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The Wilmingtonian., 1823-11-20
Chesapeake and Delayare Canal.

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
A paragraph in a Phila. paper informs
Ius that the gentlemen to whom the man.
agement of this work has been entrusted
|expect to fix the line Of Canal at an early
period. Several engineers have been con.
stantly engaged during the summer and
autumn. in surveying the country and wa,
tiers, ascertaining the nature of the soil
the depth and capacity of the streams, the
expense of excavation, and all those varl-
Gus details, which, although from their mi
nuteness, they escape observation, are YET
essentially necessary to form fit basis
for the final decision of those who are call
ed on to decide.
/ In addition to the professional gentle
!, men who have been employed on the
ground, it is stated that the board have Sc.
lected four of the most distinguished en-
gineers of the country, and it is their inten
tion, before the close of the present month
fto submit to them every examination tha
has been made, to show them the various
, routes which have been proposed, and to
, ask for their opinion with regard to that
which may be most eligible. These gen
,Itemen are Mr.. Wright, the chief Engi
neer of the State of N. York, Mr.. White
the chief Engineer of the Union Canal
and two gentlemen composing the Board
lof Engineers of the general government.
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
WINTER.

Rouse the blazing midnight FIRE,
Heap the cracking faggots higher
Stern December relgns without,
With old Winters Olust'ring rout.
Let the jocund timbrel sound;
Push the jolly goblet round
Care avaunt with all thy crew,
COLLINS dire, and devils blue.
Hush without the tempest growls,
And the aft lighted watch dog howls;
Witches on their broomsticks sail,
Death upon the whistling gale.
Heap the cracking faggots higher.
Draw your easy chairs still higher;
And to guard from wizards hoar,
Nail the horse shoe Oh the door.
Now repeat the f eezing story,
OF the murdered traveller CORY,
Found beneath the yew tree scar,
Gut his throat from ear to ear.
Tell, too, how the ghost all bloody,
Frightened once neighbouring goody:
And how still at twelve he stalks,
Grooming Ger the wild-woo walks.
Then when fear usurps her sway;
Let us creep TO bed away:
Each for ghost, blu, little bolder,
Fearfully peeping DER his shoulder.
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
SCRIPTURAI

1t is Surious to observe the litera,
sneaning of the first names which we're
bestowed upon Notwithstanding Cain
and his wicked posterity:
Adam, man--Seth, placed--Enoch,
niserable-ReDaD, Observation-Disclosures
Ieel--the praised God--Jared, descending
--Enoch, tescbing-Methusslab his
death produces-Noah, rest. On connecs
ting the words they teach this greattruth ::
--Man being placed in miserable cor.
5itiv.. the blessed God descending shall
teach that his death produces to debased
man rest.
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
THE EOUNT.
=. FORGE'r NOT THY MOrHER."

FORGET NOT THY MOTHER"
Oh thou upon whose bosom dear,
My infant head repos'd
Oh, thou whose lips with kiss sincere,
My weary eyelids closed
Though many rising sun has set,
Since last met thy view,
Oh, never shall my heart forget
What TO thy love is due.
Think not my mother, can cease,
To love my home and thee:
Think no: my hours arc hours of peace,
Like those of infancy
Alas those moments sweet are gone
Those halcyon hours are fled,
And on the worlds cold heart alone
bosom now my head.
Mother, the world perhaps will say
That am wholly wrong,
To write to thee simple lay,
Or chaunt rustic song:
They'll say court childish muse.
Or wake an idle strain,
And will to hear my lay refuse.
With proud and cold disdain.
And be it so. If gratitude
For kind maternal care,
May be TO childish Joy construed,
Or seem AN idle prayer;
Then take, ye gods this manly heart
Ye planted III my breast
Take, take it hence ! and one impart,
With childish feelings blest.
BusTON BARD
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
i026IS72
l996IS72


The first line of the new method is
produced by beginning at the units place,
as osua'' ~""h upper figure is multi
tse -a d BY BY that im"~~-,ely under it, and
'fe ""o'e-r->duct is set CO.. n;,,,.
carrying. For the seouna line n,n TDn'
second figure at the bottom WITH sr,, .,
top,and second at top with first at bottom
which, added made thiry-six, TO be plsc.
ed as above. Then third at bottom with
second at top, and SO on, adding their
products for the next two figures, 81
Lastly, fourth at bottom with third at TOP
and so on. For the third line. third a,
bottom, with first at top; third at ton
with first at bottom, and add 81, Yc.-
The fourth line, fourth ct bottom with
hrst at top, and fourth at top with first a,
bottom. When the products in the first
line, or the sums Of the products in the
succeeding ones, do not amount 10 two
hgures' tits necessary to place an 0 be.
tore the single figure. English haher.
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
~ Goshen Cream Cheese, etc.

u HE subscriber has just received fresh
supply Of first quality Goshen cream cheese
Liverpool ground alum salt, and fine sack do,
wine bitters superior quality in bottles by the
dozen. Also, in bottles by the dozen Glove,
cinnamon, p. love, peppermint and lemon cor
dials which together with the best wines in
wood and in bottles, old Jamaca and Antigun
spirits, Holland gin, Cognac brandy, fine teas
particularly selected, sugars, groceries, spices,
&c are for sale as usual at his store on Royal-st
next door to the civ hotel. VIM. DUNLAP
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
BY HENRY PITTMAN
CONDITIONS
OF THE ALEXANDRIA HRRA1u

by town subscribers. !" ~u'aace
IL SUBSCRIPTIONS for less than six rno,,h.
each paper. 4"'"'er cents
~ ~ Extra papers six and a quarter csn,s
~ no paper discontinued until all ARA,
V. ApyERTIsEHEETs, not erce.d;n.
inserted three times for one doIlar s s4SaIe'
nVe cents Tor every subsequent iuserrion ~.
ger ones IN proportion. Advertisements ,.b;ch
maxG NOT ,ne number Of insertions marked in
"rnlng' will be continued Till forbid. ~
~ Ne''eFs p E's Sditer mus, be post paid,
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
NOTICE.

3 HE subscribers to L. Kennersley's Perio
u dical Publications, that were distributed in
this city and its vicinity by MIR. Peter Creighton,
deceased, may be assured that the remaining
numbers will be regularly delivered so soon as a
proper person can be obtained for that purpose
The subscriber also begs leave to remind all
those who are III arrears for numbers delivered,
that, on their receiving the next number, he
will expect to receive the balances due on the
work. oct Is III. WEARY, agent, Baltimore
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05

JAS. 4. & ROBT. BARRY
4 AVE just received from Baltimore, and
AAnow opening, fresh supply of
DRY GOODS.
which, together with their former stock, makes
a very complete assortment; and as these
goods were all purchased at auction al great
sacrifices, they would earnestly recommend their
friends and customers TO give them AN EARLY
CALL, as they are determined to sell goods
CHEAP
THEY CONSIST IN PART, OF
l case rs, IA, %, Cd, IA aud 81 merino
shawls, and few elegant scarfs
! case elegant Nankin grapes, blk g. colored
do Irish linens and lawns
j do calicoes, newest style
i do hgd plain bombaZette, all Colors
1 bale warranted domestic cassinetts
! do kerseys, indigo blue
do Gnseys striped, plaid and plain
I case plain and printed cloth and cashmere
shawls
Black and blue fashionable London cloth
90 DO DO cashmere
Pelisse cloths and 1ushinrs
SwansdowB and Valencia yestinrs
] piece newest fashions do
bale rose blankets,
/ do point do. do Ranpels
,.o Scotch and Irish sheetings, cords and velvets
tlIIny nag bandannas, silk and ch;ntz
10 10. Madras hhdks spotted null and cam.
nI,in - re plain aud tambored rauslips.
Hoi,,s s,,,lass:o' '--ill, power loom shifting,
warranted 300 yards, in No. er"n, on ~" InS'
hoits hoss cotton on spools Nos G. =. -, 90 20
fiolts cotton N balls and hanks, English kni,.
ing cotton IN hanks, patent threads assorted 4,
colors, best Italian blue and black cloth and 90
lored sewing silks, wide French and TtaIisn
Grape, hat bands do Italian lutestrinp and a.
rences, gros de Naples, worsted and COTTON s,,s-
penders, broad aud narrow tapes and bobbins.
pms IN boxes, pounds and papers, ribbons main
and figured, ferretings, patinet lace, black and
whHe SIX gloves, ladies best beaver and lid
gloves, genuemen's superior Woodstock ditto.
bnghsh black and white silk half hose, ribbed
OF superior quality, domestic brown sheetion
ana shlrtings, ditto bleached ditto dttolace and
SIX buttons, Tartan and Scotch plaidi, C;rcas-
sian DITTO, bale Dorchester bedticknps. hes,
"a lInnen tick very low priced, and a neat as.
sortment OF colored bombazines, with a variety
oil other articles in their former stock, too M
merous to mention
49, ALSO, ON CONSIGNMENT,
200 pieces domestic plaids
~ boxes real Spanish scgars
ioOO lbs cotton yarn, ofNo's. s to 2h
all OF which will be sold at the lowest nri,e, TO-
those articles ju Bsltiglore Philadelphia ,r New
oec2
The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-05
SIXTH CLASS. By AUTHon,rxtv cov,,,s.
10000 DIS
S3OO,OOO

Whole tickets $40, halves So 90, quarters 81
20, eighths ! 371. On the 18th day will he de-
posted in the wheel one prize of $4,000 on
'he 10Th day one prize of 10000 on the 18th
day one prize Of $4,000 on the 2Oth dav the
brand capital prize Of $4,000. All the other
prizes Heating from the commencement orthe
drawing. Prizes subject to deduction of Is
per cent. Prizes only to be drawn. The draw
ing will take place on the lst Wednesday in
May next, and be completed in 90 drawings,
WIN all possible dispatch, under the superin-
tendence Of Thomas II. Gilliss, Wan. BrentuJobn
Davidson, Daniel Rapine, ANDREW Way, jr. Geo,
sweeney, and John T. Ingle, esqs managers.
Tickets and shares, in the greatest variety Of
numbers, for sale at
Lottery and Exchange Office.
u Orders from any part Of the u States
enclosing the cash or prize tickets, will be as
promptly attended to as if on personal spplica.
tom IL addressed a. above, ian3I
The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-30
THE WAR EUROPE

For the information OF our country readers,
we have crowded rs much of the late mpor-
tsut foreign intelligence, into the first page OF
our paper, ms IL would admit. As was cnsiy
ioreseen, war hnsoommeneed between Frnnee
md Spain. The ormies of the former have
crossed the Pyrenees In strength, but no e.
rent of momen, has MS yet occurrej--lf the
Spaninrds are rcsoluie, and act upon the sys-
ten Of defence, which France adopted In The
10th century, when invaded by Charles the
9th, or TINT of Russia when employed against
Napoleon, 10 desoatc the open country, and
retreat with their movables TO the mountnine,
taey are invncible--Combined Europe can
make no permanent impression. nation TO
be free, has only to determine 10 be so. We
cannot admit the suspicion that the cn'astro-
.phe OF Naples is to be repeated in Spain
Those who admit 1t, are degrading the energy
Of liberty and questioning the existence OF
Virtue.
The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-30

ant lac Brigadier- General wao command :.
ed, escaped, and the latter was subsequent
iy taken in an attempt to make stand at
the head of some militia.
Tkis account believe to he substanfi-
ally correct, although it may not be cir
cumstantially so, for the official accounts
which have been published do not go into
details at all.
" In Spain, the factious have been de-
feated ofiate ia every quarter. II has bren
reported here that the French had actually
entered the Spanish Territory, but will
not believe this till | see it officially an
nounced for cannot yet believe that the
ruling party IN the government of that
country, blind and furious as they are, will
take step which will be attended with
great aud manifest dangers to the Bour-
bons, aud what is more, TO themselves,
both from within and without.
-" Louis the 18th has sad prospect be-
fore him. His friends diminishing, his in
iirmities increasing, and periIs and perplex-
lties thickenlng around him; he will pro-
badly soon descend with sorrow to his
grave, equal IN misery though | suspect
not IN worth to his unhappy predecessor"
" T. Statesman.
-.eee-..
E1trat Of q letter from a gentleman an
London 10 has friend an .NeW York, dated
aprit 9Th.
The apparent disafIection among the
French troops on the Pyrenean frontier,
presents new feature in the aspect of af-
FAIRS IN that quarter, and an increase and
confidence In the resources and energy of
the Constitntionalists is here very general
" entertained. For myself, am strongly
OF opinion they will be an oyermatch for
despOtism after all.n
Extract Of letter from Bordeaux, March %
Your minister to Spain, Mr.. Forsyth
has arrived here from Madrid He en-.
eountered constant delays and difficulties
on his route, especially between Bayonnc
and this place, from the want horses
The road is said to be literally covered
with troops Of the invading army, com
manded by Dukes, Marshals, Counts, and
Generals of every degree, all advancing
with the confidence of victors, and expec-
ting, or seeming 10 expect to find victims
and not opponents in the Spanish troops
They will, however, il reliance can be pla-
ced on the accounts of those who have re-
Gently traversed Spain, be wef,lly disap-
pointed; and il is perhaps, not hazardous
to say that, of the 100000 men who are
destined to enter Spain, not $4,000 will
ever recr"ss the Pyrenees. Mr.. Forsyth
will embark with his family in the ship
idunter, for Philadelphia"
A letter from the same place dated the
3oth March, says =" The English have
for few days past been buying up all the
brandy in Cognac they could lay their
hands on, which has been shipped with the
utmost dispatch. This circumstance has
given rise to the belief of an approaching
rupture with England.
"American vessels are in great demand
for voyages to the Spanish Colonies and
43 dollars per ton and 10 per cent primage
has been paid for vessels to Havana and
back"
The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-30
LYNcHBURG, MAY 80, iass

~ The Rev Mr. TREADWAY will per
form divine service, and preach Mt the Meso'
nc Hall, on Sabbath next at the usual hours.
The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-30
PIiILo
..laNaA,..-
TOR TUE vIR6iNYA".
A SELECTION.

In looking into the most excellent homi-
lies of the Church of England, appointed
to he read in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
OF famous memory, my attention was ar
rested with the truly pious breathiugs of
the following instructive paragraph:
elf a man be called an adul,erer. usurer.
drunkard, Or by any other shameful name.
let him consider earnestly whether he be
SO called truly or falsely if truly, let him
amend his fault, that his adversary NAV not
afterwards worthily charge him with the
same offences II these things be laid a.
gainst him falsely, yet let him consider
whether he hath given any occasion to be
suspected of such things and SO he NAV
both cut off that suspicion, whereof this
SANDER dii arise, aud in other things shall
live more warily. And thus using our
selves, we may take no hurt, bat rather
much good, by the rebukes and SANDERS
OF our enemy. For the repreach of an
enemy may be TO many men a greater spur
TO the amendment of their life, than the
gentle monltion of a friend Phlippus.
the king of Macedonia, when he WINS evil
spoken OF by the chief rulers of the city of
Athens, he did thank them heartily. he
cause by them he was made better. both
IN his words and deeds for / study. saith
hr, both 10y my sayings and doings. in
prove them liars"
The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-30
'FWtTF7'Es-
TO 1IiE EDITORS

GenHemeH-y will he rendurngn Just tri.
butte To- merit, by admitting the accompanying
remarks into your paper The greatest hene-
factors OF mani nd are they who successfully
train up youth, 10 sustain their pnris in life
with honor to Themselves, credit 10 their
friends, Gnd advantage 10 their country No
task is so diilicut as 10 restrain the idle aud
vicious propenslies Of youth, 10 moderate It's
leVity, prnne The excuses OF its finer feelings
aud gently lead il into the paths of sober ex
eriIon, honorable emulation and virtuous sen
timent To accomplish these varous ends,
requires n rare and fclicitous union OF talents,
hrmness and penetration, and the man who
possesses aud eSerts these qualifications, so
much the better deserves applause as he is
often left by the thoughtless and unjust judg
mcni of the world, lolanguish in ndigenc 9 and
obscurity
These observations were suggested bv tbe
examination ot Mr., Nelson's pupils on We'd.
ncsdhy lust. They acquitted themselves las
that gentIemans scholars have always done) in
the hHndsomest manner. There was a promnt.
ness aud accuracy in their answers, which
proved That they were not merely merhnni-
cal bui the effect of R good understanding OF
The subject to which the question REFEREED
They appeared to he wel grounded in the
grammar, the key OF admission To The trea.
snres oi all language Their progress had
neither been too rapid, leaving no other inn
preston on their minds hut a confused and
worse than useless recollection of what they
had gone over nor SO slow as To give a dis.
gust of learning and mortified sense of per
iunal interiority
l eannot forbesr 10 remind the citizens OF
Lynchburg, that tutor OF Mr. Nelson's oapn.
city, Is an important acquisition TO any nuigh-
borhood. Many OF his earlier scholars in this
place, ny their subsequent rarid,stridcs in Sci
enee, have justified his method of teaching.
aud are in fair way TO arrive al eminence in
the INHERENT learned professions which their
particular genius and inclination have several.
lyled them 10 embrace. They have permit
ted Others Tor time, to supercede AIR Nelson
IN their confidence, and to lay that claim to
the merit of advancing their children in the
classics which he only deserved--Retrihutiv
justice, ms well MS affection for their children
should induce them to confer their patronage
on the best teacher of boys, who has ever
taught in this part Of the country
| ,pHJIn
The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-30

ser man deserving The field Of cool aud
Idispassionate argument, aud bursting Out
into violent and declamatofy denuncia-
ton of the motives of his opponent, We
cannni help suspeelieg, that conscious Of
| tie weakness ri ltis -tf,nse, he seeks, by
rendering HE motives vi his adyel sary sus-
peetea, to diminish the influence If those
opinions which he cannot controyert, and
of the truth and correctness al which he IS
eften hins.lffully convinced Such conduct
| indicates a Thirst for victory, rather tlhn a
desire for the dspeiling Of error and the
| attainment of truth. But what are these
d.sagtrons and dah patriotic sentiments
wlzieh Mason has uttered; Has he sought
TO Iiaht the flame of civil discord : Has he
been the first 10 speak of sectional feelings,
and focal interests Have not AL the public
prints been filed with discussions as To the
propricty of having a northern, a southern,
an eastern, or a western president Have
not vol Yourselves, gentlemen, supported
Mr.. Adams, upon the ground of the neces
sity OF combination amongst the Atlantic
states for the purpose Of checking the in
creasing influence of the westY In what
respect, then, are his opinions so peculiarly
dangerous and anti-patrioiic You inform
yeur countrymen that there is danger To
be apprehended from the west, he from
the north-Hhether the one sentiment is
mere dangerous and anti-patflotic than the
other, leave il to the candid and impair
tial 10 say. But strange 10 tell, you have
hazal ded the bold assertion that no danger
threatens us, that no system has been ma
tured or even dgifofed, which is calculated
10 PROSTATE our energy, or destroy our in
fuence. Can you, gentlemen, be serious
in this assertion? Was not the attempted
restriction upon Missouri, on her being ad
mtted into the uDion, not only dgifdted
but mdturedi IN the north2 Are not attempts
made every session of Congress proceed.
ing from that section Of the unon,) to
impose additional restrictions upon com
merce win you say there is no danger
10 he approhended from these attempts :;
that restriction upon commerce would
not be highly injurious, nay even runous,
10 the southern states, aud that the Mis-
SCUM bill, as agitcted and maiured in the
north, was not calculated to lessen, aud al
tlmdtely IL destroy, their influence III the
union? | cannot believe that you will per-
sist Ia answering these qucstIonsin the aliir-
native ; nothing but the warmth and ex.
element of discussion cOHld have induced
you to hazard such an assertion, and trust
that, IN justice 10 yourselves, in your mo-
meats of GOODNESS and dciberation, you
will not hesitate to retract it--fOr, believe
me, gentlemen, the PRONUNCIATION Of such
an opinion, will he attended with Car more
dangerous consequences tban the anil
PatIf0tc sentiments OF MASON.
The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-05-30

n The Weekly Paper, Al q, an,i the
Neekly Paper. ~ - per annnin, payable ~
aasanep No subscription viii be received Tor
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he discontinued (bui al the discretion Oh TIE
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sumo responsible person IN Lynchbsrg.
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mcgee

we are very sorry to learn. from gen.
,iemen from that part Of the country, that
the Hesslan fly has made great suppression
on the Wheat in the counties of FredericE
Shenandoah, &c. in Virginia, in which
counties ordinarily is grown great quaint
ties Of thst grain. I.Nat. IN