Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-08-15
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WASHINGTON, August l0.-A report
has been put III circulation, that The first
attempt 10 establish a Road direcily west
from The Capital of the United States had
been suspended in the execution, if moi
entirely abandoned. We are pleased al
having II IN our power TO contradict this
story. The Road is now actually in the
hands OF Contractors as far az the District
Line, aud the work Is going on rapidly
BeSonh The line, in all probability, little will
be done this season; but those whom il
may concern are assured that, before the
end OF The next season, we shall have
stages running on that ROAD, and wagons
seeking our market for grain, tobacco, and
0iher country produce, from all parts OF
Montgomery, Frederick, &c. in Maryland,
and from fertile and extensive district
IN PenDsylv ania, 10 which an arm of this
Road will give us direct access. We have
long urged the Importance of This Road !;
and most of our citizens now see il in The
light IN which we have endeavored hereto.
fore to place il.
Zabdiel Sampson has been appointed, by
the President of the United States, Col
lector OF the port o! Plymouth. Massachu-
seits, in the place OF Henry Warren, Esq.
removed. MIR. Sampson has. i'll conse.
quence, resigned his seat as Representa-
1--we III Congress from that state.
The battalion of u. S. infantry, which
has been stationed at the Canionmeni in
Pilisfield. for some time past, under The
command of Major B. Watson, have left
that place for Piltsburg, Penn.
Nat. Int.
august 1.-THE British lrigaie Tartar
has arrived off Charleston from a cruize
on the Coast of Africa, and lett Sierra
Leone on the 18th of June-ai which time
| II was reported. as stated by the officers
| OF The frigafe, that ii out Of % of the
principal settlers recently from the United
States had died at Sherbro Island" Bad
| edition OF this report, which was, that
every one of them had died. This was real
| ly going the whoie. Either of the repo fts,
however, would be discouraging enough,
| il true. But the best of them, we think,
| is not true, and for reasons which We
will assign.
In the first place, there is a cOniradic-
lion in the report itself. The people sent
from tile United States, with the excep-
| lion OF Tie government agent and one or
Two others, were all laborers, of whom
| there were tliiriy-ibree in number. There
were no principal settlers" among them.
In the next place. the report, such as
| il is, is from Sierra LeoDa, 1870 miles dis
tani from Compelar, where the people
from this country first landed.
| Thirdly--a letter has been received by
the government of the United States, from
Barring aud Co. LONDON, stating lie re
c~ipt of draft from S. Bacon, The United
! States agent, dated the l7ib OF Nav. The
British vessel, the Tartar, sailed from
Sierra Leone the 4th of June. 1t is high
! ly improbable thai The sickness AND
death OF the agents should have takei
place between these dates, and the new.
have arrived at Sierra Leone, between
which and Co mpelar there is no regu
lar communication. Now, although ih,
friends and supporters Of HE Sierra Leon,
establishment III England, and many oil
Tie naval and colonial officers Of III,
British government have been very friend
ly to ilIe United States agents aud settler
aud 10 The objects OF the settlement a
Sberbro, vel il isbelicved that, with som
OF the Sierra Leone coIonisis, AM
particularly The commercial part, Their
IS considerable jealousy against til
American settlement, and from sucI
persons unfagorable runOfs against tn
latter settlement tDay he expected. w
have experienced too much OF this fror
our own citizens: on The protested grouD