Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-05-15

the Liberty Tor yonr port, we lncloie a
duplicate of the Price Current fent you
by that veGel.
Our recent importations Of Cotton have
however been very conGderable; the pre-
fenr Aocks being efimated atISto2 20, 900
bags, three fourths of which are from
your Continent; and further fupplies to a
great extent are known to be on the way
from the Southern ports. This quantity,
though apparently great, is notto compar-
ed with the daily sonfrmption of our
neighboufing factories. The decline in
price mutt be imputed more 10 the uncer-
tainty produced by the delay which has
attended the ignature Of the Dehnitive
Treaty, than quantity on hand. Sales,
however, are regular, but at low prices.
Any favorable event, added to this de-
mand, mutt have tendency to improve
prefenr quotations.
Havana fagars arc hipping off free
ly, not bag of Caracas Cocoa at this
market, nor any large deer fins or Bue-
nos Ayres hides. Ihefe articles may
therefore be confdered as much demand
ed.n
Extraa from letter, TIA merchant in
PHILADELPHIA, datea A0febe@, fifteenth
sf febraQyy, IN oydey 10 PIT ofher pal-
Jeusfrs an Aber guard 0gaiajg (miar
banaItn.
!" NArcHEz, Feb. IS, 1902.
CIT is our misfortune TO have to IN
form you of a diagreeable occurrence
which happened to US on oar pafage here.
We have had the calamity to be robbed
by a party Of white men, who had purfu-
ed our boar for near tixty miles. ] lllalI
fate TO you, as near as poaible, the cir.
cumaance of the unpleafant event: On
the day previous TO the robbery January
z9) we we're hailed by thofe men, then
encamped at the mouth of White river,
about 900 miles from hence from our
having been led to expect fuch people
there, we were unconfcious of any detign,
other than to purchafe articles for bringing
up to Spanih village called Auzark,
the inhabitants Of which depend for many
articles OF provihon on the boats pafhng-
We ha Aiag fome final articles which fulted
them, they requeaed us to lay on lhore,
and let them have them, which we did
among the ref we folc two rifle guns,
which we had brought for our amulement
on the river, (never concelving them ne
ceTary for defence and TO fell when an
opportunity ofcred-to iacure our arms
Teens to have been the fr& ftcp of their
plant being late before we had conclud-
ed our trade with them, we did not iet
off that night, but lay within mile of
their encampment unnolefed: - next
morning we departed early, made long
trip that day, and came too at about 6.
O'Clock in the evenlng-about nine O'Clock
we were ionewhat alarmed, by hearing
| rufling noif. in the leaves adjoining on
which we went forward and demanded
who was there, which was ahlwered by
perfon who faid with much curling and
abuGve language, that we were ieen,tak-
ing runaway negroes on board, of which
he and his party were in purluit, and de,
fired us TO leave the boat, or he would
put every man to death. To quit the
boat we pofitively refdfed, but told them
they had permiilion 70 come and learch,
on which they commenced firing on us,
and continued it for fourteen hots, when
we were obliged 10 furTender, and left the
boat, on which they entered her, broke
open all the trunks, aud cut the coverlids
of the bales and we are forty to add,
they were too fuccefsiul in their depreda-
tons, having carried off goods to the
amount of TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, all
Of which they put OH board ikif which
we had, and proceeded Up the river,
Gil L., L.a, o,,r n, and fe riouc ,x,ou