Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-12

Ind. IN their hahiVj uioi' i~'PN
ET;';,. ,bat be 4vW he bhaGd 70 add 10
S1y ohagatiaus BY eoude(trnamy TO dyply
\, " WONDERFUL POWERS" for aJrqv
y, .ytsng, brevions to putting -AAexau-
with which they are the rather In
tr,ed TO hope he will comply, as the con-
f,,,v mult inevitably difappoint that curl
FG,y and admiration which the report OF
" mauy" and iuimita6lr" per-
FINANCES has already excited.
A CITIZEN.
Akxa. Nov. II.
Dr.. Tucker, is appointed T.reafurer Of
he United States in the room OF Samuel
Meredith, Eiq. reigned.
We uoderaand that John +. Mercer,
Eta. is elected Governor of the State OF
maryland. WG~. Fea.
The remarks in the National Intelli-
Fence, Of Monday, relative to the refigna-
lion of Mr.. Newman, chief clerk in the
War ofice,a as reipects the conduct of the fe-
crstaary, deferves TO lie noticed.
OF all the clerks, feven in number,
which MIR. Dearborn found in the Office,
on his appointment, FIVE have been diGmif-
fed; and one from fome caule has found it
e~xpedieHt to reign.
With thefe facts before us who will
doub, the f%incerity of the fecretary in his
reply TO MIR. Newman--that he regretted
the necelity of his r~eisnaiicn and tina,
he had his etteem?
Mr.. Dearborn, previous to his appoint
ment, mad always been coniidered as con-
~ipicuous for his fair priyase character,
and in every refpett, other than po-
%litical, was highly acceptable to the Fe-
deralifs. The unanimous afIent Of the
fenate TO his appointment is an evidence
sof ii.
How great then mutt have been the fur
&priie, at finding him, Immediately on en-
sterlng on his official duties, meanly de-
icending to a difmiGal of his clerks.
The circumstances relative to this buff.
neis are of luch nature, and 70 itronely
mark the character of the man, that thew
ought to be detailed.
few weeks after Mr.. Dearborn's an
Bpointment, he directs the chief clerk TO
mention to Mr.. Loring, a clerk in the of.
Eh'e-that, deflrous of introducing a young
gentleman who had been Groneiy recon-
Inended to him, his ferYices, after the
then Preient quarter, would o be want.
ed.
ihort time after in apportioning the
,aiary OF the clerks, thofe four to whom he
mad been Dol Liberal, it feems he had mark
60 oltfof. profeription-Mr. Dexter was
S5llied 'oJr5o collars, MI. Gouidine ard
MI Lewis had alto a handfome addition.
and 'heie three, not two months after. had
notice OF their difminion.
ne however was good enough to aHien
hs feaions tor il, which were, that he had
ION and ion in law whom he wifbed 70.
put IN their places, and mentioned ar the
'''De time, as in his letter to Mr.. New,
man on his refgnation, that they had his.
queen aud that he would be happy;n Gerv
ing them.
,els 'fen is one inftance of his difmiGno
utlA' on account of his politics, and a.
,u'lef from the more powerful motive.
"'as OF iervmg himlelfand his family.
uoe nat lois which mott 10 exeea,e
MS ipirit of intolerance-or His Gel6h
"ns ana unieeling heart in dfmiGine old
~s' with families, who have no Other
means OF iubfRence in order TO create
raseS ior his own relations.
ouch has been the conduit of one of
eeff1 ,epndheans. ard how does !,
appear when contracted with thar of .
"Js'er SECRETARY from the 6ufb. who
me0 applied tofor one ofhis clerks plare.
m"sosnimouay replied, that there were
vacancies in bis efice-and thar &c o.
thinning clerk en- account of his nol;,;