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The Spy Unmasked; J. <sf
J. Harper, 1 82b.
This work consists of the memoirs
of Enoch Crush), the Htifcy Hnvh of
Mr. Cooper's Spy. It is all authen
tic act <>u ll l of the secret servi rs ren
lined by Crush), during the Revolu
tionary H ar, t aken It om Ins ow n lips.
1 hr editor is il. L. 15 rduio, Ksq.
I in a tide of eventful life ot dan*
would Ur t xrotlnit ground work I’ura
run.an r, but w hit h are doubly inter
t*M i,*g 1 1’ <in tiieir truth. M hat a
timing of stirring memories must eu
livru tlir old ago of (.I'osh) —what
pictures Ins dreams must present —
how ‘l* light ful ii in us 1 In-, in the calm
evening ot his life to look t#a k upon
the perils, the changes, lie lights and
the shad's of his morning. Again lie
1 aps troui Ids prison window, again
lie rushes for lift, while the bullet*
f II Urn k around him, and the tramp
of his pursui t* strikes fearfully on Ids
ear—again lie wades the swamp, and
tr ids the forest—what life and
warn.th there are in such recollec
tions’
The volume is embellished with se
veral plates Amongst them is a mi
niature likeness of Mr. Crosby, taken
from life. II cis what we should rail
a dong headed’ man, and he certain
ly stood in need of a long head during
his revolutionary serv i< cs. 11 is face
is grave, honest, and sensible. He is
now about seventy eight years old—
he is in comfortable circumstances,
cultivating a small farm, and euj >y
iug a hale old age. lie is universal
ly esteemed, and bears a most exem
plary character.
From the many interesting scenes
ties ritied in this book we select the
f il >w mg:—
Ii wh at a retired habitation, that
the new!) t inned company of tones
v re hi ibr h.tbii of holdi ig their ho *
n i
cr> ime •tings. Our In ro according ,
ly, omUe Ins arrangements, to have
tin whole • urps. In i self hi lud< and, ta
ken ioio custody. Unwilling, howe
ver, to trust nimself again in the
kin ds of the raug'Ms, ami aware that
bis absence st the tune of the capture,
v mid awaken the suspicious of Ids
lesH fortunate comrades, he applied to
Olonel Morehouse, who resided in
the. viciuity, and requested his co-op
eration. This gentleman bail no im
mediate command, but promised to
assemble and arm a siillh lent number
id men fur this p.irth ular occasion.
Accordingly, at the lime appointed,
the tories being all collected at their
usual rendezvous, two ot the members
hastily entered, with some degree of
Consternation depict* and in their faces,
one of whom addressed the captain.
Sir there is a company of armed
nn n c ollecting at Colonel Morehous
e’s. What can be their object?*
‘Are we betrayed!* exclaimed the
Captain, looking sternly round the
company. *Cau it he possible that
we have any traitors among us?*
‘0 no,’ replied the Lieutenant. ‘The
probability in, that the lower party
are coming up to drive the d—d re
bels oil; and that Morehouse has col- j
let ted this company to oppose them.*
‘Some of you go out and reconnoi
tre, said the captain; ‘and if there be
any appearance of danger, give us
timely notice.*
Five or six immediately sallied
fi l th, while tin it* comrades remained
in anxious suspense for their report.
This suspense, however, was not of
long duration; fr the challenge of
.stand! surrender!* soon saluted the
ears of the whole party, and threw
them into a state of consternation,
dismay and confusion, whi h it would
be ditihult, il not impossible to tie
s’ ribi*. Sotno sprang from the win
down, and attempted to conceal them**
selves by plunging into snow-bunks;
others ran to tin* top of the building,
and started themselves under the
e\t •> ot the r iof. Crosby retreated
to an adjoining room, and crept im
'icr n bed; hut was suon dragged out,
when he learned to his secret joy,
that scarcely one of the party had
succeeded in inaki g good nit escape.
Seeing ins fallow captives undergoing
the process of o. iug bound, our hero
was Kilim diately seized with sin b a
severe latm ness in one of his limbs,
*ts rendered it utteny impossible for
ill ill to Walk.
•1 beg that you would not bind me,’
said lie to the Col-.ml; ‘for in at
tempting to es ape 1 have sprained
my kg in a most shocking manner,
and am not able to move a step.
•Go you sli dl!* exclaimed tbo Cos
loud, preparing to mount nis horse,
j •Lame or not lame, dead or alive, to
! prison you go with the rest. If you
I cannot Walk, you shall be rained;
[here’s a good hors**, that will carry
double, ami you shall oe lied to the
crupp i\*
bo say iug the Colonel mounted, a nd
ordered two of ins men to raise up
Crosby and scat him, straddle on the
crupper behind linn. The men in
staniiy otnyed, without much tender
mss for the sprained leg, of which the
prisoner bitterly complained.
The whole cavalcade, liore and
foot now took up the line of march,
with tiieir prisoners tied together in
p.ms. On approachiug the place ot
coniiocmeut, too Colonel dropped in
the rear, and in a whisper gave Cros
by the proper directions for escaping.
Tne escort halted in two lines, be
tween winch tne prisoners marched
ioio lhe budding. While every eye
Was turned upon the procession, Cro--
by slipped from the Colonel’s horse,
and uis.tppeared; nor Was Ins absence
nou td K.r several minutes; so that
all search for me lugitive was render
ed unavailing.
A PARSOJWS DREAD.
In a storm at sea, tin* chaplain
ask. and one oi the crew, if he thought
there was any danger. ♦() yes,’ re
plied the sail #r; if<l blows as haul as
ii and es now, we shall be in heaven be
fore twelve oYlo k to-night.* ‘The
ctiaplun, ter'ilia l at the expression,
• ne.u out. * The Lordfor'nd.
DISPOSAL Ob'A JOKE.
Mr. Curran oust img, one day in
court, a louse crawling on a brotiier
bartisK r’s forehead, told him of it.
• You joke,’ said the other. *1 you
have many such jokes in your bead,’
replied Curran, *ihe sooner you crack
them the better.
II i . r..i. -i i mi — i —aimruißir a
LA.VJjIUAL'ES ton CUAVItEbS.
George If. uiluier, ol Ogietoorpe,
Richard 11. Wilde, ot Richmond,
t hares E. Haynes, of Haneo< k,
Gen. VV dey Thompson, of Elbert,
Major James Mernwether, of t lark,
Cm O.iniH ii. liiailsford, of M In tosh,
Jones M. Wayne, of Chatham,
Thomas F. Foster, ol Greene,
Charles Wdhamsou, of Baldwin,
1. U. P. Charitou, of Chatham,
M ij or Win. Triplett, of V% likes
J olio A. t utiibert, of Monroe.
The following gentlemen were nomin
ated by the l roup party, as electors of
President and Vice-President The elec
tion t..kes place ou the first Monday in
November next, bv the people.
Col. JOHN MAXWELL, of Bryan.
HUBERT K. REID, Esq. ot Kichtnond.
Dr. V\ ILLIAM TERRELL, of Hancock.
AUGUSTIN 6. l L vY TON, ol Clark.
Gen. 1). BLACK SHE A It, of Laurens
SOLOMON GRAVES, Esq. ol Newton.
Col- JOH N HU 1 HEKFOivI), of Baldwi u
JOHN MOOKK. Kq. ol Oglethorpe.
Maj. OLIVEIt POKIER, of Greene.
Agreeable to an order from the
llunorable the Inferior Couitof Uo.
lumbia county, sitting for Ordinary
purposes, will be sold, on the first
Tuesday in November next, at the
Const House of Columbia County.
One tract of Laud, in said County,
containing by estimation, Two Hun
dred and Twenty-two acres, adjoining
Wrightsboro* Commons, belonging
to tne estate of Peter Overby, fur
i the benefit of the lleirs and Credit
ors.—Terms made known ou that
dav, bv
ROBERT WALTON Ex’r.
August 9lh 1828. Il—2t.
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WILLIAM G. SIMMS. Jr.
Charleston. June i, iror.
MxCOX SALES
OF TIIE RSERVE LAN LS,
THE Town LOTS and the
31 11 1 31 Gr Ea
ILL commence on Wednesday!
▼ T the first day of next October, and j
will continue from dav to dav with the
exception of the first Monday and Tues
day of that month. We shall then ex
pose to sale in Macon, to the highest bid
der, in conformity with a late act of the
General Assembly :
All the town lots not heretofore dispos
ed ol ; being upwards of
in number; on the western side of the
river ; among ♦hem are twelve adjoining
the river ad a fe*v o;h. r choice lots for
busine-v. The re-idue ate in more re
tired situations, and generally afford good
building *itesJn a pleasant and growing
part of the town.
Forty two gardening lots of 10 and 20
ar res each ; laid out f om one to one and
a half miles distant from the town in two
ranges around the V\ estern Common.
Also, twenty eight lots on the Extern
side ; that is to say, four of twenty, eight
of ten acres, and sixteen of one acre each.
I hese la*t include the place sometimes
known as Newtown; and wj!| b* sold,
subject to certain lea a e* from the United
States, to expire next Jauuarv.
The residue of the land- in the two
reserves, are laid out in tracts of 100
acres, and fractional parts of such tracts.
Os these, the uplands wi’l be next offer
ed ; the lowest number- fit st; beginning
with those on the western side.
On Wednesday the 22d of October
next, at 11 o’clock, A. M. will be offered
at the place of the other sales, tiie
Bridge at Macon,
together with one acre of land on the en-t
----ern side of the Ocnulgee river, as one of
the hutments ; and Mie privilege of usjrg
■so much of Fifth or H idgo stieet on th
western bank as may be necessary for the
other butment of tiie Bridge.
On Thursday the 23J of October, vvr
shall proceed to sell the
Swamp & Bottom
lands within the Reserves, those on the
western side first; and continue from day
to day until completed.
The particular numbers that will be
sold on eath day cannot be specified; but
it is intended to put up the several kimla
and descriptions in the order here men
tioned.
The Reserves are generally well wa
tered, and contain several good mi 1
seats. The area of the whole cannot he
exa< tly known unt 1 the fdatting is com
pleted; but twenty-one, thousand acres is
the estimated quantity contained ir
both Heserves and the adjoining fractions,
exclusive of the town suiveys. Perhaps
no body of land of the same extent can be
found, that embea es a g> ater variety
in its surface, soil and timber. Situat- and
just in that region where tiie pine of the
lower country changes to the oak aid
hi< kory of the upper; it includts both
hese g*o\v hs and soils in most ot V eir
varieties; in some portions entire, in oth
ers interspersed ov blended. Tracts of
very hdly land, *.r that which is quin If v
el, or gently undulating, may be had of
al'oo-t every quality; either of oak and
hi kory. or pine, or river lands; and sev
eral of those kinds occasionally united in
tracts of 100 acres, and fractions of va
rious sizes, adapted to most of the pur
poses for which land is want and.
From the pressure of the times, and
mo-e especially from the quantity of laud
and t wn lots that have been lately m
the market, these mu?t unavoidably sell
low. And, lying at the head of naviga
tion, immediately around the third town
of the state in population and trade, there
is every reasonable prospect of their soon
ri-ing in value.
Purchasers have now an opportunity,
anl apparently the last that will soon of
f- r, of obtaining on cheap and very indul
gent terms of payment, choice situations
fur residence, for t: ade or for fai miug.
TERMS Ob’ SALE.
Perchaseis ot lands and lots are to pay
the Commissioners cn the day of the
purchase, one fifth part of the purchase
money in cash or current bills of char
tered Banks of this Slate, and the residue
in four equal annual instalments.—JVo se
cuirty will be required .
The bridge will be sold on the same
term-; except that the purchaser will be
required to give bond with two or more
approved sureties for the payment of thft
four subsequent annual instalments.
w. n. Harmon, j
C. B. STRONG, t Comm’s
O H. PRINCE,
Macon July 5, 1828. P—9t.
03“ The Editors of the Charleston City
Gazette the ‘Tuscaloosa M irror, and oj
th*> t>eve ral public Gazettes, in this State
will publish the foregoitg weekly,
weeks in their respective papers, and for
ward their accounts to M ARM A DUKE
J SLADE, E-q. Clerk of the Commis
sioners. in surh time as to reach Lirn*.y
the Ist of November.
Mill be sold, on the fiist Tuesday in
IWember next, at the Court House, in
M arren county, the real estate cf John
I urner. and. c. of said county, consisting of
150 acres of land (the widows dower ex
cepted ) The legatees are hereby notifi
ed, that the widow intends claiming her
dowre of said land, if any of the heii te
said estate, has any lawful objection,
are r* quested to come forward and let it
be known.
JAMES TURNER, Adm-r
Jnlv 7 1828. 7 6od
i utKimu th- aUti d..ie, ppii ai ,o
will be to the Honorable Inferior
Court, of \\ arren county, when sitting
tor ordinary purposes for leave to sell
the real estate ol Drury Pate, dec.
JOSEPH LEONARD, Adm‘r.
July 12th, 1828, 7-4 m