Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-03-05
From the same.

Prices at 81. Jago de Cuba, Feb 7.
IMPORTS.
Flour, sup 90 a S?l-not more .ban
800 bbls in first and second hands, aud
bakers with short supplies.
Beet II 20 per Dbl. very scarce, con-
sumption not very god, 100 sufficient
in an assor e cargo.
Pork so a 80, scarce and in demand,
consumption not very great; few bbls.
say COY sufficient in an assorted cargo.
Lard Is per b.-6O0 kegs at market,
very dull.
Butter e5 81 1-s; fresh yellow
scarce and in demand.
Rice, new, 7 a S8 per 100 lbs. 10 re-
ques old 6 d.. very fiat.
Bread. navy, 9pe' Dbl. scarce and
saleabie; pilot 10 per Dbl. do.
Candles. mould, SKIES, % a Is per Id.
plenty and sales.
Soap, American yellow, 10 a ii per
ID. livei,, though plenty.
Goldfish 5 Sc per 100 lbs. lively,
though plenty, good 10 demand in small
casks.
HerringS 6 per Dbl. rather fiat.
Naval stores plenty and unsaIeable---
improving iatterly.
Ckee-e, American, IL 90, markets
glu'ted.
Russia sheetings l6 sly per piece
plenty.
India goods do not enjoy constant
demand. being purchased principally Tor
the eastern trade; cargo, by being
stored, would eventually pay well.
EXPORTS
Coffee Is BIC per 100 lbs. new crop
coming in slowly.
Muscovadoes e 6 IS per 100 lbs. be-
coming abundant.
Molasses So s4 per hid. cask in
cluded.
Cotton 90 per 100 lbs. scarce and in
demand.
Tobacco 10 l6 per 100 Ibs.-plenty.
Beeswax. yellow. SO per 100 lbs.
DUTIES
lmports.-On tiu 7 so per bbl /; pro-
Visions generally &c PEI cent. on vaIua-
ton of two thirds market price; articles
of luxury, iron bars. candles, hardker-
chiefs, cotton. and furniture generally, 4
per cent on like valuation.
Exports. --On moIa.ses 5 IS PER hid;
cuff". 50 cts. per 100 lbs {; sugars, brown
ard muscovado. "a; white ciayed 90.
From the baltimore Federal Republican.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
The establishment Of sunday Schools
in this CITY has more than answered the
most sanguine expectations Of the fiends
of that measure. Fifteen hundred young
immor,a's are, on the day set apart tor
the worship Of the living God, instruct
ed in the precepts ard principles OF the
Christian religion. Suffer little chli-
d en- aid the Saviour oil the university
TO come unto me. and forbid them lot,
for of such is the kingdom vt Heaven"
lie took these young and blooming car
didates for Heaven in his arms. and blest
them" Here is an example tor those
to follow who are engaged in this hO-
norabIe service. and We have the same
reason 10 believe, that the same Being
will again add his blessing 10 such la
bors. At this interesting and all impor.
tant season of human life, season on
which the future character so essentially
depends, il is impossible for Imagination
to calculate on the benefits resulting
from the establishment of Sunday schools.
The day which is so often devoted TO the
indulgence of vice and idleness, and on
which children have by parental neglect
been brought up into an habitual con-
tempt of every thing sac ed, is now de-
voted to lis proper purpose, to teach to
the heirs of immortal glory the road to
their future residence. This NAV literal
" be denominatsd pluckiDg brands from
the burning-infant lips which probably
never mention their Creator bit in the
language of biasphemy, are taught Tor
the first time reverence for his name
TIE following fact, for the autheuticityot
which we can personally vouch, will .hew
what important consequences may follow
from the conduct of child. A man who
lived in habits st regular and notorious
negIecto of God, and Of sacred things was
blest with child on whom his heart d'a al
ed with all the fondness of a parent. lt
is unnecessary, we presume, to add tGa'
the boy was educated in the habl' g The
father, that is with an entire indifrrence
to sacred things.
At length the boy was put to 'choo'.
where bis proficiency was s, rapid '.N
he soon Was laugh to read with Pr0Pns,
" aud to comprehend what he read IN
a short time the boy became 'hougfhuse
aud pensive,t 10 the utter sstonis'm'n'W