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Vol. IV.) ATHENS, Georgia: published by M'DONNELL (A GAINES. COLLECTOR’S SALES. On the third Monday in Ma r ch next, r.t the court houfe in Clark. counly> between the ujual hours , WILL BE SOLD, the hollowing property , or as much thereof , ar will fatisfy the Tax due fer the year i 8 10. 120 acres eft land en Robinfou’s cr-fk, in Clark county, returned b Archibald Hefterj Lax due 62 I 2 LCfi S. A L O, 400 acres of land in Oglethorpe county, returned by John Boyd j (ax due 1 dollar 31 1-4 cents. ALS'', 21 acres, on Cali’s creek, Clark courcry, returned by Edward tax due one dollar 93 3-4, pointed out by faid B nd. ALSO, One houfe and lot in Watkinf vHi , returned and pointed out by G eorge W Moore* tax due forty three dobars 24 re its. al o 691-2 acresol land, Clark coun ty, rc-u'ned by James b. Robiion, tax due 62 1-2 cents. ALSO, 81 acres of land, Clark county, rf i. id by Haywood Harper, tax due 56 1 4 cents. ALSO, 202 t 2 acres of land in the 28‘h and fir ft of Wrtkinfon, No. 149, re tuned by J >hn Blankcfilhip, tax due 81 1-4 tents. AL O, 202 i 2 acres ;a and, No. 284, 9th and ft* ft Vv iktf'lo., returned by I ti. Cook, tax oue onj dollar 87 1 2. ALSO, 80 acres of laud, on Shoal creek, in Clark county, returned bv Tho :nias Firdlev, tax due 93 3 4 cents. WM. JONEvS, t.c.c c. \Januxry 6. AO MINIS IRA lOK’s SALE. jtgrec&kh: to an order cf the honora bit the inferior court of Oglethorpe c can will be fold, at the court - in /• i jaid county , on a credit cf i'toehr m-.nt&s, on the firfl Tuefday j • ipn, uxty in the legal hours , u 2 1 2 acres of iana, drawn fc Ooia; 0 Hudffin, dec. ivir-g a.d fc fie; fh* county cf Randolph, f • -jy Baldwin, known by No. 6 , .7. h chihift. Sold for the be ntlL ut the hens and creditors. DANIEL DEUPREE, Agent Jor sidminiftratcr. Jan. 31. SHEKAI-F’s SALE. WIU BE SOLD, 4% the fir ft Tuesday in March next , at the Court -Houfein Clark County , between the hours of Ten and Three ire following pro perty, VIZ. One negro fellow, known by the nam- of J -hn ; levied on as the property of Robert J. Cabeil, to fatisf an execution obtained on the foreclosure of a mortgage, in favor of Severs rnomes, property poin ted out by Thomas. Conditions Calh. SAMUEL JACKSON, o. f. January a, 1812. GEORGIA EXPRESS. ** MAtfY SMALL XtfN TO AW FXO, ANB XNJWLSDGB SHALL ■£ INCRE ASSB.” MUCFLI ANFOLTS. American cupekfine Cloths. The t ommrncemmt of t,e year 1812, prefents us with an opportu nity of noticirg the great advance ment and improvements made m this highly important branch of our rnanufaftures $ imprf vrme'>rs whi. h a few years finer it would have hren deemed impofiible to have made in half a century. There is now exp Ted for fale, at the domeftic focietv’s warehouse, Phil adelphia, fupe fi -.e cl ths, from he woollen ma .ufitftory recently rflab 1 1 filed at Midt lerown in Comxrft’- cur, made of the fi ft imported Spa n fii wool, and who h will bear c; m parifon with the b-ft of imported ; the wool t s fu peri or to tnoft of the fore’gn fupe fi es, and the colors warranted to be in every refprft equal-—-Mr. William Pa'ridge, a ft ft rate dyer from the w- ft t f Erg- End, and who has refi led in this city for feme years, has the man agement of the dying department. Thefe cloths are the ft ft which the M ddietown company have intro duced into this city, and we d'*ubt not but every encriuraprmnt wi’il be g ven to the faF of ihtrn, in a decided preference by aft wfo are friendly difpoled to the prv grx is T improvement in our country, It gives us much pleafure, whilll ru ticing this Lhj ft to make mention of Oliver Evans’ fleam e'-g.nrs; all the various machinery of tne ab ;ve eftabl.lhmenc is earned by one cf them made here about 12 m m?hs fince, and which has g ven great ftttUfaftion to che proprietors. In every iefpe& they tor.fider italx'ge ther fuperior to the Engl fh engines (aid the b 11 power for a woollen manu'aftory) not only in the man ner of ufi gc e fteam ad the great faving of fuel refilling therefrom (which is Mr. E anT grrat imorov ment) but in the cenftruftson and fimpluity ©f ali parts of the ma chinery. Bv means of one {team valve revolving in one direction in a rotatory manner, he at once and ues away the necefli y of all the com plicated and expe fivj valves uled to Watt and Bolton’s engines fer introducing and difehatg • g me ft am from the mam cylinder. B't fi c’s the advantages re fulling to the t ftabl fhmrnt from the ufe of (hi* engine in warm ng the ro >ms f<te of txpence from the walfe ft cam that h*s done work, the lime fleam is aifd anplird m connect 1 in with the brufhing ma hine in lio :fh 1• g their cloth, without adopt ing me method of oihng and not prsfii g as is commonly praftfted in England. In this method of finifiring, the cloth does not require Iponging before it is made up. Aurora. ht ere fling Difctvery. —Two very ingenious mrehames, living at Montpelier, within the pale of the Green-Mountains, in Vermont, hav ing a laudable zeal to improve the mechanic arts with advantage to themfelves and their country, and further ftimularrd by the generous premium* Utcred by the French Government for the befi; method to fpin flux, ft?c. engaged in the inven tion of machinery for that purpofe ; and it <s with plcafure that the writer tft tTis article can lav, with the full eft affarani e, thev have accom.pl (li ed th.s grand defign. Fhis ma chiner ■ ft :oa the reft of expe rience : the principle isentirrlv new, and m fi.ru-le as perf. ft. The ma ch net y is now m actual operation, and has tun, more or Ids, foi fix nvon ■ hs pa ft. I he principle, if r’ghrlv apolied with ftmabie materials and corref poadirg machinery will produce e vrrv kmJ of cordage manufaftured F tn flax or hemp, frt>m the coarf tft ope yarn to che fiueft cambrics. The economy produced bv this mat hr erv, when concrafted with cottoa fp'nning, s three e ghts, and Upon mutual labor four fit hs. Fhis aft m fh'ng mprovrment in the an.of Ipinni: g, which mechanics and mm of (nt.nce in ali parts of the globe have labored in vain to proGu e, fermi peculiarly se!erved to be bro’c forth in the new world, ard at a time the mod fortunate. One million cf Francs, or one hun dred ard eighty Jeurn tbcujand Jour hundred dollars. Boft Chronicle. EAR THfiV JAKES. Thefe phenomena, until lately, in the S iKnern Starts, were very rare. Oeis le mem be red to have happened in ’54, and a fecond in ’99 In the year 181 1, on the 13* h Jan. another occurred. The following ftatement may tend to moderate the appreherfi >ns of the people on account of the earch qu-k.B, h ely Fit in this country. I <.ontai's aft tuit is known of the earthquakes that have taken place in the U fired States, to (he north of S .u:h Car Pi.a, O.rlv two have been prcvinUT’ felt in Chi'h fton, one in 1799 nut neither produ :ed anv feriuus confequences. From circumftances it is more probable mat the earthquakes of this cky, sic conf-quenres of caufes located to -he W. a* N. W. than that thay origiuafe in i-s vicinity. ‘ • Extract —1727. A great earth quake m New Eng-:and. This ex tended from Kronebe< k to the ri vet D lawarc. Tnere have been fi/t gr* at tarthq akes in N. Eng land, v z. I> 1638,’58,’63, 1727, ’55, <• and rniiior < nts in 1653, ’6B, ’69 ’7O, 1705 ’2O, ’32, ’44,’55, ’57, ’6O, ’69, ’7l, ‘B3. Iheie were all ibrd as coming from N W. ard g 11. g of? about S. E. Th-*v feveral tunes reached as tar as Maryland, but feldom or never asfar as Carolina, or even Virginia. To the N. E. they have bten generally bounded by Nova Scoti*. No uncommon diforder or mor tafiry followed rhefe earthquakes, bu: in many.places thev threw down (tone fences, roofs, chimnets zr,d parrs of houles. Springs and wrlis cf wa r er were funk far down into the earth.—Some were dried up.— The qualitv of their water efren charged. Dry fpots became q iag mkes, and rr-oift piacts nearly dry. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 18 n. The earth was fuddenly raifed, and in fubfiding was thrown into a vi bratory mnrion. Many clocks were flopped. The vane on the pubftc mark’.'t houfe in Burton was thrown down, and manv other ma:k> of for c or violence were exhibited hi and fF-rent places, and at difficult times. Char teflon paper . Col , JOHN P BOTH. Col. Bovd of the 4r.11 r*g ment United Stares’ infancy, is ab ut 42 years cf age, and wa* born m the neighborhood of B fton. He had very early felt an attar hment to the military profertion, and when ab&ut 18, it is believed obtained a cormruffion in the fervice of the U. States. The circumftances ‘?f thofe times rendering the military life ra ther a bufinefs of iodulgence aaj idlenclsthan of aftivity, %v r> fign ed, and appears to have fLed his attention upon the thea ra of Afn, where many other Americans had before adventured, and f-.nnd mili tary honors and emptovments. Col. Boyd landed on the court f Coromandel, where it is believed he found a friendly reception, as alt relpeftable ftrargers did, from h.s name-fake, Hugh Boyd, the true author cf die celebrated letters of Junius. Fr<;m Madras col. B ivd found no difficulty to reach the Mahratta country, where his fuldiniy appear ance arc! manner fo on found fer vice, as dse phrafe is, in that country.— After making a few campaigns as a loldier of fwitu e among fhe Mah rattas, and maku g hitnfalf m ilter of their manners, military habits and the gmeral policy of the c< un tr;; dunr-g whit hhe difplayed b;orh intrepidity and military talents, he was very ibon diftinguiflied, and nail the command of feveral corps in iucccllior j when the writer of th s article fort became acquainted wirb the reputation of col. B -yd, in A fia, that genrkman had very r gh rank in the M ihratta fervice. Mi litary ra k in India is dtfignattd by the number of men; and a com mand is called murfub-, the com rrunder a munfttbdar —thefe a-r of t Wo, three, tour or fi -re thoufand. Col B yd had a munlub of 20,000 cavalry, which he commanded in feveral aftions with toe h-gheft ert dit. He had for his lieutenant , as munfubdar, Gen. William Tone, a brother of a gentleman who ha'idif tirgu fhfd himlelf in the hiftory of an unfortunate ned opprtflT and nation, the late Theo, Wolfe Tone. Col. Bjyd being attached to his rative country, and the ftacc of A fia ceafing to prefc n t the fame temp tations to military enterprife, and a fame very precarious from the un happy condition of the people and the predominant ii fluencc tna’ pre vails in that rt-gicn—he returned to his country and friends twelve years ago. Of ins merits as a fc idler, and h’s experience, what we have ftared would b- fi.ffivienf} thofe who faw his regiment move through t : i> c ; tv on their way to the v.cftv.’rv'ci. mufc perceived that he haJ - r-'t a way the ruft of md.urv ux. qj ry, (No. 187.