The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-10-23 00:00:00, page 4

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TO TUE EDITOR OX THE E.NIUIKER. .
SIR.
By inserting the following, you will much
Oblige,
Yours, with much respect,
GEO: BLACKBURN.
fariation of the Magnetic JVeedle, at
CAPE HENRY.
The various opinions which prevail respecting
the real and the relative Quantity of the Magnetic
Variation, and the many disputes which originate
in mistakes on this subject, should induce those
who are interested in the cause of science to
seize every opportunity of making such obscr
rations as may serve to ascertain a matter so very
important to Surveyors and Navigatois, & which
is now deemed of sufficient moment to engage
the attention of the Legislature.
To determine the variation at Cape Henry,
which is by s..me Mariners supposed halt"a point
west,* 1 lately visited that place, accompanied
by Mr. Kidd, Surveyor of Norfolk, and a gen
tie man of the vicinity ; the method which 1 used
is that of equal altitudes, which, for its great
simplicity and superior accuracy, ought probably
to be preferred to any other. We observed with
an Azimuth Compass, and tw<> Surveyirg Com
passes converted into azimuth compasses, by
means of a thread stretched l»etween the sights
flirertly over the meridian line in the box I
give the observations in full in order that those
who wish to repeat such experiments, or to test
their accuracy, may have a correct idea of the
method.
£ape Henry Light- Havre. I at 36d o 5m. 321
Saturday, Sept. 29th, 1810.
. The forenoon observations w^re, at 8'i 54£m.
Ivler. Alt of the Sun's lower limb 3lil 17m_
and the bearings of his centre by the several
compasses were Old 30m 59d 10m and 60d
0m. ; the mean is 60... 20m. S. W At 9h 27
Alt 38u 59 I2’ii Hearings 53d 0 u 52J
Om 51d 30m ; the me.n is 523. 10m At 9.i 57
im. Alt 41d 2m. hearings 44d 30m 44d30m and
44d 0m ; mean 44d 20m
The corresponding observations in the eveninr
were, All 41J 2m. bearings 42d 15m 42d 0m k
42d 30m ; Ur mean is 42d 15m. Alt. 33d 59Ant,
bearing 49d 30ro 50d 15m 49d 35m ; mean 49d
f s ld 17m. bearing 57d. 45m. 58d. 20m
& ->7d. yjm k 57d 49m. Half the difference of the
easiern and western azimuths is the variation,
ami is E. because the eastern azimuth is great
est; hence the variation from each of the three
sets respectively, is Id.15jm.ld.10 and!d2Ain ;
put these results rnu&t be corrected on account
©I the alteration in the Sun’s declination between
the equal altitudes, which correction is, in this
£at. nearly equal to tne whole change ofdeclina.
tion it. the interval of time ; in this case, 5im
5m. and 3m which corrections are subtractive
from the summer to the winter solstice ; hence
the above variations corrected, are Id- 10m Id
5m. and 59Am ; the mean ©f which is Id 5m E
Which 1 conclude to be the true variation now at
the Cape:—Amplitudes were also taken, which,
though they do not in general give very accu
Results, did not differ materially from the
/I mistake ot halt a point in the variation is
■o great an error, that it certainly ought to’ be
noticed, as it will take a ship ten or twelve
Aides out of her true course in a run of about one
bundled.
Surveyors either omit to mark the variation of
their maps, or, what is still worse, mark it erro
neously, and thus lay the basis of numerous liti
gations, particularly in towns where a fez* feet
6t land are often worth as many hundred tollers
—fi >m the above and a former paper of mine
f See the Enquirer of Eov 7th, 1«09J it is evi
dent th .t, with good ji sirumenis and careful ob
servation, the v:.r; t»op angnt be accurately as
certained, and. >t maik.’d on a stone „t certain
noted p',..ces, -is rate f change and other pl-xno
ineiia would .4\, l ngin become known.
1 have In ady stated, that neither amplitudes,
azimuths, the pointers of the Bear, nor the Son’s
ni' i idian altitude arc to be relied on Equal al
titudc.3, 8hd the Sim s bearing, when on the
meridian, the instant being noted bt a well regu
lated W atch or a tru* sit tellcscope, are the
only accurate methods with which 1 -m acquain
ted at present; the mem lesutls of several com
pas-es ougut to be taken, u;st 1 we can find mag
netic needles so well const: noted as perfectly to
agree : many of those, now in usf, differ a whole
degree, and almost all of them one from 15 to 30
minutes
I took the same day the Mer. Alt. of the Sun’s
lower limb, 50 1 22m 15s whence the lat- of the
light is 36d 55m 32s and, allowing the ship
Channel to be 4m 28s or about 5 miles more nor
therly, which it is nearly, the lat. of the ship
Channel is 3rd 0m N.
GEORGE BLACKBURN,
Professor of Mathematics in the College of
William and Mary.
(O’ Most of the above Communication has
appeared in the Norfolk Herald—The 6th & 7th
paragraphs are entirely new.
*•* Printers who choose to give this a place
in their papem may oblige some of their rea*
sleis.
• See American Coast Pilot.
JRigteflaneoatf.
CI'ROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW J
Tableau Physique des Regions Equatoriales &c
Par Aiexandrc dc Humboldt 4to. Paris, 1807, ct
t(?q.
(com 11 Nl'ED.)
I. The Continent of America differs widely,
in its general features, from the Old World. _
It ia distinguished by m jestic rivers and natural
indentings, which fit it for being the scene of the
Bins' **xit*f. 1 • 1 cornm-r :e. Perhaps, at some
future period, when that vast region is crowded
with an active and wealthy popul <tion, those ad
vantages will be improve d by the creative powers
of art, tr.d navigable conunumcations optned
between the Pat be and Atlantic Oceana. Mr.
Humboldt enumerates no fewer than nine dif
ferent points at which a junction coni 1 be at.
tfmptcd wuh the best prospect of sucrcss. 1
In the parallel of Qoeen Charlotte’s Island,about
the 54rh -legree of uwrtli latitude, ascending the
Columbia to its source, then crossing tlie Stony
Mountains, and following the source of the
Ountgigdi to Slave Lake •, and by Mackenzie's
Rivrr .to Hudson’s Pay 2. In the latitude of
40 J, tlie sotirces of the Rio del Norte, or North
River, which discharges itself into the GulpJi oi
Mexico, are only u.vidt •' by a mountainous tract
df twelve or th"-teen leagues in breadth, from
those of the Rio Colorado or Red River, that
flows into the Culph of California. 3. The Istli
thus of Tehaiintepc' k. in the latitude of 16°,
afford* an uu»y communication. A canal of 20
tndrs in lengui, cut through the forests of Ta
Tif«, would connect tlie head of the lluasacualco,
which runs into the Gulpli of Mexico, with th it
of tlie kto de Chima,apit, which empties itself
In the Pacific Ocean. A road has actually been
formed in tiiat line, for conveying, in tune of
wai, the pi eeious indigo of Gunemala to the
pent i.fVera Crus. 4. I nc great lake Nicaragua,
on .n one side, joins with that of the Leon,
stretching near the shores of the Pacific Ocean,
and communicates on the other, by thr river San
Ju.ui, with tb< Caribbean Sira. 5. Since the
ad* cn.iitou* Ualboa crossed the Isthmus of Pa
rian, in >5)2, the idea of cutting a passage
through the Continent has been fondly enter*
taisert. bat the begin of tuat savage tract is
unknown; nor is the distance between the op
posite shores yet ascertained with any degree
ot* accuracy. The navigation of the Rio Chagre,
which would form part of the communication, is,
betides, very difficult and hazardous. From all
that he could learn,. Mr. Humboldt is inclined
to think that the project could be effected only
on a small scale, ai)d by means of a system of
locks ami tunnels. 6 Another plan lias lately
beenj proposed to the Spanish government. It
is to dig a canal, from the bight of Cupica, near
Cape Cuncntis, through land of no great eleva
; lion, and only fifteen or twenty miles in length,
to the navigable stream of Nuipi, that tails be
low the village ofZitara, into the river Atrato,
which again discharges its waters into the
Uulph ot Darien. 7. But, as vve noticed in a
preceding article, a communication, on a dimi
nutive scale indeed, hks already been opened
across the Amcricah^, continent. In the year
1788, a very active monk, rector of the village
ot Novita, caused his flock to cut a small canal
in the torrent of Raspudura, which connects the
San Juan with the rivulet of Quito, one of the
[ branches of the Atrato- Canoes, laden with
cocoa, have, after copious rains, actually passed
from the one sea to the other, a distance of at
least 250 mi It 3. 8 The city of Lima is not
more than two or three days journey from the
river Guallaga, which fulls into the Maragnon
-t a road were, therefore, traced fiom that ca
pital, across the chain of the Andes) goods
could, alter a short portage, be conveyed by
water over the whole extent of the continent,
from the coast of Peru, to the shores of Brazil
^ J,as been supposed that an inlet exists about
the 46lh degree of soilth latitude, connecting the
Gulpli of St. George with the Archipelago of
Ciiayumapu. 1 his conjecture appears, however,
to be unsupported ; but, on the west side of the
continent, the firth of Avsen penetrates far into
the interior, where it receives a small river.
Humboldt lias fixed the geographical position
of near three hundred capital ooiiits in the Spa
msh settlements. The results were all calcula
ted by Olimaiins, an able niathematir. inn frnm u I
*mui*r,c«f me extent of the Allan
uc^lias been gradually reduced to narrower li
1 he lofty chain of the Ande«, running along
the western coast of America, extends on doth
sides of ths equator, to near the 30th degree ol
latitude. It is ot unequal height- smk.no- „
Part,, to 600 feet from thelevel of^the^sea, *'!»«*
at certain points, towering above the clouds to
an elevation of almost four miles. The colossal
Chimborazo lifts its snowy head to an altitude
which would equal that of the Peak ot Teneriffe
though placed on the top of Mount Etna. The
medium height of the chain under the equator
may be reckoned a. 14,0«J0 feet, while that of
the Alps and Pyrenees hardly exceeds 8,000 —
its breadth is proportionally great, being sixty
miles at Qinto, and 150 or 200 in Mexico a* d
some districts of the Peruvian territory. This
stupendous ridge is intersected, in Peru and
New Grenada, as we have seen, by frequent
clefts or ravines, of amazing depth ; but, to the
north ot the isthmus of Panama, it softens down
by degrees, and spreads out into the vast eleva
ted plain ot Mexico In the former provinces,1
accordingly, the inhabitants are obliged to travel
on horseback or on foot, or even to beca.riedon j
the backs of Indians; whereas carriages drive
with ease through the whole extent of New I
Spam, from Mexico to Santa Fe, along a road of!
more than 1500 miles in length.
The equatorial regions of America exhibit the 1
same composition of rock that we meet witli in I
other parts of the globe. The only formations j
which Humboldt could not discover in his tra* I
vels, were those of chalk, roestone, gray wakke
the topaz rock of Werner, and the compound of i
serpentine with granular limestone, which oc
curs in Asia Minor Gr.'.r.ite constitutes, in 1
South America, the gfeat basis which supports
the other formations ; above it lies gneiss, next I
comes micaceous schist, and then primitive
j schist. Granular limestone, chlorite schist, and j
primitive trap, often form subordinate beds in
the gneiss and micaceous schist, which is very |
abundant, and sometimes alternates with ser- j
pentine and flenite. The high ridge of the An- i
des is every where covered with formations of
porphyry, basalt, phonolite and greenstone,- and
these, being oiten divided into columns, that.
appear, from a distance, like ruined castles,
produce a very striking and picturesque effect.
At the bottom of those huge mountains, occur
two different kinds of limestone : the one with
a .'elicious base, enclosing primitive masses, and
sometimes cinnabar and coal ; the other with a
calcareous b.ise, and. cementing together the
secondary rocks. Plains of more than 600,000 ,
square miles art* covered with an ancient deposit
of limestone, containing f .sail wood and brown
iron ore. On this rests the limestone of the
higuei A.ps, presenting marine putrefactions at
a vast elevation Next appears a lamellar gyp
sum, impregnated with sulphur and salt; above
this, another calcareous formation, whitish und
homogeneous, but sometimes cavernous. Ag.iin
occurs calcareous sandstone, then lamellar gyp
sum mixed with clay ; and the series terminates
with calcareous masses involving flints and horn
stone
But what ittay perplex some geologists, is the
singular fact noticed by Humboldt, that the se
condary formations in the New World liave such
enormous thickness and elevation. Beds of coal
are found in the neighborhood of Santa Fe, 8,650
teet above the level ol the sea ; and even at tne
height of 14 700, near Huantico, in Peru. The
plains of B >la, although elevated 9,000 feel,
are covered with sandstone, gypsum, shell
limestone, »*nd even, in some parts, with rock
salt, fossil shells, which in the old continent
have not been discovered higher than the sum
rfi ts of the Pyrenees, or 11.700 feet above tU
sea, were observed in Peru near Micuipampa,
at the height of 12,800 ; and again, at that of
14,120, beside Huancavclica, w here sandstone
also appears.
The basalt of Pichincha, near the city of Quito,
has an elevation of 15,500 feet ; while the top
of the Schneekoppe in Silesia, is only 4,225
feet above the sea, the highest.point in Germany
where that species of rock occurs On the oilier I
I •»"<], granite, which, in Kurope, crowns tire
loftiest mountains, is not found in the American
continent above the height of 11,500 feet. It is
scarcely known at all in the provinces of Quito
and Peiu The frozen summits of Chimborazo,
Cayambe and Anitsana, consist entirely of por
phyry, which, on the flanks of the Andes,forma
a mass of 10 or 12,000 feet in depth. The sand
stone near Cuenca, has a thickness of 5,000 feet;
and the stupendous mass of pure quartz, on the
west of Caxamarra, measures perpendicularly
9.600 feet. It is likewise a remarkable fact, that
Uit: porphyry of those mountains very frequently
contains hornblende, but never quartz, & seldom
mica.
The central Andes are rich, beyond concepti
on, in all the metals, lead only excepted. One
of the most curious ores, in the bowel* of those
mountains, is the paegt, a compound of clay,
oxyd of iron, and the muriate of silver %Uh
native silver The mines of Mexico anil Peru,
so long the objects of envy and admiration, far
from being yet exhausted, promise, und r a li
beral and improved system, to become more pro
duclive tlirui ever Hut nature has blended with
those hidden treasures the active aliments ot
destruction. The whole chain of the Amies is
subject to the most terrible earthquakes From
Cotopaxi to the South Sea, no fewer than forty
volcanos arc constantly burning; s me nf them,
especially the lower ones, ejecting lava, and
others discharging the muriate ot ammonia,
scorified basalt and porphyry, enormous qu.tnti
ties of water, and especially rnoyci, or clay mixed
with sulphur and carbonaceous matter. E'crual
snow invests their insides, and forms a barrier
to the animal anil vegetable kingdoms. Near that
confine, the topor of vegetation is marked by
dreary wastes.
In these wide solitudes, the condor, a fiarce &
powerful bird of prey, fixes its gloomy abode —
Its size, however, has been gre -Jy exagg' Med.
AccmxJiug.to Humboldt, it is not l irger than the
L+mtncr Gcyer, or alpine vulture of Europe ; its
extreme length being only three feet and a half,
and its breadth across the wings nine feet The
condor pursues the small deer of the Andes, and
Commits very, considerable havoi k among sheep
and heifers tt teats out the eyes the tongue,
add leaves the wretched animal to languish and
expire. Estimating from very probable data,
this bird skims whole hours at the height of four
miles,i 8tits power of wing must be prodigious,
and its pliancy of organs most astonishing, since ;
in an instant it can dart from the chill re
gion of mid air, to the sultry shores of the o
cean.
The condor is sortetiir.es exughl alive by means
of a slip cord ; and this chase, termed correr
hxtitres, is, next to a bull fight, the most favorable
diversion of the Spanish colonists. The dead
carcase of a cow or horse -coon attracts from a
distance crowds of these birc*3, flitch have a
most acute 6cent- They fall on with incredible
voracity ; devour the eyes and the tongue of the
animal ; and, plunging through the axui, gorge
themselves with the entrails. In this drowsy
plight, they are approached by the Indians, who
easily throw a noose over them..,The condcrj
thus entangled, looks shy and sullen ; . it is
«i,»st tenacious of life, and is, therefore, made to
suffer a variety of protracted tortures.
The most important feature of the American
continent, is the very general and enormous ele
vation ofits soil. In Europe, the highest tracts
of cultivated land seldom rise more than 2,000
feet above the sea. But, in the Peruvian territo
ry, extensive plains occur at an altitude of 9.000
feet ; and three fifths of the viceroyalty of Mexi
co, comprehending the interior provinces, pre
sent a surface of half a million ol square miles,
which mils nearly level, at an elevation from
6,000 to 8 000 feet, equal to that of the celebrat
ed p istes of Mount Cenis, of St. Gothard, or
of the Great St Bernard. x These remarkable
facts are deduced chiefly from barometrical ob
servations But Humnoldt has adopted a very
ingenius m ute, infinitely superior to any descrip
tion, of representing, at one view, the collective
results ol his topograph cal and rhineralogical
survey. He lias given profifes or vertical secti
ons of the countries which he visited ; across the
continent, from Acapulco to Mexico, and thence
to Vera Cruz—from Mexico to Guanaxuato,
and as far as the volcano of Jorullo—— and
from Mexico to Valladolid. These beauti
ful plates are in every way highly interesting
If The Climate of America receives conside
rable elucidation from the travels of Humboldt.
Near the equator, the variation of atmospherick
pressure, .s indicated by the barometer, is ex
tremely small; not exceeding the tenth part of
an inch towards the coast, and scarcely the half
of that quantity on the verge of the Andes j but
it appears to be subject to a minute horary fluc
tuation. . According to the observations of Bonp
land, the barometer stands highest at 9 o’clock
I t,le morning, and lowest at 4 in the afternoon,
j From that hour, it rises very considerably until
1 eleven at night, and again partially subsides till
4 o’clock in the morning. This curious phenom
j enon depends, most probably, on certain regular
I changes which take place in the temperature of
the upper strata of the atmostphere. At 4 o’
clock in the afternoon, perhaps the heat of the
day has produced its full effect in rarefying the
air, while the condensation, occasioned by the
chillness of the night, may not attain its maxi
mum till three hours after sunrise. In confirmati
on* idea, the barometer is at times observ
ed to fall suddenly more than half an inch in the
gulf of Mexico, from the influence of a cold wind
which bursts frointhe north in tremendous hur
ricanes.
Thermometrical observations are, we think,
the least satisfactory that Humboldt has made.
Continually in motion, distracted by a variety of
purauits and biassed by preconceived opinions,
he has collected but few details of such nice ac
curacy, as to promise any great advancement to
the science of meteorology. Near the equator,
the temperature of the air, even on the continent,
undergoes no great variation during the whole
year, being very seldom below 05, or above one
hundred degrees. The difference of heat, in
the, torrid regions, between the day and the
night, was found to amount to 10 or 20 de
grees.
put he assumes, it would seem, rather hastily,
the average of his incidenial observations at any
place, as the true medium of its temperature.
This standard, however, being evidently the re
sult of the various influence of each successive
hour through the whole course of the seasons in
a long series of years, must often differ widely
from a mean obtained at unequal intervals of the
day, and at the limes only most convenient for the
observer Since heat is conducted with cx
treme slowness through earth and stone, the va
rying impressions made on the surface of the
ground, in penetrating downwards, become min
gled and confounded ai a moderate depth, where
a uniform temperature constantly prevails. The
mean heat of any place is, therefore, best indica
ted, by water immediately drawn up at a small
distance from below the subsoil. With due pre
caution, springs will serve the same purpose.
M Humboldt, indeed, prelends, that in the Cum
pagna di Koina, and in the province of the Car
raccas, he found the springs to be 10 degrees
colder than the medium temperature But, in
his transient observations, he appears generally
to have rated this mean too high. *
C'To be continued. J
Michael gretter, silversmith
AND y 1.WELLER, opposite Gambles’
Corner, Main-Street—grateful tor the liberal en
couragement he has received, informs his friends
and customers, he has received an additioaal sup
ply of article* ; He has on hand the most fashi
onable s sjoi trr.eilt of Pearl, G >ld, Silver and Pla
ted Goods—among which are—Pearl and Topaz
Breast-Pins, Kings, Earrings and Bracelets, * n
amelled do Cornelian, A ruber t* Jet Necklaces,
; Plated Tea Setts, complete, Castors, Can Mr
sticks, Snuffers and Snuffer Trays, Bread and
Cake Baskets, Bottle and Salt Stands, fee fee.
Silver Table, Dessert and Tea Spoons, Soup,
Punch and Cream Ladles, fee Me is in duly
expectation of a further supply of fashionable Sil
ver Plate } all oi which he ollcra rt his usual mo
derate price a.
Wanted, one or two Boys, aa apprentice! to
the above business*
N. B Liberal wages will be given to n Jewel
ler wbo understands uis business perfectly.
October 16-_ •**_ wtf
OTICE—A PETITION will be present
ed to the next General Assembly of Vir
gnus, praying that an act may pass to incorporate
the Femau llffr.AM*. A**«cia of this
city;
•ctober 19.
LAUD—FOR *SJL&.—The subscriber of.
fcrs for sale, his TRACT OF LAND. ly
ing in Amherst county, on the waters of Piney
Auer, <«ljoining the lands of James Franklin, Jo
rl Franklin’s estate, and Micajah Camden ; con
taining near nine hundred acres.—This tract
lies extremely well i upon it is a considerable
quantity of Mvadow Laud, it is very fertile, well
watered, and well adapted to the culture of corn,
wheat, anti tobacco; upon it is a Plantation suf
(i ient to wot k eight hands, a considerable part
of it is fresh land, and the whole of it in a high
state of cultivation, well inclosed, and divided
into four fields ; and each field in its turn has
been sowed ill small grain and red clover, which
grows luxuriantly on this plantation—that toge
tner with the white clover, which grows natu
rally upon it, produces very fine pasture—One
of the fields will be sown down in wheat, in
good order for the ensuing crop,—there is upon
> this plantation, a good Apple Or^feard, and
there has latelv. been built thereon, some useful
and valuable Houses ; ■ -—A further description
is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed no
person will purchase without viewing the
land—The land will be sold on time, and tiie
payments made accommodating to the purchaser.
The overseer living on the plantation will shew
the land, to any person desirous to purchase.—
The purchaser c*n be supplied with a quantity
of corn, &c. fur the use oftne plantation.
If the above Land's not sold before the 19th
November, being Amherst court day,—it will on
that day, at the Court House, be nfF-red to the
highest bidder, on extensive credits, that cannot
fail to suit purchasers.
WILLIAM GALT
October 15- 4.v
I"'HE Subscriber lias revived, and ofi'ers for
sale, at his Grocery Store, between Messrs
Kirby, Drake and Taylor, and Messrs. Gattego,
Richards Sc Go's.
100 Kegs F FF FFF Duoont d»* N* mour fa
Co’s Brandywine GU N-POWDER, war
ranted of superior quality,
10 Hogsheads Prime Antigua Rum,
200.00 wt Brown Sugar,
6000 do. Coffee,
10 Bales Bourbon, do.
20 Chests best Hyson, Young Hyson, Impe
rial, Gur. powder and Souchong TEAS, of
• „ last importation,
100 2 and 3 lb each Lead Canister Imperial
and Gun powder Tea,
24 Doz. Eo lies Martinique Cordial assorted
in boxes of 12 bottles each,
ICO Doz Claret, Vise de Gravee Blanc, Rhe
nish do. Burgundy, Champaiguc and old
Port WIRE,
2 Doz. Carboys Ldridon Bill Madeira Wine
of 1799 8c 1801,
2 Pipes old London \izrket< Sherry, Lis
bon 8c reneriffe Wine, .
4 Pipes old Cognise brandy—tc 100 Box
es of superior quality Havanna Segars ;
With a large and general assortment of Groce
rice of superior quality, also, Chind and Glass
Ware, all of which he will dispose ot at low pr;;
ccs for cash.
AUBIN I.AFORfrST.
August 21 1 12'
OTICE -—For sale or leas-, lot a ■ • u. ^
i. x years, a valuable manufacturing and gi v
MILL in the county of Amelia situated within
a few hundred yards of the River Appomattox
from whence boats pass with convenience to P
tersburg—there afiT’twenty five acres of land at
tached to the Mill which includes a convenient
store house, lumber house, and blacksmiths sho;
— If a sale shall take place, the purchaser can b
accommodated with any additional quantity i.|
land, adjoining the mill, (not exceeding 500 a
cree) that may he wanted -The mill is uot hi
good repair at this time ; but may be put in com
plete order, by expending a few hundred d 11
The subscri >er will treat with any genllt ir ,,,
disposed to purchase or lease, until chr.st.n s>
next.
WILLIAM ROY ALL
Amelia, Sep. 21 efif
TEACHER WANTED—"vVu.ud . TTTi
Academy in the neighborhood of K cli
mond, a gentleman possessing an accurate know
ledge of the English language, of Arithmetic, and
who also writes a good hand. Should iie Imp
pen to be acquainted with any other branch ofe
ducation usuilly taught in Academies, he shall
be considered as entitled to further re mini”ration.
With equal attainments, a preference will he gi
ven to a minister of some religious worship ;
but though, this is not de m *d uu essential con
dition, yet in no case shall any person be em
ployed other than one of orderly habits and
approved character.
Letters post paid and directed to E—N A
at Manchester shall be attended to.
September 11. lra.vtf
GUN-POWDER!—'ft. proprietors .ij me
RICHMOND POWDER MILLS. ofTer
for sale, by the keg or larger quantity, F and FF
Gun l’owtler, glazed and unglaze 1; warranted
equal to any’ imported, and on reasonable terms.
Retailers at liberty to return tlie powder, if
not approved. AppU to
JAMES BROWN, Jr. Or,
DAVID J BURR
May 22._2«v. 2wfrtnwtf
NOTICE.--On Monday, tne 26 It ilayot .No
veinber next, before Thom r. Hobson’s Ts
vern, at Cumberland court hou‘«, it being court
day ; Will be exposed to tale, by public auction,
to the highest bidder, for ready money, a certain
negro slave named STEPNhY, who is an excel
lent Carriage and Country ilia k Smith, the pro
perty of Fleming Casey of saul county.
This sale will be made by virtue ol a deed of
trust, executed to the subscribers, by the said
Fleming Casey, to secure the payment of a debt,
due to Airs. Susanna Wilcox, of the courtly of
Buckingham. And all persons having claim* to
the said slave, by deed or otherwise, are hereby
publicly called on to exhibit their claim to the
subscribers, or either of them, on or before s .id
day of sale—otherwise, this notice will he plead
ed in bar to arty claim which may hereafter arise
or appear.
yAATKS B WOODSON,! „
JOHN ANDERSON, $ Trustee,.
i October 9. w7vt
P WENT Y DOLLARS REWARD- V ir
X apprehending and securing in gml or deli
vering to the s-lbscriber residing in Albemarle,
though frequently to be found in Richmond, my
two rtef'ro I'cllovts GEORGE U WATT,or ten
dollars lor either of them. George is a tall strait
made fellow of pleasing countenance and light
comj texion, about twenty eight years of age, for*
.merly belonged to a Mr. Crump of New Kent
.county in \fhich neighborhood he will probably
•aim to go ahd conceal himself after he leaves the
neighborhood of Richmond Watt is a bright
mnlatl > about thirty years of age of low sta'ure
’and'well made and lisps a little in bis speech,
he left my boat on Saturday the 29th Sen. and I
expect is now Unking about Richmond. George
left me the 8t!i Sep and perhaps may be yet in
the neighborhood of Richmond as 1 hear fie w is
at Fairfield on Saturday last
• ROBERT LEWIS.
Oct. 5. . w4wfl
NOTICE.—A PETITION will be present
_ ed to the next General Assembly of Vir
gutia, for leave to turnpike the road between
Richmond and Petersburg, he.
Oct. 2. w2m
NO I ICE—We shall petition the ensuing le
gislature, for leave to bring into this state,
I certain SLAVES from the State of Georgia.
SAMUEL MeCKAW,
SARAH McCRAW
Richmond, Sept 28. W2m
OTICE —I shall petition the next Gtnera>
I i Assembly to sell a Tract of Land, lying in
Mecklenburg county, belonging to Richard
Bra me, a Lunatic.
, WALTER FRAZER,
Committee of Richard Frame.
October 2- w8w
AT u Superior Court ol Chancery, hidden at
the Capitol, in the City of Richmond, the
22d September, 13J9
Samuel Donaldson, surviving partner of James
Gibson, Samuel Donaldson and Douglass Hamil
ton, merchants and partners, under the firm of
Gibson, Donaldson and Hamilton, Plaintiffs
Against
Alexander Donald & John Merchic, surviving
executors, and trustees of Robert Donald, dec’d. %
Daniel VVeisegar, executor of Joseph Weiscgar, »
who was also an executor of the said Robert Do
nald, dec’d and Thomas Augustus Taylor,
JJefendants.
THL defendant Daniel Weisegar, who is out
of this country, and against whom the plaintiff ap
pears to have proceeded in the mode prescribed
by law in such cases, not having entered his ap
pearance &. given security to perform the decree ;
tiie court on motion of the plaintiff, by counsel,
doth take his bill for confessed as to that defen
dant, and order one of its commissioners to ex
s mine, state and settle an account, of the adminis
<ration of the goods, and chattels, and credit# of
Robert Donald dec’d as well by the said D miel
Weiscgar as by Ins testator, the said Joseph Wei
s gar, and make report thereof to the court,
w ith any special matter thought pertinent by him
self, or required by the parties to be specially sta
ted
A Copy. Teste,
Wm w. nr y/NG, c. c
Commissioner#* Office,
Richmond, 4:h September, 1810.
The parties concerned, are desired to take no
tice, that 1 have appointed Tu» sdav,the thirtieth
day of October next, far catryiug into effect th«
foregoing decretal order of court, on which day
their attendance is required at my office, with all
their jiapers, accounts and vouchers, ready for
examination and settlement.
Wm. FORRESTER, m c.
Sept 7._ T8w
PUBLIC AUCTION.
IN CHANCERY.—In Henrico County court*
August 9th, 1810.
Francis Watkins, Complt.
Againtt
Samuel Parsons, Def't. '
This day came as well tha plaintiff*, by Ins at
torney, as the defendant, by Samuel Me Craw, Lid
attorney, and by consent ; It it ordered, That the
decree pronounced in this cause, on Monday the
2d day of July, 1810, beset aside—And by con
sent of the parties, by their said attornies, the
colJrt doth decree, that all tnat part of the ground
and houses on the Lot known and distinguished
in the plan of the city of Richmond, by the No.
427, belonging to Samuel Parsons ; also, one halt’
acre Lot of GROUND, known and distinguish
ed in the plan of the said city, by the No 465,
adjoining the public warehouse on the south side
of the basin, and in front of the snd Parsons’pre
sent dwelling house, the first mentioned Lot iy
ingyon the north side of the basin, be sold at pub
lic s. !e, for the purposes in the deed of inden
ture annexed to the complainant's bill mentioned
—that Thomas Taykir do proceed to make the
said sale on the Ki at Monday in November next,
h ' ing fu st given one month’s notice of the time
<nd place at which it will t ike (dace, by adver
tisement in the Patriot md Enquirer, gazette*
pubi.slied in the city of Richmond, on the terms
and conditions following, viz The Lot No 465
to he sold on a credit ot sixty and one hundred tic
twenty days, from the tune of the sale, and if two
thousand dollats should not be raised by the sale
of the said Lot No 465, then as much money to
he paid in wur hundred and twenty days of th«
sum for which the Lot No 427 may be sold, as
will make up the said st!in of two thousand dol
lars, and the balance t > be paid in one, two and
f ree years, in equal payments ; that the saiA
riiomas Taylor do apply the money which may a
rise from the said sales, to the payment of tlife
lebtdue from the said Parsons to the said Wat
kins, after deducting the expences attending the
execution of this decree ; that bond with se
curity, to be approved by the plaintiff or his
attorney, be taken of the purchasers of the
said property, and that the i-en of the said Wat
kins, on the said properly remain as at present,
until after the payment of the last instalment,
when a release shall be executed by him to the
purchasers. And as to the residue of the pro
perty pledged to the said Watkins, by the said
Parsons : This court doth not at present pro
vince any decree, but doth continue the 3aid
ceuife.
A Coty. Teste,
ROB’T. W. CHRISTIE, d. c. h. c.
T*. S The above described property will be
sold, on the premises, on Monday, tiie 5th day of
November next.
thomas Taylor-.
October 2. ids
IN CHANCERY-In Richmond Hustingu
Court, Aug. 16, 1810.
osepli D Richardson, Plt'ff.
Against
Daileys* Drf'ts.
Sally Da ley is assigned guardian to the infant
defendants, and thereupon this cause came on to
he heard, by consent, upon the bill, answers anu
exbibi a, and whs argued by counsel: On consi
«'«r on whereof. It is decreed and ordered, That
Samuel McCr. he appointed a commissioner for .
Ill- pu pose of exposing to sale, by public auctUf
on, th»* Land or pm of a Lot mentioned in the
bill, to the highest bidder, upon a credit of ai.*
morti s, after having given thirty days notice of
tiie time anil place of sale, in one of the news-pa •
pel's, publiahe 1 in this city ; the said commissi*
on^r taking of tiie purchaser a note negotiable in
the bank of Virginia, with an approved endorser*
for tiie amount, and retaining the title in and to
the said ground, until payment he made of tho
purchase money : And it is further decreed and
ordered, That thp said commissioner do report hi*
; proceedings in execution hereof, in order to a fi
nal decree. The f illowing is a description of tho *
land hereby directed to be sold, as mentioned Sc
particularized in the will of Jos. Dailey—“ The
Lot on the street leading to Ross’s Mill, that is to
say, from the cross pailing on Ross’s line ■ .
feet south of my house, next the river •, thence
on the old paihng line to the hack line, leaving
out the handkerchief part, which is included in
the deed to my daughter Sally.’*
A Copy. Teste,
TH. C. HOWARD .
OJ The sale as directed in and by virtue of tho
foregoing decree, will take place on the 1st Mon*
day in November next, before the front door of
Henrico court house, it being court day.
SAMUEL McCRAW, Commissioner,
Sept 28 tds
r | THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD—Ran*
I away from the subscriber, about 9 month*
ago, F.LIZ \, a mulatto woman about tbirfw
years of age, of the common stature, none of her
clothing recollected—her husband lives in Rich*
inond—1 expect slie is either lurking in that place
or in the neighborhood < f Williamsburg—r-sli*
was purchased of Doctor Tazewell about three
or four ye ira ago. and I am told is harbored in th«
neighborhood of the Utter place I lie above
reward will be paid to any person who will deli*
ver her to me in Manchester
JAMES W. W1NFRLK,
i October 29. 4if