Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-11-11

scape-gallows who can raise, press, and get
few listeners. 1t is notorious that such jfel.
losvs work for whoever will pay them best.-
But what, in the name of truth and honesty
{for when we, raise aman to the highest ho-
nors and give him $4,000 dollars year, ] think
we have right to expect truth and honestly
what then say in the name of truth and ho-
nesty are we to think when we see this man
persist, in the very teeth of daily proofs to the
contrary, that France has long since ceased to
violate our neutral commerce now leave
every honest man to his own reflections, on
this delicate subject, and have only to say,
since there remains no help in man, Heaven
hrese,pe as from ourselves
We learn, (says the Petersburgh Intelligent
Ger of Tuesday, that WADE HAMPTON has
resigned his commission as Brigadier General
in the army of the U States.--The cause
which is understood to have produced the re-
signation of Gen. Hampton, has grown out
of circumstances occurring at Fredericktown,
in the case of General Wakinson, and which
as we have heard them, are as follows Gen.
w. required Of the Court-Martial the attend
ance of Col. Gushing as witness in his b.
half; and the court accordingly issued their
summons for his appearance before them
COL G. however, was under arrest by the or
ders of Gen. Hampton, and the latter positive
ly refused to release him.-Applicatio was
then made to the Secretary at War. and he
(by the Presidents command issued his man
date for the appearance of Col. Gushing be-
fore the .Court-Martial at Fredericktown.
Gen. Hampton then perceiving the ineiiicacy
Of further resistance, and viewing the interior
ence of the War Department as virtual re-
lease of Col. Gushing from his arrest, thought
proper to tender his commission to the Exc
cutive.
,days.-I have received from my corr, spon-
dent abroad, $500 dollars with which l am
ordered to purchase and ship American pro-
duce on the following conditions when the
goods arc on board. I am to charge per cent
commissions OH the prime cost of the goods
and the Incidental expenses: pay the freight
on which am allowed per cent; and pay
the insurance on the whole, so as to cover the
original sum of $500 dollars, and charge 10
per cent. on the premium: in this manner the
whole sum of $500 dollars is to be exactly
expended. Now can have the goods ship
ped for Ia per cent on their prime cost
the freight will be 4 2 per cent on the prime
cost of the goods, and the whole expenses
when on boards. and the insurance 2l-2 per
cent: What nanst be the prime cost OF the
goods, so that may strictly fulfil the orders
of my correspondent? .Ne4u- York Paher.
.Alothar neqv Islaad--Of the latest discov-
cries of Russian Travellers, that of an Island
in the Icy Ocean, by Syrawatskoi, d merchant,
deserves particulars notice --IIedemstron,, the
Russian Naturalist, who has recently examin-
ed tie Island, which has-received the appella-
ton of New-Siberia. found three birds craws,
yard in length and the rowing lakure re-
lated that they had sometimes found feathers,
the barrel of Which was capable Of admitting
mans clenched fst.-Thus these polar re-
gions, which have yielded these gigantic
bones of the class of mammalia, known by the
name of mammoth, have likewise preserved
similar relicts in the department of ornitholo-
gv, whose authenticated existence may, per-
haps, at some future period, afford a. key to
the fable of the Griffin, and the great bird on
the mountain of CAT
Z GREAT CROP OF PUMPKINS.