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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.