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1 TURD AY, aider 4, 1788. •Jl 1 Georgia state gazette dl 0 R ' L„,,, Independent register. I . .. !■ £ edoM of the PRESS, and TRI A L by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Ccnjliiution of Gtorgia, 11 mJGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the Stale \ i[ays, Articles of Intelligence , Advertisements, &V. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed . H InEW-YORK, August J\N Saturday last Mr. Henry, a wor- I J thy theatric charafter, manumitted Bee Haves, before his Hs>uor the Mayor, ■dermen Gilbert and Wylley, agreeable ■ the aft of Aflembly of the iu\ of Fe ■oary, 1788. An example worthy imi- Bion, and which we hope, for the fake ■ human nature, will be daily followed, Btil this happy country fliall boast not par mi, but univer/alfreedom . Philadelphia, August <5. ■ The alterations (not amendments) of Be Federal Conftitu-flon proposed by the ■invention of New-York, fays a corref londent, arefo numerous, that, if it were ■offible to admit them, they would anni • Kilate the Cowftitatioir, and throw not on ly the United States back again into anar- . |hy, but introduce poverty, rnifery, blood ■ed and slavery, into every state in the ■Jnion. The authors of these alterations would do yvell to put on match coats and ■flbeiate with the lawlcfs Indians who in habit the borders of the weftern lakes, ■hey have not sense enough to frame or ■nderftand a fyfteiaof government fit for ■ civilized nation. I It is with fmgular ple«fure we inform Bur readers, thaun many parts of New lerfey the barveft has been gathered in Bvithoue the afliftauee of the liquid fire.of ■he Weft-Indies. A d rink, composed of Ivvo table fpoonfuls of molaftes, one of vinegar, a tea fpoonful of ginger, with a ■uart of water, has been found by expe dience to be more cooling and strengthen- Bng than all the mixtures'with rum that lever have been invented. CARLISLE, August zo. I By sundry accounts from the Falls of IMuikingura, we hear that on the morning [of Saturday the izth July, a party ofChip pawa and Ottawa Indians attacked some people near that plaee ; and after killiug two soldiers, and a negro belonging to Mr. David Duncan, they attempted to plunder, but without efFeft. They were on the point of fealping Mr. Duncan, when one of them was knocked down and killed, and some others wounded* and weie beat off without further loss to our people. Soon after their retreat they were followed’ and overtaken, after a march of upwards of fifty miles, and fix of them brought in, two of whom were particularly identified on oath, as perpe trators of the above horrid barbarities* Letters from the five nations of Indians, oated Bth July, were received by the Sn perintendant, at Mufkingum, informing him that their Chicis were gone to the place where the wliuleof the Indians to rendezvous, in order to go collective ly to the intended treaty. It is hoped, if a gei al affemblag© of the savages ihould take place, at the pro posed treaty, that there will be no more mifehief done by them. If after this general treaty that is pro posed, the .savages Should prove faithlefs to a resolution of peace, we think govern ment will be well taught to what purpsfe they have so often held treaties, and load ed them with presents, that might have been better applied in protecting the scat tered inhabitants of the frontiers, or in totally routing those savages from the neighbouring settlements. PETERSBURG, August 14. Ex trad of a letter dated Fort Chiftly July 14, 1788. “ A most violent war Iras broke out between the people of Holstein and the Cherokee and Chickamawga Indians. It is said that the whites at different times this fpriug and summer have loft <so per sons, and the Indians have'loft 90, ainongft which are the Fool Warrior, Old TatTcl, and Old Abraham, the Hanging Maw's brother, who is principal Chief of those nations; and the following towns on the TeueiVee arc evacuated, and several of then! were in flames before the Indians left them: Ilighwaflie, Chi!oowa,Citico, CHo ta, Toca* Big Tallica, Big Island, Cay ctcb. Hostilities appear to be carried on by both parties with all the malice, hor ror, and implacable hatred, imaginable ;< so God only knows where it will flop.” CHARLESTON, Sept. <)• Yesterday came on the cleft ion of In tendant for fhe'city of Charlcfton, when the Hon. Faucheraud Grimke, Esq. was almost uuanimoufly ie-elefted. SAVANNAH, Sept. zsv On Thursday the 18th infh a party ?f Indians came to the plantation of Mr. Quarterman, in Liberty county, and cac ried off 13 negroes, 6of that gentleman's, 6 of Mr. Stacey’s, and 1 of Mr. Wil son’s. Captain Sumner and Lieut. Biurnly immediately pursued, and the latter, in a thick branch on Taylor's Swamp, over took and charged the Indiana, who fled. The Lieutenant retook all the negroes, 3 of the Indian packs, and a couple .of their tofnahawks, but could gei no farther fight of the savages. THE" A correfpor.dent cbferves, that, whilst the hate of Georgia is leprobated for her condufl with the Creek Nation, the ma jority of her cenfuiers-are ignorant of her situation, the territory in dispute, and the cruel ravages of the Indians, ft is as probable that, in the general opinion, the Oconee lauds are luppofed to be in the center of the Creek poffeflions, as that they are immediately joining and forming a neceflary part of- our (late, and have been relinquished to us by and fettled on thef faith of the mod folemu trea ties. It has been likewise enoneouflf thought that every mifehief committed has been in confeqtience of our attacks* So contrary is the fad, that the firfl blood' drawn, from every rcafonablc preemp tion, was by the Indians ; and, so far from confining (admitting the reverse) their predatory excursions to the quarter front whence they were injured, the inhabitants of the lower counties, from whom the Creeks have never received an injury, have experienced the utmod barbarity and rapine, and those not only committed during an appearance of hostility, but continued under the formalities of a truce agreed to under the authority and by the Comriiiflioiiers of Congrefa. The treaty is uow said to be poflponed till next spring —a postponement which mull inevitably break up the fined and richert fetelements of Georgia. The hands of our citizens ate tied up, whilst those of the Indians are at liberty to carry on their depreda tions. Surely Cougrefs will have the jus tice to view our deplorable situation, as it ought, and at lead give us the liberty to adid ourfclves without offending that augud body. From the beff authority we are autho rifed to contradift the report of some raif chief having lately been done at Bird’s Mills. But we hear of 3 negroes being carried off on Monday night lad from Le oonte’s plantation, in Bull town, in Liber ty county.- DIED.] Fox, wife of Mr. For* tob&cconift; Miss Mary Vaughan > Mr. George Rulfes. ■ 1,1 i. s —r AVGUSTA, 08. 4. His Honor the Governor arrived in town lad Thuifday from a tour through the Southern counties. Congress, we hear, have finally de termined that NEW-YORK fhail be the place for commencing proceedings under, the new government. The Brig Felix, Wilson, from Liyer** pool, is arrived at Cbaikdon. cvot. m. No.cvi.j