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drcd yards of his father** flation; his
•ihcad was cut off, carried and ano
ther iad that waswithnim takepprifouei.
The 20th ult. a party of Indians attached
Colonel Isaac Biedfoc’s dwelling house
anout ten o’clock at night, with guns,
citfbs; tomahawks and flones; they
continued the attack about ten minutes,
and then made their escape by moonlight,
taking with them two hoifes that weie in
the (table, and killing several cows on
their retreatj one man only was wounded
in the chin. The night following they
-riflied the Croft, and with malice pre
penfe, being infligated by the devil, did
then and there felonioufly take away onr
■cavalry, except oue little horse that they
could not catch, notwithstanding we had
■put them into an endofure adjoining fort
'fuckahoe. About the fame time Curtis
Williams was killed and fealped on Mill
Creek. The 26th Mr. William Mont
gomery, at Drakes Creek, had three lons
(small lads) killed and fealped in the held,
where they were at work in fight of the
lioufe, and their poor mother stood and
beheld the tragical feene. It is my opi
nion, if those cruelties were perpetrated
;jn any other country but this, it would
•yuufe the resentment of a whole nation to
■chaflife such barbarous bainlitties of in
human savages. Bo: this milchief is done
*t present in an obfeure corner of Ame
rica, on the weft fide of the mountains,
and far from government. By the time
such news travels a thousand or fifteen
hundred miles, and reaches Baltimore or
Philadelphia, it will give less emotion,
and excite less pity, than the mere rehear
sal of a tragedy that has perhaps been
wrote a thousand years ago. However,
I think that affairs between those holtile 1
tribes of Indians and us are verging fait
to a crisis; wc must attempt to extermi
nate them shortly $ if we succeed, we
4*ll be peaceable and happy ; if not, we '
jnuft give tip this country to them, and
i’uch of us as may survive; uiuft seek au
asylum eifewhere.”
PETERSBURG, July 17.
By a gentleman from Kentucky we learn
that a party of the Wabash Indians have
lately attacked the Continental troops lta
tioned at Post St. Vincent’s, on the north
west fide of the Ohio, and after a severe
conflict in which a number of the foldiels
were killed, the Indians were repuifed.
AUGUSTS, Aitgujl 26.
At a time when many persons think the
inflicted 011 those who have
been lound guilty of Healing horses or
cattle too severe, and others regardless of
the laws presume to put men to death on
iufpicion.pf having committed such of
fences only, without any authority wliat
extract from the Aft entitled,
An Aft to pi event horse and cattle fteal
ang” cannot be unacceptable to our read
ers, cfpecially as the fame is not generali
ty in print:
“ WHEIvEAS the laws in force .for
iC the prevention of Healing
neat cattle, and the unlawful branding,
“ marking, and killing the fame, which
* l fubjefts the offender to death for the
** firft offetfte, has not answered the pur
** poses thereby intended,'and very few
offenders against the fame have been
“ convifted through the tendernefc of
** prosecutors and witudFcs: Be it there
fore, enacted , That every perfou or per
sons taking any horse, mafe, gelding,
fiiley, or near cattle, and all a*.-
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il ceflariSS as well before as aftef the of
“ fence committed, who fhajl be legally
*'• and duly convicted thereof, lluU for
“ the sud offence be set in a pillory a
“ space not exceeding four hours nor left
u than two hours tu fvi«e pubvc place,
“ aud futfer Inch imprifoument as the
“ Court thali think proper; and Lcfore
“ being difeharged be publicly whipped
“ on his bare bach three several times,
i( and receive at each time thirty-nine
“ lashes, aud alio foal l he branded on the
“ lhoulder with the letter R. And lor
“ the fecund offence, upon doe conviction \
“ thereof, ihall be adjudged guilty off«- j
“ lonj'j and lhall fuf?er death without the jj
“ benedc of clergy/' Faded the
September, 1773.
On the 25th of June last Congrefa rati
fied the Contract made by John Adams,
Efq.Minifies P,enij)otentiary of the United
States of America, 011 the 13th March 1
1788,f0r the loan ofoue million of guilders. ]
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SJjjK SVI Vi JH *V .£% 'h V l«. SMS *§*£ Hjie «
1)4 in >i4 iK iii It. ill jl. it'* »ii. \ 4 IV, ini )!■* mii iT. j'l i iiC i< ni it?
Academic Society,
THE following Qpelxiori will he de'- i
bated on Saturday next, the sc^ ]
inst. j
4 ‘ Which i>? thg most desirable, a very
“ bcautifuland accompliihcd young Lady,
“ with a final}, or no fortune, or one of
“ ati ordinary per fun, good fsafe, large
“ fortune, and advanced in years r" •*
** # Honrs wifi be opened, and the de
bates commence, at half pail 3 o’clock
pifccifcly.
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■ Notice.
THIS is to forewarn all persons from
trading lor a Note of mine, 'which «
I have giveu to Captain Zachariah Philips,
as I have paid the amount thereof feme
time ago. ,
ISAAC DENNIS.
Auguji 23, 17$ 3.
TiriE Lubdcribur will dii
pofe o£ that large and
airy Horde on Broad-street, in
Augusta, next deer to the
Printing-Office, on very rea
fonahle terms, to which indis
putable titles will be made.
The terms may be known on
application to Capt. Watts,
near Augusta.
EL GRAVES
■A Lift of Defaulters in Captain John
Liles Ccmpun >, Richmond County .
JOSEPH Franklin, John Mason, Ni
cholas Jones, Edward Taylor, Tho
mas Garret, jofeph Brantly, William
Smith, Adam Gels, Thomas Gefs, Samu
el Cooper, Kiel Clark, Peter Leth, Pjt-l
ter Heath, Hatton Parham, Peter Parham,
Nathan Parham, Thomas ..Parham, Tho
mas Siikes, William Johns, Thomas
Graflley, Lewis Parham.
One hundred acres land, second quali
ty? formerly the property of James Nor- *
ton, who is out of-tfce limits of this slate.
Ome lot in the town of Wrightiborough,
No. 91, formerly the piopeity of Sa
muel Oliver, deceased.
R. HOWARD, Rec.
3 ul J J7BB.
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GEORGIA. I
3y the Honorable GEC»fi,i
KANH2 Y, Eiqu ir ;;c a S |
t atr.- \j cn crt 1, G ove t nor, and Co ■ B
mander in .Chief in and overt! «
: said State. * ,lc jß
A Proclamation!
HERE AS the Superintendent I
| ▼ ¥ mifiioners appointed to iica: w' i .7" K
( Southeru Tribes of Indians have receive *!'.«*
5 cial accounts from the Creel; Indian 5 ' W
| felting a defiie and wiliingnefs to co’meT' 1
ti eaty to he hidden in September übxt, I
! conieaueuce thereof have ordered m' AT 3 B
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ties to ccale on their pan agamft the St > ,• B
Georgia a fore fa id. I HAVE T Il£;tP* B
r Oiora tirojght hr, by and vv;*U the B
| and con feat of tne honorable the
I Council, to iUue this my Proclamation lu ., R
jmandiug that all hoftilkies on the part'ofTß
«said date cio tease against the fiid Tndiaiif ■
jj hereby forbidding all persons of the said t» a( g R
to interrupt or otherwise injure thci-Mt. B
dians, ou their way to, attending on vi 1-
returning from toe laid Treaty.l
IDO HEREBY order and command all O', I
1 ceis Civil a:rd Military to apprehend and t I
! cure any peilou or perlons vvho lhall bef.A I
trcfpamng agai nit this x ipclamat.on, wot j* 1
'that they may be' brought to condignl
mint. Sj
GI7EN under my hand and :k Grtct R
oV«/ if the Juid State at R
this thirty frjt day cfjuly, R
'fear of our LOUD One R
Seven Hundred and Ehhtv-ntt m
| . n «> *' A* 1 * B
and of cur Sea.treignty and hmt* ■
Ct/ice lie 'Thirteenth. I
GEORGE HANDLE:, R
By his Honoris Cemiuund,
\ J. MILTON, Sedry..
[ ftOD SAFE THE STATU \
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The fabferiber has fer sale five cr I
fix hundred weight of
New Feathers
Which he will fell cheap for GA I
N. Pearrt. I
Notice.
SINCE my arrival in town I have fecn an
advertisement at Mr. Fox’s, Signed by
the Sheriff of Richmond county, by which he
gives notice that Several trafis of land ia the
counties of Waihingtoii, Gieene, Wilkes, fr.
the property of Col. Richard Call would be
■fold at the Courthouse of Richmond ccanty,
sometime d\ the month of September next,
I think it my duty to inform the public tint
gll tire lands belonging to Colonel Call that
could be found out in Greene county I exe
cuted.fome time,fmee at the fair of Andiew
Burns and Thomas Glafcock ; part of which-
I fold; some I have advertised to be fold the
19th in ft. and ten bounties confiding of zoj
and a half acres each, more oriels, lituatc on
the Beaverdam watets of Richland c reck anl
Rocky Fork of Shouiderbone j and 575 acres
on the waters of Fort creek, all in
county, to be fold the Bth day of
next, at the house of Mr. Alexander
in laid county ; and I have lent the execution*
to the Sheriff of Wilkes to execute lands be
longing to the said Richard Call in that conn*
ty at the luic or the parties.
JOHN C ESSNA, S. G.C. (
Augufla, f) t 1788.
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