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AN a& for reviving and continuing suits and
proceedings in the circuit court for the dif
tri& of Pennsylvania. Oracle of March 29.
An ad extending the privilege of franking to
William Henry Harrrifon, the delegate from
the territory of the U. States north-weft ofthe
Ohio; and making provision for his compen
sation. Oracle of March 29*
An ad fupplemcntary to the a&, intituled, "An
A6l to provide for the valuation of lands and
dwelling houfcs, and the enumeration of slaves
within the United States." Oracle of March 29.
An ad for the relief of persons imprisoned for
debt. Oracle of March 29.
An ad for the preservation of peace with the In
dian tribes. Oracle of March 29.
An ad to repeal part of an ad, intituled, " An
ad to provide for mitigating or remitting the
forfeitures, penalties and difabilit<es, accruing
in certain cases therein mentioned, and to
continue in force the residue ofthe fame.
Oracle of March 29.
An ad for the relief of John Vaughan.
Oracle of March 29.
An ad giving further time to the holders of
military wairants, to regiftcr and locate the
fame. Oracle of April 5.
An ad to suspend in part, an ad, intituled, " an
ad to augment the army of the U. States ;
and for other purposes. Oracle of April 12.
An ad further to suspend the commercial inttr
courfe between the U.States and France, and
the dependencies thereof. Oracle of April 5.
An ad for the relief of James Yard. April 12.
An ad providing for the second census or enu
meration of the inhabitants of the United
States. Oracle of April 12.
An ad in addition to an ad, intituled, " an aft
regulating the grants of land appropriated for
military fcrvices, and for the society of the
United Brethren for propagating the Gospel
among the Heathen. Oracle of April 19.
An ad providing for salvage in cases of re-cap
ture. Oracle of May 3.
An ad declaring the assent of Congress to cer
tain ads of the states of Maryland and Geor
\ gia. Oracle of May 3.
An a& to alter the times of holding the district
court in North-Carolina. Oracle of Ma, 3.
An adfor the relief of Campbell Smith. May 3.
An ad to extend the privilege of franking let
ters and packages to Martha Washington.
Oracle of May 3.
An ad to establish an uniform system of bank
ruptcy throughout the United States.
Oracle of Ma, 10, 17, 24 and 31.
An ad to difeharge Robert Sturgeon from his
imprisonment. Oracle of May 31.
An ad to allow a drawback of duties on goods
exported to New-Orleans, and therein to a
mend the ad, intituled, "an ad to regulate
the collection of duties on imports and ton
nage. Oracle of sane 7.
An a6t to continue in force " An ad concern
ing certain fifheries of the United States, and
for the regulation and government of the
fifhermen employed therein," and for other
purposes as therein mentioned. June 7.
An a& to alter the form of certain oaths and af
firmations directed to be taken, by the ad,
entitled, "an ad providing for the second
census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of
the United States. Oracle of sane 7.
An act for the relief of the corporation of Rhodc-
Island college. Oracle of June 7.
An ad to extend the privilege of obtaining pa
tents for ufeful difeoveries and inventions, to
certain persons therein mentioned, and to en
large and define the penalties for violating the
rights of patentees. Oracle of June 7.
An a& to fix the compensation of the Paymal
tcr-general, and assistant to the adjutant-gen
eral. Oracle of June 7.
An ad to continue in force the ad, intituled,
"An act so authorize the defence of the mer
chant vessels of the United States again!}
French depredations." Oracle of June 14.
An ad 10 continue in force for a limited time,
an act, intituled, " An ad to proscribe the
mode of taking evidence in cases of contested
elections for members of the House of Repre
fertatives of the United States, and to com
pel the attendance of witnesses. June 14.
An ad fixing the rank and pay of the command
ing officer of the corps of marines. June 14.
An ad fupplemcntary to the ad to regulate
trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes,
and to prefer ve peace on the frontiers.
Oracle of June 14.
An ad to establish a general stamp office.
Oracle of Jane 14.
An a& to alter and,to establish sundry poll roads.
Oracle ^ June 21.
An ad for the better government of the navy
of the United States. Oracle of Aug, 2.
An ad refpeding the mint. Oracle of Aug. 9.
An ad to continue in force the ad, in addition
to the ad for tfe punishment of certain
crimes against the United States. Aug. 9.
An ad to repeal the ad laying duties 011 mills
and implements employed in the manufadur^
of fnuff. Oracle of Aug. 9.
An ad to make further provision for the remov
al and accommodation of the government of
the United States. Oracle of Aug. 9.
An ad to authorize the President of the Unit
ed States, to accept for the United States, a
cession of jurisdiction of the territory weft of
Pennsylvania, commonly called the weftern
reserve of Connecticut. Oracle of Aug. 9.
An ad to provide for re-building the light
^ house at New-Londen ; for the support of a
light-house at Clark's Point ; for the erec
tion and support of alight-house at Wigwam
Point ; and tor other purposes. Aug. 9,
An ad fupplemcntary to the laws now in force
fixing the compensations of the officers of the
Senate and House of Representatives
. Oracle of Aug. 16,
An ad to divide the territory of the U. States
Published by Authority.
Table of Contents,
Os the A&s of Congrefs,paffed at the firfl session
of the sixth Congress of the United States,
begun and held at the city of Phladel
phia, in the date of Pennsylvania,
on Monday the second of De
cember, 1799.
PORTSMOUI H, N.H. Printed and Published every SATURDAY
the United States,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1800.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY.FIFTH YEAR.
OF ALL THE m S , OSmONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PAOSPE^TV, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE IHDISPBH.fo A CTO „P.
Ilie Witch States
POLITICAL SCRAP.
- It is curious to read in thefocobin pa
pers the abuse of every salutary mea
sure adopted by Government, the unli
mited abuse of the President of the Uni
ited States and all the officers of the
administration, except one. And his
poor character is saved because he holds
the belief that " twenty Gods or. no God"
is " tout le meme cbofc." Why does the
President not enforce the Sedition Law
against such men ?—Anfwer.—^ecaufe
their lies are now so notorious, that no
body can be duped by them.
Resolution making an annual grant of one
hundred dollars to each of the children ofthe
late colonel John Harding and major Alex
ander Trueman. Oracle of Oct. 11.
Resolution recommending to the people of
the United States to assemble, and publicly to
teftify their grief for thd death of general
George Washington. Oracle oi Oct. 11.
Resolution directing the Secretary of State to
transmit to the governor of North-Carolina,
a number of copies of the laws of the United
States. Oracle of Oct. 11.
Resolution requeuing the President of the
United States to present to captain Thomas
Truxton, a golden medal, as a teflimony of
the high sense entertained by Congress of his
gallant conduct in the late action between the
United States frigate Conflellation, and the
French ship of war La Vengeance. Oct. 11.
Resolution authorizing the President of the
United States to employ an agent to collect
information relative to the copper mines on
the fcuth fide of Lake Superior. Oct. 11.
miniders. Oracle of Sept. 20.
An a& to make appropriations for the navy of
the United States during (he year one thou
sand eight hundred. Oracle of Sept. 20.
An aft fupplemcntary to the ad, intituled," an
aft to establish the Treasury Department.
Oracle of Sept. 20.
An aft to authorize the issuing of certain patents.
Oracle of Sept. 20.
An ad to enlarge the powers of the surveyors of
seven hundred and ninety-four. Sept. 27.
An ad to retain a farther sum on drawbacks for
the expenses incident to the allowance and
payment thereof, and in lieu of stamp duties
on debentures. Oracle of Sept. 27.
An a& to authorize certain expenditures, and to
make certain appropriations for the year one
thousand eight hundred. Oracle of 0&. 4.
An a& to lay additional duties on certain arti
cles imported. Oracle of 0&. 4,
An a& appointing the time, and directing the
place of the next meeting of Congress. Ofl. 4.
An ad to make provision relative to rations for
Indians, and to their visits to the feat of gov-
ernment. Oracle of Oft. 4.
An aCt fupplemcntary to the aCt to suspend
part of an a&, intituled, " an aCI to augment
the army of the U. States, and for other pur
poses." Oracle of Oct. 4.
An ad to make further provision for the chil
dren of colonel John Harding, and major A-
Icxander Trueman, deceased. October 11.
An act fupplemcntary to the act establishing the
mint, and regulating the coins of the United
States. Oracle of October 11.
the revenue. Oracle of Sept. 20.
An a& to amend an a&, intituled, "an ad to
establish thejudicial courts of the U. States.
Oracle of Sept. 27.
An a& to appropriate a certain funi of money
to defray the expense of holding a treaty or
treaties with the Indians. Oracle of Sept. 27.
An aft direding the payment of a detachment
of the militia under the command of major
Thomas Johnson, in the year one thousand
Treaty of peace and friendihip between the U
nited States of America, and the kingdom of
Tunis. Oracle of October 18
and above the mouth of Kentuckcy river.
Oracle of Sept. 13.
An aft to afeertain the compensation of public
Oracle of Sept. 6.
An a& to provide for equalizing the valuations
of unseated lands. Oracle of Sept. 6.
An a& fupplemcntary to an a&, entitled, “ an
a& to establish the cornpenfation of the offi
cers employed in the collection of the duties
on impost and tonnage." Oracle of Sept 6.
An adl to amend the ad, entitled, " an adt pro
viding for the sale ofthe lands of the United
States in the territory north-wed of the Ohio,
ties on imports and tonnage. Aug. 30.
An ad supplemental to the ad, intituled, " an
ad for an amicable settlement of limits with
the state of Georgia, and authorizing the es
tablishment of a government in the Midiffip
pi territory." Oracle of Aug. 30.
An ad in addition to thead intituled, "an ad
to prohibit the carrying on th, Have trade
from the United States to any foreign place or
country." Oracle of Sept. 6.
An ad for the relief of Ithamar Canfield.
hundred. Aug. 23.
An ad making appropriations for the military
Oracle 0, Aug. 23.
An ad for the regulation of public arsenals and
magazines. Aug. 23.
An a& making appropriations for the support of
government, for the year one thousand eight
year one thousand eight hundred. Aug. 30.
An ad to establish the diftrid of Kennebunk,
and to annex Lyme to New-London ; to al
ter the diftrid of Bermuda Hundred and City
Point, and therein to amend the ad, intitu-
to borrow money for the public Service.
„ Aug. 16.
An ad to continue in force an ad laying an ad
ditional duty on salt imported into the Unit
ed States, and for other purposes. Aug. 16.
An ad to authorize the allowance of a credit to
William Tazewell. Aug. 16.
An ad to authorize the sale and conveyance of
• lands in certain cases, by the marshals of the
United States and to confirm former sales.
north-weft of the Ohio, into two separate go
vernments. Oracle of Aug. 16.
An ad to enable the President of the U. States
establishment of the United States in the
led, " an ad to regulate the collodion of du-
It appears from the evidence given ox
the trials of the Negroes, apprehended in
Virginia, and from their several confef
fr>ns, in the hour or death, that
the mod extensive plans of murder and
desolation have been organized in the
southern states. That Frenchman have
been the projectors of these infernal
plans. That in the massacre of the
whites, Frenchmen alone were to be spar
ed. [Gaz. U. 5.]
This i$ Jacobinifm with a witness,
and what the Jacobins have been
aiming to do in every State in the Un
ion, for three years past.
The articles under the Paris head, refpe&-
ing the American negotiation, are evidently the
production of Talleyrand, and were written, no
doubt, more with a view to circulate in Ameri
ca to the injury of our envoys, than for any 0-
ther purpose. If France demands of the Unit
ed States the infraction or abrogation of any
former national a&, she denunds what neither
our honor, nor our interest will permit us to
grant : She demands what (he has no right to
expert But in order to gloss over this unrea
sonable objection to negociation, Talleyrand
makes a pitiable representation of the pretend
ed sensations of our envoys, who he fays, in their
present predicament, view the fubjeti as he does.
Confiding in the talents and pitriotifm of these
gentlemen, we do not helicate to deny the as
persion, attempted to be thrown or their under
standing. [Pbila. Gaz.)
Two frlendid RINAL COMETS.
Pitt aud Buonaparte have by their immense
fiery trains, acquired an entire ascendancy over
the political affairs of Europe. Thus while Pitt,
with absolute supremacy rules the ocean, Buon
aparte seems by the last intelligence, to have
acquired an entire ascendancy over the terrafir -
ma of Europe.
The blow struck at Denmark, for daring to
alter the Laws of Nations, on the plan of the
Austrian amendment, to yhich # England has
ever been opposed, will eitner ruin the Danish
commerce and navy, or involve Sweden and
Russia in the most tremendous naval warfare
that ever existed. How England will succeed
against the world, Portugal, Turkey, and Ame
rica excepted, time only can shew. This truth,
however, must be obvious to every American,
with such a war, which may Heaven avert, the
next year will be the moll favorable to Amer
ican commerce that our country ever knew :
provided our neutrality is permitted to continue.
The Hon. Harrison G. Otis Esq. has declin
ed being considered a candidate for Rrprcfen
tative in the next Congress.
From the Lanctfer, (Penn.) fournal.
Among the many political curiosities
of democratical delufiion, we find the
address of little Sammy Bryan. This
man it appears, in concert with Tench
Coxe, Timothy Matlack, F. A. Muh
lenberg and Jacob Carpenter was ap
pointed to prepare an address to the Peo
ple of Pennfivania. Tench Coxe and
little Sammy, each in the plentitude of
literary and official consequence, as
sumed to himfelf the exclusive talk of
penning the address. Both productions
were presented to the ommittee. The
two authors Rood trembling candidates
for the decisive honor of the remaining
Triumvirate. The prior artifice of
Howe's Hero prevailed, and his piece
received a priority of situation in the
annals of Anti-federal villainy.
Sammy's address, however, was fuf
ficiently Scandalous to recommend it to
the notice ofhis friends, and it was or
dered to be printed. —Notwithstanding
its. supposed inferiority in point of stile
and sense, we cannot hesitate to pro
nounce it truly worthy of democratic
patronage ; for it is equal to any in
nonsense, ribaldry and malignity.
N. B. This Sammy Bryan is the not
ed "fwitch-tail' d Sammy,'' that abused
the " sovereignty of the sovereign peo
ple" during the last winter session. He
is the fame animal who accused the
Legiflatiire of " uttering malicious falfe
hoods," and he certainly is a very pro
per character to address the people of
Pennsylvania, on the fubjeC t of an elec
tion for Representatives. Huzza for
Coxe, Leib and Dallas ! Billy Barton,
M'Kean and Jake Grubb ! !
Regimental orders have been issued in Vir
ginia , —patroles are ordered on duty ; 75 cent!
are allowed for every twelve hours duty to each
individual; they are called on to use their ut
most exertions, &c. ,&c.
Alarming Difevery !
Whether the people of the United
States are to be awakened, to a perfed
sense of the danger which fui rounds
them, remains to be seen. It is our
duty, as the Heralds of public occur
rence to Rate the following fads, and
having submitted them to our fellow
citizens, it will be no less their interest
than their duty to give to them the
consideration which they deserve—and
to take such measures of prevention, as
may save their country from the great
est calamities, with which it has ever
been threatened.
Important Faas.
No. 2.
Vol. XT.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TWELFTH YEAR
®ratle of tbe ^ap.
Morning, by CHARLES PEIRCE, Printer of,the Laws &c, of
in New-Hampshire. ~
PRICE I DOLLAR jo CENTS Pen Annum
All my expeiices of every kind as Envoy to
Great-Britain, including the salary of my Sec
retary, the expence of my passage home, and
fxty-tbree pounds jierling paid in Counsel Fees,
respecting the Capture Cases, amounted to the
sum of 12,000 doHars and 36 cents which be
ing deducted from the before mentioned 18,000
dollars, left in my hands a coufidcrable balance
due to the United States.
This balance I accounted for and fettled with
the Treasury in the following manner, viz.
By calh advanced to an American-^ Dois. Cts.
gentleman in the fervied of the I
United States, and whose account 1 „,
with the public, was charged with ( " 33
it by the treasury. J
By amount of my order on the'
Banker in favor of Mr. Pinckney,)
who was then the American Minis- 1 5,270 22
ter at London, towards a fund for )
expenses respecting Capture Cafes,l
to be accounted for by him to theJ
Treasurer
These /a^s are verified by the Treasury Re
port, of the account between the United States
and me, marked No. 7373 by the Auditor's Re
port, marked No. 8330, on which is indorsed
the Comptroller's Certificate, and by the
Regißer's Certificate of the final settle
ment of the account. With sentiments of ef
teeln and regard, I am, &c. JOHN JAV.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, sept. 1,1800. J
Public Notice is Hereby Given,
In purfuan r e of an aft of Congress, pas
sed on the 23d day of April, one thousand
eight hundred, entituled, " An ad to
eßablifh a General Stamp-Office,"
I. O'" I HAT a General Stamp-of
fice is now cftablifhed at the feat of
government, in the city of Washington, from
whence there will issue, from and after the date
hereof;(upon the application of the supervisors of
the Revenue, under whole management the col
lc&ion of the Ramp duties is placed) any quan
tities of paper, parchment and vellum,marked or
damped, and duly counter-Ramped, with the
rates of duty which are demandable by law.
11. THAT, the p<?wer of the Su
pervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any
vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with du
ty, will ceale and determine from and after fix
months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last
day of February 1801.
111. THAT, If any person (ball, af
ter the last day of February 1801, have in their
custody or possession any vellum, parchment or
paper, marked or damped by the Supervisors of
the Revenue, upon which any matter or thing
charged with duty, Rudi not have been written
Calumny, my dear fir, has been an engine of
party, in all countries, and particularly in E
le6live Governments. It is an evil which, origi
nating in the corruption of human nature, is
without remedy and consequently is to be
borne patiently. The esteem of the wife and
good is valuable, and to acquire and preserve it,
is all that ambition ought to aim at.
As to the statement in question,you are desir
ous to know exactly how far it deviates from
the truth ; and to gratify this desire, I will
give you a concise and accurate Bate of the facts.
Being at Philadelphia on official business, in
May 1794, President Washington desired
me to go as Envoy to Great-Britain. I earnestly
endeavored to fix his attention elsewhere ; but
he persevered, and I found it impossible to re
concile it with my duty to persist in declining
the appointment. Circumstanced as I was, and
aware of the nature of the business, of the tem
per of the times, and of the union of certain
interests against any amicable settlement with
Great-Britain, personal considerations opposed
my undertaking the talk. When I finally yield
ed to the President's requell, I told him that I
declined any compensation for my fervices—
that my necessary and actual expenses only
Ihould be paid, but that my Bated salary as
Chief Justice must be continued.
A vcffel in ballast was chartered to carry me
to England, for you well recollect that an em
bargo was then in operation, but in contracting
or paying for this vessel I had no agency.
The Secretary of State gave me a bill for
18,000 dollars towards the expenccs of the mis
sion, and for which I was to account.
By Calh paid by me to the Treasurer, 496 ,
This statement is not a new one, it appeared
in Greenleaf's paper in March '97. It is cal
culated and doubtless was designed, to impress
an opinion that the administration of President
Washington, was too prodigal of the Pub
lic money, in the negociation with Great-Bri
tain, and that 1 derived extravagant emolu
ments from it.
[g, As the mission of Gov. Jay to Great-
Britain bar been made the fierce of much calumny
and misrepresentation, a Friend to Truth requefs
the Editor of the Sun to publijb the excised
letter, that his readers ma, fee bow grossly the ex
penses of that mission have been exaggerated; and
how unmeritedl, the Envoy bimfelf Isas been, a* 1
continues to be jlandcred.]
dear sir, October 7ft, iB6O.
MR. Beers, in compliance with your re
quest, has delivered co me an Extract from
the Albany Register, of the 15th of last month,
which contains the following erroneous statement
of the expenses incurred by the United States,
for negociating the Treaty with Great- Britain.
Dols. Cts.
'Mr. Jay, for his outfit to make the
Treaty, 18,000
For his passage to Europe, 3,708 52
To pay incidental expenses, 10,000
To do. in negociating the Treaty, 5,000
To get papers of captures, 16,012 83
FROM THE SUN,
[Published at Pittsfield, Berkshire County.]
^ A Jacobin Lie refuted.
5,999 64
My expences 12,000 36
52,731 35
18,000
Miss Elvey Garthright, of Henrico county, a
young lady of rcfpeftable family and fortune,
not more than eighteen-years of age was on
Friday evening, the izth inst. murdered, and
thrown tinder Bottom's Bridge. Her body
was found on Sunday the 14th mangled in a
most shocking manner. The particulars, as far
,as we have learned are as follows :—Mifs Garth
right had been at her fitter's' the wife of Mr-
John, Carter, who lives at Frayfer's old tavern,
making two new dresses, and set out from Mr.
Carter's about sun-set to go to her aunt's, Mrs.
Whitlock, which was not more than a mile dis
tant and almost in fight; she took with her ther
two dresses, but when the body was found the
clothing was gone. It is supposed that ihe was
murdered and robbed by a black man, who
was met by a gentleman very near the place,
with a bundle at hisback, not more than half
an hour after this unfortunate young woman
left her filler's. We hope that the perpetrator
of the horrid crime will be brought to justice, as
every exertion is making in order to a discove
ry ; and we trust that the dreadful feene that ,
was on Sunday, the 14th iip. preftn/ed at
Bottom's bridge, will be a cautiouto ladies
not to venture abroad alone.
A Brattleborough (Vermont) paper of Sept,
6, fays, " It devolves on us to relatetbefollowing tale
as ivoe. In this tovon on the afternoon of Saturday
last, as a fan of Mr. Henry Cob, aged about 7 years,
neas amujing bimfelf ivitb some playmates on a ledge
of rocks on toefarm of Mr. Gideon Briggs, reclining
against a small tree nubofe roots extended into the
crannies' of the cliff, the vibration of the treeftarteda
rock judged to nveigb 20 tons —the failing fell noitb
tbe lad dotun a (keep precipice, and tbe large rock
rolled directly over bim, nvben be mas found lif&fs,
tbe body lying on one fide of the tree, and tbe bomels
extending across it to tbe diflance of ttuo feet, and
borridly mangled ; one arm, one tbigb and tbejkull,
were very much broken. His entrails were replac
ed, tbe body fenced up and conveyed to tbe parents
whose agonies at tbe fgbt of fueb a diflr—ag spec
tacle can be better imagined by human fympatby than
described bere. ''
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. !
Tbe Concord paper of tie %Itb ult, soys,
" On Saturday the 20th inst. died in this town,
Sally Swett, aged about 8 years, eldest daughter
of Lt. Moses Swett. She went out to play with
her little brother about 2 years old, and finding
a cart-body which had been set up against a
fence nearly perpendicular, they poth climbed
up, and when about halfway to tbe top, there
weight brought it over, and they were both
caught under it. The little boy falling between
the fide and middle pieces of timber, was uot
hurt; but the girl's head was caught under the
middle piece which crushed it in so Shocking a
manner, that she expired in about two hours, to
the great distress and affli&ioa of her affection
ate parents. —- —
or printed, they may at any time within thefoace
offxty days after tbefaidbf day of February 1801,
bring or fend such vellum, parchment and pa
per, unto some office of infpedion, and in lieu
thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vel
lum, parchment & paper, duly flamped, in pur
suance of the ad herein before recited. And in
case any person shall negled or refute,within the
time aforefaid, to bring or cause to be brought
unto some officer of infpedion, any inch vellum,
parchment or paper, it is hereby declared that
the fame will thereafter be of no other effcd or
use, then if it had never been marked or damp
ed, and that all matters and things, which may
after that time be written or printed upon any
vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be ex
changed in manner aforefaid,will be of no other
effed, than if they had been written er printed
on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or
Damped.
IV. AND for the convenience of
those persons who may be inclined to have their
own vellum, parchment and paper damped or
marked, it is hereby declared, that when at,
person shall depofc any vellum, parchment or
paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied
with a lift, fpecifying the number and denomi
nation of the stamps or marks which are d.Gred
to be thereto affixed, the fame will be transmit
ted to the General Stamp-Office, and there pro
perly marked or damped, and forthwith sent
back to the fame supervisor, who will thereupon
celleft the duties and deliver the paper, parch
ment or vellum, to the order of the person from
whom the fame was received.
A Most cruel and inhuman murder was on
Saturday evening last, committed on Mr. Wil
liam Alexander, a young gentleman of Camp
bell county, as he was returning to his father's
from the court-house, where he had been that
day on some business. Perhaps the barbarity
exercised in this Shocking deed, has been feldorn
equalled ; for the blood-thirsty assassin, more
rapacious than the carnivorous beast of prey,
could not leave the victim of his wrath and
vengeance, until he had cut the throat from
ear to gar, after fracturing the scull in such-a
manner as to ensure death! The morning fol
lowing, the horfc belonging to this unfortunate
young man, with saddle, bridle and saddle-bags
on him, was discovered (landing in the road, be
side the bloody corpse of his master. A large
loaded horse-whip was found near the body, sup
posed to be the weapon made use of in the com
mencement of this act, which probably may
lead to the difeovery of the perpetrator, whose
name will hereafter Ihock the ear of humanity.
Mr. Alexander, for many years had acted as
deputy-clerk under his father, and from his
extreme capability, all the duties attached to
his father's office, as clerk of the county, devolv
ed upon him.
CHAPTER , of Melancholies !
GIVEN under mv band, and thefeat ofthe Treas
ury, at Wajbington, the day andyear a
(L.S.) bove mentioned.
OLIVER WOLCOTT,
Secretary of the Treasury,
SHOCKING INCIDENT!
WASHINGTON'S Legacy.
RICHMOND, (vIRG) OCT. 2.
HORRID MURDER.
RICHMOND, SEPT. IL
A most horrid Murder !