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ports on its coast Into the baud of the (Irecks, and the fall of all the northern islands of the Archipelago would be cer lain. Macedonia would doubtless act in the common cause; and supposing such events to happen, the 'I urkish dominion in Europe would be Jivided, by a hostile line between its extreme eastern kection and its possessions on the Adriatic ami the Danube. The gain of such advantages would enable the Creeks to organize, ut leisure, a system of Government and to give a connection and a Momentum to the, com mon efforts that would tend to the most valuable consequences. An acquisition of means would open to them all the nc- ccs'sanes for war and the indirect support ot all the people ol Lurope. It is necessary for the balance of pow- n i r . . i V. . er in Europe ami lor me security ol rts nations, that Greece should be indenen dent of any of its present monarch. Neither Austria nor Kussia can hold it without raising the well founded fears of other powers. Uut Greece, independent in herself, is all important to the world, whether regarded morally or politically, itnu the wishes ot mankind are for ber. . -s S.1LIS1WIIY: Tl'KSDAY MOHNING, JULY 2.1, IH22. roll TH WLST1RX liUOUSU. FJl'lLY, THE 1X1)1 AX I'll IXC F.SS. Mftsm, Edttori : I have read w ith a good deal of amusement, the remarks translated from the Augusta Chronicle into the Western Carolinian of the '2d inst. relative to Lmily, or Milly, the daughter of the Indian Chief l roncis, or liillU Jiajo. In the absence of the gentleman mIio furnished you with the account as first published in your paper, I beg leave to make a few remarks upon the subject ; and on his teturn, he can add to them, it be thinks proper. 1 he Georgians, it would seem, have not yet forgiven the Indians, either for their unaccommodating presumption in lighting and beating them, when attacked, or for uttering that mortifying and con tctnptuous sentiment, that they fthe In dians) had not intended to go to war with the White J'ecu'e, they only wished and expected to fight the Georgian: and that if the White people, and Gen. Jackson had not interfered in the quarrel, they would have easily beaten Gen. Floyd and the Georgians. The poor Indians have no newspapers to Chrunicltf their wrongs unci extol their exploits, and hence the Georgians had the advantage in every skirmish ; and red men in buckram appeared and were de molished with incredible facility. Uut the Indians might with great propiicty have said to their antagonists, as the Lion is stated in the fable, to have remarked to the clown who exhibited to him the pic ture of a man astride of a subdued Lioti: Uut, said the Lion, that picture was drawn by a man, and he placed the parties as best pleased himself ; had a Lion made it, the representation would have been different. It is to be lamented that such feelings, in a majority of the people in any country, should become so ascendant s to repress and stifle any attempt to publish any fact w hich would be honorable to an adverstry. When, for instance, the public sentiment in West-Tennessee was in favor of ex terminating the Indians, old and young, male and female, and all who reprobated this sentiment were xiewed as almost equally hostile with the Indians, w ho would incur the censure of relating any circum- stance honorable to or exculpatory of the Indians I It is in this, way, perhaps, that we are to account for the fact, that many enormities practised upon this unfortu nate people, and much injustice done them, have never been generally known beyond the frontier settlements. Travel through Georgia and Tennessee, and you will find many, who will at once aver, that our wars with the Ir-di ins originated in I.iwlcss acts of their lawless frontiersmen. Travel in Kentucky, and you will hear, that of all the men who distinguished themselves during the late war, for enter piizcj adt'ress and bravery, Tecumseh w.is the most entitled to admiration. Yet when this chieftain fell, in what manner Mas his death announced by the liewspa peis of Kentucky ? The blood thirsty barbarian Tecumsch, has fallen ! and the brave and patriotic Kcrduckhns lad the pleasure of cutting razor strops out of his back. Uut to return to the Mory of Emily or Miily I'raneis. The story, as first pub lishcd by you, was in all material points the same as related to him who sent it )ou, by n gentleman of some eminence at the bar in Tennessee, a relation of the Prophet liancis, and afterwards con brmcd by information obtained much nearer the place wheic the lircumstan- cs were bid led to have taken place- lie himself certainly believed what he beard t o related and confirmed and had proba bly no reason to doubt the truth of the state mrnt 1 he story tnav have been embellished, in some particulars, to make it appear the more interestingit was not wi iiton u'j History : but in all mate rial points, it came to him with every ap pearance of being authentic fact. A cir cumstance strongly corroborating the ac- count given by 44 An Itinerant," is the one you have, noticed, viz: that the story is telated by an Lnglish traveller, not mate rially lifj'eririfr from his. Information derived from so many dif ferent sources, coinciding in all material circumstances, stated from such different quarters, and by men who had neither an tipathies nor partialities to gratify, and had only picked up in their travels an interest ingcircumstance, may probably bethought entitled at least to as much credence as the straggling report of some one w ho is of the opinion, that "nature made her form as uninviting as any oilier squaw" Or, in other words, that all women, who have the ill luck not to be Georgians, but Indians, or squaws, are therefore ugly, or ut l;:asl "uninviting;" that, 'fas her father was three quarters white, her com plexion was of a muddy color, having spots of copper running into spots of yel low and black" or, in other words, that the Georgian and Muscogee blood don't n " mix well, but by. snots ; and truly if crossing or intermingling their different bloo!s is productive of such effects, Mr. L rawford s plan ol encouraging intermar riages of the sort (to which neither party have seemed very averse) was at least not a very tasty or "inviting" one ; and, that as an embellishment to all her charms, she was entitled to the credit of making the ingenious discovery, that as rum was scarce, it would lc moie profitable to sell the prisoner for that article, than to put him to death a circumstance which bad eluded the discovety of the most discern ing chiefs. .After all, however, it is a matter of lit tle importance which story is the correct one, except, perhaps, to Milly, if she should become n widow again. She may have been "uninviting in her form," tho" it appears that some of the soldiers did not think so, (not Georgians, I sup pose,) as the account states that " she bad become quite favotitcwith the soldiers ;" she may not. in the salvation of the pris oner, have been jotnurh actuated by love and Immunity, as bv an appetite for rum ; she may have been no Lurrctu in chas tity, and possessed of no noble sentiment j but, for my part, I shall believe none of these things, until I sec better proof ihan has been yet advanced. . A. Lincoln Co. July 8, 1822. rta tiie wrmni caiiumshx. Tq lU Ion. JUUX ST.1XLY. No. III. I propose to review your calculations in this number and so conclude mv observa tions at this time. And here 1 be leave to attend to the finid result as stated by you, and show the inaccuracy of Tour reasoning, before I attempt the fallacy of )our calculations. You arrive bv a com parison of vour three methods of compu tation, to this result that (be Last would be entitled to 62'undthe West to 0 1 mem ber1;, and obviously wish us to understand, that bv so doing you have shown that if there be miv inequality of rrptrscr.tation to be remedied by amending the consti tution, that it would operate in favor of the I'..ist. You seem to have forgotten that there are 36 counties to the F.sst of vour sunposcd crnti-l line, and only 26 to the '""'em Kr,.pe. and of annus tracts oll p.'..t. West, giving at present a surplus to the Economy, all of gn at excellence ami estab. Last of 20 members ; ami taking even lUlnd reputation; who bas bci-n proclaimed by vour own statements, showing that this is the Falinbtirgh lU-wcw to be the first historian 19 members more than any view entitled of tin- gc, ami is considered by the Fit n-h l.i them to. Rut svhat reason is there to 'e-, Mitnte as one ot its mt brillunt znd able mem part from the fcrlcrnl proportions, which 1 1,,. , j,Mis!ird in the M..r, h numlM-r i f the sou eulogize so forcibly, and by which the j Pari J.oirsial. railed U Itc-vue F.iicrlopc.li.pi, Western part or the state is entitled tr. rti,Jc upon M. W right's Me of 25 more members than the I ast, which Sofie nJ MwBm h, AnKrkt (J iWcU is more than half of the number the Last x ()(e is entitled to? If to thnsr vm. edd CO cf f onUm members that the Last (arcortiing to your; , ,. , . ., r. ...... ,. . . . , ... ., , plates even- tiling on tins side of the water V ith diviMon) sends at this tine more than the ' ,. , , . , West, you will And the Lastern reprcsen- ,I,C ki,,,!c&t c-vc anJ l!ic mo ,iliml s'"nta,ul Utiott reduced to 45, ami the same r.um- l,uc, a rS compar e,. Mwren Amrncan ber added f the West ! A number al- H-liciiig nd tranquillity on the one bund, and most equal to that whic h would be retain- H """erics and dwwlrrs or Europe on the oth- ed by the Last, and proving, from your The lan;onfr",si-ntinients and anticipations ow n tables, the position laid down by some of die illustrious historian, whom we should not of tbe advocates of the propositions, that hesitate to place at the bead of the htemti of bin little irote than one-third f the stale ; I'mm e, form a remarkable eonWt to all that gives law to the whole. Apply the same i we have seen from the j enofthe Itriti!.U re- louch-slotie of truth to your calculaiionsv!cwcraud p liticians rrncraly, rcspirriii the founded on wealth alone, and you will tiiui j that even on that basis the representation of the Last would he redured frcm itsrml disposition of Sir James Maekiutcsh, the present overwhelming niji uy to a mere trifle. You mtttle ro ctilrulatirns Iw ttom ed on free white population n'.onc ; but you take rare te culrulutc slaves at least twice, first as roirr;, and i;cU as cr- I have taken the liberty to odd Colum bus county to thc Lust, to make out the 3C counties. Something might I v said on the subject of cqmdizing the ixrntics Last und West, by t uning olT p;.H f the large counties and adding to I hi small ones. Uut bv what process can wc pro cced, that will make thc eastern counties as large as the western, if the line sou have laid (low it is a rorrt rt i ne ? If 26 counties cover as niuchlanJ as Sfi. I would fair know the tulc that would, by equal izing them among themselws, make them equal when tonipnred wi stein to eastern? 'And how is Low im county to be reduced, when every county tlict td joins it is larger than the inedUim sir sf eastern counties, with the exception, per haps, of Cabarrus ? Having thus plain ly, though perhaps too bluntly, exposed some errors that appear to me to have found their way into your speech, I re main, sir, very respectfully, yours, A FAHMfcll. wttJamw CXViil' KSCJl'FDf We received by last mail a letter from Ashvillc, Uuncombe county, informing us of the escape of Curry, whose crimes have rendered him but too notorious in this part of the country. The following is an extract : Mivilt,; July 12, 1H22. "Two negroes escaped from the jail in tin place last night, one of which was taken to-day, the other fellow as yet remain uiitakcn : and this night, about dunk or dark, in the spare of live minutes, ri from the same jail the fa mous Au'uh Cum, who some timu airo was im prisoned in the jail in Salisbury, and from thence was removed to the jail in Uuncombe. The conjecture now is, that they all huve made their escape by reason f JUhe key, through the in genuity of Currv's wife. I presume the do -'r''Itii of Curry in well known with von, and i.:..i, t.l I.- I'......- .1...... i... -...i.e..' :c. think it w ould be a favor done the public', if you would give a description of tlnr villain Curry in jour paper, and a request that he should lie apprehended as a proclamation will soon issue." We are not able to give a description of Curry; and he is probably too well known in this part of the state to render it necessary. It is likely he will make for the south or south-west ; as he w ill hard ly remain in this quarter, unless his des perate character should impel him to ex ecute some deadly purpose of revenge, liis escape bodes no good to society. Ss FAKCUTIOX. Uahuv, a black fellow, convicted a' the late term of the Superior Court for Cabarrus county, of a, rape on the body of a white girl, between 12 and 13 years of age, was executed, pursuant to sentence, at Concord on Tuesday last. His deport ment was very proper ; and he died, pro testing his innocence of the irirne for which he suffered. The contour-: rS people- was immense, it being the f.rst execution that has ever taken place in Cabarrus, although it has been a separate county for nearly 30 years. Lang don Ciikves, President of the U. S. Hank, has announced his intention of retiring from office, at the close of his present term. His determination to re tire, ho says, "is fixed and unchangea ble" We uie authoiizcd to strdc, t!iht Capt. William Phillips is a candidate to rep resent the county of Ilowaii in the House of Commons of the next General As sembly. AMIKICA. , lauM is ti minis int. SKmmidi, the author of the lliston'of the lt:d- ian KT"U' f 7 of ,ie Literature of American people and their institution. 1mm a ltritikh statesman ami s holarof the r".n i;it- fritr.J of Sismondi, we might expert a similar train of ideas and freedom of testimony, but from none other of thc same rnk, whether shigortory, wlio 'ia now within ourretollrcuwn. We could w ish to present our readers with tbe whole of M" Sismomli's review; it is however, too long for the mom which wc have to spare, and we mut, t'.uirfore, confine ourselves to a few extiacts. What be has aid of America onjdit not to remain entirely unknow n to Amer icani. In r.uropc it carries with it thc highest authority. Xutinud Ur.zrHt. ' "In the midst of the animosity of the parties which divide our old Lurope, in tlic midst of the politicul pasions which the convulsions of more than thirty tr have excited in all her divisions, a gener al gloom ovetspici'ds ouraniietit continent. The evil ciiimot be denied, although vc may not agree touching its cuv-es. I or. lions, with their opposite opinions, ait al wa s !tJv to actus U cii .dumnes cl tiie persecutions which one poition of ciety experience, and the inseciniiy felt by the other. The evil, I say, is every where before our eyes: here, wc have seen a cro-.vd of estimable men consigned to prison ; there, military com missions pur. suintj dispersed guerilla partiesthe se cret proceedings of the Ital'un tribunals have covered Lurope with fugitives, and the ordinances of Germany, extinguish the untient glory of her Universities, in Ireland, the insurrections of the peasantry from famine) are suppressed by the exe cutioner. In the Last, Turkey and Greece exhibit a scene of horror Uie writhings of an atjony which cannot be contempla ted without shuddering." " When the present U so melancholy, when the future so daik, one find an in effable repose of mind and heart h look ing towards a new world j where all U full ot happiness u;id hoe towards a nev world where twenty. two republics, free from the trammels which shackle us, from the obstacles and doubts wSkh arrest us I in all our projects of public pood, advantrc gloriously in the career of human per leciton and universal prosperity. AtAong them, laborls always in demand, and well paid i there, he who toils, lives in plenty and reaps the fruits of bis exertion ; while in Lurope, whoever contributes by the la hour of his hands to the creation of wealth, is almost certain not to share in its advan tages. All inventions und dhcovciies in America jo to the benefit of every class j which is not the ca'e with us all, tlwre, have some leisure for recreation and in struction ail read and write and take an interest in public a flairs all may marry i . . . .1 I I. ! . t .1 . t - ' early, and look without iil.ti in upon the in- crease of their f-milies." ! "This prosperous condition of the la-' "fCST pnldinlmd by Joseph Laics, IU '.gh, boring' classes it is. that makes of free ' ' ,'ri,;e l,rn h,T t?'?,?1 k . ., .. . , he siifipl.ei bv Wl. II. Ut M,. America a world which no longer reseni- - bles ours. It has given dignity to the! vttfc Vt)t't,ly. people, who do not sell their services to rnilK officers, numbers, ami f iaiditu( tlj each iither, but exchange lubor and tal- j 1- Iredell t'ounty Hihle Sm , auxiliary t.i ent ; it has placed them ubovr ihe grosser i ,,ie A- n 8 are llcr,:hy mrtihVd, thai their iirrt sices, into which (he niuliilude in Lurope '.V'"14,' n,.'u"p 1,c Suu "'Ue' Mt"!" , . , . . ,, . , ' ; oav, the SiU of Ait'U.t. It is expected tliat ei plunge, m order pel haps to blunt the sense ,-.,. thc r r r or thl. ,r. Mr trVtUlf ot their wretchedness; it attaches them ill deliver a sermon at 12 ol..cV, and it i bo to a country which the y know well, to a ptd there will he a general and punctual atten- t'overtimertt which they comprehend, and over which they are worthy to exert bn in fluenceit prevents those popular com motions, those violent tumults, to which thc ignorance and abjectiu ss of the people of Lurope naturally lead it maintains be tween them and the other classes'of soci ety that deep feeling of equality, which is founded there upon reality, while with us it is hut a fiction of thc laws." 4i It uniild lie a mistake imWd tn suppose that the prosperity of America is owinff to her liberty alone merely to the form of their government, bhe has K. v.. ....... j as a nation that immense and fcitilc ter- titory yet to be peopled. But if liberty has not alone produced thr felicity cf her condition, it clone assures her thc harvest . ' . , , . , of good fortune it alone has given her a spring and impulse without example throughout the world. Thc other parts of the American continent enjoy thc same natural advantages as the United States ; t.M.t ari1 lr.titrnl t.rtvuTitntrea in hl t-mitlt thc greater part of the Spanish and Por tupuese provinces is mnrh more highly gifted but the rapid increase of popula tion, universal cr.mfort, the increase of morality and of knowledge, the boundless diffusion of happiness, arc traits seen on ly in the twcny-two Anglo-American re publics. The Canadians remain poor and l izy ignorant and loyal ; the Louis'uni an w ere stiil farther behind ; hut thirteen or fourteen years t f connexion with free Ametica, have communicated a new xi. or to Louisi itia, and that territory so long oppressed, is now one of the most flour ishing parts of the Union- " I low, indeed, could a government like that of Amrrirn, fail to secure tin? pros perity of thc nation obedient to it? It has refuted the predictions of all our specu lative politicians, who reasoned from im perfect experiments in other quarters; it has surpassed even the expectations of all those bo take an interest in thc preser vation of thc dignity of man and the pro grcss or freedom and morals. The Uni ted States of America have tlcmonstrated that a government msy he simply and solely the expression of the national will, without hereditary power or preneptivc, without aristocracy, without a balance of privileges, and that, though entirely with in the nomination of the people, it is not, 1 1 n tint account, the more tempestuous nor thc less scrupulous m respeny g all rights. The legislators of Lurope have sought to maintain an exact rinili!uium I between the partizims of monarchic id mi- thorny, who have consecrated their aflec-1 lions to the hereditary representative of the nation; men rowerTuI hv their titles' i .1.. : .i.i. .. ; k ti .1.1 . ... I ,. I and llu ir wealth, vi h all thc va.s.d tiain of aiistocracy ; new n;en and new inter ests, with thc whole muss of thc pceplc. 1 he legislators of America have discar ded all such distinctions they have eon founded politically ail individuals and class es they have suppressed all bid iiiciisg ; and gttiersl factions and parties are going out as it wert, instead of increasing, in strength and animosity. Amciica is not a Democracy ( tut a great icpresenlativc Republic, which embraces twenty-two oibeis of the same nature. Some wri ters, while they conceded th-st popular and federative governments might aim at dcinjj right, contended, however, thai t ... . . i i paiil-3 i.f strug-g!in,r witii political difficul ties. Nevertheless, we have. sen 'ho Americans, h their list war, rccoser from their rirM ileli.ais, full of courage aod con fidence, display unexpected rcsot ices, repel glotiou-ly the anti.uiienls of lb.; most powerful of empins, and conquer an honorable pe.ire with the ai ms of cii izvns, ojip-'scil to veteran soldiers." .i.iltltll.li, In (bis ctmiity, on Tin itM.I-, the 18ih inst, Mr, llsnjumiit F. Cuwnii, til .Mi.s I'.'.nilhih I'qxhiii. In W'ushiiiifton, C. on the evening- of the .Id instant, by the ld-v. J. O. I'mtm., of thil jilaee, Dr. )ivid V. f'rtrtmin, to Miss I'-mily tf. ' '''""' lu''Uf "r- vllair, all ot t!lt f"r"" fyhcc In this coiiii'y, on Thursday, the llth of July, by V. Jolniiton, Kq. Mr. Mi churl IUiwn, to Mis Siisnnmt Smilli. DILI), In this county, on thu 5th instant, Mr. ftlttt Stuart, aged about 5 ), , il iiMimiii limn naaM - , -t , " IUV ttvt S UeVOVls, . 1 from ail parts ot the county. i Ml SSF.MII.N MATTIIF.U S. I'reuet. Statrrrdle. Julv 11, Jul 2. -'wt'l I TuVenVy, M) committed to the jail in . this place, tv o O' IMev ho call thrmsch ) nr Jnmri Ik!!. The first m n tioned im he belong to Dr. Tarhorottgh, liviitj: in the st.ito ( (leotgia: was pntxliavd Iv him in Ilorset coniitv. .Man lam!. and left him at Tiger river, in .S-'utli-Carohn ., " ' 't"rK'": t-huta i-,;, i , inches high, stoutly formed. James tlill a very jnoiy man, j,,,,,,,, rive lect cignt incuts ii;yii, r.t- ther of a slender form, supposed to be about 2J ; year of age j say he belong to m. vts f A1"'""' i ' purchased by him hi Kent county, ' ' 'l"" "' cor'',',,f "l' V1"1 unit two others (belonging one of each to hmv wlf ami Tarborough.) at the abose named "I igt r ' river. The last mentioned two succeeded in . making their rseapv, although in company ith Chailcs and James at the time they were taken, I Sf ' , , , . i . .. ... VM) eotnmit'ed to the jail i- Burkr conntv, N. l". a ne gro man, who first called hinielf Sitm, ami laid he. w as t'tc proper ty cf Maj. John Cunimin,rs of W ashingtnn, in ;eo. but on fur titer examination, he report his flame to be Jim, and sa he bc- lonjrs to Samuel Mdls f Vrk li.tinrt, S. C. Il sppears to be about J'J or 40 vn of age, fivo feet eight or nine inches high. Pght made, is ac tive, and speaks ith a good deal of b.-Unesa. 'I he ooikt U rcqiieitled to eon r luruinl, .roe property, pay charges and take him awav. JOHN M'bl'lUt' Jii.'or. Ju'v 1.1, 1S22. .Vvt'l". Ynulii'. Vv'.v VistnVxt. TN rursuanrc of a decree rf thr worshipful Court of Kqui'y of said coi...;y. t w il! sell at the Court-Mouse in Matr-rtllle, oi Tlmi-Mlay, thu 22,1 day of August next, two lots in the own of Statcsville ; on one of which is that well known stand for business which was long wupicd t,y the late Capt. Hart, as a house of entertainment tin-re is a good dwelling-home and other con venient houses for the accommodation of an) one dosiisms of settling in the place : AnJ ivn tract of woodland, containing ISO acres '' tho water of fourth erctk, within half a mik-of Statesvillc. All this property belongs to llio estate of James Hart, deee asr-1. Alsi, at Ihe sam time and place, w ill be sold, a tract of land containing 7J acres Ijlmy on third creek, alimit two mile from Ktat,r il!e, m which i a Pk1 d' lling-hou an1 other improvemrnts, uvlt.i.ii'g t- t.it1 Ct.0 s. II. 2ili,t. , .i. The terms of sale arc ore, two, and three) pn',vrj .rrurtv. 1:oht. mm i.mon, ( i....v. ,v tV-, Jm? i ), l v. i;. Also will hi- sold, at the sumo t'u and h be, on a rmdit of twelve mm.tlis, two bsety N iTe a fello an-llmy, by thcadmiu'rittor of James H. HartN estate M'lN mxttt fMll.'llW.ltM .-I. ..IN. iw....l .....I r . Yfy VAvvs UxW.wd. ' 11 AN sway from the subscriber, on the North II ailkin, fniui The farm of 'Iho. I'. Ju s, on V, ednisd.iv, the lih of July, a nrjjro rnsn llt. mcd IlESs'XIS, alwiut forty ;e.xrs old, al o jtsS feet to er three inches hich, with so-i e rry hairs in his brad and whisker ; is itnut m ,-, hnw-lrtrged, nJ defective in his fore tce'i'. and has Urge feet. He i an artful, senxible f -How, nd,prihalilv will endeavor t parTa fte man. He was born and raised in Southampton, Va. and was .!d in the town of Newhrrn tn Kdwanl tiraham, F.sq. ami from him to William Teifipe, and from Trippc to the subsrribrr. Whoever will confine hun in any iail in thc state, will !m entitled in the ubo t r-"ard. VI JNO. 14 U00I). niev must oc aiw-ays wen, aiwavs ioca- 1- ir'T-aiiT' Tt 1--'--: . -r- j,,-. ' ' - ti.