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"STATE OF THE POOR
In the City of NEW-YORK.
JANUARY 18.
At a meeting of citizens, at the Ton-|
& tine Ceffee-Houte, on vV cenc<tay, n.
foh.,vt : : .afr^^/i^#^
" appointed to inveftigMe ^e liiuQn of
the poor in the different warns; and to
report the reluit to the corporation ;
" that the meeting would heartily concur
in such measures as the corporation
may adopt to relieve them ; and cheer
fully Submit to any tax that these mea
sures lhall render nccdhiy.
61 The melancholy instances of indi
vidual diftrels." lays the Editor of the
Evening Fell, " now exiting in this
, city, and not at all difficult to be found,
are enough, if they were only known, to
foften the moil ondurarc heart, and cx
'tort bounty ironi themolt impenetrable.
The ladies coin posing the Widows' So
ciety haveparticulariy diftmguilhed them
selves, by 'geing about through this in
clement weather toteek out the wretched,
and to dispose in the belt manner of their !
little funds to save them from perishing.|
The bieffings of many a widow and|
many an orphan, have already afeended|
to Heaven in their behalf. Whenthey
found the children of mitery to incuse
so faft upon their hands, as to be, cutiie
• ly beyond their means of relief, they
next applied themicros/to his honor the
Mavor, and pointed flat to hit^tice
)"Several individual cares ^mong the fugi
tives from the horrid maflacres of St Do
roiago. The Mayor without lots of
time made a representation to the Com
-1 mon Council, and had funds at once
lodged in his hands for theirrelief,amoun
ting to 500 dollars, and with a hu
manity and courtly that refleas the
greatest honor upon him this gentleman
, went in perlon and visited the abodes of
these wretched people. That'our readers
matyee I am engaged in depicting no
fibrous feenes of distress, 1 will here
give a faithful relation of one or two ca
ses out of many that fell under his own
infpe&ion, and were by him communis
cated to me not an hour ago.
" At 68, Catharine-street, he found
Madame Verncuil with her three clil
/ dren. They fat hovering over a jingle
brand. The mother had on an old great
coat, which, with afingle under garment,
constituted her whole covering. The
cldeft daughter, who appeared to be a
bout 19 years of age, had scarcely e
nough clothing to permit her to be seen
at all ; a ragged long gown and a Single
under garment, without a flocking on
* % her foot, were her all. A beautiful infant
about 2 or 3 years old, which lay in a
, cradle, exhibited by the tattered remains
of its dress some faint traces of better
days, and the affectionate cares of a fond
and faithful mother. How much does
it highten this picture of distress to have
to add, that the father of this wretched
.little family was a Chevalier of St. Louis
A and an' officer under the Ancient Regi
, me, and is now in France unconfeious
of their fitaation, having left St. Domin
go sometime before his wife fled with her
children to this city. Madam Verncuil
I once owned 3 sugar plantations in that
]fland, and always till her banishmentliv-
Icd in the enjoyment of all that could
render lifedefirable. Toconclude this fad
I ° case, I have to mention," and Ido it in
the hope it /nay meet the eye of some
humane physician, Madame Verncuil; is
I now laboring upder a pulmonic complaint
I» attended with the most threatening fym-
I tom s:
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OF ALL THE DISPOSITION AND HABITS WHICH LEAP TO POLITICAL.PROSPERITY, ^<G^M AND MORALITY ARE INDEFINABLE SUPPORTS.—WASHINGTON.
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" Another case only will be feleCted
out of the lift before me.
“ About a week Since the Widows'
Society tent the 'Mayor a lift of the un
fortunate persons from St, Domingo, and
anions the rest was a Madame Thouin,
defended as being in Second-Street, in
the Bowery.—On inquiry by the Mayor ;
and Mr. Pintard, who always accom-!
panics him no such persons was at that
time 40 be found. A second search was
made yesterday and the residence at
length discovered in BuPock-Street on
the north fide between Second and
Third Streets. On repairing, ^ the |
-place they fnynd the nnfortloW ^^ !
r ' •\.%e£o oy Lien children ; the
youngest only a few days old.—Alas the
mother who had but lately lain in of
twins, was no more. Soon after she was
put to bed her husband having by some
means got a few Killings went one mor
ning to market to procure some fuftc
nance: On his return he perceived
one of the twins dead in the cr^le —it
had periflied in his absence—The mother
without the comforts almost indhpenfa
ble to her situation, found the accumula
ted calamities that surrounded her too
much for her ; —nature gave way to the
preflure— she died of a broken heart, and
was Juried the evening before. -
Mnnficur Thouin was formerly a |
man of high rank in France, 'and lived
in great affluence. A French neighbor
little more able than himfelf yesterday
took him and his seven remaining chil
-Idren info his house, where they now fit
I fnivering over a few embers."
Mr. Pintard, the city infpe^or, in
-Iform:, that on Tuefday 7800 rations were
I issued at the Alms-House, for the relief
lof1 of 413 famil es, out-door pensions, com
i priting 1700 fouls.—The Alms-House
1 in-door ettablifhment was yesterday 950
Ifouls, augmenting daily. 650 dollars
~^ :b- n granted by the coepfotich foi,
the relief of the St. Domingo exiles ;---
and too dollars for the relief of 15 froft
bitten Spaniards, lately wrecked near our
harbour ; whom the Spanish tonful
would not relieve, because he had no
funds in his hand.
The Common Council are making the
most praise-worthy exertions to relieve
the indigent diftieffed; and quantities of
fuel are daily purchased and distributed.
The Humane Society have given no
tice that the poor may be supplied with
good and wholesome Soup, without
charge, and in fufficient quantity to sup
port their families, by application at the
. Soup-house, No. ---, Frankfort-ftreet.
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National Legislature.
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Boufe of Referefentatives.
Monday, Jan. 7.
The House in Committee resumed
the consideration of the Resolution for
ithe receflion*of the Diftrift of Columbia,
excepting the city of Walhingten, to the
States of Virginia and Maryland:—Mr.
Tenney in the chair. - When an inter
esting debate arose, in which Messrs.
, Stanford, Smilie, Early, and Eppes, ad
vocated,and Mt. Dennis opposed the re
cession. The committee reported pro
£grels, and.had leave to fit again.
Mr. Elliot presented a petition from a
number of inhabitants of Vermont, pra)-
iing a gfy" °' l* n ds in Indiana. ' Com
mitted.
; A committee raised to report on
the propriety of ihereafing the allowance
made to the persons who brought the e-
Ifederal votes to the feat of government.
The allowance by law being two dollars
and fifty cents for e<ery twenty miles
Itravel to Wafhingtoo, and nothing al
|lowed them for their return. [fl3^e
i do net know, that thi! is an intentional
: misrepresentation in the National Intelli
gencer, in order to excuse an augmentation
of compensation •,but by the jth fefl. of the
law of March 1, 1792, it is enabled,
"That the persons appointed by the elec-
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1805. ,'
tors to deliver the lift of votes to the Pre
fid<nt cf the Senate, (hall be allowed on
the delivery of the said lifts twenty-fae
ce.is for every mile of the estimated dif
ta ^e by the most usual road, from the
pkee of meeting of the electors, to the
lei of the government of the United
Sb'es." We never have heard that this 1'
la has been repealed, or the compenfation|
lov.'?d; —therefore, infedd of two dolls,
and ^y cents for every twenty miles
travl, the mejjengers have Jive dollars.]
& Committee of Commerce and
'?. repo-tea, that Messrs. Bai- ,
'"''"' ""' " r ''"'' a ' '
on the merchandize consumed
by fire in their stores, in New-York,
might have leave to withdraw their peti
tion. [@3* fthe Trefury, as the demo
crats boafl, is overflowing, this is a hard
cafe.]
Tuesday, Jan. 8.
The Resolutions on the fubjed of re
ceding the diftrid of Columbia, was a
giin taken up in Committee ; —Meffrs.
Findley, Elmer, Sloan, and Clark advo
cated ; and Messrs. Southard, Boyd,
Nelton, R. Grilwold and jackfon oppo
sed a recession.
Wednesday, Jan.,.
The cession Resolutions were taken up
in committee of the whole. Messrs.
Root and Dawson spoke in favour, and
Messrs. Lucas, Thatcher, Taggart, G.
U. Campbell and Goddard aguinft the
recession question taken.
The petition of Peter Rob^rtfon, of
Amherst, (N. H.)a wounded soldier, for
a pension was committed ; as was also a
petition for a post road'from Worcester,
(Mass.) to Keene, (N. H.)
Thursday, Jan. tm
The subject of the recession of the Dis-
Itrift of Co'rambla, being zgain taken up,
Messrs. Rhea, (of Ten.) and Smilie spoke
in favor of, and Messrs. Stanton, Lewis,
Huger, Claiborne and M. Williams a
gainst the recession ; when the question
being taken, they were negatived.---The
firft resolution 62 to 42^-The second
65 to 42.
The committee reported tothe House
their difagretment to the resolutions ;
when the House proceeded to confider
the report. Mr. Dennis advocated an
acceptance of the report ; which was op
poled by Messrs. Alston, Stanford, Bed
inger, Holland and Smilie.—The quef
tic of concurrence was then taken, and
passed in the affirmative. Yeas 72.---
Nays 46. ,
Mr. Smilie moved to amend the second
resolution so as to include the city of
Washington in the recession—-Negatived.
The question was taken as to the last
part of the report and passed in the affirm
mative.—Yeas 6, —Nays 39.
The following were the Yeas and Nays
cn the question, to accept the report of
the Committee of the whole, which was
a Disagreement to.the resolution for a re
ceffienrof the Territory, viz.
YEAS 4 —X: ffrs. Alexander, Baldwin,
Blackledge, Boyd, Brown, Bryan, G. W.
Campbell, J. Campbell, Cafcy, Chamber
fin, Chittenden, Clagett,Claiborne, Clop
ton, Conrad, Crowningfliield, Cutler,
^utts, Davenport, Dennis, Dickson,
Dwight, Earle, Elliot, Euftis, Goddard,
Gregg, G. Grifivold, R. Griswold Hast
ings, Helms, Holmes, Hough, Huger,
Hunt, Jackson, Kennedy, Lewis,--jun.
Livingston, Lowndes, Lucas, Lyon, M'
Creery, Mitchell, T. Moore,Nelfon,New,
Newton, junior, Plater, Purviance, Sim
mons,Sandford, J. Smith, Southard,Stan
ton, Stedman, Stephenfoh, Taggart, Tall
mage, Tenny, Thomas Thompfon,Trigg,
Van Cortlandt, Van Horne, Wadsworth,
Walton, L. Williams, M. Williams,
Winn, Winftpn, and Wynns—72.
NAYS—Messrs. Alston, jun. Ander
, son, Archer, Bedinger, Bishop, Boyle,
Butler, Clark, M'Clay, Dawson, Earley,
Elmer, Eppes, Findley, Fowler, Gray,
Hanna, Hufbrouqk, Heister, Hoge,Hol
land, Jones, Larned, Leib, M'Coid,
Merriwether, N. ft. Moore, Morrow,
Mott, Olin, Palmer, J. Randolph, J. Rea
(Penn.) J. Rhea, (Tenn.) Riker, Root,
Leaver, Sloan, Smilie, Stanford, Stewart,'
Varnum, Verplanck, Whitehill, Wilson
'Richards, —46
FRIDAY, Jan. 11.
The President informed Congrefs,that
he had Signed the Cambridge port of de
livery bill ; —and bill to divide Indiana.
The Senate informed the House, that
it had passed a bill amendatory of the ads
tfbr importing mere fy-^c ,r;es on die
imports;tun of Ccitam^ri^rf) & for
and collecting light money on foreign
Ships or vessels.
Mr. Winftoir informed the House cf -
the death of Col. James Gillespie, a Mem
ber of the House, from North-Carolina.
A Commute was appointed to Superin
tend his funeral ; which the House re-
Solved to attend, and that the Members
wear the usual badge of mourning far one
month. Adjourrted.
Monday, Jan. 14.
A petition from Col. Freeman, Maj.
ButlefonCother officers of the U. States'
army, at N. Orleans, praying an augmen
tation of the allowance for subsistence,
w^s referred to the Secretary at war.
A bill came from the Senate, to amend
the Act for imposing more Specific du
ties on the importation of certain articles
and allo for levying and collecting light
money on foreign Ships and vessels, and
for other purposes, was read, & referred.
The I-louse went into Committee of
the whole, successively on the report of'
the Poft-Mafter-Geaeral, on the petition /
of a contraction for carrying the mail in
South- Carolina ; and which recom
mended the further allowance to be made
to him of 42000 dollars, which was agreed
ito S-—On the bill ^ malting an approx
priation for completing the south wing
of the Capitol, and other purposes ;-~-
when 130,000 were granted :---On the
bill respecting the United States land
fotfth of Tennessee :---On a bill to pro
hibit the exaCtion of bail, in certain ca
ses, -within the district of Columbia :—
And on the memorial of capt. A. Mur
ray. Progress was made on all these
fubjeCts.
M. Rhea called up his motion, to re
quest the secretary of War to lay before
the House a lift of the officers and Sol
diers of the U. States army, durirglßo3,
and I'Bo4, with their Stations.---On the
question to agree to the motion, the
House divided. Ayes 36. Noes 32,
It was then difeovered there was not a
quorum present ; and the House adjourned.
Tuesday, Jan. 15.
The Secretary of the Treasury commu
nicated .a Statement of the money paid
for counsel in that department, from the
establishment of the government down
to the present day. Ordered to be prin
ted. *
The Capitol appropriation bill, and
several local bills, passed various Stages.
The bill respecting the exaCtion ofbail
upon certain suits in the district of Co
lumbia, after considerable dilcufyon was
lull-only 30 members voting in favor ofit.
Among the local petitions was one pre
sented by Mr. CrowninShield, from
Messrs. Bailey & Bogart, of,ew-York,
praying that Congress, in consequence of
their great losses by fire, would extend
the time their bond given for goods con
sumed.—Committed.
. The petitions of Kllrfera Stanton &
. two others praying for divorces, were re- ,
ferred to a Select committee.
A committee was appointed to report
on the subject of the laws regulating the
grant of land appropriatd for the refugees
from Canada and Nd+a-Scotb.
SENATE, Jan. 14.
On motion of Mr. Ellery, the Senate
resolved to w^ a crape round the left
arm, as a mar, of refpel% due to the
memory of the Heo. Sai^el J. Potter,
deceased. „
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