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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 )