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120 iHufcs. £ Written ly a Veteran of th: late American army."] The duty of an AMERICAN HERO. Addressed to the President. “ J)F.AR is that man, to virtue’s c.aufe is dear, Who for liir. fullering count ry drops * tear,” Rut dearer he, whom patriot duty warms, To rife her champion inthe llrife ot arms; To guard her falety from imperious force ; To guide her armies and direst her course : Compel her vanquifh’d enemies to yield, And rear her arenes to the bloody held. Such have we seen thee in Columbia’s cause, When injur’d freedom room’d her High led laws; Buch have we seen thee tife in Irenes <>i death, And blailed legions tremble at thy breath j War's dreadful clarion drop her murderous found, And Peace, delightful seraph ! futile around ! What deep felt raptures old this hour imparl; What strong emotions burst from every heart ; When fir'll we saw the bloody contcil end, And hail’d our country’s faviour & its friend! Yet toon that country felt anew alarm, And call’d its hero to ailpel the ftoi m ; To check the causes of domestic ftrife, And mould the expiring fabrick into life. With generous warmth you heard a nation’s pray ‘r, Left Vernon’s recess for a life of care : Wuh parent hand our fhatter’d Itate renew’d, With wisdom temper’d & with llrengthendu’d; And in declining years, frefh toils have brav’d, Toguardihatcmpin* whichyourarmshad lav’d. But fee new fpettres lift their horr.d dupes! New civil Cornells rife, and difeord gapes! Contention fiercely fwclls its jarring notes, And faftion hilLs thro’ her hundred throats— Intent our infant veirelto o’erwhehn ; Or chace the long tried Pilot from the helm! Yet let not frowns like these thy hopes impair, Non drive ihy Heady patience to despair ; But let thy country, at this moment , prove, The manly efforts of thy generous love. Defend their hcav’n-born rights, defend thine °wn I [known. Let charter’d powers from lawless claims be Like fume tall cliff, which winds and waves assail, Stand thou the bulwark of the trembling vale— And while such threat’ning ills around are hurl’d, O iilk thy glory to a world ! L O N D O N. The Yorkshire Phenomenon. The following letter relative to this Phe nomenon, has been written to Mr. ]o phetm to a friend. The very lingular phenomenon which took place near my house in Yorfliire, fn Sunday the 20th of December, ’97, has excited general curiosity. Being m London at the time, it was impolhble for rae to know more of it, titan front fome vague accounts in provincial and London papers, and to be certain from private letters that such an event had occurred. On my return here X found that for thefpaee ofnearly three weeks 30 or 40 peribns on each day had come to fee the Hone which had fallen : and I found likewise a number of letters from different parts of the kingdom, re questing me to give them an account ol the circumfiance. The following detail, which you are welcome to make public, will be, I hope, fatisfaftory on the lubjeft : The exaft weight of the Hone which fell,and which was weighed immediate ly on being dug up, was by Merlin’s balance, 3 Hone 13 pounds. On being measured, it had buried itfelf in twelve inches of foil , and after that in fix inches of solid chalk rock, from whence it was fomc kittle time in being extracted. When taken up it was warm, and fmoak ed. At the time it fell, a number ofex plolions were heard by the tiircc men, nt short intervals, about as loud as the report of a pillol. The Hone is firong ly impregnated with fuiphur, and then fmclr very Hrongly, The general tex ture of the Hone is that ofgrey granite, of which I know of none that may be called “ natives of this country.” # What renders this event the more ex traordinary is, that the day was a mild, hazy day ; a fort of weather very fre quent on these hills, when there arc no winds or Horms; but there was not any thunder or lightning the whole day. It fell about three o’clock in the after noon. Its course, as far as I can colled irom different accounts, was from south west. At Bridlington, and at different villa ges, founds were heard in the air, which the inhabitants took to be the noile of guns at sea : but at two adjoining vil kiges, the noise was so diltind of lomc thmg lingular palling through the air, towards my habitation, that five or fix people came up to fee if any thing extra ordinary had happened to ray house or grounds. In burying itfelf in theearth, it threw u P, a .§ reatCr quantity of foil by far than a lheli would have flung up and to a much greater extent. When the labour er had recovered from the extreme alarm into which the delcent of luch a Hone had thrown him, his firfl defeription was Columbian Jftufeum, “ that the clouds opened as it fell, and he thought heaven and earth were com ing together.” From the various persons who have been to infpc f t this curioftty, and who are dill daily coming from different parts, no fatisfadory conjecture has yet been hazaided from whence it can have come. We have no such (tone in the country. There has not been any where in thele parts any eruption from tlie earth. As it is jagged and Angular, it cannot have come from any building ; and as the day was not tempestuous, it does notfeem probable that it can have been forced from any rocks, the neare! of which are those of Flamborough head, a diftanceof 12 miles. The particulars of this event are now before the public. 1 have taken every due care to examine the accounts given # o by the different persons, who all agree upon the fubjedl; and from what I have ieen, I have no doubts of the veracity of their relation. To account for so ex traordinary an appearance, I leave to the referches of the philosopher. I have the honour to be, fir, Your obedient humble servant, Edward To 1* h a m. Wold Cottage, February 9, 1796. Cotton Ginning. T -1 FI E Subscriber is empowered by JL Mr. EV E y of the Bahama Islands, to receive a fubfeription for his Cot ton Ginning Machine. Gen tleman of the Hates of South-Carolina and Georgia, who may wilh to become fifijfcribers, are requefied to fend for ward their names as soon as convenient, in order that the fubfeription may be ciofed. Mr. Eve will engage to deliv er the Machine, independent of the pow er that impels it, in Savannah, for fifty guineas. On Mr. Eve’s part, he con tradsthat this Machine will gin 30olbs. of dean cotton per day, with a small impelling power either of wind, of wa ter, or of horses. This machine in a few days, and with a trifling expence, can be attached to any machine in uie for other purpoles, such as 1 ice machines, saw or grill mills. Mr. Eve will fend over a person competent to set them in motion, and fully to explain their sev eral powers. From fome small expe riments that have been made upon the green feed cotton it appears that from 150 to 20olbs. can be ginned in this machine per day. For further informa tion upon this fubjed I beg leave to re fer gentlemen to the undersigned certi ficate from a refpedable Cotton Plan ter of this Hate, who has been an eye witness ot the execution done by this machine, and to various certificates that have come out at different times in the Bahama papers, signed by themofl ref pedable Planters in that country. Fur ther particulars will be made known upon application from any gentleman who may wifli to become a fubferiber. Ths machine has met with universal ap probation in every part of the Welt- Indies to which ir has been sent. THOMAS SPALDING. GEORGIA, Chatham County. IDO certify, that, being on a visit for my health to New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, I was induced to make an experiment on Mr. Eve’s Cot ton Ginning Machine of the green feed cotton, commonly cultivatedin the back country of the southern Hates, and sent to Savannah for a small quantity there of, which on experiment 1 found to an swer. The rainy season letting in a bout the time I received the cotton the whole was not ginned, but Mr. Eve as sured me his machine was competent, irom the calculation he had made, to clean out in good weather two hundred weight of clean cotton in the course of a day. The machine separates the feed from the cotton by rollers without do ing any injury to the ltaple, and, from a laniple ot feed and cotton in pofleflion of the fubferiber, any gentleman can be immediately convinced of the truth of this opinion. During my Hay in Nas sau I frequently visited Mr. Eve’s ma chine which was impelled by wind, and never saw more than two people attend ing the fame, one a grown person and the other a Fmall boy. This machine is capable of being attached to almoH any of those used for various purposes in this country ; the conilruclion appears by no means complex, and every planter of confequcnce in the Bahamas is in the practice of using them. J. WALDBURGER. C A S Ii given for clean R A G S, dt thii Office, The Savannah Academy, in the FILATURE. TIIE subscriber having engaged an Afllftant to tearh -writing, arithmatic, book.-keep ii.g, navigation, surveying, and the inoft uieiul of the practical branches oi the mathematics, ptirpofes to keep an Evening School, lor the inilruOionof youth in Latin, Greek, and what ever is taught in the day-school. Public exam inations (hull be regularly holden, at the end of every quarter. Unless the pupils wilt he caafed to attend regularly in the fc.hool hours, the hopes of a fpvedy progress, mult unavoid ably be disappointed—the progress of the l'cho lar, isthe belt criterion of merit or demerit in the teacher. In the mean time, parents and guardians arc referred to the following recom mendaiions, to which many others of equal sefptttability might be added. Win. NIXON. Savannah, June 7. oi )py of a letter from the underfigoed gentlemen, to the Rev. \LV. Nixon. Sir, It is with great plcafure we express our opin ion and approbation of the rapid progress of the voting gentlemen under your tuition, in tlie Latin language. At the public examination this morning, we were moil agreeably surprised at their un co.union proficiency, and fully convinced of the advantages attending your mode of induc tion. Although from perufmg the short (pe cimen of your plan lately communicated to the public, we had enter;ained very favoura ble ideas of its success ; the fpecimeus exhibit ed tilts day, nave far exceeded our molt {an guine expeditions, and we think ourselves ful ly juflified, in giving yon thistellimony of our approbation of your method and talents in the education of youth. That you may meet with ample encouragement, and a correlpondem suc cess, as well in your office of tutor, a.s in the intended publication at large, of your excel lent plan 01 inferuftion, is, fir, the warmcllwifh of your molt obedient servants, C. C. Pinckney, Richard Hutfon, Henry Purcell, James Wilson, Philip Smith, T. H. M‘Calla, liaac Chanler, John Davidlon. Charlrfton, Dec. 18th, 1789. Extract of a. from a. gentleman in B:r?nuJ<i to his friend in Ciiurlejion, dated November 37th, 1791. I peruied with admiration, the Rev. Mr. Nixon’s Profoiy made easy, and the specimen of his plan for facilitating the acquisition of the Latin language. They do him in the opinion of every class of my friends, the highest cre dit, and the account given by Ur. Tucker, of the manner of the public examination of his pu pils, entirely ellaced from the minds of fome persons, the doubts they had entertained of the fairnefs 6f bufmefs. aB-qt. DISTRICT of GEORGIA. CdRCL/Il COURT of the U>'ted States, Abril -jthj 1796. JOSEPH SPENCER. Charles Harden, John Wallace. \\ dliatn Middleton, Gilb'-rt Baillic, David Delrgal, John Cooper and Charles Ir vin, having though dulv summoned, made de fault as Grand Jurors for the term aforefaid. It is ordered, tbit they be fined in the sum of Ten Pounds each, unless they do make on oath, a fufficient cxcufe, to be filed in the Clerk’s office, of thisdiflridt, on or before thefirilday of the next term. And whereas, John Pouller, Francis Davies, Francis Chauvin, Samuel Fulton, James M’Col lock, John Warren, and Jonathan Fabian, be ing duly summoned as petit Jurors, for the above term, made default. It'is ordered, that they be fined in the sum of rive Pounds each, unless they fhal! shew good and fufficient ex cuse, after the manner and within the time above direftfd : And it is further ordered, that the above be published 111 the Gazettes, four weeks fucceflively, that the Lid defaulters may have due notice theieof. Ry order of the Cou't, CHARLES HARRIS, Clerk. Savannah, 20th May, 1796. 23-81, Strayed or Stolen on the Ift instant, a BAY HORSE, eight years old, about 15 hands high, a Email piece cut out of the left ear, thin main which hangs on the right lide of the neck, a fipall white fpet on the inside of the near hind foot—the above mentioned horse was purchased of Major Naylor, and its probable he is gone towards Au gusta.—ls stolen, a reward of Twenty Dollars, will be paid on apprehending the Thief and securing the Horse, or Ten Dollars for the Horse only, by ap ply ing to EWING c? M V C ALL. Savannah, May 23. (2\tf.) Edward Griffith, Watch-Maker , (on the Bav ‘ MOST refpcdffully informs his CUS TOMERS, that lie has received per the Brig Apollo ; a Handsome Ajjortment of ’ Jezccllcry, Q3T EDWARD GRIFFITH, re quests all those indebted to him to make immediate payment, and all those who have accounts against him to present them for payment. Savannah, April 19. ni4..tf. I AM IN WANT OF 4 or 5 NEGRO BOYS, 14 LEV EN,twelve or 15 years old,on Hire, for whom, I will pay the usual or customary Wages, monthly or quarterly, as may be ft suit the owners. B. PUTNAM. March 19, 1796, GEORGE ENOE, Taylor and Habit-Maker, Next door to Edw. Griffith , on the Bay RETURNS his finccre thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Savannah, and the Pub lie in general for the encouragement he has ,7 ceived in the line of his profrtfion, and w jfl * a continuance of the fame. They may rely 0 n the Itrirtelt attention to their orders, and work done in the neateil and molt fafhionable man n- r. Orders from the country will be RriCtlv attended to. lie has on hand a small aflor;• ol GOODS, 1 tut able for the prefeui and up! proaching leamn—V i z. P SILK NANKEENS, INDIA Do. SUPERFINE CLOTHS Do. CASSLMERES, MANCHESTER MUSLINS & MUSLINETS, BROWN JEANS, MARSEILLES OUILTINC Are w?v?„ C \ SH wi , U 3 NEGROv U UNCii, wno unucrllands Cookiiui Walk ing. °/, ‘y Savannah, April 1 5, 1796. L* John N. Brailsford, At lhs Ship Chandlery £sf Commiffioa s T O R E, End, r the BL UFF : Has ior S A L E, A variety of Articles in the Ship Chandlery Line : -‘-I-SC—A Quantity of Dry Goods & Hard JVarc ) And keeps a < on it ant fuprly of GROCERIES. fio” Mnfitrs of l iff Is and others f ft,, plied with SEA STORES, c Ac. at the jhortefl Notice. Savannah, Georgia. Savannah id Augulfa T A G E, \ \/ ‘LL Hart from Major Brown’s Boarding ‘l'V Houle in Savannah, every Saturday at Nine o’Clock in the morning ; and from Mr . Cables in Augusta, every Wednesday at Six o’Clock in the morning.—The Fare of each pas senger Eight Dollars, with an allowance of 141 b. Baggage : All extra Baggage gdjj per lb. Way Passage, .jd. per mile.—No Seat can be en gaged till the Money is paid—the Stage Book will De kept ai the Coflee-Houfe.by Maj. Brow.:, where Seats may be taken. PalUngers are de dehred to be punctual to the lin.e, as the Stage waits for no perfon.—Exira Baggage mull be at the Stage-Houfc, by Seven o’Clock in the morning, or run the rifle of not going. NATHANIEL TWINING. N.B. Pafiengers Baggage is considered under their own care. Savannah, May 13. 21-ts. 10 Dollars Reward. SI OLLN out of the Office of the Colum bian Museum, on the 16th initant, a faffi ionable I ranch Silver WATCH, very flat, with a gut Chain and Key, with a Iteel pipe, has ‘-he name of Tround'ari, (-if rightly recollect ed) on the face. Whoever will deleft the Thief with the Watch, shall receive the above reward, or 5 Dollars for the Watch only. If the above Watch, should be offered for sale to any ot the Goldfniiths in this city, they will pleale to Hop it, and the person Offering it for hue, and give information to the Printers of he Columbian Museum, who will pay the above reward. Savannah, May 20, 1796. IPANTED VO PURCHASE A Negro Woman, Accustomed to Cook, Waih ir Iron, for which a liberal Price will be given. ROBERT WATTS. Savannah, March 22 d, 1796. Five Dollars Reward. RAN-away from the Subscriber, on the Bth initant, a Mulatto BOY, named Y out, 19 years old, and about 5 feet high, had a fear or two in his face. Whoever will lodge him in the co/nmon goal in Savannah, fliall have the above reward. JOSEPH R. DOPSON. Mon teeth, April 11. (n.13.) 5 Dollars Reward. \ BSC ON DF D from the Subferi j. \. ber the 4th inH. an Indented Wo man Servant, by name HANNAE FULLER, aged about nineteen years ; a low well sett woman, fair complexion and hair.—All jieilons are forbid har bouring the above servant, on pain 01 being dealt with according to law. FRANCIS MALLERY. Savannah, April 1 3. ni J. SEAM EN S ART! CLE S, For Sole ot tbis Office. No. 30,