Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-30
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SATURDAY, APaIL 90.

:" Ao0s1"' 90 err eorrsf PoNatnf IN 6aI
tim0re, dated Fsb. 4, 1909.
8 Linens have been ridog ince the
ihipmenfs of lsit year, and are now 70
per cent, and fomc articles IS per cent.
dearer.''
/" March ? .-siince our laR, per the
February packet, copy herewith, an ad-
vance OF full 10 per cent. have taken
place on linens, and none going, but at az
inmenle advance"
4 eommersial ffri;rua ffaz,oyrd rs zyitb TIE
JaAoqving exfya(7 Of lttfer from CAPE
FrAne0i5, aafed .4palI.
:" The feat OF government has been re-
moved to Port au Prince, about 20 days
floce, and the campaign will open imme-
diately with IL or 5000 men. We are
in daily expectation to hear from that
place, the relult of the meafnrss TO be pur-
lue1.
6 The aoop of war Di'igent paaed here
three days ago, in 80 days paGase from
Brett, with 1000, 600 livres on board for
the payment OF The troops, and by her we
lra.n, thar large reinforcement will be
itnt there. A nus,bef Of frigates and
tranlports have finee paifed the Cape, on
their pafage TO Porr au Prince by the
bea information it is calculated that there
are 10 or 1900 troops on board"
dmereaa.
We are informed, by paaenger in the
AGaance, arrived this morning from
CharIslon, that fire took place in that
city on Eater Monday, which was not
extinguiihed until after having confirmed
whole fquase. No news paper was iiiu-
ed on the fuccecding day, 70 that we are
nor in poasilion Of the particulars.
Phi. Gaz.
TITS now approaching to fxty DAYS
fince the date of our Taft accounts from
England. At that period events of great
moment were apparently on the eve Of
tranfpiring. Hence there at preient pre-
walls in the public mind more than ordi-
Nary lolicitudc after European intelligence.
A number of fpring yearls are hourly ex-
peeled at all the ports in the United
States. The winds generally have been
favorable and the interval Of fufi3ence GER
,ainlv cannot be much longer prosratted !;
unlels indeed. as is limited in political cir
clss, an embargohas fuddcnly be N laid on
all the ports OF Great Britain. Even in.
that cafe, however, we might reafonably
expect to hear of the event by vcilels from
other parts of Europe. At fuch criGs,
politicians are difpoled to indulge in con-
lecture, and thefe conjettures generally
coincide more with their 4v;@r, than
with their judgmsnn. 1t is bq6E5t the.
war may be renewed in Eurcoe. AS yet
however we poIefs but very fender in
formation on The momentous iubjett.
(i6id)
ExfraR efa Aettsytr0m a yspeaa5k m<r.
eantiLe boaye in Landau, to their carry
pondeats in PHILADELPHIA, dated March
2, 1903,
I" Ofcofees we are almoif bare.-
A flip arrived from America lalt week,
with about 1000 bags of St. Domingo
coffee which will be fold this week, and
no doubt the prices will be high. Except
this parcel, we do not believe there are
thee hundred hhds. remaining in the
ware houies.
{" Sugars continue TO fupport their
prices, and the quantity on hand has con-
iderably dininilhed."
IT is aaonihing how imperceptibly,
yet how quickly the democrats of Ameri
ca have got into the lippers Of thofe of
France, and with what awkward pride
,hey boh1IN ahout ir ,beu, ,yorr ~. 81