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(seorgia&Statesman. TERMS, —$3 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE,] BY S. MEACHAM. THE GEORGIA STATESMAN Jj published every Tuesday in Milledgevillc, Opposite the Stale-House Square. IdF* Terms.... Three Dollars in advance, or Four Dollars if not paid in six months. — No subscription received for less than one year, unless the money is paid in advance, and no paper discontinued till all arrearages on subscription and advertisements are paid. N. B. —Notice of the sales of land and ne groes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guar dians, must be published sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of personal property in like man ner must be published forty days previous to Ibe day of sale. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be published nine months. Notice that application has been made for Letters of Administration, must also be pub lished forty days. *** All letters directed to the Editor, on business relating to the Office, must be post paid. THE FAMILY DINNER "I wish you would come and dine with me some time in a friendly way,” said continually to me, a young; man whom I used to meet at the coffee houses and the theatres, and who fastened himself upon me in every place, offering me civilties which I did not feel much inclined to accept. He was just such a personage as we sec hundreds of every day; and there fore I shall not describe him more particlarly, lest my readers should fix upon someone of their acquaint ance as the original of the portrait. " You must,” said he, “ come to my house, and be acquainted with my wife—there are not ten like her in the whole world; and my children, too—though I say it who should not say it —such children as mine are real blessings. I must shew you how I live. lam the happiest mas ter of a family alive, and a proper example for young men who don t like matrimony. Come and dine with tne once. We shall treat you with out ceremony, and give you only a family dinner; but I will answer for it you will be pleased.” Although I am by no means averse to splendid tables, sumptuous viands, and numerous guests, yet there is a quiet family dinner, particularly no thing which 1 enjoy more than when invited by an old friend, for the- pur pose of having a little tranquil con versation. It is refreshing to the mind, to leave for a few hours the tumult of the great world to be a transient partaker of the unostenta tiou pleasures of domestic intercourse —and in such circumstances, aflass of old lthcnish tastes better than the Bourdcaux, Saunterne, and Champagne at tables where 1 hear no conversation but that relating to the opera of yesterday, and see no thing but artificial faces, and still more artificial manners. I met my above-mentioned friend in the street a few days ago. The moment he saw me he ran up to me. laid hold of my arm and asked me where I was going. “To dinner,” was my reply. Good! good!” repli ed he : “ now I have caught you, I shall not let you go; you must take a family dinner with me. It was in vain that I pleaded a prior invitation as an excuse—my too hospitable friend would not admiit of it, and I was obliged to follow'. I consoled myself with thinking that I might fare better that I expected, and that my host might really have a pleasant wife, well-behaved children, and a good table. We reached the house, which was in the suburbs, and ascended to the third story. As we went up stairs we were greeted by the noise of chil dren crying and fighting. “Ah!” said my conductor, laughing, “do you hear my little darlings ? The poor sweet fellows are hungry, and have been waiting for me,” Now, thought I. if the little darlings make as much noise during our dinner, I shall have to repent my weakness. Me knocked : a thin, sallow-faced woman opened the door, and on see ing me started back, with marks of no v;ery agreeable surprise. My dear,” said my host, “ this is Ilerr C***, my friend, whom I have so of ten mentioned to you—he is going to take his chance with us to-day of a family dinner.” The lady’s iong visage became still longer at these W’ords ; she made m§ a curtsey which resembled a contortion of anger, ami drawled out “Happy to see you,” m so gloomy a tone, that it sounded very much like “ [ w ish you were hanged. Nothing can be more un pleasant than to feel ourselves unwel come iu bouses whither we came against our inclinations. 1 wished myself ten miles off; but my new ac quaintance said, “ Now let us leave the mistress to make her prepara tions,” and led me into an adjoining room, to shew me his dwelling. “ j have not many apartrm ids,” continu ed he, perfectly self-satisfied, “ but every thing is noal and orderly ' I was then obliged to stoop to get into a cabinet, which two little dirty brats seemed to have been turning topsy-turvy The floor and furniture were covered with snips of paper, pictures, knives, spoons, and toys of all kinds. “ This is the only true happiness—to be a father!” said.my host, while he cleared a chair to offer it to m . “Hey, Charles! Louis! come and ask the gentlman how he does.” “ I sh’a’nt,” said Charles, and the father whispered in mv ears, “ Full of spirit; quite a character. — Come to me directly,” continued he to the boy, somewhat more severely. The boys laughed, and remained still. The father went and pulled them to wards me by the ears, assuring me all the time oftheirobcdience. “Now Charles, have you learned your les son 1 repeat your fable.” The boy muttered— “ I was resolved one day to go, To see the wild beasts at the show.” andrunofi'directly to his play. “Very well,” said the father; “now it is your turn, Louis - Ah! you shall see the boy’s a genius : lie says such things, they are quite suprising. Tell me, Louis, w hat is the greatest wonder in the world V’ “ A mince pie !” answered the hoy pertly The lath r laughed long and loudly. “Did I not say so ? you did not expect such a witty answer, did yon ? I shall bring him up to politics.” At last the pale-laced mistress thrust her head in at the door, squeak ed out, “Dinner’s ready !” and im mediately shut the door again with a bang. “ Dinner, dinner 1” bawb and the children, and rushed out of the room before us. We followed, and the father placed me at table be tween his two sprouts, telling me they would amuse me in a thousand dif ferent ways. A great spaniel imme diately began pawing me to beg some thing of me, and a starling jumped dowu on the table, and hopped from plate to plate; while the lady handed me a napkin, which would have been white but for the service it seemed to have rendered to more than one predecessor. Mamma helped the soup, which proved too little salted. Papa took notice of this in the fol lowing polite remajk :—“My Julia is as sparing-of her salt in the soup as in her words.” Julia was accord ingly obliged to rise from table to fetch the salt, which had been forgot ten She excused herself, saying that her servant had been away all day to attend a sick mother. “ That’s a lib,” cried Charles ; “ we have not had a servant these three weeks.” A smart rap on the knuck les with a spoon rewarded his com ment—he began to bellow, and would no4ie quiet till mamma gave a bit of sugar-candy, which he sucked instead of soup. “ You must excuse our fare,” said the lady ; then turning to me, and offering me a dish of vegetables with a fried sausage in it, “ I did not know my husband intended bringing a guest home—but he is always play ing me such tricks.” I coloured up to the eyes. “ Hey ! what!” said the husband, “ O, friends will make allowances; Herr C*** will, I know, enjoy this family dinn r.” The lady answered him with a most angry glance. The family dinner consisted of a thin, watery soup, thickly powdered with saffron, some radishes, and a lit tle bit of butter, so small that the children clamoured in vain for their all wance of it to their bread ! next followed beef, in which my eyes look ed in vain for fat: then appeared the sourkraut, warmed up for the second time with a single sausage ; qnd at last a dish in which I could discover nothing but sauce. “ This is a fricos see-chickt n,” said my amiable end agreeable host; “my wife aas no equal in cooking it.” 1 rejoiced at first in the bops of getting something I could eat : but aft< r fishing a long time in a sea of liquia, I could only bring up one chicken’s drumstick. My host kept urging me to drink, with the assurance that his wine was not strong, but had a very rich fla vour, and was perfectly innocent. I took his word readily enough tor the last qualification, as the taste led me to suspect that my economical landlady had made two bottles out of one. My charming little neighbours an noyed me not slightly during dinner. Charles amused himsif with kicking mv shins .under the table ; and Louis, with imperturbable coolness, wiped his fingers on my clothes. The ca tastrophe of the family party at length approached : Charles, in endeavour ing to take a bone which his brother was gnawing, knocked down his own plate, and spilled the greasy water, w hich was substituted for gravy, over mv now blue coat. Mamma, instead ol assi ting me, began to bewail her broken plate, and run after the child to beat him, while he took refuge behind his father: the father rose to appease his wife—the dog howled Hae tibi crunt artes, pacisque iinponere morem, parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.—Virgil. MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1826. —Louis grinned—Charles screamed —the lady scolded—and the starling quietly perched himself upon my h ad, ami began pecking my hair. At last my friend resumed his seat, and said laughing.—“ Tfais you see, my friend, is my way of life : and 1 feel myself more happy under my lowly r*of than a king in his palace.” He asked me if I was accustomed to take coffee after dinner ; for though there was none ready, he had a ma chine which would make it in five minutes I thanked him, saying that coffee made me ill, that I had taken a most excellent dinner, and was obliged to go. “Farwell, then,” said my friend ; “ I hope I shall see you again soon. You now the way to my house now—you now my family, and the fashion we live in—as it is to-day, so it is every day ; I hope you will come often and take a family dinner with us.” I hardly know what I said in return ; but I hastily seized my hat, muttered some compliments, ran out of the door—and shudder still at the recollection of the “Family Dinner.” FOREIGN. GREECE. The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser of Saturday afternoon, (the only evening paper received from that city by yesterday’s mail,) contains the following very gratifying intelli gence —if we may rely on its accu racy.—Nat. Journal, June 13. POSTCRIPT— 2 O’clock, P. M. GLORIOUS NEWS FROM GREECE! We stop the press to announce the arrival of the ship Desdemona, Cap tain Nagle, from Havre, whence sli. sailed on the 2d of May. We have files of Lc Constitutionel to the 29th of April, inclusive, and hasten to lay before our readers the following glo rious news from Greece. We have time this evening but for a few ex tracts ; “ Corfu, April s.—The obscurity which has hitherto reigned over the horizon of Greece has been dissipa ted.—lbrahim, having lost a large portion of his army in his reiterated attacks upon Missolonghi, lately re called to his assistance the troop* which he had left at Glanentza and Pygros, to the number 4000 men, and on the 24th of March made a general assault, in which he was mor tally wounded. The enemy attack ed the city upon the sea side, where the fortifications were known to be weakest. It is not known how many men have fallen on each side, but it i- pretended that several thousand Turks have been killed, because 8000 Greeks, arrived during the heat of the action who fell upon the Turks, and thus accomplished the victory. “ These troops were commanded by Colonel Fabvier. Ibrahim received ’iis wound from the musket of a sol dier who saw him employed in giving orders to bis troops and recalling them to discipline. After this de feat, Ibrahim took refuge in Lepanto, and passed over to Patras. Thus finished this famous siege, from which the enemies of liberty expect ed their triumph, and flattered them selves with the hope of seeing the Greeks fall and return to slavery. ” The state of things in the Pelopon nesus improves every day, and every thing is become more regular, and returning to order. The National Assembly, which has been convoked not at Megara.but at Methora, (be tween Corinth and Argos,) carries on its business with zeal. The Gov ernment has commanded Colethi to set out and assemble and reunite the forces of the Chiefs of Romelia, ard fly with them to the relief of Misso longhi Colocotroni is to remain blockading Tripolitza, until that place, pressed by famine, is forced to surrender. Colispolo is to go to Pa tras, and Nicetas is to observe those of the enemy who are at Naverino, and the President, Conduriottis, at the head of the Spartrates, is to be siege Modonand Coron. Under the date of Ancona, April 15,confirms the above defeat, adding tiie death of Ibrahim. In another letter from Corfu, it is said that Missolonghi still holds out —repelling all the assaults of the Turks. The camp of the Arabs ha been burnt. Another letter from Zante, April 5, says every thing is still in favor ofthe besieged. The camp of Ibrahim has been burnt, and his troops dis couraged. At this moment we hear a very heavy cannonade in the di rection of Missolonghi. We have no tear, as the garrison is well supplied with provison and ammunition. Under the date Augsburg, April 24. we find the following; “ While the French journals make Ibrahim Pacha take Missolonghi by assault, the Cortu packet brings us letters of the sth April, winch confirm the news favorable to the Creek l *. Ibrahim made another assault upon the 23d ofMarch;but the Egyptians were repulsed with a loss of several thou sand men ; three Beys and a Pacha remained on the field. Ibrahim himself has been dangerously wound ed ; and according to a report in the lonian Islands, has died of his wounds; but this last news wants confirmation. Letters from Zantc, received at Venice, April 15, announce the death of Ibrahim Pacha. We fiind many other articles, all tending to confirm the fact that the Greeks have met with some great and unexpected success.— Laus Deo. The Boston Courier gives the following accounts brought by a ves sel to that port, and although the news is of a more remote date, it will be found not without interest, as it communicates the situation and movements of some of our country men : From Smyrna. —By Capt. Rich of the Cherub, seventy-five days from Smyrna, the following intelligence is received. Information has been received at Smyrna, from Mr. Washington, in the Greek service, that a Greek fortress which commands Missolonghi. had been taken by Ibrahim Pacha, the garrison of which fled into Missolon ghi, and as the Greeks in the latter place had only fifteen-days’ provis ions, it was expected the place would soon fall into the hands of their enemies. A Greek fleet was fitting out at Napoli with provisions anil munitions of war for their relief. The Greek cause was not considered hopeless, as they began to be more united for the common cause of their country, seeing themselves a bandoned to fight it out without the least direct assistance from foreign powers. In Canada nothing but the little rock Cerabure remained in their pos session. Napoli de Romani was sickly. Mes srs. Washington and Jarvis were directing their way to Missolonghi. Mr. Miller was going to Ncgropont to join Favier. Dr. How was at tending the Hospital at Napoli. Mr. Allen had arrived in Smyrna Bay. It was veil known at Smyrna, by recent arrivals, that preparations were making at Alexandria and Constan tinople for another expedition to the Morea against the Greeks. From the Etoile, dated Ist May. Lusanne, April 27.—The Lusanne Gazette of 27th April gives, in an extraordinary number, news from Greece. It says—The following which we have just received from our private correspondents, are too im portant to be put off till Friday, the day of our ordinary publication. We hasten to communicate them to our subscribers this very evening Leghorn, April 19.—We have just learnt from Ancona, where a vessel had arrived in 12 days from Corfu, that Ibrahim Pacha had been wound ed in the last attack on Missclonghi. The captain has made this declara tion, but without giving further par ticulars. Corfu, April 3.—lbrahim in the last attack had combined all his pre parations in a manner, which prom ised decisive success. A considerable force was ordered to advance by land, while 200 boats and small crafts, with 3000 men on board, were to attack on the sea side. An attack on this point at first suc ceeded, and Egyptian troops, after having surmounted all the obstacles that th nature of the ground pre* sented, penetrated to the custom house. But on the other hand, the Greeks had prepared every thing to receive the enemy courageously. Intrench ed behind a long line of hogsheads filled w ith sand, which extended from the custom house to the mills, they had planted their cannon there, and from behind this rampart kept up a brisk fire upon the enemy’s troops. On both sides the battle was ob stinate and terrible; but the resist ance of the inhabitants and of the gar rison was so intrepid, and the car nage of the Egyptians, commanded by Ibrahim in person, so frightful, that they were at length obliged to retreat in disorder; the massacre was dreadful; part of the boats fell a {trey to the flames, and the troops on board perished in the tire Sev eral others ran aground. Scarcely 500 men escaped on the sea side from this terrible desaster. The troops on the land side had the same fate. Ibrahim received in the battle a mor tal wound. It was at that very moment that the arrival of Fabvier.Botzaris, Gou ras, and Karaiskaki was announced, with about 8000 men, regular and irregular. A corps of Turkish troops under the command of Mehemet Redschid Pacha, w as immediately di rected against them ; but is was sur rounded and destroyed, am} Mehe- met Rcdschad, the commander made prisoner. Second letter from Corfo, April 4. I have the pleasure to announce to you the happy news of the death of the famous Ibrahim. This news has been brought to day official from Prevcsa to which place three Tar tars have been dispatched to fetch surgeons, who did not find him alive. Ibrahim, in the attack on Missolong hi, seeing his troops discouraged, and in part destroyed by the fire of the ’Greeks, rushed towards the ramparts of the place with his sabre in his hand, at the head of some men whom he had been able to rally; But a Greek having perceived him, took a good aim at him, and he fell on the spot. Other letters from Zantc, by way of Trieste, confirm the defeat of Ibra him. Third letter from Corfu, April 6. The last letters from Missolonghi entirely confirm the preceding ac counts—•namely, the complete defeat of Ibrahim, mortally wounded in the action, and the arrival of Fabvier with the Greek chiefs before named. They also state the arrival of the Greek fleet, and the retaking of Vas siladi Rome, April 17. —I have just this moment left the Russian Ambassa dor. He showed me letters which he had just received, direct from Corfu, and which gave him positive information that Ibrahim had been mortally wounded in an attack on Missolonghi. We extract the following abla and judicious article from the Richmond Whig of Tuesday last. The freedom of the press is so completely identi fied with the freedom if our institu tions, that public opinion will prompt ly and universally decide against every indication which points, be it ever so remotely, to its infringement. If, as has been admitted by all liber al statesmen, it is better to endure the evils of a licentious press, than to strike at its liberty ; we must be utterly at a loss for reasons to justify a refusal to insert in a public newspa per the defence of an individual who can avail himself of no other efficient means. Rejecting, as we do, the idea that Mr. Tattnall would, in the exercise of his cool and correct judg ment, attempt to impose any fetters on the press, we can only infer that the language of his letter to the S- c retary of War was suggested in one of those moments when strong per sonal feeling usurps the place of rea son, and throws a paralytic influence on the judgment.— Nat. Journal. From the Richmond Whig. The Secretary of War and Mr. Tatt nall.—We publish in another column, from the National Inteligencer. acor respondence between these gentle men, which, if it strikes the appre hensions of the reader as it has ours, will be looked upon as one of the most singular events of the day. Mr. Forsyth, a Representative from Georgia, on the floor of Congress, reflected with much severity on the conduct of Ridge, Secretary to the Creek delegation at Washington Ridge vindicated himself through the National Journal, not having the privilege of replying to Mr. Forsyth on the floor of Congress, where he was attacked. Os the merits of Ridge, or the justice or injustice of the attack made on him by Mr. For syth, we know nothing, and shall therefore express no opinion, but from Ridge’s reply, the temper ofthe vindication seems at least to be upon a level with the dignity of attack. It was this reply that drew forth Mr. Tattnall’s letter to the Secretary of War, to which we specially invite the attention of the reader. Mr. Tattnall complains, “ that the National Journal, in which the offen sive article was first published, is re garded by the public, as the leading administration paper.” Mr Tattnall, therefore, holds the Executive re sponsible for whatever appears in that paper, offensive to the Georgia Delegation!—he will not look to the proprietor of that paper for responsi bility, but to the President of the United States, and the Heads of Department! The inference from this, is, with the public, (if they are disin genuous enough to derive an infer ence from such premises,) that the National Journal is not merely the organ of the administration, in pub lishing its acts, but edited by it—that nothing is published in it, but with the sanction of the administration, and that by consenting to publish Ridge’s reply, the members of the Government had in fact invited the indignities to the Georgia Delegation, of which Mr. Tattnall complains This is a further specimen of the I liberality extended to the administra tion, by those opposed to it. Not satisfied with condemning all his acts, they are now to be made responsible for the acts of private individuals [OR $4 IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS. NO. 29....V0L. I. over whom they have no control- Mr. Tattnall complains—" That these indignities have been offered under the eye. of tke Government ; and by persons who derived consequence from being recognised by the Gov ernment as official persons. ” We cannot, for our lives, perceive., the propriety of the remark that thse in dignities( which are no where speci fied) were offered under the eye of the Government. Were they more under its eye than the thousandother indignities which have been offered to private and official persons in Washington, during the session of Congress, by members of that body 1 Were they more under its eye than the indignities offered to Ridge and Vann, by otic of the Georgia delega tion itself ? The Government never supposed, ot Mr. Tattnall for it, we presume, that it possessed the pow er, or had the right, to prevent Mr. Forsyth from attacking Ridge on the floor of Congress. Then why should it interpose its authority, even if pos sessed by it, to screen Mr. Forsyth from the consequences of his own act 1 Ridge, though a foreigner, is a free man, in Washington, on business of his countrv, and entitled to the protection and privileges of our laws. Was he to be debarred the privilege of defending himself when assailed 1 Was the freedom of the press to be invaded, lest the sensibility of the Georgia delegation should be woun ded 1 The expresion “ under the eye of the Government ” will apply equal ly to the Inteligencer, the Phenix Gazette, and the Telegraph, as totho National Journal: and if, by it, Mr. Tattnall means that the Creeks, beingjin Washington, on business with the Government, have, for the time, yielded all right to protect them selves when injured, the Government ought also to have extended its cen sorship to those papers. By no other means could it have prevented Ridge from replying to Mj. Forsyth, or protected the sensitive feelings of the Georgia delegation from insult, real or supposed. Yet, we will ven ture to say, that if the Secretary of War had attempted to exercise this censorship, and had required the various Editors m the District to suppress all reply from Ridge, wo should never have heard the last oi’ it, Mr. Forsyth and Mr Tattnall would have been among the first to complain, and properly to complain, of this highhanded attack upon the freedom of the Press, and to sound the alarm for the security of our liberties. In that case, the govern ment would not have been reproach ed for encouraging the licentiousness of the Press, but with the much more heinous design of destroying its free dom, and with it, one freedom of the country. The whole affair then amounts to this : That in the opinion of Mr. Tatt nall and his colleagues, Ridge, though first attacked( whether right or wrong is nothing to the purpose) being an Indian, is by no means entitl ed to defend himself; but that, having availed himself of his supposed right to a defence through the papers, the administration is censurable for not having prevented him, though ig norant of his design, by infringing the liberty of the Press! Whether the means be most unconstitutional, the addressing the complaint ot Ridge’s behaviour to the Secretary of War most extraordinary, or the com plaint itself most whimsical, we leave to the reader to determine. We think all three comic— -facihs descensus Averni. FINE COMPLIMENT. During his stay ?.t Geneva, Prince Henry of Prussia visited the watch work manufactories, and remained a long time in the shop oi a wheel maker. At his departure the prince read this inscription over the door— “ The leisure of idle people is the bane of those who have something to do.”—“ That might have refer-i cnce to me at this very moment, ’ said the prince.—The artist who was a man of wit answered ingeniously, “ Yes sir, it is on your account that that inscription has remained where it is these five and twenty years. At that period I used to receive authen tic intelligence from Germany; the whole neighborhood ran to my house to hear accounts of your victories, and 1 was obliged to employ this hint to get rid of their troublesome vis its.”—Soavenirs et Melanges. .4 QJUJVD EXPLOSION.—' To answer a double purpose ot celobra ting the next anniversary of our in dependence and making improve ments, som<; of the citizens ot Ulster County, **ew York intend to charge a rock wnh tzvo thousaud pounds of gnn-powder, and it is expected that the report of the explosion will he heard over a great part of the New England States. jY'n>York Pap*r