Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-05-01
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY
From tie Cherry HaLltg Gasette, april y.

(fOH Itc CFSTFy f"t" U"Soee' apr" %~'
A. H. Bennett, Printer, or Mr.. Riggs of
Schenectady would saw, type'setter, IS elected
clerk of the county Of Yates. MIR. Flagg and
MIR Blel, both tvpc-seLters BY trade. are men,
bers OF the assembly Who knows but that
the people so long blind to the merits of those
who work at our highly useful trade, are about
10 see that they owe us 1--WE mean the type SCI
tiers of the nation) a debt of gratitude which
they can never pay-short of giving each of us
snug and comfortable Office. We have had
TO write and print men into power, and but for
as the good people of tbs nation would be as
ignorant OF political matters as the subjects of
the emperor OF Morocco. 1--WE are capable,
we are honest, We are faithful to the constitu-
ton" We are generally poor, miSerably
poor. Most of us have long been public SER
wants, for which we have hardly got our
bread Slrely then our claims to the Off.
ces waichi our masters the people have to be-
stow, are, we should think, irresistible ;!
Extract ola letter to the editors of the Bos-
ton Patriot, dated Villa de Praya, st. Jago,
March 81, 1928.
"Ve have recently arrived here new Gov
ernor, Col Chapuyete, from Lisbon, bringing
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Cassadores and Artillery, SO that our garrison
amo Ints to 700 regulars. besides about 5000
militia, held in readiness, in case of an attack
from the Brazilians, which is apprehended.
sour settlement at Cape Mesurado has been
attacked by the natives, aud ii not for the arriv
al of Capt Lang, from Sierra Leone for Cape
Coat Castle with company of troops, VINO
accidentally called on his way down, probably
all Iii rha far
as plea for lacking the settlement, that the
land was not fairly purchased; that no grand
Palaver was called at the time, and that the
Chief who sold it, had no claim to the same'
Extract to the editor Of tie Democratic Press.
CURACAO, April 1--WE have nothing new
here. Msricaibo and Puerto Cabelo are still
an the hands of the royalists, both are well
blockaded and besieged-at Puerto Cabello
they are dying ofhunger by hundreds A small
Felluehe effected her escape from there days
ago, and gave us this news. Flour, there is
none IN the place-ifa cargo could be got there,
1t would bring at least D.50 per bbl-eyery 9TH
er necessary of life in proportion. Gen. Paez.
VINO Is before the place, besies ng it with $3.50
Colombian troops, has beeu fortunate enough
TO turn the natural course of fine river-thus
their usual supply ofwater.
"The spanish man of war schr. OF 10 guns,
and go men, which robbed the schr. Astrea.
arrived here few DAYS ago, and was dismissed
BY the authorities, alledging that she was acting
under the authority OK the commander at Por
to Csvello The u >. schr Shark, captain
Perry, which sailed Yesterday intended to in
tercePt her, if possible, declaring her to be a
pirate
eft NAV be ofservlce to American interests
to know that this day vessel arrived from st.
DOMINGO after short run OF three days She
brings decree of Boyer-that for the present
all vessels are forbidden to load mahogany on
the coast he confines the expectation OF that
article from the city only and that too under
the Hayden flag-fore,sn flags are, or will not
be allowed after next month, to export that arti-
Gle This will completely cut up the mahoga
ny trade. Where 5cargoes came to America
before, we shall not have two now, 1t must OF
course raise the price of that article with YOU
as 1t has with US. Several Haytiens report that
the expectation of it will be totally prohibited
IN July.
Lato Intelligence. An interesting cause
(George Ritey vs. JtiHitm ra.tord was tried
few weeks since, before the Superior Court
of che Territory of Arkansas. The facts, as
proven on the trial, were, that the plaintiff, in
December, 1917, was taken by soldier, on
suspicion, and brought to Fort Smith, then
under the command OF Major William Brad
ford. the U 5 Army, the defendant. The
defendant caused the said plaintiff to be taken
into custody and emf IN charye of a Guard