Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-10-14
cIcaruess Of the waters. in terms Of ahmi.
ration.--Sf. Louis Enquirer.
PUBLIC SALES OF LAND.
Huntsville, Ala Ter. Sep. lg

PUBLIC SALES OF LAND.
Huntsville, Ala Ter. Sep. 10.
The sales of the United STATES land
which commenced in this place last week
will close to day.
In the present hurry and hustle OF the
land office, the business of which occu-
pies the whole time of eight or ten clerks,
il is impossible ascertain the aggregate
amount of sales but, if we may Judge
| from former sales, the amount cannot tall
short Of 3,Ooo,0OO dollars.
The County ofLawreEce certainly bids
! fair to be one OF che first in the territory
for wealth and population. The land,
that is, choice cotton farms, have been
almost invariably purchased by the plan
ter for actual settlement.
indeed, no other class Of purchasers
were able to compute with him. We may
with truth, say that no visionary specu-
lations have enhanced the value of lands,
iduring these sales, except in one instance
where two hundred and 6lty-one dollars
per acre were given for half quarter
Iseciion, for town scite. Good cotton
farms usually sold from forty two an hun
!!dred dollars per acre; and the sound
judgement of tic practical planter will
sanction those prices. In a country OF
so mi Id and sulubrious a climate, with a
soil OF inexhaus,ibie fertility, producing
a sure and very valuable crop, with a GER
ltain prospect oS such internal improve
Uncut in navigation as well as facilitate the
iarrival OF its produce in market and
cheapening foreign supplies ; it is scarce.
Iy possible to oyerrate first quality OF cot.
ton land. Although much has lately beer
sold in this town, and much more is rea
dy for market, the supply is not by any
means equal to the demand {; and and i:
/ every day rising in Value Rehub.
e From late English papers, received a
u the Office of the New York Evening
Il Post, by the ship Hector in 40 day
, from Liverpool.
LONDON, Aug. i9.
The late Mr.. Abuthnot is thus desert
he'd by the editor of the Dublin Journa
from a personal knowledge of that unfor
i" itunate genileman----' Aburthnot was al
: ianlable man, bat the child of misfortune
r Az an early age lie became an orphan
4 his father was drowned, aud his mothe
:. jdied in a mad house and now in thu
i, lprime OF life; he has fallen victim t.
injustice
1 The subcommittee OF New Drury
4 have determined, it seems, at all hazard
10 se-open the theatre for the winter cam
paign MIR. Stephen Kembe is activel,
,prepar'ng his troops to take the field il
: great dramatic force. The theatre vii
he opened on the 9TH OF next month
Immediately AFTER The Injunction had bee
dissolved by the Lord Chancellor, notice
TO such effect were sent to the sewers
performers.
Aug. Cove Inserted yesterday al
jextrsc, from the Halifax papers, contain
ling complaints against the subjects d
1.-THE United States who continue 10 max
"Iencroachments on our fisheries On tn
"lcoast of Labrador and Newfoundlan,
u !Oniy few days ago, we mentioned thu
>. seven or eight of these intruding vessel
Ii had been captured by capt Harper, an
lstnt into one OF our American ports f.
,rltriai, whence one OF them had contrve
81 ito escape. and to convey the news exter
Isiyely. The master of the vessels whic
thus escaped, thought it a mighty grie,
% ance that he should have been captu, ed
oIa accordingly published letter in Il,
" American papers, complaining of til
hard treatment he had experienced fror
d IcaPt Harper. We hope that this publ
h cation will have the effect of preventn
Il his countrymen from continuing thei
v intrusions upon British property lfno
"a VIC eau assure them that the orders issue
/, to the British cruisers upon the subiet
lare peremptory, and such as they ar
II likely to smart under unless they desis
=; These orders instruct our naval officer
. lon the fishing stations, that when We.
sells OF the United States are found ho
; Iering on the coast, they are to be warne
'sloH: and it found in the bays Or harbor
'e are to be seized and brought in for tria
Il Lanch Of u line of battle sAih in IL
Isl East indies On the 9th OF Ianual
t Hast, the inhabitants of Calcutta were or
rs tilted by the most magnihed spectab
lliof the kind ever witnessed in that coul
., ltry. The first line of battle ship ev
lbuilt on this river was committed to
er waves from the dock yard of Messrs KY,
IL & Co. at kidderpore, amidst the accl
dc nations Of some thousands of Europeai
lie and natives, In honor of the goveIn
lr general, she is named the Hastings.
hit The Bristol Mirror says -" We lea
er with satisfaction, that in consequence