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affords a most flattering* picture fit’ the pro
gress tve have made towards the summit
ol national power, and wealth and gran
deur. Upon this point our mind is lost in
astonishment. The President has said all
that it is necessary to say ; and we will con
clude these hasty arid imperfect remarks,
with the inquiries of the Edinburgh Re
view—•t Where is this prodigious increase
ot numbers, this vast extent of dominion, to
end ? What bounds has nature set to the
progress of this mighty nation ?”
THE MISSIONARY.
MOUN'I ZION, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1821.
Considerable solicitude has been felt and
expressed, for some time past, in relation to the
fate of the treaty recently negotiated with the
chiefs of the Creek Nation. This treaty has final
ly received the ratification of the Senate of the
U. States, and will soon put the State of Georgia
in possession of a large, and, it is believed, a val
uable territory over which the Indian claim has
hitherto remained unextinguished. Inasmuch a9
1 rliis section of country acquired by the treaty lies
within the geographical limits of our state, and as
the natives are to receive a fair equivalent for their
land, we can cordially unite in the general satis
faction which is manifested on this occasion. It
is pleasant to see the arts of civilization and the
blessing- of social lile, making'their way into the
recesses of the western wilderness, especially
when their progress is not attended with the ex
termination of the original and rightful owners of
the soil. But a still more charming scene is pie
sented to the eye when our red brethren are indu
ced by the example and instruction of the whites,
to abandon the implements of the chase and of
savage warfare, and to devote themselves to the
cultivation of the soil, and to the formation of in
tellectual and virtuous habits It is certainly a
question which addresses itself with power and
pungency to the bosoms of freemen and of Chris
tians, how far we are bound to impart the rich
blessings of civilization and the richer blessings
of Christianity to the heathen who live upon our
borders, and whose empire is every year dimin
ishing by the rapid extension of our own settle
ments. Some of the Creeks are now in the habit
of sending their children into the state of Georgia
for education, and, no doubt, a little attention
from our citizens might induce many more to im
itate their example ; and the natural operation
of this measure would be to prepare the way for
the ulterior and decisive step for their redemption
from the sins and degradation and wretchedness
of savage life—the establishmtnf of schools and
missions among them. To raise them to the en
joyment of rational and enlightened freedom, and
to plant within their wild domains the institutions
of the Christian religion, would entwine around
our brow a more verdant wreath than all our ac
quisitions by treat y, and all our victories in war.
The territory necessary for their settlement
would be but small, and as a part of the great
human family they a>e entitled to as much as may
be requisite fer this purpose. The Christian who
believes in the ultimate triumph of the Son of God
over all the nations of the earth, however intellec
tually or morally debased, will derive much
comfort from (he anticipation of a speedy dawn of
that day when the light of science and of piety
will shine upon the dark regions of the West.
The disposition of the land acquired by the late
treaty, involves a question highly important to the
State of Georgia. An extra session of the Legis
lature has already been called far the purpose of
settling this question. We are not in the habit of
interfering with political affairs—and have never
chained ourselves to the car of any leader, or
linked our destiny with any party. To be honest
and independent, and at the same time to sup
port those schemes with which are entwined the
intelligence, and prosperity, and honour of the
“date, have ever beer, our aim. The great ques
tion now to be settled by our representatives, is,
/whether this land shall he disposed of, as several
former purchases have been, by Lottery, or
whether it shall be sold, say on moderate terms,
and the avails appropriated to the benefit of the
State. The Lottery will probably be the popular
side of the question, though an effort will, no
douht, be made in favour of a sale. It is our opin
ion that the question deserves a full discussion.—
It is vital!’ important, that so large an amount of
property should receive a judicious direction.—
Future, generations will reap the rewards either of
our wisdom or folly in (his transaction.
It is by no means our intention, as Editors of
the Missionary, to enter largely into ttii discus
sion. Believing that much may he said on both
sides of the question, we are willing to open our
paper for any we!! written and judicious pieces
which may tend to diffuse light, and to bring the
puhlick mind to a proper decision. Argument ,
\ and not passion, however, must form the basis of
these productions. The party spleen and per
sonal recriminations which arc, by too manv,
deemed the prime ingredients of newspaper con
troversy, are repugnant to our own feelings, and
incompatible with the character of our paper.
Bet ter that the pages of our weekly journals should
he left blank, than that they should be filled with
materials ijbich serve as additional fuel for that
fire which is already too intense, and which not
■ infrequently consumes every principle of charity
and brotherhood in its progress.
In favour of a Lottery it will piohably he urged,
that the treasury of the state is rich, and that there
can he no pressing demand for an augmentation
of its funds ; that this disposition of the land is
liberal, especially to the pjor, who hy the ope
rations of chance or the direction of Providence,
may obtain a comfortable establishment which
the condition of their finances would not enable
I hern to purchase ; and that repeated precedents
lender the measure necessary as an act of justice.
Its advocates will lay their principal stress upon
this last consideration. The appeal is certainly a
natural and forcible one. The argument drawn
from this source is plausible, if nol solid. A vast
number of adventurers have been successful in
former lotteries j ami to discontinue the opera-
jtionof this while there is lurid yet to be j
| disposed of,would appear to bear hard upon those J
i citizens who have been unsuccessful in all their
former draws. But we shall not urge or illustfate
these points at large.
We shall barely glance at the opposite side of
the question. Those who stand forth as the ad
vocates of a sale of this lan if, may urge that this
measure is a species of legislative gambling which
ought not to receive the sanction of an enlighten
ed and virtuous state ; that the poor may find a
remedy for their indigence atid a spur to their en
terprise in the moderate price and the liberal
terms on which they may be permitted to pur
chase;—that one inexpedient measure cannot
justify another though it comes clothed in all the
authority of precedent; and that however the
state treasury be filled even to overllowing, that
our internal improvements have large demands
which still remain uncancelled. They will point
us W> publick roads which lead directly to the
great marts of our slate, and which are at certain
seasons of the year almost impassable;—to toll
bridges which endanger the neck of that mortal
who has the temerity to cross them ; —to deep !
and wide water-courses which have no bridges at
all, and upon the banks of which the way-faring
man who shall happen to arrive after a recent
shower,may pause and let his “ patience have her
perfect work,” till the swollen current has the!
goodness to pass by ; —to causeways which not un
frequently swallow horses alive, and leave the
rider or driver to extricate himself in the best
way lie can from that gulf which would soon be
come bis muddy grave ; —to large and majestick
rivers which might be rendered navigable for the
transportation of most of the produce of our state,
if the efforts of art Were f npt-radded to the work
of nature; —and to a multitude of academies’
which are abandoned hy teachers and pupils, or
to others whose materials are crumbling to their
foundations for the want of publick patronage.
They will tell us that more than half of the coun
ties in the state, have no institutions of learning
worthy the name ; —ami with a tone which these
men are capable of feeling and expressing, they
will ask us whether this be the time to set up for
a publick Raffle a tract of land containing
five millions of acres, and worth at least, fire mil
lions of dollars, til! we have discharged the debt
which we We to our honour and happiness as a
state. ‘1 hey will call upon our legislators in the
firm tones of justice, and in the softer tones of en
treaty, not to put it in the power of the most cen
! sorious to assert that they are governed in this
j great transaction hy a regard to popularity—or
| that it is easier to make any amount of money by
becoming a “ hewer of wood, or a drawer of wa
: ter,” than to obtain an appropriation of a similar
J amount in our wealthy state for internal and pub
’ lick improvements.
Those who are on this side of the question will
not be able to discern any injustice in the dis
! continuance of the lottery system at the present
! moment. Those who have not been successful in
i the former draws have stood on equal ground
. with others ; and it is not the fault of the Legisla
! tnre that they are not now in possession of a tract
jof land. After all jthe lands which may be ac
quired from the natives shall be distributed by lot
tery, there will be many who have not drawn a
tract—and hoiv are their claims to be quieted ?
On the principles of a lottery, a man who has
drawn a blank is no more entltied to a second
chance than one who has drawn a prize.
But we shall put an end to these speculations
on both sides of the great question ; and invite the
publick to express their opinion. Liberal inquiry
is most likely to conduct to the best results.
Few persons alive in the state of Georgia, have
ever known as cold and backward a spring as the
present. On the morning of the 9th of the pre
sent month in some parts of the low country
where snow i not common during any- part of the
winter, it fell so as to cover the gr®und, and in
some places it is said to have been two inches
deep. The orange trees were then in full bloom.
On the morning of the 27th in this place, ice was
seen more than half an inch thick ; it continued
to freeze in the shade till Bor 9 o’clock. Earlv
wheat in some places has bepn cut down—the
peaches are, no doubt, all killed, and probably
most of the fruit except it may be a few late
apples. It is rather remarkable, that this is the
second year which has proved fatal to fruit ‘
throughout the greater part of this state.
1 Jar.*. laMBM IIT Will ■■
Foreign and Domestiek Intelligence.
GEORGIA. !
By His Excellency John Clark, Governnur and
Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy i
of this Slate, and of the Militia thereof:
A Proclamation.
Whereas, by the eighth section of the second
article of the Constitution of tfiis State, it is de
clared that the Governour shall have power to
convene the General Assembly on extraordinary
occasions:
And whereas l have received information that
the Treaty concluded on the Bth day of January
last between the United States’ Commissioners
and the Creek nation of Indians for the extin
guishment of their title to certain lands for the
use of this State has been ratified, and deeming
this an occasion requiring the immediate attention
of the General Assembly, I have thought fit to is- I
sue this my Proclamation for convening the same
at the State-house in Milledgeville, on Monday,
the thirtieth day of April next, hereby enjoining
and requiring the attendance of the several mem
bers of the respective branches thereof, at the
place, and on the day above mentioned.
Given under my hand and the Great fjeal of
the State, at the State-house in Milledge
ville, this 17th day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the forty-fifth.
JOHN CLARK.
By the. Governour,
ABNER HAMMOND, Sec'y of State.
It is said that Major General Brown will be re-;
turned iu the army, which is reduced hy the last 1
acts of Congress to one Major General and one j
Brigadier. General Jackson who has expressed j
a wish to retire from the army has no doubt been I
appointed Governour of Florida. It is under- j
stood that the application for offices in Florida |
are immense,•anil that many members of Congress
were candidates. [Sav. Republican. •
i Wcrejoice to hear tfiat General Jackson has
! been appointed hy the President, Governour of
1 the Territory of the Fldridus, and what is still
more gratifying to us, we learn that he has accept
ed the appointment. That is an office of high re
sponsibility, and of arduous duties. Man thieves
and smugglers have usually found means to con
vey (heir cargoes into the United States, by means
of the Floridas. We have no doubt that this de
testable traffick will now be broken up. Gen.
Jackson is one of those high and decided char
acters, that will not suffer his authority with im
punity to he contemned and disregarded. He
holds an o/fice not for the purpose of show, of os
tentation, or of salary : he has been familiar with
publick business, and he has adorned every sta
tion to which he has been appointed. We-shall
behold in his administration, an energy that will
grapple with and subdue every confronting diffi
culty-living or dying he will still he Jackson.
He has in times of great danger impressed his own
character upon that of his country.
[Balt. Mom. Ch ron.
On Tuesday last, 20th inst. the new Episcopal
Church, in this city, was consecrated by the
name of St. Paul’s Church, to the worship of
Almighty God, by the Right Rev’d Nathaniel
Bowen, D. D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the Diocese of South Carolina ; the
Rev. Henry Anthon, Minister of St. Bartholo
mew’s Parish, South Carolina, and the Rev.
Hugh Smith, Pastor of the new Church, being
present and assisting. Geo. Advertiser.
Fire. —On Sunday evening last, between the
| hours of7 and 8 o’clock, our citizeus were alariu
led by this appaling cry. It originated in a two
j story borne at the lower end of be
; longing to Mr. Thomas Wicker.—The flames
j soon communicated to the fwo adjoining buildings
below, which were in a short time consumed.
The usual vigilance, and promptitude of the Fire
Company, was exercised on this occasion, and
i with the aid, readily given by the citizens of this
place,the ravages of this devouring element,were
here fortunately arrested. The losses sustained
besides the buildings, we understand is but small.
[Augusta Herald.
< Communicated far the Georgia vUvertiscr.
\ Caution. —The Christian publick, and espe
cially the members of the Methodist Church,
j are hereby cautioned against a man who says his
| name is Parker Williams. Fie passed through
| this place some time last winter, and then said
i that he was a Methodist preacher; from this place
he directed his course to Darien, and that por-!
j tion of country included in the Ohoopie Circuit.
’ He passed himself there as a Methodist preacher.
! He has recently returned to this city and preach
; ed, and it is understood that he wished a collec
tion to be made in his favour. Said Williams is i
destitute of credentials,*and it is believed does not I
belong to any Church, and we trust that the j
friends of religion will have sufficient regard for !
she honour and discipline of the Church of Christ
to discountenance him.
It appears on enquiry, that the report of the !
United States’ Frigate Congress being left at one j
of the West India ports, to sail in two days for ‘
the United States, is a mistake, arising, as it is |
said, from a merchant ship of that name being :
mistaken for the frigate. The Congress, howev- \
er, has been absent on a cruize in the Southern 1
Ocean and Chinese Seas nearly two years, and
the report was therefore not without probability to
sustain it. We believe it is six months since ally
direct information has been received from the
Congress.— Nat. Ini.
Longevity. —The following memoranda were
subjoined to the census, lately taken of the coun
ty of Prince Edward :
Mrs. Rosana Adams is 120 years old, and pos
sesses health and usual activity.—Her sight is
perfectly good. She is a native of Ireland.
Mrs. Mary Wison is 1C!) years old, and enjoys j
good health and sight.—These two females are
residents of Prince Edward county, and engaged
in domestiek employment.— Richmond Enq.
Louisville, Feb. 14.
On Thursday, the Bth inst. a riot took place
between a party of about 30 Kentuckians and
the citizen? of New Albany, Indiana. The form
er were endeavouring to bring off a negro fellow
who was defended by the t latter. Several per
sons were wounded in the affray, but none mor- ,
tally. We regret to hear of such occurrences
hetween the citizens of two states so closely allied
by interest, and whose political and national
feelings should be the same. On the one hand,
the rights of the people of this state should be
respected; on the other the civil authority of our
sister state should not be violated, or her jndicia- j
ry and her laws, as well as the feelings of the re- j
| spectable part of her citizens disregarded. We !
, have not heard the facts connected with this rep
rehensible occurrence, and are therefore unable to
: say which of the parties is the most blameable.
i At all events it is an individual and not a state
affair.
Florida. —The territory now ceded to the Uni- i
ted States, is about 400 miles long by 340 broad,
at its widest part. Part ofitformsa large tongue j
■ of land projecting into the Atlantick, and extend-!
I ing to within 150 miles of the island of Cuba. ‘
Its interiour boundaries are on the states of Geor- 1
gia and Alabama. The population is not suppos
ed to exceed 30,000 hesides wandering Indians, j
St. Augustine, Pensacola, and St. Marks, are the J
three largest towns. The harbourof Pensacola is j
. said by seamen to be one of the safest in the
world ; but vessels drawing more than 21 feet of
water cannot pass the shoal at the entrance. The
first occupants of the territory were the Spaniards ; ‘
hut they were frequently expelled hy French and
other adventurers. In 1763 it was ceded to Eng- ‘
land, in exchange for Cuba, which, with Yankee ‘
aid, she captured in the preceding war. During (
the American wjr the Spaniards repossessed them
selves of a part of the Country, and at the peace (
of 1783, it was ceded to Spain. It is now part of j,
the United States, and its mutations have ceased.
The possessor of the Floridas holds the key ‘
of the W'est Indies, and commands the Gulf of ‘
Mexico. Full possession of the territory is to he i J
given to the United -States, within six months from
the exchange of ratifications. [Boston Centintl.
! It is a remarkable fact hitherto unaccounted
for by philosophers, that every fortieth year
should be distinguished by the severity of its win
ter. This was strikingly exemplified in the years
i 1740 and 17iU), in which the cold was so intense,
that they are still referred to with chilling recol
lection, as dreadfully severe. Now, another pe
riod of the same duration having transpired, the
absolute dominion of frost is once more firmly es
tablished. [Petersburgh Intelligencer.
Constantinople , Dec. 15.—The Pacha of Bos
nia has sent to the Sublime Torte one hundred and
fifty six heads , which, thanks to the coldness of
the season, have arrived in a passable state of
preservation—they are a glorious trophy won by
| the Pacha front the brigands who infest the milita- I
jry frontiers of Austria. The Tartars, who were
I the bearers of these spoils, received considera
j hie presents in money and were invested, accord*
! ing to custom, with robes of honour.
! It is said a real merntaid arrived at London, by
: the Borneo, from Bencooien, Sumatra ; it i, of
a perfect human shape from the head to the mid
dle, and the rest is a tail like that of the dolphin
179
FROM BUENOS AYRES.
Extract of a letter dated Buenos Ayres, Dec. 2. j
Peace had been made with the Montc-videaus,
arid things seemed to assume a brighter appear- j
ance, when news was received that the Araucan- j
ian Indians were entering the country. They !
attacked a town on the borders of Saite, about
seventy leagues off, killed every man, and carri- j
ed off all the women and children ; they were
headed hy Carern, who is a natural enemy to the |
people of this city and San Martin, who brutally
murdered (woof his brothers. The Indians of,
the provinces in the southeast have also destroyed j
several extensive farming towns.
Paraguay still keeps itself locked up from all j
internal communication,
Eutre Rios has receded from the Union, and j
has declared itself an independent state.
I do not think that Lima will be taken by San
Martin.
Lord Cochrane has been defeated several times i
at Calao, the port of Lima. The Spanish Vice I
Roy is reported to have 45,000 men under ills j
command and to be a man of great merit. San
Martin has 7000 infantry and 5000 Cavalry.
Prussia. —Despatches, it is said, were received
on Monday from the King of Prussia, stating that
his Majesty does not mean to proceed to the meet
ing of Sovereigns at Laybach, the popular feeling
in his own country requiring his personal pre
sence.
Important. —The peculiar property of the Col
chicum seeds in allaying irritation of the wind
pipe, lungs, &c. and thereby removing the causes
of asthma and consumption, is the greatest dis
covery that has been made in medicine. It ap- j
pears by-the last number of the Monthly Gazette
of health that a few doses of the syrup will ef
fectually remove the symptoms of asthma, arid
arrest incipient consumption, and in a few days
it will restore the patient to health ; and that the
wine of the seeds, combined with an alkali, as
sprtedily cures gout and rheumatism. So extra
ordinary has been the salutary effects of these
new-medicines in those diseases, that the editors
do not hesitate to pronounce them specifioks.
The other information this popular medical, die
tetick, and philosophical Journal contains, par
ticularly the exposition of literary quackery,
compositions of nostrums, and disgraceful prac- j
tices of certain practitioners, &c. will become
highly interesting. [ London Observer.
There were imported into Liverpool, from the
United Stales, from the Ist of January to the 30th
Nov. last, 297,064 bales of cotton, being an in
i crease of 96,000 oalesover the preceding year.
In the year 1806, there were 64,000 half eagles
coined at the mint of tiie U. S. 8-10,000 half dol
lars, 206,000 quarter dollars, 348,000 cents,.2s6,
! 000 half cents.
From the Christian Journal fur January.
I Singular Preservation. —An interesting article
upon the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, ap
pears in a late English periodical work, in which
the emigrants are about to settle, pourtraying its
advantages and disadvantages, with the situatiou
; the emigrant is likely to be placed in, on his first
I arrival. In noticing the unerring skill of the gra
zier, [or Keboor] colonist with his inu-ket, the
I writer of the article relates the following little
i narrative ; the hero of which was a person of the
i name o! Van Wyk ; and the story of his 11 peri
; lous and fearful shot” is given in his own words :
i “It is now [said he] more than two years, in
I the very place where we stand, I ventured to
j take one of the most daring shots that ever was
| hazarded. My wife was sitting within tiie house,
| near the door ; the children were playing about
I her ; and I was without, near the house, busied ]
’ in doing something to a wagon, when suddenly,
i though it was mid-day, an enormous lion appear
j ed, came up, and laid himself quietly down in
j the shade, upon the the threshold of the door.
‘ My wife, cither frozen with fear, or aware of the
danger attending any attempt to fly, remained
j motionless in her place, while the children took
, refuge in her lap. The cry they uttered attrac
i ted my attention, and I hasteued towards the
i door ; but my astonishment may well be conceiv- j
j ed, when I found the entrance to it barred in such J
! a way. Although the animal had not seen me, j
! unarmed as I was, escape seemed impossible ; j
yet I glided gently, scarcely knowing what 11
meant to do, to the side of the house, up to the |
window of my chamber, where I knew my loaded
gun was standing. By a most happy chance I
i had set it in a corner close by the window, so that
I could reach it with my hand ; the opening being
too small to admit of my having got in, and still j
more fortunately, the door of the room was open j
so that I could see the whole danger of the scene. I
‘Fhe lion was beginning to move, perhaps with |
the intention of making a spring. There was no j
l longer any time to think : I called softly to the j
j mother not to be alarmed, and invoking the name j
l of the Lord, fired my piece. The ball passed di- j
rectiy over the hair of my boy’s head, and lodged
, in the forehead of the lion, immediately above his I
eyes, which shot forth, as it were, sparks of fire, j
1 arid stretched him on the ground, so that lienev-1
er stirred more.”
Extraordinary Wager. —Mr. Ifudde, the vene
rable postmaster of Lismore, lately travelled for a
wager from that town to Fermoy, about 17 Eng
* lish miles in a Dungarvon oyster-tub, drawn by a
| pig, a badger, two eats, a goose and a hedgehog.
The eccen trick traveller wore a red nightcap,
! and merely used a common pig driver’s whip.
He is in his 97th year. * [London paptr.
From the Raleigh Star.
Mr. Editor, —1 have, through the medium of
one of your late newspapers, been informed that
1 am dead .’ This, Mr. Editor, I positively deny,
and in the language of Mr. John Allen, “I de
clared that it was not so, as soon as 1 heard it
and this I know to be a fact, from several reasons;
and the circumstance, that I aiu still able to eat
my Share of bacon and porridge is not the least of
them.
I have, Mr. Editor, imparted the above news,
that my professional business may not be on the
wane from any mistaken impression my customers
may be under as it regards my supposed death ;
and to prevent any unnecessary grief which might
arise among my numerous friends and relative- on
my account. WM. LESTER, j
Chapel-hill, March 11, 1821.
N. B. 1 still continue to carry on the Shoe- j
mak'ng Business at my old stand on Main Street,
Chapel-hill. I
MARRIED,
On Tuesday evening the 271 h inst. by the Bov.
Mr. Flournoy, Mr. Leavin Culver, to Miss'Fran
ces A. Brodnax.
aa*r umimi n— n————i—■>—*——ii>wwimown—
Notice.
THE Trustees of the German Lutheran Con
gregation at Khenezer, Etlingham County,
State of Georgia, will commence re-urveying the
town of Ebenezer, and the Eastern and Western
Garden Lots on the 21st day of May next, by vir
tue of an act passed in the Legislature, authoriz
ing them as Commissioners thereof. All persons.
Executors, Administrators, Guardians, &<• a ill
be so kind as to send the number and boundaries ■
of their lots, <Scc. to either of the subscribers, so as
to enable them to find out the lots nd vacant
lots.
Jonathan Rvltn,
Gottleih Ernst.
Letters left with Mr. F. Herb, Savannah,
will answer. 1
PRICES CURRENT AT AUGUSTA.
Corrected every week from theGeorgva Advertiser.
March, 24.
Cotton. [Upland] Ift to 13 1-2
i Flour, $6 50 to 7
Corn, 50
Tallow, 18
Beeswax, 28 to 30.
•! Butter, 12 1-2 to 3i 1 4
Bacon, 8 to 10
Candles, [Tallow] 24
Do. [Sperm. | 50
Whiskey, 45 to 50
Brandy, [Peach] 75
Do. [Apple] 45
Do. [French] 2
Ru.vi, [Jamaica] 1 25
Do. [N. E.] ‘ 45
Gin. [Holland] 112 1-2
Do. [Northern] 50
Moj.asses, 35 to 45
Suoar, [Muscovj 9to 11
Do. [Refined] 25
Coffee, [Green,] 27 to 29
Cotton Bagging, 22 to 23
Iron, [litis, & Swe.] 5 to 5 1-2
Do. [Eng. & Amo.] 4 1-2 to 5
Steel, [German] 17 to 20
Do. [Blistered] 12 1-2
Salt, 60 wholesale 68 retail
City Hotel—Savannah.
I FXN HE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends
-L and the publick at large, that he has taken
that elegant new establishment in Savannah, be
longing to Eleazer Early, Esq. The building is
in such a state of forwardness as enable o him te.
open it for the reception and accommodation of
boarders, travellers and transient customers. It
is situated on the Bay, in the pleasantest part of
the city, and in the most central for business.
The Subscriber’s establishment will be called the
j City Hotel, and will be furnished in a superiour
style of comfort and accommodation. Ilis Bar
will be constantly supplied with the best liquors,
and wines of every description; his Table with
| the best food that the market of the city can af
ford, or hi- personal exertions cap procure from
other places; and his chambers shall he in all re
spects neat, clean and cornfor’.ihle. He will also
have a Reading Room, where merchants and
others may have constant access to the newspa
pers and prices current of all the principal cities
in the Union, as well an to tiie registry of the en
trances and clearances of vessels.
Boxes are provided for the fixing of commer
cial arid other advertisements, and care taken
that they preserve their places and that they be
removed every Saturday night.
Private parties, societies, clubs and associations
i will be furni-bed with rooms, ami served with ev
ery attention.
The Subscriber therefore hopes that with such
advantages as his house will possess, added to F>is
own zeal, and the attention, obedience and fidel
ity of liis servants, to meet a correspondent de
gree of patronage from a liberal publick.
ORAN RYltn.
N. B. The Subscriber’s establishment on East
1 Bay, in Charleston, (called Byrd’s Hotel) will he
carried on and conducted as it has heretofore
been, and will afford great facility of accommoda
: tion for such gentlemen as may leave his house in
1 Savannah ami travel on business or otherwise to
’ Charleston.
9 Savannah, March 1821. 45tf
ij House Servant for Sale.
A LIKELY YELLOW WOMAN, about
24 or 25 years of age, that can be well re
i j commended as a house servant. If not previous
. j ly disposed of she w ill be sold at publick auction
2 i at the market-house in Sparta on Tuesday, the
1 j 10th day of April next, on a credit of nine months,
v j Far further particulars inquire of M. H. Carriqg
- j ton, at Mount Zion.
: | March 26, 1821.
. I
1 PROPOSAL
] j For publishing in Augustine, East Florida,
ii A WEEKLY PAPER,
; I TO BE ENTITLED
j THE FLORIDA GAZETTE.
t
XT is the glorious characteristic!? of the age in
1 ; 1 which we live, that the Press, if not the hcr
, j aid, is always the attendant upon every revoln
_ j tion, having for its object the emancipation of
, | mind or the happiness of man. The Provinces of
1 j Florida having now become a part of the territory
, | of the LTiited States, it is believed that the tide of
. j emigration will set rapidly towards hershores, jn
. j creasing her wealth, and filling her ports with our
1 i enterprising and industrious fellow citizens of the
| old states, and offering a home and a refuge to the
! exile and the fugitive from the oppression of Eu
{ ropean thraldom. Favoured by nature with a
j fruitful soil—abounding iq articles of luxury and
j commerce, and blessed wi'h a climate more con
genial to the constitution of the stranger and so-
Ijourner than the southern states, this section cf
■ our country must become great and powerful, and
in time rival its neighbours in Agriculture, Com
i merce and in Arts. With these impressions, and
I under the belief that a well conducted Press is
one of the most powerful auxiliaries, not only to
morality and leligion, blit in promoting the wel
fare of any particular section of country, the sub
scribers propose to publish in the city of St, Au
-1 gnstine, a Newspaper, under the above title,
j The Editors of the G uzetfe do not wish to make
’ promises, or to raise expectations which may
never be realized. It is sufficient to say that the
politicks of tfieir publication shall be American ,
and their conduct in the management shall be in.
strict accordance with the maxim—
“ Open to all parties—ln fluenced by none.”
It will be the object of their industry and labour
to render the Gazette the vehicle of the latest in
telligence. Political, Commercial and Literary,
and no effort will be spared to render it a pleas
ing, an interesting and a valuable publication.
RICHARD W. LUES ic UO.
TERMS.
1 I. The Florida Gazette will he published
| weekly, on a medium sheet, with new type, at
j Five Dollars per annum, payable on delivery of
I the first number.
j 11. No subscription will be received for a less
term than one year—and no paper discontinued
until all arrears are settled, except at the discre
tion of the Editors.
| HI. Persons wishing the paper discontinued
at the end of the year, will give orders to that ef
fect; otherwise they will be considered as sub
-1 scribes for another term.
IV. Subscribers residing out of the city will
have their papers carefully packed, and forward
ed hy the eailiest conveyance.
March , 1821.
CO” Editors of papers will confer a favour hy
inserting the above.
Attention, the Cavalry!
rptIERE will be an Election held in the town
* of Sparta, Hancock County, on the second
Saturday in April next, for first Lieutenant and
. Cornet, to fill (lie vacancies of David Strother
, and Pleasant Bonner rt signed.
JOHN BIMON, Cant. ,j, t, p
1 lYb 28, 1821.