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ISo. 542 SATURDAY OCTOBER 3, 1813.__Vol V1
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Uaniel Annin
1 RESPECTFULLY informs tin
^ public that be has opened a
HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF
GOODS,
in JTilheood; tvJiicii f:s tv HI sell cheap
for Cash.
Jlugust r.
10 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from tbs subscriber liv
iog in Morgan '1 own a Negro man named
SAM,
aged about 35 years, very black, walks
lame and is fuppofed to be 5 feet 5 or 6
inches high—he has been feen fever
times in the neighborhood of liartletowp.
;ir.d no doubt is lurking about in the fer
dement adjacent. Any perfen who will
api rehend said felb.w and confine him ii.
any jail fo that I can get him again (hal.
receive the* above reward by applying ti
Gapt. Edward M'Guire.
P.AV.'J.EY SCOTT,
Wiucbefier, Aug. ro. ti25
Virginia to wit
In the superior Con it of Chancery hoi
den at Wincheftcr the 7th day ot ju!)
x S < 3.
Sairucl and Myers Fifner.P'.’ffi*.
Againlt
John JoilifFe and others heirs and aevi.
sees of rtmos JoilifFe dec'd.Def'ts
Cn the motion of John JoilifFe, (who
Was appointed by an order in this cause
or.e ot the teceivers ot the rents and p-o
fits ot the real ellate in the proceedings
mentioned,) it is ordered, that commis
4>icr.cr bent do state and settle the account
of said rents and profits received by said
John jolltffe, ar.d make repot t thereof to
the. Cum:,
A Copy, Tefhc,
Daniel lec, c. c.c,
Commissioners Office,
b inchester, Sept. 13,1813.
" Notice is hereby given that I have ap
pointed Saturday the 2d day of Novem
ber next, tor the purpose of carrying the
above recited order into effect, when the
parties will please to attend at my office
aforesaid, and when and where the De
fendant JoilifFe will produce the vouchers
neccflary to enable me ro state and fettle
the accountin' the said order directed.
LEMUEL BEN l, Mas. Com.
Sept. 25, 18 f f.
EAGLE
nr* ii E ccJehrated imported Horse
Fi K \ tl|.M. Ims» arrived in thi*
(jountv, in consequence of the alarm
prevailing on James River, and mas
he seen at the subscribers, where Ik
»vill be let to a few mares this fall
Oen'.leinen desirous of raisitig a fint
horse, should embrace the present op
portunity, u* he will leave this place ir
the putirsr* of the ensuing Winter.
HAULM h a ti ututifitl Buy upward*
of 13 hands high. To mention all hi*
petfiirmunreit would exceed the bounds
of an advertisement : it is sufficient in
this pi we to observe, that according to
the r, pi.don of the best judges, no Horst
has ever been known to unite in the
same degree, speed, size, strength am!
beauty. He will h« Jet to Marc* a
the moderate price of 5^30 and 1 dol
Jar to the groom, which is only ball
of what he has stood at the two Iasi
seasons near Richmond, where he hai
met with the greatest success.
W ALTER BELT,.
July 31. Il*
Inland Navigation
At a meeting of the President ^nd Di.
rectors of the Potomack Compjny held at
|Alexandria, on (he sixth day of Augus
1S13.
[ The President and Directors of the
Potomack Company being desirous that
the Shenandoah river should lie made
navigable from Port Republic to its
imouth as soon as practicable, and be
■ lieving that it may be accomplished scali
er by the inhaoitants of the adjacent
county, than by the Potomack Company
I from their present prospects and state ol
liheir funds.—»
Do submit the following propositions,
to these most interested in the completion
■of that useful work.—First that the
lPotomack Company w ill relinquisl their
exclusive right ol opening and extending
the navigation of Shenandoah river, and
[to the tolls thereon established by law.
on being rcinbursed the money which has
been expended by them on that river, at
a just and equitable valuation, in the j 1
mods which shall hereafterbe agreed on'1
by the parties interested, aud the time!
and manrer of such reimbursement to be.
■ hereafter ascertained.
Secondly—If those most interested in
I the navigation of that, river will form
: themselves into companies for improving
the navigation of sections of the tiverby
contracts with the company’s superinten
dant under his direction, and in the man.
ncr which may be stipulated in such con
tracts, the Potomack Company will allow
md pay interest at the rnte of six per.
(cent, p^r annum on the money which shall
^e so expended in the impro' ement ot the
!_:_:_r
| .tod interest of the money so expended to
jpe refunded and paid out ot the tolls
| which shall accrue and be tec.iced cn the
Shenandoah.
Refolved i*;ar the President of the
Potomatk Company do trarfinit thei
'.aregoing propositions to Charles Lewis,'
)t Rockingham county, and request him!
to convene a meeting ol the prrfons inte-i
rested at some convenient time and place,,
>nd submit the foregoing propositions to.
their consideration.
Res lived tnnt the Board of DiiectorsJ
will meet at New-M.irkct on the firs rj
Monday in October next : tor the pur-,
pose of confer ring and making definitive!
arrangements onthe subject with such pcr.j
sons as may be appointed for that pur !
pole. True Copv,
JOi>. BREWER, Treaiurrr. |
THE Citizens of Augusta, R ickir.g-i
ham the Shenaudoah counties, who feel a,
defire icr-pTan-.m* I o', ami ««•“
requested to meet at Wm. McMahenV
raven, in Hariisonburgh, on the zd Satur-!
day in OctiLer next, tc take into consi~|
deration the foregoing propositions.
h August, 1813 _
| A valuable iNegrp for bale!
1 HERE will be offered for sale be.
fore the door ot K. MGutre’s hotel, on
the ift day cf October court next a valu
able
Negro Man,
well acquainted with the business qF
Farming, Cradling, Mowing &c.
Sc?t. 2<j.
Twenty Dollars Keward.
R ANAW \Y from the sobsetiber liv.|
mg near the Whitcpoft and about 12 miles'
from W iochefter, Frederick C<»unty VaJ
| on'lue^daj n>ghl, a tstgio man named,j
Moses Graham,
About 23 or 24) ears of age, 5 feet 8 or
| 9 inches high, stout made, smooth skin,
!and very black; he has n fear in nis fore-j
,head not recollected which side ; he ha6
a very bald forehead, tolerable coarfci
voice : he formerly belonged to La>ckharr,,
and since to John S. Thornton. He took
with him a wool hat alrrnft new, a black
cloth coat with large mettle buttons, a
.pair of white cotton pantaloons with blue
covered buttons; a white marseiils waist
coat, a green silk one and a pair of
hoots ; but its probable he may change
his clothing as he is a very artful cunning
fellow and a t lerable good fcholar ; by
by trade a Carp n»er
] N. B. This fellow probablv may be
lurking about Winchcfter, as he was raise
ed in that neighbourhood and has a grand
mother living in Wincherter, by name
Nelly Graham ; or at the Ca-Capeon
Springs at his fathers, a free man b> name
? loses Graham, but may have attempted
'to pa.s for a free man and made for a free
'state a° he can write write himfelf, a free
pas9. I will give the above reward if
, taken within the county of Kredeiick, or
; 30 dollars if out of the county, and alt
reasonable charges if brought home, or
'confined in Jail so that I get him a »ain
El■! Z A BETH HO'vV AR13
Sept.'*5 18*3_
Hit* SADR
\ NEGRO MAN, WHO IS A
Good Chi pen ter, !
| Also—.H NEGRO WOM AN and her
.iwo children. Apply to
JAVE H.6LAIHJM.
, AkiaaArie, Aug, 33, *f
Land for Sale in Mariap
sbirc County*
PURSUAN'I to a decree pronounced
by the superior Court of Chancery,
hidden at Wiuchefter on the 51b day of
December 18it, tvifl be sold at public
auction to the higheft bidder foi ready
money, at the door of the Uourt-lHouse ot
Hampfbi re county, on Monday thjc 18th of
October next, (being the day of the said
County Court, and alfo of the Superior
Court of law holden in the said County of
Hampfhiic)
A Tract of LAND,
the property of Peter Walters deceased,
remaining one hundred acres, situate in
the said County of Hampfhire on the
the wateis ot New-Creck, and bounded
is follows— Beginning at a Chetnut Oak
tnd I.icutl i.ear a run, and in the line of
:he land John Miichell bought of Cuthbert
Bullitt, thence with faid line N. 30 E. 78
.>o!es, to two White Oaks—S. 71 K. 26
oles to a Chcsuut Oalc corner to the Land
?igman bought ot Douthat, thence N
37 E. 200 poles to a white Oak, tor er
.0 the widow Barnett, thence N. 5; W.
32 poles to two pines on the top of a
ndge, thence S. 50 W. 240 poles <0 a
rornjtr 3t the Mountain, thence S, 80 E.
roj poles to the beginning.
•'Indrmv H'odro tp, ^ Cnmniis
ft il’iam «\aylo!'t sinners na
ff iv . r Throckmorton, ined in said
Ohed ft mte. i deerou.
Hampshire' County, Sept. 25. 8f3M
.MR. SHIP HERD'S SPEECH.
, i
3N Mr TAYlOH'li MOT ION TO SiRKEOOT
\N3 IN REPLY TO MR. INGE R SQL L.
Mr- Chairman—If 1 understand the'
motion of my hoq. colleague (Mr.'
r«ylor) it is to strike out the second
tccliau of the bill before the committee
with a view to move to enhance the
several duties imposed therein. Jf.so,
i hope his motion may prevail, and
therefore 1 rise to offer to thj commit
toe it tew rem ndcs on the subject.
8ir. 1 wish to reserve to i»ysclf tlie
right of ao ultimate opinion, which
now may not be formed upon the pro
priety or impropriety of the passage
nf any of the t.?x bills reported by the
committer of ways and means, and in
the e id to vote against or for them as
my judgment shall then dictate. 1
shall uo«v only urge the propriety if we
Mi*! : h;**V iav«. tL n»**V. e i-jwl • di*
tftijcd spin?.* '>tar us full propor
That this i* more suitable than a
direct tax I have no doubt, and will
operate more benignly upon the union,
and l think I can shew that it will be
vastly less injurious and less oppres
sive than r. land tax.
A direct tax is paid in by constraint
—an indirect tax by choice. In the for
mer ('»!!( it is trie imperious unrelent
ing mandate of the law that draws
forth even from the ineagre purse of
poverty its l*st pittance—while in the
latter it is wholly a matter of choice,
which (he consumer may rcgulale ac
cording to his necessity or prosperity.
If the crops of the farmer are cut short
his cattle die, or if iu any way he is
unfortunate, lie can by (In* exercise of
common prudence relieve himself from
the burthen of this tax. by drinking u<>
spirits—or he cun drink less and pay
less. But. sir, with your land tax,
(here is no such alternative—crops may
be blighted, catiic die, aud yet the in
exorable scowl of a collector will pay
the wretched unfn» ttinate his nnuuai
visit—!ho hand of law draws forth the
last cent of his hard earnings, and that
too which maybe indispensable for the
common comforts of his family. Sir,
this is too often a wretched source
from which to draw a revenue, for
really humanity shudder.* at tlie idea
of hurt heniog beyond endurance the ho
nest but indigent man.
It is said that the farmer who owns
land must be always able to pay the
demands of the government having a
proportionable fund iu bis bauds.
Sir, it is not a uoeesuafy conse
quence that a man has the ability to
pay, because he is in possession of
real property—-Firstly—because he
may not own the land he occupies; and
secondly—because, although he m iy
have a legal tide, it may be incumber
ed by a mortgage to (lie last cent of its
value.
I (rust the committee do not need to
learn, that in many parts of the Unit
ed State*, the possessors of land have
no interest in the soil but a naked pos
session—driven by necessity, they ob
tain, and nrn only able to obtain this
most miserable and precarious of all
* it leg. Too poor to purchase or to hire,
thtfy are coustdined Jo drop themselves
on some uncultivated spot, and by pa
th nt toil and perseverance have be
come enabled to subsist—If you levy a
direct tax, from this source will you
draw a considerable portion of you.
reveaue.
Again, sir, much of the real proper
ty of some parls of the union is loaned
to men of very slender means, uud
most generally does the landlord re
<ltiirc in the loan than his tenant shall
pay the taxes ; whatever disasters
therefore the tenant may experience,
yet lie must pay. He is hurtheued, the
owner escapes. I make these remarks
to shew that you are not, in laying a
direct tax, imposing it upon wealth,
but in too many cases upon indigence,
absolute poverty, and a poverty too
which human foresight could not pre
vent, but ouc which tnuy he brought pu
by sickness, or loss, or both.
The wisest object of all governments
is to tax the wealthy and not the indi
gent—to tax the luxuries and not the.
necessaries of life.
It is a fact, uot to be disputed, that a
vast many of the hardy and enterpris
ing emigrants who havo ventured to
plunt themselves in the wilderness,
im! who have purchased their land*
wholly on credit have undergone almost
every privati >p, have found much dif
ficulty in sai ing what has cost them so
much fatigue for the w .lit of funds to
nay the interest, and perhaps the in
stalment of their purchase would be
thro’ men w ho would pay much of this
tax, anil to such a man a tax superad
ded to the ordinary taxes of the state
[may become a hurt lieu not to he borne
—it may be the. ruin, and break down
the spirit of an honest, industrious and;
indispensable portion of the comniuni-l
ty.
In a laxot tnis nature you may ex-|
pect to create much discontent; and,
you do so because you do not leave to I
the citizen (lie exercise of his volitions;!
and 1 have always believed that it was:
an interesting and important object,
with law givers so to frame their laws
as they will tend to preserve a good;
understanding betweeu the governors
and the governed.
Yes, sir, preserve the affections of:
your citizens and you have all you!
want—Once break that cord of affec
tion, and you have nolhiug left. If
this position is true, it requires no ve-1
ry acute discernment t- discover which
is the true course, ana a little know
ledge of the disposition of men will e
vince the truth of this axiom—That!
while men will suffer much when left,
to choice, they will endure but little]
without murmuring, when constr&iuedj
by power so to submit.
Sir—If you make domestic di«tilied
spirits ilie object of taxation, it mast',
be seen, that if any part of tho tax is
paid, it is a voluntary payment. It is!
therefore r.ot felt or complained of,
being paid only by the man who cboo-!
ses to be taxed If he considers this
commodity convenient or agreeable tu
him, he purchases it with its incum
brance, he knows what he buys, and is
left at liberty to buy cv not to buy_
no reasonable man ca:\ or will com
plain.
uu; sir, there are oiner consmrrauona
which operate strongly or my mind in
favor of the motion of my honorable
colleague ; and before I proceed to
mention tlv iu, I beg leave to introduce
to you r.n honorable gentleman from
Pennsylvania, (Mr. Ingersoll) whom
I see in his place ; and I am the more
induced to do if seasonably from a
: strong sense of justice td that gentle
men, who travelled so far out of his
way in his speech of yesterday, to vi
'•dt me, l say he travelled out ofhis
way; or ! well know I was hot ia hi*
way—that I had no connection direct
ly. or indirectly, with the course he
,iv is running ; and yet, sir, I well know
he run so directly foul of me, had he
not stumbled, he most unquestionably
woul have run over ine.
The lion, gentleman begati by toll -
ing the rommittee ihal 1 had come for
ward in a speech w iih religion in my
heart, and politics in my head. A*
to the first, sir, I will only say, that ]
humbly Impel have religion in my
heart, and if I have, l ought to thank
with fervent gratitude that good author
jof mv being, who ha* bestowed upon
!mc. this precious gift, and 1 really wish
.that I could with sincerity reciprocate
this charge with that gentleman (Mr.
Ingeraoll) ; whether I can or not, I am
yet to leara ; and whether he lias that
religion or not in his heart, is a matter
between his own foul and a God at
.Justice as Well as Mercy, to w hom lie
is responsible, and before whom he
must hereafter appear and answer.
The ge.nlleman next expressed the
total ignorance of the district I repre
sent ;This ignorance I presume, sir,
will not surprise the committee—fir*t
because I have led an obsure life, in
comparison with some gentlemen, and
secondly, because the committee can
not suppose that the hon. gentleman
whose great mind plays wi«h no less
tovs than great cities like hi* own dear
Philadelphia, Kingdoms and Empires.
vVhy, sir, the h »n. gentleman wield* a
Napoleon and Frederick with all thciij
i, aies and ewcue,* a* ca*4y v h j
1 •*
would toss a guinea ; he shoulders a
continent with an much facility as a
Carreer would shoulder his bushel of
wheat. He strides from the rock of
Gibraltar to Kmitschalka at one colos
sal Step; Prom there to Moscow w ith
another. He at the same instant
stamps the Prussian monarchy in the
dnst with one loot : kicks the breath
out of John Bull w ith Use other, uud
washes his hands its the Dwiro.
\\ liy, air, ho compounds politics,
morality, ethics, mineralogy, history,
law, chemistry, astronomy, philosophy,
patriotism and whiskey, into one coon*
position tvith as much ease as the
druggist pounds and compounds soap
and aloes for pills—ltcully, sir, £
[could have no reason to expect lb*
'gentleman conld condescend to know
the district whose humble representa
tive 1 am. But, sir, 1 will give the
[.gentleman some information on this
subject. » And Km permit me to tell
him. if I am to receive his moral and
political principles as a sample of his
constituents, I can assure liitn, that
it is a high consolation to me that I do
not represent the district of Philadel
phia. But I do represent a district ol*
plain farmers, who earn their bread bv
the sweat of their brow, w ho are'affcfc.
tionate, generous, sincere, and should
tHeir rignts ever be invaded, their
enemies will find they are brave.
They arc a people, air, who labour six
days, and who worship their God
It is true that money in ray district
is not «o abundant, nor duos it possess
ihe active principles or power which
the gentleman mentions, nor has it sa
much patriotism, that when thegovert*
mental box is opened, like u tarn©
pidgeon, it willrtiu or fly instantly into
the cage. No, sir, money in my dis
trict, has no such convenient property,
even at seven and a half per cent, as if
has in the district of the gentleman.
If the gentleman has auy more of
this travelling money, call it w bat ha
pleases, aoulor body of war, I sincerely
wish some of it may stray to the North,
and save my poor desponding eca
stituouts from that ruin which the in
discreet measures of those lie calls hi*
friends have brought upon them. If
the gentleman will stud but a fetr
doaen of genuine bank notes into my
obscure district, I will obligate myself,
that my constituent* shall release to
the gentleman and his constituents all
the blessings of war and direct taxes.
»ir, th-- gentleman's -ipecrh deliver
ed yesterday was a very great speech,
ami if you judge of its merits by its su
perficial contents, (not weight,) length
and breadth, by the foot, bourd meo*
sure, the speech has rarely beeu raatel*
ed by any speech, either in ancient or
modern times, from the days of Iso.
st ates, down to the honourable gentle
man, from the great aud patriotic whi*?
key hating eity of Philadelphia.
1 -fuiu UUVUI vr me A.C y*.
The gentleman bus told us his city
drinks no whiskey ; of course 2 pre
sume the gentleman drinks cr.r.e, and
from the very exalted reputation he hair
in such a glowing manner given to
Mr. Gallatin, I should presume he
«lriuks none, and yet, sir, he (>lr. I.)
tells us, that the Secretary of tho
Treasury is now mor* than huff sens
over. Sir, If tti^ honorable gentlemau
from Pennsylvania, has uot imbibed
whiskey, he must hase snuffed a full
portion of oxygen ; for sir, it is im
possible that the geutleman should be.
delivered of so great a speech, which if
measured as beforementioued, would
entitle him to tank with lb. distinguish,
ed orators of the house ; a speech
which the gentleman acknowledge* h*
has carried for three itstc&d of nine
long months, since its firstinceptiou, or
rather conception—without some pow-^
erful inspiration, anil that be had,
this aid, no one who heard him could
doubt, for really sir, my mind was very
much hi-wildered, or the geutleman
-•van farther ot*r seas than the honora
ble whiskey hating feecretary of tho
,Treasury.
Now, sir, if tho committee will for-s
|give me lor this long digression, which
jreally has nothing to do with ray
|honorable colleague’s (Mr. Taylor)
motion, no more th in'wo hours and a
hull’of the honorable gentleman's (Mr*
lagersol!) spuech hud with the »tibjecj
then under consideration, and vhuva
digression I Imre m ido with no other
motive, thau to par the gentleman a
debt of courtesy, winch 1 really and
honestly owed hwn for travelling so fax
to visit me, 1 will scute a im ill ac
count with the gentleman which has
some eontt -cion with this ribject*
If1 understood the geutleman, he
stated expressly that morality mod
(axes halt no connection. Now, s r f
appeal'to the good sense and m ral
feelings of the rotnmitiee, i« refill a
statement so absur d£ and by that goal
sense and those feelings, will ni -st
undoubtedly be proved to be incorrect.
<r,is it nothing to a legislature, whe
ther lgws proyavt* or d«aU«f
I