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SATURDAY, February t , iBc6.
AUGUSTA CHRONICLE,
GAZETTE OF T°HE STATE.
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SHADY GROVE,
FOR SALE,
acres of prime land, in the county of
Columbia, within fifteen miles of Augufia.
r T" , HESE lands are equal to any in the
X county, for the production of corn,
cctton, &c. The improvement! arc a gen
teel well finifhsd two ftoty D-velling House
a large framed Bifn, and convenient out
houfci. The situation is healthy and well
watered, with a number of excellent
fpringi A farther defeription is deemed
unnecefftry, as it is prefamed no one will
purchase whhoat viewing the premifee.—
This traft is laid out into four lot*, of four
and five hundred acres each, fur the con
venient of purchasers, and an extensive
Credit will be given for*the greater part of
the puirchafc money. If this land is not
difpofi:d of at private sale before the frf
IVednefdayin February, it will on that day,
BE SOLD AT SHADT GROVE ,
to the highest bidder—indisputable titles
will bit made. Any person wishing to view
the land, and know the terms of sale, will
apply to
PETER CRAWFORD. >
January n, 1806. [ 3* ]
N. B. The dock, crop, &c. on the
prermfes, will be foid the day after the sale
of the land.
NOTICE.
On ihe frjl Tuefday in April next , agreeably
to an order of the Honorable Inferior
Court of Burke county.
Will be Sold,
AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
At the court-house, all the real eftatc of
]ame» Reid, deceased.
Con fifing of three Trails of Land,
Sitaate in Burke connty, on the north
fide of Brier creek, contiguous to, and
adjoining each other, land containing in
the whole £75 acres, more or less, bounded
wcftwardly bv Powell's and, northwardly
by Price’s, r'aftwardly and fouthwardly by
Tabb’s and Beal’s.
ALSO,
One trafl, containing r acres, more
or less, formerly said to be Samuel Reid’s,
adjoining the aforefaid trails, for the bene
fit of the heirs and creditors.
Conditions made known on the day of sale
ISAIAH CARTER, Adra’r,
Jan. 18. (30
NOTICE.
THE fubfenber will be absent from the
Pate fat a few months, those indebt
ed to him are notified that their notes and
accounts are placed, in the hands of J»
Hu&hmfon, Esq. his attorney, for col
ic itio* ; and those having any demands
ajamfl: him, will plcafe call on his said at
torney for payment.
GEO; W. EVANS.
Tamta-y iB. (3O '
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Brought to the Jail of Rich
mond county* on the 16th io&. A NEW
NEGRO M AN, who cannot fpcak a word •
of Englilh he is about 20 or 21 years of
age —fa ha* a large burn on one of his
knees, and a small fear below one of his
eyes—has on a white flannel fhiit. The
owner it requeued to prove property, pay
expences and take him away.
JAMES SIKES, Jailor ,
December 21. if)
RUN-AWAY from the fub
feriber about the middle of Jane last, a ne
gro lad, about the age of 18, by the name
of SAM, belonging to Colonel S. Ham
mond. Whoever will deliver the said boy
to the fubferiher, living in Barnwell Di
ftrifl, ntar Rutledge’s mills, to Major
Goodwin, at hi* mills, or to Colonel Le
roy Hammond, (hall receive a reward of
Five Dollars.
WILLIAM H. DURKEE.
jfanuary 18
NOTICE.
Application win be made to the
Court of Ordinary of Burke county,
to be held on the firft Monday in May
next, for letters difroiffory from the admi
nistration of the estate of Dennis Nobles,
deceased.
JOHN LASETER, Admr.
her
LUCRETY X NOBLES, Ad’x.
scaik
Jan. 25. (3*)
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On the firji Tue/day in March next, at the
Market House in the city cf Augufia, at
the usual hours ,
WILL BE SOLD,
Eight acres of Land, well im
proved, with a dwelling house, (table and
other convergent out hoafes; a small
peach and apple orchard ; the above land,
lying and being in Richmond county}
bounded cn the north by the W»(hington
road ; on the fnuth, by lands belonging
to his Excellency John Milledg* j on the
weft by land belonging to Mrs. Averitt,
and on the fouth, by land belonging to
Col, James Fox.'
ALSO,
Nine head of Cattle, and one
Bay Marc; the above property levied on,
as ths property of Shadrach Rozier, to
fatisfy an execution obtained against him,
by Ala Shaw, Conditions Cash.
H. M‘TYRS, s. r. c.
January zs. [ 6f]
Jockey Club Races.
At a meeting of the E igtfitld Jockey Chib '
on the z\Ji' injt.
RESOLVED, that the Races for the
enfoing year commence at the Chero.
kee Ponds, on the Second Wtdnefday in
February next , free for any Horse, Mare
or Gelding, from any part of the world.
The purses and difiances as follows :
Fi/ft day'»running, three mile heats, for
apurfeofat Jeaft Two hundred and fifty
dollars.
Second day's running, two mile heats
for a purse of at least One hundred and fc
venty dollars.
T hird day, a tn,v K,itv
heat, for the entrance money,
£3T Weights ejiablijhcd agreeable to Au
gufla Rules .
STEPHEN GARRETT, Sec'ry .
December 28.
• MM.
The fubfeirbers to the/
Edgefield Jockey Club, are requested topay
their fubferiptions to the fubferiber, on or be
fore the day of running,
J* Hightower, Treaf’r .
O TOLEN from the gate ot the bublcriber
C 3 in Augusta, on Tucfday night the 7th
instant, a bright BAY HORSE, about 14
or 15 haads high, (hort for his height, has
a small white liar in bis face, a number of
saddle spots on his back, and a thick swab
tail; he paces, trots and canters, is very
gentle and draws well in haraefs’bf which
he has marks on his (boulders and fidcs. A
liberal reward will be given to any person
who will deliver said horse to Mr. John
Carmichael, or the fubferiber, or give
information by which he can he obtained.
SARAH ANDERSON.
January 18 (jt.)
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TAN-YARD—To Leafc.
THE fubferiber offers his HOUSE and
TAN-YARD for falc, or upon a
lease from three t» seven years—Any per
son wilhing to purchase or lease, will please
appiy to FRAs. VOLLOTTON.
Jan, 11. (ts)
CAUTION!
THE fubferiber hereby cautions all per
son? from harbouring, employing,
or in any manner entertaining a certain
young man by the name of Jfaac Dillard,
as he has abfeonded himfclf from his father,
a« they may rest affored no pains or trou
ble will be spared to profccute them.
THOMAS DILLARD.
January 25. [3 r 3
Publdhed and Foi^pjc,
At the CHRONICLE OFFICE,
7 he Georgia and South-Carolina
REPUBLICAN
ALMANAC,
FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
* 1806 ;
Coataining—The Aftroaomical Calcula
tions, with a variety «f other ufeful and e«-
matter.
GEORGIA.
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For the Augusta Chronicle.
Athens , Jdnndrj 18, iB«6.
During th* year 1805 a meteorological
remitter has been kept in this place. Thi
height of the mercury in Farenhait's Ther
mometer was noted at Morning, Noon and
Evening, each day. Three daily ohferva
rious were made of the weather, and one
of the winds. The following is the result;
, Mean altitudes.
January, 44. g 0 July, 81. 50
February, 47, 25 August, 78. 20
March, yy. go September, 77. 50
April, <s4. g 6 Oft«ber, 54. 10
May* 69. 64 November, 54. 83
June, 78 December, 52. 45
From the abovc ± it appears, that the
mean temperature Tor the year, w«ta 6st. go.
The celdejl moment was at fun-rrfirigi
January aad, when the mercury was 6 de
grees above cypher.—The hots moment
was at noon July 7, when the mercury was
100 degrees above cypher.
January, February and March were the
mod irregular months ; May, June, July
and August, the moll regular.
The latcji Spring fjrolt was on the 28th
of April:—the earliejl autumnal fro ft on
the 3d of Qftobcr.
The Thermometer, was In the open air on'
the north fide of a houfr, and about ten feet
above the furfaceof the Earth.- —lly a Ther
mometer kept in an open arbour of the fame
house, the mercury was gcnsrally, in Sum
mer, at Noon, Bor 10 degrees lower than
the foregoing ;
The result of observations on the winds at
the Noon of each day is as follows ;
North 24 N. Well 88
South 35 S. Weft 113
East —■—L ** \[, F.*ft 9 H
Weft 40] 20
102 4* 263
In June we had a (With callerly wind for
15/ days fucceflivcly-—and in July a Louth
weft wind twenty-tw* days—These arc
■dour trade winds.
Almost two thirds of the winds were
South, Welland North Weft and, if we
include the North and South, nearly five
fixths of our winds were from the Weltcra
Semicircle of the horizon.
Os the IVeather for three years,
Clear 683
Cloudy 166
Rainey 169
Thunder 71
Snjw 1
1095
We had, therefore, a clear Ik/ very
nearly two thirds of the year.
The cleared month Was December,
The cloudiest March,
The mod raincy July,
The most thunder was in August.
Our College Building is now finifhed—
It is a strong and handsome brick building,
Izo feet 10ng...45 feet wide, and three
(lories high, containing four chimnics, 24
fire places, 24 piincipal rooms, 48 bed
rooms, 48 defers, and 106 windows, with
a deep and spacious cellar under the whole,
a part of which will make an excellent La
boratory whenever a Frofefforlhip of Chim
iftry (hall be eftabtiflied.
This building faces South, zo degrees
East, so that in Summer, in the hotted part
of the day the fun scarcely enters the win
dows. Better accommodations for (Indents
•cannot be found in any College in the Unit
ed States.
In the centre of the middle (lory, on the
north, front of this building is a plain flab
of white marble, ereded at my request, on
which is the following infeription :
“On the 6th day of July, 1801, in the
' 26th year of the Independence of the United
States of America, the Site of this building
was chosen, by George Walton, A
br ah am Baldwin, John Milledcs,
John Twiggs and Hugh Lawson, a
Committee of the Seuaius AcaJe/mcus of the
Univcrfify of Georgia ; and, for the bene
fit of the Institution, the adjacent land,
was, on that day given by John Mil
ledge.
The trafl given by Mr. MilUdge, con
tains 64* acrcsof land between 2 I and 3d
quality.
This College ftapds on a beautiful hill on,
the Weft fide of the North fork of the Oco
nee.
The firft or lower floor is 176 feet perpen
dicular above the level of the water in the
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River at the Ford, which i 3 800 yard*
distant from the College.
The profpeft from the College is in eve.
ry direction, very extensive and beautiful;'
and its beauty increased with the progrefa
of fettlcment and cultivation.
When the gentlemen abovementioned
chose this place, there was but one family
and one dwelling house : here are now 1;
families, 10 framed dwelling houses, and
4 merchant (lores—-The number of ftudenta
in the College and Grammai School is about
70. The Senior ajid-JA’ei'h nen claftVs am
under the immediate tuition of the Presi
dent ; —Mr. Tator Lewis inftrufts tho
Junior and Ssphonpre ClaflVs, and the Rev,
John Hodge has thecharg^of the Grammar
School. For the accommodation of that
School a large framed wooden building
containing two rooms and tvvo fire places
was crewed by the Truftces, in 1804. Thi*
building is on the hill about too yards
South of the College.
The French language 19 taught by M,
Petit de Claville, who was defied prolefibf
of that language at the last commencement.
This gentlemart is a native of the city of
Chartres in Frahce, and after having re.
ceived 3 liberal education in the College
La Fleche ,served nearly thirty years as an
officer in ths French regiment of Luxem
bourg both in Europe and in the Eaft.ln
dies.—Thofo who wish to acquire tins ve
ry ufefal language hare ah opportunity of
learning it in elegance and perfedion under
the di red too of an accomplilhed Scholar and
Gentleman, • 4
There is in the College, a valuable Poi
lofophical and Mathefcetical Apparatus,
with a small Library of Books, almolt
wholly (clentific. Oar greafeft want, at
ctitiit. *9 2. Lib raj v r*C bi!inrr_z”J!—
rcatnr.g. •
During the last seven years, but one
white person has died here ; nor have we
had any serious ficknefs—lndeed we havo
not been able to mark a ficklf season. -
Tins extraordinary healthfulnefs is doubt
less, yilh the Divine Blcffing, owing in
a very great degree to the pi ime and very
excellent water of tho Hock Spring, which
fupplics the Students and Citizens.
This lingular fpiing iflues from a Rock
at azo yards dillance from the College
and is 44 feet perpendicular below the level
of the ftrft floor. Its tempcratarc is very
uniform vibrating not more than thn.s de
grees nbovc, and below 62,90, is the mean
annual temperature of our atmofphcre. The
quantity of water it difeharges is alfovery
uniform*-!aft Christmas day it yie’ded at
the rate of 7,700 gallons in 24 hoursi —In
ISo 4 it dilclurgei at the rate of
Nine Thou/und gallons in th? Came time. §
Excellent water has been found on the
top »t the hill by finking a well about 40
seer.
The country to the North Weft, Weft
and South Weft is rapidly fettling. The
diilance from this place to the high shoals
of Apalacha or the border of the new
couuty of Baldwin is about 12 miles—to
Augusta 90 —to Savannah 220 to Mil
ledgevilla 55—. and to Wafliington City 61/
Mr, Eufiy has a Grist and Saw Mill on
the Oconee about 800 yards dittant from
the College--he has also thrown a fafe and
well made bridge across the River.
We have a mail from the Northward
once a week byway of Augusta, we haye
also a mail once a week from Wafliingtort
City Jtreftly to New. Orleans—bys—by this
last we obtain the earlteft intelligence.
Athens is situated in lat. 30 0 14' 50"
North j and in Jong. 84 0 30 Weft
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(To be continued.)
S=a= * ACTS.
Faffed by the laji Left future of the fate cf
Georgia.
o
AN ACT ■ 1
! Tue(lahV'f> aware-house and inffeSipn if
tobacco on la .dt of‘John D, limit , un
t T‘nyaloe n vtr, in Franklin county ~
BS it enacted by the Senate and House
of Rtprefentati-Vf i of the Slate of Ge*
or?ia, in General Ass> aibly met , '1 bat there
(hall be an tnfpeftion of tobacco and a ware
house cftablhhcd on 1 ads ol John IJ. Ter
rell, onTugah* river, in Franklin countv,
• on the Hlr.lt which border* On the Indian
I ftmi bHow fool, the place to be
| called Wlitcn. . %
Sett. 2. And be it further cralhf That
I James H. Little, Thomas P. Oafticf,
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