The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1805-02-01 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. V.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. DCLXXIV.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1805.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
By virtue of a writ of Venditioni Expō- nas issued from the Circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Wash- ington, at the suit of the President, directors and Company of the Bank of Columbia— will be exposed to public sale for ready cash on the 21st day of December next, at Wm. Rhodes's tavern in the city of Washington, all the right, title, claim and interest of John P. Van Ness in and to the following property, viz.—Lots no 3 4 5 and 6 in sq no 492 Lots no 5 6 and 10 in sq no 493 Lots no 4 5 6 and 7 in sq no 494 Lots no 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 and 12 in sq no 535 Lot no 1 in sq no 493 Lot no 493 Lot no 15 in sq no 878 Lots no 5 6 9 and 12 in sq no 874 Lots no 5 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 and 19 in sq no 585. Lots no 9 to 12 13 14 15 17 18 and 19 in sq no 587 Lots 2 3 4 5 15 16 17 18 20 and 22 in sq no 642 Lots no 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 in sq no 537 Lots no 2 and 3 in sq no 577 Lot no 3 in sq no 579, Lots no 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 in sq no 581 Lots no 2 and 18 in sq no 583 Lot no 1 in sq no 581 sq no 583 Lots no 20 21 22 23 24 25 and 27 in sq no 643 Lots no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 and 28 in sq no 645 Lots no 2 8 and 11 in sq no 792 Lots no 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 and 26 in sq no 826 Lots no 6 and 7 in sq no 216 Lot no 11 in sq no 373 and lots no 13 14 and 15 in sq no 491 as laid down in the plan of the city of Washington—The sale will commence precisely at 10 o'clock.
DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal.
October 29—1804
The sale of the above property is postponed to the 22nd day of February next, on which day the sale will cer- tainly commence precisely at 10 o'clock. Dec. 19—w2
City Lots for Sale.
THE undermentioned lots of ground are offered for sale, either separately or by squares, on liberal terms either for cash or on credit—they are all free from mortgage or in- cumbrance, and are subject to no litigation or contested, as the titles are derived by immediate conveyances from the chancellor of Maryland and the commissioners of Washington, to Messrs. Henry Pratt, Thomas Willing, Francis John Miller, junior, John Ashley and Jacob Baker, trustees of the Aggregate Fund.
Square No. 54 Lot no. 9 18 72. Lots no. 2 4 8 10 12 13 14 15 18 sq 84 Lot no. 1 sq 85 Lots no. 20 21 22—sq 103 Lots no 7 8—sq 145 Lots no 1 2 7 8—sq 146 Lots no 1 2 3—sq 147 Lot no 4—sq 163 Lots no 5 6 7 12 13 14—sq 218 Lots no 6 7 10 11 12 13 15 16—sq 293 Lots no 1 2 3 7 8 11 12 13 18—sq 349 Lots no 1 2 8— sq 376 Lots no 16 17 18—sq 407 Lots no 4 7 8 9 17 18—sq 487 Lots no 5 6 7 10—sq 488 Lots 8 9 12 sq 489 Lots 5 6 9 sq 491 lots 10 11 12 16 19 20 24—sq 493 Lots no 7 8—sq 494 Lots no 8 9 10—sq 531 lots 8 4 8 11 12 13 14 sq 533 Lots no 13 15 16 17—sq 584 Lots no 1 2 3 4 21 22 23 24—sq 588 whole square. Bait of 590 whole square. Sq 635 Lots no 1 2 3 5 6 9 19—sq 638 Lots no 1 2 3—sq 639 Lot no 1—sq 640 Lots no 1 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18—sq 641 whole square—sq 642 Lots no 1 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 19—Bait of 643 Lot no 2—South of 643 Lots no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 28—sq 644 Lots no 1 5 7—West of 643 whole square— sq 878 Lots no 16 17 18 19 20—sq 973 Lots no 4 5 6 7 8 20 21—sq 995 Lots no 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18—South of 1019 Lots 2 4 24—sq 1020 Lots no 1 2 3 4 5 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38—sq 1021 Lot no 1— sq 1022 Lot no 2—sq 1023 Lots no 4 5 7 8 9 10—sq 1024 Lots no 1 2 3 7— sq 1045 Lots no 9 10 11 12—sq 1046 Lots no 2 14 15—sq 1047 Lots no 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 19 20—sq 1048 Lots no 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23.
Persons disposed to purchase are desired to apply to
JAMES GREENLEAF, Agent and attorney to the trustees of the Aggregate Fund. Washington, New Jersey avenue, Jan 21—3t&wtw
FOR SALE.
Two hundred and thirty-six acres of LAND joining the Potomac river, 38 miles above the city of Washington, 50 acres of which lie well for meadow, and may conveniently be watered—There is on this plantation a considerable orchard of apple- peach and cherry, also a valuable geared saw- mill, in good repair. This mill feat merits attention; it commands 18 feet fall, and a stream sufficiently weighty, at all seasons, to work a complete merchant mill—It has been pronounced by a good judge, a suitable feat for a paper mill, as a sufficient quantity of pure water, may easily be conveyed 14 feet high in the works. This saw-mill is in a most advantageous situation for business, there being a large supply of valuable timber, oak, ash, poplar and walnut convenient, to be pur- chased on moderate terms, and conveyed by water at little expense to the mill; plank and feathering of this timber, is always in demand at Georgetown, the City and Alexandria, and commands a good price. Tot his market, 10 waggon loads in a boat may be conveyed in 6 hours and with less expense and trouble, than it could be hauled, 3 miles by land car- riage. This property will be sold on moderate terms, one third of the purchase money will be required in hand, and such an indulgence given on the residue, as the profits of the new mill will readily meet. For further information apply to
JOHN BRECKENRIDGE. Washington, Jan. 23—3t If the property is not sold by the 1st of March, it will be to rent.
Congressional Register.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9.
Debate on receiving the District of Columbia.
[Continued]
Mr. WILLIAMS of North-Carolina. Mr. Chairman, the length of time which has already been occupied in discussing the resolutions now under consideration, would have prevented me from saying anything at this late hour, but from some expressions which gen- tlemen have made use of by saying, that those who were opposed to the re- solutions had in a measure given up the constitutional objection, therefore they could see no solid reason why they ought not to be adopted. But I did not understand that objection was aban- doned, and for my own part, I consider, that if the resolutions do pass, they are contrary to the true meaning of the con- stitution. Under these considerations, I hope I shall be indulged whilst I offer to the committee some remarks, and state my ideas on that clause of the con- stitution which has so often been read and commented on.
The 1st article, and 8th section of the constitution declaring the powers of Congress in the last clause, which says Congress shall exercise exclusive legis- lation in all cases whatsoever over such district not (not exceeding ten miles square) as may by cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the U. States. And we are now told by those who wish to recede this district, that although the states of Virginia and Maryland have ceded to the Con- gress of the United States this district and it has been accepted, that Congress can now recede whenever they think proper; this position I deny, and will endeavor to state, what I think to be the true construction of that section of the constitution. The powers which are delegated to Congress in the 8th section may be exercised or not, but the power still exists in Congress, and I take it that Congress cannot by an act of their own, destroy the powers delegated to them by the constitution, if they can it would be a useless instrument. But gentlemen have said that it would be very absurd if Congress could not repeal any law, which they have passed; they certainly can, but does it follow, from that, the power ceases, which was given by the constitution; no, Sir, it still re- mains discretionary in Congress to ex- ercise whenever necessary. I shall therefore contend that the clause of the constitution under which this district was formed depends on the same prin- ciple, that is, it cannot be receded and changed at the will and pleasure of Congress. I believe the convention by inserting that section intended there should be a permanent seat of govern- ment, although they did not fix on the particular place where it should be, but left it in the power of Congress to carry that clause into operation. This has been done by a cession from the state of Virginia and Maryland, and accept- ed by Congress; that clause therefore being now made complete as any of the preceding clauses in that section, it is equally binding on us, as much so, as if the district had been laid off by the con- vention.
But we are told that this district has been formed by an act of Congress, and of course they can dispose of it at plea- sure. I admit it required legislative aid for its completion, and all the powers, which were contemplated under that clause being completely vested in Con- gress, they are bound by it as much as any other part of the constitution. Will not then a recission of this district de- stroy the obj & intended by the section, because without this district, Congress has no power to exercise exclusive leg- islation, and that clause will be a mere nullity. There is another reason why I think Congress have no power to re- cede this district. When the constitu- tion of the United States was adopted, it was well understood that such a district, not exceeding ten miles square, would be laid off for the seat of government. If therefore think that Congress have no more power to recede or dispose of it, than any one of the states which have been formed and admitted into the union, by an act of Congress, agreeable to
the fourth article, and third section of the constitution. If then this district stands upon the same principle as the new states, gentlemen will not contend that they can dispose of those states at pleasure, for having been admitted into the confederation, they stand upon the same footing with respect to being transferred as any of the states, which were in existence at the adoption of the constitution. If therefore Congress have no power to dispose of one of the states belonging to the union, except in cases of extreme necessity, for the safety of the nation, they cannot this district, both being formed agreeably to the express provision in the constitution. Gentlemen who support these resolu- tions have endeavored to shew us that the power to dispose of this district is given to Congress by the constitution. To prove this they have referred to the fourth article, and third section, which lays, that Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the U. States. But, Mr. Chairman, if gentle- men will strictly examine that clause of the constitution they will see it does not apply to the question now before us, it only relates to the territory belong- ing to the United States; for the bound- ary was laid down before the adoption of the federal constitution, and it was well known there was a vast extensive territory which Congress would have to dispose of, which they are contin- ually selling, and extending our territory, by extinguishing the Indian claims, and that is the true reason why we see that clause inserted in our constitution.
Gentlemen have contended, that the receding the jurisdiction of this district has no connection with the removal of the seat of government, and they have no such intention. I have no reason to doubt the declarations of gentlemen, but if the resolutions which they are in favor of should be adopted, it will have the same effect. Because if Congress can dispose of the district at pleasure our seat of government will be at the mercy of the members now in Congress who wish to remove the seat of government, a few years hence there may be; and if the constitution has no control over us, that clause is useless, and our seat of government, will be moved at the will and pleasure of Congress. We are further told that the jurisdiction of this district was not assumed until after Con- gress removed in the year 1801, but gentlemen certainly have not examined the laws, by which Congress were in- vested with the jurisdiction of this dis- trict, and I am confident they cannot shew any act of Congress assuming the jurisdiction except the act of Congress in 1790. It appears that after the state of Virginia and Maryland had made provision agreeable to the constitution for the cession of this district, that by an act of Congress passed in the year 1790, a district not exceeding ten miles square, to be located as hereafter di- rected, shall be, and the same is hereby accepted for the permanent seat of gov- ernment of the United States. And, Sir, the moment Congress passed that law, their jurisdiction was complete. For although they did not exercise the jurisdiction, the power was vested in them and provision was made for the government, and regulation of the dis- trict by enforcing the laws of Virginia and Maryland until Congress should o- therwise provide.
The reasons, which the friends of the resolutions have advanced, why we ought to recede the jurisdiction are, that these people in this district have no rights secured to them under the constitution, and that it is too troublesome & expen- sive to legislate for them—let us examine and see whether these are sufficient rea- sons for Congress to recede the dis- trict. Gentlemen have asserted that Congress are the absolute masters over these people, possessing powers more des- potic than any of the monarchs in Eu- rope, and in order to relieve them from their degraded situation, which is so re- pugnant to the principles of our free government, they wish to restore them to their former state of liberty and in- dependence. If gentlemen had exam- ined the constitution, they would not have made these assertions; for to my mind there cannot be a doubt, but there are certain rights and privileges secured to the peo- ple in this district under our constitu- tion which Congress have no more power to violate, than they have the rights, which are secured to the several states.
In the first article, and ninth section of the constitution, it declares that the privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended unless the public
safety may require it—no bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed, and can gentlemen deny that those rights are extended to the people in this dis- trict; certainly not, because the limi- tation of the powers of Congress is gen- eral, and not confined to any particular state or district in the union—further, in the articles in addition to, and amend- ment of the constitution, there are a number of rights secured to these peo- ple—Congress can make no law respect- ing the establishment of religion or abridge the freedom of speech, or of the Press—in fact, these people are equally secure in the persons and property, by a fair and impartial trial by jury under the judiciary establishment in this district. But great stress has been laid on the clause giving exclusive legislation to Congress—and I cannot for my part see that because Congress have a right to exclusive legislation over a district, they can exceed the express limitation for their powers—I think—and the mighty cry we have heard about the de- graded situation of these people is mere- ly ideal, they are secure under our con- stitution, and perfectly content with their present situation—and I consider that because these people are trouble- some, and it costs the United States something to legislate for them, is no reason for us to recede this district; for the same might apply to any other part of the union, and if this dis- trict is such a monstrous evil, which ex- ils in our government, and a nuisance, we ought to get rid of it in a different manner, than is now proposed, by amending our constitution: because it was formed under that instrument, and believing as I do, that our seat of gov- ernment is permanently fixed by our constitution, and although these resolu- tions do not go immediately to the re- moval of the seat of government, they settle the general principle, whether the constitution does bind us or not—I therefore hope they will be rejected.
Mr. ALSTON said, he did not rise for the purpose of entering into a lengthy discussion of a subject, which has already occupied so much time; in his opinion much more time had been consumed, than the importance of the subject merited.
Although in committee of the whole House, there had appeared to be a con- siderable majority against the resolutions for receding the district of Columbia, to the states of Virginia and Maryland, yet he had a hope, that the House would not concur in the report of the committee of the whole, on the first resolution, which only went to the re- cession of that part of the district which lay on the other side of the Potomac, to the state of Virginia. Most of the rea- sons which gentlemen had urged against the recission, had been bottomed upon an idea that this measure was only a stepping stone to a removal of the seat of government from this place alto- gether.
Those objections could not have any weight, provided that part which for- merly was a part of the state of Mary- land was retained; he believed some gentlemen had voted against the resolu- tions, under an impression, that the friends to the recission had it in con- templation to remove the seat of govern- ment—Mr. A. said, he would only an- swer for himself, that, no such idea had entered his head, he had no desire ever to see it removed from this place, and was he now called upon to give a vote for a permanent seat of the govern- ment of the United States, it would be, for this place, in preference of any other; to remove it from this place would be one of the last votes he should think of giving.
He felt at this time indifferent as to the second resolution which was to re- cede to the state of Maryland, that part of the district which was taken from that state; he hoped, that gentlemen before they decided finally upon this question, would take into view the real situation of the people & the district. The district was composed of a people, who had been heretofore governed by laws passed by two different states, they were sepa- rated by the river Potomac, their man- ners, habits, intercourse and trade were very different, their separate interests and wants were as different as those of almost any two states in the union, that no one uniform system of laws would sat- isfy them, that so long as they were under the immediate control and gov- ernment of Congress, strife and discon- tent would be the inevitable consequence. A great deal has been said about the sentiments of the people of the district, and that they were very much oppos- ed to being receded, whether this was a fact or not, he did not pretend to say, but
he verily did believe, if the recission of that part of the district which lay on the other side of the river was made, and the people restored to Virginia, that in a very little time, they would become much better satisfied, than they now were.
Mr. BEDINGER. This question has been so fully discussed that I have not the vanity to think, that I shall be able to change the vote or opinion of a single member of this House. But as it is an important question, and as I believe attempts will be made, and have already been made to mislead the public mind, by pretending to explain the motives of those who are in favor of the resolutions, therefore to prevent as far as I can a mischievous kind. I am induced now to come forward briefly to declare my opinion. I deny hav- ing any intention to remove the seat of government from this place, and my vote on former occasions will justify the assertion. I am unwilling to sacrifice the vast sums of money which have been expended here on the public buildings; I am also unwilling to sacrifice private property and national confidence, and all this without obtaining any advantage to the union. I am, and have uniform- ly been, a friend to this place as the seat of government, and being so, I will do all I can to support the constitutional rights of the citizens of the territory; and in voting for the resolution, I hope I am acting in conformity to the declared intention and spirit of the constitution, which requires us "to secure the bless- ings of liberty to ourselves and our poster- ity." Much has been said on the constitutionality of this question. The constitution has on this question been examined with the utmost attention; but I believe not one single sentence has been found, which (without a forced construction) is in opposition to this res- olution, but on the contrary, I think the spirit as well as letter of the consti- tution grant this power. The 3rd sec- tion of the 4th article reads thus, "Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regu- lations respecting the territory or other property of the United States," and if we attempt to secure the blessings of li- berty to ourselves and our posterity, I believe this resolution will afford us an opportunity, and although I am certain my vote will be recorded with the minor- ity, I still feel a conscious satisfaction in the propriety of my vote—I will not refuse to the inhabitants of 84 square miles out of 100, the territory of Col- umbia, (computing the city at 4 miles square, or 16 square miles) I will not by my act deny them the right of suffrage or representation, so long as I think the spirit of the constitution and the principles contained in the decla- ration of rights may be violated thereby. To the many objections which have al- ready been made against continuing this territory in this degraded situation, I will add one more, which is, I think it is a bar to its population, and whether the grantor or the refuser of equal rights, is its greatest friend, is a question (I think) not hard to deter- mine by a republican; for my own part I would not wish to live in a territory, to raise a son in it, who should thereby imbibe the servile principles of slavery from his infancy, and I have no doubt but there are many who will on this ac- count remove from it, or being out will be willing to stay there. When we con- sider this place as the permanent seat of government for the U. States [for the happiest people in the world] and this House the school of politics, to teach our youths the art of virtuous legis- lation, where the true spirit of liberty ought to dwell, that we here refuse to cherish the principles which made us an indepen- dent nation, and doom this place (of all others on the continent) the fit to per- petual slavery! I hope not—Would such a condition help to form a more per- fect union, establish justice, or insure domestic tranquility? I think the con- trary will be the result, and so far as the experiment has already been made; this truth cannot be doubted; this territory not being figured in any state rights by the pale of any constitution, in the case of a bad administration might be- come a bone of contention, the seat of usurpation, and an asylum for all those villains who might flee from justice, as they might here meet with protection; so the rights granted to states by the constitution to demand from states criminals who flee from jus- tice, does not apply to this territory; and to this the power of a disaffected party, and it will be difficult to calculate the extent of the evils which may arise from one, which at first view to many may appear at present but small. For these

and many other reasons, I am opposed to the report of the committee of the whole and in favor of the resolution. (To be continued.)
[FROM THE ENQUIRER.]
To the Editor of the Enquirer.
SIR,
In your paper of the 1st inst. under the head of "Domestic Intelligence," you have published the remarks of a writer in the Pittsburgh paper of the 15th December, which have the tendency, by the extensive circulation of your paper, to make an unjust impression upon the public mind, in favor of the route for a road from the city of Washington by Fort Cumberland on the Potomac, Union town, Brownsville, Washington (Penn.) to Charlestown, or Steubenville on the Ohio river. This subject has long occupied public attention, and the result of my enquiries has been, that a road extending from the city of Washington, via Winchester or its vicinity, the mouth of New Creek & western port on the Potomac; and the nearest navigable points on Cheat river and the Monongahela, to Wheeling on the Ohio river; and from the most eligible place of intersection on this route (viz: at or near the Cheat river) to Marietta, would combine the great commercial and political objects of communication with the north western corner of Virginia; the south western extremity of Pennsylvania; the territory of lake Michigan; the state of Ohio; the Indiana territory; a great part of Kentucky; and all the territory of the United States, north of the mouth of the Ohio river. Without presuming in the remotest manner to impeach the motives of the writer; I propose to examine his statements in the order they are made, to compare his plan with the one I advocate, to state facts duly authenticated, and in fine, to prove that my project is eminently entitled to a preference over his.
The three important points upon which the decision rests, and which the writer alleges are respected, and sanctioned by his plan; are,
1st "If (Fort Cumberland) combines the proper and convenient alternative of land or water conveyance from the extreme navigation of the Potomac to the Metropolis, a distance of about 200 miles."
2dly. He states "It will cross the mountains in the shortest distance possible, and connect at the nearest and most convenient point, with the immense navigation of the Western waters, in a land carriage of about 50 miles." Again, "It occupies, unquestionably, the best ground for a road, in such direct course and extent, from the Ohio, any where above Kentucky; it passes thro' the most populous and cultivated country of similar extent, by western Pennsylvania or Virginia." This point involves great and important considerations, which I propose to examine minutely. The shortest distance to be found across the mountains, and the connection with the western waters, by the most convenient and shortest passage throughout the United States, is from the river Potomac; and the most eligible place on that river is Winchester or its vicinity. The ground will admit of a better road than from Fort Cumberland. The land carriage to Cheat river, by far the largest branch of the Monongahela, which takes its rise in the Alleghany mountains, and washes its base for one hundred miles, and is supported by the finest springs in the United States—is, as the road now goes, only 39 miles, and may be reduced to less than 30. To the Monongahela itself, it is only 59 miles—whereas on the route from Fort Cumberland to the Monongahela, at or near Brownsville, the distance is at least 76 miles, which is 25 more than the writer supposes, and more than twice as far as from Winchester. The distance from Cheat river to Wheeling, is 50 miles; making in the whole, as the road now goes, as follows, viz: from the city of Washington to West Port 140 miles; thence to Cheat 39 miles, and thence to Wheeling, 70 miles; total, 249 miles. From the city of Washington to Fort Cumberland, 147 miles; to Brownsville, 74 additional miles; and from thence to Steubenville, 64 miles; total, 285 miles.
Diff-ference in favor of Western Port, 36 miles. The ground from Monongahela to Wheeling, is, I believe, equal to that from Brownsville to Steubenville; the country on both routes is thickly settled and very fertile. The greater part of the distance from Western Port to Cheat, crossing the Alleghany mountain, is through extensive natural prairies called the Glades, which in the summer graze thousands of cattle, and presents to the eye the most beautiful landscape in the United States; and roads susceptible of being made equal to any in the Union. The writer is also inaccurate in stating that "the road by Fort Cumberland passes through the "most populous, cultivated country of similar extent," by Western Pennsylvania or Virginia."—The Western Port road passes through the centre of the Loudoun, Frederick, Hampshire, and Monongahela, Congressional districts in Virginia; through Alleghany county in Maryland, and Green, and part of Washington in Pennsylvania; those districts and the three counties in Maryland and Pennsylvania, contain a population of at least 190,000 inhabitants; a country twice as populous as the other, and of most unquestionable superior fertility.
The 3d point is, "that a course south of this (viz: of Fort Cumberland to Steubenville) would be embarrassed with immense difficulties in its useless passage through a very broken, and scarcely habitable country, towards the Ohio; and pointing to one nearly of the same description on the other river." Most of the assertions here made, have been answered in the two preceding enquiries. Allow me to repeat, the country by Western Port is not so "very broken" as from F. Cumberland. It is, instead of being "almost uninhabitable" twice as populous as the other. It connects the navigation of the eastern and western waters by a passage not half as long as the other; and in that respect more effectually executes one of the grand decrees of nature, which destined the Potomac and Monongahela to be the great highways for the internal commerce of the nation. It will therefore be infinitely more useful to the community than by Fort Cumberland.
The writer is equally unfortunate in asserting, that "a road south of F. Cumberland passes towards the Ohio through a very broken, and scarcely habitable country." Wheeling is opposite the centre of the Seven-Ranges, where lands are selling from 10 to 20 dollars per acre; and from whence, we have been informed by the post-master-general, in an official communication to Congress, a line of mail stages will run in a few months to Chillicothe, and Cincinnati. For most of the foregoing facts, I refer to the map of the United States, and to the subjoined extracts of letters from Col. Deakins whose memory will long be revered by the citizens of George town, as a man of worth and integrity, and whose representations are entitled to the highest credit. Many of them are stated from personal knowledge.
Extract of a letter from Colonel F. Deakins.
"When col. Neville and myself was commissioned by the states of Virginia and Maryland in 1786, to lay out a road between the said navigations, (the upper navigation of Potomac to the nearest western navigation) in the first place we examined the waters of Potomac above F. Cumberland: the Youghiogheny from the great falls below Turkey-foot upwards (Cheat river and the Monongahela; and reported a state of those waters where we was in doubt to the Potomac company—we also had surveys made of the road from Cumberland to the mouth of Cheat and Morgan-town; another from the mouth of New-Creek to Savage, and from that to the nearest part of Cheat river and Monongahela. Upon examination of which, the board of directors advised us to let out from the mouth of Savage as the place they expected to extend the navigation to, and take the best way to Morgantown, which we did as you now find the states road—I was again commissioned in 1787 to superintend the survey of the soldiers lands in Maryland westward of Cumberland, which furnished me with a more minute view of the lands between these navigations, and "I have no hesitation to say," I have no doubt, upon a fair examination by disinterested judges of the routes proposed that the one from New Creek and Savage through the neighborhood of Morgantown to the Ohio will be preferred, the ground from the Potomac to the Monongahela is the best and shortest; it suits that navigation and Cheat river—the mouth of New Creek is at present the principal head navigation. The distance as the road goes is about 140 miles. The direct line is 105 miles, and I have no doubt but a good road may be made on that route by adding about 15 to that direct line, the common route to Cumberland on the Maryland side, is 43 to F. Town, to Williamport 29, Hancock 25, Old town 35, Fort Cumberland 15, in all 147 miles, and the ground on which it goes, much inferior to that in Virginia.
The river from Fort Cumberland to New Creek, about 18 miles can be navigated at any time better than the river from F. Cumberland to the mouth of the south branch can—The navigation of Potomac, depends much on the seasons: in '99, it was boatable not less than two thirds of the year.
Signed,
FRANCIS DEAKINS.
I presume I have already shown that Westernport is entitled to a preference over Fort Cumberland. I have additional reasons which will now be given, and if the scales of public opinion are, from the preceding explanations, even suspended in equilibrio, what I shall now state, will greatly incline them in its favor. As early as in the year 1786, as appears by the letter of col. Deakins; as the legislatures of Virginia and Maryland appointed commissioners to explore and designate the proper points for a postage road across the Alleghany mountain; and after the maturest deliberation, and consulting the Potomac company, who were improving the navigation of that river at a great expence, and were highly interested in their decision, the commissioners fixed on Westernport in preference to Fort Cumberland, and every other place. The public opinions of Virginia and Maryland have since (viz in 1800) been expressed in its favor, by the incorporation of a company, to open a turnpike road from Westernport to the nearest western navigation.
Every person who will consult the map of the United States, must admit that what I will call the political road, having reference to the communication from the seat of the national legislature to the capital of Ohio; to Vincennes on the Wabash, and generally to all the western country, north of 38 deg. 55, "the latitude of the city of Washington, must go far south of Wheeling itself. The most direct communication at this time is by Westernport and Marietta; a road south of this would encounter the inconveniences of a country sparsely settled, and indeed a country to use the expressions of the writer "very broken" and a great proportion of it "scarcely habitable," at present uninhabited. It would therefore go nearly 100 miles in conjunction with the postage road, and supercede the necessity of having two roads across the great barriers between the two extremes of our continent, which if we consult economy is a most important object. This political road points to a country, not as the writer supposes, "scarcely habitable" but to the flourishing town of Marietta, which for its enterprise, and extensive ship building may be justly considered the emporium of the Ohio. The citizens of that town of all political descriptions, who are amongst the most distinguished in the state of Ohio, in a printed circular letter dated 19th October, 1804, have made the following assertions, speaking of the opening a road leading from the navigable waters of the Atlantic to the Ohio.
1st. That no convenient road can be had from the city of Washington or its vicinity, to the Ohio, much below Marietta, and that a road leading to Marietta or its vicinity, will be found to be nearly, or quite as short, and to pass over better ground, than a road leading to Charlestown, Wheeling, Grave Creek, or to any other place on the river above Marietta.
2dly. That a road striking the river at or near Marietta, would furnish a more direct, and convenient communication, than any other from the seat of the general government, to Chillicothe the seat of the Ohio state government; (between which place and Marietta an excellent state road will soon be completed, a competent sum being appropriated for that purpose) as likewise by the navigable waters of the Muskingum and Hockhocking rivers, and by short and practicable land routes, to the rich and habitable public lands in the state of Ohio.
3dly. That the most convenient road, from Washington city to Kentucky, Tennessee, the Indiana territory and Louisiana, will be found, by adopting the above proposed route.
4thly. That one principal object to be attained, in making a road from the Atlantic waters to the river Ohio is to facilitate the transportation of goods and families, from the Atlantic states to the lower parts of the state of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and the various territories of the U. States in the Western World; and this object would be attained in a much greater degree, by a road striking the Ohio as far down as Marietta, than by one leading to any place above; the Ohio at almost all times furnishing a good and safe navigation from Marietta downwards; and particularly, at seasons when it is rendered dangerous above by shoals, rocks, sunken trees, ice, and other obstructions, by which boats are often late in autumn detained & injured to the loss of lives and property. It will be further remembered, that the Muskingum river, running nearly thro' the center of the state of Ohio, empties itself into the river Ohio at Marietta, and that its navigable heads interlock with those of the Cayahoga or Lake Erie; and transportation may, & (as the
progress of population extends) will be effected, from Marietta, to Lake Erie, by means of these rivers and the connecting carrying place between them. The Post master-General has authorized me to state, that the mail will be sent after the first of April next, from the city of Washington by Westernport, and Marietta to Chillicothe, once a week, and will perform the route in six days and an half, with a due allowance for opening the mail at the respective post offices; the distance is computed to be 420 miles, and the rapidity with which the mail is sent, proves more than volumes of reasoning, the expediency of making good roads, and of their superior utility when finished.—Many gentlemen with whom I have conversed deny that any advantage is derived from the navigation of the Potomac, and allege that Fort Cumberland is more convenient than West Port, to the large commercial towns of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; and on that account must be preferred.—This idea is also incorrect. All men in all countries readily acknowledge, the superior advantages of water communication. The expence is scarcely an hundredth part of the transportation by land. If then the interest of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore alone be considered: we shall find that they will send their goods & mail to pass by any point of the Potomac around to Alexandria and Georgetown, and if the navigation be useful; it has been shown, that the road is much nearer and better from either of those places to West point than to Fort Cumberland. Indeed a road from Baltimore by land to West point, will be found on account of the impediments before described as near, and to pass on better ground than to Fort Cumberland. And if to these considerations be added the reasonable one that Norfolk, Alexandria and Georgetown are also to be regarded, the preference must be given to Westernport.—I speak with the more confidence on this subject, as I know that a Marietta merchant, who purchased a large quantity of goods in New York, sent them round to Alexandria, and thence in waggons to West Port by Marietta—I admit that the Potomac like even the Ohio itself, is not navigable during the dry season; it is however not entirely useless. Col. MacCarty who lives at the mouth of New Creek, a few miles below West Port, gives, (I believe) the Winchester prices for wheat, although sixty miles further from Alexandria than that place; and sells salt at his store as cheap as it can be carried from land if given on the wharves of Alexandria. The canal company continue to expend large sums of money to improve the navigation of the Potomac, and its tributary streams, after the experience of a dozen years, and surely they would not be so mad as to pursue this ruinous project, if the navigation were useless.
To conclude.—It is the interest of this nation to promote the friendly dispositions happily subsisting between the eastern and western country.—This is most effectually done by facilitating the communication between them. Good roads have an influence upon physical impossibilities. They bring people and places nearer to each other. The passage over the Alps by Hannibal during the second Punic war, was regarded in that age, as a prodigy of bravery, and valour: now great roads are opened through them in various directions.—In like manner 50 years ago, a journey beyond the Alleghany mountains, was contemplated with more horror, than a voyage to the frozen seas of the arctic circle. Now new states are rising up beyond them, vying in importance and wealth with the old ones. The Ohio, and Mississippi are covered with the sails of vessels launched from their shores: the revenue of the United States derives directly from the sales of land, and the import duties on imported articles upwards of a million of dollars per annum, and indirectly from the consumer of merchandise brought into the Atlantic ports an equal sum. This flourishing state of things owes its origin to roads, without which the greater part of the country would remain a desert; and the spots where the delighted traveller now beholds populous towns, and beautiful villages, rising into grandeur, and magnificence: would still remain the haunt of ferocious wild beasts and of savage man, more ferocious and unsocial.
Much has been done by the energy of enterprising individuals—more still remains to be done, and it is a subject eminently entitled to the patronage of a wise and patriotic government.
J. G. JACKSON.
Washington, Jan. 7, 1805.
* He died last summer.
NOTICE.
THE Legionary Court of Enquiry of the 1st Legion of Militia of the district of Columbia, which met by adjournment the 19th inst. is further adjourned to meet on Saturday the 2nd February next at the same time and place. WM. D. BEALL, Cks. 1st. L. A. D. G. January 28—3:
FOR IGN NEWS.
NEW YORK, January 25.
Report of the arrival yesterday from Surinam, informs, that there had been a notification published by the government, ordering that no American should be permitted to import or land in that colony any kind of salt or dried fish, butter, lard, &c. from any port in the United States, for the term of three months, until they heard from Great Britain. There was nothing permitted but rice, naval stores, tobacco, corn meal, flour, &c. Molasses 17 flvers, coffee 13 do. and sugar 4 d.
A French agent in Holland has notified the merchants therein, that all neutral ships arriving in Holland, which have touched at an English port, after 14 days from the 12th November, would, with their cargo be condemned.
FRENCH OFFICIAL PAPERS.
(From the Paris Moniteur, Nov. 5.) Circular Note from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to all the Agents of his Majesty the Emperor of the French.
Aix la Chapelle, 18th Brumidor, (Sept. 5.) Year 12.
You must, Sir, have observed and known according to my instructions at the time of the communication of the Note of Lord Hawkesbury, to the Foreign ministers residing in London, the impression which the publication of the strangest maxims of political and social morality could not fail to produce on the mind of the government with which you reside. I think I ought to return to the subject. I, therefore, send you officially a copy of this note, and expressly charge you, by order of his Majesty, to make it an object of social conference with the Ministry of—
"The project which the English Government has conceived for the last half century, gradually to abolish the tutelar system of public law which unites and engages all civilized nations, develops itself with a fearful progress. Will other Governments refrain from making opposition to such an enterprise till there no longer exists any moral bond which may preserve their rights, guarantee their engagements and protect their interests?
"The powers of the Continent have seen with what audacity the faith of oaths has been sported with by this government, and solemn treaties violated even before they were carried into execution. The maritime nations every day experience its tyranny. There no longer exists any theoretical principle of Navigation, any written convention, which has not been scandalously violated on every shore and in every sea. Neutral States know that even in using the rights which still remain to them, with the most timid circumspection, they expose themselves to insult, to pillage, & to extermination.
"Those states, in fine, which have the unhappiness to be at war, no more rely on any reciprocal principle of moderation and justice. All the bonds existing between them and neutral powers are broken. Approach to the coasts and entrance into the ports and islands, though situate at the distance of 200 leagues from the station of their squadrons, have been prohibited by simple proclamations.
"Thus the English government has hitherto opposed to every power, according to its particular position, a maxim injurious to its honor, and subversive of all its rights. It now attacks them all together, and the more completely to attain its end, directs its blows against morality itself, and if I may so speak, against the religion of public law.
"In all countries and in all times, the Ministry of Diplomatic agents has been held in veneration amongst men.
"Ministers of Peace, organs of conciliation, their presence is an augury of wisdom, of justice, and of happiness. They speak and act only to terminate or prevent those fatal differences which divide Princes and degrade Nations, by the passions, murders, and miseries which war produces.—Such is the object of the Diplomatic Ministry, and to the observation of the duties it imposes, and to the generally respectable character of the men who exercise this sacred Ministry in Europe, is that quarter of the world indebted for the glory and happiness it enjoys. But these happy results torment the jealous ambition of the only government which finds its interests in the ruin, the disgrace, and the servitude of their governments.
"It wishes Diplomatic Ministers to be the instigators of plots, the agents of disturbances, the directors of secret machinations, vile spies, and cowardly conspirators; it charges them to foment sedition, to excite and perversions, and it would end by using the infamous service with the respect and inviolability which are due to the Ministers of Kings, the pacifiers of Nations.
"Diplomatic Ministers, (says Lord Hawkesbury) ought not to confide in the country in which they reside against the laws of that country; but they are not subject to the same rules with respect to those to which they are not accredited." Admirable reflection. In-

rope will be filled with conspirators, yet the defenders of the public law will have no right to complain. There will be always some local distance between the chief and his accomplices. The Ministers of Lord Hawkesbury will pay for the crimes which they will cause to be committed: but they will have this prudent deference for public morality—that they will not be at once the obligators and witnesses of the fact.
"Such measures are the height of audacity and hypocrisy. Never has the opinion of Cabinets, and the common sense of nations, been sported with so little shame. His Majesty the Emperor thinks it is time to put an end to this disalluring train of principles, subversive of all social order.
"You are in consequence ordered to declare to the government with which you reside, that his Majesty will not acknowledge the English Corps Diplomatique in Europe, so long as the British Ministry do not refrain from charging its ministers, with any agency in war, and not retain them within the limits of their functions."
"The evils suffered by Europe arise only from this, that it is every where believed, that we are bound to observe the maxims of moderation and liberality, which being just only from reciprocity, are not obligatory, except to those who submit to be bound by them. Hence governments have as much to suffer from their own justice as from the iniquity of a ministry which acknowledges no law but its ambition and its caprice."
"The evils of Europe arise again from this, that public law is considered under a partial point of view, whereas it has neither life nor force but as a whole. The maritime law, Continental law, and the law of Nations, are not parts of the public law, which may be considered and observed separately. The nation which pretends to introduce arbitrary rules into one of these parts, loses all its rights to the privileges of the whole. The systematic infractor of the law of Nations, places himself out of that law, and renounces every interest founded on the maritime and Continental law."
"His Majesty the Emperor regrets having to order measures which are an absolute interdiction against a government; but all persons who reflect will easily perceive, that in this he only acts according to facts."
"The English ministry, by the universality of its attacks, has placed the coasts, the isles, the ports, the neutral powers, and commerce in general, in a state of interdiction. Recently, in fine, it has proclaimed the prostitution of the ministry the most sacred, and the most indispensable to the tranquility of the world. His majesty believes it his duty to call the attention of all governments and to inform them, that without new measures taken under a sense of the present danger, all the ancient maxims, on which are founded the honor and independence of states, must immediately be annihilated."
Signed, G. M. TALLEYRAND.
The following is an extract of a letter from the minister of General police, to the Marshal Bernadotte, ordering the apprehension of Sir George Rumbold.
Paris, 18 Vendemaire, [Oct. 10.] After stating that M. Rumbold is following the system of Messrs. Drake and Smith, and that the British minister has avowed a plan of conspiracy "which is proved, besides by the conduct of Mr. Taylor, and the original papers in my hands." Fouche proceeds in the following terms:
"In consequence of these new and subversive principles, his majesty the emperor, has caused it to be declared, that he will not recognize any diplomatic character in the English agents who have been placed, by their own government, out of the law of nations, and the common law of civilized nations; they desire then that Mr. Rumbold be considered as any other English individual who should adopt criminal practices, and be taking it to be in your power to do it, taking every measure to secure his papers. I invite you marshal, to take all the necessary steps to accomplish this object. I have the honor to be, Signed, "FOUCHE."
The Moniteur of the 12th inst. in the Paris article, says—
"Mr. Rumbold, English agent at Hamburg, arrested within cannon shot of the advanced post of the French army of Hanover, and carried to Paris, has been liberated through the protection of the king of Prussia, and has been sent to England by the way of Cherbourg. In the proceedings against this worthy associate of Drake, Spencer, Smith, and Taylor, had been completed, they would have furnished instances as remarkable as those of his accomplices."
London Nov. 22.
On the arrest and carrying off of Sir George Rumbold, the British minister to the circle of Circle of Lower Saxony, the Senate of Hamburg lent the following note to the Ministers residing there:
"It is with the deepest regret that the Senate is obliged to inform your Excellency of an occurrence, which is, in
every respect, of a most serious nature, and which has filled the Senate with the greatest sorrow. Last night a detachment of between two and three hundred French troops landed secretly in the suburb called Hamburger Berg, proceeded to the Geindel, and there surrounded the country house of Sir George Rumbold, baron charge d'affaires from his Britannic Majesty, to the circle of Lower Saxony, seized him, and carried him, with some of his effects to Harburg. As it was impossible for the Senate to prevent this occurrence, which did not come to their knowledge till after it had taken place, it now only remains for them to employ every means to claim the liberation of Sir George Rumbold, and the restoration of his effects. The Senate begs your Excellency to be assured they will leave no means untried, as far as lies in their power, to obtain that end. (Signed) "WIDOW." Hamburg Oct. 25, 1804.
PARIS, November 4. A decree has been published, permitting the exportation of grain to Spain and Portugal, from the departments on the frontiers of Spain, and certain ports.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT To provide for completing the valuation of lands, and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves in South Carolina; and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to employ clerks, for such compensation as he shall judge reasonable, to complete, register, and record, under the direction of the supervisor of the district of South Carolina, the lists and abstracts of the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and of the enumeration of slaves within the state of South Carolina; and under the direction of the supervisor aforesaid, to add to or deduct from the valuations aforesaid, of each individual, such a rate per centum as has been determined by the commissioners appointed for the said state, under the act intitled "An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States," agreeably to the provisions of the said act, of the act intitled "An act supplementary to the act intitled "An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States," and of the act intitled, "An act to provide for equalising the valuation of unseated lands." Which lists and abstracts, thus completed in conformity with the revisions and equalisations made by the commissioners aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect as if they had been completed, registered, and recorded, under the direction of the commissioners aforesaid, agreeably to the provisions of the abovementioned acts. The supervisor aforesaid, shall be allowed in addition to his annual compensation, at the rate of three dollars per diem, for each and every day employed by him, in completing or superintending the completion of the lists and abstracts aforesaid. Provided, that the whole amount of the said additional allowance, shall not exceed five hundred dollars, and the said allowance, as well as the compensation of the clerks employed by virtue of this section, shall be paid out of the monies appropriated, or which may hereafter be appropriated for defraying the expenses, incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the supervisor of the district of South Carolina be, and he is hereby authorised and directed, as soon as the assessment of the direct tax to be levied, and collected in the state of South Carolina, by virtue of the act intitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax, within the United States," shall have been completed, to appoint for the whole of the said state, one or more surveyors of the revenue; who shall be authorised to make out the lists containing the sums payable, according to such assessment, for every dwelling house, tract, or lot of land and slave, within the said state. Which lists shall have the same force and effect, as if they had been made for each assessment district, by a distinct surveyor of the revenue: the surveyor or surveyors of the revenue, thus appointed for the whole state of South Carolina, shall likewise perform all the other duties, exercise all the powers, and receive the same compensation, which by virtue of the provisions still in force of any former act, or acts, were directed to be performed, exercised, and received by the surveyors of the revenue for the several assessment districts; and so much of any act or acts, as directed the appointment of one surveyor of the revenue for each assessment district, is so far as relates to the state of South Carolina, hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several supervisors, or officers acting as supervisors, may with the ap-
probation of the secretary of the treasury, unite, whenever such measure shall be thought expedient for the better collection of the direct tax, one or more assessment districts into one district, and appoint only one collector of the said tax, for the assessment districts thus united, any thing in any former act or acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorised to settle the accounts of any of the commissioners, or officers employed in making the valuations, and enumerations abovementioned, in the state of South Carolina, although the same may not have been presented to, and certified by the commissioners aforesaid, in conformity with the provisions of the act intitled "An act to provide for the valuation of lands, and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States."
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That any of the commissioners aforesaid, who shall on the request of the secretary of the treasury, attend for the purpose of assisting the supervisor of the district of South Carolina, in completing the lists and abstracts of valuations, and enumerations in the manner provided by the first section of this act, shall be allowed the same rate of compensation, as is provided by law, for attending a meeting of the board of commissioners.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars, and twenty-three cents to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be and the same is hereby appropriated, for defraying the further expenses, incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States.
NATH. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOS. ANDERSON, President of the Senate, pro-tempore. January 30, 1805. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
In the case of JAMES KNIGHT, an insolvent debtor. ORDERED that six months from and after the first day of December next is limited and appointed for the creditors to bring in and exhibit their claims to the trustee. It is also ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer once a month during said term.
By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk. Nov. 12.
Being appointed trustee in the above case of James Knight, I request all persons having claims to exhibit them without delay to Mr. John Moffett of George town, and all persons indebted to make immediate payment to him, or to the subscriber, or suits will be commenced. MATTHEW STEENE. November 28—1806
In the case of CHARLES NEVITT, an insolvent debtor.
SIX months from and after the first day of November next is limited, and appointed for the creditors to bring in, and exhibit to the trustee their claims. It is ordered that notice be published in the National Intelligencer once a month during the said term. By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk.
Agreeable to the above order, the creditors are notified to exhibit their claims to the subscriber. WILLIAM PROUT. Washington, Oct 26—1806
IN the case of WILLIAM SHEPHERD, an Insolvent debtor.
ORDERED that six months from and after the first day of December next, is limited and appointed for the creditors to bring in and exhibit their claims to the trustee. It is also ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer once a month prior to said day. By order of the hon. Wm. Kilty, esq. chief judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia. URIAH FORREST, Clk. Nov. 23.
Having been appointed trustee in the above case, the creditors are required to exhibit their claims, within the limited period at my office. ROBERT W. PEACOCK. November 28—1806.
In the case of GEORGE WALKER, an insolvent debtor.
SIX months from and after the first day of November next is limited and appointed for the creditors of the said Walker to bring in and exhibit their claims to the trustee. It is ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist once in each month prior to that day. By order of the hon. W. Cranch, URIAH FORREST, Clk. October 24—
The subscriber, appointed trustee in the above case of George Walker, requests all persons having claims to exhibit them without delay. WILLIAM PROUT.
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1.
On the 25th inst. the court of impeachment of Pennsylvania closed the trial of the Judges, and adjourned till the next day (Saturday) when it was supposed the judgment of the court would be pronounced.
The House of Representatives have been almost exclusively occupied for the two last days in discussing the report of the committee of Claims on the claims for GEORGIA LANDS, and the amendment offered by Mr. Clark, as stated in our last paper. Our readers will recollect that the report proposes referring the final adjustment of the claims to a board of commissioners, and that Mr. Clark's amendment provides against the allowance of any claims under the act of Georgia of 1795.
On Wednesday Messrs. Lucas and Clark advocated; and Messrs. Elliot, Boyd, and Euliss opposed the amendment.
Yesterday, Messrs. Jackson, Findley and Root supported; and Messrs. Gregg and J. Randolph spoke against the amendment.
The House adjourned at 4 o'clock without taking the question.
Mr. Nicholson reported a bill making an appropriation of Dollars for a number of Gun boats not exceeding twenty five.
The reader is requested to make the following corrections in Mr. Dawson's speech on the reception. In the 1st col. 2d page of the paper of the 25th inst. instead of "I voted in its favor, and I have ever felt anxious to make an atonement for that vote by advocating its repeal"—read "I voted against it, and I have ever felt anxious to confirm that vote by advocating its repeal."
In the 42d line from the bottom, for "fresh," read "reed."
In the 26th line, for "sh t"—read "short years."
In the 20th line, dele "arm."
Georgetown, (Col.) Jan. 22.
Died yesterday evening after a short and painful illness, Mrs. MARY LEE, the lady of Thomas Sim Lee, Esq. In her last moments, as throughout the tenor of her whole life, religion, piety and Christian fortitude, constantly attended her. Eminently exemplary in conjugal and parental affection, and in devoting her solicitude to infuse the best principles into the hearts of the children with which Providence had blessed her marriage union, she added to her instructions the still more persuasive encouragement of being herself a pattern of whatever is commendable. Her beneficence to the poor and distressed—her watchfulness in relieving the wants and guarding the morals of her family and dependants, her superiority over the malignant passions and habits of envy, defamation or calumny, and all her other excellencies, were heightened by the ease and affability of her manners, and the unassisted politeness, with which she adorned her dignified stations in society. She could not have lived more respected; nor could she leave in the bosoms of her surviving friends and relatives more regret for her loss, or a more dear remembrance.
NOTICE.
A Legionary Court will be held To-morrow at 10 o'clock, A. M. at Rhodes's hotel in this city—and the Officers are earnestly requested to attend punctually, as business of great consequence will be communicated to them, which will require immediate attention. Feb. 1.
FOR SALE,
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Robert Ware Peacock, to the subscriber, for the purposes therein mentioned, will be exposed for sale, at Rhodes's tavern in the city of Washington, on Saturday the 2nd day of March next, at 4 o'clock P. M. for ready money, to the highest bidder, all the right and estate vested in me by virtue of a deed of trust from Robert Ware Peacock, bearing date the 22nd day of June 1804, to part of lot numbered one, in square numbered two hundred and ninety one in the plan of the city of Washington, with the buildings and improvements thereon. Possession to be given on or before the first day of April next ensuing. JOHN DAVIDSON, Trustee. Washington city, Feb. 1.—wif
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Also of the new and simple principle discovered by the author, of obtaining unlimited power, and working steam engines with a power equal to five or ten atmospheres, either against the pressure of the atmosphere in the most simple form, or with the use of a vacuum to take off that resistance; and to show why doubling the fuel on the new principle produces about sixteen times the power and effect.
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NEW STORE, SEVEN BUILDINGS, CITY OF WASHINGTON.
The Subscriber, who lately opened store at the west corner of the Seven Buildings, has just received by captain Elwood, from Philadelphia, an extensive assortment of dry goods, amongst which are a variety of fancy articles, viz.
London superfine and second cloths, callimeres, napps, coatings, forest cloths, bocking, London hats, lannels, bays, blankets, counterpacs, dimities, stuffs and durants, London belt letter paper, common writing do. sealing wax, wafers, quills, pencils & paste board, fancy waftcoating, linens, Irish and German, Russia sheeting, paper, bed ticking, velvets, cords and thickets, patent bonnets cord, Barcelona handkerchiefs, handannons, one bale coarse mouseline, checks, shirting mouseline, best Spanish segars, chandeliers, goblets, decanters and salt cellars. ALSO, Ladies silk spencers for the winter, elegant silk and mouseline shawls, veils, ribbules, crapes, sareenets, fig. Mantuas and other ribbons, India mouseline, cambric, jacquet and book mouseline, spic straw, chip and Leghorn bonnets, silk velvets, cashmaws, lute strings and plain silks, English and French silk hosiery, pic nic gloves, and mitts, raw silk, wash leather, beaver and kid gloves, turtle shell combs, necklaces and means of great variety, lace, puffs and fans, silk cord, childrens leather caps, handsome snuff boxes, wadding, &c.
Piano fortes, violons, violon strings, music, fresh hylon tea. &c.
The subscriber has imported his London superfine cloth, hats and part of his other woolens himself and can therefore sell them unusually low by wholesale and retail. THOMAS W. PAIRO. Nov. 9—32swtf
RUNAWAY NEGRO.
Was committed to the jail of Frederick county, on the 18th of October last, as a runaway, a negro man, who calls himself, WILLIAM BLAKSTON, and says that he is a free man. He is 5 feet 6 inches high, and about 47 years of age. He clothes which he has on are a brown cloth coat, a wandown waistcoat, dark cloth overalls, a tow linen shirt, and a wool hat. His owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take him away, or he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law. GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. November 16—1808

Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from on board the United States frigate United States, on the night of Friday the 27th January a man named DANIEL FLANAGAN about 5 feet 5 inches high, light made, light blue eyes. Had on when he went away, an old blue coat much worn, coverlet pantaloons much worn, said Flanagan speaks English very imperfectly. Whoever will apprehend the said Deisterer & deliver him to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses. JOHN CASSIN. January 28—3t.
The American Gardener.
District of Columbia, to wit: BE it remembered that on this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four, John Gardner and David Hepburn of the District aforesaid (late gardener to Gov. Mercer and Gen. Mason) hath deposited in the Clerk's Office of the District court of the United States for the district of Columbia, the title of a book the right whereof they claim as authors, in the words following, to wit: "The American Gardener, containing ample directions for working a kitchen garden every month in the year, and copious instructions for the cultivation of flower gardens, vine yards, nurseries, hop yards, green houses and hot houses;" in conformity to the act of the United States, entitled, "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." The above work for sale at the proprietor's, and at the book stores, &c. Jan. 30—wst
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE proprietor wishes to SELL or RENT, on moderate terms, a neat two story framed house, eligibly constructed for the accommodation of a private family. Situated on 11th near F street, about 150 yards from the Bank and nearly the same distance from the Theatre. Persons wishing to purchase or rent, will please to apply to Mr. William Woodward, Pennsylvania Avenue, or to the subscriber. Possession may be had on the 21st day of April next. MARK STOCKWELL. 29th Jan—2awtf
For Sale,
141 ACRES OF LAND, THE property of Richard Mitchel, lying in Prince George county Maryland, about 5 miles from Piscataway, 13 miles from Upper Marlboro, 8 from Nottingham and 17 from the city of Washington, adjoining the land of the Rev. George Ralph, Thomas Mud, and John Robertson. The terms of sale made known by application to the subscriber legally authorized, who is now at M c Laughlin's George town, and will remain there till about the 14th or 15th of February. MATTHEW WALTON. P.S. If the above land is not disposed of at private sale before the 9th of February, it will on that day be sold on the premises to the highest bidder. M. W. January 30—3t
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, late occupied by Mr. JAMES D. BARRY—where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce. Genuine Cognac brandy, Isle of France do. Old Jamaica spirits, Madera, } Sherry, } Wines, by the quarter cask Lilbon, } and case, or smaller quantity. Claret, } Brown Sugar, 1st and 2d quality, Loaf and Lump, do. Molasses, Firkin Butter, Mould Candles, Sweet Oil, Spices of different kinds, Fig Blue, Starch, Almonds, Anchovies, } In bottles. Capers, } Powder and Shot, Excellent Wine Vinegar, Gin, Whiskey, Hylon, } Teas, fresh, and of fu- Imperial, } perior quality. Young Hylon, } Salt Herrings in Barrels. PETER HEALY, & Co. Washington October 31—tf
ROBERT CHERRY.
HAS removed his store, to the house of Mr. George Blagden New Jersey avenue on the Eastern Branch, where he has just received (in addition to his former stock) by the Schooner Yland from Philadelphia a general assortment of groceries and liquors of superior quality, with a few boxes India china of the best quality eighty pieces to the set; all of which he will sell wholesale and retail at the most reduced prices for cash, or in exchange for country produce—All orders in his line will be executed with punctuality and dispatch; he flatters himself on the quality of his articles, as he will be able to render ample satisfaction to his friends and all those who may be pleased to favor him with their custom. All kinds of commission business will be attended to with the utmost attention. Washington city Dec. 12—tf
ADAM KING, & Co.
AT their wine store in High street George Town, have in addition to their stock of old wines, laid in a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Groceries suitable to the present season; where bills of any description, in their line, will constantly be filled up on the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wines, &c. they will be able to give general satisfaction to all those who may think proper to favor them with a call—where all kind of commission business as usual, will be attended to with the utmost attention. George Town, November 5—tf
TO RENT,
On very moderate terms, FOUR TWO story brick dwelling houses ON north H street, square No 77, directly south of the Six Buildings. For terms apply to T. H. GILLISS At the Navy-Office Washington City, Nov. 2d 1804—M&Ptf
NOTICE.
THE Legionary Court of Enquiry of the 1st Legion of Militia of the district of Columbia, which met by adjournment the 19th inst. is further adjourned to meet on Saturday the 2d February next at the same time and place. WM. D. BEALL, Ck. 1st. L. M. D. C. January 28—3t
ALL persons who are indebted to the estate of Michael Roberts deceased (for debts contracted at his store in George town) are requested to come forward immediately and make payment to Edgar Preston, who is duly authorized to receive the same, otherwise their accounts will be put in suit without discrimination—those who have demands against said store, if any there are, are requested to apply as above for payment. FRANCIS ROBERTS, Executrix. THOMAS CUMPS ON, } Executors JOSEPH WILLIAMS, } George town, 26th Dec. 1804—epm
NOTICE is hereby given to ROBERT BOYES and JAMES BOYES, who now living, children of Robert Boyes, who was the son of the late esq. Boyes, of Londonderry in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire, deceased; which said Robert the elder left Londonderry aforesaid upwards of thirty years ago, married in Baltimore in the state of Maryland, and removed to Virginia and there died; that, if they will apply to Silas Petton of Salem in the state of New Hampshire, now in the city of Washington, or to Alexander Boyes of Londonderry aforesaid, may hear of some property worth their attention. The several printers of Virginia and Maryland will serve the cause of humanity by republishing the above. Jun 9
A FEW Hundred bushels of white, well burnt SHELL LIME, will be sold for cash, at 16 DOLLARS the 100 bushels, if applied for immediately, a less quantity than 100 bushels will not be sold at this price. Apply to CON. CONNINGHAM. November Cash will be given for WELL cleaned BARLEY.
Runaway,
Some time in April last a bright MULATTO WOMAN named FANNY, she is nearly 6 feet high and stout in proportion; thick lips, middling large eyes, very large breasts, bends forward when she stands or walks, quick in speech, and has very large feet, her apparel is not remembered, took with her a large bundle thereof, and it is probable often changes them—I have been informed that she is in the service of a Mr. Thompson in Georgetown, whoever secures her in Washington city, jail to that her mistress, Mrs. Sarah Brooks gets her again or will deliver her to the subscriber in Upper Marlboro shall receive Ten dollars and all reasonable expenses paid by SAML. J. COOLIDGE. December 3—8w
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 unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M C ULLOCH & LUNNUN, Baltimore No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept 17—tf
FALL GOODS.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square, HAS just received a very handsome assortment of Fall Goods. Orders executed with the greatest dispatch and fashion, and on the most moderate terms. Oct 31—tf
CHARLES H VARDEN,
MERCHANT TAYLOR. Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods, consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cassimeres, patent Besant's cord, toiletens, fancy and white Marselles, black and figured silk, moleskins, fancy silk, Marselles, constitution cords, velvets, Genoa cord, silk and satin. Florentines, superfine coating, knapped cloths, with a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, December 10—tf
STATIONARY & FANCY STORE
GEORGE TOWN. THE Subscriber has just received from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, a large and general supply of STATIONARY &c.—Amongst which are the following articles, viz.
Atlas imperial, superroyal, royal, medium and demy English papers, Extra lar e thick folio post, do. Do. do. thin do. horsepressed do. Small, plain and wove folio post do. Plain and wove foolscap do. Hoppressed, gilt, mourning, wove and plain letter do. Folio and quarto copying do. Super Royal cartridge do. Medium, demy and foolscap French marble do. Demy blotting do. Pass and bonnet boards, single and double ruled ledgers, journals, and waste books Medium, demy and foolscap blank books suitable for public offices Best Holland quills and ready made pens Black and red ink and ink powders Japan and durable ink Printing ink for book and newspaper use Red and black sealing wax Red and black wafers Large red and white wafers for office use Wax tapers and taper stands Counting house feals Pink and blue silk taffie Broad and narrow red tape Bail and hank twine Cases of mathematical instruments Reading glasses in horn and tortoise shell frames Gold leaf Parchment squared and pounced Scuttle fish bone and pounces Ivory and bone pounce boxes Black lead, crayon and camels hair pencils Do. with silver cases Reeves colours in boxes Krazing knives and paper scissors Counting house and pocket pen knives Do. with ivory scale and rule handles Ivory and bone paper folders Round and flat rulers Gum Tragacanth and Gum Arabic Slates and slate pencils Plated, gilt, wedgewood, pewter, & pocket inkstands Sand boxes and sand glasses Black sand, and steel filings Messuage and visiting cards Geographical and genealogical palisines an arithmetical games with totums Portable writing desks with apartments for dressing apparatus Mahogany, japanned and Morocco shaving cases Shaving boxes with soap and brush is Razors of a superior quality Ladies and gentlemen's japanned dressing case Playing cards and ivory boxes with counters Cribbage boxes and boards Backgammon tables and dice boxes Ivory chessmen and chess boards Billiard balls and dice Drum battle doors and muttons Violins, flutes and fifes Violin strings and bows Fowling pieces, shot pouches, and powder Horsemen and pocket pistols Silver and gilt mounted small swords, dirks and hangers Gold and silver epaulets and sword knots Do. do. shoulder straps and crescents Military sashes, lace, cords, &c. Officers travelling canteens with cooking utensils &c. complete Gold and silver bullion, spangles and thread An elegant assortment of gold, silver and gilt mounted combs Gold and silver hair slides Wreathes and bunches of artificial flowers Ostrich feathers, fancy plumes &c. Tortoise shell and superfine ivory combs Coquille and jet necklaces Gentlemen's dog skin and dress gloves Boots, shoes and pumps Morocco skins and bend foals Bailey's and Morley's patent blacking Hair powder and pomatum Powder bags and powder puffs Tortoise shell and horn dressing combs Curling tongs and crumpling irons Wash ball and wash ball boxes Tooth powder and shaving powder Essence of mtsk, lavender, burgamot and ambergrease Cigar boxes and snuff boxes Tooth brushes and tooth picks Cloth brushes and hat brushes Sweeping, duffing, scrubbing, shoe and fur niture brushes Switch, chair and carriage whips Walking sticks and sword canes Silk and morocco elastic braces Green wire senders with brass tops ornamented Fashionable bras and irigons Coal kods, cinder sifters and pokers An elegant assortment of japanned tea trays Satin wood and mahogany knife cases Green and white ivory tables and desert knives and forks in sets Elegant plated tea and coffee urns Plated tea and coffee pots Do. bread baskets and roast stands Do. candlesticks and branches Do. snuffers and snuffer trays Do. castors, double flint cut glasses Do. salts with do. do. Do. mugs, tumblers and bottle stands Gold, pebble and glass watch seals Do. watch chains and keys Do. rings, broaches and breast pins Plated and common coach and gig lamps Do. furniture for harness double and single horse Do. mouldings for carriages Do. gig springs, and hubb bands Do. chains, duke and snaffle bridle bits Do. horn, bridoons and curbs Do. patent and common spurs Japanned lamps and hand lanterns. Lamp wick and lamp glasses Worsted Webb and faddle cloths Mill and cross cut saws Gentlemen's tool chests Travelling trunks, &c.
ALSO—FOR SALE, An Invoice of Hardware Which which will be sold low at a credit of six months. EDGAR PATTERSON. Nov. 12—tf.
FOR SALE, one undivided third of that most valuable estate, held in common by Messrs. Josiah Collins, Nathaniel Allen, and the heirs of Samuel Dickenson, deceased, commonly called the Lake Company. The said estate consists of 53,000 acres of land, in Washington, North Carolina, lying between the canal and Long acre, bounding on Lake Phelps, Pungo Lake, and the head of Pungo river. Also 5,000 acres of Land in Gum Neck, near Little Allegator river, in Tyrone county. The above lands are equal if not superior for fertility of soil, to any land within the state: no part of them are subject to fresher or overflowings from said Lakes or Rivers; but a very considerable part may by laid under water or kept perfectly dry by pleasure, by means of said canal. This canal formerly cut by said company to join the waters of Lake Phelps to Scuppernong river is 20 feet wide, 6 feet deep, and affords an excellent navigation the distance of 6 miles, on one side of the left tract; on it and on the Lake is the plantation containing about 250 acres of cleared land in a high state of cultivation. The produce in general is for one acre, in wheat, about 30 bushels, in rice from 50 to 60 do. and in Indian corn in good seasons about 63 X 2 do. taking the whole crop together. In dry seasons bump has been very productive. On the plantation is a rice machine in complete order, in a building 72 feet long, 42 feet wide, and 4 stories high. Also a grist-mill with a pair of stones for corn, and a pair of stones for wheat, with two boiling cloths, &c. Also a threshing machine in excellent order. There is a saw mill which is now repairing, to carry one saw, and is intended to be in the same frame with a merchant mill to carry 3 or 4 pair of stones for manufacturing our, &c. There is a good dwelling house two stories high, and all sorts of out houses, besides two barns and stables, &c.
There are 63 negroes above 12 years of age, amongst them are tradesmen of different kinds—Also 33 negroes under 12 years of age. There are carpenter's cooper's and black smith's tools, besides every kind of plantation utensils, in good order. Horses, hogs, sheep, and about 200 head of cattle. Three large flats for the use of the canal &c. The medium crops when making rice and corn, is from 250 to 280 casks of rice. 6000. gross each, from 3 to 600 barrels of corn. Do. when making wheat, from 160 to 190 casks of rice, from 3 to 400 barrels of corn, 1300 bushels of wheat. Lumber from the saw mill when employed with two saws, has sold from 2500 to 3000 dollars yearly, employing 12 hands. Flax cotton and hemp are not included, The rice has sold from 5 to 6 dollars per hundred, these several years past. Were there 40 hands more on the plantation, the profits might be reckoned at least one third, if not one half more, for each hand, and for as many more as could be put on it
Certified by THOS. ROTTER, Superintendent. Mr. Nathaniel Allen, of the town of Edenton, and one of the company, being desirous to sell his interest in said property, had authorized the subscriber to dispose of the same, in his behalf, and has put into his possession all the necessary documents for the information of the persons desirous or inclined to purchase; the terms of payment, are one fourth down, on the execution of the deed or deeds, of conveyance, the remainder at two annual and equal payments, to be secured in the most unexceptionable way. The manner in which said property has been managed since the year 1787, when the company was formed, makes it a most desirable acquisition to gentlemen of capital, and by far outweighs the inconveniences attending property held in common, as a superintendent having the management and direction of the whole, with one or two overseers under him, renders it unnecessary for the proprietors to be at any farther trouble, concerning said estate, than an annual settlement. It will further appear by the above statement furnished from the company's books by Mr. Rotter, the present intendant, that the yearly produce of 250 acres now under tillage amounts to between 8 and 10,000 dollars annually, and that were 40 or 50 more working hands put on the said estate, the profits would nearly be double, with hardly any additional expense, as a much larger quantity of land might be laid under cultivation, with nearly the charges of the present farm. Any application by post to this subscriber, who resides near Plymouth, Washington county, North Carolina, or to Mr. Allen himself, or Mr. Stephen Cabarrus, of Edenton, will be duly attended to, and any further information, if required will cheerfully be imparted. JOHN ROULHAC, At. L Law Plymouth, N. C. Oct. 16. 1804—w2m * See Guthrie's Geography improved 2d volume, page 516 Philadelphia edition, April 1795. Nov. 23
TO PRINTERS. THE subscriber takes Order for Type from the well known Foundry of William Callan, Jun. and Co London—Specimens and list of London prices to be seen at Mr. Geo. W. Riggs, Georgetown. CHARLES WIRGMAN, No. 215, Market Street, Baltimore. Jan. 16. tf.
NOTICE. IS hereby given that the sale of all those lands and lots heretofore advertised in the Washington Federalist, the National Intelligencer and the Baltimore Federal Gazette on the 20th day of August last for a tax due the county of Washington in the territory of Columbia for the year 1802 (which sale was to have taken place on Monday the 10th day of December next at Rhodes Hotel in the City of Washington) is postponed until the first Monday in February next, when, at the same place at 11 o'clock A. M. the sale will commence and continue from day to day until all are sold or so much thereof as will satisfy the tax and other charges due thereon on the said tax and charges be paid previous to the day of sale. By order of the commissioners of the Levy Court, WASHINGTON BOYD, Collector of Washington County, December 8th, 1804. eptdf.
STON CUTTERS.
WANTED in the City of Washington a number of STONE CUTTERS to whom liberal encouragement is offered, and what is more desirable to young men of plying pen, as well as graving to one experienced; the work to be done this fall is of a kind, superior to any yet done in the United States. Apply to GEORGE BLAGDEN, at the Capitol January 30—6t.
Portrait of the President.
THOSE gentlemen who are desirous of obtaining copies of the Portrait of the President, just finished, by REMBRANDT PEALE, are requested to call at his Painting Room at Miss Dafford's, 4 constituent 22, where the picture can be seen for a few days, during which R. Peale will remain in this city January 31.
A Family of Negroes FOR SALE.
THE subscribers will dispose of by private sale (pursuant to the will of Ann Digges deceased) the following negroes without dividing any one of the family from the other, viz. GEORGE, aged about 47 or 48 years, stout and healthy, a very handy negro for every part of field work and a good mower, reaper and stacker of grain &c.—MARGARET his wife, aged about 37 years, brought up in a regular family as a house servant, to which she is fully equal, and is a remarkable good seamstress, laundress, and a tolerable cook. Also their two children, one a girl about three years old, and an infant at the breast. Application to be made to THOS. DIGGES of Warburton near Pitcairney, or WM. CARROLL, Rock creek, Montgomery county, Executors. Jan. 30—wst
FOR SALE,
A NEGRO WOMAN and her three Children, the eldest of whom is nine years of age, and the 7 aged three; the woman is about 33 years old. For further particulars enquire of Captain HOBAN. January 30—3t
IN virtue of an order from the Orphan's court of Calvert county [state of Maryland] I shall offer for sale on a credit of six months on bond with approved security, at the late dwelling of Benjamin Ward late of said county deceased. Two negro men, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, with all the household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils, and sifo corn, fodder, wheat, and the crop of tobacco now in the house—The sale of the above property will take place on Tuesday the 29th day of January 1805, (if fair or the the first fair day thereafter) and commence at 11 o'clock in the forenoon—All persons having claims against the estate of the said Benjamin Ward, are requested to exhibit the same on the day of sale, or they will be excluded in a distribution; and all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to ZACHARIAH WARD Admr. Calvert Co. Jan. 9—3w
To be Sold by Auction.
ON Wednesday the 6th day of February next, in virtue of my power I will expose to sale at Mr. Steele's hotel near the Capitol, the hour of sale Twelve o'clock A.M. the Lot No. 1. in square No 377 and also a capital three story house the property of John Crocker together with all the improvements thereon. For cash—the premises may be seen on the day, and for any further particulars enquire of me THOMAS LAW. Washington Jan. 9—2awtm
I DISCOVERED a few day since (in the Telegraph) a challenge by Samuel Norwood, Esq. Bonaparte against Democrat—At Annapolis this fall. I proposed running Democrat against Bonaparte, carrying from 110 lbs to 140 at the discretion of Mr. Norwood; which was rejected. As Mr. Norwood refused the proposition made by me at that time, I am not bound to run the race proposed by him in the Telegraph—Democrat will run Bonaparte over the Annapolis race course, on the third Tuesday in May next, four miles and repeat, for 1000 DOLLARS, play or pay, carrying 126 lbs. each; which is the weight they are to carry by the rules of racing, both being seven years, last spring—Should Mr. Norwood decline this offer, Democrat will cover mares next spring at the subscriber's farm, from the first day of March until the first day of August, at Sixteen dollars each and Fifty cents for the groom. Democrat's pedigree is equal to the pedigree of any horse to be produced, having in him the blood of Medly, Eclipse, Figure, Dove, Lodoiphia, Arabian, and Mr. Tally's Gilla. If this proposition is approved of by Mr. Norwood, notice will be given in the Maryland Gazette within forty days from the date hereof. ISAAC BUCKETT. December 21—tawtApr30
FOR SALE.
A Tract of parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, situated in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great Sattilla and St. Mary's rivers in the counties of Wayne and Talbot 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 pasture for cattle. It is also favorable for the culture of cotton, and lies in a very healthy district of country. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN DECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—tf.