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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