the land office in this village, we are enabled to | tish Gallery. Scheme, twelve tickets, twelve ṛusent the public with the annexed abstract of pees each; the highest of the three throws, doubtoperations of this office under the relief law less, takes the most fascinating." March, 1821.

This abstract includes only the transactions of months of August and September, 1821. We rn from the register that the new certificates are de out and will be ready for delivery in the rse of this week.

Cotal quantity of land contained in the rendered certificates

Total amount of purchase money, inding interest

GENERAL JACKSON. The Philadelphia Aurora, of Saturday last, says—“We have heard and are induced to believe, that the hero of New Orleans has resolved to withdraw from all public employments. Like Cincinnatus, he was called by his country to be its shield and buckler in the hour of peril; like 1,237,807 him, he accomplished all that man could effect; and now, seeking the repose of private life, he fully $7,899,196 imitates the glorious example of that distinguished 415,196 Roman. If such is his determination, it is almost certain that we are not, hereafter, to have for a $3,147,896 high station a soldier of the revolution: had gen. 822.611 Jackson become a candidate for the presidency, he would have been the last of the heroes and states$4,750,988 men of "the times that tried men's souls," whom 144,987 the people would have had the opportunity to honor."

Total quantity of acres relinquished
Amount of purchase money of lands
Enquished

Total quantity acres retained
Amount of purchase money of lands
ained

Total quantity acres patented
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Total quantity of acres held on further edit

Amount due on lands held on further edit

Amount Yazoo stock extinguished

$930,837

LYNXES. Four of these animals lately appeared in 677,883 the arrondissement of Notre dame de la Zose. The alarm was spread and three of them soon killed. $2,743,111 The following account of the ferocity of the fourth, 1,163,347 and the contest in which he was destroyed, is copied from the Paris Moniteur. “MITCHELL'S GROUP." Captain Barrett, of the ip Independence, of Nantucket, on his voyage om Japan to New Zealand, on the 6th of Nov. $21, being in lat. 9 18 S. and long 179 45 E. by nar, fell in with a group, of inhabited islands, hich, not being laid down in any chart, he named itchell's Group, in compliment to Mr. Mitchell, e owner of the ship. The people appeared mild ad acted kindly in making presents of cocoa nuts,

"One of them, about the size of a large dog, passed through a flock without doing any harm, and ran at the shepherd, who owed his safety to his two dogs. In another quarter, he attacked an unfortunate woman whom he bit severely, and whose life was despaired of. At length, he sought refuge in the territory of the commune of Pignans, where he found his conqueror in a peasant of extraordinary courage and strength, made like a Hercules, and in the bloom of life. This man, who was unarmed, siezed him body to body, and, after a sanguinary and obstinate struggle, which lasted three quarters of an hour, succeeded in throwing him to the ground; but still he would not have conquered him but for his address and promptitude.

THE GREEKS. The London Morning Chronicle, a spirited article on the affairs of Greece, has e following paragraph--"It has been the fate of most every nation to be conquered, and it is erefore no disgrace to the Greeks that they fell This ferocious animal had devoured the hat of nder the power of the Turks, at a time when no his adversary; a large buckle attached to the bat ing in Europe could withstand them. But while stuck between his teeth; he availed himself of this her nations have, in the course of time, melted circumstance, and, having courageously thrust his to one mass with their conquerors, it has been the hand, armed with a stone, into his mouth, as deep gnal misfortune of the Greeks, that a firm ad- as possible, left the stone there, and in spite of the erence to their religion forbade their union with numerous bites which he received did not let go eir masters, and kept them a distinct and degrad. his hold until he tore out the tongue of the animal, I cast. While we speak of their protracted sla-flung him to the ground, and saw him expire in ery we should not forget its cause, Had they yield-dreadful convulsions. up their faith as easily as the clergy of England d in the reign of queen Elizabeth, they would ive escaped that oppression at the hands of the urks, and that abuse at the hands of some of their rother christians, which their constancy has eniled upon them.”

BRITISH INDIA. The following is copied from rimsby's Daily Advertiser, of the 3d of Septem. er, 1818, published at Calcutta; and furnishes a ost excellent comment on some of the efforts made Great Britain to suppress the foreign slave trade African negroes-

POISON. Mr. Edmund Jukes, a surgeon of West<< minster, Eng. has invented an apparatus by which the stomach may be emptied of poison, received be accident or design. After trying it on various animals, with complete success, he experimented on himself-and swallowed ten drachms of lauda. num, from which he was promptly relieved.

THE LUTINE FRIGATE. In page 82, we noticed the case of this frigate, wrecked on the coast of Hol. land several years ago, when employed in the con. veyance of specie to the continent, which the preFemales rofled for. Be it known, that six fair sent Dutch government had decided as now belongid pretty young ladies, with two sweet and en-ing to Holland, if attainable, because that that vesging children, lately imported from Europe, hav-sel was wrecked during a war-in 1799: on this dethe roses of health blooming on their cheeks cision a London editor has the following remarksd joy sparkling in their eyes, possessing amiable "And this is the return made for supporting the mpers and highly accomplished, whom the most prince of Orange for about five and twenty years, different cannot behold without expressions of at an expense of 16,000l. a year, and spending mil pture, are to be raffled for next door to the Bri-lions in endeavoring to restore him as a stadtholder;

A LIBEL. From a late London paper. In the golden raising him to the rank of king and creating a king. dom for him, and giving him colonies which we days of good queen Bess, those halcyon days to ought to have retained. After all this, his majesty which every Englishman affects to look up with refused the subjects of Great Britain their own pro-rapture, the punishment for libel was the loss of perty, lost in that very cause which was to raise the right hand to the libeller. A Mr. Page, who him from being a princely pauper to an indepen-had presumed to write a pamphlet on the subject of dent sovereignty. How subtle the distinction of the queen's marriage with the duke of Anjou, was national law on which this refusal is founded, and prosecuted for, and convicted of, libelling her mahow unmanly is it to tell us that the money belongs jesty, and suffered the punishment. When on the to Holland by the rights of war, when the king had scaffold, he made the following manly and spirited stigmatized that war on the part of the Dutch as an speech: act of rebellion against his legitimate authority."

"Fellow countrymen-I am come here to receive the sentence of the law, according to my judgment; WATER. A late English paper says "Recent and thank the God of all, and of this I take God to experiments, in many parts of England, have prov-witness, who knoweth the hearts of men, that I ed, that supplies of the best water may be obtain ed by properly boring the earth to a sufficient depth. The expense appears to be trifling, while the result is of the highest importance to all landed property. Fountains have been made in parishes where water has usually been sold by the gallon, which yield a constant supply, the year round, of a hogshead per hour."

This appears probable enough, when we call to mind how salt water is procured throughout the western states of the union.

have never offended her majesty's person, crown or dignity; but have been as true a subject as any was in England, to the best of my ability, excepting none." Then holding up his right had, he said, "this hand did I put to the plough, and got my living at it many years. If it would have pleased her highness to have taken my left hand, or my life, she had dealt more favorably with me, for now I have no means to live; but God, who is the father of us all, will provide for me. I beseech you, good people, to pray for me, that I may take my punishment patiently." He then laid his hand upon the A CARPET has been manufactured at the royal es- block, and prayed the executioner to despatch tablishment of the Savonneris, at Paris, destined for quickly. At two blows his hand was taken off; when the hall of the throne, which is believed to be the lifting up his bleeding arm, and pointing to the largest that has ever been executed. It is 50 feet block, he said to the by-standers, "see, I have left long and 50 wide, and might have been done in one there a true Englishman's band," and then went piece agreeably to the design, but it would have re-from the scaffold stoutly, and with great courage. quired, in that case, nine years for its execution. What would be said to such a punishment in the For the sake of greater expedition, it was divided present day? into three parts, which have been accomplished in three years. Agreeably to the details that have been furnished, it has cost, in labor alone, 50,000 francs-interesting facts, relative to early American history, scattered through Holmes' annals. The editor of ten thousand dollars. the Democratic Press has read the work for the purpose of selecting such matter as may interest the American people:

HOLMES' ANNALS.

There are a great number of

The Journal des DeDESTRUCTIVENESS OF MICE. bats says, "The department of the Lower Rhine Lima, the capital of Peru, with Callao its port. has been for the last four months afflicted with a Scourge which has thrown the inhabitants into the was completely destroyed in 1746 by an earthquake. utmost consternation, and reduced them to a situa Of twenty-three vessels nine were sunk. The contion truly deplorable. The sufferings of this discussions continued, with short intervals, four months trict have arisen from the incredible ravages of -12,000 persons were killed. In 1747 a great tumult was raised in the town of nice! The arrondissement of Savern and Stras. burgh have been most exposed to their depreda Boston. Commodore Knowles, while lying at Nantions. Those destructive animals have multiplied tucket with a number of men of war, losing some of there to such a degree, that, in the district of Sa-his sailors by desertion, thought it reasonable that vern, 1,570,000 have been taken in a fortnight, and Boston should supply him with as many men has he nearly as many have perished in their holes. The had lost. He, therefore, sent his boats up to town crops have been nearly destroyed in many com- early in the morning, and surprised, not only as munes; and the potatoes, the last resource of cul- many seamen as could be found on board any of tivators, are now attacked and threatened with the ships outward bound, as well as others, but destruction. What the mice have spared has been swept the wharves, taking some ship carpenter's carried away by hail storms. On the 23d, a dread- apprentices, and laboring landmen. This conduct ful storm burst over the town and environs of Stras. was universally resented as outrageous. A mob burgh, especially over the districts of Marienheim was soon collected. As soon as it was dusk, seveand Dappinheim, where the crops were almost en-ral thousand people assembled in King's street, betirely destroyed, and the loss is estimated at low the town house, where the general court was sitting. Stones and brickbats were thrown into 500,000 francs." the council chamber through the windows. A REAL NEIGHBORHOOD. Mr. John F. Hicks, farmer, judicious speech of the governor from the bal in Smithfield, Madison county, N. Y. having acci-cony, greatly disapproving of the impress, pronis dentally had his leg broken, which prevented himing his utmost endeavors to obtain the discharge of from attending to the getting in of his crop, his the persons impressed, and gently reprehending neighbors, to the number of one hundred, turned out on Wednesday last, and, in the space of four hours, gathered and secured from eight acres, 250 bushels of corn; besides digging and burying 100 bushels of potatoes, and securing all Mr. H's pumpkins, stalks, &c.

the irregular proceedings of the people, had no ef fect. Equally ineffectnal were the attempts of other gentlemen to persuade them to disperse. The seizure and restraint of the commanders and other officers, who were in town, were insisted on, as the only effectual method to procure the release of the

This year the drought in New England was so great that the grass crop did not yield a tenth of "4. A written engagement is to be taken from what it usually yielded, and the inhabitants were the members of them, that they will break off all obliged to send to Pennsylvania and others to Eng-intercourse with them; and he who refuses to sign land for hay.

[COMMUNICATED].

in the Morea is at an end, and if so, the real frends The Military Staff of the U. States. of humanity will have occasion to rejoice." But-the London papers of three day's later date contain several articles that confirm the previous accounts of The military staff of this country may be consithe victories of the Greeks, which it is not worth dered as applicable to the land service in general, our while to give a repetition of. The head of and not exclusively appertaining to the regular ar Char Hadje Ali Pashaw was brought to the vice pre- my, but equally intended to aid the operations of Its present orgasident of the Grecian government at Argos. Yet the militia of the several states. there are still reports that are unfavorable, and a nization is such, that, having a competent and reTrieste article, of September 2, says "A ship arrivsponsible head to each branch, it may be extended, ed yesterday from Corfu, (says the Gazette of Augs on its present plan, so as to answer all the demands burg), brings us overwhelming news from the Mo- of the service, without greatly increasing its cost, rea; Chourschid has penetrated there, the amnesty other than what may result from the employment of Scio in his hand. The gold of the English will do of additional assistance and subordinates to correswhat the swords of the Turks could not effect. Num- pond with the number of forces to be employed. bers of fugitives endeavor to gain the Islands. The Each branch has established rules for transacting lot of the Jews is reserved for the Greeks. It is its various duties; the system of accountability is as useless to expect any moderation on the part of the perfect as the nature of the service will permit, and irritated Mussulmen, should even the sultan wish the whole is now in successful operation. The geit. The Morea is become one vast cemetry. This neral staff consists of several distinct branches, catastrophe has been so rapid that many suppose that the chiefs of which reside at the seat of governlord Strangford has pressed the Sultan to terminatement, and perform their functions under the direc this affair before the opening of congress.". tion of the war department; they are as followsThe adjutant general's department or military correspondence.

The following proclamation has been issued by the provisional government of Greece.-"Whereas the danger menacing the western continent of Greece, and consequently the whole of Greece, is great an imminent, and whereas it is necessary that the strongest and most extraordinary measures should be taken,

"In virtue of the 339th article of the decree of the legislative body of the 11th of May, the presi dent of the executive did decree, and does decree as follows:

"1. That all the inhabitants of the western continent of Greece, and whatsoever class, from 16 to 50 years of age, without exception, must take up arms, and must repair to whither the danger of their country may call them.

"2. All Greeks, from 16 to 60 years of age, who, having left the country in these critical moments, and taken refuge in the neighboring lonian Islands, do not return within three days after the above decree shall be made known to them, in order to second the exertion of their brethren, will be declar ed expelled from their country, and their property, real or personal, shall be publicly sold by auction. "3. Whoever, in these circumstances, shall show themselves unworthy of their country, and disobedient, not only will they be declared as such, but will lose every right of citizens; their property will be sold by public auction, and the produce of it serve as pay to the soldiers who defend the country. "All military and civil officers are charged with the immediate execution of the above decree. (Signed) (Signed)

"MAUROCORDATO.
"H. POLISIODES.

"Machata, July 7, (19), 1821." East Indies. Fifteen hundred houses, occupied by 7,000 muslin weavers, have been destroyed by an accidental fire at Surat.

The engineer department, or the department of fortification and topography;

The ordnance department;
The quarter master's department;
The pay department;

The subsistence department;
The medical department, and

The purchasing department-which last, for convenience, is located at Philadelphia. Besides these there are two inspectors general, who have no fix ed residence, but whose duties are divided. One for the artillery and the other for the infantry. Their duties are important and arduous. They inspect the condition of the troop s as to discipline. arms and equipments, also as to their numerical, physical and moral efficiency. The arsenals, stores, provisions, clothing, camp-equipage, ordnance and supplies of every description, pass under their inspection at uncertain periods. They keep the go. vernment informed of the actual state and condi tion of the military establishment, both as to the personal and material.

The application of the staff to the militia as wel as to the regular forces, is proper, convenient and advantageous. For instance, all the supplies of provisions, camp-equipage, quarter masters stores, hospital stores, ordnance, arms and ammunition. pay and other allowances for the militia, when cal led into the service of the United States, must be drawn from this source, and it would be still more beneficial and efficacious to add to every detachment of militia, a suitable proportion of regular staff officers, to assist the commanding general of of the militia, and to relieve him from the multiplied details of service which must otherwise fall upon himself, and the inexperienced militia staff officers, that may be cailed out with the troops. Thus sur rounded with officers acquainted with the routine of business, accustomed to the transactions connected with military supplies and details, the general or commanding officer would be unembarrassBrazil. The prince regent has fully assumed the ed and left at leisure to form his plans of attack character of a revolutionist--he lately appeared at and defence, with the moral certainty of having the theatre with a green badge round his arm, and his troops fed and supplied with every necessary the motto "independence or death," having re-which is deemed essential to his operations. The moved the Portuguese cockade from his hat. This public treasure would be applied to the proper ob. act appears to have been wholly of his own will.jects, and the nation thereby secured from the He is very popular with the people. St. Salvador enormous losses and unreasonable expenditure, still adheres to Portugal, which, hitherto, unavoidably attended the employ

Buenos Ayres. Another conspiracy is said to have been detected in this city on the 23rd of August, Tagle, formerly secretary of Pueyrredon, is report ed to have been at the head of it. Sundry persons were arrested.

ment of the militia. The officers and soldiers, find- (stood, and fully appreciated by every candid mind ing themselves sufficiently and regularly supplied, About three years ago the president and direcand conducted scientifically, would naturally feel tors of the bank caused a prosecution to be instian additional confidence in themselves, and conti-tuted against me, which has been most unreasonanue more cheerfully to perform their duty. The bly protracted through their agency. On a late oc number of their sacrifices would be greatly lessen- |casion I used all the means in my power to bring ed, and every comfort would be afforded them con- the investigation to an issue, having been all along sistent with the nature of the service. To effect subjected to a great expense; but these attempts all this, it is only necessary to increase the staff were frustrated by the counsel of the bank. While from the officers of the regular army, whose know. this prosecution was pending, a meeting of the ledge of service, and whose known character and stockholders was called. From their number a experience could be relied on. The military aca-committee was selected, who, the world is told, ordemy is the source from which all these results may ganized themselves into a court of justice. The be anticipated; because, not only a correct military president brought his charges, and this self consti. education is there obtained, but the graduates must tuted judicial body, as it is said, went through an prove themselves capable of passing an examination investigation, and finally judged, condemned and on every branch of the service, and also, during the sentenced the accused. Upon this mock trial and four years of probation which they have to under- condemnation, which is acknowledged to have go while remaining in that institution, previous to been founded wholly on ex parte testimony, the receiving commissions in the army, satisfy the aca- president imagined himself authorized, and actu demic staff that their moral character is uninally took the liberty to publish this sentence to the peachable. With this constant supply of intelligence and virtue, the army will never fail to possess the means of increasing the national staff when the public service may require it.

Bank of the United States.

TO THE PUBLIC.

Langdon Cheves, president of the bank of the the United States, has thought proper, in his late exposition, to introduce my name in connection with statements and assertions, which I have been compelled, by a due respect for myself, as well as the demands of justice and truth, to pronounce false and without a just foundation."

world, and declare me guilty of being accessary to a "stupendous fraud on the bank.

This is a literal narrative of facts, as short and simple as it is obvious and imposing. And now I appeal to every man in the community, who looks upon the laws of his country as the safeguard of his rights, and who considers, as every honorable man must consider, a wanton attack on his reputation as the deepest injury which can be inflicted or designed-I appeal to every such man, whether I have been precipitate or rash in the charge I have made, or whether I have gone beyond the bounds to which I was compelled to go by a consciousness of injury like this, inflicted under circumstances as novel in their details, as unjustifiable and aggravat ing in their character.

In a notice to the public, he has since come forward with what he would seem to intend a vindica And how does Mr. Cheves acquit himself when tion; and such, perhaps, it might be, if arrogance he attempts a vindication of his conduct? He were argument, or indecorous epithets were per-breaks into a passion-is amazed that his authority suasion, or the speaking infirmities of a heated tem- should be questioned; and concludes with an exper were evidences of a fair mind, and an honora-tract purporting to contain a resolution of the selfble purpose. I shall make no apology to my fellow-citizens for coming before them in self defence on this occasion. I rely too much on the good feelings, the sense of right, and the virtue of the community, to suspect, for a moment, that I shall be considered as obtruding myself, where I am not commanded to appear by every principle and motive which can actuate an honest mind, or give value to character.

constituted judicial committee above-mentioned. As to the first and most prominent feature of his vindication, I have already acknowledged my ina bility to meet him on any terms of equality. I have no mind to be in a passion upon so grave a matter; and if I could think myself capable, I should not suppose my cause would be strengthened by any studied refinement of abuse or indecorum of language. These may be potent weapons in skilful hands, but as I have never learnt to wield them, it is fortunate that I do not need their aid.

. And, like Mr. Cheves, I may be permitted to have so much regard for the "public morals" as to feel it a duty to expose the audacity, which is reIn the second place, it seems to have excited a strained by no "fastidious delicacy" from violating furious resentment in this man, that any one, whom the rights and sporting with the reputation of in-he condemns, should dare to assert his innocence; dividuals; I may be permitted to deprecate the and, by some unaccountable mental obliquity, he "hardihood of guilt" which dares to condemn a man confounds accusations with proofs of guilt. But unheard, to persecute him without allowing his let me ask by what authority has he acted in this defence, and sacrifice him at the shrine of private case? Whence does he derive the power to be the animosity; and especially may I be allowed so much accuser and the judge, the prosecutor and organ disinterested concern for the "public morals," when by which his own sentence of condemnation is pubit is felt that I am myself the victim and the sufferer. lished to the world? Does he derive it from the But I must be excused from meeting Mr. Cheves laws of this free country, from the laws of nature, on his own ground; I am no adept in the kind of or from the equitable privileges of society? Nolanguage with which he proves himself so familiar, this power is assumed, and its exercise is equally and I have a deeper interest at stake than a trial an encroachment on the liberty of the citizen and of skill in uttering the voice of passion or selecting epithets of abuse. I have nothing more to offer than a plain statement, which comes entirely with in the compass of justice and fact. It wants no os tentatious flourish of self assurance, nor the aid of dogmatical assertions, without proof, or the concur. rence of a committee, to make it clearly under

the rights of human nature. From no privileges of the one, no principles of the other, is he autho rized to usurp the authority which he has claimed. He has set himself above law, thrust aside the forms of every equitable process, rendered nugatory the judicial institutions of his country, bid defiance to the majesty of justice, and then