds and infects and frequently produces more serious conkque.ices. Wlure solid pier heads for wharves are adopted, the force of the ft ream keeps the n cie n and pure and prevents tbeaccu rr. la* u ni f unhealthy fjbfiances. To obtain t/iis objfd, how ever, ir will be neceftary that there (b'ould be as few (ieps be tween wharves as poftible ; and this may be an objedl which will come under consideration. The exertions of the City Council and .Board of health to have our shores cleaned deferv ihe praife and wc arr happy to., fay, pro.nife to be crowned with the mod happv success. NTny of the wharves are completely cleared up and progrtfs ,is rapidly making or the othrrs. The mad of mat’ ter with which they were encum bered is almost inconceivable. O wing to the vafl quantity of timber and ruins of buildings whh which it is mixed, to clear away this trash is a work of fdr .greaterlabour than was antici pated. The dole of the week promises, however, to fee us nearty free from The salt ness of ,t]ie. water at the time it was CiirowQ up* was of lervicc as rciaies to health, as it in fome meafujs- retards the progreis of de^ompolition. DIARY of the WEATHER. j, . * fTbirmomi lVmas. h A A • I • * 22 2 2 < 2- < C~. Dale v~ ■ m. *. ‘ Sept. . ii. 8o BcS. S.E. - 12, 76 82S. S.E. ij 77815. E. S.E - * ■-'* I ‘ J l Average Heat So > R^MARKe, I lthj r air,all d;<y, Hih Fair in the morning and rain o 4 3. In. in the afttimoon. , 13111 Cloudy al-day with o. 40 in. rain. PITTSiyRGH, Aimuft 18. Last week a’-rived at this place a num ber of emigrants from the Prince of W:r tembtrg’s territory in Germany, and have decended the Ohio to commence a let tic men t om Bull Creek—The purchafc of 50 ,COO acres fuis been made fome J considerable time—And we may anti cipate from their fobnety and decency ot deportment a considerable acquilition to the Hate of Ohio—The whole number at prtfeut expe ted Will amount to about 1600. Ext ract of a letter from a gentleman at Wythe Oourthonfe, (Virginia) to Ins friend in Fedeiick-Town, (Md) dat ed July 30 1804. ** U r e have for 1 2 days been clouded with a dark finoke, and this day I was infcimcd by a geutlcmatn from Kentuc ky that the Cluich Mountain had funk for many miles to the depth of 50 feet $ alter which clouds of fp.it *ke iffutd there from, so that the inhabitants at the tits - tance of 20 miles from the place were not able to diLover an object at 20 feet diflance. Tins I suppose was occasioned by the burning of the itone coal which is ia the mountain* 0 We arc inhumed,by the last packet, that the British government had just rati fied the 12th article of the /vnicrican treaty, which has been so iong fufpe-nded. vVe I hall b e anxious to receive a con firmation of this news, so favorable to the Briufli colonies as it gives the Ame rican traders the option oi receiving the moil of their cargoes in any fpecics of our produce—This wiil have the effect or keeping within ourfclves, much <>f the cath wdiich has hitherto been rtctiv ed by the Americans, and laid out with our enemies, tor sugar, coffee, 4c. or laid out i.i the E. India trade. jfei'nnim Paper. From Ihe South Carolina State Gazette. Pendleton djlritf, /h>£uft 16, iS ‘q. At a meeting ef'Citizcr.s from diffe rent quarters of this diftridl, publicly as sembled in the Court-house, on this day, to eonlult, propose and agree on three proper persons to represent the Lid dis trict in the state legiflatnre, General j Pichcui and General Anderfm were no- J urinated, and }rcfling!y solicited to con- I lent to serve the people on that occasion, jit elected. A third candidate was nci 1 the.r named nor propoLd. General Pickens, in a short blit ani mated and pointed address, very politeb a*id obligingly declared, that if he was elected by the fretf and voluntary voice of the people, he would serve them. Ge neral Andcrfon, in a speech cha rafteriftically bold, energetic and inde pendent, fpokc as follows Friends and Fellow- Citizens— When citizens are tired with the political servi ces of a man, it is high time for him to withdraw hitnfelf from public duties ; such was the appearance of things ai the close of the last election, and such were the sentiments I was then impressed with. Political fabthoods cannot rest easy on : the mind of any man ; the time they | are current they have their effect ; but i like a fliadow tiny pass away ; such was j my idea, and such I have been led to be } lieve, has been the result as to myfelf. That 1 was, previous to the kft eledion, the iubjed of much political slander, 1 had reason to know, and to feel. I feel, gentlemen, lecuufe those political fear,dais then in general circulation throughout the diltrict, ha l a tendency to betray, de lude and nuflead many of my worthy and innocent fellow citizens,, and to rob me for a time of that confidence I had long held amongst them ; a confidence i had earned by tny belt and lioneft endeavours to serve them from the firft fettling of the diltrid, directed by ihefoundeft dictates of my understanding, capacity and inte grity ; and I am peiftdly correct in fay ing, that every public action of my life, was intended for the good of my coun try ; I never had any pertonal or private views of my own, abiiracitd from the real advantage of our common country I have fought no office of profit for my felf, family or friends. I have in no in ftauce cralted, aggrandized, or benefit ed mylelf beyond the poorest of my fel low citizens. My greatest zeal arid ex ertions ft. ve been employed to promote the honor, credit and respectability of this diltriCt, and for the advancement of your belt political interests, in common with the rest of our fellow citizens. I have been the faithful guardian over the po litical rights of the poor planter, and al ways struggled to Jcffen his burthens. What I fay in this address, 1 vouch and teftity also for general Pickens ‘; and yet our public conduct, by detigniug men, has been reproached and the fubjeft of calumny. Perfection in man is not to be looked for or expected ; and from my flight opportunities of acquiring depth in, or any extent of ■political knowledge, any claim on my part is little indeed; therefore, I make no douot I may have often erred in judgement ; but on beings convinced of that error, 1 have ever been ready ta retract ; and 1 with truth assert, that under the late cloud of defamation and political slander, the re&itude of my intentions in every act, has operated as a balsam to my mind, and that the patriot ic regard and attachment which i have always eater ained, poflATed, and cxcrci icd, tor the good of our common country has been disinterested, undiffemblcu, anu floccre. I have no peafonal ambition ‘\rt*;?emcn f for a public life ; I 1 ad rrn b rather be left to enjoy a pleating retire ment at my own home ; mv fcrvices hiv-a ‘ never been offered from * and fire to he in anv public situation, but only'in co npli anc? with the wifl. of the J ! t(l d made up my mmd i:i laf*, to decline it altogether, and it was with great re lu&ancc l attened here on thi- and .v. •It is true, I have had pressing fo-.icitMions made bv men living in different parts ot thediftrid,perfonally, and by letters, (rmd from men too I will always feel a pica fure to oblige) requefliug me to confeut that rny ntsme flioidd be lift das a candi date, but 1 never have alfented t’iuv>.o until this moment. The importunity, ar.d applications of my fellow citizens nave prevailed over my own wishes ; and with a refpcdtfiti compliance to their’s, I now.declare, that if f am cie&ed by the free, voluntary and uninfluenced votes, of my ft lluw'-cir z-ns at large, that I will once muri. endea vour toferve them as well as I c?n. I | will not life words nf recrimination to J the dthamers of my pad public conduA \ ticft of mj” feiK.vv-titizt.nß now know, jr | will ere long know, tint their tr j ttiitrue, contrived and circulated j ft)’ electioneering purpofta , but 1 ; this report unity, in person, and in th : s ; public manner, to contradict and deny 1 them in the whole. The report of mv • wishing 10 eftahlifh the Prefoyterian iv- Jiigiiip. in rxclufion of all other religion* jlucicties* was a ruouftrous, and artful j infir.uatiou, ikbrioated to withdraw the ‘confidence oi that refoeCfaMp body ‘of people, the Bnptifts, from ‘me. I j now foicmnly gCnti. men, that | I would have been amongif the Cv ft i men in the country, that would have lopbofcd such a propoliiion. I am in j principle averse to any such establishment. j I a.r. for all majikiud, the poor equal ; i.hihe rich, enjoying equal rights ia j every n !ptd, boui civil Ci.d religious.— I Am a friend to the free toleration of e very fe£t of religions profcflfors. I respeOf truly religious fodeties of every denomination, and with them |to hold, exercise and enjoy the fame \ fieedom, power, benefit and advantage, according to their different proffffions *rid irftitutions. the upright, honest and virtuous Baptist or Methodist, is valued and eftcemed by me m society equal with the Presbyterian or Church man ; I know no difference in them as men, as citizens, or members of society ; 1 never have made, neither will I ever make, fan&iou or patronize any differ ence or diftindion, either in a public or private cliaiadcr; and 1 hope hereafter my principles and feritimeiits on this fub jeCt Will be cor redly known and undcr itood. After this address, and after this compliance with your vvifhes, I exped that new rumours will be made, artful inventions and iniinuations ufed> and or her jealoulies created, to alarm your fears, again to confound and deltrov the freedom of election. If tins fliouid be the case I camion all my fellow-citizens to be aware of them, to mark the au* thorn, to diferedtt every malicious report, and to ilamp the‘attempt as founded on ele&ioneering craft, fraud and impofltion. Gentlemen, aa far as ivfpects myfelf I repeat, l am entirely indifferent ; { ihail be perfectly satisfied with the refalt of your ekdion. I render you my best thanks for your confidence in me, and for your polite attention. I beg leave to affine you, that the happinels, prosperity and refpedtability of the citi zens of this Jiftiict, arc. jeonfiderations whicli will always embrace my firft and greatest attention. ROBERT ANDERSON. N. B. Permiflion was asked and leave given to publilh the above address. At the above meeting it was resolved warmly to recommend to all the citizens in the diftridf, not present, to unite, and firmly support the eledlion of general Pickeu3 auid genera! Andcrfon. NEW-YOkKl, August 21. New -York, 2 Oth Jiugujly. ISO 4. MefTrs. Lamg & Cos. Gentlemen—Enclosed are copies of two letters received by me on Saturday last, from the commander cf his Britan nic inajelly'i ship Leander, You will do „ne the favor of giving them a place in your paper of to-morrow. I am your very obedient servant, THOMAS BARCLAY, (copy.) Leander, IVednefiLy, \sth A tig vf,} to 4.. My Dear Sir—The enclosed letter re lates to the circumilance of the Revenue Cutter, of which I have no doubt you have heard ; and I have no objedtiofl to my name being published with the expla nation, since it is certainly the r<verfc of our wishes to give any -jult foundjfion. for complaint. Men of sense ought’ to confider our situation, and the nature of our duty cooly, before they complain vi olently. 1 am, mv dear fir, See. See. ALEXANDER SKENE". Col. Barciary. H. M. S. Leander , Augufl \+th, 1804. Sir—lt was reported to me that* a French privateer was palling near bis ma jefty J 3 {hip, and on examination, the ref fel did appear to carrry a large French pendant, without an enligr.. The boats were immediately armed, and a gun fired to bring this vciTei to. She hoisted American colours ; vve fired c# mare, and the. boats were inftacrly recalled. This little incident, 1 am grieved to find, has bee* conftrusd into pnnediated infuit to the American national than
