Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-05-06

dt hiO JaDciTOs III 1910, dlu many We
Their grievances, remain to be atOned
for ;-and which will not, it is
hoped, be overlooked by our govern
ment, as set off against recent de.
mand made by them upor the U. States
for $ vessels insulted, robbed, or captu-
red, by the pirates" (under Artigas'
commission
Extract of letter to a gentleman in
Baltimore, dated
st. Louis, 31St Jnarch, 1890.
"Business to the westward of the
mountains, has, since the River opened
assumed considerable activity. To get
their surplus produce to market in due
season. requires industry and exertion.
The few purchasers in the market,
and the consequent small demand, and
low prices, has induced the traders of
the country. and in many instances, the
planter and farmer to send their pro-
ducc to New Orleans, on their own &C
count, calculating to get higher prices
there; but two days before left Louis
Vile, which was the 14th inst. they re
ceived accounts from the first boats that
went there. The letters 1 saw from
New Orleans, state that money was
scarce and no orders in the market from
Europe or the Atlantic states no sales
were effected, that tobacco would pro-
baby be at 81 ; -four at Ss per bbl. !;
pork and Whiskey in about the same
ratio. found considerable difficulty
in making such selection OF tobacco
as suited me besides the patience neces-
sary to purchase at the inspection Off
ces; | had the Jealousy or envy of a
number of hungry merchants to con
tend with, and even the inspectors Of
tobacco themselves, who were hired
nv others to purchase for them, but as
they all had their limits, by out bidding
| purchased all the good, or rather
prime tobacco inspected. They run me
I'D to IS 10 per hundred, and only
bought $50 hhds preferring to trust to
the New Orleans market to make up
the residue of my cargo--My tobacc"
will cost me not much over dollars
having had the best manageable funds
for the times-my bees wax, l am in
hopes to do better with than tobacco,
and | trust [ shall be able to procare
cotton at the Matches on terms that
promise better than tobacco. l feel re-
joiced that none of my friends to the
eastward, we're willing to adventure
their property to the westward, for /
can assure you, | had enough Of my
own to occupy me; | would not, nor
could not make purchases to westward
for any considerable amount, for 10 per
cent commission, that is to do them
Justice, and without that l would not
attempt it, believe so large lot of
nrlme tobacco as l have, was never be.
fore procured in Kentucky in SO short
a time. have none bad, and but few
that are not prime.
/ am not sorry to have visited this
western world, for it always appeared
| a mystery TO me, now 81 ibuch wealth
could be obtained out OF the earth IN a
new world, that twenty years ago was
a wilderness but coming, an easy and
obvious solution. presented itself, the
earth Tor the first eight or ten years
yielded but scanty supply Of tue first
| and absolute nccessarics of life, and the
elnigrants who first came brought with
them barely money enough to make tue
first entries of their purchase lands but
those visionary tales of the physical
wealth of the country, told in the At
lantic states, gaveto an inllabitant here
such unlimited credit, that he had only
| to buy broken winded horse, to take
him across the mountains, and declare
| himself an inhabItant Of Kentucky or
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