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Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-06-30
Ncw- York. June Is.

SUPREME COURT StTTINGs.
William Warner, plaintlff-Mathias Bru'
en-, defendant.
This cause was tried before the honora-
bic Judge Van Ness, tor damages against
the defendan, for having issued out an at
tacbment against the property OF the PLAIN
tiff during the time he was absent on bust
ness in Charleston, S. C. and having no.
tice thereof published in the public
newspapers under the act " for relief a.
gainst absconding and absent debtors -
The leading circumstances in This case
appeared to be as follow
The plaintiff had purchased goods the
property Of the defendant, and had gwen
his note with an approved endorser, tor
the same ne then publicly left the city
Tor Charleston, S. c. leaving his dwelling
house furnished and his clerk inthe count
ing house TO attend to such business as
should he requred-he also appointed a
respectable mercantile house as his agent,
10 whom he RENTED. funds to!pay allhls en-
gagemeuts during his ats, nee, except The
note TO the defendant, relying that the en-
dor,er wouid honor it, as the goods, ioI
which II had been given, were purchase
on their joint account, and Placed IN the
hands of the son of the ePdorser in.Charies-
ton. S. C. tor the purpose OF RENTING the
proceeds to his father to pay the note, In
stead of which new note was gwen by
the endorser a, 60 days, leaving the old
note In possession OF the defendant, who,
before the same was due, sued the plaintiff
a, Charleston, S. c. on the old note, and
issued out the attachment in this city a.
gsinst his property, and advertised him
as an absent debtor. i
On the return Of the plaintiff 10 n. York,
the defendant did no, think proper to re-
Enquisa the attachment, and, ON applica'
ton, Tie supreme court ordered a snpsrcs-
IDEAS 10 be issued. The plaintiff soon found
that his credi. had been destroyed and
several respectable merchants, who had
frequently credited him TO large amounts,
ana endorsed for him declared, that alter
The publication IN question they had nc
confidence 10 his mercantile standIng-at'
OF which was fully proven. The case
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WONDERFUL /! -

Incredible as the following account mar
appear, We can assure our readers that ii Is
an ndispulable tact Inasmu,h as the nun
Der OF birds killed, was satisfactorily ascel.
talnrdby three respectable men, who coun.
ted the nunbe, ,and;ihe corroborative t.sli.
mony OF ne'r a hundred different persons.
WHO went expressly TO see them. Tho
following is brief statement as il occur.
red.
On Wednesday last The 18th inst al the
house OF Silas Preston ia Plumstt ad Town.
ship IN Bucks CO. a considerable noise was
heard IN the chimney. The female paltof
the family became alarmed anu sent for
Mr. Preston. Ii is asce rtained that the
noise was occasioned by the entrance OF an
innumerable body OF Chimney Birds INTO
a chimney, in which, probably no fire hsd
been made for many years. MIR. Pre- son
accompanied by one or tw % persons repair
ed 10 the root of the use, and by forcing
wsgS on covers down the chimney propel-
led them into the room where they were
Killed to the number of four thousand two
hundred and thirty!!!
What adds TO the sirgulariy Of the a.
boVe fact is that they we're apparently all
old birds, and appeared to form a complete
cham in the chimney Of an extraordinary
thickness, and reaching nearly from the top
To the bottom. The birds are yet visible
in the adjoining field. impossible as it at
first seems 10 many, all now appear TO be
satisfied OF It's correctness, and more than
FIVE persons OF respectabiIity are ready and
WILLING IN o,ra Iitv in tho e, cf
(Doylestovn Paper.
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occupied the attention. OF the court We'd
nesday and Yesterday; and the jury, after
receiving most able aud impartial charge
from the judge, returned verdict in favor
OF the plaintiff OF FINE thousand Dollars
damages.
John Wells, and J. o. Hoffman, esqrs.
for the plaintiff.
D. B. Ogden, Esq. for lie defendant.
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TIE WESTERN EXPEDITION.

The ST. Louis Gazette, OF the Goth OF
Nav. states that the steam boat Johnson
passed that place on the 10Th ult. with
troops, &c for the Yellow Stone.
A gentleman al fort Usage, on the Mis-
souri, in letter TO us, under date oi the
18th May. on the subject Of this Interest,"
ing enterprise, observes, that " col. John
son il expected to be at St. Louis, with his
steam boats, by the 18th OF this month. II
he succeeds in his enterprise, (of which |
have no doubts he will have done more
for the benefit OF the western country, in
deed may say for the whole Union, than
any other man, Except Jackson ever did.
He will have opened a safe and easy COM
munication 10 China which will give such
a spur to commercial enterprise that ten
years will not pass away before we shall
have the rich productions of that country
transported from Canton to the Columbia,
up that river 10 the mountains. over the
mountains and down the Missouri and
Mississippi, all the way (mountains end
al) by the potent power Of steam. These
are not idle dreams re ~ upoa it ITO me
il seems much less dfhcult than it was u.
Universally called, when | first came here,
10 navigate the Missouri with sail boats"
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,.r,sr FROM SOUTH AMERICA.

Letters irum Buenos Ayres Of the 3oi6
March, three weeks The latest were received
il, New York on Friday, post marked al
~ iImington. The U. 5. Frigate Macedo
MAN arrived at Valparaiso OIL the 18th Jsns
Cochran had been spoken OF Lima l De
schr. Pelion was to sail from Buenos ayes
TO. this port on the. 18th April. Schooner
Plat,sburgh, of Baltimore bad arrived al
Monte Videe. On. 7. Asr, .4dV.
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Extract Of letter from Capt. Thsyt4r ri
The schooner Commerce, of Boston a;
Havana
On the e8th May made the Hole j,
the Wall, and was boarded by the Par,u;
privateer schooner La Constant. capi, No,
thlop. who treated us very politely. AN
he asked for was two p!anSs 10 repair n'a
gun carriages-ior he had had an eng
ment with Spanish sloop of war sn6
lost three of his officers, (auacns them l.,
Peck. of New. Haven, and It. M,cte"
N. York, and 22 men.-Had b.en ~,
three months and taken two prizes-nn"
of which was inicompary, Spanish er; e
neaman, with as sla.cs-and NAMED "
together with Englisiimen and AMER
--snd had no papers Whatever 10 sh.n
but her log book. The Patriot bo,r5; ""
officer said they bad no money 10 nav us
the planks--but asked my name, and s,it
if they should TALL in with me again t i,r
would endeayor to pay me. The nr;y:.
teer was manned with Enelishmen ami
Americans" N
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States. IN fsst, the government OF the
union. as well as those of the states. is crea-
ted blythe people. who hive bestowed up
ON it certain powers for their own heneht'
and who administer it for their own good
The people are as much Interested 'heIr
liberty is as deeply concerned, m prevent
ing encroscb,nents on that government III
arres,ise fine hands which would tear irom
IT the powers they have conferred upon IT,
as in restraining it within its constitutional
limits. The constitution has defined me
powers of the government, and has estab-
lisbed that division of power which IT'S
trainers. and the American people, bellev-
ed to be most conducive TO the public hap
piness and to public liberty. The equi-
noise thus established is as mich disturbed
by taking weights out of the scale contain
inc the powers of the government, as by
putting weights into it. His hand Is unit
to bold the State balance who occupies him.
self entirely in giving preponderance to
one of the scales.
If it he possible that congress may sue
coed +" in seeing the constitution expound-
ed by the abuses committed under it; 5" il
&c a new mode of amending the constitu.
ton" may be "added to the ample ones
provided in that instrument, and the strong
est checks established in it may be ''made
10 Weld to the force Of precedents )" ii
the time may soon arrive when the constitu-
ton may be expounded without even look
ing into it-ty merely reading The acts OF
a renegade congress, or adopting the out
rageous doctrines of Pickering. Lloyd, or
Shelly" 1t is not less possible that the
constitution may be so expounded by its
enemies as to betom totally imperative,
that a new mode of amendment, by wsy Of
report of committees Of state Legislature,
and resolutions thereon, may pluck from
it power after power in detail, or may
sweep of the whole al once by declaring
that i, shall execute its acknowledged pow
ers by those scanty and announcement means
only which the states shall prescribe, AMI
without which the power cannot exist
Thus, "by this new mode of amendment"
may that government which the American
"people have ordained and established"
"in order to form more perfect union, es-
tablsh Justice e;.sure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote
the general welfare, and secure the bless
ings of liberty to themselves and their pos.
terity," become an inanimate corpse, in
capable of effec,ing any of these objects.
The question is, and ought TO be consi-
dered, as question OF fair construction.
Does the constitution, according to its true
sense and spirit, authorize Congress to
enact the particular law which forms the
subject OF enquiry If it does, the best in
teress of the people, as well as the duty
OF those who decide, require that the ques.
ton should be determined in the afErma-
tive. II it does not, the same motives re-
auire determination IN the negative.
A FRIEND OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Ito be continued.
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ANEW THEORY OF THE RAINBOW.

NEW 1hfthf VI I'M rhfFp"'
Dr. Watt, o. Glasgow has accounted ~
this brilliant phene"enon in a nav wy,
The common explanation is, thit ths oI" :.
Of rain act as prism, and divide the fS a..
of the suE--5ut as ibe ranftW u;
queb,ly seen in quarter where nc ta.' >, 4
falling and as the edge Of a cloud ) ,hs
such times, always Observed between t,a 70
behelder and the sun, Dr. Hstf. I nar,
that the rays OF the latter are refracieo h on.
this edge, and thrown on the dark Soy ri
positf. This does not seem 50 I nb
Ike a new theory as modification o. i- an
old. Ii still produces the rainoo" IN" nd
the refraetion OF drops of ra'n- 40.
the fact that tie colOrs are thr"ni n no
on the sky in quarter where theI :e,.,,I
rain, may be considered as az accrue,
circumstance,
Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-06-30
From, London Papers.
CURICUS CIRCUMsThNCE.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.
There IS now in the possession OF Mr..
Hayes, butcher, OF Southampton. apg,
with s.oodem leg, on the off side before,
and IT appears to walk with little lameness
or.incoRvenience. This pig belonged to a
disbanded soldier, who, having seen many
operations performed on his heroic COM
rades, on The glorious field of Waterloo, re.
memGered enougb Of surgery to enable
bis, TO pfac, sc amputatiOn with success OF
the pooi animal, when an accident lett no
alternative between the loss Of limb or
premature death.
A horse belonging TO Mr.. NJ. Moyle, Q,
OF Chacewater, Cornwall. was taken III
and died few days since. As no cause
could be assigned for its illness, the carcase
was opened, when an adder, nearly -
feet long, was found in the stomach. >,
Sorbic, {new) .acid. A new vegetable
acid has been discovered, to which the a.
boye nsme has been given ~ consequ' nee
OF its being found in the greatest aburd 'hce
in the mountain ash, and, we presume o.
ther varieties OF Scribe Ii differs very ma?
terialiy from tho MaIic acid, but eSlefii
men's have not YET sufficiently determines
its peculiar properties. 49,,
An old woman. seventy years OF age,"'s
one of The emigrahis that late : sailed on
board the brig Fanny, from Carmalll,G;. %.
for America. She had waited al Puo'n
house in the town some days for the saIrs
of the vessel, AID The landlord accidenIS'g
going no the porlor, TO bis great suPrsff
found the table covered with gold com %
different descriptions, amounting TO HlHs
hundred gu,neos, which Sic was that mo-
ment in he act of counting. TIE ulonty,
she informed hin, was tn many ye1E'S
wing Of her profits OF small iarr y.
finding lattrrly her store decreas'd': sue
was resolved on going to America 10 ~
prove her property.
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From the jamaica Courant of Nav 10 70.

From the Jamaica COurant of Nav 70 -,
ceved at the Recalling Room, Norfolk
Ne understand when colonel K.ns,
who had retired into the io.i al Porlo iii.
10, and defended il most courareorslv
understood that SIR Gregor Mace r. gorI;i
got on board the brig Hero--he imms";-
ately despatched an expert swimmer 10
that vessel. to ascertain his determina,jon
on the subject, and to learn what he ,,eem.
ed proper tc be done. The soldier return.
ell after short absence with directions ior
him. toshold out TO the last extremity and
that he would collect all the force Of III.
squadron for their assistance. Col. Raj.
ter CO nceiylng that he was justified are,
this answer, to perish in defence of ne
place, defended himself as long as he wa,
able, Tut to his modification, lie found
that shortly after Ai'Gregor's answer, be
had directed the Hero's cable 10 be cut
and sought his safety in flight, by putting
to sea in that vessel.
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WEDNEoDH', --....-----------
---------.-- W.
A FRIEND OF The eo' ,ha
fit be true that ne ra"0ua' aa from i
constitution can wish to expunse " a.n
the judicial department !. "u'' of
eli fur those who believe the pioSpe'"J y
the American people ~ oe -,
from the preservation oil lhis so'e'"e ~.
% view with indifference INC g
efforts which certain res''e''
Virginia have oee'' W 80 The es,;ma.
TO degrade una. uepai .su 70 resist
ton OF the puoi,e 80 at,,r,s must have
the con''e'ioA 'A ,,us objects. than
etner and nv -. .o,sdence of the ma
merely 70 "np -.
ton VI 'Ae u,r;ns hostitity
The jealous anu ,:,,,,,nn ,s,s originally
wi'n WINCH 'n' s,.,o,,e, The deep
opposed sAn Os;s,,vs hate which grew
r'o'e" .aa .aaa ;salousiss. and was ag-
ou' u - 80, though suspended Tor
sia IN haze been appeas-
-, sa.;ra 20 str;p the government OF
-; nowers which enable II to
'uo's ,,',,sh the objects Tor which it was
-, hv construction, essentially
- ,,at miserable confederation,
~ o,a,cv n the preservation
""o -, an. short interval between
=. - 81 Paris and the meeting oil the
- convention at Philadelphia, Was
..,. seems to have
suihcien' " ueho .: rho ,..d.r, If
reco'eteu al ''' h,,ar tho
'his p'au' nae sA p, Ln,v ;na we'll
"eaAeS' p"'' - ~ -, aown md .
mat IL 'na. Cd" -, ~ afsrv .rds
ofeaeh ene e 49,, ;nnr,cticabie,
Aou"H ' IT, ;,d;.;,I denart-
% ue'eno '"' ;,ho,, no.
men'' oe'ns "i'no'' Po"e $50 Of
tronage, without me ~ i 60.
ingratlating itseii WIN INC p''p
this weakest part anu IS d. 'ne S'"1 :
time, necessary TO the very eA's'e".s VI
the government, anu 10 Tue eps0,'a' 'A
cution OF It's laws. orea' cous..'u''Sha'
questions are unaVoiaao'y ofousn' oe'o'e
this department, and its decisions must
sometimes depend on cour'e OF intricate
aud abstruse reasoning, which II requires
no uncomfortable degree OF mental eSer-
ton to comprehend, and which may, OF
course, be grossly misrepresenteo' one
Of these questions, the case OF Mce'uilough
against the state OF Maryland, presents Tue
fairest occasion for woandihg mortai'y,
the vital powers OF the government thro
its judiciary. Against the decision OF the
court, on this question, we'ghty interests y
deep rooted prejudiees are combined.-
The opportunity for the assault was too ia
yorable not to be seized.
A writer in the Richmond Enquirer,
under the signature OF Hampden," who
j. introduced to US by the editor, as holoing
ga pm equal to the great subject ne has
undertaken to discuss, after hesio"ing
spon Congress in general, and some OF It's
most respectable members IN particular
language not much more aecofous , IN,
that reserved ior 'he JuoeeS. says
warf're "aged by the Juneiai oo'y mas
been OF a holder tone and character II
was not enough tor them to sanc'lon' IN
former times, the detestaote doctrines Of
Pickering l. Co. as Aforesaid I; II was Ao'
enouc for them 10 annihiIate the freedom
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COMMERCIAL.
Philadelphia. June 10. 1915

Philadelphia. June 10. 1919.
Messrs. Bache 4. Noryell,
Gentlemen--T herewith hand you trans
Ia lion of Royal Decree, published in
Portugal relative 10 our commerce with
that kingdom. beg leave TO recommend
10 the Merchants of the U. States shipping
there, to accompany their invoice with the
certificate required, as it will prevent their
paving duty on the long price or in other
words paying duty on The value of the artl-
cles, after freight, insurance, duty, &c. are
charged. Wheat, rye, barley, indian corn,
and -four made from them, pay aspec'tic du
~; of course this decree does not apply
to them
The editors Of newspapers throughout
the United States, are requested to give
this publicity.
J. PEMBERTON HUTCHINSON.
Consul Of the United States Of america,
for Portugal.
70 hi, Fncellency discount de Bnlsemno,
President of the Council Of Trade
Most IIlustrious and Excellent Lord,
The King our Lord in conformity with
the opinion of the council of trade OF 10th
February last relative to the entry OF mer-
chandize of the t. States OF America, or.
ders that six months from this date, no mer-
cbandize of the United States OF America
can be admittedfor entry in any OF the Gus.
tom Houses of Portugal, without the invoi-
ces being sworn to before the Portuguese;
copsuIs resident in the ports OF the United
States of America ahd their attestat'ons
shall declare that the prices charged in the
invoices are the current market prices. ne
consuls shall not charge more than two dol
lars for each certificate. A II merchandise
not accompanied with such attestat'ons
shall be subject to pay duty on the current
market price of the port Of entry. Your
e,celency will make this known to the
council, that it may be executed.
God guard Your Excellency;
Palace of the Government, April 10, 1919.
JsAo ANTONIO SALTER DE MENDoNcA..
Ssc'ry Of State for the Interior.
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Kingston, q. c. June 8.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.

On the morning OF the 3O,h ult. about z
miles below Ernest Town, the Steam Boat
Charlotte struck large fish with her pad
d,e, which was taken up by capt Dennis,
and proved to be Sturgeon, weighing a.
bout SO pounds. 1t was probably IN the
act OF Jumping when struck.
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New- York, June "a.
HYDRoPHe BIA.

II gives US much pleasure to state, that
James Cann,* carpenter, los Henry street
who was in the early part Of the present
month bitten by dog unques' ionably mad,
and who showed unequivocal symptoms
that hydrophobia had actually begun, no"
by taking increased doses OF strong de-
cociion of the Scull-cap, so far recovered
that all those symptoms have disappeared,
and h, considered out of danger. A state
ment Of his case will shortly be drawn up
by his two physicians, and published IN
this paper, and this statement shall be ar
companied with some others, that Will sa.
tisly every impartial mind OF the virtue OF
this divine plant.
This is the man alluded 10 in the Ga.
zette, as laboriug under all the horrors Of
Kingston, y. C. June s.
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-10-05
RURAL SKETCH.

Extract Of a letter from a gentleman on
toar through The Eastern States, pub
islied in the Boston Centinei.
"We ought not to omit the remark,
that no class of people appear more hap
py at their labour, or more conteuted with
their lot, than the cultivators Of The soil,
and that they look beyond the clouds for
The source OF the rain which 6uctities their
fields, aad below the lurrow for the Great
Spring of vegetation. In passing through
any part Of New England, =
Where freeborn thousands their own fields pos
sess,
Where tyrants awe not and no lords oppress,D
the traveller will every where see willing
hands and cheerful hearts, cultivating
" sometimes hard, but still a generous
soiI"-and in the group will find ministers
and people, magistrates and yeonen gen.
erals and priyates, all engaged in the same
field--where 10 whips are used TO compel
exertion, but where toll is reciprocally
shared, and where
&c Landlords and workmen each familiar greet,
We we're involuntariIy led into this d.
gression, by the recollection Of the many
hundreds OF hay-makers we saw scattered
over the extensive meadows which border
the Connecticut; and among whom we
recognized many Legislators, and generals
II was about noon when We passed the
Hadley meadows, and the hay-makers
were collecting 10 groups, under trees,
and wagons, and hay -stacks, to take din-
ner, with appetites which the sons and
daughters of luxury aud Incidence, would
give worlds to possess. The rich inieryale
lands Oh the Deerfield and Connecticut
rivers are celebrated for their fertility; and
it is we'll known to history, that the abori-
ginaIs Of the soil fought with more fury
to retain them than any other parts Of
their great pairimony. They are worth
fighting for,
AT very fine inn at Northampton we
noticed glazed case, 10 which we're de-
posted many articles Of finely worked
muslin, and other household manufactures
and on inquiry we're Informed, that they
were placed there for sale, by society
Of young ladies, Of which the daughter Of
late worthy governor Of Massachusetts,
was the dircc,ress, who met weekly to
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-10-05
FATTING CATTLE.

] have lately read an essay Of Mr..
L. Of Connecticut, on what he deems the
cheapest method of preparing cattle for
the stall, the substance OF which is here
given.
In the winter of 1917, Mr.. L. fatted
an OK, and heifer, 10 way that he found
cheaper than even common keeping. He
fatted the hciter first. Her food for the
purpose was chopped straw scaIded and
seasoned with salt, TO which was added a
little meal Of Indian corn and oats, and a
small allowance of oil cake, or boiled
hax-seed-the whole mixed up SO as to
form mush. OF this about three pecks
was given at time. In failing the heiter,
she OILY eat about bushel OF boiled flax
seed. Some boiled hay was also given
her. The OK was afterwards fatted ID
much the same manner, as nearly as we
are able to understand the report of the
cases; for Mr.. l.. appears TO have been
more OF an adept in fattiDg, than in de-
scribing the manner with ciearness and
precision. According TO his account,
however, it appears that his profits IN
pursuing this mode was very uncommon,
and he says that the Eating Of these cattle
afforded him more clear profit than be had
derived from all the cattle he had ever
before tatted. 1t would seem, indeed, that
he considerably more than doubled the
price of his cattle in fatting them, and
that the expense of it was very inconsid-
cradle.
This being the usual time for COM
mencing the business of iatting for the
winter store, have thought proper TO
exhibit the plan of Mr.. l.. from belief
hat it is excellently adapted for fatting
cattle with the least expense. 1t will
readily be perceived, however, that the
full pasture is calculated to obviate the
expense of using boiled hay but have
no doubt that when good hay is steam
boiled, which may be done with a little
expense. it is just as nutritious for cattle
as when in its green state.
A PLoUGH Boy.