Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-05-31

ihuian corn 3
The fuipencein which the public is kept
with regard to political events, has again.
thrown our grain and -four market into
very depreaed fate, and we have not
for fome years known prime Englilh.
wheat fold 70 low as it has this week );
os FER 7olb is this day the highei given
for iuch--the late accounts ofthe continen-
tai markets will prevent any purchaies
from being made for exportation, and we
do rot expect that feveral cargoes which
were bonded, will now be brought into
the market for home confump,ion. The
Baltic will foonbe open again, and we may
look for iome further fupplies from that
quarter. Cor farmers have till conGdera-
bic itocks on hand, and the prefent feaGon
has been particularly Favourable for bring
ing forward the feed now in the ground
From the prefent appearance of the future
currency Of Grain and Flour, we ihall ap-
prehend acon6derablc decline, were the
prices not already 70 low, that we think
they cannot undergo any material change.
If war Ihould take place, prices may
for time, at leai experience fome ad.
vance.
In the American Mercury of the 18th
init. publiihed at Hartford, MIR. Bahcock,
the editor, after declaring, in fubfance,
thar the democrats in Connecticut, though
greatly defeated at the lalt election, are
till increaiing and will finally triumph,
anumes the propbetr ayle and raves like
one ofthe ancient Sybils, in the following
terrific language:
/" When all Calabria thakes beneath
the feet ofthe people, it is much more
Sc dreadful than the local eruptions of We
6 fuvius and Etna. When the earth all
around is falling in, tho it be but flow-
" ly, the cruh is continually growing
{" thinner, and the poor wretches, without
I" place to cait their eyes to for fafety,
mutt ere long be fwallowed upwith
/" fudden dearuttion, and there can be
IS none TO deliver. Let the federal de-
" ce;yers be aflured an extenGyc fire is
{" kindlcd under them, Whole flames are
" increaGng, tho there may be but few
volcanoes exhibiting ebullitions.
Here ieene is difclofed, that is inf
nitely more horrible than the old gun
powder plot. Surely every federal repub-
liean mutt fand aghaf; his teeth chatter
ing in his head & his hair Drifting on end.
What! Is Connecticut ihaking like
CalabriaIin the neighbourhood of fome hid
den Volcano I Is the earth all around fall
Ing in? Is the cruf on which the people
Rand, continually growing thinneri Is
an extcnfive fubterraneous fire kindled !!
Arc It's flames increaGng Are ieyeraI
volcanoes exhibiting ebulIisions, ard are
many more operating in fecrer !Ali
this mutt be truly tremendous.
While we iuiped that citizen Babcock,
fcorched in his imagination by the fulphu-
rous which fires hef 70 feelingly defcribes, has
rather overcharged the picture. we are
conRrained to acknowledge the aptnefs of
his Gmilies. His comparing Jacobinical
principles, the general diffuiion whereof
would be fubyerfiye of the bonds of civil
fociety, tovolean0es, is thought entire
~ iua, tho not new. Balauee.
g I don't know how to remove thele
large aoues," laid labouler on turn
pike-road, !" Call them federalias, and
they will foon be removed," replied a bye
ifander. bia.
PORT FOLIO.s
This mifcellany of elegant and polite
Literature, we are happy to fee. continues
u g. A.