American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-04-29

New Orleans? .1nsiOer. The Metropolitan Route
that which passes through the capitals of Virgi
MIA North Carolina, South Carolina. and Georgia.
IN the survey or reconnaissance of which the Board
of Engineers IS now engaged.
O. Do the Engineers go in body examining one
route at time, or do they 90 in attachments. ex
aiming different routes al the same time .dhsWer.
In body, examining one route at time.
8. Will they certainly examine the Uestprn or
Inner route, being the present pos-road from
Washington to New Orleans !! aid, if so. when 2
anscer 1t will be examined, but not at the pre-
sent season. The Board will, on its return TO
Washington, examine the Middle route; which
examination, with that ON which they en-
gagged, will it is supposed, be completed before the
winter sets in: and the third, or Western route,
will be examined next season.
A. Is it supposed the Board will report in time for
Congress to act upon the next sesson-or when !!
anscer 1t is presumed not, because the surveys or
examinations will not have been completed When
Congress will act upon the subject, will of course
depend upon what may be the disposition oil Congress
in reference to Internal Improvements generally
and 10 this Read in particular.
1t may be proper to add, that the arrangements
for the survey Of his road made by the late
Administration, and have not been changed by The
present. wat intel.
A Naval Court of Enquiry, to consist of Cap
tain isaac Chauncey, President, Captains nit
liam VI. Crane and George G. Read, as mem
bers, and Richard s. Coay, Esq as Judge Adyo
cate, has been ordered to assemble at the Navy
Yard in the City of Washington, on the Cd day of
| May next, for the purpose OF investigating the
causes and motives Of the landing of Captain
Dard Porter with military force at the town Of
| Foxardo in the Island of Porto Rico en- the 18th
Of November last and of reporting thereon. The
same Court at the request of Captain Porter, has
been also ordered to inquire into the allegations
which have been made against him, in relation to
| the employment of the force under his command
in other objects than those for which it deslined
and particularly in the transportation OF specie.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of the greatest haul of
ruck fish ever known on the Potomac, was made at
the Sycamore landing on Friday last AT one drag
Of the seine four hundred and ,ffty.four Of these
fish were taken-and what is still more exttaordna-
~, their average weight could not have been less
that SIXTY pounds. Many OF them weighed eightyl
pounds The present season has been remarkably
| for The excellence Of Gsh--but the TACT which wei
ielsle and which the credible sources Of our infor
nation leave doubt OF its correctness. exceeds any
thing OF the kind known to our Oldest fishermen.
.ile.c. Herald.
| great number Of these fish were sold in the
City Of Washington market, ON Saturday, so cheap
that fine fish, weighing fifty pounds, might bel
bought for little more than as many cents.
The gun-boat schooner Masdalena, captain Bird,
from Philadelphia, bound to Lagura, was cast away
on the LIST Of February on the Indian coast OF Fama
The captain and crew, after being among the 10
dans sixty days, obtained conveyance to the island
. Of Ruba, from thence John Peters and Isaac Barlow
arrived al Curacao, where the American consul pro |
sded them with passage in the brig Good Return,
captain Bliss, arrived at Baltimore.
Two Spanish men of war briggs, one Of 6 the
other Of 10 guns. were lately captured by the Co
omblan brig Bolivar, com. Beluche.
Twenty-seven pirates, recently captured by the
United States schr. Grampus, 1t. com. Sloat, have
been tried at St. Thomas, and we're 10 be executed
on Wednesday last.
Eleven pirates were executed at Porto Rico on
The goth ult. The chief, Coopercenas, refused tol
be blndlolded, saying that he had murdered three
Or four hundred, and thought that by This time hel
ought 10 know how to die, and that he wished tol
See how they managed.
very destructive fire broke out in Canal street.
New York. on Wednesday week last at 9 O'Clock,
and ragged for three hours and upwards. About
orty engines are stated to have been in operation al
H. The fire extended through from Canal to Les
pehard street.
Something neir- Instead of adding to the taxes
o. the people, which the British Parliament has been
constantly 10 the habit of doing in order 10 pay the
interest Of their enormous national debt, the Chan
esilor Of the Exchequer is enabled this year, from
lhe late unusual producliveness OF the revenue, to
lake oil little from some OF the most obnoxious|
Burdens laid the ahoring classes. For instance,
small houses relieved from that most odious tax
"a tax on the light Of heaven. by counting the win
vows in a house and making its occupieT pay accor
Jung to their number small houses are also ex