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TOR SALE,
A BLACK MAN, a good carpenter, can fl>ave,,dreis
hair, take care of horses, or do almost any house or
plantation work. Apply to the Printers.
March 9, i79 3, .
” 1U DC. Kt.i\ a
THAT VALUABLK AND WLLL KNOWN
PL ANTA HON v on Little Ogechee,
About 1 a miles from Savannah, and 2 miles from Litt (
Ogechee Bridge, late the property and residence of John
Fox iun* deceafecL An immediate poflefTion will oe given.
For terms apply to *■“ Coobvokie.
•jth March, 1798. __
iFy.’ r i’ ThE sale of the Plantition and Negroes belong-
JL ing to the Estate and the late Mr. Baillie is
postponed, on account of % batnefs of the weather, till
Monday the 12th instant, when it will take place before
the vendue store of Mr. J. D. Dirkinfon, at 11 o c10c...
March 5, 1798. •
NOTICETSHEREBY GIVEN, that the City Coun
cil will, on Monday the 19th oi March instant,
proceed to eleA fix Vendue Maters for the City of Sa
vannah, agreeable to an aA of Alkmbly in such case made
and provided. Those who are cindidates will ligmfy the
fame, in writing, on or before that day.
. By Order of Council)
Thomas Pitt, c. c.
Savannah, March 5, 1798.
’ /’ T o"i* KIN IKKS.
A few Demy Chafes for sale.
/ • Inquire of tlie Printers.
All persons indebted to the
Printers hereof a re requested to make payment.
* 1 liN DOLLARS RhW A'RD.
RUN AWAY from the fubferiber,
on the 17th February, A small
Negro Fellow , named AARON , 4 feet
8 inches high, of a black complexion,
and about 30 years of age. Any person
w ecure t^e a b° ve Negro in the
gaol in this city, or deliver him at Mon
teith plantation, lhall have the above
reward. Owen Owens.
Savannah , March 8, 1798.
HARTFORD, January 29.
AS Mr. Daniel Phelps of Lebanon, in New Hamp
fliire, was journeying to GinneAicut with his
wife and one cliim, in a sleigh, being upon ConneAicu:
river, about three or four miles below Northampton,
his horses and sleigh broke through the ice, and Mrs.
Phelps and child (the latter about fix years old) were
both drowned. The circumstances as related to us are the
following. Mr. Phelps finding that the snow failed at
Montague went on to the river. There was another sleigh
in company, and immediately behind Mr. Phelps. They
had pal Ted dark ice in sundry instances, and saw nothing
where they broke in more than what they had repeatedly
rode over; but it appeared to be a glade with only a cov
ering of very thin ice, which gave way as soon as the
horses had entered upon it. They all fell into the water
together, and Mr. Phelps held his wife under one arm,
w hile with the other he kept hold of the ice. Mr. Charles
Hopkins, of this city, was in their company, but had fortun
ately taken a feat in the other sleigh before this melancholy
event happened. He was the firft who came to their aid.
Laying himfelf flat on tlie ice he extended one hand to Mr.
Phelps, and tried, but in vain, to extricate both him and
Mrs. Phelps from their perilous situation. Finding it im
poflible, it became neceflary for Mr. Phelps to let go his
hold of Mrs. Phelps to prevent them all finking together,
Mr. Phelps, in this situation, as his only alternative, was
obliged to leave his wife to her fate to secure himfelf. Mr.
Hopkins thinks, however, that Mrs. Phelps must have been
dead before Mr. Phelps parted from her, as the water had
run into her mouth until Ihe appeared to be strangled. Tlie
horles and sleigh were loft, with about 200 dollars, in which
sum Mr. Hopkins was the greatest fufterer. The sleigh box
role, and'the child with it; but Mrs. Phelps, the sleigh,
and horses, have not yet been found, though industrious
search has been made for them for several days. Tlie time
when this happened was Saturday afternoon the 20th inst.
A/cw York , January i3. Among other deteftablc aAs
of the trench National Convention was their decree ordering
the Engli'hprifonerstobc indiscriminately put to death; but
though ferocity marked the charaAer of the bloody minded
legillators, the “ defenders of the country” were aAuatedby
different sentiments. A ferjeant, who brought several prison
ers to his General, told him, in speaking of this sanguinary
decree, “ Surely the Convention does not expe A the soldiers
will excrcife the office of executioner: Besides, we bring
them to you; fend tliem to the Representatives of the
People. 1 f these bougres are hungry let them kill and eat
them.’’-—“ Si ces bougres ont faint qu’ils les tuent et
Its mangent .”
January 26. We hoar that a Committee is appointed
on that part of the Governor’s speech which relates to usury.
I lie Governor fays the law against usury is moll grossly
violated, and that it ought to be enforced or repealed* In
this article we entirely agree with him.
An infinitely greater evil in this city, and one ’that in
jures and rums ten families wliere usury does one , is the
enormous house rent—it is a serious calamity, and were it
pojlible to continue it for a series of years New York
would be depopulated. The auctions of furniture in Wall
ftrect next May will illustrate this idea to conviAion.
But what thin ? Shall the Legislature interpose to lower •
house rent ? By no means. A wife and honest Legislature
will go to the source of the evil —the enormous and un
warrantable fpecufations which have overwhelmed the
commerce of our country. Yes there is thefource of the
mifebief And the Legislature of this state, of other
fates, and of the United States, have direßly, though we
charitably hope not knowingly , created this source of
mifebief.
Wife and influential men need not be shocked at the
chaigc—it is a loiemn truth, that tlie great and extensive
distress and wratchednefs which is now felt in our country is
principally the neceflary consequence 01 the mode of Idling
the wild lands in this country. Public paper ail great in
jury—the speculations in provisions have done much injury
—but speculations in land have created more infolvcncy,
and its consequent miseries, than, both of the other calces
united. Yes, Legislatures have, by their haste in disposing
of wild lands, and the manner of doing it, created and
encouraged those speculations, which have spread ruin over
our country. Here is the source of mifehief, and the rul
ers of our land are the fathers of it; they have held out
the bait that lias decoyed and allured thousands into the
snare. And here is the cause for the demand of money—
here is the source of the enormous usury in our country,
which, springing from distress, bids defiance to law—Here
is the source of high rents—the money of the country has
been drawn from buifytng and improvements into the
gulf of speculation.
Legillators, away with your narrow views—mount to
the source of evils— feafe to combat an effeSt while you
cherish the cause. Be jtflured of this truth, that no regula
tions of inter est or pre it of mens private property can ever
be carried into enefl —you are combating the shadow
while you lose the futyftance.
The season has beenjextremely inclement attheeaftwird;
in fome parts of the diftriA of Maine the snow has been
three feet on a level, ind travelling much impeded.
Philadelphia, February 17. Yesterday morning,
immediately after praters Were over, and while the Speaker
was in the chair, but before the House was called to order,
Mr. Griswold, a Member from ConneAicut, observing
Mr. Lyon, of Vermont, in his feat, left the chair in
which he usually fat, and moved diagonally towards the
table occupied by the Serjeant at. Arms. He made a mo
mentary halt, affirmed a fiercenefs of countenance to which
he is unaccustomed, grasping at fame time with firmer
nerve the hickory flick he had’ in his hand, passed on with
three or four quick steps till he came near to Mr. Lyon,
when he raised his Hick and drew a violent stroke across
Mr. Lyon’s head, who was fitting uncovered, and looking
down upon fome papers on the dtlk, which stood between
him and Mr. Griswold. The stroke was so sudden and
unexpeAed that Mr. Lyon did not even make an effort by
railing up his arms to ward off the danger. Mr. Griswold
repeated his stroke before Mr. Lyon could rife from his
leat. Mr. Lyon had put his cane betwixt his legs when
he firft fat down, bat ieeined to have loft it, as he prefled
forward unarmed to extricate himfelf from the chairs and
delks with which lie was surrounded. Mr. Griswold con
tinued his affatilt during the favorable opportunity furnilhed
by Mr. Lyon’s embarrafltd situation, and gave several se
vere strokes, one of which vilibly staggered him. As soon
as Mr. Lyon had got into the open air, before tlie Speak
er’s chair, he attempted to close in with Mr. Griswold, but
finding this not eifily effeAed, by the wariness of his anta
gonist, he seemed compelled to leek for arms that fhotdd
put him more on a level with Mr. Griswold; with tills
view lie passed on to the nearest fire place, followed by
Mr. Griswold, who cohtinued striking him; at length Mr.
Lyon seized the fire tongs, and proceeded to repel Mr.
Grifwolcl’s attack, but in this he was prevented by Mr.
Griswold, who quicklj 5 caught a hold of the tongs alio and
made a thrust with his cane at Mr. Lyon’s face; the com
batants now closed and abandoned their weapons; after a
ftiort struggle they fell fide by fide on the floor, when se
veral other Members iiterfered and separated the combat
ants ; Mr. Lyon immediately exprefled a wilh that they
had been left alone to fettle the matter in the way Mr.
Griswold had preferred, A few minutes only had inter
vened when by accident Mr. Lyon and Mr. Griswold met
at the water table near the southeast door; Mr. Griswold
was now without any fcick, and Mr. Lyon had a cane in
his hand; their eyes no sooner met than Mr. Lyon sprung
to attack Mr. Grilvold, who stepping back in fome measure
avoided the blow; Mr. Griswold continued to retreat un
til another cudgel was put into his hand by Mr. Sitgreaves,
but on the Speaker and fome of the Members calling to
order the bulihefs terminated for the present. Mr. Lyon
fullered considerable pcrfonal injury from the blows he re
ceived from the firft attack. Mr. Grifwofd appears to have
received little or no bodily hurt during the whole affray.
__ A resolution to the following effeA passed the House:
That Meflrs, Griswold and Lyon fliould be immediately
taken into custody of tlie Serjeant at Arms, unless they
would refpeAively engage to refrain from,all personal vio
lence towards each other during the feifion. This engage
ment was entered ito on the part of each.
Translated extraß from a paper entitled, “ Moniteur
de la Liouijiane ,” printed at New Orleans, dated
January 15, 1798.
u The Governor of this province having received by the
last cotmer tlie orderrof his Majesty to evacuate tlie forts
ct Walriut Hills anti Natchez immediately took proper
measures for their execution; having sent on the neceflary
advices for
Cbarlejlon , February 24. Yesterday arrived tlie
barque Jacob, Bair, Lilbon, 76 days.
Ihe barque Jacob, Gapt. Bair, was boarded about three
weeks ago by a French privateer, and plundered of every
thing they could lay their hands upon ;• they even robbed
him of the greatest part of his own wearing apparel.
February 26.
Extract of a letter from Capt. John Pratt, of the Jlip
Federalist of this port, dattJßrurdeaux, 6tb Janu
ary last .
*” I am sorry to inform you that I was captured by the
French privateer Huron, of this place, of 22 guns and 130
men, on the 9th of December last, being then in l it. 49.
long. 23. w. from the meridian of London; the privateer
made me go on board her in my small boat when it was
blowing a very heavy gale, and did not permit me to return.
I had with me nothing but a small trunk of linen. We
kept company with the Federalist for several days; we were
then parted by a gale of wind off Cape Finifterre. I arrived
at this place on the 28th December, since which I have
learnt tliat the Federalist has arrived at Paflage. I lhall
have to go to Bayonne, where the Federalist will be tried.
I have found many acquaintances here, ibmepf whom have
given me letters to merchants in Bayonne. lam sorry to
add, that I heartliat the Judge at Bayonne is Agent for
the owner of the privateer.
“ The cause of their taking me is said to be, that the
snip was and that she was loaded with
sugar, coffee, ccttdV, and other goods, which were not
permitted to be cjried to England in American vefle’s be.
fore the war; anffilfo that the role d’equipage was signed
only by a Justice A the Peace, and the certificate of the
names of the fhiJKrs, Sc c. not having Mr. Defauffarc’i
name in tlie body of it, as well as at the bottom. But I
hope these are bit frivolous excuses. My men, (who a!|
arrived here with ije, except the Mate, Steward, and two 1
boys) were kept in prison four or five days, but are now
living at board.”
March 1. Yesterday arrived the ftiip Ariadne, Prior,
Bourdeaux, 49 days; ship Catherine, Mar.in, Kingston,
41 days, in distress, bound to London.
March 5. Yiefterday arrived the fliip Willterrenden,
Mahlman, Hamburgh, 92 days.
March 6. , Yiefterday arrived the fliip Golden Rose,
Katt, Hamburgh, 47 days.
Capt. Huntington, of the schooner Nabby, who arrived
on Sunday last from Baltimore, informs, that on Sunday
the 25th of February he was in Hampton Road; he there
saw the Supercargo of a ship which had arrived at Norfolk
the day before in $3 or 34 days from France, who informed
him that the American Envoys had been acknowledged by
the DireAory of France before the flap failed. From the
confident manner in which it was told to Capt. Huntington
he thinks the news may lie relied on. Capt. Huntington
does not recolle A the name of the fliip, or the port Ihe was
from.
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SAVANNAH, March 9.
Extraß of a lettirfrom Benjamin Hawkins, Esq. Agent
for Indian Affairs South of the Ohio, dated Fort
IVilkinfon , the 25th February, 1798.
“ T HAVE cloed tlie line op this frontier, and am happy
X to afliire you there Was no room for a diversity of
opinion with the •Gommiflioners of this state, and that the
utmost harmony subsisted between us throughout the whole
of it. The recal by order of the Legislature, met us fome
days after we had completed the line and were on our re.
turn. There are but a few settlers on the weft fide ; three
of them, Mr. Cuningham, Col. Waffbrd, and Mr. Smith,
have embarked property; the others are mostly tenants, and
moft of them with huts so recently made as to be without
any clearing. I have letters from the Upper Creeks of the
Bth, and the Lower of the nth; they are friendly, but
having been embarrafled lately by fome worthless white
people who have travelled through their Nation, they have
requested me to put a flop to it till arrangements can be
made to feciii'e the Indians from tlie impofirioa of such
charaAers. * .
“ Mr. Hill, who has been with me for fome time, will
inform you of fome tranlaAions which have happened in
this quarter that are unpleasant. I have recently had two
letters from, the Governor, and ft.all rely on his coopera
tion to feciTe peace and eftablilh an interchange of good
offices with my red charge and tlie citizens on this fronti
er.” V‘
Yesterday arrived the sloop Nancy, Capt. Morgan,
from New'Ybrk. On the 28th ult. spoke a schooner from
North Garoliria, bound to New Yoik, which Capt. Morgan
supplied with beef, they having nothing but com and waj
ter. Same day ftpoke the brig YValhington, Capt. Cruft,]
50 days from Bourdeaux, bound to New York; ftie brought]
no particular’news; the French were taking every Ameri-j
can vefiel they met with.
MARINE LIST.
Entered Inward.
Schooner Larker, Stiles, Hardwiclj
Ship Two Sifters, Reed, Jamaica
Schooner Charlotte, Lulcomb, Charleftoa
Sloop Dove, Brown, Dicta]
Schooner Cornelia, Auten, New YorJ
Ship Nancy,j Orn, * St. I.ucal
Sloop Sally, Lawrence, Barbaifol
Schooner Felicity, Wilson, St. KitJ
Three Sifters, Sevier, Havacl
Columbia, King, Jamaicl
Huntress, Fitch, New Yodl
Savannah Packet, Todd, QiarleftoJ
Cleared Out.
Brig Two SifteP|fcAmold, St. CroiJ
Schooner Hope, Deverex, New Provkieucj
Brig Dean, Akerly, % New Ycm
Schooner Sally, Griffing, Charleffol
Brig Minerva, Fulford, CuraccJ
Schooner Nancy, Spotfwood, Frederickibir*
John, Woodfworth, St. Mar. l
Ship Columbia, M’Kenzie, Liverpocl
Amelia, Ferguson, Greenocß
Scliooner Polly,. Jackson, Charkft *
NASSAU?, (New Providence J January 16. I
Extraß of a letter- from Long IJland , dated the id A
7 1 ‘“January instant. 1
“ the'26th of last month we had another wrtdj
lmali sloop having The Freedom of AfJ
bury Port painted on her Hem; and from papers foss*
on board Ihe appears to have been bound from Aux Cay*
tor Boston, partly laden with sugars, coffee, and molAsiM
lome of which have been laved. There was not a foul ‘A
board when flbe came alhore on the reef opposite Mr.
donald’s place.”
A few days after the date of the above letter the flex*
went to pieces.,. S
Mr. James H. Voux, late Master of the above sel
oned veil'd, arrived here % efterday from Long Island,
gives the following particular's relpeAing the lois of h*
44 December 22d at midnight, wind blowing frelb foflj
n. n. e. struck on a reef about 3 miles foutb of Rum Iff
The vefiel making water fall boifted out die boat, dH
which all hands got, and reached the Ihore about 2 c-
At daylight could difeover nothing of the sloop. H ‘a|
evening of the 23d got to -Mr. Pinder’s fettiement ’AA
were kindly entertained by him. Staid 16 days on
Key in hopes of fome vellel calling in. In die mean o*
had our boat repaired, and dcfpaiiing of having any
conveyance set off in her on the morning of the 9th jjn
nuary, and got to Long Island that evening.”
The schooner Cato, from Chariefton for St.
captured by* his Majesty’s fliip Ly nx, Capt. Hally Kt
here on Sunday. Hr. ■