Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-25


said he had right to notice the $ massacre
which ha / taken place of peaeeaSle SUBJ
jecls." One Of the members on the left
said, "Civi war and assassination are pre-.
pairing"
The Paris papers speak seriously Of the
popular tumults, and the daily and unIaw-
al assemblsges of people, and assert that
considerable sums ofmoney have been en-
ployed to keep up transformations. Gen.
tries were stationed around the Thuilleries,
and no person permitted to stop near the IL
mis-. All the guards had been augmented.
The venerable and distinguished states.
man. Mr.. Grattan, died en- the 4th June.
Also. the Right Honorable Lord Shell
borne. aged rs
: The above sketch has been given in great
haste, but will prove. we hope, faithful
summary of the contents OF ithe papers be-.
fore us. Our files Of the latter part of May
and beginning of June have not come to
hand, being, no doubt, on board the Cou
rier, now, probably. below.
London Stocks, Jane l3.
Three per cent. consols, IS ..3-l'-Op.
mum, IA pm.
.4mer,cnn Stocks.
Three perIcent. 66a to 67-new sizes.
1921 to 1O41 Bank shares 22L.
Markets at liverpool, Jane 10.
Ashes, pot, 80 to 40 /; pearl, 40 to ~ !;
cotton, Sea Island, 8 to 4; bowed
Georgia, Ia to IS New Orleans le to Is;
Surat, to 10; Bengal, 7 to 9; Haxseed
for crushing, sc TO 60; do. for sowing. go
to "a pitch, 8 s to 9; tar, Is to l6; tur-
pentine, 10 to IL 6; tobacco, Virginia, 81
to g.; Kentucky, 81 to 4 l-9:
The numerous arrivals of Cotton during
the last ten days have in great measure
suspended the demand prices, however,
have not yet been materially afected-the
greatest decline in Bowed that has been
submitted to being Id per lb. and in other
kinds not so much as the greatest part of
the import is not yet discharged, we must
wait till the bulk is landed before we can
Judge Gifts effect Several public sales were
brought forward yesterday, which went of
al former prices, with the exception of Sea
Islands, which sold at tr6ing depression
upon the last sale. The total sales amount
to about 6ooc bags, viz. by auction, e28 Sea
Island, middling to good. 10 a 9osd; and
by private contract, 1853 Bowed IL l2ad,
Go do. I3 Some lew trifing orders have
been executed for Virginia leaf Tobacco for
export but in other descriptions little has
been done, and the trade buy very spa
rmgly.
From the Frelerickto wn, IA. Herald.
WIER'S CAVE.
This great Natural Curiosity is now
kept by Joseph Graham, who also keeps
a house of public entertainment in Por'
Republic, to whom all persons wishing
to view it will pleas to apply. The
following description of the Cave, Is
from the pen Of Gen. Calvin Jones, of
North Carolina, and is worthy Of pub
lie attention:
The Cave is solid limestone. some
TINS ascending, but commonly decend-
ing IN It's course, narrow ant low al
the entrance. but in height as you aG.
vance. until it becomes 80 or SO feet
high. Wafer is constantly dropping
from the arch and trucking do"n the
sides, not in quantities sufficient 30 al,
t, ct the lights or incommode tie visitors.
This ferns stalariitcs Of every variety
OF beauty. TIE co'ors are fer the most
part white, but sometimes red, and &C
casionally >aliegaled. 1t is not every
where that one is formed by this per.
collation. of the water. Sometimes 1t
finds little basons formed to receive it,
and again there are sinks through
which ii falls and disappears. The eli.
trance is closed by door Of two feet
anu an half or three feet square. You
gropc through a narrow passage until
you reach. the Anti-Chambtr, whose
arch, IL or Is feet high, is supported
10y pillars in the centre. On the left is
a recess difficult to traverse on account
Of the huge mlsshapen rocks which arc
thrown rudely about it. From the An
ti.Chamber you enter narrow pas
sage, creep in one place, and incline
Your body obliquely to the left betse, ii
two sheets OF rock in another, De.
centling some heWn steps and wooden