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DOMESTIC.
Amelia Island.—The Savannah Republican of
o l jih inst. says“ we have accounts from Wasli-
lgton city to the 8th inst. from a highly rcspec-
^|e source from whence we learn that our coun
ts are undecided whether the occupation of A-
ielia shall be continued or not—much will de-
etui on tire course which the negotiations with
Spanish minister may take there—if nothing
a unable results from it, the troops will be with-
ruwti s because it is already discovered con-
M-ess will not support the executive in the mea
ure. We also learn that there is no other ob-
ect calculated to excite any sensations, and'per-
iaps none likely to occur at the present session
f congress.”
TITKSDW, JWUAllY 2(>, 1818.
From Mexico.—A friend has politely favored
s (saysthe National Intelligencer,) with the
allowing extracts of letters, dated Natchitoches,
ovember 50—•“ It has been reported by several
ersons who have arrived here for some weeks
astfrom St. Antonio and its vicinity, that gen’l
lina had been singularly successful, without
fating particulars, until yesterday, a Spaniard
lived direct from St. Antonio, who says the
news was received there that Saltillo, Monstrey
ml Montclover were in possession of Mina;
hat he had in detail beaten and nearly destroyed
hree divisions of the royal army ; that the inha-
itauts were generally joining them; and that
eiw little opposition in future was expected to
e made to him in the governor-generalship of
Arrondonda, formerly Salcedo. This is general
ly helived—as soon as further particulars are re
ceived 1 will inform you of them.”
Another letter says ” General Mina, it is gen
erally believed, has succeeded in every engage-
(ment he iias had, and was on his retu. u towards
he sea coast with with a large army, collected
from the armies of those repu dican generals from
the interior, with whom he succeeded in forming
a junction.”
Another letter of 3d December, says“ we have
had recent news from .Gen. Mina’s operation—
the last very favorable, lie had out-generaled
am! beat all the detachments sent against him ;
he had formed a junction with some of the chiefs
of the revolution. His force augmenting in a
rapid progression, and some are of opinion that
he is making a retrograde march to take posses
siou of the adjacent provinces, in order to facili
tate communication with the United States, and
at all events to keep a door open. This has a-
rese from a report of a citizen of St. Antonio,
who arrived lately from there, and says orders
fcud been given to all the troops, citizens and mi
lnia, to keep themselves in readiness to march a-
guinst the rebel, who was expected to see them to
the Uoloitia Santander, (the province where he
{disembarked in) and in which the seaports Tom-
pic and Alamia are formed.”
in publishing these extracts, we ought not to
Withhold the expression of the belief to which
we are constrained, that the information they af
ford is not incompatible with accounts received
some time ago, by way of Vera Cruz and Ha
vana, of the capture, of general Mina and his
principle officers. The letters above referred to
information received •* for some time past:” the
latest of these is dated December 3 : the cap
ture of general Mina, uy surprise, that is unex
pectedly, is stated to have taken place about the
27th of October. That event might have taken
place, and yet, outing to the vast extent of the
tract of almost pathless country that intervenes,
snd the precariousness of communication, the
information might not have reached Natchito
ches. We are therefore under the impression,
that these letters refer to anterior events, of
which we long ago heard the details. We have
not. however, thought it proper to withhold them,
wishing our readers to decide fur themselves.
Latest frum the Army.—By an intelligent gen
tleman direct from the south, we learn that the
detachment of militia under the command of Gen.
Glascock, arrived at Camp Cumtning, (live miles
this side the nearest settlement of Cnenaws,) on
the 11th inst. and it was thought would proceed
immediately to a place opposite the first settle
ment, there to await the orders of Gcn'l Gaines.
An engineer had been dispatched to superintend
the building of a Fort, it was conjectured, at
Blackshear’s works, (5 miles in the rear of Camp
Camming,) or at the most eligible situation near
there on the Flint river, to which place the army
will be immediately marched when erected. Gen.
Gaines was still at Hartford on Thursday last.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the ar
my to tie editor, dated Camp Cummitig, Jan. 14.
“ We arrived here after a fatiguing march of 12
days from Hartford, 10 of which rained. The
whole of our march has been through a poor, Hat,
pine-woods glades, where I have seen eight hors
es frequently to a waggon, which they moved with
difficulty. This detachment has had constant,
various snil almost insurmountable difficul
ties to encounter. We have had many false a-
larms, but no fighting ; nor need there be any ap
prehension of an attack. A hostile party how
ever is scouting in the neighborhood, consisting
of about thirty men, and have rilled the house of
a friendly Chechaw chief.”
*nn TBs nrnicToa.
Mr. Hines,—-You will confer a singular obli
gation on the unmarried part of the community,
by giving publicity to iny last Thursday Even
ing’s Reflections. # ■ L.
M.l'edgeville, January 18.
It was last Thursday evening as the rain wa>
gently dropping from the eves of ttie house that
the following train of reflections presented itself.
This is the evening on which many people will
terminate their lives of celibacy. Fortunate
would it be, thought I, if all our youths would
seek that reii.i* I happiness which the matrimoni
al life alone can afford ; if instead of dreaming
of (lavs of future felicity, they would at once
realize tlieih ; if instead of roving the fields ol
anticipated pleasure, they would at once make
the present moment the end of their disquietude,
and the beginning of their case and tranquility.
It is only in the society of some female, in whose
bosom he can find “ thought, feeling, taste har
monious to his own,” that man cau forget troubles
that are past, and sit down with a heart full of
sweet serenity. If lie he sick or wounded, in her
sympathy lie will fiud a healing halm ; it fortune
frown upon him,her presence will bo his support;
if he be healthy and prosperous, her smile will
give a double zest to every enjoyment. In fine,
when he is sick, she will be sick ; when he is sor
ry, she will be sorry ; when he is gay and cheer
ful, she will be gay and cheerful. In addition to
all this, thought I, if a man marries when he is
young, he may live to see his offspring shining a-
round him. How consoling must it be to a man
in the (lays of his age, when the decay of his na
ture is hurrying him to the tomb, to see the pledges
of the love of his youth gathering around Imn,
and as life is fast elibiug away, to see them drop
ping the tear of hallowed affection over his de
parting soul. This man’s happiness dawns on
earth, it will be consummated above. Here my
train was broken bv the entrauce of a friend in
to my room. Ought not these considerations to
induce youth to relinquish false notions of future
felicity, and seize on the present moment to
realize their visions of delight in the matrimoni
al life ? L.
f DIED,
In North-Carolina, on the 22d ult. the lion. Samuel
Lowry, one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of I*aw
aid Equity in that state.—-—At Greonwick, Capt. Port-
jck, of the royal navy. He accompao ed Capt. Cooke
■ound the world, and subsequently performed two other
similar voyages, in conjunction with Capt. Dixon.— ■
Lately in England, Mrs. Sheridan, relict of the late right
Honorable Richard }). Sheridan.
Extract of a letter to the editor of the Savan
nah Republican, dated “ Camden county, Jail. 4.
The Florida Indians have again commenced their
depredations in Camden county. Five and
twenty or thirty of them, as was conjectured by
their foot tracks, went last week at mid-day to
the house of a Mr. Holloway, who resided on the
St. Mary’s, He was out of the way, but his
wife, it was supposed, observed their approach to
the hou e, too late to leave it. and tan under a
bed, as her corpse was there found, shockingly
shot, aud the whole of the skin of her head, torn
off. They carried away, a negro wench with her
child, and whatever they wanted, from tli
house. If the Spanish government cannot re
press the disposition of the Indians for murder
and rapine, and they discover, that general Gaines
is not allowed to chastise them, there will be no
security on this frontier.”
The Savannah Republican of the 12th instant,
says there has been a skirmish between the friend
ly and hostile savages, in which the chief of the
uirnier was killed, in consequence of which a
number of the party under his command desert
ed and joined the hostile Indians.
Alabama.—A gentleman of this place lias po
litely favored us with an extract of a letter of a
late date from his correspondent in the Alabama
territory, which savs “ the Governor is busily em
ployed in making tne necessary orders for furnish
ing a requisition of militia called for by General
Gaines. Our Legislature will meet on the 19th
next month.”
Mobile, Dec. 8.—Since our last our port has
been thronged with vessels from many of the
nothern ports, anil from Liverpool. They have
-Iguught great quantities of merchandize, and
our houses and streets are filled with emigrants
r—in fact, the influx of strangers has been so
great, and so unexpected, that we regret that the
town will not afford more convenient accommo
dations ; but we are happy to state that the in
habitants have shewn every hospitable disposi
tion, and as yet, most are comfortably situated
and lodged. We can only add, that we hope
#ur territory will auswer the expectations of tiie
strangers, and that but few will sutler from any
deceptions that have been promulgated.
I Rise of the Ohio.—Extract of a letter to the
editors of the Alexandria Herald, dated Ohio
county, Va. November 20, 1818.—“ The autumn
has been unusually rainy in this country. I have
a*en the majestic Ohio rising in awful grandeur,
disdaining toe limits which nature had prescrib
ed to it, and bearing on its expanded surface the
proudest of the tanner’* labor, intermingled in
rude confusion with rubbish which former floods
had deposited on its shfres. The swell was stea
dy and rapid for three day's and nights, but not
buisterous. The flight ot boats and
A writer in the Delaware Watchman, unde
the signature of Cato, throws out the following
important suggestion.—■“ The question has been
frequently stated, ‘ would it not be for the advan
tage of the inhabitants that the state of Dela
ware he dissolved, and the district of country,
which now composes it, annexed to one of the ad
joining sister states ; and though it has been ge
nerally, if not universally, agreed in the affirtna
tive, 1 will nevertheless indulge in a few remarks
he popular side of the question. And I should
be extremely well pleased if some able and influ
ential men would place themselves between me
and my subject, and give not only a bare assent
to the propriety of it, but be the means of car
rying it into effect,”
Masonic.—At the late annual communication
of the Grand Lodge of North-Carolina, Major-
General Calvin Jones, of Raleigh, was elected
Grand Master.
James Stewart, of Richmond county, N. C.
has been elected a member of Congress from
Fayetteville district, to fill the vancancy occa
sioned by the death of Alexander M’Millan.
,,/Governor Bibb.—Extract of a letter from gov.
Bibb to a gentleman in Huntsville, ( V. T.) dated
November 10, 1817.—“lam waiting the deci
sion of the president on tills question, who is to
administer to me the oath HR office?—and shall
enter on the discharge of iftv duties as soon as I
receive his instructions. The defect in the law
which has produced this d(flay is much to he la
merited. You and the people, however, may re.-t
assured that there shall be no unnecessary delay
in organizing the government of the territory
My sense of public dutt and my private nue
rest unite in hastening me to the country.’idH
-A- W
It is stated that the sum of seven thousand dol
lars have been subscribed at Boston for the relief
of the sullerers by fire at sit. John’s. Three thou
sand dollars were subscribed at New-Yurk for
toe same charitable purpose.
A Paris paper of tlieVth November last, an
nounces that Mr. Gallatin had requested to be
ccallcd by our government us Minister to the
Court of France ; and that Mr. Pinkney was
about to return to the U. States, the climate of
Russia disagreeing with his health,
0^f.occnxn Dint', the famous itinerant preacher,
has been lelused pernMsion to preach in the
Methodist Chapel in Richmond, ami is denounc
ed by the rev. Henry Hqgdy, minister thereuf, for
his clownish manners, and in consequence of his
heterudux and schismatic fnoceedings, and his re
flections against the Methodist Church, in a lute
publication. —f— 10*
On the 14th ult. a large beach tree fell on the
camp of a travelling company in Sevier county,
I’euuessee. Out ot twelve, five were killed in
stantly, five were wounded, and two escaped un
hurt. Of the wounded, two have siuce uied.
rafts which
spread over the face of this noble river and glid
ed .with the velocity of vessels under full sail,
presented a scene truly magnificent: but the pass
ing stacks of hay and 2;rain reminded the be- ,
holder of the ravages this “ indomitable” stream, -*Tt has been stated in the public pipits,
was committing on terra Pinna Xlie perpendic- • - ■ • -
ular height ro which the river rose from common ,o]
low water was upwards of 30 feet, ^ fa
Extract of a letter from B. F. Stickney, esq.
Indian agent at Fort Wayne, to the editor of the
Patriot, dated Oct. 21, 1817,—We have just
concluded a treaty at Fort Meigs, of great pe
cuniary and political inportance to the United
States. It lays open for settlement eleven thou
sand square miles of the finest country I ever
saw. It extends on the west within six miles of
the navigable waters of the Wabash, and east to
Lake Erie. This country settled, we need not
war the alliances ot the British and Indians.
TT,e
®ol. V illar. have left Philadelphia on a visit to the
French settlement in the ^Alabama territory.
gens. Charles and Henry I.alcinand, with
GRAND PERFORMANCE ON WIRE !
BY OTHELLO,
A pupil of the celebrated Don Carlos, and u-ho
lias performed in all the principal cities and
towns in the United States, respectfully informs
the ladies and gentlemen of Mitledgeville, and
its vicinity, that he intenas’giving, this Even
ing at Mr. Rnssetor’s Tavern, a most brilliant
performance on
WIRE, BY DANCING ft BALANCING,
And many Feats of Activity on the Rope.
I N order to give the public an idea of his abili
ties, lie will mention a few of his feats. He
commences by walking the Wire in full swing ;
afterwards, will balance swords, plates, pipes,
chairs, tables, all on the wire—a balance neverat-
tempted by any person but himself. He also per*
farms the astonishing balance of the Feather, by
blowing it from its balance a considerable height
and catching it on {his forehead. He perform^
several surprising evolutions through three hoops
on the wire with a quickness almost incredible,
lie sits in a chair with a table having decanters,
glasse-. and candles on it, all on the wire before
him, fills the glasses and drinks with the greatest
ease; lays down on his back upon the wire in fufl
swing ; will balance on the wire a glass full of
wine in a hoop and swing it round his head three
different ways five hundred times in a minute,
without spilling a drop. He will throw up and
catch three Orunges in regular succession on the
wire. Also will place a link and an apple on the
back of bis hand and throw them both up and a-
gain catch tins Turk in his hand and the apple on
the point of it. He will beat ott the Tambuurir»
—walk backwards and forwards, play on the Vio
lin behind his back on the wire, in full swing.
He will stand on his head on a table, eat anil
drink while standing on his head. After which
he will whirl round a rope with fire in his heels
atnl with such velocity as to appear like a wheel
in quick motion.
New and elegant Scenery will be put up in tha
best manner. *„* Music on various instruments.
Admittance gl—Children half price. *„* Tick
ets may be had at Mr. llosseter’s bar, and at this
Office.
Doors opened at 6—Curtain rise at half after C.
Tuesday, January 20.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, GEO.
MiHedgcville, \7th January, 18i8.
W HEREAS by a resolution of the legisla
ture of this state passed the 20th Decem
ber last, the governor is req iiiud to direct the
proper officers to proceed without delay, to the
collection of all monies due this state on account
of Fractional Surveys or Town Lots in Mil-
ledgeville—*lt is
Ordered, fliat notice of the same be given by
public advertisement, in order that all persons
may make their arrangements accordingly, as
immediately after the first day of March next,
the proper officers will be directed to proceed a*
gainst all such as are then in arrears.
Attest, E. WOOD, secretary.
In the legislature of Kentucky a bill has been
reported for the purpose of directing an election
of governor, in the place of George Madison, de
ceased. Mr Slaughter, who now fills the execu
tive chair, still perseveres in retaining his seat.
in a
riety of shapes; in some as a positive fact; in
jthers upon conjecture, that Mr. Bagot, the Brit-
sh minister here, had protested agatost the trans
fer by Spain of East Florida to the United States.
VVe nsve taken pains to ascertain the truth of
this statement, and are warranted in assuring
our readers that it is altogether without founda
tion.—Mat. Int. Jan. 6.
•
Steam Engine.—The new engine, erected at
the works in Philadelphia, for supplying the aitv
with the water of the Schuylkill, throws up some
thing more than three and a half millions of gal
lons in twenty-four hours. This is at the rate
of 100 gallons per stroke, and nearly twentv-fivr
strokes per minute. The engine is on the high-
pressure principle, and was constricted by Mr.
Oliver Evans. ,
The ladies of Windsor, Vermont, have enter
ed into an association to promote their moral, so
cial and literary improvement, under the style of
•‘The Ramsay Female Association,” in honor of
Mrs. Martha liaurens Ramsay, late of Charles
ton, S. C. whose uncommon attainments in litera
ture, extraoruiuary polite accomplishments, do
mestic virtues, and above all, her devotional pie
ty, exhibited a shining example and pre-eminent
pattern of female excellence,—Tiiil. True Am.
0' 1
Spanish Affairs.—Extract of a letter from a
gentleman ol high respectability, to another in
Savannah, dated Washington City, 1st January,
1818.—“ I am induced to believe, from letters l
got from Georgia, tflat too much reliance is had
on the looked for ceitsion of East Florida to this
government. 1 krnAv of no good reason to be-
lie.ve the Spanish minister has any disposition to
negotiate on the subjects in dispute between the
United States and Spain, viz ; on the subjects of
boundary aud spoliations. I have just read a
pamphlet, recently published, signed Virus, on
these subjects, written by Don de Onis, or by
some one he has employed, wherein very plausi
ble attempts are made to prove that the claims of
our government on Spain for spoliations and for
boundary, are unjust and unsupportable.
“ And indeed, when I take into one view, the
various reasons that will operate in preventing a
cession o( Florida to our government, I am ofo-
pinion no consideration will ever induce Spain to
agree to such a cession, but the conviction that the
revolutionizing spirit manifested in South Ame
rica will wrest the civil authorities from her pow
er. When such au event is strongly anticipated,
the Spanish minister will propose to sell to the
United States.”
Extract of a
3, 1818.—“I
all the shipping
been stopped,
three Spanish c
vana and St. A
on what groum
occupy that pla
or, dated St. Mary’s, January
s iqoment been informed,
1 States at Cuba have
to 200 sail, and that
T
LAW.
HE subscriber tenders his professional ser*
vices qj the citizens of the Ocmulgee cir
cuit, the county of Hancock in the Western cir
cuit, and the public in general. His office is
kept in Monticello, Jasper county, where he al
ways «ill be found when nnton the circuit.
He has for sale five hundred arcos of good up
LAND, lying in the couuty of Jackson on the Fe
deral road, which may be had on accommodating
terms, by applying to Martin Kolb or John Boyle 1 ,
esqs. of Jackson county—Thomas Oliver of El-
her t couutv, or to the subscriber.
F. BALDWIN.
January 17, 1818.
WANKED 1000 BUSHELS WHEAT.
C ASH will be given for one or two thousand
bushels merchantable wheat, at one dollar
and fifty cents per bushel delivered at m v mills,
January 19,1818.
PARISH CARTER.
CAUTION.
T HIS is to caution all persons from trading
for six notes of hand gives by the subscri
ber to Jeffrey Mumford on the lfth day of Sep
tember, 1817, for twenty-five dollars each, made
payable on the first day of January, 1818—as I
do not intend to pay the said mites.
JOSHUA COBB. .
Wilkinson county, Januaty 17, 1818.
B 1
RUNAWAY NEGROES.
ROUGIIT to Baldwin goal on the 18th inst.
a negro man, by the name of Sain, belong,
ing to Bennett Terrell of Wilkinson county, al
so a negro woman, by the name of Amy, who
belongs to Randolph Jackson,; the owners are
requested to come forward, pay expenses, and
take them away.
F. SANFORD, Goalcr.
January 19.
DR. JAMES GLENN,
ENDERS his professional services to the ci
tizens of Milledgeville and its vicinity. Ap
plications made at Mr. Rousseau’s will be attend
ed to. January 13.
T I
t
, NOTICE.
N INE months after date hereof, application
will be made to the honorable the Court of
Ordinary of Morgan county, for leave to sell or
divide a Lot of land, the property of Andrew
Brown, late of said county, deceased, whenm the
come from the Ha-1 subscriber now lives, for the benefit of the heirs,
melia Island, to know ( JOSEPH MORROW, ad’mr
he American troops j 0 right of his 'wife,
frp* Dec. 16, 1817.