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Between 3 and 4 o’clock the {bund of artillery from a
vefiel in the river, firing minute guns, awoke afrefh our
solemn sorrow—the ccrpfe was moved—a band of mulic
with mournful melody melted the foul into all the tender
ness of woe.
The proceflion was formed and moved on in tire follow’-
ing order: ‘
Cavalry, “J
Infantry, ]> with arms reversed.
Guard, J
Music,
Clergv,
The General’s horse, with his saddle, holders, and
piflols.
Pall Bearers.-} f ßlli Bearers.
Cols. Simms, l rOR PSF <! Cols, Gilpin,
Ramsay, j CORVSJL 1 Marlteller,
Payne, J . E Little.
Mourners,
Masonic Brethren,
Citizens.
When the proccffion had arrived at the bottom of the
elevated lawn, on the banks of the Potomak, where the
family vault is placed, the cavalry halted, the inlantry
marched towards the Mount and formed their lines; the
clergy, the Masonic brothers, and the citizens, defeended
to the vault, and the funeral service of the church was
performed. The firing was repeated from the veiled in the
river, and the founds echoed from the woods and hills a
* round. Three general difc’narges by the infantry, the
cavalry, and t x pieces of artillery, which lined the banks
of the Potomak back of the vault, paid the last tribute to
the entombed Commander in chief of the Annies cf the
United States, and to the venerable departed hero.
The fun was now setting. Alas! the sun of glory
was set for ever. No, the name of WASHINGTON,
the American President and General, will triumph over
death, the unclouded brightness of his glory will illumin
ate future ages.
The Governor of South Carolina has requeued all the
officers of militia in that Hate to wear military mourning
for 20 days for Gen. Washington.
y;;: Cincinnati Society- of that Hate have also resolved
to gl into mourning for three months. And
The Grand Lodge of Anticnt York Masons in the said
Hate have recommended to all the Members ol the Society
to wear a black crape in their hats for one month, in
token of deep regret for the death ot their moll efieemed
Friend and Brother.
Marks of Re [peel paid in S.vannab to the Memory cf
the late Gen. WASHINGTON.
All the ffiipping in the river on Sunday lafl hoisted their
colors half mad, and have continued to do so every day
fmce.
On Monday the Mayor and Aldermen resolved that
they will wear deep mourning for one month. They also
published a notice recommending that the merchants,
fiiopkeepers, and tradesmen, do (but up their Hores and
shops for three days, which recommendation has been duly
complied with. And at their requeH a funeral sermon is
to be preached on Sunday next by the Rev. Mr. Holcombe.
Same day the Federal Artillery and Chatham Artillery
fired minute guns between 12 and 2 o’clock, as did the
Revenue cutter in the afternoon.
Minute guns have also been fired by the ffiipping on
Tuesday, Wednd'day, and this morning.
UNION SOCIETY,
January 6, 1800.
The President informed the Society, that, although each
Member was apprised of the melancholy event which had
lately been announced in this city, of the death of their
illufirious Fellow Citizen, General George Washington,
Cdhimander of the Armies of the United States, and late
President of the fame, be conceived it his duty to mention
it from the Chair, in order to give Members time to form
such resolutions as they might think proper, evincive of
their sorrow and regret on the occaiion.
Whereupon Mr. Stephens introduced a resolution, which
was referred to the President, Mr. Stephens, and Dr.
Noble Wimberly Jones, and, after being examined, was
unanimously agredd to, and is as follows:
“ This Society, anxious to offer teftimonics of refped
and gratitude to tliofe who by their conduit have merited
the esteem of their Fellow Citizens, and at the present mo
ment partaking of the general gloom which pervades every
American bread for the lots of that great and good Man,
General George Wadiington, Commander in chief of the
Annies of America, and late President of thel'e United
States, and to evince the feelings of its Members on the
mournful occasion,
“ Do resolve , That it be recommended to every Member
hereof to wear a black crape around the left arm for fixtv
days, and to attend divine service on Sunday next, the
12th inffant, when it is expected a funeral sermon will be
delivered by the Rev. Mr. Holcombe on the melancholy
and distressing event.”
Resolved, That this resolution be entered on the journals
es the Society, and be published in the next Gazettes.
Extract from the Minutes,
Peter S. Laffjtt::, Sec’y.
January 7, 1800.
The death of the illnffiious Gen. George Washington,
the Father of his Country, cannot but excite the molt
poignant sensibility, and, as a testimony of refped to the
memory of a character fi> great and excellent, it ri recoin
mended that the Volunteer companies attached to the
Chatham regiment do appear in uniform, with mourning,
on Sunday morning next, at 10 o’clock, in the Filature
square, and from thence proceed to attend at the delivery
of a funeral sermon by the Rev. Mr. Holcombe on the
melancholy occasion.
The officers of the Chatham regiment are required to
attend at the fame time and place, in uniform, with mi
litary mourning, and thereafter to wear a crape on tie left
arm, until the order of his Excellency the Commander in
chief be known. -
Josiah Ta-itnau. jun. Lt. Col. Cciumt. C. R.-g*.
TTO f I
The Members of the CHATHAM TROOP OF
LIGHT HORSE are requefled to meet at Brown’s Cof
feehoufe on Friday evening 10th inff.mt, at 6 o’clock, on
business of importance.
AMBROSE GORDON, Captain.
January 9, 1800.
SC?'’ The Sale of James Haberfliami’s Property having
been poffponed mi Tuesday lass will politively take place
on the firff Tuefday..of February next.
B. Wall, s. c. c.
January 7, 1800.
On the 21H of November lass David Frotbing’mm,
conductor of the Argus, was tried in the Mayor’s Court
ot New \ 01k and found guilty of publilliing a libel against
Alexander Hamilton, Elq. late Secretary of the Treasury
ot the United States; he was fcntenced to pav a fine of
ico dollars, to be imprisoned four montlis in Bridewell,
to lemain there till he ffiould be bound for his good beha
vior for two years, himfclf in the penalty of 1 coo dollars,
and two sureties in 500 dollars each, or one competent
security in icoo dollars.
Dr. Benjamin Rufli, of Philadelphia, on the 14th tilt,
in the Supi erne Court ot Penntvlvama, obtained a verdict
of 5000 dollars damages against Mr. William Cobbett,
ior certain defamatory publications which appeared in
Porcupine's Gazette. ‘On the 17th Mr. Cobbett’s Coun
cil move! for anew trial on the ground of excessive da
mages, but the Court thought it unnectflary for Dr. Ruih’s
Council to reply, and unanimously refilled the rule for
another trial.
Married on the iff inffant, at the feat of William
Clarsc, I’-iq. Bryan county,. Mr. George M. Waters, to
Mil's Catherine Fife; and ML Stephen Maxwell, to Miss
Elizabetl) Fife.
From the CAROLINA GAZETTE!
To the Merchants of Cbarlef on.
HpHE contest was not very strenuously maintained, and
_L our fuccels has been complete. We have not only
er, lured to ourselves a comfortable profit on our remittances,
but we have afeertained, even to a demonstration, tiiat
whenever we choose to combine, and fix a price on the
produce of the country, our will is irrefiffible. With
whom have we to contend? with a set of men, many of
them indeed worthy characters, but, considered as a body,
weak, ignorant, and ill educated. Thru- education In
general consists in-learning to read and write, and the four
firff rules of arithmetic. I do not believe that one in
twenty of them could, without the aflifhnce of his fadlor,
do a fiim in the rule of three. For example, it is well
known that Messrs. C. and H. cleared Lift year 25,000 b
fterdng on tneir pure hales cf cotton. How many planters
are there who can tell, if a certain number of- pounds of
cotton are bought at one and ten pence a pound, and nett
twenty-five thousand pounds, how much would be the
profit if the price were a quarter of a dollar? This is what
I think it ought to lie, and to that mv exertions fir.dl not
be wanting to bring it. We know what the difference of
profit would be, and our knowledge (hall not be ufeleis to
us.
Bv residing in Cliarleffon we have an opportunity of
coniulting each otb.ei, and of taking such meal'uos as will
promote our hiterefts. ‘The Planters, on the contrary, by
being ciifpcned through the country, can have no union,
and may literally be considered as a rope of land. Befidcs
tliey hare no corn, (ponocnis in Europe; or, it fome few of
tlicm have, they are single letter correspondents, not being
acquainted with the niyftery of having one confidential let
ter containing fads as they are, an i another on the fame
fubjedt written for the purpose of being fliewn. The
Planters are not /killed in geography. Tell them that the
city ol Hamburgh is situated within ten miles of Man
cheffer, and that the late bankruptcies in that city have
effeirtiallv affeded the manufacturers of cotton, although
the inhabitants of Manchcffer have as little to do with
tbofe oi I laniburgh as tliey have with the inhabitants of
the Georg:um Sidus, and bring three oTfour letters to cor
roborate it, and they will gape, Hare, and believe.
1 lie Planters, I am told, have grumbled at the reduc
tion or the price of cotton. Poor men! as they can do no
thing else but grumble, it would be hard to deny them the
privilege of doing that. 1 free (hillings a pound indeed!
1 hat would have been a joke truly; and, if it had been
permitted, would in a httip time have got the Planters
entirely out cf our debt. At prelent, if they fl.ould prove
retractor), we can, through the medium of the (lieriff’s
office, soon bring them to rcafon.
We have been told that vve ought to be fatisfied with our
profits on our importations, and be contented with a saving
remittance. I bis, it is true, was the case formerly; but
it was a bad custom, and mere honored in the breach than
the observance. It is too tedious a mode of acquiring a
competency which will enable us to return to Britain and
live comfortably. Can it veafonably be supposed that we
should come from thence, and expose ourselves to the at
tacks of nnifketoes, and the epidemic disorders of this
country, without such a prolped? I am fiire I have never
Hen so much alarmed since 1 left my native country as I
was luff year at hearing the accounts given bv fome French
emigiants from the Weft India Blands of the dreadful ef
fects produced there by the black vomit and the fever; and
1 have been allured that our fever was not dissimilar to
their’s.
My intention of writing this adarefs to you is to exhort
you, cow that you have got the ball in your hands, to be
careful not to lefe it. The Dutch motto is a good one,
Concordia par vet res crefeunt: which may thus be ren
dered into plain Engliffi, ‘Let the Merchants ofGbarlef
ton flick elofely to each ether, and their fuccrfs and
prosperity will he inevitable. A MERCHANT.
RECEIVED ON CONSIGNMENT,
By the Hoop Commerce, James Annffrong Master, from
St. Bartholomew’s, and stored at the Wharf of Tay
lor, Miller, and Cos.
19 hog!! loads, ? r , _
22 barrels, > mufeovado sugars;
2d buihels of fait;
For iaie bv
Nichol Turnbull, or
1 aylou, ?vjilLek, and Cos.
(■lb January, 1800.
N IWTO CHARTER,
HPWO or more veflels, from 100 to
X 200 tons burthen, to load lumber
**** for Jamaica*
Jan. 8, 1800. MEINS ts MAC KAY.
wAN i S A SI iUA RON]
As OVERSEER of a Gotten Plantation, or GAR
DENER,
A PERSON qualified for either, and who can fatisfy
any gentleman who may chdbfe to employ him re.
fpefting character and capability. A line directed to J. 11.
at Mr. Wood’s, Duke street, Market lquare, will be duly
aniwered.
UNITED STATES 0
v erf us yLibeU
Four Pieces of Cannon.J
Will he fold, on Saturday the 111 b infant, on Taylori
M.ller, and Co.'s wharf, precifly at XII o'clock,
tq'GLii PIECES OF CANNON, two of which are
it mounted on carriages, having been forfeited agree
able to the Revenue Laws of the United States, and are
to be fold under a decree of the Court of Admiralty.
January 6, 1800. O. Bowen, M irfhai.
PQ-j3 Llc s ale;
On the flrfl Tuesday, being the 4 ih day of February
next, before the Court boufc in Savannah, between
toe hours cf XI and II o’clock, will he fold,
ALL the Effate, Real and Personal, of Chv.lstoi’hfr
Ring, deceased, agreeably to his lass will and tcft
ament, confiding of,
O ie hoiife and half a lot, being the caff half of lot No.
9 fourth tithing Reynold’s ward.’
One houie, with the whole lot No. 2 fecund tithing
Anion ward. N. B. 011 this lot are two It aft s, which
wiil expire in the year 1803. The conditions thereof will
b- made known on the day of fide, or by apply ing to Mr.
John Holland and Joieph de la Val.
1 vvtlve Negro Haves, and fome household and kitchen
furniture.
A.fo, on the day thereafter, if a fair day, f not, on
the next fair clay after, on the [pot,
A plantation at Addon, about five miles from this city,
a very agreeable lituation, containing about 100 acres in
land rice swamp, ico acres cotton or provision land, and
200 acres pine land. About 11 o acres are cleared and
under fence. On the premises are a good dwcllinghoufe,
kitchen, barn, woodpecker rice machine, and other im
provements.
hold and kitchen furniture.
Mary Heinkman,
George Nungdzer,
Wm. Lew den,
Justus H. Scheuber,
-— — Ring.
Savannah, 2d January, 180 c.
assize for January; Tßoo7
HP HE Price of Flour being 12 dollars per barrel, of
X 196 lbs. nett, the weight of Bread for this month
muff be as follows, viz.
12 h cents loaf. 44 cents loaf,
lb* oz. ’ lb. oz.
1 14 o 15
JOHN GIBBONS, Citv Treafureir,
If ILL.’ dE SOLD, on the 30 tt> infant, at X o’clock
in the forenoon, at the boufe cf Chriftopbcr Hudson,
dcccafed, in Screven county,
r | TIE whole Effate of the said Chriftopbcr Hudson,
X confining of four Negroes, one or two Horses, two
Guns, fome iools, and Household Furniture.
Hannah Hudson, adminiffratrix.
January 1, 1800.
N O T I C E. ‘
THE Tax Colleftor’s Sales of Lots in Rrunfwick,
being in default of taxes for a number of years pass,
which was to commence at the Courthouse in the said
town of Brim!wick, in Glynn county, on the 18th day of
November inffant, are hereby poffponed until the 4th day
of January next, in order to allow the proprietors of said
lots a longer time to produce their certificates or receipt-,
ipecifying that the tax has been regularly paid, or to avail
them (el ves of the lax Laws in such case made and pro
vided. r
Saml. Burnett, Colleftor of Taxes for Glynn countv.
Brunfiuick , 18 th November, 1799.
iiitate ot Jacoo W aid burger, Elq.
MR. Milledge, one of the executors named in the will
of JaroD Waldburger, Esq. having now qualified,
letters testamentary have issued including him as an adin
exccutor. If therefore there are any claims or demand!
against tneeftate yet unexhibited or unfatisfied, all persons
lo circiwnftanced are now, for the last time, called upon to
exhibit them to one of the fubferibers immediately for
settlement. Sucli persons as are indebted to the effate are
notified, that the executors do not feel themfelvts juffified
m giving longer indulgence than the firft of M. 4 n -vt
John Morel, “J J - •
John Milledge, NAding Executors.
James Jones,
Savannah, Jnn. 3, 1799.
A
rnc Ameren Seamen is provided, bv order of the
GoUedor of the Port of Savannah, in a healthy and elH
ible fituatum (outl. of the city. Application may be made
ffibfcnber, vvlio will take care that necessary attend
ance, &c. 11,all be paid. J
o , • 7 e Officer P. S.
Savannah, 4 th September, 1799.