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blooded, it would have cost 867 in-estimat'd at SO per cent, for the first'one side, in the direction of th
stead of R59 19, and would have
made 33 yards of Kerseymere, which
is ascertained by the weight of tht
cloth, the account in that case would
stand thus :
By 83 yds. Kerseymere,
at S 3 50, - . S290 50
To 67lhs. of Wool, and
cost of manufacturing, 174 81
75,000
Profit oh & 67 stock, al-
^ roost 175 percent.
A Bill has been introduced into
the Senate of the United States for
the improvement of our Nation, by
facilitating the intercourse of its ci
tizens. It contemplate* the 'foiion
of the waters of Boston harbour with
those of Newport in Rhode Island ;
of tWe Rariton in New Jersey with
the Delaware; of the Hudson with
the Lakes Erie and Ontario; of the
Delaware with the Chesepeake ; a
oanalto pass the cataract of Niagara;
*Mie union of the Hudson with Lake
Champlain ; the Ohio with Lake E-
rie ; a canal to pass the falls of the
Ohio, and from the Roanoke to the
Appomattox, and from the Tennes
see to the Tombigbee ; a road from
the highest navigable waters of the
Atlantic, to the highest navigabi
- waters of the Western States ; and a
turnpike road for the general mail
.from Maine to and through Georgia.
•For the above purpose a tract of
land in the peninsula of Michigan is
contemplated to be appropriated ; it
contains perhaps ten millions of acres
(Georgia Express.)
year. The following estimate of the
“ expences of repairs, is also submit
ted :
“ For repairs of vessels now in
possesion, 150,000
“ For freight, store-rent
and all other contingent
expences,
“ For the repairof frigates
now lying in ordinary,
keeping the gun-boats
8 119 69. that are now in service
in a state of preserve*
tion, Ike. 450,000
“ For freight and other
contingent expences 100,000)
This report was referred to a com
mittee of the whole.
Vestibule, and the Louvre on th.
other. It is 45 feet in height, 60 i.
leneth, and twenty and a half it
thickness.
congmess.
SENATE.
Monday, January, 8
A report was received from the Se
cretary of War on the subject of the
Corps of Engineers.
Mr. Meigs submitted the follow
ing motion, which was agreed to :
Resolved, That a committee be ap
pointed to enquire into the expedi
ency of establishing by law a Land
Department of the United States :
and that they have leave to report by
bill or otherwise.
(Messrs, Meigs, Gregg, Andcr-
eon, Crawford and Pope were appoin
ted the committee.)
The btll for the improvement of the
United States by public roads and ca
nals was read a second time and on
motion of Mr.~ Pope, committed to a
select committee.
(Messrs. Pope, Bayard, Ander
son, Crawford and Hillhouse were
appointed the committee.)
On motion of Mr. Pope, the re
port made by the Secretary of the
Treasury in pursuance of a resolu
tion of the House of the 2d March,
1807, respecting roads and canals,
was referred to the same committee.
h House of Representatives.
Saturday, January 6.
Mr. Holland moved the following
resolution which was negatived ;
“ Resolved, That the committee of
Commerce and Manufactures be in
Monday January, ft.
Mr. Nelson made the following re-
port: ^
“ The committee on the military
establishment of the United States,
to whom was referred so much of
the message of the President of the
U. States of the 3i instant, as re
lates to raising a volunteer force, re
port in part that they have taken th
same into consideration, and are of
opinion that it is highly expedient
to place forthwith the country in a
more complete state of defence and
recommend the following resolu
tion :
Resolved, That provision be made
by law for raising and embodying a
volunteer force of twenty thousand
men, exclusive of officers, to be en
listed and held to serve lor the term
of from the time of their
being in actual service.”
The report was referred to a com
mittee of the whole.
A letter from Havannn, to a
merchant in Richmond, Virginia,
dated 4th December, states, that no
thing is yet decided on the subject
of regulating our trade. The order
prohibiting the entrance to Foreign
vessels, with other cargoes than
boards, See. is unrepealed, and ves
sels are daily arriving with all sorts
of cargoes, yet they are not turned
off, neither are they permitted to
sell, but are kept in a state of sus
pense, waiting the orders of the Spa
nish government and intendant.
THE JQGMNUi.
The Poston Exchange Coffee-House
was commenced in the spring of 1306
and completed last spring. It is seven
stories high, exclusive of spacious cel
lars under the whole, contains two
hundred apartments, and covers near
ly an acre of ground. It cost, inclu
ding the furniture, 5oo,ooo dollars,
and ts the most convenient and most
superb house of entertainment in Ame
rica. The New City Hall of New
Tort, now building, has already cost
near 3oo,ooo dollars. It is six years
since the building was commenced, is
it will require two years more to
finish it.
The House of delegates of Man-
land have passed an act which impo
ses a tax of one quarter per centum on
the capital stock of banks and insu
rance companies, for the establish
ment and maintenance of schools for
the education of the poor through
the state.
all actions which shall be commer
ced for words, no exceptions shall b
taken thereto, that shall take the
cons.ruction from the trial by jut-'
but the same shall be cognizable be
fore the jury, who shall say what da
mag s the partv has sustained.
Philadelphia, Dec. 29.
An authentic statement of captures o'
the property of the citizens of the
United States by the biliigerem
powers of Europe since the rais
ing of the embargo last March, as
ensured in the nine public offices
in this city.
Amount o! captures bv the British
30,(XX) dollars 10,000 whereof has
been restored.
Amount of captures by the French,
including one vessel plundered and
burnt at sea 158,420 dollars, 38,500
whereof, has been re-captured by the
British and restored on salvage
Amount of captures by the Danes
209,542 dollars, 94,500 whereof has
been released on paying chargei
which in some instances amount to
a species of ransom.
Died, on Sunday morning last aftet
a lingering illness, Mrs. Sarah De-
VF.RF.UX, r onsort of J. W. Deeretix,
Esquire, of this place.
— In Putnam county, on Tuesday
the 2ad instant, Mr. Robert Stur-
oks, son of the Reverend Daniel
S '(urges of Columbia count j ; aged,
5 8 yea • s.
On the first Tuesday in March
next, WILL BE SOLD between
>he usual hours, at Monticello,
One Lot of Land,
No. 2! 5, in nineteenth district of
Baldwin county, now Randolph, Ie*
vied on as the property of Jos. Hole-
man, William Phillips and William
Hammett, to satisfy art execution in
favour of Eleazar Jeter. ALSO,
One Negro Girt,
named Lucy* one likely Yoke of
O xen and Cart, Four good F eather
Amount captured by the Spaniards! Beils and l'urniture, one Sorrel
10, 000 dollars, whereof no tidings
since captured.
Charleston, January, 15.
We learn, by captain Surget, from
New-Orleans, that the felucca, on
board of which Mr. Brown, the col
lector of that port, lately made his
escape, had been taken by the Uni-
TUESDAT, January 30.
ted States Gan-Boat, No. 65, which r »• c i t .
. . . , ’ , in favour of Samuel Lancaster
nad been dispatched by commodore , • , . , i r '
„ , 1 . r c a- , . property pointed out by the defen-
Porter m pursuit ol her, off the is- hf. AI SO
Petersburg, (Va.) January, 12.
The House of Delegates of Vir-
The Northern AIM by AthenThiiil ? ini ‘!v h . ave llt present before them
not arrived there, when the mail for
this place was closed. No Congres
sional intelligence has been received of
later date than was published in our
last.
A Dinner was given in Savannah,
on Tuesday the 15th instant, to his
Excellency Governor Mitchell, by
the officers of the Chatham Regi
ment.
A Committee of the Virginia Le
gislature have reported, a plan to
encourage the raising of Sheep, and
the introduction of Merinos. As
one important means of encourage
ment, a tax on dogs is recommended.
Messrs. Livingston and Fulton
have presented a petition to the Le
gislature of Virginia, praying the
exclusive right of navigating the
rivers of that state, with Steam Boats
—particularly the waters of the Ohio
and Mississippi. They engage to
navigate those rivers in three fourths
the time now required, and to carry-
freight for three fourths the usual
price.
Horse, Seven Cows and Yearlings,
and twenty-five head of likely Hogs,
all taken as the property of Joseph
Carter to satisfy sundry executions
against him ; property pointed out
by the defendant. ALSO,
One Likely Sorrel Horse,
levied on as the property of Nehe-
miah Harvey, to satisfy an execution
land of Jamaica; but that Brown
!had made his escape on shore four
hours before the gun boat fell in with
her, with all his plunder. The fe-
One Lot of Land,
No. 19, in the sixteenth district of
Baldwin county, now Randolph,
t
1
^Lructed to enquire into the expedi-
-acy of encouraging the manufactur
ing of Iron by making a donation of
The Society ot Agriculture and
Commerce of Caen have been lately
1 presented with specimens of paper
a certain portion yf land to such P cr -I manu f ac tured from straw, by means
sons as may-erect iron works withinly ;m instrument so simple in its
the territories ol the United States. C onstru<ftion that anv person who
Mr. Bassett made the following pleagcs may makc paper equal to the
report
“ The committee appointed on that
part of the President’s message re
lating to the naval establishment, re
port, in part, that they found that the
frigates now in ordinary was the on
ly /part of the subject requiring im
mediate attention. Besides the mo
tives presented in the Secretary’s let-
fsr for an immediate raparation of
those frigates, the eventful situation
of our country furnishes a strong in-
<lucetifent to placing those valuable
ships in- a state Jo aid in the protec
tion notof our ports only but of those
numerous exposed situations on the
water with which our country a*
hounds. The committee therefore
recommend the following resolution
Resolved that ,the hulls of the frigates
now in ordinary ought to be immedi
ately repaired, and that dol
lars qut of any money in the Treasury
,is. appropriated for the same*”
• (Accompanying this report was a
fetter of the Secretary of the Navy
staiinghis opinion that the frigates in
ordinary do require material re
pairs ; .that ibe increasing injury
nost practised workman.
The art of printing from stone
continues to lie practised with great
success in Germany. At Studtgard
a printing office has been established
for the more extensive application of
this invention. The engraving of
musick i6 the chief branch.
The United States Troops have
been greatly benefited in their health
by being removed to the vicinity of
Natchez, from New Orleans—only
sixty having died since their remo
val.
A person at New York has ad'
vertised his having obtained a pa
tent for a machine for cutting sas
suage meat. He cautions all persons
against cutting their meat after his
manner without purchasing the privi
lege.
The triumphal arch erected in the
Carousel at Paris, by order of Bona
parte, to immortalize the glory el
which wilLro.ih from their remuin-Jthc French arms is now entirely
iig in their present hituurion may be finished. It faces the Thuillcrics on
a “ Bill to suppress Duelling,” the
provisions of which are extremely
severe. A motion on the 3d inst. to
postpone its further consideration to
the 31st of March, was negatived
—Ayes 20—Noes 135...The first
section enacts that if any person shall
challenge another to fight a duel, or
if any person shall accept a challenge,
or fight a duel with any person, the
probable issue of which may or might
terminate in the death of the chatten
geror challenged ; such person shall
be incapable of holding or being e-
lected to any* post of profit or emo
foment, civil or military, under the
government of the commonwealth.
The 2d sec. enacts that any per
son who shalt hereafter be appointee
to any office civil or military under
the commonwealth, shall in addition
to the oath now prescribed by law
solemnly swear that he had not since
the passage of this act, nor woult
be, during his continuance in office
be directly or indirectly concerned
in a duel.
The 3d sec. declares, that nO per
son offending in either way as afore
said, shall ever thereafter be capabl
of bringing or prosecuting any suii o
action, eitner at common law or in
chancery, and that any action or suit
instituted or commenced, by sue!
person shall be dismissed, wlienso
ever the fact of his having commit
ted either of the said offences, shal
be established under any plea taking
advantage thereof.
The 4th sec. provides, that when
the commission of either of the said
offences shall be established against
any person, the record in such action
shall be good evidence in every suit
or action which may thereafter arise
for the purpose of proving either ol
the offences aforesaid, although the
party or parties to such subsequent
suit or action, was not a party in the
suit or action whereby the said fact
was established.
The 5th sec. makes it the duty of
the judges of the circuit and coun
ty courts at their quarterly sessions,
to give in charge expressly to the ju
ry all the laws in force to suppress
duelling,
The 6th section gives power to the
magistrates to bind over to their good
behaviour any persons whom they
may have cause to suspect are about
being concerned in duelling.
The 7th section enacts, if any per
son or persons shall for the purpose
of eluding the provisions of this act,
leave the state, the porson or persons
so offending, shall be deemed as guil
ty, and subject to the like penalties
as if the offence had been committed
within this Commonwealth.
The 6th section provides that in
lucca had arrived in the Mississippi,'levied on as the property of William
but the gun boat had proceeded to \V. Kennon to satisfy an execution
Kingston, in pursuit of Brown.
Captain Gooch, from Havanna,
informs, that that port has been
opened by order of the government,
until tlie 2')tli ot August next ; but
that vessels entering with cargoes of
provisions, still meet with several
days delay before they can get theit
vessels tQ an entry.
January 16.
Arrived ship Mississippi Kcllsa,
.isbon, 36 days. Capt. Ktllsa, fur
nishes no news. He sailed on the
Ah December. The British arinv
was still on the frontiers of Spain Ik
Portugal. There were about 200
til of transports at Lisbon. It wa
he opinion of some, that the countn
vould be evacuated by the British
before the end of December ; not-
vithstanding his expectation, how-
;ver, reinforcements had lately arriv-
d from England. There were tw<
British ships of the line and two oi
hree smaller vessels of war lying a,
Lisbon when capt. K. sailed. No
rtficial accounts of the destruction ol
he Toulon fleet had been received
it Lisbon. Markets dull at Lisboi
or American produce. The articl*
of Cotton was not permitted to bi
;old for consumption in the country,
ind if landed, was subject to a heavy
duty on exportation ; and as there
were not English or other vessels
sufficient to take away the cargoes
that were daily arriving, many ves
sels were subject to great delay &
inconvenience. Several vessels had
proceeded to Cadiz, with their out
ward cargoes.
in favour of Barrett and Sims ; pro
perty pointed out by the defendant.
ALSO, the one half of a Brick
Kiln, containing about
120,000 Bricks,
levied on as the property of Josiah
Goolsbey to satisfy an execution in
favour of Augustin Harris ; the
property pointed out by the Plaintiff’s
attorney, levied on by Jesse Evans,
Deputy Sheriff. ALSO,
One Book, one drawing knife,
two augurs, three small hammers,
one writing desk, one Umbrel
la, one Club Axe, two pair of hinges,
three files, one snuff bottle and box,
and two pistol barrels, levied on as
the property of Icabdd Nelson, to
satisfy an execution in favour of
Isliam Huckohy. ALSO,
One Let of Land,
No. 8, in the fifteenth district of
Baldwin county, now Randolph,
levied on as the property of Jacob
Mercer, to satisfy an execution in
favour of Ransom Swinev.
Conditions of Sale, Cash.
P. Fitzpatrick, Sheriff.
January 28 14—tds
For Sale,
Three fractions in the second dis
trict of Baldwin, on Pot itoe Creek,
adjoining Tinsley, Smith and Kanes,
containing 375 acres, well improved,
with two Grist Mills, and near one
hundred acres of open Land, great
part of the best quality and well cal
culated for public business. The
Arrived, sloop Pattv and Lydia,Iterms will be made known by ap*
Richardson, Amelia, 7 days, ballast,
to John Evi i-igham. The Patty and
Lydia experienced some very bail
weather, which damaged her sails &
rigging ; lost also an anchor and
cable off St. Simons. Just before the
Patty and Lydia sailed, the comman
dant at Amelia informed the Cap
tains of the English vessels there,
that he had just received a letter
(which might be depended on, but
would give no information as to the
author of it) stating that the French
who had been driven out of Cuba,
had gone to Guadaloupe to collect
forces sufficient to make a formida
ble attack on Amelia ; in conse
quence of which information, the
British Captains appointed as com
modore, Captain Forster, of the ship
Maiy-Ann, (formerly an American
East Indiuman), mounting twenty
two guns : and signed an agreement
to abide strictly by his order ; Capt
Forster was at St. Mary’s, but was
momently expected.
plying to the subscriber on the pre
mises, or at this office.
Jeremiah Bonner*
January 30. 14—3tfl
To Rent,
The STORE HOUSE, fronting the
public square, and on Wayne and
Washington Streets, belonging to
the estate of John Peterson, dcc’d.
For terms apply to A. M. Devereux,
Esquire.
John Crowder.
January 30 14—4t
Wanted to Hire,
A NEGRO GIRL, from 14 to 15
years of age ■'--Apply at this office,
i January 30.
14— tf
Notice.
NINE months after date applicati
on will be made to the honourable
the Inferior court of Randolph coun
ty, for leave to sell one tract of land
lying in the county of Green, on the
waters of Bever-Dam Creek, adjoin
ing Ligon, Pinkard and Dillard,
containing ninety-seven aud one half
Veres, it being the real'cstate of John
Cochran, dec. to be sold for the be
nefit of the heirs and creditors of said
deceased.
SUSANNAH COCHRAN, Admx,
DUDLEY COCHRJLV, Admr.
January 30. * i4—»9m