Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1807-01-02

4 ''ltALs ana da1O tt.liF uiSCIk efCNs. from
| gentleman WHO was urged - engage in
! nc cHscrprze, that IL was TO attack and
| cjze the citY Of Ncw-OrRans and that ter
} rtory, and chat The person VINO made Jhat
! discovery has been sent on TO the CITY
! OF Washington, To be personally exa-
| mined by the President 1t is therefore
Drcsumahle that by this time, the whole
| affair has been more fully developed
| ne this, however, as it may, a little
| more time will entirely unfold this
mysterious business, measures ofthe gene
raj government, of the western states go
vernment, and the patriotism of our fellow
citizens, will bring all thenefarious chemes
to naught, and that the intended evil will
recoil, with tcu-fold weight on the dclud-
ed heads of all traitors 70 their country.
| On Tuesday the second inst. the governor
ofthis state sent the following Confidential
! Communication to both Houses of the
Legislature :
| 10 the General .fs8embly Of the state Of
Ohio
| A number of concurrent circumstances,
received from sources on which the grea-
( test reliance may be placed, W rrants q
belief, that some hostile expedition is on
! foot inimical TO the peace and interest Of the
/ United States, as we'll as calculated 10
Iprove ruinous 10 the peace and prosperity
7 of the western part thereof As chief ma
gistrate Of this state, have thought it a
duty ! owe to my fellow citizens, to this
state, and TO the general governments, 20
Law the information I have received before
the representatives of the people, that their
united wisdom might direct to some means
| Of prevention. as far as ii their power, to
wards counterachng the evil designs.
| ! have it from gentleman OF great re-
spectabilitv clothed by the United States
with a public character, that a person iiv-
! ing near Marietta on the Ohio river, hut
out of the Jurisdiction OF this state. has a.
vowed himself the agent of gentleman
| late high IN Office in the United States and
! is empowered and is actually preparing i
| tiOtilia, consisting of from 10 to Is battcaux,
20 feet long, on the MuSkingum river, and
IS purchasing up provisions 70 load them
with, and endeavoring 70 engage active, en-
lterprizing Young men TO sail down the o.
! hio, who are promised pay and ratons
from the time encouragement, with promise
! OF future fortunes, &c that this agent
proposed TO two gentlemen ofgrcat reSpeC-
liability to join in plan suggested by his
principal, and which he had engaged in,
which would procure for them ample for
tunes; which plan was TO attack and seize
the city Of New-Orleans and its depen-
denotes, the money in the bank and trea-
sury, which amounts to upwards of two
millions Of dollars, the military stores, and
a fine park of French brass artillery, Law
ing there, and 10 erect government indie
pendent of the United States under the di-
rcctiOn of foreign European power, and f.
nally to force or draw the people of the wes-
tern country to Secede from the union, by
I SundrY means pointed ont. lthas also been
! suggested that different small armamcnts
below this, on the Ohio, are preparing TO
ioin IN this expedition, and if all are per-
/ mitted to Join, viii amount to 1900 men, the
/ orCc designed TO commence operations
with and from which, owing TO the disaf-
lection of the people of that territory, and
the expectation that the American troops
viii be kept in motion by another power
success is strongly calculated on. 1t Is
also strongly suspected that foreign gem
tlcman, friendly to the enterprise, has Pc
cuniory means equ ] to the extent and
wants thereof, ut command
On Friday last received a communica-
tion from a general officer in the militia, in
the first division, informing me that two
boats loaded with artillery, muskets, and
hayonsts, new, and of French manufacture,
passed down the Ohio, on board oi which
we're gentlemen who spoke the French
Language that for want Of legal authority
he was not able 70 CRAFTY his patriotic
wishes in rrestiug them.
Under this state Of things It is submitted
whether the public energies Of Ohio ought
not to be directed towards counteractne
that part Of the preparing forces within
our Jurisdiction, GA the Muckingum river
and the securing the agent preparing them
If possible And indeed it is thought o.
ther forces may descend the Ohio from q.
bove, and which might be stopped in thC
Ohio while floating down towards the poin
of junction.
EDWARD TIFFIN.
CbiHicothe, Dct. 2a, 1906.