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fubrect. Ar a turnpike road is of no ad
vantage for navigating a boat, it is not
wonderful that this destination of the
route should he condemned by many
cage Legislators of Pennsylvania.
Another irresistible reason in favour
of the Washington route, is to be found
in the above paragraph. To pass from
Wheeling, through Ohio, toward Indi
ana, Kentucky, the Mississippi territo
ry, and Upper Louisiana, is a local in
terest. IPe can approach these countries
by descending the Ohio river ^without any
road. The people of those countries can
approach us as they please, even if it
should be by ascending the Ohio river.
Hut to pass through a corner of the state
of Ohio, to Lake Michigan, is a general
interest.—It is a general interest, to ne
glect all the rich and populous country
below us, because “ we can approach and
deli nd the country by means of naviga
tion/’ (no matter how we get back.)—
But to open a road through an iminha
bited country, to the British frontier, is
the general interest of the country, and
the particular interest of Washington
and Charlestown. How could the Penn
sylvanians be so stupid as not to feel the
iorcc of this reasoning/
I versus ME.
*' Here then local “ The public attention
sntereftn met, and may with propriety be
produced a report called to a letter written
which hasaftoniflied by Mr. William*, one of
emery body. There did the Commifiioners, on
not live one soul in this fubje£t,y publifhed
the wefttrn countiy in a leport made by a
who believed Whee- committt e of the Senate
iingwnuld he agreed of the U. S In this let
on.after B'ownfville ter he tecorr.mendi the
had been made a points Brownsville and
point ” Wheeling; & this before
[Lan. Jour. Feb. ao 1 the law pa (Ted under
which he became a
Comminioner."
[Lane. Jour Feb. ao ]
Dear O dear V what a sad scoundrel
this Williams must be i : He declared
beforehand, that Wheeling and Browns
ville were proper points. Yet strange to
tell,441 very body” was 44astonished” that
Fit- ag ced to report according to his pre
vious recommendation.
As a great number of the people
of Wheeling believed that Wheeling
would be made a point of the Federal
road, alter Brownsville had been agreed
on, and as it seems that u there did not
live one soul tn the western country who
believed” thi , it becomes a f urious ques
tion, whether these people error are no!
souls, and whether they live in the wes
tern country, or not.
Londonderry, April 7.
Notwithstanding a number of those
deluded persons denominated Thresh
ers, have been found guilty and receiv
ed sentence of death at the last Assizes
of Sligo, and notwithstanding the whole
some lesson which the late special com
mission, which was sent into that part
of the country, should have afforded
them ; yet such is their blind delusion,
that they are still continuing their de
predations in that part of the countrv.
Boston, May 18.
Capt. Aitkins, arrived here on Sa
turday, from Taragonia, was boarded
on the 2d April, by a British sloop of
war, the lieutenant of which inform
ed him, that on the 25th March he fell
in with a British schooner, 7 days from
Algiers and received from the capt. the
following intelligence :—That the U.
S. frigate Constitution arrived at Al
giers from Tunis, two days before he
sailed; with information, that the En
glish under sir Sydney Smith, and ad
miral Louis, had taken Alexandria, and
aft erwards proceeded for the Dardanel
les.”
Lexington, May 19.
From the Coffee-House Booh,
April 17.-—“ A report is in circula
tion in town, that upwards of 30 Boats
In*-ve been lost in a storm near Natchez,
among which it is said are two which
" ere cleared out by some gentlemen of
this place.”
(fj~° Several letters have been receiv
ed to-day which confirm the above re
port.
Extract of a letter from Ncw-Orleans,
dated April 17. .
“ I was this moment (since I began
to write) told by a marine officer, that
Wilkinson is called to the seat of Gov
ernment—he said that he had the infor
mation from the Commodore.”
25 Dollars Reward
Will be given by the Subscriber, or
Capt. D. Cassat ot Wheeling, for appre
hending and delivering in the Jail in
/ant sville, Ohio, a certain Isaac Iiodes,
who robbed me, at sundry times, to the
amount of six or seven hundred dollars
worth of goods out of my store*. i.n the
town of Frankfort. He is a German,
and speaks broken English. He is about
28 years of age, 5 feet lO inches high,
pock-pittecl, stoop-shouldered, stoutly
made. As I have been robbed by put
ting confidence in a scoundrel, I will
pay the above reward and all costs for
bringing him to Muskingum |ail.
JOHN D. SEEM ANN.
Frankfort, May 29th, 1807.
Georg e Quinn
Respectfully acquaints the worthy inha*
bitants of Wheeling and its vicinity, that
he is very grateful lor the many favours
conferred on him ; and as he is going
down the river shortly, expects such as
are indebted to him to make immediate
payment; and those who have claims
against him will please to come in for
settlement.
Wheeling, June 3d, 1807.
At a Court held for Brooke comity, on
Monday the 25 th day of May, 1807.
Robert Campbell, Complainant,
vc.
Abel Cain, Alexander Griffith, Richard
Wells, Stephen Lagget and John
Goorley, Defendants.—In Chancery.
This day came the Complainant by hia Coun
fcl, and it appearing to the fatUfaction of the
Court, that the Defendant, Abel Cain, ig not an
inhabitant of this Commonwealth:
It is Ordered by the Court, that the Defen
dant Abel Cain do appear here on the fecond
day of Atiguft Term next, and anfwer the
Complainant's bill ; and that a copy of this
order be publifhel for two months fucctflively
in the Wheeling Reprfitory, and that another
copy be polled up at the door of the Court
houfe of thu County, for a like period of two
mon'hfi Copy from the minutes,
AticA, S. CONNEEL.
For JOHN CONNELL, C. B. C.
FRESH GOODS.
The Subscriber has lately received an
addition to his assortment of Merchan
dise, which will be sold very reasonable
for Cash or good produce. As he in
tends tube more limited in Crediting in
future, he hopes those who hllve been
favoured will consider their interest and
pay off their accounts before the first of
September ensuing, to avoid common- *
unnecessary misunderstandings with
their very humble Servant,
JOHN WHITE.
Wheeling 3d June 1807.
LORENZO DOW S CHAIN.
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