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o. Mar5haL's Sale.

By consent of parties, will be sold at the
dwelling house of JOHN ] AMIESON,
on Unioh-street, on SATURDAY next the
2sth instant, at 10 o'clock, An
One Negro Woman-also, all
the Household and Kitchen Furniture, to-
gether with quantity of Wood; the pro-
perty of said Jamiesoa--to satisfy rent due
on the premises, and also for the satisfaction
of sundry executions against him.
D. Minor, D. M.
September "a dts
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T. W. PEYTON

T, w. Pc 7 IUN
OFFER FOR Sd Ill T.,
Havana Sugar in boxes
Antigua and Jamaica Rum
Holland and New York Anchor Gin
Old Madeira Wine in bottles * halt pipes
London Particular Teneriffe ditto
Spanish Hides-Cotton
Green Coffee, Imperial & Y. Hyson Lea
500 barrels Shad and Herrings
200 Sacks Liverpool Salt
10000 bushels ditto
500 tons Plaster Of Paris:
August % diW&zaW iii
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YEATON & CONWAY

Haue just recetped by Schooner Sally 'dnn,
Cant. Sher6urne, and offer for Sale,
1000 bushels co rse Liverpool Salt
100 barrels New England Rum
10 do. Mackarel
90 boxes Soap
20 do: Candles
so tierces Yellow Ochre
90 kegs Tongues and Sounds.
IN STORE,
so barrels New York Prime Pork
90 do Beef
90 do. Rosin
90 do. Turpentine
20, 900 lbs. Green Coffee
1000 do Sheathing Paper
1000 do Sheathing Nails
1000 do. Spikes
Bar Iron
Russia and Ravens Duck
Seine and Sewing Twine.
September aoW
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Public Property to Lease.

On the 2sth instant, at four O'Clock, in the
afternoon, will be LEASED to the hiShes1
bidder, at Vendue, on the premises /,
The Warehouse and Wharf
occupied by Mr.. John Muncaster, commonly
called Hooe's wharf, including the ground at
present in the tenure of Mr.. Thomas pres-
ton-for the term of seven years, from the
10th October next
John c. Vowel,
John Grid,
William Newton, &
John Longden,
COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
September 10 dts
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e. Negroes wanted.

u 1Vo(o w
SOME likely young NEGROES, between
IL and IS years of age, are wanted 10 Pur-
chase-Two Blacksmths, woman VINO UNI
derstands house business and Is good seam
stress, are wasted, for which the most libe-
raj prices will be given. Any person wish
ing to sell, will please TO apply to MIR wash
ington, keeper Of the Washington tavern.
August 90
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Taytoe's Malleable Iron.

A few tons of that celebrated Maiieable
Bar Iron from Botetourt county, held In
such high estimation at the Virginia manu-
factory of arms at Richmond-for sale by
James Sanderson.
Aurust %
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G.. w. Carlan's academy.
September "a

THE citizens of Alexandria are respect
L fully informed, that on Monday EDsn-
ing the Esd of this instant, the subscriber will
commence NIGHT SCHOOL for the recep-
ton of pupils who may wish to be instructed
in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Book
keeping and the Mathematics, in its various
branches, on Fairfax street, nearly opposite
Mr.. JONAH ThomtSon's, where those wishing
to be instructed n any ofthe above will please
apply to -, ;.
September II otf
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ADVERTISEMENT.
September IL

Will b. sold, at public auction, on the hrst
ne November next, at Buck!and In Prince
William County, on credit OF months
ALL THE NEGRoES
Of which JAMES WHITE, Jun. deceased, d.
ed possessed texcept such as have been al
Noted 20 said Whites widow in her right OF
dower).--Bond md approved security will be re
required. to bear interest from the oa Ne i
not punctually paid. Possession OF the Ne
rroes will not be given till the first day OF 'a-
nuary, 1912.
Done in conformity to decree ofthe coun-
~ court of Prince William County, this 4th
September, 1911.
Philip Warder, Jun.
David Blackwell,
Jonathan Reeve.
September % vi"
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BOOKS
Just received and fo1. sale BIZ S. Pleaaants.

.Surran's Speeches, latest edition
he Life of Napoleon Bonaparle-in vols.
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POETRY.
FROM THE TIMES.
TIE PICTURE OLLIE.

THE PICTURE OFLIFF.
What is this life, that mortals idIv craves
The noisy passport to the silent grave;
Each moment sinks the value Of the prize,
And death is daily marching fore our eyes.
Drunk with the Joys of life, we heard him not,
TIL sickness warns us of our common lot;
The lot which Jewels all on equal terms,
And gives an olio banquet to the worms,
That radely gnaw, in undistipgaished graves,
Tie hesASf emperors, and flesh of slaves.
Rasping Almbiing thought enough to force
Ssfc1sss wing d ambition from her eagle course
Enough 70 curb the seif-sufiicient will,
And bid the lust of earthly praise be still.
What is this life? A temporary STAGE
Where divers men in divers parts engage;
The fecting forms in quick succession glide,
As enc moves oh, his absence is supplied;
And, should some favorite actor quit the scene,
Into his place another steps serene;
Serene, and full Of self, he tries to soar,
And reach height that neser was reach'd
before.
Behold the withcr'd, sapless tree of fame,
That boasts no other virtue but the aame:
Yet b. the dupes of alteration view'd,
It's trunk appears magaiEcently rude:
In SHATTERED pomp It still attracts the sight,
And warns each novice with a strange de-
light
In vaio--for souls renown'd in ancient days,
With greedy hand have. pre- cngross'd her
BAYS;
Each tvig so Tiacd, that no modern now.
Can find one leaf to dignity MS brow.
Yet, tho her branches gradually fade,
Man stills seeks refuge in her scanty shade,
Vain, foolish man when oitthe precious fruit
Il torn away---to reverence the root.
oUIDAM.
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card reas5n far zftich hoyoers erfead their
d9mili0H oUcT me 8c0 0ioag mir coa8t, az
far as thcyarc G6tefo frofecf Mcfr ;i5h. II
concerns fh,ir saIcky and nc 7vCkflre of fhe
slate, that me whoic s9orld Be nat fcrDdftcd
70 come 50 rear their fossessi1Hs, eSfcciGHy
1oith men Of zrar, 40 y hind r tie ahfroach
3fRadiHg HafionS, and disfurj naUigation.
During He 7cai- If SEofu gi,h me Unifef
Provinces, .Iamc5 Hing IF Ia glzad, [thc,s
neural cauecd to be a'ya7vH along his coast,
TIC Hgits ayitfiq 7yli-h hc declared ftaf he
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% fuTsHe hi,ir enemies, nor eyr77 fheif erN-
ri Uesseis 10 Sfosi md o55c7Ve ne s6ifs that
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p1gyer5 can infO5e M o6Hg0fion8 afi1R lin
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IRON the NATIoNAL INrE1LtoEvcEa

FRou THE NATIONAL IETELLIcETcER.
No. w.
/ pa flows, from the facts and arguments a.
vswcd in my last number, that the merchant,
who purgues traffic, whose profits consist
| more iVsuPplying the wants Of other nations
| than lbs own, abandons, so to speak, the neu-
ltral gFoundswhich he occupied SO long as lie
confined himself to trading in objects wanted
! by his own country, and exposes himself to
the complicated dangers that have invariably
attended the eager pursuit Of an end which
has, almost from the commencement eftiIne,
been sought FOR with the fercest frry1 Al
though tie fact is to be lamented, yet VIC
ought not to be suiprised, that ourmefehants
have met with so many difficulties in the
wide range they have given to thcirbusiness.
lhe commerce Of no natiSh that has ever ey-
is;ed has been so expansive as that OF Amcif-
ca, or has consequently been more admirable
ntted to excite the alrni and jealousy Of r.
val and colossal powers.
Behold tho American canvas spread in o.
cry sea, and American catefpize, capital aud
industry profting By tie wars and folies If
burorc! Although Ell this tended in tire
most certain way 20 alleviate the horrors of
war and to Advance TIC Interests Of tic to.H-
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INTENDING shortly TO embark for Bri :
l tain. have appointed Mr.. William. B.
Harwood my attorney in fact during my
absence, who is also fully empowered to
manage the business Of James md John
Dunlop, which will be continued Il usual.
Those indebted to me are reSfsEted TO
make immediate payment, and those hav-
Ing claims to present them with out delay
IN order that they may be discharged
Those indebted to James and John Dunlop
are in'orme !. that further indulgence can
not be given.
John Dunlop.
Petersburg, May 81, 1911. (4w)
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with equal labor and knowledge, been more
uccessful than any other body CT citizens.
SCLCE.
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POUNDS SIR, you may as well swear yon'n
never dc It (! Pm out Of all patience with these
"by andh6ye" folks. One hour of the pre-
sent tenseis worth week n the future
Why, know bachelor as we'll calculated
Tor matrimonial felicity as every virtue and
every accomplishment can render him but
one year TO another, always resolving that he
would marry "by and byeS-and {" by and
bye"-till the best ten years Of life are gone,
and he is still resolving" and fear "will
die the same"
He that would gather the rose &C Tnatrimo-
ny should we'd in the May of life. Ifyou wish
only the withered leaves and the thorns, why,
poor Robert says, put it of till September
/" Prccrastnation is the thief of time"
made visit last winter 20 see my cid
friend Jeremy Careless. When we put our.
horses in the stable, he took me to his barn
floor to see some fine white wheat he had lust
lthrashed / observed to him that one of the
boards Of the barn was near falling, and he
had better nail it. Twill by and Bye said
ne. Things about the farm looked little as
though by and BYE folks Iivedthere.-Next
morning the boys came running in with sad
news. An unruly bull had torn OF the board:
al che cattle had supped and breakfasted
on the white wheat, and old BriRdle, the best
cowsiin ting drove, was foundered so that she
died, Ndw tfonails, worth a penny, and Ave
minutes ofti6e would have saved The life Of
old Brindfe, and the white wheat in Che bar
gain. 1ttf
"A stitch in time saves niue.''
Passing by my ncighbor Nodweu's the @
Their day saw that his wife had made fine
garden, and the early peas were shooting lux
uriently above the ground. Z" 1t locks welP'
said ], neighbor-bnt there is hole in
your fence, which you had better mend, or
the 6ogs viii ruin your garden" -" l will by
andbye." said ne. Happening to go by there
twaday1 after, was half deafened with the
cry Sof-f' Eyho-ee--who-ee- stu-boy-stu-
bcy."--A lsEve Of hogs had come along, and
while my heighbor was taking nap, they had
|crawled through tile broken fence, < Destroy
ed the labor Of week. g Never put of till
tomorrow, what you can do tc-day''-poor
Robert says. Tie Gleaacr.
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From The Desk Of Poor Ro6e'r TIE Scribe
Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-01-08

Mr. PickeriEg commenced <peecA, in
Which he pruceeded about an hour; when
tie read, as an evidence in support of his
argument against tie title of the United
States to Louisiana or Florida between the
Mississippi and Peldido, letter from
Charles Maurice Taiisyrand, the French
minister for foreignIsffairs, dated 2lst De-
|cenb4r, 1904, to Gen. Armstrong, our mi-
mister at Paris, on the subject of certain
ministers in Spain for the aid of France in
procuring cessioa TO the United States of
one or both Floridas., The pnrport of Tai
leyrand's Iettersappesred to be, a denial
that The United States had acquired, by
the treaty of 1905 any title to Louisiana
east of The Mississippi, or some statement
TO that eject. ~. l.i.ss
When Mr. Pickering had -cpnclsded the
reading of this letter
. Mr. Smith [hId.) said he wished to en- I.
'quire whether the paper, wh.ch the gen.
'tleman had JUS read, had ever been pub.
liSly communicated to- the Senate.
Mr. Pickering said it had been coalmu.
,n:cated, mot iadsed as public paper-but
for what reason had It been COMMENSURATE d
corhdentialb? Because by a publication of
it at the tiEe I'M Try might have been done
TO cur min.ssefs or cur affairs abroad .
There was hDNbverrs6nW no reason why
the whole truth EfIculd not be known They
we're a.,ust taking q Sep which was Que of
peace or war, asd it Was important rhat e.
very thing in relation to the subject should
be disclosed
Mr. Slnith, IN )'said that whenever pa
pers were communicated to the Senate con.
hdentialiy, bsiore they could &c read pub.
liciy in this body or any other it was me-
-ce.sary that the permission of che Senate
should be obtaioed; which nc doubt if a. k
ed IN this case would have been granted I.
but IT this proceeding were permitted to
pass unnosiced, any Individual might have
the power to do the greatest injury to the
nation, as his bumor might move him. He
apprehended the proceeding was wrong !;
but gentlemen older in the Senate than he
was could perhaps better decide.
On the suggestion OF me mber, the GAL
lerirs were cleared. The Senate sat with
closed doors for an hour. When we we're
again admitted.
FIR Clay, submitted the following resolu.
ton, which lies on the table of course:
Resolved, Tliat;tbe public perusal in the
Senate OF CERTAIN papers with open gale
ries by the gentleman from Massachus see Is,
(Mr Pickering9 IN his seat without spe-
ciai order OF The Senate removing the in.
junction OF secrecy, which papers had BEEN
confidentiaRy communicated to the Senate
by the President of III United States, was
apa!Pabie violation o. the rules Of this boz
dy.s sfsS .
The Senate then adjournedso Wcdnes-
Gay. go.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
T TIVES.
Sa1itrday, Dec. 29.
On fnotion.ot Mr lsawYer.

On nnotlonot MIR Sawyer,
Resolved, Ths: the committee be aps
pointed 10 enquire into the exped,ency OF
altering or extending rhe times OF holding
the federal district courts Of North Caroli-
IA; and ;ilat they have leave TO report by
bib or otherwise.
MIR Root from the committee of Claims
made report gnfsvoTable TO the petitions
Of FREIGHT Patch,n and Rebecca Putnam.
MIR Ven Horn reported bill concerning
tie Bank oi AlexsndrIas which was read
add Teierred .o,a committee of the whole.
Mr. NJ presented the petition of
William Patterson and sons, me, chants OF
Bals'moTe, praying permission 70 rel.nd
cargoes, winch had been shipped for ex.
portauon, but not being able TO obtain
reascu5bie INSURANCE, had been compelled
10 abandon the voyages. --Rs ierted 20 the
Committee OF Commerce and M4nufac-
tgies.
Mr. Morrow presented petitions from sum
dry inhabtsots OF the state OF Ohio, pray.
iDg that Congress Will rednce tue pgIce OF
sertain lands lying within the FIRST pUr-
chase, because said laIsds are of an interior
quality. --Heferred to The committee ofPdo-
&c Baads.
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Wedposday, Jan. 2.
Mr. Gregg appeared.

4 ~ SIcb6 dPptaTeus 49,. go s.trlf q.
Ihs bill making an. appropriation to sup
Ply the deficiency in the appropriation oi
deio LOT the rsi'ef OF distressed seamen,
was orderediiasa third reading.
= Mr. Dana introduced bill for the ben.
ent OF the seamfn OF the United States !;
which was passed TO second reading,
MIR Clay called for the consideration of
the resof1t,on moved by him Yesterday,
which iie modified SO as to read as fol.
Resolved, That Timothy Pickering. a
Senator from the safe of Massachusetts,
having, on This, day, whilst the Senate was
10 Session with open doors, read from his
place certain documents confioentially COM
nnn'cated by the President of the United
otates 10 the Senate, the Injunction of se-
crecy not having been removed, has in SO
DONG committed Gpalpable] violation Of
the rules Of that body.
NJ Lloyd moved that the further copsi :
deration OF tie resolution be postpeIed.--
Motion lost. ayes D..
Alter a discussion,of Two hours, tie-ing
which the resolution was amended BY the
mover, on the suggestion of Mr. Crawford,
60 as 70 leave out the word " paipabie'' the
resolution was passed. 80
roc the resoiution--Messrs. Anderson,
Brent, Campbell Clay, Condit, Crawford,
GIFTS, Franklin, Gaiilard, German, Gil.
man, Leib, Matthewsoo, Read, Robinson,
Snith lMd.) Suisth (N. Y.) Tar, Taylor,
WhItesiae 20. 80,
Against the resolution-- Messrs- Brad
ley, ChamphD, Dana, Goodrich, Horsey,
Lambert, Aoyd--7. %
AS the proceedings Of this day will be
hereafter given m detail, the various
grounds on which The motion was support
ca and opposed are rot now noticed.