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*€£ORGIA ADVERTISER. _
a bTwM.J. HOfeBY.
TERMS.
/ Jr t| ie Cilupnprr, (twice a npek,) Five Dollars pfr :in
r ;>- r / »il»i'««*. ur fci * U n " 1 P a,d befove
rtoriiw Catiafrv pwrr, (onre a week,) Three Irollnra per
/ 'Anum, parable ur l our Dollar,, if mil paiil
/•«, ■■ aubacrlher In discontinue
jW v/ bit paper will be complied will) on a setili'iiieut ol dues,
‘lfariSwilWm insarfed at the following: rates:
i.*or the first per square, Sixty-two and h hall
rents; f-tr each subsequent, *uecetnve t Imteilion, * , . ort y
* three oiul three quarter cents. In all other cases t 32 1-2
renin per square, ._ .
When an advertisement is sent, without a specification
in w riting of the mimtx-r of insertions, it will he piihlishcd
until ordered out, and charged tccordiogly.
Sales of land and negroes, by Administrators Executors,
or GimrdUni, are required, by law, to he held on the first
Tuesday in the mouth, between the hour* of ten In the
forenoon and three in the nfrernoon, at the court house ol
the county In which tin* properly is situate.—Notice of
these sales must Ik? given in a public gazette SIXTY days
previous to the day of sale
Notice of the salt* of personal properly must he given in
like manner, FOIH Y dnys previous to the dayol sah*.
Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate must be
published for FORTY days.
Noticethat application will lx* made to the Court of Ordi;
nnrv tor leave to sell land, musHbe published for NINE
MOVTHH.
LETTERS, (on buVmess) must l»t? post paid—or they
Tuny not meet with uflcntloj).
frv In this paper the Laws of the United Slates arc
pi.b isln-d,
BY AUTHORITY.
[jmjbi.ic act.]
An Act to regulate the Ceos of the Registers
of Wills in the several counties within
the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives oj the United States of
America in Congress assembled, Thai,
from and after the passing of this net, there
shall be allow ed and paid, (in lieu of the
fees now allowed,) to each <d the Registers
of Wills, for the counties of Washington
and Alexandria, in the District of Colum
bia, the following fees ; that is to say :/
For every probate of will, (where there
is no controversy,) one dollar ;
For granting letters testamentary, seven
ty-five cents;
Annexing will, for one hundred words,
twelve and one-half cents ;
Registering the same, for one bundl'd
words, twelve [and] a half cents ;
For graining letters of administration,
seventy-live cents;
Every bond taken of executors, adminis
trators, or guardians, and recording the
same, one dollar and fifty cents;
For filling and entering renunciation ol
executors, or widow, twenty-live cents;
1* or exeilipllllc.idon ol toitris toMomrii
tary, or letters of administration, undei
seal, one dollar;
For issuing variant, under seal, to ap
praisers, and warrant to swear them, fifty
cents ;
For notice of administrators to creditors,
and orders thereon, fifty-cents;
For entering caveat, twenty-five cents;
For issuing citation, under seal, fifty
cents ;
For administering every oath, or affirma
tion, six and one fourth cents;
For tiling list of articles appraised, twen
ty-live cents;
For filing list of articles sold at vendue,
twenty-five cents;
For recording the same, (if ordered bv
the Court,) for every hundred words, twelve
and one-half cents;
lor slating, passing, and filing the ac
count of an executor, administrator, or
guardian, not exceeding seventy-five items,
three dollars; every additional item, two
cents;
For examining the vouches -[vouchers,]
passing, and filing the account of an execu
tor, administrator, or guardian, (not stated
by the Register,) and not exceeding seven
ty-five items, two dollars; every additional
item, two cents;
F or copy of same, under seal, if demand
ed, nut exceeding one hundred items, one
dollar; every additional item, two cents;
seal and certificate, tinny seven cents and
vine-half;
For subpuna, thirty-seven cents and
one-half. All witnesses to be put into one
subpoena, unless separate ones are required
by the party. For every name after the
first, six cents and one-fourth ;
For duces tecum, under seal, fifty-cents;
For every search, where no other service
is performed for width fees are allowed,
eighteen cents and three-fourths ;
For making out, and filing, the balance
ot distribution ol deceaijed persons’ estate,
for each heir, one dollar;
For taxing all costs, in any one case,
twenty-five cents;
For a writ of execution, on a definitive
sentence, under seal seventy-five cents;
F'or recording, and filing each indenture
of apprentice, including the Court’s taking
recognisance for same, or its approval
when done by the Justices of the Peace, se
venty five cents;
F or drawing deposition of witnesses, for
every hundred words, twelve cents and
one-half;
- For filing all other papers, (except as
above required,)four cents each ;
F or entering appearance of parly under
process, twevle cents and one-half;
or entering return of process, twelve
and one-hall cents;
For every continuance or reference,
i targv-iic to the applicants, twelve and
one-half cents;
* " nm, ' ss l° ll to examine witnesses, or
tb auditors, under s.-al, one dollar;
For commission to value orphan’s estate
dollar •' andS 01 euJI t!ia,,s > unUer *«‘l, one
For entering every order of Court, twelve
cents ami one-half; if more than one hun
dretl w»rds,, then, at the rate of twelve cent-
and one-half pcr hundred ;
ft
! 1 For recording or copying any paper, for ‘
, one hundred words, twelve cents and one
’ half; seal and certificate, thirty-seven cents
and one half;
I"or filing petition or report, and entering
the same on record, (if necessary) fifty
cents ; if more than one hundred words, at
the rale of twelve cents and one-half per
hundred;
Fcr entering judgment, or rule of Couit,
5 twenty-five cents; copy of same, if demand
r ed, for every hundred words, twelve cents
1 undone half; seal and certificate,tbirty
t seven cents and one-half;
'> F’or entering every motion in Court,
: twelve and one-half cents.
f For entering appointment of guardian,
2 with certificate and seal of said appoint
n ment, one dollar; every additional word
11 included in the same certificate, twelve and
». one-half (tents;
e F’or i.-fiuing attachment and entering mo
[j! tion therefor, seventy-five cents;
s For taking a recognizance, twenty-five
„ cents ;
e F’or warrant to marshal to summon Jury,
under seal, seventy-five cents ;
£ For entering panel of jury, and swearing
them, fifty cents;
y For taking filing, and recording, every
bond, not above provided for, one dollar ;
e r» * * . ,
r or passing an account against the estate
» of a deceased person, twelve and a half
cents ; to he paid by lire applicant, and not
to be refunded.
Sec. 2. And be it further enaeted, That,
the respective officers, whose fees are iiy
litis act specified, tire hereby required to
make fair tables of their fees, agreeable to
this act, and to set up the same, in their re
spective offices, within six months nfterthe
passing of this act, in some conspicuous
part of their office, for the inspection of ail
persons who may have business in said of
s lices; on pain of forfeiting, for each clay the
u same shall he missing, through said officer’s
neglect, the sum of ten dollars, to be rc
f covered as debts of the same amount are
/' recoverable, one half to the county, and
l, the other half to the informer,
e Sec. 3. And be it farther enacted, That,
e il a llegester of Wills, or tiny person for
s him, shall take gienter fees than herein hc
i fore expressed, such officer shall forfeit and
. pay the parly injured fifly dollars, to he re
covered as debts ol the same amount are re
p coveruble. Provided, always, That the
judges of the Orphans’ Court may allow to
- the Register of Wills, reasonable fees for
any service lie may have rendered, not spe
i cified in this act.
Sic, 4. And be it further enacted, That
•J the Registers of Wills of the Counties of
Washington and Alexandria, in the District
i, of Columbia, shall he allowed by the Levy
Courts of their respective counties, for all
i- record hooks and dockets, necessarily sur
e nished for their respective offices, which
allowance shall ho levied and collected as
if other county charges are.
HENRY CCA V,
I Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN CAli.LAill).
President of the Si'iiiiti-, pro tempore-
W nsliington, itliiy 2f)tli, nic-l: Approval.
». JAMES MONROE.
y
An Act to confer certain powers on the
'» Levy Court ol the county of Alexandria,
in the District of Columbia, and lor other
purposes.
• Re it enaeted In/ (,'ic Senate and House
as Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Levy Court of the County of Alexandria,
in the District of Columbia, shall, from and
after the passing of this act, have, possess,
j and exercise, all the powers which the
county courts of Virginia possessed and
’ exercised on the twenty-seventh day of
' F ebruary, one thousand eight hundred and
one, in relation to the laying of the • county
‘ levies; and that the Marshal of the Dis
trict of Columbia shall collect and account
> for the levies so laid by said court, in the
' same manner, and at the same time as the
Sheriffs of \ irginla collected and accounted
I lor lilt* It*vies m.ule l>y tin* ntorcMiiti county
• courts of Virginia, on the aforesaid twenty- 1
seventh day of February, one thousand 1
■ eight hundred and me. The Marshal »t '
1 the District aforesaid, shall pay over the '
amount, so collected, to the order of the '
Levy’ Court aforesaid. j i
Sec. 2. And b'- it further enacted, That 1 1
: any seven Justices of the Peace in the noun
-1 ty of Alexandria, aforesaid, who shall be 1
duly qualified shall he a quorum for the
transaction ol all lurstiwss l»y x
law to (lie Levy ( ourt nforosaid,
1 See. 3. A»<7 be it further enacted, That '
the Orphans’Court of the said county of '
Alexandria shall hereafter, be held at the I
; court-house, in the town of Alexandria, so 1
soon as a suitable room shall have been 1
• provided, on the public square on which 1
said court-house stands, for the safe-keep- 1
ing of the records of said Orphans’ C ourt. ;
’ The said Orphans’ Court shall hold its '
sessions on the first Monday of each month, 1
i and may adjourn from day to day, for the 1
purpose of transacting the business of said 1
( ourt: Provided, That the whole number
ot days ot the session of said Court shall 1
not exceed four in any one month.
I Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That 1
1 the Register of Wills for the county ol
- Alexandria aforesaid, shall, within'two
months from and after the passage of this ■
'' act, give bond and good security, pay
-1 able to the United States, in the penalty of
five thousand dollars ; which bond shall he
s conditioned for the doe and faithful per
formance of the duties of his office, as pre
-1 scribed by law; which bond shall he renew
ed once in every five years thereafter, and
e shall he approved by the Orphan’s Court;
and shall be recorded among the records of
the Circuit Court of the District of Colum
' bia, for the county aforesaid an; official copy |
of which bond, duly certified, shall have |
r the force and efiect of the original, in all i
suits brought on said bond.
e Washington : Approved, May 2Uth, 1324.
ON A PRINTING HOUSE.
This world’s a Punting in w hich cudosnrr,
U Each soul's a theet, fortiitHl b> the (Trent campon r;
, Our thoughts and deeds lypt* of various sixes
** J' Christ rorrf'it, and heaven the whole ,
Is pfos, from which being driven,
n e re gather'd fhrrt t*y sheet and bound for heaven.
I* Those words in italic arc technical terms.] •
STANZAS INTRODUCTORY TO BANK INSTUTIONS.
From the Projector, a Poem, by Joseph Eve.
CANTO 2d.
71.
Credit avaunt! with bank facilities!
Bane of the land, and ruin of the state—
Our modem day’s political disease—
To punish folly sent by y fate!
Thou bringest ills on man interminnte—
'Though sweet thy syren voice, and fair thy face,
Thou smilest to deceive, ami soon or late
Whoe’er In thee their confidence misplace,
Thou hurlcjt dowifto utter ruin and disgrace.
By thee allured, what myriads leave the plough,
And all the useful implements of art,
Which gave them certain income—until thou
Seduced with golden dreams their easy hearts ;
In fortune s race, each strives to take the start!
Whilst some attempt with paper wings to fly I
But soon, unlocked for ills, their course shall thwart;
Nor will, I ween, their flight he long or high,
For soon they’ll sink, ingulphed in dark adversely.
Man, if not “ made to mourn,” was made to toil,
And certes, ’lis no hard conditioned lot
To do some useful turn, or till the soil,
Is better far than idleness—J wot;
For granting, oven, no avails were got,
It giveili health and pastime— not so gold—
And peace of mind, which golo hath never bought ;
And, even, letylie selfish heart lie told,
It gives mure waalth, than all their schemes an hundred
folii.
71.
Something from nothing cannot emanate;
A basely fabric must in rearing full;
But in its falling oil may implicate
Thousands, who unconneo* d are, wilhnll ■
l oans, by whatever sp**ciu <. names we call,
Os fabricated trash—though it may he
A he-.elit to ilmse concerned—it shall
l.essen the value of our currency,
And ruin, as cf late, bring on society.
7 ’5.
The Alciivmist, who sought bychymic art,
The baser metnU to transmute to*gold,
Now better knowledge doth its light imparl,
liis vain attempts we in derision hold—
'They CMghr so. .vstie s- eret to unfold;
Uui sfi. ’l.'ir honor no one did dispute;
But not so those of late, of whom fold
They, even, paper can to gold transmute,
And without labor too—t. ey’re clients, and fools to bout.
7U.
Treilit too fondly sought, or w hlely spread,
Extends the range of ImntTul luxury;
They who receive it are by interest led,
To grant it, in their dealing .generally ;
Hence all participate in due degree;
And hope and speculation draw them on,
Till, leaving their strong hold, industry,
'They launch into extravagance—till none
Foresee their ruin, till the y find themselves undone.
From the JS'tubu rijport Ilf raid,
ELEGANT EXTRACT.
Mr. Allkn—The following strikingly
beautiful comparison is from “ the Right
band of Fellowship,”, delivered at the or
dination of the Rev. Charles Lowell of
Boston, by the lamented J. 3. Buckminster.
“Are net the grand principles of com
mon faith in the divine authority of our re
ligion, and common desires to promote the
holy influence of its laws, strong enough
to bind our hearts together, (hough our
speculations may sometimes work asunder?
!s there not, amidst all die varieties of dis
cipline and faith, enough left to us in com
mon to preserve a unity of spirit ? What
though the globes, which compose our pla
netary system, are at some times nearer
than at others, both to one another and to
the sun, now crossing one another’s path,
now eclipsing one another’s light, and even
sometimes appearing to our short sighted
vision to have wandered irrecoverably, and
to have gone off into boundless space ; yet
do we not know that they are slill reached
hy some genial beams of the central light,
and continue, in their wildest aberrations,
to gravitate to the same point iu the sy s*
lem? And may we not believe, that the
great head of the chinch has always dis
pensed, through the numerous societies o!
« hrir.U'iuloin, a portion of the healing influ
ences of his religion ; has held them invisi
bly together, when they have appeared to
he rushing farthest asunder; and though
all the order and confusion, conjunction
and opposition, progress and decline of
churches, lias kept alive in every commu
nion a supreme regard to his, authority,
when clearly known, as a common princi
ple of relation to him and to one another?”
From Captain Mall’s Journal.
THE SECRETARY’S DAUGHTER.
Mexico. —Some days after I came to
San Bias, the chief Secretary of the govern
ment called, to request that the surgeon of
the Conway might be allowed to visit Ins
sick dmgntcr, a little girl of three years of
age. I sent to the ship for the doctor, ,-nd
accompanied him to (he house, where we
found the child notjsoill as the father’s fears
had imagined. The doctor thought that
with proper care, she might cover; and
being obliged to go on board himself, sent
medicines on shore which I carried to the
child. I was in the first instance, prompted
by a desire of being civil to a person who
bad shewn great attention to the officers
during my absence at Tepic, and 1 was
glad, also, to have an opportunity of seeing
the interior of a New Galecian family.—
But 1 soon acquired a far deeper interest iu
the case, by the increasing illness of our
little patient, one of the prettiest and most
engcp mg children i ever saw. Tin deed r,
at my request visited her, as oft. n as he
could wane «*j shore, but as he y >< in •!
close attendance np< n sevt ivl . !| t y ■ r
patients, not only iu the C. awo. but in
the mcrchunt’s ships in the anchoinge, rite
task of watching the chili! a 'elm ■ ■ fell prin i
cipally upon me. The poor parents vouK. i
not believe notwithstanding tnv >.vn. rat 'd
assurances, that I k>cw nothing of medi
cine; but it was too laic to. draw back at
this st.ige of the case, since it was through
me alone that any report could be commu
nicated to the medical genii, man o: board.
\et Isaw, w ith much regret, that the whole
family were becoming mote and more de
pendent on me; they sent for me at all
hours of the day and night, whenever there
was the least change, and although they
must have seen that I could do them no
good, they still wished to be encouraged to
hope the best. In so small a town, and
where there was no doctor within twenty
miles, every eye was turned upon us, which
made the case a still more anxious one. if
the child recovered indeed, we should have
been certain of the respect and esteem of
the society; but on the other hand, if she
died, as we began to fear, the effect of our
interference was much to be dreaded on the
minds of people habitually distrustful of
| strangers. There was clearly nothing for
it now, however, butto go through the mat
| ter, although it was obvious that, in spi e
i ofall our care she was getting daily worse,
j As all the old women in the neighborhood
| had given up the case as hopeless—and
they were the only pretenders to medical
knowledge in the neighborhood, our endea
vours were w atched with uncommon anxie
ty, and became the universal topic of con
versation, even as far as Tepic.
«
• Late one night 1 was called out of bed by
a breathless messenger, who came to say
the child was much worse, and that I must
come down to the Secretary’s house imme
diately. I found the infant in its mothers
arms, with its eyes closed, and the sickly
hue of its skin changed to a marble white
ness, indeed it looked more like a statue
than a living being, and was evidently dying.
The poor father who still fondly rested his
hopes on my opinion, accompanied me to
the room, and watched my looks, with the
most melancholy anxiety. On catching
from the expression of my countenance
when 1 beheld the infant, what was the na
ture of my thoughts, he took one last miser
able look at his child, and rushed into the
streets. I saw no more of him, till long
after all was over; and I had returned to
my house; when I observed him at a clis
d tance, hare headed and running in a dis
tracted manner, aw ay from that part of (he
town in which his house lay. Meanwhile
the mother, more true to her duties, sat
upon the bed, and from time to time, pressed
the infants cheek, an»l tried to raise its eye
lids, earnestly supplicating it to speak once
more. ‘Dolores!—my little Dolores,don’t
you know your own mother ? Dolore ?’
‘ Dolores ?—Dolorcita !—no conoces a tu
madre?’ are words which I shall never for
get. 1 sat down by her and she made me
touch her cold cheek —accustomed, poor
woman, to derive consolation from the en
couragement I had formerly given to her
hopes—l did as she desired, but the child
was gone.
The funeral, as is usual in Catholic coun
tries, when a child under seven years of age
dies, was a sort of mery-making ; it being
considered a source of rejoicing that an in
nocent soul has been added to the number
of the angels. The effect however, I must
say, was very distressing; the respect I felt
v for the family, and the curiosity I had to see
t the ceremony, were barely sufficient mo
■- iives to induce me to accompany the pro
f cession, where fiddles, drums, and fifes,
■, played merry times round the bier, while
1- the priests chaunted hymns of rejoicing at
1- the accession which had been made to the
e host of little angels.
Ii The effects of our failure on the minds
r of the people was the very reverse of what
? we had anticipated ; for both the surgeon
(I nd myself were ever afterwards treated by
1- all classes of society, with a more marked,
t respectful, and even cordial attention than
- before ; and whenever the circumstance
r was spoken of, the exertions W’e had made,
0 though unsuccessful, wore every where duly
1, h‘lt and acknowledged. The poor father
11 could set no limits to his gratitude, and at
d last we were obliged to be careful, when in
[! his presence, how we expressed a wk»!. for
1 any thing: as lie never failed, upon disco-
J vering what was wanted, to send at any
cost, and to any distance, to fetch it for us.
i, When I was coming away some weeks
. afterwards, he insisted upon my accepting
e the most valuable curiosity he possessed,
and which he had cherished with care for
t fifteen years, a beautiful bird of the country,
. celebrated all over the province of New
. Galicia, and considered as the finest speci
j men of its kind ever seen.
1 1 now made a firm resolution to meddle
1 no more with the practice of medicine; and
f had just declared my regret at having been
. induced, on any account, to place myself in
, the way of responsibilities, which 1 could
- not bear with a safe conscience ; when a
’ man burst into my room, and exclaimed,
that 1 was wanted immediately, as a young
woman was dying a few doors off! I said I
was no doctor, knew nothing of medicine,
, and could not possibly follow him, but that
. I would send off’ to the ship. ‘No: no,’
f n iod the man, ‘ that won’t do—no time is
5 to be lost—the girl will die—and her blood
f will be on your head if you delay a mo
-1 ment; and he dragged me along with him
; to a house; where a girl about sixteen
; years of age was lying in a state of insensi
t bility. 1 was received with infinite joy by
I the numerous matrons assembled round the
; bed, who insisted, with one voice, on my
saying what was to be done. They told
1 me, she had accidentally fallen backwards
, down some steps, and had pitched her head
; against a stone, since which she had lain in
; the state I saw. ‘ Medecin nialgre moi.’—
I was forced to do something, and aware of
the advantage of bleeding in such cases, I
| said the gill ought tohebled at once, and told
them to send for the person usually employ
ed on such occasions, who it appeared, was
, the principal barber.
A long time elapsed before ho made his
appearance, and when he did arrive, he
showed mi disposition to make up for his
oeiay, but insisted on telling the company,
at great length, how much provoked he
Iwisto be disturbed in his siesta. I took
j the liberty of urging him repeatedly to de
f< r the story lillafter he had bled 'the girl;
--but as this produced no effect, I said, at
length, that unless he began immediately,
we must employ some one else to do it in
stead, This put him a little on his metal,
and he very pompously called fora ribbon,
a towel, a handkerchief, a candle, and a ba
sin. These being brought and ranged be
fore him he drew forth his case of lancets,
1 examined five or six with the most pedantic
deliberation, and after many minutes delay,
1 selected one; he then lied up the arm,
, drew it out at full length, and fold it up
again till the fingers touched the shoulder;
this he repeated several times, without
1 seeming at all disposed to go any further;
upon which wo insinuated to him that if
! the girl died through his preposterous de
lays, he should be field responsible. This
■ roused him a little; and having bared the
arm, he first wet it, and then in the rudest
■ n,anner possible rubbed it with a coarse
f towel, from the wrist to the elbow, till the
skin was much abraded. At last hetouch
• ed the vein with the lancer, after slowly
■ making the sign of the cross three times
over the place. Owing to the violent niau-
I net in which he had hound up the jfrm, he
had stopped the artery, as well as the vein,
and no blood flowed until he had loosened
the bandage—then he relaxed it too much;
in short the operation was perhaps never
less skillfully performed. The effect how
ever iu the end vyas most satisfactory, fin J
the girl gradually recovered as .the blood y
flowed, till in the course of five minutes, she u
; regained her senses completely. Next day itl
■! she was quite well; and thus in spite ot all J «
; my endeavors my refutation as a doctor, I
■ was as fully established in San Bias, as it I tl
• had graduated at Salamanca. 11
—_ g
The editor of the Augusta Chronicle n
| will please give the following article a place, s
. in reply to a publication in his late paper : t
' FROM THE HAMBURG GAZETTE. 1
: Gentlemen, —I observe in the Chronicle 1
■J (Augusta,) of the /th instant, that the Bank 1
-Ijust established here, has again called into 1
; j life those feelings so often displayed by a c
flcertain class when ever the enterprising 1
> j founder of Hamburg appears in a new clia-
■ J racter before them. , 5
-| A writer under the signature ofan“En- 1
; | quirer,” while pretending to a friendly dis- 1
31 position toward entcrprize,and undercover s
t jof a few queries, has made use of as gross s
11 mis-statements as ever defiled the pages of 1
3 a newspaper, lam at a loss whether to £
3 attribute them to ignorance or to a baser 1
t origin, and I would be glad for the honour 1
’ of poor human nature, they could with
i truth be profered to the account of the for- c
- mer. But, be it as it may, such remarks, 1
3 however impure their source, however (
r weak in their character, have a tendency f
- to injure, unless they' are met and confuted 1
r with promptitude.—Assertions and argu- *
,1 ments equally absurd and ridiculous, carry
with them to a certain portion of communi
ty, the force of truth, and should they he
3 treated with the silent contempt they merit,
r are considered unanswerable because they
- are unanswered. The first point the gen- j
r tleman labors to establish, is, that mer- j
t chants purchase produce merely for the
t purpose of losing money; and this wild '
3 assertion is predicated on “as favorable a j
- supposition’’ as he thinks ought to be made. (
- The substance of it is this.—A having a
- capital of S3OOO, invests it in cotton, de- f
3 posits this cotton with B for two thirds of ,
t its value, and again invests and deposits up
-3 on the same principle until, the amount of
produce bought is $‘7222 21, and pledged
s to B for the amount borrowed over the first
t capital” to be sold, whenever A shall deem |
i proper or advisable. And now comes the .
y melancholy and painful truth. The time
, arrives when “ it becomes necessary to
r reimburse B and realize the profits” and A J
e is to feel himself extremely happy to dis-
, pose of his purchases at “no loss” which is t
y “ as favorable a supposition” as he could
r or ought to have made : But alas !in sell- j
I ing at “ no loss” he (according to the “ En
i quirer”) loses $l5O am the speculation, *
r which, agreeable to the same orthodox •
- writer, is t lie amount of the “ profits realiz- J
y ed.” What miserable attempts at argu
. ment!—what impudent assertions ! He j
s wishes us to suppose that merchants are '
r actuated by no other principle in their pur- (
, chases than the desire of loosing. Why
r truly, if this be the case, they are much al- !
, tered from what they once were. The dear j
i generous souls, because they see a planter
- have more cotton than he can use, kindly
offer him the cash, which they are paying 1
3 interest on, for it, merely that they may at
1 the end of some weeks dispose of it at “ no J
I loss” of nearly $ I per bale. This is the
i light in which this adept in finance wishes
1 us to view the subject.—And to oblige him, i
i I will even look through Ids glasses fiir a j
, lew moments. The text is, that at any rate i
f there must be a loss according to the amount t
f speculated on : and thequestion that springs ?
, from it is, what will be the difference of the
[ loss, except that of interest, whether the (
’ capital be all A’s, or partly burrowed from \
i B, —or if A choose to speculate entirely on
1 his own capital ofs3o(Jo,lmv much longer J
. will it take him to run through it, than it
i would were he to add to his capital by bor
i rowing on its investments? We must pre
• sume that in the same length of time, he
was laying out his own and his borrowed
• capital: he would have laid out the same
amount had he not borrowed a cent, (for it
is a principle, to turn over a capital as often
as is possible to do it to any advantage, and ,1
that advantage, would be the same, whe
ther the capital were borrowed or not:) of
course then, the loss would in both cases bo
equal, except as i said before in the item of h
interest on the part borrowed. If this
were the case, would it not be better he p
should not purchase at all; he would then f,
be saved the pain of realising profits” by
selling at “ no loss” of 5 per cent on his li
capital. Let us resolve this into a question „
of the Mule ofThree, and every school-boy °
will understand it.— If A lose $l5O on
STOGO in one month, by a single invest- i|
ment in produce, what will be his loss on h
.s‘3ooo, in the same time by two and one c
third investments ? 1 have stated this (j
question on the very .principle supported «
by the “ Enquiry,” and I trust I have stated
it fairly. It at once throws to the ground
the fabrick he Had icared on so false a
foundation. It exposes the false a -I spe
cious arguments he lias brought forward
to sustain it, and it has placed in a correct h
light a wild and absurd theory of trade in- ii
(reduced by himsclffor purposes he cun best N
explain. n ,
It is not pretended that the bank will fi
not receive any advantage from their ad- w
vances on produce deposited, but it is most ct
strongly denied that it will be the only one ta
benefited. Self-interest is with all a govern- sc
ing principle, (except indeed with mer- tli
chants who buy produce on (lie “ Enquir- hi
er s” terms) and when it can be so blended si
as to benefit the public at the same time, th
it deserves the support and encouragement su
of that public who become identified with w
it. Upon what principle could those bills m
be issued with more safety. Here is not vv;
personal security alone pledged for their .it
redemption.—-T. he holder rests not his sk
faith on the ebbs and flows ot individual ne
prosperity—his security is based upon cer- th
tain available deposits, from which cash co
can at any time be raised. The Enquir
er speaks ol this as a strange principle, to
and as one with which hels entirely unac- do
quainted. If he will but take the trouble ha
ot asking a few questions (lie is good at Ca
isurli work) lie will find that for 3 or fi rig
“ j
fears past it has beer, by no means unenrr- \
non in Augusta ; or if he would but consult
.he columns of some old newspapers, ho
will see many advertisements to that effect.
I assert without fear of contradiction that
there is no principle upon which a circulat
ing medium could be sent forth to give'
greater security to the holder, and certainly
none that can add such facilities to trade. ’
The source from whence this enquiry
sprung is not uncertain. The known hos
tily of certain individuals point them out
too plainly to mistake the origin ; and if
there could be any doubts on the subject
the happy allusion to Bridge bills would
dispel them immediately. One of those
days, we may be curious enough to ask
them a few questions relative to their af
fairs, that they may find rather hard to an
swer, but as there will be so much sympathy
displayed for their kntfwn losses, so many
condolements offered for those yet more
severe unknown ones, that they will not '
surely think hard of it, but will be willing
to confess the true stale of their affairs as we ll
are, though it may tell of a bridge lost after
having been dswcll defended, as that of
Lodi. '
I will not, Messrs. Editors, take up more
of your time on this subject at present. I
trust i have silenced the senseless clamours
of the “ Enquirer,” ..and exposed his re
marks in their true light and colour—more
is unnecessary, and less would have betray
ed a want of zeal in the cause of Justice and
Truth. A CAROLINIAN.
MURDER.
Mr. John Armstrong of Cumberland
county, Ky, called yesterday to give us in
formation of a murder that was committed
in Henderson county on Sunday last. He /
states that Simon Sugg, Calvin Sugg, Sa
muel Guiler, Gilbert Christy, James R.
Laird and Abram Clay, went under Hie
name of Regulators to tiie house of Elijah
Walton, near the Highland Lick, on the
road leading from Morgantown to Madison
ville, on Saturday; took him from his m
plough, and carried him to Simon Sugg’s
house where they kept him till after mid.
night, when they took him out and after
whipping him in a very cruel manner, cut
his throat, so as almost to lake ofi’his head.
7 he murderers were immediately pursued.
Mr. Armstrong was passing through the
country and fell in with Calvin Sugg in the
road near Greenville, and recognizing him
from description, prevailed upon him to
stop at a tavern in Greenville to drink, and
seizing an opportunity wrested his gun from
him and secured him—he was committed
on Mr. Armstrong’s evidence—during the
night three men came to Greenville
in pursuit of him and took him back to Hen
derson, Gniler was also taken—the other
murderers had not been taken when he left
that part of the country. Mr. Armstrong
states that these men charged Walton with j
an attempt to decoy off a negro as the rea- M
son for their regulating him—but Hint lie ■/I
understood the real cause was hostility to Mjt
him by r the Sugg's in consequence of W\s
having sued them for a considerable sum of
money.— Correspondent.
Extract from a letter to a gentleman in this
dtp, dated Whiterborough, Jtdj G.
The heat 'f the weather, in (bis place,
during the last week, has been hitherto un
precedented. On the 2/th, 28th, and 291 h
oi the last month, the Thermometer ranged
from 90 to 93 dgs. and on the 20th it was
as high as 104.
The following are the observations taken
from Fahrenheit’s Thermometer, which
was suspended in the coolest situation in
my house.
June 30-At half-past 10, the Mercury
stood ----- 92 I. IK
A l twelve, .... 98 fWs
At half-past one, ... 100 I
From two to four, - - 101 (
From half-past four to half-past five, 100 /
At six, 98
At half-past eight, - - - 90
And at half-past ten, - - - 85 .
July I—At eight, ... 88
At nine, - - 90
At twelve, - - - - 97
At which it continued until two, when a
hail storm occurring, it fell to 82 degrees.
The bail was of uncommon size, many
panicles measuring live inches in circum
ference.
The heat of the atmosphere was pecu
liarly oppressive; cows and dogs were seen
going from the shade of one tree to that "l
another, apparently much distressed, and W
every article of furniture communicated la
'He to udi a sense of heart. Our village,
however, continues very healthy- —The j. |
crops in the vicinity of WaltHborough ~
’ami particularly the provision) are veil/ M
much injured in consequence of the drongh' £*
[Charleston Cil>j Gazette.
I ron; llie Mas-acluisclts Spy.
New process for Tanning Leather. —Me f
lave examined a sample of leather tanned ' >;■
n a new mode, by Charles Munro o!
Voitliborougli, iu this county, which is pro- Js
jounced by competent judges, to be <d th fi Ja
irst quality. The sample is call skin, and < S
vas tanned in ten days. By the same po
:css heavy upper leather is tlioiouglil;
aimed, in Ironi 20 to 30 days, and dry hah' m,
ole leather in 90 days. We understand
hat Phinehus and Joseph Davis, of North* |
torough, who are well known to be extra
iyely engaged in tanning, have adopted i
Ids mode, and are perfectly satisfied ol its
uperiority. By it, the expense is some
dial reduced, and the capital employed
jay be turned much oftener than in the old
'ay. Sole leather may be tanned three m-i
mes, upper leather six times, and cap
kins nine times in a year, in regular Bus;* |
ess, with no danger of (iiilure'or injury to yli
ic leather. The liquor for tanning is uso- r
old.
We would recommend this improvenirc I.
) the attention of tanners generally, i>‘ ,! | , ■’
nubting Irom the recommendations " m
five seen, of its great practical utility. - '
apt. Munroe is proprietor of (lie pate* 1 j
ght for this state