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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*