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THE GAZETTE*.
By EPGAPTSNOWPEN._
Terms.
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Daily paper * > annum.
Country paper - * 5P*r ann
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE for the coun
try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday,
Alf^rtoernents appear in both papers, and
are inserted at the usualjrate*.__
' ^ piratespTbostotT
The court was thrown open on Wednesday
morning at 10 o’clock, and instantaneouly filled
W th a dense multitude of citizens, anxious to
hear the announcement of the verdict of the Ju
rv in whose keeping were placed thelivesofthe
12 prisoners at the bar. The Boston Post re
marks that from the delusive circumstance that
the Jury did not make their appearance for a
considerable period after the opening of the Hall,
an impression that they had come to a con fu
sion favorable to the prisoners, or, at leasy
they could not agree, became very prevalent
throughout the assembly; but at half-past el -
ven tne Jurors were ushered into the court, w ith
the sentence of death so legibly and solemnly
written on their countenances, as to extinguish
in an instant, the faintest sUmmenn||of hope lor
the* majority of {the accused. Judge btorfwas
not Arisen? when the Jury came in and a fur
»w Period of breathless suspense of fifteen mi
nuteToccurred, till the prisoners’ roll and the
"U , f| were called. The prisoners were then
rolled one by one, and the verdict of the Jury
was declared to each separately in the following
manner, viz:
CfcrJt.-Gentlemen of the Jury nave you
agreed upon your verdict?
°Jaru.—We have.
Clerk.— Who shall speak for you/
turn.—Our foreman.
The prisoners were then directed severally to
rise as they were called and receive the verdict
of the jury. The Capt., Pedro Gibert, was the
first n lined. He arose, raised his hand, and re
garded th -jury with a firm countenance and a
^ CUrk—.Jurors look upon the prisoner; prison
er lo >k upon the jurors. How say you gentlemen
r:the prisoner at the barJPedro Gibert, guilty or
no gailiy?
The .nine verdict was pronounced against De
S*. (die mute.) Ruiz, (Ihecarpenter) «»wr«,
Castillo, Garcia and Montenegro. But Costa,
(the cabin buy.) /Verier, (the ne-ro )S'""®!
l-atm,,. and Velasquez, were declared NOT
guilty.
After having delivered the verdict of the Ju
ry the foreman read to the court the following
recommendation to mercy. , . _
“The sympath.es of the jury have been strong
ly moved in behalf of Bernardo De Soto on ac
count of his generous, noble, and self sacri
ficing conduct in saving the lives of more than
seventy human beings, constituting the Passen
gers and crew of the ship Minerva; and they
desire that his case should be presented to the
merciful consideration of the Government.
jud^e Story replied that the wish ofthe jury
would certainly be complied with, both by the
Court and the prosecuting officer.
Mr. Hillard, (says the Gazette,) then rose and
moved that Nicholas Costa, Antonio Ferrar, Do
mingo de Guzman, Juan Antonio Portana, i*nd
Joseph Velasquez, be forthwith discharged with
°UThe court granted their discharge, and the
five men were informed through their Interpre
ter that they were at libeity to go where t y
pleased. They then put on their hats and left
the Court Room with a light step. A .cent
commenced at this period, which though insuffi
cient to excite the sympathy of the concourse of
spectators towards men. who, after a long and
open trial, have been fully convicted of perhaps
the greatest offence in the catalogue of human
c ,ne_could not but excite the feelings of all
present in a powerful degree The convicted
oartiea, finding themselves left to the aondem
nanoT of the law, rose one by one’ a"d eJ*
pressed their knowledge of their unhappy' st
ation, in rapid and passionate exclamations.
De Soto excited the most attention by turning
to the spectators and with an ,,1\Pl°nno
pression while the tears flowed down his
cheeks addressing them in accents, which,
though unintelligible to his auditors, conveyed
a meaning which could not he misunderstood.
Ruiz repeatedly struck the wood before him, and
spoke loud and vociferously,exhibiting h°*cvcr
the same hardened expression which he has
WOm throughout the trial. Some apprehens on
of violence on the part ofthe prisoners seemed to
•prevail, but they quietly submitted to be hand
cuffed and led out of Court.
The sentence of death will be pronounced on
Monday next, 10 which lime the Court adjourn
ed. -— i—
MOKE INDIAN MURDERS.
Inman Murders—and probable W*R*_^he
st earn bo .t Warrior arrived at this port on Sa
tir lay from Praire du Chien. We are sorry to
le mi as we do by her, that the Indians in that
region have again been engaged in hostile acts,
that they portend a serious termination. A
2 1 since, a party of the Sacs and Foxes
attacked a party or lodge of the Menominees,
u ,on Grant River, and killed three persons.
The murderers were, however, (it was ascer
tained at Rock Island,) delivered up by keo
kuc, to a detachment of United SUM. soldier,,
under command of Capt. • y , ^
on board ol the steamboat Winnebago, then as
vending the Mississippi ttoaufo* ol bc'
^O^d^V^sKetnva.'oftheWa,
rior at Praire du Chien, another massacre took
Xce byTparty of the same tribe oflnd.ans
On an island about three miles abo>[*.tbe .p,aJ"
re a lodge of Winnebagoes was established, t
wis occupied at the time by women and chil
dren only—the warriors being absent on a hunt
ing excursion. Suddenly, the Sac and F
party made their appearance before the lodge,
fired into, tomahawked, and scalped ten of the
inmates. But one of the Sac warriors lost his
life and that was by the hand of a Winnebago
boy about fifteen years of age. The youth was
standing at the door of the lodge, between a
voun^er brother and sister, when two of the
warriors made their appearance, and fired up
on them Recollecting, instantly, that an old
gun remained in the lodge loaded, he procured
S and waited the return of the loe, who had re
“iLi for the purpose of re-loading iheir guns.
treated lor inep k him, he took
a VCrte.matSneof them, Sred, and the
ta rt went through the heart of his enemy. He
then escaped at the interior of the lodge, made
then escapeu m u and gave inform
**yr',0ta matSelt Fort’craw?ford. A de
r,MKm»nt of troop, wa, immediately ordered
out in punmU of the morderere bu^a f^ a, ,,
known, without succe*. The Winneoa„oes,
is said, had determined on retaliation, and their
warriors were already collecting. Their foe, it
is also known, are ready to receive them—ha
vim* been recently arming and equipping them
selves lor fight. Towards the Winnebagoes,
all parties of the Sacs and Foxes have an un
dying hatred. They view them as having been
the cause, by their bad counsels, of all the ca
lamities brought upon them by the late war, and
as having acted a treacherous and infamous
part at the termination of it. Many circum
stances concur to make it more than probable,
that, should a conflict take place, it will be a
long and bloody one.—St. LMutiJlepublican.
THE MUKDEBESS SENTENCED.
Sentence of death was pronounced on Wed
nesday, 26th ult. by Judge Stephen, at the Marl
borough Court, (Prince GeorgesCounty, Ma
ryland,) on a negro girl Judith, the murderess
of the children of Doctor Bayne, in an impres
sive and solemn manner. A profound silence
reigned in Court, when the Judge addressed
the youthful prisoner on the heinousness of her
crimes in the following pathetic strain:
“You have been indicted, tried, and found
guilty of a murder of the most cruel and aggra
vated character; a murder attended by circum
stances which shock every tender and sympa
thetic feeling of a human heart. In the perpe
tration of this enormous and diabolical crime,
for which you are about to suffer, and for which
you will so soon have to account to your God,
no one palliating or extenuating circumstance
is to be found. A helpless, innocent, and un
offending child, towards whom, it might reason
ably be supposed, you could not entertain even
one unkind feeling, you have consigned to an
untimely and premature grave; not even his
tender years, his infantine and unsuspecting
confidence, were sufficient to arrest the execu
tion of your cruel and fiendlike purpose, or stay
your hand when about to offer to him the dead
ly poison. By the commission ot this awffil
and inhuman act you have, let us hope, trans
lated him from a world of trouble to a seat of glo
ry in the mansions of eternal rest, and given
to him the society of angels and of the saints in
light. He, we have every reason to trust, is
hanpy, because he is gone from this sinful sublu
nary world before he was infected by its vices,
or stained by its pollutions: and to the bleeding
hearts of his weeping and disconsolate parents,
whom he has left behind to mourn their irrepa
rable loss, this consideration should administer
the balm ot comfort and consolation. No more,
’tjs true, can they meet him on this side of the
grave; no more can they bestow upon him the
tender and endearing caresses of parental
affection; but let them not mourn as those
who have no hope—let them remember that lor
these earthly blessings he has obtained in ex
change the happiness of Heaven. But for you,
poor unhappy sinner, but little hope of that joy
and felicity can be entertained, unless that short
interval of time, which remains to you on this
side of the grave, should be unremittingly em
ployed in making every atonement in your pow
er to the violated laws of your offended God.—
It now only remains that I perform the painful
and solemn duty, which your conviction has de
volved upon me; painful and distressing, I
can truly say, it is; for cold indeed, must be his
heart, who can look upon so sad a spectacle
as you now present without sympathizing with
you in your awful situation. The sentence of
the law is, [here the firmness of the judge yield
ed, and in a faltering tone he proceeded] that
you be taken from hence to the place from
whence you came, and from thence to the place
ot execution, where you are to be hung by the
neck until you are dead—and may the Lord Al
mighty have mercy upon you soul.”
The girl being sentenced to death in this case,
was of course not tried tor the murder of the
other children.__
Biot and Mutiny.—A riot and mutiny took
place one day last week on hoard of the ship
Waverly, below, which has been a subject of
conversation tor several days. So far as we
have been able to learn the particulars, it ap
pears to have been an unexpected affair to the
officers, and was carried on by those concern
ed in a spirit of wanton mischief. It commenc
ed on Thursday, the 7th inst. about noon. The
ship’s sails had been loosed and unbent, and or
ders given lor stowing them below, when the
first symptoms of riot appeared. One of the
crew William Gulickson, began beating a dog
on the poop deck, and on being remonstrated
with by the second mate, returned very abusive
language, and finally struck him. Three more
of the crew, Holbrook, Tabor and Wilson, ran
to the assistance of Gulickson, and they all com
menced beating him. The noise and scuffle
brought up the first mate, and on his interfering,
and demanding the cause of this assault, four
others of the crew came up. They all swore
they would do no more duly on board of the
ship, and went forward in a body. Soon after
the cry of fire was called from the forecastle,
and flames and smoke were seen coming up the
hatchway. A burning bed was brought up and
thrown overboard. This drew the officers for
ward when the cry was made to seize the boat,
and a rush was made for that purpose. The first
& second mates endeavored to keep them back,
and protect the ship’s property, but were knock
ed down and beaten senseless. In the mean time,
six of the rioters took possession of the boat
and shoved off; leaving two of their associates
on board, one of whom w’as holding the first
mate These two remonstrated wilti the others
| for abandoning them, but no attention was paid
^TtfeTe particulars we gather from the account
given by the first mate. The Captain was in
the city, but immediately on hearing of the riot,
hurried on board. On Saturday the w ashmg
ton cutter arrived in the Bay from Pensacola,
and afforded assistance to arrest the two re
maining mutineers, who were put in irons and
brought up to town in the cutter. Their names
are Gulickson and Wilson.—Nashville Rep.
burning of snow hill.
We learn that a most calamitous fire occur
red on Monday night last at Snow Hill, Mary
land It consumed forty houses, among which
are the Court House, eight stores, two hotels,
dtc. The records and papers in the Court House
have been preserved. The fire is said to have
originated in a cabinetmaker’s shop.
Since the above was prepared, we have been
favored with the following letter, from one or
the Executive Council of Maryland, confirming
the account of this truly melancholy disaster.
Balt. Cr#£.
“Snow Hill, Nov. 28th, 1834.—Mv dear friend,
our village is in ashes—it took fire from a car
penter’s shop in the centre of the town. The
whole central portion is burnt—every house of
every description—all the stores except Jenkin s
and John Dennis’s—both the taverns—John
Blair’s dwelling, Denwood Williams’s, Ananias
Jones’s, Isaac P. Smith’s, E. Dymond’s, George
Hudson’s Dr. John R. Purnell’s, Mrs. Due’s, Le
win Townsend’s, Lewell Jenkins; all the milli
nery, shoemakers, tailors, and all other little
shops in the central part of *°wn. Th«
Court House is in ashes—it is said, h® ’
that the records and most valuable PaP
saved 1 have given you a very imperfect ac
count of this most dreadful calamity. 1 ami ex
hausted almost to faintness. W hat caJVbe <J?"e
-many of our citizens are hoanlen,
without food and clothes. I have lost nothing
The saving of J. Dennis's store and I. P. 5mi t s
stables, was the means of saving all the sout
western part of the town. The wind __
west-north-west, and blew a• breca •
Those who are acquainted with the jocatio
the houses burnt, will readily know who a
safe. Very respectfully,joy ob j» „
During the course of the present year, the Li
brary of the University of Virginia has receiv
ed presents from England amounting to little
short of $1000. The very munificent gift which
the British Government made to the Institution,
of the documents printed under direction of the
Record Commission, was followed by a simi ar
act of liberality on the part of an individual—
the executor of Jeremy Bentham—by whose di
rections the works of that eminent writer were
forwarded to the University. More recently a
present has been made of the Nautical and Hy
draulic Experiments of the late Col. Beaufoy,
printed in three very splendid volumes, quarto;
the first of which has been received. 1 he fol
lowing request of acceptance, which is printed
in copper plate on the first page, exhibits a
pleasing example of modesty, united with a
beral encouragement of science:
THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA,
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA,
The acceptance of a copy of
COL. BEAUFOY’S
Nautical and Hydraulic Ejrperivxevtt
is most respectfully solicited by the Publisher.
“ For never any thing can be amiss
When simpleness and duty tenoer it.
Shaknpeare.
Henry Beautoy.
The publication is made at the expense ofthe
son ofthe author, and the whole impression has
been distributed by donation to such individu
als or societies as may feel an interest in the
subject of the work.— Char. Adv.
LIST OK Lttei i i latvo
O EMAIN1NG in the Post Office, Alexandria,
XV D. C., December 1, 1834.
il3=* Persons applying for letters in the fol
lowing list, will please say they an* advertised,
or they may not get them.
A
Rev Chas W Andrews James Alston
Leonard Adams ^
James Ballenger Richard Barton
Thomas Berry Lawrence P Bayne-2
Mrs Ann Buckner Samuel Briggs
Rev R T Boyd Bontz &. Harrison—2
Capt Francis Bell Clement A Breast
Joseph Boyden John T Bevans
C
HughCarolin John H Clarvoe
Leonard O Cook
D
Turner Dixon—5 Nicholas H Dreese
Thomas Doing Francis K Davidson
Joseph Durham
Charles Eslick
F
John Fisher T T Fauntleroy
Wm Ford Samuel Furgison
James Ford Mrs A Fenwick
Catherine Fairfax Wm T Frost
G
Oliver Gorman—2 Geo W Gruber
H
Charles Hawkins Francis Hoy
Burton Hall Dr Harrington
T P Hooe John Heill
Upton Herbert Daniel Hepburn
Mrs Rosina A Hart Henry H Halley
Joseph Hackney Catherine Hurley
John D Harrison F„Haw,b!jn , *
Peter Hall Wm u Herbert
Wm Hubball :
Joshua Jones Miss Jane Johnston
David Jarboe G Johnson
Capt N Jenkins Rev M A Jones
K
Mrs Susan Kenslow Patrick King
L
Barton Linch Wm A Linton—3
Mr Lafferty Daniel W Lewis
Alexander Lammond
M
Miss Emily V Mason Richard B Mason
Robert Marshall Mrs Maria Morris
Richard B Mitchell—2 Wm J B Massie
Joseph McClean WmMankins
0
Capt Ebenezer Otis
P
Miss Louisa Parks Miss Mildred Palmer
Wm Price Mrs Sarah Peurson
R
Miss Mary B Ratcliff Dr J S Reese
B Rotchford Thomas Rose
S
Dr Alex’r T Suter—2 Mrs Mary E Suter
Miss Ann C Suter John F Smith
Jesse Skidmore
T
Jonah Thompson (tan- Mrs Judey Tomberlin
ner) Samuel Templeman
Mrs Sarah Talbot ^
L Violett Wm C Veitch
Geo Watiss J H Wilson
Elijah Waller John W atson
Richard Windsor
dec 2—3t DANIEL BRYAN, P. M.
VALUABLE PROPERTY ON LEASE.
rviHE subscriber, being desirous of leaving
I the District of Columbia in the spring, * ill
lease the premises on which he at present resides.
ML This valuable property is so well known
Mto the inhabitants of the District (by the
name of MILBURN’S LANDING,) that a mi
nute description is not necessary. It will be suffi
cient to say, that to a person of capita, and enter
prise, there are a variety of pursuits, all of which
may prove profitable—such as fishing a winter
and spring seine, making brick, (there being an
inexhaustible bank of clay of the best kind;)
the shore being bold, and the water deep, per
sons could ship them at a small expense; tend
ing a large market garden, dec. dec. There is a
variety of Fruit on the premises. The princi
pal Dwelling is of brick, as are principally all
he other buildings. This property is not more
i5o,"JmeeB n’iBU,e’S MOSES HEPBURN
D3- I will sell any of my property in the town
SUSSSSy,he MsWH“E»or
nov 7—eotf
ALEXANDRIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2,1834.
The President’s Message will probably be
sent in to both Houses of Congress to-day. We
shall not be allowed the privilege of a copy un
til it is delivered to Congress. Of course we
cannot present it to our readers, at as early an
hour as we could wish. No pains nor expense
will, however, be spared in issuing it as soon as
practicable. As we shall send it out to our
town and country subscribers in an extra sheet,
it will not be necessary to republish it in the pa
per. Persons, therefore, w ho file the Gazette,
had better preserve a copy of the Message.
The Eclipse.—Agreeably to prediction, a
large eclipse of the Sun took place on the 30th
ult. The air was clear and unusually pleasant
throughout the day; and, during the time of the
eclipse, quite still,—affording as favorable an
opportunity, for astronomical observations as
could have been desired. The time of begin
ning and end, and other circumstances, were
observed with great care, in order for compari
son with observations made in other places.
There was a very sensible diminution in the
temperature of the air;—a thermometer in the
sun fell from 6S$ degrees to 54*, and in the
shade from 54* to 50. The planet Venus was
distinctly visible, eastward from the sun, for
more than one hour. The next large Solar
Eclipse visible here will be in September 1838,
which will be annular, the moon being entirely
between us and the sun, leaving a luminous
ring of the sun visible.
Condy Raguet and R. T. Conrad, Esqs. are
hereafter to be joint editors and proprietors ol
the Philadelphia Gazette and Commercial Intel
ligencer, which papers are now to be united.
Coffee—We leurn by an official paragraph
in the Globe, that the amount of Coffee imported
into the United States, for the three first quar
ters of 1333 was 99,955,020 lbs. valued at 810,
567,299; and that for the three first quarters of
1834, there were imported 60,344,701 lbs. valued
at 86,473,469. During the correspondingperiod
last year, there were exported 24,897,144 lbs. va
lued at 83,041,689—this year 32,715,599 lbs. va
lued at 83,969,906._
A Salary Refused!-The sum of X100 was re
cently voted by the Aldermen and Common
Council of the city of Toronto to the Mayor of
that city, as his salary for the current year.—
His Worship, however, refused to accept it on
the ground that until the taxes were equitably
assessed, bearing equally on the rich and the
poor, according to the value of their respective
properties, and not almost exclusively on the
poor, as is the case at present, he would not re
ceive one penny in the shape of salary.
Our Canal.—It i» with no little pleasure we
mention that the navigation is now open, on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, from Georgetown to
Shepherdstown. To show the great effect and
consequence of the progress already made in this
,rreat work, we state the fact, that, among other
boats, a single boat has just arrived at George
town, in less .than two days passage from Shep
1 herdstown, (a distance of about a hundred
miles,) containing eight hundred barrels of
Flour, and drawn by one horse. Let it he borne
in mind that to transport the same quantity of
Flour by land, in double the space of time, it
would take Jifty six-horse wagons! So that here
is one horse performing a task on a Canal which
it has heretofore required the power of six hun
dred horses to perform on land. The only ex
pense is the Canal toll, and that by no means
equals the expense of tolls which the wagons
would have to pay on bridges and turnpikes.
Eighty tons of produce drawn by one horse!
Is there any rail-road exploit to equal this?
_'_Nat ltd.
Washington Lime.—It gives us pleasure to be
able, after a satisfactory experiment, to recom
mend to the citizens of the District the Lime
manufactured at the kilns near Georgetown; i
and to say, that the enterprising proprietors are
making arrangements to have on hand, at all
times, a full supply for the District and the sur
rounding country.— Telegraph.
More Aggressions.—The driver of the Mail
stage from Washington stales, that the stable j
attached to Merrill’s tavern at Waterloo, on
the Washington road, about 13 miles from Bal
timore, was burnt down last night about 12 o’- I
clock. It is believed to have been set on fire by !
some of the laborers on the Rail Road, who j
have been lurking about the premises for some j
days past. It is reported that a dwelling about
two miles from Waterloo was also burnt, but j
there is no certainty of this.— Balt. Pat.
Rooue Detected.—A young man by the name
of David Abdell, who absconded from New
York a few days since with 5000 dollhrs pi jced
in his possession by the Brokers of that city, to
be delivered to the Brokers of Philadelphia on
his arrival at that place, was arrested in this
town last evening by Messrs. J. T. Kiger, James
Reed, and A. Bowman—the former a merchant,
and the two latter clerks in the Exchange Of
fices of Messrs. Atterbury and Clarke & Cook.
Exchanges of money in these offices led to the
suspicion. $1800 of the money was recovered
and deposited in the North Western Bank of
Virginia, and the prisoner committed to jail.
Wheelin'! Times.
Military.—Brevet Brig. Gen. Arbuckle has
been assigned to the command recently held by
Gen. Leavenworth. It embraces all the troops
on the Southwestern frontier, within the follow
ing limits: bounded east by the Mississippi, north
by the southern line of Missouri to the Santa Fe
trace, along that trace to the Mexican Territory,
west by the western boundary of the United
States, and south by Red River, including Fort
Jessup, La. Gen. Arbuckle’s head quarters are
established at Fort Gibson, A. T. An order has
also been issued by the War Department re
quiring that the posts established last summer,
on the Red Fork of the Arkansas, on the Cana
dian, and on the Fausse Washita, be evacuated
and the troops withdrawn.—Mite. Rep.
We learn from a passenger who arrived this
norning from the North, that the Hudson was
rrozen entirely over, opposite Bath, between Al
bany and Troy, though the ice was nntsotr
as to interrupt Steam Navigation V V /1 “c*
Com. 29IIIK_ >-’/wr »/
United States’ Ship Constellatioh u
were very much gratified at seeing tlie o'ffici.i
announcement on Monday last, that thi« g
vessel, commanded by Captain Head, had
rived at Gosport, on the 50th instant, after an!*
sage of thirty days from the Mediterranean R
our gratification was greatly increased on h.
ing officially informed that Mr. I’ersico the t,
lian artist, and his statues, intended for our C
pitol, were on board this ship, vhich vat 0rd
ed to our Nary Yurd. It has been matter of *
rious regret to the friends of our skilful and
dustrious mechanics and ship-wrights. as « -
as to our citizens generally, that the iVashin»
ton •Navy Yard, notwithstanding its great ad
vantages and recent improvements, should hav
remained so long, nothing more than a n er!
spectacle for the stranger, a kind of metropoh
tan lounge, where employment wasonly afford
ed lor a mere handful of our industriousmecha
nics. Taking a lively interest in their weifar'
and sincerely desirous of seeing the Navy Yard
resume at least a portion of its former anicia
tion and prosperity, we repeat that we
highly gratified in reading tire official announce
merit that tne Constellation was ordered to our
Navy Yard. We have, however, since learned
to the extreme regret of all the industrious me
chanics employed in s.nd about the Yard, that
the order has been officially countermanded
We hope hope, however, it w ill turn out other,
wise. If it be true that the Constellation is not
to be sent hither, we should be glad to learn from
the Globe, or some other official or semi official
source, the cause of this countermanded order
We respectfully ask for information.
W ashinglon Mirror.
Ovicide.—Several hundred sheep, a davor two
since, ivere temporarily confined in a laVge pen
out-side the town—and in the course of the night
a number oft he prisoners undertook toeffect their
escape. Accordingly the malcontents rushed to
the fence, under the shelter of which lay a large
body ofthe more quietly disposed—and jumping
upon their prostrate companions, thentesprang
over and got off. In the morning some tony or
fifty hapless animals were found to have been
trampled to death by this desperate process.
Verdict of the Crow ner—“Died in the wool';’
Nantucket Inijuirer.
COMMERCIAL
Price of Produce in Alexandria yesterday, fro*
Wagons and Vessels.
Flour, new’ wheat, bbl 51 65 a $0 no
Wheat, per bushel, 0 90 a 0 90
Corn, - do 0 67 a 0 70
Rye, do 0 65 a 0 7«
Oats, from wagons, bush 0 40 </ 0 no
Do from vessels, do 0 35 a 0 no
Corn Meal, white, do 0 75 a 0 00
Do do yellow’, do 0 70 a 0 00
Whiskey, per gallon, 0 27 a 0 30
Bacon, per cwt. - 10 00 a 00 00
Butter, fresh, per lb. 0 20 a 0 00
Do firkin, do - 0 15 a 0 16
Lard, do - 0 15 a 0 09
Plaster Paris, retail, ton, 4 50 o o 00
Wagon Pork, - * 5 00 a 5 25
Floor.—At the close of last week the wagon
price of Flour was SI 65—yesterday it was with
out change: last sales from stores at 8166 to
$4 70.
Export for the week ending Saturday 29«h in
stant, 2619 bbls.—621 foreign 1998 coastwise.
Quantity inspected during the same period:
King street 3752 bbls.
Potomac 94
Wharf 1144 52 half bbls.
4990 52
NEW YORK MARKET-Nov. 9.
The last sales or Pot Ashes have been at $4,15
a 20, and of Pearls, 5 10 c 20. New Southern
C’loverseed has sold at 9J a jc Ih for gocd. The
Cotton market has been heavy, and such have
been the accounts from the south respecting the
probable crop that holders have been ready to
sell at la ljc lb decline from the highest prices,
and yet the market is unsettled; the last sales
have been at 15a 18c lor Upland, La 19c for
Mobile. In Dye woods there arc no particular
changes. Mackerel have sold at S6J, 5fa J
and 4J. Rough Flaxseed has been soldashifh
as 14$. Raisins are rather lower, a* the auc
tion sales show. Bunch in good order nave
brought 2,26 a 30. Flour is rather heavy, and
a good deal is goinu into store;prices, houe\rr,
are not altered. Wheat remains as la>tweek.—
Northern Rye has sold at 70 a 7 lets; Corn 6/ a
68c, and new 60 a 62; Northern old Corn 64 a
65cis. Very little is doing in Hops. Molasse*
is rather quiet. Cuba brown Sugars have go
up to SA a 9cls lb., and whilesto Iicislb; Porw
Rico 7 Jo lor inferior, and 8j a J for fair. *'h-i
Oil has been sold at 33c. Beef and l oik a
quite plenty, and prices rather drooping. 1 nr
Island salt has been sold 3t 37 j cts, bus.; an >- •
Ubes 28 a 29 cts. The stock of Rice is very
North country Turpentine has gone up to
high price of S3 per brl., and W ilmingiontoJ, <•
Exchange continues to droop; the last price
England is 6 prem. and on France 5f 40 per
lur.
m SHIP NEWS.*
ROUT OF ALEXANDRIA, ~D._C_
Arrived. December 1. _ ,
British Brig St. James, Boyd, Trinida ,
last to Wrn. Fowle & Co., and 9 passengers.
Schr. Victory, Wilson, New YorK; l‘>elf?
the District. * (•
Schr. Whig, BJadensburg; Tobatco to a •
Cazenove <fc Co. ff;th
Schr. Eliza Ann, Athey, Occoquan,
Flour to J. &. J. H. Janney. ,
Sloop Hinder-me-not, Keys, do uo
Sailed. 30. .. v.
Brig Lewis, Russell, for the Pac*^ g('orel
Brig Dunlap, Sturdevent, pJIIrleSon
Sloop Deiademia, Marsden, ^ar
MEMORANDA. Ywk
Schr. Virginio, Hudson, hence at
29th.
candlewickT , r
8 BALES from Wilmington, just recet^B r
Sloop Miller, and for sale by
F GEO. JOHNSON & J*
InStore.—A few Bales Cotton, ^ arn
sorted numbers. ««,.♦».
Pound Lump Chewing Tobacco 20 to
Single plug do 12 to pound
do 16 do . .j
And some very old Cavendish in poun
Quarters, . deC>