The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1803-05-23 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. III
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. LCCCIII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
MONDAY, MAY 23, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
To be sold positively at public sale, on Tuesday the 26 of May, on the premises.
THE Subscriber's life-estate in the Walnut Tree Farm, situate on the river Potomac, about 4 miles below Alexandria. The farm consists of about 360 acres. The buildings and improvements are very good, and the fishery attached to it very valuable.
Also will be sold at the same time and place, a number of horses, cattle, and sheep, and a variety of farming utensils as well as a quantity of household furniture, consisting of mahogany tables, bureaus, bedstead, chairs &c.
The terms cash, for all sums under one hundred dollars; and for all sums above, approved notes negotiable in the banks of Alexandria or Columbia, at 60 and 90 days.
TOBIAS LEAR.
May 4, 1803.
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CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA.
HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, Silk Florantine, Black and fancy silk molekin velvet, white & figured Marcellas, Swardowns, Toilingettes, Velveteens, Fancy cords, Coating, &c.
With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season.
N. B. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms made to the first style of fashion.
New Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol Square.
December 3, 1802.
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The subscriber has for sale,
A QUANTITY OF
Claret in bottles, Jamaica Spirits, Anchovies in boxes, Whisky in barrels, Capers in ditto, New-England cheese, Olives in ditto, Imperial Tea in chests, Olive Oil in ditto, Butter in Firkins, Sugar in hds. & No. &c. &c.
WILLIAM BRENT.
Washington, May 11.
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Carpenters and Labourers Wanted.
WANTED to work on the Bridge over the Eastern Branch of Potomac, a number of rough Carpenters, also a number of labourers by the month, to whom employment will be given during the whole of the summer. Their wages will be paid monthly, and the best prices will be given. Application to be made to the Subscriber.
WILLIAM BRENT.
Treasurer of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company
April 18th. ep 3w
Plank & scantling for cash.
Wanted for the Eastern Branch bridge a quantity of the best HEART YELLOW PINE plank and scantling, viz.
2000 feet running, of 5 by 6 inches in lengths of 5 f. 3 inch.—10 f. 6 inch.—15 f. 9 inch or 21 feet.
3400 feet running of 5 by 6 inch. in lengths, from 17 f. 6 inch. to 26 f. 6 inch.
3250 feet running of 2 inch plank 8 inch. wide and 3250 feet running of 4 by 4 inch. in lengths of 8 f. 6.—17 f. 6 or 25 f. 6 inch. as most convenient.
Also 5000 feet 4 inch plank in 17 feet lengths.
The whole must be found and entire heart
Apply speedily to
WILLIAM BRENT.
Treasurer to the Eastern Branch bridge company.
Capitol Hill May 4, 1803.
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FOR SALE OR RENT,
THAT elegant three story BRICK HOUSE on the corner of Falls & Frederick street in George Town, lately occupied by Mr. Pichon.
Likewise,
THE two well finished three story BRICK HOUSES, adjoining that occupied by Mr. SAMUEL H. SMITH, Printer, on the Pennsylvania Avenue, east of the centre Market House, City of Washington—Apply to GEORGE THOMPSON, George Town.
Geo. Town, O.S. 20.
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THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR.
HAS just received by recent arrivals at Philadelphia, from England, and the East Indies, a handsome assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, of the best quality, also Patent water proof Cloth and Cassimere's, superior NAVY BLUE and other colours; handsome NAVY & FASHIONABLE BUTTONS, &c. Gentlemen of ARMY, NAVY and FASHION served with expedition and taste.
New Jersey Avenue, seventh house from Capitol Square and Pennsylvania Avenue near the President's square.
April 13 1803.
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TO LET,
And be entered upon immediately, three well finished BRICK HOUSES, NEARLY opposite Morin's Tavern, on Twelfth street very near Pennsylvania Avenue, built for the WASHINGTON BUILDING COMPANY.
The Houses will be rented on very reasonable terms.
Apply to THOMAS CARPENTER near the President's Square.
Dec. 18.
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
The gratitude and respect, which your former kindness claims, calls on me, in returning into your hands the trust conferred, to render you an account of its exercise; and of my consequent impressions respecting your affairs and interests.
In the midst of that change of sentiment on governmental subjects, which the revolution of America has produced, one respecting the government of cities is not unobservable. Formerly towns and cities received from the sovereign power an endowment of particular privileges, and an exemption from certain oppressions, denied to the rest of the community. In countries which presented the aspect of a gloomy and ferocious despotism, particular towns and cities were invested with a shadow of liberty; and enjoyed a partial safety from that tyranny, which blazed on the surrounding country, with intolerable fierceness. Hence the charters, on which depended the tenure of these advantages, were justly deemed of high importance, and inviolable sanctity. They were regarded as the security against the encroachments of the prince; the evidence to strangers of their privileges and advantages; and the memento to the citizens of their duties, and of their rights.
In the United States of America, our first institutions, in relation to the domestic government of cities, were in imitation of those of the mother-country. The government of London, like that of the nation of which it is the metropolis, exhibits a constitution of free and despotic principles, modern refinements grafted on the relics of gothic, an intermixture of legislative, executive and judicial powers, with a multiplicity of offices, some of obsolete utility, some of frivolous ceremony. The sources of its jurisdictions and authorities are arduous to comprehend, from their antiquity, their variety, and their number. The grants, charters, statutes, contracts, customs, privileges, exemptions, which attach to it, are innumerable; and constitute an article of no inconsiderable difficulty and importance in the administration of the laws. That idea of a corporation, which is peculiar to British jurisprudence, and consists in a capacity of representation in courts of justice, is the sole advantage we have derived from the institutions of the mother country in relation to this subject; and is one so essential and useful as to be well worthy of extension to all the political communities of a nation. In other respects the government of the metropolis of Great Britain is a very intricate and complicated system; and unworthy of American imitation.
Governments of this kind ought to accord, as far as is practicable, with the general principles of the national system. Special immunities and advantages are unjust; and even unnecessary anomalies are impolitic. A city is but a community distinguished from others in a nation by the circumstance of greater contiguity among its inhabitants. The government of a community characterized as a city, need to vary from that of a community characterized as a nation, but in very few particulars. In a free nation the system of government in a city ought to be a free government.
In the City of Washington the system of government is but the national system in miniature. Here we behold the people themselves electing their own representatives; and through them enacting the laws which their general good, and common welfare, appear to require. Here we behold the legislative power vested in two separate bodies; as in all the other systems of American legislation. Here we behold a sole and distinct executive magistrate; to whom is confided the authority of appointing to offices created by the legislative power. Here also we behold this legislative power, and this executive power, unassociated with the judicial power. It will be found an essential advantage in governments, and as well in those of subordinate as in those of superior grade, that they who make the laws should not be those who execute them; and that they who judge on the rights arising under them should be unconnected with either. It is a hope I therefore cherish with great solicitude that the leading principles of this system of city-government will be preserved unimpaired; whatever mutations or modifications future occasions may require. I particularly hope that judicial powers will continue to be withheld from the city government; that laws may continue to be made by citizens who are not concerned
in the immediate execution of them; and that a high and confidential executive magistrate, with the power of appointment to office, may continue to be the sole organ of carrying the laws into execution.
With these essential and important recommendations your system of city government is not free from peculiar defects. An early discovery of these could not fail to be made by those who were first called to carry the system into operation. They accordingly devoted a sedulous attention to devising a proper remedy for them; and submitted the result in a memorial to the national legislature. The precipitancy of business prevented any amendment being made during the last session. With respect to the more important ameliorations, those which regarded an enlargement of representation, and an increase of powers, the postponement will not prove of the least essential injury. But from not obviating a smaller and more unimportant defect, very serious inconvenience has been, & will continue to be, sustained. From a jealousy entirely unreasonable, and warranted by no particular necessity, a deviation was made from the simple and only correct principle, the rule of a majority; and the presence of three fourths of the members of each chamber was required, in order to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. This amounts in each chamber to within one of the whole. It will not be found in a large city that a selection of characters can be made from the active and useful departments of society, and these ought to be preferred, because the quantum of information is always more abundant & more correct than in elevated grades of life, who will have it constantly in their power to assemble at the same time. Absences from the city, sickness, and some times the indispensable urgency of other business, will occasion the non-attendance of some one or more members. Where the activity of the whole body is paralyzed by the unavoidable absence of one or two, who may at the same time be perfectly disposed to sanction what is transacted, the operation of the rule proves it to be hard, inconvenient, and absurd. This defect must necessarily be remedied before the city government of Washington can progress with advantage. It is fortunate for the city that it has occurred when the urgency has been less than it may be in future; but serious evils have not withstanding already resulted from it. As the affairs of the city cannot well be transacted by a steady session, at any certain period of the year, but require a constant succession of meetings, at short intervals, I have found, that from the inconvenience which has been mentioned, it will not be in my power consistently, with your advantage, to serve in the next council. My avocations frequently call me to an absence of a week or two from the city; and if in that interval, any other member of the same chamber should be absent, or confined by indisposition, business becomes entirely suspended. I beg leave therefore, in resigning this trust into your hands, to decline a re-election to the same place; in case your sanction with my pall conduct should be sufficient to have entitled me to that mark of your approbation. It is to be ascribed to the cause which has been mentioned; and to that alone. The sincere pleasure imparted by the evidence of your former favor, which is still vivid in my remembrance as if bestowed but yesterday, convinces me how grateful a renewed testimony of similar confidence would have proved to my mind.
On one subject I cannot refrain, in terminating my period of service, to express to you my dissatisfaction. It is that of taxation; and as my sentiments on this point differ from those of some others, I presume it will not be unacceptable to you to be possessed of them somewhat in detail.
Taxes are a necessary attendant on free governments. They are the price which the citizen pays for his liberty. They are the cost of his exemption from tyranny, from exaction, and oppression. How cheaply the purchase is made, let the citizen of this free and independent republic answer, when he compares his situation with that of the subject of any of the despotic governments on the earth.
Taxation is not in itself an evil. It is only when it becomes so heavy as to check industry, that it proves an injury. If the money annually levied from a community were so much sunk in the sea, or buried in the earth, it must at length impoverish them. But considered only as a final surplus from each man's prosperity, applied to public accommodation
convenience and embellishment; it is returned into circulation, the industrious man again finds it, and it is as essentially beneficial as a capital obtained in any other mode.
To render a community perfectly satisfied with its taxation it ought to perceive that while no member of society is oppressed by it, no individual enjoys any disproportionate advantage, or undue emolument, from the product. It ought to be applied with purity, and with economy, to public benefit.
In order to apply public monies with purity, it is sufficiently a check that a legislature, of ordinary wisdom, should not be personally interested in the execution of their own laws; or concerned in contracts made under them. Their responsibility to the people will then always operate as an adequate restraint. But for a government to be able to use economy something further is requisite. It ought never to be poor. It ought not to be fettered with heavy debts. Its income ought always to leave a liberal excess over its expenditure. It is by providence and indirection that the resources of a society become mortgaged to the money-lender; and its most effective energies devoted to the exoneration of past burthens, instead of the satisfaction of current wants.
By a law of Congress the justices of the peace for the county of Washington were erected into a body of partial legislation, with authority to impose taxes on the people. The assessment they had made, in raising their first tax, so far as it comprehended Washington, was adopted by the City Council. Commencing our career unincumbered, it appeared to me prudent to preserve a disencumbered situation; and to avoid pledging the future resources of the city by the accumulation of a debt. To have effected this, it would have been necessary to have limited our expenditure, during the first year, to a very moderate sum; and to commence a systematic and permanent mode of assessment, avoiding the prodigal expence attending special assessments, keeping the receipt constantly in advance of the expenditure, and leaving always a surplus at the expiration of the year; a system which would have been laborious in the first formation, but would have proved eminently productive as the city advanced in resources.
A temporizing course was however preferred; and in consequence of it, no light sum will have been raised from the people, a few inconsiderable purposes will have been attained, we shall go out of office in debt, and our successors will find themselves poorer than if we had left them a well-digested and productive system of finance. I shall be happy if in a course of years we regain the ground we have lost.
The people are sometimes slow to perceive the impolicy of a measure, but it will shortly be discovered that the erection of this levy court is a real injury; and that the institution of a territorial legislature will be the surest mode of extracting public resources, in answer of public wants, with economy, and of applying them with effect. It will produce a saving, instead of an increase of expence; independent of its being the only reasonable mode of placing the inhabitants in the position which freemen ought to occupy, and at the same time securing to them the advantage of possessing constitutionally the permanent national metropolis.
The occasion may justify me in extending my observations to two additional points.
The inflammation of party-spirit can render no service, but may do essential injury, to Washington. Miserable would be the fate of a citizen of this country, if on account of his entertaining peculiar opinions on any subject, and especially on political subjects, he were to be entirely proscribed by the rest of the society, and held totally unworthy of all trust and confidence. It is right in questions of great political magnitude for a people to manifest a decided sentiment; and to ensure its efficacy by their suffrages. But where competency exists, and with it popular approbation and confidence, it is cruelty and persecution to deny the possessor a share in the councils of the community in which he resides. I trust that attempts will not be made to exclude in the election of characters to your domestic government men of any general political sentiments, whose private virtues, and talent to be useful to this city, call them to be participators in your public concerns.
The spirit of local rivalry between Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, may be carried so far as to prove pernicious. The mind must not
have gone through much contemplation on the subject of the commercial prospects of the city of Washington, which has not perceived that, under existing circumstances, the rudiments of its commercial greatness must be derived from the superabundant prosperity of those two places in the first instance. Had those towns, from the establishment of the city of Washington until the present time, advanced as rapidly as other towns had before done, and as those will yet do; we should already have felt the advantage here. But the same events which checked the commerce of all the other towns on this continent, extended to these also; and has effectually denied to us, although of ten years establishment, even a commencement of mercantile enterprise. Some years must necessarily elapse ere Washington can rank with the commercial towns on this continent. In a period not extremely remote, the Pennsylvania avenue, from the Anacostia river to Georgetown, will present a continued line of improvements. Then public resources, and the spirit of individuals, should direct itself to the opening of the Virginia avenue, to the same extent. Traveling the first ground, and commanding the navigation of four streams, it is the proper site for the transactions of commerce. It cannot be until our internal exertions have carried us to a certain point, that we can expect the aid of foreign capital, or immigration from other places. Then we may calculate on a rapid advance, which, like the progression of compound interest, will astonish the most circumspect mind. Let it not be doubted, a high destiny is recorded in the volume of fate for the city of Washington! Our own levity, unsteadiness, or illiberality, can alone retard it. The united capital of the towns in the territory of Columbia will be sufficient, in a very short time, to place it in a position of successful competition with the fairest favorites of commerce in this country. The first to suffer, it is your peculiar duty to make the first sacrifices of partiality, prejudice, and jealousy, to respect, confidence, and liberality; and to cultivate harmony, intercourse, and connection in business.
AUGUSTUS B. WOODWARD. Washington, May 20, 1803.
LEBOO
WILL cover the ensuing season, to commence the first day of April, and end on the last day of June, on Mondays and Tuesdays at Queen Anne's; Wednesdays and Thursdays at the farm of the subscriber, and Fridays and Saturdays at Bladenburg; at the rate of 16 dollars per Mare, cash, and half a dollar to the groom; the money to the groom to be sent with the mare, and a note for the balance, with the assumption of Mares, Claret or Hodges, of Queen Anne, or Messrs. Lowndes or Bruce, of Bladenburg, payable on the first day of December next, will be received.
Leboo is eight years old, a fine bright bay, 15 hands three inches high, a star and two white feet. He has proven himself both a sire and good foal-getter, having covered at four years old 25 mares, all of whom proved with foal; the colts are equal in size and beauty to any in the part of the country, and except in two instances, they were a like as to colour. At four years old Leboo won the colt's purse at Annapolis; on the next day he won the City purse, and on the third day he won a purse in Prince George's county, immediately after having travelled upwards of 30 miles. The next spring, at 5 years old, he won the first day's purse at Canton; the fall after he won against Mr. Taylor's Leviathan, at Alexandria, one heat, was lame and drawn; a few days after he won the first day's purse at Govan's town. At 6 years old he won the first day's purse at Canton; the fall after he won the purse again at Canton, the jockey club purse at Govan's town, the purses at Frederick town, and the city of Washington; running nine miles, by mistake, at the last mentioned place, beating Mr. Taylor's Leviathan. At seven years old he received a forfeit of 900 dollars at Havre-de-Grace, proceeded on to German town, won the first heat, afterwards fell lame, and was beat by Gen. Ridgely's Hambletonian, whom he had beaten three times before.
Leboo was got by High Flier, his blood an equal mixture of that of any other horse, and his pedigree may be seen by applying to the subscriber.
OSBORN SPRIGG. Prince George's County, March 28.
The Subscriber will furnish good pasture, at half a dollar per week but will not be answerable for accidents or escapes.
WANTED,
One or two Boys to learn the BOOT and SHOEMAKING Business—Apply to JOHN CROOKSHANK. George Town, Jan. 19, 1803.

FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
MR. SMITH.
The right freely to investigate the measures of government, to know its principles of action, and the motives of its conduct, results from the doctrine, that all governmental power is derived from the people, and that, whenever exercised, it should be exercised for their benefit. They, who give power, ought to know the direction in which it operates; they, who alone are interested in any act, ought not to be prevented by their agents from judging of its propriety either by secreting it from their observation, or obscuring its object in such a manner as to render it invisible to the eyes of the community. To the people belongs the privilege of determining, at the time, whether the persons to whom they have intrusted power, have acted with wisdom and foresight; for they should not be compelled to judge of the goodness of measures by their consequences alone. Unless they have this privilege, however precautions they may be against encroachments upon their liberties, either by the form of their constitution, or by the selection of suitable characters to fill offices, they are not secure against the apathy of their agents, nor are their liberties guarded against the covert attacks, and corrupting influence of those intrusted with the government. It therefore behoves a people, who wish to perpetuate their freedom, to be jealous of every secret act and every unintelligible proceeding not only of the executive, but of the legislative organ of their government. The latter especially should be an object of jealousy; for it holds the purse-strings of the nation, and communicates power to the other branches of the government. Without its aid the executive is incapable of effecting any scheme for the subversion of liberty, or of essentially impairing the fabric of our constitution. When they unite in any system of iniquity the only constitutional remedy is by a new election: But if they have feared themselves too firmly in power to yield to this prescription, the only alternative for relief is to wait till the accumulation of oppressions shall awaken the indignations of the community, and rouse into just vengeance the energies of an injured and insulted people. The former has been tried successfully during the short period of the existence of our government; the latter, I hope, may never be wanted. Though we believe these to be undeniable principles of republicanism, yet where measures are intended to operate upon our exterior relations, and involve the interest of a foreign power, they cannot in all instances be acted upon without sacrificing the welfare of the country. For the policy of the present governments of the world is such, that it is necessary for each individual government, in order to protect itself against the intrigues of the others, to preserve, in some of its measures, a certain degree of secrecy. This is an evil which flows from the present state of political society, and which can never be remedied but by a radical change in almost every political institution. When governments are administered for the happiness of mankind, when wars cease, and the intercourse of nations is conducted upon the broad basis of justice, then every measure of Administration may be as public as the light of heaven. But until such a change is effected it would be the height of folly for one government alone, unless it were so powerful as to awe every other into compliance with its measures, to expose to the world all the motives of its conduct and the rules of its proceedings. Until such a change is effected, we must be restricted in our right to know all acts of government, and must submit, for our good, to judge of the propriety of some by their consequence; we must adopt the principle, which every other nation pursues, that of consulting our own interest and prosperity in preference to that of others. If we should unfortunately be involved in a war with a foreign power, would it be right in our government to give publicity to the deliberations of a cabinet council, whose object was the adoption of measures to defeat the hostile intention of our enemies? And if to aid this measure the concurrence of the legisla-
ture were necessary, would it be good policy, would it be consistent with the duty of the legislature, or with our welfare, to permit the subject to be openly discussed? Every man possessed of the least spark of patriotism would blush with indignation at a policy so preposterous, at a conduct so destructive of our interests, and so replete with hazard to the very existence of our independence. These principles may justly be applied to the defence of the secret sittings of Congress during the last session; for they are now pretty well understood to have had a reference to the occlusion of the port of New-Orleans, and to the difficulties which were in prospect between us & foreign powers. It is probable too that the law, giving to the President the disposal of two millions of dollars "for the purpose of defraying any extraordinary expenses which may be incurred in the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations", without specifying the object of expenditure, has a relation to the same subject. Should it be to enable him to purchase a tract of land lying on the Mississippi, where it is navigable for vessels of a size suited to trade at foreign markets, will it be said that it was our interest to have declared to the world that this was the object of the appropriation? Would not such a declaration have placed us completely in the power of the nation with which we were to treat on this subject? After we had thus virtually told her that this is the price we will give, rather than not obtain our object, is it probable she would be induced to contract for a less sum? He must indeed be little acquainted with the avarice of governments, and the propensities of a mind habituated to courtly intrigue, who could for a moment harbor the probability
CURTIS. May 19th, 1803.
From the last publication of The Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture.
Raising of Virginia Wheat.
An account of a successful experiment in raising the early Virginia Wheat, and some observations on the use of the Plaster of Paris as a manure.
By JUSTIN ELY, Esq. of West-Springfield. In October, 1798, I purchased a small piece of intervale land on the west banks of Connecticut river, in the general field in West Springfield. It lay so high as not to be covered by the floods. The soil, a warm loam, mixed with a little fine sand, and naturally of a good quality, but it had been exceedingly exhausted by a long course of tillage (probably one hundred and fifty years) and by raising exhausting crops, viz. Indian corn, buck wheat, &c. with very little if any manure; by this practice it was reduced to low as to produce very poor crops. In 1799, three acres and twenty five rods, being the northwesterly side of the said land, were sown with oats and red clover and herds grass seeds. The crop was very different. After the oats were harvested, a severe drought followed, which entirely destroyed the young herds grass, but the red clover mostly survived it. Since I have owned the above land, the plaster of Paris, at the rate of one bushel to the acre, has been annually sown thereon, sometimes in the spring, and sometimes late in the fall. In the fall and winter of 1799 I procured a small quantity of yard manure to be spread thereon, probably not more than six or eight loads to the acre. In 1800 and 1801, it produced good crops of red clover hay, from two tons to two tons and an half to the acre. On the 21st day of August, 1801, the land was ploughed a little deeper than common, and the clover sward was turned under. After a few days it was harrowed down by two horses with a seed harrow, in the same direction it had been ploughed; then the land was again ploughed by two horses in a day, with a small plough (such as is used to plough Indian corn) but so shallow as not to disturb the turf which had been first loaked thirty-six hours in water. The water was then drained off, and the wheat was taken out, about a half a bushel at a time, and spread in a half noseload; then four or five quarts of ground plaster of Paris were spread thereon, then about three quarts of herds grass seed, and one pint of red clover seed was spread over the plaster, and then the whole was stirred and well mixed together—the remainder of the seed was prepared in the same manner, and then sown the same day while the wheat was still wet, and the fine plaster still covering the surface of every kernel. It suffered to remain a few hours after the application of the plaster, the wheat will become so dry that the plaster will not adhere to it.—The seed was
then lightly ploughed in with a small plough drawn by one horse only. The ground was then harrowed crossways of the furrows to make the surface even for mowing.
The mixing the plaster with the grain, when sown as abovementioned, causes it to come up sooner. The first shooting of the blade appears stronger, and of a darker colour, and comes on faster than it otherwise would do.
On the 22d day of November following, three bushels of plaster of Paris were sown on the ground. If sown with the grain or very soon after, it will bring forward the grass so rapidly as to injure the crop, and some times to choke and destroy it; but if no grass seed is sown with the grain, the plaster may be sown at the same time or soon after. Some sow it on their winter grain the next spring, but the fall is preferred.
The appearance of the crop of wheat did not promise any thing extraordinary in the fall, nor till a month before harvest, at which time I would gladly have parted with the crop for one half of what it yielded at harvest. It ripened so early as to be harvested a few days sooner than a crop of rye in the vicinity;—to this circumstance of its ripening thus early, before the nights get to be warm, is imputed the security of this kind of wheat from blasting.
The produce of the above crop was one hundred and eleven bushels of good plump berried wheat, the average weight whereof was six y-four pounds to the bushel. B Red's some bushels of foul grain for horse provender—about ninety-five bushels of the above wheat have been disposed of for seed at one dollar and an half for a bushel.
The grain sown with the wheat succeeded well, and at this time appears more promising than any I ever had before.
The sowing the grass seed, mixed with the grain and plaster, saves the trouble of sowing and harrowing it in the common way; and by being thus lightly ploughed in, the seeds are covered at different depths in the earth, and are more sure of succeeding, (especially in a dry season,) than when sown on the surface, or but thinly covered, as is commonly done.
The above was a larger production of wheat than is recollected to have been ever raised in the vicinity, being about thirty-six bushels to the acre. A single acre of the best, undoubtedly yielded more than forty bushels.
The land was made mellow and well fitted for the crop, but the uncommon produce was undoubtedly owing to the application of the plaster of Paris with the small quantity of manure put on the land. The quantity of yard manure was insufficient to give the whole of the land a very thin light dressing; therefore some of the hollows and belt of the land had no yard manure put thereon, but had the usual annual supply of plaster; in those places the crop was very indifferent, and the land did not produce more than one quarter as much wheat as grew on the land adjoining, which had been manured.
The sowing one bushel of plaster to the acre annually, causes our lands to produce very abundant crops of grass, where very little would grow without it. This succeeds better than sowing four or five bushels to the acre once in three or four years.
When the land is ploughed up where the plaster has been applied, it turns up lively and mellow. When laid down to grass, two crops, or at most but three crops, are taken, the sward is then ploughed in, and one or two crops are taken of English grain, flax, Indian corn, potatoes or buck-wheat, the plaster is successfully applied to each of these crops, and the land is then again laid down to grass.
By this rotation of crops the lands are improved, and continue to produce larger crops. Whether the same course of tillage will succeed in other parts of the country can be determined only by experience.
Judge Peters, in his treatise on the use of the plaster of Paris, in a note which is pasted in at the end of some of the books, but is omitted in others, observes, that the plaster will not be productive in the vicinity of the salt water, and that the marine salts prevent its operation. As I have not the books before me, I cannot quote his words, but I think the sense is as above expressed.—Experience shews the fallacy of the observation, for near the salt water the plaster is said to produce no beneficial effects. The greater the distance from the salt water, the greater is said to be the efficacy of the plaster. It is carried from Philadelphia in waggons across the Alleghany mountains, two hundred and fifty miles into the country, with success.
Cattle in the vicinity of the salt water, require no salt in the summer season; at some distance they require a little, and it is said their consumption of salt is in proportion to their distance from the salt water.
As it is not possible this may be a criterion whereby to determine whether the application of plaster of Paris to lands will be beneficial?
If near the sea, where cattle require no salt in the summer, the quan-
tity of salt descending in dews or otherwise, is so great as to prevent the efficacy of the plaster, the fact will be of great utility to be known, as there by many people may save themselves the trouble and expense of fruitless applications of the plaster, and the mortification of disappointments. This will also reconcile the different and contradictory accounts received from different parts of the country, of the utility and efficacy of the plaster.
West-Springfield is at the distance of fifty or sixty miles from the sea. Here the plaster succeeds on all our lands, except those that are occasionally flooded by the stream. Yet farther inland to the westward and northward it is said to answer still better. It accelerates the growth of fruit trees. One or two bushels should be sprinkled around each tree annually; this will make them thirstier and fruitfuller.
Some people practice spreading a very thin covering of their highest yard manure on their mowing lands, and then sown thereon a bushel of plaster to the acre. The produce of the manure and plaster thus united is thought to answer better than when they are applied separately. That seemed to be the case with the crop of wheat abovementioned.
Where the plaster has been sown, the dews fall more copiously in the night, and continue on much longer the next day. The cattle prefer the grass and hay where the plaster has been sown.
Where yard manure, consisting mostly of straw and hay, not sufficiently rotten, is spread on mowing land, the application of a bushel of plaster to the acre sown thereon, will soon rot the straw and hay, so as to convert them into good manure, by which the quantity of grass is increased and the mowing is facilitated.
The southwesterly part of the above lot has been sown annually with plaster in the same manner as the north side, but had no yard manure applied, till two years after it had been put on the other side of the lot. In 1799 it was planted with corn and potatoes. The summer was very dry and the crop very poor. On the 25th day of October, 1799, three bushels and a half of early Virginia seed-wheat were sown on the land abovementioned, being about three acres and a half, after the crop of corn and potatoes were gathered. Herds grass and clover seed were sown with the wheat; the seed was ploughed in with a small plough by one horse. The produce was but seven bushels of merchandiseable wheat, with a few bushels more so foul as to be used for horse provender. The very small crop shews the extreme poverty of the land, and how much it was reduced by bad management. After the wheat had been gathered in the fall and winter of 1800, six or eight loads of barn-yard manure were spread on each acre; the produce since has been about two tons to the acre of herds grass and clover hay.
Valuable Ware House
FOR SALE.
WILL be exposed to public sale on the premises on Friday the 16th day of June next at 12 o'clock, the Ware Houses and the Wharf, now occupied by Messrs. Stewart and Beall. This property is situated at the corner of Frederick and Key's street in the centre of that part of Georgetown where the flour and shipping business is done. There are two ware houses connected in such manner, (the one opening on one and the other on the other street) as to be used in separate or joint tenements, that are strongly and well built of stone and brick, three stories high, beside an extensive fall loft, are well divided for storing, and very capacious; they front about 70 feet on the street next the water, and about 50 feet on the other. The wharf is only divided from them by the street, and extends, in water sufficient for large ship, the whole width of the widest front; the whole is in good repair.
This sale will be made under a deed of Mortgage, and power of attorney, to sell, to reimburse the subscriber a sum of money due from the late Francis Lewis Taney. The residue, if any, to be divided among said Taney's creditors.—The title will be explained on the day of sale, and will be given to the purchaser on the payment of the purchase money.
Approved negotiable notes for the purchase money, payable the one half at six months, the other half at nine months, will be required, and must be given at the time of purchase, or the sale will be void and a resale take place.
J. MASON.
George Town, May 17.—p. til June 10.
JOHN GOULDING,
BROKER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, HATH LATELY RECEIVED FROM BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA, AND FOR SALE,
Cognac Brandy, Old Spirit, Claret, Red Port, Madeira, & Sherry, Hars's Philadelphia Porter, Fresh Teas, &c. &c. to be sold Cheap for Cash.
He wants to purchase, One hundred Shares of Columbia Bank Stock for cash. George-town, May 18.
Foreign Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, May 19.
From England.
Late last night we returned from along side of the ship Roebuck, capt. Kelly, 40 days from Liverpool. Capt. K. sailed from Liverpool the morning of the 6th April, and is the bearer of but one loose paper, which is a Liverpool print of the 5th. Enclosed London papers are to the 4th of April, a file of which we have received from a commercial friend, but they contain no additional information on the momentous question of peace or war.
Capt. Kelly reports, that on the morning of his departure, (April 6th) information was received in Liverpool, which produced considerable agitation among the merchants. The purport of this information he had not time nor opportunity to obtain; but the impression he imbibed was that it was of a warlike tendency.
Since the above, we have learnt, that the Roebuck's merchant at Liverpool, the moment of Capt. Kelly's departure, on the 6th, informed him, "that the information received that morning from London, was more indicative of war than any thing that had been received subsequent to the King's message."
The following extracts are from the latest papers by the Roebuck:—
LONDON, April 4.
The veil of secrecy still covers the negotiation with France. Councils are held; Dispatches are received and sent off; couriers pass and repass; but nothing has transpired to enable us to form any decisive opinion. A cabinet council was held on Friday night, and an ultimatum is said to have been drawn up. The answer, it is hoped, will be received by Thursday, the day on which parliament is expected to adjourn for the Easter holidays. The public will certainly be not a little surprised, if both houses adjourn without any information being communicated to them upon the situation of the country.
We have a strong suspicion that the question of peace or war will be decided before many days have elapsed. It is probable that a communication will either be made to parliament, or that a discussion will take place upon the situation of the country before the adjournment for the recess. In the mean time a negotiation is said to be going on for effecting a partial change of administration. Lord Grenville is gone to visit Mr. Pitt at Walmer Castle; and many of the ministers friends begin to talk of the necessity of introducing Mr. Pitt again into the cabinet.
The funds this morning were at the beginning of the Market 63 13-48. They fell at noon to 63 ; and in five minutes afterwards to 61 3-4. At one o'clock they were 62. The gloomy nature of the intelligence received this morning, and the heaviness of the account caused the depreciation. Two more failures occurred this morning, and more expected to-morrow. A more tremendous account never was known in the annals of the stock exchange.
March 26.
A Dutch mail arrived last night. The Dutch papers confessing, that in the event of a war between G. Britain and France, Holland would not be permitted to remain neutral, inform us that the consular government has demanded of the Batavian, that the necessary preparations for the maintenance of a considerable corps of French troops shall immediately be made, which troops are said to be already on their march for the Dutch frontiers. It appears, (adds the Leyden Gazette) that the French army destined to cover Holland, in case of invasion, and no doubt, also to make part of a general expedition against England, will be distributed in the principal towns of Holland.
General Duroc's mission to Berlin is said to be, to require of that court the most prompt measures with respect to the Electorate of Hanover.
March 30.
We have received the Moniteur of Saturday last. It does indeed contain a political article, but not one word of the manifesto, nor a line of invective against this country. The article relates entirely to the conti-

ment, and seems to have been inserted for the purpose of convincing us that a perfect understanding subsists between France and all the continental powers. It announces the exchange of the ratifications at Petersburg, of the convention concluded at Paris on the 26th of Dec. last, relative to the German indemnities, and states, that in an official note, presented on the occasion, by the Grand Chancellor of Russia, his Imperial Majesty had expressed his confidence that the Emperor of Germany would immediately give the Imperial sanction to the arrangements hitherto agreed upon, which are to determine the fate and the existence of the Germanic body. The Moniteur then proceeds to state, that all the seeds of dissention have been destroyed upon the continent, and political order restored, and that therefore the alarming reports which may be circulated, ought to be disregarded by people of understanding.
General Brune is said to have succeeded in his first conferences with the Ottoman ministers in restoring to France her former rank in the Levant.
The exportation of unmanufactured, coloured and dyed silks from France, has been prohibited by the French government.
A letter, we understand, has been received from Madras of a late date, which states, that on the 16th of October last, a most bloody battle was fought between the armies of Holkar and Scindia, in which the latter was completely defeated. The victor, it is said, advanced to Poona, and entered it. Poona had previously fled. The company had hitherto taken no share in this contest; but it is thought they will ultimately give their protection to the Poona.
A mercantile house at Pest has lately failed, for upwards of seven hundred thousand florins.
Letters from Lisbon state the alarm excited throughout that country, in consequence of his majesty's message relative to the differences subsisting with France. The instant the message was made public at Lisbon, great consternation prevailed. The credit of the state felt an immediate and violent shock. The government paper, which maintained itself without any difficulty, at 3 1-2 per cent, fell instantly to 10.
It was not until the 11th instant that General Lasnes landed at Lisbon. He arrived on board a frigate from Rochfort. The accounts formerly received of changes in the Portuguese ministry, in consequence of his return, were premature; but some changes will certainly take place. Don John D'Almeida is to exchange the war department, and that of foreign affairs, for the marine and ultra marine department. He is to be succeeded by the Viscount of Anadia, who presided over the latter branch of the public service.
Maniquy, who gave so much offence to Lasnes at the custom House is to be removed from the superintendence of the customs and police to some less conspicuous office. We learn that Lasnes is much displeased that Don John D'Almy was not altogether dismissed.
The merchants of Paris are terrified at the apprehension of a new war. The Caisse de Commerce sent a deputation to the First Consul, to say that the infallible consequence of hostilities with England would be the shutting up of the exchange. "But I shall know how to open it," said Bonaparte, haughtily.
LONDON, April 2.
Letters from Berlin, state the arrival there of the French general, Duroc, from Paris, on the 20th ult. whose sudden appearance excited much surprise in that capital. These letters observe, that the gen. was said to have brought a proposal for the king of Prussia to act as mediator, to prevent a new breach between France and England; but that the king would not in any way interfere. The general was expected to stay there only five days, and then to return with all speed to Paris. He was accompanied by Col. Colbeag, who was to proceed from thence to Petersburg, as it was supposed, on a similar mission.
We yesterday received the Paris papers of the 31st ult. and this morning the Moniteur of the 1st inst. The French Journalists seem extremely anxious to explain away the famous conversation which took
place between the First Consul and Lord Whitworth, but not thinking it perhaps quite prudent to commit themselves by any positive assertion upon the subject, they have had recourse to the old expedient of manufacturing letters from Stuttgart.
Letters from Berlin, in contradic- tion to former accounts, state, that the differences between this country and France, were expected to be adjusted by the mediation of the king of Prussia.
The Dutch papers rest their hopes of peace on the mediation of Russia, added to that of the court of Berlin. It is again stated that French troops have arrived at Breda; and the whole number of those troops which are to be stationed in the Batavian Re- public, is estimated at 7000. The accounts from Holland, likewise speak of active preparations making in the French ports, and repeat the old story of an intended invasion of England, in the event of hostilities being renewed.
By a mail which arrived this morning from Hamburg, we received the following highly interesting letter from our correspondent in that city:
"Hamburg, March 20, Half past 9 o'clock at night."
"Last night, and during the whole of this day, the inhabitants of this city were in the greatest agitation and alarm, occasioned by a variety of re- ports, which had a powerful influ- ence in depressing the course of ex- change on London."
"In consequence of the arrival of a courier from France late last night, the senate was convened, and held an extraordinary meeting, which lasted four hours. The subject of confide- ration was a threatening note from the French minister Reinhard, rela- tive to the following affair: A few weeks ago Reinhard applied to the magistrates to procure the insertion, in the Correspondent , of the mani- festo from the pen of Bonaparte him- self full of the most indecent inven- tions against England. This produc- tion was referred to the Syndic and Censor of the press, Mr. Doorman, who permitted it to be inserted, after striking out the most objectionable passages. The manifesto, thus mo- dified, appeared in the Correspondent of the 25th inst. under the head of Paris, March 15, as an extract from the " Bulletin de Paris ." This, however, instead of satisfying the French minister, has provoked his ut- most indignation, which is not to be appeased but by publishing it in its entire state. The republication in an official shape is accordingly to take place to-morrow, in all the Ham- burgh papers, which, in consequence of an order from the government, are not to be put to press until after ten o'clock, and you therefore cannot have a copy of the manifesto before the mail of the 1st of April.
This morning received Paris papers to the 2d inclusive. The Moniteur of that date contains the following article relative to the proceedings of the diet at Ratisbon.
"The diet of the empire, in the sitting of the 24th of last month, adopted the act of the deputation of the 24th of February, which contains the reparation and definitive regula- tion of the indemnities. The con- clusion of the three colleges, with the preliminary resolution of the diet was carried in grand procession to the prince of Tour and Taxis, who immediately transmitted it to his Im- perial majesty."
"A conclusion more interesting for the continent, has not been adopted since the treaty of Westpha- lia. The arrangements of that peace put an end to a war of thirty years. The conclusion of the 24th inst. ter- minates one of ten years, which, from the importance of the events it has produced, and the numbers of the armies engaged in it, will be the most memorable of modern wars."
TAKE NOTICE.
I WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and within twenty of the City of Washington, Alexandria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Occoquan mills, it is a healthy situation, the land fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, popular and hickory tim- ber. There is nearly one hundred acres of prime land for meadow, I will give six months credit for one fourth of the purchase money —twelve months for the other quarter, eigh- teen for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find me on the premises.
THOS. POLLARD. Feb. 21st.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, MAY 23.
Plain view of the politics of CON- NECTICUT.
In 1802 Mr. Trumbull had 11,363 and Mr. Kirby 4,523 votes. This year Mr. Trumbull has 14,300, and Mr. Kirby 7,848 votes
It follows, that in 1802 of every 100 votes given, the federalists had 71, and the republicans 29; and that this year of 100 votes given the federalists have 65, and the republicans 35; so that the latter have advanced from 29 to 35; and the former sunk from 71 to 65 in the hundred.
This simple view clearly proves the growth of republicanism in Con- necticut, and that, although the num- ber of republicans in the legislature of that state may have been lessened, yet that republicanism has unques- tionably gained in the mass of the people; and that Connecticut is ad- vancing slowly to a reunion of senti- ment with her sister states.
Thursday last, during the present term of the general court at Annapo- lis, Cornelius F. Van Nels and Daniel C. Holiday, Esqrs. were examined and licensed as attorneys and counsel- lors at law of the state of Maryland.
Extract of a letter from Hartford, (Con- necticut.)
"May 12th, 1803: Thursday evening, 10 o'clock. This being our election day, the legislature have met, and have just finished counting the votes for Gov- ernor, which are as follows:
Jonathan Trumbull, esq. the old go- vernor, 14375 Ephraim Kirby, esq. Rep. 7848 Scattering, 223
Whole number in May 1803, 22,446 In May 1802,
Governor Trumbull had 11,368 E. Kirby, 4,523 Scattering, 393
Whole number of votes in 1802, 16,284 "By which you will perceive that last year the republican candidate had but a small number of votes more than one quarter of the whole—and that this year he has more than one- third of the whole votes given in, and 3325 more votes in number, than last year."
"When we take into considera- tion the immense and unparalleled ex- ertions of the federal party this year, we are astonished to find that we have gained on them so much both in pro- portion and numbers. Neither re- publican nor federalist had calculated the result would have been so favor- able to the cause of Republicanism."
Eighty families of distinction and pro- perty are said to be emigrating from one Canton only of Switzerland to North America. A glorious proof this of the beneficial mediation of the grand paci- ficator. It will at least, however, have the effect of sending so many more ene- mies to French Politics where, by this nation, they are more wanted—Good ever thus comes out of evil. (Lon. Pa.)
New-York, May 18.
The English ship Stranger, from Hull, was boarded by the Lady Arabella pack- et, as mentioned in our marine list—She left Falmouth the 10th of April, at which time we do not hear of any thing particular having transpired relative to the war expectations.
Colonel Barclay, the British Consul for the Eastern states, is on board the packet, and may, of course, be daily ex- pected.
The Trustees of the Massachusetts So- ciety, for promoting Agriculture, (at Boston) have conferred a premium of 100 dollars, or the society's gold medal, to Col. Robert Dodge of Ipswich, for his successful experiments in raising forest trees from seed. He states in his communi- cation, that on the 13th Oct. 1801, there were growing from the acorns, nuts and seeds of his planting, then 3 or 4 years old, 2792 white and yellow oak, 412 shag bark walnut, 48 oil nuts, 110 chestnuts, 239 elms, 41 wall—total 3642. The white oak had the most rapid growth. The ground was well ploughed, harrowed and furrowed. seed nuts, &c. put into the ground on the 1st Nov. From repeated experiments it appears that nuts acorns, vegetate best when only covered over so lightly, as that no part of them can be seen above the surface. Care has been taken to keep them free from weeds, the nursery was ploughed and hoed, three or four times in each summer, no hills rais- ed round the trees. The labour about
the same as tending Indian corn, and at the same periods.
A premium of 30 dollars or a silver medal was given by the same trustees, to Col. Robert Dodge, Esq. of Medfield, for rais- ing forest trees from young shoots of wood-lots. When he wants to cut down wood, on any piece of land, he cuts all down and makes it completely clear with a strong scythe and keeps it so.
After doing this, he has generally a fine thrifty parcel of young plants and sprouts, which grow rapidly. When the growth is 4 or 5 years old, he cut out the poorer sorts of wood, and thus every 2 or 3 years prunes away what is requir- ed.—Within a few years he has cut 4000 hhd. poles from 10 acres, without any injury, and without all-wing the best poles to be cut. In his first experi- ments, he left too young thrifty trees standing, but soon found they were high- ly injurious to the new growth. He ev- ery year, for 20 years, has cleared a par- cel of land for firewood, so that he has now young trees, from 1, to 20 years growth.
The cattle must be carefully exclud- ed.
At a meeting of the trustees of the Massachusetts Society, for promoting ag- riculture, Oct. 29. 1802,
Voted, That a gold medal, be present- ed to the Hon. David Humphreys, Esq. for introducing the Merino breed of sheep, from Spain into this country; and that the Rev. Dr. Parker be a comm'tee to procure said medal, and to cause such inscriptions to be engraved, as he shall judge suitable, and to transmit the same agreeable to said vote.
An extract from the minutes of said Trustees, JOHN AVERY, Secretary.
Boston, May 16.
By the arrivals on Saturday, we received Dutch papers to the 25th March and London to the 5th April. The verbal advices by the several masters, are however, of late date, though not definitive, on the subject of either Peace or War; they are from Hamburg, as late as the 1st. from Caliz, the 12th, from Bristol, (Eng) the 14th; and from Gibraltar, to the 18th April, which although many days posterior to our other late ac- counts from Europe, furnish nothing more, than that the most active preparations for war were continued in all the ports of France and England, but that the public mind, unadvised of the exact state in which the negoti- ation between the two rival coun- tries stood, was much embarrassed and perplexed.
From the Republican Gazette. Boston, May 14.
The election has terminated as was expected, in favor of the federalists, by a small majority. But to say that there is a greater number of federalists, in this town than republicans, would be as- serting what we do not believe; but we are firmly of opinion that if the republi- cans were to exert themselves as their opponents do, they would always leave them in the back ground.
As far as our information extends, as to the other towns in this state it is highly favorable to the republican interest, and it is expected that there will be an addition of at least 15 or 20 republicans to their present number, in the House of Repre- sentatives.
MILITIA OF COLUMBIA.
A Battalion Court of Enquiry for the first Battalion of the first Legion of the Militia of this District, will be held at Lovell's Hotel in this City on Thurs- day the 26th inst. at 4 o'clock P. M. to hear and determine, as directed by law, on the delinquencies, which have occurred in said Battalion; when and where all delinquents desirous of being excused from their fines will have an opportunity of applying for that purpose. JOHN P. VAN NESS, Major 1st Bn. 1st Legion Mil. Dist. Col. Washington, May 21, 1803.—2t
All persons having claims or demands of any nature against the subscriber, are requested to exhibit their accounts, without delay, to JOHN BEWIT or RICHARD FORREST, Esqrs. of the city of Washing- ton, who are authorised, in my name, to ad- just and settle the same and all persons in- debted to me are requested to make payment to either of the gentlemen above named. SAMUEL BLODGET. March 30.
THE subscriber informs his friends and the public at large, that he intends commence- ing the practice of Medicine, and has situ- ated himself on Pennsylvania Avenue opposite Mr. Duane's book store, where a constant at- tendence will be given, and every attention paid to those whose cases may be committed to his care. JOHN WILLIS. Washington May 4.
By his Excellency JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, Governor of the State Maryland.
WHEREAS it appears unto me by an Inquisition taken before Robert Mowrey, Esquire, one of the Coroners of Baltimore county, that a most cruel and atrocious mur- der and Robbery were committed on the person of Adam WALKER, paper-maker, a re- spectable and aged citizen of Anne Arundel county, by some unknown hand, on or about the thirteenth day of March last, which In- quisition hath been returned to me, accom- panied by a memorial of sundry respectable inhabitants of the counties of Baltimore and Anne Arundel, and the city of Baltimore, praying the Interposition of government And Whereas the quiet and security of the good people of this Commonwealth depend on the vigilance of the constituted authorities in causing the laws against such enormities to be duly executed—I have therefore thought proper to issue this my proclamation, and I do by and with the advice and consent of Council, hereby offer a reward of FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS, to whoever will discover the author or perpetrators of the aforesaid murder and robbery; provided he the or they, or any of them, be convicted thereof; and moreover, I do, by virtue of the authority and powers in me vested, hereby promise a full and free pardon to any person being an accomplice, who shall discover the perpetrator or perpetrators of the said mur- der and robbery on the aforesaid condition.
Given in council at the city of Annapolis, under the seal of the state of Maryland, this sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three.
JOHN FR. MERCER, By his excellency's command, NINIAN PICKNEY, Clerk of the Governor and Council.
In Council, Annapolis, May 16, 1803. Ordered, That the foregoing proclamation be published three times in each week for the space of three weeks successively in the American, Telegraph, and Federal Gazette, at Baltimore; the National Intelligencer, the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the Re- publican Advocate, Herald and Bartgis's pa- per, at Fredericktown; and Mr Smith's pa- per at Easton.
By order, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk. May 20.
FIRST LEGION. ATTENTION!
AT a Legionary Court of Enquiry, held on the 15th day of March last, in obedience to a law passed at the last session of Congress, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the organization of the Militia of the District of Columbia," ordered that the fol- lowing be the Uniform to be worn by all non-commissioned officers and privates be- longing to the battalion companies of the first Legion while on duty, viz. a DARK BLUE COAT of ordinary length, WHITE VEST, WHITE BREECHES and WHITE STOCK- INGS, or WHITE PANTALOONS and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE OVER- ALLS, with SHOES and ROUND BLACK HAT: which Uniform having been approved by the Brigadier General, is now published by order of the said court. WM. D. BEALL, Clerk of L. C. E.
Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That all non commissioned officers and privates, belonging to battalion companies, shall appear while on duty, uniformly clothed, the color and fashion of which uniforms to be deter- mined on for the respective legions, by the first legionary courts of enquiry which shall be held, and to be approved of by the Bri- gadier General; provided the expense of the same, additional to that of usual ordinary, and the clothing, does not exceed five dol- lars for each person, and every such non- commissioned officer, or drummer, or fifer, or private, appearing at any muster held after three months from the time that such uniform shall have been determined on, and the order relative thereto shall have been published in some newspaper within the legionary district, and not wearing the same, shall be fined five dollars for each offence, unless he can make it appear to the satisfaction of the court of enquiry of the battalion to which he may belong, that he was unable to equip him- self.
Lots for sale. IN eligible situations, and upon very ad- vantageous terms—A plan of the several squares in which they are contained may be seen and terms thereon by applying to, ROBERT W. PEACOCK, Attorney at law and conveyancer, &c
FOR SALE. Bricks, Wharf logs and tiles, Scantling of a large size. Apply to JAMES O'BRIEN, Carrollburg, May 15, 1803. 1mo
RAPINE, CONRAD & Co. BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS, New-Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol, HAVE JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE, Washington's Reports of cases argued and de- termined in the court of appeals of Virginia—Price 6 dollars. An address to the government of the United States, on the cession of Louisiana, second edition—Price 25 cents. Monroe's Embassy, in relation to our claims to the navigation of the Mississippi—Price 25 cents. An address on the past, present and eventual relations of the United States to France—Price 18 cents.
ALSO, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS in every branch of literature and science; and a constant supply of the Stationery—all which they will sell at their usual mod- erate prices.

PROPOSALS
FOR CARRYING THE Mails of the United States, On the following Post Roads, Will be received at the GENERAL POST OFFICE in WASHINGTON CITY, until the 1st day of July next, (1803) inclusive.
IN CONNECTICUT.
61. From Norwich by Canterbury & Boxtel to Pomfret once a week. Leave Pomfret every Thursday at 7 A.M. and arrive at Norwich by 10 A.M. Leave Norwich at 1 P.M. and return to Pomfret by 7 P.M.
62. From Hartford by Coventry, Windham and Canterbury, to Plainfield, once a week. Leave Plainfield every Wednesday at 4 A.M. and arrive at Hartford by 4 P.M. Leave Hartford every Thursday at 8 A.M. and arrive at Plainfield by 8 P.M.
63. From Hartford by East Hartford, Hebron and Lebanon and Norwich to Chelsea, twice a week. Leave Chelsea every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Hartford by 5 P.M. Leave Hartford every Wednesday and Friday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Chelsea by 5 P.M.
64. From Hartford by Middletown, Haddam, East Haddam, Colchester and Montville to New-London, once a week. Leave Hartford every Thursday at 1 P.M. and arrive at New-London on Friday by 7 P.M. Leave New-London every Saturday at 11 A.M. and arrive at Hartford on Monday by 7 P.M.
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66. From Hartford by Farmington, Bullock, Farmington, Litchfield, Wilkington, New Milford, Danbury, Ridgefield, Salem and Bedford, to New-York once a week. Leave Hartford every Tuesday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Litchfield on Wednesday by 9 A.M. at New-Milford by 3 P.M. and New-York on Friday by 11 A.M. Return. Leave New-York every Friday at 6 P.M. and arrive at New-Milford on Monday by 9 A.M. at Litchfield by 3 P.M. and at Hartford on Tuesday by 10 A.M.
66. From Litchfield by Cornwall and Sharon to Poughkeepsie once a week. Leave Litchfield every Wednesday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Sharon by 7 P.M. and at Poughkeepsie on Thursday by 6 P.M. Return. Leave Poughkeepsie every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Sharon by 6 P.M. and at Litchfield on Saturday by noon.
67. From New-Haven by Woodbridge, Waterbury and Watertown, to Litchfield once a week. Leave Litchfield every Friday noon and arrive at New-Haven on Saturday by 10 A.M. Return. Leave New-Haven every Saturday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Litchfield on Monday by noon.
68. From New-Haven by Derby, Southbury, Woodbury, Bethlehem, Litchfield, Goshen, and Canaan to Sheffield, once a week. Leave New-Haven every Tuesday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Litchfield on Wednesday by 11 A.M. Leave Litchfield at noon and arrive at Sheffield on Thursday by 9 A.M. Return. Leave Sheffield every Thursday by 11 A.M. and arrive at Litchfield by 8 P.M. Leave Litchfield every Monday at 3 P.M. and arrive at New-Haven on Tuesday by 3 P.M.
69. From New-Haven by Milford, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Norwalk, Stamford, New Rochelle, and Westchester to New-York, three times a week.
May 1st to November 1st.
Leave New-Haven every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at half past 2 P.M. and arrive at New-York the next day by 10 A.M. in 19 hours and a half. Return. Leave New-York every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11 A.M. rest one hour at Stamford and arrive at New-Haven the next day, by 6 A.M. in 19 hours.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave New-Haven every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 A.M. and arrive at New-York the next day by 11 A.M. in 30 hours. Return. Leave New-York every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11 A.M. and arrive at New-Haven the next day by 8 P.M. in 33 hours.
70. From Haddam by Chester and Pettipauge to Saybrook, once a week. Leave Saybrook every Saturday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Haddam by 11 A.M. Leave Haddam every Saturday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Saybrook by 6 P.M.
71. From Bridgeport by Newfield, Trumbull, Huntington, Newtown and Brookfield, to New-Milford once a week. Leave Bridgeport every Thursday at 2 P.M. and arrive at New-Milford on Friday by 6 P.M. Leave New-Milford every Saturday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Bridgeport by 6 P.M.
IN NEW YORK.
72. From Charlotte by Willsboro, Effex c. h. Peru and Plattsburg to Champlain once a week. Leave Charlotte Wednesday at 6 A.M. and
arrive at Champlain on Friday by 8 A.M. Leave Champlain every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Charlotte on Tuesday by 6 P.M.
73. From Albany by Troy, to Lansingburg 6 times a week. Leave Lansingburg every day Sunday excepted at 9 A.M. and arrive at Albany by 11 A.M. Return. Leave Albany every day Sunday excepted at 4 P.M. and arrive at Lansingburg by 6 P.M.
74. From Lansingburg by Yates's, Cambridge, Salem, Hebron, Granville, Hampton, and Poulton to Fairhaven once a week. Leave Lansingburg every Friday at 8 A.M. and arrive at Fairhaven on Saturday by 6 P.M. Leave Fairhaven on Wednesday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Lansingburg on Thursday by 6 P.M.
75. From Lansingburg by Waterford, Stillwater, Westfield, Fort Miller, Fort Edward, Sandyhill, Kingsbury, Fort Ann, and Whitehall to Fairhaven once a week. Leave Lansingburg every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Fairhaven on Monday by 10 P.M. Leave Fairhaven every Monday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Lansingburg on Wednesday by 6 P.M.
76. From Sandyhill by Fort George, Tharman, Scaron Lake, Elizabethtown, Crown Point and Jay to Willsboro once in two weeks. Leave Sandyhill every other Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Willsboro on Wednesday at 6 P.M. Leave Willsboro every other Thursday by 6 A.M. and arrive at Sandyhill on Saturday at 6 P.M.
77. From Schenectady by Ballstown, Ballstown Springs, Saratoga Springs, Greenfield, Hadley, Charlton, Galloway, Ballstown Springs and Ballstown to Schenectady once a week. Leave Schenectady every Wednesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Hadley on Thursday 10 A.M. Leave Hadley at noon and arrive at Schenectady on Friday by 6 P.M.
78. From Tripphill to Johnstown twice a week. Leave Tripphill every Tuesday and Friday at 3 P.M. and arrive at Johnstown by 4 P.M. Leave Johnstown at 5 P.M. and arrive at Tripphill by 6 P.M.
79. From Canandaigua by Hartford and Geneseo to Niagara once a week. Leave Canandaigua every Saturday at 10 P.M. and arrive at Niagara the next Wednesday by 10 A.M. Leave Niagara on Wednesday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Canandaigua on Saturday by 4 P.M.
80. From Canandaigua by Pottersville, Jerusalem, Bath, Painted Post, Newtown and Chemung to Athens Pa. once a week. Leave Canandaigua every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Athens on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Leave Athens every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Canandaigua on Saturday by 7 P.M.
81. From Utica by New-Hartford, Paris, Hamilton and Sherburne to Oxford once a week. Leave Utica every Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Oxford on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Leave Oxford every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Utica on Friday by 6 P.M.
82. From Conesjoharry by Cherry valley, Coopers town, Butternuts, Oxford and Little to Union once a week. Leave Conesjoharry every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Union on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Leave Union on Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Conesjoharry on Sunday by 6 P.M.
83. From Coopers town by Burlington, Brookfield, Sherburne, Duryea, Fabius, Tully, and Sempronius to Scio once a week. Leave Coopers town every Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Scio on Thursday by 6 P.M. Leave Scio every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Coopers town on Monday by 6 P.M.
84. From Albany by Duanesburg & Durlack to Cherry valley once a week. Leave Albany every Thursday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Cherry valley on Friday by 6 P.M. Leave Cherry valley every Wednesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Albany on Thursday by 10 A.M.
85. From Hudson to Catskill twice a week. Leave Catskill every Tuesday and Saturday at 8 A.M. and arrive at Hudson by 10 A.M. Leave Hudson at 1 P.M. and arrive at Catskill by 3 P.M.
86. From Catskill by Batavia, Freehold, New-Durham, Bleineim, Head of Delaware, Happersfield, Kaaterskill, Meredith, Franklin, Onquaga, Union and Owego to Athens Pa. and from Athens by Owego, Union, Onquaga, Delhi, Walton, Windham, Head of Delaware and thence by the same route to Catskill once a week. Leave Catskill every Sunday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Athens the next Wednesday by 6 P.M. Leave Athens every Wednesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Catskill on Sunday by 11 A.M.
87. From Rhinebeck to Kingston twice a week. Leave Kingston every Monday and Friday at 8 A.M. and arrive at Rhinebeck by 10 A.M. Leave Rhinebeck same days at 11 A.M. and arrive at Kingston by 1 P.M.
88. From Fishkill to Newburg twice a week. Leave Newburg every Tuesday and Friday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Fishkill by 4 P.M. Leave Fishkill same days at 3 P.M. and arrive at Newburg by 6 P.M.
89. From New Rochelle by White Plains, North Castle, Bedford, Salem, Southeast, Dover, Ke's, Sharon, Salisbury Sheffield and Great Barrington to Stockbridge once a week. Leave New Rochelle every Saturday at 8 P.M. and arrive at Bedford the next day by noon. Leave Bedford at 1 P.M. and arrive at Sharon on Tuesday at 4 P.M. Leave Sharon at 5
P.M. arrive at Sheffield on Wednesday by 10 A.M. and at Stockbridge at 5 P.M. Return. Leave Stockbridge every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Sheffield by 10 A.M. and Sharon by 3 P.M. and at New Rochelle on Saturday by 6 P.M.
90. From New-York by Bergen, Hackebach, Paramus, New Antrim, Chester, Goshen, Southfield, Ward's bridge, Shawangunk and Newpaler to Kingston once a week. Leave New-York every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Goshen on Saturday by 6 P.M. Leave Goshen at 8 P.M. and arrive at Kingston on Sunday by 7 P.M. Return. Leave Goshen every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Kingston by 7 P.M. Leave Kingston on Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at New-York on Wednesday by 6 P.M.
91. From Newburg by New Windsor, Little Britain, Goshen, Warwick, Hamburg, Newtown, Johnstown, Hope, Belvidere and Easton to Bethlehem once a week. Leave Newburg Monday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Newtown on Wednesday by 11 A.M. and at Bethlehem on Thursday by 2 P.M. Leave Bethlehem at 3 P.M. and arrive at Newtown on Friday by 7 P.M. Leave Newtown at 8 P.M. and arrive at Newburg the next Monday by noon.
92. From Cayuga to Scio once a week. Leave Cayuga every Saturday at 11 A.M. and arrive at Scio by 2 P.M. Leave Scio at 4 P.M. and arrive at Cayuga by 7 P.M.
93. From Newtown by Catharines town, Hector, Ovid and Romulus to Geneva once a week. Leave Newtown every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Geneva on Saturday by noon. Leave Geneva every Saturday at 3 P.M. and arrive at Newtown on Monday by 6 P.M.
94. From New-York by Brooklyn, Jamaica, Hempstead, Merrick, South Oysterbay, South Huntington, Islip, Patchouge, Moriches, Westhampton, Southampton & Bridgehampton to Sag Harbour once a week. Leave Sag Harbour every Monday at 3 A.M. and arrive at New-York on Wednesday 3 P.M. Leave New-York every Thursday at 9 A.M. and arrive at Sag Harbour on Saturday by 3 P.M.
95. From Jamaica by Queens c. h. Huntington, Smithtown, Brookhaven and Riverhead, to Southold once a week. Leave Jamaica every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Southold on Saturday by 10 A.M. Leave Southold on Saturday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Jamaica on Monday by 6 P.M.
IN NEW JERSEY.
96. From Newark by Chatham, Morristown, Boonetown, Rockaway and Sparta to Newtown, and from thence by Johnstown, Hacketstown, Black river, Mendon, Morris town and Chatham to Newark, once a week. Leave Newark every Thursday at 8 A.M. and arrive at Newtown on Friday by 7 P.M. Leave Newtown on Saturday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Newark on Monday by 7 P.M.
97. From Somerset c. h. by Baskinridge to Morristown, once a week. Leave Morristown every Friday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Somerset c. h. by 11 A.M. Return. Leave Somerset c. h. every Friday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Morristown by 8 P.M.
98. From Trenton by Allentown, Monmouth, Shrewsbury, Middletown Point, Spottsylvania, New Brunswick, Somerset c. h. Pluckemin, Rariton, New Germantown, Washington, Newhampton, Pittston, Flemington and Pennington to Trenton, once a week. Leave Trenton every Tuesday at 8 A.M. and return to Trenton the next Wednesday by 6 A.M.
99. From Trenton by Pennington, Flemington, Plumstead, Pa. Alexandria, Pittston, New Germantown, Rariton, Pluckemin, Somerset c. h. New Brunswick, Spottsylvania, Middletown Point, Shrewsbury, Monmouth and Allentown to Trenton, once a week. Leave Trenton every Wednesday at 8 A.M. and arrive at Plumstead by 2 P.M. Leave Plumstead at 3 P.M. and return to Trenton the next Wednesday by 6 A.M.
100. From Trenton by Bordentown, Slabtown, Mount Holly, New Mills, Moorestown and Haddonfield to Philadelphia, once a week. Leave Trenton every Tuesday at 9 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia on Wednesday by 11 A.M. Leave Philadelphia every Wednesday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Trenton on Thursday by 6 P.M.
101. From Philadelphia by Coopers town, Haddonfield, Taunton and Atkinson to Tucker town, once a week. Leave Tucker town every Monday at 10 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia on Wednesday by 8 A.M. Leave Philadelphia every Wednesday at 3 P.M. and arrive at Tucker town on Friday by 2 P.M.
102. From Philadelphia by Gloucester, Swedesboro' & Woodbury to New Salem, once a week. Leave Salem every Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia on Wednesday by 7 A.M. Leave Philadelphia every Wednesday at 3 P.M. and arrive at Salem on Saturday by 7 P.M.
103. From Philadelphia by Gloucester, Woodbury, Bridgetown, Melle ville, Port Elizabeth and Cape May c. h. to Cape May Island, once a week. Leave Philadelphia every Tuesday and Friday at 4 P.M. and arrive at Bridgetown on Wednesday and Saturday by 7
P.M. Leave Bridgetown on Thursday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Cape Island by 8 P.M. Return. Leave Cape Island every Wednesday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Bridgetown by 8 P.M. Leave Bridgetown every Monday and Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia by 7 P.M.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
104. From Philadelphia by Jenkintown, Doylestown, Plumstead, Easton, Hellers, Shupelsville and Prescott's Mill to Wilkibare, once a week. Leave Philadelphia every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 A.M. and arrive at Jenkintown by 8 A.M. at Plumstead by noon, and at Easton by 8 P.M. Leave Easton on Thursday at 10 A.M. and arrive at Wilkibare on Friday by 6 P.M. Return. Leave Wilkibare every Saturday at 5 P.M. and arrive at Easton on Sunday by 8 P.M. Leave Easton every Monday and Thursday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia by 8 P.M.
105. From Wilkibare by Pittston, Tunkannock, Beantown, Wykaling, Alytum and Shallequin to Athens once a week. Leave Wilkibare every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Athens on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Leave Athens every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Wilkibare on Saturday by 4 P.M.
106. From Jenkintown by the Crooked Billet, Warminster Cross Roads, Buckingham, Amwell, Corrylsferry and Ringos to Flemington once a week. Leave Jenkintown every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Flemington by 5 P.M. Leave Flemington every Friday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Jenkintown by 3 P.M.
107. From Philadelphia by Germantown, Chestnut Hill, White Marsh, Montgomery and Quakertown to Bethlehem May 1st to November 1st.
Leave Philadelphia every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 P.M. and arrive at Bethlehem by 8 P.M. Leave Bethlehem every Monday and Wednesday at 4 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia by 8 P.M.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Bethlehem every Monday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia on Tuesday by 11 A.M. Leave Philadelphia on Friday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Bethlehem on Saturday by 11 A.M.
108. From Philadelphia by Germantown, Norristown, Trapp, Pottsgrove, Reading, Hamburg and Sunbury to Northumberland once a week. Leave Philadelphia every Tuesday at 4 A.M. and arrive at Reading on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Leave Reading on Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Northumberland on Friday by 3 P.M. Return. Leave Northumberland every Saturday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Reading on Sunday by 6 P.M. Leave Reading on Monday by 6 P.M. and arrive at Philadelphia on Tuesday by 8 A.M.
109. From Northumberland by Milton and Muncey to Williamsport once a week. Leave Williamsport every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Northumberland by 6 P.M. Leave Northumberland every Saturday at 9 A.M. and arrive at Williamsport by 9 P.M.
110. From Northumberland by Lewisburg, Aronburg, Milesburg and Bellefont to Center Furnace once a week. Leave Northumberland every Saturday at 9 A.M. and arrive at Center Furnace on Monday by 8 A.M. Return. Leave Center Furnace every Monday at 10 A.M. and arrive at Northumberland on Tuesday by 6 P.M.
111. From Downingtown by West Chester, Kennett's Square and New London Cross Roads to the Brick Meeting house in Maryland once a week. Leave the Brick Meeting house every Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Downingtown by 6 P.M. Leave Downingtown every Wednesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at the Brick Meeting house by 6 P.M.
112. From Philadelphia by Downingtown to Lancaster once a week. Leave Philadelphia every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 4 A.M. and arrive at Lancaster by 5 P.M. Return. Leave Lancaster every Monday, Tuesday and Saturday at 4 A.M. and arrive at Philadelphia by 4 P.M.
113. From Lancaster by Reamstown, Adamstown, Gooftown, Allentown, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Hellers and Stroudsburg to Milford once a week. Leave Lancaster every Wednesday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Milford on Saturday by 5 P.M. Leave Milford on Saturday by 9 P.M. and arrive at Lancaster the next Wednesday by 10 A.M.
114. From Lancaster by Middletown and Elizabethtown to Harrisburg once a week. Leave Lancaster every Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Harrisburg by 6 P.M. Leave Harrisburg every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Lancaster by 6 P.M.
115. From Reading by Womelsdorf, Lebanon and Harrisburg to Carlisle once a week. Leave Reading every Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Carlisle on Friday by 3 P.M. Leave Carlisle every Saturday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Reading on Sunday by 6 P.M.
116. From Harrisburg by Halifax, Sunbury, Northumberland, Danville, Catawissa, Berwick, Salem and Plymouth to Wilkibare, and from thence by Hanover, Newport, Salem, Berwick, Danville, and the same route to Harrisburg once a week. Leave Harrisburg every Wednesday at 1 P.M. and arrive
at Wilkibare on Saturday by 4 P.M. Leave Wilkibare every Saturday at 10 P.M. and arrive at Harrisburg the next Wednesday by 10 A.M.
117. From Lebanon to Jonestown once a week. Leave Lebanon every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Jonestown by 8 A.M. Leave Jonestown at 10 A.M. and arrive at Lebanon by noon.
118. From Harrisburg by Clarks ferry, Millers town, Thompstown, Millers town, Lewistown, Belleville, Huntingdon and Culbertson's Mills to Alexandria once a week. Leave Harrisburg every Wednesday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Alexandria on Saturday by 3 P.M. Leave Alexandria every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Harrisburg on Wednesday by 10 A.M.
119. From Lancaster by Columbia, York, Carlisle and Shippensburg to Chambersburg twice a week. Leave Lancaster every Sunday and Thursday at 4 A.M. and arrive at York by 11 A.M. Leave York at 1 P.M. and arrive at Carlisle on Monday and Friday by 8 A.M. Leave Carlisle at half past 8 A.M. and arrive at Chambersburg by 6 P.M. Return. Leave Chambersburg every Tuesday and Saturday at 4 A.M. and arrive at Carlisle by 4 P.M. Leave Carlisle at half past 4 P.M. and arrive at York on Sunday and Wednesday by noon. Leave York at 1 P.M. and arrive at Lancaster by 7 P.M.
120. From Lancaster by the Sorrell horse, Black horse, Unicorn, Rising Sun and Brick Meeting house to Elkton in Maryland once a week. Leave Elkton every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Lancaster by 6 P.M. Leave Lancaster every Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Elkton by 6 P.M.
121. From Lancaster by Strasburg, Gap tavern, Cochran's tavern, Chatham and New Garden to Newport in Delaware once a week. Leave Newport every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Lancaster on Tuesday by 8 A.M. Leave Lancaster every Tuesday at 11 A.M. and arrive at Newport on Wednesday by noon.
122. From York by Abbottstown, Gettysburg, Fairfield and Emmitsburg to Hagerstown, once a week. Leave York every Sunday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Hagerstown on Tuesday by 7 A.M. Return. Leave Hagerstown every Tuesday at 9 A.M. and arrive at Gettysburg by 9 P.M. and at York the next Sunday by 10 A.M.
123. From Somerset by Connellsville, Union and New Geneva to Morgantown once a week. Leave Somerset every Wednesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Morgantown on Friday by 10 A.M. Leave Morgantown every Friday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Somerset on Saturday by 7 P.M.
124. From Pittsburg by Franklin, Meadville and Le Beuf to Presque Isle, once a week. Leave Pittsburg every Saturday at 10 P.M. and arrive at Presque Isle on Wednesday by 10 A.M. Leave Presque Isle every Wednesday at 2 P.M. and arrive at Pittsburg on Saturday by 5 A.M.
125. From Pittsburg by Beavertown, Georgetown, Canfield, Youngstown and the Salt Springs to Warren in Ohio, once a week. Leave Pittsburg every Wednesday noon, and arrive at Warren on Saturday by noon. Return. Leave Warren every Saturday at 8 P.M. and arrive at Pittsburg on Wednesday by 8 A.M.
126. From Washington by Brownsville to Union, once a week. Leave Union every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Washington by 4 P.M. Leave Washington every Saturday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Union by 6 P.M.
127. From Washington to Waynesboro, once a week. Leave Washington every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Waynesboro by 1 P.M. Leave Waynesboro every Monday at 4 P.M. and arrive at Washington on Tuesday by noon.
128. From York by Shrewsbury and the Black horse to Baltimore once a week. Leave York every Tuesday noon and arrive at Baltimore on Wednesday by 7 P.M. Leave Baltimore every Friday at 6 A.M. and arrive at York on Saturday by noon.
129. From Baltimore, Md. by Reisterstown, Winchester, Union Mills, Peter'sburg and Gettysburg, Pa. to Chambersburg once a week. Leave Baltimore every Saturday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Chambersburg on Sunday by 6 P.M. Leave Chambersburg every Tuesday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Baltimore on Wednesday by 6 P.M.
130. From Baltimore by Reisterstown, Hanover, Abbottstown, Berlin, Warrenton, and Mannahan to Carlisle once a week. Leave Baltimore every Saturday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Carlisle on Sunday by 7 P.M. Leave Carlisle every Tuesday at 5 A.M. and arrive at Baltimore on Wednesday by 7 P.M.
131. From Shippensburg to Strasburg once a week. Leave Shippensburg every Tuesday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Strasburg by 8 A.M. Leave Strasburg at 10 A.M. and arrive at Shippensburg by noon.
132. From Bristol to Burlington 6 times a week. Leave Bristol every day Sunday excepted at 4 P.M. and arrive at Burlington by 4 1/2 P.M. Leave Burlington at 6 P.M. and arrive at Bristol by 7 P.M.