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7, v: f : 4 U S WW INDEPENDENCE. The Salem RegiVer publishes! the0fol!owing in" teresting document, exhibiting concisely the plares of birth, ages, time of deatb, &c. of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OP , INDEPENDENCE. riau oj liiTlh. ifoe ro 177G. Drlau are John Morton Button Gwim,etl England New-York New-Jersey S. Carolina, New-Jersey Delaware1 . Rhode-Uland Massachusetts . iiat llf Hlg9tui . John Hart fThomas Linch i Joseph Hewes! Richard Stockton CassarjRodney i Stephen Hopkins WiHiapi Whipple Thomas Stone I Maryland South-Carolina ArtbudMiddlton1 Virginia (; ' John mm Massachusetts Benj. Franklin j South-Cajoliiia Lyman Hall I Massachusetts William Unrtner rennyivania Francis Hopkiuson Massachusetts Roger Sherman . Massachusetts John Hancock y ii jriuia Richard Lee , New-Jersey Abraha Clark" ' Scotland John Whitherstmnn Massachusetts. Josiali BartlettJ h. Conoecticu.t Samuel Huniintttnn Connecticut Oliver Walcott Fr. Ligbtfoot Lee Carter Braxton I; - James Wilson i , i George Read William Paca Virginia Virginia Scotland ; Maryland S. Carolina Ir land Wales Edward Rutlcdge Matthew Thornton Francis Lewis Massachusetts Samuel Adams Virginia England . Virginia S. Carolina Walton l noocn Morns -p George VVy the j Thomas Hey ward 1" L -". I Maryland Samuel v,hase, Connecticut : William, Williams. Pennsylvania George Clvmer I Pennsylvania Benjamin Rush L .Massachusetts RobH Treat Paine Massachusetts; Elbridge Gerry Pennsylvania Thomas M'Kcan unoae island William Ellerv I I New-Ymlr William Floyd J 42 Thomas Jetlerson 33 Jobo Adams i 40 Virginia Massachusetts Maryland. Virginia Charles Carroll ' 38 Benj. Harrison j Thomas WUnn ir -viririniar , rrnusjrivania. James femilh; i Pnnsvhania f2ftnrtrp Tavl.i. t ;'. Pennsylvania George Ross is Morris ' Henrv WisneiH . I Killed in a duel H)ied WhiUt alfending fongrefs. T looic passage for his health j to St. Eutatla, and wan never heard fromwas spoken the day.' before a tremendous hurricane. The fit who answered Yea, when the question was taken on Inde i pendence. and th fi r r ?5VV'U N rfP:l Hen I I : Poisoned. ' , ft Voted for Independence, but was The above-facts (ays the Democratic Pres) cannot but be deemed in- .resting as tney reiate to the Fathers jry wr virnu signeo neliECLARATlON OP 1NDKFENDRNCE, the birth places of four are unknowrrf ten were natives of Massahii4etts n,Pn.et of ;ir,n'i.;- 2 f jy'nia- five of 8ouh Carolina ; four ot Maryland ; I hree of New Jersey : three of Connpninot txv if, York i wo of IVlaware ; two of Rhode Island i two of England ; one 6i Ireland and oneprWales. i 6 " c l,i tu ..1 ... . iv . - -I. .- . . - ! 1 . incjoun-pman wno signed the Ueclaratton of Independence, was t.dwardjiotledge, of South Carplina, then aged twmtn-six yenr. and the oloestnian wbo Kilned it xvas Rp niamin fTrottL-'liiv titan V haf. a splendi qareer of usefiiluess r . .. -5- ,oi an me, person wrio sigr.eH the Declaration, at the time ot signing, iwas, a fraction more than fVnir-(ur years. . Thomas Lynch, jr." of South tarblfna, was 110127 when he ied the ucwdijuo mq oico m trie ;3Uth man who flier! after hnvinor aiurhsJ l.n man who died after having "igned that more than 4 vears. .The average age of he pcrson who signed hepository of the Gold ; but a personal ex Ueclaration ol Independence, at the time of Itheir death, was sixtv-six amination discovered that the same airat years i and nearly a half year, j The one who lived to the gteaiest age,5 uni of md and giavel, extends buy'ond was Mniam r.iiery ot Khorln Hritl, onlv one of them now .alive. tl!isW ily one o tbem now.alive, thajles eveninsr of his days ! is now in his It is not out of place, nor unworthy of remark to sav, thai an examina tion of the signatures of thos fifty-Reven gentlemen, "snbscribed lo the Declaration, (v?ilj exhibit many excellent specimens of penmanship It i? doubtful whether to any State paper in any country can be found so ma ny well wntteA names.- t ! A passenger m the schr. Ceres, at N YorkVirpiii. Maracailo, which plate she left on the 4th July, reports that the government of Maracaibo was sucnglv opposed to the movement of Gen. Faez; and had declared in favor of theigoverii meut and constitution in which senti ments Admiral Padilla had concurred. Col.; Avadonia (displaced fromhe com mandof LsrfMira by Generals Pari "and Ealon,had arrived a NUi acaKj from'thc raii,sto restore the inual bountv VterueJa express to Bogora. Thejto lhe products j of the Soil in Uiai governments td4he leeward ot Mararai n rr . . . J . . 1 illd bo have also derived for bonvar, . Thef100 .general opinion wasbat Paez would be I , f August 2, 1825. j punished, and tranquiiiiyxresturtii ca the I resided injthis countv in tbd rciurn oi iws ocjawra TWif of I hath: 41 42 April i 1777 43 44 pi 70 30 50 55 78 51 43 46 45, 84 60 43 52 72 56 62 .' 68 73. 65 63 71 63 61 55 64 50 83 89 81 54 72 80 63 .May 27i June 12 1777 1778 68 27 , 1779 cb?e of 1779 Nov. 10 . 1779T i nsi 45 47 6D 45 32 37 54 70 4G CA f June 26 July 13 Nov. 23 1734 1785 1785 1787 1738" 1783 1790 1790 1790 1791 1793 1793 - 1791 1794 1794. 1795 1795 1796 1737 1797 1793 1798 1799 1800 1803 1803 1903 1804 1306 1806 1809 181! 181! 1813 1813 1814 1814 1817 1820 laii Jan.-1 Sopt. A,m.1 17 37 55 39 41 50 51 May 9 J-l) 23 OlK 8 Jjme 22 Autumn Nov. J 5 May 16 Jan. 5 j Pecl April i Oct. 10 Aug. 28 Auiumli 46 43. 5,1 40 40 33 42 26 61 62 i 54 36 42 50 30 Jan. '23 June 24 Dec. 13 Oct. 3 Feb. 2 May 8 June 8 March June 17 Aug. 2 Jan. 23 April 19 May 1 1 Nov. 23 45 36 30 43 31 42 80 73 67 84 69 83 87 83 90 88 June 24! Feb. 15 i Aug. 1 i 68 i w Jubilre i do. The Survivor, wjc lycciarauun aiter me riesiaem. 1 ! , not present when the Declaration or-the Nation. It appears that of! he ran after thre score and ten til year of his age,' being the youngest . .. J e o. . . . most imoortani of all St PZ, wrro hved to be niheiy-two. 'I'he r.rriil uAt,kl i . at Carroll-; Health! and peace' to the eitrhtv.eiirhth a i Distressing drought. The fo low- ling extract of a letter from a friend who lives on the great mail-rout through North Carolina, and not far from Roanoke riyer afford infor mation of a drought almost unequal led-r-which we suppose to have been iinriiujitpn wiuiiii me iai inree davs but all too late, ii will hV ca, rJ year iouo. wiiicn nasN since heir called the dry yen. That drought was nothing tb be compared with this, either as o extent-or severity. The streim on xhch 1 live contin iiedid run freely the whole of that year, and was neer known to slcip until this summer. Fishing creek, at Mr. T'a i -Mill, does not afford wa iter sufficieut'10 grind corn into meal leaven for bis ow family, j In many places, there is no water jeither in irisningcreet or iMnuusu.i i yn auu !bih they are making use of ihe dry time lo burn the timber as it lies in Ithe bed of the stream. All the rain Ithat could now fall would not make icorn enough in this and the adjoin ;ing counties to feed ihe j ptipulatitm plentifully for six months ; and w hat, adds to the distress, there is no fruit. I not even an apple nooais no wlieal anq a general scarcaj'u p eaa siuiw at this tiute Youican tmigirie wbat fit wilt be thistime twelve months. The common price of corn now for present; use to; the tavern keepers, one dollar lind fifty cents bushel. Our flour is broueht fiom Petersburg. ! 1 80 miles distant, and has been for nearly a year. All the vegetables in ttif garden, containing more than four acres, and better cultivated than 1 ever knew it to be, are ijiot worth five dollarsf and would not be used at all except at such a time. I planted, in February, two bushels' of Irish potatoe, so called,! and there i not one, I believe, of the product, as big as a common marble. uA .ge-mleman who is just frnri i he New Purchase of Ten n, on tiie j! Mississippi, says that we suffer no worse here than they do in Kast 'i'ennessee, and from the jmpuntains to this place.ir ' ' j Geology of the State.-The Gold Mines oi North Ca'olina, which have re cently become an object of erreat inauirv rVnh at home" and abroad, lare situated between the 35th arid 36th; degrees of Nui tb Latitude, ami near the 8 1st of West Longitude They arc inth south ern part of the State, not far from the borders of Sooth-Cai oliua, and somewhat westward of the centre. Through the Gold country flows the River Pedee, re ceiving within the same district two con siderable streams, namely. Rocky River trom the south, and Uwharee River from, the north., Above the junction with the Uwharee, the Pedee bears the name of Yadkin. The Gold Country is spread over a space of Tiot less than IOOO square miles: On a' map of the State, one may easily trace the general boundaries, so far at least as they have been; hitherto ob served. From a point taken 8 miles west by south of the mouth of the Uwha- ree, witn a radius ot IS miles, describe a circleit will include most of the Coun ty of Montgomery, the northern part of Anson, the north-eaMern corner of Meck lenburg, Cabarrus as far as a little "west of Concord, and corners of Rowan, Da vidson ana Randolph. Perhaps the limit jexninds a little farther into Mecklenburg vi.au la Hue us;riueo.' in almost any part of this region, Gold, in greater or less abundance) may be found at or near the surface of the ground, j . Its.lrue bed, however,! a thin stratum of gravel enclosed in a dense, mod. nu. '! f a co,or' sometimes : yellow. On rising grounds exposed W I be washed hr be washed by rains, the sti alum fremitn! ly. appears at the surface ; biitjn bottoms, where the ailuuai earth has been accu mulated by the same agent, it is fbuiid to the depth of eight feet ; where no causd operates to alter its original depth, this appears to be about three feet below the sut face. Rockv River, and im small tributaries, which cut thtough this strat- ? ve.h' proved the most faith- I , slale ott tbc ein the vicinity of I CoocoidX over a-feion-cf dra'Alte.-: Jl The Drinclnal mini Tir ' m v nil vu-iir; Anson Mine, Reed' Mine, tod Parker's M ine. The Jimon- Mine is situated in the county of .the same 'name, on the waters of Richardson's Creek, a branch of Roc ky River. This IoCaljty was discovered only two years since by a !" Gold Hun ter," one of an order of people that be gin already to be accounted a disiiuct race. A little rivulet wind to south, between two gentry that conve tge tdw aids the each side of the stream is J s from north sloping hills south. On level space, forming an ex tended bed, ivhkh during mc,ci seasons ot tne year Is covered by it, but was dry ar the lime ot my visit -1 On digging from th see to six" feet into trnV Ymttomwe come to that peculiar stratum and grael and tenacious blue or yellow elay, which. is at once recognized 1 ... .,-.. v:,;;; -;V Receiu discoveries have given a lit tle wider extern to the Gold - Country than tU. which i hcie iadiUieJ. as the residence of the dold. The! stream itself usually gives tl "Erst, indi cation of the richness of the- bed through which it passes, by disclosing large pie ces of the precious metal, shining among, its pebbles and sands. Such as the hint afforded to the;, discoverer of the Anson Mine. Unusually lare pieces were found by those who first examined this place calculated to inspire the highest hopes. On inquiry, it Was ascertained, that some ot the lands were not held oy a eood title, & parcels or it were tmme- diatelv entered j It has since been z sub- jectj of constant litigation, which has rc- wmcu uic wuiKiug oi ine ..viiue. u Reecf Mine in . Cabarrus, j is the one which ; was first wrought, and at this place indeed were obtained the first spe cimens of Gold that VkeiLt friiou! in the: Uljuntry. A large piece was found in the bed oi a small creek which attracted attention by its "color and lustre ; but it was retained sometime in the i.ands of the propiietor, through ignorance wheth er jt were Gold or not. Reed's Mine occupies the bed" of Meadow Giek, a brancli likewise of Rocky River. It ex hibits a lever between two hillocks which Vise on either side of the crek, afflord ine: a space .between from 50 to 100 yards in breadth. This space has been tlk'V1r 11 aril nfAK !- Mnl t f- - tW X m. nearly all dug over, and it exhibits at surround present numerous small . cits. ed with piles of rubbish, for tiie distance of a quarter of a mile up and down the stream. - t 1 5 days later from England By the fast sailing gbib IVilliam VVedncsday last in Hampton Uoads irdm Liverpool, Mr. Lyfor 1 received London papers to the 28th and Liv erpool lo the 59th June. ' TNhe election s occupy tb e greatest space in the papers. Cobbcttwas completely distanced in the race at Preston, he havino 924 Votes, , and the opposing candidates hsiving from double to quadraple that number. The military were lowardji the close of .this, as well as of several other elections, called in id keen the peo ple in order a beautiful conimenta ryon British libertfy. j One of the corvettes, biiiJ for the Pacha of Egypt, h Marseilles, left cJ" " L.:"-:-; r ' rrrr- French corvette. I T feomnlainta rnn in.n f (to ,h. of ra .ui r j 1 ; V. . the depredations of vtheGrek pi- esj a'- -Lt ' . caught in the Thames ; ;beinr the largest known for p6 years past. Accounts fronj Constantinople state that all appearance (of a mis understanding beiween Russia and the Porte had subsided. The rati fication of the treaty, however, was not expected from St Petersburg by the end of Jan lary. Disgusting signts were exhibited at pnfant, - nopk, particularly on the walls of the beraglio the roang ed foms of the Greeks, partjfcularly jthe fieads Hannymior the ex pulsion SfwnrW, and ears of the heroes who had kaml in7 consequence of firh we nauzed; themselves in tieefetice; or: have been solicited to 4&e more their eniintrv ' i ' t '--.- . . rv..,,. I he Turkish fleet had sailed at last ; 5 line of batfle shipi an dj four heavy tngates. They joth the Cap- lain Pacha at the Dardanelles and it is said nroceed o Hydra. A letter from Constantinople pavs. ti t tw.u k " ' i miiuh .me heck cause is. uoDe- less, and I believe the Grpeks Ihiuk so themselves."' The Tuke of Devonshire,, Ambasl sador, Extraordinary fibm Great Britain to Russia, Shas arrived at St Petersbrirfir. London. JyJarketsy June 27.The Cotton market was rather more brisk last week ; .the fol the quotations ; Pernams owing are ini - T Boweds 7 2-8 ; Surats. 4 3-5 a Bt j : r r - W " T ' uu M UU1IU rtI,u;whicli is to be found at hKi seaspti We have experienced a itilel more n.u0, a .. m h i J i? . . "JW which is of lavyea grow Ui leans and Mobi e4 which bainnt- -!1. c .i j j i P , jUk tin rt- i w .1 11 ,,aVn& and perfectly; dried, doet Jigaot Itw I j i e io t ' reduction of an I 8th to a 1 4d nee is Rrtti. I n " H ! '"y. beld at Slca - ?irj,PnfCaAnbe!1,,Cr A80"' IUOU bags of American havp W j i . . ; : r wvv taken on speculation '.a'nrl Rnn .iA 700 American and Brazil I for exnor tation. making the fni.? ilZf' w w .. .v ut mm ill n a a . i eans6ia 9 ; Alabama 6 18 al 3-7, H ere is a farmer in the town sf LouikrUle, m this county, Who.is now reaping rising of 200 acjeV? the sowing of 27C bushd iJ! ,;V'f m our . feld,& presents a btltifar pearance. So luxuriant ijie P' that some of the stalk aref-v' 6feethi-h; and the wli'll!1? average 5 feet in he.ght.;;;, nesday last, t.wo u . J; shocks ot 15 hov3 f1 piece of gromd SO rod.J h "" paces , wide which gHf.j- bushels to the acre. On r c(x wheat was 10 inches lon;and -t' ninety grains, full aud ht . are 52 reapers and bii-lfl tKe fie.d. At a ry ipoderafestuntf the crop will yield; SO bu&lU ,0 lt)4 acre throughotit. r r St. Laurence l$a;c!t. The papers of SandiikV:7& Clean land, Ohio, present us w5Pia " f, nne i.i.-t'j olliom 12 to ly arrivals, and as iitfny ;WauVIt., oi Rieam nna s anri oni.A. ployed in the lake traded i1 A e .k. n soon have jgreat 'cities tBjthe tidrtt of us. Already the papej rlhe towns on the borders of LaUoiF.r - j pectable-Mn point size an.J a. tuuuu, aiiu jjicsrni in.eir aj vertibing columns, the aplu ance ci eilensive business. . t H The " Sandusky Clarioilf ofiHe 2M July,' has the follow- PaTa graph : I '.:'V .'' " '" . ,jl " Sciy Com:tyavce. fa Or.y:i. daga Journal, datedJulyj j2 th, tva reeeived at this office unhe I5ih. , it having been carried 15il niile h land, and 250 by water, intact djys What a change in the 'sTe fairs ."about Sandusky, simiihe inr The Notionr.1 Crisis ninT,;aiiv of the 27ih nit. gives tbc" JfoJov;i.,g account of an assassiiraiin S, Loui : j f'-' p " i .. V Horatio Coiens, EsrfgrilUu,. goished: nieniber.of the fi ot Si Louis, was assainited lTifilat plaVc on the , !3th irnt. by MiiFituci Strother. r The editor of tigs paj) Q Z I , T 7 I PT U the circumstance to as ful : lr ?ze u's cout,sef:.8gain?t Mr. btrof fler ; and I .e-latter- tiiiidme lhe .cauj was a,, ing against him, aked thiHbnuei lo Y muc p? jit! itiueii .rsptaa 4 or three - lime in lhe hr, at, Ju once in the neck with a'U.rk, mid killed him ins'aittly,Mr. Slither was co.iimiued to prison.", rj . From the Pennsylvariia UpIJd U. ij ir. The cure for Worms. Ansidenv ble excitetnent has been ij euieci hi several sections of the umtnf fiom !theublitjon made in s')arer of lhe l3,h , rela!jve Jfo: ,.! j:.... u .5... nartlCU ars throntrh th mnn. nt ft ! j-h'.; .;n :i ' ' a.f . " ' VZ . i . vye snail endeavour to lly the public excitement not onl,roin fyi-. bal information, but from'cnlarlrlp. monstratiqn, as to the pterful ef ficacy of the Cedar Apple; n n i ht wii bin our. knowledge to taken it, as well as the insiij'F of its doing any injury toj$o5e wb may eat t tie Apple. f f j 1st, The Apple or Kj'of i tr he . luumj upon me itea f air-g 3ie n n hc Cedar tree is not to be fouii uetc lieve in this County. 4, 2d. The Annie bears nl resl- ' snape or size cTiany Bwiri p Hilarity to the Cedar Berryi me I! i uiaiice in snaoe or size cr.anv U v ."J rry uiiier as inose oi mis vear rKru1'"' -u... . . ' : - : - Wrt those (hat ale fr'"' - :ad can be grated or. pJ'.AtleJ 3d- Apple whirl"." , - . 11 . stL o mc mo siute can oe viuen v L.l. ' r .... " uJ fl. ' i qT Vf o Ji iheyme f the child is old. and lo beflerrJ"',' tnorr.ii.gf in succession, ffi j From our ntvi.- vtHii,i5i(ie (- f be powerful efficcacy f the 'k't pic, we should b&y ihit till 111
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