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tho War Department, and on the declara-1 engagements at the North, he saved the life
tions made to the Senate, during the d s- j of a brother officer, Lieutenant White, the
cussion of the treaty at Washington, by one 1 present Judge White, of Virginia. Major
of its members, who had been actively cn- Long fought in eighteen battles, through all
gaged in negociating that treaty, (of the re- of which the post of danger was his post for
peatedly expressed willingness of the Creek duty. His eulogy was the freqiient theme
Chiefs to relinquish Vany little remnant of qf Morgan; lie had the best evidence of
land within the liurils of Georgia, which on Washington’s confidence and respect, and
running the lines of that treaty, might be fcafayettc testified a high sense of his de-
found to he excluded,) for the assurance, serfs by giving him the command of a large
that, this whole controversy may he speedily partizan corps, with which he aided in pur-
adjusted, by obtaining the desired relin- suing and capturing the enemy at York
quishment. Town. Here closed the struggle, and with
They therefore, recommend the adoption j it, his military career,
of the followine resolution.
Resolved, That the President of the U-
States, be respectfully requested to con-
1inue his exertions to obtain from the Creek
Indians a relinquishment of any claims to
lands within the limits of Georgia.
Leather Slocking—Died suddenly, on
| Monday the fifth instant, in the viginity of
Pottsville, Mount Carbon, Joe Webb, the
I Natty Bumpo, of the Schuylkill Mountains.
Joe was a hunter.—His language his man
ner, his hunting shirt, his rifle and his faith
ful hound, to which he was much attached,
| almost led one to believe he sat to the au-
Savannah, March 6
Fire.—Last night about 12 o’clock two
i two-story frame buildings, at the upper end fhor of the Pioneers for the interesting pic-
V of South Broad-street, occupied by Mr. W. ture of the celebrated Leather Stocking—
H. Greene and Mr. C. Levistones, were J° e inhabited for many years, a rude cabin
discovered to be on fire, and in a short time, * n the romantic defile, formed by the Sharp
with several out-buildings were entirely de- a °d Second Mountains, remote from the
atroyed. A considerable part of the fumi-j habitation or the rest of his species. There
ture was saved. The fire originated most J he lived and there he died. Though rough
probably through accident. The property I in his language and uncouth in his exterior,
was owned by the occupants, and was not he possessed much of the milk of human
insured. Owing to the extreme scarcity of I kindness in his composition ; and he will be
water, the neighbouring buildings were with 1 remembered.—Miner 3 s Journal.
the utmost difficulty preserved—Georgian.
From the Lockport Observatory, of Feb. 1.
Florida.—A paragraph in the Pensacola 1 Unparalleled Expedition—A Grist Mill
Gazette places in a striking point of view' J was put in operation in this village on Mon-
the rapid progress of Florida, under the be-1 day last, which had been built in twenty-one
nign influence of our free and happy insti- j days! In that time, (which embraces
tutions. In 1821 when the United States great proportion of the severe cold weather,)
received the possession of this Territory, | the lumber used in constructing it was taken
with the exception of Pensacola and St. Au
gustine, it was a total wilderness. There
were a few families settled on Escambia
River and Bay, who received their supplies
from these places, but all the country be
tween the extremes of the Territory was
unexplored and unknown. In 1823 about
60 bales of cotton were made on the Ap-
palachicola River. In 1826 it is computed
that 10,000 bales of cotton, Upland and Sea
Island, were made in Florida for market,
..besides several large crops of sugar. The
from the forest—a building respectable as
to size and workmanship, erected—the
stones brought from a distance of 10 miles
—a dam constructed, and the mill put in
successful operation. The proprietor is
Mr. O. Hathaway. It should be mention
ed too, that the proprietor purchased the
first day his mill was in operation 1000
bushels of wheat. On Tuesday evening a
large number of our citizens attended—not
only to convince themselves of the facts
above stated, but to witness a practical
proof. An entertainment was got up near
jprobably exceeds 25,000.
to receive the exclusive | the mill, os far supenor to a President’s
^tiortof njKmy best planters, and levee, or a Kentucky barbecue, as can well
ye.vJlhvifi probably constitute the J be imagined. There was at least much
•j«hteodircles qf export. When the good good taste displayed oil the occasion. It
iHnds shtiH W principally devoted to this I consisted principally of Indian pudding,
crop, it is asserted that the United States made of meal from the new mill, accom
may be bountifully supplied with, sugar with-1 panied with molasses, in the good old New
out dependence on foreign countries. England way—not forgetting to mention
sundry kinds of palatable liquors, which
Finances of New-York.—By the annual j though circulated freely, used temperately
statement of the Finances of New-York, The company drank many toasts, well
they appear to be far from that flourishing adapted to the occasion. The sentiments
condition in which we have been led to be-1 advanced were flour-y, and in praise of the
lieve they were.. We are sorry to perceive I new mill and its proprietor, though they
that this is particularly applicable to the re-1 were somewhat mealy mouthed, theyjh'd^jot
venue of the canals as compared with the hesitate to pass many compliment?.
debt incurred in their completion and the I *
expenses of keeping them in repair. It ap- We had no idea of the extent of business
pears that the gross income of the canals J in the post office department, until we saw
for the last year, has been but equal to six I the following statement, made by a corres
and an half per cent, upon their total cost, pondent of the National Intelligencer
and that hence, were they unassisted by an “ By a publication made this year, it ap-
auxiliary fund, they would not pay their own pears that the correspondence of the Gcner-
interest and expenses, and redeem their al Post Office, including communications
debt within any reasonable time, if they sent and received, will average about 600
would ever do.it; the canal debt being daily throughout the year. More than 35
$7,344,778 90. thousand accounts are audited annually
The canals of the State of New-York hundreds of suits commenced; from five
have led to nearly all the plans of improve- hundred to a thousand contracts made
ment in the Union—their prosecution has nearly a million and a half of dollars produ
inspired a spirit of emulation in similar ced, collected and distributed annually ;
works which has hitherto been sustained by
by this arrival, is the DEATH OF, THE
DUKE OF YORK, who paid the debt of
nature on Friday evening, the 5th of Janua
ry, at 20 minutes past 9, at the House of the
Duke ,of Rutland, aged 64. His remains
were to he intered in the royal mausoleum at
Windsor, on the 20th of January, and pre
parations w’ere making to pay the utmost
possible respect to them.' Tho papers are
lavish in the eulogiums on the character of
the Duke, without, however, -overlooking
the dark side of it In one of them is a me
moir of the deceased, extracted from the
Edinburgh Weekly Journal, evidently writ
ten by Sir Walter Scott, in which the
writer’s penchant for royalty rather got the
better of the reproving spirit of the moralist,
is, however, much less tinctured with par
tiality than it would probably have been if
written by any other individual equally
strong in his attachment to tory principles.
One cannot but smile at such a sentence as
this—- u The religion of the Duke of York
was sincere”—on coupling it with the la
mentable acknowledgements which shortly
follow, of his unconquerable passion fot the
turf, for deep play, and-^for Mrs Clarke !
By the death his Royal Highness the
succession to the Crown devolves upon his
Royal Highness, the Duke of Clarence,
who is now heir presumptive to the throne
of these realms, and in the event of his de
cease, without issue, his Majesty’s Royal
niece, Alexandriana Victorio, daughter of
the late Duke of Kent, will stand in that im
portant relation to. the Imperial Crown of
England. • If, indeed, we should be destin
ed to sustain the.national calamity of the de
mise of our beloved Monarch himself, be
fore the young Princess (now in her eighth
year) attains her majority, as fixed by the
constitution, (the age of eighteen) she would
instantly become invested with the dignity
of Queen ; but the affairs, of the country
during her minority, would be administered
by a council of Regency, in her name. In
the event of her death, the succession
would descend to his Royal Highness t^e
Duke of Cumberland ; and after him, to his
son, Prince George Frederick, who is ihe,
same age as the Princess Alexandriana,
there being only three days difference in the
period of their births. The Duke of-Sussex
the Duke of Cambridge, and his children,
would ascend the throne only in case of
death removing all these prior claimants.
“ Now I know that I am dying,” were
the last words uttered by the Duke of York.
Throughout his long illness, notwithstand
ing the serious nature of his disease, the se-
suffering he underwent, and the rapid wasting
away of his person, he never seemed to have
the least idea that his illness would termin
ate fatally, until the morning of the day on
which ho died. He did not even relinquish
his habits of business until a very few days
before his death, but continued to receive
the official report of his Secretaries, as punc
tually as when ’Tic attended at his office in
the Horse Guards, and all hiis remarks show
ed that he fully expected to recover: but
early on the morning of that day which was
to terminate his existence in this world, he
beckoned his immediate attendants (Sir
Herbert Taylor and Colonel Stevenson, we
tation in the country, the hatred of ihe con
stitution, and of the English, acquired more
arid more consistency every day; A Re
gency to act for Don Miguel had bean es
tablished at LamegO. The same paper re a
marks, that wise nten in England have al
ready began to reflect upon the Consequen
ces-of such an enterprise; It begins tb be
believed that the British Cabinet will eXert
itself tb obtain from King Ferdinand such
concessions as may enable England, with
out disgrace, to modify he? pretensions.
Four regiments of the Spanish trOops
had, it is said, left Madrid on the 26th De
cember, for the frontiers, for the avbwed
purpose bf protecting Spain from aggression,
and of disarming the Rebels which may en
ter her territory. They are commanded
by Rodil, who so bravely defended Callao,
in South America.
Lord Cochrane.—-They write from Mar
seilles on the 1st of January: “ Lord Cdch-
rane lias returned to this city, which he
leaves about the end of the week, to go dir
ectly to Greece. He is full of hope : and
has received letters from England, which are
to his entire satisfaction.”
The Athenian.
C7It is desirable that communications designed
for this department of our paper, should be handed
in as early as Wednesday morning.
‘ Ego,’ having given us the use of discretion in thfe
words following, to wit: “ If Mr. Editor should
think this piece worthy of publication, he will oblige
his/riend by so doing; if not, he will immediately
consume it,” we have judged the latter tho better
course, for the reason that we would not like to ex
hibit any friend of ours in the light the lines would
be likely to; nor do we wish to incur dissatisfaction
by inserting matter so decidedly green that its na
ture cannot be determined. This lino-- 1
“ Thou delusion of fond attraction,”
with several others of equal obscurity, \.\j arc wholly
unable to understand.—Wc would, by the way, not
wish to be understood as treating him, or others
who may recC&ftjSMjLygo by, diScouragingly. Wo
despise you- “ Ican’t" fellows; they never come to
r».hv tilingiesp. able ; one of the
is worth a score ot ‘Tu rn; for though they may be
-unsuccessful-in many i. mpts, yet evi
dence ofenterprise ; and if ti.rt is backed by P'Vse- y
verance, the best may be hopcd.-^p^^8 ( *S|f't!ut ;
Dryden told Swift, when young^ im shewing hint a j
composition, “ cousin Swift, you never Will be *
poet.” But his industry and perseverance after
wards made him sensible of his error.
‘ Peter Simgle’s Cousin,’ and some other com
munications arc unavoidably delayed until next
week. 1
maclim&ry of which I am composed. Tho
body was borne io an .upper room in the
new building arid carefuljy disposed on the
table, but the nearer I advanced, the more
niy sensibilities revolted, rind I. paused to
collect myself, while the door of the apart
ment being left partly open, afforded me an
opportunity of observing the proceedings at
a distances Several, students forthwith sur
rounded the table with a lively expression
of interest, While one ivhosc Countenance
bespoke the consciousness of skill in the
art, equipped himself With a knife—I turned
my back upon the scene, ,ndt daring to look
at the uncovering of the body; Suddenly a
deeji long plunge of the instrument went
like lightning through toy veins. Numer
ous anxious faces weie intently rivetted on
the spot, and their eager looks during the
process, excited in me the highest admira
tion for. the avidity with which they sought,
instruction, and gave large anticipations of
the value they would hereafter be to society.
Presently the dissector suspended his task*
and I looked for the explanation to com
mence. After a silent glance from each to
the other—the operator exclaimed in a loud
tone, “ all ready, come, lay hold fellows !”
And what was my astonishment on seeing
each select a part, arid commence devour
ing. The tales of* Arabian riecibmancy
flashed with a sort of reality across my im
agination, and the scripture maniac rushing
from the tombs, Was a fitting semblance of
myself. I felt as if fetters of brass and iron
would rend before my ardour to wreak on
them the vengeauce of insulted humanity.
I rushed into the room—and was regaled
with the odour of a fine fat Turkey nicely
cooked. I recovered my mind with as great
celerity, perhaps, as the unfortunate maniac
alluded to, and after an invitation from one
of the company, I joined the hungry throng,
and feasted bounteously. j
PAUL PRY* >
A
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their supposed complete success, and it is’
much to be feared that the fact communi-
-cated of the embarrassments consequent
upon the large expenditures in completing
them, and keeping them in repair, will act
in an equal degree as a damper upc/n future
projects. But it should be recollected, that
the immense benefits derived by the com
munity generally from them, in the opening
of new channels of trade, and the increase
of business and profit- in those previously
established, and the influx of wealth and po
pulation to the State, arc in themseves a
compensation for the expense, and will en
able those who are benefited the better to
hear the burdens, if necessary, which may
be required to support them
In addition to this statement of the Canal
finances, which some of the New-York pa
pers term appalling, it appears, that the
Common School Fund is unable to furnish
its annual dividends by the sum of $15,000 ;
that the Literature fund is no longer able to
furnish endowments to the Academies of
tho State; and that the revenue of the State
with the $15,000 to Common Schools, is
$96,750 less than the estimated ordinary
expenses of the government—Georgian.
The last of Morgan's Captains is no
more !—Major Gabriel Long died at his
residence, tn Culpepper county, Virginia,
on the 3d instant in the seventy-sixth year
of Iris age. His early life was distinguish
ed by his services in the war of the revolu
tion. He joined the battalion of 14 Culpep
per Minutemen,” as a Lieutenant, in 1775,
and was in the fipst actions with the enemy
in. the Autumn of that year, at Hampton and
Norfolk. His intrepidity fixed the public
attention, and he was invited by Col. Daniel
Morgan to take command of a company in
the rifle regiment, with authority to select
his men. lie marched in this capacity to the
North, in ’76, and was constantly employed
in that active and perilous service. At the
battle of Saratoga he led the advance, and
with his own hand commenced the action.-—
The position he occupied was fuH of
peril, but he illustrated its distinction by the
distinction of his conduct. In one of the
from five to ten appointments made daily
—some of them are often very important,
and most of them excite considerable com
petition ; an equal number of Complaints
against postmasters are daily investigated
and decided.—Worcester Gaz.
believe) to the side of his couch and faintly
said : “ Now I know that I am’ dying 1”
and he never spoke again. •
It was, however, very evident, tha^he re
tained his memory many hours afterwards
for when his Royal brothers, the Dukes of
Clarence and Sussex, entered his apartment
he showed that he was conscious of their
presence; and when the hour arrived at
which he had been accustomed to receive
some surgical attentions, he pointed to the
clock, to remind those about him that it was
time that duty was performed.
From the Providence Journal.
There is an old adage touching the do
mestic avocations of women, which is pe
culiarly applicable to the employment of a
conductor of a newspaper.
“ Man works from Sun to Sun*
“ But woman’s work is never done.”
It is just so with the printer; while others
have their intervals of leisure, he has none ;
while the tired labourer, goes and seeks an
early repose—the merchant throws aside
his books and bargains and enjoys the so-
fireside in an evening at home—the
cial
manufacturer looses the bands that drive his
complicated machinery—the farmer drinks
his generous cider from the old fashioned
silver or pewter mug (as the case may be)
handed down from his sires, and cracks his
nuts and jokes around the blazing hearth—
while these are partaking the enjoyments of
relaxation, and acquiring new vigor for the
labors of the succeeding day—tho printer
is at his case picking up little bits of lead
with letters stamped on them, or labouring
with his brain and pen to elicit something
that shall please his readers the next week,
or correcting proof sheets by the fading light
of a lamp, until that light begins to blend
with the tinges of early dawn. Such are
the occupations of the printer and the edi
tor, and when the dishes for one week’s
course are served up—the pressman closed
his labor of striking off the impression, and
the assistants folded, directed, and mailed
the papers for the week, then comes the
time to commence new operations, mental
and manual, for another publication.
GREECE-—Important.following
is extracted from tlie London Times
“ There is at length good cause for congra
tulating Europe on the adoption of a final
and decisive measure in behalf of Greece by
the three great Powers of Great Britain
France and Russia. The Cabinets of Lon
don and St. Petersburg had, some time ago
transmitted their ultimatum to Turkey on
this subject. The Court of the Thuilleries
has acceded to the policy of its allies within
the last fortnight, and resistance by Turkey
to their joint demands is wholly out of the
question. The point insisted on amounts
to nothing less than a full recognition by the
Porte of the absolute & entire independence
of theGreek nation, which recognition is to
be officially communicated to the parties
requiring it by a given day : failing which
the embassadors of the allied Christian
Courts are on that same ^dy7 simultaneous
ly to quit Constantinople. Consuls were
at the expiration of the ultimatam, to be sent
to Greece from England* Fiance and Rus
sia.
London, Jan. 15.—People in the City
look with much anxiety to the movements of
the Spanish Army towards Portugal, and in
fer from the facts of Ferdinand having sud
denly received the means of equipping it
that there is some po werful supporter be
hind the curtain.
The relations With America, too, are ob
jects of solicitude, and the . order? under
stood to have been given to despatch fiv
DIED in this place on Tuesday (homing the 13th
inst. aftei along continued illness, Mrs. Narcissa,
wife of Mr. -Zepnaniih Beall* aged 22 years, de
volving on all to whom she wM known sorrow and
regret tkai .will Gutiive the power of many cares
and years.
• IN"-- < i.'.-th: how short was thy.bloom,
j lew r< rt^ the fell avener- v-^.^ f
But th'4;||*hii, ’ entpJWN
.liretums to thosollto v ‘’h ftncC : came.
•innjiiiihte.qKire cnntrwUfeidu-’-t
AVhe’rQiYiendph
There God .shall his giorie
There bliss is extatiek Ami
Embalmed in the hearts of thy in
To memory still thou.art! dear:
And the sigh that to hcayeqas. ....
Shall think of Narcissa as ihere>.
,A 'i'inatnre -
FOREIGN.
fnOMI THE NORFOLK HERALD.
By the ship Richmond* arrived in Hamp
ton Roads, from Liverpool, in 37 days pas
sage, Liverpool papers to the 17th of Jan.
have been received.
f The most prominent item of intelligence,
sail of the line and three frigates to the
West indies, have added to rather than de
creased this feeling.
Liverpool, Jan. 12Spain and Portu
gal.-**The Memorial Bordelais announces,
from an official despatch arrived at Zamora
on the 23d of December, that, on the 20th,
at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the fortress of
Almeida, the most important place ill Portu
gal, had surrendered to the Portuguese Roy
alists. The garrison, 1,000 strong, pro
claimed the Infant Don Miguel’, King,
swearing to maintain hrs title until death. ~
The same letter atafes, that the fermen-
FOR THE ATHENIAN.
AN EVENING ADVENTURE.
The evening gloom gradully gave place
to the deeper shades of night, while my
walk had almost unobservedly brought me
to the spot occupied by the grave-yard,
which, in the rear of the halls of learning,
so practically co-operates with the Professor
of Ethics within their walls ; and as the
sensations with which I set out had varied
but little, I felt in a very suitable humour
for holding a few minutes’ conversation with
myself and the appearances before me.
“ And here,” thought I, “ is a proof of a
close to visions, as bright and bodings as
melancholy as any I have felt, and a similar
quietus mine must surely have. There
’neath a green hillock lies all that is left
of a young and lovely girl, whose character
is most aptly represented by the spotless
flower that blooms above her head—those
silken tresses that once floated gracefully on
the morning breeze—those cheeks that stole
from Aurora half her loveliness, and those
eyes where young innocence loved to ex
press herself, are all mouldered by the damp
shades of death. There lies a father and
there a doating mother, swept from the paths
of life just as their rising hopes had lent
another pleasure to existence. And there
is the mound of one whom friendship Jovec
to call her own: gather round that tomb ye
votaries of virtue; pay thete a tributary tear,
for beneath is the ashes of a noble hearted
youth—all admired, all loved him ; but fhej
waves of death rolled across his path, and
the sands df existence were swept from be
neath his feet. The rumour of alarm, the
shout of joy, the dread of woe, and the
prospect of success, alike affect them not,—
and when the little mounds that now but
barely tell they were, shall have yielded to
the storms of some coming years, and again
have sought their natural level, there will
be none even to remember them—“ lost,
mingled with the hosts beyond the flood,”
save where .some fractious, “ few and far
between,” shall: Have mounted the Cars of
science and philanthropy, and left the' man
tle of their minds on earth, compelling its
wearers at times to speak their memory
the rest,
“ Each in his narrow cell forever laid.”
Yet no!—not ail!—The thousand dis
eases which we are forced to combat at
every tom, compels, at times, a recall from
the quiet recess to instruct us how and
where the destroyer inflicts his blows, and
enable us to make a brief resistance to his
charge—’tis shocking to the senses, but
science knows no other course, and pros
pective good, demands assent to the ap
parent outrage, of which yon disturbed hil
lock so plainly tells.—HOw far I should
have proceeded in these reflections, I can
not now presume to say, as they were
wholly interrupted by the more impressive
feality—for, emerging; from behind the trees
at some distance pn the loft, I was horror
FRANKXiDS
NuiiOE,
A N Election will bo held at Mr. S. Thomas’a
Store, to-morrow at 4 o’clock, P. M. for of
ficers to fill the vacancies occasioned by the resig
nations of Capt. Ware, Lieut. Du Pont, and Lieut.
Lamar.—By order of Bnsign Mitchell.
HENRY P. HILL, O. S.
Athens, March 16, 1S27,
STAMMERING.
T HE Subscriber professes to be skilled in the art
of curing Stammering and all Impediments of
speech. From the success that he has formerly met
with, he guarantees a perfect cure to all thoBe who
attend his instructions.—He will be found at tho
house of Leander A. Erwin for the space of two or
throe weeks.
References as to his character and capability, will
be given by making application to him.
C. H. CHAPMAN.
March 9, 1827.
NOTICE.
I HEREBY forewarn all persons frotn trading for
a note of hand given by me to John Sorrells, of
Bancomb county, North Carolina, for Fifty-td^Pars,
due some time in January last, and dated in Fob-v
ruary 1826* as the consideration for which said hoto|
was given 1 , has proved unsound; therefore I aqi de
termined not to'piay it unless compelled by .law. 1 '
LAZARUS TILLY.
Clifton, March 7, 1827.-113t
-—.
struck on discovering two persons carrying a
burden, which the white trappings convinced
me, was a body torn from its rest, with
which they cautiously approached the Col
lege. My agitation presently subsiding in
some degree, I resolved to follow, and ob
tain, if possible, some idea of the wonderful
ADMINISTRATOR’S SlLE.
W ILt BE SOLD, oh tho 18th day of April at
the late residence of William Covington,
deceased, tho Personal Property of said deceased,
consisting of Horses, Hogs, Cattle, Com, Fodder,
Wheat, Bye, Salt, and Household and> Kitchen Fnr-
nitura, Farming Utensils, &c.—Sale to continue
frem day to day till all is sold.
JOHN COVINGTON, Adm’r.
March 16.—ts
NOTICE.
LL persons indebted to the Estate of
Covington,, deceased,, late of Hall c
requested to make immediate payment; and thhea' ..
having demands against the same are requejfcr! to
present them, duly authenticated, within' iwc tinto B
prescribed by law. -c'
JOHN CQYINQT0
March 16th,- 1827.—11 —- 1 ’
NOTICE*^
A LL.pprsons haying, demand I aga.rst the r
of Michael Maeken, dcc’d. are requested tn'
present them’according to law, and ytliosc i
to' mako immediate payment'. : ‘
, . .. SARAH MACK-EN, Adm’r.
March 16, IS27.—40da^: r . > -jfcTv
to;
ebted
GEORGIA, GWINNETT, C OUNTY.
Jj^IIEREAS, J®hn Russell applies to me for Let
ters of Administration on the Estate of John’
Dillon,-late of said epuntv, deceased i
These are-thereforc to cite and admonish all and
singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased
to be and appear at, my olifcfc within the time pre
scribed by law, to shew cause, if any they have
why said letters should not he granted.
Given under my hand, ns Clerk of the Court of
Ordinary for said couhtv, this 13th March 1827.
IRto WM, MALTBIE, c.c, «•
m