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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. IV. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
CXXII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 d, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
The following piece was offered at the time of its date. Its insertion was then suspended under the impression that a publication of it on the DAY ANTECEDENT to the opening of the books of the Potomac Bank might have an undue influence on subscriptions, inasmuch as the facts and reasoning of the writer, however incorrect, could not be answered before the contemplated effect should be produced. Believing the subject of establishing banks, private as well as public, to be of considerable importance, it is with pleasure we comply with the promise, made at the time of declining immediate insertion, to admit the subjoined performance when the cause of suspension ceased to operate.—Editor of N. I.
For the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
REFLECTIONS ON PRIVATE BANKS.
Mr. EDITOR,
IN the communication, on Banks, which you did me the favor to publish in your paper of the 24th inst. it was hinted that every individual subscriber to a non-incorporated bank would be liable in his whole fortune for the debts of the bank—unwilling, at that time, to trespass too far on your columns, I refrained from entering into a reasoning on this point: on more mature reflection, I can but think it important to that part of the community about to embark in associations of the nature alluded to, to receive such information as, if not satisfactory or conclusive in itself, will at least direct their attention to the different parts of the subject not generally understood and enable them to make the requisite enquiries. With this view principally, I will once more ask your indulgence to use your paper, to adduce some arguments before purposely omitted—and to add some observations, which had escaped me when I last addressed you.—First, as to the question of liability.—“A partnership is a voluntary contract between two or more persons for joining together their money, goods or labour upon an agreement, that the gain or loss shall be divided proportionably.”—This is the plain definition of a partnership, intelligible to all men. But for the better understanding the effects of, and consequences resulting from such an association, it is proper to consider the relative situation of partners, as between each other and between themselves, jointly and severally, and the rest of the world.
As between themselves only, the contract of copartnership entered into between them must govern and control. But as between them and the rest of the world, their contract of copartnership has no operation. A partnership is a creature of human invention, formed as we have seen of two or more natural persons. This creature has certain rights, duties and responsibilities, attached to it in its artificial capacity.
To ascertain what these rights, duties and responsibilities are, we must resort to the law respecting partnerships and joint trading. The first rule is, that all the partnership effects are answerable for the demands against the partnership.
This rule is applicable to partnerships in all countries. Under our law, the second rule is, that the portion of each partner is answerable for all such demands, and that of course produces the third rule, to wit, that all the individual and private property of each partner is also subject to such demand. For altho' in some parts of the world, confined and limited partnerships are allowed, under certain regulations; by the English law, which is our law, they are wholly disallowed, and with us the rule is “That if a partner shares in the advantages, he shall also share in all the disadvantages of the partnership concern.”
Trading companies incorporated in England by royal charter, or banks incorporated in this country by legislative authority, are not partnerships; they are not within any of the legal principles applicable to partnerships, formed by the voluntary agreement of individuals. In such acts of incorporation, there are express provisions, that the members shall not be liable in their individual capacities, on account of their joint business. This is so repugnant to the custom of merchants respecting partnerships, and to the principles of law respecting joint traders, that it has been uniformly adjudged such companies do not constitute partnerships.
Taking into view the definition of a partnership, there can be no doubt that these late attempts to create banks without legislative authority, have and will constitute so many partnerships con-
stituted of the individual subscribers to, and stockholders in the respective projected institutions. They come precisely within the legal and technical definition of a partnership. “Two or more persons by a voluntary agreement joining together their money upon a contract, that the gain or loss shall be divided proportionably.”
They have indeed attempted to annex to this partnership, a quality that would terminate it into an incorporated company, but no individuals possess the power to effect this, it is a power belonging exclusively to the legislature. It is an attempt, by individuals, to change and alter the law of partnerships, which they are no more competent to do, than to change the law of descents, the law concerning marriages, or any other branch of the existing law. Should a company of merchants enter into partnership for carrying on commerce, but before their commencement, advertise, that their capital was made up by a specific sum of money paid in by each partner, and that those, who dealt with them, were to rely on this capital only, and to have no recourse to them individually; would such an advertisement have the effect to abrogate the law respecting partnerships? Or would it produce any effect other than to expose the attempt to general ridicule? How do these proposed associations differ from such a supposed partnership? In nothing, but in the nature of the business they are about to pursue. But this difference, they vainly suppose, affords them completely the means of evading the law; this will be the subject of future consideration.
The power of repealing, is as important a Branch of Legislation as the power of enacting; heretofore, in this country, they have both been deemed to belong exclusively to the representatives of the people, constitutionally elected for that purpose. But these persons have resorted to subtle inventions to evade the existing law in this particular, in which, if they succeed, they will have gained one branch of legislative authority; the power of abrogating and repealing existing laws; and having gone so far, they will no doubt by some new device, very soon obtain the power of enacting laws. It is to be regretted, that these schemers do not bear in mind, that every attempt to evade the settled principles of law, is idle and ineffectual.
But let us consider these subtle inventions. As they deal wholly in money, the device resorted to, is, that in their bank notes, which they issue as the representative of money, they set forth capitals, refer to the terms of their association as published, and restrict the notes for payment to that special fund. Thereby resorting to another principle of law, which declares that a note drawn upon a specific fund creates no personal responsibility, on any body. But this subterfuge for protection from personal responsibility, if understood by the world at large, must effectually destroy the contemplated Bank, by preventing the circulation of its notes. For if it be true, that these notes drawn upon a particular fund, will create no responsibility upon the stockholders, a circumstance not calculated to give them additional credit, it is equally a clear and settled principle of law, that such a note is not negotiable under the statute of Anne, & therefore cannot be assigned or transferred from one to another, so that the holder of such a note, unless it be payable to himself, can have no more authority to demand payment, than would the holder of a bond who found it in the street, which was payable to another, and not endorsed by the obligor.
That these associations do, to some purposes, constitute partnerships, cannot be denied. Their business is simple.—They take the note of an individual for a given sum, and they give him their notes in exchange, their notes being deemed equal to specie. The result then is, that the note they receive is payable to the partners, by their partnership name, and is a genuine partnership transaction and debt, whilst those they give in exchange for it, being charged upon a particular fund, create no responsibility upon any person. The one side of the same contract is purely a partnership transaction, and subject to all the principles of the law of partnership, the other side has nothing of a partnership transaction in it, and is subject to none of the principles of the law of partnership. Such are the strange absurdities and difficulties, in which those are involved, who seek to evade the settled principles of law.
But this subterfuge is a vain one. These men associate themselves toge-
ther. They say they will by different instalments, create a capital to a given amount. That this capital is the only fund to which those who deal with them, are in any event to have recourse. Here they stop; but this does not contain a true statement of the case, to enable us to form a correct opinion. We must add to this statement; that they themselves are to declare when this capital has been paid in, they themselves are to have the management and control of this capital, none but some one or more of themselves can be admitted to examine their proceedings, they themselves are to declare when this capital sum is exhausted, and when one of their notes is presented for payment, they themselves are to determine whether they themselves will pay. Can there be a case, among individuals, where there has been no legislative interference, in which a note passed for a fair, legal and valuable consideration, created no personal responsibility upon any person whatever? I believe there can be no such case. It must create a personal responsibility somewhere, either upon the drawer of the note, or upon the owner of the funds, upon which it is drawn. Here the drawers of the notes are the owners of the funds, out of which they are to be paid, and the persons who are to pay them. In some shape or other their partners must be individually answerable for all the transactions of the respective banks. If it should be admitted, that the notes upon the face of them impose no personal responsibility upon the stockholders, because of the special manner in which they are drawn, a point that can never be conceded, still it is certain that in all other respects they are partners, and as such are answerable for the conduct of each other in the management of these funds. They hold out to the world, what the capital upon which they act is, or is to be. Surely each stockholder is personally answerable that this capital should be brought in, and properly managed. This capital being created by various instalments or payments from the stockholders, if upon the call for the second, third or other instalment, the payment should be tendered in their own notes, such a payment will produce no increase of capital, and would not be admitted as a compliance with their proposition for raising such capital; nor, as I apprehend, would any thing but the actual specie be deemed a competent payment. When the capital is made up, they have the exclusive and uncontrollable management of it; and for any corrupt or imprudent use of it, some person must be responsible, and whenever responsibility is incurred, so far as relates to the creditors of the bank, there is nothing that can fix it upon one of the stockholders more than another. At best it would be admitted that the bank notes create no personal responsibility, in the event of a failure of every stockholder, to free himself from liability, must be prepared to prove that the capital stock has been fairly and fully paid in; that it was fairly managed, with due care and caution; and that the whole is actually and fairly exhausted. But it is believed, that no arrangement among themselves, no device that can be resorted to, will restrain the fundamental principle of law “that he who shares in the disadvantages shall also share in all the advantages of the partnership concern.”
If there be any truth in this reasoning, it is common to all associations set up without the sanction of the law, and not regularly incorporated, as well in Maryland as in Virginia, or in the district of Columbia. There are some peculiarities, arising from the differences in the laws of Virginia and Maryland, as they respectively relate to paper transactions, which place the subject on one ground within the state of Maryland—and that part of the district of Columbia to the north of Potomac; on another ground within the state of Virginia, and that part of the district of Columbia as lies north of Potomac. (the laws of Maryland being there yet in force) promissory notes are governed by the same rules as are foreign bills of exchange; such notes are negotiable as bills of exchange, are from one assignee or endorser to the other, and the holder may after non-payment on simple demand from the drawer, immediately have legal remedy against any one, or all the endorsers, and this under the statute of Anne, as it is called in the books, an act of parliament passed in England during the reign of Queen Anne, and adopted in Maryland, which likened promissory notes, not befo-
affinable in England, to bills of exchange, and gave them all the negotiable qualities of bills of exchange. In Virginia, the statute of Anne never has been adopted. In that state, and in so much of the district of Columbia as lies to the south of Potomac (the laws of Virginia bring there yet in force) promissory notes and bonds stand, in law, precisely on the same footing, as relates to the community at large, the only legislative provision is comprised in two acts of assembly, so short that they may be extracted and inserted here—Sec. 31. “An action of debt may be maintained upon a note or writing, by which the person signing the same shall promise or oblige himself to pay a sum of money or quantity of tobacco to another.”—Sec. 4th, “assignments of bonds, bills and promissory notes, and other writings obligatory for payment of money shall be valid; and an assignee of any such may thereupon maintain an action of debt in his own name, but shall allow all just discounts, not only against himself, but against the assignor, before notice of the assignment was given to the defendant,” revised code of Virginia, passed December 1785, chapter XXIX.—and again, ib. chapter CXCI. sec. 24. “a suit may be maintained in the name of assignee or assignees on any bond, bill, or obligation whatever, in like manner as such suit may be maintained by the assignor or assignors of a bond, bill or obligation for the payment of money or tobacco,” passed December 1795.
In order the more readily to be understood, let us apply these observations to the only two private banking companies in the part of the country which have, as yet, brought themselves into the view of the public; the Union Bank at Baltimore, and the projected bank of Potomac, at Alexandria, the first operating under the laws of Maryland, the last, if ever it operates at all, under the laws of Virginia.
The first, however, in spite of all its artifice, it may have submitted the whole fortunes of its stockholders to the discretion of its directors, as did the celebrated bank of Ayr in Scotland, however, it may have subjected itself, and the fate of its dealers to legislative interference, as in the case of the merchants bank at New-York; still it may as yet circulate its private bank notes, without penalty or embarrassment, (unless indeed by insisting on their specific fund system, they should deprive themselves of the benefits of the statute of Anne, and they may receive the full advantage and security of endorsers on the notes they discount by the ability to sue on the face of the note, without offset—any or all of their endorsers—The associates in the bank of Potomac, can only have a very inferior sort of security from the endorsers, on the paper they may discount:—They can sue no endorser until the drawer has been first in due diligence prosecuted to judgement, and evidence is given of no property to satisfy, from him; this may take years, in mean time the endorsers may fail, or remove out of reach. Thus will their capital be loaned on bonds or paper precisely, in law, similar to bonds; on which they must resort to this mode of recovery; as to the securities, flow and hazardous in the extreme; and more over subject to all discounts for transactions between drawer and endorser, and one endorser and another, until it reached them for discount, and until notice of assignment be given.
How far this mode of doing business will suit the indispensably punctilious transactions of the banking system, the public, who know the difference between bonds and bills of exchange every where, and in Maryland between bonds and promissory notes, will readily judge—and one would have thought it was a subject worth the previous consideration of the associates to this scheme. The legislature of Virginia were abundantly satisfied, that the banking system could not exist under any such circumstances, and in the only two banks she ever did establish, special provision was made to give to all the paper, the bank should deal in negotiable qualities, not before possessed, and to subject the endorsers to be sued in the first instance. I have not the charter of the bank at Alexandria before me, but the following provision made in the law establishing the bank of Virginia, passed as late as January 1791, will sufficiently evince the impression on the legislative mind at that time.—“The bills obligatory, and of credit, under the seal of the said corporation, which shall be made to any person or persons, shall be assignable by endorsement thereupon, under the hand or hands of such person or persons, and of his, her, or
their assignee, so as absolutely to transfer and vest the property in each and every assignee or assignees successively; and to enable such assignee or assignees, to bring and maintain an action thereupon, in his, her, or their own name, or names, and bills or notes which may be issued by order of the said corporation, signed by the president, and countersigned by the principal cashier or treasurer thereof, promising the payment of money to any person or persons, his, her, or their order, or to the bearer, though not under the seal of the said company, shall be binding and obligatory upon the same in the like manner, and with the like force and effect as upon any private person or persons, if issued by him or them, in his, her, or their private or natural capacity or capacities; and shall be assignable and negotiable in like manner as if they were so issued by such private person or persons, that is to say, those which are payable to any person or persons, his, her, or their order, shall be assignable by endorsement in the like manner, and with the like effect as foreign bills of exchange now are; and those which are payable to the bearer, shall be negotiable and assignable by delivery only; and all notes or bills at any time discounted by the said corporation, shall be; and they are hereby placed on the same footing as foreign bills of exchange; so that the like remedy may be had for the recovery thereof, against the drawer or drawers, endorser or endorsers, and with the like effect, except so far as relates to damages; any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.”—Sec. 8th, rule 9th.
I have stated in a former communication that the notes of the intended Bank of Potomac could not circulate in Virginia on account of a law of that state forbidding the circulation of private bank notes; if I construe the law correctly, the case is much stronger than I then apprehended—the laws of Virginia are in force in Alexandria, so too is this very law: Then a bank note can't pass the threshold of the bank door without meeting the prohibition immediately in its course! but admit for a moment, that all their conditions may be composed of notes payable to order, and endorsed by one of their officers in blank, may so remain and circulate un-molested—these bank notes then, which ought to be equivalent to specie are no more nor less than the promissory notes to order, of a private company of traders, governed by the laws of 1786 and 1795, quoted above. They are not post notes of the bank, commonly so called, as are the notes to order, of other banks, having different legislative provision—they are virtually the bonds of this banking company, passed to a person without a consideration and by him, as the servant of the company, to a third, for a consideration, and have no more force in law or facility in legal negotiability, and recovery, than the bond of any individual in society, and how far the holder of one of these notes might be able to maintain an action against the bank for the recovery of such a bond or note, may very well be questioned. The legislature of Virginia seem to have thought it requisite to make a special provision in their act of 1804, (see the 2d member of that part of the act herein quoted) for the negotiability of such bank paper in the case of the bank of Virginia.
The projectors of the Bank of Potomac, intimated, as it would seem, by the apparent success of the projectors of the Union Bank, have undertaken to form an establishment upon similar principles, and have with very little trouble and much less thought, simply copied almost verbatim, from the newspapers, the terms of association given to the world by these last, without any regard to difference of circumstances and situation; taking it for granted that the monied interest of the country would hasten to pour cash into their coffers without further enquiry. How far they will succeed time will shew. The publications of the bank fever do not appear to be so high as they have been, at least delirium stage will probably pass away before the coffers of the Potomac Bank are opened.
N. P.
August 29th, 1804.
Bank of Columbia.
THE Board of Directors having declared a Dividend for the half year, ending this day, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, the same will be paid to the stockholders or their representatives. WM. WILANN, Cashr. September 21, 1804—4v

The following are extracts of letters, relative to the alleged misunderstanding of Spain with our government, whose publication is ascribed by the Philadelphia prints to the Marquis Yrujo, and whose insertion in the National Intelligencer has hitherto from accident been omitted.
INTERESTING FROM SPAIN.
An intelligent merchant of this city has favored the editor of the Philadelphia Gazette with the following important letter received from a character of the first respectability at Cadiz, dated
July 20th 1804.
"In my last of the 10th ult. I advised you of the failure of our crops, since which our harvest has turned out even more unfavorably than was at first apprehended, and I know not from whence we can receive supplies adequate to our wants, unless from your side of the Atlantic. The threatening appearances of hostilities between this country and yours, have lately arisen to so alarming a height, that your ambassador, Mr. Pinkney, has actually demanded his passports, and I presume before this time has left Madrid. If war takes place, we shall be reluctantly forced into the measure in the defence of our dearest and best rights, and as it must be interesting to you to be informed of the principal cause of dispute, I enclose you an extract of a letter I have just received from a Spanish gentleman at Madrid, who possesses the best opportunities of information. It will explain to you the unfounded pretensions of your administration, in regard to the extent of Louisiana, who in order to enforce a submission to their unwarrantable claims to West Florida, may involve our countries in a contest, which would be deeply distressing to us, and could never be approved of or become popular in the United States, because unsupported by even a plausible pretext or the shadow of equity."
MADRID, July 12, 1804.
"Although it is understood that the refusal of this government to ratify the convention with the United States was produced by the inadmissible demands of the latter respecting the extent of Louisiana, yet the most alarming grounds of misunderstanding between our court and Mr. Pinkney, are in reality the pretensions set up by the American government to West Florida, which is all that tract of country lying east of the Mississippi, and extending as far as the river Perdido, excepting however therefrom, the island of New Orleans which attaches to Louisiana."
This territory, Spain will never relinquish, unless for a fair equivalent, but she does not dispute the title of the United States to Louisiana properly so called, although France has never complied with those conditions by the execution of which she was to have acquired a right to that province. In regard to East and West Florida, they were originally ceded by France to England by the treaty of peace of 1763, who at the same time ceded to Spain the island of New Orleans and territory west of the Mississippi, which we have held ever since without any alteration of boundaries whatever."
In 1780, we conquered from Great Britain all the country east of the Mississippi, then divided into East and West Florida, which conquests were confirmed to us by the definitive treaty of 1783. It is here to be observed that West Florida, has ever since retained that name, and formed no part of Louisiana as originally ceded by France to Spain, but having been conquered by the latter it remained a separate government, as when under the government of England, and independent of Louisiana, possessing a governor appointed by the crown, who was in a certain degree as well as the governor of Louisiana, dependent on the government of Havana.
It is evident that the treaty of cession of Louisiana, 1st by Spain to France, and 2dly, by France to the United States, never did or could in the remotest degree contemplate or include West Florida , inasmuch as that instrument makes no mention of Florida, by which name alone that country has been known ever since 1763, a period of 41 years.
The description of the ceded territory, given in the royal order of the Spanish court addressed to the intendant of Louisiana to deliver up that province to Gen. Victor, is also clear and precise, 'tis therein styled a retrocession of Louisiana, with the same extent it possessed when ceded by France to the crown of Spain.
As well might the American government claim East Florida also under her construction of the terms of the cession, because previous to the year 1719, France claimed all the country east of the Mississippi under the appellation of Louisiana, and did actually grant an exclusive privilege to the commerce thereof, to the famous Crozat.
If any thing further can be required to render the treaty still more clear and definite on this head, the intentions and meaning of the originally contracting
parties, must surely be deemed conclusive and final. The marquis de Cafo Calvo, commissioner on the part of Spain, and Monsieur L'Aussat, on the part of France, had respectively orders, the one to deliver, and the other to receive Louisiana, without any reference or allusion whatever to West Florida, and the act of delivery was thus completed conformably to those instructions from the two courts.
The interpretation given by the United States to the treaty of cession is therefore, equally extravagant and untenable, and will never be sanctioned or submitted to by the Spanish court, although the annihilation of the monarchy should become a possible consequence of its rejection of so degrading a proposal."
"You may judge from the translation of my friend's letter, of the unjust pretensions of your government, an adherence to which, and that too for a barren and unimportant tract of country compared with Louisiana, would forever tarnish the honor of your nation, and stamp it with the character of that grasping ambition from which the alone of all the powers of the earth has been heretofore exempt."
From the Winchester Gazette.
Mr. Bowen, There is still, I find, a difference of opinion respecting the cause of the breach lately made in the North Mountain, a few miles above Stover's town. Some imagine that the water occasioning it, burst at once from the caverns of the mountain; while others, I think, with more probability, suppose it proceeded from a water spout; which, falling near the top of the mountain, in its descent hurried trees, soil, rocks and every thing in its course along with it.
This breach in the side of the mountain makes its first appearance about 150 yards from the top, in two tracts 30 or 40 feet wide, which at the distance of 20 yards unite and form one channel from fifty to sixty yards wide to the bottom of the mountain.
In beginning to ascend from the bottom of the breach, nothing strikes with more astonishment than the prodigious velocity with which trees, rocks and every sort of resisting body seemed to have been hurried along, and the great difference, no less than 50 or 60 feet, in the height of the opposite sides of the current. This, however, you are able to account for, as you gradually ascend to the top, and then turn your eye towards the bottom of the mountain. In the first 400 yards of descent, the falling mass seems to have preserved a direct course and level surface; but, as in this distance it must have fallen perpendicularly at least 500 feet; the water, earth, trees and rocks all sweeping down together must have acquired an immense velocity and force. In this moment of greatest impetuosity, it strikes against and shoots up the side of a rising ground, from which recoiling and passing through a straight of little more than 100 feet, according to the law of swiftly running fluid, it is forced up the opposite side of a little valley to an incredible height. In this place the difference in altitude of the current's opposite sides is greatest. It seems to have disdained the lowest ground, and ambitious in destruction, triumphantly to have ranged along the eminence and irresistibly to have prostrated and swept every thing away.
After crossing and recrossing a little valley, the stream appears gradually to have recovered its level as it lost its force; of which, however, an astonishing proof remains yet to be taken notice of; a rock, as generally estimated of more than five tons weight, was brought down and immovably lodged in Mr. Funkhauser's meadow, a mile and a half or perhaps two miles from the commencement of the breach.
Had this water proceeded from the caverns of the mountain, as some suppose, it could not have passed away and disappeared so suddenly as it is known to have done, and the channels by which it issued would still be discoverable. Of these, however, there is not the least appearance, and so sudden was the fall, descent and flight of the water, that in less than five minutes after it had passed, there was not even the appearance of a flood, and the whole breach, sixty yards wide, and in some places forty feet deep, was in a very little time entirely dry.
Let us suppose then that it proceeded from the atmosphere, as already suggested in the substance of a water spout. We know that fluids, in their ascent or descent, acquire a whirling motion. Light or rarified air in ascending to the upper regions of the atmosphere, occasions whirlwinds; and cold or condensed air, the equilibrium which supports it, being destroyed, descending from the upper to the lower regions of the atmosphere, naturally assumes the same motion, with this difference, that warm moist air, in its ascent, is condensed into clouds; whereas cold air, in its descent, condenses the moist air and clouds into rain or hail; and drawing into its vortex the surrounding atmospheric moisture and clouds, precipitates them
sometimes in one continued pour of water, to which we give the name of water spout.
The theory of water spouts derives some support from observing that they generally if not always fall during the day, during sunshine, in the neighborhood, and on the south side of mountains of considerable height.
On the top of such mountains the atmosphere is cold, and the sun rarifying the air on the south side, the equilibrium is thereby destroyed, and the cold air, with the motion already mentioned, descending naturally occasions all the subsequent phenomena.
When this spout fell, the atmosphere was clear; the farmers in the neighborhood driven under rigid rain, had resumed their labors in the field. No clouds were observed—a noise resembling the blowing of rocks, gave the first alarm; and a young woman, instantly throwing up her eyes, exclaimed 'Father! father, Cedar creek is coming over the North Mountain!' and began to run. A dark smoaky cloud was now seen to cover the side of the mountain from top to bottom, accompanied, as is said, with a trembling of the earth.
The injury done to the farms below, is, in some instances, very considerable, a Mr. Funkhauser and his son, are the principal sufferers. Their crops on the low ground are destroyed, their meadows, in some places, covered with rocks and rubbish, and the surface in others entirely swept away.
PARIS, July 14.
The free masons' lodges have, by an imperial decree, been opened every where, under the superintendence of the police agents. The members are permitted to converse, speak, and write, on any subject, except those concerning religion, morality, and politics. They may meet once in the month on giving previous notice, three days before, to the Police commissaries, when they intend to assemble, of the cause which makes them desire to assemble, and of the subject which they intend to deliberate upon. Their registers and books are always to be open for inspection, and they must expel any members, judged unworthy or dangerous by government. They may wear decorations of every description, and ribbons of every colour, except those that decorate the public functionaries, and the members of the legion of honor. All citizens, not occupying places under government, may be made free masons; but those, as well as all military men, from the rank of a general, to the gradation of a common soldier or sailor, cannot be admitted without previously receiving the Imperial permission. All females are excluded for ever, and no foreigner is to be admitted, without first obtaining a letter of recommendation from the minister of police, senator Fouche; who has, as well as the emperor, an exclusive right to open or shut up all lodges, to exclude or admit any person he thinks proper, without giving any reason for his decision.
[Le Citoyen Francois.]
It is reported that the king and queen of Prussia, the electors of Bavaria and of Hesse Cassel, intend to visit Spain this summer, where, rumour says, that the Hotel de Lorraine has already been hired for the Prince Royal of Denmark. As the empress goes to Aix la Chapelle, where, perhaps, the emperor, after inspecting the camps on the coast, will join his consort; many persons conclude, that an interview will take place between his majesty and the above royal and electoral sovereigns and princes. The report, that a congress for negotiating a general pacification will assemble at Buffels or Aix la Chapelle, though revived, is not believed. A congress convoked under the presidency of our emperor in London, at St. James's or Westminster, can alone restore Europe to tranquillity, of which England alone has deprived it; crush the proud islanders, and force them to be just and moderate.
[Journal de Paris.]
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WASHINGTON CITY,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3.
The following is the ADDRESS, lately delivered by the PRESIDENT of the United States, to the Chiefs of the Osage Nation. We offer it to the public, with a confidence that the sentiments of good will it breathes towards the aborigines of the soil, will afford as much pleasure to the reader, as they confer honor on the government.
My Children, White hairs, Chiefs and Warriors of the Osage Nation.
I repeat to you assurances of the satisfaction it has given me to receive you here. Besides the labor of such a journey, the confidence you have shewn in the honor and friendship of my countrymen is peculiarly gratifying, and I hope you have seen that your confidence was justly placed, that you have found yourselves, since you crossed the Mississippi, among brothers and friends with whom you were as safe as at home.
My Children: I sincerely weep with you over the graves of your chiefs and friends, who fell by the hands of their enemies lately defending the Osage river. Had they been prisoners, and living, we would have recovered them: but no voice can awake the dead, no power undo what is done; on this side of the Mississippi where our government has been long established, and our authority organised our friends visiting us are safe. We hope it will not be long before our voice will be heard and our arm respected, by those who meditate to injure our friends, on the other side of that river; in the mean time Governor Harrison will be directed to take proper measures to inquire into the circumstances of the transaction, to report them to us for consideration and for the further measures they may require.
My Children: By late arrangements with France and Spain, we now take their place as your neighbours, friends and fathers; and we hope you will have no cause to regret the change. It is so long since our forefathers came from beyond the great water, that we have lost the memory of it, and seem to have grown out of this land, as you have done; never more will you have occasion to change your fathers. We are all now of one family, born in the same land, and bound to live as brothers, and the strangers from beyond the great water are gone from among us, the great Spirit has given you strength, and has given us strength; not that we might hurt one another, but to do each other all the good in our power. Our dwellings indeed are very far apart; but not too far to carry on commerce and useful intercourse. You have furs and peltries which we want, and we have clothes and other useful things that you want; let us employ ourselves then in mutually accommodating each other. To begin this on our part, it was necessary to know what nations inhabited the great country called Louisiana, which embraces all the waters of the Mississippi and Missouri, what number of peltries they could furnish, what quantities and kinds of merchandise they would require, where would be the deposits most convenient for them, and to make an exact map of all these waters. For this purpose I sent a purpose I sent a beloved man, Capt. Lewis, one of my own household, to learn something of the people with whom we are now united, to let you know we were your friends, to invite you, to come and see us, and to tell us how we can be useful to you. I thank you for the readiness with which you have listened to his voice, and for the favor you shewed him in his passage up the Missouri. I hope your countrymen will favor and protect him as far as they extend. On his return we shall hear what he has seen and learnt, and proceed to establish trading houses where our red brethren shall think best, and to exchange commodities with them on terms with which they will be satisfied.
With the same views I had prepared another party to go up the Red river to its source, thence to the source of the Arkansas, and down to its mouth, but I will now give orders that they shall only go a small distance up the Red river this season, and return to tell us what they have seen, and that they shall not set out for the head of that river till the ensuing spring, when you will be at home, and will, I hope, guide and guard them on their journey. I also propose the next year to send another small party up the river Kansas to its source, thence to the head of the river of the Panis, and down to its mouth, and others up the river on the North side of the Missouri. For guides along these rivers we must make arrangements with the nations inhabiting them.
My Children: I was sorry to learn that a schism had taken place in your nation, and that a part of your people had withdrawn with the great track, to the Arkansas river, we will send an agent to them and will use our best offices to prevail on them to return, and to live
in union with you. We wish to make them also our friends, and to make that friendship, and the weight it may give us with them, useful to you and them.
We propose, my children, immediately to establish an agent to reside with you, who will speak to you our words, and convey yours to us; who will be the guardian of our peace and friendship, convey truths from the one to the other, dissipate all falsehoods which might tend to alienate and divide us, and maintain a good understanding and friendship between us; as the distance is too great for you to come often, and tell us your wants, you will tell them to him on the spot, and he will convey them to us in writing, so that we shall be sure that they come from you; through the intervention of such an Agent, we shall hope that our friendship will forever be preserved, no wrong will ever be done you by our nation, and we trust that yours will do none to us; and should ungovernable individuals commit unauthorised outrage on either side, let them be duly punished; or if they escape, let us make to each other the best satisfaction the case admits, and not let our peace be broken by bad men, for all people have some bad men among them whom no laws can restrain. As you have taken so long a journey to see your fathers, we wish you not to return till you shall have visited our country and towns towards the sea coast. This will be new and satisfactory to you, and it will give you the same knowledge of the country on this side of the Mississippi, which we are endeavoring to acquire of that on the other side, by sending trusty persons to explore them. We propose to do in your country only what we are desirous you should do in ours; we will provide accommodations for your journey, for your comfort while engaged in it, and for your return in safety to your own country, carrying with you those proofs of esteem with which we distinguish our friends, and shall particularly distinguish you. On your return tell your people that I take them all by the hand, that I become their father hereafter, that they shall know our nation only as friends and benefactors; that we have no views upon them but to carry on a commerce useful to them and us; to keep them in peace with their neighbours, that their children may multiply, may grow up and live to a good old age, and their women no longer fear the tomahawk of any enemy.
My children, these are my words, carry them to your nation, keep them in your memories, and our friendship in your hearts, and may the Great Spirit look down upon us, and cover us with the mantle of his love.
TH: JEFFERSON.
At the time the foregoing Address was delivered, the Chiefs were presented with the following Instrument of writing on parchment.
Chiefs and Warriors of the Osage nation of Indians!
The President of the United States takes you by the hand and invites you and all the nations of Red people within the territory of the United States to look up to him as their father and friend, and to rely in full confidence upon his unvarying disposition to lead and protect them in the paths of peace and harmony, and to cultivate friendship with their brothers of the same colour, and with the citizens of the United States.
We have now made the chain of friendship bright between us, binding us altogether.—For your and our sakes, and for the sake of your and our children we must prevent it from becoming rusty. So long as the mountains in our land shall endure, and our rivers flow, so long may the red and white people dwelling in it, live in the bonds of brotherhood and friendship.
In order that this friendship may be perpetual, and to prevent as far as possible every cause which might interrupt it. It is hereby announced and declared by the authority of the United States; that all lands belonging to you lying within the territory of the United States, shall be and remain the property of your nation, unless you shall voluntarily relinquish or dispose of the same—and all persons, Citizens of the United States, are hereby strictly forbidden to disturb you or your nation, in the quiet possession of said lands.
The President of the United States sends you by your beloved Chiefs now present, a Chain; * it is made of pure Gold, which will never rust—and may the Great Spirit assist us in keeping the chain of friendship, of which this Golden chain is an emblem, bright for a long succession of ages.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the War Office of the United States, at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, and of the Independence of said States the twenty ninth.
(Signed)
H. DEARBORN.
*This has an allusion to a golden chain with which the instrument was embellished.

DIED.
At Bladensburg, Prince George's county, Maryland, on Friday the 28th ult. Dr. Alexander Mitchell —a man of integrity, rectitude and liberality—the gentleman of his manners, the kindness of his heart, and the generosity of his disposition, were conspicuous through the whole of his deportment, and in all the various relations of life, as husband, father, friend; in a word, he was an honest man, a friend of human nature, and a valuable member of society—eminent in his profession—and few characters will be found more universally, or more justly lamented: by a circle of friends.—In him the neighbourhood has sustained a great loss, and his readiness to obey their calls in this sickly season outweighed in his mind private interest—and he thereby became a sacrifice to the calls of humanity.
NEW-YORK, September 28.
Important Dispatches from Mr. Pinckney , our minister at the Spanish court, arrived yesterday in the brig Hope from Cadiz. They are borne by Lieut. Dalton , of the navy, who informs that Mr. Pinckney would leave Madrid on his return to the United States, on the 20th August. The ultimatum of the Spanish government is said to be of such a nature as it is impossible for the United States even to accede to.
BOULOGNE, July 21.
The Emperor Napoleon arrived in our road at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. He went on board several of the vessels belonging to the flotilla.
July 22.
We had yesterday a very violent gale of wind at 11 o'clock. The Emperor went immediately down to the beach, and saved with his own hands a number of unhappy persons, who were nigh being swallowed up by the waves. In the impetuosity of his zeal to afford succour to some poor wretches who were tossed up and down by the boiling waves, he plunged into the sea, although a sailor apprised him of his danger. I tremble to inform you, that our beloved Sovereign had nigh fallen a victim to this glorious act of self devotion, but fortunately for France he was preferred from the danger. The soldiers and sailors were highly affected by the affable, indeed it may be said, the friendly manner in which the Emperor remonstrated with the sailor who endeavoured to prevent him from plunging into the sea. The Emperor returned to head quarters at half past 4 in the morning, excessively fatigued. This day he visited every part of the shore to give the necessary orders. It is almost superfluous to mention, that the troops, both naval and military, executed them with alacrity.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Like the Leming, the affailants of our administration, keep one unvarying course without ever turning or even looking to the right or to the left, seemingly-careless of the miserable condition into which their pride and folly has sunk them. Happy, however, for this country, they have now reached the water's edge, without committing further damage or depredation on their route, than destroying a few waggon loads of blank paper and about 100 kegs of lampblack, which some silly fellows, out of wantonness, put in their way. They are now crawling over our gun-boats, but as these boats have been constructed (by way of experiment) according with the best models brought by our captains from the Mediterranean, recommended by them, and built under their immediate eye and superintendence, it is presumed they will only leave a vicious kind of matter on their sides, which the gentle act of easy sailing at once takes off without the least injury or inconvenience whatever. When they get over the gun-boats, and fairly take water on the opposite side, we shall soon hear no more of them, as it is clear from their awkward & convolving motion, but few of them can swim long. One of them, indeed, with a raucous and magniloquous peculiar to these little animals, (but which in itself their imbecility makes diverting) pursued the gun boat from Norfolk to this place, yet having nothing here to feed on that suits their appetite, there must have been none.
BY AUCTION,
A House near the War Office. ON Saturday the 6th inst. (October) at 2 o'clock P.M. I will sell by auction my house on Pennsylvania avenue, the fourth west of President's square. It is two stories high, 36 feet front, 33 feet deep, has four rooms on each floor, and a flat roof which by throwing a roof over it, will give four additional rooms. There is an alley of six feet wide adjoining, and the house can at a trifling expence be made two houses of six rooms each. Its public situation makes it eligible for business, and its vicinity to the public offices ensures a purchaser a good tenant if he wants one. Terms of sale, between three and four hundred dollars cash, the remainder in one, two, and three years, bearing interest, and secured by mortgage on the property. JOHN GARDINER. October 3—2t
NOTICE.
THE taxable inhabitants of Washington city and others concerned, are hereby informed that the tax on real and personal property, also the tax on Slaves and Dogs for the year 1804, must be paid to the subscriber on or before the 1st day of December next. WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of Washington city.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted , That every person who shall neglect to pay his tax to the Treasurer on or before the said first day of December in each year, shall in addition thereto pay five per centum, on the amount thereof, provided the same be paid within one month thereafter, and in case the same be not then paid at the rate of three per centum for every month's further delay; it being understood that at the period of payment or satisfaction therefor, any shorter period than a month beyond an entire month shall be reckoned the same as a month; provided that such penalty shall not be demandable from the residents of the county of Washington, or persons having known agents therein, unless the tax on which the same may have accrued shall have been demanded according to the provisions of this act.
Oct. 3—2pm.
The subscriber has for sale
the following articles. Cognac Brandy, 4th proof in pipes, French, do. 1st proof in do. of excellent flavor. 14 puncheons Jamaica Rum, 4th proof. Madeira, Sherry, and Lisbon wines in pipes and quarter casks. Claret in cases of excellent quality. Imperial, Hylon, and Young Hylon, teas of the latest importations. A few casks of Molasses, and a few barrels excellent herrings.
W.M. BRENT. Washington, October 3—3w
Washington Jockey Club RACES.
ON Tuesday, November 13th, 1804. will be run for over the Washington Course, a JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, the four mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding, agreeably to the rules of the Club—carrying weight as follows: an aged horse, 126—six years old, 120—five years old, 112—four years old, 100—and three years old, 86 pounds. Also, a Match, the two mile heats for 2000 dollars.
WEDNESDAY.
A Jockey Club Purse, the three mile heats, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding day excepted. And a sweep-stake in the evening.
THURSDAY.
An elegant Fifty guinea Silver Cup—eight subscribers. And a handsome City and Town Purse, free as aforesaid, the winning horse of the preceding days excepted.
The members of the Club are requested to be punctual in meeting at the club room on the evening preceding the races, in order to make proper arrangements for the same, and those who cannot attend will please to forward their dues to the subscriber.
C. M'LAUGHLIN, Secretary and Treasurer, W. J. C. N. B. The amount of the purses cannot at this time be ascertained: as they are in part to be raised from tolls at the gates and the rent of booths. C. M'L. October 3—13N
District of Columbia, Washington County, to wit:
ON the petition of GEORGE WALKER , an insolvent debtor confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said George Walker that, on Monday the 22nd day of October, at 10 o'clock A.M. at the court room in the Capitol, the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said Walker, agreeably to an act of Congress now in force respecting insolvent debtors in the district of Columbia, and a trustee appointed unless sufficient cause then and there be shown to the contrary.
It is ordered that this notice be published three times in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist, and three times in a paper published in New York, and in a Philadelphia and Baltimore paper prior to that day.
By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the district of Columbia.
URIAM FORREST Clk. October 3—3t
RENT.
TWO or three Three story BRICK HOUSES, in the city of Washington—they are situated on the Capitol Hill, and well calculated for boarding houses, or private families, for terms apply to DANIEL GARROLL , of Duddington. October 3—3w
The subscriber will lease to the highest bidder, on the premises on Saturday the 20th day of October next, for the term of ten years, the plantation late the property of Major John C. Jones, at lower Cedar Point; about 200 acres of the land arable, and as fertile as any land in Charles county. This property is conveniently situated for a retail store, especially in the grocery line, as most of the shipping passing up and down the Potomac are frequently obliged to make harbor at the Point. One half the money bid for the lease, must be paid on the day of sale, and the balance in five annual instalments; a deed will be prepared for the inspection of those who may leave the premises, and possession given on the 1st day of January 1805.
The subscriber will be thankful to the creditors of Major Jones if they will, on or before the above mentioned day, exhibit to her, their respective claims against the deceased.
DOROTHY H. JONES. October 3—3w
Runaway.
THERE was committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the first instant, a negro man by the name of HARRY , but since committed confesses his name to be BEN , and says he belongs to Benjamin Berry, of Charles county, Maryland: He is about 23 years old, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, a chunky fellow, his clothing are a striped woollen waistcoat, coarse linen shirt and trowers. If his owner does not release him he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law. GEORGE CREAGER , Sheriff of Frederick county. October 3—1aw8t
By JAMES MADISON , Secretary of State of the United States.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of the Act of Congress passed on the 26th March last, entitled "An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President, in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President."—That the amendment proposed, during the last session of Congress, to the Constitution of the United States, respecting the manner of voting for President and Vice President of the United States, has been ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, to wit: by those of Vermont, Rhode-Island, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, and has thereby become valid as part of the Constitution of the United States.
Given under my hand at the City of Washington, this twenty fifth day of September, 1804. (Signed) JAMES MADISON.
The Printers of the laws of the United States are requested to publish the above notification and the annexed law, three times in their Gazettes.
AN ACT
Supplementary to the act, entitled "An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President, in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice President."
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled, That whenever the amendment proposed during the present session of Congress to the constitution of the United States, respecting the manner of voting for President and Vice President of the United States, shall have been ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, the secretary of state shall forthwith cause a notification thereof to be made to the executive of every state, and shall also cause the same to be published, in at least one of the newspapers printed in each state, in which the laws of the United States are annually published.—The executive authority of each state shall cause a transcript of the said notification to be delivered to the electors appointed for that purpose, who shall first thereafter meet in such state, for the election of a President and Vice President of the United States: and whenever the said electors shall have received the said transcript of notification, or whenever they shall meet more than five days subsequent to the publication of the ratification of the above mentioned amendment, in one of the newspapers of the state, by the secretary of state, they shall vote for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively, in the manner directed by the above mentioned amendment, and having made and signed three certificates of all the votes given by them, each of which certificates shall contain two distinct lists, one, of the votes given for President, and the other, of the votes given for Vice President: they shall seal up the said certificates, certifying on each, that lists of all the votes of such state given for President, and of all the votes given for Vice President, is contained therein, and shall cause the said certificates to be transmitted and disposed of, and in every other respect act in conformity with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement. And every other provision of the act to which this is a supplement, and which is not virtually repealed by this act, shall extend and apply to every election of a President and Vice President of the United States, made in conformity to the above mentioned amendment to the constitution of the United States.
And whereas, the above mentioned amendment may be ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states, and thereupon become immediately valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the constitution, on a day to near the day fixed by law for the meeting of the electors in the several states, that the electors shall not in every state be apprised of the said ratification, and may vote in a manner no longer conformable with the constitution, as amended, whereby several states might be deprived of their vote in the election of a President and Vice President; for remedy whereof,
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted , That the electors who shall be appointed in each state for the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, shall at every such election, unless they shall have received a transcript of the notification of the ratification of the above mentioned amendment to the constitution, or unless they shall meet more than five days subsequent to the publication of the said ratification by the Secretary of State, in one of the newspapers of the state, vote for President and Vice President of the United States, in the following manner, that is to say: they shall vote for two persons as President and Vice President, in conformity with the first section of the second article of the constitution. And in other respects act in conformity with the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement; and they shall likewise vote for one person as President, and for one person as Vice President, in conformity with the above mentioned amendment of the constitution; and in other respects act in conformity with the provisions of the first section of this act. But those certificates only, of votes given for President and Vice President of the United States, shall be opened by the President of the Senate, for the purpose of being counted which shall contain the list or lists of votes given in conformity with the Constitution, as in force on the day fixed by law for the meeting of the electors, by whom the said votes shall have been given.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That whenever, by the provisions of the second section of this act, it shall be the duty of the electors for any state, to vote in conformity, both with the constitution, and of the proposed amendment thereto, the executive authority of such state shall cause six lists of the names of the electors of the state to be made and certified, and to be delivered to the said electors on or before the day fixed by law for them to meet and vote for President and Vice President, and the said electors shall enclose one of the said lists in each of the certificates by them made and sealed, in conformity to the provisions of this act, and of the act to which this is a supplement.
NATL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 26, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
FALL AND WINTER GOODS. JOHN COX, GEORGE TOWN.
HAS received a large and general assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, which he will sell on the very best terms. Among which are carpets and carpeting, negro cottons, kerseys and plains, rose and striped blankets, superfine, second and coarse cloth, and cashmeres, patent Bennets cord, thickets, velvets and fancy cords, coatings, flushing's baizes, flannel and bookings, twanstown and molekin waistcoating, gentlemen's fine fur and silk molekin hats, common fur and coarse wool do children's do men's and women's silk, cotton, worsted and yarn hose, muffs and tippets, gentlemen and ladies neck and shoulder comforts, book, jacquet, cambric and lace mufin, white and colored embossed cambric, do. silk and mufin shawls and handkerchiefs, fur and molekin do. elegant laces and edgings, silver, silk, and cotton trimmings, silver frogs and shoe roges, American manufactured bed ticken, bed face, Irish linens and sheeting, Oznaburghs, Tecklenburgh's brown hempen and rolls, mahogany dressing cases with silk cushions, do. dressing glasses, tea trays and Morocco deccanter stands, ladies pic net, silk, cotton, doe skin, kid and beaver gloves and mitts, men's beaver, cotton and fulled gloves, Leghorn hats and bonnets, white and black feathers and sprays—crape pealongs, fattins, lutestrings and saracens, Marcellas and cotton counterpanes, elegant fans, with almost every other article of fancy and substantial goods. October 1—tawtf
500 Dollars Reward. WHEREAS on the first day of April last a Negro fellow named STROTHER and his wife named PHILLIS absconded from my plantation near Chester court house South Carolina—and as I have reason to suspect that some white person or persons has been accessory in said negroes elopement, or has feloniously carried them away—I hereby offer the above reward upon conviction of any white person concealing or carrying away said negroes. Forty dollars with all reasonable expences will be paid for lodging said negroes in any jail and giving notice by letter to me at Chester C. H. South Carolina, so that I may get them, or twenty dollars for each; that is, if they are taken by any person after this date—any jailor or other persons giving notice to me of said negroes, that they are lodged in any jail before this date shall be very handsomely rewarded. STROTHER is 22 or 23 years of age, little yellow complexioned, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, stout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a scar countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former overseer in Virginia for rebelling against him. PHILLIS is 20 or 22 years old of a middle size, trim made, black complexion, is a small lip when she speaks—Said negroes formerly belonged to Mr. Edward Carter in Prince William county, state of Virginia, where it is supposed (if they have eloped of themselves) they will try to go. Any letters of information will be very thankfully received JOHN JOHNSTON. Chester C. H. South Carolina, July 11—1awtf
LOTTERY No. III.
For the encouragement of Literature. SCHEME.   1 Prize of 25,000 dolls. 25,000  1 5,000  1 2,000  1 1,000  18 500  60 200  120 100  200 50  500 20  9000 10  1st drawn no. 1st day 500  1 5th  1 10th  1 15th  1 20th  1 25th  1 30th  1 35th  1 40th  1 45th  1 50th  9,913 prizes Dolls. 198,000  23,037 blanks.  33,000 tickets at 6 dollars is 198,000  Less than 2 1-2 blanks to a prize.  Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. 
The drawing of the above lottery will certainly commence in the city of New York, on the first Tuesday in December next, and will be continued at the rate of 600 tickets each day until completed. The managers having disposed of twenty thousand tickets, to a company of contractors in the city of New York, the remainder will be sold for cash only, by the respective managers, until the first Tuesday in October next. This is the third of five lotteries, directed by an act of the Legislature, passed the 3d of April, 1801, entitled an "act for the encouragement of Literature"—and "an act making further provision for improving the navigation between the villages of Troy and Waterford, and for other purposes."
DAVID GELSTON, THOMAS STORM, DANIEL HALE, PHILIP TEN EYCK, S. SOUTHWICK, Managers. June 6—*
In the case of JOHN AIKEN an intol vent debtor.
PROPOSALS
BY JOHN DIXON, For printing by Subscription, a Periodical Work, to be entitled the VIRGINIA MAGAZINE, OR, Monthly Miscellany.
CONDITIONS.
 I. The work to contain 68 pages (Octavo) monthly, of selected miscellaneous prose, and of original prose also, whenever the exertions of the Editor, and his Assistant, and the communications of correspondents can supply it.  Of improvements and experiments in Agriculture, with which the Editor hopes to be furnished by the Farmers, &c. of this and other states, or to select himself.  Of debates in Congress.  Of Foreign and Domestic Intelligence.  Of Selected Poetry, and Original too, whenever good can be procured and not otherwise.  Marriages and Deaths.  Of Prices Current.  II. The work to be printed on good paper, and with a neat type.  III. The price to Subscribers, to be Five Dollars per annum, one half to be paid on the delivery of the first number, and the balance at the expiration of six months after.  IV. The work to be put to press as soon as 300 Subscribers are obtained. 
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THE utility and rational amusement derivable from well conducted Magazines, probably will not be controverted. They afford an asylum for many fugitive essays, that might otherwise meet with a more rigorous fate than they merit. The brevity of their articles and their longer duration of existence than that of some other periodical publications, hold out an inducement to that indolence too frequently the attendant of genius, and to those pressed by the cares of business, to devote an hour or two to their own entertainment, and the pleasure and instruction of the community, while the greater variety of subjects they comprise, gives them a decided superiority over several other works. —For they contain something to suit the palate of every one, and may be particularly pleasing and instructive to those who have not the inclination or the leisure to peruse more prolix writings. There are few countries, where a love of reading prevails and science is regarded, in which Magazines are not numerous and well received. And yet the Subscriber thinks he is correct in saying that not one is published in the respectable state of Virginia. He designs to publish one, principally of a Literary complexion, provided he obtains adequate support, in which case he flatters himself, that his exertions will prove fully satisfactory to his patrons. For any reluctance to subscribe, arising from a non compliance of any persons who may have issued proposals, similar to the foregoing, the subscriber has it only in his power to say that he pledges his honor to comply with his engagement, if supported by the public. September 7.
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Wanted Immediately,
A GOOD BLACKSMITH, Who will meet with generous encouragement and steady employ—Enquire of the Printer. Washington Sept. 28—3t

City of Washington, Sept. 28, 1804. TAKEN this day from a person who calls himself John Clark Peacock, and who has been committed to jail for horse stealing, a SORREL HORSE with a blaze face and his off hind leg white, is about 14 1-2 hands high, and has been lately towelled on both shoulders, also a bay bloated colt of 2 years old last spring, about 11 1-2 hands high and of a handsome shape.
COHN CONINGHAM. October 1, 1804. N.B. The above described horse and colt are now in the keeping of Robert Sutton, of said city. The owners, if any, are required to come within ten days from this date, prove property, pay charges, and take them away—otherwise they will be sold to pay expenses.
35 Journey-men Shoemakers wanted, TO whom constant employment will be given and liberal wages. For further particulars, enquire at the store of AL X. MCCORMICK, Cabinet-Hill, Washington. October 1st, 1804—tf
Wanted Immediately, A GOOD BLACKSMITH, Who will meet with generous encouragement and steady employ—Enquire of the Printer, Washington Sept. 28—3t
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR. Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a hand some assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish fine-line cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marleilles, colored and white Janes, india nankeens, cotton cassimeres, black silk and fustian Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N.B. Ladies habits, regiments, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—tf
REMOVAL. THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. RHODES (LAT. LOVEL'S) HOTEL, near the President's Square. In addition to the present stock of goods, an Hand some Assortment is expected immediately. Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition. T.C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any. April 16—tf.
TO RENT, A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on Street, Lot No. 3, square 106, as present occupied by Mrs. Scott. Possession may be had the 1st of August next. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a stable, and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Enquire of Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber High Street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town. ABRAHAM JOY. June 29—tf
FOR SALE. The following City Lots, ON A LIBERAL TIME, Upon Security, viz. LOTS—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in square No. 919.—Lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 938. Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 986. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1066. Apply to CHARLES MINIFIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD C. JONES, at Philadelphia. Washington, August 3—tf. N.B. C. M. has sundry other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situations.
DOCTOR MARKUDER, HAS for sale a few hogsheads 4th proof Jamaica spirits, linseed and lamp oil, spirits of turpentine, window glass, glaziers diamonds, glue, lamp black, white lead, Spanish whiting, Venetian red, red lead, verdigris, drop lake, flake white, patent yellow, rose and Dutch pink, kings yellow, Turkey umber, gold and silver leaf, painters and sweepers brushes, camels hair pencils, water colours in boxes, Spanish indigo, fig blue, arnot, red wood, alkant, madder, logwood, turmeric, salt petre, alum, copperas, sweet oil, pearl barley, timothy and clover seed, tamarinds, castor oil, marble mortars, pricing truffles, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, Chings worm destroying lozenges, an assortment of paper hangings, playing cards, copy slips, ink powder, English Latin, Greek and French school books, large family bibles, and his usual complete assortment of drugs and medicine, patent medicine, surgeons instruments, &c. George Town, July 20—tf
HAT MANUFACTURY. The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge Street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may choose to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and goodness be requisites. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
FOR SALE. A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great and little Satilla rivers in the counties of Wayne and Telfair in the state of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasturage for cattle. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—tf.
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery. To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond. Dollars. 1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000 1 do. 10,000 1 do. of 1,000 make 5,000 5 do. — 500 — 3,000 10 do. — 200 — 2,000 20 do. — 100 — 2,000 100 do. — 50 — 5,000 250 do. — 30 — 7,500 400 do. — 25 — 10,000 1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000 3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000 1 first drawn ticket after 1,000, having a blank to its number, 250 1 do after 2,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000 5,325 prizes, 250,000 9,675 blanks, not two to a prize. 15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N.B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars, in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great, as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, March 2—tf Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Pickard.
AN ACT Providing for the establishment of semi-annual Fairs. BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That two Fairs be held in every year within the city of Washington for the sale of all kinds of cattle, goods wares, and merchandise, on the first Wednesday of May and November, under such regulations as the Mayor may prescribe, of which Fairs he shall make due notification. In virtue of powers vested in me by the above act, I do hereby order and direct that the Fairs authorised thereby shall be held on the public grounds appropriated in the plan of the city of Washington for the Mall on the south side of the Tyber, extending from the Bridge at the Centre Market to the river Potomac, and that the continuance of said Fairs shall be for three days successively, viz. on the first Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in May and November. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. September 14—
Partuant to a decree from the Court of Chancery I shall sell at Public Auction in the town of Piscataway on Thursday the first day of November next— ALL the Real estate of Thomas Clagett, Esq. late of Prince George's county deceased, containing in the whole about the quantity of eighteen hundred acres, of which that beautiful and highly improved Lot in the town of Piscataway is a part. These lands lie near the navigation of Potomac river, the farmls is about three miles distant. They will be divided into parcels to make it the more convenient to purchasers. The whole is a good fertile soil, well adapted to the growth of corn, tobacco and small grain. The purchaser or purchasers of the whole or of any part thereof to give bond with approved security to the trustee for the payment of the purchase money with interest thereon in four equal annual installments from the day of sale and on the ratification of the sale by the chancellor and on the receipt of the purchase money (and not before) the trustee will convey the land to the purchaser and his heirs free from all claim of the heirs of the said Thomas Clagett. THOMAS DUCKETT, Trustee. Prince George's county.
THIS is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—1aw3t
JUST PUBLISHED, HERIY'S DIGEST Of the Laws of Maryland, VOL. III. PRICE 2 DOLLARS 25 CENTS, In blue paper. District of Columbia, to wit: BE it remembered, that on this twenty-fifth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and four, Thomas Herly, Esq. of the said district, Conveyancer and Notary Public, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "A Digest of the Laws of Maryland, being a complete system alphabetically arranged of all the public acts of assembly, now in force and of general use, from the first settlement of the state, to the end of November session 1803, inclusive—to which is added, the acts of Congress for the district of Columbia, from the assumption of jurisdiction to the end of the session, which terminated in April 1804, inclusive—Also a variety of precedents, (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace; and also a table explanatory of sundry technical Law terms, Volume 2nd In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." G. DENEALE, Clerk of the dist. Ct. of Columbia. The above may be had at the publisher's office for the present. September 5—1aw4t
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 so 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 these 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 unreasonableness (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'COLLOCH & LUNNUY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept 17—tf
TO BE SOLD By private contract, an estate called Chichester, lying on the banks of the Eastern Branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This estate extends from near the foot of the Bridge to a little below the Navy Yard, and contains 695 acres of land. It is laid off in lots of from 83 to 117 acres. Dyer's Ferry is on it. The price and conditions of sale may be known on application to captain Marbury of Blue Plains opposite Alexandria, to colonel Hanlon, of the Navy yard, or to the subscriber. Captain Marbury who has a plat of the estate, may be spoken with on any Thursday at the Bank of Columbia. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby, Prince Georges County. September 12—2aw3w
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS. Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport; issued to vessels of the United States, that from the eighth day of July next those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which they may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State, } 23d of May, 1804. } The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months; and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. May 30—2aw6m
THIS is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—1aw3t
THIS is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—1aw3t
THIS is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—1aw3t
IN CHANCERY, September 17th, 1804. Charles Carroll of Carolton, against Aquila Beal and Grace his wife, Elizabeth Holliday and Margaret Holliday, which Grace, Elizabeth and Margaret are the only children and co-heiresses of Leonard Holliday the younger, late of Prince George's county deceased. THE object of this bill is to obtain a sale of the real estate of the said Leonard Holliday, for the payment of a debt due to the complainant upon the ground, that the personal estate has proved insufficient. The bill states, that the said Leonard Holliday in his life time, and at the time of his death was indebted to the complainant, on bond bearing date, October 25, 1783, with condition for the payment of 149. 5s. 3d. current money, with interest from the date; that judgment was obtained on the said bond, in the General Court for the Western Shore of Maryland, at May term, 1797, to be released on the payment of the above sum, with interest and costs—that on January 23th, 1804, there was due on the said judgment, for principal, interest, and costs, after giving credit for all payments, the sum of 2581. 12s. 01 2d. current money. No part of which has been paid, that the said Leonard Holliday departed this life intestate, leaving a considerable Real Estate, and the defendants, Grace, Elizabeth, and Margaret his only children and co-heiresses, that the personal estate of the said Leonard is so far exhausted, as to be insufficient for the payment of the complainant's debt; that the defendant Aquila hath intermarried with the defendant Grace, and that all the defendants reside in George Town in the District of Columbia. It is thereupon, and on the complainant's motion ordered, that he cause a copy of this order to be inserted in the National Intelligencer once at least in each of three successive weeks, before the end of October next, to the intent, that the defendants may have notice of his application to this court, and of the substance and object of his bill, and may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor, before the last day of February next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed. True copy. Test SAMUEL H. HOWARD, R. C. C. September 18—w3t
PATENT WIND-MILL. THE subscriber having purchased Mr. John Avillie's interest in a patent Wind-mill for the District of Columbia—Will sell rights to those desirous of erecting them in said district, an inspection of the model at the Secretary's office, will sufficiently prove the utility of this machine in manufacturing grain, plaster of Paris, paints, snuff, &c. and sawing of timber or stone. Further information may be obtained by applying to Mr. Benjamin Perkins, President's square, or near the Seven Buildings to JOHN MRLWEE. September 28—1aw3m
WAS committed to the goal of Frederick county, on the 25th July last, negro JOE, about 23 years old, five feet 3 inches high, o yellowish complexion, has scars on each of his hands with burns, particularly on the left hand; His clothes are tow linen shirts and trowsers; a blue great coat, &c. He says he belongs to col. WILLIAM WINN, of Hertford county, North Carolina, and that he has been absent from his master about two years. If his OWNER does not release Him he will be sold for his GOAL FEES agreeably to law. GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. Aug. 22—1aw8t.
NEW Store. 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 of dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors. Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queenware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped rye, Candles and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and a few casks of genuine old Irish whiskey, All of which he will sell low for cash or country produce The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, C.S.H. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.
NOTICE. BY Virtue of a decree of the high court of chancery of the state of Maryland will be sold at public auction at Caton's tavern, in the city of Annapolis at twelve o'clock on Saturday the twenty ninth day of the present month, the lot of ground now in the occupation of Wm. Brown of the city of Annapolis. This lot begins at the intersection of North East Street and Scotch Street, and bounds on Scotch Street one hundred and seventy five and an half feet, then with a line parallel with North East Street to the Severn river, then bounding on and with the river to North East Street and then with N. East Street to the beginning. The improvements are a large convenient brick dwelling house beautifully situated on the river kitchen and out houses of different kinds and a pump of excellent water. Any further description is thought unnecessary as persons who are disposed to purchase, will probably make themselves acquainted with the property previous to the day of sale. The terms of sale are that the purchaser shall give bond with security to be approved by the trustee for paying the purchase money with interest within six months from the day of sale. NICHOLS BREWER, Trustee. September 10—w3t
THIS is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—1aw3t
A TEN THOUSAND Dollar Prize, Now to be had for the small sum of SIX dollars! SCHEME OF A Lottery for the use of THE GERMAN TRINITY CHURCH, IN SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Which will positively commence drawing at the State house in this city the fourth Monday of November next, prizes will be received in payment for such tickets as may remain for sale during the drawing, or the cash advanced for them, on allowing a small discount. From the great proportion already sold, it is expected that the tickets will soon be raised to five dollars and an half.
  Dollars.    1 Prize of 10 thousand dolls. 10,000  1 Three thousand 3,000  1 Two thousand 2,000  1 One thousand 1,000  4 Five hundred 2,000  10 Three hundred 3,000  20 Two hundred 4,000  35 One hundred 3,500  90 Fifty 4,500  100 Twenty 2,000  6000 Seven 42,000  1st drawn No. on the 10th day 500  1 15th 500  1 20th 500  1 25th 500  1 30th 500  1 35th 500  1 40th 1,000  1 45th 1,000  1 50th 1,000  1 55th 1,000  1 first drawn No. on the last day when there shall be only 600 tickets in the wheel, 6,000  
6274 Prizes. Dollars, —90,000 Considerably less than two blanks to a prize. The prizes to be paid 30 days after the close of the drawing—Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. Tickets for sale by. GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 85, South Second Street, or MATTHEW MCCONNELL, No. 82 C. elmont Street. ADAM PREMIER, No. 134, South Fifth St. } ANTHY. HOOKLEY, } No. Corner of Green } Commissioners, and Third Streets, } CHARLES BOWMAN, } No 16 Budd Street. } Whole tickets—6 dollars Half tickets—3 25 Quarter tickets, 1 75 Prizes in other lotteries received in payment. Letter addressed to either of whom, post-paid and inclosing the cash, will be duly attended to. Aug. 27th—2aw 115N.
50 Dollars reward, STRAYED or stolen from the commons of Washington city, between Saturday and Monday the 7th and 9th of July, inst. a pair of bright BAY HORSES, of the following descriptions:—One about fifteen and a half hands high over the shoulders, and about two inches lower over the hips, supposed to be eight years old, black mane and tail, mane on the right side, trots and canters, a star in the forehead, both hind angles white, and has partly on the inner side of each, uniformly placed, about one inch above the hoof of black spot of about three quarters of an inch diameter; no other striking natural marks are recollected. This horse is supposed to be three fourths English blooded; he is when in flesh very handsome, and moves with ease and elegance. He is now much reduced in appearance by a long journey, his back something injured by the saddle, and has old marks of similar abuse. The other horse is about fifteen and a half hands high before, and the same behind, six years old, not so handsomely built in any respect as the other, but carries himself very well, trots hard, canters easy and racks a little, his mane and tail are likewise black; his mane thin and on the right side; left hind angle white; has a star in the forehead, and a snip in the nose, mostly inclined to and running into the left nostril; a circular brand on the left shoulder, with a character in the center believed to be intended for an A. He is not so low in flesh as the other, the new saddle marks are worse, but he has few or no old ones, except a slight appearance of a former naval gall. They were shod all round. If Rolen the above reward will be paid on conviction of the thief; if strayed and found within 20 miles of Washington city a reward of 20 dollars will be given, and if beyond that distance, 40 dollars, expenses included, on their return to Phineas Bradley, Washington city, or Renner and Buffard, George Town, August 1—rawtf
ENTERTAINMENT FOR MAN AND HORSE. THE Subscriber takes this method to inform the public, and particularly those, whose business, calls them to the city of Washington, that he has opened a house, opposite the Bank for the accommodation of travellers, where he has provided himself with good lodging, and other requisites for that purpose, and on reasonable terms. THOMAS THORPE. September 28—3t
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 most beautiful 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.