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coxa m'UTltiXAlilftl PRINTKD AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM J. RUNCE. Conditions, \-r. KoF Ui« CITY PAPF.H, twice <i we«U, Five Pollan p noauin, jxiynLlc in fnlfiwice. t <)I N I KY PAHKII, once a week, Thiee Pol Uri p annum, in ailvfuice «r*o paper <li«r till directions to that effect are giv« •iii<l all arrearages PA I 1L Jr *J“ T KK'l v. . . Five Dollars per funum pay a blv in sdrsnc At)\ KRTISKM FNTS .... Will he mu* lrd at ♦?.* rate Sixty two an 1 n half rents, per square, foi the firat instrtic and Forty-three un* three quarter reals, for •• *i«:h continuant Jr.y COMMUNICATIONS h? Mail, mutt he I'oat pvd. irr Sale* of land and negroes, by Administrators, Kserulo of Guardian*, are required, l»y In v, lobe held on t'.e first Tun day in the mMi, between the hour« of ten mi the forenoon i n three io ’. h afternoon, it the C »url House of the county • Which th iv-Miertv in situate.>—Votic£ of ll.cmm aal'iinmlb jiv.i M. a public gazette bl \T if days prr '8 to the day c ■ale* Notice of t lie • tie of ptraonal property must he ciron in like mar m r, FORT i days previous to the. day of mile. Nilm to the debtor* and credi'-.r* of an estate inuit i»a pnhliibe tjffor FORTY day>. From the National Journal . The Missouri papers give an account o: the arrival of General Ashley at St. Louis, after an enterprising and perilous, but suc cessful expedition to the Rocky Mountains. A full account of his proceedings, and all the circumstances connected with his journey, would be mure than usually interesting. In the absence, however, o( such comprehen sive details, we must remain satisfied with the facts furnished in (lie journal.' which possesses the best and earliest means of in formation. The Missouri Advocate, of the 8(h ult. announces the General's arrival at St. Louis, in the following paragraph : “ From the Rocky Mountains. —Our fel low citi/.ens, General Ashley, has just re turned form bis adventurous enterprise to (he Rocky Mountains, bringing with him one. of the richest cargoes ol fur that ever arrived at St. Louis, lie spent the past winter in the bosom of the Mountains, and made excursions in the spring down several of the rivers which go to the Pacific Ocean. The furs obtained by him were brought on horses to the waters of the Big Morn, where they were embarked about the middle ol August, and after a voyage of three thou sand miles, arrived at St. Louis, on the 4th inst. It is thus, by effort of herojcal enter prise,' General Ashley has indemnified him self for all the losses occasioned by the murderous attack of the Arickaraa, in the summer of 1823. In (he course of his expedition, General Asiilcy fell in with a party in the service of tbc Hudson Hay Company, who were be lieved to have one thousand men in their employ west, of the Rocky Mountains, '['he riches winch Ibis Company are carrying out of the United States, are, immense and beyond all calculation. The single party met with, bud taken beavers to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars.” The Franklin Intelligencer furnishes us with the following additional particulars in relation to this interesting journey. \ We learn, by the arrival hero of an offi cer attached to the Yellow Stone expedi i, tiun, that the Commissioners. General At- V kinson and Maj. O' Fallon, ascended the \ Missorie as far as Two Thousand Mile j Creek. Alter making treaties with vari | mis tribes of Missouri Indians, the expe- I dition returned to Fort Atkinson, (Council \ Bluffs,) on the 19th ult. without the loss of J a single man. The. extraordinary value of I (be wheel boats was confirmed in decend ing the river, at a low stage of water. ) As no previous arrangements bad been made, the General did not deem it practic able to subsist any portion of the troops at the Mandan Villages during the winter, without ha/.arding lives in the enterprise.— Vegat.ible food is deemed indispensable to the health of the troops, and (bis could not be bad a! (he Mandans. Our enterprising fellow-cili/.en, General Ashley, met (be expedition at the mouth of the Yellow Stone, with a rich cargo of bea vers, and profited by the convoy of the flo tilla downward. General Ashley confirms the accounts we have had ot the wealth of (lie fur re gions beyond the Mountains, and we un derstand lie intends to continue tbc trade. The freight with which he passed this place a few days since, is supposed tube worth 850,000. NVe learn that the General bad one or two skirmishes with the Black feel and Crow Indians; and that be met with one or (wo British trapping parties. The particu lars in regard to Ins engagement wiib the Indians, or bis intercourse with the British, we are not informed of, owing to the very short stay be made with us. We hope however, to have it in our power to lay be fore our readers, very shortly, lull, ami we have no doubt very interesting information on the subject, - Trial for Murder. — Manuel Antoine, a Spaniard, bus been recently convicted a Newborn, N. C. of the murder of William Johnson, by secretly stabbing him several times in an affray, provoked and brought on by the defendant, who bad previously taken up his gun to accomplish Ins diabolical de si:,n. Inasmuch, however, as be wasrefus °d by die Court the privilege of having on* ball ol die jury aliens, which the common law allows; a motion has bce.i made fora new trill which will, in all probability, be gtanted. Being denied this privilege, rhe accused, challenged, in nil, eighty-three of the jurors, from which it is to be inferred • cl his claim for a jury dr mcdintalc lingue. «as intended onlv to defeat the (rial. *1 VbvUsV from. England. >’' r New-Yokk, November 9. per By the ai rival of the packet ship William By rnes, Captain Cobb, which sailed from Liverpool on the 12tli ult. the editors of the w , New-York Daily Advertiser have received .of their tides of London papers to the 10th - October, Liverpool to the 12th, and Lloyd’s Lists and Shipping Lists to the 10th, on The U. S. Frigate Brandywine, after r n j landing General Lafayette at Havre, pro in fceed.’d to Cowes, where she arrived on the Btli of October. It is stated that she leak ed badly in her upper works, and would there be recaulked. ri The news of the fall of Cotton in this ci ty, and its effects, reached London on the =■ 10th ult. The Banking House of Square, Prideaux ,f A. Co. and that of Shields &. Johns in 3( England, have stopped payment. Three houses had failed at Manchester, one for .£IO,OOO, another for £25,000. A the third for £50,000. The Courier of the 10th mentions the ru u mcr of an arrival from Calcutta, bringing .jtiews to the 7th June, of the taking of Donnbew ■, after some severe fighting, and of Bundoo , lahs, the Burmese Chief, being taken pris . oner. It was further staled that the King , of Ava had sent proposals for peace, and L that negotiations were pending. The Greeks have taken several Turkish vessels laden with com, and the privateers prevent th**sc in the Gulf of Lepanto from ( coming out. Rescind Pacha lias his rear ( infested by numerous guerillas ; and a mis understanding lias occured between him and Jesus. The Captain Pacha has gone to the Archipelago, followed by Miaulis and Sac- I tauris. A letter from Constantinople, mentions ’ the arrival of the American fleet at Smyrna, ; and says that a person was landed there ■ who was empowered to demand the free navigation of the Black Sea for our vessels. ( The Morning Chronicle contains a proc lamation, which was published in Spain to promote the plot of Bessieres, for the de thronement of Ferdinand. It is said to have ' been issued secretly by the Church of Spain; probably anly by a portion of the priesthood, i for it did not succeed. J. The Pacha of Egypt has expended a ’ large part of the avails of his cotton crop, | in arms and ammunition to use against the ( Greeks. Two cargoes of Congreve rockets | have been sent him from the Thames, j U. S. Bank Shares £2 45, £24 10- Spanish bonds of £ 100 each arc worth in | London only £l2 15. The Paris Monitcur contains a letter from|| Tangiers, which says that “ the United , States seem disposed to supply the Morocco | 1 States with several men of war;” whence, , says the London Courier, maybe accounted , tor (he appearance of the American Squad ron in the Mediterranean and the tierce reso lution of the Emperor, to declare war against | ' all nations who have no consuls there. It is said that the new Spanish loan is , likely to succeed, in consequence of a dis- | ' position manifested by Spain to acknow-l, . ledge the independence of South America, \ .so much in accordance with the wishes of, France. | The expedition from Corunna has not | sailed. The Courier inquires, “ When will , 1 it sail ?’» An amnesty was expected in Spain on the , 13th October to include all but persons de- , ’ signaled by name. London, Oct. 10. , I Private letters state, that the Emperor of . Morocco has put to the sword the whole of:| I the inhabitants of the city of Mellon/., and I, , entirely destroyed the city in consequence of) the late revolt. ’ l ( This is (he day for making up the Usual! quarterly accounts of (lie Revenue, but as 1 j they will not be completed till a late hom , in the evening, no accurate statement re ; specling them can ol course be given beyond , the general one of the increasing prosperity ’ of (he public Revenue. The accounts of the Customs for the quarter ending I Dili Octo 1 ber, 1824, was £3,240,000 while the amount | tor (he quarter ending this day will not be , less than =£3,400,000 exhibiting an actual b increase in the Customs alone, for one quar-p ter, of ,qg160,000. j, 1 cry late from Spain. —The brig Cherub,', Rich has arrived at Boston, from Sinvrna,!, and 29 days Irom Gibraltar, bringing papers', from the latter place to the sth ult. MV, are indebtebted t ar Boston Correspon j dent, Mr. Toplift’, :o interesting marine ox- , tracts, which arc given in the proper place ; ' in this day’s Ga/.cttc. A Madrid paper of the Kith of September, ; says, “On Sunday the lltii iust. Mr. Ever jj > elt, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United, ( t States of America, had the honor to presenti ( Ids credentials to our Lord the King, at the . Royal Scat of Ildefouso, on which occasion 1 he delivered an address. 1 “He received Mr, Everett with his usual kindness, and returned to him a most graci- s ous answer. His Excellency was next pro- ( sented to the Queen and Royal Family, and 1 1 was received with the affability so natural in | 1 them. i| , j An article under the Grenada head of;l Sept. 10, says, “ Yesleulay were hangedji 1 the seven Freemasons who were caught in |i the Lodge in this city, in the act of receiv- t ■ nig an apprentice. The latter is sentenced i to eight years imprisonment.” 's Scriven COUNTY, Ga. Nov. 12, 1823, Mr. Bunce, I OBSERVED in the edito rial department of your paper, a short time since, a notice of the trial and conviction of Mathew Colson, for tnurder, at the late term of Scriven Superior Court. His execution agreeable to the sentence of the 1 law, took place on the llthinst. in the 1 presence of an immense concourse of peo i pie of both sexes, and all conditions, who assembled from all parts of this, and the I adjoining counties. The number was great 3 beyond all former precedent, and appeared to exceed the expectations of all but the r prisoner himself, who a short time previous observed that “ there would be a great ina 3ny to see him.” He remained for the great est part of the time since his conviction, in a state of morbid insensibility, seemingly disregarding his approaching fate, save when visited by the holy ministers of Christ. 3 He then appeared penitent, and bowed down under a sense of his guilt, and was x often seen to shed tears profusely. When II visited by the Ministers of the Gospel, he frequently expressed a hope and a belief, of ; the forgiveness of his sins, and acceptance * with his God. When advised and counsel ed by them, and made sensible of the cer tainty of his doom—that there had not been ? an effort made to obtain from any earthly v authority, a pardon for the crime of which he stood convicted—and then asked if he was guilty, he replied, “ no, i am not > GUILTY.” 1 On the morning of his execution he ob served in answer to the questions of those 1 that were with him, that he hired a negro to do the murder, but that lie did not do it himself. This was the only and most di rect confession he was heard to make. When taken from the Jail he was much agi tated, & pleaded his inability to walk to the place of execution. He was then placed in a cart, and while on his way wept aloud. The scene was truly solemn, and every spectator seemed to regret the necessity of executing the stern and inflexible mandate of the law. It was an hour strikingly cal culated to teach man the infirmity of his nature, and how much need there is of ex- ' crcising mutual forbearance and forgiveness in all his actions. In the instance before ' us an inconsiderable difference originally, 1 has been the cause of the tragical death of two citizens in our county, who if they ' had improved the lessons which the ven- 1 geance of the law has so forcibly taught, 1 might have been a blessing to their fami- ’ lies, and an honor to themselves and to their 1 country. The murderer and his victim, ' have been brought each to an un imely end ; | and it may be justly a question, which of them was originally the most culpable, in 1 the eyes of their offended Maker, When 1 arrived at the fatal spot, and the tithe al- j loteil him to live in this world had dwindled ' down to five minutes, Colson was asked if 1 he had any thing to say to the assembled ' multitude before him. He replied in the 1 negative, and stated that he had told all he 1 knew of the offence and his own guilt, 1 After the cap was drawn over his face, 1 he deliberately placed his hat in a corner of ! the cart in which he stood, and deposited * therein a handkerchief which he held in his * 'hand, as carefully as if he had expected J t soon to reassume possession. When the 1 rope was adjusted around his neck, and the officer who secured it above had descended, he remained for a moment as if absorbed in 1 reflection, then exclaiming for mercy, he* was launched into a boundless eternity ! ' The struggles of expiring nature, ami the 1 symptoms which he exhibited of the pain '■ of dying, wore calculated to move the stou- 1 test hearts. The excitement among the people was great, and when they saw the ' victim of the law struggling in death, the jhearts of many were melted with compas sion. i Thus died a man, who by his example has taught us the folly and the reward of sin. His death is an awful, and may it he an ef fectual warning to those, who forgetful “ t * O lof the important duties they owe to society and their God, bring upon themselves swift destruction. A SPECTATOR. A German Physician has announced (hat he has discovered a inode of innocnlating for the scarlet fever, as certain, it is said, as the vaccine against the small pox. Tea or | twelve grains of extract of Belladona is to be mixed with a pint of water, and four spoons of this mixture is to be administered to chil dren during ten successive days. This pro duces red spots oh the skin, like those of the scarlet fever; a contraction and burning in the throat, and a slight fever, which are also symptoms of that disorder.—Children who are contracted this factitious scarlet fever, are it is said; protected from the real one, and may, with impunity, sleep in the same bed wit!) persons ill of the malady. The dis covery appears tube a rational one, and some of the must eminent of the European Phy sicians have adopted this practice. [ Boston Cenlinel. We observe in an Ohio paper, that con siderable progress has been made in the. continuation of the Cumberland road. The bed of the road is 30 feet in width. No part of it when finished is to make a greater angle than four and a half degrees with the horizon. Twenty feet in width, are to be covered with atone broken into pieces of out more than four ounces weight ; the tic,! first to be formed nearly Hat, having a slope of one inch to three feet from the centre of the side. < CONSTITUTIONALIST. e AUGUSTA. 1 ■: . == b jJWUAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1825. 9 b Yesterday was set apart and observed b by our citizens as a day of thanksgiving am 1 . prayer. In this there was an evident pro j priety, for in no city, we presume to say, has j there been a stronger manifestation of th( t bounty and mercy of Heaven, whether wt i consider the past year, or the brief numbei j of years since Augusta was but a small for -5 tress first established for the protection ol . the Indian Trade. Those whu indulge cu . riosity as to our origin and growth may amp i ly gratify it by conversing with a man wlu j is old indeed, but yet in the possession of his . physical and mental strength, and who lives . not far removed from our immediate neigh I bourhond. He will tell them an interesting s story ; and pointing to where lagoons stag ! nated, and the walls of Augusta stood— j where were the Indian Huts and the extern C sive and impenetrable cane brakes, his lis ; teners must be cold indeed if they do not . look with wonder on the past, and exultation .at the present. The lagoons have dried up i ---the Indian huts have passed away-—no r stone tells where Fort Augusta stood, and t the tangled brake has disappeared, A pros ; perous city has risen ii- the wilderness, with - its store-houses, public buildings, merchants, artizans, and men of learned professions.— For this change we should be thankful ; and if the flood and the storm have been poured , upon us, if wealth has sometimes passed from one hand to another—if death hath ta ken to his dark abode the best and the brightest—these are calamities to which na ture and society are liable, under the in e scrutable decrees of Him who brings good j out of evil, and we have still abundant rea son to rejoice at the general and advancing y prosperity of the city in which we aredwel f lers. e The past summer like the two which pre . ceded it, has not been marked by the ra s vages of disease. The city has been quite . healthy, and many of its inhabitants who j went abroad, returned without inconveni i ence, before what is called the sickly sea t son had passed away. The deaths at the )■ Arsenal, and in the lower ward, may be r considered as an exception to our general . remark. The last were supposed to be the result of local impurity, which under our . vigilant police may not be expected to rc r cur, but of the first we are sorry that we > can not say so much. The scite of the Ar- , . senal we fear was unfortunately chosen. f The buildings are fine, the situation com k inanding and even beautiful—but the mor , tality that has prevailed there, forbids the . hope that the garrison will ever be healthy 1 lin the summer and fall seasons. Whether ■ f we are right or wrong in this conjecture, it | behoves the government to turn its atten . tiontothe subject, and if the Arsenal, from i . the peculiarity of its situation, must he the 1 grave of those who are to command and i > protect it—let it notwithstanding the labor ! f and expense bestowed in its construction, 1 1 be abandoned for some more eligible loca- . s tion. If however the causes of disease I can be removed, no pains should be spared > in accomplishing so desirable an object, i . —We are aware that amidst the general t health for which we have returned thanks , to Heaven, there have been several instan- . . ces of severe affliction, but the mourners I will not be so selfish as, turning away from , . the mercies that have been so liberally be- , j stowed, to dwell in unmitigated sorrow on ( . their own calamities. , » We mentioned in the beginning of our ( j article an old man—he lives, we take leave , j to say, on the Louisville road, about six- , . teen miles from town, and by his instructive conversation amply repays the attention of a the wayfarer who tarries with him for the night. He is the son, if we mistake not, 1 . of the person who supplied the forts An- 1 I gustn and Moore with provisions, and re- ) Y members that in going with his father from t the one to the other—they were obliged to ! pul aside the thick canes with their hands, for the purpose of making their way along that road which now leads to the sand-bar. t He remembers too the Gardens of JWLean, r in all their beauty, and speaks of the Cedar e House , the remains of which arc still to be ; r seen. In this last mentioned spot was bu- I e ried a lovely and interesting female—the s victim of consumption. The stone with 1 . her name and age is yet there, and a few . unpruned and neglected trees are all that I e remain of the Cedar Bower. But neither , time nor space permit us to dwell longer at i, present, upon the reminisccncies of our old i, friend, who among other things relates the • t tradition of the Indian who escaped from 1 his torturers, by springing from the top of 1 e Use sand-bar bluff,.into the river below, and | . gaining the .hither bank, fled with a whoop ' fc of triumph into the thick swamps of the . Savannah. 1 An inquest was yesterday held on the body of Robert Keys, formerly a pilot oftliis - port. After a patient investigation bv the e jury, and an examination of the body by; e Drs. Sheflall and Fourth, the verdict o was as follows:—That the deceased “came r to Ids ueath by a blow, received from a stone, 1 e thrown by the hand of Jacob Vandorbilt.be e tween the 28th ot October and the Ist oil tiNovember.” It appeared by the testimony} t received, that Keys and Vanderbilt, both (if, t whom followed the oysfering business, in a e drinking frolic about two weeks ago, agreedl to burn their hats, the motion being made by* - "Vanderbilt. The latter having rescued his hat from the flames, was reproached by Keys, = who threw a stone at him, which was return ed and Keys was struck senseless by a blow = on the head, which finally caused his death. Vanderbilt has been committed to jail. =. Sav. Georgian. d Robert Dillon and Daniel Campbell, •- who were committed to Jail on Friday in ■S consequence of evidence given before the e Coroner’s inquest on the body of Mr. M‘- e Kinnon, were on Saturday, by a wrt of ir Habeus Corpus brought before the Justice* of the Inferior Court, to shew cause why >f they should be dismissed, i- The case was argued on the part of the prisoners by Messrs. U’Lyon & DeLamotta, 0 and on the part of the State by Mr. Jackson, is The Judges decided against the prisoner* ts and they were remanded to Jail, i- [lbid, g Riot in New-Yokk. —We are informed -by a gentleman from Ne w-York, that Mal - dame Johnson, having advertised to make a i- second ascent from that city at Vauxhali • Garden on the afternoon of the Canal Cele n bration, some thousands of people assembled P to witness it, but from some cause, after ev -0 ery thing was prepared, she did not make d the attempt, anil was giving out tickets for - another time, when the spectators in revenge h we suppose for their disappointment, hav '• ing, to see the ascent given up a participa tion in the festivities of the day, commenced J a riot—a man first cut a large hole in the 1 balloon, which let out the gas, when it wa* 1 in a few moments torn to pieces, & an attack - commenced on the bar-room, which was 8 soon demolished and the liquor let out of - the casks. A great deal of damage was ■ done, but we know not to what amount. 1 [. lbid . I Pendleton, (S. C.) Nov. 2. At the Court of Sessions held for this district last week, Isaac Cox, was convic ted of Grand Larceny.—The Solicitor pro duced a previous conviction for Arson, con victed in Greenville District. Judge Rich ardson, after recapitulating the various crimes of which he had been convicted in this state and Georgia, in a very forcible and affecting manner pronounced on him the sen tence of death.-—To be executed on the last Friday in February next. —owe** Ills Excellency Governor Manning, of South-Carolina, has appointed Friday, the 25th of November instant, to be set apart as a Day of General Thanksgiving and Praise throughout the State. The lion. James IVWolf, resigned his seat in the Senate of the United States, in a j letter bearing the date of Oct 31, addressed to the General Assembly of Rhode Island. ' There arc now seven vacancies in the Se nate, viz,, one from each of the States of „ „ Rhode Island, New-Hampshire, Connecti cut, New-York, Virginia, Tennessee, and Mississippi.—The latter is reported to have been filled, however, by the appointment of Judge Ellis. The Knoxville Register states, that H. L. White will be elected Senator, in the place v s Gen. Jackson. Capt. Lewis of the ship Canton, arrived at New-York, and who left Malaga Sept. 19th, informs that about two thirds of the crop of fruit had been destroyed by heavy rains, after it was cut and drying. The Canton was unable to procure any of good quality. Malaga and the neighborhood were quiet, although the Peninsula at large was iu a state of anarchy, and both commercial and political degredation. Illinois Lands. ---Several thousand tracts of land in the state of Illinois, are advertis ed to be sold in the town of Vamlelia, on the first Monday in January next, for taxes.-- These lands are all military bounty lands, granted to the soldiers of the late war. Jlccident. —The Augusta Stage when on its way to this city, in descending a hill near Jacksonborough yesterday afternoon was upset, and Messrs. W. T. Williams andj. T. Bolles, passengers, considera- Wj bly bruised, particularly the former.— 1 Most fortunately the driver retained hold of the reins, or Mr. W. being thrown di ; rectly in the way of the Stage would have Ibeen crushed to death. Georgian. J I VERY LATE FROM SPAIN. 4 By the brig Cherub, at Boston, we have accounts from Smyrna, (through our corres pondent) to the third of September. W« regret that the intelligence from the Greeks is by no means favorable. Missolonghi and Trippolizzi were in possession of the Turks, . and it was currently reported, and gener* ally believed at Smyrna, that the Greek land forces in the Morea bad ceased oppo sing the 'Turks, and fled to the mountains. I The Greek marine however, maintained its I ground, and was continually dogging and | | harrassing the'Turkish marine, j The American squadron under Commo- I) jd ore Rodgers, consisting of the North Car- « (oliua 74, the Constitution frigate and \ j sloops of war Ontario and Erie, were left I ion the third of September, at a village near m • Vourla, about 20 mile* below Smyrna, M (where they were taking in water, having B I left. Smyrna five days before. • " [New-York paper. k I