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THE MISSIONARY. MOUNT ZION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15. [Concluded from, our The present deplorable condition of schools in our State, was probably a leading cause which in duced our Legislature, in 1817, to make an ap propriation for the establishment and support of Free Schools. It has long appeared to many, that something ought to be doue to remedy the j present defective system of education; and the provision made for this purpose, was deemed both wise and liberal. Men of the first talents and in formation in the Legislature, embarked with ac tivity and zeal in this plan, and the intellectual renovation of our state was fondly anticipated with unwaveriug confidence. As we ever rejoice when literature receives that patronage which it merits from an enlightened and Christian pub lick, we were far from looking with indifference upon the objects of this appropriation. We tfoen hoped, as we now do, that the spirit which ‘sketched the outlines of this plan, would ultimate ly finish and beautify the picture by accomplish ing the political and moral benefits designed by this system of gratuitous instruction. But in the plan of Free Schools , as a practical system for the State of Georgia, we have never been able to excite our feelings to a very elevated pitch of en thusiasm, because we believe such institutions are neither demanded by the number of our poor, nor adapted to the mode in which the comitry is peopled. We applaud the spirit while we ques tion the wisdom of this measure ; and v e have not hazarded this opinion without mature delibe ration. Free Schools appear especially adapted to mJhe condition of large cities, or to a country which possesses an overgrown and dense popula- \ ti<ai. In such societies there must necessarily be “.Many, who are incapable, from penury, of giving , their children that education which will fit them for the active duties of life. But the establish ment of such seminaries in anew state, and where the people are scattered over a r a t extent ofterritory, is a novelty in she records of legisla tion. But should it still be urged, that this sys tem may be carried into effective operation in some of the cities of Georgia, we would reply, j that in the largest of our towns where there is the ] most pressing demand for free schools, the pa- ! thefick cries of the poor have been heard by the citizens, and provision has already bee| made for the education of their destitute and helpless off spring. Savannah and Augusta, we believe, can both bear testimony to the correctness of this remark, The citizens of Liberty county too, have for many years past supported schools for the instruction of the children of the poor. And this burden can well be borne by wealthy and commercial towns; and we have the surest pledges that such schools will be well regulated ‘as are instituted by tbs enterprise of publick spirited individuals, and supported by a contri bution upon their purses. There is a large section of our State, we mean “ the pine barren” country, in which there is not sufficient wealth generally among the inhabitants to support competent teachers of common Eng lish schools. But it is equally true that this re gion is by no means adapted to the operation of the free school system. The settlements are not sufficiently compact, in general, to supply a school with pupils, unless n considerable propor tion of them are boarded from home ; and where parents are able to pay the board of their chil dren, it is no act of charity for the State to pay their tuition, and it is totally out of the question to think of drawing upon the school fund for the aggregate expenses of tuition and board together. This latter plan, we are confident, would require a larger amount than the State of Georgia will ever appropriate for this specifick object. In the upper country of the state where we are blessed with a good soil and abundant crops, there is little or no demand for charity schools. If any • exception ought to be made to this declaration, it is of very limited extent, and applies principal ly to our towns and villages;—and even in these I 1 not a sufficient number of poor children can be fund to furnish a single school. From this brief geographical view of our State, we are irresistibly kd to the conclusion, that the system of free schools in its essential character, is inapplicable to the present condition of the State of Georgia. A legislative provision for this object is jnst about as much demanded, as a similar appropriation foi the erection of poor-houses anti hospitals. It is attempt to do something which may appear well enough on paper, and perhaps entitle us to some credit abroad, but the practical effect of which will be almost if not altogether abortive. If it should he asked how we would dispose of tbelfund already devoted to this purpose, we have Bo hesitation in replying, that by a slight modifi cation it may receive such, an impulse as to ac complish the object originally contemplated, with the superaddition of others not less beneficial to. our repnblick. Let it be judiciously apportioned among the several academies of the State, to he employed for a double purpose -for the support of adequate instrncters, and for paying the tuition of those children who are real objects of literary charity, and whose local situation will enable them to attend these institutions. The same pat tonage, as far as the poor are concerned, may be extended to other seminaries of education ; and should the exigences of the case render it expe sbeni, a special provision might be made from this fund in behalf of our cities and larger towns, i Al, V other plan for the support of free schools in the State of Georgia, shun one which shall invest this fund in institutions already established, (except I perhaps in a very few instances,) is a chimera of fbe brain which can never receive birth, and bo 'fjh and limbs, and life. And to let this fund lie ■“active from year to year, as it has already done since 1817, is making a solemn mock both of lite rature and legislation. We hope some plan will c adopted during the approaching session, and *!** tx P tT sme.nt made, though that experiment * fail of ultimate success, •OMMUSICATIO*. Oglethorpe , Oct, 6, IMI. dedication. The new Edifice erected for HERMON SEMI NARY, and fora House of Publick Worship, was solemnly dedicated on the 49th ult. Mr. Lump kin commenced the exercises by appropriate hynius, prayer, and the reading of select portions of Scripture. Mr. Sherwood preached the Ser mon : “ According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, what hath God wrought !” Mr. Bledsoe made the dedicatory prayer, and Mr. Blanton followed with an Address on the importance of establishing and fostering Religious and Literary institutions. The day was pleasant and the congregation was very large. • This Institution has been recently opened un der very favourable appearances. The Managers of it, considering the peculiar pressure of the times, and knowing there are some parents, who are uuable to pay the tuition of their children, have resolved to afford it gratuitously to such, so far as their funds will enable them. ELECTION RETURNS. Bryan, Col. J. J. Maxwell,* Solomon Smith. Baldwin. Searcy, Fort and Watson. Burke. Allen, Scruggs, .'ones, Thomas. Bulloch. Lockha-t aQd Stanley. Clarke. Mitchell, Golding, Merriwether and , T. R. Mitchell. Effingham. John McCall, Benj. Burton. Elbert. Woods, Morrison, Tate and Christian. Emanuel. Swaine and Walea. Franklin. Little, Anderson, Adrian and Mar tin. Gwinnett. Reed and Robertson. Hall. Garrison aud Bates. Jackson. Martin, Witt, Cochrane and Young. Jasper. Beasly, Adams, Kenan, Robertson, i and Henderson. Jefferson. Jackson, Wright and Stapleton. Jones. MitchiJl, Phillips, Durrett, Osborne and Moore. Laurens. Bl&ckshear, Thomas and Horne. Liberty. John Stephens, W. W. Baker, G. W. V\ alt hour. M'lntosh. W. A Dunham, A. B. Powell, Jonathan Thomas, Wm. R. M’lntosh. Madison. Eberhart, Daniel, Gohlson. | Montgomery. McCrimmon and Featherston. I Morgan. Mitchell, Bonner, Campbell, Leon- ! j ard and Bandy. Oglethorpe. Parks, Upson, Townsend and Luckie. Pulaski. Hawthorn, Wood and Robertson. Scrivtn. Blackman, Lambert and Lanier, j Telfair. Coffee and Curry. Twiggs. Wimberly, Lawson, Glenn and Ma thews. Walton. James and Steele. | Washington. Irwin, Pace,Glenn and Cullens. Wilkinson. Beck, Fairchilds and Pearson. Warren. Baker, Bledsoe and Lewis. Wilkes. Wooten, Campbell, Butler and Pope. # The first named gentleman in each county is j the Senator. The following are all the returns wo have ! seen on the Convention question : For C. Against. In 3 Counties given last week, 1411 635 Wilkes 83 1273 M’lntosh 120 88 Liberty 7 167 Bryan 35 6 1656 2169 j The sum of Seventy-Five Dollars was collect ed on Sabbath, the 16th ult. at the Presbyterian | church in Augusta, to be placed at the disposal i of the Missionary Society of the Synod of South ; Carolina and Georgia. Yellow Fever. —The Commissioners of the i town of Edenton. N. C. have issued an ordinance I forbidding any person whatsoever, residing in or ; passing through the borough of Norfolk, Va. to “ come to, reside in, or pass through the town of Edenton, under penalty of the law,” &e. Against this ordinance two medical gentlemen of that town have made a pnblick Protest, in which they declare the regulation to be “ unreasonable, un philosophical and unnecessary that they “do not believe the Yellow Fever to he contagious, or capable of being commumeated from a diseased . to a healthy body ; and would as soon think of spreading the gout or St. Fit us’ dance from cases of those diseases existing iu Norfolk, as the yel low fever, by any ordinary communication with that borough” The protest is signed by Doctors Sawyer and Norcoju. The transfer of the Floridas, it teems, is not’ very well relished by the Indians inhabiting that country. While it was under the Spanish gov ernment, they were under no apprehensions that their hunting grounds would be either taken from them or encroached upon by their white neigh bours, who generally confined themselves to the vicinity of the sea-board ; but since the territory has become open to American enterprise, they 1 appear to he seriously alarmed, and certainly not without cause, lest their limits should soon be cir- ! cumscribed ; and where the fertility of the soil i will warrant cultivation, the establishment of towns and settlements forever destroy the sports ! of the Indian hunttr. A letter from 6t. Angus-i tme, published in a Charleston paper, remarking 1 upon their uneasiness and dissatisfaction, ob serves : 1 I had the perusal of a Talk which the Chiefs of the Srminoles had transmitted here, to be sent Ito W ashington. They complain of the transfer ! having been made, without any notice of their claims or stipulations in favour of their rights; and earnestly request to be informed as speedily as possible of the footing on w hich they staud. They *ontend that they have never ceded any land to the west of the St. Johns, and that they put in a pretty sweeping claim, the justice of which it would yet be difficult to deny. Though their logick will probably not make much impres ! sion at Washington, the eloquence of their ap , peal might well rebuke the genius of our own or atory. Adverting to the difference between their mode of life, and our own, as a plea'iu favour of a larger extent of country being allowed them, they observe: 76 M The Americans live in towns, where many thousand people busy themselves within a very small space of ground ; but the Seminole is of n wild and scattered race, he swims the streams aud leaps over the logs of the wide forest in pursuit of game; and is like the Whooping Crane, that makes its nest at night, far from the spot where he brushed the dew from the grass and flower in the morning.” In another passage, speaking of their ancient prescriptive right to the soil, they say : “ An hundred summers have seen the Semi sole warriour reposing undisturbed under the shade of his live oak, and the suns of an hundred winters have risen on his ardent pursuit of the Buck and the Bear, with none to question his bounds or dispute his range.** General Intelligence. Boston, Sept. 20. Arrived at this port yesterday the ship Herald, bringing London dates to the 18th, and Liverpool to the 21st of Aug. . The latest London dates do not confirm the previous accounts of hostilities having cooimen- i ced between the Turks and Russia, but would ! rather seem to give an opinion that the difficulties existing between the two countries were in a train of amicable adjustment. These accounts, how ever, like most of the others, are unofficial. An Augsbargh article says : “ The Turks com mit the greatest atrocities in Wallacbia. On the 16th July, the Seraskierofßruillasent to Constan- : tinople several chests full of ears and noses that had been cut off, which he had salted on account ofthe warmth of the season ! The Russian and Austrian armies were still on the frontiers. The King of England was in Dublin at the last dates. He was decorated with the Order and Ribbon of St. Patrick, and his hat was ornameiit ed with a rosette composed of Shamrocks. He ‘ wore crape on his left arm. A full length portrait his been obtained of the Greek Joan of Arc. The name of this heroine is not Rabelina, but Bohelina. She is represented as holdiug a naked sword', a dagger at her girdle ; ’ her turban surmounted with three feathers. This lady is not a simple shepherdess, so cannot be compared to the Maid of Vancoulers ; she is a widow, the mother of seven children, and enjoys an immense fortune. Under her picture it is writ ten, that she has armed at her own expense seven vessels, and equipped three regimeuts, at the head of which she fights like a Spartan. Nat. Adv. “ The game is up” with the Greeks in Molda via, at least if we may judge from the proclama tion of Yp-ilanti. who declares that his country- ! 1 men have betrayed God and their country, and ! have made the woods and mountains the retreat ,of their cowardice. It is amusing to contrast the j l present proclamation with some which have i been before published, in one, we read that j the new Grecian phalanxes were “ animated with | the spirit of Themistocles and Leonidas,” in the i Other, “ they are a herd of dastardly and cruel ‘• men,” they were “ a sacred band, waiting with ‘ impat'ence for dangers.” Now, “ scoundrels,” ‘ who for “ baseness, treachery and cowardice, are [ abandoned to the contempt of men, the justice of j Providence, and the malediction of their country-- j men.’’ It is sincerely to b hoped, that the i Greek leaders of the Morea will give a better ac ’ count of their followers than the Ex-General! Ypsilanti—if not, we shall begin to despair of their cause. [ Georgian. ‘The following vessels are stated in the National Intelligencer, to be under orders to cruise in the West Indies and Guff of Mexico, for the protec ’ tion of our trade, viz : sloop of war Hornet, brigs Spark and Enterprise ; schooner-’ Porpoise, Spark , anu Grampus \; and several other vessels of war along the coasts of Florida and Georgia. Ib. pE r ’ acola, Sept. 1, 1821. In the organization >f the government, no one can have the slightest idea of the difficulties, who is not on the spot, and to whom its situation is not ex plained. There was but one civil officer in all West Florida, the Vlcade, and his powers were almost indefinite, or rather under the old order, every thing; hut under the Spauish consti tution, of very little importance, comparatively speaking. There was no government that we could understand or administer ; it ail existed in the arbitrary will and pleasure of those who ex ercised it. The General has made what he could , of it. s After the surrenderor the country. Col. fallava remained here, as we supposed, for his own good pleasure ; for he was never considered as holding any official station near our government after that period, and if entrusted with a commission from his own government he never made it known Sevral papers, demanded by individuals for the purpose of asserting their rights, were discovered in the possession of a person who, it afterwards appeared, was under the orders of Callava. This person was ordered to deliver them ; he refused, and shifted them into the hands of Gabova : they were aM brought before the Governour, as you will see in the Floridian, and he committtd for contempt. All the Americans here, and who had an opportunity of witnessing the transaction, highly approve it. Some think he might have been confine ! in his own house, as was done in the case of the iutendant of Mew Orleans—but the general would make no distinction between his ease an n that of the man in whose possession the papers were iu the first instance found. Sim ilar difficulties are said to have occurred at St. Augustine. A milder course was pursued hy the officer commanding there, for the present; but • Tat a different course will be pursued I have no doubt. A petition is in circulation at Pensacola, for the establishment of a Branch of the Bank of the U. S. at that place. Boston, Sept. 12. destructive Tornado .- The N. Hampshire Pa triot received last evening contains two columns 1 detailing the effects of the tornado, of Sunday i evening the 9th inst. We have only room for a j few extracts. ! he House of Huntoon in Wendell was pros i trated to the ground in an instant. Mrs. H. was 1 carried across the field in the current. A child j sleeping on the bed was carried into the Sunapee 1 lake, and its lifeless body found on the Wednes i day following ; the bedstead was found in the. I woods 80 rods from the house. The air was filled with Hr ah? of trees, &c. A pair of cart wheels were separated from the body and spire, carried about 60 rods and dashed to pieces. A bureau was blown across the lake two miles wide, and found half a mile beyond. A piece of wood land, heavily timbered, of 40 acres, was entirely prostrated—not a whole tree is standing in any partofit. Though the 6un was an hour high, it was as dark as night. At New London it was equally destructive, de molishing houses, barns, overturning stone walls, &c. A great number of fowls, birds, &c. killed. At Kearsage Gore, the dwelling house of Mr. Daniel Savary was demolished, and Mr. Samuel Savary, aged 72, was carried six rods and his brains dashed out against a stone ; the rest of the family buried in the ruins, and several much in jured. The house of Mr. Robert Savary was de molished, and the family of eight persons more or less injured by the fall. A stone which weighed 5001bs. wm moved several feet. All the build ings of Mr. Peter Flanders were crushed, and 1 Miss Anna Richardson, and an infant child killed. The buildings of Deacon Jos. True, in Salisbu ry were swept away, and the inmates narrowly escaped with their lives. An infant seven weeks old, was found at the distance of 100 feet underi the bottom of a sleigb, the top of which cannot be found. The tornado, it is stated, appeared like an in- i verted cone, alternately rising and falling -var- ! ing in width from half a mile to six rod*. Its track particularly on the Kearsage mountain, is deno ted by the most visible marks of destruction ; “ it appears as if a rushing torrent had poured down for many days, the earth being torn up, the grass withered, and nothing living to be seen in its path.” 1 Lute.—On a motion for a prohibition in the case of the Hon. Judge Johnson of the U. States’ Court vs. the collector of Patrol Fines, it was yesterday decided by Judge Bay, at chambers, that by the law of this state, a judge of the U. S. Supreme Court is not exempt from Patrol Duty. . Charleston Courier. Married, lately in England, Mr. Alexander Mitchell, aged 109 years, to the “ beautiful and accomplished” Miss Jane Hammond, aged 19 ! The clergyman first applied to refused to perform the ceremony, alleging that the match was con trary to nature. Pirates Taken. —The schr. Evergreen which was lately captured by a piratical cruiser, has ar rived at Boston. A prizemaster and four men were put n board of her, but the former, declar : ing himself “ sick of the business,” assisted capt. | Pool in re-taking hi vessel, and the four pirates - were safely secured below, brought iuto port and delivered into the custody of the U. S. marshal. . The whole cargo of the schooner has been thus saved, and the four miserable free-booters will probably end their career on the gallows. We learn with pleasure, that the proprietor of the steam-ship Robert Fulton, is preparing an armament, to consist of four 6 and two 9 poun ] ders with 24 muskets, for the protection of prop i erly belonging to her passengers, and against the t possibility of robbery, from the piratical villains . that are infesting the neighbourhood of Cuba. 1 This arrhameut, together with the great advan j tage which this vessel possesses of throwing boil ing water, must afford a protection adequate to an attack from any of the picaroons lurking in those seas Her engine is one of the most pow erful. aud is capable of throw ing double the qnan- tity of water (boiling hot) which an ordinary fire engine now in use in this city, can. It is assert ed, that she can discharge front her boiler, ten i hogsheads, of 150 gallons each, in a minute, and throw it nearly to the distance of point blank musket range. Who knows but (his method may j yet be resorted to as a national defence, and as a j new weapon to carry the war into an enemy’s i camp ! [jV. Y. Gas. This ship arrived at Savannah on ihe 7th irist. i 6 days from N. York via >. harleslen. She is said I to be perfectly secure and manageable in the \ worst weather, and her accommodation for pa/f ----; sengers of a very snperiour description. She sail i ed on her return to Charleston and N. Y'ork the I day after her arrival. ! Soule vs. Benson. — At a late circuit court in Litchfield county, Con. the plaintiff recovered SIOOO of the defendant, who was indicted for poisoning the well of the plaintiff. On examining the well, a bag filled with every thing obnoxious, parts of the body of an animal, mineral poisons, Sec. Sec. was found, which was proved to have been placed there by the defendant. On the trial the history of Benson’s family was developed, as well as that of some of his i* it nesses. Perjury, burglary, larceny and adultery were among the . number. The defendant had poisoned the well j in consequence of the plaintiff having endeavour ! ed to break up an adulterous intercourse of the daughter of defendant. The father had endeav oured to get his son in the state prison, to prevent his testimony about poisoning the well; and the wife of the defendant had died of poison adminis tered by the father orson. It appeared for a while on the trial “as though the damned had been summoned to an earthly tribunal.” Legislation.— More than six thousand laws have heen passed by the legislature of New York since the adoption of the constitution. Supposing the Solons and Lycurguses of other states to be equal ly industrious, and our republick to endure as , long as the Roman, the library of a lawyer, like the famous one at Alexandria, will after a time be . sufficient to heat all the baths in a large city for ! a whole year. The gentlemen of the bar already 1 complain of the extent of legal science ; what will ; they do half a century to come? [Union. | Death by Fright. —On Wednesday last the son of James Donough, weaver, of Drogheda, aged 8 years, whilst playing with his little companions, was (old that a rag man, who was passing at the time, was about to take him off in his bag: when ! the child ran into the house, into which the object of his terror unfortunately happened to enter, l and supposing he was pursued, uttered a horrifick shriek, and instantly expired ! Land. pap. Judge Washington and his Slaves have been the theme of Northern declamation and misrep resentation for some timt. Recently we have had two communications from neighbouring coun ties on the same subject, arraigning the Judge as. President of the Colonization Society. The igno-1 ranee or prejudice of these writers can be their , only apology for the irreligious and inhuman charges they have made. The transaction was a very simple one: Mr. Washington had an over grown population of slaves, that we have no doubt brought him annually in debt: under these i circumstances, it was desirable to dispose of a j portion of them. They were sold to a southern gentleman, formerly a member of Congress, ex pressly for his own use ; they we.e taken in fam ilies, and with their own consent, previous to the purchase. They remained together for a week without confinement or restraint, after sale, and evinced an entire satisfaction with their change of situation. It is also a fact, well known, that there are not ten slaves in a hundred sold to foreigners, but what their approbation is previous ly obtained, unless they have beeu guilty of some crime or offence to their master; and then, if their attachments are strong to remain, it is quite 1 usual for the purchaser to release at the same price to any master they may select. [Alsx.Her. Lorenzo Dow is on a visit to Nantucket. He preached in a field on the 16th ult. before a large number of people. Literature. —The following are among the new j publications announced in the London papers; i The One-F.yed Coronation ; a Satirical Poem. “ What matters me who wears theCroum of France, “ Whether a Richard or a Charles possess it: 1 “ They reap the glory - they enjoy the spoil— “We pay—we bleed.” Southey's Wat Tyler. A slap at Slop and the Bridge-street Gang, a \ Coronation Cracker. Wilh the Life of Doctor j Slop. By the Author of the Political House that \ Jack built. The expedition to Orsua; and the crimes of Agilirre. By Robert Southey. Napoleon Bonaparte, his Court and Family. By one of the suite of the Empress Maria Louisa. 1 died, In this vicinity, on Saturday morning last, John Bailey, Esq. in the 69th year of his age.— The deceased was the warm-hearted and zealou* patriot, the kind and affectionate.husband, the tender aud indulgent parent, the obliging neigh* ! bour and valuable citizen. By this dispensation I of Divine Providence, his afflicted family have sustained an irreparable loss: end his friends are bereft of one, whose heart was always teuder to their complaints, and whose hand was ever ready to relieve their wants. At St. Simon’s Island, John Speakinan, Vq. of the firm of J. Speakman & Cos. merchants of Sa vannah, leaving a wife and four children to mourn his irreparable Joss. The feelings expressed by his numerous acquaintance on receiving the mel ancholy intelligence of his dissolution, spoke vol umes as to the estimation in which he was de servedly held in this community. Sar. Hep. In Warren Cos. Mr. Germain Tucker, formerly of the house of Holcombe & Tucker, Augusta. In Tuscaloosa, A. Mr. Wm. vlygatt, Printer, formerly of W ethersfield, Con. In Dracut, Mass. Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Var nurn, aged 72. He was one of the few remaining officers of the revolution, and formerly Speak er of the H. of R. of the U. S. We are authorized to an nounce Joun W. Hcott as a candidate for Sher iff of Hancock County at the approaching elec tion. ; May 30. 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. We* are authorized to ijr. .mice Lawson Bulloch, Esq. as a Candidate for Tax. Receiver, for Hancock County, at the approach ing election. Sept. 1. VVe are authorized to announce Richard Sims, Esq. as a Candidate for Tax Collector of this County, at the ensuing election. Aug. 23. 1821. NINE months after date, application will be made to the honourable Court of Ordinary of Wilkes county, for leave to sell the real estate of James Finley deceased, exclusive of tUe dowei. Isabella Finley , > „ . , Sainu.-. Finley , \ ‘* February 16, 1821. 39 J. & H. Ely, BOOKSELLERS—AUGUSTA, {GEO.)’ KEEP constantly on Land an extensive assort ment of FAMILY BIBLES , at all prices* from $3 to S3O. Law, Medical, Scientific';, Clas sical, Miscellaneous, and SCHOOL BOOKS , Maps, Globes, Atlases, Mathematical Instru ments, Blank-Books, Paper, Quills. Ink-Powder, aud alinostevery article in the Stationary line. Their assortment of Cassini and School Book* comprises almost all the Books that are us* and in the Academies of this state, and are ofthe latest and most approved editions. Orders for Academies and Libraries will be punctually attended 10, and supplied on near ly the same terms they can get them at New York or Philadelphia. Augusta, Aptil 7, 1820. 47tf Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale A Pt A-VTA TION, containing 190 acres of first quality land, well improved, having on it a good two story house, and other necessary buildings in good order. It is situated sufficiently near Vi unt Zion to enable the purchaser to avail hiiuself 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 reasonable terras. For further particulars, application may be made to the subscriber, or at the Missionary Office. RICHARD GRF.CORY. Mount Zion, June 6, 1821. 2tf. COTTON WARF.-HOUSeT WILLIAM H. EGAN , HAVING taken the Ware-house lately occu pied by J. & W, llarper, upper end, South side of Broad Street, Augusta, for the reception of Produce, and the transaction of Commission Business, generally, hopes that its convenient acconnnoda i tion, and his own unrerni'fing attention, may in ! sure him a share of publick patronage. Sept. 6. 1821. 15tf ■ The Mansion-House, oavannah, I s newly erected on the site of the Savannah Hotel, destroyed by fire in January la.-t, at the corner of Fmughton and Whitaker streets, : upon an enlarged and improved plan, calculated !to accommodate grntlemen with single rooms, and families with large rooms, and a table detach ed from the pnblick port of the House. JOHN SHELLMAN. N. B. A carriage house and stables are also provided on an adjoining lot, and a hostler to at tend to horses. April 1821. 46 ts Notice. BY order of the Court of Ordinary of Elbert f’ounty, will be sold ai tie Court House , in said county, on the first Tuesday iu January , next, all the real estate of Philip W ilhite, late of said county, deceased. M. T. WILHITE, Adro’r. Sept. 17, 1821. 15 Commission Warehouse, AUGUSTA THE subscribers having put their WARE IIOUSF.S in complete repair, offer their services in the above line, and will he thankful for any business entrusted to them. They will keep at their warehouse a constant supply of Salt, Iron, Sugar, Coffee and other Groceries, and Cot ton Bagging. MACKENZIE & PONCE. Augusta, Ist Oct. 1820. 8w > “"” “ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Information Wanted. THE children of John Cunningham, deceased, who departed Ibis life in Greenville district, !S. C. whose wife was named Jane. Their young ■ est daughter, Jane Cuuningham, now resides m , Bloomfield, Nelson county, Kentucky, and isde j :irons of obtaining any information that will open Ia correspondence between the widow of said I Cunningham, or John, James and George, chil- I dren of the aforesaid John and ane Cunningham. The said Jane was bound or put under the care of Mrs. Armstrong, of Sonth Carolina, who remo- . 1 ved to Kentucky and brought the said Jane with her. Any information relating to them will be thankfully received by I JANE CUNNINGHAM. i Bloomjitld , Kentucky. 03” Editors of papers in Washington City, ’ Norih and South Carolina, Georgia, .Alabama and Tennessee, will confer particular obligations on an orphan child, by giving the above two or three insertions in (heir respective papers. August 20 H,