a town and countrt paper p ri kt p every 00&m alexander maittl for john 3ibley vol i c»oh 4ct1 parte tuesdafs jt t ly 9 i^jg ejustittalt specwlamur.j no 48 for the gazette k ■**■' ' ' - ' mr sibtev tn defpotic governments we find the morals of the people are corrupted but while the body of the people are uncontaminated with luxury they are not eafily impofed on on the death of pets r the 3d the late emperor of j ruffia who was aflafiinared by his ton fort the prefent emprefs wbrt firft jjro jefled it is fuppofed the difmember m«nt of france she conceived hsrt ] the tfafieft method of cftablhhii her : fyrtera of tyranny neid abfbl»t y/€r ver her vaffal would be w ereet vmi narics ofpeafure through her extenfive empire ; that in addition to glmiatur | al vice of drankennefs which ther are i noted for theft temples being opened ! wpuld fall her tabjeds and prevent any j attempts to difturb her goverhno-jnt : j and it is found by her long reign rhat lefs infurreflions and rebellions have ap peared than in that of any of her deceffors marriage in ruffia is always con fidered as a matter of trade and bargain — virtuous love is not known there — grofspaffion which ufmps thenaiiieof love and which without improving the j heart and the faculties but de^/adts • them both is become univerfal ; where libertanifm prevails and fla i very is encouraged the people at targe ' are too debauched to be able to nter j tain a virtuous paflion for a fingk a ob 1 jeft thus marriage is avoided as a j reftraint or if fought it is for intereft j only eveninthefe fta'es libertanifm \ has gained ground and too rravj of i our citizens glory in blajiing the bud j ding blofibms of love and honor in the ! peftilential air of a brothel ; fo the rofe of beauty and innocence is too often left to bloom and decay july8 carolinas ' fi-*mtie(l>j>;!aj.jci£ti£tlal advek f&er mr bache i find from the newfpapers that there is a great deal of fuis among folks in this city about war in europe and the prefident's proclamation i ob ferve too that two americans have been committed to gaol to take their trial/orenvering on board a french pri vateer and aflilting to take fome velfels belonging to the britifh with whom it isfaid we are 7>x peace and ought there fore to live n\it\&.fri'n4jhip with them i wifii mr bache that you would ex plain all this to us firr.pietcns in the country who are at a lofs to underfiand your city language particularly when you talk oidutyintereft^frimdjrji^impar tialitjt peace c i believe your city folks have fome better dictionary than johnfon'sor shei idan's when you fet abnutexplaining thefehere words . for inftance now you talk of being at peace j or in friendjhip with great britain ; but let me aflc you 1 if great britain were to feize up on the cities of bofton new york and philadelphia and to place ftrong bat ifh garrifons in them would we then be ax peace v/ith her ? 2 if this would not be peace but war how will yo«r govornment men be able to make it out that to have our weftewr j pods held from us and garrifoned by ; the biitift is not tuar alfo or at leaft j very unfriendly coadud cfpecially when it is added that thefe fame britifh gar rifons rob us of the fur trade and en courage the indians to muideroar peo ple on the frontiers 3 if the two privateer's men fhould be puuifiied for er,te : ing into the french fevice then i fuppofe every man who enters intoforeign fervice without leave of our government men is liable to be punifhed alfo ; at this rate will not col o/wafd major eufface and many other brave americans who are now paying a debt of gratitude to our old friends the french be liable to fevere | punimment if ever they return to their i native country ? do mr bache be fo kind as to pro e'ean anfwer to thefe three-qaeriw from fome of your correfpondents pat tieularly the fecond ; for i am very de ftioas to know how we can be at feaoe with a nation that holds fircihk pojeftoti of anunaoer of potts in oar country \ a farmer ba€k cquntkr farmers there are thirty two jjaffengers in thefnow alexander from new orleans i mpiuy farmers from the wciiern coun try fort pkt ana 1 kentucky who had gone down the ohio to new orleans and are reuirning by way of philadei | phi<u the profpec*s of our farmers in the j back country feeaasld have been confi j ci&rably checked by a recent circuni : ! ilance they had contemplated great ! benefits from trading down the ohio i and carrying their produce ill their own 1 veffen : but it is no,v faid that a french j houulaleiyeiiabiiilied at new orleans j has obt cd from government a com million to contrail for io,b©o barrels of flour annually in the united states which confequently will throw a mono poly of the fupplies into the hands of a tingle firm ani although it may for a time make no ma:eria diiference with regard to the prefeni inrerefts of tiuf we'lern farmers ; ftill they will retain • ajealoufy againftthofe who may limit their freedom in commercial fpectiiati \ ons and there can be bat little donbt i that they will ultimately drive a trade | dowp thofe rivers which nature has ; laid down for the general benefit of all • america i the fpirits of the citizen of the uni i ted states whether in merchantiie,agri i cultural or mechanical purfuits will no longer fubmit to the reftri&ions of other j nations than until they fhali have a fair i opportunity o eftabliihing their natural rights and this day it is to be hoped cannot be very diftant indian affairs knoxviluy mgj i€l lafl saturday james donelfon ar rived in town exprefs fromcdmberund mero diltrift by him we have receiv ed letters containing the moil melan choly accounts of the diftrefled fituati | on of the truely unfortunate inhabitants ofrhatdiflfia a rhong the many murders and de predations lately committed by indians in that diftritf the following which have taken place between the 9th and 2.8th of april are a part april 9 colonel ifaac bledfoe killed in his field near his own houfe j the par ty con fiited of twenty 11 john har man and-i—dow dy were killed near the mouth of syca more in tenneflee county i4 v henery hcwdefhal and pharr killed near general rutherford's 18 joh^ri bentonkilled on the road j between captain reefe's and colonel wjnchefter's mill the fame day two men were killed on the road to kentucky — 16 two.men were killed with in the hearing of clarkfville 29 richard shaflerand gam ! brell wee killed and james dean wounded — ay a party of indians at firft fdp^fegjto be lixty but iince on good j grotindsa helteved to be two hundred i stacked the latiens at greer field and ■ killed john jerv?s and a negro fellow \ j belonging to mrs parker this fta^on j was faved by the ingle bntvery of wil j ham ncely william wilfon and wil lam hall who killed two in<i ns and wounded feveral othevi ■'*% — 2s francis ramer war ki'led near the dripping spring on the trace between cumbeiland and kentucky ,. xaft tuefday week two horfes were ftolen by indians james boyd and ste phen graves at m tears ration twelve miles from this place :— and on satur day night laft fifteen horfes were ftcjen from mathew biihop's eight miles from this place juke 1 on the ninth ult a party of indians fired upon fo«r children at johnfton's ftationtiear nadiville woun ded three one of whom they fcalped and caught the fourth by the jacket btit he flipped it off and efcaped ob e eighteenth ult ten horfes were ftolen by indians from pigson jeffer toil county ; they belonged to three p©or men who have not another left td draw their ploughs at this important fiafon of the year killed by indians on satin-day laft thomas gillum and his fon james gil lam on ball run 18 miles from this placed the perfons who buried them judging from the fign report the num ber of indians to have been twelve and trails oi ieveral other parties were dif-i covered making in the whole about forty on the fame day upwards of j w.t2bpy hnrfts were ilolaa and trarkft to church fiver the main camp of this marauding i party isfuppofed fcb be in cumberland mountain in fearch of which he go vernor has ordered out c«tpt john beard of kcojc county with fifty mount ed infantry , many parties of the creeks have late ly repaid the terihefee at the lower cherokee towns h their way home from kentucky and cumberland with many fcalps and valuable horfes the creek nation muft bedeftroyed or the fouth weftern frontiers from tht mobth ot st mary's to the weftern ex tremities of kentucky and virginia will be inceffantly harafled by them ; and now is the time the chero&eecouricuswiththeshaw anefelambaflajors j held at will's town adjourned a few days pa£t — the refult is faid to be that the cherckees deter mined on peace with the unted states ; and five of the ambafladors with mr wflibank who has been long refidmg amoilg the creeks en the ne t day de parted for the northern nations french ports open in tht name if tbi it reach republic georjre fienry-viftor collet major gtsfcral of the as sniff's of rhs freccfa republic governor general of the ifland of gaadaloupe and its depen dencies the national coavextson having decreed what follows .* art i every port of the french co lonies are opened for the veilels of the united states of america art ii all produce reported or imported by american veflels hall not pay going out or coming in in the co lonies dr in france but the fame duties es laid oil thofe which french veifcls take in art xii the executive council is authorized to purfue every convenient meafure that the ta'es wi»h wh^m tho the republic is at war wtth fhouli not r^ap he advantage granted to a friend ly power % art iv the executive council is directed to enter into negociation with the united congrefs of america to ob taininfavor of french traders,areduai on of dutiss.fuch a granted by the pre fent regnlatinn to america traders that it may link together the ties of ac knowledgement which unite the two nations we by virue of the powers delegat ed t<v»s do order every corporation of jnfttcc municipatiiies and tribunals to give due execution to the above menri ancd articles to have them tranfciibed | jot their records reid publifhed and parted up as may b neceflkry gjvefi at bafsc tcjre the 26th of ap u 1793 signed victor collot ■ by tlic citizen governor signed henry public notice is hereby given % rphat the building of the x goal in bidden county will be let tcf the lowed bidder on thefeconct day of next auguft court to be held for faid county a plan of the buil ding which is to be built with tun tint ber mvf be feen by applying to joffph sin^eietary efq approved fecurity for the performance of the contract will be required t buowms ") j single tab y > coranaiffi'rs j bbadley j miscellany for the gazb7tm herm'm no it ** he alone is a h&tiyfokcam rejtji the genius cfthe age the tone effyjbfon with vigorous fcvfibtiityy and modeji ttyrage no man can be tahec free who permits the b«rir«3«*»t»*nf o ixts heart to be chcekd hfrn^brc f conforming to th licentious cuftoros of fociety if the fmatteft encwtecbment is made on the civil liberty o£a man — if a law brains the conlktutios or an officer of government exerts a power | which has no been legally veft«d in him ; the votaries of liberty routed by j a laudable indignation endeavor to hew their fellow citizens the progrefs which tyranny is making but a man convinced of the being of a god will mile at the impious wit ofanathieft fatisfied of the truth of religion nay fenfible of the confolati onit affords will indulge the licence of his tongue in attempts to weaken its e vidonce or ridicule its fandity some men are fo completely under the dominion of cuftom that while in every other refpeft their lives are virtu ous,and guided by principle of religion will in the hours of jollity aud relaxa tion aflume the language and felect the topics of converfation which mark an incredulous mind and depraved heart hypocr icy darkens thcluflre of all their a£ions — tn profperity they are grate ful to their maker — when adverfe for tune a flails them they fe«k comfort from him who alone canadmmifter any ; yet,by their language and converfauon they feem afnamed to own any acquaint ance with him ; left thejrfliouube laugh rd ac fur tficir religion ieit rfrie gay the giddy the thoughtlefs and the gen tleman in the modern acceptathn cf the term flioulddeem them unworthy com panions should a man be afbamed to manifeft by his conduct the integrity of his prin ciples ? between the aufterity of a fan atic and the licentiousnds of a debau chee there is a wide difference — to a void the cha r atter of the firft it is not neceffary to a(tntne the converfation of the latter candidus to an enlarged mind adds every virtue which dignifies or adorni a man — uniformly attentive to the du ties of religion he will not permit the pretence of a ftranger to interrupt then j*oqk f s in his family ; he labors to in ftill into the minds of his children an early reverence for every thing facred and in his tranfaclions with men he is found to be inviolably juft yet can didusis no lefs diftinguihed for his fo cial qualities ; every eye fparkles with pleafu when he enters a room for his converfation while it infpires mirth conveys in ftruclion butcandidus was never heard tofwear he never ridiculed religion he laughs at no man for hi piety all ihe rewards of virtue which can be received in this life he enjoys in their fulled extent — the confidence and refpecfc of his fellow citizens t$ie love and venervtti*in 01 his family and a confeience which can trace the actions of his paft life with pleafure piety is irrefiftably amiable whea combined with the focial qualities which procure love and efteem for their pof feflbrs it is a pleafing and neceflary mean to the moft important end and befides being an eitential duty is the beft principle ot moral condttcv it is the fource of every virtue but will fur vive them all for we hall live in its no bleftexercifes,whentherciino diftrefs to be relieved no injuries to be forgiven and no unruly paffions to be refrained t all perfons arc tor tid trufting purchafing from or kav ng any dealings with th fubferiber's negroes — as he wiflies to avoid the ne cefllty of enforcing the law robert cochran fb c jayjbjk i^^^^^^^v a p 1 rif^bb . e v jt jam