Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-01-06


drowsiness as TO be obliged 10 leave his team
to the care Of his hospitable companions, and
stop at house on the road, where he slept
ssveaty-hours. although repeated efforts were
made to rouse him. Itseems his companions
had Infused opium in the liquor which he
drank. and intended to appropriate 10 them
selves his team and goods. They were over
taken, however, and the property recovered.
The Vermont paper advises teamsters, in tu-
ture, to drink their own grog. Phsl. pap.
Died, in New. York. few days since,
j. D., one of the crew of the noted
Captain Kid; he was supposed to be, at the
time of his death, one hundred and three
years of age. His general occupation for the
last thirty years or more, was slowing away
vegetables, &c. for the huckster women IN
Fly Market, after market hours, for which
service he received a sixpence. Having no
relatives, he willed to woman who attend
ed him, the whole of his property. amount
ing to from I2 to $4,000 dollars.
Mrs. Morris, the lady of Major Morris,
who lately descended in diving bell, at Ply
mouth, whilst under water, wrote long let
ter to her father. which concluded with the
following lines:
From belle, my dear father, you have oft
had line
But not from bell under water;
Just now can only assure you I'm thine
Your diving affectienate daughter.
Extract OF letter from gentleman on VI.
sit 10 Washington, TO his friend in the city
ofNew- York, dated Dec. IS, 1919.
DEAR SIR,
Since my arrival here. l have taken my
seat pretty regularly every day, either in the
gallery of the house Of representatives, or
the senate chamber, and been close OBJ.
server of what's passing. Until within day
or two but little has been done, and until
after the holidays, presume, that, as usual,
congress will do little more than meet and
adjourn. On the bill providing payment for
horses lost during. or in consequence of the
Seminole campaign, and on the navy appro-
priation bill, some interest has been excited
during the week past AS the National In
telligencer has promised to give sketch of
the debate, must refer you to that for an ac-
curate account OF what was said pro and
con.
As near as can learn, both lin and out
doors, spirit appears 10 be rising up against
the army, and increasing 1t is becoming
obnoxious although believe that Mr.. Cal
houn is an excellent superintendent of that
department, and regulates it as well as such
dsorderIy machine will admit OF regula-
ton. He has much improved the subordi-
nate system of esponslbilily in the details Of
the service. The court martial on Colonel
King is yet engaged in investigating the
charges against him. The crueites which
have been wantonly, and in violation of all
law. practsed on soldiers in the army, at
various posts are well known here.
should not be surprised if congress should
strike off both heterogeneous, and all their
paraphernaia ofsaff, &c, and all the brlga-
diers but one, and he should be required 10
reside al this city. Il is said there is not
colonies command IN the nation, unless on
the Missouri.
Our Spanish affairs are in statu quo, or ra-
ther assume the : status ante belum " II
seems 10 be admitted on all sides, that For
syth has neither done himself or the nation
much credit-But one opinion prevails here
either in regard to his tone ana style, Oh his
ability, and that untayorable 10 him. he
last letter of Quirogo prcst. ated him. There
cannot he much doubt, | should think, that
De Onis we'll knew the date oil the g. ants
which have given rise to our present ostensi-
bic difficulties : oreyen if they were ante
dated. still that lie knew, al the time Of the
treaty, that fact, aud their shape and form.
II seems difficult 10 avoid the conclusion,
from the whole correspondence, that Mr..
Adams has, Notwithstanding ali his profound
sagacity, been taken IN, by The Don. 1t
has lessened the estimation in which he was
held here, Indeed all his diplomatic talents
appear to be staked ON this reaty. The diff
6culty appears to be in great measure artl-
fetal merely. the very terms of the al
ticle. no grants were to be valid but such as