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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. t D A . U\U V V I ; i 1 I , 3+ j C -ik v— -j: tut 1 .;<u>