Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-04-02

Subsistence. New efforts will be necessa-
~ to oivilize them. and effectual regula-
tions must be adopted for the purpose, or
they will perish. The great amount OF
the public lands, which constitute an in
exhaustable source Of wealth to The whole
nation; the disposition of our troops to
protect our frontier settlements and pre-
serve peace with the Indians-to protect
the Indians themselves from injustice--and
TO secure the public lands from intrusions :;
are subjects highly worthy of the attention
of those to whom the management thereof
is intrusteG, and particularly of the Chief
Magistrate.
Mr.. Monroe has evidently considered it
his duty to attend in person to these objects
since he was elected into the present office
and particularly to measures relating to
the public defence. The late war obvi-
ously formed an epoch in our history, and
furnished the motive. fit did not impose
the obligation on the Chief Magistrate,
TO give TO those measures the utmost activ-
ity and vigor. We have not forgotten the
imminent perils of that nomentous s'rug-
gle--the desolation of our coast, through
out its whole extent--the great num-
Der of our citizens who were called,
even from the most remote parts OF the in
terror, to its defence, and the waste OF life
from disease, which followed. Had the
coast been fortified. one tenth of the force
would have been more adequate to its de-
fence, and more than nine tenths OF our CT
tizens and property thus lost would have
been saved from destruction. We all re-
collect the ability and virtue with which
the citizen, then at the helm, sustained that
struggle, and his persevering frmness in
moments of the severesi trial. Mr.. Mon
roe then acted under him, in the depart
ment of war, and having witnessed the dit
6cuties of that struggle, he thinks it in-
cumbent on him TO exert every means in
his power to carry into effect the sa!utary
laws and provisions of congress, since "a
dopted, to avert like calanities, in the e.
vent of another war.
Such, obviously, are the motives and the
objects that, in the opinion of the Presi-
dent, impose upon him this arduous duty,
which he commenced soon after the ma
tional concerns ,,ere con6ded TO his hands
and which he is now prosecuting.
The Secretary of war sat out with the
President, and will accompany him until
he leaves the coast for the interior.
National htelligcncer.
We have been requested togive sauta-
ry caution to the pubick, respecting GER
tain notes of the Bank of Cincinnati, which
are made payable at the city Bank OF Bal
timore, al some number of day, after their
date. One of these notes handed 70 Us for
the purpose of giving this caution, bears
date "Cincinnati, 7th Sept. 1918, and con-
tains promise that the President, Direc-
tors (. Co. of the Bank of Cincinnati, ninty
days after date, wiz pay J. G. Lamb or Or
der al the city Bank OF Baltimore FIVE
poLLARs." 1t assigned +. Stone, Pres.
l.. Pugh, Cdshr. and Endorsed J. G. Lamb.
Although this note according TO its tenor
was payable more than three months since,
it is stated to day that there are no funds
at the city Bank applicable to its payment.
And such, we lean, is generally the an
swer given on presentation of similar notes
for payment. (Bah. Federal Gazette.
ACE OF EXPERIMENT.
By an advertisement in this days paper
it will be seen that the new and elegant
Steam Ship Savannah, is to leave our har-
Dor TO morrow. Who would have had cou-
rage, 60 years ago, to hazard a prediction,
that in the year 1919, ship of three nun
| dred tons burden, would be built in the
port of New Y rk, TO navigate the Atlantic
propelled by steam? Such, however, is the
fact. With admiring hundreds have we
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