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CONGRESS.
HOUSE OFREPRESENTATlYES.
WEDNESDAY, gune IL.
Taken far the Alexandria Gazette
CONGRESS.

yesterday, on motion of Mr.. Kim.
the house went into committee of the whole
on the report from the committee appointed
on the petition Of the Carthagena prisoners.
The report concludes with resolution, le-
guessing the president of the u. States to
adopt the most immediate and eficacious
method of release to the prisoners in con-
fnement, if it should appear to him that
they were Involuntary drawn into the un-
lawful enterprise charged on them, and that
dollars be appropriated tor that pur-
pose. After some debate thereon the COM
mittee rose and reported their agreement to
the resolution, and the house adjourned.
On motion Of Mr.. Dana,
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VALUABLE LAND
June IA.
f O r S II L z,

F O r S II L e,
Distant % miles from Georgetown and A.
lexandria, l9 miles from Occoquan Mills, and
twenty from Dumfries, and within two miles
and half of the Little River Turnpike Road.
1t consists of Fine and Twenty Hundred acres,
lying on the waters of Bull and Little Hockey
William. The quality of this land is excel
lent, and, to grazier especially, would be q
source Of great emolumeht, from the quantity
oflow grounds :: of which there is not less than
Five hundred acres, ready, from the strength
of the soil. to be sowed in Timothy. This land
is decidedly benefited by the plaster of Pa
ris, On it is very good scite for mill, the
stream being one of the most constant in that
part of the country. There are about 500 a.
ores in wood, heavily timbered The improve
ments are, dwelling house newly fitted up,
consisting of two rooms below stairs, with 9
store room andtwo convenient closets, three
lodging rooms above stairs, an excellent eel
ar, kitchen, corn house, meat house and sta
bles. Likewise the oyerseer's house, one LIZ
each county, with other necessary houses for.
negroes, sc.
Between 2 and 800 acres in addition, for
sale, in Prince William county, on Bull Run,
near its confux with Occoquan. This land
lies about 10 or IL miles from the Occaquap
mills, and has nearly one third in woods--itE
quality is equal to any in its immediate neighs
borhood.
Persons disposed to purchase may be sup-
piled on the first named tract with large
stock of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, farming
utensils. The subscriber willing to cmigrate
southwardly will dispose of the above men--
toned property on the most reasonable terms.
Information respecting the property may
be had by application to the honorable Judge
Washington of Mount Vernon, H. S. Tur-
ner, Esquire. of Jefferson county, or in tho
absence of the subscriber to Bernard Hoees
Jun. Esq. living near the premises:
T. Blackburn.
Rippon Lodge, near Dumfries,
Va. June IL. eQc
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r,,na;or;ty Of a different way ofthinking, and
who therefore gotridof this question as dex.
trously as they could No, sir this vote (I
hope shall be pardoned for saying so) diff
fers to its advantage from the vote for re-.
turning thanks to the Speaker Of this house
at the end of the last session Of Congress. II
is a vote out of which some practical good
is to grow-a vote by which the president
Of the q Sis to be strengthened IN the course
which he is now persisting, and encouraged
and invigorated in pursuing in that course
hereafter. 1t is not mere motion in course,
like a motion for vote of thanks to the
Speaker fthe house ofrepresentatives, which
is at last considered as matter Of form, and
has ceased to be source Of any thing but
unpleasant sensationto the house TOR be-
lieye that from the time of the first speaker,
member from Pennsylvania Mr.. Mullen
burg) who was succeeded by member from
Connecticut, (Mr. TrumbulD and after
wards by a gentleman from New Jersey,
(fr. Dayton subsequently by colleague
of yours, Mr.. Speaker, (Mr. Sedgwick) and
finally until the last Congress, by my wor-
lily II Oul Sol Olillfs3 III SSSiy
case this motion of thanks to the speaker
which, if my motion be abstract, is equally
abstract, has been made and carried-altho'
believe that the first time the motioh was
made after obtained a seat in Congress, it
was merely accidental thatit carried at all i;
although no practical result upon gentle
mems. own principles could ensue. and it
ought therefore Gas they say to have been
quashed, on the contrary contend that
practical good can ensue from my motion,
and ! think my friend fromNorth Carolina,
whom do not see in his place, and am
glad that he IS not in his place) must have
felt his tolls in the chair and even broken
constitution to have been amply compensat-
ed by three distinct and unanimous votes OF
three several houses of Congress, returning
thanks to him TOR his able and impartial con-
duct in the chair.
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eIglsEDs
S1oop George, Williamson, Nasfolk-~
by the master.
sloop Little Sarah, Eldridse, Providence
by the master.
Sch'r Sally, Potter, Providence-by the
master.
Brig Economy, Smith, do. do.
Schr. Providence, Jones, Martinique-hy
James Lawrason.
g:
ASSIZE OF BREAD
Made Of Su1aegfne BurrFlonr.
CENTS.
The pound loafto be sold for So
pound loaf ID
pound loaf 9
pound loaf 4-l-2
yAA4Es H4RRIsS,
Clerk of the Market
June Is.
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Msranorta DAILY Ga3attR.
THURSDAY, JUNE Is.

The following are If, weights of some of
my Sheep, which, if the Editor of the En-
quirer thinks proper, he may give place in
his paper:
No tup Is mo. old Car. 50 fleece ls
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GRAND REcITATIvE.
Bleak lower'd the morn ;-the bowling snow
drift blew,
Rude piles of devastation smok'd around
While HousELEss oUTcAsTs shivering DER
the ground
Babe the sad phantoms of their Homes, a.
adieu.
All, Wondering wrecks-ye fit in fearful
trance,
And the vision of phrenzy recall,
When in horror we ieap'd, with fugitive
glance,
From the flames of yonDEssoLATEwALL,
See, now, with blighting melancholy bare,
Like monument stone at sepulchre
PLACID,
1t weeps DER this ruinous waste,
AS it totters and rocks in the air.
In vain, sweet Pity calls;
Or the cry of shrill terror appals -
BENDING, BEErL1Ne, crushing DER the croud
ed way,
Hank, it cracks, see it fall
And wretches forget all their griefs in dis
~ may.
-
But 10, along its crumbling base,
With vaca1cy's ecstatick pace,
ALL-REcKLEss, heart-broken mourner re-
pair;
Grief has reason beguil'd,
And with melodies wild,
Invoking her child,
She wanders like Hope, and bewails like
Despair.
AlR--.4ndante.
NY Boy beneath this ruin lies
Lost William hear a Mothers sghs
Thro' blasts that freeze, and paths that burn,
Thy tomsless dust she comes to urn
Now, thy cherub spirit sec:
It spreads its doubling arms to met
II smiles in air--while piteous grace
Softens the arrows of its face.
Vain was thy Mothe,''s frantic flight,
To snatch thee from the FRIEND OF NIaHT:
Thy Couch-alas, thy funeral hyre,
Mid shrieks of horror sunk in fire.
ALLEGRO FuRIose.
Now to clouds of purple light
Where WILLIAM sits, I'll steal my flight.
Cold is this crazy crust of clay,
He beckons to a warmer day.
Wealth J! Pm happier wretch than you,
And laughing bid the world, adiex!
80:
~ a ! Lln.o-
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Port of Alexandrsa.

ARRIVED,
Sch'r Melinda, Sadder, Boston-Sun-
dries-to the master.
Sch'r Dolly, Sanders, Edenton--shingles
Ito the master.
Brig Callesto, stensop, George Town
TO load for Boston,
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PUBLIC SALE.

ON TUESDAY NEXT,
VIII be cold, at she Vend4e Store, on a credit
ESQ days,
8 quarter casks of Carcavilla WINE.
IA Lisbon STRAW CARPET S, plain and
fa ured, of different sizes. 4&
P. G.. Marsteller.
June Is. dts
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e. CO FEE E.

$4,000 lbs. COFFEE, lately received per
brig SALLY ELIZA, from St. Bartholomew,
and for sale by
J. Tucker.
Also FOR Sale,
Three building LOTS, situated between
Union street and the river Potomac.
He WILL ALSO RENT
His WAREHOUSE and WHARF, for
one or more years.
June Is. st
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e. Tea Party.

g. Tea Party.
The LADIES and GENTLEMEN of Alexan--
dria are respectfully informed, that on the
18th of the present month, TEA PARTY
will be provided at the City Hotel, in style
similar to that on the first of May.
William Cation.
June 10. dtl 9Th
N. B. Those Ladies who have hitherto re-
ceived tickets to attend the assemblies, will
please to consider themselves invited, The
dancing will commence at o'clock
Fifth for Family Ufe.
n FEW barrels of Prime FISH, put up
IA particularly for family use, for sale by.
John G.. Francis,
Union Street.
June Ia. st
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From the Boston Gazette.
MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE FIRE

i rom the DOSLOn NJaZeCIEs
MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE FIRE
SOCIETY.
This Society, Which is as honorable to the
place IN which it zuas instituted as ddu0n-
tageoas to the community at large, celebrated
its 18th anniversary at the Stone Chabel, last
Friday mthe afternoon. The performances
consisted ofan Original Ode by K. T. Paine,
esq. sung by Mr.. Graupner and other musi-
cal compositions. Lessons By the Rev. mr..
Holley, and an Orati0n on the principles Of
the institution by Hereunder Townsend, esq.
The anniversary Of the institution has
been peculiarly distinguished far the excel
lencies Of the poetical compositions, which
the occasion has produced; and certainly no
pact can present brosu mare thickly nacir-
cled With hufels, than Mr.. Paine. The
Oration Of Mr.. Townsend, although he eOi-
IDENTIFY abored under the disadvantage Of a
seOere cold, (Which essentially injured his Ut
terance, fully satisfied the expectations Of a
numerous and fashionable audience, BY the
terseaess and precision Of his style, and the
original naaqner in which he treateda SUBJ
jet, upon which orators Of great station and
celebrity haze SO ably end so frequently des-
canted before.
ORIGINAL ODE.
Writteu for the 18th anniversary ofMe
MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE FIRE So
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From the Nezuburyt0rt Herald.

Let all those who were in the ranks of de-
mocracy during Mr.. Adams admlpistra
ton read the following--and retrieve
their own characters, before they utter
unsupported accusations against others
let them remove their own 6 beams" be-
fore they quarrel with others about
notes"
Extract from letter No. Is, written,by the
late president Adams, and published in
The Is Boston Patriot"
Did Mv. Hamilton recoAect the state q
our presses !? Reco1eet the names and bopu-
lar eloqnence Of the e<issrs Of the opposition
papers That seofng, seeming wit, and
that sraAiSnity Of soxl, svA,cA appeared so
remarkably III All tie writings Of Thomas
Fasns and Calender, Which to the disgrace
Of iar,an nature, never fails to command
Attentions and atplduse7 The members q
she Senate andthe House, zvAo are dscided-
y against the administrator, their continue
ali7,tercourse and communications with f.
missaries The hideous clamor against the
alien law and sedision law both considered
az levelled entirely against the French and
their friends, and the surrender according
TO the British treaty eff the Irish murderer
Nash, imposed on The public as 9oaa'ha,
Robins DID HK REcoLLECT TIE lNsuR.
aEcTIoM IN PENNSYLVANIA. The uniyer-
aal and perpetual inaammatory publications
against the land tax. stamp tax, coach tax,
excise Law, and eight per cent loan: Did
he never see nor hear of the circular letters
Of menberasof congress from the middle
and southern states Did he know nothing
OF the biting sarcasms, the barring rage, a
yaisss hinssif md hiSosa array Didhe
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Fyoa, the ALBHNT GAZETTE.

KNOW that it is not usual to address
ones own children through the medium of
Q pubic print, but l trust you vii! excuse an
old mans feelings towards his offspring,
and suffer him, in this manner to appeal to
sheir understanding. II may be that other
poor fathers arc situated as am and if so,
win, by inserting these lines, crafty more
persons than myself.
have two daughters, charming girls, as
che world calls them (and indeed they are
good girls) whom heaven has Blessed with
very excellent understandings, and do all
lean TO improve them by education and
20 do them justice must add, that they
profit BY the instructions they receive, as far
eregSda srudiuye. XytEs srsly nisss-
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10

The schooner Rising San, Cap'a. IN.
Holbrook, from Boston to Opor0, "1 1ons.
Set on the 9Th August, IN la'' to' drei,
So, all the people washed from inc s1, din in
excepting the captain four snces ssosped,
regaining the wreck, two were aa..nn,,in,d
and one persisted on board-they 1 ! GU we,s
ON the wreck fear days, when 'n I.n,iea
taken off by an English ship from q n'';;}Gsad.
to London, and had arrived at = o9 A,,1raIrlb,
Yesterday arrived tho ship A: Spoke,
K;dwelI. 81 DAYS from Liverpool 40 20 n.
Gu the passage, Sept. sS' lat. 50 shrrmsp,
long. So. 80. w. ship stranget,' In ~ GU, y
from Philadelpha bound to Ll' pe tio.rded
DAYS, bsing short Of provision, ,. s. 80
n. long. IL, SO, spoke brig s 5'ar,. bsiaa
Ncw.York for Brazils, out ) o ~ h. soI
short of provisions again, o0a a.: I,,. S. s.
90, : supply. October a6, u '1 ri. lr'a!
Il. LONG. u, 80, W. spoke a %,s ~
Phiiadeaphis tsuad TO Ne" 0f"
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KEow xothingof a kind Of journal that vas
published of every irregular act Of any Of
Rcer or soldier, Of every military punish.
ment that was inflicted, under the apprlia-
ton of the Cdanibars 1rogress? Did he
see nothing of the French cockades ostenta-
tiouslv exhibited against the Ameriean cock
AIDE, ?"
Had French minister been SEEN here
Nth his suite he zvouH haze been instantly
Informed Of eoery source and symptoms of
discomfort. almost every Frenchman ubon
the continent, and they zOere then numerous
in,aH the states, zyoua haze been employed
N eliminating the american government, in
abblauaing the co1adescensio,p i the French
directory, and The friendly, eonciliating dis
position Of the French nation. Nothing
could have been kept secret the popular
clamor for peace, on an any terms would
have been been very difficult, il not imPos-
sible to resist The multitude tn Philaael-
thia, as It svas, zvere almost as ripe to Pill
me out Of my house, as they had been to de-
throne Washington in the time Of Genet
Even the night Of the fast day the streets
we're crowded With usultatudinous assembIa-
gee Of people, especially that before my door,
and kept in order only, as many people Mo,t
by military patrol, ordered, Ibeheve, by
the gov. Of Pennsylvania"
After enumeFating all the symptoms of
thc popular bias, it would be frivolous to
enlarge upon the conversations of which |
was informed, at taverns and insurance Of
fees, Threatening violence to the president,
By pulling him out Of his ch&ir, uboh the
French cockades that zve9e cpeyy zvhere pa
radea6efore my eyes, im>obtosition to the
black c0ckade, or upon the declarations and
oaths, zvhick Iknopp zvere made BY no small
numbers, that y1oe went to 7var 1vith France
AND THE FRENCH SHOULD CONE HERE,
THEY WOULD JOIN THEM AGAINST THE FE-
pERAL1sTg AND THE ENGLISH"
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From the Frseman's 5surnal.
NILTARI ESSA1.

The following article, from a London
paper, contains matter OF much interest to
our own countrymen. Indeed it is evident
to all men of sense. that the idea of b-com-
ing great military character by reading
books of geographers, and porting over maps
of distant regions, is one OF the most rldl-
culous of which human nature can become
the dupe.
" The COMMAND or ARMIES.
As the erroneous ideas that prevail on
some important national concerns often
occasion the measures ct government to
be blamed by persons otherwise very
much disposed to justify them, we think
good effect may be produced BY the put-
LEGATION of what follows:
Nojust comparison can be made be-
twixt tine art of directing the operations OF
armies, and any of those arts or kinds OF
business in which the same circumstances
are continually repeated. War is not to be
carried on id the same manner in one conn-
try as in another. The operations of small
armies arc not to be initiated in those OF
great ones. If they were the most fatal
consequences might ensue. The DISPOSE.
tons and motions of armies in a field of bat
tie depend greatly on the nature of ground,
so that nothing cAn be more diversified
For those, and many other reasons that
could be given, generalship is entirely an
exercise of the understanding. Had it been
acquired in the same mamie with mech"n-
ic art, the long wars carried On by Louis
XIV. must have produced some able com.
manders yet eight of those to whom that
monarch entrusted the command of armies,
and who had risen gradually to the high
rank of mareehal de France, committed
such errors as brought their country to the
brink of ruins whereas Conde, Turenne,
and Luxembourg, whose genius enabled
them to form perfect idea Of military o.
perations before they had seen them, COM
manded armies with the same success from
the beginning that they ever did afterwards.
Prince Eugene, of Savoy, was genera'issi-
mo Of the Austrian armies from the be-
ginning of the last century to the year 1885;
aperiod of almost continued wars, in which,
if the military science could be acquired in
the manner that many imagine, it might ma
turally be supposed, ;that under such COM
mander, some able generals must have hsen
produced in those armies. But the first
war undertaken by the great Frederic, be-
gan few ears after the death Of the prince
Eugene, and the Prussian monarch lessons
the merit of his own continual victories in
that war, by acknowledging wan: Of abilI--
NOTE.
y Those generate were Belzean1, Hx-
mieres, Hiponne, Rechefans, ssarais, Manin,
zsl1ara, and TiAsxsy.
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able % Wea as theft 0otnef, GA tnclr NV
count. Fashion is a .yrahnical and a MUIR,
derous goddess, and to this idol they bow
down, the 1vilins and the determined slaves.
It happens now 70 be one OF fashions laws
that ali females who aspire to be graceful
should be net only perpendicular (tor SO !
choose to call IT. but also slender and thinly
clad. We all knew that the Medicean We
nus. the standard Of female beauty as TO
form, was ever represented perfectly erect,
nor deficient in the elcgancies ct a graceful
contour in the several parts OF her body.
But we now see real gracefulness as nearly
banishe9 from female society, as the affect
ed movements of the dancing master and ia
shion can accomplish it. TO be perpendi-
cular-to endeavoY to become slender-and
put on as few clothes as possible--are now
the objects aimed at in despite OF the laws
of gracefulness, the dictates of reason, and
Of the injunctions Of religion.
Twill now proceedto acquaintyou, Messrs
Printers, with my distress, in regard to my
two poor girls.
They are become so infatuated with this
idol fashion, that they really debar them
selves from the necessary quantity of food,
from an apprehension thar they should be-
come too lasty, to be fashionable, and to such
pitch of extravaganza do they carry this
self-denial, that really aprrehend prema
ture old age will be the consequence. Alas |!
what do l say! A premature old age-No,
indeed Old age is not to be expected
The fcnd fashion, hurls another dart, still
more fatal. Dress is now with them mere
existence of nudity, and as it regards COM
fort and health, is completely abandoned.
Can you believe the instance | shall give
you of the excess of this folly {fer hope
the existence of such is not common) late
ly discovered my girls shivering and shak-
ing, and while cripging over good fire,
complaining of the GOODNESS Of the weather
with no other cloths on than their trocks and
their shifts--Their fond and almost broken
hearted mother, declared to me, that these
infatuated idolaters of fashion, had not on
them eycR a single pesticost, flannel or lin
en-!
Now, Messrs. Printers, assure you,
that our parental advice, and injunctions,
have been repeatedly given to these poor
girls, and the folly and wickedness of such
aprac.icS exhibited to them, but in vain;
and | really expect that our grey hairs will
descend to the grave with disconsolase feel.
ings, from the loss of our TWO girls-our
only children.
Dopray insert these lines in your paper,
perhaps s,a.s: ADLER pen, will follow up my
remarks, and in forcible language, depict
this truth--that the druukard, the aissipated,
the suicide and the foilouuer al fashion, are
all equally, self murderers, by running their
health, bringing on premature old age, and
eventually creating diseases, which hurl
them to the grave, that would have no ex-
istence, but tor the neglect of their duties,
and the worshipping OF fashion.
ann yours respectfully,
A FATHER.
albany, 26th October, 1909.