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d#vr the river to Richland fettle*
1 heir loss was three killed
jovJ three wounded. The wound
ed men we are informed, are in z
fair way of recovery, although one
received seven, and another three
wounds.
The Indians were immediately
pursued by sixteen men, w'ho have
pot teen heard from.
Mr. Helm dates, that as he pair
ed through the Chickasaw nation,
he was told that the Creek nation
had determined to go to war with
the whites, and that thefixth town
of the Choctaws had joined them.
A party of the Creeks had been
in the Old-town for feme time per
suading the Chikafaws to go to
war; and he was cautioned to take
care of the Cherokee*-* as it was
believed they would join the Creeks.
When he arrived at the Chero- <
kee nation, he found them holding
their war-dance; their warriors
wore red beads, carried knife tom
ahawk and fealps, but offered no
violence to any of his party. The
Chiekafaws appeared friendly, and
said if the Whites would fend an ar
my, they would aflitt to drive oft
the Creeks and ChoCtaws.
Kentucky paper.
By a gentleman direflly from
Vermont, we are informed, that
in an attempt of the inhabitants to
take a large raft to Montreal, con
trary to the Embargo laws, they
were refilled on Lake Champlain
by two Hoops belonging to the go
vernment —when an a&ion took
place, so. which 14 or 15 men were
wounded. The raft made its es
cape arid proceeded to its place of
defiinaidn. Utica Patriot .
Since tfe. embargo, above three
hundred families have moved from
Yew York to Philadelphia. The
greater fetjrity of Philadelphia
. from foreign assault, and its supe
rior advanement in manufactures,
will give it that ascendancy over
New-Yorl, which years of com
mercial piofperity will scarcely be
able ,to reltore. While rent has
fallen here twenty-five per cent, it
has advanced in that city one-thitd ;
and it is alfoafaCl, that within the
two last months, more houses have
> commenced building in Philadel
phia, than during the fame period
since the revolution. — N, Y. paper,
In contequence of the favorable
conftru&ion of Are Milan decree,
of Bonaparte, a meric an vessels
have been rdeafel that were car
ried into french ptrts and their car
goes have been fpd at an immense
profit to America! owners ; several
of those released vffels have arrived
in the U. States | one of which the
Auguftusof has cleared, it
is said, 150,00(1 <ollars.
I Boston Democrat .
Extract of a lettkfrom St . Barthol
omews to a mrcantile house in
Yew-7 ork, dktd May 5.
I am this y informed from
Antigua, that tl igovernor has foi -
• bid the Americ is colle&ing any
old debts— or a- shipments being
made on their a ount. You may
rely on the info ration being cor
nOt.”
Worthy of imi lion. —The Legis
lature of Vermc have resolved to
appear at their xt session. clad in
the cloth of Ainfcan manufacture.
It is with pleasure that we inform
our fellow-citizens, that the Upper
Battery of Fort John ton is now rea
dy for mounting the ordnance, Ac
the Lower Batrery in a ft ate of for
wardnefs. We venture to fay, the
plans of said B ittery are well laid,
and the workmanship done in a sub
stantial and neat manner, and will,
without doubt, when finifhed, do
credit to Maj. M‘Comb, who plan
ned the work, and Mr. John M.
Frazer, the master carpenter, who
carried the fame into effcCt.
City Gazette,
Extrad of a letter , from an eminent
physician in Philadelphia , receiv
ed at Charleston,
“ The fma 1-pox has got in a*
mongft us in the natural way ; but
vaccination has gained much
ground. Several have died of the
linall-pox. But an evil has hap
pened from the fame physician both
inoculating and vaccinating. Two
children in one family meant to be
vaccinated, were inoculated by the
lancet not being clean, and both di
ed and were this day buried.”
Mungo Park —This enterprising
traveller, who was generally sup
posed to have been murdered, is
laid to have gone from Africa for
the Weft-Indies. He was, howev*
er, the only member of his party
who survived. London paper.
The fanatic spirit of the French
court gave rife to the celebrated e
dict of Nantz, expelling the Hu
guenots or protestants from the
dominions of France, in the reign
of Louis the 14th. France at this
period was the firft manufacturing
nation in Europe, but her artisans
and manufacturers, who were prin
cipally protestants, fought an afy
lutn in the more genial climes,
-where the spirit, if not of liberty,
at least of toleration existed.
Great-Britain in a great measure
owes her manufacturing and com
mercial glory to this circumstance.
More than a century has passed a
way, and France has hitherto not
been able to recover from the ef
fects of this short-sighted policy.
The maddened third: for naval do
minion has given rife to the late
unprincipled and unjuftifiable or
ders of the British council in No
vember last, violating the rights
and threatening the independence
of neutral nations. This short.
sighted policy of the cabinet of St-
James is likely to become as bene
ficial to the commercial and man
ufacturing interests of the U. States
as the ediCt of Nantz was to that
of Great-Britain— For like causes
produce like effcCls.- — American,
I It frequently happens that the
best effeCts are produced from the
worst intentions. The British or
ders of council have given rife to
a national spirit in America, to be
come as well the manufacturers as
the consumers of her own raw ma
terials. The suspension of trade
in neutral bottoms, while it proves
the alma mater of the American
tradesman, is likely to infliCt a dead
ly blow on the manufacturing
towns of Great-Britain. It is cer
tain that the nation who wishes to
maintain its independence and at
the fame time be a commercial
people, must also be a manufactur
ing and agricultural one. The U.
States, have hitherto loft fight of
the grand objeCt, and for years
have been endeavoring to grasp the
carrying trade of the civilized world.
The present posture of affairs has
fuhy evinced the state of depend
ence resulting from such a spirit,
and an important aera is likely to
happen in the commercial history of
the country from a state of the
thingvS unexpected and unsought
for. Baltimore firft let the exam
ple of raising a manufacturing soci
ety with adequate capital; Phila
delphia followed ; and Peterfburgh
(Va.) is found in the train. The
Peterfburgh, (Va.) manufacturing
society have unfolded the objeCts of
their inllitution in a constitution,
comprising twenty articles relating
to its government and operation,
and have appointed a committee of
four persons, who have addrelfed
the public in handsome and appro
priate language on the benefits and
neceffuies of such an institution.
We cannot but approbate, in the
highelt (trains of eulogy, this patri
otic manufacturing spirit whicA so
generally pervades our common
country. Since the manufactories
of Great Britain have raised her to
the highelt pitch of commercial
glory, so will her orders in council
and the subsequent Milan decree of
the French emperor, raise a spirit
of rivalftiip in the American hem
isphere which from the (hort-fight
ed policy of the Britilh cabinet,
must eventually terminate in the ru
in of the trading towns of’hat ill fa
ted island and its dependencies.
Ibid .
’ [CIRCULAR.]
Treasury Department , May 13.
SIR,
Finding that a much more
rigid conltruction has been put in
feme of the diftriCts than in others,
on that part of the circular of the
6rh instant which relates to the
transportation of flour and other
provisions from one port of the
Chesapeake, to another port on the
waters of the fame bay ; it is proper
to state, that it was not hereby in
tended to convey an opinion that
such transportation was without a
ny exception whatever, and a fuf
ficient cause of detention.
Amoirgft those exceptions may
be reckoned the following :
1. The usual intercom fe on the
fame river, though that river may
include several diftriCts, (hould not
be interrupted.
2. Towns and diftriCts which
have usually received their supplies
of certain articles- of provisions from
other diftriCts on the waters of the
bay, (hould continue to receive their
usual supplies.
3. Flour, &c. purchased by per
sons refiling in another diftriCt, pre
vious to the receipt of the above
mentioned circular, may be taken
to the diftriCt where it is owned.
4. Planters and others (hould be
permitted to fend their produce to
that city or diftriCt which has been
their usual market, or to which
they have usually lent it as a remit-,
tance.
In order so guard against poflible
evasions, special bonds of the form
B. may, when thought necessary,
be required in the above mentioned
cases, before the vessel is fuffered
to depart; and it must be fully un
derstood, that even in those above
mentioned cases, which in a general
view do not appear fulpicious, it
will (till be your duty to detaiq the
veflel whenever, from any cause
whatever, you tnay have reason to
believe that there is an intention,
dtreCßy or ir.dk'CPy, to evade or
violate the embargo laws.
I atn, very refpeCjtfufty, fir* your
obedient servant.
Albert Gai latin*
John Shore efq. collector , Petersburg,
DUEL,
We are just informed that about
ten days ago, a duel was fought
with rifles at 15 yards distance, be
tween Thomas Lewis, Esq. (son of
col. Andrew Lewis) an,d Mr. M’*
Henry, all of Montgomery county
(V.) Both at the fame instant were
lhot through the body. The aim
must have been as deliberate ax
deadly, for the bounds relatively
were not more than 2 inches apart
—Mr. Lewis fell dead upon the
spot—-Mr. M'Henry survived but a
few hours. Lynchburg
EPIGRAM.
Th* embargo our produce holds
faft in its paw,
And our state legislature embargo
the law—i
The firft stops our trade—but the
last as you’ll fee,
May justly be call’d, the rogues
jubilee.
Augusta Herald,
—r > i —i
MARRIED, On the lft instant,
by the Rev. Abraham Ivlarfliall,
Reuben Hill, Esq. Attorney at
Law of Clark county, to the truly
amiable and well accomplished
Miss Lucy Lamar, of Columbia
county. Augusta Chronicle .
DIED, A few days ago, oP the
dropsy, Daniel Price, Esq. of’
this county.
22d ult. Mr. Michael Dougher
ty, aged 120 years f ttlid firigorsrr”
as it may appear, for the last forty
j years, he has had but one fit of‘
sickness. Louisville Gazette
0” A meeting of the citizens of
Wilkes is requested at the court-house
at ten o'clock, on Saturday next?.
University of-Georgia, jj.
Athens* June 8, 18Q8?.
Hr HE Public Commencements
will be held at this place, on the
4th day of July next. I requefb
the Board of Trustees to convene
on the day preceeding the Com
ment, when a Sermon will be de
livered, addrefied to the Candidates
for Degrees.
The young Gentlemen who gra
duated in 1805, and wish to receive
the honor of the second degree,
are requested to attend the Com
mencement.
The public exercises wilt be per
formed in a spacious new Chapels
built for the use of the University,
in pursuance of a resolution of the
Board, of Trustees at their meeting
in July 1807.
J; MEIGS, President,
.. ■■ 1 --■■■!'■ -.i-'i. i .. ...i ■ ,1
Brought to Jfu.
On t!>e 14th, in sf. 3 negro
man by thenmae ofPE.T|ER,
who says, he belongs to one
James Ashy of Lincoln coun
ty. The owner is desirecl, to.
come, prove ht property, pay
charges, and take him away.
Richard Worsham,
J aiior, W ilke s county.
June 18, 1808.