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Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-11-08
Penuentiaw Store.

'hE SUBSCRIBER b Sn Agent fer the pentsn6ayv.
nufaemre ofthas Institution, az VERY To-, '' ma
cash eny atresail, and 80 days credit 4, go
SALE tot approved endorsed neso,iabe m,,oa
CUT MATS
Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-11-08
Boots and Shoes.

Fair tops, back straps, SO
Ditto
Suwarrows,
Half Boots,
Plantation and light fine shoes, 1856 70,
Do. second & third qualities, 786 d Co.
Negro shoes (strong) IS "a.
Girls do. 10 a.
Boys do. $50 &c
ChilGrens' shoetees, 20 &c
Fire Buckets S4SoS5
Brides Sursingles, Whip thongs, Spur lea.
.ners, hame strings, Back Bands, Lead
ing, Garden. Hambro and Fishing lines
Any of the above articles made 70 orders
LETT at the Penitentiary Store, second door,
above the Eagle Tavern.
d. ]. BURR
april 20, 1908. Gavin IawtD
" Inc Shoes are reduced much 5sEeqp.
the former Iriee.
Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-11-08
5 Dollars Reward.

aS ANYWAY from the subscriber, liv.
N ing in the lower part of Buckingham,
on the 29th Sept. mulatto man named
BOB (Bisck Smith by trade.) He is a
very light nu!atto, wears his hair tied, has
thick lips large and mouth, SKIS feet 7 in
chcs high vas well dressed, with black
nat, large blue surtout coat, lined with red
flannel, OzDabnrgs shirt, check trowsers,
snd shoes and stockings. 1t is supposed
he has made hrs way to Richmond, as he
has some relations living in that city,
The above reward will be paid OH any on,
securing him, 50 that the owner gets him.
Hfoncrie5e Hi, Admir-.
60 Robert Hill. dec. or
Charles Oakley.
New Carton, Ocl. 1908. I'm
TN pursuance 10 a deed OF trust execu-
4 ted to the subscriber by Archibald c.
Randolph, TO secure the payment of Ger.
tain sum OF money therein mentioned, due
TO Samuel Harris, will be exposed for sale,
at Jsifesron, on the ssd of December next,
one MULATfO GIRL, named Priscilla,
for cash, which after defrasing the eapena
ces of said trust, and the debt specified,
the residus il any, 20 be returned as the
raw dirscs.
ALBAN GILPIN, Trustee.
Powhatap, Oet. seth, 1903. tbs
Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-11-08
Notice.

A PETITION Will be presented to the
N next General Assembly, praying for
the establishment of town at Buckingham
Courthouse. 4w Oct. 10, 1903.
NOTICE is hereby given. that petition will
l. v be presented to the next Asse mby, to al
,er the Settle fixed on by the commissioners f.r
The public buildings in the county of Nelson.
October 17,h, 1903 tina.
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Blank Notes

AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY. used !.
depositing stock IN tho Bank ofVmEnia, for re
at THE oiEee
NJ Office Is hereby given that petition will
y be presented 60 the rext General Assem-
bly,. praying relicffrom the operation Of a iude-
ment obtained in the county court of Prince
Edward, by James aud Archibald Freeland, a.
gainst John Clarkc's executors, upon Which an
injunction was obtained IN the birb court of
chancery, and from them carried 20 the court Of
appeals, and ultimately decided against tb.
said executors, for reasons ia said petition 10
be assigned.
RICHARD ROYAL,
WoRSHAM ANDERSON, S%Fs-
October 9Th, 1903, Wit
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Notice.

LII persons indebted to Robert Hill,
I n dec and Hill and Read, late of New
Canton, aud William Hill of New York,
either by bond, note, book account, or
otherwise, are hereby requested to make
arrangements for settlement Of the same,
on or before LIST January, 1909, with
Noneriefe mn, admir-.
to Robert Hill, dec. or
Chsrles Oakley.
New Canton, OG. 1903. VIII.
Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-11-08
S7R.1YED OR SToLEN
From the susscsieer. nsr tics,ond, on tins night
A Bay Horse.

,f the 9.d inst
Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-11-08
William Lownes,

rlehron,i. Feb. s, 1sO8
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- edmond TILE MANUFACTORY-
IA The subscriber having procured the exclu-
sive right to manufacture iii this and several other
states Harwood's much improved Patent Tile for
covering houses, and at considerable expense
erected the necessary buildings, &c. for carry
ing on that useful business extensively, now OF.
fers to supply, at short notice, any quantity that
may be required, at the moderate price of thiyty-
five dollars per thousand, delivered at his Factory.
He can with confidence, founded on actual ex-
pertinent, IN the covering of about 90 houses in
this CITY, assert, that houses can be covered with
this tile as cheap in the first instance, as with
shingles OF the first quality, and when the secu-
rity against hire, the difference Of insurance, the
durability aud particular construction Of those
tile to resist the most pcnetr rating rains and SHOWS
are considered, lie cannot doubt of meeting with
considerable encouragement. 1t requires only
the examination of a we'll covered roof to con.
vince the most prejudiced mind of their superio-
rity TO any other tile heretofore made, or to the
best OF slate, and will cost less than tie latter,
after paying the expense of water carriage to al.
most any part of this continent.
Particular attention will be paid TO orders from
other towns, and in all cases where they are
shipped, he will deliver them whole and sound,
along side the vessels, at the expense of carriage
only to the purchasers. Any person skilled in
the art of tlmg will put on those tile with great
facility, but where they cannot be procured, he
can engage few here who have had some ex-
perience, aud will go moderate distance, if the
job is Insufficient magnitude and their travelling
expenses paid. BENJAMIN DUVAI .
Richmond, Marcel, o. GeP2wssIawtf1
N Il. / wish to sell Patent Rights in several
other States B. ID.
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From tie Connection, Herald .yuly -.

Several notices have appeaied in the American
newspapers OF the late discovery in chemistry by
Professor Dsyy of the Royal Institution in Lon.
don. Those who are Interested in such subjects.
and who are anxious to learn the decision OF Phi
iosopbcrs on the correctness of Mr. DAVIS expe.
Timents, will be gratifcd by the pcr,sa oftlc fol-
iowlng extract of letter, just received by Pro-
lessor SiilIman, of this town, from gentleman
III Paris from which It appears that these disco
yerIes, SO nportint to physical science, are con-
tirmed by the first chymists Of France
81 lately received letter from Sir Charles
Blagoen, OF London, n which he gives am account
OF an important chemical discovery, which Mr..
Davy has recently made, This interchangeable pro.
lessor has, by means OF Vota's galyanic pile, dis
covered tho bases OF potash and soda" He has
obtained them separately, says Sir Charles, ard
they look like metals, both in their solid and fluid
iorm They also combine with metals, prcserv-
ing their metallic appearance. With oxygen they
recompose potash and soda"
" The French chemists with eagerness caught
this intelligence, repeated the necessary expert
inents, and found result similar to that of Mr.
Davy. The discovery ofthis new link in the chain
OF physical science, forsome time the princi-
pal topic on conversation among the SaOdns of Pa
Tis The interest 1t excited reached even the pa
lace, < Che emperor ordered M Gay-Lussac, one
of the most pcrsevering and distinguished expert
mental chemists o. france to go ovcrthe process Of
Mr.. Davy IN his presence. The success was so sa-
tisfactory 10 his majesty, that he, in order to en-
courage the chemists in experiments of this ma
ture, caused new and more enlarged galvanic
apparatus to be purchased for Cheir use, at the
pubic expense But this apparatus is now found
70 be unnecessary.
Messrs. Tlnard and Gay-I.ussac have been
able after torturing these substances in variety
OF ways, 70 dccompose them without the aid Of
gaiyanisfn The decomposition is effected by
combining these alkaies with carbon and ZION, by
means OF very high temperature. from com.
Ilhaton o. carbon with potash and soda, results a
black mass which suddenly in2 ames When p,l IN
contact with the air, OF plunged in &ater
These two chemists have already submitted
these metals 20 number Of interesting experi.
nen:s, the result Of which will soon be made pub
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MISCELLANY.
CEromi q London i,aper.l
CTo be Continued. }

ft, PHILANTHROPY.
Late on "Wednesday night in the house oflords.
the reiterated attack on the late ministers for
their order of the 9Th January, 1907, which the
present ministers still insist accustomed their Or
siers in council, was again made by the lord chan
ceilOr, who was answered BY lord Erskinc in n
most powerful and unans werable speech, at great
length. His lordship said this speech repeatedly
made. :.;!e;.. ! sic of ! uib-
We produce, said lord Erskine, piece of bread
we eat itin their presence, we bring the baker
who baked it--every body round agree it to be
bread, but the noble lords answer, that it is not
bread, but the latest mutton that ever came out
OF Leadenhau market, and the Only proof they
give OF the proposition is,--that if any man ven
turea TO assert the contrary, they hoped Cod
would eternally damn him. Lord Erskine said
that these were the words of the rev. Dean Swift
aud not his, and therefore the bishops would par
don the profancpess. He said, he had no doubt
that 1t 1T were convenient to establish that lis
loTdshiPs' black coat was green color, il might
easily be accomplished As many as are of that
color IN the rainbow. His lordship here adverted
to the bark bill, which lac had done two tlayg be.
fore. He said, that Mr.. Burke in one of his i'm
mortal orations, had SO given Immortality 10 the
benevolent Misunderstanding of that great man
IN his career of humanity, he had said, SO He had
visited all Europe not to collect manuscripts or
TO collate medals, but to dive into the depth of
dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospi-
tails to survey the mansions of grief, misery and
despair; to pity the forsakep, to remember the
forgotten, and to collect and colate the distresses
of all men in all countries. it was circumnavi.
cation of charity
1t was fit, said lord Erskine, that this circum.
navigator of charity should have received his be-
ing IN that country which had been the instru.
ment OF Providence in her decentralization of
the earth not like the first discoverer carving
cruelty and death in her train but collecting
mankind together under the dominion oflaws and
liberty But what was the proposed circuIana.
ugatien OF Ministers They at this moment, like
Howard, were to visit oil Europe like him they
were to plunge into the infection of hospitals, but
not, like him, to remember the forsaken and for
gotten, but to pluck the balm of health, or rather
OF life out of the mouths of the miserable They
were to rob them not of one medicine, which, as
he had said formerly, might be substituted for an
other, but which ha would repeat again, even as
often as they repeated the order of the 9TH of Ia
nuary, that would subject G. Britain 60 the final
everlasting CURSE s0as sick and ye uisitsa me
not.
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lie. Much is expected from their constant and
well directed labors, and indeed it is generally
believed here, that this discovery will gradually
lead to others of equal and perhaps superior i'm
portance. AS the metals of potash and soda can
be easily procured, at least for all kinds of expert
ment, the relations which they sustain to other
substances will form new and useful subject for
chemical investigation.
tits Mr. Days opinion that the different earths
consist OF bases Ola peculiar metallic nature, bav
ing very strong affinity for oxygen, by uniting
with which, they form those earti,s respectively
He believes that he has already made visible, by
the assistance OF galvanism, the basis of the one
called barytes."
The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-07-26
(BY AUTHORITY
LAW OF TIE UNITED STATES
AN ACT
.iutAorisiss the sale of bu5Ye arms.

-duthOrising the sale IF px5lic arms.
II E IL enasfed 6Y'the Senate and House of Retr.
- Sentatives ef the United States of I,ns1ic.r,
an Congress assembled, That the President Of the
United States be, and he is herebv authcrized
to cause to be sold to individual states, which
may wish TO purchase any arms now owned by
the United States, and which may be parted
with without injury to the public: Accounts
oil such sales shall be laid before Congress, and
the money arising theretrom be, and the same
IS hereby appropriated under the direction oft
President OF the United States, to the purchase
or Manufacture of other arms for the United
States: Presided, That such arms be not deli
rered to any state or their agents, until tie paw.
ment of the purchase money be first made in
the Treasury of the United States, in money or
IN the stock OF the United States, at its value as
established by an act, entitled I" An act to re-
peal so much OF any act acts as authorized
the receipt of evidence of the public debt, in
payment for the lands of the United States, and
FOR other purposes relative to the public debt 20
Provided also, That this provision shall not ex
tend to any purchase, not exceeding five thou
sand stand of arms, which shall be made bv
state to which the United States by existing en-
gagements are bound 70 pay sum of money.
equal to the amount of such purchase.
]. B. VARNUM,
ShsGteY Of TIE House of REPRESENTATIVES.
GEO CLINTON,
Tes-PSesi6ens efthe United States, and bre-
silent Of the Senate
AfRrL /, 1903
APPROVED,
TIL: JEFFERSON
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tern rivers hare already been mentioned under
that head; and the Improvement of the water
communication between the North river and the
great lakes ought to take the precedence of any
ether IN that direction.
That road which therefore seems exclusively
70 Claim public Attentions, is great turnpike ex-
tending from Maine to Georgia in the general eli
recti0n of the sea coast and main post road, and
passing through all the principal sea ports The
general convenience and importance, of such u
work are too obvious to require any comments ;
and the expcnce seems to be the primary object
of consideration.
The distance will be roughly estimated at 500
miles; and from what has been stated on the
subject of roads generally, it may be Inferred
that the greatest part of the road being intended
almost exclusively for travelling, and not for
transportation of heavy articles, the eXpence
cannot exceed the rate of 5000 dollars mile.
For although some detached portions of the route
being commercial roads, must be improved as
such, and ut greater expence an equivalent
reduction in other parts willresut from those por-
tons which are already improved by private com.
Panies, and from the impossbiiity, for >.unt Of
materials for an artificial stratum, of going in
some places beyond what has beeh described as
the first or cheapest species of turnpikes. The
whole expcnce nay therefore be estimated at
4,800, coo dollars.
A secondary object, but of more Importance
TO government than to individuals, would be the
Improvement, oh much less extensive scale, OF
:rtsin portion of roads leading to some points on
the extremes Of the union, intended principally
Tor the purpose OF accelerating the progress Of
the mail, and the prompt transmission of infor-
nation of public nature. The points contemp-
lated, are Detroit, st. Louis in Upper Louisia
na, and Ncw-Orleans. The portions of road
which traversing wilderness cannot be impro-
we'd without the aid of the u S. are; from the
Iuscarora branch of the Muskingum TO Detroit /,
from Cincinnati, by vncennes, to St Louis !;
and from Nashville in Tennessee, or Athens in
Georgia, to Natcliez. The expence necessary
to enable the mail and even stages to proceed at
the rate of 80 miles day, may, at the rate OF a,
bout 200 dollars mile, including bridges over
all the small streams, be estimated for those three
roads at 200, 600 dollars.
To be Continued
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July 10.
edmond TURNPIKE COMPANY

y EDMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY
~ At meeting of the directors of the Rich.
mond Turnpike Company on Thursday evening
the 9TH of July, 1905 81
Resolved, That all shares of delinouen. stock.
holders in this company, be sold at the Swan Ia.
vern IN this city on Monday the 18th day of next
month, at o'clock, p, ~ without and tba,
the same be published in all the newspapers OF
this city. -
Resolved, That call of Five Dollars on each
share ofthe stockholders in the company be made,
OF next month. -
Teste, N. SHEPPARD. elk.
July ID entds
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NIRGlNIA, TO WIT: Atacourt of Appeals
held at the Capitol, in Richmond, the third
day OF June, 1905,
GENERAL RULE--After the end Of this
present term, all causes depending in this court
shall be called in the order in which they stand
upon the docket, and such may be ready for
hearing pursuant to the former rules of this court
shall, Unless good cause be shewn to the contra
ry, be heard in the same order in which they
stand upon the docket, until the whole shall be
gone through and the causes which shall be
passed over, shall, unless for some very special
reason appearing to the court, be put at the end
of The docket Of each term.
Ordered, That the above rule be published In at
least three of the newspapers printed in Rich
mond, once week until the first day OF October
next.
A Copy. Teste, ]. BROWN, c. C.
June IA. TustO1
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II AND { HOUSES 10 RENT-rhc .ub,cr;.
IL Der is authorised To rent for one or more
years. sevesel commodious Tenemenis, on Shoe
kG Ill., well adapted TOR stores & private dwell
ings, among them Isl three story brick Tenement
onthe TtirnOile street. NOW in the, assumption af
Sami M'CraN, esq-Also two Tencnicnts on
the same square, facing the street LEADING direct
tn the capitol, now in oscupaton by Vn w Hen.
nmg and WIN. Mun.ford es9rs. To one of those
tenements. is = Coach House and large Stable; a
Wei in the yard and large Garden The DIV ell.
my house is well calculated FOR a boarding house.
having seven rooms and 6 fire places-Also one
or two brick teneInents Or the first mentioned
street, fitted up for store, and dwelling, houses
lie is also authorised to rent for one or more
years, Valuable Plantation, now in The occ,,a-
ton of Mr.. David Price, ON the Three CHOPPED
Road, and about IS miles above Richmond, I'd.
Joining and between Little and Dig Tuckahoe
Creeks, and the residence ofcol Ra H. Saunders.
On tins tract, is some prime bottom land, well
calculated for meadow. Possession to be given
On the first Os January next, with thirty bushels
OF wheat sown. and the privilege of sowing a
greater quantity previous TO taking possessions
For further particulars, enquire. of MIR. VIM
WILLIAM DAWSON
July 70. 1awlw
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IN CHARACTERISTICS william COUNTY

4 " CHANCERY-Prnce William Comfy
1 Court, June 10th, 1903
Thomas Chapman, surviving acting executor of
William Carr, decd, plaintiH--against
Thomas Purcell and Eleanor his wife, former
ly Eleanor Randolph, widow and legatee of VII.
liam Randolph, son and legatec of John Randolph.
decd Robert Randolph, William Randolph.
George Randolph, and Mildred Randolph. chi.
dren and iegatees of said William Randolph, dec.
and infants under the age Of twenty-one wears.
Peter Oliver and Mildred Oliver, his wife, and
Peggy Oliver, daughter of said Peter and MIL
dred, Nancy Tyler, Samuel James, and Frances
ms wife, formerly Frances Randolph, Sarah Ran
dtolph, Peggy Randolph, John Wright and Betsy
his wife, formerly Betsey Randolph, and Charles
Purcell and Mary Ann Purcell his wife, formorlv
Mary Ann Randolph which said Mildred OH.
Yer, Peggy Oliver, Nancy Tyler, Frances lanes.
Sarah Randolph, PeggyRandolph,B etsey Wright,
AMI MARY Ann Purcell, are also legatees of the
said John Randolph, notwithstanding.
Inc defendants Margaret Randolph, Samuel
james, and Frances his wife, and Peter Oliver
and Miliy his wife, not having entered their ana.
pearance and given security according To the act
OF Assembly and the rules of this court. and il an
Pearing to the satisfaction of the court by afi-
dayit that the said Margaret Randolph, Samuel
James, and Frances his wife, and Peter Oliver
and Mily his wife, are not residents of this com
monwcaith: on motion ofthc complainant bv bis
counsel, 1t 10 ordered, that the said absent defen-
dants do appear here OH the first day of October
court next and enter their appearance to this st
ana give security for performing the decree ofthe
court, and that a copy Of this order bo forthwith
published III the newspaper entitled {" The F.nen;-
rer" printed IN the city Of Richmond fo. f,ve,
months successfully and that another co,v of Ills
order be POSTED at the front door of tie court
house OF this county.
a copy Teste,
]. WILLIAMS, &C.
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REwApD'

4 NE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
me above reward of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS WIN DC PAD Tor experimenting and securing
IN any jail within the United States, ARTHUR
ny w F. q negro MUSTAPHA, commonly call
ed Muss Arthur Howe is young man 19 or 20
years Old, dark complexion, short yellowish hair
and haLie eyes, his face is round, and his comte-
nance ferocous and expressive of dark angry
passions-He is remarkable for having aefers.;-
y IN ms back, which occasions him to walk near
~ nan Dent, SO that when he is in his most erect
esllre ne %;;"! search measure i and y
or feet high. His arms have much motion when
ne Walks, are very long, and hang as low down
II not lower than his knees. The above describ-
ed young man stole or enticed offon Monday NIGHT
me lin instant, nesssra fellow called Nj uss or
MUsTApHA, about % years old of darkisft
complexion, very long head, forehead, nose and
chm more prominent than persons of his color
generaiiy nave his eyes are large, projecting,
and OF reddish color, his mouth rather large.
and his teeth yellow. In his general behaviorh he
is poite and submissive he is complete body
servant, anu handy fellow with some tools, or
about horses He carried off with him no clothes
which are remarkable, except an olive great coat
OF bearskin The above felon and slave went off
on single stick chair laSSe bay horse, and
have been traced in company about is miles from
Edenton-lt IS conjectured that Arthur Howe
VIII conduct Muss as far as Virginia, and may
sell him several times on his journey; and Muss
having many acquaintancesi in Norfolk, PETERSBURG,
and Richmond, may endeavor through their as
slstance to make his escape u the northward--
Arthur Howe has relations near Wilmington, in
this state, and near Nashville, in Tennessee to
one OF which places he will probably endeavorto
travel after parting with the aforesaid negro.
To the above reward will be added travelling
expences and reasonable wages for the delivery
OF the aforesaid Howe, and negr. Muss, to me
IN this place, or Fifty Dollars for either of them
MATTHIAS E. SAWYER
Edenton, June 81. (July s. rAw1
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ID ANK NOTES, as below described, were
lp put into the post Office at this place on 9th
May last, enclosed in a letter addressed to Mcssrs
John Warder and Sons, Philadelphia, and which
letter has never been received it is therefore ap-
pretended that the BANK NOTES may have fall
len into improper hands and should such ab-
pear in circulation, we earnestly request that they
may be stopped. Any satisfactory information
regarding them will be thankfully received, and
if required, liberuly rewarded.
BUCHANAN c, POLLOK.
Petersburg, July s. uO
Bank of Virginia payable sttheir Office Of Dis
count asd Deposit Petersburg, to Robert BIZ.
chctf Presidcnt thereof or Rearer