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COLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
SATURDAY , JUJVE 27.
MARRIED, on Sunday evening last,
by . the Rev. John R. Thompson , Mr.
James Oliver, of Richmond county, to
Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes , of this city.
[By Last Evening’s Mail.]
Petersburgh, ( Virg.) June 15.
WILIKNSON ARRIVED!
We have the satisfaction to in
form our readers that the United
States’ schooner Ranger arrived
in Hampton Roads on Wednes
day last from New-Orleans, hav
ing on board General JAMES
WILKINSON, the principal
w witness summoned on behalf of
the United States, to attend the
trial of Aaron Burr. The fears
of some and the wishes of others
may therefore be lull’d to rest.
A assau, [.V. P.~\ June 1.
By a late arrival at this port from
Port de Paix, (St. Domingo,) we learn
that the town had been set fire to on
the 16th ult. and at the time this vessel
•was there, on the 21st, it was then burn
ing and nearly reduced to ashes, with
the exception of the church and hospit
al, which had escaped the ravages of
the flames—The town was totally de
serted, and the only information that
could be obtained was from three per
sons, who, on discovering the vessel,
had come from the mountains ; they
were totally ignorant as to the cause of
the town being burned, and stated that
Gen. Christophe was there on the day,
or the day previous, to the conflagra
tion, St had suddenly quitted the place.
* Baltimore, June 6.
GENER AL WILKINSON.
Arrived, the schooner Hanna, Brown
low, 29 days from New-Orleans—pi
mento—the master. Left there, Bth
May, ship Comet, for Baltimore, next
day; George Washington, for New-
York, in 5 or 6 days ; Fair American,
do. 10 days; and several others A
large shtp, loaded with coffee, had just
arrived. Spoke in the river, schooner
Centurion, of New-York, from La Ve
ra Cruz, bound up. A passenger on
board informs, that General Wilkinson
and Commodore Shaw were to sail for
Baltimore about the 12th of May, in
one of the United States’ schooners.
Alorfolk, June 5.
Mr. Purviance, Secretary of Lega
tion at London, has arrived from Wash
ington with dispatches of the govern
ment for ouv Ministers and Commis
sioners Extraordinary at the Court of
St. James’s, with which he will proceed
immediately on board the Wasp sloop
of war, capt. Smith.
The Chesapeake frigate arrived in
Hampton Roads last evening.
POSTCRIPT!
IC7 3 We stop the press to announce
that a gentleman has just arrived here
from New-Orleans, after a passage of
24 days, and says that General Wil
kinson was at that city when he left it,
and that he did not hear it said that he
intended to leave it shortly.— Ledger.
June 6.
A gentleman who came passenger
in the schooner Hannah, from New-
Orleans, bound to Baltimore, informs,
tt on the 11th ultimo, General Wil
son was at that place in perfect
h-alth, and that he did not appear as
preparing to leave that place. From
this circumstance, it would seem as if
the General did not purpose attending
Mr. Burr’s trial.— Herald.
Pittsburgh, (Penn.) May 19.
For three or four days during last
■week, we experienced violent gusts of
.rain, attending with severe thunder and
lightning. On Sunday night and yester
day, the Monongahela river rose higher
than has been recollected for a number
of years, The improvements of the
banks of the river must have sustained
injury. Yesterday afternoon a large
mill house, almost entire, drifted past
this place, during which time a number
of persons in cannoes, Sec. were engag
ed in taking grain from it.
Captain Anderson arrived at New-
York from Gibraltar informs, that just j
before he sailed, the United Stales
schooner Enterpi lze arrived there from i
Tunis, with the Tunisian ambassador'
and his suit. The differences between 1
this country and Tunis had been accom- : 1
modated, and all fear of a war had sub
sided. The gut of Gibraltar swarms 1
with French and Spanish privateers,
who take every unarmed vessel they
fall in with. While captain Anderson
lay there, eight sail of American vessels
were chased in by them.
New York, June 10.
Capt. Riley, of the ship Two Maries,
arrived yesterday in 38 days from New
ry, informs us that London papers to the
25th April (which he took with him,
but which he gave to the commander of
an English armed vessel) contained
some additional accounts of the move
ments of the Grand Armies up to the
3d—The French Imperial Head Quar
ters were still at Osterode. Marshal
Massena had moved forward ten Ger
man miles with the right wing of the
Grand Army. No general battle had tak
en place since that of EylaU. Both ar
mies continued to receive powerful re
inforcements ; and the Emperor Alex
ander was on his way to take the com
mand of his immense army, which, it
was said, amounted to three hundred
thousand men.
It is reported on what authority we
know not, that Burr’s famous cyphered
letter to Wilkinson has been lost, and
that the dilemma hereby occasined is
the cause of Gen. Wilkinson’s tardi
ness in repairing to Richmond.
Baltimore, May 21.
We have been favored with a copy
of a letter from New-Orleans of the
date of April 19, containing, among
other articles, some conclusions respect
ing the conduct of Burr in the western
country, which are deemed improper
for publication at the present moment,
as his trial comes on to-morrow at
Richmond, and we have no desire to
forestal public opinion on a case so
very important. We wish that Burr
may be, not only justly, but legally
tried ; for it is better that he, even if
guilty, escape, than that the form oj
laws should be prostrated.
In the letter above alluded to, the
following is given as the substance of
Burr’s farewell address to his compan
ions : “ My plans, fellow-citizens, are
delayed, not destroyed. It is not in
my power to reward as I could wish at
this moment; my bills being protest
ed, and myself prosecuted, because as
not understanding my views; but I
have much property to divide among
you, and I advise you not to seperate,
but to adhere to each other. If you
desire Wachita lands, I leave .a power
of attorney for the conveyance to you;
for be assured our project will be here
after better understood and must finally
succeed."
A Westerly /freeze....!'he late Mr.
Hall, author of the Crazy Tales, was
with all his wit and humor often op
pressed with very unpleasant hypochon
driack affections. In one of these fits,
at Skelton Castle, in Yorkshire, he kept
his chamber, talked of death and the
east winds in synonymous terms, and
could not be persuaded by his friends
to mount his horse and dissipate his
blue devils by air and exercise* Mr.
Sterne, who was at this time one of his
visitants, finding that no reason could
prevail against the fancies of his friend,
bribed an active boy to scale the tur
rets of the castle, turn the weathercock
due west, and fasten it with a cord to
that point. Mr. Hall arose from his
bed as usual, oppressed and unhappy,
when casting his eyes through a bow
window to the turret, and seeing the
wind due west, he immediately joined
his company at breakfast, ordered his
horse to be saddled, and enlivened the
morning’s ride with his facetious hu
mor....execrating easterly winds, and
launching forth in praise of western
breezes. This continued for three or
four days, till, unfortunately, the cord
breaking which fastened the weather
cock, it turned at once to the easterly
position, and Mr. Hall retreated to his
chamber, without having the least sus
picion of the trick which his cousin
Shandy had played upon him.
PORT F9LIO.
From the Boston Repertory.
It would be a pity not to preserve the
following Anecdote, which displays so
much of that accuracy of observation
which is known to be oue of the charac
teristics of our red brethren of the west:
An Indian, upon his return home to
his hut one day, discovered that his ven
ison,which had beenhungup todry, had
, been stolen. After taking his observa
tions upon the spot, he set off in pur-
I suit of the thief, whom he tracked thro’
j the woods. After going some distance
he met some persons, of whom lie en
quired, if they had not seen a little,old
white man, with a short guv., and ac
companied by a small dog, with a bob
tail ? They replied in the affirmative,
and upon the Indian assuring, them that
the man thus described had stolen his
venison, they desired to be informed
how he was able to give such u minute
description of a person whom it appear
ed he had not seen. The Indian ans
wered thus—The thief 1 know is a little
man, by his having made a pile of stones
to stand upon, in order to reach the ven
ison from the height I hung it, standing
on the ground—that he is an old man,
I know by his short steps, which 1 have
traced over the dead leaves in the woods
—and that he is a white man, I know
by his turning out his toes when he
walks, which an Indian never does ;
his gun 1 know to be short, by the mark
which the muzzle made by rubbing the
bark of the tree against which it leaned;
that his dog is small, I know by his
tracks ; and that he has a bub tail, I dis
covered by the mark it made in the
dust where he was sitting at the time
his master was taking down the meat.”
Mr. Solomon Solomons, the cele
brated rich Broker and Underwriter,
died in London on the 20th of March,
at the advanced age of 80. It is sup
posed lie possessed property, of differ
ent descriptions, to an amount little
short of a million sterling.
Washington , (Geo.J June 20.
On Friday of last week, Mrs. Right,
wife of Mr. John Right, five miles
above town, was killed by lightning,
while sitting under a tree in the yard.
Some time last week, Mr. John Kil
gore, of this county, was killed by his
horse.
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AUGUSTA PRICE CURE EAT.
Cotton 15 to 18 cents.
Salt 75
Flour g 9 to 10
Bacon 25 cts.
Regimental Orders.
THE Major and Officers Command
ing Companies in the 10th Reg
iment of the Militia of the state of Geor
gia, are ordered to meet at Capt. Wil
liam M‘Tyre’s, on Saturday the lltli
of July next, at 11 o’clock in the fore
noon, to lay off and divide the said Reg
iment into two Battalions.
VAL. WALKER, Lieut. Col.
June 27' 49
Minature Painting.
MR. CLORIVIERE
Is returned to this town, where he will
slay only to answer the demands, that
may be addressed to him.—He there
fore invites the Ladies and Gentlemen
who are disposed to have their LIKE
NESSES taken, to call at the house of
Mr. Thomas Burdell, before he accepts
of some proposals to go further up the
country.
£5" He has some Elegant Set
tings and Gold Medallions.
June 27. 49
SHERIFF’S SALE;
On the first Tuesday in August next, at
the Court House in Waynesborough,
Burke county, at the usual hours
Will be Sold,
ONE likely Negro Girl, levied
on as the property of Blanche Palmer,
at the instance of Stephen Collins, lor
the use of John Pollock and others.
Gross Scruggs, s. b. c.
Waynesborough, 7
June;2 7, 1807. $ 49
~ notice!
THREE months after date applica
tion will be made to the honorable
the court of Ordinary of Burke county
for letters dismissory on the estate of
Dennis B. Trammel, deceased.
Jesse Vaughn, AdnPr.
June 27, 1807. Im3t 49
WAYAESBOROUGH, >
Burke County. 3
BROUGHT to jail on the 18th
of this month, a new hegro Man about
5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, cannot tell
who he belongs to, nor his own
name. The owner is requested to
prove his property, pay charges and
take him away.
Samuel Jones.
June 27, 1807. -49
NOTICE.
r ~\ 'HE Subscriber having taken Ro-
A bert Doyne into Partnership,
will in future carry on business at his
old stand, under the firm of
Danforth & Doy ne ,
WHO OFFER for sale,
A VERY GENERAL
ASSORTMENT OF
DRY GOODS
A ?J D
Groceries.
Which they will dispose of on the
lowest terms for cash or produce.
Jacob Daniorth.
June 20. Gt 48—
Samuel Wigfall,
Informs his f iends and the fiublic that
he has taken Air. David M* Kin net
into Co-fiartuers/ii/i, and that their
business re Hi hereafter be car
vied cn under the firm of
Wigfall &M’Kinney
By this arrangement they will be
enabled to keep on hand a constant
supply of the best selected materials,
SADDLES,
BRIDLES, HARNESS, fcV.
AT THEIR
Manufactory,
NEAR THE
CITY-HOTEL, AUGUSTA.
Where orders shall be particularly
attended to, and they hope, from their
attention to business, and from the faith
ful execution of their workmanship, to
merit a continu mce of those favors that
have been so liberally conferred.
30. 2m 4a
Notice.
ALL persons having unsettled ac
compts with the subscriber are
earnestly requested to call on Mr.
DAVID M'KINNE F, and make pay
ment, or liquidate the same imme
diately.
SAMUEL WIGFALL.
June 13. • 4 7
GEORGIA, I
Warren County. $ Personally ap
peared before me, Isaac Ball, one of
the justices assigned to keep the peace
in the county aforesaid, Mary Perryman,
who being duly sworn on the Evange
lists of Almighty God, deposeth and
saith, that in the month of February,
one thousand seven hundred and seven
ty or seventy one, but cannot be certain
as it respects the date, Thomas Henry,
husband of the deponent's daughter,
Levina, gave unto Hie hard Perryman,
husband of the deponent, his certain
instrument in writing commonly called
a bond, (in consideration of the said
Richard’s giving unto him the said Tho
mas a certain Negro Girl named Sail,
together with other property) bearing
date as aforesaid, in the county of Pitt
sylvania,state of Virginia, to the amount
of one thousand pounds, Virginia cur
rency, that he the said Thomas nor his
heirs or assigns would never demand,
take or receive any part or legacy of
the estate of the said Richard, and that
the said Thomas, in his own proper
person, made his usual mark thereto,
sealed and delivered the said bond unto
him the said Richard, for the within
mentioned purposes, and that Hugh
Henry, sen’r. was a subscribing witness
thereunto ; and that the aforesaid bond
is either lost or mislaid.
her
MARY X PERRYMAN,
mark.
Sworn to this 22 d A/ml , 18f<7.
Isaac Ball, J. P.
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NOTICE.
NINE months after date, application
will be made to the honorable the
Inferior Court of Richmond county, for
leave to sell a tract of land lying in said
county, containing 245 acres, more or
less, on Boggy Brach, belonging to the
estate of Benjamin Davis, dec. and so|d
for the benefit of the heirs and creditors
ofsaid deceased.
ANN BARTON, Adm'x.
November 8, 1806. 19
LUMBER.
PERSONS wishing to procure
Lumber, can be furnished by making
application at this office;
January 10.