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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. V.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. DCXCI.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, MARCH 15th, 1805.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
Congressional Register.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
DEBATE ON THE GEORGIA CLAIMS.
(Continued.)
MR. ROOT began by observing that he should not undertake a lengthy and elaborate discussion of the merits of this claim. He was not disposed minutely to enquire into the legality or equity of the claims derived under the act of Georgia of 1795. Although he believed that the New-England purchasers were entitled to recover, both in law and in equity—that the fee of the lands in question was vested in them beyond any legislative control, yet as they had offered terms of compromise, and as gentlemen have inclined to put the issue upon the expediency of the measure, he should chiefly confine himself to the answering of such objections as he had heard offered in opposition to the claim. He said that he had listened attentively during this debate, and the first objection which presented any claim to argument, fell from the first gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. J. Randolph). The objection is this:—that the New-England company were purchasers with notice—that is, that they had notice of the fraud before they became purchasers; that they knew the sales by Georgia were void, and purchasing with their eyes open, they must sustain the loss—and how, he inquired, has this notice been shown? By whom and on whom has it been served? The gentleman from Virginia who first spoke on this question has, to be sure, referred us to the President's message of the 17th of February, 1795, and this he is pleased to denominate a notice. It may be a notice for ought I know, but surely it did not satisfy even Congress, much less the citizens of Boston, that the act of Georgia was passed in fraud, was ab initio void, or that a subsequent legislature would annul the grant. That message did notify Congress that Georgia had passed a law for selling a part of her vacant lands, and expressed some apprehensions for the future peace of the United States. [Here Mr. Root read the President's message of the 17th February, 1795, and inferred from the message itself that the President's apprehensions arose from the circumstance of that country's being inhabited by warlike Indians, and that he communicated the information to Congress in order that proper measures might be adopted.] Is this, continued Mr. R. a notice of fraud? Is this a caveat to notify purchasers to beware? But, Mr. Speaker, is this message interpreted into a notice of an adverse claim? If so, in whom did that adverse claim exist? Surely not in Georgia, after she had passed all her right. Did it exist in the United States? Such a claim was not asserted by the President in his message. And indeed it appears from a perusal of the bill reported by the select committee to whom that message was referred, that no assertion of claim to the lands in question was then contemplated. (Mr. Root read the bill alluded to, purporting as follows: "Be it enacted, &c. that the President be authorised to obtain or accept by purchase or donation, from the state of Georgia, a relinquishment and cession of the claim of the said state to the whole or any part of the lands lying within the limits of the same, and without the ordinary jurisdiction thereof." Georgia owned other vacant lands out of her ordinary jurisdiction, than those sold by her to the several companies of 1795. A cession of these lands to the United States appears to have been the object of that committee—and how could they have acted otherwise? It was known to the gentlemen composing that committee that Congress under the old confederation, and since the adoption of the federal constitution, had repeatedly recognized the right of Georgia to the lands in question. Prior to the year 1788, Congress had, at three several times requested the state of Georgia to cede a portion of her vacant territory to the United States. In that year the state of Georgia by an act of her legislature authorized her delegates in Congress to cede and convey to the United States a portion of her vacant lands including the same tract now claimed by the New-England purchasers. This territory was to have been ceded under certain restrictions and conditions for a certain compensation to be paid by the United States. Congress refused to accept of
the cession,—not because the lands were claimed by the United States,—not from any supposed defect of title in Georgia,—but because the terms were thought to be improper and inadmissible. And Congress thereupon by another resolution proposed to accept a cession of the lands in question, on other terms and under other conditions. (Here Mr. Root read copious extracts from the journals of the old Congress, to shew the recognition of the right of Georgia to the lands now in controversy.) By several public acts and documents, continued Mr. R. have the government of the United States, since that time, acknowledged and maintained the right of Georgia to these lands. The United States have also, by tacit consent, acknowledged the right of Georgia—that state as early as the year 1780, asserted her claim by a public act of her legislature. In 1789, she made a conditional sale of the same lands, and in 1795, by a legislative act sold them to the several companies under which the New-England purchasers claim to hold. No objection on the part of the United States was made to these several public acts—and by a known rule of law, silence and acquiescence in such cases is tantamount to an express consent and confirmation. Under these circumstances I should hardly suppose that the President's message amounted to a notice of an adverse claim. Another gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clarke) alleging that "an actual notice is not necessary,"—that "a constructive notice is sufficient," which positions I shall not undertake to deny, has relied with much apparent confidence on the circumstance that the deed to the New-England company was executed on the same day that the rescinding act of Georgia was passed. He infers from this that the citizens of Boston must have known on the 13th of February, 1796, that the legislatures of Georgia were about to annul their grants, and pass their famed rescinding act on that day. We have not yet been told that that celebrated act was long in its passage through the different branches of the legislature, nor have we any evidence to convince us that the effervescence of which the gentleman speaks, flew like an electric shock almost instantaneously from Georgia to Massachusetts. It is fair to presume that the purchasers never conjectured that a rescinding act could be passed till after their contract was completed. The covenant for the purchase was entered into at Boston, in the month of September, 1795, between the agent of the original grantees and the New-England purchasers. In October, 1795, payment in full of the balance of the consideration money was made, and the executive of Georgia made out his order for indorsing satisfaction on the mortgage and for delivering up the same. The act of the legislature of Georgia authorizing the grant, the deed executed by the governor according to law, the certificate of the payment in full of the consideration money, and the executive order for indorsing satisfaction on the mortgage, being all shewn to the New-England purchasers, could they believe that the grant was void? Bred to respect the acts of lawful authority, accustomed to repose confidence in the contracts of government, and educated in the belief that private rights and private property would not be wantonly despoiled, they required some further notice of the fraud, at least of such fraud as might avoid the grant, than the mere furnishes or whispers of the traveller. Thus, Mr. Speaker, I think this formidable notice results in this:—that the President had been informed of the passage of the act of Georgia of 1795,—he thought, unless precautionary steps were taken, that it might embarrass us with the Indians, and deemed it proper to communicate the information to Congress.
Another objection is made by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. J. Randolph) who first addressed you, that the claimants will perhaps reject the proposed compromise, and afterwards plead their own statute book as a recognition of the claim. This objection can easily be remedied in the bill to be passed pursuant to the resolution now under consideration. A proviso can, and undoubtedly will, be inserted in case a compromise shall not be effected, the act shall not be so construed as to impair the rights of the United States, or to strengthen the title of the claimants. Another objection made by both of the gentlemen from Virginia (Mr. J. Randolph and Mr. Clarke) who have spoken in opposition to the resolution reported by the committee of claimants, is, that nothing passed by the act of Georgia
of 1795, and this objection is attempted to be supported, first, on the ground that the legislature of Georgia had no authority to grant. I flatter myself, Mr. Speaker, that I have sufficiently shown that the lands in question were the property of Georgia as a free, sovereign and independent state, and that she, and she alone, had the right of their disposal. But a distinction is taken between the people and their legislature. It is said that the people of Georgia had never delegated to the legislature the right to dispose of her vacant lands. By the constitution of Georgia all legislative powers were delegated to the legislature, unless particularly excepted, and we do not learn that the power of disposing of their vacant territory was excepted or reserved. The disposition of vacant lands has always been considered legislative power, necessarily belonging to the legislature without any express delegation in a constitution. If such delegation of power is necessary, I imagine that but few valid grants can be found in the several states. In support of this objection it is further insisted that the grant of 1795 was fraudulent; of course, that it is void ab initio . The abominable fraud, the gross and odious corruption which is said to have been practiced by and upon the members of the granting legislature of 1795, have been depicted in the most artful and detestable colours. But even were I to admit for a moment, that the motives of a legislature can be questioned in order to nullify their acts, I should extremely doubt whether that abominable corruption did even exist to the extent alleged. Where, let me ask, is the proof of its existence? I can find it no where except in ex parte affidavits taken before—no one knows whom;—and sworn to by persons equally strangers to us. Being voluntary affidavits, the deponents felt perfectly secure from the pains and penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury. If these legislators were so base and impure, why have they not been arraigned to answer for their crimes? We have heard of no prosecution against them for the bribery and corruption. Instead of jails, gibbets and infamy, they have been rewarded by the continued confidence not only of the people, but of the legislature. Several of the members who stand charged with bribery, have since been elected by the people to seats in both branches of their legislature. Several others have since been appointed by the legislature to seats on the bench of justice, and one other has since been appointed, by legislative act a trustee of the University of Georgia. Can we believe, Mr. Speaker, that the people of Georgia are so lost to every principle of virtue as to elect men stained with corruption and stamped with infamy, to fill seats in the legislative body? Can we believe that the legislature are so senseless as to defile the sacred bench of justice with such impurity and fraud? And, last of all, can you believe that the would commit the care of the education of her youth to the very child of corruption? No sir, it cannot be. I cannot believe that this transaction is so vile as it has been represented. This objection is still further supported by another gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clarke) by a recurrence to that "effervescence," which induced the people to "rise in the majesty of their strength and declare the act null and void." It is true, Sir, that the people or rather their legislature, became so effervescent in 1796, as to rise in the majority of their strength and kindle a bonfire. Disregarding the sacred nature of contracts, setting at defiance the constitution of the United States, which declares that "no state shall pass any ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts," and that "full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state," and sporting with the rights of innocent individuals, that legislature erected the funeral pyre, bound the helpless victim and laid it upon the altar. Then, not like the patriarchs of old who laid coals upon the altar, they sacrilegiously called down the fire of heaven to aid in the destructive work. This contract was wedded to the constitution of the United States,—and when the latter was about to perish by the hands of Georgia legislators, the former, like a Hindoo spouse, must perish by the same flames, that their ashes might be mingled and gathered in the same urn. But to complete the scene of solemn mockery, a convention was called who engulfed the rescinding act into their constitution. This effort to give strength to invalidity was equally unavailing. That contract was made under the sanction and authority of the constitution of the United
States, and this constitution which forbids a state to impair a contract, also declares that "this constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
Another objection made by a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clarke) is that the price was so inadequate as to evidence the invalidity of the title. The price, Mr. Speaker, although apparently inadequate, was under all circumstances, equal or nearly equal to what had been paid for large tracts sold by other states.
This country was remote and then owned and inhabited by warlike tribes of Indians. The Spaniards were on its border, and a part of it was actually occupied by settlers under Spanish and British grants. Yet the New England purchasers paid nearly double the price for which the delightful country of the Tennessee was sold. And by a known rule in chancery, if a contract equal at its creation, afterwards becomes unequal, full execution will be decreed. I perfectly agree with the gentleman that persons ought to come "with clean hands and pure hearts," to seek for justice;—and I also agree in another maxim, that the hands of the claimants are presumed to be clean and their hearts presumed to be pure until the contrary be shewn. They allude to be innocent purchasers—show that they are otherwise before you brand them with infamy.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Luca) has objected that the legislature of Georgia were deceived in the quantity of land by them sold and refers to the commissioners' report, by which it appears that the country sold contains nearly double the amount of acres which it was supposed to contain at the time of the sale. Shall this pretence vitiate the contract? Are we to suppose that men selected from all parts of the state possessed less knowledge of her vacant territory than purchasers at a distance? Shall the merchant absolve himself from his contract by saying that he was cheated in the bale of goods which he had sold, and which for a long time he had had under his eye? Will it avail the vendor to say, Sir, you have cheated me in the worth of the horse I sold you, and which I had used for a long time? The lands in question were unascertained. The quantity was equally unknown to the vendors and to the vendors—of course no fraud can be imputed to the transaction on that score.
The same gentleman from Pennsylvania, and he is joined by his colleague (Mr. Gregg), and by a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clarke) object to this claim on the ground that the deed to the New England purchasers contains a covenant of special and not of general warranty. Thence they infer, that these purchasers might presume that the act was fraudulent and would be rescinded. In my opinion that inference cannot fairly be derived from the premises. The granting legislature of Georgia, being ignorant of the extent of former grants as well as of the quantity of acres in that tract of country, very properly provided that the state should not be subject to any suit, claim or pretension on account of any deduction in the quantity of said territory. The limits between the United States and the king of Spain, were not at that time definitely settled. Hence the propriety of the special covenant that the Georgia companies should not be liable to refund to the New England purchasers any money in consequence of any defect in their title from the state of Georgia. They knew, and were willing to encounter these hazards, but they had been too much accustomed to yield confidence in legislative contracts to believe that they would be wantonly violated.
Mr. Speaker, I have attempted as far as my feeble abilities would permit, to answer all the objections I recollect to have heard against this claim, and which appear to possess the merit of argument. If I have been successful, I trust the House will pardon me in declaring, that I believe the claimants are not only equitably but legally entitled to that relief which they ask. That Georgia had the right to convey I think cannot be doubted. And even admitting for argument's sake, that the original sale was fraudulent and void, and that it is competent to a legislative or a judicial tribunal to enquire into the motives which influenced a prior legislature in making a contract, still the purchaser is good to the hands of subsequent pur-
chasers who come in for valuable consideration without notice of the fraud; and as subsequent purchasers would more especially be protected against an after claim, and with notice of the prior grant. The United States have purchased of Georgia with notice that that state had years before sold the same lands to certain companies, and that these companies had been in the present claimants—and shall be United States avoid the first contract as a subterfuge? The law books contain no such doctrine.
But suppose, Sir, that the act of Georgia of 1795 was obtained with infamy, was generated in corruption so that no subsequent transfer could cleanse it of the foul stain, still let me ask would it not be wise, would it not be prudent to effect a compromise with these claimants? This tract of country is now estimated at about 50,000,000 of acres. It is not proposed, and indeed we are not permitted by the convention with Georgia, to allow more than five millions of acres to all the different claimants, in consideration of their relinquishment of claim to the forty five millions of acres. If their claim is a bad one it would be for the advantage of the United States to give 10 per cent. for its extinction. Suppose the Indian title to that country was extinguished and land office was opened—would the industrious settler pay you as much for that land with this claim impending over it, as he would for the same land if it were free from all conflicting claims? If he would in the latter case pay you two dollars an acre, which is the medium price for which the United States lands are sold, would he give you one dollar and eighty cents an acre, knowing that he must encounter a law suit? No, Sir, industrious farmers are unwilling to purchase a law suit. That country will never be sold to actual settlers until these claims shall be extinguished or confirmed.
Having offered my sentiments in opposition to the amendment, and in favor of the resolution reported by the committee of claimants, I confess, Mr. Speaker, that I feel myself not a little embarrassed. I feel myself in an awful dilemma. I feel that I am reduced to a sad, a desperate alternative. I must either acknowledge that I have been bribed, that I am base and corrupt, or what is almost equally terrible to my feelings, that I have leagued in sentiment with the gentlemen on this side of the House. (pointing to the federal gentlemen) Unwilling to acknowledge myself corrupt, or that I have been influenced by any circumstance without these walls, I think it justice to myself to declare that neither myself, nor any of my connections, nor any of my constituents within my knowledge, ever claimed a single foot of this land—if therefore, I am influenced on this occasion by any impure or unworthy motives it must be by a direct bribe. Unwilling to acknowledge this, I am driven to the other alternative, however painful that election may be, and must acknowledge myself a federalist. The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. J. Randolph) does not hesitate to denounce to the people all those republican members who dare to think differently from him on this question, as having been bribed or as having gone over to the federalists. This denunciation is just cause of alarm to all those who, like myself, give their votes according to their own judgment, on the best reflection and most mature deliberation. Coming from that gentleman it almost astonishes me. To me it appears terrible as the thunders of Olympus. I fear I shall sink under its weight.
Mr. Speaker, I still entertain a gleam of hope that my constituents will pardon my presumption in daring to differ from that gentleman in sentiment on this occasion. That they may yet think that I may still be a republican, although I decline to follow in the servile track of any particular popular leader. This denunciation and prostration of republican members on this floor, I repeat, is truly alarming. It is equally alarming to reflect that those gentlemen who have shared the public confidence in the republican districts of the Union are now declared to be polluted by the embrace of speculators, and are henceforth to be considered as destitute of every moral virtue. If this be true, if the eighth Congress of the United States have included among them, a corruption already proceeds from your executive departments, then indeed have we arrived to an awful crisis. If this monstrous error may be practiced upon the republican members of this House then the whole republican system of our government

rotters to its base. But, Sir, these suggestions are but the fancies of a wild imagination, the chimeras of a heated brain. Before the cool and dispassionate judgment of a discerning mind they "dissipate into thin air." That officer in one of the great executive departments of our government, to whom the gentlemen allude, I presume is the postmaster general. That valuable officer is represented as the balet of men, wielding his monstrous engine of patronage and influence for the wicked purposes of corruption. Base as he is said to be, I am proud to say that for more than ten years past I have had the honor of his acquaintance. I believe him to be as good, as upright and as honest a man as any of those other valuable characters who now, happily for our country, preside over the great executive departments of our government. His character far exceeds the obloquy of the
gentleman from Virginia. That gentleman's denunciations cannot overthrow or destroy him while talents and integrity are considered as deserving of public esteem and confidence. He is too firmly fixed in the esteem and affections of the people in the eastern section of the union; his character is too strongly surrounded by the ramparts of virtue, to be shaken by the artillery of that gentleman. Envy may lift her palid front in vain, the well earned fame of the postmaster general will prove an invulnerable shield against her envenomed shafts, and they will fall harmless at his feet.
I hope the gentleman from Virginia will learn after this that members are not to be diverted from their object by his threats, and that he will cease to amuse this House with such declamation. (To be continued.)
(A) A SUMMARY STATEMENT
Of the value of the exports of the United States during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1803, accompanying the report of the secretary of the treasury.
   THE SEA—2,635,000.   1. Fisheries.   Dried fish, or cod fishery 1,620,000   Pickled do. or river fishery (herring, shad, salmon, mackerel) 560,000   Whale (common) oil and bone 280,000   Spermaceti oil and candles 175,000   455,000 2,635,000   THE FOREST—4,850,000.   2. Skins and furs (Indian product) 500,000   Ginseng (raw product of forest) 100,000 600,000   3. Product of wood.   Lumber (boards, slates, shingles, hewn timber, masts, &c.) 2,800,000   Oak bark and other dyes 225,000   Naval stores (tar, turpentine, pitch, rosin) 460,000   Alhes, pot and pearl 735,000   4,220,000 4,220,000   AGRICULTURE—32,995,000   4. Product of animals—Horned cattle.   Beef, tallow, hides, live cattle 1,145,000   Butter and cheese 585,000   1,730,000   Pork, Pickled bacon, lard (live hogs) 1,890,000   Horses and mules 460,000   Sheep 55,000   515,000 4,135,000   5. Vegetable food.   Wheat flour and biscuit 9,310,000   Indian corn and meal 2,025,000   Rice 2,455,000   All other (rye, oats, pulse, potatoes, apples, &c.) 290,000   14,080,000 14,080,000   6. Tobacco 6,209,000 6,209,000   7. Cotton 7,920,000 7,920,000   8. All other agricultural products.   Flax seed 465,000   Hops 90,000   Wax 60,000   Various items (poultry, hemp, flax, indigo, mustard) 15,000   630,000 630,000   MANUFACTURES—1,355,000.   9. Manufactures.   Of domestic materials   Soap, tallow, candles, leather, boots, shoes, fadery 395,000   Hats 18,000   Of grain (spirits, beer, starch) 21,000   Of wood, including furniture & coaches 210,000   Cordage, canvas, linseed oil 50,000   Of iron 80,000   Various items (snuff, wax candles, cards, bricks, &c.) 16,000   790,000 790,000   Of foreign materials   Spirits, of molasses 481,000   Sugar, refined 18,000   Chocolate 4,000   Gun powder 38,000   Of brass and copper 6,000   Medicinal 18,000   565,000 565,000   UNCERTAIN—300,000.   10. Articles not distinguished in returns, either manufactured or agricultural, 300,000 300,000   1,355,000 1,355,000   Total. Dolls. 42,135,000 42,135,000  
(B) A SUMMARY STATEMENT
Of the value of Exports of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1804.
   THE SEA—3,420,000.   1. Fisheries.   Dried fish or cod fishery 2,400,000   Pickled do. or river fishery (herring, shad, salmon, mackerel) 640,000   Whale (common) oil and bone 310,000   Spermaceti oil and candles 70,000   380,000 3,420,000   THE FOREST—4,630,000.   2. Skins and furs 956,000   Ginseng 84,000   1,040,000 1,040,000   3. Product of wood.   Lumber (boards, slates, shingles, hewn timber, masts, &c.) 2,540,000   Oak bark and other dyes 88,000   Naval stores (tar, turpentine, pitch, rosin) 322,000   Alhes, pot and pearl 640,000   3,590,000 3,590,000  
AGRICULTURE—30,890,000.
   4. Product of animals—horned cattle.   Beef, tallow, hides, live cattle 1,520,000   Butter and cheese 490,000   2,010,000   Pork, pickled bacon, lard (live hogs) 1,990,000   Horses and mules 270,000   Sheep 30,000   300,000 4,300,000   5. Vegetable food.   Wheat, flour and biscuit 7,100,000   Indian corn and meal 2,500,000   Rice 2,350,000   All other (rye, oats, pulse, potatoes, apples, &c.) 300,000   12,250,000 12,250,000   6. Tobacco 6,000,000 6,000,000   7. Cotton, (averaged at 22 cents) 7,000,000 7,000,000   8. All other agricultural products.   Flax seed   Brown sugar 420,000   Hops 80,000   Wax 55,000   Various items (poultry, hemp, flax, indigo, mustard) 65,000   70,000 690,000  
MANUFACTURES—2,100,000.
   9. Manufactures of domestic materials.   Soap and tallow candles 770,000   Leather boots, shoes, fadery 2,000   Hats 49,000   Of grain (spirits, beer, starch) 70,000   Of wood, including furniture & coaches 360,000   Cordage, canvas, linseed oil 81,000   Iron 110,000   Various items (snuff, essence of bark, cards, bricks, tobacco, lead and turpentine spirits) 60,000   1,650,000 1,650,000   Of foreign materials.   Spirits of molasses 245,000   Sugar, refined 23,090   Chocolate 2,000   Gun powder 150,000   Brass and copper 9,000   Medicinal 21,000   450,000 450,000   UNCERTAIN—430,000   10. Articles not distinguished in returns, either manufactured or agricultural, 430,000 430,000   2,100,000 2,100,000   Total. Dolls. 41,470,000 41,470,000  
(By Authority.)
AN ACT Authorising the discharge of John York, from his imprisonment. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the marshal of the district of New York, be authorised and directed to discharge John York, late a collector of the direct tax, for the eighty-third collection district, in the state of New-York, from his imprisonment, upon a warrant of distress, issued against him, by the supervisor of said district: Provided , that he take before any judge of the United States, or any judge or justice of the peace, of the state of New York, so much of an oath imposed upon persons imprisoned for debt, by the second section of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt," as relates to his not having transferred his property, with intent to defraud the United States, and provided that he shall assign and convey all the estate, real and personal, which he may own or be entitled to, to some person, for the use and benefit of the United States, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury: Provided also , that any estate, real or personal, which the said John York may hereafter acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold, in the same manner, as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged, as aforesaid.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. March 2, 1805. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Further providing for the government of the territory of Orleans.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorised to establish within the territory of Orleans, a government in all respects similar (except as is herein otherwise provided) to that now exercised in the Mississippi territory, and shall, in the recess of the Senate, but to be nominated at their next meeting, for their advice and consent, appoint all the officers necessary therein in conformity with the ordinance of Congress, made on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and that from and after the establishment of the said government, the inhabitants of the territory of Orleans, shall be entitled to, and enjoy all the rights, privileges and advantages secured by the said ordinance, and now enjoyed by the people of the Mississippi territory. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said ordinance of
shall amount to sixty thousand, they shall thereupon be authorised to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and be admitted into the Union, upon the footing of the original states, in all respects whatever, conformably to the provisions of the third article of the treaty, concluded at Paris, on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States & the French republic: Provided , That the constitution to be established shall be republican, and not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States, nor inconsistent with the ordinance of the late Congress, passed the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, so far as the same is made applicable to the territorial government hereby authorised to be established: Provided however , That Congress shall be at liberty at any time prior to the admission of the inhabitants of the said territory to the right of a separate state, to alter the boundaries thereof, as they may judge proper: Except only , That no alteration shall be made, which shall procrastinate the period for the admission of the inhabitants thereof, to the rights of a state government, according to the provision of this act.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, entitled "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof," as is repugnant with this act, shall, from and after the first Monday of November next, be repealed. And the residue of the said act shall continue in full force until repealed, any thing in the sixteenth section of the said act 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 2, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT In addition to "An act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds, received in the actual service of the United States, during the revolutionary war." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions contained in the first section of "An act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds, received in the actual service of the United States, during the revolutionary war," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, are hereby extended to all those persons in the service of the United States, who, in consequence of their disability by known wounds, received in actual service, during the revolutionary war, resigned their commissions, or took discharges; or who, after incurring their disability, were taken captive by the enemy, and remained either in captivity, or on parole, until the close of the war; or who, in consequence of known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, have at any period since, become and continued disabled, in such manner as to render them unable to procure a subsistence by manual labor: Provided , that every person of the several descriptions herein mentioned, applying for a pension, shall in all other respects, conform to the requirements of the act, to which this is an addition.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOS. ANDERSON, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 3d, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
shall amount to sixty thousand, they shall thereupon be authorised to form for themselves a constitution and state government, and be admitted into the Union, upon the footing of the original states, in all respects whatever, conformably to the provisions of the third article of the treaty, concluded at Paris, on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States & the French republic: Provided , That the constitution to be established shall be republican, and not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States, nor inconsistent with the ordinance of the late Congress, passed the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, so far as the same is made applicable to the territorial government hereby authorised to be established: Provided however , That Congress shall be at liberty at any time prior to the admission of the inhabitants of the said territory to the right of a separate state, to alter the boundaries thereof, as they may judge proper: Except only , That no alteration shall be made, which shall procrastinate the period for the admission of the inhabitants thereof, to the rights of a state government, according to the provision of this act.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, entitled "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof," as is repugnant with this act, shall, from and after the first Monday of November next, be repealed. And the residue of the said act shall continue in full force until repealed, any thing in the sixteenth section of the said act 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 2, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT In addition to "An act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds, received in the actual service of the United States, during the revolutionary war." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions contained in the first section of "An act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds, received in the actual service of the United States, during the revolutionary war," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, are hereby extended to all those persons in the service of the United States, who, in consequence of their disability by known wounds, received in actual service, during the revolutionary war, resigned their commissions, or took discharges; or who, after incurring their disability, were taken captive by the enemy, and remained either in captivity, or on parole, until the close of the war; or who, in consequence of known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, have at any period since, become and continued disabled, in such manner as to render them unable to procure a subsistence by manual labor: Provided , that every person of the several descriptions herein mentioned, applying for a pension, shall in all other respects, conform to the requirements of the act, to which this is an addition.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOS. ANDERSON, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 3d, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
FOR SALE.
ON the 3d of April next, A. M. By virtue of a deed of trust dated 30th day of November 1804—will be sold at public sale, on the premises, all the right and title of Wm. McDono in a two story Brick House (nearly finished) and Lot, situated near the war office, in No. 168, in the city of Washington, and nearly opposite the house occupied by Gabriel Duvall, Esq. For the terms and further particulars enquire of THOS. W. PALMO. At the store at the 7 buildings. March 11—CAP
TRIAL OF JUDGE CHASE.
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.

FRIDAY, MARCH 15.
The PRESIDENT of the United States yesterday left the city on a visit to Monticello.
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH
Education—Roads—Canals.
There are some parts of the President's Inaugural Speech, of which we intended to have taken a much earlier notice; from doing which we have been prevented by indifferent avocations. So far as it exhibits a view of the general prosperity and harmony of the country, we shall leave it to the reflections and feelings of every reader. The nation will not fail to do justice to the man, whose patriotism and talents have so eminently contributed to the enviable and exalted station he holds among the nations of the earth. She will do justice to a course of political action, in which firmness and moderation have been happily blended; and in which are to be seen a decided adherence to principle, tempered by a mild spirit of good will to all men. True greatness consists in pursuing a course aloof from the petty animosities of personal collision, and, if we have enemies in returning them good for evil; we do not hesitate to say that a great mind is incapable of revenge.
Among those parts of the speech which merit distinct notice is the following;
"These contributions enable us to support the current expenses of the government, to fulfil contracts with foreign nations, to extinguish the native right of soil within our limits, to extend those limits, and to apply such a surplus to our public debts, as places at a short day their final redemption, and that redemption once effected, the revenue thereby liberated, may, by a just repartition among the states, and a corresponding amendment of the constitution be applied, in time of peace, to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education and other great objects within each state. In time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes produce war, increased, as the same revenue will be by increased population and consumption, and aided by other resources, reserved for that crisis, it may meet within the year all the expenses of the year, without encroaching on the rights of future generations, by burdening them with the debts of the past. War will then be but a suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement."
One of the brightest traits in the republican character, is the lively interest it takes in the progress of internal improvements. On the cultivation of this vast object eminently depend the prosperity and glory of our republic. It would be no difficult task to demonstrate that its moral will be no less operative than its physical effects. Indeed there is so inseparable a connection between mind and body, that it is scarcely possible to conduct to the comfort of the one, without having a correspondent influence on the other. The great derelictum in a republic is to render the means of subsistence so easy of attainment, as to raise every industrious man above the temptations of dishonesty; to enable him, in the intervals of employment, to command sufficient leisure for the improvement of his mind, and to supply him with the means of educating his children. A republic can only subsist on the affections of an enlightened people; nor can a people be enlightened without enjoying this leisure and these means.
It is this conviction, which has animated the national sentiment from one end of the union to the other, to accomplish the great domestic objects of education, roads and canals; it is this conviction, that has kindled in many of the legislatures of the states a holy spirit of improvement, which promises to eventuate in the most liberal measures. One thing, however, is wanting. Many of the states look in vain, either to their coffers, or the resources of their citizens, for the means of diffusing these rich blessings with the liberal hand that the public welfare requires. The sentiments of our patriotic President will animate their boldest hopes, and relieve them from a great portion of the apprehension they entertain for the success of their benevolent plans. They will carry to their breasts the assurance that some of the best men, their country has ever produced, will, in a short time, when the exigency of the present moment shall be over, throw the weight of their opinion in favor of devoting the surplus treasure of the union to the interests of knowledge, and to fostering great internal improvements. It is no irrational conjecture that at the period of the extinguishment of the national debt, ten annual millions of dollars may be applied to these great objects. It would be descending into a wider detail, than our time at present allows, to trace distinctly the effects of
this appropriation on education, roads and arts. We shall only now observe that, dividing the sum equally among these objects, the most important evidences of knowledge might be imparted to a million of children; and there might be annually made turnpike roads to the extent of eight hundred miles, and canals of half the length. To perceive the magnitude of the effects that would be produced in a short time, it is only necessary to multiply these results by any given number of years; and the mind will be enlightened by a demonstration of the almost infinite benefits that may be expected.
Let this view be an incitement to the sluggish, and an encouragement to the zealous, to the accomplishment of these great objects. The pure patriotism which actuates the latter, will look to no distant day for the fruition of their most brilliant hopes. Their own eyes will behold the blessings of their labors; the season of enjoyment will arrive, in some degree, even for themselves, but still more for their children; future generations will bless the wisdom and virtue that laid the foundations of the happiness of a great nation; and liberty will fix in the bosom of an enlightened people her permanent abode.
EXPORTS OF THE U. STATES.
According to the statements we have published it appears that the total exports of the last year exceed those of the preceding year in the sum of 21,899,041 dollars.
The following will show the relation of the exports of the one year to those of the other.
  The total Exports, In the year ending Sept. 31st, 1803—were 55,800,033   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1804, 77,699,074   Increase the last year 21,899,041   Domestic produce exported In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1803, 42,205,961   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1804, 41,467,477   Decrease the last year 738,484   Foreign produce exported In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1803, 13,594,072   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1804, 36,231,597   Increase the last year 22,637,525   It will be observed that the decrease in the exportation of domestic produce is about a thirtieth part of the increase of the exportation of foreign produce. On an estimate being made of the gain derived from the latter, compared with the diminution in the former, it will be found that there is a considerable positive gain. The profit on the exportation of foreign merchandise may be computed at fifteen per cent. which will give a profit of about 3,395,000   From which take the decrease of domestic productions, 738,000   And there remains 2,657,000 
Which may be considered as the relative advance of our exports for the last year.
It would be doing injustice to our own ideas, as well as to the enlightened character at the head of our finances, to omit a particular notice of the interesting statements, marked A. and B. which accompany the Secretary's Report. They present views, which we believe are entirely new, at once of the power of arrangement, and of the great pillars, on which the prosperity of our country rests. They exhibit, in a small compass, what may be called the spirit of our Exports; from which it appears that three-fourths of the whole are the products of agriculture.
During the last year, according to the luminous classification of the Secretary, there was produced from the
  Dollars   Sea 3,420,000   Forest 4,630,000   Agriculture 30,890,000   Manufactures 2,100,000   Uncertain 450,000 
Departed this life on the 6th instant, in the 47th year of his age, Colonel W. W. BURROWS, a Revolutionary officer, and late commandant of the Marine Corps. The most benevolent of men, he had devoted himself to the benefit of his fellow creatures; but that malignant fiend ingratitude was ever his reward. After struggling with severe illness and too feeling a heart, he resigned existence with the celestial calmness of a good man.
Think of his fate! reverses the heavenly hand, That led him hence, though soon, by steps to stand, Long at his couch, death took his patient hand, And menaced oft, and oft withheld the blow, To give reflection time, with lenient art, Each fond delusion from his soul to seal, Teach him, from folly peaceably to part, And wean him from a world he lov'd too well.
Died, on Tuesday last, after a lingering & painful illness, which she bore with a resignation always interwoven with a consciousness of christian rectitude, Miss ANNA CARROLL of this city. As a wife, a mother, and a mistress, her conduct has uniformly been the most eminently exemplary, and her charities will long be remembered and cherished by the indigent and distressed. Her social virtues will embalmed her in the memory of her numerous friends, and render her untimely death a subject of their deepest regret.
From the New Orleans Moniteur of Jan. 31, 1805.
On the motion of Dr. WATKINS, the following address to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, was read by paragraphs, and adopted.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
THE Legislative Council of the territory of Orleans, in the name and on behalf of the inhabitants respectfully request permission to approach your honorable body, and entreat you to grant such portion of the lands of the U. States, as you may deem proper, for the establishment and support of colleges, schools, and other deposits of science for the benefit of this territory. It is not necessary to represent to your honorable and enlightened body, the public importance of these institutions; it may not be improper, however, to recall to your recollection the liberality which has been heretofore exercised in favor of other territories similarly situated with ours.
We intreat you therefore to grant, in order to carry into effect the above-mentioned object, all the lands of the U. States situated within the limits of New Orleans, as defined by the act of incorporation of the said city, and such other lands, as in your wisdom you may deem fit to accomplish the objects which we have in view.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to present to the governor a copy of the above address, signed by the President, and to request him to cause it to be laid before the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
Remarks of Mr. G. W. Campbell, on laying out a road from Knoxville, to the Tombigbee settlements and New Orleans.
MR. G. W. CAMPBELL observed, that having introduced this resolution, he would very briefly state some of the reasons that induced him to do so, and the grounds upon which he expected the committee to adopt it. He stated the object of the measure to be two-fold.—1st. To obtain a direct route for the transportation of the mail from Knoxville, and also from Georgia, to the Tombigbee settlements, and thence to New Orleans, in order to facilitate the communication with those places by means of the mail,—and 2d. To open a communication from east Tennessee to the same places for commercial purposes. This measure, he said, was important to the citizens of east Tennessee, in both those points of view. The mail was conveyed at present, he observed, by a circuitous route, from Knoxville to Nashville, 200 miles, thence to Natchez, at least 500 miles, and thence to New Orleans, nearly 300 miles, making in the whole from Knoxville to New Orleans 1000 miles,—Whereas the distance from Knoxville to New Orleans by the route proposed to be opened, would not much, if any, exceed 500. A gentleman of undoubted veracity, who resided some years in the country through which this road will pass, in the service of the government, estimates this route in the following manner: From Knoxville to Tellico, 33 miles. This part of the route passes through a settled country, and is at present a good road. From Tellico, to a place called the Hickory ground, in the Creek nation, near the junction of the Coala river, with the Tallapoosa, where they form the Alabama, and about 20 miles from the Tuckabatchee settlements, 220 miles,—from thence to Fort St. Stephen's, on the Tombigbee river, about 100 miles,—and thence to New Orleans, a direct course, about 150 miles,—making in all about 503 miles—and the largest calculations, as I had been informed, made by the post master general of this road from Knoxville to New Orleans was 550 miles—making very little more than half the present route. Add to this the distance from Walnutton to Knoxville, according to the estimated post route, 547—and the whole distance from Walnutton to New Orleans, passing by Knoxville, and from thence the proposed route, will be about 1050 miles. This laying off between four and five hundred miles, in transporting the mail from Knoxville to New Orleans, is certainly a very important object to all those who may communicate with the latter place, by means of this route. This road is still more necessary, for the purpose of affording a communication from east Tennessee to the settlement on the Tombigbee, or the eastern parts of the Mississippi
territory. The only mode of communication at present with that country, is by the post road already stated, by Nashville to Natchez, 700—and thence to the Tombigbee, about 200—making 900. Whereas the real distance along the proposed route, as has been stated, will not exceed 550, or at most between that and 600.
The effect of this circuitous route is, at present, to cut off all communication almost entirely with that country.
But the second object for which we wish this road opened, viz. for commercial purposes, is still more important to our citizens, and is essential for the prosperity of our country.
The only mode by which the people of this country can at this time convey their produce to market, is by boating it down the river Tennessee into the Ohio, then along that to the Mississippi, and down that river to New Orleans. Our boatmen employed in this trade are obliged to carry by land, as the same boats that carry produce down those rivers, cannot ascend them, and there is but little navigation yet in boats of any kind, up those waters into the state of Tennessee, and no boats of any considerable burthen can pass up the river Tennessee through the Muscle shoals to the eastern part of the state. The only route by which those boatmen can now return from New Orleans, is that already stated, on which the mail is conveyed, being between four and five hundred miles more than they would have to travel by the proposed route. The present road also passes over the Cumberland mountain, a part of which is very bad, and a wilderness at this part of the route subject to the Indian claim of between 70 and 100 miles without inhabitants. It also passes through another wilderness between Nashville and Natchez, subject to the Indian claim of about 400 miles—a considerable part of which is stated to be very bad road in winter, and that there are many large water courses to be passed. The difficulties are so great that few of our citizens are willing to embark in this trade, and our farmers having no convenient vent for their surplus produce, have little or no inducement to industry beyond what may be necessary to produce the ordinary supplies of subsistence; this in a very great degree retards the progress of agriculture, and consequently the prosperity of our country. It is therefore hoped that this House will feel disposed to encourage the farming interest of our infant country by removing those obstacles to its progress, that the state authority is incompetent to effect, and that prove so materially injurious to the interests of our citizens. Here it may be proper to remark that this proposed road, so far as it is defined to be established by this measure, passes through a country belonging entirely to the United States, except about 60 miles, and most of it subject to the claim of Indian tribes, being the Mississippi territory until it enters West Florida or Orleans territory. This distance of about 60 miles alluded to is from Tellico on the frontiers of the settlements in East Tennessee to a point beyond the south boundary of that state, in the state of Georgia and near the limits of the Mississippi territory, being also subject to the Indian claim—A road has already been authorized to be opened in this direction, has been viewed and designated by commissioners appointed for that purpose, from our state at the expense of the state, and it is expected by this time has been opened, being designed to afford us a communication with the state of Georgia. This road will answer the proposed route, at least as far as the limits of our state, being as before stated, about 60 or 70 miles from Tellico, and about 100 from Knoxville. There will therefore remain only about 100 miles (or very little more if any) to be opened, to the point at which the road proposed from Georgia will intersect this route. From this view of the subject it will appear, we do not require the United States to be at any expense in opening a road within the limits of the state of Tennessee—but only to open it, through a country belonging exclusively, except the Indian claim, to the United States. With regard to the route proposed to be opened from Georgia to the Tombigbee settlements, it is to intersect the former road at the most convenient point, between Tellico and the said settlements, what has been advanced to show the necessity of the former road, will apply with equal force to this. The only route by which the people of Georgia can at present communicate with New Orleans, by means of the mail, or travel to that place along any authorized road, is that already stated from Knoxville, thence by Natchez to New Orleans; and the people, even in the frontiers of that state, have to travel nearly 300 miles to Knoxville to take this route, and are not then much, if any nearer New Orleans, than when they set out. This in a great degree cuts off this communication with that country. The road proposed to be opened from Georgia, according to the best information will intersect the road from Knoxville, near the junction of Coala, and Tallapoosa rivers, and about 200 miles, or somewhat more, from the latter
place—of which as already stated, 100 miles or less, are open and only about 100 remain to be opened. The country through which the road from Knoxville will pass is, represented, by those who are acquainted with it, and who have resided many years among the Indian nations that inhabit it, to be a fine open country, generally dry, without being broken by any mountains, and very few streams of any considerable size to be crossed, and no large rivers until you arrive at the Tombigbee. It will pass along the high lands that lie between the waters falling into the Tennessee river and those that are discharged into the Coala and Alabama rivers—and will require but little expense to be made a good road. We hope, therefore, upon viewing all these circumstances, Congress will agree to afford us the aid we require, and which is absolutely necessary to enable us to resort to the only market that will compensate our farmers for their industry, encourage agriculture and commerce, and promote the prosperity of our country.
CAUTION!
I hereby caution all persons not to receive two notes of hand, drawn in favor of Mr. Wm. Lovell, dated March 13th 1805, endorsed by Messrs Wm. Woodward and Orlando Cook, the one for about 36 dollars payable 9 months after date, the other for about 38 dollars, payable 12 months after date, as I am determined not to pay the same unless compelled by law.
JOSEPH HUDDLESTON. March 15—3t
TO BE SOLD,
ON Saturday the 23d inst. at 11 o'clock at the late dwelling plantation of JOSEPH GALLOWAY, Esq. deceased, the following articles—
Horses, oxen, plantation utensils, beds and other household furniture—a gig with harness for two horses, about 40 barrels of Indian corn, and 600 gallons of cider, the greater part of which was made of Hughes's crab apples. Credit will be given until the first of January next, and bonds bearing interest with approved security will be required. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to call and pay the amount to Mr. John Galloway of West River and those who have claims against it, are to present them properly authenticated to him for settlement.
DAVID LYNN, Adm'r. West River, March 15—4t
The subscribers has just laid
in, and have for sale, at their warehouse on the New Jersey avenue, near Barry's wharf—a quantity of superfine FLOUR for family use, Corn, Corn meal, hominy, Oats, Oatmeal, Bran, etc. &c. All of which they will sell on reasonable terms for cash.
PETER MILLER, EBENEZER RICHARDSON. Washington, March 15—3t&6w
TO LET.
THE House now in the occupation of Mr. JOHN WALL, situated on Eleventh street west, between the Branch Bank and Theatre, containing 10 rooms, piazza and portico, carriage house, stable, smoke house, pump of good water, and a good garden. Possession may be had immediately. For terms apply to the subscriber near the premises.
PETER LENOX. March 13—12wtf
I DISCOVERED a few days since (in the Telegraphe) a challenge by Samuel Norwood, Esq. Bonaparte against Democrat—
At Annapolis this fall, I proposed running Democrat against Bonaparte, carrying from 120 lbs. to 140 at the discretion of Mr. Norwood, which was rejected. As Mr. Norwood refused the proposition made by me at that time, I am not bound to run the race proposed by him in the Telegraphe—Democrat will run Bonaparte over the Annapolis race course, on the third Tuesday in May next, ten miles and repeat, for 1000 dollars, play or pay, carrying 120 lbs. each; which is the weight they are to carry by the rules of racing, both being seven years old. Should Mr. Norwood decline this offer, Democrat will cover money next spring at the subscriber's farm, from the first day of March until the first day of April, at Sixteen dollars each and Fifty cents for the groom. Democrat's pedigree is equal to the pedigree of any horse to be produced, having in him the blood of Medley, Eclipse, Figure, Dove, Adolphus, Arabian, and Mr. Katib's Simba.
If this proposition is approved of by Mr. Norwood, notice will be given in the Maryland Gazette within forty days from the date hereof.
ISAAC DUCKETT. December 21—tawt, pr 30
CIDER, FOR SALE.
JUST received from Rhode Island, and for sale by the subscriber, a quantity of very good CIDER at the reduced price of THREE DOLLARS & FIFTY CENTS per barrel. Also a quantity of excellent CHEESE, a small part of which is old, and of a superior quality.
RICHARD ELLIOTT. March 6—w3t
Slavery or forty days 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 the attendance will be given by the subscriber.
WILLIAM LYDIA PAGE. Trustee of P. Fairfax. Jefferson county, Feb. 18—12wtf

PUBLIC NOTICE.
Pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States of the 28th of February last, I am ready to receive separate proposals, until the first day of May next, for the supply of such articles of Stationery as may be necessary for the use of the said House, and during the next session of Congress, and also like proposals, for the execution of all the Printing business of the said House, during the same session. The several species of Stationery and Printing wanted, are subjoined to this advertisement, and the proposals must be accompanied with the names and residence of sufficient securities for performance.
JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk to the House of Representatives of the United States.
City of Washington, 11th March, 1805.
STATIONERY WANTED.
 Letter paper, hot pressed, vellum, extra large, } per ream.  Do. do. plain, } per ream.  Folio do. wove and plain, } per ream.  Do. medium size for engrossing, } per ream.  Post do. } per ream.  Ready made pens, per hundred, and quills per hundred.  Best Dutch red wax, } per lb.  Do. black do. } per lb.  Red wafers, } per lb.  Common black lead, in papers, and } per dozen.  Yew or holly and pounce boxes, per dozen.  Ink and inks, per pair.  Hand print phials with corks, } per dozen.  Low priced folios, } per dozen.  Lead pencils, } per dozen.  Red tape, in pieces, } per dozen.  Lot of the best quality, per gallon.  Indian rubber, per bottle.  Parchment, in skins, per dozen, cut, dressed, and pounced for use, 28 by 22 inches.  Office pens, knives, and crafting knives. 
The supply of these articles must embrace, a possible demand, to the value of 3,500 or 4,000 dollars, for the session. It is desirable that specimens of paper, quills and parchment should accompany the proposals; and in every instance, articles of American manufacture, of equal quality with, and not exceeding the price of similar imported articles, will be preferred. A security equal to 3,000 dollars will be required.
PRINTING WANTED.
 Job work, per sheet, octavo 300 impression of each sheet.  Bills numbered per line, in sheet or half sheet, folio.  Figure work, } in octavo, and in folio, same number of impressions.  Rule and figure work, } in octavo, and in folio, same number of impressions.  Table work, } in octavo, and in folio, same number of impressions.  Forming and stitching per hundred, for any number of documents exceeding three half sheets, and thence to twenty half sheets, and for all above.  Book binding in boards, } per folio and octavo, to volume, marked sheep, } and lettered. 
In every instance, the printer supplies the paper as well as the work, duly folded and pitched, and no possible delay is to occur, in the daily execution and delivery of the work, so that in all cases where it is practicable, the document ordered to be printed, on a given day, may be ready for delivery, the next morning at the hour to which the House stands adjourned. No extra allowance will be made for working on Sundays, holidays, or after night; these must be considered by the contractor, in the price per sheet. The contract must embrace a possible amount of work, during the session, equal to 10,000 dollars, and the security required will be to the amount of 20,000 dollars.
JOHN BECKLEY.
March 13—p3w
By virtue of an order from the Orphans court of Prince George's county, State of Maryland, will be exposed to public sale on Saturday the 30th inst. at the late dwelling house of Peter Wood, jun. late of said county deceased. The household furniture of the deceased, consisting of beds, chairs, tables, &c. also part of the stock, consisting of sheep, hogs, and cattle. The terms of sale are twelve months credit, the purchaser, or purchasers to give bond with approved security bearing interest from the day of sale.
JOHN T. WOOD, Administrator.
March 13—6t
RAGS.
THE highest price CASH, given for clean RAGS, by EDGAR PATTERSON George town, and SAMUEL STETTENIUS , near the Centre market, Washington.
March 8—tf.
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, silks, &c. composing figures, historical and ornamental, landscapes, flowers, fruit, birds, &c. maps wrought in silks, chenilles, gold, &c. print work in figures or landscapes; cloth work in fruit, birds, flowers, &c. filigree and varnishing in vases, pyramids, baskets, tea caddies, snuff boxes, &c. grotto and shell work, artificial flowers, tambour and Dresden, cross stitch, tent stitch, tapestry, &c. bangle and peal work, painting on velvet, gauze, silk, vellum, &c. Her terms are 200 dollars per annum for board and tuition. For music 12 dollars per quarter. Drawing 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.
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.
CH. BLES BIRGMAN, No. 215, Market-street, Baltimore.
Jan 16. tf.
ADAM KING, & Co.
AT their wine store in High street George Town, have in addition to their stock of old wines, just arrived a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Oseries suitable to the present season; where they are to be deposited; in their line, will constantly be filled up on the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wines, &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 commercial business as usual, will be attended to with the utmost attention, George Town, November 5. tf.
NEGROES 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 21st day of April next, at the late dwelling place of Mrs. Margaret Bowie, near Nottingham, in Prince George's county. 11 negro slaves, ALL of them young and likely. The sale will begin at 12 o'clock, and be for cash.
PHILEMON L. CHEW, F. D. MARSHALL, } Trustees.
March 8—2w.
Twelfth, at Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Shenendady, 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 armouers 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 pint 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 Michillimackinac, 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 any time when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions as is advanced, 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 tilting 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, 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 fitted 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—taw6w
Notice is hereby given.
War Department, March 6, 1805.
THE 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, Michillimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago, & 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 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, Old Kaskaskia, 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 country of Washington, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory south of the 41st degree of north latitude and fifty 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 Miac excepted.
Fifth, At New Orleans Plaquemine, Point Coupee, Opelousas, Natchez, Appomattox, Atakapas, 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, Cockspur 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 Susquehannah, 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 Susquehannah.
ROBERT CLEARY.
HAS removed his store, to the house of the late Mr. George Blagden New Jersey avenue on the Eastern Branch, where he has just received (in addition to his former stock) by the Schooner Hyland from Philadelphia a general assortment of grocery and liquors of superior quality, with a few boxes India china of the best quality eighty pieces to the set; all of which he will sell wholesale and retail at the most reduced prices for cash, or in exchange for country produce—All orders in his line will be executed with punctuality and dispatch; he flatters himself from the quality of his articles, he will be able to render ample satisfaction to his friends and all those who may be pleased to favor him with their custom. All kinds of commercial business will be attended to with the utmost attention. Washington city Dec. 12—tf
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by Mr. JAMES D. BARRY —where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce.
 Genuine Cogniac brandy, } inferior French do.  Old Jamaica spirits, } Madeira, } Sherry, } Wines, by the quarter cask.  Lisbon, } and cask, or smaller quantity.  Claret, } Brown Sugar, rft and ad quality.  Loaf and Lump, } do.  Molasses, } Fishkin Butter, } Mould Candles, } Sweet Oil, } Spices of different kinds, } Fig Blue, } Starch, } Almonds, } Anchovies, } In bottles.  Capers, } Powder and Shot, } Excellent Wine Vinegar, } Gin, } Whiskey, } Hylon, } Imperial, } Young Hylon, } superior quality.  Salt Herrings in Barrels, } PETER HEALY, & Co. Washington October 31—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
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 3 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, neatly 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, expence, 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 insure its accomplishment, a remunerated And while Virginia is powerfully stimulated with the love of science and virtue, they hope and believe the 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—tMar. 31
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. Bonadill, with whose ability 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. 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 t. m.
This day is Published, BY SAMUEL H. SMITH. And for Sale at Ripine's Book-store, PRICE ONE DOLLAR AND A QUARTER.
ADDRESSES OF THE Successive Presidents OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, At the opening of each Session, with their answers; from the commencement of the present government, to January 1, 1805. Together with the Inaugural Addresses during the same period, and the FAREWELL ADDRESS of George Washington. February 11—
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 Gray, 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 eastwardly parallel with Dunbarton street sixty feet, then southerly 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 fourth 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 easterly with said third line sixty feet, then eastwardly parallel with Dunbarton street sixty feet, then southwardly parallel with Washington street sixty feet, then to the beginning, and intended for the fourth 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
New Books FOR SALE, BY Rapine, Conrad, & Co. NEAR THE CAPITOL.
 CARD's history of revolution of Russia to the accession of Catherine 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 Othello, or Standard of British Royalty, Religion and Liberty.  Young's analysis of the principles of Natural Philosophy.  Weber's Natural Philosophy.  Lalle on the nature and propagation of Heat.  Segur's history of the reign of Frederick II. King of Prussia, 3 vols.  Gardiner's literary, political and economical Essays 2 vols.  Naval Chronicle, 11 vols. complete.  Wittman's Travels in Egypt, Rollens's original Correspondence, not before published, 2 vols.  Burdin's Medical Studies, 3 vols.  Murray's Materia Medica, 2 vols.  Chemistry, 2 vols.  Elements of Somanthi, 5 vols.  Morris's treatise on Brewing, Little's Poems.  Poetical Register for 1802, 2 vols.  Flowers of Literature, 2 vols.  Amadis, or the American Foundling, 2 vols.  Chances, 3 vols—Heliodora, 3 vols.  Depraved Husband, 2 vols.  Picture from Life, 2 vols.  Zoflora—Woman of Feeling, 4 vols.  Line of a Lover, 6 vols. by Sophia Lee, author of the Recess, &c.  Unexpected Legacy, 3 vols.  Modern Pauls, 2 vols.  Duchess of La Vallier, 2 vols. by Madam Genlis.  Confession in Rhyfem, 5 vols.  St. Clair of the Isles, 4 vols.  Benson's Apology for the Methodists.  Kotzebue's Travels from Berlin through Switzerland to Paris, 3 vols.  Lewis' (Charles Lee) Comic Sketches, The Pic Nic, 4 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.  Murphy House, 5 vols. by Mrs. Parsons, The arch Tower, 5 vols.  Theodorus De Zultvin, 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 Botte, by the author of My Uncle Thomas, &c. 3 vols.  A Essay on the art of Tormenting, with rules for the exercise of that amusing study, Aiken's (Dr.) Letters on English Poetry, Cavall'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.  Buffet's history of the Mathematics, Fellow's Guide to Immortality, 3 vols.  Black's Chemical Lectures, 2 vols.  Euler'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. m&f3w 
CHARLES H VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR.
Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods, consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cassimeres, patent Benoit's cord, tolietettes, fancy and white Marcellas, black and figured silk, mole skins, fancy silk, Marcellas, constitution cord, velvets, 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