Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-12-09
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Tue anu bapPiHceS.
The dispensations fthe Almighty. in the
moral government OF the world, are Of a ma
ture so dark and mysterious, that even the
wise and good have beheld them with won,
der, and sometimes with dismay. TO see
the aged and infrm, the proaigate and
worthless permitted to Eve.,and the young,
, the valuable member OF society, the father
Of large and helpless family cut down by
death, requires he utmost effort Of CHRISTIAN
faith and resignation. Hereafter we shall
see that the sovereign disposer Of events has
done all things well. And even now we
may conceive that such instances of al ex-
traordinary providence, such palpable proofs
ofthe lrail and transitoy nature Of all earth
ly blessings, such an appeal to our hopes
and fears and sympathias may be necessary
to teach US lesson which il is the great OBJ
jecrol The world at large TO forget. youth
or health, or the anxious love and solicitade
of weeping family, if the affection of
friends, if the skin Of physicians could have
saved him, he had not fallen. Who then
can plead exemption from certain and
speedy, and perhaps an untime'y grave?
We look around and see all things now gay
and hopeful and enchanting in mement
the illusion vanishes, and pallid corpse
alone remains of all that we valued and 10.
we'd. The hand Of death will soon oblite-
rate all the glories Of the world; its high.
esthopes and prospects must be soon bound
ed by those confines which none can pass
to return again, and which the present So
Iemn event proves may be much nearer
than in the gaiety Of youth and health we
are apt TO suspect. Thus eminently are we
taught by the voice OF providence, and by
all the changes Of time and things, fhe va
nifty OF all human expectations, and the su-
preme importance Of securing an entrance
into world where chance and change are
unknown. Happy Wilt be'for US if We
learn the lesson thus intended by heaven,
and yield ourselves to serious reflection upon
the NEST important, because the only per-
manent and eternal, object of human con-
Germ. 3
.Ncw-Orleans, Oct. 90.
A gcntleman recently arrived here from
Pensacola, informs US that about fortnigh,
ago, a party of the Rangers and friendly
Indians amounting to twenty men, under
the command Of captain Byles, were sud.
denly attacked on the western side Of the
bay OF Pensacola, bya superior body of the
Semiroles. The attack commenced before
dayligbt--the Indians of captain Byles'
party took to fight after one or two dischsr-
ses and the white men were forced 10 re.
lire after contest of half an hour, in which
several of them were wounded. Captain
Byles himself was shot through the body, |
and carried to Pensacola--we are happy
to aud that his wound is not considered
dangerous.
The country in the vicinity OF Pensacola
j: infested by bands of the Seminoles Skin.
misl'es frequentlytake place between them
and the rangers, and il is believed that re-
course must he had 10 very strong measures
in order 10 give peace and security to the
adjacent inhabitants of the Alabama Terri. !
tory, whether the town Of Pensacola is re.
lainel by the United States or not.
J. MARSHALL, Cashier Of the Planters
Bank OF Savannah. has cautioned the pub.
lie against receiving the counterfeit Twenty !
Dollar Bills Of the above Bank that are in !
circulation. The engraving, numbering,
date and signatures are said to be badly imi-
tated. [Charleston Patriot.
Charleston, December 2.