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VOLUME II...NUMBER 4(J.
MILL EDGE TITLE: published (-weeklyJ by DENNIS L. RCAN.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, l8lO.
For Sale,
Wholesale^ and Rctaily
At Dr- Wilson’s Shop next doro
to the Eagle Tavern,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OP
medicines,
patent medicines,
POINTS,
DYE STUFFS, and other ar-
tides in the Drug Line,
They will be fold on as good terms
as they can be pnrcbnfed in the
State for Cash or the ufual Credit
to punftual cullomers.
To the Phyfician, Merchant and
other dealers in the Drug Line near
Millcdgevillo the convenience of
having a (hop thus near them,
flyluld point out at lealt the proprie
ty of afeertaining how fir they can
be ferved on the terms here propofed.
... Among the attortaunt are...
Arnatto,
Logwood,
Madder,
B'ue Vitriol,
Drop Lalw,
Dutch Pink,
Fiake White,
Fig Blue,
Ivory Btack,
I.vtharge,
Pitent Yellow,
Pruflian Blue,
Verdegreafe.
White Lead,
Red Lead,
King’s Yellow,
Nankeen Dye,
Jkcqua Fortis.
Oil of Vitriol,
Alum,
Copperas,
Quick Silver,
Calfor Oil,
Sweet Oil,
Opium,
Jalap,
Swords $■? Epaulets.
The fubferibers have for fale, a
handfome alFortment of Epaulets
and a few Otlicers Swords.
Devereaux iff Tbweatt
May 16, 1809 7-tf
EAGLE TAVERN. I “
The fubferiber refpertfully informs
his friends and the public in general
that he has purchnfed the Houfe
formerly occupied by Major Edwin
Mounger, where he intends to con
tinue his former line of bufinefs and
hopes, by due attention and ittduf-
Eoltery Tickets.
In the New-York Union ! try, to merit their patronage.
Colledge Lottery, which is to
commence drawing in April
next, for fale by
Dcvercux Ss 5 Tbweatt.
February ill. 181!). 4.5—tf
Roger Winstead.
Millcdgcville, January 9, 1810
Calomel,
Rhubarb,
Magncfia,
Peruvian Bark,
Arrow Root,
Camphor,
Spanifh Fiies,
Cinnabar,
Cochineal.
Saffron,
Emery,
Nutmegs,
Britifh Oil,
bee's Pills,
Smelling Bottles,
Spirits of fui pen-
tine,
Opodeldoc,
E(Fence of Pepper
Mint,
Tooth Bruthes,
Tooth Powder,
bin Salve,
Sugar Candy,
Sealing Wax,
Wafers, See. Sec
3, -7* THE highr ft cafh price gi
ven forBees-Wax,Black Snake Root,
and Seneka, or Rutile Snake Root.
Milledgcville, l!Kh I'eb. Im — tl
Law-Office.
The fubferibers h ive entered
into COPARTNERSHIP in
the PRACTICE OF THE
LAW in Baldwin county—their
Office will be kept in the Sur
veyor General’s room in the
State-Houfe, where they will
punctually attend to thole who
may think proper to employ
them.
Archibald Martin-
Edmund B. Jenkins.
February 12 46 tf
Bees Wax—lhe luhi'cri-
bers wi(h to ourchafc 2000tb of
BEES WAX, for which twenty
cents a pound catbv/\\\ be given
Devercux f3* / bweatt.
February 1*2* 46tf
For sale or to he rented,
N° SOS, firft diftrict of Baldwin,
(hualed on Toblers creek, within
fix miles of Milledgeville ; the land
is of a mod excellent quality, and
remarkably level for that part of the
country. It will be fold on a credii
of one and two years, paying one
third in Cadi or Cotton at the mar
ket price, apply by letter to lofeph
Benvan Savannah. Price Fourteen
hundred and Fifty Dollars, with in-
teroft.
Savannah, Nov. 7,1309. 35-tf
WILL BE SOLD, On the ftrjl
Tuesday in March next, in the
town ofGrccntjborougb.
150 acres of LAND, on the
waters of Shoulderbone, in the
county of Greene, adjoining
Mapp and 'Tally—Sold for the
benefit of the heirs and credi
tors.
JamgKImm.l M ,
A. Wells,
January 1, 1810.
Will be sold,
On the 9th day of March next,
at Slovak's Store, in Putnam
county, on a credit of 9 months,
• The Negroes
belonging to the eftate of Capf.
John Weeks dec. The puv-
hafer giving bond wiih appro
L. O S T,
ON the road leading from Align An
to Sparta by the Shards of Oger/.te,
A BbACK LEATHER POCKET
BOOK, in •which nuns one fifty dollar
Bank Mill, three twenty dollar hills fa’
one ten dollar hill all ca the U. Stales
Bank and S tvanmih depofit—alfo fede
ral notes of hand fame of which made
payable to the fubferiber and a runnier
of receipts and other paperr.
A reward of twenty dollars will he
given to the pet fen who will deliver
the [aid Pocket Book, Money and P.i-
pen to the fubferiber or to Capt. John
Abercrombie in Sparta
Mofes F.akin.
Fib. 17, 1810. 43—2w.
and amunition, &c. flvtll not be
ufed lor any unlawful purports,
but merely for refi(lance and
defence in the cafes authorifed
and fpecifieJ in this art, and
that fuch arms (h ill be returned
within the United States.
The 1 Oth fecliou provides
that vcfiels thus convoyed Ihall
be (abject to the fignals of the
commander of the armed vcfiels
convoying and to I'm h rules and
CONVOY AND ARMING
[III the tail Argus we noticed a bill
reported by Mr. Burwell, from
the committee appointed for that
purpofe, authorifmg the Prefideut
of the United States to employ
the public armed velFels and per
muting Merchants to arm for the
defence of American commerce,
we now lav bitore our reader an
outline of the bill—It would ap
pear, from a letter written by
Mr. Burwell, to the Editor of the 1 , • , r ,
Lynchburg Prefs, tint the main ; ^l^ns as the Frefident may,
objedl is to prohibit our com- j undei. the provifions of the abt
merce againft privateers and pick-: citablithed tor the government^
aroons.J j of the convoy.
The firll fertion of this bill ] Tire 14th fertion limits the
provides that the Frefident of I duration of the bill to
GEORGIA, Putnam county.
Perfonally appeared Mofes
Eakin before me and made
ved lecuriiy to bear interell from oath that he wns in pofelfion
the date if not punctually paid, j of three notes of hand on Sher-
Gcor gc Stovall, 7 1 >
«v * m r adm
Jose pi.) Cooper, )
Foh. «dl 1810.
| ly Sledge, one for rne hundred
1 and fifty dollars due the 31 It
' January lad, one for two hun-
La7*11 1 Lit died and fifty dollars due the
v\ ill DC 80.u, j q,.q <j a y ^r arc | 1 next, the
O u thefirjl Tuefday in March next, in 1 otheV for two hundred dollars
the Town of Sparta, | due the firll day of March
FOR SALE.
A well improved Lot in Mil.
ledgeville, whereon DoctorWil-
fon lived lad year—it will be
fold low for calh or male ne
groes—enquire of Edmund B.
Jenkins or George Clayton,
Efqrs. in Milled geviile or the
fubferiber in Hancock.
Archibald Martin.
Jan. 16th 1810. 43-tf
A likely country born
Negro Boy,
Part of the perfonal property of
James Wilkins, dec. Terms
will made known on the day of
fale.
Catharine Wilkins, adm’trix.
William M'-Doivell, atlm’r.
February 5. 46 3t
WILL BE SOLD, on theJhjl
Tuefday in March next, agree
able to an order of the Inferior
due th
ISM, all made payable to laid
Moles Eakin, one note of hand
on Edmund Lane and Wiiliain
Alexander for Eighty dollars
due twenty fifth December,
lad, made payable to James
Eakin, three notes of hand on
Robert Williams, Levveiling
Williams and Nathaniel Mafon
two for twenty five dollars
each and one for fifteen dots,
with a credit on it for ten
dollars all due about the fil'd
( For sale or rent,
The HOUSE and LOT, in
the lower end of t.ie town of
Milledgeville formerly occupi
ed by Allen Greene. Terms
may be known by applying to
‘Judkins Hunt.
Notice—Thole indebted
to the fubferiber for fchooling
their children in Milledgeviile,
are requefted to call and fettle
with Major Clark, in whole
hands their notes and accounts
are put to fatis/y rthool-houfe
rent.
John C. Curjuh.
~ . ,i day ol January lad and made
Court of Itantock county, tit the ’ b|e Sainoel Rofs and
iownofSptitta, the JoUmn S .\y a , lotes of | um , on Jjmc8
1 Facts Or Land : ; Eakin and the faid Mofes
250 acres, Hancock county, j Eakin for twenty dollars each
on the waters ol Shoulderbone. j made payable to Wilmoth E-
287 1-2 acres, Wafhinpton vans and Edward Wood ham,
county, on the waters of Bulla-; all of which notes is loft.
loe.
Lot No. 232 in the 25lh dif-
trirt Of Wilkinfon.
Sold for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of J. D
Swinncy, dec.
Ranfran Sivinney, adtn’r.
WILL BE SOLD, on the firjl
Tuefday in March next, at the
maket houfe in the 1 own 0 f
Sparta,
A NEGRO MAN, belonging
to the eftate of Leonard Gordy
deceafed—for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of laid dec.
S. M Drvereux, Adm’r.
MOSES EAKIN.
Sworn before me this 17th
February 1810.
Ldmund Lane, J.I-C.
fr All perl’ons are forewarn
ed trading for the above notes.
Mofes Eakin.
Putnam county, Feb. 17. 4-27t
Independence.
MY find horfe INDEPEN
DENCE, will (land at the plan
tation of Mr. Hartwell Jones, in
Randolph county, about fix
the United States be autnorifed
and required to employ the pub
lie armed vcfiels of the United
States to convoy veflels owned
by citizens of the United States
and laden with the produce of
the United States tile property of
fuch citizens, provided fuch pro
duce is not contraband of war,
and the faid vcffjls (hall not be
bound to a blockaded port, or to
any port or place belonging to
or in the artual pofilfli m of any
nation having in force orders,
edicts or decrees againft neutral
rights in violation of the law of
nations.
The 2d. fertion enumerates
articles which ftiall be deemed
contraband of war.
The 3J. fertion provides that
no port lli ill be confidered as
blockaded, unlefsa&udly invert
ed with a fufHcient force to ren
der the entrance to it dangerous.
The 4th fertion provides that
the commanders of the public
armed veflels convoying accord
ing to this law {hill permit the i
public armed veflels of any bel- j
ligerent nation to vifit and fearch |
on the high leas any private :
Ihip or vcfV l under their con I
voy, for the purpofe of exainin- !
ing whether it be laden with
enemy’s property or articles by
this law declared contraband 01
war, or whether it be bound to a
portathiallv blockaded.
The 5th left ion provides that
tiie laid commanders (hall not
permit any privateer or other
than a national armed veffel to
vifit any veffel under their con
voy.
The-6th feflion requires the
commanders to refills by force
the capture of any veffel under
their convoy for any other caufe
than having enemies property
or articles contraband of war on
board, or being bound to a port
atlually blockaded, and to con
tinue fuch refi fiance fo long as
may be ncccff.iry for the pro
tection of the vcfiels under
their convoy.
The 7 tii feClion provides
that vefiels under convoy, a
a year,
and from thence to the end of
the next fefiion of Congrefs
thereafter.
The bill has been twice read
and referred to a committee of
the whole-
From the Boston Patriot.
FEMALE PATRIOTISM.
Mr Editor—l don't allow
myfelf to taIf politics on com
mon oceafions; but I hii.k in
the prefent Itate of our country
the women have as important a
part to art as the men.—Wiili
ail due refpert to what you call
the refol ves of Congrefs, I think
the refol ves of our fex of full as
much confequence to the nation,
and that a hundred thou fan d
Ipinning wheels put in motion
by female hands will do as much
towards redrcfiiug our wrongs
and eftabltfiling our in depen
dence, as a hundred thoufand
of the bell militia men in Ameri
ca. I am not alone in tilts o-
pinion—’Squire Homefpun, [a
true American inside and out. J
fays the noife of (pinning;
wheels and looms is more alartn-
; ing to John Bull, as he calls
I king George and all his folks,
j than Mr. Macon’s bill and all
j the ether bills that congrefs are.
| making for his annoyance—and
| (he ’Squire favs further, that
! his cotton and (pinning fartoty
: will be as great an eye-fore to
old England as a man of war
with as many great guns ar, his
fartory has fpindles. Now I
know of no better rule of war
fare, than to find out what the
enemy willies us not to do, and to
go about it in eainert. My
neighbors agree with me, young
and old, and are determined to
attaik this fame John Bull with
at lealt a hundred tiTerttve {pin
ning wheels.
DORATI-IY DISTAFF.
THE CONTRAST.
VIRTUE alone has that to give
Which makes it joy to die or live.
While VICE can only that fupply
Which makes it pain to live or die.
•••
When the Khan of Tartary,
A quantity of FAR
For Sale by T. SiUBBS.
greeabic to the provifions of the , w ho has not fo much as a houfe,
art, may be armed; that they
fiiall permit fearch in cafes be
fore mentioned ; but that they
(hall refill any fearch by priva
teers, letters of marque, or pri
vate armed vefl’cls.
and who luhftfts folely on ra
pine, has finilh.'d his repaid of
mare’s-mik and horfe 'E (h in
his tent, he caufes an herald to
proclaim, that all kings, prir-
' ces and potentates of the eartu
The 8th fertion provides that I now have his perniilGon to go
veflels deferibed in the pteceed- to dinner,
ing fertion ftiall refill: capture,'
&c. in the lame manner as the 1 There is now, (fays a I.on-
commanders of the veflels enn-1 don paper) redding at Stafford,
voying them are by this bill au- a man of the name of Nolan
who is at prefent married to
his twenty, fixth wife, and has
miles from Monticello, and at ihorifed to do.
fuch other convenient places as) The 9th fertion requires of
faid Jones may appoint. * every merchant veffel armed as ,
Revert Wynne. ! nforefaut, pre vious to obtaining I is 105 years of age, and his
February 13. ■ a clcdviI and, that its guns j prefent wife is now pregnant 1
by the whole 73 children. He
