Gazette Of The United States

AUGUSTA, February 27.

The 15th inst. being the day appointed for the total annihilation and destruction of all Yazoo records and papers, those in the power of the legislature were on that day consumed, at Louisville, by fire from heaven!!! The natural conclusion from this is, that God Almighty is at last brought into the scrape, and is now opposing his omnipotence to the devoted Yazoo people; and upon the same principle, there can be no doubt, but in due course of post we shall hear, that at the very same moment of time, the company grants and every document relative to them, were by streams of electrical fluid especially detached to their respective places of deposit, utterly consumed and destroyed: for, it cannot be presumed that the same mode adopted by the legislature; viz. per speculum, that is, in the common terms by a burning glass, would be adopted by the persons in possession of those papers, for, however easy they might have produced a pair of spectacles from an old woman, yet being unapprised of the time, and, perhaps, not perfectly according in the measure, they would be tempted to risque the fire of heaven and leave such Promethean exploits to be performed by the general assembly of the state of Georgia.

TOM BIGBY.