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Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-19

Tie devotion, Sir, with which vo,,
have pursued, and the ardor invariably
displayed by You, in ditfusins nsrsn,
knowledge. has induced me to address
this communication to ynu, which r
have prepared in haste, with the inten-
ton OF transmitting it by The first yes.
sci that we may casually meet, bonDs
to the United States. Should any thnu.
transpire, when these persons are re
ceiyed on board, or on the passage
that may prove interesting to science, /
Shall not fail in addressing it To you.
With sentiments of respect and cv.
teen, f. l.. SCHlEFFELIN,
Hon. Samuel L. .MitchiN, Nty York,
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DIED..

At New Orleans, on the 18th ult. DIR. Jo'
s1AH WATSON YOUNG, "a native of Alexandra
%. Z. aged q YEAS, and lately OF Phlla'
delphia.
At Sabine Hall, on the goth ult. LAsDOs
CARTER, Esq. in the 64th year OF his age.
The panegyrlst too often on these coca
slons INDUCES in exaggerated eulogy. Their
is beneyolenCe IN human nature 10 prS8
the dead. even il there were faults to con-
denim. None are taultless the taultless are
Of heaven. But there is no need Of the soft
er rand amiable yielding Of feeling to speak
of our deceased friend. Impartial biogTa'
ply may sternly delineate character now
Let 1t come with its great attribute truth
aid humanity will rejoice that Landon Car
ter had lived. lie was man OF such court
~, elegant aad sincere address, that even
The passing stranger will never forget him.
HIS hospitality was as general as 1t was ge'
nerous and sincere. Beneath bis ROOT, mlgh
the way. worn traveller rest-and SO content
ed too, that he hardly felt the absence OF his
bone. AtSabine Hall might the student IN.
bend from the seyerer pursuits OF abstTac'
science by the full enjoyment of the pureS
festive senliment-plemy, luxury and e,
nerous hospitality we're there most happily
blended-and the thousands VIII. have been
there, can better feel this fact than the hum.
bic writer can describe it. They well know
that Joy illumined their stay-tha, at thelt
departure friendly and alfeclionate regre
heaved sigh, and now doth affective feeling
shed tears to the memory OF scenes WHICH
death hath said shall be no more.
If Mr.. Carriers life exhibits nothing splen
didly useful in civil and military concerns
was not because there was wanting MIND "
fill the Offices Of the one or courage and eneIi
gy TO manage and execute the other. -, no
had often seen the worthy statesman enUIh.
tered by disappointed ambition-andi .s sG'
way.worn patriot neglected and despl'eTI,
Vanity had no claim upon his character. -.
therefore chose to be conspicuous in the nu,
titude as an honest man. warm neai. ~
friend. true and faithful patriot. toIlu %
affectlonate husband, father. and master. ,o,e.
Bles, with princeIy fortune, , a n%.Do 81
rous aud lovely family, and Gulitdue y.
friends, be lived 81 years in health anu . nip
piness. Kapiarops then is the ree9',e &c me
Of the past--and weet yet mournlul arc ~
tears which bedew his memory
Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-19

Baltimore County, 9th Sept. 1870

SIR. Munroe,
was called upon this morning to summon
Jury of inquest, when witnessed one OF
The most shocking scenes l ever oeheld--
HeLEs WooLERY, a widow lady, on the
pnrnnike. about four miles below Westmin-
ster.. had son eleven, and daughter nine
wears old. The three slept in one bea-and
two female eiends in another bed IN the same
room. when about FIVE O'Clock in the morn
imp the family was alarmed by hustle, when
10 their utter as,onishment and horror, found
Helen Woolery chopping her daughters head
off with an axe, on the bed side her little
son first succeeded in getting the axe from
her. but not without running imminent dan
ger Of his own life, as it is most probable ne
was intended as the next sacrihce. The head
was severed from the body, with The excep-
tioa of small piece of skin at the back OF
the neck, and another piece ofskin aad wind
pipe in front.
Helen Woolery has sustained a tar repu-
iation but for Sc me weeks past has mani
tested some symptoms of mental derange-
ment, and probably has perpetrated the hor.
sd crime in one of those unhappy paroxisms.
| committed her for trial and think proper
to give you this statement to prevent msre-
presentation, and to alleviate the feelings OF
her respectable connections.
am very respectfully your obedient SER
want. WIN. JAMESON.
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Cahamta, iaLabama, Aug. 1s.
sHIrWREcK

SHlPWRECK.
We stop the press to give our readers the
particulars, as tar as they have come TO our
knowledge, of the following melancholy
shipwreck.:
The schooner Harriet, Brown, from New
Bern, On. c. was lost on the 1st Of July, on
the Bahama Banks. The captain and crew,
(eight in number) were all lost, with the ex-
ception of two-one of them passenger, the
other sailor. lhe two were saved by ty-
ing themselves to the wreck, and renamed
in that distressing situation, tossed by the
waves three days and nights, when they
were discovered and taken up hy Spanish
schooner, and carried into Pensacola, but so
exhausted and reduced that one of them died
on the 9th ult. the day after their arrival
The captain of the Spanish schooner is emit
tied TO much credit for the attention and
Kindness with which he treated them. The
schooner wrecked belonged to Messrs. King
&. Barnes, of Newbern; had no cargo, and
was destined TO Mobile for freight. Our in.
formation is from Mr.. Henry Bynum, Me-
chanic from Newbern, and the only survives
OF the crew. He has just arrived in this vi
cinity, from Pensacola, in penurious, re-
duced situation.
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duced situation
PhiLadelphia. Sepf. Is l3s

FhsIaaeIPhta, Sept. Is, 1870.
The undersigned has been directed by his
Imperial Majesty's government, to make it
known to the public. that by the Imperial
Decree of the s6th Of May last, the mporia-
ton OF foreign salt into the Odessa, or any
Of the ports Of the Black Sea, and the Sea of
As,ph, bias been entirely prohibited from the
Grst OF the present month of September.
THEODORE lVANOFF.
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FOREIGN.
Liverp9ol, .aag.

LlOeTp0O1, .4ag. I.
Nations, it has been wisely observed,
like individuals have their periods of youth,
of maturity, and'of decay, They have al
SO their age olrenoyation, and we mistake
not, that day has already dawaed on the Va.
Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-19

N the end, prove commensurate with their
malignity, the people shall never have occa-
sion to reproach me with neglecting their
happiness, with betraying their rights, or
with reIinquishing for one moment, the pa
triotic magnanImity of the Queen"
Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-19
September Is.
FROM CURACAO.


We are indebted to Mr.. Daniel Coffin, SUI
percargo of the schr Lady's Delight, for Cur
racoa papers to the 26tb of August, inclu
sive.
Welearn from gentleman who came pas
senger in the Lady's Delight, and who left
ST. Thomas on the 18th of August, that news
had been received there, of the capture OF
four pirate vessels, by an armed ship of the
United States. They were taken between
St. Barts and Porto Rico, and were sent in
TO the former place. Our informant could
learn no further particulars.
The following articles comprise all the in
tslligence found in the papers.
Extract of letter from St. Thomas, dated
10th August.
"Mac Gregor arrived here with his family
in II days from St. Domingo, and will sail
again next Monday for Margarita ,on his way
to the head quarters. This gentleman has
eorrob GRATED the reports respecting the re-
cent events on the coast of St. Martha and
Carthagena; and states further that DR..
GauI and the Canon of Chill, are acting as
governors, the former al Soedad and the lat
ter at st. Thomas.
''To the proposals of Morillo for recon-
ciliation, preceded by suspension OF hos
tilities, the congress OF Columbia replied,
that any negotiation on the part of the Spa
niSh government, having for its basis the
sovereignty and independence OF America,
should De forthwith admitted, but that none
whatever alternating from these principles
would be listened to-.
The Spanish commissioners who lett this
place for the congress at Guayana have been
obliged to put into st. Barts in distress and
will probably not reach their destination pre-
vious to September"
Besides the places We have already roti.
ced as having sworn TO the political consti-
tuition of the Spanish monarchy, it has like.
wise been sworn to and published in the
towns of Cumana, Valencia, l. Villas de
Cura, San Carlos, San Antonio, Pitare, Chi.
ROM, Savanna de Ccumre, Macuto, Hatillo
Teques, Victoria. Vale de Guarenas, in all
OF which the greatest demonstrations of JOY
were manifested.
The 26th OF August, the king of Holland
having entered the 49th year Of his age, the
same was observed at Curacao, with every
demonstration OF JOY by the military and CT
vii authorities. A grand dinner was giyeI
on the occasion, and many loyal end roya
toasts drank. The American flag was dis
played at the topsail yard arm, starboar(
side OF his malesty's big Mercury, which
was decorated for the occasion with the has;
ofdiferent nations.
On the 2Ist of Angus, last, at about 10 mi
nutes past lo'cloCk in the afternoon, a smar
shock OF an earthquake was felt generally
throughout the island of Curacao.
The schr porothea, Hachel, belonging Il
Curacao, has been robbed off St. Doning,
by small pratical schooner. Capt H
q was stabbed in the forehead with poignart
and afterwards put in irons. the mate beateI
almost 10 death, and the crew sharing SINH
lar treatment.
Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-09-19
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1899.

We are informed, says the New-York A
merican, that Col Anthony Gale, of the o..
s. Marine Corps, has been arrested on char
ges preferred against him by Major John NJ /.
Gamble, and that court is ordered 10 assem-
bleat Washington on the 18th inst. for his
trial. Col. Jessup is to be President OF the
court.
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Yesterday forenoon, while the Washing.
ton Artillery Company were engaged in FIR
ing at target. from Dorchester Point, a boat
from Fort independence. on board OF which
were several officers and men of the garri-
rison, unfortunately passed the tract of their
shot, when unperceiyed by the company,
and was struck by a six pound ball, near the
bows, which took of the leg of one of the
men, and the splnters severely wounded
another. boston Gazette.
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Louisville, Ky. august 80.
The Louisiana Bank at New.Orleans has
declared defciency:ef ESQ, 900 dollars. on
account of recent failures. We also learn
that the yellow fever is prevalent in the city.
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Men. London, Sept. IS.


SUICIDE.
On Monday, last week, man by the
name of Powers. shot himself in Lebanon.
After having loaded the gun, he placed the
muzzle in his mouth, and pulled the trigger
with his foot. He was shockingly mangled.
This was done in ct Of insanity.
The votes in Massachusetts, in favor OF
calling Convention to alter the Constitu-
ton ofthe state. were II, 756, and 6,593 "a
gainst it. The governor has issued proc
lamation directing an election of delegates
10 the convention, which is to assemble on
the Goth Nov. next.
The Boston Centinel states, there is no
doubt of the election of DR.. Fustis to con-
gress,
NEW CENSUS.
Middetown, Connecticut, contains 6435
inhabitants, having Increased 1868, since
1910. Chatham has decreased 100.
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07

daily sends dispatches to Aileppc ID i've
hours, though couriers occupy wbole
day in proceeding from one Town 10 the
other. The caravans travelling through
Arabia, maintain communications with the
Arab sovefeigns, by means of pigeons With
letters fastened under their wings. These
messengers fly with extraordinary rapid
~, and retasa 9Th fresh speed to the place
where they have been reared. They are
Frequently observed y ing With their backs
OF the sand with their bills open 10 receive
the morning dew. ard recover hreafh.--
Pliny mentions, thai pigeons were employ
ed iointroduee letters into Mutina Modes
ma, when that place was besieged by Mark
Antony They we're also employ cd in
1874, at the siege OF Harlan, and 10 I775,
at that Of Leyden. The Prince of Or
snge, when the latter seise was raised, dee
termined that the pigeons should be main
tanned at the public expense. aud that at
their death they should be embained, and
preserved 10 the town- house as perpetu-
Al mark Of gratitude.
Perpetual iight Of Adalia.-Ou the casts
= -
err coast OF Licia and the western shore
OF the Gulf Of Adalia, flame called ganaT
is seen to issue from an opening, ABOUT
three feet 10 diameter. in the side Of
mountain, and in shape resembling the
month Of an oven. Captain Beaufort, Of
the royal navy, when surveying this part
of the coast Of KaramaBta, visited the spot.
This mountain like that of Cuchivauo,
was calcareous, being composed of crum-
bling serpentine rock, with loose blocks of
limestone; there was not the least appear
nee OF volcanic production; no tremor of
the earth, no noises; neither stones nor
smoke, nor noxious vapors were emitted
from the cavity, but brilliant and per-
Ipetual fame issued forth, of an intense
heat, and said TO be inextinguishable by
water; the remains of the walls. which had
formerly been built near the spot, were
scarcely discolored; and frees, brushwood
and weeds, grew close to this little crater,
liz so it might be called.
Literature encouraged By the Pasha.--
The Pasha of Egypt, say the French sa-
ans, has become an object Of universal
notice. His name abounis 10 our journals
and periodical works. He sends agents TO
Europe TO procure artists. manufacturers,
land skilful workmeu He is extremely
fond Of botany. He had heard lately that
: a rich amateur of Paris possessed cinna-
a mon tree, and he caused it 10 be bought az
Jan enormous price. to be transported to his
gardens at Alexandra. Ii is only eight
} days since he had sent to him from Paris
5 or 600 volumes.
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED
BY j. & E. SANDERSON,
THO doors south Of Rivfrs's City Tavern,
ELIzABETH-TowN,N Nj.

Terms Of PuJlieation-Two Dollars
per annum, payable haii.yeariy.
No paper viii be discontinued until all
arrearages are paid.
Advertisements not exceeding square
Inserted three weeks for One Dollar, and
continued for Twenty-Five Cents week
A liberal deduction will be made TO mer-
chants and others who advertise by the
year.
*.* Advertisements Subscriptions, and
Communications will be thankfully re-
ceived and punctually attended to.
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07
Extract from the London Monthly Review.
BEAUTIFUL EULoGIUM.

Mr.. Robertson deserved the gold medal
for draining FIVE hundred acres of land. in
he course Of three months, at an expense
Of 1881. and the same may be said Of Mr..
Sheriff. for an embankment of 1880 run.
ming yards against the sea, by witch he
has brought into culture los acres of val
liable land, that never before received a
plough or bore crop. Peaceful are the
iuvasions of old oceans territory, and
bloodIess are the victories obtainedI Nep-
tune may shake his trident, and the Mere
ids wiring their dripping locks; but no earth
ty widows signs are heard, no earthly or
phans' GEARS are shed. to suIty the glory or
embiiter the triumphs of the couqseror.
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07
WHAT WE cAIL DUTIES.

Every man ought to pay bis debts-1
he can.
Every man ought to help his neighbours
IF he can.
Every man should go to church instead
of the tavern--J he can.
Every young man and woman ought to
get married-J they can.
Every representative to congress and
the state legislature, ought to inform their
constituents what they are doing-if they
can.
Every man should be honest and sober
If he can.
Every mechanic should do his work to
please his customers-T he can.
Every man should please his Wife-1
he can.
Every wife should rule her husband
If she can i-Aier. Gas.
The human heGrt.-The heart in a
healthy man, in one hour beats 5000 times,
discharges 1900 ounces of blood, and con-
veys through it the whole mass Of blood
in the body not less than Is times. In the
space Of "a hours, the whole in the body
circulases 600 times.
It is an exceIlent rule to be observed in
all disputes, that men should use soft words
and hard arguments; and they should not
attempt to confound but TO eonvice.
Men of the greatest genius frequently
coD,m;t the greatest fanlts and where wifi
predominates discretion is rarely found.
A wicked man can never be happy,
hough he had the riches Of Cr@sus. he
umpire of Cyrus, and the glory of Alex
ander. Wealth aud honours can neyer.
cure wounded conscience.
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07
Oliver Pierce,
WATgHla MANlaRo
THO doors east Of the Post-O6ice, in
Water street,

I1uO doors cast Of The P0Sl-UDICs, ~
WateY street,
ID ETURNS his thanks for the en-
M, couragement be has received from
the public, and informs them, that, in adj
dition to his GOLD AND SILVER
WORK, Of which be keeps a constant
supply, he has silver and polished steel
SPECTACLES, and SPECTACLE.
GLASSES which he fits to old frames
and repairs them.
Warranted Gold and Silver WATCH.
ES, for sale as above.
All orders thankfully received, and
punctually attended to.
Elisabeth Tofun, May l, 1919.
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JOB LETTER.

Are enabled TO perform the different
kinds Of Job Work, (more particularly
Handbills,) in better style than they
have heretofore been done 10 this town
Orders will be thankfully received and
faithfully executed.
J. & E. SANDERSoN.
Eliz. Town, Aug. l3, 1919.
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07
PRINTING.

TvHE subscribers, having lately fur
nished themselves with new sup,
ply of large and elegant
Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07
J. SAYRE,
Boot e Shoe-Maker,

HNFORMS his customers that he car
IL Ties on the above business, at the
store opposite the Episcopal Church, two
doors south Of the State Bank in this town,
where every article 10 the above line will
DC furnished on accommodating terms.
Cash, or Country Produce, such as
fresh Hides, &c. taken in payment.
Eliz. Town, Oct. IL, 1919.
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Literaru and Scientific IHteLigenee, from
Blackwood's Magazine, for November.
received at the Office ofthe Commercial
Advertiser.
Carrier Pigeons.-The Flemish papers
have recently contained accounts of the
late annual competition of the Society oil
Pigeon Fanciers at Antwerp. On this &C
casion, thirty.two pigeons, with the word
Antwerp marked on their wings, were dis
patched from the above city to London,
whence they were sent back with answers
their wings being previously counter mark
ed with the word London. The custom
of training pigeons to convey letters from
one place to another, is prevalent in all
parts of the East but particularly in Sy-
ria. Arabia and Egypt. The Mogul for
merly kept a vast number of pigeons fof
the purpose Of carrying letters on occa
sions when extraordinary speed was ne
cessary. The Pashas Of the Porte do the
same. They fly from one extremity Of
his dominion TO the other. By this mod
of conveyance the Consul Of Alexandretta
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Fifty Dollars Reward.

i - y .
pANA'YAY from Parkgate, in Prince
q William county, on Tuesday, March
28th, where Francis Manuel is overseer,
negro JACOB, small man, about 40 years
of age; black with rather yellow tinge,
snartly marked ia the face with the small
pox be is a timid negro, has down look,
and rather whining voice. His clothing,
as far as is recollected, was mixed blue
kersey roundabout jacket and twilled cotton
and yarn pantaloons, he may have (and it
is probable he has, other clothing. as he took
offall he had. will give for him, if taken
up within &c miles an6 brought home, Ten
DOLLARS; flower 90 miles and under 80,
THIRTY DOLLARS; but if over So
miles, and brought home or secured injails
that get him again, FIFTY DOLLARS.
All persons are forbid at their peril harbor-
ing or entertaining said fellow,
VIM. STUART.
april sw
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- ESPECTFULLY informs the ladies OF
III Alexandria and its vicinity, that he has
Just received from Baltimore and Philadel-
phia, handsome assortment of morocco, kid
and prunelia, black and colored, which with
his former stock will enable him to execute
ladies' work in the handsomest manner, hav-
ing very superior workmen and from bis
unremitted attention to the business, he flat
tiers himself that he shall give genera salts
faction to those that please to favor him with
their custom.
He still continues to manufacture genie
mems boots and shoes, in the handsomsst
style, al the corner otking Sand Pits-street,
opposite the Washington Inn. april 9
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