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I T |,e sale ofllicfrMtwual lots in the
I • 1 itelv acquired from the
l' r Taml Cherokee Indian?, under
■ V.f tlw hist session ot the legis-
I tuJe for that purpose, will commence
I , “5,1 November next l ” Pledge
-1 and continue every day, (Sim
-111 l t ’ „cei.teil,)until tlie 2.1 bebruary.
Ju advertisement ot the above ap-
W” t | lL . Georgia Journal, and enu-
Bierates the numbers of the fractions to
1 Id each dav.the counties in which
I'"’ lie —and, hut for its extreme
I,‘nlih we should copy it for the be
fcht of our readers. Terms ot sale ;
I ’ tl)Urt ii part of the purchase money
C‘ id down to the commissioners, and
El remainder at three annual 1 natal-
E ien t s . Purchasers to turnish their
I Tim wfowing fractions will be sold
|ia this county.
1~, tli P ooth December,the following fractions
I ? \0T267,208, 269, 274, ‘llo, 270, 277,27 b
I'-.V-N,. 2bt, iiiUie 4th district ol originally
I'j'’ now Bibb county; also Nos. 2<>9,210
-I*...’now Bibb county; also Nos. 1,34,35,68,
liatiie 13th dist. of originally Monroe, now
13 On Monday the 22d, the following fractions,
loa , 136, 137, 170 171, 204,
238, 239,272,273, 306, 307, 319, 323,321,
hb. 326, in the 13lh district originally Monro,
now Bibb County. .
On Tuesday tue 23d, the following fractions,
,V Nos. 235,' 336,313, 344, 345, 346, 3.>9, 360,
5.369, m VI, 372, 373,374, 377, 379,380,
3H, 13th district ot originally Monroe, now
iSibb county. . . ..
In the other counties, the times ol
sale are between the following dates:
Heurv Cos. commences 3d Nov. and ends 4th
Fayeite “ 4 “ J
Newton “ 7 J3
Monroe “ t3 17
Houston “ 17 “ 26
Dooly “ 26 December 11
1 * vdb “ H “ 19
Fixe “ 24 “ 30
Crawford “ 30 January 3
Irwin “3 “6
Telfair “ 27 “ 27 ,
Appling “ 27 February 2
About 20 fractions are to be sold
each day.
Disappointments in receiving mail commu
nications occur from various causes: some
times from high waters, sometimes trom hurri
canes, sometimes from sickness, robberies, Ate.
—and we are informed that there was no mail
communicationlVointhis place, to Milledgeville
on the 7th inst. in consequence of drunkenness!
It appears that Mr. Lysauder Burdick, the dri
ver, was a dram ahead that morning, and threw
file mail down not far from the Post Office
door, where it lay about five minutes without
being taken up by the Post Master, who was
not quite ready to receive it. Mr. Burdick
then put it into the stage and drove off. regard
less of the repeated calls of the Post Master.
We regret that our attention has been again
called to this subject ; but we feel it both our
duty and our interest to expose the misconduct
of Post Masters and mail carriers when it comes
to our knowledge.
Anson Kimberly, Ksq. has been appointed
by the Governor, Commissioner of the River
Altamaln.anil commissioner of Pilotage for the
Fort of Darien, in the place of Scott Cray, esq.
resigned.
James Morrison, Fsq. was una
lirnously re-elected Mayor of the
city ol Savannah, on the 4-th inst.
A writer in the IV. C. Star, who supports Na
thaniel Macon as President, has the following
sentence, which we w ill give, merely to show
fcis zeal, although he Hli'ects great moderation.
“ Will we choose either Crawford,
Calhoun, Jackson, Adams, or Clay,
f4tore this man, who has spent his
life in the service of his country ?
Would not this be ingratitude ‘ ac
cursed by heaven ?’ ”
/ ice President. —Col. Richard M.
Johnson of Kentucky, has been na
nu cl in a Kentucky paper, as a suit
able candidate for Vice President
the U. States at the ensuing elec
tion.
The Indian Springs. —A gentleman
novv at the Indian Springs, in this
tdate, writes to his friend in this city :
“ 1 he country about this place is ve
*y ‘"".Vi cocky, romantically wild, and
ln, "y inhabited. The unusual sick
ness o( the surrounding country, has
tendered the Spring a resort for
numbers, that the accomodations
are by no means equal to the influx;
“n” I am now writing in a little log
mul, with fifty avenues which ad
tmt indiscriminately, hornets, flies,
showers, wind and sunshine.
Ihe Mineral Spring is situated
t> tout a quarter of a mile from the
ents as they are termed. In going
0 ,f V"u descend a small hill, cross a
‘ustic bridge which is thrown over a
JMiertall, running between banks ol
‘oken rock, then a winding path con
found another lull down to
lie ®|uing. The water issues from
b, nah Ssjurc or crevice, about live
inch s wide, at the base of 4 mass
of ro k. It is impregnated, but not
powerfully,with sulphur and magnesia
and produces in five minutes after
being drank, a gentle perspiration,
operating moderately as a cathartic,
lfs effects have been beneficially felt in
cases of chronic rheumatism, hut it is
principally effective in cutaneous ca
ses. It is perfectly pure and transpa
rent, the smell rather unpleasant, the
taste not disagreeable. There ap
pears to be no specific quantity rec
ommended to be taken, nor any par
ticular time of taking it ; but I have
found two tumblers full before every
meal sufficient to preserve regularity
in the system and promote health.
There, are very few invalids here,
considering that here Uygta has es
tablished her head quarters.
“ About nine miles west, are the
Falls ol Towcalleggee. They are
very grand and picturesque. The
rapid waters roll over beds of shelv
ing rock fin about fifty feet from the
eddy above, and then rush over about
seventy feet of solid smooth rock,
describing nearly half a circle. From
a sea of foam they again descend a
more gradual and broken bed of stone,
and finally tumble in a hundred falls
over fragments of rock, through the
prostrated limbs of torn up trees, un
til they float in peace and placidity.
In the lower level of the rivers there
is another fall, but an infant imitation
of the upper one.” Georgian.
The New York, papers notice the
approach of a Raft, in the North
River, which measured BPS feet in
length, and 121 in width, contain
ing about 130,000 feet of square
timber,besides a quantity of boards,
estimated to be worth from 25, to
30,000 dollars. I'he timber is said
to have been cut to the east of On
ion River in Vermont, floated down
the Champlain Canal,and embodied
at Fort Edward. The raft was na
vigated by ten men ; and had on
board a house well furnished for
their comfort, ivith a cow, a horse,
and a carriage.
The master of a vessel from Bel
fast, Maine, has been prosecuted
by the Marshal of the city of Bos
ton, for secretly landing certain em -
igrant passengers, contrary to law.
The penalty for each passenger in
such cases, is two huudred dol
lars.
A New-York paper remarks that
in reviewing the administration of
criminal justice in that city, it is
gratifying to observe that since the
introduction of the tread-mill , the
number and atrocity of offenceshave
visibly diminished.
The Old State Bank of Tennes
see places its late Dividend upon a
nv*w footing. Such Stockholders
as do not owe the bank are to re
ceive their 3 per cent in current
notes: but those who have an ac
commodation, are to have their di
vidend applied to the reduction ot
their notes. It is not stated, whe
ther this is done by previous con
tract, or by exercising anew au
thority on the part ol the Bank.
Governor Cass, who was appointed
by the President, under an act passed
at the last session of congress, to ne
gotiate with the Moravian Society
and Indians for the re-cession to the
United States of their land lying in
Tuscraws county, (Missouri) has suc
ceeded in making a purchase upon
favorable terms. It is probable, there
fore, that this valuable land will be
fore long be brought into market.
The law of South Carolina, sub
jecting all free coloured persons
arriving in anv vessel at any port
of that state, to be seized and im
prisoned, and so kept imprisoned
until the vessel bringing them
should depart,&tc. which has given
considerable inconvenience to ves
sels trading there, has been pro
nounced by Judge Johnson, of the
Supreme Court of the U. States,
“ to be unconstitutional and void,
and every arrest made under it,
subjecting the persons making it to
an action of trespass.”
N. T.paper.
The brig Perl, Capt. Chandler,
has arrived at Boston lrom the
Sandwich and Society Islands . sne
was bound on a trading voyage to
the N. W. coast of America, but
meeting with a Russian frigate,
had her papers endorsed and or
dered off, by which the object ot
her voyage was defeated.
Melancholy casualty.— On Tues
day morning last about 80 clock,
during a thunder storm, the house
of Dr, S. P. Winslow, near Smith s
Mills in Dartmouth, was struck
with lightning, which shattered
the house very considerably,knock
ed down the Doctor, killed his wife
and badly wounded his sister. We
understand the electric fluid enttr
by the chimney, and spread in ev
ery j art of the house. Dr. W.
was sitting in his chair, in the low
er room, attending his sick son,
when the shock knocked his chair
from under him, and threw him
on the floor, where he lay senseless
for nearly a minute ; on recovering
he heard some person cry fire ;
when he immediately ascended to
th< garret, where he found some
combustible articles in a blaze
which he immediately threw out of
the wnidow and extinguished the
fire. On returning to the chamber,
he found Mrs. Winslow sensless on
the floor. She had been sitting
near the fire-place, when she was
struck down; the fluid passing to
the opposite side of the room, and
through the window, which it de
molished entirely, not even leaving
a vestige of the frame. Another win
dow in the lower room was shiv
ered in the same manner, and not a
window in the house but was more
or less broken. It is supposed the
injury Miss Winslow received was
caused by the fragments of the win
dow near which she was sitting.—
It is remarkable that a child who
was standing between Mrs. and
Miss Winslow, was uninjured.—
All attempts to revive Mrs. Wins
low proved fruitless.
At the same moment of the above
disaster,the house of Messrs. Isaac
and Otis Little, situated about two
miles S. W. of Dr. Winslow’s was
also struck, and considerably in-
j ured, particularly the roof, and
one of the rafters was taken entire
ly out and shivered to atoms.—
There were ten or twelve persons
in the house, all of whom were
struck down, excepting a small
child but were not materially inju
red except Mr. Isaac Little, and he
was not dangerously. The furni
ture of the house was much broken,
and scattered in all directions.
On Monday night, the 4th inst.
the barn of Mr. Samuel Look, in
Tisbury, was struck with lightning,
and entirely consumed, together
with about 10 tons of hay, 150
bushels of grain, and many of his
farming utensils, which it contain
ed. New Bedford Mercury.
A lamentable occurrence took
place in Pennsylvania, on the 9th
ult. A man named Elisha Hilliard
accidently shot his brother when
on a hunting party for deer in a
neighboring lick. The deceased
had sat down in the bushes conven
ient to the lick, and had fallen as
leep he awoke, about dusk, and
was creeping through the bushes
to the lick on the same errand, and
hearing the noise in the bushes,and
seeing, as he supposed, a deer,
Isaac having on a red jacket, fired
hi s rifle ; his feelings and aston
ishment can be more*easily concei
ved than described, to find, shat
instead of a deer, he had shot his
brother. The bullet passed through
his shoulder, and is supposed to
have lodged in one of his ribs.—
Some hopes are entertained of his
recovery* Nat. Intelligencer .
Hardfate— John C. Hamilton,
a respectable young man, was ex
ecuted in Kentuky in 1817, lor the
murder of Doctor Sanderson of
Natchez, Mississipi. Sanderson
had visited Kentucky for the im
provement of his health, and spent
most of the summer at the house
of Hamilton. In October the Doc
tor prepared to return home, and
Hamilton accompanied him some
distance and took a friendly fare
well.
Ten or twelve days after some
hunters discovered the body ol San
derson in the woods near where
Hamilton acknowledged he took
leave of him. His body had been
shot and mangled in a shocking
manner. Hamilton was advised by
his friends to escape ; but he re
fused and persisted in his inno
cence to the last—and on the scaf
fold took a manly leave of the world,
asserted his innocence, and regret
ted most that his fate should des
troy the hopes of a young family
whom he loved, and shed an indel
ible disgrace on his memory. Ihe
only evidence against him was cii
cumstantial, viz. that near the body
of Sanderson were found a blood v
pair of pantaloons and a pistol,
both bearing the name of Hamil
ton. It now appears that he was
innocent. A man has recently
been executed at Mobile, who con
fessed himself the murderer of
Sanderson.
An emigrant, w ho had been only
twelve days on our shores, was con
ducted to the Police Office ou
Tuesday, upon a charge of stealing
7s. Gd. from a poor fruit woman.—
FJe landed at Perth Amboy, and
though unable to speak a word of
the English language, had evident
ly imbibed very liberal notions of
our customs and laws. Accord
ingly he took a stroll on Monday
down Washington street and com
menced operation by thrushing his
land, unbidden, into a huckster’s
basket of nuts. Finding the tools
of a mason lying upon an unfinish
ed wall, he next took them very
kindly into his keeping, and then
entering the fruit woman’s shop,
emptied her tin llox of the change,
whilst she was in the cellar. On
her return he regaled himself with
nuts apples, &c. to the amount of
2s. and paid the woman in her own
money, having filled his belly, and
got ss. 6d. into the bargain. The
woman recognised the two shilling
piece by a particular mark, and was
puzzled to conceive by what sort
of necromancy it had found its way
to her customer’s pocket. Finding
however, that her change box was
empty, the riddle was soon ex
plained. She remonstrated with
him, but he shook his head, and
understood niemendall about it, but
made off with very suspicious speed.
He was soon apprehended, and is
now in bridewell.
N. T. American.
On the 16th of June, Capt. Gar
wood of the ship Magnet, of this
port, was boarded, and taken pos
ession of by a Spanish Privateer,
between Cape de Gatt and Cape
Pello, near Alicant, run into a Bay,
near the land on the coast, and an
chored in four fathom water. —
Capt. Garwood was prevented
from landing or sending a letter to
the American Consul, at Alicant,
and he, as well a3 his crew, were
much abused by the freebooters,
while lying at anchor. At one
time they presented a loaded mus
ket at breast, and at the first and
second officer’s, because they could
not get as hearty a supper as they
wished. About 8 o’clock that
night, two privateers, with about
fifty men, went longside and
ordered the ship to get under way,
and stand to sea, as they said
for the purpose of proceeding for
Carthagena, but Capt. Garwood
soon found their intention was to
pillage the ship, and refused to get
under way. They then proposed,
that he should permit them to load
their vessels with tobaco and coffee,
and they would give him a receipt
for them, but when they found
they could not prevail on him, they
determined to murder him and the
mates and load their vessels and
then burn the ship with all hands
on board. Fortunately the night
was very calm, and the ship made
but little way from the shore, and,
as she lay too close to the harbor,
for them to accomplish their in
tentions, they robbed her of every
thing they could lay their hands
on. Next morning, after taking
about 20 boxes of segars, and as
many bales of Tobacco, with all
the spare Canvass, Liquors, &c.
&c. they left him in pursuit of an
other vessel. Capt. Garwood then
got under way and arrived safe at
Alicant that night. Philad. Gaz.
Joseph Bonaparte, and several other
distinguished French gentlemen, were
at the City Hotel, New-York, on the
25th ult. waiting the arrival of the son
of Lucien Bonaparte with his family,
who were hourly expected there from
Antwerp.
Latest tvom Europe.
Paris papers have been received at
New-York to the 18th July. Their
contents (says the Georgian) as to the
army operations in Spain, are meagre.
As usual in the French accounts, the
prospect is represented as gloomy in
deed for the Constitutionalists. But
we have had so much experience in
these statements, that we are not dis
posed to despair were they more gloo
my than represented. The defection
of Morillo is the principal item in the
present list of Spanish otisfoi (unes.
Should the treason of Morillo prove
as ineffectual on the minds ot the
troops as that of the other generals
who are on the same black list, the
consequences may not be so injurious
as might be anticipated. “ilte c:tu-.e
will have lost a traitor and gained ad
ditional confidence in the renewed
proof of the fidelity of the soldiery.—
It is said that he carried with him 3000
men to the army of BouVke, but this
story is doubtful. It is some consola
tion, however, to know that the Patriot
Quiroga, who has declared that he will
never surrender whilst a foreigner re
mains in Spain, has not been corrupt
ed by Morillo,
Accounts from Greece continue flat
tering. The wise measure adopted
by their gov’t doubtless will establish
their independence on a firm founda
tion.—The Turkish fleet had sailed
from Constantinople and the Greeks
were prepared to receive it.
A Bayonne letter says “ much talk
lias been had with regard to the sie;re
of St. Sebastian and Pampeluna, but
we in Bayonne, see nothing of those
trains of artillery which were to ope-’
rate in the siege; none have arrived
here as yet.”
A rumor reached London on the
12th July, that there had been a coun
ter-revolution in Portugal, in favor of
the Constitutional system.
Admiral Sir Isaac Collin, member of
the British Parliament, has, from a re
gard to his native state, Massachu
setts, and with a wish to promote its
agriculture, purchased at a great ex
pense, a Bull of the first breed in G.
Britain, and sent him as a present to
the Trustees of the Massachusetts so
ciety for promoting agriculture.
In Catalonia, the Constitutionalists
still shew a disposition to oppose the
French inch by inch. By a despatch
from Marshal Moncey it appears that
in inarching to invest Barcelona on
the 9th, the Fourth Corps had a sharp
action at Molins del lley and at Mar
terel, with the troops of Molins and
Lloberes, who were disposed to raise
the blockade of Barcelona. The
Spaniards took shelter under the walls
of Barcelona, which place was to be
completely invested on the following
day.
It is mentioned in an English paper
that Sir Wm. A’Court has received in
structions from his government to fol
low the King to Cadiz, and if he finds
actual restraint to be put upon him,
to leave the country altogether.
London dates are to July 14.—The
Irish Instruction act, which is to con
tinue in force till Aug. 1823, had re
ceived the Roval assent.
It appears by letters from Bayonne,
of the 10th, that the parleys that had
taken place with the garrison of St.
Sebastian had been without effect.
A letter received in Philadelphia
from Gibraltar, dated the 23d July,
says—Cadiz slill holds out, and there
is little probability of its surrendering.
It is reported that a battle has been
gained by the constitutionalists over
the French in Catalonia. General
Lallemand is said to be in the neigh
borhood of Valencia with a good force.
In this neighborhood, Teriffe, Algesi
ras and St. Roque, are in the posses
sion of the constitutionalists, so that,
the cause of the Spaniards is not des
perate.
Another letter, of the 24th July, re
ceived in Philadelphia, says “Vast
supplies of provisions have reached
Cadiz, and there is no danger of a sur
render for the want of food.
Un the 16th of June, the King of
Portugal issued a very severe decree
against Secret Societies, and particu
larly Free Masons, whose meetings
are prohibited under the penalty of
transportation, for at least five years.
All public officers are to present a
written promise that they will not be
long to any secret society.
<e jr <© sr*
TIIE subscriber will pay Augusta
prices for Cotton, deducting a
fair freight.
HARRISON SMITH.
Foi't Hawkins, Sept. 15,1823. [4w2t>
WHEREAS my wife Bersheba Nunn
has left my bed and board without pro
vocation, this is to forwarn all persons
from trading with her on my account,
as I am determined not to pay any of
her contracts. JOHN NUNN.
Sept. 13, 1823. 3w26*
We are authorised to an
nounce GEORGE CRANBERRY,
Esq. a candidate for the office of Tax;
Collector for this county.
\Ve are authorised to an
nounce Capt. CHARLES INGRAM,
a candidate for the office of Clerk of
the Inferior Court for this county.
We are author ised to an
nounce GEORGE If. BRYAN a cau
ditate for the office of Receiver of lax
Returns for this county.