Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-11-17

important propositions.
Raleigh MinerUa.
From the NeH,- York EVeaiag Post.
The President of the United States has
appointe d the Hon. Smith Thompson, chief
justice of this state, Secretary Of the Navy,
iDthe place Of Benjamin w. Crowninshield,
of Massachusetts,, resigned.
! With no common sincerity, we congatu-
late the public on this event. We shall not
be suspected ofa design to fiatter, five say
uuhesitatingly that in making this selection
the President will have given the greatest
satisfaction to the citizens Of the state OF n.
York. Whatever may have happened du-
ring the irritations of party feeling, no man
alive ever denied 10 the gentleman now ap-
+. pointed, the character of "a clear and un-
blemished integrity. When Pope wrote,
an honest mans the noblcst work OF God,
it was but poor compliment paid to ne.
gative quality; but nowadays, as times
go, lis rarity raises il to the rank Of a cardi-
! nal virtue.
One serious regret only mingles with the
pleasure we should otherwise experience
on thus OCCASION; and that is caused by the
loss of such man upon the bench OF cur
supreme court, which, we much fear, such
is the state of things, will not be supplied
by any one who has nothing else to recon-
mend him than the qualities Incompetence,
probity. and attachment 10 the constitution
of our country. Whether this appointment
is, in prudential view, worth the accep-
lance ofjudge Thonpson,we do not know.
nor whether he will resign for it his Office
Of chief justice.
Extract of letter from young lady in
Amherst, IN. H. TO her brother in Pc
terson, (N.J. dated October 81.
"Amineral spring has lately been disco
vered in Milford, in very singular manner
A young man, son Of Mr.. Sergeant, had
been very sick for some time a short time
before his death he dreamed that man
came to him, and stood on rock in field
! not far from his fathers house and told him,
that near that place was spring, the water
Of which would cure consumption. lie
dreamed il second and third time with
in week. He was very anxious indeed TO
have them dig and find it, and wished to go
and show them where il was; they carried
him on bier into the field, and he inform
ed them where the man stood in bis DIRE am
They dug and found spring OF very sim
guIar looking water; q have seen some of
it,)-it resembles clay-pit water, but will
never settle nor strain clear. This the
young man thought was not the right spring
and wished them to dig further he said the
man told him fiat stone would lie over the
spring. The young man died, and the last
! word he said was Dig! Since his death,
a man has been there from Massachusetts,,
who could use the mineral rod they dug
twelve feet into the earth and came TO The
fat stone; they drew il of with oxen, and
under il was the spring the water is clear,
and people can drink much greater GUAM
! tity of il than OF other water: on some it
operates as an emetic, on others differently.
We do not know yet what the effect will be
. on invalids. II has excited great curiosity
here, and people are coming from all quar-
/ tiers to drink the water and carry it away
with them. They have come forty or fifty
miles already. You may depend that this
is all true"
Reported for the Franklin Gazette.
United States Circuit Court U: States;
Us. }Accessary to the Mail Rob
VIM. Wood. J berry.
The prisoner was tried and convicted al
, the last session Of the Court. The Judg-
ment was then arrested On account OF in
formality in the indictment, A new indict-
ment was preferred al the present session oil
the Court, which was returned by the grand
Jury true BILL" On Tuesday the 10th
inst. the trial came on. The same wit
nesses were examined as on the former trial
with the exception Of Thomas Hare, ma
teriai rituess, who lately died in Prison.
Dir. hgersoll, the District Attorney, Of
fe.ed himselfas witness to prove what had