The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-04-07

| and to determine them in preference to
all other causes.
Sec Is. That the right to the waters
Of the river Potomac for the purposes Of
canal or any lateral canals which the state
of Virginia or Msry land may authorize TO
be made shall be reservedto the said states
respectively: p, divided, so much OF the wa.
tiers OF :he said river as to iDjrye the nav
iga'ion ofthe canal hereby authorised shall
not be thereby diverted from the channal
ofthe said river
Sec 10. That in case the sod cornpa.
nv shall not begin the said work within
| one year after it shall have been formed,
or if the work hereby required TO be
done shall not be diligently prosecuted,
so as that one hundred miles of the said
canal with the adequate locks and incl
dental Improvements shall not be compile.
ted (and in fit order for navigation) i'm
every term of five years. then ali inter-
est of the said company in the navigation
and tolls shall cease and determine, and
their charter shall be thereafter taken to
be null and void. And if after the COM
Fiction Of the said canal and locks, the
president and directors shall fail &c keep Z
the same in repair for twelve months at
any time, In en- their interest in the Davi-
CATION and tolls shall cease, and theig.
charter shall be forfeited
Sec. 90. That it shall be the duty Of
the president and directors of the Poto-
mac canal company, SO long as there
shall be and remain any creditor of the 4,
Potomac company who shall not have
vested his deT and against the same i'm
tINyas J.. oE, 81
10 pay TO such creditor or creditors an
nually such dividend or proportion of The
nett amount OF the revenues of the Polo.
mac company on an average of the last
i've years preceding the organization of
The said proposed company, as the de-
mand ut The said creditor or creditors as
this time may bear to the whole deb, OF
one hundred and seventy>five thousand
eigh, hundred dollars.
scene of violence has resulted, or is
likely 10 result al Nashville, FROM an in
quiry into the course pursued by the a.
gent for paving U s. pensioners 10 that
state Our readers no doubt recotlect
that anony nous Correspondent of the
~ atIonal lnteliigencer. some time since,
accused the western agents OF paying
the pensioners in deprecated bank paper
instead OF specie funds furnished BY The
government. AS we consider the sgents
In Kentucky no less including shis
sweeping charge, than those in Tennessee
we took the liberty to contradict the
statement so far as related TO this state.
leaving our neighbours in Tennessee. of
whose affairs we have no knowledge, to
their Own reputation Oar ce-
marks called out Mr.. Cantrell, the agent
At Nashville, whose statement, in his own
we thought it our duty to
publish. We find, however, (and even
handed justice requires OF us notice Of
The fact, that this statement has been We
hemently assailed by the editor of the
Constitutional Advocate, who has denied
Its truth, and published certificates to
disProVe it. Violence appears to have
ensued as we find the Advocate received
ny the last mail, containing the folowiDgS
"Neilher will we submit to fight every
rt6fan Scounaret that Stephen CantrelI
could bride, treacherously to attack us in
the streets, for we will not be forced 10
chasIise onr meaDest enemies For our
person, from the expo rimenls that have
been made, We should feel but little dan.
ger,if we had to deal with men Of ordinary
depravity but where so much treache-
ry exists. there is no real security but in
arms and distance. W. will no, attack
them il they do not insult US but are
armed for the purpose, and viii put either
Of them 10 instant death ifthey approach
within striking distance ofus, in Inc streets
or elsewhere This promise We swear to
hem, by The God Of truth and Justice, 10
execute in strictne8s They may shoot or
fotson us, but they shall neither STRIKE nor
STAB US.
Ii is much to be regretted, that this
controversy has proceeded to lengths so
u0justifiable. Neither party has any
hing to gain by denunciation sr force.
IF Mr. Cantrell has conducted improper
iy in the discharge Of his official duties,
we presume, from the inlimalion con.
ained in the IDtelligencer, that measures
will be adopted by the governmne,, (f
indeed they have not been adopted slrea.
dy,) to investigate the facts, and vinoicate
the rights Of the pensioners