Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-06-24

Reading Room with Glbaltar price cur
rent Of May Z, IRON which we make the
following quotations:.- -
Candles, American, b. S, 8 q 9, last
sale cocoa, Caracas, cwt. 83s, price
asked; coffee, $50, asked for the last ar.
rivals, no sale made, therefore cleared
GU, for Trieste Gotten, n. Orleans, Sao
asked for parcel arrived; Dish. Ameri-
can. cwt. Ss9, none, and no demand
herrinsf, bbl. 6 q 6 6, very dull salmon
do. is, last sale. Fruits almonds, Jor-
dan, cwt. Sa5, no demand ; Valencia, do
Is q 1s, saleable; hard shell, do. $, no
demand /; Soft do. 8, very scarce; raj.
suns, Muscovado, box, 5 5, season past
bloom do, 9 s, small On hand. Grain
wheat, none and wanted Indian corn,
{. 81 a 4 8, large sale; rice, cWt. T..
Nankeens-shoit piece, So 8. none, aud
saleable; long, do. S 8, dull. Fitch,
Amer lean, bbl. IS, dull. ProeisioDs--
American beef, Dbl. 8i4, dial. do. pork,
none bacon, cwt. l4a Is; four. Phila-
deiphia, Dbl. ia laj DO. Baltimore,
II SSa IL so. Tar, American, bbl. 8
a s s, wanted. Tobacco Ken. cwt. 10
. 10 6, sales 10 demand Virg. do. 9
6, do. Wines-Oporto, pipe, gao EGO,
plenty and dull /, sherry, butt, lS0a $780,
do; Madeira, pipe, 500 . $780, price
asked.
Bills on London, 60 days sight, few
at 5ss 4-spanish piIlsred dollars 2
per cent, and steady.
A New.Orleans paper Of May 81, recei.
we'd by Mr.. Lyferd at the Norfolk
Reading Room, contains the following:
FROM MEXICO.
The following extracts from printed
dispatches, intercepted by The Indian
Comanches, have been sent to US by .
respectable and credible correspondent:
ION the lst of March q serious Ell.
gagenent took place 10 the province OF
Vera Cruz, between the royal troops and
the insurgents, under the command Of
general Guadaloupe vittoria. The fort
Chiqqi Huite and the bridge Of Araye
were retaken by the patriots, together
Nth the ammunition, artillery, and ell
the other arms.
I" The loss Of the spanisrds was great;
col. Santa Maria is among the slain.
"The road from Vera Cruz to MeIi-
CO is again occupied BY Vittsris a part
Of bis cavalry under gen. Belgrade had ad.
vsnced on Vera Cruz, and carried away
cattle, &c.
"There are skirmishing at the gates
ofthe town almost every day.-The con-
gress resides at Zelaya. protected by
captain general Anaya's army. Detach.
ments OF Teran's army had joined him."
AANCANESss
This useful mineral has recently been
discovered on Big Sandy river, in the
vicinity Of Greenup.burg, Kentucky,
where It is said to exist in great abun-
dance, and judging from the external cha.
racter Of a sample have in my posses.
sion, am led to think it is OF . quail.
ty no way inferior to that Of foreign pro.
ductiop.
Manganese is heayy, black, metallic
substance, resemblingin ihe more per-
feet specimens pot Meto!, aud selling the
fingers like SCOT. It's employed in the
arts by the blescher. potter, and glass
maker, and for the purpose Of experiment
in the laboratory Of the chemist.-By the
bleacher it is used in the preparation Of
orymuriatic. acid, according to the me.
thod Of bleaching now universally pur-
sued. By the potter it is employed in
communicating a black glazing to the
common ware. By the glass maker Tor
deprivins vitrescent mixtures Of the green
hue given by iron, and occasionally asa
cOlouring ingredient; and by the chem
ist for procuring orygen gas, which sub.
stance it yields in great abundance. Its
importance rs an item in the catalogue
Of useful minerals afforded BY the u. 8.
is therefore considerable and it may be
regarded as an advantageous discovery
in country which has hitherto been sup.
piled with this article, exclusively, BY g.
Britain, imported either directly from
the Island az Britain, or from her depen-