The Patriot and commercial advertiser. (Savannah, Ga.) 1806-1807, April 27, 1807, Image 1

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- --- .. ___ . ■ 1 ■ ■ 1 ■ 1 1 wa——— r 4,V,V^//.--PRiNTE"^™ BUSHED °* Mondays Thursdays by DOUGHERTY and CAIUIONT, ’ out id Bay, f^ffppff^Exclfn**. y\OL. 111. No. 47.] I TER VI S B OF THE ■ PATRIOT fl and ■ioumercial advertise*. B crmsqf subscription are six B.LARS it year—ore half to hr mi the time of subscribing and Wireminder at the expiration o< ■ —awl at! payer:* will be until ordered to the con- By- of no more Ht hthan breadth are instated at for the first insertion, and K r each continuation. A h- Hy allowance wiU he made to H. who wish to advertise by the lwi. WILSON 1 , received per the s/ups Eliza Volant, a large part of his 111 Supply of Goods, Bl” Which with his iiock, |ore on hand, makes his ai lment very complete. longit as great a variety of Icles, as are commonly set Ihin lengthy advertifeme r us I large q uantity of flhite & colored Negro 8 CLO T 11. fcs this article was purchaf’ Bad Winter for cash, and la moderate advance only, Ibe now exacted, it is coo led that it will be an object ■thy the attention of Plan. Band others, who will) to ■base by the piece or pack 1 ’ ■ Payment will be expe£t ■m Cash, Cottcn, or ap Bed town notes. wanna A, -Sept. IS, 90 ts I MEW-YORK and Y s I SAVANNAH, x mor X SHOE S TOR r. s BA. Scribner & Cos. mi’E JUST RECEIVED Brow New- York, by the ■ brig Luna, Belbgant assortment rr Bc/j, Shoes £> Slijifiers, BSuperior Quality, made af- Bier tiie English lasinon, B A/ SO, Bw Slijifiers & Chil -1 drens Shoes , Ho In addition to their fotmer Bh tnakes their assortment Hxtenive ; which ts it y oiler H * at reduced prices, at ■ iln ' tlu. Mat', iivuriy op- H ‘he Exchange. I Just Received fl at the B V YORK & SAVANNAH if) T &? SHOE SJ ORE, Roy, opposite the lix ■ change, ■ ‘"iladelphia Boots, Boren’s SHOES, La- B SL INFERS, of every .Bkfiption, and of a fu fl pertor quality. fl A ‘ SCRIBNER & Cos. 3 i ts B n k Manifests &c. fl Ya lc at this Office. THE - PATRIOT AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTISE R. Sheriff’s Sales, ON the first Tuesday in May next, U ILL BE SOLD, at the Court House in this city be tivet n the hours of 10 and 3 e'cloci. ALL tliofe buildings and improvements, on the N. W. half part of Lot No. —, Deck er VVa and, belonging to the heirs of Philip Minis, decealed formerly occupied and own ed by Maurice Lchiff. A fifty acre lot, known by the number 8, the house at present occupied by Joseph Arnold, in Anson Ward and three lots, being part of a five acre iot, adjoining the town, formerly belonging to the efta.e of John Currie, dec. taken under execution as the property of Joseph Arnold, at the funs of Benjamin BuflV, surviving copartner and Benj. Buffo, jun. T. ROBERTSON, S. C. (L March S. 42 1 m FOR SALE^ A few Military Drums By M. WHITLEY. Market Square. March 23- 37. ts ’ NOTICE.” -XJINE months after date, ap -i- x plication will be made to the honorable ins Inferior Court of Camden county, for leave to sell about seven hundred aers of land, lying on the head of Crook ed river, ahout two hundred a crcs of White Oak, and a num ber of Lots in the town of Jeffer son, in the county aforesaid/ ap pertaining t.y the estate of Wil liam Jones, deceased, late of the torn of St. Mary’s, for the be nefit of the heirs and creditors. D. G JONES, Administrator , St. Mary’s, Jan, 15, 1807. ~ ~ 'notice. r T' , IIE Subscriber forbids ail JL persons, from this date, to giro any credit on his account, without a written order from him. J: A. MOHR ICE. April 13 4 3 WANTED, A YOUTH of 12 or 14 years of age, of decent connecti ons, as an Apprentice to the Print ■ ins Business. Apply at this of fice. March 2. 20 Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from the Sub scriber, in Hancock county, near Sparta, two likely young Negro Men, 20years of age, a bout 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, names JOAI & CHAKLE>.— Charles isstout&well made,when fie goes to speak, lioids his mouth open some time before he can in ter a woitl, and then stutters: un commonly bad while speakirg. Tom is midiing spare m ide, and has somewhat of a black skin 1 am apprehensive that the above described Negroes wiil ni ke to some sea port in order to take shipping. Any person that wiil appre hend the said negroes, and deli ver them to the subscriber, or se cure them so he gets thorn again, shall have the above Reward. SAMUEL SHY. April 16. AI M O N D A Y, April 27, 1807. NEW-YORK, March 18. Messrs, Lang Turner. Bv giving a few insertions to the following, you will rentier an essential service to shippers and ship-owners who have their ves sels in the Baltic trade: Those who already experienced the con sequences of not conforming with the quarantine laws in Denmark, need n >r a re-pernsal of this.— Ihe publication is intended to prevent future losses, G. HAM ME KEN. Danish Consul, New Toik. J “ As the same degree with which vessels proceeding from the U. States to Danish ports are liable to threaten the public state of health, in no less degree exists with those bound to other poits on the Baltic. fits majes ty’s government has invite.d the neighboring powers to adopt si milar precautions with vessels bound from tile United States to any of their respective ports, as by* the royal ordinance of the lith May, 1805, has been pre scribed for Danish vessels as well as others proceeding from the U. S. for any Danish pari.— It has in consequence thereof been agreed between his majes ty’s government and the govern ments of Sweden, Russia, and Prussia, that consular certifi cates shall henceforth be furnish ed either by Danish consuls or vice consuls, where those powers themselves have no commercial agents, or by theirs, vice veva, where no Danish consul oi vice conrul 1 esides. Any vessel, therefore, to what ever nation it may belong, which alter public notice has been giv en of tins ai range merit, shall pro ceed from the United States to any Danish port, or to any port on the Baltic, without being pro vided with a consular cerubcate of health, will absolutely, on its arrival at the sound, or it, port of destination, if not bound, to the Baltic, be subjected to qua rantine lor a longer or shorter time, according to circumstances even ti it should be provided with clean bdts at health from the re spective authorities.” ‘i he Pi inters throughout the slates are requested to give the above a lew insertions. prospectus Os Lewis and Clark’s tour to trie Bactlic Ocean, through the interior of the continent of NOIUI America, pci formed by order of the Government cf tiic Uuite.fi States, during the years 1804, 1805 St 1806. ‘This work will be prepared by captain Meriwether Lewis, and will be divided into two parts, the whole comprised in ‘.three Volumes, octavo, con tainming from •four to five hundred pages, each; printed on good paper, and a lair Pica t pc. The several vol umes in succession wilt be put to press at as early periods as the avocations ot tiic author wiil permit him to prepare them fur publication. Part the First—in Two Volumes, Volume first —Will contain a narrative ot the so. age,with a description of some of the most remarkable places in those iii therto unknown wilds ol Ame rica, accompanied by a Map ol good size, ana embellished with a view of the great Cataract of) the Missouri, the plan, on a large scale, of the connected falls of tha. river, as also, of tho-e of the fails, narrows and groat ra pids of the Columbia, with their several portages. For the in formation of future voyagers, there will he added in the sequel of this.volume, some observati ons and rematks on the naviga- Uo of the Missouri and Colum bia rivers, pointing out the pre cautions which must necessarily be taken, in order to insure suc cess, together with an itinerancy of the most direct and practica ble route across the continent of North America, from the con fluence of !.te Missouri and Mis sissipi rivers to the discharge of the Columbia into the Pacific ocean. Volume second —Whatever properly appertains to geography —embracing a description of the rivers, mountains, climate, soil and face of the country; a view of the Indian nations distributed over that vast region, shewing their traditions, habits, manners, customs, national character, sta ture, complexions, dress, dwel lings, arms, and domestic uten sils, with many oilier interesting particulars in relation to them Also, observations and reflecti ons on the subjects of civilizing, governing, and maintaining a friendly intercourse with those nations. A view of the fur trade of North America, setting forth a (dan for its extension, and shew ing the immense advantages which would accrue to the mercantile interests of the United States, by combining the some with a direct track'to the East Indies, through 1 or- comment cf North America. This volume will be embellished with a number of plates, illustra tive of the dress and general ap pearance of such Indi .11 nations as differ materially from each other; of their habitations, their wea pons and habiliments used in war; their hunting and fishing appara tus, domestic utensils, &c. in an appendix there will also be gi ven a diary of the weaihei, kept with great attention throughout the whole of the voyage, shew ing also tiie daily rise and lad of tiie principal water-courses which were navigated in the course of the same. Part the second—in one Volume. This part of the work will be confined exclusively to scientific research, and principally to Hie natural history of those hitherto unknown regions. It will con tain a full dissertation on such subjects as have fallen within the notice of the author, and which may properly be distributed un der the heads of botany, mineral ogy, and zoology, together with some strictures on the origin of the Prairies, the cause of the mud dtness ut the Missouri, of volca nic appearances, and natural phe nomena, which were met with m :he course of this interesting tour l iiis volume will also contain a comparative view of twenty.three vocabularies of distinct Indian languages, procured by captains Lewis and Clark on die voyage, and will be ornamented and em bellished with a much greater number of plates titan will he be stowed on the first part of the work, as it 1 s intended that every subject oT natural history which is entirely new, and of which there ate a considerable number, shall be accompanied by an ap propriate engraving illustrative of it. This distribution of the work has been made with a view 10 tire itecommoiiai mu cf every descrip tion of readers, and is here offer ed to tide patronage of the public in such shape, that all persons wishing to become subscr.bers, [AA hot.* Number 247. m.'tv accommodate themselves with cither of tiie pa>ts, or the ■ mire “ork, as it shall be most convenient to themselves. Dei ached from this work tie re ” ‘ll be published on a large scale, as soon as a sufficient nun,her of subscribers can be obtained 10 ue Iruy tile expencc, Lewis & Clark’s MAP C f NORTH AMERICA. From long. 9 deg. W to the Paci fic Dean, and between 33 dew. end 5 2 N. tat. Embracing a M their ‘ate disco, verms, and th.it part of the com - nenr heretofore the Last known. 1 his map will tie compiled from the best maps now extant as suit published as in manuscript, from • lie collective information of the best informed travellers throua , the various portions of that regi on, and corrected by a series of several hundred celesiial ob-er vations, made by capt. Lewis da ring hn. late tour. lor the convenience of subscri hers, these wot ks will he deliver ed at the most respectable com. tTiercial towns, and at the scuts of government of the respective Matej and territories within the union: No advance is required, nor will payment be required un til such deli vet y is made. Knowing that a considerable proportion of the expcnce of such publications depends cm the en gravings wbiG. c.iftietllsh or f, )nu them. a.i.i that tlit: precise num ber of such engravings, partiou lui.', as it regal dg the second na , 't of the work, have not yet been settled; it is difficult lor the author at this moment to fix a price ou them—lie tlierclore declares to tiie public, that his late was not taken with a w j to pe cuniary advantages, auu pledges liniiroll that trie estimate winch he wili in tins instance set cn Ins literary labours,shall be of the mo,t inout'iatc description; his princi pal reason indeed lor proposing a sub cription at all, is, that ho may be enabled to form some es timate of the number of copies to be struck off. *,f Editors of Public Prints in the United States, disputed to aid tiie publication of tins work, arc requested 10 give the foregoing a lew insertions. i'oi i i.\ -\l; >u t ffcmg.t rjh s I l.e last sailing ship < - OVIM ER*'ii, Nathaniel Fay, mas ter— iei sail in 10 day s—u ijj take 50 bales of Cotton at 2d sti rin g a pound, and freight it 10 London A few passengers may bo ac commodated on moderate terms. App.v on board, or at Mr. Gunn’s Cofiet -1 louse. “notice! ’ Absented inm-cif n iii e llth ult. SCIPIO, a Negro iellow, by trade a Cooper but will work at any other business ; yel low complection, about 5 feet 8 inches.high, about 40 years ‘Ten Dollars will be paul on delivering him in .Lit! or on Telfairs wharf, to THUS. DOLLAGUAN. Feb 12. 26 if - is. IR'llton, lO ESPECTFUI I.Y informs’lns JOx. friends and the public gene rally, that he has nnn ved to ibs house on tiie Buy, Icnneily oc cupied by Mr. Geima hoc, deco ‘where he coni'mies 10 carry on i he Tay loving Bu s ip.es s in all Its var o s oranch s. Ue r-i urns thank- (or favours ;t> fa il}’ 1< c< ived, snd sc. i it, a coi.tiu auece cf tl.t uj.