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in the transportation of the vast produce of tit ft west-1
ern country, even those parts of the United States which
which were the most remote from each other, will be
further bound together by the strongest ties which mu
tual interest can create.
The situation of this district, it is thought, requires
the attention of congress. By the constitution, the
power of legislation is exclusively vested in the con
gress of the United States. In the exercise of this pow
or, in which the people have no participation, con
gross legislate in all cases, directly, on the local con
cerns of the district. As this is a departure, for a spe
cial purpose, from the general principles of our system,
it may merit consideration, whether an arrangement
better adapted to the principles of our government,
and to the particular interest of the people, may not be
devised, which will neither infringe the constitution,
nor affect the object which the provision in ques
tion was intended to secure. The growing popu
lation, already considerable, and the increasing bu
siness of the district, which it is believed already
interfere with the deliberations of congress on great
national concerns, furnish adf’it nal moth es for re
commending this subject to your consideration.
When we view the great blessings with which our
country lias been favored, those which we now enjoy,
and the moans which we possess of handing them down,
unimpaired, to our latest posterity, our attention is
irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow.
Let us then unite in offering our most grateful acknow
ledgments for these blessings, to the Divine Author of
all good. __ JAMES MONROE.
November 17 th, 1818.
DARIEN,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1818.
CORRES POND ENC E.
“Leonidas” is received, and shall appear in our next.
BEX AUKS ET CAPTAIN WILSON, OF THE BRIO INTELLIGENCE,
IN MAKING Ilf 1101 BAR.
When in the proper latitude, and standing in, during
hazy weather, for Doboy bar, soundings differing with
those on every other part of the coast will be found.—
From seven fathoms water the bar bears from
by west to west northwest. In running in, seven
are immediately left, and six and (ivc fathoms and ajKlf
gotten, when directly the water deepens to sixJPhd a
half and seven and a quarter. The soimilingsd|Rit al
ternately and quickly increase and a
half to a fathom. After getting into five and
carrying that depth for ten or twenty minutj^ithe buoys,
even in thick weather will be in sightJsearing about
west northwest.
Extract of a letter to a gentlemaidfh this place, dated
“St. .Andrew's Pettish, S OKVovember 10, 1818.
“Very sorry crons of eottogdre made generally in
this state, and wretcHfcd crops. The drought
continues distressingvLAlhriy neighbors, as well as
myself, are driven to tljrfecessily of digging deeper
an additional numbei jdWfells to water our stock daily.
Many of our attle h Jre difld in the woods, for the want
of food as well as 1 woods and old fields are
nearly burnt through.” V
The Georgjj/n (\ new public joVnal printed in Savan
nah.) madas first appearance onthe 26th instant.—
Mr. H not disappointed thrxpectationß of his
matter, original and is surpassed
by tliajnt but few newspapers in any ple, and is equal
to tl wT of any in the state. We repeat, mt we before
stiUpu, that his paper is a great the east
uoft district and to Savannah in particular.
r BANK OF DARIEN.
The bill for chartering a bank in this place was read
the first lime on the 17th instant. Os its final pasdfce
but little doubt can be entertained, but in what
are unable to say.
The bill for removing the court-house to Darien, pro
viding for the disposal of the present one, and for mak
ing permanent the seat of public buildings here, has re
ceived the proper sanction.
On the 17th, Mr. Blackshear moved to appoint com
missioners to examine, survey and report to the next
legislature, the practicability, the distance, depth and
probable expense of cutting a canal to connect the rive?
Alatamaha with Turtle and Sapelo rivers. We hope
that the measure may be adopted; and then the expec
tation of changing nature in tiiost places, entertained by
some visionary individuals will be forever decided.
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.
Darien, November 30, 1818.
Cotton, sea-island, per lb 60
Flour, Phil’a, per barrel, 13 a*l.> 50
Corn, per bushel, - - - - - - - 110 a 1 124
Sugar, Georgia, per cwt. - - - -*l2ooa 14 00
Molasses, Georgia, per gallon, 60 a 70
Rum, Darien, 4th proof) do. -.-- 1 371 a 1 43]
Ditto, Jam. 1 45 a 1 50
Brandy, Cognac, per gallon, - - - - 275a 300
Whiskey, per gallon, - - 65 a7O
Gin, Holland, per gallon, 1 50 a 1 75
Sugar, Muscovado, per cwt. 151 a 17
Coffee, per lb. 36 a 371
per lb. 1 40 a 45
Bacon, Georgia, cwt. ......... 20
Pork, per hi. 26 a 28
Beef, per bl. 11 a 20
Salt, per bushel, - 75
Tobacco, leaf) per cwt none
Soap, per lb. 12 a 13
Candles, northern mould, 20 a 25
Ditto Georgia ditto, ...... 23 a27
Iron, per cwt. 4a 7
Steel, ditto, 12 a 16
Lead, bar, - - 10 al2
Powder, keg, 8a 10
Shot, cwt. 10 a 14
Ranging Timber, per 1000 feet, - - 800a10 00
Scantling, .... ditto - - - - - -18 00
Boards, pitch pine - - ditto - - 22 00 a23 00
Ditto, white ditto - - ditto - - 25 00 a3O 00
Staves, W. O. per 1000, 20 00
Ditto, R. O. ditto .... none
Shingles, - - ditto 5
Advance on British Goods.
Woollens, - 50
Cottons, ...- 45 aSO
SUMMARY.
THE UNITED STATES’CONGRESS
met on the 16th instant. A large portion of the mem
bers of both houses attended; but little or nothing, ex
cept interchanging messages and appointing a few com
mittees, was done.
Office"s of th p Senate. —John Gaillard, president pro
tempore; Charles Cutts, secretary; Mountjoy Bailey,
sergeant at arms; and Henry Times, doorkeeper.
Officers o f the House of Representatives. —Henry Clay,
speaker; Thomas Doughtery, clerk; Thomas Dunn,
sergeant at arms; Thomas Claxton, doorkeeper; and
Benjamin L. rch, assistant-doorkeeper.
In the senate, all committees (says the National Intel
ligencer) are appointed by ballot; in the bouse of re
presentatives, bv the speaker.
The clerks in the offices of the two houses are. ap
pointed by the secretary and clerk of each house re
spectively.
The officers of the senate are elected to serve dur
ing pleasure; those of the house of representatives,
biennially, at the commencement of the first session of
each congress, to serve until the commencement of the
first session of the congress ensuing.
The venerable Thomas Jefferson (whose life was late
ly despaired of) is, we arc gratified to learn, on the re
covery.
Bank of Sandusky. —By the Savannah Museum, of the
24th instant, it appears that bills purporting to be of
the Bank of Sandusky, are in circulation in Savannah,
and that they are spurious, no such bank existing. As
the)’ may probably find their way to Darien, our citizens
should be on the alert to apprehend any person who
may attempt to circulate them.
On the 13th instant, Mr. James Bailey while attempt
ing to take a negro in Burke county (Ga.) was shot by
the fellow, and expired in less than 24 hours. The mur
derer is of a complexion rather dark, low in stature,
well made and well dressed, rode a grey poney with
saddle and spurs, and had also with, him a well finished
shot gun, half stocked and steel mounted. Three or
four hundred dollars’ reward, says the Savannah Muse
um, is offered for apprehending and securing him in
any gaol.
The same paper states that the late calamitous fire in
Savannah originated in accident.
From a Connecticut paper it appears that the law pro
hibiting travelling on Sunday in that state has not been
repealed; and that the breach of said law is punished by
a fine of three dollars and thirty-four cents, and costs.
It is intimated in a New-Brunswick paper that the sur
veyors have found Ibut the highlands, indicated as a
boundary by the treaty of 1783, lie southward of St. John
river, leaving the whole of that river, the settlements on
the Madawarka, and that route to Canada, in the hands
of the English.
Joas Portugal Calliorda has been recognized as Por
tuguese vice-consul for North-Carolina, by the presi
dent of the United States.
Colonel Boone (according to the St. Louis Enquirer)
has intimated his intention of moving higher up the
Missouri, beyond the settlements now forming about
him.
The American Insurance Company at New-York have
declared a dividend of twenty per cent for the last six
months.
A letter from Baltimore, dated 13th instant, says that
against John Skinner, post-master at Baltimore; Mat
|thew .V array, sheriff of Baltimore county; Joseph Ker
rick, John Snyder, and Joseph Patterson, the grand”
jury have found bills of indictment, as owners of the
pirate vessel La Fortuna.
By an extract of a letter, published in the National In
telligencer, it seems that Sweden has sold St. Barts to
some European power, supposed to be Russia; and the
islanders, who had expected that the United States
would have purchased the island, are much disappointed
in consequence. The sale was agreed to on the 9th of
June last and is to be consummated in December next.
The Essex Register states, that the grand jury have
found a bill against the late cashier anil chief clerk of
the Essex Bank in Salem for a conspiracy to defraud the
institution, and for enormous trespasses and crimes com
mitted upon it.
The 10th of the ensuing month has been appointed,
by the governor of Ncw-Jerscy, as a day of thanksgiv
ing and prayer.
The legislature of Kentucky have imposed a tax of
five thousand dollars on each of the branches of the
United States’ Bank in that state.
By a late official return of the militia of .Ohio, sixty
thousand infantry, one hundred anil twenty-six artil
lery, and one thousand and seventy-five cavalry, or
61,401 in all, appears to be effective force that state.
A treaty of peace was signed in October last, between
the Osages and the Cherokces of Arkansas. So it ap
pears the art of writing lias found its way amongst them.
The extent of land lately to the United States by
the Qufcpaw Indians is said to be more than one hun
dred miles square, of an excellent quality, and lying
south of the Arkansas river, in the Missouri territory.
The body of the celebrated French general, Nietier,
who acompanied Bonaparte to Egypt, has been re-em
tombed in France, with funeral honors, by direction of
the present government —a finesse to Conciliate the
military.
Prices at Havana, October 14.—Assorted sugars, 174
and2l4 a 184 a 234 reals; Whites, alone, 22 a 24 reals;
Browns, 181 a 19 reals; Coffee, new §2B a 31; Rice §94.
Latest from England. —Advices from Liverpool, to
the Ist of October, have been received via New-York.
On that day, upland cotton was quoted, in Liverpool,
at 18]d a 20d; New-Orleans do. 184d a 23d; sea-island
do. 3s 3d a 3s 9d; do. do. stained, 2s 3d. a 2s 9d—nomi
nal in consequence of heavy sales. Rice 52 a 53, and
in bond 43 a 455. Staves, white oak, barrel, 12 a 17/.
The king of England is said to be in good health; but
perfectly blind. In a long set of rooms, which lie occu
pies, at certain intervals are placed piano fortes and
harpsichords, on which he frequently runs over a few
notes of Handel’s oratorios, and then proceeds on his
walk, in which he often stops and addressing himself to
an imaginery nobleman, holds a dialogue, furnishing the
answers. His wife was rather on the mend; but her
daughter, Sophia, represented as dangerously ill. The
old Prussian general, Blucher, was gradually recover
ing; and signior Belzoni, the celebrated Roman archi
tect, had paid the debt of nature at Cairo in F.gvpt.
The king of Saxony had gone from Pilnitz to Lcip
sic to have an interview with the Russian emperor, who,
with a limited suite was on his way to Aix-la-Chapelle;
at which place the congress of sovereigns was to have
met on the Ist ultimo. The king of Prussia had for
bidden every species of ceremony on his entry into that
city, and the emperor of Austria was travelling towards
it with anumerousretinue and splendid equipage of nine
carriages, each drawn by six horses. Castlereagh and
Wellington were also journeying to the same spot; and
to render the assemblage complete, two boxers had left
England to exhibit their prowess at the congress, and
instruct such of the high allied sovereigns :ls might he
disposed to study the science of pugilism. Besides fis
ticuffs, the English editors intimate, that the mighty
convocation will turn its attention to the army of occupa
tion in France; the disputes of Spain with Portugal,
with the United States, and with her own colonies; the
affairs of Germany; and to a complaint lodged by Den
mark against Sweden for having failed to comply with
the treaty of Kiel. .
Tranquility prevailed in France, and Louis had re
sumed his usual course of ceremonies and masses. The
vintage had commenced, and abundance was anticipated.
The marriage of marshal Macdonald with the widow
of general Moreau was asserted in a private letter from
Paris as certain.
Colonel MacGregor bad arrived from Dublin at
Belfast, and was expected to sail, in a short time, with a
strong armament, composed of the disbanded military
of England, for New Grenada, to join the patriot cause.
Lord Cochrane had left England, in an armed steam
vessel, ostensibly for Chili; but the London Courier is
apprehensive lest he visit St. Helena, where, by beat
ing off the two cutters stationed near the landing place
on the windward side of the island, he may, it is said,
effect a landing, and rescue Bonaparte. * The same
print is also suspicious that Lallemand’s establishment
in the province of Texas, on the Trinity river, may pro
bably supply resources long since contemplated.
A squadron of Russian frigates, on its way to Cadiz,
was lying wind-bound at Spithead on the 27*’ h of Sep-
de&mcd for the Spanish service.
The United States’sloop war Hornet, had arrived,
from the Baltic, at Cowes, and*'sailed thence for Ame
rica September 28.
Admiral Freemantle had been appointed command
er-in-chief of the English naval forces in the Medi
terranean. Si r Thomas I lardy had taken the command
of a guard ship at Plymouth. ”
jeHHMtthrr of the Btc sir James Lucas Yeo (George
had from a lieutenancy been promoted to
thHpHw commander in the English navy.
Tne Isabella and the Alexander, discovery ships, were
left jnAavis’s, straits lat. 75 34, on the 2d of August.
By Last Night's •Mail.
The 18th and 19th instant, were spent by congress in
making arrangements for the more active business of
the session.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
With the exception of the bill to incoporate a bank
at Darien, which has passed the senate and is now lie
lore the other branch of the legislature, all applica
tions for charters have been rejected by a large majori
ty. The salary lull, increasing the pay of public otli
rers generally fifty per cent, has passed the house of
representatives, with scarcely a dissenting voice. The
land-bill, which in the various stages of its progress lias
excited some animated discussion, passed the senate
yesterday in the following shape: The lower territorial
acquisition is divided into three, and the upper cession,
into tour counties—winch are called Early, Irwin, Ap
pling, Walton, Gwinnett, Habersham and Hall, (after
Lyman Hall, a distinguished patriot of the revolution)
There will be, it is supposed, about seventy survey or’s
districts in the whole; they are twelve and a half and
twenty miles square, but mostly of the former size—•
the tracts are to contain two hundred and fifty and four
hundred and ninety acres—the latter lie in the poorest
part ot the territory—all fractions less than two hun
dred acres to be sold, and every male person over 18
) ears of age who has resided in the state three \ ears,
entitled to a draw—two squares in each surveyor’s dis
trict to be reserved for the education of poor children
and the advancement of literature in this state; and for
the same purpose, the residue of the proceeds arising
from the sale of the fractions, after the expenses shall
have been defrayed, is set apart as a permanent tund.
Except in some immaterial points, the bill is a literal
transcript of the land lottery law of 1806. Whether
it will receive the sanction of the house of repre
sentatives as it stands, or be amended, is uncertain.
The naming of the counties gave rise to an incident,
highly honorable to the memory of the late Peter
Lui ly. It was indeed a tribute to departed worth.—
On the question to fill the first blank, his name was
proposed 0) several—as many more in ilifferent parts
ot tiie house, instantly exclaimed they would vote for
it, it it were the richest and best county, and not other
wise. On being assured it was the best, [embracing
tile fork ot Flint and Uliatahouchie rivers] with one
voice it received the name of EARLY!— Georgia Jour
nal, 24th instant.
A gentleman now on a tour in the Alabama territory,
in a letter to the editor of the Miiledgeville Reflector,
says “1 have just understood by an officer direct from
Fort Gadsden, that a party of Indians lately tired on and
wounded several .soldiers who were fisliing at night
near St. Marks.”
T ,J
CAUTION.
Counterfeit twenty dollar bills, of the Planters’ bank,
are in circulation. The engraving, numbering, date
and signatures are badly imitated, can easily be detect
ed on inspection, but would deceive persons not in the
habit of observing bills particularly. The date of the
bill stopped, is December 14,1815, letter B.
J. MARSHALL, Cashier.
Savannah, November 28, 1818.
Such an uninterrupted continuance of dry weather as
lias been experienced here during the last summer and
present fall, has not probably occured for many previ
ous seasons, and we believe that to a large proportion
of the southern country this remark would correctly
a PPty> tis wed as to our own immediate neighborhood.
A gentleman from Wilkes county with whom we were
conversing a day or two past, observed that where he
resided, there had not been as much rain since April
last, as he had seen fall in some former seasons in a sin
gle hour.—And we believe that since last August the
ground lias scarcely received moisture enough to mel
low it sufficiently for ploughing. One consequence of
this extended drought has been such a low river t hat it
has been, and still remains, almost impossible to trans
port merchandise, particularly heavy goods from Savan
nah to this place, and a considerable proportion of the
dry goods, received here for some weeks past, have
been brought up by land, at an expense not altogether
calculated to please and benefit their owners. The
steam-boats have for some time discontinued their trips
up the river, and their freighting boats when they made
out to get up, have come with very moderate cargoes, and
with still more more moderate progress. The effect of
this state of things is visible in the business of this place,
which at this season of the year, was never before per
haps less brisk.— Augusta Herald, 21th instant.
The United States’ brig of war Euterprize, lieutenant
Kearney, arrived at Charleston on the 26th instant, in
14 days from the Balize, and brought New-Orleans pa
pers to the Bth. Louisiana cotton (says the Charleston
Courier) is quoted at 30 cents; Tennessee do. 25 cents,
but little at market,‘“and sales heavy.
Commodore Shaw and captain Kearney, of the navy,
arrived in Hampton roads on the 17th instant.
“t’lie legislature of South-Carolina met, at Columbia,
on the 23d instant.
The Boston papers mention, that an insurrection hail
recently broken out among the students in Hartford
University, hut that it had been effectually put down.
Most of the leaders were sent home to their parents,
but it was supposed that they would be re-admitted after
the expiration of a few days.
A serious disturbance lately broke out among the
Spanish troops at Corunna, in consequence of receiv
ing no pay for more than a year. A forced loan was
made on the inhabitants, and the soldiers having receiv
ed part of their pay, returned to their duty.
*
[From a New-Jlaven paper.\
Sea Serpents again.i— By the arrival offtfce sloop
Ann-Muria, captain Stedham, at Bradford, we learn, that
on his passage from Charleston to New-York, in lat. 36,
lon. 75, he saw five Sea-Serpents: the longest he judg-1
eil to be 130 feet long; that his mate shot a ball through I
the head of the largest; theu ater was colored with blood, I
and lie presumes the shot killed him; he was so near I
that could have jumped on him from the taff rail. 1
The crew and passengers are ready to make oath to the I
above facts.
JIK. jtiarmclonao)
PORT OF DARIEN.
arriver.
Brig Intelligence, Wilson, 65 days from Liverpool—
with a full cargo of dry goods—to ila.ll, Cooke & Cos.
owners. Passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Young and two chil
dren and Miss Cregg, The Intelligence was off Doboy j
in 7 fathoms water on Sunday, the 15th instant, but ow
ing to thick weather could not come in. On Thursday,
the 19th, off Cumberland island, saw the wreck of a* pi
lot boat schooner, mast head out of water, had a sinalLi
main-topmast with the remnant of a white (lag
Oil Little St. Simons, saw a brig at anchor UtjMtmSß
water.
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and the master.
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Ocmnlgee boat Eliza, from captain
yard, Telfair county, 8 days—to Mivut 8,
The In ig Orleans, Smith, cleared” out at BostonHjlS
the 9th instant, for Darien.
AUCTION
THIS DAY, the
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7 o’clock, ;U Mr.
J. VOVM'^^S
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TO tin* printing wanted at
li.c I) \RIK\ GAZEUT.. \
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Chdij/ El a ins. I(anft‘pt^m^ss^m
nn nun: i vm.i kimt, iiium my
UU.I., GOOKE is. CO. have just
opened, a large of
White Negro PLAINS
Blue do. do.
London dullil 111. \\ K I'.TS, and
Common ml FLANNELS H
v, lilt!i il. . v ill ,-a 11 !•> tli pin., or
ate terms. ‘_ 1 “ ■ .1
nov 30 6
Corn and l!rr J’- wRE
R| (Vivod I>\ the sloop 1 rl.'gr.q.li, and feflHH||
mm bushels sound Corn
50 barrels prime Beef Slra|i||£S
1000 bushels Salt
50 hogsheads of Porter
60 boxes Herring
I. SASPORT^^H
nov 30——6
Corn and Beef.
mshels northern flint Corn I
25 half barrels mess Beef 9
for sale by ANSON KIMBERLY. ■
nov 30 -- —c 6 B
Boot and Shoe •Manufactory. 1
THE undersigned, lately from the state of .Vlassachuß
setts, have opened a boot and shoe manufactory,l
(one door east of Mr. Wm. B. llolzendorf’s Hotel)!
where they offer for for sale a general assortment of]
articles in their line; and will execute all orders or. theJ
shortest notice for boots or shoes of any description!
and of the best materials. B
TERRY, DAVIS & CC,.B
nov 30 cT 6 B
Notice. ‘ ‘
Tl tF, intending to Imjdwrent from Ilil|B|
a few a northern sta'nß J
appointed Dam John G.
to transact Ins ImsitfPss.
Sheriff's sale.
On the first Tuesday in February
II if! he ..-old Its the (’ourt-i on ,v in ft,l . eon my,
u-siiut iiom ■ >,/ lij and J o'rfock, the following
Cl VI E and her son Joe, levied on as the
‘Green B. Tillman, under a foreclosure I.",
from said Green B. Tillman to V\ illian,
JAMES I’ELOT, n^WB
nov 30 -6 BB
Sheriff's sale. B
On the first Tuesda) in January
III! • hi to/d ill the t'oiirt-'ion.i, m ‘hit; <v< iit o, i„ ;
ii'iiittl hours of 10 and 3 o’c !<n ‘, the following
4 TRAC Pof I .and containing 613 :u res
fl situate on the waters of Sapelo me 1 , M'lnt -
t\, hounded , :st u ardl \ In land of Mrs. ‘lev :v IB
south by land belonging to Mrs Barba: • M'in'ußßH
v cMwarclly by land belonging to the ( state >f )B|||l||
M’Ko) , levied on as the pr-.pcri v of the is!
C !>■ r< ng'cs, to satisf) fui e\ee U <ion in flu or ‘fIBBH
m.i v /"hll V. allote, udm'r.l. \ C. D- ‘.
JAMES
nov 30- 6
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