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VOL. I.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY
M I.VTrUE § MILLE.Y,
(bay-street)
AT FIVE DOLLARS PER AS.\'U, PAYABLE IN ADVANCF..
Advertisements, not exceeding one square, seventy
five cents for the first insertion; and thirty-seven
and a hale, each successive time.
03“ All letters, on business, to the editors, must be
post-paid.
Coffee, Sugar, JWolasses, <S,Y.
hhds. prime Havana Molasses
6 boxes double refined Havana Sugar
<3 ditto Muscovado ditto
15 bags prime green Coffee and
70 barrels Tar
for sale by JA .IES 11. GIEKIE &. CO.
april 5 24
D arien lots fur sale.
ROM ten to fifteen LOTS, in different parts of this
city, by GEORGE STREE T. 1
april 5 24
FRESH GOODS.
Tite subscriber has received by the sloop Alary Jinn, from
Charleston, and offers fur sale;
CLASSES in hogsheads and tierces
Jamaica Rum, in hogsheads rs
Muscovado Sugar, m hogsheads
I,oaf Sugar in barrels
London bottled Porter in tierces
Madeira, Sherry, Teneriff and Malaga Wines in
quarter casks
New England Rum, in barrels
Rye Whiskey ditto
Gin, ditto
Prime Beef ditto
Prime Pork ditto
Mess Beef, in half barrels
Superfine Philadelphia flour, in barrels and half do.
Pilot bread in half barrels
Shad in ditto
Mackerel, *in barrels
Smoked herring, in boxes
Lard, in kegs
Spermaceti and mould tallow Candles, in boxes
Red Ochre in barrels
White lead in oil, in 281 b kegs
Fish Oil in tierces
Sweet Oil in baskets
- Fruit, in brandy and boxes
Dates in bags
Raisins in boxes
Almonds in bag’s
I’rnesin boxes • J •
Pickles, and fish Sauce in boxes
Filberts in bags
Hyson Skin l ea in chests
Hyson do. in half chests
Gunpowder Tea, in caddies
Blue printed dinner Sets, and other blue printed
Ware in crates.
IN STORE,
A small assortment of Dry Goods, Hardware &,c.
A few tons Share Moulds,
Butter in kegs,
Bar Iron and Castings
Blue and green Paints.
CHARLES P. SIBBALD.
march 22 22
Q For Sale
weight of PRIME BACON, received
oil consignmentp*’ 1 ’ doop Marv Alin, from Charleston.
-'is CHARLES F. SIBBALD.
m arch 29—V\ ,
TkW$ u bscriber
in this place, has placed Ins
in the.&ffjds of Messrs. Hart &. Cos. for
collrifesmiivcrsons are therefore requested to come for-
the samtj hy the 10th April, otherwise
theyWPsrt>e fluids of an attorney.
Jinenii, Jsoui\ Fork, <S*Y.
\j.jmeN. C. Bacon
100 barrels N .’ CVTlour
30 do and pride Pork
25 boxes mmil Candles \
50 barrels Phfladelphia Whifr cy
25 do northern Gin
10 barrels loaf Sugar a
30 boxes superior claret Wine
1 bale Osnaburghs \
10 hogsheads N. C. Sugar, \
received and kr sale by
CHARLES D. M \\ rBIE L CO.
at llaford's building.
march 29 23 \
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The subscribers \
Have just received by the regular packet \kgraph, J.
Graves, master, and offer for sah
DEMIJOHNS
* 12 ditto ditto Soap
A few barrels best Philadelphia lec\
18 dozen best double Hibbert’s Londoiyporter
40 doz. double flint Tumblers and Wir.eß asses
8000 Dutch Quills V
Different sizes Burlaps and white Rol\ *
2 patent iron Blocks
1 box assorted Medicine \
Looking-Glasses, and sundry otiier articV,
DEW ITT & BURNET A
jan 18 13 V
Valuable property fur sale. ; \
rjlllK, undersigned intending to leave thiA
l “ = ’ JL place, oilers the following property for sal-M
h ; !j on n>pdonate terms, the two story lionse whi r I
A'JUJ>he afWcgent together with the lo’-’
No. 105; hoirffnvud-lot No. 104, occupied by. Mr. John
B. Mills; two hmmr sand a lot, near the bank; and the
i-e 1” ■ ."-ni !<ft No. 111, unfinished; some ejegant
iiwants.
DARIEN GAZETTE.
NATHAN lEL CORN WELL,
wmt mi Msaamst
SILVER-SMITH
AND
JEWELLER,
I) ESPECTFUI.LY informs the inhabitants of Darien
1 and its vicinity, that lie has taken the room former
ly occupied by John Kell, esq. and now offers for sale
A GOOD ASSORT.ME.VT
OF
WATCHES, JEWELLERY, SILVER
WORK, Sec. See.
Consisting of the following GOODS, viz: —
Gentlemen’s and ladies’ gold patent lever Watches of
the newest patterns
Ditto common plain gold Watches, silver levers
A great variety of capped and jewelled, and plain silver
Watches
Elegant fine gold Chains, Seals and Keys
Jeweller’s gold do. do. do.
Pearl Breast-Pins; ear and finger Rings, a variety of pat
terns; Amulets in sets
Soup, table, desert, tea, cream* mustard and salt Spoons
and sugar Tongs
Constantly on hand, fur sale
Silver Thimbles, Pencil-Cases, Toothpicks,
Cloak Hooks and Rings, Sleeve-buttons, &c. &c.
Silver tea Sets, Goblets, Tumblers and church service
Plate furnished at short notice
. I/so for sale
Double and single barrel Pistols
Pen and sportsmen’s Knives; Needles in eases, assorted
And a variety of Giltware, See. &c.
‘l'lie subscriber flatters himselfi from the experience
be has had in business, he shall be able to give general
satisfaction to all those who may favor him with their
work.
All good Watches and Clocks will be warranted to
perform well for one year, if thoroughly repaired,
jan 11 12
GROCERIES and DRY GOODS.
r|lllE subscribers have just opened, at the corner op
i posite the Exchange, a general assortment of Gro
ceries, (most choice) suitable for family supplies, con
sisting of
Cognac Brandy
Jamaica Rum
Holland Gin
Madeira Wine
W est-India Shrub
New-England Rum
Windward-Island do.
Porter
Sugars—loaf, Jamaica, New-Orleans and Georgia
*- Coffee and Tea
T obacco—leaf and manufactured
Hardware and Cutlery
with a small assortment of domestic manufactured Cot
tons.
AlWirders in town or from the country will be punc
tually attended to
DEWITT & BURNETT.
dec 14 8
T
Factorage and Commission Business.
rpilrf subscriber begs leave to inform bis friends and
JL th<ljmbhr in general, that he has fire proof stores
in readkArfor the reception of produce or merchan
he will forward as directed—and hopes bv
stffctaflSition and punctuality to merit a share of pub
lic t Cm SAMUEL HAMILTON.
Lumber Factorage
, AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
frVIE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and
i the public, that lie continues to transact business in
the above line, on Mr. John Hunter’s lower wharf, next
above colonel James Johnston’s. He lias every comm
ence for the reception of LUMBER, of even descrip
tion; also a commodious store for the storage of C(S
TON, &.c. ‘ THOMAS JONES®
Savannah, October 26 1
To lease, id
f ■ (for THE TERM OF CNF. YEAR,)
jj =ljh J S AUM.TON’S WHARVES and STORES,
1 % hole or in parts as may
mL ■ “nßJpicjylpants. Also, a BaKe mouse, with a
large eping room attached to it, and several
small la Houses. For terms appl\ to either of
the dlbsiMbß SAMUEL HAMILTON,
W I y DAVID HAMILTON.
Jpcefvcd on storage—the film proof store
being so w|lfknown in Darien for security against fire
and other accidents of the kind, requires nocomment.
Apply as above. x dec 7 7
Just received
. \ Fi.W liaif barrels buckwheat FLOUR
OA’l S
CORN
Fine fly-market BEEF, in half barrels, and
A few first rate GICS
for sale by * SAWYER 2c HERRING,
jaii 4 1 1
. For sale
A commodious two story HOUSE, pleasantly situat
ed, with a Lot, and necessary Out Buildings. Also a
RAZEE, neatly finished w ith Harness complete for tw o
horses, and one good saddle or carriage HOUSE. For
terms apply to GEORGE ATKINSON,
dec 28 10
V'ur rale
4 two story HOUSE, situated in one of the pleasant-
VV est ])arts of Darien, and at pres, nt occupied by
\arles F. Sibbald,’ esq. comprising ... complete an
as anv in the city. The house contains
s’Yoorns; and has attached to it a comfortable kitchen,
aunts’ apartments, a stable, fowl-hoy ■ garden and
av V of most excellent watt . !'• Jt rt'.< ••
DARIEN, (GA.) MONDAY , APRIL 12, 1819.
( Continued from our last.)
It is a clear principle that no order given to
one officer can be made part of an order subse
quently given to another officer, for the perform
ance of the same duty, w itiiout a special refer
ence to the first, and an express direction to be
governed by it. Jackson’s orders were general:
he was told to terminate the conflict, and give
tranquility to the frontier, and in these orders, no
instructions can be found for his government by
the orders previously given to general Gaines.
In selecting the means of ac comp Using the ob
jects of the campaign, the commanding general’s
powers were discretionary, and for his judgment
in using those powers, was he alone responsible.
The only mode in which he could have disobey
ed the order was either to have remained inactive
at Nashville, or to have adopted such measured as
would have been more pernicious than inactivity.
In either case, his conduct would have been just
ly reprehensible.
But admit the orders of gen. Gaines to be ob
ligatory on gen. Jackson —the case contemplated
by these orders never occurred. The Indians
were not found under the guns of a Spanish iort,
but were sheltered within it. It was their depot,
from whence they drew their public stores, both
of ammunition and provision. Spanish officers es
corted parties of Indians to place them in securi
ty from our attacks. The war was planned in
St. Marks. The Indian power of attorney was
executed there, and countersigned by I. C. Luen
go, the commandant, and the councils lor the ar
rangement of every w arlike movement were held
in the quarters of that officer.
If these facts had been known at the war office,
it is not to be doubted, that an order would have
been issued for the seizure of St. Marks. For when
they, and the acts of the general induced by them,
were known, the president approved ot the meas
ure. It had not been conceived that the Spanish
officers had made themselves parties in the war;
and no previous order could have been expected
to meet a case which was not supposed to exist.
In page 6, the committee remark, that “here
also, (at St. Mark’s,) were taken two Indian
chiefs, one of whom pretended to possess the spi
rit of prophecy; they were hung without trial,
and with little ceremony.” The committee have
forborne to state, that Francis the prophet had
long been one of our direst and most dangerous
foes—that he had a brigadier’s commission from
Great Britain—and that he successfully employ
ed his superstitious influence, and the promises
of his trar.satlr.ntic friends, to instigate his delud
ed brethren to deeds of rapine and massacre.
They seem also to have forgotten that liomath
iimico, the other chief, had headed the party who
tii cold blood murdered Scott and his unhappy
companions—struck the reeking tomahaw k into
the bosoms of the defenceless women, and “dash
ed out the brains of infants against the boat.”
Was it mere “technical retaliation” under
which these monsters were executed, or, was
their death an awful but just punishment for
their unhallowed crimes? It is wrong to speak ol
the policy of executions; and I trust that mere
policy shall never be urged as an excuse for de
priving a fellow being of existence; —but crimin
als are executed both for example and punish
ment, and the awful example made of Francis
and Homathlimico, had a wide spread influence.
Two Indians had been taken with them and re
leased; and, in a few days, the whole Ocheese
tribe surrendered at discretion. They were treat
ed humanely, furnished with transportation and
provision, and sent into the Creek nation.
An effort is made by the committee to shew,
that, at the time gen. Jackson believed the war
iAe ended, he had resolved on occupying Pen
sacola. To establish this charge, they more than
once refer to extracts from his letters, wherein
Instates that the Seminolies are dispersed, and
their means of annoyance destroyed.—lt w ill be
recollected, that these letters were written after
the end of that part of the campaign which was
conducted in East Florida, and had a necessary
reference to the general’s success in securing
that portion of our frontier immediately open to
the incursions of the eastern Seminolies. At the
time the despatches were written, the numbers of
hostile Indians in West Florida were unknown;
and, without attributing to gen. Jackson the pow
ers of prophecy and magic, it was impossible in
stating “the Seminolie war was ended,” that he
meant to extend the remark to all future aggres
sions, both on the eastern and western extremi
ties of our southern border. The Seminolies in
East Florida were dispersed, nottxterminated—
their towns were burnt and their cattle taken from
them; of course, w hen scattered and in a state of
starvation, the commanding general safely said
the war with them was at an end. But the means
of subsistence they might soon again procure
from labor and the sympathy of their Spanish
friends east of Sahwannee—and, these obtained,
they still possessed the power of concentration
and incursion; although it was confidently trust
ed, that the awful lesson which they received
w ould have a permanent salutary influence.
In .Vest Florida, the same outrages had so!
some time been committed, almost daily, on the
frontier of Alabama; and the letter from governoi
Bibb, of the 19th May, which was received on
the arrival of the army at the Escambia;
shew ed that the tevritoi ial bo e-Jj£^|®|i!j§s
U. States; in both had British instigal’on cherish jj
ed and matured this spirit of hostility; and,®
each had the savages a depot, whence they die®
their w arlike munition;;, and in whitdi they
retire in case of defeat. Ol all these facts,
general had the fullest proofs; and with lhc®|
proofs before him, he had to choose between r<B|
tiling from Florida into Tennessee, content with \
doing half his duty by securing half the frontier,
or executing his orders entire, by pursuing the
same course to tranquiiizc the west, whicti he
had successfully adopted in the cast.
I mean not now to enter upon a defence of th J
occupancy of Pensacola, gen. Jackson believe L‘
it and therefore he did it. If it save. ‘P
the life of a single frontier settler, was right ■
and it can only lie proved wrong, by shew ing®
that there was not a single body of Indians nfl
West Florida, at the time Pensacola was
pied. The savages w est of Pensacola Bay w
scattered in the swamps, obtaining after theirdisß
pension by the movement of major Young’s anefl
gen. Jackson’s advance into the country, a miser™
able subsistence by hunting and depredating on,*>
the cattle of the inhabitants. Ilad these Indians, ,
irritated by a defeat, been granted access to their
old depot, they would, in parties of ten and twenty,
have committed more murders on our open bor
der than could ever have sat easy on gen. Jai k
son’s conscience, had any act or neglect of his
facilitated their commission.
Common sense, as well as national law', pro
hibits any violation of neutrality, to prevent ai.
evil remotely prospective.—But, where the ex
pected danger is both of vital character and cer
tain occurrence, to neglect any means of prevent
ing it, is not only falsely generous, but “grossly/
criminal. may make such sactifli Cs,
when mere personal danger or inconvenience is
apprehended; but to avert so dreadful an evil a?
the murderous incursion of a savage foe, all ac
cessible means of security and prevention arc im
periously called for. Men, who know tlie'liu. an
character, are well aware of the folly of defensive
operations to restrain their massacres and picda
tory expeditions. If the whole army had been
extended in a cordon, along the southern frontier,
they would have been laughed at by the Indians.
Relieved from all apprehension of attack, and the
privation of their Spanish depots, they would have
leisurely concentrated their forces, and bioken
the cordon at almost any point. It was then ne
cessary to attack them, and, as in West Florida,
they never w ere embodied, the general had ei
ther to march his w hole army in pursuit of each
mile squad of warriors, and exterminate them 41
detail, or to adopt such measures as would reliei e
his army from useless toil and bloodshed, and his
country from unnecessary expense. This mea
sure was the provisional occupation of Florida. It
was an act of necessity; the necessity w e were
under, in all cases, to protect the lives and liber
ties of our citizens.—ls the occupation of Am Jia
Island is justifiable, the seizure of Pensaco.a is
still more so; for the lives of our citizens are of
infinitely greater importance than the plunder of
our commerce; and the security cf a frontier from
Indian invasion, of much greater interest than the
prevention of smuggling.
To destroy the scattered parties in West Flo
rida, capt. Boyles, with two companies of range; s,
was ordered to scour the country, and his gallan
try and success are well known.
In page 7, of the report, there is a sentence
calculated to induce a belief that the terms of ca
pitulation were forcibly imposed upon the gover
nor and garrison of Pensacola*. These terms
were proposed by the governor himself, before
surrendering the Barrancas; and were fully ac
ceeded to, except in such pojnts as affected the
security of the occupancy, and the objects of the
campaign.
It was unnecessary to remark that gen. Jack
son abolished -the revenue law sos Spain, (p. 6.)
The capitulation engaged for the transportation
of all the officers of government, civil and mili
tary, to Havana. What then became of their re
venue laws? The governor virtually abolished
them himself.
It is not a fact that all tine officers of the new
government were military men. Tl& temporary
governor, colonel King, is an officer of the ai mv;
but civil officers were appointed in the different
departments, from among citizens, and M. McKen
zie, a native of Mobile, was placed at the head of
the magistracy. The civil rights of the inhabi
tants were secured to them, and in some instances
particular privileges of individuals were held sa
cred, which were totally repugnant to the nature
of our political institutions.
In the 9th page ol the report, there is a remark
that, before gen. Jackson could make a hostile
movement on the Spanish possessions, they nmsj
have “opposed him by physical net moral
It is not easy to understand this
presume the c< mini'tec mean! \
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