Athens gazette. (Athens, Ga.) 1814-18??, October 05, 1820, Image 2

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athevsg\ze ite. by s w minor. THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1820. Farther about the eleA-on. Jasper coun ty-Gilmer 297. Reid 420. Cobb 298, Cuthbert 427.Tatnal 290. Thompson 212, Abbot 378, Walton 250, Cook 299, Clark 113, Blair 12. „ .. Elbert — Gilmer 310.. Reid 030, Cobb 470, Cuthbert 220, Titnal 309, Thompson Waito* —Gilmer 112, Cook 30, Clark -Gilmer 147, Reid 178, Cobb 10>. Cuthbert ÜB. Trad 79 309 Abbot Ilot Walton 150, Cook* 200, Clark 19 ; Blair 170 It n w appears, from fourteen coun ties, that the highest numerical order of the Congress vote is tttus; Reid Ist, Cuth bert 2d, Gilmer 3d, Thompson 4th, Abbot sth, and Cobb 6th man. Cushing and Meindeer's case Developed. We under* fluid that Mr Culhing went to France tome year? since, and.formed a connexion in busiest at Marseilles wnh Mr Meindeer,wtto was then a man of fortune—that Mr Cufhing lef, France with a ship *.nd a large amonnt of property belonging to Mr Meinideer, to whom he ne never made any remiuan* ccs, and the carifequehce wa* thai the latter wai ru ined This truly unfortu ~tiate man then came over to the U. States* and has been more than a year seeking in his partner, and will pro ceed immediately to Alaba ma, to secure the property left byCulhing at Huotville. every part of the country in vain for Cufhing, in hopes of obtaining something tro. the wreck of his fortune-- Mr M. who is now in town, received, by the above no tice, *he firft infdrirfation of the hiding place and fate of Salem Register* The Boston market will now tie with ny, in abundance of fruit nearly all kinds* Melons are * rv plenty. Avery fine water sn >len was brought to market last w*tt< weighing 42 pounds ; and w ate informed there is a larger one on the vine in Waltham-’ JJesertian on a larqe Scale Pool ioVs Philadelphia Gaazette, re ce v*l .this morning, contains an advert se went fiT more than three coiamns, offering a reward of 30 dollar* each, for 73 deserters from tfie Tth regiment UV S. Infantry. satvxal cvniosirr. In May last Mr* T. L- T. of Camden,Del. in hunting for terra pin eggs, found a terrapin of tfie bigness of a quarter of a dollal, which had two distinct heads,with four eyes, fonr nostrils, and two mouthsjit likewise had a lump up on its hack of the bigness of a pea. The terrapm was alive, and 3urvi ed ftrseveral days. There are sev eral respectable people in Cam den that saw it, and can testify to the fact, A WHIT EC ROW Was lately (hot by Col. Rhodes Thomsos.at his residence on Elk horn, abont two and a half m ks from this town; it was examined by severnl scientific gentlemen* and prononced to be of the crow species it resembled the commen black in every thing but its color which was of a dingy white* Col. Thompson had observed it for some time among a flock of black crows,and had ascertained its note to be the same as theirs. New Orleans, Tuly 8. MEMOIRS (>F A WEEK* Henry Webster, who had bten imprisoned for fteallng, wa dis charged on Saturday, commitstd larcentlv and was arrested on Wedneseday following was indic ed on Thursday tried and convic ted on Friday, and teceived 36 lashes on Satuday. In addition tp which punohmen he is to be im prisoned two yers at hard labor. Further particulars respe&ing the Fire at Port au Prioce are fur nished by Tetters received in this city* Udwards of 600 houses have houses have betn totally destroy ed, and the loss of property is computed at from 4 to s*ooo 000 of dollars The fire is said to be the work of incpndiaries. and to have orginated in a plot of the blacks againflthe people o f colour The solditry, instead o? keeping order and assisting to save the property, employed thsmselvs in indi&rriminate plunder. New Tork American 13<A insU Six cases, and four fatal of Yellow Fever have occurred in Charleston* They ware of persons unaccustomed to that climate, and three if not all the snjccts of the diseaes are s*id to; base been recently rom Philadelphia. The cases were announced with becom ing promptitude in the Chatletton Courier, and we are gratified to learn by our last papers that no new cases had occurred there. Georgia Adv . Unfortunate Accident . Yesterday forenoon, while the Washington Artillery Company were engaged in fitrjng at a Target from Dor chester Point, a boat .from Fort- Independence, on board of which were several Officers and men of the garrison unfotnoately pas* sed the track of their shot when unperccived by the compauay and • • was struck by a six pouud ball near the bows, which took off the leg of one of the men, and the* splinters severely wonnded ano ther. Boston Gaz. Ith inst. NEW INVENTION Mr. Edward Weft, qf this towoi has recently made a pistol on *. hew scale which with loading*, once, will discharge lour balls \m sepa ate firings- The barrel ie single; but it is so constructed ilia the magazine attachen .to the* breach has tour chambers, and the leck is conducted, as to hava four pans. We ha c examined th© piece, and it is little more bulky* than an ordinary pistol* Ky Gaz* A catrp Meeting will com mence on the fourteenth of next moth, about five miles below Greensboro on the road leading to Powelton* The line of bn tie (hip on the slock! at the Navy Yard, Norfolk will be lannched on Satuaday the 2 Ist October The name has not yet been decided on As soon as * (he is hunched the frame of ano ther line of battle ship, now on ihw sp ,t, and in every way prepared* will be immediately set up* Berlin , Pussia y July 11, 1820- r The Spaniih Legation ic thi# ccpital have presen acoirpiait to his Majesty’e Ministers, that the official Gazette of Btrlin wav in the h bit -of dtuounciru Che revolution in Spain t illegal ar.d pregnant with evil .Since then the tone of the Gazette has under gone a totol ch nge. Providence , R • I. Sept . 18. A Sea tight. — The ihp wash* ington, Page, of this poit, Irons Canton for amfterdan spoke n in the Strates of Sunday, M v 32. takeing in water. Capt Page in foimed, that* after clearing the Grasper Straits, he was aitacfted by Malay pirates prows, and beat them off, after expending the mod of his ammunition. , Messrs Francois 8c Cos. mer chants, at St Thomas, had sent a brig to Araga, a small port to the leeward of Cumana. The Ro yal garrison at that place, amoun ting to about 140 men. soon after the arrival of the brig, revolted* killed their officers, look posses sion of the brtg, and compelled! the captain to taka thvm into Margaretta, where they were lan ded. MADRAS, MARCH 11* The U S. frigate Congress was in China recently 1 be same hon ors do not apper to have bet is paid to the American flag, by ther’ Chinese, as to the Enggiiih ; but there is a disposition to d< mami them The Congress is said to bo expected to visit the Presidency on her returning to Ametica- Tho objrCl of her visit to the Indian Sea* of course unknown,