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VOL, IV. ‘*• - •■ -». ... . «~ --JJBAfc'f *MS.” P»LIS»E* WUILV f. zfr 70/rjv no nut. \ 4 ( _ , ._ . ‘ fljkaFVs’ i CONDITIONS. * **£;« ‘ a j fV-. *F % *J... ‘ssfcjrw v*k ; k ‘ K' 1 ’!. ‘ ‘ F *'; ** » T*« Annual Snbtcrrprion WiH be THnEi dollar*! h»if ill advance. SI Subscriber* living out of the State will pav the whole iubscription upon the delivery pi the fir*t number. ’ , M. No Subscriptions will be received f't Jes* than one year; and no pajier shall be div *, Continued until arrearages are paid, i Ab. Advertisements will be inserted at th* raistomary rates. i mt » * e's /»’ ‘d* fr -‘■ *-J * • |CT* Letters addressed to the Enfo h •V , - hr A'*? fitlfli ■ * fc»—> —* ■■ ■■■■■—- *r . * 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. r ‘ «■ 1 1 ——■————————»- 1.1 ■■■M -* 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 flpr “4 *. *.J • ami■ ■ g V NO 9 •mt