Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

V If ttme X] JL'BMSHKn WEKKtT. HY I'/liJ.tr C. iiUJEU, so™ SEW AIM VVREVIENT. As p*|K rit‘9fe fiaa li'“<jv**retl ous the little attrition *o printing ck-bi*, and the <1 -ii ‘ll*y and exp *:.so ii collecting &uch deb:*; St n i ti-w ntfv ui he called I beral in paying p i ictuaily w!a* ’tiey o wt-juslh/, .o the printer, v/e i a/e, ufier die Conti iteration, coin” to this co iofusiun, Hi a’ \v t mam r .'i.jr to uite chemt W “are compe led, ‘herefu.e, to a.lopi anew plan In consc*! mce of hm determination, our terms shall in future be,for the paper three u illar* per annum, if pa and in ad vance d'dlars, if paid wuhin s;X in m h<—aul five if paid only a the end of the ye ar *W advert is men*#, ‘hev are to be paid in ad v:*Ci? shenll salca excepted which are 10 he pa dq mr erly The above ru’es shall he ■ trie !v observed and no one need apply who isl not ready to comply with them Ternnor Adver’ s.tig 7 cents per .square for the firs* ii -.ertiou, and 62 4-2 cents for each continual ion Washington Tavern THE SUBSCRIBER !Y A s !aely iHki-n the house for s meily occupied by Mrs. Cot* if. fronting the main road leading mi Athens, through this place,to August, and situated near the Public &q::a: e. The house is fined up in nent order ior the reception of oompany. His long experience iu (aver i keeping, he define, will be a so ffi ten. assurance to ifioie who may all on him. that the best the country (F,i>\T wi I he served up for them in *i Aleut order. ‘Pile b*r wdi le plentifully supplied with i*hoi *e liquor ;ad his stables well fill’d, a ul under the direction of an experienced ostler, Samuel B. Head.- Wa lmigfon, \\ ?ke m,l January 23d, 1824. J Washington jockey Club Rif 1 ESi ‘ ILL commence on *,he first Wednesday in March next, free for any horse, mare or geMim*— subject ro the regulation of the Au gu-ta Turf as to weighs and ages. Hr day 8 running* 3 oiles heats for a purse worth S3OO , 2d day 2 mil 3 200 Sd day I mi’*, for entrance andpate money. \ N B Entrance oney, Ist day t S 20; 2d day $. 5 ; 3d day $lO. Money suspended By the order o the board, A. H. n ed, beefy, January ,’i- 8 i The ugu f a C onicle will insert th abovettwi n . a.* forward the ac count to thi*- U- Meigs v. o .Vi Hand, Having foi un and connection for lhe \ purpose of mnseting a j \\ aehouse And Comfttwoti Business, )E I ECTULLY so icit the patronagjf their friends and the pub ic Idr Mare Houe is situated oppos that of Messrs R. Malone & Cos upper end of Btoad street, and is :w. spacious and con ▼enient. and hm its situation) af for >s great se rity from tire The subscribers *1 also attend to rece v ing and forw hng any produce or merchandise*onfided to their care, Dar i Meigs. Jof nan M. Hand. Augusta, ® cember 31; V Notice AI-I Sr ons indebted to the es tate!: John tatham, late of E bertcoity, deceased. are reque t ed to coy forward and make im ne diate pap /nt; and all persons hav ing dew ds against ‘.aid estate will bring fcl ame forward, proved as the last requires. James Christian, } 3 John Brown, \ £ N1 .2 2. 1823. 47—ts _£ t Notice. i LL persons indebted 1o the es tale of Willism Walker, de #a.ed, are required to make iinmo ihate payment; and all those who have demands against said estate are requested to present them with in the time prescribed by law. Thomas Wootten, adm’r. Jauuary 211, 18 ii. The Washington News. IPdSHINGTON, (ceokgia) SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1824, From the National Intelligencer . To those of our readers who thii-k with us, that the Omgtes* of the United States cannot, during peace, mote benefi ially employ its time and the redundant revenue of tlie nation, than in afFnding aid to ob j** *ts of lo'ernal Improvement, vve offer ur congratulations on the near prospect of the passage of an act, by Congress, authorizing surveys and estimates to be made of • enaio srreai roads and <-anals. The hill wss yesterday ordered to he read a third time, by a majority which leaves no doubt of its fi.ml passage, in the House of Ucpreseu atives. Os its in the Senate, we run little hazard in making a favorable prediction. Our old readers ail know that, in* regard to this subject, we disa gree, as to the power of Congress, with some of those politicians with whom we agree, on almost every other point. It is fortunate, how ever, that even some of theae may vote for Ibis bill without a violation of conscientious scruples, and that it is such a hill, also, asthe Execu live is not indisposed to give his as sent to. Our opinions on this subject may be peculiar; but two little bills have already passed (lie House of Repre sentatives, at this session, for ma king roads in the Territories of Ar kansas and Florida, which, if ihey become laws, as we presume they will, are of more importance, in our estimation, looking to their cl’ feet on the social condition, and moral as well as political strength of the country, than all the other laws wdi be (hat are likely to pass at the present session, if we except the one of vviii h vve have just spo ken. The hill for the alteration of the ‘Tariff, to he sure, will, if it - pass, have an operation favorable to particular parts of the country* and particular interests; but loter lal Improvements benefit every b dy, without exception. The nabob and the pauper eq j ally share the ad vantages of them; they are, there fore, peculiarly fii for Republican Governments, the whole policy of which is to assist, and not, like Go vernments of a different order, to impede the march of intellect and of physical improvement. We are not, and never shall be, the advo cates oflavish expenditures on these objects. ‘There is u reasonable li mit to all tilings, and possible ex travagance iu the use of it, is no ar gument against the exercise of any power. We are in favor of keep ing up a small army, for example, even in lima of peace; but we should be bitterly opposed to a large one. Every thing that sustains life, or that adorns aud elevates the human character, may be carried to inju rious excess: but shall we therefore refrain from the use of them? Perhaps it may be well to add, before presenting our readers with the bill which has just been ordered to a third reading in the House of Representatives, that it is not gen erally understood to involve the power of Congress to nuke Roads and Canals. The following is a co py of the bill, as it has passed: A RILL to procure the necessary Surveys, Plans, a*d Estimates. upon the subject of Roads and Canals. Be it enacted , &t\ That the Pre sident of the l riled States is hereby authorized to cause the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates, to be made, of the routes of such Roads and Canals as he may deem of Rational importance, in a com mercial or military point of view, or necessary for the transportation of the public mail, designating, iu the case of each Canal, what parts may be made capable of sloop navi gation; the surveys, plans, aud es timates, for each, wheo completed, to be laid before Congress. *l?id be it further enacted , That, to carry into effect the objects of this act, the President be, aud he is hereby, authorized to employ two or more skilful civil engineers, and such officers of the corps of engi neers, or who may he detailed to do duty with that corps, as he may think proper, and the sum of thir ty thousand dollars be. and the same is hereby, appropriated to be paid ut of any nionevs in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. THE mil ÜBdR. Agreeably to promise, we publish, on our fourth page, the Circular of the fourteen Members of Congress from the Staie of Pennsylvania, re specting the nomina'ion, by the Re publican party, of a candidate for the Presidency. The publication of this Circular is due to the formality of the document, and the source whence it springs. The object of the writers of the Circular appean to be the same which was recoonneoded by a re spectable writer in this paper last Spring, but wlti h be himself, find ing it impracticable, has long since abandoned, and, being an old, uni form, and coaaisteiit Repu'diean, lie is now an active advocate of a Congressional nomination, believing that to be the only means of preser ving the ascendancy of Republican principles. We think that the au thors of (he Circular fiitter them selves with a success they cannot reasonably expect, if they calculate on that document’s producing at once a revulsion of the usual course of thought and action of the Re publicans, by exciting their hostili ty to the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency by the Republi can Members of Congress, if any such be made. We purposely abftairs from any thing like an analysis of this Circu lar, which does not, it will bo seen, deprecate a Congressional nomina (ion far its own sake, hut on account of the circumstances under which it would now be made not being ac cordant to their wishes. ‘They ob ject to a caucus, that it would not be a general oo**. They would make it less so by withdrawing from ii so respectable a portion as they compose of the Representation of the State of Pennsylvania. There never has been a Congressional cau cus from which a greater number of Republicans have not absented themselves, than has signed that Letter. Nay they themselves have carried the caucus principle further than ever it was carried before, in separating themselves into a State Circle, and recommending, to their constituents at home, what they wish that (heir constituents should recommend to them to do here, not in their official, hut in their private capacities. These remarks are not inconsis tent with a proper respect for the motives of the gentlemen whose names are signed to the Address, the frankness and publicity given to which, indeed, are entitled to all commendation, as well as the zeal which is shewn for the preservation of Republican principles in their pu rity. Whatever mav be said of a Con gr ssional nomination, we have ne ver contended that it was binding on any one further than his will con sents: nor do we believe it ever can, uuder any circumstances, procure the election of a citizen to the Pre sideney, who is not really preferred, by a greater number of his fellow citizens, than any other of the can didates for that station — Nat. hit , FH'M THE FR4NKLIN GAZETTE. [CTRCU’ \n ] To the Democraiic Republican Citi zens of Pennsylvania. Fellow < itizens : The relation which subsists between the consti tuent and the representative, must always be a sufficient apology for any communication upon matters of public interest which either may deem proper to make to the other; and it is, at all times, desirable, in the exercise of functions growing out of these relations, that a free * interchange of opinion, and full op port unity of examining the whole ground, should be had previously toadeeisioo upon any question of magnitude and diffriuhy. Influen ced by these considerations, we beg leave to invite your at tentio i to some important facts aud circumstances* as well as principles, involved in the proposition to nominate a candi date for the Presidency of the Uni ted Slates, to succeed the venerable patriot who now fit is that disiin guished station. You are, oodoubt, aware, that, from the period of the second eleeiion of Mr. Jefferson, down to the first election of Mr. Monroe, in 1816, the nominaiioo of the successful candidates for this high offi e ha* been made by what is called a Congressional caucus, composed of the republican mem bers of Congress, and that these nominations were made by the gen eral consent of the republican party throughout the nation; but the e vents which took place iu 1816, at the last caucus nomination, togeth er with subsequent discussions, have excited a strong apprehension a mong the republican party in a ma jority of the states, that the voice of the people maybe misrepresent ed in such a meeting. We do not (impose to inquire whether that apprehension i so well founded as to justify, on that ground , an abandonment of this mode of nomination at the prcseul time. It is sufficient for us to un derstand that the rvill of the people is the highest political oULhonty, aud that this maxim applies in its full force, as well to the organization of party associations necessary to the public welfare, as to the estab lishment of general political com pacts. Whatever mode of nomina tion, thes-efoie, receives the gener al assent and approbation of a par ty throughout the on;son, although there may be some obvious delect in its forms, may properly be regar ded as the declaration of the popu lar will of that party, and entitled to he respected as such; but when any mode of nomination ceases uot only to meet the general approba tion of those who of right may parti cipate in it, hut even becomes unac ceptable to a majority of them , it would be contrary to every princi ple of republican policy to maintain the practice; it would be nothing less than permitting a minority to make a nomination which was to hind a majority who had no parti cipation in it. Such a procedure is so far from being entitled to the ap pellation of a republican measure, that it partakes ot all the essential characteristics of aristocracy. Guided by these views, which we have no doubt are in perfect accord ance with your political principles, we have carefully inquired into, and deliberately considered, as far as we are able, all the circumstan ces that ought to govern our conduct in relation to the nomination, at this time, of candidates for the Pre sidency and Vice Presidency of the United Slates, by a Congressional Cau< us. In the first place, we have rea son to believe that, owing to the influeuce of public opinion in a ma jority of the states, which give a majority of electoral votes, the re presentatives in Congress from those states consider themselves as for bidden to take any part in the pro ceedings of a Congressional Caucus; and in the second place, that any nomination so made would be resis ted by the republicans in all the states which are opposed in princi ple to the mode. From this, it is evident, first, that (he representa tion in any caucus which could now be convened, would not only he more defective than the representa tion of the republican party in Con gress, but must consist of a small minority of that representation, in complete as it i; and secondly, that any nomination made by a minority of the republican representatives in Congress, being essentially an aris tocraiii* attempt of a few to control the many, unsupported by any us age or expression of public opinion to give it sanction, would have no claim to confidence, form no rally ing point of union, but inevitably tend to produce incurable dissen si *ns in the republican party thro’- out the nation, which might iujuri ouslv affect the permanent interests of our country. In addition to these considerations, there is ene more im mediately con- neoted with tire interests of Penn-* sylvaniu, which bus not been with out considerable weight iu our de liberations upon fi-“. propriety of pledging ourselves to abide die de cision of any partial meeting of members of Congress that might at tempt a nomination; the assemblage of such a meeting being unauthori zed by the whole republican party, and its rdpreseota ion very defec tive, the party would neither at tempt nor desire to exercise any control over the proceedings, which, thus exempted from proper respon sibility, would he lef< io ’hance, un influenced by the salutary restraints of public opinion, and the candidate selected might happen to be one whose views of national policy were the most opposed to the interest! of Pennsylvania; and if we were to at teud such a meeting, although such, a candidate were nominated by a majority of but a single vote, wo should, according to the usage ia these eases, become pledged to sup port him, though iu opposition ta the united voice of our coustil&ents. We should be wholly at a loss, ia such au eveut, to find aty excuse* for having taken a step so adverse to your interest, and so ineompati ble with the obligation which youi* confidence has imposed on us. W<* have, therefore, after the most ma ture consideration, concluded, that whether we regard the preservation of the republican party, by a rigidL adherence to the fundamental prin ciples of republican policy, or tha great interests of the Amerh an na tion, or the more immediate inter ests of Pennsylvania, it is equally inexpedient and improper for us at this time, as republican represent tatives of Pennsylvania, to attend any partial meeting, or caucus of members of Congress, to nominates candidate* for the Presidency aad Vice Presidency of the U. States. Aud, in order that you may be* fully informed upon this subject, in time to devise some mode ot nomi nation that might be generally ac quiesced in, we have, iu obedient** to a sense of duty to those by whose* suffrage wo hold our seats in Con* gress, deemed it proper to make the avowal of our determination* with the reasons upon which it i founded. THOMAS PATTERSON* DANIEL UDREE, GEORGE PLUMER, JOHN FINDLAY, JOHN BROWN, S. D INGHAM, PATRICK FARRELLY* JOHN TOO, THOM AS J, ROGERS, ROBERT HARRIS. JAMES WILSON, SAMUEL M*KEAN, D. H. MILLER, WILLIAM FINDLAY. Washington , January 6.1824. / Extract of a letter from an officer of our squadron in the Mediterrane- , an, dated Gibraltar, Nov. 27: ‘Mr. { Henry, our Consul, has received a . letter from Mr. Sbater, at Algiers, . informing him of some disturbance there. It appears that some caused of animosity has arisen between Algerines and Moors; and the Dey M< in consequence, ordered all the lat ter, in the city, to be put to death. . Now, each of the Consuls employed e two or three of these Moors as ser- a vaots, and the prime minister was sent with a body of soldiers to take J them away, Mr Sbaler resisted,’ and told the minister he would teet his with his life.—His Moors |f were sitting down at bis feet, and he standing over them with his drawn sword : the minister begged, him to desist, as the consequences might be fatal to him (Mr. S.) and , further stated that it would cost him bis head If he returned without them: but Mr. S. was inflexible, and the minister cleared out, went to the English Consul’s, broke opea the boose, ransacked even to the women’s apartments, and took off the Moors with him. By the lust accounts from Algiers, Shaler has still retained bis Moors. The re port came out only this morning possibly (here may be nothing in it, hut it is probably true, as it came frj Mr* H,enry.—JY\ T. American? [No. 5.