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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7, 1824.
The reader will observe, in a preced
ing column, the resolutions proposed in
the H. of Delegates of this State, by Mr.
Tyler, in favor of a Congressional Cau
cus. These resolutions were called up
on the 30th ult. and, after an interesting
debate,(which we shall probably publish,)
were indefinitely postponed, by a vote of
77 to 76. The objection which bad the
most weight, seemed to be, that theHouse
ought not to act on the subject, in its
legislative capacity. A caucus of the re
publican members was accordingly sum
moned to meet on Monday last. The
Richmond Enquirer feels confident of a
decided expression in favor of Mr. Craw
ford. During the debate, Mr. Colston,
of Berkeley, objected to that part of the
preamble which stated that Virginia had
her favorite. He did not know who it
was, and doubted whether the House was
prepared to say who was, in truth, the fa
vorite of the people. He thought if the
general ticket system was repealed, that
Gen. Jackson would receive a majority of
votes, though he confessed the General
was not the man of his choice.
Indeed, we believe it impossible for
any one to say which ot the numerous can
didates is the most popular in this state.
Each and all of them have their warm
advocates ; though we are of opinion (hut
we have not the presumption to hold
forth this opiniou as the criterion of pub
lic sentiment,) that, if the right of suf
frage was extended, either Mr. Clay or
General Jackson would have the vote of
this state. Mr. Adams has many admi
rers on account of his pre-eminent talents
and long services ; Mr. Clinton in conse
quence of his general knowledge, but
more particularly on account of his exer
tions in behalf of internal improvements;
Mr. 'Calhoun, for his consistency and
acknowledged ability ; and Mr. Crawford,
because he is thought to have talents and
firmness ; but there is little doubt that a
majority who are friendly to him (as some
have acknowledged) are governed by
feelings of state pride, and not a little by
the dictation of the managers of state af
fairs at Richmond. However, as we are
disfranchised by the continuance of an
anti-republican feature in our state con
stitution, by which the right to vote is,
vested solely in the holders of real pro
perty, we shall trouble ourselves very
little about the matter, well convinced
that there is implanted in the bosoms of
the American people, a spirit of freedom
too potent to permit their liberties to be
sacrificed. The successful candidate,
whoever he may be, will feel bound, (even
if the foul workings of ambition and
thirst for an extension of power should
find a transient nurture in his breast,) to
use his best efforts to promote the public
weal. The large number of competitors
will prove beneficial, rather than inju
rious, because, instead of that apathy and
self-security which has been the bane of
all republics, there will be constantly in
exercise a spirit of vigilance, that will
preserve from injury, either of fraud or
force, the institutions of a country pre
-eminently endowed with all the requisites
to make the people happy, and their fame
eternal.
A meeting in behalf of the Greeks was
called in Washington City on Saturday
last. This is noble. Sympathy is now
assuming a shape and substance, and is
no longer the mere emanation of a fluent
tongue and frigid heart. May its genu
ine influence enshrine itself upon every
bosom to which is appended an exuber
ant pocket.
We understand that Mr. Munford, who
gave an interesting display of Fire Works
on Friday night last, contemplates giv
ing another exhibition in the course of
the present month. Those who attended
his first effort, were highly gratified with
it, and not a little surprised at the inge
nuity with which he managed the enter
tainment.
NOTICE.
SCP The Rev. John Johnson, of the
Baptist Church, will deliver a discourse,
on Sunday next, in the Methodist Meet
ing House at this place.
WASHINGTON, DEC. 3i.
Mr. Brown, our newly appointed Min
ister to France, and his lady, left this ci
ty on Friday last, for New York, where
they will shortly embark in the Ship of
War Cyane.
Thomas Swann, Esq. of Alexandria,
was yesterday elected President of the
Office of Discount and Deposite, Wash
ington, in the place of George Graham,
Esq. appointed Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
At a Meeting of Citizens at the As
sembly Rooms, Baltimore, Gen. Charles
Ridgely, of Hampton, in the Chair, and
John S, Skinner Secretary, it was deter
mined to commemorate the Victory of
Orleans, by a Ball at the Assembly
Rooms, on the 8th January, which Gen.
Andrew Jackson is specially invited to
attend. Nineteen gentlemen, from among
the most respectable in the city, have
been appointed Managers on the occa
sion.
Considerable sensation has been excit
ed at Paris, by the appearance of “ Me
moris of the Duke of Rovigo,” (Savary)
in which he tries to show, that Napoleon
Bonaparte had no hand in the death of
the unfortunate Duke d’Enghein, but
that Talleyrand was the principal actor
in that disgraceful transaction. A late
Paris paper states that this wily politi
cian had retired to the country, in conse
quence of the King of France’s having
refused his request to stop the publica
tion of the Memoirs, which Louis was
said to have read and sanctioned.
Last week the number of deaths at
Philadelphia, amounted to one hundred
and thirty-two, of which eighty-two were
adults and fifty were children. In the
list of diseases, it appears that the natu
ral Small Pox carried off thirty-three—
seventeen adults and sixteen children 1
The ship Cyrus, Capt. Carey, is now
at City point, and will sail in a very few
days, with a large number of free colour
ed people to the African Colony.
Orders have been given to fit out the
Congress frigate to join the squadron
under the command of Commodore Por
ter.—|\ Balt. Morn. Chron.
A Letter from a gentleman at Phila
delphia, to another in this city, says—
“ Mr. Rembrandt Peale, of Philadelphia,
the author of the “ Court of Death,” has
been for some time engaged in painting
a nortrrnt “ *1— jPaiiicr or ots Country,
the great Washington, which, in every
particular, bids fair to give the most ad
mirably correct representation of the
character and expression of this illustri
ous man that has ever yet been offered to
the world. To understand how he can
do this, it is sufficient to know that Mr.
Peale is the youngest of the living artists
(of whom there are onlyfve) that ever
painted an original portrait of General
Washington. Stewart’s picture is the
only one which has gained much celebri
ty, and, though enriched by markings of
the best character, is, nevertehless, exag
gerated and unlike. Mr. Peale, prejudic
ed in favor of no particular painting, but
forming his likeness from his own origi
nal, from that by his father, from PIou
don’s bust, and the portrait by Stewart,
throughout assisted by his accurate and
indelibly impressed study of the great
living original, expresses the fullest con
fidence of his success, and thinks he is
sure that the intimates and contempora
ries of Washington will unhesitatingly ac
knowledge that this is the best likeness of
the man, in all the majesty of his charac
ter, that has ever been presented to the
admiration of his countrymen.
After Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Monroe, Judge
Marshall, Judge Washington, and other
intimate acquaintances of Gen. Wash
ington, have examined it, the picture is
then to be offered for jiublic inspection in
the city of Washington.
Mr. Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of the
celebrated comedian Mathews has been
pronounced in London to be a chef cTou
vre in this branch of the art, without ex
ception in favor of any country.”
\_Nat. Int.
TENERIFFE.
Extract of a letter, dated Oratava, Teneriffe, Nov.
15, 1823.
“ A few days since, a French frigate
arrived at Santa Cruz, with a Spanish
and French General on board, who de
manded, in the name of the French Go
vernment, the whole of the Canary Islands,
ceded to them, as is said, by Ferdinand.
The Governor, I understand, requested a
few days to reflect upon the subject, pre
vious to giving an answer. The inhabi
tants generally are highly exasperated,
and declare they will sacrifice their lives
and fortunes ej*e the French flag shall
wave over them. I shall probably know
the result previous to my departure, which
I think, will be in eighteen or twenty
days.”-—\_Federal Gazette.
Office Hunting.—It is said that there
are upwards of 300 applicants for the of
fice of flour inspector for the city of Phi
ladelphia.
MR. JEFFERSON TO MR. ADAMS.
We are proud of being- able to present to our rea
ders the following copy of a letter from Mr. JEF
FERSON to Mr. ADAMS, so truly characteristic
of that venerable patriot and philanthropist, copied
from the Boston Patriot. Nat. Int.
MONTICELLO, OCT. 12, 1823.
Dear Sir : I do not write with the ease
which your letter of September 18, sup
poses. Crippled wrists and fingers make
writing slow and laborious; but, while
writing to you, I lose the sense of these
things, iti the recollection of ancient
times, when youth and health made hap
piness out of every thing. I forget for
a while the hoary winter of age, when we
can think of nothing but how to keep our
selves warm, and how to get rid of our
heavy hours until the friendly hand of
death shall rid us of all at once. Against
this tedium vitre, however, I am fortu
nately mounted on a hobby, which indeed
I should have better managed some SO
or 40 years ago, but whose easy amble is
still sufficient to give exercise and amuse
ment to an Octogenary rider. This is
the establishment of an University, on a
scale more comprehensive, and in a coun
try more healthy and central, than our
old William and Mary, which these ob
stacles have long kept in a state of lan
guor and inefficiency. But the tardiness
with which such works proceed, may
render it doubtful, whether I shall live to
see it go into action.
Putting aside these things, however,
for the present, I write this letter, as due
to a friendship, coeval with our govern
ment, and now attempted to be poisoned,
when too late in life to be replaced by
new affections. I had for som<j time ob
served, in the public papers, dark hints
and mysterious inuendos of a correspon
dence of yours with a friend, to whom
you had opened your bosom without re
serve, and which was to be made public
by that friend or his representative; and
now it is said to be actually published.
It has not yet reached us, but extracts
have been given and such as seem most
likely to draw a curtain of separation be
tween you and myself. Were there no
other motive than that of indignation
against the author of this outrage upon
private confidence; whose shaft seems
to have been aimed at yourself, more par
ticularly; this would make it the duty of
every honorable mind to disappoint that
aim, by opposing to its impression a se
ven-fold shield of apathy and insensibili
ty. With me, however, no such armor
is needed. The circumstances of the
times, in which we have happened to live,
and the partiality of our friends at a par
ticular period, placed us in a state of ap
parent opposition,which some might sup
pose to be personal also : and there might
not be wanting those who wished to make
it so, by filling our ears with malignant
falsehoods ; by dressing up hideous phan
toms of their own creation, presenting
them to you under my name, to me under
your’s, and endeavoring to instil into our
minds, things concerning each other, the
most destitute of truth. And, if there
had been at any time a moment when we
were off our guard, in a temper to let the
whispers of these people make us forget
what we had known of each other for so
many years—and years of so much trial
—yet all men who have attended to the
workings of the human mind, who have
seen the false colors under which passion
sometimes dresses the actions and mo
tives of others, have seen also these pas
sions subsiding with time and reflection,
dissipating like mists before the rising
sun, and restoring to us the sight of all
things in their true shape and colors. It
would be strange, indeed, if, at our years,
we were to go an age back, to hunt up
imaginary or forgotten facts, to disturb
the repose of reflections, so sweetening to
the evening of our lives.
Be assured, my dear sir, that I am in
capable of receiving the slightest impres
sion, from the effort now made, to plant
thorns on the pillow of age, worth, and
wisdom, and to sow tares between friends
who have been such for near half a cen
tury. Beseeching you then not to suffer
your mind to be disquieted by this wick
ed attempt to poison its peace, and pray
ing you to throw it by among the things
which have never happened, I add sin
cere assurances of my unabated and con
stant attachment, friendship, and respect.
TH. JEFFERSON.
John Adams ?
Former President of the U. States. S
BOARDERS.
THREE or four Boarders will be ta
ken by the subscriber. Men of gen
teel habits and known punctuality will be
accommodated in the best manner pos
sible, and on reasonable terms.
JAMES COATES.
Jan. 7, 1824. _
A*
A HOUSE SERVANT.
RANTED, immediately, a female
House Servant, who is not encum
bered with children. Liberal wages will
be given. For further information, in
quire of the PRINTER.
Jan. 7, 1824.
FOR SALE,
AN active Negro Boy, about 17 years
of age, Inquire of the PRINTER.
Jan. 7, 1824.
BY request of a number of gentlemen, of tills
place and elsewhere, the Thespian Society
will repeat,
On Thursday Evening, January 8thf
(being the Anniversary of the Victory at Orleans,)
THE CELEBRATED PLAY OF
THE POINT OF HONOR.
To which will be added the admired farce called
SPRIGS OF LAUREL,
with other entertainments, which will be announc
ed in the bills of the day.
Jan. 7, 1824.
CHEAPER tx CHEAPER !
WE have just received another load
of goods,which we will sell at still
lower rates, viz:
Cassimere shawls of the richest colour
and with most superb borders, which
we will sell at from 2 50 to S3—
Rich coloured Tartan Plaids at 622 cents,
Imitation Caroline plaids,
Heavy 4-4ths unbleached sheetings at 18§
cents,
5-4ths Indigo Blue Checks at 25 cents
Men’s kip lined & bound Monroe shoes,
at g2
Do. calf do. at $2 25
And of CROCKERY, a further supply
of those neat CUPS Sc SAUCERS at 28
cents,
Blue Print, Meat and Vegetable Dishes,
See. Sec. ALSO,
6 bags best Havanna Coffee at 25 cents,
Winter strained Sperm Oil at &1—
4 firkins most excellent BUTTER,
Raisins, See. See.
We respectfully solicit our friends to
give us a call, as, although we are not
as conveniently situated as we of right
should be, yet we confidently believe they
will be compensated for their extra trou
ble. D. A. WEED Se Co.
Jan. 7, 1824.
LIST OF LETTERS,
REMAINING in the Post Office at Harpers*
Ferry, Va. on the 31st of December, 1823.
A
John Avis,
William Adams,
Robert Ainsworth.
B
Joseph Baylis,
Solomon Brown,
Samuel Brontuer,
E. C. Breedin, 2
Mary B. Breedin,
John H. Brown,
Nathaniel Brashears,
Charles Bramhall,
Adam Battenfield,
tuvmas jaiacKDurn, 2
C
Joshua Cox,
Robert Clagett,
Peter Conlan,
Mary H. Crapes,
Margaret Cresfield.
D
Mrs. Downs,
Joel Downer,
Mr. Delgarn.
F
Alsina Fectic.
G
Samuel Gregory,
Henry Glaser,
John Grimes,
John Gower.
H
Joseph Holgrave,
John Hogeland,
James Hughes,
Philip Hoffman,
Jacob Haines,
J
John James,
Lloyd Johnson.
K
Thomas Keys,
Sarah Kreps.
L
Edward Lucas, 2
Dr. Long,
Jan. 7, 1824.
L
Thomas Lafferty,
Ann Lindsay.
M
David Martin,
Joseph Miller,
Ignatius McAtee,
Anne McDad,
Mary McCristal,
John McFarland,
Jane Moler,
John McElevee,
Francis Moore.
N
James Near,
John Nickels.
P
Jesse Phalen,
Sarah Phillpott,
John Penn.
R
John Riley,
Adam Ruleman,
Wm. P. Rowles,
Comod Roler,
Eliza Reidenour,
Jesse Randal.
S
John Strider, 5
Alexander Simpson, 2
Mr. Strider,
Mary H. Seleg,
William Small,
John Sicafoose.
Jacob Shough,
Jacob Sly,
F. W. Stephenson.
T
John Taylor, 3
U
John Upperman.
W
Lewis Wernwag, 2
John Walker,
Jacob Wark.
Y
Nancy Yeamons.
F. BECKHAM, P. M.
POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
THE Mail will be closed every Sunday, Tues
day, and Thursday, at 4 o’clock, P. M. No
credit can be given for postage. The postage on
Newspapers is, by law, made payable quarterly in
advance. Jan. 7,1824.
W. C. CO NIKE,
RESPECTFULLY invites the attention of ther
citizens of Harpers-Ferry and its vicinity to>
the several splendid Lotteries now drawing in the
City of Baltiipore. The one of the greatest mag
nitude, and which is the first to be finished, is the
Grand State Lottery of Maryland*
Containing the great capital prize of
And being the principal lottery now drawing in the
United States. The payment of the prizes of which
is warranted by the State of Maryland. Present
rate of tickets $15, shares in proportion.
University Lottery.
The Capital Prize is
20,000 Dollars.
Tickets $10, shares in proportion.
Monument Lottery.
The Capital Prize is
20,000 Dollars.
Tickets $10, shares in proportion.
Besides the capitals named, the lotteries all con
tain many other valuable prizes, such as 10,000s,
5,000s, 1000s, &c.
The drawings will progress as rapidly as the sale
of tickets will possibly admit. Address
W. C. CONINE, Baltimore.
Dec. 27, 1823.
Op* Orders left at the office of the FREE PRESS
will be promptly transmitted.