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* UiAtan Outrages Again
Wd* have accounts from the
southward to the 15th inltamy
which state that the frontier ha*
keen forsoine tipepaft in a con
stant alarm, from the hostile ap
pearance of the Indians, (sup*
poled ko be s the Lower Creeks,
jox F%t Ariver Indians) who. ii
is believed) have eftablifhcd a
town on the Okafonoka, near
Xhz head of the St. Mary’s riv
er; and are in the h tbit of vfti k
ing ctlr frontier settlements and
ciitn driving oPI urge droves of
cattle, and sometimes hordes
The hofttlity evinced by the In*
I d'ans, i* attributed to the noto
riovib Woodbine, who it beem*
has a£sin made his>appearance
#mongfv tf|e deluded avages
A gentleman of re lpsc* abilityJ
»e it the St J-shiTs Zsaft l l »rida,
writes to his triend in St. Msuy’s
as nlHojrs: “ 1 hope something
v liibc done effectually with the
ivdtans. who are inftigathd m
Woodbine, now relident At the
inouih of iewance, where ihere
is a fort and block houfe.*’ ft is
generally believed that Wood
biite has been endeavoring for a
C’j’ lidcTable time past, to invei
gle, to depart with him for the
Jiand ot Cuba, where he tells
them they will be free. We
hope government will pay some
attention to the expoied situa*
ti nos our frontier brethren}
and s«;nd a force for the protec
tion. ‘
\ T Sav,
foreign News . ’ £
A gentleman has loaned 11$
ihe London Courier of the 1 Ocii
’ cSC P a s^ r3 have copied’ an
of another m >b mee ting
-At Spa-fields,in- Tan
dt rrf Hunt makes but a poorfi
gure his friend, sir Francis Bur
tifct, having defcrted him. It ap
pe?.fs that the mob has actually
pro^eed^jfplenghts, which star
ties even sir I who p jfi*
tively refutes to take another
step, It is an easy thing to kin
tile a Bre, but not so easy to
<q lench it. Once let it get mas
ter and def.ruction marks its
Ihe meeting was but
tbiaiy attended, and wherr the)
ATHENS GAZETTE.
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ATHENS , 7 HURSDAT MAY- fc 181?
‘ i,ttV *4 - •* . *» , < ».-* *'■
an J fits tandem d tore fr jsn ibe
fie 11 the rigors protectedt*> thr
vC|OJ%r office, aid adailcd it
with bn k b ;?<* a -d atones until
they snaalhed . alnaft all the
wi i ! w ; , and uien with all pos
-ihle >eri and ia every di
rtcuaiu
N’ Y\ Eve . P est.
Cm Satur *ny jht last an ef*
fortava * n ; » >.eak -m< of
the Pr i;erriarjr by one of the
c-invicK ,p . e j. v hardened j
and and .'ipera.e a ytiUi'.T a* ever S
was the tenant of a pdfon. He
nad by sjme means procured a
knite, with Wb.ch be had oid.de great j
progress before i* was discovered *n cat
ting aw*v the planks and removing the
bricks oft he outer waH. There is too
much reason to suspect, that the sentin
el on duty, who has since been lodged
511 jail, was accessory to h;s atieatpt,
and probably gave him the knife . flic
convict alluded to, an extfaor
d oary faepi y of htmeif al
.nost at picture from clnins—md tears
t > pieces with his teeth the strongest
padlocks witQ apparent ease
Journal,
LATEFKQM W DO dJNGO
V’AjH-Hn ai»s ©i the Orig Mary
arrived here yesterday, left Port au
ldi on the 6th instant* He informs us
nit a icpor*. vas very current there.
and generv ily believed. ihat that pm of
ot. UomirpfA, crupr sed under the itn
aiediaiejurisdictio i ot Port all Plat, had -
oecn cedrd to France by the Spanish
governrnent, in exchange foi some oth
er place and JUot before he sailed, in-
received from the city of
>t. Domingo, tna. a French fleet had ar
lived diere-With a large body of troops
irom France* f report said ‘O,OOO men)
•’ h,b information was tori oborated
oy the tact uiai a licet of 30 transports
had been sc .n to pass Cape Francois a
short time previous, ‘
t|ie Ist instant , two runaway officers !
iacely in the service es Petion, airved
at I ort-au Plat, and informed that he
had been assassinated in the night by
one oi his ge'rerals. The information
excited much uneasiness ; but no con,
himutioivol the report being received
up time of Capt. Seaman's sail
ing, they began to doubt its correct
ness#— Charleston Courier *
jresttrn ‘C a * me rc,.—U giVea one an
enlarged idea oi iht commerce of the
VV est, to be told that a Steam Boat which
arrived at Natchez on the loth of March
from Shippingport, in Kentucky, passed
in ks cohrse down the Ohio and Missis,
sippi upwards of jfxre nundred-flit boats,
barges, It must be to xNewGrleans
£ profitable internal commerce, that em
ploys so* extensive a tonnage.
AMUi’EMAN r. ”
game of chesST
The Gaaifc ot Chess has of late? be*
come ijuite a fashionable amuse m. ni
and we are glad to see it; because, in
tfie whole catalouge of Games we,know
of no one so interesting and so instruc
tive—lt was therefore, with peculiar
pleasure that we |discovered. on taking
up an ancient French author fM. Fre
retj the folloirino account of the or Inn
ot the Game oi Chess.^
** In the beginmg of the sth century
of the Christian dira, there was in the
Indies a very powerful prince, whose
kingdom wa* situated towards where
the Ganges itself intp the
sea. He took to hrmaelf the proud ti-
Uc of the king of the Indies ; his father
had torccd a great number of sovoreign
princes to pay tnhute to him, and sub
mit Them selves under his empire* The
voung monarch soon forgot tha* kines
©tight to be the fathers of choir peaple
lhc subjects’ love of their king is
tnc on.y support hi* throne / that
i fhve al-vne can tntlv attach the people 9
’ ta'tl&priice who governs them, and
that in them consists alt his strength
and powcf ,* that a king without sub
ject* «**u!d only bear an empty title,
and would hare no real V
b«v~ men- The Brahmiis and
Kaiahs, a. e- the ppiestv and nobility*
represented all those things to the Ipng
of the /ndies; hat he, intoxicated
the ideas of |the grandeur which ha
thought was no* to’he shaken de&piied
their wise remonstrances*—*Tneir tom
piaiuts and representations continuing,
he was offended and to revenge his au*
Morjty, wk cbhe tho’t was despise !by
those who dared to {disapprove if his
conduct, he caused the n to be put to
<Seath in torments This example af
frighted others.—They were silent, and
the prince abandoned to himself, and.
what is more dangorons for him and
more to bis people, given up to
tl* pernicious councils ,of iatterers, ;
was hurried,’oil *o the last excesses,
i he people were Oppressed under weigr’a
of in>u r port able tyranny, and th©< tri*
M ary prinpes persuaded that the king
of the Indies, in losing the love of his
people had lost the very ensence of his
power ancl strength, were preparing to
throw off tho yoke»and carry the war
into their eiUtcs—Then a brahmin, or
Indian philfrsopner, named Sissa, the
sone >f 2>aier, touched with the mis
fortunes of his country, undertook to
make the prince open bis eyes upon
the fatal effects which his conduct was
likely id produce. But* instructed by
the example of those, who had gone
before him, was sensible |h»s lesson
wjuUl noi prove of jany service, Until
the prihcsj-sh juld make the application
of it to himself, and not to think it was
done bv another'—With this view, he
iovented the Game of Chess, where the
k !. n n* the Tupst considerable
otall the pieces is both impotent to at
tack as well as defend himself, against
his enemies, without the assistance of
his subjects and shldiers- The new
gam. soon became famous ; the k.n f
ot the/ndres hea rd of i t , an j>*ul lern
Ut i rah mm Sissa w;is pished up
on to teach U h,» a „,i, , ttit . Vt s
pretext ofe.pla.niag the rule. of the
game, and shewing him the skill reauir
•itsM T* f thS ° thep P e *es, for
the h.ag’s defence, he mad, him per
“'!* lrri P or, iot truths, which
he had hitherto reluaed to ‘hear. The
kmg, , endowed naturally ‘with under
standing and virtuous sentiments whica
the pernicteac maxims .f jhi s flatterers
and courtiers culd n.t wholly extin
guish made ,a application himself of
,th* Brahmin s lessons, and now convin
ced that m the people’s love of their
king consisted all hjs stre.gth, he alter
ea his conduct, and prevented the mis
fortunes Ithat toeatened him. The
prince was se*siSJjr touched, and grate
fully left to the Brahmin the choice of
his reward,* he desired that the number
of grams of corn, which the number
of the squares of the Chess Board should
produce, might bo given him, one for
the first, two far tho second, four for
the third, and soon, doubling always to
the sixty-fourth. The king astonished
at the seeming modesty and reasona
bleness ot the “demand granted imme
diately, and without examintion ? but
when nts treasurers had made the cal ,
culuion, they found {that the king had
engaged himself in a grant, for the per
formance whereof, neither all his trea
suries, nor his vast dominions were suf
ficient. Then the Brahmin laid held of
this opportunity, to.give him to under
stand,of what importance it was to
kings to be upon their guard against
those* who are always about them and
ho w much they ought to /be afraid of
their ministers abusing their best ihten
-entions. the Game of Chess wa3 ho
Qnger confined to India, it passed into
IPersia during the reign of CosrotS’
j i he Persians looked upon it as a Game
[to be made use of in ,all countries* to
; instruct kings at the same time that it
amused them, as the name, which they
gure it, signifies Sc.ierireagi, or Scha-
Irak ; the Game of the 3choh or king.
The names of many of the pieces of
this Game, which have no reasonable
signification, but in the eastern langua
ges, confirm the opinions, we propose
•f Jits eait-rn Th- second
oiece of Chess-aftrr the ting. is now
»dkd the queen. The old French fu
thhM call »t Fi*-che» and FVrqjej
or Fierce —cor*-r»rioi> of t'v> . Fieivia,
der ved from the Persian* Ferz Fcre.n,
the tvame of that p ece in Peril 4 and
gignifie a minister or Viza»- -M’ /he
word Fierge. they have nude Wrge«,
Virjfo. and afterwards Lady or Q ~en.
lht resemblance of the wv-d* a d e
this change very easy, and it seemed «p
ouch the more reasonable, her* use
that piece is piaccd next rb .the £ ?
and at 1(9 first mov- like ? r* P>w
could only move twp step*, which made
it one of the least considerable of she
hoard, as the authors at two ate ient tiv#.
tisesof t >e Came of Chess acknowledge.
£ Th « constraint of the Lady of C. e?s
was displeasing to our fore-larhers.
They looked upon it as a spr| of slave
ry more suitable to the jealous* of the
eastern people thin to the liber y which
ladies have always enjoye* 1 amnr*s» ns»
Thejr extended therefore the s eps anti
prerogatives of that p ecc and in co>’ e
qutnee of the gallafttrv so aanini to
the western people the Lady became
the most considerable piece of dl rh«
& ame There was still an absurdi'r in
this metamorphosis of thp Firm ir Vi
▼ter into Quean, aad this Incongruity
remaines yet to this day, without t ikme
notice of it. The third piece of Cues*
which we call the bishop, th* French
Foel, the Spaniards AlWs and the lt*d
lans Aificre. a Sergeant the last, was of
the figure us &* elephant. und whose
name Fit* it bore.. The Knight which
is the fourth piece, has *the name and
figure cvei-y where., The fifth »i cco
which we-cfU the £ook and the French
Tour, is called by the eastern people the
Kokfc, a R d the ihdiari£ make it of the
figure of a camel, maunted by an horse
man, with a bow and arrow in his hand.
The name of Rokh, which 19 common
both to the Peraiau* and Indians signi
fies m the langnage of the last a sort
ot camoiel psed in and placed upow
wings of (heir armies by way of light
horse. The rapid motions of this p.eco
which jumps from one end of .the board
to the other agrees ,so much *the batter
with this idea of it as at first it was tho
only had the motion. Hie
king, queen and pawn, made but one
step, the bishop but two as well as the
kfritght, neither of them ‘’going farther
than the |third square, including that
Which they quieted.—The fcrook alone
was funbounded in his course, which
may agree to tfie lightness of the dro
medary, but m no Ways to the immo
bility of ftowersi 4f fortresses, the fig.
ures of which we generally give tb those
pieces. 1 ‘The si*th and last piece is the
pawn or common soldiers which have
suffered no change.**
Chess—l know not What correctness
there may be in the foregoing conjec
tures as to the origin of this admirable
game. It came to the Fmgl.sh from
the Saracens ; but it is by no means
probable that they were its original in
ventors. Some ascribe it to Dio nedel
the Grecian hero* 6thera to 2 Greet
brothers, Lede and Tyfrbeno, who be
ing much pressed by hunger sought to
alleviate its pam by this amusement.
The antiquity of the game, However, is
beyond all dispute 5 and it has been 4
favorite mean of recreation tb iqost 0 f
the great men whose names / are cen
spicicuUs in European history. Taipe*
lain was a great does* player, and it 1*
;aid was engaged in play at the very in
stant of the Uicisive battik in which lib
overcame Bajrzet- Wken A1 iminwai
Kalif oi Bagdad and the city wa* rebdy
to be stormed by the forces of A1 M«.
mun, t he Kali! quietly engaged at chcss
with his frced-inan Kumar* VVhed
warned of his danger, the Arabic ac
count says be exclaimed, “ Let me a»
l§BCy Let mc mloac 1 1 sit check male 4 »
gainst Kuther King Charles 1, was
at this amusement when news wd*
brought him of die final determination
of the Scots to sell him to the English s
but so little was he discomposed that ho
laid down the letter, and played out the
game with his usual eqhammity. Kin*
John was also playing when the depu
ties front Rouen acquaint n.a
that their euy was besieged by Fnd»p
augnstusi ant no w mu* out ear tafeos
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