The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1805-03-08 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. 7.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. DCLXXXIX.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8th, 1805.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the support of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and five.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; for the compensation of the several land officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands in the territories of Indiana and Mississippi; for the unexpended balances of former appropriations, defraying the expenses of the second census, and the purchase and erection of wharves and stores under the quarantine law; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated; that is to say,
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months, and a half continuance, one hundred and ninety eight thousand, nine hundred and sixty five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, including the sum of three thousand dollars appropriated by the act of the sixth of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty eight thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incidental to the dismantling the late library room of Congress, and fitting it up for the accommodation of the House of Representatives at the ensuing session, seven hundred dollars.
For expenses of removal of the library, all other contingent expenses of the same, and librarian's allowance for the year, one thousand eight hundred and five, nine hundred dollars.
For the expense of labelling, lettering, and numbering five thousand seven hundred volumes of laws and journals of the old Congress, directed by the act of the present session for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States to be deposited in the library, five hundred and seventy dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the eighth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing the laws, and other contingent expenses of the government of the Indiana territory, in consequence of the union with it of that of the territory of Louisiana, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For special messengers charged with despatches, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including those engaged on the business belonging to the late office of the commissioners of the revenue, thirteen thousand, four hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty one Cents.
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea-letters, stationery, and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand, nine hundred and seventy seven dollars and eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer,
clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars, and forty-five cents.
For the expenses of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer's office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty two dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing in the register's office, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of the clerks employed for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of land in the territory of the United States, north west of the river Ohio, and in keeping the books of the treasury in relation to the sales of lands at the several land offices, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating & printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps, and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns; and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For the erection of a fire proof brick building for the preservation of the records of the treasury; the cellars in which they have hitherto been kept, being found from their dampness improper for that use, nine thousand dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of war, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the secretary of war, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster's office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, including a sum of twelve hundred dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, & for expense of stationery, store rent and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the secretary of the navy, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the postmaster-general, assistant postmaster-general, clerks and persons employed in the postmaster-general's office, including a sum of four thousand, five hundred and ninety five dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty five dollars.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messengers, stationery, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses of prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the postmaster general
out of the funds of the office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the several loan-officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner of loans of the state of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the removal of the offices of the treasury department, in the year one thousand eight hundred, to the permanent seat of government, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general, and the clerks employed by him, and for expense of stationery and other contingencies of the surveyor general's office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery, and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:—
The director, two thousand dollars:
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars:
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars:
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars:
And two, at five hundred dollars each:
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter's, millwright's and smith's work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die-forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, secretary, and legislative council of the territory of Orleans, nineteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the legislative council, and of the secretary of the said territory, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war and navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding, for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intitled "An act to regulate, and fix the compensation of clerks," eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty five dollars.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two assistant judges of the district of Columbia, and to the attorney general, fifty five thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, east and west Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of
the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars.
For the payment of an annuity granted to the children of the late colonel John Harding, and major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and nine dollars and thirty-six cents.
For fixing buoys in Long-Island Sound, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, three thousand dollars.
For erecting beacons in the harbor of New-York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, six thousand dollars.
For erecting beacons and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah river, being an expense incurred under the act of the sixteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight (the balance of a former appropriation for the same object, having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund,) two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For reviving to much of unexpended balances of appropriations granted by an act passed the sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and which have been carried to the surplus fund, to wit:
For erecting public piers in the river Delaware, five thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For erecting certain light-houses, and fixing buoys in Long-Island Sound, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents.
And for building a light house on Cumberland South Point, four thousand dollars.
For completing the light-house at the mouth of the Mississippi, and the light-house at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated to those objects, by the act of the twenty sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty thousand dollars.
Towards completing the surveys of public land in the state of Ohio, and in the Indiana and Mississippi territories, forty thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For defraying certain expenses heretofore incurred in the war and navy departments, and which in due course of settlement in those departments have been adjusted, and cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriation, twenty thousand dollars.
For the expense of taking the second census of the inhabitants of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, four thousand one hundred and sixty two dollars, and seventy-seven cents.
For the expense of wharves and stores for quarantine of ships and vessels, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund, fifteen thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars, and one cent.
For the expense of returning the votes for President and Vice President of the United States for the term commencing the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and five, one thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For defraying the contingent expense of government (the unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the same object, being carried to the credit of the surplus fund) twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty-seven thousand and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of the intercourse between the United States and the Barbary powers, including the compensation of the consuls at Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli, sixty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents at Paris and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, four thousand dollars.
For payment of demands for French vessels and property captured, pursuant to the Convention between the United States and the French Republic, the balance of a former appropriation for the same object, by the act of the third of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act "making provision for the debt of the United States," and out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOS: ANDERSON, President
of the Senate, pro tempore.
March 1, 1805.
APPROVED.
TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
Supplementary to the act, entitled, "An act making an appropriation for carrying into effect the Convention between the United States of America, and his Britannic majesty."
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorised to cause the last payment due under the convention of the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and two, between the United States of America, and his Britannic majesty, to be made in Great Britain: Provided, that the same may be effected without any risk to the United States.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOS: ANDERSON, President
of the Senate, pro tempore.
March 3, 1805—APPROVED.
TH: JEFFERSON.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, JAN. 31.
DEBATE ON THE GEORGIA CLAIMS.
[Mr. Findley's speech, concluded.]
Mr. F. said while the case was situated the New England purchasers, or long legged speculators, did not as his colleague (Mr. Lucas) had laid, go to Georgia, but the long legged contractors or speculators of Georgia, went above a thousand miles to M c Intosh, an old thick settled country, the citizens of which needed land for their families, (a country which annually sent forth numerous emigrants and generally purchased in large quantities and settled in large bodies together) and sold the land at seven or eight times the original price by which they gained near 1,000,000 dollars advance. They went with the patents from the state of Georgia, and the law, and probably the constitution of that state, in their hands; this alone was sufficient to encourage purchasers among a people who needed land; but this was not all. The respectability of the characters of the sellers was such as would reasonably induce an opinion, that they could not, themselves be deceived, and would not deceive others. Among these were a very respectable judge of the supreme court of the United States, who had been a member of the Old Congress from almost its commencement till its dissolution, for as long a period as the state constitution would permit, and had been an efficient member of the convention which prepared the constitution of the United States, and several state conventions, and a gentleman who was then, and both before and after that time a senator of the United States, and many other very respectable characters. Whom, however, he acknowledged had by that act, forfeited the character they had formerly enjoyed, and yet

to tell, neither before nor after the annulling act, he could not call it a law, for no such law could be made under the constitution of the United States. The sale was annulled, but the judge said to have been corrupted, nor any of the members of whom it was testified that they had received bribes, or were flatterers in the spoil were indicted, but still enjoy the confidence as much as they otherwise would have done, of that state. Not one of them were removed from office, or in any official manner consigned to infamy, by the courts of that respectable state, or by impeachment.
The lands sold at Boston were yet in possession of the Indian tribes, and the Indian war but lately extinguished, while at the same time the lands in Pennsylvania were sold, the first rate at one shilling and sixpence, the reputed second rate, but in fact equal if not superior in quality and situation, at one shilling the acre, and what remained unsold in the old settlements, at sixpence, and in New York, still cheaper the acre, while the Georgia purchase with all its disadvantages is stated and admitted to have been sold rough and smooth, good and bad, and of which a large proportion is allowed to be bad, at something above fifteen pence an acre on the amount reserved. Certainly such a speculation if it was one, was such as he would not have had any share in, and therefore no proof of the superior cunning ascribed to them by his colleague and others.
Mr. F. said that so far the bargain and sale were fair and legal, whether it was a good bargain or a bad one was the look out of the purchasers, if it was a bad one government would have given them no relief. Had nothing extraordinary or out of the common road taken place, he believed the attention of Congress would never have been called to the subject. Soon, however, after this contract was made, the legislature of Georgia declared the contract and the law under which it was made, to be void or annulled; & in a short time after a convention of that respectable state disapproved of the constitutional act of the legislature; but as long as we pay respect to constitutional obligations and the distribution of the powers of government, and as long as we respect the federal constitution which expressly asserts that no ex post facto law or law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be made, we must agree that one session of a legislature cannot annul the contracts made by the preceding session. If that could be done, the patent for his own plantation might also be set aside, for he acknowledged it is worth more now than the price that he paid for it. This decline had never been entertained even in the revolutionary period. At that solemn period all contracts were protected.
Mr. Findlay said that he cheerfully acknowledged that the amount of land sold under the law of Georgia, of 1795, was so enormous as that if that state had been a separate and wholly independent government, would have justified in some degree an agrarian law, and if the fraud and corruption attested by ex parte testimony was true, would have justified the most exemplary punishment of those who suffered themselves to be corrupted or who defrauded the commonwealth, and this would have proved a defect in the contract itself; but no such thing appears to have taken place. The judge who is said to have received 13,000 dollars for his vote, was not impeached, nor the members who are said to have given or received bribes indicted. It appears to have been so contrived that the state or citizens of Georgia should suffer no loss; the loss and reproach should be transferred to people at the greatest possible distance. He gave credit, however, to the legislature of Georgia, which met in the year 1796, for making an extraordinary exertion to free themselves from an extraordinary evil. It was a laudable testimony against corruption and fraud, but no court of justice had yet, by deciding on it, acknowledged it to be law, and it was too slow for warning others at a distance against titles originating under the law of 1795.
The annulling law of 1796 had all the effect that any citizen at that period could have wished. Congress took possession of the government of the western parts of Georgia—the parts in which the lands in question lay, and erected a territorial government, without the consent of that state, and passed a law authorizing the President to enter into a negotiation with Georgia, on the principles of compromise, for the right of soil. The compromise eventually succeeded, and an act of cession took place between the United States and the state of Georgia. In this act of cession or convention it was provided that the claims in the county of Bourbon and Washington, bordering on the Mississippi river, &c. should be protected, and that five millions of acres or part thereof should by the United States be applied to satisfy, quiet or compensate the claims now before the House, and that if they were not so applied they should revert to the state of Georgia.
On these conditions, Mr. F. said, did
Georgia surrender her right of soil. Agreeable to these conditions were the commissioners of the United States authorized to make and receive proposals, but the commissioners were not authorized to conclude the agreement, they did report to Congress, and in that report they state that the claimants cannot in their opinion recover by law. This is well founded, because no action can be brought against the U. States, nor since the amendment made to the constitution respecting the suability of states, against a state. Therefore this fund, viz the five millions of acres set apart by the convention of Georgia, to quiet, satisfy or compensate these claims, must be either applied to that purpose or revert to the state of Georgia, or the faith of the United States must be sacrificed.
Mr. F. said that from this view of the subject he had made up his mind to vote in favor of the report of the Committee of Claims. That he had not made up his mind lightly, that he had been proposed against it, but it becoming his duty to decide, he had thrown aside these prepossessions and examined the case with all the coolness and deliberation of which he was capable and would give his vote as he had made up his mind without consulting or relying on the opinions of others, for he was responsible only for his own opinion.
To this however he had heard objections of a kind, and delivered in a manner which should receive no answer from him. He would, however, take notice of some made by his colleague (Mr. Lucas.) He had said that as the land sold had been estimated at a little above 20,000,000 of acres, and that the second hand purchasers claimed forty millions of acres, and the commissioners had made the estimate at 35,000,000 of acres, that this was a proof of fraud on their part and a sufficient reason for refusing their claim. He said he would beg leave to inform that gentleman that even in the state where he lived many surveys had much more land than was named in the patent, and the owner would hold the land without being subject to any imputation of fraud. That the sales now in question and prior sales by the state of Georgia, not being sold by actual admeasurement but by natural boundaries, closed by parallels of latitude, it was impossible to estimate the amount with accuracy, and that it was the duty of the seller as much as the purchaser to take care that the estimate was correct, and that let the mistake be where it would it was by no means agreeable to the second hand purchasers—the purchasers to whom bribing the Assembly of Georgia could not be imputed as they resided at above a thousand miles distance and never went to Georgia to make a speculation.
Mr. F. said that on reflection, the acute discernment of his colleague would convince him that the claim of the Wabash company for confirmation of their purchases from the Indians during the royal government, and others which he had introduced that were contrary to the rules of that government, or speculations which he now informs us are making with the Indians further to the westward, had not the least analogy to the claim in question, that this was so evident as to need no explanation. He further observed that his colleague's argument drawn from the character he was pleased to make for the people of New England, was irrelevant to the question, and that at least with respect to land speculations was not found in fact. If he took the character of those people from the fearfaring men who made their living by trading along the southern coasts, that character would by no means apply to citizen farmers of that country.
Such addresses had been openly made to party spirit and to the motives and virtue of the members as were unbecoming public bodies and unprecedented. We were in this country in the habit of believing that men who took a solemn oath to serve the public faithfully might differ in their opinion, but that they would still vote agreeable to their convictions, especially when they had no interest in doing otherwise; but on this question they were called on to rescuer their characters from the charge of corruption and impure motives and the legislature turned into a court of inquisition. In support of this unusual mode of argument his colleague had with numerous repetitions, said that he would not act in that House otherwise than he would do out of doors, and that he would not act in the House in such a manner as he would blush for out of doors, &c. Mr. F. said he would assure his colleague that in this they were agreed, and to be believed were all the members of the House; but as this was an insinuation that the gentlemen ascribed this purity peculiarly to himself, to correct that impression he would assure him that he would also act in this House as he would do out of doors, and that he would act such a part as never would lay him under the painful necessity of blushing in secret, in a situation where temporary popularity could give no relief to a wounded mind. He wished it still to be understood that he sincerely believed that other members would vote differently with the purest
intentions, but these members being honest themselves did not impute nor even insinuate a suspicion of dishonesty in those who differed from them in opinion; doing so indeed looks much the worse when it is charged on those who are acknowledged to be the majority of the representation of the United States. For his own part he would not think himself justified in applying such arguments against the smallest minority ever he had been in a public body.
Mr. F. said from a long opportunity of observation he believed that the people of New England, were the least skillful or the most simple of any people in the U. States, in their purchases of land, and that in endeavoring to account for this, he thought he had found sufficient data. Their country was long settled, there had in the present generation been few if any contests about original titles. They well knew that in sales between one man and another, there might be frauds, but that governments should issue fraudulent patents or grant titles on which disputes might afterwards arise, was a circumstance with which they were unacquainted. He well knew that about the same time that this purchase was made, land meddlers swindlers went from Pennsylvania, with bundles of deeds for land & the law agreeable to which they were made, and sold them in Massachusetts. The land indeed was not settled, but was sold to individuals or companies. The people in these old settlements had no suspicion because they had no experience of a vast body of land, at least now 6 counties in Pennsylvania unsettled, being at the same time appropriated to others. They purchased the fraudulent deeds and many of them moved their families into the wilderness, and sat down on heavy timbered land reputed to be dear of the clearing, and after they had spent their strength and endured in calculable hardships, found that the land was not their own but the property of some Pennsylvania or foreign companies or other land jobbers. He was informed of this peddling or swindling business by the then members from Massachusetts, who enquired of him for information, he informed them that the whole business was a fraud, that all the land in question had been sold long before, though not settled, and he advised them to inform their people. They did so, and put a stop to this mischievous business. But after they had paid the swindlers and cleared the heavy beach weeds to make a living, they were ejected, and no doubt after paying their money and spending their labour were as fee to giving up their residence, but he understood by the newspapers that they were making overtures to the legal owners for the purchase of the titles.
The lease of the Wyoming settlers from Connecticut in Pennsylvania, which had given so much trouble to that state, and to whose claims he had been opposed, and had assisted in making laws against them, he considered as a proof of the observation he had made, they had rashly confided in a claim of the Connecticut government, to part of Pennsylvania, and before that claim was decided had made purchases, and removed their families to the land they had purchased under that claim, they had defended it against the Indians, by whom many of them had been butchered in a most shocking manner, and they had resisted the laws of Pennsylvania, even after judgment was finally given against the claims of Connecticut by a court appointed for that purpose, by the old Congress. They defeated even some laws expressly made for their advantage and continued to live in poverty and uncertainty, long since this contest, they might have taken lands in that state agreeable to law, on very easy terms and have lived undisturbed. In all this contest during more than forty years, they have given a continued testimony of simplicity with respect to claims and titles for land, and at the same time however they have set a notable example of perseverance under the greatest difficulties occasioned by a savage war, & some times from an armed force from Pennsylvania. The proprietary government, of that state never proposed to quiet these settlements as had been done with intruders from other states, it having previously granted the land to others, but their obstinate perseverance has had its effect. After trying various and sometimes inconsistent methods, Pennsylvania has found it best at last to quiet their settlements on moderate terms, and for this purpose, to purchase the rights of the original purchasers from the proprietary government.
It had been objected to him by another of his colleagues, that he had himself voted for the repeal of a contract in the state legislature; from his knowledge of that gentleman's candor, and discernment (Mr. Gregg,) he knew he would not have made this observation, if he had examined the case. Mr. F. said, in the course of a longer life than was common to many, at one time or other, in all the various public bodies, which instituted or conducted republican governments, he had given some votes which he regretted, and many which he would not give again, if he had the opportunity, and he would never admit that a member was inconsistent for changing
his opinion on better information; for what purpose is all our painful studies and wearisome debates but to inform our judgment; and of what use is this information if we cannot take advantage of it for the public good, and if we have voted wrong, we ought to correct it by changing our vote, we ought to prevent all discussions, all reading and study, and become mere machines. But though he advocated this right, he did not need it on this occasion, nor for his vindication against the charge of inconsistency.
The bank of north America, the first bank in the United States, not chartered by the old Congress, which had no constitutional authority to grant charters; but the situation of the United States at that period, justified an extraordinary exertion. Congress however, well knowing their own want of power, recommended it to the states, also to grant charters to the bank. The state of Pennsylvania, granted a charter, other states refused to do it. The bank was put in operation. In 1784, a new company applied for a charter, the bank of north America, the only one, at that time in the United States opposed to it, although parties were heard by counsel before the legislature, but the decision on the question was postponed. In 1785, the question was taken up, the bank company was again heard by counsel in favour of their exclusive monopoly without limitation of time, the incorporating law was repealed, and afterwards a new charter was granted for a limited time and with such restrictions of the monopoly as has permitted the operation of other banks in the state of Pennsylvania, and other states. This however, was a charter of privileges which in free governments, are always subject to the discretion of the legislature, no price is paid for them, and the privilege may be always withdrawn, when the public good requires it. But the claim before the House is of quite a different nature, it is a transfer of property by a competent authority, for which a more valuable consideration had been received by that state, than, for any sale of lands by that state, before or since that time, and the present claimants, on the faith of government, had their purchase at a still much higher rate.
Much had been said about the extent of the purchase by the original granters, and the corruption of the legislature, but that was not before the House. The condition of the convention between the United States and Georgia was, that, not 40 nor 35, nor 21,000,000 of acres, should be given to satisfy those claims, but that 5,000,000 of acres or some part thereof should be given, but 5,000,000 of acres is by that convention vested in the United States as a deposit for that purpose, and if not so applied, the deposit is to be returned to the state of Georgia; these are the facts on record, and if the record is true, the assertion so boldly made that those who voted in favor of the report of the committee of claims, were putting their hand into the public purse, that it was public robbery &c. was not only unfounded, it was mere declamation. He would not say for what purpose. It was not the property or purse of the United States, but a deposit put in the hands of the United States, for the very purpose, for which the resolution before the House proposes to apply it.
Mr. F. said, that this was not only the opinion of the committee of claims, but of the commissioners of the United States, who had the best opportunity of understanding the subject, and whose talents and integrity, it will be admitted, are not inferior to that of any member on this floor, & in their words he would conclude. In their report they say, that the interest of the United States, the tranquility of those who may hereafter inhabit that territory, and various equitable considerations that may be urged in favor of most of the present claimants, render it expedient to enter into a compromise on equitable terms.
(To be continued.)
War Department, March 6, 1805. Notice is hereby given.
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until 12 o'clock at noon of the first Wednesday in June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October 1805, until the 30th day of September 1806, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz
First, At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago, Swan Creek, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Ohio, & territory of Michigan, & at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude. Second, At south West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. Third, At the garrison near Vincennes on the river Wabash, at Fort Massac, New Madrid, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez and Fort Adams, and at any place or places where
troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited in the Mississippi territory, except the county of Washington, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory south of the 41st degree of north latitude and 87 miles east of the Mississippi river.
Fourth, At St. Louis, St. Charles, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Louisiana north of New Madrid, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory within fifty miles east of the Mississippi river and south of the 41st degree of North latitude, Fort Massac excepted.
Fifth, At New Orleans Plaquemines, Point Coupee, Opelousas, Natchez, Apponebabe, Attakapa, Fort St. Stephens, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the territory of Orleans, or in the county of Washington in the Mississippi Territory, and at any place or places on the west side of the Mississippi river below Arkansas.
Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January 1806, to the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states herein after mentioned, viz
Sixth, At Fort Wilkinson, Cockpit Island, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation.
Seventh, At Charleston, Rocky Mount, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the states of North and South Carolina.
Eighth, At Norfolk, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Virginia.
Ninth, At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia.
Tenth, At Fort Mifflin, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania, east of the river Susquehanna, and within the states of New Jersey, and Delaware.
Eleventh, At Pittsburg, Carlisle, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania, west of the river Susquehanna.
Twelfth, At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of New York, Niagara and its dependencies excepted.
Thirteenth, At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Fourteenth, At Fort Independence (Boston harbour) and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Massachusetts, the town of Springfield, and the district of Maine, excepted.
Fifteenth, At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of New Hampshire and the district of Maine.
Sixteenth, Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations, which may be required by the U. States, for the troops which are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts, & for the armourers and other persons employed in the United States' armoury at that place, from the 1st day of January 1806 to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of Beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, and Chicago, for six months in advance; and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places or posts, to call for, at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions as advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of credible character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies, which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the seaboard, or Indian frontiers not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. March 8—newspaper
RAGS. THE highest price CASH, given for clean RAGS, by EDGAR PATTERSON, George town, and SAMUEL STEPHENS near the Centre market, Washington March 8—1805

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1805.
LETTER
FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
Transmitting a statement of goods, wares and merchandise, exported from the United States, during one year prior to the first day of October, 1804. also, two additional statements marked A and B, exhibiting the respective value of the several species of articles of domestic produce, exported during the years, ending on the 30th day of Sept. 1803, and 1804.
Treasury Department, Feb. 26th, 1805.
SIR,
I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of goods, wares and merchandise, exported from the United States, during one year prior to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and four, and amounting to seventy-seven millions, six hundred and ninety-nine thousand, and seventy-four dollars.
The goods, wares, and merchandise of domestic growth or manufacture, included in this statement, are estimated at forty-one millions, four hundred and sixty-seven thousand, four hundred and seventy-seven dollars; and those of foreign growth or manufacture, at thirty-six millions, two hundred and thirty-one thousand, five hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
Two additional statements, [A] and [B] have been prepared for the purpose of exhibiting the respective value of the several species of articles of domestic produce, exported during the years ending on the 30th days of September 1803 and 1804. The returns heretofore received from the collectors are not, however, sufficiently particular in that respect, to render those statements altogether correct.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
ALBERT GALLATIN.
The honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A STATEMENT
Of the exports of the United States, from the 1st of October, 1803, to the 30th of September, 1804.
   SPECIES OF MERCHANDIZE. QUANTITY OR VALUE   DOMESTIC. FOREIGN.     Alum Pot, . . . . . tons 3,411   do. Pearl, . . . . . do. 1,138   Apples, . . . . . barrels 6,801   Beer, Porter, and Cider, in casks, . . . . . gallons 75,501 3,271   — — — — — in bottle, . . . . . dozens 4,416 388   Beef, . . . . . barrels 134,896   Biscuit or Shipbread, . . . . . do. 85,512   do. . . . . kegs 50,390   Buckwheat, . . . . . bushels 2   Barley, . . . . . do. 5,318   Bran, and shorts, . . . . . do. 156   Beans, . . . . . do. 36,614   Butter, . . . . . pounds 2,476,550   Boots, . . . . . pairs 6,024 189   Bricks, . . . . . M. 1,031   Bark, essence of, . . . . . gallons 941   Corb, Indian, . . . . . bushels 1,944,873   Coal, . . . . . do. 2,982   Cheese, . . . . . pounds 1,299,872 78,566   Chocolate, . . . . . do. 9,489   Cotton, . . . . . do. 35,034,175 3,083,866   Coffee, . . . . . do. 48,312,713   Cocoa, . . . . . do. 695,135   Candles, Spermaceti, . . . . . do. 127,229 373   — Tallow, . . . . . do. 2,239,356 26,728   Cables, and tarred cordage, . . . . . cwt. 4,165 2,556   Canvas or sailcloth, . . . . . pieces 54   Cards, wool and cotton, . . . . . dozens 258   — Playing, . . . . . packs 1,009 3,024   Copper or brass, and copper manufactured, . . . . . dolls. 8,654 23,325   Coaches, and other carriages, . . . . . do. 14,755   Flour, . . . . . barrels 810,008   Fish, dried or smoked, . . . . . quintals 567,825   — Pickled, . . . . . barrels 89,482   — do. . . . . kegs 13,045   Furniture, household, . . . . . dollars 78,585   Flaxseed, . . . . . bushels 281,757   Flax, . . . . . pounds 986   Gunpowder, . . . . . do. 510,520   Ginseng, . . . . . do. 301,499   Hats, . . . . . dolls. 48,915   Hams, and Bacon, . . . . . pounds 1,904,284   Hair powder, . . . . . do. 5,587   Hops, . . . . . do. 385,886   Hides, raw, . . . . . number 4,635   Horned cattle, . . . . . do. 6,290   Horses, . . . . . do. 5,126   Hogs, . . . . . do. 5,599   Iron, Pig, . . . . . tons 454   — Bar, . . . . . do. 379   — Castings, . . . . . dollars 9,168   — All manufactures of, . . . . . do. 40,827 48,664   Indigo, . . . . . pounds 26,750 149,088   Lard, . . . . . do. 2,565,719   Leather, . . . . . do. 214,299   Lead, and shot, . . . . . do. 19,804 128,178   Meal, Rye, . . . . . barrels 21,779   — Indian, . . . . . do. 111,327   — Buckwheat, . . . . . do. 48   — Oat, . . . . . do. 1   Molasses, . . . . . gallons 55,259   Mustard, . . . . . pounds 5,023   Mules, . . . . . number 605   Medicinal drugs, . . . . . dolls. 21,664 133,170   Merchandise, and all other articles of goods not particularly enumerated, . . . . . do. 431,315 8,946,490   Nails, . . . . . pounds 110,780 141,125   Oil, Linseed, . . . . . gallons 19,047   — Spermaceti, . . . . . do. 5,550   Whale, and other fish, . . . . . do. 646,505   Oats, . . . . . bushels 73,726   Pork, . . . . . barrels 111,532   Pitch, . . . . . do. 6,225   Peas, . . . . . bushels 42,213   Potatoes, . . . . . do. 96,427   Poultry, . . . . . dozens 6,044   Rice, . . . . . tierces 78,385   Rye, . . . . . bushels 11,715   Rosin, . . . . . barrels 4,675   Spices, pepper, . . . . . pounds 5,703,646   — Pimento, . . . . . do. 463,539   — All other, . . . . . do. 115,047   Spirits, foreign, from grain . . . . . gallons 329,594   — — — — — from ether materials, . . . . . do. 789,465   — Domestic, from foreign materials, do. . . . . do. 409,521   — — — — — from domestic produce do. . . . . do. 41,979   Shoes, and slippers, . . . . . pairs 123,741 10,606   Skins, and furs, . . . . . dollars 958,609  
   Saddlery, . . . . . dolls. 7,827   Starch, . . . . . pounds 30,401   Soap, . . . . . do. 2,796,982 742,015   Sugar, brown, . . . . . do. 818,014 54,085,650   — Clayed, . . . . . do. 20,060,702   — Loaf, and other refined, . . . . . do. 106,167 25,868   Snuff, . . . . . pounds 20,068 610   Spikes, . . . . . do. 1,750   Sheep, . . . . . number 12,456   Ship-stuff, . . . . . cwt. 2,466   Steel, unwrought, . . . . . do. 116   — manufactures of, . . . . . dollars 8,593   Salt, glauber, . . . . . cwt. 92   — other, . . . . . bushels 28,435   Segars, . . . . . pounds 3,949   Tobacco, manufactured, . . . . . do. 278,071   — unmanufactured, . . . . . hds. 83,343   Tallow, . . . . . pounds 35,440   Tea, Bohea, . . . . . do. 231,842   — Souchong, . . . . . do. 760,064   — Hysong, . . . . . do. 101,785   — other green, . . . . . do. 125,542   Tar, . . . . . barrels 88,181   Turpentine, . . . . . do. 77,827   — Spirits of . . . . . gallons 19,526   Wheat, . . . . . bushels 127,024   Whalebone, . . . . . pounds 134,006   Wax, . . . . . do. 217,889   Wine, Madeira, Malfy, and } London particular, } — all other, . . . . . gallons 22,399   — Sherry, and St. Lucar, . . . . . do. 32,648   — Lisbon, Oporto, &c. . . . . do. 10,803   — Teneriffe, Fayal, Malaga, &c. . . . . do. 8,853   — all other in casks, . . . . . do. 16,509   — Burgundy, Champain, &c. . . . . dozens 1,453,003   — Claret, and other in bottles, . . . . . do. 821   Wood, staves and headings, . . . . . M. 34,614 40,346   — shingles, . . . . . do. 75,156   — hoops, and poles, . . . . . do. 4,228   — boards, planks, &c. . . . . M. feet 76,000   — timber, . . . . . tons 19,826   — all other timber, wood, & lumber, . . . . . dolls. 55,924   — oak bark, and other dye, . . . . . do. 88,470   — all manufactures of, . . . . . do. 203,175  
Mr. McCormick respectfully notifies his parishioners, that they may expect Divine service next Sabbath, in the Church New Jersey Avenue, at 11 o'clock, A. M.
Capt. Mitchel, of the Schooner Paragon, who arrived at New-London, from Bayonne, in France, informs, that on the 20th of December, Mr. Monroe, American minister extraordinary, passed thro' that place, on his way from Paris to Madrid.
New York, March 2.
Foreign News—By the Flora, in 36 days from London, we have received, at the office of the Morning Chronicle a supply of London papers to the 17th January inclusive, from which we make copious and interesting extracts. The most material intelligence is the overture for peace made on the part of France, which is referred to in the king of G. Britain's speech.
The conduct to be pursued by England in consequence, produces much speculation, but that part of the king's speech which declines negotiation until other powers in Europe shall be consulted, with the general tenor of the speech, does not appear to favor the idea of peace being concluded. The French Official Expose, some material parts of which we give, seems to warrant the same opinion.
Vigorous preparations for prosecuting the war with France and Spain, are still making by Great Britain. Ten thousand additional seamen and marines are, it is stated, to be immediately raised.
[Want of room prevents our giving in this paper the articles alluded to above, as well as some others of considerable interest.]
(By Authority.)
An act further to amend an act intituled "An act regulating the grants of land; and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee."
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That persons who may have obtained, or shall obtain certificates from the board of commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to land in the Mississippi territory, shall be allowed three months after the respective date of such certificates, for entering the same with the register of the proper land office, and the entry, thus entered, shall have the force and effect as if they had been entered with the said register, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and five.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to lands in the above mentioned territory, east of Pearl river, shall be authorized to grant certificates for lands lying in the Island known by the name of Nance Hubba, formed by the cut off of the river Tombigbee and Alabama; and persons having claims for lands lying either in said island, or east of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, shall be permitted to file the same with the register of the land office till the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and five; and the commissioners shall decide on the same, in the same manner as if they had been presented before the thirty first day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and four.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That each of the last mentioned commissioners shall be allowed at the rate of six dollars a day for every day he shall attend, subsequent to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and five: Provided that such additional allowance shall not exceed five hundred dollars for each commissioner.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of each of the boards of commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to lands in the above mentioned territory, shall be allowed at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars a year, from the time when he entered on the duties of his office, to the time when the board shall adjourn sine die.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That persons claiming lands in the Mississippi territory, by virtue of British grants, legally and fully completed, who may not have filed their claims with the proper register of the land office, in conformity with the provisions heretofore made for that purpose, may, until the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and five, file such claims with the register of the land office west of Pearl river, and have the same recorded. And the said register shall, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and six, make to the secretary of the treasury, a full report of all the British grants thus recorded; which report shall immediately after be laid before Congress. The lands contained in such grants shall not be otherwise disposed of until the end of one year after that time. And if any such person shall neglect to file such British grant, and to have the same recorded, in the manner and time hereby provided, neither such grant nor any other evidence of such claim, which shall not have been recorded as above directed, shall ever after be considered or admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United States, or against any title, legally and fully executed, derived from the Spanish government;—any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A. BURR,
Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
March 2nd, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
An act to amend the act entitled "An act further to amend the act entitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the supervisor of the district of Kentucky is hereby allowed the further time of three months from the end of two years after the completion of the sales of lands within his district, for the payment of the direct tax, to perform the several duties enjoined by the fourth section of the act, entitled "An act further to amend the act, entitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States," any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.
NATH. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives, JOS. ANDERSON, President of the Senate, pro tempo e.
March 1, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
NESROES FOR SALE.
IN pursuance of a decree of the high court of Chancery of Maryland, the subscribers will sell at public sale on Thursday the 4th day of April next, at the late dwelling place of Mrs. Margaret Bowie, near Nottingham, in Prince George county, 11 negro slaves, all of them young and likely—The sale will begin at 11 o'clock, and be for cash.
PHILEMON L. CHEW, } Trustees. RD MARSHALL, } March 8.—3w.
Young Ladies Academy.
MRS. O'REILY respectfully informs her friends and the public that she has removed her academy from Baltimore to Alexandria, where she will receive young Ladies who shall be taught the English and French languages, grammatically; writing and arithmetic; history, geography and the use of the globe; music, drawing, and all kinds of work, viz. embroidery in chenilles, gold, silver, silk, &c. comprising figures, historical and ornamental landscapes, flowers, fruit, birds, &c. in wrought in silk, chenilles, gold, &c. print work in figures or landscapes; cloth work in fruit, birds, flowers, &c. floss and washing in vases, pyramids, baskets, tea caddies, overgowns, &c. grotto and shell work, artificial flowers, tambour and needle, cross stitch, tent stitch, tapestry, &c. bugle and pearl work, painting on velvet, gauze, silk, vellum &c. Her terms are 200 dollars per annum for board and tuition. For music 18 dollars per quarter. Drawing 8 dollars per quarter—Washing 8 dollars per quarter. Every young Lady furnished by Mrs. O. R. with bed and bedding will be charged 4 dollars per quarter. March 8.—1m.
Valuable Lands for Sale.
By order of the court of Calvert county, will be exposed to PUBLIC SALE, the following lands the property of the heirs of capt. WALTER SMITH, deceased:
ON Monday the 1st day of April next, will be sold, on the premises, the plantation on which the said capt. Walter Smith formerly resided, containing, by actual survey, 1225 1-3 acres of Land, lying adjoining on Patuxent river, bounded on the southwest by the said river, on the east by a line navigable creek called Saint Leonard's creek, so that one and a half miles of fencing will enclose the whole Land. The soil of this Land is equal if not superior to any on Patuxent, either for farming, planting or grazing, and in their season the greatest plenty of fine fish and oysters may be had either from the river or creek. A great part of the above Land is covered with cedar fit for posts or fencing. On Tuesday the 2d, on the premises, will be sold, one other plantation in the forest, at about two miles distance from the former, containing, by survey, six hundred and twenty seven and one half acres of Land, the greater part of which is covered with hickory, chestnut and oak wood, and a great proportion of swamp Land, which, at a trifling expence, might be converted into valuable meadow, belongs to this Land. And
On Thursday the 4th, on the premises, will be sold, one other plantation, lying adjoining on Chesapeake Bay, bounded on the northeast by the said bay, on the north by a creek called Parker's creek, containing, by survey, 536 1-2 acres of Land; on this Land there are a great proportion of marsh and meadow Land, and a great abundance of fine timber.
It is thought needless to give a fuller description of the above Lands, as it is presumed that those who wish to purchase will view the Lands previous to the day of sale, and on application to Mr. John Turner, who resides near the two first mentioned tracts, they may see the plots of the different tracts of Land, and will show the Lands contiguous to him, and Mr. Richard Hance, who resides on the last mentioned tract, will show the outlines of the same to any person wishing to view it.
The above Lands will be sold either in the whole, or be divided into parcels, as may appear most advantageous to the heirs.
The purchasers to give bonds, with approved securities, for the purchase money, to be paid in three annual payments, the interest to be paid yearly, and on the ratification of the sale by the court, and a full payment of the purchase money, and interest thereon, a deed of conveyance will be executed to the purchaser, agreeably to an act of assembly in such cases made and provided.
JOSEPH WILKINSON, } Commissioners. JAMES BRIGHTE, } JOHN TURNER. Calvert county, Feb. 28th, 1805 WITA.
TRIAL OF JUDGE GHASE.
It is the intention of the EDITOR of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, to publish in a volume the proceedings on this interesting trial at full length, with as little delay as circumstances will admit.
The extent of the work cannot at present be ascertained with any precision. It will, however, probably exceed 500 pages octavo.
It shall be published in boards, at a price not exceeding 50 cents for an hundred pages.
Gentlemen desirous of securing copies are requested to leave their names with the Editor—and the printers of newspapers will confer a favor by inserting this advertisement a few times.
10 & a 1-2 CENTS REWARD.
RANAWAY APPRENTICE.
ON the 20th of December last, named JOSEPH STEPHENS; when he went away had on a blue cloth jacket and trowsers, a round hat and short black hair, and the mark of a cut on his thumb, and he is about five feet six inches high, a little round shouldered, his father says he is about twenty years of age—Whoever delivers the said apprentice to the subscriber shall receive the above reward.
JOHN KEDDLE, Pfisterer. City of Washington. March 1.—3.

ADAM KING, to Co. In their store in High street George Town, have in addition, to their stock of general merchandise, a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Groceries suitable to the present season; where bills of any description, in their line, will invariably be filled up on the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wares, &c. they will be able to give general satisfaction to all those who may think proper to favor them with a call—where all kind of commission business as usual, will be attended to with the utmost attention. George Town, November 5—tf
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A MAP OF VIRGINIA, Formed from actual Surveys, and the latest as well as most accurate observations. BY JAMES MADISON, D. D. President of William & Mary College. To which will be added A MAP Of the greater part of the State of OHIO, from actual surveys including the whole of the Virginia Military tract; with all that part of the State west of the Ohio river, to the Indian boundary line. The North-east corner of the map will be ornamented with an interesting view of the CITY OF RICHMOND. The size of the Map will be 5 feet 6 inches in length, and 3 feet 8 inches in breadth. An ingenious and skillful engraver is engaged to execute the work, in a style not inferior to any similar work in the United States.
CONDITIONS. The price to subscribers will be eight dollars, nearly mounted, colored, and glazed. One dollar, (to lighten the great expense of publication) to be paid on subscribing. To non-subscribers, the price will be ten dollars. Copy right secured.
IN offering the above work to the public, the proprietors are sensible that excellence is not often attainable; but with candor and truth, equally remote, from arrogance and partiality, they can say, that they conscientiously believe it has a just claim to the confidence and patronage of the people. A map of Virginia has been long and anxiously looked for: None has been published, on the plan of the one now offered, for many years. The labor, expense, and apparent difficulties, in accomplishing so interesting a work, have deterred several from the arduous undertaking. The proprietors, finding that most of the other States had recently given encouragement to similar productions, and entertaining a high sense of the real dignity and importance of Virginia, embarked in the business, from a well-grounded belief, that the magnitude and utility of the work, would induce, it accomplished, a remuneration. And while Virginia is powerfully stimulated with the love of science and virtue, they hope and believe she will view domestic productions, which prove pre-eminently useful, with a generous pride.
Those gentlemen who take subscription papers are requested to return them to the subscriber, in Petersburg, by the first day of May. The maps will be ready for subscribers, in the course of the ensuing summer. WILLIAM PRENTIS. Petersburg, Feb. 1805.
Subscriptions received by SAMUEL H. SMITH, and by several gentlemen, with whom subscription papers are lodged. Feb. 20—Mar. 3t
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by Mr. JAMES D. LARRY—where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce. Genuine Cognac brandy, Interior French do. Old Jamaica spirits, Mazenda, } Wines, by the quarter cask Sherry, } and cask, or smaller quantity Lisbon, } Claret, } Brown Sugar, 1st and 2d quality Loaf and Lump, do. Molasses, Firkim Butter, Mould Candles, Sweet Oil, Spices of different kinds, Tig Blue, Starch, Almonds, Anchovies, } In bottles. Capers, } Powder and Shot, Excellent Wine Vinegar, Gin, Whiskey, Hylon, } Teas, fresh, and of su- Imperial, } perior quality. Young Hylon, } Salt Herrings in Barrels. PETER NEALEY, & Co. Washington October 31—tf
TO THE PUBLIC. DURING the present year, J. Ogilvie will continue to instruct youth in the city of Richmond. In addition to the various branches of literature and science heretofore taught in his school, his pupils will have an opportunity of studying the higher branches of mathematical science, a more extensive course of natural philosophy, the dead languages, and the French and Spanish languages. In teaching the higher branches of Mathematical science and the dead languages, J. Ogilvie will be assisted by Mr. Wood of this city, whose superior proficiency and skill in Mathematical and Physical science eminently entitle him to public patronage. The French and Spanish languages will be taught by Mr. Bonnadil, with whose affinity and qualifications in the line of his profession, the citizens of Richmond are sufficiently acquainted. These arrangements, whilst they will considerably diminish J. Ogilvie's emoluments, will greatly enlarge the utility of the school. The principal disadvantages of schools conducted by a single teacher, are, the principal and uninterrupted pressure of exertion, the dissipation of thought amongst such a variety of studies as almost to preclude the possibility of pre-eminent skill or proficiency in any one department of knowledge, and the consequent imperfection and incompleteness of the course. These disadvantages will be, radically obviated by the preceding arrangements. Thus modified and extended, the plan of education which will be pursued in this school, will embrace probably, as comprehensive and complete a course of literature and science as can be reasonably expected in a seminary, so totally destitute of every sort of extrinsic support. The school will be opened on the second Monday in January. P. S. Mr. Wood will teach the arts of drawing and painting, to such young gentlemen as may be desirous to acquire some knowledge and skill in these highly elegant and useful accomplishments. February 18 1 m.
American Printed goods. Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert street.
TO remove that distrust often felt respecting new undertakings, and to prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good artists to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have their artists; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M'CULLOCH & LUNNUN, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf
Ucker's Blackstone. May be had for the present at the subscription price of J. MARCU, George-town, Wm. Duane, and Rapine, Conrad & Co. city of Washington—J. Kennedy, and Messrs. Gray's Alexandria—Mr. Brundige. Dumfries—Mr. Henderson, Fredericksburg—Mr. S. Pleasants, and Mr. Trichard, Richmond—Bonfale, Conrad and Co. Norfolk—Somerville, Conrad & Co. Petersburg—J. Bell, Winchester—J. Swasey, Staunton—J. Alburtis, and Wm. Somerville, Martinsburg—J. Gales, Raleigh—Bailey and Waller, Charlton—Conrad & Co. G. Hill, S. Butler, Bonial, Warner and Hannah, Baltimore—the book stores generally in Philadelphia—Messrs. Swords, New York, and C. Bingham, Boston. February 11—ep4w
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAILOR. Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods, consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cassimeres, patent Bennet's cord, toiletens, fancy and white Marcellas, black and figured silk moiréens, fancy silk, Marcellas, constitution cords, velvet, Genoa cord, silk and satin Florentines, superfine coating, knapped cloths, with a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol. December 10—tf
NOTICE. A Gentleman of a good character, and qualified to teach English and Latin may meet with an eligible situation, by application to the teacher of the academy in Alexandria. March 4—3w
Fifteen Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from Thomas King, sometime in October last, a Negro Woman, named FAME, whom I had hired to him for one year, near the Eastern Branch, in Prince George's county, Maryland, 5 feet high, very black, small featured, and her face scared very much, and has a great defect in one of her eyes, occasioned by the small pox; 38 years of age, when spoken to she has a down look, one of her upper teeth broken out—Her clothing, when she went off, was blue striped country cloth; but in all probability she will endeavour to alter it. She has been seen in the city since she ran away. She has obtained a free pass from a certain Charity Charity, who has obtained her freedom, and this Negro Fame passes under the said pass as a free woman. If taken up out of the district of Columbia the above Reward will be paid, on delivering her to me, or securing her in any gaol, by applying to me, in Charles county, Maryland, or to Mr. Samuel Speake, of the city of Washington; or if taken up in the district ten dollars. All persons are forewarned harbouring or employing the said Negro Woman, Fame. MABSEY SIMMS. February 18, 1805. 4w
Thirty or forty likely NEGROES, Will be offered for sale for ready money at Loudon March court, on the first day of the court, before the door of Mr. Jones, Inn-keeper in Leesburg; where due attendance will be given by the subscriber, WILLIAM LYRD PAGE, Trustee of F. Fairfax. Jefferson county, Feb. 18—tdof
PUBLIC SALE. BY virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington, in the suit of Samuel Speake complainant, against Joshua Gregg, defendant in chancery, will be sold to the highest bidder at public auction on Saturday the sixteenth day of March next, at the Union Tavern, in George Town, all that part of two lots of ground in Thomas Beales addition to George Town, known and distinguished by the numbers one hundred and thirty-four and one hundred and thirty-five, beginning for the first part, at sixty feet southerly, from boundary number thirty seven on Washington street and running easterwardly parallel with Dumbarton street sixty feet, then southwardly parallel with Washington street sixty feet, to lot number one hundred and forty-four, then westwardly with said lot to Washington street, then with said street northwardly to the beginning, being and intended to be the half of said lot—beginning for the second part of lot number one hundred and thirty-five, being the south half of said lot number one hundred and thirty-five, and adjoining lot number one hundred and thirty-four, at the end of the third line of lot number one hundred and thirty-four, and running reverse with said third line sixty feet, then eastwardly parallel with Dumbarton street sixty feet, then southwardly parallel with Washington street sixty feet, then to the beginning, it being and intended for the south half of the above described lots, with the improvements thereon. The sale will commence at 4 o'clock P. M. The terms of sale, ready money, or money to be paid immediately on the courts ratifying the same, the time of which ratification will be notified in the same papers in which the sale is advertised, after the report of the said sale shall be made to the court, which report will not be made until the court commences their next sitting, for the county of Washington. HENRY WHETCROFT, Trustee. February 15—3w
TO PRINTERS. THE subscriber takes Order for type from the well known Foundry of William Caslin, jun. and Co. London—Specimens and list of London prices to be seen at Mr. Geo. W. Riggs, Georgetown. CHARLES WIRGMAN, No. 215, Market Street, Baltimore. Jan. 16. tf
NOTICE. By virtue of a decree of the honorable the chancellor of Maryland, the subscriber will sell at public sale, on the premises, on Friday the 15th day of March next, that valuable plantation formerly owned by Allen Quynn, esq. deceased, consisting of the following tracts of land, to wit: Young's Chance, Dunkin's Luck, Hamilton, Hull's Good Luck, Timber Neck, Brompton and part of Wardrope, supposed to contain 2000 acres of land. It is situate on South river, about 4 miles from Annapolis, and the new road to the city of Washington passes thro' it. It has the benefit of a valuable ferry attached to it, over which the mail stages from Annapolis to Washington and George town pass. There are valuable improvements consisting of two large brick dwelling houses and one frame dwelling house, with barns, tobacco houses, and every necessary out building. The land is in general extremely fertile, and well provided with wood and timber. There are extremely good orchards, both peach and apple, extensive and regularly laid out. There may always be had great abundance of fish and oysters. A more particular description is unnecessary, as those inclined to purchase will view the premises and judge for themselves. The terms of sale are bond with approved security to be given for the payment of the purchase money in four equal annual payments from the day of sale. Possession will be given immediately except of a part now under lease to Mr. Nicholson, and which part will be shown at the day of sale, when an accurate plot will also be prepared of the whole land. It will be sold entire or in parcels as shall be judged most advantageous and most convenient to purchasers. On payment of the purchase money a clear and unquestionable title will be given. JOHN JOHNSON. Feb. 25—
ADVERTISEMENTS. THE proprietor wishes to SELL or RENT, on moderate terms, a neat two story framed house, eligibly constructed for the accommodation of a private family. Situated on 11th near F Street, about 150 yards from the Bank and nearly the same distance from the Theatre. Persons wishing to purchase or rent will please to apply to Mr. William W. Ward, Pennsylvania Avenue, or to the 11th or 12th. Possession may be had on the 21st of April next. MARK STOCKWELL. 29th Jan.—2wtf
A Family of Negroes FOR SALE. THE subscribers will dispose of by private sale (pursuant to the will of Ann Digges deceased) the following negroes without dividing any one of the family from the other viz. GEORGE, aged about 47 or 48 years stout and healthy, a very handy negro for every part of field work and a good mower, reaper and flacker of grain, &c.—GRACE his wife, aged about 37 years, brought up in a regular family as a house servant, to which she is fully equal, and is a remarkable good seamstress, laundress, and a tolerable cook. Also their two children, one a girl about three years old, and an infant at the breast. Application to be made to THOS. DIGGES of Warburton near Piscataway, or WM. CARROLL, Rock creek, Montgomery county, Executors. Jan. 30—wst
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A Statistical Manual, For the United States of America. CONTAINING. A series of concise and comprehensive tables, comprising the most important national information attainable for a succession of years down to the year 1805, from the most accurate public and private documents extant, relative to the progressive rate of increase of their states in their population and general wealth;—and a general Statistical Atlas, with notes illustrative and explanatory. By SAMUEL BLODGET, Jun. "felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas."
COPY RIGHT SECURED. The utility of a work of this kind being obvious, and a sufficient number of subscribers to insure its success, already obtained in members of Congress and heads of departments alone, the book will appear as soon as the copper plate work can be finished, those with about 60 concise and neatly arranged and printed tables, included in an octavo book of above 200 pages in boards, will be delivered at 250 cents. Messrs. Way, Rapine, Duane and March will receive an allowance of a 10th volume on the number of subscribers for whom they may become responsible, and these terms will be extended to all who choose thus to promote the subscription, provided their returns be made before the 30th of April next. March 6—
A FEW Hundred bushels of white, well burnt SHELL LIME, will be sold for cash, at 16 DOLLARS the 100 bushels, if applied for immediately; a less quantity than 100 bushels will not be sold at this price. Apply to CON. CONNINGHAM. November Cash will be given for WELL cleaned BARLEY
TO BE SOLD, ON Wednesday the 13th of March 1805 at the house of WM. LOVELL, first house east of the Branch Bank, part of the household furniture of a boarding house keeper, declining that business. Consisting of beds, bedsteads and furniture, mahogany, and other table chairs and looking glasses, silver table and tea spoons, carpets, and other useful articles, also, a fine bay horse, well known in the city as a good riding and carriage horse, and one milch cow. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock—Terms of sale, all sums under 50 dollars cash, and 9 and 12 months credit with approved indorsers for all sums above 50 dollars, with interest. Washington city, March 6—4t
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WHEREAS by the first article of the terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the 17th day of October, 1791, for regulating the materials and manner of buildings and improvements on the Lots in the City of Washington, it is provided "that the outer and party walls of all houses in the said city shall be built of brick or stone." And by the third article of the same terms and conditions it is declared "that the wall of no house shall be higher than forty feet to the roof in any part of the city, nor shall any be lower than thirty five feet on any of the Avenues." And whereas the above recited articles were found to impede the settlement in the city, of mechanics and others, whose circumstances did not admit of erecting houses authorized by the said regulations, for which cause the operation of the said articles has been suspended by several acts of the President of the United States, from the fifth day of June, in the year 1796, to the first day of January next—and beneficial effects arising from such suspensions having been experienced, it is deemed proper to revive the same with the exception hereafter mentioned. Wherefore, I THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States, do declare that the first and third articles above recited shall be, and the same are hereby suspended until the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, and that all houses which shall be erected in the said city of Washington previous to the said first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, conformable in other respects to the regulations aforesaid, shall be considered as lawfully erected, except that no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eve shall be erected, nor shall such house be placed within twenty four feet of any brick or stone house. Given under my hand the twentieth day of December, 1804. TH: JEFFERSON. Dec 24—18wtf
To the Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, Take Notice. THAT all those persons who claim and have located any tract or parcel of land within the state of Ohio, which has been appropriated by Congress for the relief of the Refugees, must pay the tax due on the same on or before the first Monday in April next, together with the penalty of 25 per cent. to be paid to the Collector in the respective county or counties where the land lies; otherwise to much of each tract will be sold (after thirty days notice) as will satisfy the amount of tax and penalty of 25 per cent for each year in which the payment of the same has been neglected on each and every tract listed in the year 1804 and which were liable to taxation for the four preceding years. The above advertisement is made by one who feels a lively interest in the welfare of the revolutionary citizens, whose property is implicated as above stated. From like motives, it is hoped that the PATRIOTIC PRINTERS throughout the United States will give the above a few insertions in their papers.
New Books FOR SALE, BY Rapine, Conrad, & Co. NEAR THE CAPITOL.
CARD's history of revolution of Russia to the accession of Catharine the first, including a concise review of the manners and customs of the 16th and 17th centuries, Good's memoirs of the life and writings of the Rev. Alexander Geddes, The Anti-Gallican, or standard of British Royalty, Religion and Liberty, Young's analysis of the principles of Natural Philosophy, Webster's Natural Philosophy, Lefie on the nature and propagation of Heat, Segur's history of the reign of Frederick II. King of Prussia, 3 vols. Gardner's literary, political and economical Essays 2 vols. Naval Chronicle, 11 vols. complete, Wittman's Travels in Egypt, Rousseau's original Correspondence, not before published, 2 vols. Burdin's Medical Studies, 3 vols. Murray's Materia Medica, 3 vols. Chemistry, 2 vols. Elements of Seamanship, 5 vols. Morris's treatise on Brewing, Little's Poems, Poetical Register for 1801-2, 2 vols. Flowers of Literature, 2 vols. Amalia, or the American Foundling, 2 vols Chances, 3 vols—Heliodora, 3 vols. Decorated Husband, 2 vols. Picture from Life, 2 vols. Zofra—Woman of Feeling, 4 vols. Life of a Lover, 6 vols. by Sophia Lee, author of the Recess, &c. Unexpected Legacy, 2 vols. Modern Pauls, 2 vols. Dutches of La Vallier, 2 vols. by Madam Genlis, Confusion in P'sylvania, 5 vols. St. Clair of the Isles, 4 vols. Benfson's Apology for the Methodist's, Kotzebue's Travels from Berlin through Switzerland to Paris, 3 vols. Lewis' (Charles Lee) Comic Sketches, The Pic Nic, 2 vols. Segur on the condition and influence of Women in society, 3 vols. The Revolutionary Plutarch, exhibiting the most distinguished characters in the recent annals of the French Revolution, 2 vols. Memoirs of a Family in Switzerland, 4 vols. Murry House, 5 vols. by Mrs. Parsons, The Watch Tower, 5 vols. Theodosius De Zulvin, the Monk of Madrid, a Spanish Tale, by the author of Grafville Abbey, 4 vols. Southey's translation of Amadis de Gaul, 4 vols. Monfieur Bette, by the author of My Uncle Thomas, &c. 3 vols. An Essay on the art of Tormenting, with rules for the exercise of that amazing study, Allen's (Dr.) Letters on English Poetry, Cavalca's Natural Philosophy, 4 vols. Richmond's Elements of Philosophy. James on Bilious Diseases, Johnson's history of the progress and present state of Animal Chemistry, 3 vols. Bisset's history of the Mathematics, Fellow's Guide to Immortality, 3 vols. Beck's Chemical Lectures, 2 vols. Fuseli's Lectures on Painting; delivered at the Royal academy, in 1801, Original Sonnets on various subjects, by Ann Seward, The American Gardener, being a practical work by the late David Hepburn, for many years gardener to gen. Mason. February 20, 1804. mdf3w
JUST RECEIVED. Price 3-16ths of a Dollar. And for sale at the Book-Store of Mr. Wm. Duane, Pennsylvania Avenue. A SERMON "On the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and on the general or last judgment." Delivered the 25th December, 1804, before both Houses of Congress in the city of Washington, from the 13th verse of the XCVI. Psalm. BY JOHN HARGROVE. Minister of the New Jerusalem Church, Baltimore. "Now it is allow'd us to enter Intellectually into the mysteries of our holy faith." SWEDENBORG. March 4—3t
NEW Sto e. BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced business in the house formerly occupied by MR. QUINN, F. Street; And has on hand, a general assortment dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queenware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped Oats, Candles and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and few cases of genuine old Irish whiskey All of which he will sell low for cash or country produce. The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, CASH. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 20—wtf.
Valuable Land for Sale. The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 29th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the handsomest situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD.