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__ ~ I GAZETTE A>'D Alexandria Daily Advertiser.* " ^PUBLISHED BY SAMUE L SNOWDEN, ROYAL "STREET._ Daily Gazette, 7 dolls .-Country, 5 dolls^ TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1319.% —^^—hi ARRIVAL of THE PRESIDENT. Washington. August 9. We are happy to learn that the Presi dent of the United States, attended by his private secretaries, Mr. Gouve-Tieur and | Lieut. Monroe, arrived in this city yester day morning, and in e;ood health,notwith standing his long and fatiguing journey through the Southern and Western States. The Secretary ot the Navy arrived at his lodging’* at Strottier's Motel on Friday eve •, ning, from a visit to his family in New yor{£. [.National Intelligencer. Annapolis. {Maryland.) August 5. An occurrence has recently taken place iu this city, which is calculated to awafeen the deepest anxiety and strongest indigna tion iu ihe bosom of every man who loves liberty ai.d is attached to the constitution of his country. It is painful to us to be obli ged to notice a transaction which is likely to become the subject of judicial investi gation ; but we find it impossible to repress the indignation, which every man must have felt, on witnessing the scene which xvas exhibited here on F riday last. At the , approaching session of our court it will be decided, whether a private citizen, who consider* himself agrieved by the conduct of a collector, Is to be deprived of the right of demanding redress for the injury sustain ed, ih the same peaceful and legal manner that he would-against any other individual. And, above all, whether the collector of the port is invested with power to call out the troops ot the L Diieu aiaies ior me pm pose of resisting the constituted authorities yf the state. These are'serious and solemn questions, which will no doubt be delibe rately weighed, and impartially and justly decided, by those to whom the important duty of administering the laws is commit ted. All that we say is, that if proceed ings of this kind are suffered to pass with impunity, we may prepare to bid a long fare well 10 tbe liberties of our country.— We have obtained from a friend the follow ing statement of the case, w hich we submit to our readers without further comment. # A citizen of *Md. considering himself en titled to goods w hich he thought had been illegally aud unwarrantably wrested from him by the collector of this port, sued out a writ of replevin from the court of Anne Arundle county, for the purpose of trying the title to them. The writ was placed in the handsof the high sheriff, who delivered it to one of his deputies to be executes.—— When the deputy proceeded to discharge his duts, part of the goods were lying on a wharf in tbe neighborhood of the collector s warehouse. The officer of justice took possession of thei%when they were imme diately seized and taken from him by a son of the collectof, and som^other men with him. The sheriff on being informed of this outrage, app!i*-vl in person to the collector for a delivery of the goods. His request was rejected. He then intimated to tbe collector, that he should l e under the necessity of per forming by forcible means the duty which was imposed upon him by law an 1 his oath of office. To this intimation the collector replied, that he should resort to force in order to prevent the eiectition oi me >vm. About an hour afterwards the sheriff pro ceeded towards the warehouse in w hich the goo Is were contained, and on his approach discovered a detachment of United States troops drawn up in military array, with an officer at their head, across the street which led to the place. When ti e sheriff advan ced to the spot where they were stationed, one of the soldieis presented a loaded mus ket to his breast so near that he was almost touched by the bayonet, and told him that if he proceeded another step his life would be the forfeit. The sheriff perceiving that it would be impracticable for him to proceed without hazarding the lives of many of his fellow citizens in a contest with dnurww troops, desisted from the attempt, and lodged a complaint with the chief justice of the state. Warrants were immediately issued for the apprehension of some ol the offenders, who we understand have been arrested, and compelled to enter into a Tecognizance for their appearance at the next session of the court, to answer for the daring outrage they have committed on the law of the land, and the liberty of the free people of this country. This is a simple recital ol .the facts tb it occurred. Comment is unne cessary, and would perhaps at the present time be improper. ' fMaryland Gazette. St. Louts, July 9. Th* postcriptto the last paper which States the return of the military expedi tion, is incorrect. No part of it has re* turned* The steam boat, however, gets on slowly, and with many stoppage*.* The keel boats go on rapidly, and parsed St. Gharles (18 miles from Belle Fontaine) two days aheat’ of the former. The con tents of the steam boats will be transferred to keels and barges. The river is in fine order; the July flood is coming down, and swelling the stream with the h^t of the an nual tributes. The failure of the steam boats is attributable to their construction, or management, and not to the rivers. inquirer. Philadelphia. August 5. U. S. Bank St-ck—96 offered, 93 ask ed, fora few shares, but no sales this fore noon. In New-York yesterrtav, 96J of fered, 97* asked. - [FrenklmGaz. Neva-York, August*1. LATEST. The Remittance brings Liverpool pa pers to the I7th, and London to the 15th of June ; but they are barren ot news. The British Loan Bill passed in com mittee of the House of Lords on the I4tb of June. k The markets remained as per last ac counts, with the exception of Stocks, wrhich were rising, both in France and England. [Gazette. 4 Tuscaloosa, [A. T.) July !. By a gentleman from Tombecbee we are informed that General Jackson has written to Mehuleetubbee, head chief of one of the three grand divisions ot theChactaw nation, through the interpreter Peachland, request ing them to meet him at a time and place specified, (when or where our informant did not learn) to hold a conference on the subject of the sale of that part of their na tion to the United States. fFhen our in formant left there Mehuleetubbee and Peachland were on a tour through the dis trict t* consult the other chiefs and head men on the sulject; and the opinion was almost universal among the whites in the neighborhood, that the district will be ce tied to the United States either by sale or by exchange ol lands on the Arkansaw— though not immediately. We learn from another source. that a de putation of the Cbactaw nation visited the country on the Arkansaw, with a view of such an exchange, and have made a very, favorable report both of the country and quantity of game. Inconsequence of which a great number of the Chactaws have ex pressed a willingness to exchange with the United States on the same terms as those granted to the Cherokees. The district embraces the military cro-sing on the Besk bee, where it has lately been determined, the great federal road from Nashville to New-Orleans shall cross that river. Natchez, July 14. THE LATEST NEWS FROM, TEXAS. Gen. Long, the chief of the army of Texas, raised the republican flag 12 miles on the other side of the Sabine river, on the 21st ult. He had with him 600 Ame ricans and Spaniards, besides 3000 In dians. He would, in five days after the 29th ult. fix on his head-quarters at Na cagdoches. - A Letter from an officer in the Mexican expedition, dated, “Camp Freeman, Tex as, June 23,,rsays : “ We got on to Alexandria, very well with hard rowing from the mouth of Red river, it being high and rapid. Our force is augmenting daily. The subject is lauda ble, and is entirely popular, from your slate (Mississippi) to this place, as well as in e very other part from which we have heard, VerjPmany are preparing to |oin us from 1 • PC_4_4. ,.4' P A<1 fli/nr Itp TKd s' i 11 - UIUCKIH Vi .. Zens in this part of Texas, are pleased to Lave an opportunity of assisting in throw ing off the Spanish Monarchy In fine, every thing at present seems to smile on us. I am just returned from riding all night on business lor the army. We leave here this afternoon in pursuit of a party of traders supposed to be Royalists,-going to St. An tonio, with goods. The troops are busy cleaning 'heir guns for a warm chase. tVe shall probably overtake them tomorrow night. “General Long arrived hereon the 21st, and oft that day we raised the flag of Repub licanism.* Men are arriving daily, as well as citizens enrolling themselves as Militia. Some republican Spaniards of note, and of considerable wealth, have afforded us great assistance, lou *hall hear from us again shortly.* * A letter from another source, of a prior date, said, that Gen. \--r was to take the command ot this expedition. Front the Plattsburgh Republican of the 24 th of July. A young man was taken up in this vil lage on the 21st inst. and committed to goal for passing connterteit money. He had in his possession 12 counterfeit 10 dol lar Bills on the Montreal Bank, and be bad passed two of the same denomination in Chazy. His name is Simon Watson, late of W indsor, Ver. He states that he has been clerk or an assistant to the keeper ol the Slate Prison, in Windsor, and that he ' imbibed a predilictioo for this kind of trafic from a tenant of the prison. He left hia parents a short time siaee, uader pfetetice j of going to New-York, for the purpose of; getting into better business—hi* lather i gave him 14<l dollars to defray his ex Pen ces. Inste.nl of going south he went nor'h to a place called Slab city, near M issisque hay, wh^re he purchased 100 dollars of | bad money for 10 good, and the venders , made him a present of 40 dollars more.— j Having replenished his pockets he went to St. Johns, and passed one of his 10 dollar note-—Suspicion was excited—his money examined, and while measures were going on to arrest him he was asnsied off, for which he gave 30 d**|s, m good money. He cam** from Clnzy and trom th< nee to this place. He rode with the mail car rier and wh-n arrived he requeue I him to get two of his 10 rtollai notes exchanged for Plattsburgh bill!, saying that he wish ed to get some specie from the Bank. I hey were accordingly pr sented at a store where a boy was attending, and exchanged. The bills were immediately shown (o a person who detected them, and who, after questioning the mail carrier and his passen ger, called on a magistrate who examined Watson, and.drew from him an acknovv. ledgment of the manner in which tie had been led along in the business, &c. FPatson is about 22 years of age, well dressed and apparently well bred. He has recommendations from persons of re | spectability and he affects to he much dis tressed in anticipating the pangs which a knowledge of his situation will cause his parents and relations. He requested the magistrate not to disclose his name, but he has himself giver, his name to several per sons. The above counterfeit Bills are so well executed that the best judges of money • might be deceived by them, they compare remarkably well with the true bills. ’ In the bills that tve have seen, the period at No. was omitted in the plate, and was (supplied with a pen : the capital G. in the I Cashier’s name looks more like an S than ! on the true bills, and the paper has more i nf. KlnoisK Mfit In figure of a in m on I the monument, the countn leiis have a light j shade quite around the n**ck, whereas in . the true hills the collar ol the co-it covers and gives a dark shade to the hack part ot the neck. The face of the engraving ge nerally has not quite as smooth an appear ance as that on the true hills.— All of the letter B. - Cincinnati, [Ohio} July 20. TRIAL FOR SWINDLING. Before the city court l ist week, came on the trial of David E Girvinand Wm. Bar ker. who were indicted lor obtaining sixty dollars of William WiBon by false preten ces. The testimony was of a nature to sa tisfy every man who heard it, of the guilt of the defendants. The jury after a few minutes returned a verdict ot guilty, witli J out leaving their box. On Thursday af ! ternnon they were sentenced to six months imprisonment, and to pay a line of one hundred dollars each. Th**y had previ ously been convicted ot gaining and -en tenced to pay a fine of seventy dollars each, , and to give secur ity lor their good behnvi ! or for one year in the sum of five hundred i dollars each. Cincinnati has been infested with a gang of these gentry for several months past, and ' it is hoped the result of these trials will have a salutary tendency. Mount-Pleasant, l.V. Y.] Aug 3. CASUALTY. Drowned, in Tews Pond, Rockland 1 county, on Wednesday last, Mr. ^ iiliam Howell, of this village, in the 38th yeai of his age. Mr H. in company with some other gentlemen, hid cro-sed the ri\«*r in the inorn.ng, tor me purpu^ * i while in the act of taking a fish from his hook, the canoe in which Mr. H. was seut ed, accidentally tipped, and he was plung ed into the water. He immediately sunk, and his companions were unable to render • him any assistance. His body w astound : on Thursday, and on Friday morning, his funeral obsequies were perionned. Charleston, August 2. The following affidavit will give a fuller detelopemeai of the late act of piracy ; and murder, than any statement hitber ; to obtained. State of South Carolina,)) ‘ Charleston Dlstritt. > Thomas Newton being duly sworn, de poselh, that he was lale one of the crew of the British brig Ann, of Scarborough, commanded by Thomas Smile}-— that lie sailed in the said brig Ann, as an appren tice to the master, (who was the depo nent's uncle) from the Matanzas, on the 26th June, bound for Falmouth, <n Eng land, with a cargo of sugar and coffe*— the crew was composed ol the master, Tho mas Sunley i David May, the mate; Wil liam Quince, the carpenter ; John Halt, the cook, and six others ; one named John ff eyman, a boy who attended the cabin, and James Carley—that nothing occurred until three days after her departure from the Matanzas, when on the 29th, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they observed a boat coming towards them—when they came within hail, asked them what they wanted—they said they wanted a rope for the boat, which was immediately handt d to them—they then rushed on board, arm ed wjth cut'asses, muskets and pistols, eight in number, and ordered all forward, excepting the captain—a sloop w?s then in sight--he then heard the mate of the sloop, who they called Ptter, ask the cap ta:n of the brig if he had any inonej- on board, and the captain answered no—they then inquired what cargo they had on board—the captain told them sugor and cofft e—the people then who ln.d been in the boat, took possession of the brig and hove her to, the brig’s people assisting— they hove her to until the sloop came up— as so<>n as the sinop came up, the mate of the sloop ordered six of the men belonging to the brig, two of the men belonging to (lie sloop, an i the captain of the brig, to go on board of the sloop, which was the n laying a quarter ol a mile distant—depo nent wa' one oft estx men of the loig— that they arrived on hoard the sloop—(he captain w as then called to go down in the c abin with the captain of (he sloop—tiny were there htgetber about ten minutes ; when they came on deck, and the captain of the sloop ordered two of the brig’s peo ple to come on board, and the others he sent back to the brig—the deponent and captain Sunley were two of those sent back, and they relumed to the brig—the sloop then sailed on, and the brig after ber— they had ordered the brig to follow her— ,*.n 1 soon after t wo n ore of the brig’s #ro ph- were sent <>n board of tire sloop—two men belonging to the sloop carried them on hoard, and returned again to die brig and soon after three more of the sloop’s crew went on board of the sloop, and re* turned hack in a quarter ofVi hour for the deponent—captain Sunley then called him down in the cabin, and t<>! J him to take cae of himself, and he did not wish him to go—the deponent not having good sight excused himself, and they, said blind or not blind he must go—they then to< k him oil board the s!oop—and the ca^ain took him down into the cabin, and then told him ifbe did not tell what money was on Iwiorrl l.o u’/>nirt c i.r,t hill'. iliiOlltlv at the same time holding a loaded pistol to his breast—depomnt told him, that the captain had lour doubloons, and 5 or G dollars, and if he would only spare his life, be would go and shew him where it was—be replied, that he knew [tetter ; and sent him on deck, and gave orders to his people that if he moved from alt, to shoot him ; about half an hour alter he had been on deck, he heard muskets fired in the direction of the brig ; the brig conti nued steering after the sloop all night, and in the morning, at day light, called to the sloop to send two men on board to help them to work the vessel. Two men were then ordered to take two on board the brig, and soon after returned to the sloop, w ho after tbeir return report ed that they had shot he captain, the mate, the carpenter, the cook, undone man, who had been sick ort board. Reyman, the little boy, belonging to the cabin, when the before named person's were killed, was obliged to stow himself away-—the sloop still kept steering for the beach. & as soon as she got near enough, put her armament on shore, consisting of four carriage guns, muskets, cutlasses, and boarding pikes— the brig then got close to the shore, and came to anchor—and«as soon as the guns, cutlasses, and ammunition, were landed, toe vvh le crew of the sloop went on board the brig, in number eleven,-cut away her sails, and run her on shore. As soon as they got on board the brig, they began to cut away the topmasts and yards, & threw them overboard ; tfiey then opened the hatches, and brought the sloop along side,, ami began to load Her wnn me come, ^ which had been in hogsheads and bags ;— the second day alter the brig was run on j shore, they sent away four men belonging to the sloop, and one man to the brig, in j the br g’s yawl, to find another sloop which they said was lying about 12U miles off.— On the fourth day alter the vesse.1 was run aground, the sloop sailed with a lull cargo of coffee, with the captain, the mate, a black man, and Weyinan the cabin boy of the brig ; and they said they would return in six days at farthest—the third day af ter the sloop left us, a schooner hove in sight, and the people on board the brig went in a boat to the schooner, and bro’t her along side, and they agreed to take a load with the people belonging 10 the sTbop for thirty doubloons—the money was paid, and the schooner took a cargo ol sugar and coffee; and the two people bcdunging to tne sloop, went on board the schooner and went off in her, with a full cargo—the se cond day after the schooner left then', find ing that the sloop did not re'urn, they put some provisions in the long boat, and ieft the brig, and three-fourths of the cargo, with not a soul on board. Neither brig or cargo had received any damage, except what wa* cut away—six day* after leaving the brig, in the brig’s boat, got into St. Mary’s, and arrived on Wednesday, 14th instant. Three men belonging to the brig, and two to the stoop, left St. Mary’s, the dav after, in the sloop Johu Chevalier, Capt. Chevalier, and arrired in Savannah on the Friday following, the loth instar.r i The boat they sold at St. Mary's, and tL ; men belonging to the sloop received fifty. seven dollars for her, and they g.,ve the j depuw nt l< n dollars of the money : in- kit ; them all in Savannah, on the iii^lit ■ the last—they boarded at Mr. HuhUrt’s-.. ! the two belonging to the sloop were called j Smith am! Jack ; & one of the hr ig’* R,ea | h named James C.<rley. Some of the kthw j of the sloop called her the Law rence and j some of them the Black Joke. j He took his passage in a pilot boat, -rid I arrived in Charleston on Saturday the 3|$t j July- that the crew of the brig were torced j to aid and assist the sloop’s « rew, for tear ! of their iives, which they threatened to t take it they did not aid &: assist- the guns ! ammunition, &c. were landed on the beach and seven tierces ol coffee, j 'l Ire captain of the sloop was a little short uiau, pitted with the small pox, nod lar^e whisker*—that the brig when she was taken possession of, was not in any minner whatever in distress. Them.de, Peter, is a stout man, black whiskers, tali, and is a daring, fierce looking fellow. * THOMAS NEWTON. Sworn before me this 3l.st day of July, j 1810. J. H. Mitchell, Q U. ; An Extract from Irwin’s Voyage up the Red Sea. Yamho, Sunday, Zoth May, 1777. A caravan arrived this forenoon from | Medina, which is but two days journey from hence. This was the first I had seen, and though it consisted but of 4 or 5UU ca mels, I must confess myself to have been struck with the grandeur and novelty of the sight. We discerned ii from alar,moving 1 onward, with a quick though solemn pace, ■ and as it passed near the beach, we could distinguish with our glasses, the economy of the whole. The major put of the ca mels were loaded with merchandize, and the rest carried the travellers and the prin cipal camel drivers. The sun was in his meridian, and not a cloud obs« ured the hea vens, nor a breath disturbed the surface of the deep. The natives were retired to the inmost recesses of their habitations, and not a beast was seen abroad, save tin pa tient camel, that now braved (he fiery ray, and inarched with steady steps, b* neath the united pressure of hunger, thirst and heat! While »he wooden bark ploughs the deep, and wafts from shore to shore the produce of each clime, this living vessel traverses the pathless waste, fraught with the precious treasures of the east. A cara van of camels exploring the w ilds ot Ara bia, with nothing in view but sand and sky, and conducted by the planets to its desired haven, tnay well he likened to a fleet 01 ve-sel*, which are not more useful in tht-ir way, or wonderful in their structure. As the ship alone can ouilive the seas, iu which the weaker boat must perish, so is the camel peculiarly adapted to a region, in which no other class of beasts could bear fatigue. He too expei k nees the chance cf sublunary things. His mighty strength, his dauntless heart, sink beneath the whirl wind’s rage, and like the towering ship, which winds and waves assail with cease lessfury, he yields at length to inevitable , fate. «B -ttr SATIRE ON THE WORLD. BV 9IR HF.NRV WOTTON. The world’s a bubble ; and the life of man Le?s than a span. In his conception wretched: from the womb, So to the tomb, Nurst from his cradle, and bro’t up to years, With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But lymns in water, or but writes in Yet whil'd with *01 row here we liveopprtit. What life i« best ? Courts are hut only superficial school?, To dandle fools; The rural part is turned into a den Of savage men; And where’s a city from vice so free, But may be term’d the worst of all titf three ? Domestic careS affect the husband’s bed, Or pains his head. Those that live single take it for a curse, Or do things worse; These would have children, those that bavC them, none, Or wish them gone; What is it, then, to have, or have no "if®* j But single thraldom, or a double strife. Our ow n affections still at home to plea*®* Is a disease; To cross the seas to any foreign soil. Peril and toil.# Wars with their noise affright us; * <n they cease, We’re worse in peace, What, then, remains, but that we sl1 should cry, . ? For being horn, and being born to die • Camp Meeting* There *ill be a camp awting beWOD the 11th of August next, in tbe cj w St. Mary’s, Maryland, on Snow Hi! • nor, on the south side of St. Alar) ,},g f about five miles from its • .)? i lands of Mr. Wm. Bennett. The r« , navigable for vessels of any descr [ ! and the harbor excellent. '