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Wiih the most unlimited ,confi
, c ~i the firmness, justice aim
lonl of > our administration, in
S„ e ourselves to you and oui
L lo w citizens, that we wid be rea
\ at the i all oi our country to de
fend, hat is dearer to us than our
u ve9 —her liberty and laws.
fly order of the meeting,
WATKINS, Chairman.
Ta the Young Men of the City of
Augusta, in the State of Georgia*
Gentlemen— An address from
t p e youth of Augusta, so remote
from the seat of government, and
where I a:n personally wholly un
known, is a very high gratification
to my feelings.
Threats of bloodshed, massacres,
and desolation, from the frenzy of
anv nation, however great, or any
republic, however terrible, at the
distance of a thousand marine
leagues, need not intimidate the
American people, if they really feel
like you, an unalterable attachment
to their country and government.
It has been my destiny to differ
front my fellow citizens in general,
in djntiions concerning the French
revolution: Asa dispensation of
providence, I have ever beheld it
with reverence, unable however to
comprehend any good principles
sufficient to produce it, to see its
tendency, or in what it would termi
nate —but the warm zeal, the vio
lent attachment to it manifested by
Americans I have ever believed it
to he an error of the public opinion
—it was none of our business—we
had or to have had nothing
to do with it, and I always believed
we were making work for severe
repentance. —To me little time re
mains to live, and less l hope to
have any thing to do with public
affairs; but I could neither die or
retire in peace, if at such a time as
this,and in the station I now hold,
I should conceal my sentiments
from my fellow citizens.
Self preservation now points out a
firm conduct to government, and your
satisfaction in those measures winch
have been pursued for the preservation
of our national honor, is much esteem
ed, —may you long live to rejoice in
them and enjoy their happy effects.
It is a gratification to my priJe to
see you boast of a weli balanced re
public; the essence of a free republic
is in this balance—die security of lib
erty, property, character and life de
pends every moment on its preserva
tion, and France and America will be
scourged by the rods of vengeance if
they will not study and preserve that
balance as the only ark of safety*
The expression of yous confidence
in my administration, is the more pre
cious as it was unexpected.
JOHN ADAMS.
Philadelphia, July 20, 1 T9b.
Messrs. Editors —ln a letter of Dr.
Abbot’s to the Editors of the National
Intelligencer, published in their paper
of the 25th February last, I have been
appealed to, among others, to testify
concerning the political opinions of
Mr. (. rawlord, the Secretary of the
Treasury. The absurdity of the charge
of federalism, as against him, at one
time determined me to be silent on the
subject—Put reflecting, that its absur
dity might not be as apparent in all
|>arts of the Union as in this state, l
-avc thought it better to say what 1
know upon the subject.
1 removed to the county of Ogle
thorpe, in the autumn of the year 1708
—Mr. Crawford settled in the county
about the sjme time, an 1 our acquain
tance commenced at that period, soon
ripened into an intimacy, which re
ceived no check until lie went into
public life* as a Senator in Congress.
Mr. Crawford was an open republican
I first knew him, and lias re
mained so ever since, for aught that
ever came to my knowledge. It will
he recollected by men ns o'd as myself
that from 1709, to the election of Mr.
Jefferson in 1801, the spirit of party
as excited to a most fearful degree.
Throughout the contest, which terinin
ated in the election of Mr. J efl'erson,
Mr. Crawford’s sentiments, as far as 1
hud opportunities of witnessing their
expression, (and these were frequent,
‘"r he made no secret of them) wore
openly declared in opposition to the
principles and policy of Mr. Adams’
f'lniinistrution, and in favor of Mr.
Jefferson's election. lie resided in
i county in which 1 did from
that time until his election to the Sen-
Had his republicanism been sus
pected, l must have heard of it; for
Within that period, he was involved in
disputes both of a political and private
nature, in the course o.’ which, the cir
tumstance of a change in his political
opinions, had there ever been one,
Vould not liavc been passed in silence.
1 have no recollection o f ever hearing
% suggestion of the kind, until since
his name lias been before the people as
a candidate f./r tut* Presidency.
Respectfully yours,
UEORUK MOORE.
EARTHQUAKE IN VALPARAISO.
Ji w timokk, March 7.
Extract of a Utter dated V alparaiso,
November 2jt/n
u f have just escaped from one ol
the greatest dangers that I ever
experienced. On the night of the
IVih inst. we were visited by a ter
rible earthquake which has laid this
line place in ruins, and shaken all
Chili to its foundations. What few
houses are still standing are so
shattered that they can no longer he
tenanted. The inhabitants have all
retired to the hills, and living in
tents. \o'i cannot imagine the hor
rible condition of this place—there
will no doubt be a famine, as pro
visions are now selling at the most
exorbitant prices. About 300 peo
ple have been taken up out of the
ruins, and every day two or three
are found.
I was sitting with some friends
in my room, when the first thing I
heard was the falling of the roof—
and on rushing forwards, I found it
impossible to stand, the earth was
in such violent agitation ! I fortu
nately got into the street before the
house tell—the next moment the
earth was rent asunder, leaving a
tremendous chasm. The objects
on all sides, the screams of the dy
ing and of the fugitives, and the
danger which surrounded me, filled
my mind with the niost awful emo
tions. At length, I was delivered
from danger by the interposition of
one of my friends ; and I have been
living ever since on board ship.
Every two or three hours there is
anew convulsion of the earth, which
communicates itself to the vessels
iu the harbor. Balt. Chron.
‘•Av-'fV?? ’tlje A * * *7 V*
•Isn&ax, ApvW 1, V&‘2s.
|CT” ‘The foreign intelligence we
publish to-day is of a much liter date
than that in our last. By it. it will be
seen that there is a good deal of agita
tion in Europe that seems to border on
hostilities.. We present it t our
readers without, comment as it is pro!;-
able a few months will bring the matter
to an issue, and perhaps decide the fate
of old Spain.
vVe are of opinion that the
subject of the next Presidential Elec
tion has been prematurely discussed by
a great number of Editors, both in this
and other Stales of the Union, and
have hitherto omitted publishing any
thing dn it. Whether w hat we publish
to-day from the Southern Recorder
may be deemed touching on the subject
we leave for our readers to judge.
Certain it is however, that the charac
ter of one of the Candidate* for that
high office has been assailed ; and from
what will be seen in the preceding
columns, we think Unjustly. W hen
the character of any other candidate
is assailed, and his innocence proved,
we shall be equally ready to publish it.
COMMUNICATED.
Viilcc et decorum est pro putrid mori.
Hor.
Surely the Latin Poet lived in an
age happier far than the present. —
The hero of antiquity may have
been honored whilst living, and his
services amply requited with the
applauding smiles of his country.
Or if perchance he nobly lell in the
field of battle, his sepulchre may
have been marked, his widow may
have found a protector, and his
orphans a lather in the gratitude of
his country. *
But alas for us ! those days art
gone, and such things are only the
legend of tradition. The sorrows
of the soldier’s widow are derided
the soldier’s orphans are abused
Political gratitude is now only a
name, exists but in imagination,
and is used as an ? gnis fat uus to
lure men through the quagmires of
’ danger.
! An emulous thirst a her glory
may impel the American soldi*,
to the icene of blood, a sense u.
bis country’s wrongs may stimulate
him to lace danger nd death in al
their hideous shapes: no doubt a
sentiment of conscious rectitude
pervades his breast, and supports
him in toe awful conlbct; but in
the hour of death, when his soul is
about to leave its terrestrial abode
and wing its flight to the unknown
regions of eternity, his drooping
spirits are not cheered with the
consoling belief that his services
and sufferings will be kindlv re
membered by posterity, that his
lonely relict will find a husband, or
his indigent offspring a father in
the gratitude of his country. In
stances, numt rous instances that
i have come within the sphere ol his
.own observation convince him to
the contrary, lie knows full well
that when his lifeless corps is con
signed to its “ narrow house,” his
j glory will no longer remain, and his
name be drowned in the ocean of
oblivion. To prove this fact, we
need only go to the habitation of
the soldiers widow, enter the mise
rable hovel, and learn the tale of
their woe from its w'retched inmates.
From them you will learn that the
soldier’s services are forgotten so
soon as the vital spark leaves its
earthly tabernacle. This must con
tinue to be the c~se so long as
wealth is made the standard of
merit. So long as gold is made the
criterion, by which to judge a man’s
qualifications, so long will unobtru
sive merit be neglected, and the
brightest gems of genius be suffered
to moulder in obscoriu.
piiiLo Miles.
—a.
Communicated.
Mr. Editor,
If you think proper you may in
sert the ful.owing enigmas in your
paper.
1: The first part of the title of one
of ‘Valter Scott s novels and an
hundred weight.
2. A well known bird that feeds
on fish.
3. i he first two thirds of a female
hart, and the last had of a young
lady’s title.
4. A young ox.
5. ihe bcotcli or Irish addition
to a name, the Spanish title of a
gentleman, and three fifths of the
name of a well known tree.
6. A small rock
7. A county in the lower part of
this slate.
8. The celebrated Norman con
queror, with the addition of the ser
penune letter.
{ J. A large Bay in North Amer
ica.
10. An infant under the care of
a guardian, and a rule of action.
11. A Monk and a male child.
12. The reverse of vva: in and the
sharp side of a tool.
13. A house of boards or boughs.
14. That part of a woman’s ap
parel that shades the breast.
A man by the name cf William
Crawford was on th 21st of Feb
ruary executed at Washington,
Penn, for the murder of his son.—
He was by biith an Irishman, and
had been for many vears a soldier.
The “ modus operandi” of inflict
ing on him the punishment of the
laws is detailed with very disgust
ing minuteness by a paper cf the
place. The procession was ar
ranged and is described with due
form, and all the. appendages ofthe
occasion, including about 10,000
spectators, are enumerated with a
laudable regard to accuracy. The
culprit gave no signs of penitence,
was indifferent in his passage to,
and wholly unconcerned at, the
place of death. He said that he
wished the ceremony was over, re
jected the delay offered to hittfi by
the sheriff, drank a glass of beer
under the gallows, told one of the
officiating clergymen to u mind his
own business and let him alone,”
refused to forgive his family, say
ing “ lie was no hypocrite, and
would not die with a lie in his
mouth,” and went out of the world
as he had lived in it, a brute without
heart or sense, and we should al
most hope without a soul. Surch
the public exhibition of such scenes
ought not to continue in a civili
zed society. What good could
possibly flow from such an exam
ple, and what evil might not result
from similar exhibitions of insult
and contempt of human and divine
laws and dispensation*?
A r . r 4mer.
Charleston, March 21.
More Piracy. —A letter from Ha
vana, by the schr. fidiza & PolT
luted llth inst. says—“ A French
ship arrived here yesterday, which
oad been robbed to windward, of
her entire cargo of wine, &c. She
was taken in amongst the Keys,
and ail her cargo taken out. She
came in here quite light, with mast
and yards down, to enable her to
stand up. Also, arrived same day,
a Portland brig, which had been
robbed on the south side of the
island of every thm* -no sails left
except her fore-v i and fore-top
mast stay-sail.”— Courier.
We observe that the noted Charles
Matthews hds taken it in high dud
geon, that the Boston Gal axv should
call him an “itinerant mimick;”and
that he has estimated that daring at
tack on his character at no less a sum
than 8 10,000. VVe provincial edi
tors are in the habit of thinking this
a very large sum, much beyond the
contents or capacity of our purses.
If, as we have been informed, he
was imported by a combination of
managers for the sum of 8 40,000,
(a fact lor the accuracy of w hich vve
will not vouch) there may be some
proportion in his rate ol” damages.
But we are confident said Matthews
would find a woful reduction in his
assessment, from the verdict of a
\ ankee Jury. We are glad to see
that the Boston Patriot has ventured
to call in question the claims of the
great one, and that our neighbour
of the Mirror has taken a truly
Yankee view of the affair. We
hope -nd trust it will take such a
turn, that these histrionick foreign
ers will know where they are when
they set their foot on New England
it is high time to repel their inso
lence from our shores ; and if they
mu it insult us, let it be across the
Atlanti c . — Con. Ihrall.
Stone Barometer. — 1 here isasldne
in die northern part of Finland,
which serves the inhabitants instead
‘of a barometer. 1 his stone, which
they call llmakuir , turns olack, or
| blackish grey, when it is going to
, rain, but on the approach of fine
J weather it is covered with tvhite
j spots. Probably it is fossil mixed
| with clay, a:7d consisting of rock
j salt,ammoniac, cir salt-petre, which,
according to the greater or less
degree of the pressure of the at
mosphere, attracts it or otherwise.
In the latter case the salt appears,
which forms the white spots.
L r jn Paper.
Protin, the ,V. V. Commercial Advertiser
Gleanings from English Papers,
i A merchant, travelling from Lon
| don to Liverpool in the Mail, en
tered into conversation with a coun
try girl, a passenger. Slie told
him that she had saved ten guineas
and was taking them home to her
lather. The coach was stopped by
highwaymen, and upon their de-j
manding money from the passen-j
gers, the merchant said that he had 1
but a lew shillings, but that his fe-j
male companion had ten guineas.—
They of course made her give them
up and went away. Vv hen they
were out of sight, the gentleman
told the girl that he had fifty thou
sand pounds concealed in his boots,’
and gave her one hundred pounds to
repay her loss and ,o compensate
for the fright into which his conduct
had thrown her.
One hundred and sixty-two cou
ple were married in 1322 at Gretna
Green, by one ofthe ministers there
—the new marriage act has dimin
ished marriages in England about
four-filths.
It is said that the Students at the
University of Edinburgh amounted
in Jan. last to 2200.
Bottles ot Whiskey have been
smuggled into Edinburgh stuffed
inside ol cleaned geese.
A lady in Batavia being applied
to to liirnish lodgings tor a gentle*
man, replied that she could not then,
her house being full, but she added,
do not lie impatient, my lodgers are
new comers, and you know we aie
certain ot death vacancies in a short
time.
1 he longest law suit ever known
was litigated in England about
some lands in Gloucestershire; it
lasted une hundred and twenty
years, and was finished by a com
promises.
Eightv*six horses were entered
last January for the Doncaster, St.
Eeger races.
The Duke of Portland has re
turned to his tenants in Netting
h&msMre 50 percent of their rents.
One of the London papers posi
ivcly contradicts the -dory of the
-itig’s being about to be married,
lie lady who was hinted at in the
* port is a daughter of the Marquis
<1 Copvngham.
Sheridan invited Fox to visithim
at Twickenham, and cautioned him
to behave soberly, for tnat every
thing in his house went bv clock
work. 1 suppose so, replied Fox,
all by tick, tick.
1 he Cotton trade increases daily
in England. The sv stem of weaving
by machinery in the manufacture of
strong calicoes, is gaining ground
fast, and is expected to create an
immense demand for the coarser
kinds of yarns, which of course
require the greatest quantity ol the
raw material.
Four persons perished near Man
chester in consequence of suff na
tion from a chafing dish of coals
being placed in a confined room in
which they slept.
XT’ HARDY BARREL, and
ELEAZAR M‘Call
are candidates lor the office of Justice
of the P. ace f.r this distdet. The e
lection will take place on the 2ath mst.
iVices Current.
„. 8 c g c
Hour, bbl. 13 0 0 0
Whiskey, gal. 58 60
Rum,(Jam.) do. 1 50
do. W. I. do. 1
Gn, do. 65 6$
Molasses, do. 60
Sugar, brown lb. 11 13
do. Loaf. lb. 22
Coffee, do. 30 32.
Bacon, lb. 18
l roil, do. 7}
NailS do. 12£
•’shot do. 13
Powder keg !1
Rice lb. 5\
Castings do. 10
Po k, prime, do. 22
Do. Mess do. 28
Salt bush. 1 50
Mackerel bbl. 11 15
A E st ot Letters remaining in the
Post Office at Fort Hawkins, Geo. Ist
April, 1823.
A James Jeb9op
capt. e. >i. Attaway Thomas Jones
B Joseph Johnston
John Beard John Lewis Jones
Edmond C. Beard 2 K
M. H. Beard Russel Kdlain
Nathaniel heard L
Robert Brooks Benj. B. Lamar 2
R-iddin Bowtloin Latmicl Lanier
Joseph Burnett Edom Lessee
Council Bryant RcdJin Lipsy
Mis. l.avitu Brady M
irs. Susannah Beil Ilaly McLendon
Rowell Bass John R.Vlark via
C Henry Mimtns
Capt. Peter Carey Mr. Monroe
John M. Carter Joseph dunms
Henry A. Candler Levi Mtuuten*-.
VV ilson Collins Austin Martin
Benj. F. Curch Samilel Mcßride
Win. A. Clements Aron McKunzey
Lewis Cal they Benjamin Martin
I) Laban M a-on
Richard Drauglion Tim. Mathews 2
Jonathan Duncan. Azeal Metcalf
John Davis Eq. John Mcßride
John Dugiass N
Mary Dennard Jessey Nobles
E Jonathan Neil
Samuel Evans John Nelson
Wiliam English O
Captain Peter Eld- Wm. Dena
rilge P
F John lAriy
James Fitzgiles James Patterson**
Thomas Flewellen John J. Parish
G U
Robert Gawley Ignatus Russell
Robert Gill James Rowell j
Josiah Grimes B
H Mrs. P. Sillivan
Thomas House T
Harmon Howard Jeffrey E. Thoinp-
James Herron son
James Moldernesa VV
Finly Holmes D. Wadsworth
Arthur Hays Elbert Wood
Frederick Holmes Mr. Williams
Martin Hardin Win. Willborn
J Benjamin White
N. W. WELLS, P. M,
Georgia,
!> 4th Apl. 1823
Appling County. J
Whereas my wife Mary Cox of
said county has left mv bed and
board without any just cause—l
ihercfore caution all persons against
harbouring or dealing with her in
my name, as I am determined not
to pay any of her contracts, and will
put the law in force against any per
son harbouring her.
SAMUEL COX )