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‘rom Jour 'Secretary, which I read with much ia-1 ’crest, ami which 1 answered next day after 1 re ceived it. There is a vessel from New York, now iiere, by which’ I expect an opportunity to send this. The most of my time continues to be occu pied in the study of languages; though I have some opportunities, almost daily, to distribute tracts, and to address individuals on the subject of religion. These efforts are principally among the Greeks, who are very numerous in Smyrna. Not long after I wrote last, Mr. Parsons set sail for Jerusalem, in sl vessel which carried Pilgrims. Since his departure, 1 have undertaken to visit all the Greek schools I can hear of in town, in order to converse with the children, and supply the teacher, and such a9 can read among the pu pils, with Tracts. 1 have visited 19 schools, in which 1 have found about 1100 boys and 60 girls; and have distributed among them about 800 Tracts. Now and then I meet a Greek priest, who is afraid that 1 shall distribute books which contain something contrary vo their peculiar sen timents; but when I show them the books l cir culate, are either the Holy Scripture itself, or such Tracts as have been approved by the Patriarch of Constantinople, they are not able to make any farther objections. In truth, I cannot say that in prosecuting this work, 1 meet with any obstacle at all. From both masters and scholars I receive in general many thanks. Considering the ignorance and bigotry which prevail among these people, it seems wiser and more prudent to circulate the Scriptures and such Tracts as treat of fundamental doctrines in Christianity which the Greeks them selves believe, or of duties which they consider obligatory, than to make a direct attack on those points in which we suppose they have departed from purity of doctrine and practice. The clear exhibition and extensive diffusion of acknowledg ed truths, are sometimes the surest methods of exposing aDd eradicating errour. The Missiona ries of Christ, especially in such a country as this, must remember the gradual and prudent manner in which their Divine Master unfolded the princi ples of his Gospel, and removed the Jewish pre judices of his disciples. You may be ready to infer from the number of schools, that the Greeks have something like a competent system of education for their children ; but you vill recollect that very few females are found in the schools. Indeed all that belongs to female education among the Greeks, with few exceptions, may be included under the fashiona ble phrase* “the art of pleasing.” Multitudes, who dress and dance in the finest style, can nei ther read nor write. It i9 true, that very many Greek boy 9 are found at school, and some of them acquire a tolerably good education. But the books generally used in school, are in ancient Greek, which the masters have often told me frankly, that neither they nor their pupils under stand. Besides, there is, in most of the schools, an almost entire want of discipline. The masters appear neilher competent to their task, nor zeal ously engaged in it. I am however assured by competent judges, that the means of instruction among the Greeks have very much increased within a few years. Indeed, I perceived con stant indications that things are now rapidly ten ding to a better state. It gives me great pleasure to visit the<e schools, and speak to the children. Who knows but there may be among them some Polycarp orChrysostome ? Should sound learning and pure Christianity revive among the Greeks, the advantages to the literary arid religious world must be many and great. Literature is evident ly reviving; and this circumstance renders the circulation of the Scriptures, and the revival of pure religion highly important. Where the human mind has been long enslaved by bigotry, and held in ignorance, it too often happens that when these chains are broken, infidelity and skepticism sue-, ceed. Young men, on being educated, become I disgusted with useless rites and foolish ceremo- . nies, of fasts and feasts, of prayers to the Virgin | Mary, and of fabulous histories of miracles and saiuts, and supposing these to he essential parts of Christianity, they reject the whole, and become infidels. Hence it becomes important, as know ledge increases, lo disseminate correct views of Christianity, so that the enlightened mind may be able to reject what is false and fabulous, and to retain what is true and substantial. I bee leave now to assure you, gentlemen, that I am not insensible to the heavy afflictions to which a righteous Providence has seen fit to sub ject yon and the city in which you reside. Hap py will it be, if the loss of temporal possessions excite to earnest desires and pious efforts for eternal riches. Happy will it be if the loss of some religious privileges lead to a wiser improve ment of such as are still enjoyed. That an in crease of active and conscientious zeal for reli gion may he the effect of the Divine dispensa ’ tions toward the people of Savannah, i9 my ear nest prayer ; and while yon and the members of the Society are contributing of your substance to Fend the Gospel to others, may you and your families experience its purifying influences, and denjoy its most precious consolations. When the -'work, in which we are now in different ways co operating, shall be finished, may we meet to en joy our Maker’s immediate favour forever. Yours most truly, PLINY FISK. SPECIAL*NOTICE. It is requested that ail Communications which respect the present volume of The Missionary be directed to N. S. S. Beman & Cos. that the business of the two former years may not be blended with the present. communications. Mammoth Cotton Stalk. — \ Cotton Stalk is Bow in the hands ofMr. Rayfield, of Powelton, brought from the farm of Mr. R. Burton, of Effing ham county, in this state, measuring eight inches in circumference, and thirteen feet in length. i Mr. Rayfield, wliile on his way to Augusta, a few days since, observed a Gopher , (a species of land turtle) which curiosity led him to examine, when to his surprise he found well engraved up on it, the date“ 1783,” which had, together with the animal, every mark of age. He affixed the date of 1821, and dismissed it for a longer life. Foreign and Domestic]*? Intelligence. ■ 2 _2 The latest foreign advices represent the affairs of Italy as having settled into a perfect calm.— Naples is earrisoned by thirty thousand Austrian troops. The leaders of the revolution had fled ol submitted. The English opposition papers speak in the most indignant terms of the cowardly con-’ duct of the Neapolitans, and declare that they richly deserve their chains. It is said that the total loss of the Austrians in subduing these valiant asserters of their country’s liberty, amounted to 7 killed and 50 wounded ! One of the first acts of the King of Naples after his restoration, was to shackle the press. The future publication of journals, &c. was to be allowed only Hy special authority. Numerous arrests had taken place in Prussia, and the army lias been augmented in consequence. It is said.that if the Neapolitans had made any stand against the Austrians, the Prussians would’ have broken out into insurrection. There had been some disturbances at Madrid, but they were not of a very serious nature. The Catholid]i emancipation bill lias been re jetted in the House of Lords, fcjr a majority of 39. ! Parliament had adjourned to meet on the first of May. ‘ • In a debate which took place in the House of Commons respecting Canada, Sir John Coffin de- 1 dared that it would be better for England if that country were sunk to the bottom of the sea. It 1 now cost 300,0001. a year, and scarcely a shilling was paid in return. GREEK INSURRECTION. \ An insurrection of a very formidable character has broken out in the Provinces of Wallachia and ‘ Moldivia, and has caused great alarm to the gov ernment of the Porte. It is said to be extending itself through various parts of the Turkish domin ions, by means of secret societies, and that the ‘ Greeks are about to make a great and united ef fort to throw Off the. Mahomedan yoke. Prince Ypsilaute, A Greek, andformerly a major general in the Russian service, has issued a spirited proc tarnation, declaring that he has been called by thousands of his countrymen to undertake the ‘ work of their deliverance, and urging them by every consideration of religion and civil liberty— ; by the glory which their ancestors acquired at: Thermopylae and Marathon, to break the chains of their Mussulman tyrants, and establish a gov-J eminent of their own. A considerable number 1 had already embodied themselves, conSecrated j standards intheir churches, and assumed a na- j tional cockade. In the towns of Jassy and Ga- j laez blood had already been shed, and all the Turks who could not save themselves by flight were put to death, and the latter place almost reduced to ashes. Prince Ypsilante had sent a petition to the emperour of Russia, imploring the’ assistance and protection of that monarch in-be half of his revolted ccuntrymen, on whom the dreadful vengeance of the Turks would fall if they proved unsuccessful in theirrebellion. The emperour, however, refused to interfere, and or dered that the Prince should be excluded from the Russian service—declaring, at the same time, that he considered “ the undertaking of Ypsilante only as the. effect of the unquiet spirit of the times and the inexperience and levity of that young man.” He has directed his minister at Constan tinople to assure tl>e Porte of his friendly inten tions, and that “ his policy was alien to all. and every intrigue which may threaten the tranquili ty of any country whatever.” Orders had been given to the commander of the Russian troops in the neighbourhood of the revolted provinces, to observe the strictest neutrality, and on no ac count to interfere in the troubles that might en sue. The same steps had been pursued by Au stria, and a special declaration on the subject is sued by the two sovereigns at Laybach. If, as has been represented, the emperour of Russia entertain any ambitious views towards Turkey, these disturbances present a favourable opportunity for carrying them into effect. With the Greeks'in his interest, the whole Turkish empire lies at” his mercy, and no doubt the im mense military force which is at his disposal would soon plant the Russian standard on the walls of the Turkish capital. The fact that he disclaims all intention to interfere in these new broils, does not prove conclusively that he will continue an idle spectator of them; since expe rience has shewn how easy a matter it is for the “ most magnanimous sovereign of the age” to act in direct oppositipn to solemn professions. We should think that his majesty's million of bayo nets, if they must be employed, might be used to a better purpose in liberating the oppressed Chris tians of Turkey from the brutal tyranny of their Mussulman lords, than in regulating, unasked, , the governments of Western Europe. The cabi ; net of” Vienna, however, have long looked with a jealous eye upon every thing that indicated an ’ extension of Russian power on the side of Tur- I key, and it is probable, if the Russian monarch . should attempt to aggrandize himself in that quar ■ ter, his august brother of Austria would consider himse)f equally entitled to a slice of the Ottoman I dominions ; and a9 the division of plunder often excites difficulties and heart-burnings, consequen ces of a serious nature might ensue. The Holy Alliance might be dissolved, and that “ unquiet spirit (a.very courtly nickname indeed for the love of freedom) which is giving their majesties so much trouble, might manifest itself in a much more formidable shape ; and possibly furnish them with Constitutions to digest, similar to the one which the Spanish people have given to their royal cousin Ferdinand. A determination to preserve all the preroga tives of power which they now possess, and to crush the revolutionary spirit of the times, is man ifestly the ruling principle of the allied sovereigns —and whatever course of policy is pursued to wards Turkey, will no doubt be taken with a view to these objects. How far they will suc ceed time must show—but we baiieve a flame is kindling which will ere long consume to ashes the throne of every despotick prince in Europe ; and though a combination of kings, supported by a hireling soldiery, may for a while impede its pro gress, let them remember, that “ the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church.” Further Accounts. —The late arrivals from Eu rope furnish still more interesting details of the i Greek insurrection. A Turkish castle garrisoned by 5000 men had been attacked in a most impet uous manner by a body of 900 Greeks; they were, as might be expected, repulsed, and the whole party destroyed. It was again attacked by a more competent force, carried, and the greater part of the Turks put to death. Prince Ypsilante had commenced his operations with an a r my of 30,000 men and 16 pieces of cannon, and daily additions wer making to his numbers The wealthy Greeks had amply supplied him with funds. Many Russian officers had volunteered their services; and it was believed that the Rus sian people, who are strongly attached to the Greek religion, will render their brethren great assistance. Notwithstanding the neutral ground professedly assumed by the Emperour Alexander, passports had been readily given at the Russiau posts on the frontiers to numerous individuals who were repairing in arms to the head quarters of Ypsilante. From, ihe Savannah Republican, i CENSUS OF GEORGIA. To the politeness of the Deputy Marshal, John B. Mills, Esq. we are indebted for a copy of the census, from which we have compiled the follow ing view of the population of the several counties Sic. of the state of Georgia, in the years 1810 and 1820, exhibitingjin increase of about 92,340. The enumeration 0f.1790 made the number of souls 82,548—0f 1800, 163,879; (increase 81,331) of 1810, 252,433; (increase 88,554)—0f 1820, 344,773; (increase 92,340.) We are inclined t think that the present census falls short of the re al number, although the tide of emigration has for Some time set strongly to the westward. If not one soul had been lost in taking the census, there .is no question but our’ increase would have been rated ul-one hundred thousand. In 1810. In 1820. Camden 3,941 4,342 Glynn 3,417 3,418 Wavne 676 1,010 Mclntosh 3,739 5,129 Liberty 6,228 6,695 Bryan 2,827 3,021 Chatham 13,540 14,737 Effingham 2,586 3,018 Bulloch 2,305 2,578 Scriven’ 4,477 3,941 Burke 10,858 11,577 Jefferson 6,101 7,056 Richmond 6,189 8,608 Columbia, .J 1,242 • r -12,695 Lincoln 4,555 6,468 1 Elbert 12,156 no returns Franklin 10,815 9,040 Jackson 10,569 8,355 Clarke 7,628 * . 8,767 Oglethorpe ‘.12,297 14,046 Wilkes ‘ 14,887 17,607 Greene 11,679 13,589 Hancock 13,330 12,734 Warren 8,725 10,630 Washington 9,940 10,627 ( Montgomery 2,954 1 1,869: Tattnall 2,206 2,644 i Telfair 794 \ 2,104, Pulaski 2,093 ,1 5,283 Laurens, 2,210 5,436 Twiggs „ 3,490 10,640 Wilkinson 2,154 j 6,992 Baldwin 6,350 ‘ 7,734 1 Jones 8,597 I 16,570 Putnazn 10,029 ! 16,475’ Morgan 8,369 13,520: Jasper 7,573 14,614! Hall 5,086! Gwinnett 4,589 1 Early 7681 Walton i 4,192 j ! Habersham 3,145 ‘ 1 Appling 1,264 j Irwin | 411 | Emanuel 2,928 j Madison 3,735 Rabun ; • no returns a 328,673 Afd Elbert County supposed to contain 14,500 ■f j Add Rabun supposed to con tain 1,600 16,100 Total 252,433 Total 344,773 RECAPITULATION, &c. Free Whitt Males. Unde: 10 years of age 34,146 Os 10 to 16 years 14,146 Os 18 to 26 do 18,794 Os 26 to 45 do 17,374 Os 45 and upwards 10,426 Males 94,786 Free'White Females. Under 10 years of age 31,899 Os 10 to 16 years 14,381 Os 16 to 26 do 17,892 Os 26 to 45 do 14,789 Os 45 and upwards 8,681 Females 87,642 Males 94,786 Free Coloured People. Males 851 Females 921 .. i Slaves. Males 73,303 Females 71,179 ir 144,482 Total 328,673 Add to this the county of Elbert 14,500 Add also county of Rabun 1,600 Total in 1820, 344.773 Total iu 1810, 252,433 Increase, 92,340 OCCUPATION OF FLORIDA. Extract of a letter to the Editors of the Savannah Museum, dated “St. Marys, Line 9, 1821. “ A despatch has been received by the forces here, that a Spanish Commissioner has arrived from the Havana, empowered to deliver the pro vince of East Florida to the United States. The ship Meteor, lying in the stream, with troops on board who are to occupy the fortifications in that place, is under sailing orders; also, the armed schooners Porpoise, Lieut. Ramage, and Tartar, Lieut. Payne, which vessels will attend the ship as her convoy to St. Augustine, and from thence to Havana, at which place the Spanish troops are to he landed, which she will exchange ours for, when.she arrives at St. Augustine. The delivery of the fortress of St. Marks will take place next week it is presumed. A number of gentlemen are going from this vicinity to St. Augustine to witness it. It is supposed that a good deal of blood will be spilled, as fifty poor tur keys alone have been ordered on from ‘his quar ter by the Spanish authorities to officiate in not an unimportant part, of the approaching fete. What will you poor printers do, after the Floridas are delivered up ? Naples is .put down, Europe is most maliciously peaceable ; poor Dr. Mitchell’s ring, hard as it is, is nearly worn out, so many wicked editors are constantly rubbing it.—The Indians do not threaten us ; the Sea Serpent has hid his head beneath’ his native waves ; and even what is worse than all, for it'concludes the whole chapter of the printers misfortunes, the patriots alias the pirates, molest less and less neutral ves-1 sels—like every other kind of business, in these dull times of peace and prosperity, your trade is getting exceedingly dull; like physicians, you only exist on the misery, or like lawyers on the commotions pervading the world ; when one takes up a newspaper now and compares it with one which he now and then meets with acting as the cover of an old book or in some 6uch humble capacity, which issued from the teeming press in the glorious years of 1812,13 or 14, and compares the laboured essay and stupid speeches of the present day with the accounts of battles, sieges, victories and revolutions with which those glori ous times for printers were so happily filled—like Hamlet’s grave digger he can’t help exclaiming, “ Alas, poor Yorick.” Letters from the African Colonists. Norfolk, Va. June 4. Extract of a letter from Colin Teague, to a friend in this place. “We arrived safe at Sierra Leone the Bth of March, and we found a very kind people, a heal thy climate.and a fertile land. This land produces coffee, Cotton, Sugar Cane, Tobacco,and all kinds I of Vegetables.**'* Give my love to all inquiring | friends. Tell them we are well, and happy that we are in Africa.*** I hope to see the Nautilus next fall, and should I he living, 1 hope to prepare Dye -Wood and Spices.” Extract of a letter from Richmond Sampson. “ In passing through the market, I saw sheep, pork, fowls, fish in abundance, oysters, sweet po tatoes, and all kinds of tropical produce.*** I know yon will waDt to know how I like Africa. I am constrained’ to cry out like the Queen of Sheba, “ Howbeit 1 believed not the words until I came, and mine eyes had seen it, and behold the half was not told unto me.” I find the land is good. Tell my brethren and friends I have ate of the fruit'of the land, and 1 now invite them to come. We hope you will send us good people, and as many as can come over.” Richmond, May 22. Chinch Bugs. —The most formidable enemies to our grain crops have reappeared this spring with an apparent increase equal to 1000 for one. I have been told that in the state of North Caro lina, they have continued their dreadful ravages for upwards of 20 years. A farmer at Goochland estimates the injury to the crops iu his neighbour hood the present season, at seventy bustiels in the hundred,’ o 11 Jepfeßkin, N. Y. May 4. Oreat Hunting and Sharp Shooting. —Few ex ainples of successful hunting can be found that will bear comparison) under similar circumstKn ce, with the following. The tainting was done from a single camp, and on ground Contiguous to an old settled country. The hunters suffered great inconvenience from crowding upon each other, and had they not possessed skill of the high est order, and had been animated by the most en thusiastick zeal, their success must have been very limited. About the middle of November last, a select company, consisting of Mr. Elijah Sexton, jun. Capt. N. Hodskin, and Mr. H. Parder, of Che que county, encamped in the woods, about 12 mHes east <br the purpose of bunt ing ; they were joined early in Dec. by Mr. E. G. Potter, and occasionally visited by Dr. 8. Guthrie, who, however, hunted but little, both of Jefferson county. The company left the wood* the last of December, having kijled 190 Deer, one Panther, and one Eagle, besides a large num ber of other animals. The 5 first named hunters, killed in 18 days, 124 deer, 1 panther, 1 eagle, 1 fisher, 15 martin, and shot one wolf through the body. The number of deer respectively killed by each of these 6 hunters, were nearly equal. Mr. Sex ton, however, had the greatest number, whilst Mr. Potter killed a greater number than any one else, after he joined the party. The number of deer killed on each bunting day was from six to thiiteen. For the precision of shooting in this excursion, probably a parallel cannot be found. Their shots were almost invariably fatal. Mr. Potter made 32 shots in the whole, including 4 shots made at a deer upon the run, and killed 28. The following example of the ardour with which this little band devoted themselves to the chase, may not be uninteresting. A panther made his appearance near camp about the last of November. The party had no dogs, but -.hey determined upon a chase. In a short time he was started, but after a rapid pur suit, through swamps and windfalls, for twelve hours, it was found impossible to bring him to battle, and he escaped. The track of a small Panther had been seen in the wilderness, east of Beaver river lake, in the September preceding, and it wan decided that this panther must be bunted up, and brought into camp. On an extreme cold morning in Decem ber, Messrs. Sexton and Simons, with two dogs, started for this object; they travelled in a north eastern direction about 14 miles, when they for tunately found a track, but the panther had been gone 4or 5 days. They had made no preparation to lay out, and had taken no nourishment with them ; the snow was of considerable depth, and the travelling laborious; they had already made great exertions, and had travelled as far as a per son could well go in these woods in a day, and were, most probably, five days behind the object of their pursuit ; to lay out, from the extreme cold of the day, would have been dangerous, and it was impossible to say where the track might lead them. But they came to kill a panther, and they determined to execute their purpose; they started upon the track, and after a number of hours of almost incredible exertion, they found by its appearance that they had nearly overtaken him ; the dogs were suffered to go, and in a few seconds they had the satisfaction of knowing that they were up with him ; after a chase of about 100 rods he ascended a tree and took his station upon a limb 30 feet from the ground ; our hun ters advanced within 8 rods of the tree, when Mr. Simons fired and shot him through the heart, which brought him, after some most violent struggling, dead on the ground. In the pursuit, two places were found where he had made furi ous efforts to catch deer, but had failed in both instances; he had, however killed one just before he was started. It was now sun down, and our hunters had to return to camp, a day’s journey, and drag a panther of nearly 100 lbs. weight, most of the way through a trackless wilderness ; a task, which, in the course of the night they ac complished, one of them having been severely frostbitten, and both nearly exhausted. The latter part of the time the camp exhibited a noble and interesting spectacle; the ground around was covered by an enormous assemblage of deer, of every size, from that of the fawn to the nio9t majestick buck, whilst the door of the camp was canopied by an eagle, whose wings were spread over an extent of eight feet, and its en trance was guarded by the tyrant of the Ameri can forest. Municipal Court of Boston. —At the late term of this county an indictment was found against a female as a common barrator and scold. On the trial,, the charge of barratry appeared not to be supported, but a number of witnesses testified as to the skill and proficiency of the defendant in the art of scolding. We call it an art , because in some cities of Europe there are regnlar female professors, who give lessons on volubility and vi tuperation, in the same way that their country men instruct us here, in keeping schools, surgery, iand elocution. The Jury returned a verdict of : guilty. A motion in arrest of judgment will, we understand, be made, on the ground that the charges being distinct in their nature, a general verdict, of guilty ought not to be rendered. A Mr. Ford of Georgetown, S. C. on the night of the 97th ultimo, with several other persons, star-’ ted in search of a gang of negroes that he learned j were killing his cattle: but the negroes bearing ofj the circumstance advanced some distance upon • the road, and remained in ambush until the party ; came up when they fired and immediately killed ‘ Mr. Ford : The rest fled. The Military have since apprehended several of the negroes. Execution. —Jose Dima Garcia Castilano, and Manuel Felipe Garcia, were executed at Norfolk ; on the Ist inst. pursuant to sentence, for the mur der of Peter Laugadette. After the prisoners had . mounted the scaffold, Castilano addressed the ! spectators, (amounting to between 2 & 3,000,) and concluded by declaring his innocence. Their j arms being pinioned, the prisoners seated them-1 selves on the scaflfold while Doctor Griffith, of the ! Methodist Church, delivered a very feeling and ; | appropriate discourse, on the progress of vice, and the influence of bad company, which he conclu ded with an animated exhortation to children and : parents, and a prayer, full of compassion for the ! wretched men about to suffer the penalty of the law. The age of Castilano, was 49, and Garcia 37. They have left written communications of con siderable length, which were not to be open until after their death. Extraordinary. After the late continued rains, the water rose so high at New-Castle, Del. that a’ small rigged vessel, with several other smaller ■ craft, sailed along the lower street, as far as the post office, where she grounded, but soon floated again. The water fell considerably on the ebb tide. John G. Bird, of Georgia, has been appointed,j by the President, Attorney of the United States | for East Florida. Gov. King of Maine has accepted the appoint ment of commissioner under the Spanish treaty, and repaired to Washington. His duties as Gov ernour devolve upon the President of the Senate. General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, has taken passage in tho slip Martha, from New- York to Liverpool Missionary was published last week in consequence of not receiving paper in sea son for publication ; the conveyance on which we relied having failed. We hope that this is the last apology of the kind which we shall be com pelled to make ;as arrangements have been made for obtaining regular supplies of a better quality and size than has been used for some weeks past, and we expect in a short time to receive a supply for the summer. Until then we must claim the in dulgence of our patrons; we assure them, how ever, that no exertions shall be spared to provide ourselves with the best quality which can be ob tained, and to prevent the recurrence of another failure. MARRIED, Near Powelton, by the Rev. Nathan S. S. Be* man, Dr. Richard Lewis to Miss Mary Womack. DIED, In Warren county, Capt. William Cofam, about 70 years of age—a soldier of the revolution, and a worthy member of the Baptist Church. 03” The Subscriber being about to leave tbe state for a few months, has appointed Joseph Bryan, Esq. his attorney to transact his business during his absence. BENJAMIN GILDERSLEEVE. Mount Zion, May 30. ■ - Powelton Academy. THE next term in this Institntion will com mence on the first Monday in July. Thu Teachers will make every possible exertion fur their pupils. Past encouragement. is gratefully acknowledged and publick patronage L again re spectfully solicited. JOSEPH WOOD, Rector. June 16 3 Masonick Anniversary. f INHE members of Lodge Stith No. 4, are re* -L quested to attend in their Lodge Roam at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, on Monday the 25th of June for the purpose of celebrating (he Birth Day of St. John the Baptist. Visiting Brethren are respectfully invited to attend. Bv order of the Worshipful Master, JOHN W. SCOTT. Sec. pro. tem. Sparta, June 1, 1821. 2td Received, A N assortment of Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s SHOES and BOOTS, of various descrip tions ; all offered on reasonable terms, wholesale and'retail. CYPRIAN WILCOX. Sparta, June 1, 1821. . 2tf i. (Q 33 We are authorized to state that James Thomas is a candidate for the office of Sheriff of this county at the ensuing election. May 30. f We are authorized’ to an nounce John W. Scott as a candidate for Sher iff of Hancock County at the approaching elec tion. May 30. SheriiPs Sale. WILL be sold at the Court house in Madi son county, on the first Tuesday in July next, between the usual hours of sale, the follow ing property to wit: Four Feather Beds and Furni ture, 4 bedsteads and cords, 4 tables, 1 set of Chi- Ina ware, 1 do. earthenware, 3 trunks, 4 table I cloths, I side board, 1 house clock, patent, eight 1 sitting chairs, 1 rocking cradle, 4 large waiters, 1 | chest, 2 water pails, 1 pot, 1 brass spider, 2 doz. earthen plates, 2 wash bowls, 1 garden hoe, 1 sad i die bridle and surcingle, 2 coverlets, 2 cows and i three yearlings, 6 barrels, 3 pair dog irons, 1 pair ; of tongs and shovel, 1 negro w oiuau by the name ! of Itose, about 30 years old, and her child by the 1 name ol'Rutha, about eighteen months old ; levied on as the property of William YY'. Hand, to satis ;fy two executions in favour of E. Si T. Beale. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. ! Also—One sorrel Mare and one I black horse, levied on as the property of Benja min l.okey, to satisfy an execution in favour of J Orsborn Carrington. Property pointed out by said Lokey. Also—29o acres of Land, more or less, lying on the north fork of Blue Stone Creek, adjoining the tract the defendant now lives on | 2 carts, 2 oxen and yoke, 3 pair of wa gon gears, 3 blind bridles, 1 pair strick chaius, S breast chains, taken by virtue of sundry execu tions as the property of Peter Smith : laud point ed out by the defendant, and the balance of the property pointed out by Elisha Ware, one of the plaintiffs. Also—One Lot in the village of Danielsvilie, known and distinguished in the plan of said village by No. 40; levied on as the pro perty of John H. Baugh, to satisfy an execution in favour of John Walton. Conditions Cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sheriff. May 17, 1821. j Notice. WILL be sold at the Court House, iu the town of Sparta, Hancock County, on the j first Tuesday in July next, between the usual ’ hours of sale, the following property, to wit: The interest ot Henry Langford in two negroes; Abram, about nine years old, and Jenny, about uine years old; said interest being the one sixth part of said negroes after the ‘death of Mrs. Elizabeth Langford: levied on as the property of Henry Langford, to satisfy a fi. fa. j in favour of James Reese vs. said Henry Lang 'ford and George Langford. Property pointed out by George Langford. j 300 acres ot Land, more or less, adjoining Mrs. Robertson and others, on the wa ’ ters of bhoulderbone, levied oil as the property of William Hauies, to satisfy a fi. fa. iu favour of John Thomas and others vs. said William Haines. One Bay Horse, about six years old, taken as the property of Jephtha Grace to i satisfy a fi. ft. iu lavuurof W illiam E. Broadnax vs. said Jephtha Grace. ISO acres of Land on the waters of Fu]som’s Creek, adjoining Collins and others, taken as the property of Nathan Culver, senior, ‘to satisfy a fi- fa. in favour of William (tall, ad ministrator °f Thonuas H. Hall deceased vs. said 1 Nathan Culver, *e n ior. ■ Terms Cash. J A MES THOMAS, D. Sh'ff. 26th May lßgl. Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale A Pi ANTA TION, containing 190 acres of first quality j land, well improved, having on it a good two. ; story house, and other necessary buildings in good order. It is situated sufficient!} near Mount Zion to enable the purchaser to avail himself of the privileges of the school. The present crop upon the land will sufficiently recommend the fertility of the soil. It will be sold on reuse --.ble terms. For further particulars, application .nay be made to the subscriber, or at the Missionary Office. RICHARD GREGORY. Mount Zion, Jnto 6, 1&S1. 2tt.