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.,,.,1 and disposed of, under the Old lYea-
is, that the political doctrines of the
. in Georgia are as diametrically in nppo-
n hose of General Jackson, as black is to
t0 i t cannot be forgotten, that one of the
f tlie opposition, advanced the ubsurd ideu
dC , r C , fress had a right to sell a State,"-the
1 ( ieoreia for instance,—and that the same
tieorB* lint ininnri.
1 "it hT that" bod/, the must extravagant doc-
' in regard to the supremacy and omnipotence
'f ,..„eral Government.
'• . nntrast his political doctrine with that of
Jackson. The President admits the
b V the State of rights denied to them by
" «, re ia minority and its famous Champion.—
' I ,| ie President’s late tulk to tlie Creeks,
! letter addressed by his order to the Cite-
sustains U» to the fullest extent in the doe
when sent to Congress bv I
. .(i.ndosv of his political i
C we contended for in the course of the Creek
c . versy, and proves, us far ns the President’s
can prove it, that what was denounced as
"civil war," Ac. Ac. was nothing
t c
ilicul 1
, Lumpkin
ntroversy
nion can
r 7than the' exercise by the State of her just
iinnot he forgotten that our party, and this
particular, urged the late Administration
l„,)t Li regard to the Indians (both the Creeks
rlierokees) the very course which Jackson
tikcii If'* said thut'the plain truth should he
the Indians—that tlie Government should
them HS a Parent would treat his children—
lenity aH<l kindness, but at the same time with
■nets—and that tlie idea of considering them in
lielit of independent natious.and of holding trea-
u illi them ns such, was ridiculous, if the Geor-
minorily had seconded our efforts, or rather if
| ia( | n ot opposed and thwarted them, by sup-
in' Mr. Adams in his ill-treutinent of our State,
Cherokee as well as the Creek lauds might
ebecn obtained before this time.
Ve have at last a clue to the assertion made in
mer of this town some weeks ago, that Mr.
Icon Lumpkin Imd received a letter from Wil-
, H Crawford advising or requesting him,
npkin, to become a candidate for Governor.
/.■ p Crs on who saw that statement believed no
lit as we did, that the impression intended to
made on the public was, that such a letter us the
above described had been recently written,
that it was desired by Mr. Crawford that Mr.
inkin should he a candidate for Governor at the
( election. Without any enquiry, we pronoun
the statement false; and in spirit, though not
dlv. we were right. It seems that Mr. Craw-
did, some nine or ten years ago, while Gen
rk was Governor, write such a letter to Mr.
npkin—nine or ten years produce changes in
I as well us in other matters,—and whether
rare now what they then
_ ve can tell. We should like
itli what object the fact of such a letter
; been written was made known, and why it
. done in a way that was calculated to impose
the public ’
We would suggest tor the. benefit of those
i live at a dislance, and who have olfered or
ad to offer notes at the Central Hank, that it
• be to their advantage to make known to the
ectorsof the Hunk, in the best way they can,
solvency and pecuniary ability of their endor
—This could be done by reference to some
an in this quarter who knows the parties, anil
t hose statement reliance could be placed—or
the information of some gentleman of their
county, known to the Directors, or to some
ectable-person of their acquaintance, as a man
uth and integrity.
—
he crop of wheat now getting in, is one of the
est ever made in this State, and tlie price of
. which has been for some months post at § 1 i
barrel in this town, will be, in n few weeks, as
perhaps as it ever was. The crops of Rye
Oats are also uncommonly good.
Madison.—We understand (suvs the Rich
l Compiler,) from n gentleman who hnsjnst re
■ d from the Episcopal Convention at Char
sville, tiiat this distinguished man was very
the week before last, in consequence of a v"
attack of (he influenza; that his family had
tup with him for several nights; but that iie
convalescent, during the last Week, and no
us fears were entertained about his death.
he words " Pay the Printer," can be so ar-
ed us to read two thousand ways; and yet
e subscribers deviso more tlmu two thousand
snof to pay the printer. Oh! the wicked
unity of man ?
1ETEORIC, OR FALLING STONES,
he following account of Meteoric or Falling
cs, tuken from Rees’s Encyclopedia, we have
compelled to abridge, to bring it within our
mns. The extracts below give the most in-
ting facts and speculations contained in the
lc:
Fituso Stones—Of these bodies, the most ge-
I opinion now is, that they are really of cetes-
But u few years ago nothing could
appeared more out of the reach of human in
igation than the analysis of uny part of the solar
m beyond the planet we inliubit. The hea-
i' bodies, revolving at a distance so ineonceiv-
remote, seemed relatively to us to be rather
ceasibie visions than objects of chemical exa-
tioa ; the only medium that appeared to con-
diem with us was that of sight: to he uble to
nem.and be conscious of their existence, was
most boundary of human expectation.—
dlle was it to be expected that beyond this
iioalil ever be uble to examine tlie most mi-
tragmeutof the sideriul system; and it must
oubt be reckoned amung the wonders of the
a which we live, that considerable portions of
heavenly bodies are now known to have de-
iled to tlie eurtn. So wonderful and uiiex-
d au event was at first received with incre-
y and ridicule, but we may now venture to
ider the tact as well established as any other
thesis ot natural philosophy, which docs not
by admit of mathematical demonstration.
, e attention of the’ philosophers of this coun
as first culled to this subject by the falling of
i ! he se masses of matter near Flaiuborougli
111 Yorkshire: it weighed about 50 pounds:
ar some years alter its descent was aniioun-
aid not excite the interest it deserved, nor
actually contained the two earths above mention
ed, silex and mugucsia Since these investigati
ons of Mr. Howard, the subject lias attracted very
general attention, and most of the fragments of
stones said to liuve lullen from heaven, and which
liuve been preserved in the cabinets of the curious
on account of this tradition, have been analys
ed, and found to consist of the same ingredients,
varying only in their different proportions.
'Flic iron found in these masses differs from our
artificial iron in containing no charcoal, und the
proportion of nickel preserves it from rust. The
mixture with nickel is not uniform in tlie same spe
cimen, but it is unequally distributed, as if it were
the effect cither of pressure or imperfect fusion.
Several writers, particularly Dr. Chludni on the
continent, and Mr. King of our own country, have
been at great pains to collect the various testimo
nies tliut arc to be found in different authors from
the earliest times, in favor of the occasional de
scent of fragments and showers of stones.
I’liny rciules, that u great stone fell near Egos
Potamos, in the Thracian Chersonese, in the se
cond year ol the 78tli Olympiad. Considering
the immense time that these masses may remain
undeatroyed.it is not absolutely impossible, if ever
that country becomes more civilized than at pre
sent, that some intelligent traveller may find ves
tiges ot it still remaining. Anaxagoras the astro
nomer, is said to have predicted this event; a cir
cumstance that should teach us to receive with
great caution the traditionary predictions of eclip
ses such us that of the sun by Thales, most of these
events, and others of the suuie nature, havingbeen
predicted most probably long after they happened.
This weukness was nut peculiar to the undents ;
this very summer (18091 u belief has been very ge
nerally prevalent tliut the late unusual wet season
was foretold by'Or. Herschel.
in the year 1700 another large stone is, on the
authority of i’aul Lucas, then at Larissa, said to
have fallen in Macedonia; it weighed 72 pounds.
" it least 1200
. .' vas . required for the investigation of the
’ 11 a similar and more striking phenomenon
"at happened a few years afterwards at Be-
• m the East ladies. Some fragments of the
s which fell in India were brought to Sir Ju-
owiks by Maj. Williams, and Sir Joseph bc-
vsirous ol knowing if there might not be
truth in these repeated accounts of falling
. proposed that they should be chemically
*’0(1, to ,ee *f any peculiarity could be detect-
oeir composition, lie therefore guve them
•Howard, a gentleman eminently qualified
, lnv «-‘stigutiou, who found by a very skilful
. Is ’ Published in the Transactions (181)8),that
net collected in various countries, and to
,,„V lm !* ar history is attached, contained ve-
ingredients, and uit of the same kind,
nay parts of these were alt of them silex
Rttesta, in which were interspersed small
„ iron. Upon a mure minute exa-
q'® metalic particles, they were found
cirr Vl * 1 uuo ^ ler metal, nickel. Itisacu-
v '"!® ,ta| ioe, and not remarked, we believe,
he ,| ero " l b' s subject, that iron und nickel
,•'.7 lu ° magnetic metals; but whether
e of cc . <ict ''ideiital, or relates Jo their
Je nua lion, i we shall not presume to de-
“PWuljarity °f this composition, which'was
v 5® masses of native iron found for-
t all k n ®’ e *cited a suspicion that they
i c- e “ tt . rt on ® emmon origin- The
d iviii; •o° n lou "d by Pallas in Siberia, con-
f parent i' s s P°ngy substance small drops of*
wd °o/’ ' e3 ®raWing chrysolite. Mr.
her tl,„ ’ therefore, desirous of ascertaining
bunnl“ ransparent P^'cles. though differ-
ysed „• ,, n , ce lrom *be stones he had alreudv
oq mat co,, tain similar ingredients.
G proper experiment: bo found they
Cardan assures us, that a shower of at
stones fell in Italy, the largest of which weighed
12b pounds ; and their fall was accompanied by a
great light in the air.
In the Phil. Trans, for 1718 is a description of a
fiery meteor seen in Jamaica, which struck the
earth, and made several holes.
In the transactions for 1725 an account is to he
found of u fire-ball which burst at Mixburg, in
Northamptonshire, und two holes were made, u-
bout a yurd deep and five inches in diameter iu a
.ravelly soil. An iron ball shot perpendicularly
from a mortar did not make a greater impression.
In searching the holes, a very hurd glazed stone
was found, ten inches tong, six wide, A four thick,
cracked into two pieces. A man was killed by
what is called the lightning; he was much wound
ed, with some appearance of electric effects.
At Otunipa, in South America, in the Chaco
Gualuinbria, fur from uny mines or rocks, u mass
of ubuut 300 quintals was found, and which was
then supposed to be of volcanic origin—Phil. Trans.
1788.
Mr. Soulhy, in Ids Travels through Portugal,
mentions the. stones that fell in Portugal, 1796.
The cuabu, or great black stone, preserved by
the Mahometans in the temple ol Mecca, hud pro
bably a celestial origin. It is said to have been
brought from heaven by the angel Gabriel. Ol its
chemical nature we have no account, nor would it
be very sale tor a modern chemist to attempt to
procure u piece to satisiy our curiosity.
The following are some of the best authenticat
ed and most interesting ot the accounts lutely pub
lished relating to these bodies.
Process verbal of a shower of stones which fell
near Avignon, in the department of Vauoleuse.
On the 8th of September, 12th year of the re
public, about half past ten in the morning, there ap
peared only a few light clouds in the heavens, and
the weather being remarkably calm, a noise, re-
sembling that of u camion fired at the distance of a
quarter ofa league, was heard with the same force,
und attended with the same circumstances, by a
number of individuals in various places, but more
particularly in the country, at the distance at least
of seven or eight leagues from Apt, the principal
town of the fourth district of the department oi
Vauoleuse. This noise, however, could he the el-
tect only of an unusual explosion, because it is
certain that throughout tlie whole extent above-
mentioned, and at that hour, iio cannon was fired,
nor was there uny explosion of gun-powder. This
circumstance, which ut first surprised all who were
witnesses of it, was accompanied by a phenome
non still more extraordinary. On the same day,
and at the same hour, citizen Joseph Jully, a far
mer in the district of Apt, and his Wile, being a-
bout 590 paces from the country-house of citizen
Bartholomew dc Vcux, situated north of the town
of Apt, at tlie distance of about a quurter of u
league, iu the limits ot Saurcttc, having heard the
noise above-mentioned, immediately afterwards
heard for the space of six or seven minutes a
whistling, which increased in sound as it approach
ed, and announced the tali of some solid body.—
Being terrified, and casting their eyes upwards, the
wife of Jully perceived a black substance, whose
fall to the ground both she and her husbiind heard
distinctly, utter which the whistling ceased. The
wife of Jully states, that this black substance must
have fallen in the vineyard of citizen de Veux—
the wile of the latter being then in the fields heard
the saute noise and subsequent whistling, but be
ing alarmed she ran into the house, und neither
saw nor heard the fall of the ubove substance.—
Her son, being then ut work 3 or 400 paces from
the house, also heard the noise, the whistling, and
the sound of the fall of a body, which, however,
he did not see. At the same instant, Marguret
Hughes, widow, and Marie Jean, wife of Jacques
Juliet), being on the road from Villeurs to Apt,
heard the same noise, the whistling, and the fall of
some substance in de Vaux’s vineyard, which ad
joins tlie same road. Af'tr the sound of the full
the whistling ceased. It appeared to them that the
above substance did not fall at more than 30 paces
from them.
As soon as the report was spread that some con
siderable substance had fallen in the above vine
yard, a great eagerness was manifested to search
for it. The attempt was at first fruitless, but on
tho 10th De Vaux’s son, crossing the vineyard,
perceived, at the distance of about thirty paces
from the house, a large hole newly made between
two rows of vines, which denoted the place where
the substance must have fallen. He was confirm
ed in this opinion when he perceived that some
small pebbles near the mouth of the hole had been
ground to powder, lie dug and found an extreme
ly hard stone, weighing seven pounds six ounces:
and could not doubt that this was the substance,
the fall of which had alarmed the neighborhood.—
Phil. Mag. vol^ xvii,
On the 12tb of March, 1798, about six in the e-
vening, the weather being calm and serene, a lu
minous globe, of an extraordinary appearance, at
tracted towards the east the eyes of tlie inhabitants
of the commune of Sales, and of the neighboring
villages, as they were returning from their labor—
and by its rapid approach and horrid noise, like
that produced by an irregular and hollow body
traversing the atmosphere with rapidity, threw ail
the inhabitants of that commune into the greatest
terror, especially when they saw it pass over their
beads at a very little elevation
According to their report this ball left behind it
a long train of light, and emitted, with on almost
continual crackling noise, small blue sparks, like
small stars.
Its fall was observed by three workmen, who
were not more than fifty paces from it; one of
them was so much alarmed, that he dropped bis
coat and a billet of wood, that lie might escape as
fast as possible. The other two fled to Bales,
where a general alarm prevailed. These three
witnesses agree that the body moved with asto
nishing rapidity, and that after its fall they heard
a iiissingnoise, proceeding from the spot where it
buried itself.
In regard to Crepier he was at home, where he
was so much terrified wi*h the hissing of tlie body
ami noise of its fall, that he shut himself up, and
spent the night without daring to go out.
Next morning he was called out by the two
workmen who had observed it, and they went
wlthM. Blondel, adjunct of Sales, and several o-
ther persons, to the place where tlie substance bu
ried itself. At the bottom of a hollow, eighteen
inches in depth, they found a large black, irregular
ovid mass, entirely covered with a blackish crust
it was no longer warm, and had the smell of gun
powder. It wns split in several tilaccs «« <•”>'
’ ’ ' ito one of the ns
to pieces. The Weight of this stone was abeut I
twenty pounds.
M. Place a merchant at Ville Franche, assured
me lie was a witness, as well as many other inhabi
tants, of the passugu of this luminous globe over
the town ; that lie heard its humming noise ; tliut
its elevation could not exceed 600 tows, and that
its direction was from east by south to west by
north.
It sinco appears that this meteor wns seen by M.
Pictet, and other inhabitants of Geneva, and of the
neighboring towns as tar as Berne ; they observed
u luminous body which suddenly appeared in the
southern regiuns proceeding rapidly from west to
east. This phenomenon was then considered as u
meteor, hut M. Pictet is now persuuded it is tlie
sunie body which fell at Sales.
M. Biot, the celebrated astronomer and mathe
matician, lias drawn up a very accurate memoir of
the meteoric mass thut fell in the neighborhood of
Liiiglc; the most interesting particulars of which
we nave extracted, and arc us follow :
July 30,1803.—I went first to Alencon, fifteen
leagues west-south-west of Laigle, and in going
thither I learned that a globe of lire had been seen
proceeding towards tlie north ; the nppoumnee of
this globe had been followed by a violent explosi
on. This took plucc on tho 26th of April, 1892, at
one in the afternoon. By the direction of this
phenomenon, the day, and particularly tlie hour,
I judged thut this had been the commencement of
the meteor of Laigle. At Alencon, nothing had
been heard, in consequence, no doubt, of the noise
which usually prevails in a large town, but I learnt
by the mineraiogical collections of the country
that nothing exists in the neighborhood of Laigle
which has any resemblance to the meteoric stones.
From Alencon I proceeded to Luigle, traversing
Ihc villages conducted by the accounts given me
by the inhabitants. All of them hud heard tlie me
teor on the day, and ut the hour mentioned. Iu
this manner I reached Laigle, and proceeded to
the house of our colleague, Le Blond.
The meteor did not burst at Laigle, but at the
distance of half a league from it 1 saw the awful
traces of this phenomenon. I traversed all the
places where it had been heard, and collected and
compared the uceountsof the inhabitants. At last
I found some of the stones themselves on the spot,
and they exhibited physical characters, which ad
mit no doubt of the reulity of their full.
Account of a stone lately fullen in Russia.—On
the 13th of March lust, in the afternoon, the inhabi
tants of the canton of Juchnow, in the government
of Smolensk, were alarmed by an uncommon loud
clap of thunder. At the moment of this explosion
two peasants, belonging to the village of Percmes-
chujeu, in the canton ot \Verreja, being out in tlie
fields, perceived, at the distance of forty paces, u
black stone of considerable magnitude fulling to
the earth, which it penetrated to a considerable
depth below the snow. It wus dug up, and found
to be of an oblong square figure, ofa black color, re
sembling cast-iron ; its surface was very smooth,
shuped like a coftin on one side, and it weighed n-
bout 160 pounds.—Philosophical Magazine, 1807.
But one of the best authenticated uccounls we
have yet received is from Connecticut, in Ameri
ca; the circumstances of which were communica
ted by Charles Greville, Esq. F. It. S. to whom
they were originally transmitted.
The particulars of this phenomenon were col-
pne
lectcd with greal care by Messieurs Sill'mian and
Kingsley, who visited and carefully examined c-
very spot where tlie stones Imd been ascertained
to nave fallen: they conversed with all the prin
cipal original witnesses, and spent several days in
the investigation of all the important facts that
could be collected oh this occasion. The sub
stance of the iiccount is ns follows—The meteor,
which has so recently excited ularm in many and
astonishment in all, first made its appearance in
Weston, about a quarter or half post 6 o’clock, A.
■' ' Dec. 1807.) The
thrusting a stick into one
so that
ssures made it
M. on Monday the 11th inst. (Dec. 1807.)
morning was somewhat cloudy, mingled with
spots of clear sky, a space of 15 deg. along the
northern horizon perfectly clear ; there was little
or no light except from the moon just setting.—
Judge Wheeler wns passing through the enclosure
adjoining his house, with Ins face towards the
north, and his eyes on the ground, when a sudden
flash across the northern sky made him look up;
he immediately discovered a globe of fire, passing
behind the first cloud, which was very dark, und
obscured the meteor. In this situation its appear
ance was distinct, like the sun seen through a mist.
It rose from the north, ifc proceeded in a direction
nparly perpendicular to tlie horizon, but inclining
by a very small angle towards the west, deviating
from the plane of a great circle, but in large curves,
sometimes on one side of the plane, and sometimes
on the other, but never more than four or five de
grees ; it appeared about one-half or two-thirds the
diameter of the full moon, hut it was impossible to
ascertain what angle it subtended. Its progress
was not so rapid as that of common meteors and
shooting stars; when it passed the clear sky it
flushed with a vivid light, not so intense us light
ning in a thunder storm, but like what is called
heat lightning. Its surface was apparently convex.
When not too much obscured by cloujs, a conical
train of paler light attended it, waving, and in
length about 10 or 12 diameters of tlie body. In
the clear sky there wns a brisk scintillation about
it like a fire-brand carried against the wind. It
disappeared about 15 deg. short of the zenith, and
the same number west of the meridian ; it did not
vanish instantaneously, but grew fainter, as a red-
hot cannon ball would do, cooling in the dark, on
ly much more rapidly. There was no particular
smell in the atmosphere, nor any luminous masses
seen to separate from the body: the whole period
between its appearance and extinction was esti
mated at thirty seconds.
About 30 or 40 seconds after this, three loud and
distinct reports, like those of a f ur pounder, near
at hand, were heard; they succeeded each other
rapidly, and did not occupy above three seconds :
then followed a continued rumbling, like a cannon
ball rolling over a floor, sometimes louder and
sometimes fainter ; some compared it to a wagon
running down a stony hill, others to a running fire ;
this noise continued about us long as the body was
in rising, and died away in the direction from
which the meteor came. A M r ' Elihu Staples
said, that when the meteor disappeared, there
were three successive efforts or leaps of the hall,
which grew more dim with every throw, and dis
appeared with the last.
We now proceed to the fall ofa number of mass
es of stone, in several places principally within the
town of Weston. Tlie places which had been
well ascertained at the period of our investigation
were six, the most remote nine or ten miles dis
tant from each other, in a line differing little from
the course of the meteor. It is, therefore, proba
ble, that the successive masses fell in this order, the
most northerly first, tlie most southerly last. We
think we ran point out the three places where the
stones fell, corresponding with the three reports
and leaps of the meteor, in every instance, im
mediately after the explosions had ceased, there
was observed a loud whizzing ut all the places,
and at the moment of ttie fall; after this was heard
an abrupt noise, like a ponderous body striking the
ground. Excepting one, the stones were more or
less broken.
The most northerly fall was within the limits of
Huntingdon, on the borders of Weston, about 50
rods east of the great road from Bridgeport to
Newton, in a cross road near the house of Mr.
Burr; he was standing in the rond when the stone
fell; the noise produced by Us collision with a
rock of granite, on which it fell, was very loud—
Mr. Burr was within 50 feet, and searched for the
body; but it being dark did not find it till an hour
after. By the fall some was redilped to powder,
and the rest broke in small fragments, thrown
round to the distance of 30 feat; the granite was
stained at the place of contact with a deep led-co-
lor; the largest fragment did not exceed the size
of a goose egg, and this was still warm ; there was
reason to suppose the stone must have weighed 25
pounds.
Tlie masses of the second explosion fell in the
vicinity of Mr. Prince’s, in Weston, about 5 miles
south of Mr. Burr’s. The family were in bed
w hen “ they heurd a noise of the full of a heavy
body after tlie explosion." They would have paid
no further attention to the circumstance, had they
not heard that stones had fallen in other parts of
the town; this induced them towards evening to
search a hole newly made in tlie yard, where they
found a stone buried in the loose earth which had
fullen on it; it was two feet from the surface, the
hole 12 inches diameter, and as the earth wfez soft,
the mass was little injured, only a few small frag
ments being detached, it weighed 35 pounds.
Six days after another ninss was discovered, half
a mile north-west of Mr. Prince’s; the search was
induced by the |iersuRsiou of the neighbors tllat
they heard it fall near the spot where it wus found
buried. It weighed from seven to ten pounds, mid
wns split in fragments, having fullen on u detached
mass of gneiss rock wiiich it hud split in two. We
found another mass, of 13 pounds weight, half a
mile north-east of Mr. Prince’s: it was broken only
in two pieces, one of which we purchased, for it
was now become an article of sale.
A fifth mass fell 2 miles south-east of Mr. Prince's
at the foot of Tushowu hill. Its full wus heard by
Mr. Porter and his luinily. Tli y suw a smoke
rise, from the spot where Iney found a stone, in the
road, which had penetrated two feet in the deepest
place, the hole twenty inches diuineter, and the
margin colored blue from the powder of the stone,
which weighed 26 pounds.
It is probable that the four last stones were pro
jected at the second explosion, and one lias been
since found on the neighboring hill, weighing 35
pounds, which must be referred to the same.
A muss of stone, fur exceeding the united weight
of ail we have described, fell in a field belonging
to Mr. Siealy, within 30 rods of his house.
A circumstance attended the fall of this which
seems peculiar to it. Mr. Staples lives on the hill,
at the bottom of which this body fell. After the
lust explosion a noise like n whirlw ind passed to
the east of the house, and over his orchard; at the
same instant a streak of light passed over it in a
large curve, and seemed to pierce, the ground; a
shock wus felt, and a report heard like thut of a
heavy body striking the earth.
Three or four hours utter this, Mr. Seely went to
look uftcr his cattle. Some hud leaped into the
adjoining inclosure, mid appeared frightened—
passing on he wus Mtrpiscd to find a spot of ground
all tom up, and the earth looking fresh. Coining
to the place lie found u great muss of fragments of
n strange looking stone.
Hare were striking proofs of n violent collision ; a
ridge ofinicacious schisms, lying nearly even with the
ground, and somewhat inclining like the hill lo the
south-east, was shivered to pieces lo a certain extent
by the impulses of the sionc, which llius received a still
more oblique direction, and forced itself into (lie earth
to tho depth of threo feet, leaving a hole of five feet in
length, and four and n half in brendth; throwing large
masses of turf and fragments of stone and earth, to tlie
dislance of 50‘and 100 feel.
This stone was all in fragments, none of which ex
ceeded the size of a man’s fist. From the best infor
mation wc could obtain of tlie quantity of fragments of
this last stone, compared with its speeific gravity, we
concluded that its weight could not have fallen "much
shortof 200 pounds. All the stones when first found
were friable; this was especially the case where they
had been buried in the moist earth, but by exposure to
the air they gradually hardened,
The specimens obtained from all the different places
arc perfectly similar. The most careless observer
would instantly pronounce them portionsof a common
mass, different from any of the stones commonly seen
on this globe.
Of their form nothing certain can be said. Few of
the specimens weigh one pound: most of I hem losslhan
half a pound, from that to the traction of an ounce.—
On many of them, however, may he distinctly perceiv
ed portions of the external part of the meteor.
It is every where covered with a th.n black crust,
destitute of splendor, and hounded by portions of the
largo irregular curve, which seems to have enclosed
tho meteoric mass. This curve is far from being uni
form) it issoinetimesdcprcsscd with concavities, such
as might be produced by pressing a soft substance.—
The surface of the crust foels harsh, like prepared lish
skin or shagreen. It gives sparks with steel. There
are certain portions ot the stone, covered with a black
crust, which appear not to have formed a part of the
outside of the meteor, but to have received this coating
in the interior parts, in consequence of the. fissures or
cracks produced by the intense heat to which the bo
dy seems to have been subjected.
Finally, the stone has been analysed in the laboratory
of this college, according to the insu uctions of How
ard, Vauquchn, and Fourcroy. The analysis was has
ty; the exact proportions and the steps of the analysis
arc reserved for more leisure.
It is sufficient to observe that the stone appears to
consist of the following ingredients ; silex, iron, mag
nesia, nickel, and sulphur.
The two first constitute by far the greatest part of the
stone; tlie third in considerable proportion, hut much
less than the others: the fourth probably sttli less, and
the sulphur exists in u small but indeterminate quanti
iy.
Most of the iron is in a perfectly metalic state; the
whole stone attracts the magnet, and this instrument
takes up a large proportion of it when pulverized—
at
non still* the wind, this fact will strengthen tho opinion
that great apparent changes may take place in the at-
inosplicrc by tlio various chemical operations that may
arc idcutolly take place, within it. But we shall abstain,
however, (rom father conjecture, and trust, that one
day ho ffiturc progress of science will enable philoso
phers to explain, lit a satisfactory manner, all the cir
cumstances which at present seem lo be involved in
such complete obscurity.
Messrs. Editors:—-The name of Col. Myers of
Chatham, lias been announced to the public as a
fit and proper person to All the vacancy of Mr.
Gilmer. We cannot, nor do we wish to oppose,
any objections to the qualifications of this gentle
man—but we would beg to recommend another
Individual possessing equal capacities, und with
somewhat of u stronger claim. The name of Col.
Daniel H. Brailsiord of McIntosh, is therefore
proposed—the extent of whose claim, if it is ne
cessary, cun he given futurely.
BALDWIN.
Gold Mines.—The Colutnliiu Telescope
notices five goltl mines, which have, been
recently discovered in Lancaster District,
South-Cnrnlinu, and expresses its appre
hensions that Congress may luy some hin
drance upon the workers of these mines,
as they have already upon the workers of
our soil.
FOURTH OF JULY.
The Citizens of Milledgeville are request
ed to meet til Lafayette Hall on Monday
next, ut 5 o’clock p. m. for tho purpose of inuking
suitable preparations for celebnting the anniversa
ry of our Nation’s birth. June 6
Died, in Washington, Wilkes county, on the
29tli ult. Dr. Felix G. Hay, in the 32d year of his
age.
Portions of metalic iron may be separated so large that
they may be easily exienned under tlie hammer—
Some of the iron is in combination with sulphur in
tlie pyrites, and probably most of tlie iron is alloyed by
nickel.
In the Transactions of 1803 is an account by C.
Greville, Esq. of three specimens in different muse
ums in Franccj of stones which have fallen to the earth,
all similar in their general character to those describ
ed by Mr. Howard; and also of a mass of native iron
found in Persia in the year of the Hegira 1030, accor
ding to the annals of the empire, written by the empe
ror, and of which he is stated to have mnue some sa
bres and daggers; hut until other iron was mixed with
that of tile inass described, the iron was not malleable.
But the most beautiful specimen of perfect iron was
brought from the Cape of Good Hope. Harrow, in his
travels into that country, describes the original mass as
existing in the interior of Africa, and it is thought that
some traditionary superstition is connected with it by
the natives.
Notwithstanding every doubt seems now to be re
moved as to the general authenticity of the above rela
tions, yet philosophers are not perfectly aj'reed either
as to their origin or mode of formation. Of the differ
ent theories that have been proposed, that which sup
poses them formed in the air, that is, iu our atmos
phere, is certainly the least analogous to our present
slate of chemical knowledge. Othersare more inclin
ed to assign them an astronomical origin, though great
doubts still exist us to the particular c lass of bodies
from which they arc most probably derived. Some
astronomers imagine they have been thrown from a lu
nar volcauo : there is nothing, perhaps, philosophical
ly inconsistent in this theory, for volcanic appearances
have bccu seen in the moon; and a force such us our
volcanoes exert would be sufficient to project fragments
that might |M>ssibly arrive at the surface of tlie earth.
It is demonstrated by mathematicians, that if a ponder
able body be projected from the earth’s surface with a
force sufficient to give it a certain initial velocity, it will
never return. This velocity is about seven miles an
hour. From the moon, the velocity requisite to pro
duce a similar effect is about four times as great as that
of a cannon-ball, so that there is nothing impossible in
the supposition of these bodios having been projected
from the moon. Hut probability is certainly against it,
and it seems more likely that they arc fragments of
comets; because these bodies, from their great num
bers, render the question of mere probability favorable
to this hypothesis; and besides, from their own nature
they must be subject to chomiqal change* ofa v*ry vi
olent nature ; add to this, that from the smaliaes* of
their dimensions, a fragment projected from
a very slight velocity \yould never return to
whlcli it originally hclongnd, but would ti
celestial regions till it met with some planeta
their dimensions, a fragment projected from them
‘ til#
traverse
regions till it met with some planetary or other
body sufficiently ponderous to attract it to itself.—
Many arguments likewise concur, which lead to the
conjecture that the cotnctA themselves are nothing
more than large fragments of matter, which have been
themselves separated by volcanic violence from other
celestial bodies of greater magnitude than themselves;
perhaps from fixea stars.
Of the number of theories that have been suggested
to explain the ignition of these bodies, and the explo
sions that often attended their arrival, very few deserve
even to be noticed. So imperfect is our melourologi-
ca! knowledge, that wc must content ourselves with
mere conjecture. The least improbable opinion of
those that have been hazarded seems to be this, that
the inflammation and combustion of the stones proceeds
from the heat necessarily extricated by the sudden
compression of the air, in consequence of the great ve
locity they possess on their first entering our atmos
phere, which velocity is afterwards much diminished
by the constant resistance of the air. In this case,
however, we must suppose them of the nature of pyro-
pliori, an hypothesis tar from satisfactory. Mr. Davy’s
late discoveries scorn likely to lead us nearer to trie
truth. If these earthly bodiee were in their metalic
state of existence previous to their arrival on the con
fines of our world, their sudden inflammation woald
be easily accounted for, and would at the same time af
ford us a curious circumstance in their history, a* it
would be evideut they came from a place where no
oxygen was to be found ; they could not, therefore,
come from the surfsce of a habitable world like ours.
They may, however, even on this hypothesis, have
been part of the internal nucleus of some planetary or
conictary body having an atmosphere, but not of suffi
cient thickness to have produced that inflammation
wbicb takes place when they enter ours. The electri
cal appoaranccs that so often accompany these bodies
in their descent indicate that tlie equilibrium of the at
mosphere is mot e easily deranged than otherwise might
be imagiped; for certainly it is much more rational to
suppose that this disturbance is rather the effect of the
meteor than the cause of it. If there be any truth in
the prevailing opinion of seamen, that Che firing of css-
June 6
TO XliZRBs
GOOD COOK, and house girl.——
Enquire ut this Office.
19—2t
TO RB3YT OR LEASE,
jfcsfa rrfl he store room & dw f.l-
isf® LING HOUSE ot the corner of
SiiHL Wa 7 nc and Hancock streets, one of
■ i JPiLithe best stands in Milledgeville for bu
siness of any kind. Apply to
S. GRANTLAND.
June 6
m w! i
AHRENS Sheriff’s
I Will he sold, on the first Tuesday in JrAf
next, at the Court-house in the town o f Dublin,
Can rein county, within the usual hours of sale, tiw
following property, to wit:
285 acres of land, more or less, on the water, of
Big creek, adjoining Arthur Rawls and other,, le
vied on as the property of Joseph Rhoades, to sa
tisfy a ft fn in favor of Jonathan Parker and oth
ers, vs. Josenh Rhoades and Joseph Rhoades and
Henry Gibbons; property pointed out by plain-'
tiff.
Also—28 Negroes, namely: Tenor, Charles,
Martha, Bennet, Adam, Hartwell, Fanny, Titua
Jinny, Tinor, Tamor, Nunis, Dilsjf, Rose, March,
Peggy, Henry, Susun, Joe, Boswell, Viney, Aim-
tin, Lydia, Flora, Hannah, Andrew, Tom, and
Fanny; all the above property levied on to satis
fy a fi fa in favor of Archibald B. Ridley, survivor
of A. B. Ridley and wife. vs. Joseph Uladuheaf
and others, executors of Elijah Blackshear, dec’d.
Also—One negro man named Isaac, about twen
ty-one years old, levied on is the property off
Thomas S. Anderson, to satitffy a ft fit in favor ot
Charles 8. & M. Guyton and other*—property,
pointed out by James Johnson; levied on and ti*
turned to toe by a constable.
May 27 CHARLES 8. GUYTON, Bh’lt
Laurens Sheriff 1 a Sale..
W ILL BE SOLD, on the firat Tuesday ift
August next, at the Court-house in the towk.
of Dublin, Laurens county, within the usual lioura
of sale, the following property, to wit:
The following lots in the town of Dublin, No.
68, No. 128, No. 133, No. 96, No. 53, and No. 89—
ulso 12 acres of land adjoining the town Com
mons where Alfred Thompson formerly lived—all
the above property levied on under the foreclo
sure of a mortgage against John Guyton, to satisfy
a fi fa in favor ot Andrew Low, surviving copart
ner of Andrew Low A Co. vs. John Guyton.
May 27 CHARLES S. GUYTON. Sh’ff.
Washington Sheriff's Suit
W ILL BE SOLD, on the first Tuesday in Ju
ly nest, at the court-house iu the town of
Suhdersville, VVasljhigton County, Within the usu
al hours of sale, thsMollowtng property, to wit:
One negro boy, by the name of George, abouVS
or 9 years old. levied 1 on ns the property of Jane
Frizzel, to satisfy sundry ft fas issued from a Jus
tice’s dourt, in Javor of Benjainine R. C
CoHnanl's Office,
DRAWING RECEIVED.
D RAWN Numbers of the UNION CANAL
LOTTERY, Class No. 5, for 1829, viz:
oa-78-2aYlL~a4~4*--a8-31.
Holders of prizes will cull and receive tbe Cash or
renew, at H. COSNARD’S.
HIGHEST FRlZiE
30,000 DOLLS.
WEW-YORK
Consolidated ^ ottev'j,
CLASS No. 6, was drawn last Tuesday—Draw
ing will be received on Saturday next, the 13th
45 Number Lottery—(j tu be Drawn.
SCHEME OF CAPITALS.
1 Prize of $ 20,000
5 Prizes of $ 1000 /
1 do 10,000
5
do
600
1 do 3,000
5
do
400 >
I do 2,500
39
do
too
1 do 2,110
39
do
80 Ac Ac.
Tickets $ 10, shares in proportion.
Orders re-
ceivedut
11. COSNARD’S
June 6
State Lottery and Exchange Office
mm
w 1 . • • i
GROCERIES*
nniiE SUBSCRIBER b as just
M. received per the Boat Saucy
Jack, and now offering for sale on
good terms, at the corner of Wayne
and Hancock streets,
THE FOLLOWING AHT/CLESe
25,00(1 lbs. Iron, assorted ;
1,500 “ Sheet Iron;
200 bushels Alum Salt;
10 burrcls St. Croix Sugar t
]0 “ New-Orleans, do.
10 casks Lump do. .
10 barrels best Green Coffee;
10 bags do. do.
20 barrels old Rve Whiskey;
4 lihds. do ao do.
5 barrels Old Straw;
1 pipe do do.
5 barrels Monongahela Whiskey;
10 do. Gin;
1 pipe do.
10 barrels Rum ;
2 halfpipes Cog. Brandv;
1 quarter cask Madeira Wine ;
6 casks London Porter;
1 do. Scotch Ale;
6 do. Rice ;
11 hhds. retailing Molasses;
2 doz. boxes Sperm. Caodiesf
1 do do Savannah do
6 do Segart;
24 half do do.
12 quarter do do.
25 kegs Nails, assorted;
25 bags Shot, do.
6 boxes Powder in papers;
20 barrels superfine Flour;
ALSO—IOO PIECES
COTTON BAGGING*
P. A. CLAYTON.
Milledgeville, June3 19—If
EXAMINATION.
T IIE semi-annual Examination of tbe students
of the Crawfordville Academy, will com
mence on the 18th inst. und close on tbe 19th.
The second term will commence on the 6th Ju
ly, under tlie care of the present Rector, Otis
Smith. The public are invited to avail themselves
of tlie advantages of this institution, upon the fol
Orthography, Reading and
Writing,
Arithmetic, Grammar, His
tory, and Geography. -
Languages,Astronomy,Phi
losophy & Belles iettre, .
By order of the Board,
LEONIDAS B. MERCER, Src’ry.
June 2 19—2t*
Per term.
IstA
4th qr
2d A
Sdqr.
96 00
3 50
4 00
9,00
5 25
6 00
14 00
8 00
9 00
9.
PUBLIC SALE.
W ILL BE SOLD, dn the first
Tuesday in July next, in Dn-
nielsville, Madison county, the follow
ing property, tti wit:
DiKf ACRES OF LAND*
more or less, adjoining Russell J. Daniel and o-
tiiers, known as the Madison Spring Tract of Land,
lying on the East side of tbe most Eastemly line
of the vil'age of Alexanderville, extended in a
straight line to the North and South boundary of
said tract of Laud, including a large and commo
dious Boarding House, with Kitchens, Smoke
House. Stables, dec. in good repair, and a large
plantation of between Three ana Four Hundred
Acres of fresh Land, in gooff order for cultivation.
ROBERT M. GARVIN.
May 26 19—3t
GEORGIA, Greene county.
H INTON CRAWFORD, administrator of
Mathew D. Perry, deceased, applies for let
ters of dismission from said administration:—These
are therefore to cite the kindred and creditor* of
said deceased, to be and appear at my office with
in the time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if a-
ny they have,) why said letters of dismission should
not be granted. Given under my band, this 1st
day of Juue, 1829.
THOMAS W. GRIMES,®, e. o.
Jung 2 rofim
said Jane Frizzel-
by a constable
June 4
Cook, v*.
levied on and returned to me
L. A. JERNIGAN D. Bh’ff.
POSTPONED SALE.
W ILL BE HOLD, on the first Tuesday in
July next, at the Court-house in the town
of Hanriersville, Washington county, within the
usual hours of sale, tbe foilnw’ing property, to wits
200 aciespiue land, more or less, on the water*
of Ohoopie, adjoining Tyson and others, levied on
ns the property oi Spencer Brantley, to sutisly a ft
fa in favor of James Urig t vs. sc
perty pointed out by deTetidniit.
June 4
e>- 1
amen Urig t vs. said Brantley—pro-
A. JERNIGAN. D. Sh’ff.
W IlL- Be SOLD, on tile first Tuesday iu
July next, at the Court-house in the town
of Sandersvilte, Washington county, within the u-
sual hours of sale, the following property, to w r it:
2 Negroes, named Fanny and Harriet, levied on
as the property of Robert Whitfield, to sotisfy a fr
fain favor of Virgil Walkervs. said Whitfield, and
other fi fas vs. said Whitfield-property pointed
il Walkervs. said Whitfield, and
id \ *
out by the defendant.
3 Negroes, named Wilson, Silas and Elsey. levi
ed on as the property of John G. Rutherford, to
Satisfy a 0 fa in favor of Richard Spence vs. Gid
eon Strange and Join; G. Rutherford—property
pointed out by said Rutherford.
June 4 SHFRItOD SESSIONS. Sh’ff.
POS I'PONED SALE.
W ASHINGTON .ShtrilPs Sale—
Will lie Sold, on tiie firs' Tuesday
in July .next, at the Court-house in the town of
Handersville, Washington county, within tbe usu
al hours of sale, tlie tallowing property, to wit:
230 acres nine land, more or less, adjoining
Whiddon ana Bailey on the waters of Williamson's
swamp, taken as (he property of John Low to .sa
tisfy two fi fas in favor of the Administrators of A-
brain Elton, deceased, vs. William Fields and said
Low—levied on and returned to me by a consta
ble. SHERROD SESSIONS, Sh’ff.
June 4*
1?DOLLARS REWARD^
S TRAYED from the subscriber’s
plantation, in Twiggs couuty,
between tbe middle and last ot
M prii, a year old
BAY FULLY,
well formed, with a white spot on ber forehead
and a face slightly dished—she has some whit*
feet, the number not recollected—it is believed
however, thut her two hind and one of her for*
feet are white. The above sum, and all reasona
ble expenses wiii be paid for her delivery to Mr.
John \v. Raines, at Messrs. Raines &. Roberson’*
store, Twiggs county, or to Mr. Etheldred Griffin,
at my plantation, or the above sum will be paid
for any information that will lead to her recovery.
E. HAMILTON.
Milledgeville, June 2 19—2t
Sf!
GEORGIA.—In the Superior Court of
Early County.
Joshua 6l James Morgan, 1
vs. >Ria> Ni Si for fore-
William H. Carter, y closure.
TT PON the petition of Joshua Morgan & Jam**
MJ Morgan, using tbe firm and style of Josbut*
& James Morgan, stating that William H. Curter
did, onr the eighteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-
four, make and deliver to tbe said Joshua & James
Morgan, his certain mortgage deed, bearing date
the day and year aforesaid, in and to a certain Lot
and Fraction of Land, lying, being and situate in
the twenty-sixth district of said county of Early,,
and known and distinguished in the plan of said
district by numbers four hundred and nine and
four hundred and eight, containing three hundred
and twenty-eight uCres, more or less, for the better
the payment rn t
securing
payment en two certain promissory
notes made by the said William II. Carter, dated
the day and year aforesaid, payable to tbe said
Joshua & James Morgan, one of which notes for
three hundred and seventy-seven dollars, on or be
fore the twenty-fifth day of December eighteen
hundred and twenty-six, and the other for seven
hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-five cents,
on or before the twenty-fifth day of December,
eighteen hundred and twenty-seven: and it fur* 1
ther appearing to the Court, that there is now due
and unpaid oh said notes, tbe sum of one thousand
and seventy-two dollars and twenty-five centa
principal, besides interest—On motion of Beall If
Milter, attordeys for petitions, it is ordered, that
the said William H. Carter do pay into the office
of the CISrk of this Court, within twelve month*
from this date, tbe principal sum apparent and stat
ed to be due, together with tejal interest t
and aUb the cost hereby accruing, or that
ty of redemption in and to said mortj
e equi-
tes be from thenceforth forever bared ankforeclos-
ed; and that a copy of this rule be served upon
the said mortgagor at least six months before, or
published ip one of the public Gaaetls of this State,
once a month, until the expiration of the term li
mited for the payment aforesaid.
A true copy from the minute* of said CeMLth*
19th May, 1829. JAMES BUSH, CIV
June 3,1629. , mI9m -
GEORGIA, Greene county. .' .,
W HEREAS Julies Curry sen. end Jama*
Curry jr. apply for letters of administrate
on on the estate of John Curry, late of said county,'
deceased:
And whereas William WinsUtt applies for let-,
ter* of administration on the estate of Samuel
Wlhstett, late of said county, deceased; . ,. jj„
These are therefore to cite end admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors af said dacoaa-
ed, to be and appear at my office within the lima
prescribed by law, to shew cause, (If aiiy they
have) why said letters of administration should
not be granted. Given under my hand, this 1st
day of June, 1829.
THOMAS W- 0.RJMES, *. e.«
June 2