Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-01-09

Among tSe watches are come OF high
value, and Que particularly the property
Of S. c. Graves, Esq, whlch has been
missing above year. 1t Tears the ccat
OF arms OF bis family, end to a valuable
chain is attached an lIva ua bic amethyst
A little gold key too, of singular CONSTITUTE
ton. is still dangling among the ornaments.
This key has story about it. but furnish
es at present, only the means OF opening
the robber 10 public view and OF deliver
ing his associa 'es into The hands OF Justice
We understand most of the property is
claimed by Mr. Duncan, man who
keeps tavern be asserts be has bill: and
receipts for many OF the articles from Fra
ser. Mr.. Duncan has been committed
We make no comment on this ranihcation
OF the business but we trus: that while
thu rogue or rogues whoever they afs)
shall be incontinentIy hangeG--tbat "hon-
est men will get their OWE"
Charleston City Gazette.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 3.-By the Cathe-
rine We have received Havana papers to
the a5th instant In the Noticioso Of the
24th, il 10 stated that further excuses had
been committed. during the late elections,
in ne Parish OF Espiritu Ssnto. The Pre-
sident, De la Cuesta, is censured tor not
having enforced The authority Of the laws,
The Governor of Porto Rico has demand
ed of tbs Governor of Curacao the per-
sons OF Ddcoudrsy HoIstein and bis asso-
eiates. The demand was not acceded to,
on the principle, that as there could be no
doubt of these men having been engaged
in an unauthorized enlerprize they could
be punt he'd as treebooters by any power
into whose hands they fell.
The brig S. Jose, arrived at Havana on
the s3d uIt from Spain, with Madrid &C
counts OF the nth November The Roy
aIists in Catalonia are said to have suffer
ed greatly in their contest with the Con-
s:tutionalists. and Nina has gained de-
cislve advantages On the Gath October
the fort Of Cas- 'eliollit, in Catalonia was ia
ken by the iiberals by slorm--tbe Spanish
papers say that sixty effective men and
some women and children were taken,
with some preaching frlars and the uDtor-
tunate, favourite Sultana Of the tibet no.
manillo. The men we're put 10 death
Attempts were afterwards made by about
5000 OF the fsctionsts to retaks Casteltol.
lit but Nina attack. u them with $500 men
and eplIreiy rocco them. Two hundred
cuirassiers who had been furnished with
arms from France, and who were comman-
ded by Eroies were nearly all destroyed.
About the same time The Curate Merino at
the head OF Goo infantry and loo cavalry
was defeated near Roa by Obregon at the
head OF IS cavalry-he killed 80 OF the
enemy and made 3l3 prisoners.
These accounts %avour very much OF
high exaggeratiou especially thu last, and
tuA credence ian hardi! be asked for them
The number OF the !acGonis's, a. they are
called in the spanish papers, who were
Gefe>ted by Nina is greater than that OF
any army of theirs of which I've have b.
tore seen an account Hitherto the civil
war as carrr 4 on by small bands, who
were sc r. d over The coun ~, but force
of 6ooo men looks like serious growth
of the power Of the disseminated, and
shews that they bave cleared a considera-
BILE portion Of territory OF their opponents.
The whole OF tbs north eastern provinces
of Spain are evidently in state Of miser-
able distraction
The New York Evening Post Of Friday
says :--Perhaps it would be well for the
mercantile part of the community TO sus-
penG their credulity with regard 10 the de-
teat OF Marales by TorTelles, as was pub
lishe6 lately. We are assured by gen.
tleman OF responsibility that be has peru.
sed letter from Curacao of the 4th Dec
last, from an undoubted source, oH6rm-
ing the FIRST intelligence Of Morales VIC
tory, and adding that Torreiles had ar.
rived too late with . division intended to
reinforce Montilla and when be learnt
the news precipitately letres,ed to La
Guiya. That letter also states that Bolt
var was expected from Gusyaquil about
the middle OF the present month. when
bloody contest might be anticipated. Ii
also mentions that Col. Todd, Col. Duane
and bis daughter had been completely ex-
hausted with the fatigues OF their journey
TO Santa Fee, and il was utterly impossi-
BILE for them TO prosecute their journey TO
their destined place, owing to the bad
state of the roads and other circumstan-
ces attending travelling through wilder.
ness, and that they bad therefore remained
at small settlement by the way"
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