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VOL. V.
AUGUSTA— PRINTED BY DANIEL STARNES fiif Co. west end of broad-street. SATURDAY Night, August iS rsn.
I NORTHERN LINE OF
STAGES
r public are now notified
X that the lineuf Mail Stages
a<e e<ten«'l-d on to this place,
tinee times a week, which will
render it quite convenient to:
travellers lrom Savannah and
thu place gping on Northward*
!v, New Stagca and experien.
red drivers and four lets of hot ' ,
res between this and Columbia,
S. Carolina, will enable me to
conduct the dfiabltfhment with
ip'rit and regularity. v
The lcnall Stage between this
p*l? e 6c Mdledgtvlle, will be
continued as heietofore.
SM’L S. STARNES,
May 22
PATRICK PRESCOT,
RES PECTFULLY inform
his friends and the public in
genera*, that he carries on the
Blacksmith’s Business
At the (hop formerly occupied
by J. J. Tetin, in ail its va;
nous branches, and trufb, that
his attention to the buduefs
together with a faithful perfor
mance es ail orders in his line
will entitle him to a fha;e oi
public patronage
N. IT Horles shod with neat
ness and di?patch
January ii
LIME,
by the subscribers at
Jjl their VWe- House where they
i:tend k**? ping aconstaat supply ot
Ue anie'e.
La Roche & Van Sindaren.
julr SI ts
Attention the IVhcle *?
I DO declare niyfclf a
Candice for TAX RECEIVER,
in the county of Richmond, bo
ping that mm friend* w II favor me,
Lowing; that I at?, capable of fil
ling the office, and determined to
do a® if elected ; and tor (h i Irirnd
ship that cxi ted betwee® twy fa.
thrYand the c 'iftns of Augusta
rally, l hope thyy will not takw
an active part agdnst me, if no*
krmc. JESSE M‘ i YHl£.
July S ts
George W. S: Pearre,
Anders his services the cit zeh*
of Columb'a county, and is willing
*o serve'thcm in the capacity ol
SHERIFF for »ha eneuitig term,
Mould they estetm him esp.bie of
fi hug that station, and We Pleased
0 honor hirn with duir cnoltdence.
tlVlav 29,
WE are authorifed to an
nounce Wm. Mew arof Co
lumbia county, a candidate
lor the office of Sheriff at th<
approaching election.
We are authoriied to
announce Benjamin Martin
Tsq a candidate for tlie of
fee of Sheriff of Columbia
county at the next election*
We are authorifed to
that Mr! Gerard
Morris will be a candidate
the Sheriff in Col lit*- I
b*a county, at the approach
Hl g election. March 8.
e A NBLI!M BUGS Ef<j’r. if a Cindidtre
or tlie Olfice of TAX COLLBCIOE of
'"hmond Ccuoty, at the approaching E-
Ang«lt ai
MIRROR OF THE TIMES
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Sir—Having just return
ed from Hampton, where I
made my fell acquainted with
all the particulars of Bntifh
outrage, whilst that place
was in thvir poffefiion, lam
requeued by many per funs
to communicate thro’. you
to the public, the in forma,
tion I have given than . I
do this with no hope or ex
pectation to fatisfy thole
vvh« required other teftimo.
ny than Mai. Crutchfield’s
j •
or Capt. Cooper’s.—l too j
well know there are those
among us, who will doubt
or pretend to doubt. But as
I believe this class to be few
in number, and infignificarst
an public estimation : as i
firmly believe that a large \
majority of *ll political per-*
fuations, arc open to con- ;
vision and feelingly alive j
to their country’a wrongs ; l
cannot withhold from them
the fatftr, wh®fe {imple re
cital will, according to their
different temperament, in
flame them with rags or fill
them with horror.
My name you are at liber- i
ty to give to the public, or
only to those who enqviire ■'
for it, as you think, proper, j
I have rcafon to believe that j
those who know rue, whe- i
ther Federal or Republican
will know and acknowledge !
that I am incapable cf pub- *
liffiing a falfehood—and 1 :
aver, that eve-y statement j
inconsistent with the fol- ;
lowing no matter on whole j
authority it is made—is un- j
true—in truth of which 1
foUmnly undertake before
the world to eftablilh every
fadt contained in it, provi- ;
dtd any gentleman will sign
his name to adeuiai of eith
er of them.
I went to Hampton with
a de termination of esquiring
minutely into the truth of
reports which I hoped, for
the honor of a soldier’s pro
feffion and of human nature,
to have found exaggerated.
In the inveftigatian 1 refolv
cd to depend on the second
hand relation of ao one,
wnere I could mount to the
original fourceofevidence
but since in fomc cases this
was impracticable, I feel it
a duty carefully to diftin
guiffi the one class from the
other.
That the town and coun
try adjacent was given up to
the indiscriminate plundei of
a licentious soldiery, except
perhaps the house where tlie
head-quarters were fixed, is
dn undeniabU truth. E/e, !
ry article of valuable proper, j
ty was taken from it. In
many houles not even a
knife, a fork or a plate was j
left. Bntijh Officers were l
seen by Dr. Colton in the
act of plundering a Mr.
“ HOLD THE MIRROR up to nature— Shakespeare .
Jones’s ft ore. His house,
although he remained in
town, was rifled, and his
medicine thrown into the
public street just oppofitc
where many officers took up
their quarters, who mu ft
have been eye witneftes of
the icene. The church was
pillaged and the plate be
longing to it taken away,
although rnlcribed with the
donor’s n?me. The wind
mills in the neighborhood
were ftript ot their fails;
j The defers, private drawers
I and trunks of the inhabit- j
j ants were broken open, and
fca~cely pn / thing iecincd
to be tsvo ng ah object
to excite the cupidity of
, thelc robbers. Several gfen- ;
: tlemcn informed me, that
! much of their plunder were
;brought into the back-yard
jof Mrs \Y est wood’s house,
where fir Sidney Beckwith
and Admiral Cockburn resi
ded. But I had no oppor
tunity of feeing this lady,
who it was /aid would rcitify
to the fad:. In ihort, Hamp
ton exhibits a dreary and ,
; dclolatc appearance which
no American can witnels un.
moved. Dr. Wardlaw and
| Mr. John G.- Smith, of this
1 city, vffited it in company
| with me ; and their indigo
nation v/ai equal. Th«y,
I and every one, who saw and
j hoard what I have lifted,
: united in execrating the
i tnonften who pcrp®tratcd
theft enormities ; and po- I
i h'ical diftinwtions, if any tx
ifted, were loft m the nobler
| feelings of pity for the fuf
fciers, and a generous ar
dor to avenge their wrongs.
Here it may be necyffary
!to notice a publication 1
, have this moment reid in
the Alextndria Gazette of
the 12 tli, where among o- |
; ther things it is Laid on the j
authority of a “ gentleman I
who was in Hampton the
day after its evacuation by ;
the enemy,” that it was be
lieved there “ that nearly
all the plundering was com
mitted by the negroesand
that he saw many “ articles
brought to the Magi Antes
wiiich had been secreted in
negro houfes.”—That Jome
plundering may have been
committed by the negroes
who (as I was told) were
embodied and paraded thro’
the ftrects, is probable e
nough—that the expreflion
of such an opinion may have
been heard in Hampton, is
likewise prebablt—but'l do
utterly deny, that it is be.
lteved there, by any perlon ,
worthy oferedit, that “ near
: ly all the plundering was
| committed by them.” Let
the gentleman, then, who
I gives this account, llate from
, whom he derived his infor
mation. Let him give tlie
>
names of the magistrates
who received the plunder
thus found, and his own ;
and let him declare what
j were the main articles he
saw brought in. I will not
diredlly hazard the affection
but 1 am very much inclin
ed to believe, ther® were no)
inagiftrates in tlie town, at
the time lpoken of, untels,
Paifon Hoi lon, Dr. Colton !
or Capt. Willsxare magif-l
trJtes ; and with all these j
gentlemen l conversed, and
; heard not a wbifper counte- i
i nancing the statement in the
| Alexandria paper. llow it
, is known that the Negroes
“ had the addreis,” fir ft to
impofc on the Hritifli com
; manders, and then the A
merican troops, which * { in
duced them to retreat to
Y#rk,” and leave Hampton
;to be plundered by thelc
artful rogues, that gentleman
is left to fay—but that the
American troops did not re
tire to York, in consequence
of such information, is un
doubtedly true. Nor is it
j less true that Capt. Cooper’s
troop arrived in time to pre- ;
vent any plundering of the j
least consequence, after the
evacuation —and in tune to
.
prevent —what many gen
tlemen there believed to have
been a plan concerted be
tween the black and white
allies—the firing of the
town.
That “ Admiral Warren
: expressed his regret that the
inhabitants cf Hampton had
not al! remained as in that j
case no plundering would ,
have happened,” is possible
enough ; since it admits the
fa£t of tlie plundering, and
is conformable with the an-
Iwer given to capt. Wills,
who complained to Cock
burn and Beck/vith of the
1 deftrudtion of his private
| property. ** Why did you
I quityourhoufe ?” said these
honorable men. “ I re~
! mained in my house” an-
Iwered Dr. Colton, “ and
have found no belter treat*
ment,”
That Kirby, who for fe
vcral weeks or more had
been confined to his bed &
whole death the lavages on
ly a little hastened, was (hot
in the arms of his wife, is
not denied. Those who
wiffi for further confirma
tion, may go and take him
from his grave, and weep,
if they can feel for an Arne- j
J
rican citizen, over his man
gled body. They may go ‘
to his wounded wife and he ir
, her heart-rending tale, and /
then they may turn to the
account of the gentleman
and dirive consolation from
the excuse (which I never
heard) *• that it was done in ’
revenue for the refoL! o' the i
militia t j give q.» * r- • • •'
lome Frenchmen who were
on board a barge that was
funk by our troops who con
tinued to tire on the almod
drowning men when mak
| ing for the ffiore.” This
vile ll inder on our troops
1 will I hare no doubt be met
| in the proper manner by the
gallant officer who com
• mands them at Norfolk
j But the word h to dome.
I converted with a lady
l whole name it mentioned in
Captain Cooper’s letter in
i company with Parson Hol
fon, i)r. Colton and Capt,
VV r ills. Iler dory was too
shocking in its details to
meet the public eye. When
| I had convinced her of tha
j object I had in view in vilit
higher—that it was dictated
: by no impertinent curiolity,
! but a desire to know the
whole truth—to enable me
on the one hand, to do ju 1-
tice even to an enemy—or
on the other, to electrify
'my countrymen with the
recital ©I her futferings—*
j idle di(covered every filing
which her convulsive drug
gies between Ihaine and a
deft re to expole her brutal
affuUnts, would permit*
This woman was leized by
five or fix ruffians— lomc of
them drejfed m red and /peak*
j correctly the Englijh lan
; gnage—and /tripped naked.
Har cries and her prayer*
| were dilregardcd, and her
: body became the luhjedl of
the moll abominable inde.
cencies.—She at one tim<J
made her elcape and run in
to a cieek har t by, follow
ed by a young daughter,
whence ffie wa? dragged by
! the monsters in human fhapei
to experience new m (aggra
vated differing. In this lit
uaiion (he was kept the
whole night, whtld her
lereams were heard at irter
! v«!s by some of the Ameri
cans in town, who could
only cl jlp their hands in
hopelcfs agony.
Virginian! American!
Friend or Enemy to the Ad
ministration or of the war !
go as I have done to this
woman’s house, and hear
a»d tee her. See too lie
j young daughter on the be.
ol licknels in confeqaence
ot the abuses of that night 1
and your heart, ifitbemade
ot “ penetrable duff,” will
throb with indignation and a
third for revenge, and your
hand indinftively grafo the .
weapon for inffitding it*
A Mrs. Briggs related to
1 us* that a woman who had
i come to Hump-on to visit
h'.r husband who rvjs in the
militia, was taken forcibly
taken from her fide by font’
loldicrs in green, and with
' hervo’ing child which one
I , : f tor to matched from her
j, t ii , borne to the hofpiuf
No. 254*