National Gazette

A new town, in South-Carolina, was begun to be erected early in April last at the
confluence of Broad and Pacolet Rivers,
to be called Pinckneyville, from the respectable family in that state to which the name
alludes. Scarcely had the name, however,
been officially conferred upon the infant city
when a tremendous fresh poured down the
two rivers, from previous heavy rains, and
overwhelmed all that had been done, in
promiscuous ruin; thus disappointing the
expectations and labors of the founders
who, like Romulus of old, had been but a
few days before comparing their situation
to his, when employed in cutting away
bushes from the spot which was afterwards
the seat of the mistress of the world. The
commissioners, we hear, have since agreed
to change the position of Pinckneyville
to a pleasant, romantic, and more elevated situation farther up, on the banks of
Broad River, not far distant from the confluence before mentioned, and nearly in the
centre of one of the most desirable countries in the world, the back-parts of South
Carolina.