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About Athens gazette. (Athens, Ga.) 1814-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1818)
ATHENS GAZETTE. L vt«Rkf*ti **»«■ 1418. <** < f It U a matter of much re witt troop* ««* *o badly lupplied in »ht Citfk Bfatioii. It was in theJiomane ottwkpt to re lievc rprt-ScH, tfot Gtn (U.ne* •vlTeiti the fldntßfclP't** *hith had M nigs costlwn his life— %V« a«e happy to learn hoivortr trim a letter received by a gen tie man in this place from a res pe&ablt source, d<iled at Hanford thcUtk inst. that the Genera! had safely arrived at a place called Mead-Quarter* 20 miles from Fott Scott* FrvTJ the same source it appears that a general scarcity of provisions still prevails. John Castdlavr was tried and condemned at the last Superior Court of Jasper County, and has since been hanged, for the murder of Henry Slaughter ! One of, the forgiving precepts of Jesus Christ is—— i'hou sh»lt not kill* How un like the exterminating one of M oses— Lita for life ! The Pint* ttntic r j of vieorgia—oh, sacred edifice 1 the very import of whose name is mercy aud forgiveness j what was it, for which thou werfc built ? To make penitents of coo* vi6ts by labor within thy walls— and to repress the art of killing with the rope and gallow»«Hm4 so to patronize the hofgjfljjltliM* i of the divine love of ty. Oh! Oh! WasthSksa ’as bad as the first ? Skirmish with ihe^^Hfc. Ti e fullomt g Thomas to the ceived oa Wednesday! iNffM ax i press s ... ’ Hartford, Sltt—l havc»thp mof!|t re ceived information throflh Mr la ham Jordan of •fhich I rely on, of a Ikirwm vith the Indians and some o(^p jßiti °T» the *<sut&jpMn •f Ike Otmulgce. in tha aCutfnoon y* Ike 9;k ifint 20 or 1m piles ¥elow tka. ‘ . On the night of the 3d Itat. Jo seph Eush and his son ws&fired Upon by a party of takes killed, and the wounded and, scalped Awkr Vrcoiered as"to reachdflpc ifwo Mays alter* The citizdKtaKgr** log infoimation of r fa£U asseti bled on the to the number of 38 IbShrivcr to the lur tedress Finding eoukijpgli digb of Indians, they pun!! trail leading from the rivJNjame dis tance out, where they came in ▼ie# of a body of or 80, advancing within gtm shor. ’ *1 he firing was coramepdoi* by •ach party and warmly’ kept up for three quarters of an hour, A. pnrt of tta detachment cfcOcd their retreat, bringing off I badly wounded, four art certainly kill • •and, the balance of the detachment has not been board from. Major Cotton, commandant of the Telfair Militia, it among the misting— Four Indiana killed. From information, the citieens below this are muck alarmed and leaving tbeir koines. 1 have tho’t prope* tn communicate the fore. £Mg to you by express. Vhc Pulaski traop of Csrslrr •** keen ordered out bjr ihe Exe* •****, to scour the Frontier and Moid proteftioa to the inbabi * Un ‘iOUMh'Jinin^ the Otck Z Major hMZHM STuUmOM l >cUt.Mtb ««took tifu IndUft prisoners, \ S?y**” to &M. B|9lpM**. &C# t|K>f« who ret BSf, him, «ir un* §&mm4 ffptmfykm mi wuh the ito front •» appfehMiroo of r.o? baing iMe lo get subsistence r'n the direct rrutc to Fort Scott, hare come to Fort Hawkins, ami part of them have since proceeded to Hartford* Journal, In a case which has lately been tried in Hartford of a prosecution for crim. con. the Jury have awar ded 5.000 dollars damage* to the plaintiff. For the/ honor of the country, we hopeA will belong before we h car o (another cave of tins description in our courts— (No, it is very right so to punish such a want ol good morals, and it would be well to quadruple the Lawyer's feta to effect tne pun ishment ji, Gaz ) PIRACY. KonroiKy fi:d. 23. Ftcrn our own enquiries, assisted by the information of the Keeper of the Steam-bout Hotel Reading Room, we arc enabled to add following particulars re>pec|rtflg the schooner fitted out in this port for supposed piratical purpose*— It apptars th«t alter carry wsjf hei main mast, she put into Mill creek near Hampton to re pair, when 7 or 8 of her crew de serted her am! came over to Nor fotik* On the.r examination before tha Mayor, they stated that the .rtd tclir. was purcbSacd at a tale •ghs&nsx which, she was taken charge of by one MitchtU> who watan oflWer ih the Romp token jhe was ktsil in York River about 18 months a* Ro upon a charge of p raev. This Mitchell has been scale time iwh kfog about Noito>k, and had re ermud * ! <*ew of about n en, vhtcb he imbarked on board the Harriet, to cruise in the Chesa peake to intercept a CHjtoef.hu It this vessel, and after *ea in her, lo assume \hS ueliar. flag, under whieSp# any thef29£ themsw Ifcs ;* p|-% tohich *ihey were deUrdjp to make, at all events, The «un %4 * a tWk inforgtotioft. Md that tiKy abandoned the f°° n at they cotrid, after satisfy ing themselves of'b£toMicil > cbara£ker. The Colle&pcv mt his usual alacrity, took tdvantsir of tuc first intimation ok Z 7«. the ZT*l** n % ™ *#»**>*nded. tjoiied Id lle ‘dtot article, was arrested and committed to prison la Baltimore on Saturday last. Herald, A letter from New-Orfeans dated January 28th, states that the Se minole* and Creek Indians inhabit ting the proraontosy of £mt Flori da, against whom our Imas are marching are 4,000 waAfors strong; that they have demitomd all their towns, placed men, children stock and provisi ons in a fortified camp situated in the midst of an immense and al most impassable mar h. This account leads us to expel) a pro traclcd war in that quarter Nat. Intel, MM nr 9LKJSS, JAN. 24. New-Orltans at this moment of the year exhibits all the ku tie of a great fair. Here are crowded together «iiult»tudcs of sellers and buyers from Alabama tipftatchi toches, and north to Kentucky, Ohio,mod the extreme of Missou ri. All seem eager to femp the objefil, and many obttiftii, for it U » country ricacr in lit protluc- / tion. titan il it poM*nw«ith« nir—. of Memo. Cottoo U Mtd produce am*M »t Ihi, place gs “aSa&S M.mnM.ga,,,!,,. *nn on dadt, and Out rcpcat-i f jroifi and again- , Tt is judged lhat thcte will he more produce bro t t )|his city during the present than in iny former season The wea- has been folder here this whiter than has been known for rnyty years* Ihe thermometer !w been as low as 24 degrees I *f«n ice 2 inches thick, and has been covered with **mt for sfrtra! days. n‘.t c jnr. M 16. Remarkable Hull, . oi the following dimen. * raised on the Roanoke only was exhibited in this 7* n on Saturday last, and is this d*| offered to the inspection of the curious at the stables of Mr U IJall in Portsmouth. DU mekstons, s feet high, 14 lef t from l*il nose to the end of his tail, v. Inch last is not more than 3 feet so n k r * girth round the body 9 feet, perk 6 feet, and his **' m *W % 1,15 breast ,a not nt y* Ajpchca lrom»tbe gi#|ndb by competent ju%e» to weighJfjOOO pounds , l*ir ABDor t ot Ga. has submitted to Congress his views of the in violability of the ngnt of expairi at ion- Feb * 27 General Bernard of the Jinginecrs, and of twtl opberaphi cafCorps, have in lh | »h ; P Bal *e r from New Uric &4* We iearn has bepn engaged in mgUgbihta i> survey tbjfjßSi mi Mil, n ti 4. i hcynrgnMgl^Washm^n it i ■ ftPJ i a— •* 1 ‘ was the principal jS e, » *« r « upwards of 13,000 Mara 1 la not this paying well • the whistle* ,lWe iearn from the Messenger tUaDogendaCow have Utciy go>e mad »n Georgetown, taring 3 U ,llcft b r* **>* thne gffPlyM TnmggF hdpMl|'th& acts pf t MFv 3 MtfJfll 7, pmsJSgLl til »(J phAp pun wMbs of which i ucui- Be x ,\ith T c BBE ttf a >• ♦noted J«hfe 1 BL Maisiul 1 r oMtti *VH v ‘ce Eppinger#B John Lhcas a Ste*msßSebliftl em bracing many valuable improve* menta—lt is said 73 barrels of nee /were cleaned end benched iu tuiaenill in 24 hoore. Jacob Parker of Pnila. has lately u vented an tKltaordinary IMiup, 3 u> 4,000 Baltimore , £?tb» 2d* * i*he com mander of the Brutus, Irom Peu aaeefot who arrived et N Orleans oo l|e 29ih ult. reports a piiralecr sebrj* from N Orleans had beet) captured, and curried into Pensa oda 1 he engagement was ob stinately continued lor two and a half hours, and the Captain and UfQlcnant of the privateer were tpth hilled befqfe bhejßu*endercd. Me following very Jugular Cact WNaturaT Hi story is taken from Pierson's Life of Dr Buchanan, !#•( the most entertaining and ‘Mtereeting works of the English language: ItllH that 1 write at the bottom of the lolly nbtmiaio felled Cape Carnovin, rocky heed seeroa to over hgng ita base. The birds which ta*ld the pcnduloua neats are here qatmerous At wight each of their Wl« hebiiavions ta ligated up, u if to sec company. The sagacious li'tle bird fastens a bit of day to the top of the nest, and then picks Up a fire-fly. and sticks it to the clay to illuminate the dwelling, which con >ists of two rooms. Sometimes there are three or four fire flies, and their blaze of light in the little cell dazzles the eyes of the Batts, which often kill these birds- The aa of M iryland to regulate Lotterie*, is too log for publics* tion, but is not without interest* A board of 3 commissioners is ap pointed, who are to superintend all Lotteries to be drawn, fit with out whose agency none can be drawn After all the Lotteries now authorized by law are drawn,'Lot teries are to be the exclusive pro perty of the State; the rjfifesury ot which is to receive the proceeds oi sales, in the gross, and pay the prizes, retaining,pn a tax or com pensation for thi» agency, 5 p.* cu on the amount ofall prizes draw 4) which amount is aUo taxed on th« Lotter.es already authorized. The com missioners are each to receive 1,200 and. salary, and t »eir clerk 1,000. rwo other commissioners arc to he added to the <>oard when the right of devising and drawing all lotteries reverts to theStu£ 1 bese provisions appear t>> us to be prudent and equitable 1/I it. The London Courier of the x6h of Dec says Government will uo longer give encouragement to per* 4ons who wish to proceed a> set. tiers to his Majesty's domimo is in North America, except to Iraif pay officers, or persons under pe culiar circumstances, as many prho went there the two last years Wtrt unable to cultivatr the land Allotted to them, and who arc now mb verv great distress. ■COPPEA TREE. At the beau- Bful and magnificent palace of the Auke of Devonshire Catsworth, Kn the batiks a flue piece of wa * ter, is a tree of Copper, represen* t ng o Willow fram every a£ w nch water is made to issue, by the turning of a cock, so aa to lor .a aa artificial shower. IC7* By some traveller'! irn a report prevails in the low . -mi*.. try ih-tt the Indians iuv* taitcu «)„• o« oui i’ orts, but they and j not say which, and the troops thtieiud Sticly made their escape a-» tney kaw the Savages approach; the I* >t t having 2 gates* at opposite sides enabled them to do so ; the Sava g.s coming up to and our men retreated through the other, VVe fetr Mobile er bl«K.ely is the place alhided to, as the former in formations toy ike people there bad lately beeh scriou ly alarmed by the mot on of a party known to ‘be not far off# By Last Night’s Mail tJasiumc, M3. in Orl. .11. pfe per slates Fori-Crawford, on the Florida frontier, has b cn stormed by (he Indians, and the garrison butchered. It is said more men have bee 1 lost in the late rencoun ters than were killed in the whole Creek war. Five hundred Chero kecs ate desirous of going with Jackson to fight the Seiumolcs. Savannah, March 18. We are in* formed that a respectable Farmer who was in town yesterday, re ported that an Indian Runner ar rived on the frontier of I'artnail county on the 11th inst. brining information that the Savages had made an unsuccessful attempt to surprise the forces under General Jackton at a place called the Ham mock, near Flint-Kiver. It was night when the army was assailed, but so well were their arm* direc ted, that fine hundred of gne enemy were left dead on the field, and a mong them several whites and nr groin. All the wounded were car ried eff, so that their ex*a lots «o«l>d not be ascertained. Jackson is represented Ip have lo»t one hundred men in killed end wouftdttL
