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Fo r Advertising—75 cents a square, or less, for the first in
sertion, and r.0 cents for each continuance.
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1830.
\Vc reluctantly give place for the following commu
nication, at the earnest retpiest of the writer. It is
a subject, at best, so disgraceful to the country, that
we would wish that it might speedily sink into obli
Aion. We should, with our correspondent, be dispo
sed to doubt, and as some of our contemporaries do
doubt, the statement of the Telegraph, that II. Lee
was recommended to the President, by Judge Mar
shall and other gentlemen of high moral and politi
cal standing, wore we not well acquainted with the j
constitutional weakness which influences many of the
best men in setting their names to recommendatory !
letters. The motive is well understood, but it is j
what we have called it, a weakness. We therefore !
fear it may be true, and are disposed to tread lightly
till further light be thrown on th • statement of the !
Telegraph. Rumour here is disposed to deny the
statement as to one of the distinguished individuals j
at least.
Westmoreland County, March IS, 1030.
To the Editors of the Whig.
I have just seen Gen. Green’s notice of the rejec
tion of H. Lee’s nomination by the President of the
the U. S. aB Consul General for Algiers.—It is cer
tainly a strange publication, and one which no doubt
was eanctioncd by the President, for the- purpose of
screening himself from the blame, tor so great an in
sult, offered to the moral worth of an enlightened,
and virtuous people. This rebuke of the Senate (by
an unanimous vole) must no doubt be sorely fell by
the President, and by those who did recommend Lee.
The President, as well as they, must have known
every thing relating to Lee’s character. As to Judge
Marshall, I have too high an opinion of him, (a man
with whom I am well acquainted.) to believe he ever
did address a single line to Gen. Jackson, recom- ;
mendatory of the Ex-Consul; nor can I believe that:
Phill. Barbour, is the Mr. Barbour alluded to in Duff
Green’s publication. These two gentlemen, I trust,
will be enabled to satisfy Virginains, and their friends
in gcncraJ, that they nev*T did recommend Lee.—
Rives should be recalled, and Stevenson expelled
from the House of Representatives, and exiled to 1
some remote corner of Tennessee, for thus justifying
the President lor doing an act which he knew to be
forong, &. which he never would have had the courage
to have done, but for these recommendations. He now
coinesout with his justification, and even pretends he
\vasriot“apprised of the considerations which led to his, I
(Lee’s) rejection by the Senate, and says “whatever i
they were, however, it is gratifying to know the Pres-)
ident cannot be made responsible for them” & c. &c. |
t was in Washington 6 or 8 days before Lee’s norm- j
nation was acted on: it was then believed, that it j
would be rejected, together with many others-— I
Swartwout’s and Ogden’s certainly will, ub I was in- j
formed that many Jackson Senators expressed them
selves freely on the subject. ..I trnst you will call the
attention of Virginians to the said recommendations
of II. Lee, in order to give those gentloraen who did
recommend him, an opportunity to justify themselves;
if -they can, & others who are said to have recommen
ded him, to deny the disgraceful charge—Your
friend, a friend to Virtue, and in principle a
VIRGINIAN.
The following card appears in the Nat. Journal
of Thursday.
CORRECTION.
In the printed speech of Mr. White, of Tennes
see of this morning (in the Telegraph) I find the
following:
“Mr. President: The gentleman has taken the
liberty of using on this, as well as on some former
occasions, the terms ‘Palace Slaves,’ &.c. I have to
say if that gentleman intended to apply any of those
epithets or remarks tome—[Here the President in
terposed, saying, they were not so applied; ami so
did Mr. Barton.”]
I aver that the latter branch of the parenthesis, viz:
“And so did Mr. Barton.’’ is wholly untrue, (by mis
take I presume.) as my concluding remarks on that
debate show. The only disavowal I made was in a
part of Judge White,a reply which he has wholly
omitted in his speech.
Judge White declared he was not a member of
any firm that was supposed to have founded the
Telegraph; to that Mr. Barton remarked—“That
was not intended for you.”
16th Match. D. BARTON.
WYTHE MEETING.
At a large & respectable meeting of the citizens of
Wythe county, assembled at the court-house on Mon
day, March the Bth-, 1830, for the purpose of taking
into consideration, the new or amended constitution,
Joseph Draper, Esq. was called to the chair, and
James R. Miller, appointed Secretary; the object of
the meeting was explained, and the new Constitution
read, and thereupon, on motion, a committee of seven
were appointed, to draft and report, a preamble and
resolutions, exprcssive.of the sentiments of this meet
ing, in regard to the amended Constitution. *The
committee consisted of Col. Harold Smith, Col. Jo
seph Kent, .Tames E. Brown, Esq. Hugh McGavock,
Esq. Col. John A Sanders, Capt. Christopher Brown
and Adam Sanders, Esq.*—Who having retired for a
short time, returned and reported the following pre
amble and resolutions, ns having been unanimously
adopted by said committee.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
A number of the citizens of Wythe county, as
sembled at the court house, on Monday the 0th day ot
March, 1830; being the first day of their quarterly
term, have thought proper to organize themselves in
meeting, for the purpose of taking into consideration,
“An amended Constitution, or form of Government
for Virginia;” Adopted on the 14th day of Jan 1830,
by, “a General Convention of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, assembled in Richmond, on Monday the 5th
day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thous
and eight hundred and twenty-nine; and having
heard the same read, have thought proper, as citizens
of the body politic, and Commonwealth of Virginia
feeling proud of their rights, their country, and their
birthplace, to make the following solemn declaration
to rheir fellow-citizens, and to the world.
We hail the billot rights unanimously adopted on
the 12th day of June, 17 76, and prefixed by the first
article, to the new Constitution without amendment,
as*coniaining the true principles of Republicanism.—
We subscribe in the fullness of our heart s to the doc
trine therein set forth: “ That nil power is vested in,
nnd consequently derived from the people; “that no
man or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or sep
arate emoluments, or privileges Ironi ihe communi
ty, but in consideration of public services;” that the
people have a rightlo uniform government;'* “ihut
no free government, or the h)» ssing of liberty,
can be preserved to any people, but by a firm
adherence to justice, moderation, tompmance,
frugality and virtue, and by frequent ^ecur
rcncc to fundamental principles.” We repeat, we
nan tiicse principles as true; wo recognize in them
the glorious spirit of the first of patriots; to them we
cling as to our lives, and we trust in the author of
all good, that, as he lias permitted them to come to
ns untarnished, so will he permit us, in the strength
of our manhood, to preserve them and trausmit the
sacred Icgucy; the legacy without price, untarnished
and undiminished to our posterity. As citizens, and
freemen, wo feel ourselves authorised and required,
to scrutinize, and accept, or reject, this fundamental
law; this new or amended Constitution which is of
fered to our consideration, and upon winch we are to
pass a vote of sanction or rejection, at the election to
be held in this couuty for members to the General
Assembly, in April next. We do not deem it our
duty, or necessary, to go into the merits of the se
veral parts of this instrument: we feel ourselves at
liberty to select those which strike us most forcibly,
and upon them to make up our decision. In accord
ance with this principle, and right, we first take up
the manner in which the right of suffrage has been
extended, and to this we object; time, and our limits
will not permit us to set out fully the defects. The
Convention have deemed it fair to extend this right,
beyond the freehold Qualification. And to whom
could it be more properlv extended, than to those
who are citizens by the Bill of Rights, and upon
whom devolve the arduous duties of defence and pro
tection in times of disaster, of war, and of difficulty?
We would ask any man of virtue and integrity, if
you depart from freehold qualification, to whom enn
this right be more safely entrusted, both for indepen
dent and virtuous exercise, than to the sons of free
holders, of farmers? Yes, to the son*? of freeholders,
of farmers—those who are born on the soil, and are
to inherit it; those who love it, and in the language
of Bonaparte can recognize it by the very smell; sure
ly not the tenant, the lease holder, the mere object*
of .the great landholder.—No. (Although, in the
chaste language and elevated opinion of ’a leading
member ot the late Convention,^‘ho is a scoundrel
and a puppy who would not vote as his father might
require him,”) not for one moment will it be believed
that the son cannot give a free and independent
vote. The principle bus not yet fixed itself with us,
that the father will dare, or even daring would desire,
to destroy in him who is his hope and slay,and from
whose loins his blood and name are to be perpetuated
through time, would wish to strike from his spirit
the love of independence and freedom of political
opinion and action. We assert then, that to this
class of citizens the right of suffrage should have
been extended. Wc will ask to bo permitted to re
late whai we have often heard, of the independent
exercise of the right of suffrage by tenants and lease
holders. In the adjoining county of Washington,
some twenty odd years since, they held their elec
tions free for all of full age; tt large landholder of
me name ot iiiompson, eugrattea m all Ins leases a
condition that the tenant was to vote in all elec
tions as lie might require him, or the lease was
forfeit. Perhaps the same spirit may again at
tempt to rule the people; and who sa likely to
countervail the undue iulluence of the large land
holder, or the manufacturer, as the sons of the free
holders? for it has never been understood that this
same Thompson, threatened to curtail the patrimony
ot his sons, for the fullaud tree exercise of this right;
base as was, and is the principle, yet he felt the val
ue of independence, and cultivated it in his sons. We
therefore re assert that the right of suffrage has not
been judiciously extended. We are of opinion, that
thejudiciary, that may hereafter be elected are fur
ther removed from the people, than under the Con
stitution whicliour fathers left us. By that Constitu
tion, articles of impeachment were had, and a major
ity of the triers might convict and remove; by the
new constitution it is true, that in some cases, arti
cles of impeachment may he dispensed With, but
even then, what is done? You are required, to give
twenty day’s notice,*with a copy of the causes alle
ged for removal, and two thirds of both houses, (one
of which is the tribunal fbr the trial of impeach
ments,) must concur; what is the olrject of notice
but that the Judge may array his friends, and defend
himself ? The difficulty of approaching an obnoxious
judge, under the new constitution is increased, it is
preposterous to say otherwise. The old judges ’tis
true, are thrown overboard, you send out the safely
boat and save the favorites, the remainder have wal
ked the pirate plank and arc drowned. We shall se
lect no other of the parts of this political edifice,
this governmental halo of glory, but at once descend
to the foundation the basis of representation the Re
publican foundation to the Virginia fundamental law.
‘Tis here wo must bespeak the attention of Virginia
men, Virginia Republicans, Jeffersonian Republicans,
and the friends of liberty and equality, wherever
scattered or found, to come to oar aid, we appeal to
their sterling principles, we call upon them in the
name of unborn millions , whose rights and liberties
arc in their keeping, to raise their voice, and with us
protest, mat mis structure Dascti upon notning, loun- :
tied on no principle; this arbitrary basis of represen- J
tation, this odious “light house in the sky,” shall re-j
ver supercede the eternal principles of equal civil •
tight and liberty. Disguise it as you will, the facts,!
the historic facts, will bear us out in the assertion, j
that the principle, that in the people, or a majority of j
free white population of the country, ought the pow- i
cr alone to rest, has been compromised, in fixing the ;
basis ot this Constitution. We feel, and deeply do1
we feel it, that sanction the principle which this
bantling of Gordons holds forth, and we take to our i
bosom, and cherish the bastard foetus of Benjamin 1
Watkins Lee. VV'e are fearful, that much cannot!
be done, by those who will hold out with us on this
occasion, those who by their votes will reject this
Aristocratic instrument; but, we feel ourselves at
liberty, anrl that it is our bounden doty to our country,
our children, and the world, to cuter our solemn
protest to the adoption of an instrument, the very
; base of which, by not acknowledging, virtually denies
the glorious prmciplo that ail power is in the people,
nnd that no man, or set of men, arc entitled to exclu
sive privileges. We feel that our ancestors and coun
trymen, of whom the father of the faith, Thomas
Jefferson, was one, struck out n bright and shining
liglit, which they offered to the oppressed man of every
clime; that, when they left us, they placed in our hands
the sacred beacon, warning us to cherish, guard and
defend dt, making it our duty to hold it aloft to an
admiring world; and charging us at the peril of our
historic lame, to transmit it unblemished to posterity.
We feci the weight of this bequest and obligation;
we acknowledge its worth, and we dare not abuse it.
Wc feel that, let the conseq- enccs be what they may,
it is for us as men, fearlessly to approach the polls,
and trusting in God, and thu strength of our cause,
record our votes against its adoption. Having done
this, as occasion hereafter in our day may require,
j and leaving our children free and untrammelled in
act, or deed, we shall be ready to meet and overcome
| any emergency, the result'ofits adoption.
Therefore, Resolved, That wo disapprove of tlic
new Constitution,and cannot sanction it by our votes.
Resolved, That we will use our best exertions to
bring our neighbors to the polls; and we will by argu
ment and reason endeavor to insure their vote against
! it.
Resolved, That the proceedings he published in
the Western Virginia A gtis and Farmers Register,
and that the Richmond Enquirer, Constitutional
i Whig, the Valivy and Trans-Alleghany papers, be
; requested to republish them.
The preamble and resolutions having been read,
1 w ere severally put tf> the mooting, and adopted with*
: on* a dissenting vol^c.
Ordered, That they be signed by the Chairman
and Secretary; and thereupon, the meeting adjourn
ed. JOSEPH DRAPER, Chairman.
James R- Miller, Secretary.
We understand thut the Senate hag confirmed
the nominations of James A. Hamilton, of New York
to bo United States Attorney in the State of New
York, in the place of John Duer; of David Porter,
to be Consul General at Algiers; of William B. Lewis'
to be Second Auditor; and of several Collectors’
&c* JVdt. Journal.
The importance attached to the splendid speech
of Mr. Webster is well known; but it was scarcely
suspected that the apprehensions felt by the Jackson
puny Jest it 6lu>uld be universally read by the people
were so great, that it would be deemed expedient to
put such n construction—a construction heretofore
unheard of—on the Post'Office law, as would check
its transmission by the mail, in the manner in which
all the speeches of members have uniformly been,
and still arc circulated throughout the country._
Such, however, is the fact. 'I^hc Postmaster Gene
ral, probably under higher direction, litis put a new
construction on the law, by which the speech of Mr.
Webster is prevented from passing to the public, in
its separate form, under the franking privilege of
members of Congress. In order to restore tlie old
and beneficial construction of the law, which prevail
ed before the rage of reform had fevered the veins of
so huge a portion of the Commonwealth, the Post
Office Committee of the House reported yesterday,
by Mr. R. M. Johnson the Chnirman, a bill, the effect
ot which was to restore that construction. There
appeared to be a considerable majority in favor of this
hill, until some of the friends of Mr. Hayne rendered
themselves conspicuous among the opposition, when
tiie opinions ot tlie House seemed to wheel round, as
on a pivot, and the bill was finally negatived by a
vote of 107 to G5. A higher compliment was never
paid to tlie^speech of anyhuman being than that
which was thus given, by the rejection of this bill, to
the speccli of Mr. Webster. There is eo deep, so
pervnding an awe, of the effect of this speech on tire
public mind, that both the executive and legislative
influence are combined to suppress it. But, although
this influence may prove successful, to a partial ex
tent, it can never succeed in any considerable degree.
The speech of Mr. W. will be read by* millions, and
be referred to. ages hence, when posterity will only
be reminded of the existence of the present Adminis
tration, by the awful monuments of evil which they
will have leti behind them. This, however, the Ad
ministration care little about. But this speech will
also be read by the present age,nnd they who reck
little of the judgment of posterity as to the truths it
expounds, will be doomed yet to feel its effects up
on their living fame; and the fair prospects which
their ambition may have skelclied in its moments of
intoxication.—tffut. Jour.
“What do you mean, Mr. Editor, by thig veto I hear
30 much talk about?” said a Kentuckian to us the oth
er day—“I don’t understand Latin, and have only a
little common sense.” Why, it means this: If South
Carolina takes it into her head to think differently '
from all the rest of the United States about any act
of Congress; she may rise up, and say veto, I forjbui
it; and all the other States must give up their opin
ions and adopt that of Carolina, or there is an end of
the Union. “Is that what it means? Why, if that
!3 what they are after, a fig for tlia Union! The
States would soon be as unruly as a drove of hogs,
when we first start them from Kentucky, and would
come to about the same cud.”—Georgia Courier■
Retrenchment—A beautiful specimen of Congres
sional consistency appears in this paper, ©ur Tend
ers have all just been informed, that after a prodi
gious effort, the Committee on Retrenchments suc
ceeded in abolishing the office of draftsmen of the
House—having talked awny thirty thousand dollars,
to save fifteen huudred. Already, however, does
the Committee upon the Public Lands demand a
draftsman, and a resolution passed the House of Rep
resentatives on Wednesday, directing this same Re
trenchment Committee to inquire into the expedi
ency of creating the office of draftsman! Surely
wisdom will die with the present Congress.—AT. Y.
Cow. Ado.
Retrenchment.—We Imvc shown that if the Report
of the Secretary of the Treasury is to be believed,
the expenditures of tbe last year exceed those of the
year 1828 by more than twelve hundred thousand
dollars; the payments on account of the public debt,
and under the Ghent Treaty, being deducted in both
years. The only mode by whicli the Reformers can
escape from this frightful result, is to say, as the Te
legraph said some time ago, that .the Secretary was
wrong in stating his estimate for the 4th quarter;—
that is to say, that in the estimates of tins his first
report: of which Congress has ordered ten thousand
copies to he sent over the country, he had made a
mistake of upwards of a million of dollars! If
they are right in fastening so egregious a blunder on
the Secretary of the Treasury—(he may well say,
“save me from my friends”)—the result will be, that
instead of spending twelve hundred thousand dollars
more than the last Administration, they have ex
ceeded it by about two hundred thousand dol
lars. This is quite enough, as a beginning, to fix
the charge of extravagance upon them, while it also
fixes an enormous blunder on Mr. Ingham. But can
it be possible that Mr. Ingham has made such an
over estimate? His report was made on the 15th of
December, only sixteen days before tlie end of tbe
year. The three first quarters were all ascertained,
and he ought to have known enough o&th£ romaining
quarter to inako him tolerably accuiate- Rut yet,
in ascertaining the expenses for these sixteen days,
his friends are now driven to the exigency of sayincr
that he missed figures to the amount of one million
of dollars! Wc arc curious to see how Mr. Ing
ham will extricate himself from this dilemma. Rut,
until he mikes a new communication, wo mnst be
lieve his Official Report, however much the friends of
“Retrenchment” and "Reform" wince under it.
|W'at. Jour.
Tim following is an extract from the speech of
Mr. Sprague, of Mninc, in the Senate of the United
States on Mr. Foote's land resolution:
Notwithstanding nil that has been said of the late
war os derogating from the character of New En
gland, I boldly ask, from what portion of the coun
try was it sustained with more efficient nub The
gentleman tells us that money was withheld bv a
combination of all the banking interest. One bonk,
sir, in the town of Boston alone, advanced the go
vernment two millions of dollars: and a single indi
vidual there a million more. The large ^amount
loaned in the town of Salem, my friend from Massa
chusetts now before me, (Mr. Silsbee) whose ample
fortune was entrusted to his country, cm well at
test. Sir, without the hard money—not the depre
ciated paper of broken banks—but the gold ftnd'siU
ver which the citizens of New England caused to be
piid into the treasury from loans and customs, your
tottering credit must have fallen completely prostrate.
And when clouds and despair lowered around you,
and thick darkness enveloped your whole horizon, it
was the gleams of glory from tbe ocean that dispelled
the gloom and illumined your path. The sun of glory
arose in the cast, and was lighted up by the mariners
of New England. You manned net a shitv -you
fired not a gun opon the lakes, or upon the ocean,
without the aid of the sons of New England; and in
every battle upon the water they poured out their
blood in your defence. Upon land, too, their achieve
ments were unequalled. Those who, having volun
tardy tendered their services, were not permitted to
defend their own homes, but marched to the frontiers
ox New York, constituted the regiment which well
corned their exprcFsive appellation of the bloody
Ch 8loo<* “lone against twice their force
, veterans, whilst half their own numbers
had fallen upon the field! They composed, too, the
twenty-first regiment, which, at the battle of Niaga
J*y a desperate effort, in face of a blazing battery I
of deadly aitillcry, took the eminence which it com
manded, and meeting the foe man to man, repulsed
and defeated him in successive onsets, and destroy
ed forever the boasted invincibility of the British
bayonet.
Air. Sparks has transferred his interest in the
North American Review to the Hon. Alexander H. '
Everett, lute Minister to Spain, who is to be the sole i
editor aRer the first of April.
We have seen the proceedings of the Court Mar
tial which recently spt ot Washington, for the trial
of Colonel Roger Jones, of the U. S. Army. It is
not deemed ueceasary to recount at length the vari
ous charges and specifications, of some of which he
was found guilty, and of others declared not guilty.
1 he sentence ot the Court is that, he “be reprimand
ed in Uwieial Qrdera.” In explanation the Court
say:—
“ I he court, in awarding this sentence, are FensiLlq
of its npparent inadequacy when contrasted with the
ofle.ncea implied in their various findings; nor would
it have been adopted by them, but for the convic
tion they entertain, that Colonel Jones laboured un
der a misconception of his official obligations, which,
however little warrented by the regulatious, the usa
ges and the interests of the service, has still, us they
believe, chiefly tended to inisjeud him.”
“ -The Major General Commanding the Army, con
firms the sentence of the court. Colonel Jones is
hereby released from arrest, and will resume
his functions us Adjutant General.”—Ball Jimcr.
Mr. Clay arrived at New Orleans on the 24th of
January. When the captain ofthe steam boat Un
cle Sam tendered Mr. Clay a passage to New Or
leans, the Jackson papers said that Unde Sam hart
been carrying J\Jr. Clay down stream for sometime.
It will not gratify them much to know that he has
gone down stream as far as he intends to go, and
that now lie will no up.—Dayton Jour- Jitar. 2.
T~ BALL’S CENTRAL HOTEL.
Hr) lusd 1 sustained last niglit by the burning of
one of my Stables (fired by an incendiary*no
doubt) may induce my friends to think I am not at
present prepared to accommodate them 1 am happy
however, to inform them and the public generally,
that whatever personal inconvenience and loss I may
have sustained by this disaster, my accommodations
for Gentlemen and their Horses are as comfortable as
heretofore. A large stable, nearer the House than
the one burned, has heen fitted up in good order,
capable of containing forty horses.
The one burned will be repaired in a few days, and
{>ut in better order than it was before. I am sincere
y thankful to my friends and the public for the pat
ronage T hnv/» roooived, ana trust, as I shall use my
best exertions comfortably to accommodate and please
them, that they will contiune to patronize my Esta
blishment. TIIOS. BALE.
March 19, 1*130.
iIaw' SCHOOL. -*
THE next session of the JLatc-ScJtoo.l, at Nezdham,
in the county of Carnbcrhuul, near Farmvilte,
in the county of Prince Kihcard, will open on the
first Monday in May next, and be, in all respects,
conducted as heretofore; except, that the students
will have to board themselves in FarmviUe, one mile
and a qaarfer off; and except also, that while I may
lend, I shall not be bound, to furnish books. The ses
sion will end on the last day of November next
Every week, on Friday, in the session, the students
will be examined; and every Saturday will be court
day: lor these purposes the students will, on those
days, attend in the court room at Needham.
The session will be seven mouths. The price of it
cne hundred dollars, paid in advance.
. CRIUSD TAYLOR.
Needham, Ya. March 1, 1330. cd
ETLelters, pcst-paid, addressed to me, at the Bell
Tavern, Richmond, until the 1st of May next, will be
attended to. C. T.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ABSCONDED on Tuesday, tbc 19th inet. fromOn
board Mr. P. J. Archer’s boat, then lying at
Cartersvillc, a Negro Man, TOM, (who calls himsslf
Tom Jefibrson.) He is a remarkably likely man,
about C6 years old, 5 feet 0 or 10 inches high, well
formed and very straight, dark complexion though
not very black, hij»h check bones, and haB lost ono'of
his trout teeth, 1 believe an upper tooth on the left
£idc, the Joss of which shows when ho speaks; bis
dress is not known, as he went to his wife’s house
(at Goochland courthouse) the night after lie nb
; sconded, and there changed his clothes: he has been
a carriage-driver several years, and worked in a boat
on James river the last year, consequently he is well
acquainted in Richmond, where it is probable ho may
go; he is a very artful fellow, and may try to pass for
a free man and attempt to leave the State. I will
, g've a liberal reward for lus apprehension in the State,
and g',0 if taken up out of the State and sccifrcd in
jail so that I get him again. Any information rcs
pe.cting him, addressed to me near Scotfville, Pow
hatan County, Va., will be thankfully received.
! ROB'T K. DABNEY,
j Powhatan, Jnn 30, 1830. wtf
Portmanteau Trunks, Whips, Canes.
JUST received, per schr. Favorite, a handsome
assortment of Leather Portmanteau Travelling
Trunks, of a superior quality. Also, beautiful Ma
lacca and whalebone Canes, leather and catgut twig
Whips, a new article, which I am disposed to sell at
a small advance on cost, together with a full assort- (
ment of
Saddles, bridles, girths and trapping, ‘
For cart or gig nought is lacking;
To make your horses sleek and ncaf,
ITcrc’s brushes, curry conibs complete.
Stirrup irons, best and common,
Suitable for any yeoman; 1
Bridle bitts too, plain and twisted. i
Better never need bo fitted.
Bridle leathers well assorted.
English ditto, just imported;
Martingales too, both black and lair.
We ll try to suit you to a hair.
Articles we do not mention,
Yet to please is onr intention;
At the shop from five till sovdn.
You’ll find there attendance given.
Then deign to call if passing by,
If we can’t please. I’m sure well try*;
Our endeavors active, fervent;
D. JACKSON’S your humble servant.
*,.* At his old stand, opposite the Merchants' Cof-1
fee House, Main Street, Richmond, Va.
mar 10-2avtf
HIDES, LEATHER, &c.
Heavy Buenos Ayres Hides
v 400 do Brazil and \V. India do 1
Richmond slaughter hides &. calfskins
1800 sides soal leather of nil qualities at Whole
sale or part of a side
30 do*, wax cnlf skins
400 aides wax and russet uppe.r leather
Seal skins and boot moroccu
Lining and binding skin3
3000 lbs coarse and fine bajl'shoe thread
Boot webb and cord—lusts, boot-trees, dtc. &c.
2000 lbs harness leather
1500 do skirting do
100 sides bridle do
Hogshins,sheepskins, aaddle trees
Bag, chaise, and lining hides
Girth and stramingwehh horse collars
Harness mounting, bittts, stirrup irons, &c.
Buffaloe, leopard, bear and hair seal skins
Morocco skins of nil kinds
Coach lace, tassals, fringe, &c.
Plated gig handles, bands and moulding
Tanners oil, shoemakers and curriers’ tools
Richmond made plantation shoes. For sale by
„ W. & J. C. CRANE.
N. B. Country hides bought and sold.
mar 15—law 4w if »
LAND FOR SALE!
WILL be sold on the premises, to the highest
bidder, on Tuesday, the 25th day of May next,
ihe Tract of Land belonging to the legatees of John
5peairs, dee d, containing 328 acres. This land lies
■>n Muddy Creek, in the upper part of Powhatan,
within a mile and half of the Muddy Creek Mills. A
Jcscription of the land is unnecessary, us it is presu
med persons wishing to purchuse. will call nnd view
llie land, which will he siicwn by Henry Hatcher,
Who lives on the premises.
Terms of sale One third at Christmas next, at
which time possession will he given, the balance in
two equal annual payments, and a deed of trust to
secure the last payment- The purchaser Will "be al
lowed the privilege of seeding a crop of wheat.
BY THE LEGATEES.
Powhatan, 5th March, 1330.
\Y ill be sold oil the same day, the dower land for
merly belonging to Mrs- A. I’hentwood, about 43
acres, two-thirds of which is valuable low ground.—
This land adjoins the above tract. The title willbe
watranted during the life of Mrs. Chculwood
HENRY HATCHER.
Powhatan. 5lh March. 1330. m2t l’2t *
TV/l" HDI.EY will stand tlie ensuing Spring a; my
stable, in the county of Chesterfield, being
the same place he made his last season, within om*
mije ot Moody’s Tavern, 18 from Petersburg, aud
22 from Richmond, and ia notv ready to serve marcs
at $20 the leap, $80 the season,payable tbe 15th Ju
ly next, when it will expire—$50 to ensure a inare.
payable as soon as she is known to be in foal, tuuL
one dollar to the groom.
J\lctlleij is a handsome grey, C years old this Spring,
full 16 hands high—for form, strength, bcautv, ap
pearance, performance and blood, admired anil up
proved.—He has made but one Ecason, when he.
had 1 14 marcs besides my own. Mr. John D Kir
by’s mare Coquette was, however, put to him be
fore he made a season, and produeed a very promi
sing grey lilley, which is the only one. of his get
that has yet appeared; $700 in cash was o fib red for it
at 4 months old, and $1000 asked—and as addition
al evidence of the value of his family, I sold last, fall
the Iialf of two fillies by Sir Charles out of Medley's
dam, Old Reality, one four and tho other two years
old, for $2,500 in money. My overseer j\Ir Baugh,
my son George, and Arthur Tayior, all residing near
the stable, \Viil attend particularly to all orders in niy
absence- \V. It. JOHNSON,
Chesterfield. Feb. 0 c2rn
MONSIEUR" TONfeON“^
WILL stand the ensuing season at Tice Hill, near Rich
mond, Va. His season to commence 1st February
ar.d terminate 1st July next. He will he let in mares at 5b
dollars tire season, which may be discharged bj’ihe payment
nf -f0 dollars within the scamti. Mures can be iusuied at 75
dollars. One dollar lo the groom in every c:i^c.
Every desirable arrangement has been made for the accom
modation nf inarcs sent lo this horse. Tljey wiil lie pastured
gratis, well fed with grain if required, at 25 cent? per day, and
stalled In ail bad weather.
One of the subscribers will give bis constant personal atten
tion to marcs, in order that they may be returned to their own
ers in good condition. We cannot be responsible for accidents
or escapes, but will use every exertion to prevent both.
Monsieur JVinson is a beautiful bay, fifteen bands three inches
high, with^blaek legs, main and tail. He is finely proportion
ed, exhibiting beauty and power throughout Ins form. Ills
blood, appearance and performance is equal, if not superior,
to any horse on the continent. His colts are likely, and in
high estimation. THOMAS WaTSON.
ABNER ROBINSON.
Tree Hill, Jan. 23- 121—eSm
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, from John Adams and wife,
hearing date the 24lh Oct. 1818, and of record in the
county court of Henrico, made to secure the payment of a
debt therein mentioned, to the Rev. John Buchanan, wc shall
proceed to sell at public auction, on the premises, on Thursday
the 8th day of tiie next month, (April) one undivided moiety of
a certain piece or parcel of ground, in the city of Richmond,
which was designated as No 4 (four) in that part of the estate
of John Banks, (lec’d, which was sold under a decree of the
superior court of chancery, fur the Richmond district, being
the same which was conveyed to the said John Adams anrl
Thomas Rutherfoord, by Wm. Walthall and Sarah bis wife,
by deed bearing dare the 21th Oct. 1815, with the appcrtencin
ccs.—The terms of sale, will be Cash.
t:. w. booths.
nmrT3—7aw8t WM. H. WICKHAM.
TRlUSTEE'S SALE.
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed for certain purchases
therein mentioned, by the late l.andon Carter, jr. of Rich
mond county, which deed bears date on the 13lh day of March,
1826, and is of record in lire clerk’s office of the county afore
said, I will, at the court-house of ihe county aforesaid, at 11
o'ctocfc'T'X’. nl , on Monday, the 12th day oi April next, oficr
for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, a tract of land lying in
the county aforesaid, near the said court-house, and adjacent
to Sabine Hall; which said tract was the property of the sSid
Carter, arfiicontains about nine hundred and sixty arms.
jan 1—faw3tn JOHiN'MfaOH, Trustee.
W > Y virtue ot a decree of the court of King Queen county,
sitting as a court of euuity, the subscriber, a commission
er for the purpose appointed, will scil to the highest bidner, for
ready money, on the premises, on Tuesday the 20th day Of
April, 1830, the tract of land, of winch Andrew Wilson, (ire.,
died seized and possessed, situated in King Ar. Queen coun
ty, near Clarkfton. The decree was made in a cause in which
Thomas Jones, adm’or &c., of Franklin Scott, is complainant,
against the heirs of Andrew Wilson, dcc’d, defts.
CHARLES HILL.
V. S. I atn authorised by 5Tr. Tito®. Jones, to say that b.o
will receive from the purchaser, a bond with good security,
payable tit the end of twelve months, from the day of sale, for
the amount of sale, except so much as will pay the costs of
suit and expenses amending tire sale, the bond to carry interest
from the day of safe. C. HILL.
mar 5—lawfiw
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