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n r August last, we mentioned
ten only one or two-death.,
r r „ fpver it now affords us
place iror i none ha3 occurred
ll yf urc few persons at this time
l,ieie ‘ tint none dangerously ill.—
’° ,nP hit no place in the state con
s, P c - ,ap , ’er of inhabitants, that
an e rel less sickness this summer than
C, u ter ourselves and our readers
Nort on of health will he enjoy
;T a ‘most parts of the state.
tha "pM aware F that reports contrudicto
rt ’ \ V , i,ove been circulated in some
- e he°State How they originated we
s Sneovle slid not wish to see agitated;
u ' v3o r J h ardlv refrain here from saying,
1 I’. 6 town of Macon is beautifully situated,
‘I 1 )hts or slippery hills in it; that it is
th 110 fi e centre of the State, and that its
h S„’ ei; teller Ml Urn- .heir
(ighbours.
liy a private letter from Wash
■ J>n dated on the sth, we are
-ratified to learn the appointment
( fudge Southard, of this city, to
e Secretary of the Navy. It is
elieved he is not to enter on the
uties of his office until the last of
his month. —Trenton True Amer.
[I VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY BURNT.
|| The State Penitentiary in Rich
mond, was entirely destroyed by
■re on the night of the 7th inst.—
■t broke out a few minutes before
Ryclve o’clock and although the
E re engines were hurried to the
Spot, and a crowd of citizens were
Immediately collected, it was found
■that all their efforts to save the
■building would be idle. Exertions
were made to save the public pro
perty ; very little, however, could
be got at, as the fire broke out in
that part of the buildings where
the principle part of it was deposi
ted. All the convicts were saved
through the active exertions of the
citizens and turnkeys, and placed
under a guard in the portico of the
capitol—the whole number confi
rm! was 244, 11 or 12 of whom were
women—not one of them appears
to have attempted to escape. The
loss to the commonwealth, was sup
posed to be about 200,000 dollars.
“ The sight, (says the Compiler,)
was awful and grand ( beyond de
scription. No words can do jus
tice to the feelings which the whole
scene produced. The Penitentiary
was to the west of the city, and iso
lated some distance from any other
building. The fire, therefore,com
municated to no other. The wind
was light.”
Steam Navigation. —There is a
rumour in circulation that Mr.
Perkins lias sold to an American
gentleman in London, the right of
navigating the waters of the state
of New-York, New-Jersey, and
Pennsylvania, by means of his new
and improved steam engine, for
the sum of forty thousand dollars.
Georgetown, D. C. Aug. 8.
Counterfeiter arrested. —The oth
cr day a man was arrested in this
town on a charge of endeavoring to
pass counterfeit money—it appears
‘is name was Harris—was in com
pany wjth a man of the name of
Allen,both ofwhom said they were
11 °m near Mount Sterling, Mont
gomery Cos. in Ky.—Allen was
! osel y examined bv the Mayor,
ut not finding sufficient evidence
to commit him, he was of course
‘scharged —$210 were found on
arris, counterfeits on the Bank of
• °uth Carolina, two notes of SIOO
and one ten dollar note.—
‘ lrns has a cousin near this town
‘ v . e . re left his pocket book con
taining other counterfeit money,
“' IC l fact was ingeniously’ worm
e °"tof them by the Mayor,whose
• induct on the occasion merits the
f ianks of the community'; after the
■ins were fully established Harris
con L that he received the mo
j CV ’ * rom a man in Kentucky who
‘'•u pienty more, and was to give
J 'l for passing it, but refused to
c bis name. He had other good
“oney, which he might have got in
unge—the whole is sealed up.
• Iu deposited until it shall have
i ee r ’ ascertained to whom it be*
long?.
Saratoga Springs. —Nine hundred
strangers, among whom were seve
ral persons of the first distinction,
were at Saratoga Springs the first
of this month, and the number
was said to be rapidly increasing.
Saratoga Springs is becoming
quite crowded, an endless number
of post coaches, private carriages,
barouches, gigs, tandems, are daily
in motion; the cracking of whips,
blowing of horns, and rattling of
wheels is the music out of doors,
while the saloons of Congress Hall
re-echo to the popping of coras,
rustling of silks, fluttering of fans,
tuning Pianos, chiming of bells,
creaking of shoes and playing of
flutes. A great deal of beauty
and fashion is on the field, and we
have received a list of annual visi
tors from this city, whose presence
is peremtorily required : fine fel
fellovvs for a game of whist, or a
glass of nabob. A ball or a Qua
drille, a lounge near the spring
in the morning, or a light
stroll through the young cypress
es and sycamores. The time
never was more gay or propitious.
A great quantity of the spring water
will be swallowed by the sick, and
large draughts of claret by the
healthy ; balls, concerts and some
political caucussing are expected.
T lierefore all who have no notes
to pay had better pack up their
pumps and ruffled shirts and bo off.
Nat. Adv.
St. Louis, (J\lo.) July 16.
A report was in town yesterday,
that a party of the Missouri Fur
Company, returning from their
winter’s hunt, near the mountains,
was attacked about ten miles from
the Crow Village, by a body of
of black-feet Indians. —They were
passing a narrow defile in the
mountains ; a small party attacked j
them in front and rear, while the
rest threw down stones from the
mountains : the two leaders, Mes
srs. Robert Jones and Immell, were
shot down first; the men finding
themselves without a commander,
took to flight, and were cut to pie
ces by the Indians. The company
had about 25 packs of beaver, hors
es, mules, &c. ; the loss of the
Company (not mentioning, Immell
and Jones, two of the best traders
of the Missouri) is very great. —
Mr. William Gordon, who was
also of the party, had been sent on
before to hunt, and the Indians let
him pass them—he.travelled about
600 miles alone, through a track
less desert, and arrived in safety at
Fort Mandan.
This statement depends on the
assertion of a man, lately arrived
from Ashley and Henry’s expedi
tion, and its accuracy is doubted
by those best acquainted with the
subject.
By a letter received in town from
one of Gen Ashley’s expedition,
we are informed, that a man by the
name of Minkc Fink , well known
in this quarter as a greatmarksman
with the rifle, and is the same who,
some time since, in this place shot
off a negro’s heel, to enable him as
he said, to “ wear a genteel boot, ”
was engaged in his favorite amuse
ment of shooting a tin cup from off
the head of another, when, aiming
too low, or from some other cause,
shot his companion in the forehead
and killed him. Another man of
the expedition(whose name we have
not heared) remonstrated against
Fink’s conduct, to which he (Fink)
replied, that he would kill him like
wise, upon which the other drew
a pistol, and shot Fink dead upon
the spot. Republican.
A Brussels article of June 20th
says,—“ The Prince of Canning,
son of Lucien Bonaparte, and his
young wife set out this afternoon
for Antwerp,where they will embark
for the United States of America.
They intend to remain two or three
years in that country.”
Concord, (N. H.) Aug. 4.
The law of this State constituting
the county ot Merrimack went in
to operation on Friday last. For the
three last days, having no peace
officers, the territory comprising
the new countv has been without
law, an Alsatia in which crimes
might be committed with impunity
and to which criminals might flee
and defy, for time, any process for
arrest. We understand the prison
ers confined at Hopkinton under
criminal charges, on the day de
manded of the jailor to be released ;
but he came to the conclusion that
if he had no power, to turn the
key to confine any man, so also lie
had no power to turn the key to
release any man. The Governor
and Council are in session ; and
from the numerous faces which
have appeared as applicants either
for themselves or others, we con
clude a strong expectation exists
that some appointmeirts will speed
ily be made. Patriot.
From the Connecticut Mirror, Aug. 11.
Perhaps we shall be thought de
sirous of taxing the credulity of
our readers, by publishing the fol
lowing dimensions of a mass of ice
said to have fallen in the presence
of several respectable persons, du
ring a hail storm,two or three weeks
since, in Munson, Mass. The fact
was related to us by a gentleman of
the first respectability in that town,
who saw and measured for himself.
And though more novel we consid
er it by no means so unaccountable
as many other phenomena of na
ture —But without speculating on
the subject,we presentitas'received.
The appearance is said to have
been that of a compact body of hail
stones as firmly united as ice usu
ally is.
Its extremes were 4 feet long, 3
wide, and 2 thick. After remo
ving the rough parts of the body,
there remained a solid block, 2 feet
3 inches long, 1 foot 6 inches wide
and 1 foot and 6 inches thick.
The U. S. schooner Greyhound,
Lt. Kearney and Beagle , Lt. New
ton, of Com. Porters sqadron.
touched at Trinidad, Cuba, on the
6th of July, and sailed on the 10th
on a cruize windward ; and it is
said were to proceed to Kingston,
Jam. Their objects in calling at
Trinidad was to demand of the
Governor the captain and twelve
of the crew of the pirate schooner
! Despacho,—the same which captur
ed the brig Hay,
and murdered all onboard, and was
afterwards captured and destroyed
by the British cutters Union and
Lyon, from Jamaica. The Gov
ernor treated the application with
g:eat politeness, but declined giv
ing up the pirates, and referred
Commodore Porter to the Captain
General Vives, at the Havana.
New evidence of Gad's communion with the Soul.
Some days ago, I was credibly in
formed of of a very singular cir
cumstance ; a man’s having a fore
knowledge of his own death, when
he was apparently in good health,
and but a short time previous to his
exit. Evan Huie, a citizen of
Chatham county, related it to a
near neighbor of mine. Ihe cir
cumstances are as follows ;
He states, that a w r eek or two
ago, a Methodist preacher was
riding his circuit, and in the last
round that he then was expecting
to take ; also near the end of his
circuit. The preacher attended a
meeting not far from where Huie
was living, to which many people
repaired. After meeting, the
preacher took a certain man into
the grave-yard, and showed him
where he wished to be buried;
told him that he should not live to
ride out his circuit; audit is like
ly he gave directions relative to
other things. The preacher then
went home with this man j and
they took their afternoon’s repast
as usual. After dinner, the preach
er arose from the table, took a seat,
and instantly sunk down and ex
pired !! Western Carolinian.
Something New. —On Friday
the 4th ultimo. Mr. Pitchlvnn, a
young Choctaw of considerable
promise, at school in this place, de
livered an extemporaneous 4th of
July oration, in the Choctaw lan
guage, in the presence of a number
of the citizens ; and those who
have frequently witnessed the dis
plays of Indian Oratory pronounce
it to have been a choice specimen.
We think it proper to state that
the delivery of this oration was un
solicited ; and we regret that we
cannot procure the translation
of it for publication. If any thing
can be new in the celebration of
an anniversary, which for 4 7 years
has been hailed as a festival by the
people of every village, settlement
and city, throughout the Republic,
it is this! A Choctaw Oration
commemorative of the birth of our
Independence, is certainly anoma
lous in the history ot American
Oratory. Ten. Columbian
L A FAYETTE.
The rumor is revived, that the
Marquis La Fayette, the early
and steadv friend of our country
contemplates leaving France in a
few months, with the intention cf
visiting the United States. As cer
tainln, there is no European so
eminently entitled to the esteem
and gratitude of Americans, so we
make bold to say, there is no indi
vidual beyond the Atlantic who
might expect to receive so cordial
and hearty a reception among us,
as the venerable La Fayette. At
the darkest period of our Revolu
tionary struggle, the Marquis, then
a youth of nineteen, with a spirit
of chivalrous enthusiasm not to be
damped by the entreaties of friends
nor curbed by the tyrannical man
dates of a Court, bidding adieu to
the land of his nativity’ and all that
was near and dear to him, sacrifi
ced the enjoyments of wealth and
the privileges of rank, to devote
himself, heart and hand “to the
cause of Liberty in the New w r orld
Purchasing a vesssel and furnish
ing his own outfit, he embarks, he
reaches our shores, presenting him
self to our Congress ; he begs per
mission to serve them without
pay or emolumnent. Noble disin
terested generous La Fayette !
With an ardor that never abated,
with an eye that never closed
while danger was abroad, an arm
that never tired in .action, and a
purse that was ever open to the
wants of the government and the
necessities of the suffering soldiery,
he fought side by side with Wash
ington, from the year 1777 to the
surrender oi York, in 1781. —
A braver youth, of more courageous heart
Ne'er spurred his courser at the trumpet s
sound.
Having seen America through her
difficulties, to which happy and
glorious result not many individ
uals contributed more essentially
than himself, he returned to Prance
in 1782, bearing with him the thanks
and benedictions of millions of in
dependent freemen, who, with one
voice hailed him—and while grat
itude holds a place in the hearts of
Americans, their descendents will
continue to hail him— as friend, bro
ther, benefactor
Yes ! pullatit Fayette ! if noble deeds can give
Immortal praise, your fame shall ever live ;
Fixed as in Heav nthe Son’s broad centre lies,
And spread where’er Columbia’s Eagle flies!
Should the Marquis in his old
age, really design to wsit the Uni
ted States, we tiust that he will
not, as before, be pe: mitted to come
at lis own expense ; but on the
contrary, should government re
ceive information of the fact, it
would, in our opinion, be proper
to send a public ship to receive
him. Such a mark ot respect, while
it would warm and gladden the
heart of this venerable Apostle
of Liberty, would at the same
time evince the Crowned Heads,
that republics are not always un
grateful. Petersburg Intcll.
FROM MEXICO.
By an arrival at New-York, ac
counts Irom Vera Cruz to the 15th
of July, have been received. They
contain very little of interest. It
is stated on the authority of a pri
vate letter ot the 27th June, that
Gen. Santa Anna, who it will be
recollected has declared himself
independent of the Mexican go
vernment, has been proclaimed by
his troops, Second Emperor of Mex
ico, under the title ot Antonio I. —
tArnujo, who it would appear is the
general sent out by the Congress
against Santa Anna, had had an
interview with him at Jaral, but
they could not come to any terms,
and he set out the next day to join
the Mexican forces in the district
of Parado. Santa Anna followed
him, and their advanced guards
met, but no blood was shed. Ar
nujo afterwards retreated to the
estate of Socaban, where he hoped
to defend himself against Santa
Anna, except in his immediate vi
cinity. The other parts of the coun
try were perfectly tranquil. The
Sovereign Constituent Congress
was in session and engaged in for
ming anew Constitution.
Georgia—Bibb County
WHEREAS Margaret Turner &
Zachariah Cowart apply to
me for letters of administration on the
estate of Alexander Turner, deceased.
‘1 hese are therefore to cite and
admonish all singular, the heirs
and creditors of said deceased, to file
their objections in terms of the law, in
such case made and provided, it any
they have, why said letters should uot
be granted.
Uiven under my hand this Ist day
of September, 1823.
D. S. BOOTH, c. c. o.
September 1. 4w24
THE Subscribers respectfully in
form their friends and the public,
that the Macon Hotel is so far com
pleted as to be ready for the reception
of Travellers and Hoarders. It is sit
uate on Poplar-street, immediately on
the road leading from the Ferry to
wards the Agency, and to Forsyth in
Monroe county, &,c.
No exertions will he wanting to
render the situation of boarders and
travellers as comfortable as possible.
BOOTH & WILSON.
Macon. Sept, Ist, 1823. tsl 4
FUR SALE.
9 subscriber has 11 Barrels of
JL prime PORK, which he will sell
low for cash.
R. MoCOMBS.
Sept. 1. 24
NOTICE.
SOLOMON CROCK will attend to
the individual business ot James
11. Holderness, during his absence
from this state.
GEO. H. BRYAN, will conduct
the business ot Holderness & Bryan.
Macon, 25th Aug. 1823. 23
ShenfTs Sa\c.
ON the first Tuesday in October
next, will be sold at the house
of Maj. John Keener, the appointed
place of holding Court for Bibb county
—between the usual hours of sale—
the following property, viz.
Two hundred two and a half acres
of land, known by lot No. 35, in the
4th Dist. (formerly Houston,) now
Bibb county, adjoining lands ot James
Fitzgerald and others —taken as the
property of Joseph Jones to satisfy a
fi fa in favor of James (Jleghorn, vs.
said Jones. Levied on and returned
to me by Jeremiah Baugh, Constable.
One negro girl about 22 or 23 years
old, named DIN Alt, taken as the pro
perty of James L. Bussey to satisfy a
fi fa in favor of Win. \\. Brown vs.
said Bussey.
One tract of land, containing 203A
acres, being lot No. 36J in the 13th
district, formerly Monroe, now Bibb
county, whereon John Douglass now
lives, taken as the property cf Peter
Cotton to satisfy an execution in fa
vor of Zachariah Booth, sen. vs. said
Cotton—Levied on and returned to
me by a constable.—Terms Cash.
EDMUN D C. BE A lilt, SI, *ff.
Aug. 26 1823. tds24
ShevWTs Si\\e.
ON the first Tuesday in October
next will be sold at the house of
Maj. John Keener, the appointed place
of holding court for the county of Bibb,
between the usual hours of sale, the
following property, viz.
Three hundred acres of land, more
or less, it being the plantation where
on Samuel T. Williams now lives ad
joining Wrn. W. Brown, others, and
the Ocmulgeeriver,and formerlv Tones
but now Bibb county. Levied on as
the property of John D. Williams to
satisfy a fi fa in favour of the Bank of
Darien vs. said John D. Williams.—
Property pointed out by Timothy Mat
thews, Esq.
Two hundred two and a half acres
of land known by No. 232 in the 4th
dist. formerly Houston, but now Bibb
county adjoining Nos. 231 and 244
taken as the property of Christopher
Bawler to satisfy sundry ft fas in favor
of George Whitten vs said Bawler. —
Levied on and leturned to me by Za
chariah Holliman, Const.
One Road Waggon, Team and Har
ness—Levied on as the property of
Joel Rushin to satisfy a fi fa in favour
of Wm.H. Oakeman vs said Joel Rush
in. Property pointed out by the De
fendant.
Three Beds and furniture, 3 beds
steads, 5 sitting chairs, 3 pine chests,
2 pine tables, l water-pail, 1 large ear
then bowl—l turrene, half a dozen
plates, half a dozen cups and saucers,
1 large iron pot, 1 small do. 1 frving
pan, 1 Dutch oven, 1 tea pot, 1 coffee
pot, I large jar, I coffee mill, and 4
knives and forks —All levied on as the
property of James Curley, to satisfy a
fi fa in favor of Charles Williamsson
vs said Curley. Terms of sale cash.
THOMAS FLUELLIN, and. s.
Aug. 29th, 1823. tds24
Sheriffs Sale.
“WIUTLL be sold on the first Tues-
T ▼ ‘lay in October next in the
Town of Forsyth in Monroe county,
One tract of land containing 202£
acres, being lot No. 178 in the 13tli
dist. of Monroe county—levied on as
the property of John T. Pruitt to satis
fy an execution in favor of Baker &
Heath, vs. Newsom & Pruitt.
ALLEN COCHRAN, and. s.
August 29 th, 1823. tds2A
