Mirror of the times. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1808-1814, January 15, 1814, Image 1

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VOL. VI. AUGU-TA- printed b| DANIEL STARNES & Co. west end of broad-sSATURDAY Niosit, January ij, 1814. 1 LJM 1,1 IJ T "-*ll II || km | -1 r p——j ■■■■■l. Will be Solcl On the ».sth Ffbruaiy next, at t!:c late dwel ling hi.ufe ol Daniel Marfliall, ■p x] ' J die personal property JL o? j-aid deceased, Conning *! ive b’u'. k of all kinds, Corn, »Ide., Cattor one Wargon, ji'-j'-'-h »ld snfi KircS-u f-r o'uure, Pi AO' A i.n tools See. »Vc. 'i'htj sale to continue from day to div «>n i! h,| is told—l rrras of sait usaJc known on h dav A. Marshall, | Z. Marshall, ( =• J S. Mirshall, (f J. Marshall, Jmu ary 8. td» ff Five Dollars F evvard f S‘ ' ATED OR STOLW ) ; 1 V - v * hi'.!the;, n h ' V *•’ i-(i: liiy • :: hrnd* hi k a •' " r .*‘* id's <f •' ' - • " !■' i'. in off, if* J * I sit *f'a *■ «• • # G A j' ; ‘ . ( • . «t igii'K -■* i - dA ll | e J*id t «.!!'. <;ri wlit'i will dcrjvfcr 1. .i< U> v. v. "• ii* r r sh * £■ L K-t L Wt } h fcjr 1 1 N . j.r j<! 8- tfl— " N O'tTcTe. j PRIONS !nd hul f«> Gjorg< ;M * 'h. »s, f <h* pl'icr da. c avd, a-r dossrt 0 '*> MJiltf pt - went to either of the S tl> c*b r* ■—An \ those flatting cl*'nu 1,: 'it. a:t r da- «tt «i to r a Info ; In nr. on j -fes cj within iU*; um 4 SCaiO. d hv ! »*v. J{, Campbell A. Slaughter ,) fcscjutori. August*, Not. 27. |.t THE AUGUSTS jockey Club Kates TTi7i' I-rcmmenco oa the L sT V V Wednesday in January f i c for auv Horse, Mure (U Grid i' T q'i -in- part of the Weights, J) stances, i&c. dsfolLw. THE FiR iT D/lY’s KUNjifcG, 'l iilce uit e heats, j g.^UO THE ■'tC ND DAsj, Two mo* heats £2OO THE THIRD I) AYi A ht.ndy cap I Two m.!e heats , £jCO Aged iforses, 125 6 Si a scars old, 120 h ve venrs old. 112 Four years old, <1 io i 'hnree vri s old, 85 'J ivo year eld, a leather Li) O'flerrif he Prerilent, Wm. Harris, icchv. Nov. 6 Georgia Columba countv In the Supeiiur Crjutt, hep. tetn' er Term, j$ t ?, ON the petition of Cathari-.e Biilcoe, Pa ling, that boing pofTcfTcd ol a bond or ob i gauon iigu.d by James kay, i copy whereof a« near as the p-Mitioner cai iccolUet is au r.cied to t,.t laid petition, • now 1< c'g;J in the Clerk's (niioc <A*pie Sultrior Cos. -, to l.cl'.ei with au afliua/it, pjtfuant U*4ii a& •»f the Eic. Ffdii uary, 17K-, that t lie Uni I,’i-nd or ion was b ttLud pr;>y..o tl e benefit int, tided by (aid aft, and it c ruie.- ot Court and other eirtuniaiieci, prool be ing before ti c Court It it ordered, That the Lid bond or c! li gallon be eltablifit'd as di rdteu by ia 4 act, d‘ 0 die role- of c urt, on if laid Catt.erinc iirifcoe cliabiilhii/g a no de as ihtrou di rected ti.r the 1 pace of fin lauutbs iu u,;e of the puolic Gaz. ttes ut tlni.atc, uulc.'b cause br the wo to the coiitrart within tot l«iu fix m >ntbs, or other maitr appear to the court agaiuft the fame. J. 'iakvu iron! the lYlinuil, Pcicr Cik, Clerks’ Otiice, 25 | Uc'. 1813. 1 “ 11 im» •a* ,--1T —1 ~i 11 nr t - BLANK. BONDS, . ... - w -'w C |IA W « • MIRROR OF THE TIMES. ■»■■!■■■ 1 n - ’ Walhi, jton City, Dec. 28. | j Extras of a letter fr o m Com . ! ’ Stephen Decatur to the Se~ ' » cretary of the Navy, dated New- London; Du. 20th, ' i ißi 3- Some few nights since, t!>e w'eaiher promiled an cp ! portunity for this squadron | ' to get to fed, and it was laid on (hore that we intended to make the attempt. Ia the courle of the evening two bias lights were burnt on both the points at the har bour’s mouth as fcgnals to •J the enemy, and there is not ■ a doubt, but that thev have m by lignds and other wife, in stantaneous information of j our movements. Great but j unfuccefsful exertions have been made to deted thole who communicate with the enemy by figaal. The Ed itor dt the Ncw-London Ga zette, to alar«i them and in the hope to prevent the re petition of tbele lignals, Ha ted in that newspaper, that they had been «bferved, and i ventured to denounce thole i who had made them in ani mated and indignant terms. , 1 lie conic qaebce is that he I has incurred the exprds cen- I hire of his neighbors. Not | withfunding these signals | have been repeated and have j been seen by twenty persons lat lead in this squadron, , there are men in N. London who have the hardihood to aft edt to dilhelieve it, and the effrontery to avow their difoelief. I am, hr, with the high est conllderation and relpedt, your very t bedient & 1 b'e servant. ( >irgr;ed) STEPHEN - DECATUR Hon. IVifium lories. Secretary of the Navy. from new London. A Smack Fight. By the ! smack Horner, Cap!. Kar rs, from N. London, we j have the j articui^rs of a ; l gallant little combat ofTthat i port, with one ot the cue- , tjiy’s bulges, on Sunday aj ternoon lad The smack 1 jetfcilon, cjpr. Mahon, went from rhis place on Sunday afternoon, and carried d ck, as paifengcif, ten cr twelve ; : men who hau brought do vn the fchoouer Jonqriilie from ; that place, wuh two 3 noun, j Ce:s and a number of mul !\e's. At she n<ou:h of the barber, and wiijiin gun ihot ol the Until]) Iquadiou, ’ ihe wind die*f away and the : fuiatkuien io‘ kto thur o.ars, k- eping their t af]enr;trs be i »wt* j • *h».i \x Cia Us ..j. . i HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE — Shat: sfe~ C. men pur off from the 74, | and came within mu Ike t j (It >t ot the (mack and order ed the captain to heave to. 'At this moment, captain Malon (lamping with his foot, the men ru(hed upon deck with lighted matches, the pieces being loaded, 1 commenced a the upon ! the barge end lucceeded in driving her off without loss or injury to a man. Os the | enemy it is under (food 8 I dead were buried on Fiiher’s Island the next day, and a j considerable number were , wounded. The man of war hred round (hot at the (mack, many of which pal' fed her anJ lodged on the (bore. The (nick eonfe queully arrive d late with her I freight ap.d cargo. Commodore Hardy, in the Ramilies, has taken command off New London, in place of the Valiant, captain Oliver, who has gone to port tor repairs and re* crims— Cc/. A From Fort George. From <he Ontario M fTrnger, printed at C*na«i iaigua, ©. ceuibcr 14. We (top the prel’s to an nounce to our readers tne important intelligence ju(l received from Fort George Coi. Dobbin informs us that on the 10th in if. Gen M«- i Cl ire received correct in*! formation, that the British : army that had been at Bur lington, had moved down as tar as the 12 mile Geek to attack ht George; where the militra had been prin cipally dilclurged. In pur luance ot orders from the Secret *ry of War, the gen ]erai landing it impofiible, with his reduced force, to defend the fort ordered the soilage of Newark to be des troved, and Fort George to ;be railed to its foundation. | i of the guns in the fort, j ! a,, d a *l public property, I were removed to fort Nia gara. New Orleans, nov. 18 j j Suicide.— On Saturday j ' lai * CaD£ rJg ano, a lho;> 1 keeper, a h ranchman by j L> 1 rti!, ai yj sjt 55 years of age, lhurt ana remarkably tiout 1 and corpulent, an iiihaoit ant of **lailaine Cafhllon’s committed Juicide. ' ins doors v\e';c fait on Sun- ; Cay mo.mng, at an unulual iiuui, as fie was known to bca.i early nlcr uncreated , ] l«‘lpicion ninong t.hc neigh- ! j b is, who af»er knocknip 1 leveiai times agreed to break 1 °P rn tut door. On enter '1 i-)g ii:s bed chamber, his bo ! 1 by was! mau in bed, j n t j )e . I 1 jtj in which lie. h.dde -1 1 lln-vcd fffflfelf. % apn-- o that he had prepared a dag ger for the purpole, remark, ably iltarp. with which he had dabbed himfelf , times K.f in th.e lett file and biead, apparently with a horrible firmaefs, without moving his body from the position in which he wished it to he found. The corpse was ' found on its back, dretch ed at full Luigih, and tile dagger clench rd in the nghr ; hmd Thedcceateu wish ! man *n easy circumllanccs, | owed but very little, had 5.590 dollars in calh iu his tl Hite, 30DO in hank, and goods m his itore luppofed I to the value of 10,000 dol ; lain. The Heady fiimuefi with which he exccyfed tlie delperate and unnatural deed is lcarceiy eq u!icd in the billory ot filicides :—I re coiled a Story related 51s a fad by Mr. Maori, in his t.avelsin Europe, of a bl k k finith in Geneva, who de termined to deitroy hrnfrlf, and not bavin ; diy imple ment to luit his pur pole at hand, he deliberately took an old musket barrel, put a lutficient quantity of pow der in it anu two balls, and introduced the breech into tiie coals of Ins linith’s : hearth and fattening a string j to the handle of his bellows in such a mariner as to c na. ble him totlow, placed the muzzle to his temple and continued blowing, until the expiofion took off me lop of his head. Na/hville , ( Ten. ) Nov. 16. Import ant Dfcovet y— In the county of Wime Gen. Bird S>nhh dias f und fait water, in quantities, it j*, believed fuflicient to fipply the co.ifumption of the (H-.c of Tenneflee. For fomc time ttock has been noticed to be licking about a rocky bluff; a fort of refer voir was made, and fotne of the wa ter that dript from the place was collected, and found to be 1 > ttrongly impregnated with lall as not to dittdive Lit put into it. A few ket tles ware procured 6c fume iait made—hut gen. Smith, to whom the land belong ed, dire fled the rock u be bored, and in a hrffe wh.le 1 me borers ttmek the vt-.i of lilt water, winch imw gullies out Line height from j tiie mouth of a three inch I hole. rite piace is conve- | niently fituited on a navi'/ -- rj hie branch or tnc Cumber- } lauu river, aim in a thickly I timbered coui/tiy, which will fi»poor, h 'trlre'.la ;:s popui . In a t-r- -wr hive no doubt, the fa’c making bufinc's will he car-* rial ou cxtcnfivcly ai ihe place. From t /c northern army . The army at Salmon tU ver, we are heppy toiern ny an officer diredly from that port, have completed their ; winter q uters, hive a plen tiful lupply ot provitions ;or th -*ir present ule, and ire comfortably iituated .end m good l'p:r 1 1u• \V r e under hand that the 1 S m. nth*' men, whole time ot lervice has about expired, have,al. I mod without a tingle excep tion, »c-cnhficd into the ler vice. Ti e enemy it is laid hid concentrated their forces it Cornwall, nearly opposite; and it was confidently beli eved meditated an attack up on our camp so me time da ting the la<t week. Noap» prehenlinns were entertained a to tne relult, (hurt i the at tun it ber made : as our numbers and pofitioa were deemed amply strong to re fill any force they could btlug againll them. With a view to excite difaftectiofi .•rid inlubordinaiion, an in iidious placard bad been dis til bated and puffed u) in die American camp.* /\ | man who it was supposed i had condefccndeu to become die vde indrument of tlx? enemy in this tranfaclion, was arrested arul is in cuf to.iy : and we are furry to lay i* a citizen ot tins stale, not attach'd to the army. Hie t.allowing is a literal co;-y ot the placard, one of ain h was handed to us hy onr inform 'nr, ei dor fed “ » o th? American army at Salmon river.” “ NOTICE. “ All A nerican Soldiers who aic willing to quit the 1 Lpiuatural war in which they I n t engaged, will receive, at the ffiitifh out ports, the arrears due to them by Am *rican gov - ernniAut. i t the extent of five months pay. No man j fhali he req.jtfed to serve ! againtl ids own country ” Albany /lrgus . CONGRESS. No bufindi wai } -fi'v. 'day done in the li'uie .* , Reprctr*nM(i vt’s. I Pen r , vvr:o adj turned by tin.* t ■ti at i 2 o’clock, on m x ■ ».f , Mr. binder; toe S - r b- iug f.’Meri ,ii th r e t -^• t d. i' i-, 1 »P K-ted, :.i ,* • * a;» hen a tic au-1 lucccbbd' endeavor * »»: ;n:ici!'w a mK »c. e.ne >1 » : «»o i- r;,.- iDitf I 1 '’ • .Vi*be * * * 4 No. 274.