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of property, as ;f* liavcbc.cn inform-
,deans so great as might have been
add that the injury is confined to the
n, or upper powder works; the Hagtev
longing to the same proprietors, which
tl v erected, and are of superior inipor-
e entirely escaped.—ffalchman.
Feh.3.—According to letters that have
ived here from I’ensacola, it appears
po 1 1 is current there, and fully believed
otorious Woodbine is really among the
and another person also, (a red coat)
e is not mentioned, but who is culled
perhaps the. famous Nichols, of procla-
emory. These worthies are said to
-e of two schooners, armed and man-
fiftv men each, besides fifty negroes
cavalry; the latter «re no doubt made
remnant of the slaves who escaped
egro fort previous to its capture, aug-
number since by the runaways from
as and Georgia. These have for some
had their head quarters on the river
where Arburthnut, who is supposed to
e person as Woodbine also lives. The
-e, if in reality it exists ns mentioned,
presumed to be composed of Spanish
from Amelia, or of private adventurers
t nest of buccaneers, New Providence,
ir object can be, however, is difficult
ve; that they can seriously hope, at the
handful of wretched Indians and ne-
contend against the power of the Uni-
s, it is impossible to believe. Perhaps,
they have flattered themselves that the
line would prove a safeguard, and that
shelter they might carry on their sys-
ibbery and murder with impunity. Tor
's our government is in this respect, they
inly be disappointed : Congress is now
and no doubt, before this time,
s gone forth that will hurl destruction
nil their associates. The names of the
rdercd Scott, and his unfortunate coin-
will nut be long unrevenged.
ct of- a letter from Dr. Jtflin Sibley to
II. Robinson, of Nate lies, dated Natch-
Jan. SO.—“ Some traders lately arrived
m the Hietan Indians,and say, that about
onths ago, a party of these Indians, witl
eat chief, L'hcwawa, fell in with some
’s not far from St. Antonio; they fought
ewawa was killed ; and, as these tiaders
nation, (less than a month ago) 4000 war
ere assembled, to go against St. Antonio,
d they would i evenge the death of their
r all perish : that they would not leave a
ive, or a house standing; at St. Antonio,
his side of the river Grand ; that the
y which was once a prairie should be again
king occurrence.—To the sympathy (says
rfolk Beacon,) which we yesterday ex
in the bercavincnt of an amiable family,
d by the death of Mr. William M. Rice,
e to add our sincere regret for an event
to a wound
I of time could
CO^GaESS.
given increased poignancy
pit but the oblivious hand of
-ugl
s.
Wednesday night, about nine o’clock,
number of gentlemen who had assembled
Magnien’s, in Portsmouth, to otter their
etice with the family, and assist in the last
ce to their deceased friend, were sitting
djoining apartment, the chimney took fire,
a few minutes, burst in the room where the
HOUSE OK REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, March 10.
Internal Improvement.—The House went in
to a committee of the whole, Mr. Herbert in
the chair, on the bill from the Senate making ap
propriations for repairing and keeping in repair
certain roads, from Fort Hawkins to Fort St.
Stephens, and from Columbia in Tenns.->ee, by
the Choctaw Agency, to Madisonville, Louisiana.
Mr. II. Nelson spoke a short time in opposi*-
tion to the bill, viewing it as a part of a system
of encroachment on state rights.
Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana, supported the
bill against Mr. Nelson’s objections, and on its
own merits. He supported it also on the ground
that, in this instance, i:o autharity but the united
States could nuke the road, since if passed over
a tract of country to which the Indian title is
not yet extinguished, and over which the juris
diction of the United States is not disputed.
Mr. Forsyth and Mr. Poindexter also sup
ported the b.ll on the same grounds, and Mr.
Nelson replied. No amendment having been
proposed to tiiis bill the committee proceeded to
me consideration of another bill.
[Letter from a gentleman at Washington City
to the editor of the Alexandria Gazette, dated
March 20 .J
The amendment to the bill for maintaining in
violate t!ie neutrality of the U. States, by pre
venting aimed vessels from going out of port
without giving security for their good behavior,
proposed by Mr. Clay just beiore the rising of the
committee ami the adjournment of the House-
on Wednesday afternoon was discussed yester
day, and was to this effect: tnat “ neither the
persons nor the property of persons sailing under
the flag of any colony, district, or people in ami
ty with the Lulled Mates, should be subject tu
the penalties attached to piracy in the courts
of the United States, for or on account of tiie
government of the United States having omitted
*.o acknowledge tue sovereignty and independ
ence of sucli colony, district or people.”
A long train uf discussion ensued on this, not
that in general any great difference of opinion ex's
is ted as to the principle of putting those persons
on an equal footing with others; out to the word
ing of it some exceptions were made by Mr.
Lowndes. Gen. Smith however, maintained it
to be in a high degree mischievous and detrimen
tal to commerce, by rendering the transit of coin-
mo.ities ami shipping insecure. The amend
ment however was carried.
In tiie course of the discussion, nn expression
feli from Mr. Forsyth, to which mo3t of those
who heard it annexed a considerable share of im
portance. In the course of an' argumentative
skirmish between Mr. Clay and Mr. Forsyth, the
latter happened to make use oi the words respon
sible government. Mr. Clay wisiied to have a
definition of the meaning ot the word responsi
ble in that application, ana asked in a pointedly
significant manner, whether Mr. Forsyth consi
dered the government of the beloved Ferdinand
as a responsible government: to which Mr. For
syth replied that he did consider the Spanish go
vernment a responsible one, and that lie hoped to
prove to the honorable speaker, before the end
uf the session that it was so. The speaker ex
pressed his satisfaction at this information, not
in words, but by a nod uf assent and a look of
pleasure and approbation. People are apt to find
in mysterious givings out, often more than they
who utter them are aware of, and 1 perhaps may
have fallen into that error.—If I have not, liow-
Tlir.SIJAY MOUSING, APHII, 7.
to oonnr.sroNDF.KTS.
A religious communication from a friend in
Oglethorpe, will be given in our next.
The “ Senior Batchelor” is received. We arc
afraid his 1 communication, if published, ivbuld not
aid him much in his attempt to dispose of the ap
pellation.
The excessive prolixity of “ The Ghost in the
Cupola,’is not atoned for by any merit in his piece.
“ His reasons are as two grains of wheat in two
bushels of chatf; you shall seek them all day
ere yuu find them, and when you have, they are
not ifrorth the search.”
had retired to rest. The violence with which 1 ? vcl > Mr - Forsyth meant that lie expected dur-
efed was such as to force out the front of
se in the third story, which caused the
f the roof on the north side to fall in.
cks from the chimney were driven with
iolence through the room, that one which
the wife of the deceased and her daughter
in a bed in one corner, shocked them
y. A female friend also, who was in the
om, was considerably bruised. The fire
scattered through the room, communica-
the furniture and the house in many places,
a few minutes a scene of the utmost hor-
ued. The corpse was moved to a neigh-
ouse, df but for the exertions of the gentle-
rst present, and a number of citizens who
rawn to their assistance by the cry of fire,
use of Col. M. and doubtless the whole
adjoining it, would have been consumed,
h much of the furniture was saved, many
were lost.
chez, March 5—Passed this place on Sun-
t, one hunured and twenty soldiers of col.
y’s regiment of U. S. artillery ; they are
ed for Appalachicola, tu act with general
u in tbe Seniinolian , war. Another coin
ed er the command of Captain Peter, of
tie regiment passed here 12 or 15 days ago
same destination.
ing the present session to lay before the house a
proposition for a War with Spain—and this was
the interpretation put upon Ins words by mhst
of those who were present.
Our readers will recollect the report we publish
ed, some weeks ago, of the committee of Elec
tion of the H. of R. in the case of the contested
Election of Gen. Herrick, a Member from Ohio.
That report came up last week, and was decided
after an able debate of two days, in favor of the
right of the sitting member, by agreeing to the
repurt of the committee. The principle involv
ed in this discussion is of more than common
interest; and the decision which has taken place
has not put it at rest. When we consider that
the question involved the rights of three or
four other members to their seats and that there
is always in socn cases an insensible bias opera
ting on the House in favor of the sitting mem
ber, the decision of the question, by so lean a
majority as three votes, in favor of the right of the
member, may be considered as a decision against
the principle on which that right was sustained.
Less personal merit than that of the Member
whose seat w as contested, would be sufficient to
influence more than twice three votes on a doubt
ful question.
These remarks are not made under the im
pression that the decision was not a just one ;
on that point it is not our business to express an
opinion. We have made this suggestion, that,
under the view we have taken of tiie decision, no
citizen may hereafter subject his right to a seat
in the Legislative body to be jeopardized by
holding an office under the United States, how
ever unimportant—be it only that of a Postmas
Mail Rubbers.—It is supposed that all the per
sons who were concerned in robbing the mail on
the 11th instant, have been arrested, and the
principal part of the money taken recovered,
file post-master general -states that the amount
of ban|t notes, post notes, bills of exchange and
checks saved, is about ninety .thousand dollars.
“ As soon as the mutilated fragments of the ad
dresses and envelopes can be arranged with their
proper contents, tlifv will be forwarded by mail
as originally designed. A descriptive schedule
of the whole will be immediately published, and
transmitted to the several sections of the United
States, for the information of those concerned.”
It appears that the whole plan was formed in Phi
ladelphia, and was to have been executed on the
other side of the Stisquehannah ; but when the
men arrived there, they concluded to cross the
river, as there would be less danger in their get
ting to Baltimore undiscovered than to Philadel
phia. After the detection of tw<> men at the latter
place, the third immediately embarked onboard
a steam-boat for Philadelphia, where, on his arri
val, there was, a meeting held with those concern
ed in the plot, and money distributed amon u
them for the purpose of exchanging. Two men
succeeded in passing between four and five hun
dred dollars before they,were detected. On the
following day the principal and four others were
taken, and committed for trial.
The people here are all elated at the prospect
of h war with Spain. It is,reported here that the
chevalier Onis is preparing to depart: and I have
heard it whispered that the United States’ troops
have been ordered to enter and take possession
of the Floridas.-—Alexandria Gazette,
History of Congress.—Messrs. Gales Sc Sea
ton, edito 's’of the National Intelligencer, have
issued proposals for publishing by subscription,
“ A History of the Congress oi the United States,
including the proceedings, votes, anil debates (as
far as preserved) in the senate and house of re
presentatives, fro i the commencement of the
first session of the first congress in 178(>, to the
end of the second session of the fourteenth con
gress iu 1817 j and afterwards to be continued.
A HORRIBLE PICTURE !
IT there had been no other motive for the sup
pression of the Amelia expedition, a sufficient
reason would be found, in putting a stop to the
importation of Africans, and the measure would
have done equal honor to the head and heart of
our chief magistrate. Have the wise and virtu
ous of our own country enacted laws, only for
the purpose of having them violated ? Arc abo
lition societies daily established in the different
sections uf our republic in mere mockery ? Oi
are we in earnest, in desiring to put an end to
this traffic, so odious in the sight uf God and
man f Are proofs wanting ? We refer to tiie
records of Savannah. W ill it be credited, that
a regular chain of posts is established from the
head of St. Mary’s river to the upper country,
and through the Indian nation, by .means of
which, these emaciated wrectlies are hurried apd
transferred .to every part of the country. The
woodsmen of the country, oordering on the river
St. Mary’s, ride like so many Arabs, loaded with
slaves, ready lor market. Pursuit is useless,
they pdsli through uninhabited parts, known only
to themselves ; and with a spirit of euterprize
fitted for belter purposes, elude all search. If
ready for forming a caravan, an Indian alarm is
created, that the woods may be less frequented ;
If pursued in Georgia, they escape into Florida.
.What will the humane say, when told of the
horrors of these miserable Africans f One small
schooner of about60tons, contained 130 souls;
they were almost packed into a small space, be
tween a floor laid over water casks and the deck
—not near three feet—insufficient for them to
act upright—and so close that chafing against
each other, their bones pierced the skin, and be
came galled and ulcerated by the motion of the
vessel—their food a very stinted allowance, con
sisted of rotten rice, in a state of fermentation,
and so, warm as to comfort their frozen hands—
numbers died of liungar, cold and misery—while
others crawled about, a sort of living anatomies,
dragged, naked and shivering, in this (to them)
cold climate and season from their “prison house”
obituary:.
Died, in this place, oh Monday night, the 30th ultimb,
Mr. JOSHUA TOULM AX, a student of the Mi Hedge villa
Academy, and son of Judge Toulnian of the Alabama ter
ritory. He was permitted to rise, like the aun, enough
above his horizon to'give anticipations of the splendor of
his meridian elevation, when the “ dark cIquu of de.;tii
passed over lus face, and wrapt him forever from our view.**
“ From life’s bright scenes, in life’s bright morning tom,
lamented youth, thy early grave we mourn ;
Far from lov’d home, from mends and kindred dear,
In blest repose, thy ashes slumber here.” ,
On the same evening, of a lingering illness, Captain
JOHN DANELLY, merchant of this place. He died
amidst the fuirfest prospects of mioccss in life, and wall
ihfc sincere regret of all who knew him.
On the 27th ult on Cumberland kland, General Henry
Lee, of Virginia. He was a diatinj^nshed officer oi the
revolution,,and rtiany vearS a member of congress.
. . look, actAin.
T HE subscriber now calls on- those indebted
to him, for-the last time. He intended to
have sued indiscriminately at last February
Court; but that intention was changed, under a
sincere wish, that a further indulgence of‘six
months would have superceded the painful ne
cessity of culling in the aid of the law, to ob
tain, what injustice, he ought long since to have
received ; in that hope' he has been disappointed,
to a considerable extent. To those therefore,
who have promptly discharged their respective
dues, he tenders his sincere thanks, and those
yet in arrears are positively notified, that unless
they make paymeuit by the 25th day of June
next, they will be sued.—He Cannot pay his
debts without he can collect what is due him ;
he must sue,or be sued, and self defence is the
first law of nature. This notice is positively the
last notice- Jacob p. turner.
Sparta, April 1, 1818.
NOTICE.
A N election will be held at the Court house,
in the town of Milledgeville, on Saturday
the 25th of April, for a Justice of the Inferior
Court of Baldwin county, in place of William#
Rutherford, who refuses to qualify.
James Fleming, ? -
Fit. JETER, J
April 6,1818.
N
NOTICE.
INE months after date, application will lift
_ made, to the honorable the Inferior Court
of Putuain county, when sitting as a Court of
Ordinary, for leave to sell the real estate of
Thomas" VVi Scott, dec’d. sold for the benefit
of the heirs and creditors.
•rnoxlAs kilpAtrick, adm’r.
in right of his wife.
March 24, 1818.
l li-TY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away frbm the subscribers,
on the night of the 30th ult. three
negro men,-to wit Andrew, Ned
and Buck or Bill.- Andrew is a
stout young fellow,about 20 years
of age, 6 tcet high,, dark ci irt-
plected,iind Weighs about 180. , Ned 1 Is about
22 years old, .5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, very trim
end well made, and has very long whiskers.—
lie was brought from Virginia last winter and
sold to us by Wmv Anderson, speculator. Buck
or Bill is a lad about 17 years old, well grown,
has two large scars or scalded places on the back
of his head,-which show very plain when bare
headed. Had on when he went away a dcss-
coat of coarse brown cloth and-a new pair of
gray pantaloons. He was purchased some years
ago ot Barney Riley in the Creek nation. These
fellows are all supposed to be together, and will
endeavor to go either to the state of Virginia,
or the Creek nation. The above reward will bo
given for their apprehension so that the subscri
bers can get them again. ;•
SANFORD & LUMSDEN.
Near Milledgeville. April 1,1818.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
ILL be sold at the Court-House in the
town of Monticelio on the first Tuesday in
ext, between the usUat hours of sale,202 1-2
f Land, known by Lot No. 174, in the
(strict of originally Baldwin, now Jasper
, levied op as the property of White Rossi- .
satisfy an execution in favor of Pleasant I at a country store or tavern—for one moment
r vs. said Rossiter, property pointed out by alter the commencement oi the term tor which
aine, plaintiff's attorney. .Conditions, cash. I,e ,s elected. National Intelligencer.
MARTIN COCHRAN, Dept. Sll'if.
rch 26,-1818.
SHERIFF’S SALE.
ILL be sold at the Court-House,in Eaton-
ton, Putnam county, on t! a first Tuesday
. next, between the usual hours; one large
OI18&, levied on as the property of Witit
drick, to satisfy an execution in favor of
Bledsoe, surviving copartner vs. Win. S.
ick, property pointed out by Wm. Brown,
fled by B,J. Harvey, former deputy sheriff,
turned to me.
uary 23, 1818.
VVM. VARNER, Sheriff.
and hurried oft"on long and painful journies, to sa-
tatisfy the cupidity ot unfeeling adventurers. Put
ting aside the agonies of the body, what tortures
of mind have these afflicted sons of Africa not
undergone ! Wlienjthese unhapy sufterers were
recaptured by the Saranic, the commonest sailors
on board, touched with the tenderest sympathy,
divided amongst them, their clothes, and every
aid that circumstances made possible, was hu-! Hector, Lewis. Jeff,'Quash, Friday, Joel) Betty,
. ... i- i. a- w, --‘ - *• " ” • “ 1 1,1 Hec
SHERIFF’S SALES. , ;r
O N the first Saturday alter the first.Tuesday
in May next, will be exposed to public sale,
at the market-house in the town of St. MarV’s,
between the hours of 10 and 3 o’clock of"that
day,, the following negro slaves, viz. February,
Pleasant, Pleasant, Peggy, Sally, Mary,' Lydia,
Ben, Clary, Sarah, Jack, Francis, Rosaline, Cla
ry, York, Kate, Elsey, Mira, David, Ritter, Jack,
Judge, Lucy, Bcttv, Harriet, Nanny, Sam, Jim*
William, Sepio, Pliebe, Dider, Matilda, Amelia,
Richard, Moses, Crccy, Sirus, Lucy, George,
Lambert, Sucky, Chany, George, Willis, Lucy,
Jacob, Oen, York, Betty, Kate, Lucretia, Vilet,
Collen, York, Bill, Nancy, Aggy, Jimmy,,Simon,
Jim,Doll,Charles, Dunus, Jim, Charlotte, Julett,
What a sight! Clary,Eady, Kane, Jinny, Ned, Sarah, Bet, 1
has Ferr.andina exhibited ! “ This cradle of-tor, Mary, Bob, Rose, Drister. John, Aron, Dean*'
inanely afforded by the officers,
has Ferr.andina exhibited ! “ 1
liberty,” as some would persuade the public-—| na, Penny, Riner, Edmund, Dapliny, Judge, Die,
PHYSIO.
T HE public are informed that I have finally
located myself in this village, as a practi
tioner of Medicine—Applications made at capt.
Glovei’S shall be attended to, with that punctu
ality, which the nature of my profession requires.
JOHN G. SLAPPY.
Monticcllo, Geo. Feb. 18, 1818.
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.
D R. WHITE respectfully tenders his profes
sional services to the inhabitants of Mil
ledgeville and its vicinity. He may be found a<
bis. resilience third door above Major Howard’s.
March 30., ,
when privateer sailors have led about, and sold I Peggy, Isaac, Bill,'Judy, Lydia, Sue, Quack?,
their shares of the spoil to the’highest bidder. Sucky, York, Nat, Kitty, Sirus, Abram, Dapliny,
a j Molly, Paul, George, Beck,Deen, Brandy, N*rm,
a | Lucy, Caroline, John, Smith, Silvyi John; Min-
YVhat a specimen of government I .What
proof of connection with Mexico and Venezuela
-four ill Hum
an execution
—that forbid this traffic in the new government. | go. Being one hundred-and twenty
But has the President been informed of all this ? iber, levied under and by- virtue of
Can we suppose that the ‘public officers have]formed'on the foreclosure of a .mortgage-Edward
been silent spectators of all these horrors-?i The ; F. Tatnall, administrator John Hamilton, vs.
partial publication of these reports answer 1 sticli j Jarrtos - W’illiamson,'to satisfy • said, mortgage
intcrogation—this is but a faint picture of this j and cost Among the above named Negroes,
monstrous trade. All that has been written and j there are carpenters, seamstresses, washers,
said on the subject of barbarity and-cruelty, is | house servants, &c.—I can recommend a number
vet extant, whenever it is tolerated, and ' man J of those negroes tu be of the mast value of any
when he made a trade of his fellow, like th# by-j negroes in this state,
rena, bccjiuq.cs “ the fullest of the fell.”
Htv-annah Republican.
Conditions, «a.sh.
1 • ' . ISAAC BAILY, S.
St. Mary’s, 2d Mar«h, 1818.