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vour officers were put asliore on the coas*, ami your
crew intended carrying the vessel to Baltimore, winch
the did not do; but, in their mutiny, having killed a
man, they followed it up with all kind of outrages, and
commenced, what 1 call, the career of pirates. I have
returned to the unfortunate victims of their villainy
what was my share of the plunder, and shall proceed to
France, miserable enough. I believe there will be some
prize money due me from you, which you will please
forward to Messrs. . As for your ship, she was sunk
in the gulf, off Charleston; the means they took to do
so, was by firing three cannon down her hatches. ( saw,
with regret, whilst robbing other ships, the gunner,
who commanded, calling himself capt. Almeda. My
being a miserable and unwilling spectator to this piracy,
lus so injured my health, that 1 believe nothing can save
me, but returning to my peacable home and family.
“I remain, with respect and esteem,
“ Doctor S. M. BOINNET.
“Capt. Jose Almeda, Baltimore ”
[The gunner who commanded the ship, is one
George Clark; he speaks English, French,
Spanish and Portuguse; is an aged man, is cross
eyed, keeps one eye partly shut, but I am uncer
tain whether it is the right or left one.]
A New-Orleans letter of the 23d ult. mentions
that ito river was then rising slowly.
The N cw-Orieans papers mention that gen.
I.ai.i.i mand, iias “taken the oath and made the
and da ration preparatory to his being admitted as
a citizen of the United States after the delay re
quired by law.”—lt is also said, that he occupies
a smail farm and intends passing the remainder
of iiis days in Louisiana.
COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
We published the late proceedings of the Co
lonization Society held in the city of Washington
—•and, in connection with this subject, we lay be
fore the reader the following extract from the
journals of the senate of this state, of the 14th
inst. We understand that the papers were re
quested at the instance of a member of that Soci
ety, for their use.
“ The resolution authorizing the clerk to grant copies
of the confidential correspondence between the presi
dent of the United States and the governors of this
slate, relative to the colonization of persons of color 4
which, on the 2d day of this month, was laid upon tiie
table, on motion of Mr. Johnson, was taken up; and, on
his motion, was amended.
On motion of Mr. Johnso'n,
Oed red, That the documents relative to the said cor
respondence, be read, for the information of the house;
and, during the reading thereof, that the doors be closed,
and the gallery cleared.
The doors being closed, and the gallery cleared ac
cording!}, the documents relative to the said correspon
dence, laid before the senate at the sessions in 1802,
18Uo, 1804, and 1805, were reaad.
The question being’ then put upon the said resolution, it was
disagreed to by the house ”
We understand the votes’were, 16 to 2.
■
Abstract of the New Judiciary Law. —An im
portant bill has passed the senate, and which, we
have little doubt, will receive the concurrence
of the house of representatives, providing for tiie
■more immediate organization of the courts of
the United States, and making material altera
tions in the judicial system. Being prevented,
by our limits, from inserting the act entire, we
will, at present, only present our readers with
the following abstract of its provisions, from
which, it will be observed, that it principally in
tended to relieve the judges of the supreme
court from the present a u > s duties as circuit
judges so incompatible with inch* duties as judges
of tne supreme tribunal of our country, and for
the appointment of the requisite number of cir
cuit judges.
§ 1 Provides that after the 10th of July next,
the judges of the supreme court shall cease to
perform the duties of circuit judges.
§ 2. That after the said day the supreme
court shall hold two sessions annually at the scat
of government.
§ 3. That, as the vacancies may arise from
death or resignation, the supreme court be re
duced to five judges; of which number it is per
manently to consist.
§ 4. That the districts established by law, shall
be classed into nine circuits, and providing for
the appointment of a circuit judge to each cir
cuit.
§ 5. That the circuit court consisting of the
circuit judge and the district judge, shall hold
two sessions annually in each district.
§ 6. Relates to the powers and jurisdiction of
the circuit courts and circuit judges.
§ 7. Provides for the continuance of the cause
now depending in the circuit courts, to the cir
cuit courts established by this act.
§ 8. Fixes the compensations of the circuit
judges.
§ 9. Regulates the times and places of hold
ing tiie circuit courts.
§ 10. Provides for the times and place of hold
ing the district court, for the Ohio district.—
Charleston City Gazette , Jan. 26.
MORE INDIAN TREATIES.
By a treaty concluded at St. Mary’s, in the
state of Ohio, between Jonathan Jennings, Lew
is ( ass and Benjamin Parke, commissioners of
the United States, and the Delaware nation of
Indians, the said Indians cede to the United
States alltheir claim to land in the state of India. ia.
By a treaty concluded by the same co'mmis
aioners, w ith tiie Pattawottamie nation of Indians
•—the said nation of Indians have ceded to the
U uited States, a body of land between Vermil
lion and Tippecanoe rivers, bounded by the
Wabash on one side and a line twenty-five miles
beyond it on the other—they also cede all their
land south of the Wabash.
By a treaty concluded by the same commis
sioners with the Miami nation of Indians, ano
ther body of land is ceded by them to the Unit
ed States, situated on the Wabash. These lands
a '"’ as fertile as any in the world; those beyond
t’ e V’bb ash, consisting of level prairies, inter
-B]’ rsed with beautiful groves, which in the green
P’ uirie | 4O much resemble islands, that they are
! On Sunday, Jan. 10, sailed from this port, on
board the brig Sahy, Samuel Sames, master, for
Havre, Messrs. Pritchard, Pembun and Hunter,
as cabin passengers, and 2 Canadians in the steer
, age—in pursuit of justice at the bar of the house
I oi ’ commons, London—denied them in the courts
; of Upper and Lower Canada, for outrages com
mitted by the N. W. Fur company and their
agents, on the inlant settlement forming by the
earl ot Selkirk, on Red River, under charter
from the Hudson Bay Company.— Boston Gaz.
I he mutineers who were sentenced to be hung
in Boston on the 21st ult. it is stated, are repriev
ed until the 18th February next.
A correspondent from Georgia, desires that
we should give publicity to the'issue of a case,
which has been pending in one of its courts of ju
dicature, between the people of the county of
Chatham and Dr. Haig, of this place, on the
right of cultivating rice on his land adjacent to
the ciiy ol Savannah, and which has been consid
ered a nuisance, as involving the health of its in
habitants. The trial excited considerable inter
est and terminated, it appears, in favor of the de
fendant, Dr. Haig, by a verdict of acquital. Our
correspondent adds, mat as there exists no legis
lative act which points out this peculiar culture
as a nuisance, its suppression would iiave clear
ly been an intringement of the rights of property.
—Southern Patriot.
The Military appropriation Bill. —ln the
senate, that item making a distinct appropria
tion lor military roads, &c. consisting of only
§IO,OOO, had yesterday a narrower escape than
in tne house; the senate.being equally divided,
and tne casing vole of the president only, in its
favor, enabled it to get through. Thus it ap
pears certain, that the advocates ul the constitu
tionality oi internal improvements increase; and
we hope this respectable stand made in tneir
favor, may be received as an earnest of a future
tnumpu, by the friends ol national roads and
canais.— Washington City Gazette, 22d ult.
Proposed Territory of Arkansaw. —The speak
er yesterday <aid before tne house tne memorial
ol tne inhabitants of tne southern part of the Mis
souri territory, praying to be authorised to lorm
a separate territorial government; under the
name oi the Arsansaw territory; it is probable,
mat congress may grant their request. The
northern section ( ol tne Missouri territory, it is
probabie, will be admitted into the union as a
stiffc, at the present session oi congress.— ib.
New-York, January 22.
Bankrupt Law. — 1 attention oi the public
was called to this important subject at the early
opening of tne present session of congress; and
a memorial was set on foot in this city, and sign
ed by several hundreds of our most respectable
citizens, which was afterwards forwarded to
Washington; but, whether it has been pi esented
and read in congress, we are uninformed. The
chamber of commerce was convened the day be
fore yesterday, on this subject, and, after mature
deliberation, it was determined that the chamber
should petition congress, under its corporate
seai; and a committee was appointed to prepare
and forward a memorial accordingly.
United States’ Bank Stock ih New-York, on
the 19th ult. sold at 97. In Philadelphia it has
been offered at 96, but no sales. In Baltimore,
sales were made in smail amounts at 97.
Major general Andrew Jackson, the herb of
New-Orleans, arrived in this city, at Strother’s
hotel, early this morning from Nashville, Tennes
see.
Commodore Isaac Hull, is at present in this
city.— Washington City Gazette, 23d ult.
It is computed by a writer in a late Albany
paper, that there arc at the present time more
than fifteen hundred persons imprisoned foi debt,
in the different counties of that state, and extend
ing the calculation to number the families of
these unfortunate persons, supposes that there are
five thousand persons, who feel a a deep distress
in consequence of their confinement, and hence
infers that imprisonment for debt should be abol
ished.
A/bama College. —Tiie tract of land granted
by congress, for the support of a college in this
territory, has been designated by the secretary
of the treasury. It contains 20,000 acres, alin
ing the Tennessee river, and is “moderate
culated” as being worth half a million of dollars*
The Baltimore Telegraph states as a rumor, that the
president had, cauwould, nominate to the senate Mr.
Crawford, as a geflfekunent uirectujvjm the place of Mr.
Jone 9. , *
We understand, says the National Intelligencer, of the
26th ult. that the treaty lately cqjudmstrl bAwten the
United States and Great Britam *receiveded
the sanction of the senate. W
We undersand, says the Baltimore ArneiltaVthat
George Williams, esq. of Baltimore, has resigned* Jus
seat as director of the bank of the Luated States. \
FROM BI ENOStAYRES.
Cant, Gibson of the brig Hmeline, who arrived last
evening in 59 days from Buenos-Ayres, lm favored us
with the papers of that place t o the 21st Oct. .. On the
day before the sailing of the Emeline, advices reached
that port of the surrender of Talcuhauna to the patifots.
Advices ha l also been received, samng
of a Chilean squadron, consisting of the of
64 guns, captain Wilkinson; Lautaro, capt.
Wooster; corvette Checabuco, of 20 guns, and brig |
Ptiervdon, of 16 guns. This squadron if is said was
bound on a cruise off Cape Horn, with the smccul*ie\v
of intercepting a fleet of transports expected from Spain.
The armed ships Curia’i and If d H
Buenos-Avres in 62 days from New-York; On the even
ing oftheir arrival, a duel was fought on board the Curi- j
aci, between John 1 B'gelor, master’s mate, and a mid- 1
shipman by the name of Farnarden, in which the form
er receive 1 a hall over one of his eyes, which termina- 1
ted his lif. in about tw > days and a half. A jury of in-;
quest held over the body, gavea verdict of manslaughter, i
DARIEN,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1819.
CORRESPONDENCE.
.1 Spur to Diligence has been received; and though
we think that humanity should rather be exerted in re
claiming the miserable objects amongst ourselves than
to search fora scene of action amidst a race whose ha
bits, feelings and complexion are so different from our
own as ihose of the aborigines, still as the writer is a
philanthropist to the core, we should deem a refusal to
lav his ingenious production before the public an act of
injustice. It shall be given in our next, and, as well
wishers to all mankind, we hope success will crown it'.
1011 THE DAIUEV GAZETTE.
As the public good ought to be every man’s aim, so
is it the duty of every citizen to examine and think for
himself, as well as to encourage a spirit of enquiry,
which will be always beneficial as long as it is calm and
temperate. There are many men among us worthy of
public confidence and whose abilities are far above rne-,
diocrity, but no one, let who will assume to the contra- 1
ry, whose talents are so transeendant as to be exclu-1
sively qualified to serve this community and always!
stand at its head. Every man’s abilities and public life
should be valued for as much as they are worth and no
more.
It is a serious consideration and worthy of attention,
when we remark, that the future prosperity of Darien
principally dependson a juffciois selection of public
men for the ensuing five years. The enquiry thenshuuld
be, is he a man ot sound sense? has he probity? lias he in
dustry ? will he serve this community from a high sense
of duty? Any man who possesses these requis tes, des
erves the public fav or without his soliciting it. Asa w, 11
wisher, I recommend a firm uniona ..ong all the disinte
rested citizens of the county, as tiie best means of serv
ing the public interest and promoting the prosperity of
Darien; and I say to my fellow-citizens, enforce it, by
excluding those who would exclude all but themselves. ,
Make no distinctions: take the man of talents and m
tegrity, no matter in what station of life he may be:
whether a planter or a merchant, a lawyer, a doctor or
a mechanic, Riches do not give talents and probity:
neither do the absence of them, include virtue, abilities
or patriotism. Our republican institutions know no
political distinctions, nor should they he countenanced.
Let the people be only true to themselves, and they
will find men on whom they can rely. A FRIEND.
A WORD of CAUTION ro a DRUNKARD;
From one deeply sensible of his own inability and inade
quacy, and therefore can have no motive of applying to
the press but the glory of God mul the happiness of mail;
so that nothing but a sense of duty would prompt thus to
write.
First, I hope the reader will give me leave to quote
a few passages of scripture which expressly forbid ihe
detestable sin of drunkenness., Frov. XXII I, -21. The
drunkard and the glutton shall come tlk po\®rUff and
drowsiness shall cover a iran with ragsJkuJEow de
grading. Read Math. XXIV, 45, 51.
from the lips of the great LawjGiver, the All,
at whose bar we must all appefipqiplies to alUthe pro
fessed servants of Christ, to all professors of religion,
but especially to ministers, who ai*fe watchmen by office
as well as stewards of the mysteries of God, The good
and faithful servant shall he acknowledged, honored and
rewarded. But if a man professing to be. the servant
of Christ be the slave of gluttony or drunkenness, let
him know and consider that the Lord is not.mocked;
his eyes are in every place. He will come to take
vengeance on the slothful and wicked servant when lie
least expects it, when he is saying to his soul,
take thine ease,” etc. Ihe Lord will appoint hmi his
portion with hypocrites to whom belongeth greater
damnation, and there he will forever weep and gnash
his teeth.
The effects of intemperance are well known; eVcn
where absolute drunkenness is avoided, the free use of
ardent spirits, tends to enfeeble the powers of the mind,
to enervate the body, to impair the health, to disquali
fy for business, to inflame the malignant and other evil
passions, to embroil families, to produce poverty, to ge
nerate distressing and fatal diseases, an i in many in
stances to occasion sudden death. And when it advan
ces, as it too frequently does, into drunkenness, it re
duces .man to the lowest possible state of degradation,
while it exposes him to every calamity and to every
crime! This degrading vice has numbered among
its victims the fairest characters, and the brightest or
naments of human nature. It has blasted the honors of
the brave. It has chilled the warmth of parental and
conjugal love, and turned a domestic paradise into a
wilderness ot woes. It has extinguished ihe spark of
genius—it has withered the bloom of beauty—it has
put out the fire of devotion. It has driven the states
man from the senate-house, the judge from the bench,
and the priest from the altar. It has beggared thousands
of families, broken the hearts of multitudes of virtuous I
wives and mothers, and sent many a hapless victim to a
premature grave. But where, O where, will the soul
of the suicide dwell? If you are a professor of religion,
and at the same time addicted to this abominable vice,
it is worse for you than for those wfflf never knew the
truth; the more light we have, tlxfE more heinous our
transgression, for he who knotpimis master’s will and
does it not shall he beaten w*th many stripes: O, let
me intreat you, for the Lord’s .for your soul’s
sake, if you desire 10 shuumisery in time and eternity,
if you desire Health of body, serenity of mold, and
to be happy in this hfadand in the, next, “avoid intoxica
tion, and consider the%vil of it. By this sin, you dis
grace your profession, dishonor God, crucify Christ
afresh, bring grief,and sorrow upon your friends, your
best friends, the excellent ones of the earth, the lov
ing children of God, and O how Sad and criminal it is to
hurt them. By this s n your own heart is hardened,
your understanding your seared,
benumbed and denied, y uTsoul poluted, and without
repentance eternally unckitj-.
I sincerely commend you to the mercy of God in
Christ Jesus: may He bless you with will and power to
forsake evil, and lead you in the paths of wisdom and
virtue.
Do nothing in your own Strength, but in the name
and strength of the Lord, whose*grace is free and suf
ficient, and he will give his spirit to them that ask. The
Lord bless you and help you and give the victory.
From atruely sorrowful and penitent, lately restored
to the light of God’s countenance. ams
TRANSGRESSOR.
A bill, for having a sufvey taken of Capes Hatteras,
Look Out, and Fear, and erecting beacons or buoys
thereon and determining their latitudes %td longitudes,
has passed both houses of congress and baen approved
by the president. \
By the ship Athens, arrived at Savannah,sn 37 days
from Liverpool, private advices have been received as
late as December 27, by which it appears that, from ex
tensive import s from India and Brazils, American cotton
had fallen a farthing a pound.
Prices current at Liverpool, Dec. 27. —Cotton, uplands
Is 5d a Is 7d; do. sea island, 2s 9d a 3s UL New-Orleans,
a 18Jd; rice, duty paid, 45s a 4 7^fp
The Washington City Gazette states, that Mr. Sar
geant, a member of the house of representalh e 9 from
Pennsylvania, had left that city for
reported that the executive anxiously wisheJ'tlm pres
ent bank directors to re sign, and that Mr. S. had gone
on to endeavor to facilitate that object.
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.
Darien, February 8, 1819.
Cotton, sea-island, per lb. .... 50 a52
Do. upland do 23 a 24,
Rice, 5 50 a 5 75
Flour, Pliil’a, per barrel, .... 12 a l2 50
Corn, per bushel, 1 10 a 1 12$
Sugar, Georgia, per cwt. - - . .1200a 14 U)
Molasses, Georgia, per gallon, ... 60 a 70
Rum, Darien, 4th proof, do. - - - 1 37£ a 1 437
Rum New-England, ....... 73
Ddto, Jam. 1 45 a 1 50
Brandy, Cognac, per gallon, ... 275a 300
Whiskey, per gallon, 65 a 70
Gin, Holland, per gallon, 1 25 a 1 50
Sugar, Muscovado, per cwt. ... 151 .. 17
Coffee, per lb 35 u 37*
l ea/ per lb. 1 40 a 45
Bacon, Georgia, cwt. _>q
Pork, per bl 26 a 28
Beef, per bl. 11 a 20
Salt, per bushel, ....... 73
Tobacco, leaf; per cwt none
Soap, per lb 12 a 13
Candkil, northern mould, .... jp ik 21
Dittos Georgia ditto, .... 2j a27
lruus*pt-i cwt. 4a 7
Steek ditto, ......... 9a 10
Lead, bar, 10 a 12
keg, 8 a 10
Shot, cwt. - . . ’ 10 all
Ranging Timber, per 1000 feet, , - - 8 00 a lu 00
Scantling, .... ditto .... oO
Boards, pitch pine - - ditto - - -2200a 2i 00
Ditto, white ditto - - ditto - - - 25 00 aJO U 0
Stouu#W. O. per 1000, 20 00
Dino, R, O. ditto .... none
Shingles, . - ditto 4
Advance on British Goods,
Woollens, ............. 50
Cottony’ 45 a 50
Married on St. Simon’s Island, the 2d inst. bv the rev.
Mr. Mathews, Mr. Jo , M‘N . , merchant of. avanmth,
to Miss Ax Mart, el lest daughter of tile late Thomas
Johnston, esq. of White Blub d.srict.
Married, ai Milledgevdle, on the 24th ult. Mr. John
B. liines, editor of the Defector, to Miss Eliza I. Klur
gis, eldest daughter of Mr. Daniel Sturges, surveyor
general.
ult. captain William Taylor, of < ahaba, (Alabama ierri
tory] to Miss Mary A. Mitchell, youngest daughter of
general IJ. B. Mdchell, agent for Indian affairs.
ham Nichols, hurhor-master of that place, to Miss Nun
gezer, of While Bluff.
hf* s£*-!;*< •,.* ss>. ■$ (J $J i .
Died, at Milledgeville,on the 28lh ultimo, Mr. Fm.
in Gn Vi la Mi, in the prime of life. Nature iiad en
dowed him with genius, and a firm undeviat ng spirit to
pursue independently and fearlessly the public good
secured him the affection of friends and esteem of his
enemies—but the canker came and the flower decay ed.
D’Lyon, consort ofLevi D’L* on, attorney at law, in her
nineteenth year.
dfS JRarinr jßcuip.
PORT OF DARIEN.
ARRIVED.
Brig Newton, May, Charleston, 3 days—corn and
br.oks—to B. King & Cos.
Sloop Gold Hunter, Solley, St. Mary’s, 3 days—shin
gles.
Return, Sayers, with shells, from Wolf island,
Roxana, Doane, Norfolk, 11 days—with corn—
to#he master.
Bridgeport, Woodward, Savannah, 7 days—an
assorted cargo—to Hall, Cooke & Cos. and others.
AUCTION.
THIS DAY, the Bth February
Will be sold do the highestMuder,
11RUST LOTS Band F, plcusnwtlfsituated in the city
■f Da/l£ii w Jja*4ng Vetaorfsquai'e to the west. —
naif of the pure-base money to be paid
“down; Jupcdit of nine y days on the </her ha f, sei ur-
with an approved indorser; die purchasers
ttJ’pnyfor titles.
Ar JOSHUA A. COFFEE, auctioneer.
f e b 8-^—l2 4
For freight or charter.
7|YIF. staunch and fast sailing sch’r
JfjlfA 1 CAs, Hawes, about 60 tons
ake freight or charter to any port in itfl
‘diction of the United Stales. For fiflH|
particulars, apply the captain on board, lying
wharf opposite Mr. Kimberly’s store, or to
RUFUS R. MERREL^M
feb 8 16
BANK NOTICE.
4 POWER of Attorney, according to the annexed
. form, and attested by a justice of the peace or no
tary public, will be required to authorise persons to
vote as proxies at the election of directors, whenever
said election is ordered by the committee agreeable to
the bank charter. JACOB WOOD,
PHILIP 11. YONGE,
WILLIAM A. DUNHAM.
Darien, February 8, 1819.
State of Georgia, County.
BANK OF DARIEN.
Stow ai-l men nr these presents,
That w hose name
hereunto subscribed and seal affixed, being stock
holder of the Bank of Darien, and citizen of the
state of Georgia, do hereby constitute and appoint
to be
attorney and agent for and in name to vote as
proxy, ai any election of a director or directors or
officers of the Bank of Darien, or on any other ques
tion that may be put, at a 9tated or special meeting of
the stockholders of the said bank, according to the
number of shares for which
should be entitled to vote, were then
personally present, with power also one
or more attornies, agents or proxies under for all
or any of the purposes aforesaid, to make and substi
tute, and at pleasure to revoke.
in witness whereof, hereunto
set hand and seal this day of
Sealed and a- Ui ed in the presence of
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