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GEORGIA.

By accounts from the South, under date of November 10th, hostilities were expected to break out between the United States troops, and the Seminole Indians.

General Gaines, with his troops, took up the line of March from Fort Montgomery, on the Alabama, to Fort Scott, on the Flint River, about the 27th ult. where he was to be joined by about 500 Creek warriors, who would make his ar- my, including regulars, militia, and Indians, amount to about 2500 men. The Seminoles are said to have in the field 1500 warriors. General Jackson and suite, it was expected, would join General Gaines at Fort Scott.

General Gaines made a demand upon the Seminoles, for the murderers of seven whites-they refused, and in return stated, that our people had killed ten of their tribe, and demanded the balance to be given up to them, as the only condition on which they would make peace. The General made no further reply, but immediately put his troops in motion, to operate against them.

David B. Mitchell. Esq. of the State of Georgia, is Commissioner, to treat with the Creek nation of Indians.

Deaths in Savannah from the 1st to the 5th of October inclusive, reported by the Board of Health-males 50, females 12-total 62. Of this number 50 died of the yellow fever. Forty-three of the above deaths were non-residents, 32 of whom were seamen.

MISSISSIPPI.

In a letter from Natches, dated October 13th, it is remarked by the writer"Of all the plagues I ever heard of, we have one that exceeds them. The yellow fever has raged so in this place, that three fourths, or at least two-thirds of the inhabitants have left the place, and there are not enough to attend the sick and bury the dead. The poor wretches are found dead in their houses by themselves, and it is difficult to get any one to lay them out and put them in the ground. Almost all the stores are shut up, and the post-office is only open two or three hours on mail days. It is such an awful time that not a dollar enters the town, except to get some necessary that cannot be dispensed with."

TENNESSEE.

a convention to amend the constitution of that state; on which question the people are invited to vote, Ay or No, at the next General Election. This is the most democratic process of any of our governments-submitting the question to the people, individually, for their opinion, without any representative intermediation.

An appeal to the sense of the people has been authorized by the requisite majority of two-thirds of the legislature of Tennessee, on the expediency of calling

The following resolution has been introduced into the Legislature of Tennessee, by some one who dreads the introduction of the National Bank into that State. The fate of the motion does not yet appear.

"Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That they do greatly regret the necessity which impels them to declare, that they will view with concern and disapprobation the establishment of any bank, branch of any bank, or other monied institution, not chartered by the laws of this State, within the limits thereof; and they do feel themselves under all the ties of responsibility which bind the representative to the people, to use all lawful means in their power to prevent and prohibit the same."

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An Academy has been erected in Nashville for the instruction of females. The building is in the centre of a large Square, in which the forest trees remain. It will already accommodate 156 students, and is intended for 300. Daniel Berry, and Lady, of Salem, Massachusetts, have been placed at the head of the Institution. Nearly one hundred young ladies were immediately enrolled as students."

Exports from West Tennessee to New Orleans, last year.- -$10,000 hhds. Tobacco, $1,000,000; 1500 bales Cotton, $100,000; Pork and Beef, $50,000; Butter, Lard and Tallow, $25,000; Corn and Vegetables, $50,000; Sundries, $200,000; Castings, $20,000; Horses, Sheep and Beef Cattle, $100,000.

OHIO.

The commissioners on behalf of the United States, have, at the treaty lately held at Fort Meigs with the Indians, obtained a relinquishment of their claims to all the lands within the State, with the exception of the following reservations: At upper Sandusky, 12 miles square; at Wappakonata, 10 miles square; at Lewiston, 7 miles square; at Hog Creek, 5 miles square; at Fort Seneca, 7 miles square, and the tract west of St. Mary's River, supposed to be about 300 square miles, amounting in the whole to 425, 880 acres. The whole tract of land purchased, including the Indian reservations,

and the unceded traet west of the St. Mary's river, contains, by a rough calculation, says the Supporter, 3,862,420 acres, from which deducting the amount of the reservations as above, will leave 5,435,540 acres, to which the Indian title is extinguished. To this may be added, say 340,800 acres, lying north of the Miami of the lakes, and east of a meridian running north from Fort Defiance, ceded by the treaty of Detroit in 1807, making, agreeably to this estimate, an aggregate of 4,276,340 acres of unoccupied lands in the State of Ohio, to which the Indian title is extinguished.

For these lands the treaty" allows the' Wyandots an annuity of 4000 dollars; the Shawanoes 2000 dollars; and the Senecas 500 dollars; together with the sum of $300 for fifteen years to be divided between the Pottowattomies, Chippewas, and Ottowas.”

MICHIGAN TERRITORY.

The citizens of Detroit have set about establishing a University. A subscrip

tion was opened, and upwards of £1000 subscribed the first day. The buildings have already been commenced, and the first hall is expected to be completed the present autumn.

ILLINOIS TERRITORY.

His excellency William Clark, Governor of the Missouri Territory, and his Excellency Nimian Edwards, Governor of the Illinois Territory, are Commissionto treat with the Potawotamies and other tribes of Indians, in the Illinois Territory.

MISSOURI TERRITORY.

Major Bradford departed from this post a few days since, with a detachment of U. S. riflemen, accompanied by Major Long, topographical engineer, for the purpose of establishing a military post on the Arkansas River, near the Osage boundary line. His object is, ostensibly, to remove squatters on the public lands. Something more may grow out of it.

ART. 13. NEW INVENTIONS.

Description of a water-wheel recently invented by Mr. C. A. Busby, of NewYork, architect and engineer; applicable to Steam-boats, Horse-boats, and Mills; and calculated to avoid the great loss of power, and other inconveniences, heretofore arising from back-water, vibration, &c.

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HE paddles of this wheel are perpendicularly bisected and suspended on pivots, by their upper edges, working in sockets fixed in the extremities of the arms of the wheel; the lower edges being re-connected (leaving a small interval between the parts) by braces, or bars, of rod iron. The sockets in which the pivots' work are included in the circumference of a circle, whose centre is the axis of the wheel. The paddles are perpendicularly dependant, and the braces equi-distant from the respective points of suspension. It is manifest, therefore, that a circle equal in diameter to that including the sockets, and whose centre should be at as great a distance below the shaft of the wheel as the braces are below the pivots, would pass through all the braces. The inventor has consequently been enabled to introduce a strong flat ring in the space (left for that purpose) between the divisions of the paddles; with holes, or sockets, corresponding to those in the

arms of the wheel, and through which the braces above mentioned conveniently pass and work.

If the wheel were now put in gentle motion, and met no opposition, the paddles, turning on their pivots, would continue perpendicular; and the ring, suspended by the braces, would revolve about its imaginary axis, at a short distance perpendicularly below the shaft of the wheel. But in case of external resistance, the paddles would trail, or drag, and the ring be carried with them.

This inconvenience might apparently be obviated by converting the ring into a wheel, and giving to it a fixed axis, or shaft. But then the radii, or spokes, of this second or lower wheel, would be obstructed in action by the shaft of the main wheel, and vice versa. It has therefore been necessary to adopt some other means of retaining the ring permanently beneath the wheel.

From an attentive consideration of the construction, so far as already developed, it will be obvious that the ring, independantly of its rotatory action with the wheel, can only swerve from its appointed station by trailing with the paddles; and this is effectually prevented by the addition of two minor wheels, or guard-rollers, on axis' fixed equi-distantly from the wheel, level with the centre of the

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ART. 14. MONTHLY CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,
WITH CRITICAL REMARKS.

Letters from the hon. David Humphreys, F. R. S. to the right hon. Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, London; containing some account of the Serpent of the Ocean, frequently seen in Gloucester Bay. New-York, Kirk and Mercein. 18 mo. pp. 86.

Gen. Humphreys is entitled to our thanks for his sedulity in collecting, and his faithfulness in reporting the most authentic informa tion it was possible to obtain in relation to the late terrific visiter of our shores. It is impossible for any one accessible to evidence, longer to remain incredulous in regard to the fact of the appearance of this monster in our waters. Gen. Humphreys has shown that his escape from the hardy fisherman of Marblehead and Cape Anne, was only owing to his timely departure from that vicinity. No opportunity offered after adequate preparation was made for attack, to try the contest, though it was impatiently sought by our

enterprising seamen. Since his retreat from the harbour of Gloucester, the serpent has been repeatedly seen in Long-Island sound. There are circumstances which lead to the supposition that more than one of these animals has been seen about the same time on

our coast.

The second one is described as having several ashen or yellowish rings round its neck The following summary description of the Sea-Serpent is given by Gen Humphreys.

"To avoid tedious repetitions, I give the aggregate result, that his head and tail resemble those of the common snake: some, however, think the head more flat, like that of the turtle (tortoise) and adder, that his colour is nearly black, his body about the bigness of a flour barrel, and his length from sixty to one hundred feet, or more. Some judicious people who saw him stretched out to his full length, by comparing the extent with the distance between two objects on shore, are inclined to believe the last men

tioned estimate approximates nearest to the truth.

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For the rest, there is an extraordinary uniformity of opinion.

All concur in his having neither the gills, fins, scales, nor tail of a fish. All. I believe, with one or two exceptions, represent his movement to have been like that of the caterpillar, but infinitely more rapid They imagined, also he moved faster under, than above water. There is, naturally, a considerable difference between the reports of those who saw him at rest, or in motion, as to his smoothness, or roughness, as well as with regard to the curvatures and bunches on his back. To some he appeared jointed, or like a string of kegs or buoys connected on a rope to others, uniformly smooth and

round."

Soon after the disappearance of the Old Serpent, a Young Serpent of very singular formation, and supposed to be the progeny of the former, was killed by a Mr. Colbey in a field near Loblolly Cove, and about one hundred and fifty paces from highwater mark, as measured by the hon. Mr. Nash of Gloucester. There is a remarkable coincidence in the structure of this non-descript serpent. with that of the great Sea-Serpent, and its movement seems to have been similar. Mr. Colbey gives the following account of his rencontre with this reptile.

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Mr. Colbey says, that he and two of his sons were gathering bay, when the young serpent was first discovered by one of his boys, who called to his father to run. for he never saw such a strange snake. Mr. Col bey ran about four rods, with a pitchfork in his hand, before the young serpent had crept one rod. As the serpent was passing over some loose rocks, he clapped his pitchfork down, and confined him against the rocks, when the snake exhibited more temper than he had ever seen displayed by one before. He threw his head around, seized his own body, held on, and shook (to use his own expression)" as one dog shakes another when fighting." His tail, likewise, seemed to be a weapon of defence, for he swung it around several times, and struck the end of it against the handle of the pitchfork. when Mr. C. could distinctly hear a noise, which clicked, (as he said,) like a pin, when struck against the handle. Mr. Colbey's account of bis motion is still more extraordinary. He says, that he possessed the power of contraction and expansion, to a degree almost incredible: that when contracted, he judged his length was not more than one foot and a half; and the protuberances on his back were (to use his expression) nearly as large as his fist. He afterwards remarked, that the tumours, when the serpent was contracted, were at least three times as large as when he was extended. When creeping on the ground, his motion was vertical, he carried his bead near the ground, and he progressed very slow, much slower than a man ordinarily walks. He moved in a straight line, and his

progressive motion was produced by first contracting, and then extending himself."

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of the Insects of North America, illusAmerican Entomology or Descriptions trated by coloured figures from drawings executed from nature, by Thomas Say. Philadelphia, Mitchell and Ames, 8vo first number pp. 40. with six plates and an engraved frontispiece.

The United States can at last boast of hav.

ing a learned and enlightened Entomologist in Mr. Say. Those who have preceded him, uch as Catesby, Abbot, Melsheimer, Muhlenberg, Barton, Escher, Leconte, Torrey, &c. have merely been collectors, or painters, or nomenclators; but the author of this work shows himself acquainted with the details and improvements of the science; he is at the same time an acute observer and an able painter. This increases our regret that inAmerican Fabricius, his utmost ambition is to stead of aiming at the glorious title of the tread in the steps of Donovan! and imitate his uncouth arrangements, desultory style, pompous publications, and costly performan

ces.

We regret exceedingly to see those defective modes introduced by the author of this work, and are sorry to foresee that they are not likely to promote his views. This was not the manner in which the labours of Linneus, Fabricius, and Latreille have been published, yet they are the classical authors of the science. It is true that we are offered an elegant specimen of typography; but the price of it is two dollars. For that sum we have forty pages (of which twelve are quite and six fine coloured plates, containing only blank) printed on beautiful paper and type, eight species (whereof five are new) of insects, while they might have included sixty! Therefore at this rate, as there are at least eight thousand species of insects in North America, the sum of two thousand dollars will be requisite in order to admire the insects on this new plan! while on the plan of Linneus, &c. ten dollars might be quite sufficient. It would be well if this style was left for the this work shall proceed, we may endeavour use of the princes and lords of Europe. When to review it at length.

C. S. R.

Descriptio uberior Graminum et Plantarum Calamariarum Americae septentrionalis, indigenarum et cicurum. Auctore D. Henrico Muhlenberg. Philadelphia, Sol. W. Conrad, 1817. 1 vol. 8.vo. pp. 295.

This is one of the posthumous works of the rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, which had sol ong been expected by the botanists: and probably not one of the least valuable. About four hundred and fifty species of Grasses, including the Cyperoides, and genera Carex Juncus! are here enumerated and described at full

length. But like many posthumous works, it bears the stamp of imperfection: more than forty species, perhaps new, are published without names could any one believe that in the present stage of science such a blunder could be committed. The author, had he been living, would never have done it, and unless the editor thought that there was no one that could rectify this omission, he is inexcusable; but we are certain that many of our botanists would have been very glad to do it, and associate thereby this trifling labour to those of the worthy author. The consequence will be that those new species will be named by Rafinesque, Decandolle, Romer, Leconte, &c, and receive therefore as many different names! while the real anthor will be deprived of that merit. It is likewise astonishing, that the editor could not, or would not employ some botanist to compare the species of Muhlenberg, with those of Pursh and Elliot! and frame specific definitions. These and many other omissions and imperfections lessen very much the value of this otherwise classical work; we shall endeavour to rectify them in a future review. C. S. R.

Calebs Deceived. By the author of 'an antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, Cottage, Sketches,' &c. York, 24mo. pp. 264.

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Though we have read this book through, we hardly know what to make of it. We must rank it however, we suppose, with the class of works called religious novels, notwithstanding there are some things in it that savour not overmuch of religion in our apprehension. It seems to be an indirect attack upon Episcopalianism; and deserves to be reprehended not only for its tendency to promote dissension in the church of God, but for a spirit of unfairness incompatible with the principles of the gospel

By the by, we do not altogether approve of drawing religious discussions into novels. There is a time and a place for all things; a romance is not the place where we look for religious instruction, nor do we often take one up when in that mood which is best fitted for receiving it. Let us not be understood as requiring novels to be irreligious; on the contrary we think some of the best lessons of piety and morality may be effectually instilled under this guise. But as amusement is the avowed, so it should be the apparent object of such productions. A reader is not pleased to find himself circumvented by a sermon, where he had looked for a diverting adven

ture.

Honest John Bunyan's allegories are greatly preferable to the flimsy fictions of modern sectarians. Celebs junior is less amiable, and not much more interesting than his predecessor. He is early the victim of deception. His education is commenced by bis aunt, who tells him that if he will only learn his A, B, and C, she will love him. The poor boy however finds that not only A, B, and C, but three and twenty letters more,

all in a row, are to be learnt before he can establish his claim to her affection. He is next told that when he has learnt to read words and sentences he will be a man ; to which bis experience soon gives the lie. His aunt shortly after trepans him into a clergyman's family, who fortunately proves a very worthy man. Celebs thrives under his tuition. In due time he is entered at college, where he grows dissipated, and gets in debt. He finds himself however master of a handsome patrimony, and suffers no great inconvenience from his folly. A visit to his guardian, who is on his death bed, recals him to reflection, and revives his religions impressions. He now takes it into his head to fall in love, all at once, with his cousin Lucy, the playmate of his childhood. Her personal beauty entirely blinds him to her character. With a view to matrimony he takes orders, and purchases a benefice. Just as he is ready to install Luc in the parsonage-house, he detects her in a clandestine correspondence with a circulating library, and their engage ment is broken off in mutual disgust. In a few months Lucy marries an Irish fortunehunter. Celebs has suddenly acquired distaste to matrimony, and after becoming a convert to the belief that a plurality of wives is allowable by scripture, and after bringing over to the same faith a young female Methodist with whom he had contracted an intimacy, he persuades her, we know not by what process of reasoning; to cohabit with him without being married at all. The lady soon becomes satisfied that this concubinage is not sanctioned by revelation, and leaves him with an irrevocable resolution never to return to him, though he offers to undergo the rites of marriage.

Calebs's preaching in the mean time had given his congregation great comfort. He had talked much of the all-sufficient atonement, and of the imputed righteousness of the Redeemer; but had wholly forgotten to say any thing about the necessity of faith and repentance. At length the happy deaths of some of his impenitent parishioners opens his eyes to his error. He shifted his ground and witnesses a happy reformation in his flock. To set a good example he once more turns his thoughts towards the wedded state. but finding the lady whom he had selected for his partner, from his recollections of her some twenty years before, already the mother of a family, he abandons himself to celibacy for the remainder of his life.

Such is the outline of the fable. The author seems to have a measure of good sense, strangely mixed up with prejudice and bigotry. Her style is exceedingly negligent; indeed her sentences are seldom grammati

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