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MUSEUM
OF
WAX FIGURES
jYO ?• (iPpN r.’y* J'W in /.n■
(innv Sony, on hiav, axd
v ill Y;m -n here for two
vaeeh nAv.
Anew and Elegant Collrdbon of
WAX FIGURES,
Ju'’ bv c.onp')in"''irs, to be
superior to a-.v exhibited in
America,
/< r.g whh I, ar- lie fAh wingcharaßrrr.
A Urikmg rrprefenrTtion of the
laic unFofiOi)Jt( Duel be.ween
lur. HA MIL I ON & Col.
BURR.
In this interelling feme, the
Colonel is reprefcri'ed in the ac
ritude of firintr, wh L the G'ne
r tl (tan Is at his ddt.ince waring
the refill’ o ( the h (t lire; both
accurate liken* fPs.
A sinking likeness of Us excellency
THOMAS JEI PERSON.
Also of the
MARQUIS DELA FAYPTTE.
THU DLATH OF
GENERAL H'ARREN,
Who fell in the ever memo
rTl. HA n LL of BUM Kb R’s
HILL. In this Warlike l r rnt,
the Cirncral is itoichnttd as
supported by one of hs men,
while a BRUTON rushes up
to plunge his bayonet into him.
Another of the General's MEN
preients his gun to his head t or
immediate revenge ol the Gene
ral’s death.
THE DEATH OI
GENERAL HR A DIJOCK,
Who fell in Brarklock’s de
feat. An INDIAN is lepre
fented lcatping the Gen. while
one of his men in an ntttir.pt to
refeue lrm out o( the hands of
tlie* Indians, was nvrrt.iken by
another Indian, who is ready to
split hitn w it!', ins ICm ihav. k,
2HR HEAI i T of AMERICA.
1 he SLEEPING BLAU I Y.
ELIZ A WHAR I ON,
OK IKS
AMERICA N COQU E V IT,
Reprcfenttd Etwo n two KI-
V AIT.
r \ lie IT.ippy Cottagers cheer
ing thcmfelvcr. with their
Botrlc and Pipe.
Tlie Poor Mendicant ask
ing Alms.
%* The MU HUM wilt l
open Jrom N : t:eo\lo<K u, the wcrti
till n ne in the eves i *, Sun
days excepted.
PROFILES cut with accu
r icy* at tlie above mentioned
jUce.
ADMITTANCE, 50 cents
f. r grown perlons—•- children
p ilf-price.
VISITORS are particularly
requeued co refrain fro m touch
ing ihe FIGURES.
March iS 47
WTTTcTL
THE (tiblcribcr takes this oppor
tunity to return bis thanks to the
gtuthoum who took the Saddle off his
iiotfe Handing at the door of Gunn's
Tavern on EiiJay evruiug Jail. His
thanks lit cotUidera asj'iltiy due for the
gentleman's forbearance in not accom
modating himfclf with the hoife and
bridle. However, should the joke be
carried lurcher, be slitters liimiell the
j erfon alluded to, will not be iurprited
~t finding his name, at lull length, in
this paper in a lew days* The laddie,
tl he ilt uks proper, may be left at this
office.
WILLIAM DROWN,
Harbor-maker Portot Savannah
March tfi 2t 57
iso id > t.u u e.
r I ‘•JJJtS * tejrs t retreat about 4 miles frm
JL S.i .un :t>, ot WafTtw river, is .tiered
or. ie.ue i 1 u.\ or seven . t ■, t r the hene
j-i otlhe hen a minor. un terms rival wtfl tiiii
tl ole inclinable top. lief, so valuable a piece
ot ground, s well ealeu ated for heakit as
f.n pira .ere and profit. Apply to
\V . STCP.i., NS, } ’
N TUHNUCTI.i 5 CuAßßias.
Au.,all v t>
\\ At\ 1 1 1 ),
1 N iOV hi\ ivki.U, a t-’r hi 111 well ac
-1 V -qiuis. a; wi.h 1.u., 1 mi 11. k. wh Can
0,. ~ a >! iec>mmc da. ns .1 Ins hone: >.
tuutlU .>• U:i 1 Hi.* .v * *V |I . lt' i*V IVi •*!. Il*
u> ttuli * -Li 1 .sf ‘.. C Oil’ 1 . .
J 11.; li. iV ured.
Mtrui *1
5-— Sic-at—
NINTH CONGRESS.
HOUSE ct REPRFAE .. TATIVES
Mminy, March X •
Th- .Speaker laid before the I use a
‘tte’ from the S cretary of fh’ 1 reafu
y, trans hitting a r port, w. h acrompa
nying ft tements in obedience to the
re fol ut ion* of the house of the 3i,
and 7th ult. which were referred to a
committee of the whole on the Rate f, t
the union.
Mr. ‘J. Clay reported a bill EHthon
’ng th< purchafc of certain ropiet of the
J .urnalt of Congress, which was referred
to a committee of the whole to-mor
row.
Mr. Thompson called for the order
>f the day on the bill an'horifing the e
redtion of a bridge over the Putomac.
Mr. G. IV. (.a-nfibill moved to port
poric the hill till Thutfday.
Motion loft— Ayes 36 —Noes 43.
71/r. G■ IC. Canpleit then moved to
pofi pone i* till to-morrow.
Mr. Smihe and Mr. C,. W. Camp,
hell fupporti-d ; and Mr. I hompfoii &
Mr. Lewis opposed it.
Mr. GoldUnrmgh moved its poftpor.c
ment till Wednesday.
On this last motion the house divided
Ayes 42 —Noes 47.
On postponing the bill till to-mor
row the house divided—Ayes 4.3
lAift.
When the house resolved itielf into a
committee of the whole— /r/r. Gregg in
the chair—on the laid bill.
The bill having been read over, was
corfidered by fe&ions.
Mr. R. D. lVVUams moved to amend
that part ut the bill which fixes the iciti
of the bridge, by dirirting it to be creat
ed t.t or above Georgetown.
This motion was disagreed to —Ay- s
29-
Various amendments were made in the
details of the bill.
J\lr Thompson movrd to fid the blai k
in the bill relative to the time within
which the bridge (hull be built with tlie
words “live years.”
This motion, alter a short ikbatc, wa?
agreed to — Ayes 49— Noes 47.
On fixing the maximum per ertuge
1 ereafter lobe received by the (hare hol
ders, debate arole.
Motion* to allow 30 and 2$ per cent
were lolt, when, without deciding on a
nyofherfum.a motion for the commit
tee to rife ptevailed.
The committee then rose a n d obtained
leave to fit again, and the house adjour
ned.
Tuesday, March 4.
Mr. Croauni■ picld, from the com
mittee of commerce and manufaAurcs,
made a report on the petition of the
Dutchefscounty (late company, of N.
York, praying the imposition of an ad
ditional duty on imported date, unfavor
able to the prayer of the petition, in
which the house concurred.
Ah. Crowninlhicld, from the fame
1 ommittec, reported on the petit.on of
the merchants of Newbuty Port, repre
f.nting the inconveniences experienced
in navigating the Merrimack, and pray
■iig a reunburfiment of the exprncer in
urred by them in the ere&ion of two
oiers for sac iilitating the navigation of
laid river. The report dates th reftion
of the piers to have hein mdertaken,
and tlie expenditure ( f more y to hav
! een made, independent ot the din£lion
of ihe U R.
Mr. Ey thought t! *re app arid on
he face of the nport flu ng 1 ..foii6 in
lavor cf tfie pray, r of the pi.itioneis,
ini m seif for the purpofeof confiduing
the cal's, a retemmee of it to the com
mittee of the whole house.
Ah. Crvwnirfhitld was in favor of
the fame coutfe, and obfewed that lie
n*d bent in the committee in favor of
(he claim.
Air. Early opposed this courfc, and
supported the immediate concurrence of
the house in the report, on the ground
(fated therein.
Air. G. IV, Campled adv oca ted a re
ferrence of the report to a committee of
the whole house, and sxpreffed his opin
ion in favor of the application.
Mr. 7 ohn C. Smith spoke ill favor
of a reftrrence to a eommittee of the
whole house.
Air. /Si twell spoke againfl such a re
fen \uce, and in favor of the report.
Air. Sloan took the opposite liJe of
the question.
Un the question being taken, a veier
rence to a committee of the whole house
obtained—Ayes 5 ‘.
Air. Sloan from a committee to whom
was rs*ferred tits- bill imposing a tax sm
(l ives imported into the U. S. reported
.1 new bill.
Arr ‘tTon was made to rejedt it—Loft
Ay s 24
Ou making it the order for the 4th
iff July, moved by Mr. D. R. IVilitume
thr house divided—Ayes 34 —Loft.
When the bill was made the ords-t sot
Mo day—Ayes 4.3
Air Eppes pretented a petition from
a number ot the citizens ot Georgetown
exprsfling their opinion in favor of the
relolutioiis fora rcccfiicn for the diilrid
of Columbia, which was iclcrred to the
committee ot the whole house to which
thole reiohiuo.is were referred.
Air. Gregg, from the committee on
pubi.c lands, made a i.port ou the pett
ta u oi the mayor, alsfeimiti, and at
ui.tance of trie cty ot Natehcs, ot Wm.
Dui.bar, a .de; the truilte* sit
college, wineli was rclerred lo a com
mttucot the whole Louie ea Monday.
Mr. GrrgrL id In ‘ L-ej rmmed to
move -hi*
into a ci ‘nmwtee of on th;
date of the union, with th: view of ta
king ; ro cor federation the resolution
which hr had sometime since offrred—
[On a koh-imroßtatiok or BatTisn
Goons J At the request, however, of
fom- gevMem n, and matoa'ich as t}ie
day wn already considerably advar.c-d,
he fa id he v/outd not make this motion
to day, but he gave notice that he fttouid
make i to-morrow.
The house pgain resolved itfelf into a
committee of the whole on the hrll for
the erettion of a bridge across the P.ito
mac.
The question was taken on limiting
the m ~*> urn of future tolls to twenty four
per cestum per annum, and carryrd-
Aycs 47 Noes 43. ;
A motion was made to limit the cor
poration to eo y-jrs, which after con
(iderablc debate was rejected—Ayes
29.
A motion was then made for a trans
fer, after a certain number of years, of
the bridge to the United States on their
the company which was
like wife disagreed to—Ayes 1?,
An o'ion was made to limit the cor
poration lo 99 years, which was not a
greed to.
Air. G. IV. Campbell moved anew
fef.tion, rendering the company liable to
si 1 claims of imdemnity for injuries ari
sing to private property from any ob
llru&ion of tlie navigation of the Poto
niae by the erection of the bridge.
’Puis motion was loft —Ayes 12.
Mr. I arty moved anew feCiion, ma
king it the duty of the company to keep
the channel at the draw of the lame
dipth as it now is, and if (offered to be.
come more (hoai, in poii g on them a
penalty of do.iars for every week
ii iliail lie f<> (uffered to continue.
Mono lull rtyes 37 —No-s C 4
M >•. Sloan m ived a., additional fdl
ion that in case the bridge fli h fall into
decay or bt broken down, the fai l com
j a y ftiail be bound to remove the fame,
ou: .. ttie channel of the river, to that
h- navigation may not be obltrudted
thereby-
This motion was likewise disagreed to
Ayes 25.
Mr. Gotdjiarough moved an amend
ment, requiring ico.ooo dollars to be
lublcnbed previously to the company
commencing their operations, which af
ter debate, was disagreed to—Ayes 4c
Noes 46.
After the proposition of a great vari
ety of other amendments, fome of which
wue. agreed to and others rejrfted, the
committee rose and reported their agree
ment to the bill.
From the (Litchfield) WITNESS.
/ AMERICAN LITERATURE.
WHEN a man has gorged himfelfwith
plain wbolefomc diet for fame time he
begins to long for luxuries. He Horns
the vulgar bulinffs of eating to live, and
thenceforth nobly resolves to live to eat.
He becomes very fcientific in the choice
of food audigarnifhes, can harrangue clo
quelly on the virtues of ketchup and
mod learnedly on the qualities of a toad
itool : at length the fcientitic eater dies
with his food untligtfled within him,
and his tabic companions, milting his vatt
dimenfians, exclaim, what a vacancy the
death of this man lias made in our
world.
The mind may he kept ftrcmg, heal
thy and thriving, so long as it is fed With
p'aiu important truths : these truths arc
tullieienily numerous to occupy the
whole life ; but as soon as a man gets
lived of these and begins to hanker after
fcieuce, he goes to hunting up r3re
things, such as common men cannot ar
rive at : perhaps three fourths of what
he gets is falfc, but it is all science, be
caule bis neighbors does uot know it.—
The fcientific boy talks Latin, Greek
aid Hebrew, but bis school-mate, who
has been less prvilcdged, can speak only
Euglifh. The firlt has found out that
there is no heat in fire, no cold in ice, aid
that a Gcomitrica! point ha 9 neither
length, breadth or thickness : but h:s
febool -mate knows that there is heat in
fire, cold in ice, and that the place,
where fometbing ends and nothing be
gins, may ns well be called nothing as a
geometrical point.
The knowledge of whatever is true
aud ufeful deserves refpetl ; all ether
knowledge deferve* at leatt neglect.—
Men of science may imagine that com
mon people will rtfign this pofuion and
will be contented to purchase of them
whatever they pleale to pats off for Li
enee ; but while they are ciifpofed to
puif of their warts at more than they are
worth, we, who are deltined to be the
buyers, aie icfolved to reduce them to
their true llandard ot market and va
lue.
Let us test these ti ings by a familiar
example.
Tue man of science knows the Latin
names of Alai k, TuUy, Cicero, and ot
Horace and of all the poet’s, orators and
ltatesinen of antiquity, and has read their
writings ; hut if unacquainted with the
men and hittory ot his own country,
what can he do with this omlandilh
knowledge ? It is tar better to know
the names and occupations of his own
neighbors. It may be iaid that he will
aifu know these common thiugs, but all
th.s u going back from luxuries to plain
kx>d, .iludyiog to live, inttead ot living
to ttndy ; lie Icorus it, becaule it is not
f it nee. The ignorance ot learned men
m reipeCt to common, needary truths
is frequently remarked* and trtqu.i t-
Jy do we C-e learned mc gLry.'tg in !
XTii* igno ince.
i • .:•• a hear l of i,s ‘n tl e dnft
and aftie- of old hunks; (lie has found
and and. .-cyphered many an oldparchmei t,
dug frjm tiie midst of ruin. She fas
difenvered fume dozens u r new ft ra
more than ivr ftnll ever diferter. She
has starved more poets th n w- Gall
probably rear; (he lists advanced in die
ta£ti3 of war and intrigues at cabinets
far beyond ourfpeed.
To us as anew,- rifinij country,
which has thrown off the (hackles of
European political fyftetns, is referred
the glory of rtj,.£li[>g the luxurious
state of European literature, and to u
ii reserved the ample advantige of con
fining our literary rcfearctirs to ufeful
truths. The body of our people re
joice, that, as a nation, we ire young,
healthful and republican: i’l3 the in
terert of the multitude that his should !
continue to be the case. Federal,im
would drag us forward to f'try thing j
which the old age of Eirope has j
brought on her t Federaiifm would fill
our country with f'irnt'fc futiling fyjl m ,
statesmen, with fcientific potts ana fid- ■
lers, and all the Tons of mere and of'j
song ; but it is the good fortjne of rr
publicans trial we have iucl men as ‘
Adams and Oliver Wolcott t vie w ith !
the politicians, and that wc have j
Dwight and Alsop to vie with the pacts ‘
of Europe, end ttiat in all points of
literature we are so glonouff a-stern.
Men of great fc ence and great wealth
are always pretending th*t the ignorant
and pour will gain fome advantage of
them : yet these last have been always
opprtffed by the other ever since the
memory of man.
The great pretrnd that el! blefTings
civii and religious depend on them and
their profound refetL-ches ; yet they
never abate from the account all the
causes arsi calamities, which their great.
nt’fß has brought upon the world. The
God of the ignorant ami poor made
this world; the- great est of hi* creatures
fall into a thoulansl errors in attempt
ing to explore tlie woodert, ot his 11.fi 1-
ite wifdotn . each fucciffion of these er
rors it denominated an infallible iyftem
of (cience : the be ft of Ins creatines do
much for themfeives, and very little for
the good of all; the naturally weak
state of che human mind (houhl make
literary men modelx and the tatt fheuid
iead ignorant men to watch truth,
which is hid among errors, like a
grain of wheat in three measures of
chaff.
It is not true, 23 fome contend, that
republican# arc enemies t* schools and
the real improvement of the mind; but
we have no more refpett for the intro
duition and congiftion of the foreign
luxuries of literature, than we would
have for the importation of palanquins
and flare# from China. It is tnor*. im
portant that our foitc should have plain
learning, so that they may >e uteful in
life, than that the names of oar dead
literati should be founded *0 the ends
of tlie earth ; More imports!', that out
rights should be understood ittd piefer
red, titan that our ryhmce should jingle,
The human mind, goaded on by am
bition, prefids forward toward literature
rapidly enough for a young country,
without artificial ftimulante. If thn .
ambition (hall point to the ccuntlcls
fubj.fts in th? new world and (hail have
to ttie old world and tilt old schools the
dujly volumes and decayed manufoript ,
we (hall feeure a healthful maturity and
au honorable decline.
From, the Vermont Gazette.
|
Oh the utility of newspapers.
To hold, at it c litre, the mirror up to till- \
tare ; to Jhew virtue her crj’i feature ; ]
feern, her own image ; oil the very j
age and body of the time, his form and j
prrffure. iStIAKESPEAKE.
Among the numerous advantages be
(lowed ou civilized nations, by the art
of printing, Newspapers have long for
med au excellent medium us univerf.u in
ititell'geiice. Before the establishment
of these paper mercuries, the generality
of xiankind continued in a state of igno
rance relpedting each other, and the
globe winch they inhabited, except t’ae
vague knowledge communicated by the
unperfeff accounts of travellers.
That we may be able to form fome
idea of the ittdiipenfable utility of news
papers, let us only coniider the vapidity
of their circulation—ttieir ufeful com
mu.dilations reflecting commerce, poli
tics, new difeoveries in tlie art* and fci
et.ces. and improvements in agriculture.
In this point of view, they may be (aid
to convey information conducive to the
well being of the (oci.il body, ;.s the
blood circulates through the animal, tor
the invigeration of its members.
AcvcrufemcuU on dtfi. rcut fubjeSi
not only amutc, but inftruA the reader;
hue in this rclped, it rnuft be acknow
ledged, that many ot the public prints
difictiitnate peruuioua intelligence—fslle
atteiiations in favor o. n ,drums not on
frequently d.igrace their co.umn*. This
is the more repreheutible, as we often ia
the next column fi id a Ipinted aod weii
timed lame on loone recent luiniorai
tranladtiou. Yet, like evtry other hu
man intlitution, our public p. in.'s are
tin dimed with imp. rtt&ion, tlio’ of
general utility ; as tlie fame feittle lvtl
ia at once produtfive of nutritious gram
and poiionoiis plants—it can never be
cntirtly olherwile, dll mar, (halt be
pcrfetl.
Our aewfpapers exhibits liv.ly aid
ntcrvfting view of the b,.y -.10 p-y
wor.d ; mar are the 1 .ciciiiuu-
I Tl. n overl . lin-.d Uv nn” writers th*
, ‘.fibles of the •-?.< and the great are com
i manly t- i) light to be corrected by f
- rions admonitions from the pnlph, and
|-r>o evanefeent to i.llow the satirist tirr
to attack them in a v rlume: But a
new fpap'-r is indeed a tremenduom in
!qu fitoria! inftruwcnt, and the mod a
| bandoned charaAer in high life would
| tremble at the idea of being publicly
i exposed through us magnifying medi-
J urn ; Ey it we obtain general ideas of
J the state of tlie civilized world ; aft .fi
ling incidents which exhibit new views
]of human nature; and the perpetual
viciffituaes of the nations of the earth.
Newspapers are confeffjdly the b*_ft
; vehicles of political information, and as
‘fuch, will ever be highly prized ia all
jfree dates —Their fupprejlion might
j therefore be considered as a preliminary
iftep towards defpolifm ; lor it is a well
[authenticated fail, that among thole
| unhappy nations subjugated by tyranny,
j newspapers are either n known, or
these in circulation are under the infill,
ence of the crown !
In our country, the rale is happily
different : though Monarchies and To
ries have once basely attempted to mac--
k!e tlie press, and ttiough a certain few
at tins day would, it in their power,
lock it up in eternal thence ; yet, such.
| rumors, (landers, and means, are soon,
‘|bi*ited Dy the authoritative investigation
of truth,.
Whoever IhoulJ fufpeA that news pa
pers arc not the bell registers of fact*
relative to the progress td civilization,
arts and fciecces, would do well to en
quire whenct the ma trials of oar annals
are (upplied, which turnifti the hiltorisa
with a regular ferie# of intending facts
arranged in clurmclogical orde-r ?—cer
tainly from newf.papers. Thus, a coin
binatioD of materials, cc'.lebted from the
! quarry, the mins, and the toreft, in the
hands of a Aulfularchueif, is reared into
\ a inagmkcieut tenple that will endure for
ages.
i p.rn Vrilliag to bei eve, that there are
very few, who wjll not acknowledge the
?bovs fa£i3 to bt corredt. Tiiis being;
admitted, it certainly is the duty of eve
ry friend of his country, end especially
the Republican pzt of the community,,
who have in them the least (park o, that
ttiierial fi e which animated and warmed
the breads of oar fathers, to aid, afliii,
cherish and (upport a Republican news,
paper ; one that fusil be d. voted to the
[principles of ’76 ; one that (hail hold
[ud to public view, and detestation, the
1 wiles, artifices and delusions of Monar
chies, tones and anti-republicans ; that
will be guidtd excluftvely by virtue,
which is the bails of a republican go
vernment. A (OUNG WHIG.
SHERIFF’S SALES.
On ih ’firfi Tnefidy in May next ,
vj ‘ll be fild at the court-bouje
in ib's city, between toe boars
of ten and tb ee o’dock.
All that trait ot land feuate,
lyir.u; ar/d being within the coun
ty of Chatham, containing 300
acres be the fame more or Itris,
bounded northwardly try Savan
nah river,, raft'va dly by lands
of Joleph Clay Hq. we ft war dly
>r lands of Montaiiiet, and
lou h.vardly by lands of
md which land liach hitherto
oeen known as the Ghbe land.
beized as the property of Wm,
Hobkirk, under a toredofore of
Mortgage to the Wardens of
Christ Church.
T. ROBERT VDN, S. C. C.
March 10. ts 55.
GEORGIA.
COURT of ORDINARY,
CHATHAM COUNTY.
Monday, ?d March, i3c6.
WHEREAS it is ftatea to
the Courr, that a Imin
iltracion had been gianted in
the year 1799, to VVnl am Mil
i ligan, on ttie estate and effects
of David Milligan, deceal.-.’,
and to Edwin Gardner, on the
efface and tfF.ds of Alexander
Brown, deceafrd, and that both
tnc laid administrators, did and
■till continue to rc ide out of the
! date of Georgia, and have never
made and rendered an inveo*
J tory of the ellares they refpcCt
i vely rtpre.cn-, or in any other
wile complied with the, requ.fi
tions of our 1 aws.
It is tkcitfjrc ordered, That
the laid Edwin Gardner G? Wil
liam Miiiigan, be and appear at
ihts Court, to be held on the u, ‘*
Vionday in April next, to lhcw
! aulc (if any chev have) why
! .uch 1. tiers ot admininraaou
| mould not be revoked. And
| mat this order be published m
• one of the Gazettes once in every
. we.k from the dace Hereof.
■o.xt n:I /nut t'.e n.u.ir-s.
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