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Dr. Cash in the City Treasury, from
To Balance on hand sift August, 1813, * Dolls. 886 78
To Rents of City Lots , via
, Os Franklin Ward 859 91
Warren do. 371 3 a
• Waftiington do. 524 32
liberty do. B<y 31
Columbia do. 1191 77
Greene do. 905 15
Elbert do. 920 97
New Franklin do. 496 88
Spring Hill do. 2i 50
Rope Walk 87 2 5
Filiature, East half *3 2 5°
Ditto Weft halt 2 S 2 5
Court-house L.ot 7y
Lot G Percival ward 57 5°
6660 64
To Fines— Rec’d for sundry fines per return of
City Mar'hal • 36
To Market —Rec’d for half Tales of Stall paid in
advance 934 80
Received Stall Notes 1066 23
Do. of Clerk extra fee* and proceeds of Tales per
order'of the Commiflioners 2 3 43
Deduct paid city-marihal commiflion on sales of
Stalls ‘ 39 55*
■... 1984 91
■To Badges—Rec’d for fiindry Badges 464 5 0
Duduft paid nuking and painting do. + 38 50
J.
To Purchases of City Lots ; —Received amouni
of valuation Lot No. 32, Columbia dt 3*5 1
Received 10 per cent on 6 Lots re-fold 4^489
w CO4
Deduft paid city-marftul commilSons and clerk
for deeds 7 2 99
73* 01
To Chatham County-—Revived of Tax Collett
tor balance on J. I. court’s order 200
To Filiature —Received amount Tales of fame S°
To Licences •—Received for fundrv Licences *543 *7
To lanters’ Bank— Received Treafurtr’s notfc
discounted 3000
Dt dud paid Treasurer’s note at Bank 1000
..
To Powder purchased —Rec’d of the State of
Georgia T 720 70
Deduct paid for powder _ 1562 jO
.
7o City Magazine— Received of the State of
Georgia for fame 955
Deduft paid balance due for building do. 489 47
7o City Watch Establishment , 1807 —Rec’4 11 “ 465 53
for 1 tax and 1 execution . 4 62
Do. 1808, received for taxes and executions 17 *•
Deduct paid Treasurer’s commillions . 46
Do. 1809, received for taxes and executions 23 00
Deduc f paid Treasurer’s commillions 4®
. . 22 60
Do. 18 ro, received for taxes and executioife 120 to
Deduct paid 1 realurer’s commillions f 4*
. - 118 68
Po. ,8,1, received for taxes and execution® *57 8* ,
Deduct Treasurer’s commillions 7 2 3
Do. 1812. received for taxes - 385 23
Deduct Treafurcr’s commillions 40 42 t
, . - ‘ 344 Bi
Do. 1814. received for taxes a 658045
Deduct paid 7 months’ pay-roll r<
Do. paid Treasurer aflefling, furnifliing ab- ffc
Bract, and making digest 25?
Do. paid for Wood and candles and guard
158 24
-- 6076 24
CO4 21
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dollars 17304 .8
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Upon ah examination of JQHNT PE‘TTIBO N JE , S Treasury Book*, we fiod that ns barges are corred and agreeable to
Vouc hers produced to us,number one to two hundred and five, that tr.e ha an:e ar ve flared to be in the Treasury at th?s
date, say Ten Dollars and cents is in conformity with the bala res produce;! hv balan e sheet ot his Ledger and
by his Cash Book, containing receipts and payments from 21IV Augud, 1813, to 21 it AuguA, 1814,
, M. Mf’ LEISTER. }
ROBERT MACK AY, > Committee of Finance .
S. ROE )
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BOSTON, Atiguft at.
To the Editors of the Gazette .
H lme* Hols. (Vineyard.) Aug. 17.
u Gentlemen.- His Majesty’s frigate
Pomona,itfCmerly the French trigate Bolus,
%ent into Menafnlhal, and took off five
oxen and a number of Sheep, for which
they paid in specie; and yelk relay fire
came into this harbor, immediately after
came to anchor, and lent her boat on shore
for a pilot, to carry her to Nantucket.—
The officer being informed that the (hip
drawing lo much water could not be car
ried over by any of our pilots, returned on
board; but could not fiitisfv the Captain
but that file might lie carried over; and
lie then lent anotlieT boat on (lure, with
the firft Lieut, another officer and i a men,
with orders to letch off a pilot orlix men.
The officers and men were very civil, (bid
their Captain had been deceived by a per
fou he had on board, who laid he could
carrv her over, hut when he arrived here,
he said he could not; that the Captain was
sick, which made him rather fr< tful; and
requested one of our citizens to go off and
- talk with the Captain, promiliug to set him
on shore again. Captain Peter Weft went
off to fee the Captain, and was treated ve
ry civilly indeed. He said he had written
Orders toga to Nantucket, and relieve it,
and give them liberty to trade to the con
tinent; that his drfigns on Nantucket
•were not ill, but good. ('apt. Weft ad
viled him to go round the south fide of the
Vineyard; that it was not fate to go over ,
thelhoal.at any rate. The Captain f .id
he vas ver* much obliged to Capt. Weft
for coming*ff. and should accept of his ad
vice: be then put captain Well on shore,
•: t ‘• ■cv - > ■ 1
immediately got under weigh, aud went
out of tlie Sound,
DFAEU TERS.
The praftice of nation? with regard to
deforters is lingular; but they all aft 011
tin fame principle. When a man difoi ts
from an enemv's army, he is received by tlie
officers to whom be comes, with fmilesand
a welcome. Yet, probably, the next day,
the fame officers sentence a man to death
for defertton, and paint in strong colors
the enmity of offence! People alio rejoice
at defort ions from the enemy, and yet
commend (hooting fordefertionl Another
Angularity is. that those who, wlien in the
enemy’s flanks, were called ragamuffins
when thev dulert to us, are called fine hear
ty young follows.
fnoM THE BO3TOt YANKEE.
DI \LOGUF.
Between Commodore Hardy and a Citi
zen of Stonnington.
Com. What yoitr business, Sir ?
Cit. I wiffi to know, Sir, wlien you are
going to fend us any more of your balls ?
Com . Do you want any more of our
balls— do you wilh us to fire any more
at your town" ?
Cit. Yes, Sir, we like the sport amazing
ly— 1 have colfofted a cart load of your
halls, and fold them for doll. 1 25 cents
each ; and have made a contrast to de
liver another load, and to know
wlien I can perform it.
Com. You are a lingular fellow. Do
you rt-ally want more ot’iuy balls? Have
we done you no injury ? Are not the peo
| pie of Stopuingtou frigbteued ami olannet |
By tumps and Cisterns— Paid Contractor 4 1
V f/-ry
Do. cleaning wells and cisterns ,6 9
By Ureets and Lanes— Paid Scavenger’s fala
/ ‘376 68
Do. paid surveying encroachments 99 °7
Do. do. for hauling Sand and levelling Streets, &c. 246 92
5 * 1723 47
By Board of Fire Masters— Paid making and
repairing engines, ladders, fire hooks, iheds, fire
buckets, attendance on engines, printers’ ac
counts, clerk and mefietiger’s Diaries, and room
rent, fc c . - ao6 9 77
By County for repairs 1009 5*
Do. for rations furnifhed 12 months 855 42
l)o. deputy gaoler’s salary 442 |l
I>i. pin fician’s (alary 200
Do. taking up hogs, &c. 30
Deduct rec’d federal marlhal 1 year’s rent 200
Do. rec’d of the gaoler balance of 4 acc’t curr’t b 27 37
By County Court-House—Paul keeper’s salary 80
Do. for repairs 53
>33
By Cemetry —Paid Sexton’s ialaries 200
Do. for Indtx for Regiller 2 25
——— 202 25
By Salaries of Officers —Paid treasurer, clerk j
city-marlhal, and nitflenger , 2321 66
By Printing Account —Paid two printers for
publilhing per contrast 459
By Incidentnl Charges— Paid difeount on treat
filter’s notes and llamps T9O 17
Paid offii e rent for clerk mayor’s court 40
Do. celebrations, national victories > 2 3 39
Do. for sundries under various denominations 263 28
’ - ’ ___ . —7~*~ ■!■——* 616 84.
By Town at^ Paid loir regulating and wimP
my 1 ytah 140 OO
Do. extra repairs 16 50
-
By Public Trees —Paid for planting i6 480 00
Do. for white washing the fame 31 50
JM 50
By Public Squ ares— Paid for post and chains 119 05
By Public Dotks —Paid for work and material*
Exchange dock 72 J 12
By S vannabExchange— Paid for repairing plafc.
form 228
Deduct api’i"received for rent of Cellcrs, No. 1 & 3 200
, • *8
By Savannah Exchange Fund —Paid for Exchange
Certifir: ite No. 75 150 00
Do. iiuertft on 84 Exchange Certificates 2086 81
By Public Military Works —Pa id removing Sand
near the Gaol 80
By Telegraph— Prid fonerir'tending Signals joo
By Cry Wash Establishment , 1813 —Paid 5
months pail-roll 45 2 3 c ®
Do. Treasurer’s rommilfion 194 93
Do. rewiring guard-house, furnifliing wood and
candles - 148 81
Do. guard music 51 7^
Do. this amount remitted to a watchman 28 _
-■ • 4946 24
Deduct received for taxes Ul4 09
< 3832 15
By Balance in the Treasury at this datfc so 58
‘"•7* ‘• ‘
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. .v. Dollars 17304 38
JOHN PETTIEONE, c. t.
:,f ‘ v •
at the vivid fire of lbs M ; j. Uy's }
Have \vi’ not destroyed the whale ro -:ii’
Gir You have neither frightened nor
alatmed us. We like Ur- (port vtr,
‘V'UCIi. Pi ay when wii 1 you fire any- mure
ot your Iwii- ? We have already collected
as many as will pay at! the damage s done
to the town.
Cert. If it is really a faft, that you ‘
want our balls, vou mud pay for the pow
der. It costs five dollars for the powder
for every 18-pound hall we fire. You
Yankees are ad and curious let of fol
lows. I don’t know when I (hall fend
you any more balis, without you firft p.tv
for the powder
Cit. If vou enable me to fulfill my con
trast, I lhall be muchobligtd. You have
been kind to us id far—we have made mo
ney by it, and hope you will continue
Iyour frieodlhip.
Com. You are all d—d rafcals,and
ftrll have no more of our balls. We have
already, fired one thousand 32 pound fliot,
and 800 (hells. We thought you would
have furrenden-d the Town immediately.
If this is the effeft ofour comionading, we
canuot think of enabling you to make con
traSs at ourexoenfe. Leave the Ihip, Sir.
Git. Good bye, Sir. I hope you are
not angry with us. We cannot agree to
pay for the powder ; His Maforty mull do
that. If you fond the powder on fliore,
we will agree to fend back your balls.—
This is a fair proposal, although we lhall
loose by It.
Comr Go along, Sir. We want to hew;
no more of your contrails. You are f;><T
nlatmg fellows, and d—n me if you lliall
liave any more us our bolls. *
*
Assize of Bread.
The price of FLOUR being foven dol
i irsper barrel, the weight of bread for the
p’cfent month, must be as follows, viz :
lb. oz.
12y cents loaf mull weigh 2 it
64- do. do do. do 1 ‘ 54
Os which all bakers and lellers of bread
are required to pay due attention theteitnto.
J. PETTIBONE, c. t.
Sept- 12 5j
Will be Sold,
On Tuesday, the 2stb'o&ober next, at
the Plantation of Thomas Dovers ,
in Glynn County, all the personal
Property of John Thomas, late of
said county, deceased—confjling of
Two Horses, one Saddle and Bridle,
four head of Cattle, a fine head of Hogs,
Household and Kitchen Furniture, &c. sos.
the benefit of the heirs and creditors ot
said deceased.—• Conditions calh, on the
day of sale.
’ JONATHAN THOMAS, Adm'or.
September la 55
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Notice.
AH persons indebted to the Estate of
John Thomas, late of Glynn County, dec.
are earnestly required to make immediate
payment, and thole indebted are requested
to render in tlie fame agreeably to law, to
JONATHAN THOMAS,
Administrator .
| M‘lntglb County, Sept. 6 55
Angnft 29.
With unfeigned joy we may now ven
ture to congratulate our countrymeu, that
the season of report is paji by. and we
begin to think seriously of adopting lbme
meal'ures for public defence. He who
has witneffod the unhinging tffofts of
these idle rumors on the minds of our fel
low citizens, will rejoice with 11s on this
occalion. If we may be allowed to add a
few more observations on the fubjeft of
defence, we would sincerely and zealously
recommend, what we have before mom
mended. that ir.trenchments he thrown up
in the vicinity of the city under the direc
tion of fkilful and expert engineer—
Volunteers might be so md in abundance
to perforin this duty, and in this case evei
ry man would be ready to turn a volun
teer. Abfhafted from the fon?e of focu
rity, enjoyed by obforving our fortifica
tions and breast works, rise as by magic,
the people while they are thus employed,
indulge no other idea than that of refin
ance. Everv fliovel full of earth thus
thrown up, imprefles the person thus em
ployed, with the belief, that he is contrib
uting his mice to the salvation of the city.
Our countrymen have then no leisure to
be made the Haves of idle reports ; they
are familiarized to resistance, and when
the enemy invade us, they look at their
fortifications and bid them defiance. Dur
ing our revolutionary war, when a
was menaced by the,enemy with invasion,
breast works were thrown up, formidable
parallels drawn, which it would require an
army of fifty thousand men effectually to
man. The inhabitants labored from dawn
to dark in this employment, and the con
sequence was that our enemies were foiz.
ed with alarm. They could not conceive
that so much labor would be expended on
works when there was not a force fuffr ient
to defend them from assault, and from
this caufo alone they gave up their intend
ed expedition. Now, we will fupp'Ts
that these men had thrown aside their
implements of hufbaudry, and had lis
tened to nothing but the promulgation
of reports, it is easy to foresee what
the confoquence of an invasion would
have been. ■
We will, with defference to better judg
ments, take the liberty to fogged that the
prcfeiit military fyflen is; totally and rad
ically deleftive. When men, entire (Iran
gers to each other, are drawn out and
teized by a fliew of military discipline, :.ll
of which is worse than nothing, so far
from being enamoured with, they acquire
an insurmountable disgull to the manage
ment of the musket. They are fi ran gers
to each other, and have no confidence in
their fellows. The principle of emula
tion, without which a man never can be
come a soldier, thus becomes extinft. The
duty is regarded as a drudgery altogether.
Hence we find that in time of peace, eve
ry frivolous exc use is made, every legal
exemption seized with avidity, to prevent
a man from serving on this tour of duty,
and in time of w“ar it is no better. Where
they are all strangers, there is no Uniform
pervading sympathy, no bond of alliance.
These men are not cowards in the hour
of aftion ; but they will not fight, be
cause they have no confidence in their fel
lows. A man bereft of this confidence,
though he ferls no fear himfelf, will re
treat from his enemy at the firft onset, be
cause he does not know his companion to
possess equal bravery. When men are
led to the field on such serious bufmess as
that of life and death, when they look a
round them, and behold the faces of those
in whole company they mav be compelled
to undergo the agonies of dissolution, is it a
light or unimportant thing that they find
them all strangers.
Gen. Waftiington in the fulleft and moft
decided manner, exprefled bis disapproba
tion anddiflruft of what is usually denomi
nated a militia.
Now, we would ask if these men, who
appear so powerless as a militia, might notf*
be made, and with far fefs trouble, fit for
aftual service in the field ? We answer,
that they may. Suppose that t >efe indi
viduals, liable to perform military duty,
were compelled to enrol themfoives as
members of independent companies, and
that they fliould have thc t forming of those
companies among themfoives. Every man
i:i that case would fork his old afTociate*
and comrades, the friends of his y cutb or
riper years, in whom he repofos l;is confi
dence. The conlequence would be, that
when thus marflialkd and drawn out into
the field of battle, he would tremble more
in their presence of fbunning the engage* j
ment, than he would of refilling the ene
my. he is watched by those who know
him, whole good opinion he is anxious to
prelerve, and whole frowns are his pass
ports to scorn and disgrace. If he diflin
guifbes himfelf he is sure of being borne
out by his follows—-lie is sure that his in
trepidity is not loft on his atfociates. Em
ulation is thus deeply and radically fixed ;
ambition is awakened, and military discip
line becomes a pleasant pafthne and recre.’
ation, indead of a laborious and unprofita- •
ble drudgery. 1
In further confirmation of these re
marks, let any one notice the difference
between voluntary companies and a mi
litia. These companies go through all
the military manoeuvres with precision,
and in the hour of danger bravely Hand the
(hock, as has been proved by a recent illus
trious example. They are united with
their friends, and in such cafeS, if thev xns
naturally cowards, they dare not ibffer
their fears to preponderate at such a mo
ment. If everv member of the militia
was left free to join the military independ
ent companies now eflahlifhed, or to form
others among themfoives, we ftmuld have
the fame numerical force that we now
have, with incomparably better discipline.
The idea offeraping and huddling togeth
er, in the ranks, under foverc penalties,
i