Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.)
April 16, 1834

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“Faiscequ'il font, amve ce qiCil pourra 'tm* wskdsjms^at avsuizi m for sale by W. FOWLE CO. jnar 25 ORANGES AND LEMONS. 40SW2KU.|i*K>~-to ust received and for sale by LEWIS McKENZIE, Union wharf.

CLOVER SEED, BUTTER, &c. &c. fy Barrels prime Clover Seed JLju 15 casks superior N. York Dairy Butter 25 kegs Lard 14 bags Tennessee Feathers 28 half boxes 8 by 10 and 10 by 12 Win dow Glass 50 reams Wrapping Paper, large size mar 24 SAM’L. B. LARMOUR CO. SUGARS, MOLASSES, &c. QO Hogsheads New Crop Orleans Sugars OiS 18 do prime Porto Rico do 20 bblsS ^ew ^roP Orleans Molasses 15 hhds St. Croix and English Island do 10 hhds Whiskey mar 24 SAM’L. B. LARMOUR CO. CLOVERSEED. ffC/Y Bushels Cloverseed, just received and for DU sale by W. H. MILLER. In Store, 2 hogsheads Porto Rico Sugar 15 bags Coffpe mar 24 APPLES, POTATOES, AND CODFISH. A Barrels Apples 41/20 barrels Potatoes 19 boxes Codfish Received per schooner Mount Vernon, from Boston, and for sale by LEWIS McKENZIE, Union wharf. _- C\f\ iuai _ RAISINS, &c. Boxes Bunch Raisins vf" 150 do Muscatel do 80 casks Sun do 80 double boxes do 50 jars of olives 10 do Corks 50 boxes Castile Soap Matts in bales; Filberts in bags Frails of Figs. For sale by mar 18A. C. CAZENOVE CO.' WINES. AC. CAZENOVE CO. have for sale a large stock ot Madeira Wine, in pipes and quarter casks, part of which has had the benefit of an India voyage. St. Lucar Wine, in quarter casks. Sweet and Dry Malaga, in do and eighths. Bencarlo R,ed Wine, in pipes Claret, several kinds; Sauterne Old Hock, Hermitage, Muscat, &c. mar 18___ CLOVERSEED. 4 Bushels, in two bushel bags, received per 4U steamboat Fredericksburg, and for sale by LEWIS McKENZIE, Union wharf. SUGAR AND MOLASSES. 6 Hogsheads prime West India Sugar, and 5 do do do Molasses Just received per schooner President, and for sale, low, by __ mar 18 ANDREW7 J. FLEMING. portcTrico sugarT 5 Hogsheads Porto Rico Sugar, landing and for sale by STEPHEN SHINN, mar 18 __Janney’s wharf. i GENESEE FLOUR. m FURTHER supply of this splendid article A. for family use, just received and for sale by STEPHEN SHINN, Janney’s wharf. PATENT BLINDS. 1HAVE on hand Patent Slat Blinds, assorted sizes, for sale at reduced prices, apr 4GEO. WHITE. LOOKING GLASS PLATES. 5 Cases Looking Glass Plates, just received and for sale by 4th mo 1_ROBERT H. MILLER. SAMUEL MESSERSM1TH OFFERS FOR SALE: TEAS—Young Hyson, in chests; Imperial, in half chests and ten catty boxes; Gun powder in ten catty boxes; Souchong, in do do; Pouchong, of superior quality, in half chests, (Gold crop) _. Coffees—Java, old St. Domingo and Rio Hempen Bags Corks, in bales of 1000 each Patent Shot, assorted numbers; a constant supply frem the Phoenix Shot Tower Company Wines—Old L. P. Madeira, in quarter casks, Newton, Gordon, Murdock Scott’s,” and Lewis Co’s brands; Madeira Grape Juice, in quarter casks and half quarter casks; L. P. Ma deira, in boxes containing one to two dozen bottles each; Sicily Madeira, Sweet Malaga, and Rousillon Palm Oil, in hogsheads Baker’s Chocolate, in half boxes Brandy, u Seignette’s brand,” in half pipes and quarter casks, entitled to debenture. LEVI HURDLE, HAVING taken his brother, Thomas T. Hur dle, into partnership, will continue, at the old stand, south-west corner of King and Co lumbus streets, to carry on their business as CHAIR MANUFACTURERS f ORNAMENTAL PAINTERS, \m\ and where they will make, and keep constantly for sale, at fair prices, a general assortment of Grecian, Fancy, and Windsor JJ rf I CHAIRS. The public are respect 1 fully invited to call and examine their present assortment. They feel assured that they will be found not to be infenoi, eithei in the durability of their materials or the neat ness of their execution, to those of any other ma nufacturer in the District. They will execute Sign iSSili the subscriber. It is well known as havin; been long occupied by Mr. Augustine Newton; is now in good repair, and every comfort that the traveller needs can be had. The Table i: everyday supplied with the delicacies, as we’! as the substantial of life. The Bar is well litter with the best Liquors, and private parlies can be accommodated in the most delightful man ner. JOHN WEST. N. B. Beltzhoover’s Line of Stages arrive aim depart daily from this House; and Gigs, Horse> and Hacks, can be had on the most reasonable terms. _ nov 5—d BLANKS AND PAMPHLETS Printed, with nea^ess despatch, at this oflv*#.

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THE GAZETTE: By EDGAR SNOWDEN._ Terms Daily paper per annum. Country paper _ 5.per annum. The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE forthe coun try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. i All advertisements appear in both papers, and are inserted at the usual rates. MR. McDUFFIE’S SPEECH, Continued from the Alexandria Gazette, April 11. What reflecting patriot can contemplate this mighty host of executive janizaries, more terri ble than an army of Northern barbarians stimu lated by the hopes of plunder, without a pro found sense of alarm and apprehension for the fate of our institutions? They are in the midst of us: they insinuate themselves into our sanc tuaries, amongst our domestic altars and house hold gods, and, under artful disguises and by incessant and untiring efforts, obtain a control over public opinion, by contaminating its very sources and elements. We have seen how in other countries similar means have been em ployed to effect the purposes of ambition: when Oliver Cromwell was preparing to subvert the iberties of England, it was his custom to say, at each successive advance in his progress:— This power is not of my seeking. It came to me from God, by the choice of the army, the usual channel through which the divine mercies are dispersed to the nation, in these latter days!” And how long will it be before some American Cromwell, elevated to the throne of Empire by this army of political saints, shall say to us—11 this is not of my seeking, it came ma f"iT»m frhck rt^Anlo h\T flip r'hnif'.P nf bv iijv y disinterested patriots who hold offices and serve the country purely for the sake of conscience, and who are the usual channels through which the favor of the people is dispensed in these lat ter days.” Have we not already seen the ominous signs of this approaching catastrophe, in our own heavens? Contemplate—without apprehension if you can—the spectacle recently exhibited in the State of Ohio; read the proceedings and analyze the composition and character of that extraordinary and self-constituted convention which assembled together for the purpose of no minating a successor to the present Chief Ma gistrate." And, although this administration came into power under a solemn pledge to re deem the popular elections from the tampering influence of office-holders, yet this convention, two-thirds of which consisted of office-holders, notoriously proceeded under the banner of the Chief Magistrate to nominate his successor; and the voice of this mercenary assembly has been hailed, throughout the ranks of the faithful, as the voice of the people, or what seems to be of still higher authority, the voice of the party.” I will now advert to another sign, which 1 have deeply regretted to perceive, and which I cannot but regard as one of the most fearful in dications of these inauspicious times. What have we seen in the great State of Pennsylva nia, heretofore standing proudly pre-eminent among the States of this"Union, and justly re garded as the keystone of the Federal arch? Do you recollect the political history of that State for the last twelve months? Little more than that period has elapsed since her legisla ture resolved, by an almost unanimous vote, that it was both constitutional and expedient to recharter the Bank of the United States, and in structed their Senators and requested the Rep resentatives here to use their efforts to effect that measure. And yet we have seen that legislature, with no earthly reason to justify the change but that which was given by the French granadier who dispersed the Chamber of Deputies—“ the Ge neral has given orders”—entirely change its po sition in regard to the great question so deeply involving the vital interests of the State. I can not believe that the legislature is a true expo nent of tho sentiments of the people. a _ l_• -_• DUl, uitii may uc, is it ai an aui j.ii is ing that the President should be delirious with power when he perceives the magic of his in fluence illustrated by such extraordinary ef fects? He has almost literally realized the vi sion of the madman, who ascended a lofty' mountain, surveyed from his proud pre-emi nence the almost boundless horizon, and swell ing with the conception that he swayed the sceptre of universal empire, exclaimed in a voice of authority, “kingdoms, to the right about face!” Yes, sir, “the General has given orders,” and they have been obeyed; but I trust in God that the sovereign people of the ancient and venerable Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will not be as subservient as those who have be trayed her interests, and proved recreant to her principles. Let us no longer delude ourselves with the vi sion of freedom, if such be the power of one man Is it the crown that makes the king, Mr. Speaker, or the sceptre? Is it the mere pomp and circumstance of power, or the substance of power, unlimited, uncontrollable power, that makes the despot? l say unto you, sir, and to the gentleman from Tennessee, whose integrity of purpose com mands my respect, that, let him firmly establish this theory of executive omnipotence and offi cial dependence, and connect it, as it is doom ed to be connected, by all the laws of political affinity, with that system of party discipline 1 which is so admirably exemplified in a certain political school, which holds its deliberations under the auspices of a saint, not known, I be lieve, to the Christian Calendar*—once esta blish that theory' and this practice, and you arm the President of the United States with a power of incantation, which may call up spirits from the vasty deep, to do his errands,’ and they will come— “-As when the potent rod, Of Amram’s son in Egypt's evil day, Waved round the coast, up called a pitchy cloud Of locusts warping on the Eastern wind, That o’er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darkened all the land of Nile” Such, and so numerous, will be that host of official dependants and executive retainers who will always stand i^eady to rally round the stan dard of executive usurpation, like the vassals of former days, rushing at the signal of the bugle blast, or the beacon light, to the banner of the feudal chieftain, equally and indifferently pre pared to justify the right and to defend the wrong. Yes, sir, such will be the portentous cloud, not only of political locusts, but of cor morants, vultures, vampires, blood-flies, muqui toes, and of all the tribes of devouring birds of St. Tammany.

mt prey, and blood-sucking insects, which the Pre- sident of the United States can alwrays call up to afflict the land and consume its substance, by waving that wizard staff which you now pro pose to place in his hands. Indeed, if we are to credit the statements made in the public journals, of certain oracular res ponses recently given out from the executive tripod, it would seem that we have already a political Moses in our land:—-not, to be sure, en dowed with the faculty of calling up successive plagues to desolate the land of Egypt, but who has ascended Mount Sinai and there received a divine commission, to call down the consu ming vengeance of Heaven upon the children of Israel, for bow ing down to worship the Gol den Calf! It is recorded of Oliver Cromwell, that in the political trances and rhapsodies, with which he frequently edified the Parliament, he made his followers believe, and actually believ ed himself, that the spirit of God spoke in him, and by him.” Is it incredible, therefore that the President of the United States, in his old age, w’hen his passions have survived the vigor ot his intellect—intoxicated with those ever-lasting draughts of flattery, which the cringing syco phants around him are incessantly administer ing, should imagine himself to be the chosen in strument of Heaven, to inflict its vengeance up on the people of the United States, for daring to. uphold and sustain an institution which he deems it expedient to destroy? I have thus endeavored to expose this novel and alarming theory of executive power, which l fear will be speedily consummated in a con solidated despotism concentrated in a single person; and I now propose to examine briefly what has been the practical exposition of it fur nished by the present Executive. We often look without apprehension upon the most dan gerous pretensions and practices, when upon a closer scrutiny we perceive the latent principle of mischief which had before escaped us. 1 make this remark in reference to one of the positions I assumed by the President, in the Manifesto he addressed to the people of the United States on i the occasion of the removal of the deposires.— I k a I _ _ 1 _ f 1 l./\ T T II f /l I lie position is, inai me prupic ui me States by the mere act of re-electing him, have authoritatively decided that it is unconstitutional and inexpedient to recharter the Bank of the United States; and basing himself on this de cision, without deigning to consult the legisla ture, the only power under the Constitution which is competent to make such a decision, he forthwith proceeds, by his own authority, to ex ecute what he assumes to be the w ill of the. peo ple constitutionally expressed, and of conse quence the supreme law of the land. Simple as this reasoning and assumption may at the first glance appear, l venture the opinion that it is one of the most profound and artful contrivan ces ever invented by the genius of usurpation to disguise its design and cover its approaches.— Examine it philosophically, resolve it into its elements, and what can you make of it ^but a new and more direct highway to unlimited pow er, than any heretofore discovered, by substitu ting the will of the President for the will of the people. This is truly an age of improvement and in nothing is it more strikingly illustrated than in the improved process of stealing power from the people. This one is distinguished for its directness and simplicity; whereas the usur pers of other times have been compelled to make their approaches against the fortress of liberty, by the slow process of opening trenches and advancing under their cover. In other countries the difficulty has been to obtain the votes of the people to sanction the assumption of the kingly office. Here, under our elective system, it is easy to obtain the chief executive office, but the difficulty is to make its power un limited, by breaking loose from the inconveni ent restraints of the Constitution and the laws. The present Chief Magistrate has most dexter ously surmounted this difficulty; for if you will admit his position, he will never be at a loss to make his sovereign will the paramount law, to be executed £i as he understands it.” What is the argument it involves? That the people of the United States, by re electing Andrew Jackson, have adopted and ratified all his known political opinions as their own; thus enacting laws and regulating the great question of banking and currency, with out the troublesome machinery of the legisla tive department! Yes, sir, these most difficult and delicate of all the appropriate subjects of legislation, have, with the public treasure, been 1 _i_it_n_: .1_i_,1 Mm.. SCl4.t;U Itpuu UV IUC- 1 IC51UUH UIIU m WU" toriously regulated by his will! But this is not the worst view of the matter. Admitting for a moment the constitutional right of the President thus to collect the sovereign will of the people on a subject of legislation, the present is a gross misapplication of his own doctrine. He never sent a message to Congress on the subject of the bank in which he did not hold out the hope that he would sign an act of recharter, with modifi cations. In every instance his objections were to the bank has at present organized,” which was saying by implication that he would sanc tion the institution, if differently organized And in the message immediately preceeding his re-election he leaves u the subject to the investi gation of an enlightened people and their rep resentatives.” And yet he is scarcely warm in his seat when he turns round and gravely in forms us, “now that the people have sustained the President—-it is too late, he confidently thinks, to say that the question has not been de cided. Whatever may be the opinion of others, the President considers his re-election as a de cision of the people agaipst the bank. He was sustained by a just peoplc^and he desires to evince his gratitude by carrying into effect their decis ion, as far as depends upon him” As far as depends upon him! a very useless qualification under this new fangled executive theory and practice. But, sir, was every power usurped under mere frivolous and fraudulent pretences, with humbler words or a bolder hand? It is almost in the very language of a predecent fa miliar to us all: Thanks gentle citizens and friends: This general applause and cheerful shout, Argues your wisdom and your love for Rich ard.” But this spirit of executive assumption seems to have infected even the most insignificant of the “instruments” of the Chief Magistrate.— j Even the Government directors of the bank swelling like the frogs in the fable, claim a par ticipation in this royal rerogative of personating the majesty and speaking the voice of the peo ple. Listen to their audacious language: “Pay ing no sort of respect to the exalted public sour ces whence their appointment immediately ema nates, the bank has the boldness to claim co equality with the nation, to disregard the organs and representatives of the people!!” Co-equali ty with the nation! we the people! Such are the modest pretensions of executive spies and in formers. What is to come next, as the fruit of those extraordinary executive doctrines? Mr. Speaker, the most alarming, and to me the most distressing symptom of the times, is the influence of the executive power over the mem bers of the National Legislature, and the new doctrine of the allegiance of the representatives the people to the President, now openly avow- At an early period of the session, I read with some surprise, in certain political journals which usually speak by authority, the avowal 01 the doctrine that the members of this House, Dome here, not to represent the people, but to support the adminstration light 01 wrong, in all things; in other words, to represent the will and obey the orders of the President. I did not, then, expect what I have since had the pain of witnessing, the promulgation of the same doc trine from places of high authority, from the seat of legislation, in both wings of the Capitol. Sir, what are we? where are we? Are we the representatives of the people, clothed with a high trust to be exercised for their benefir, and under an exclusive responsibility to them, or are we feudal vassals, bound by a tie of puity alle giance to the President, mere “leigemen ol the Dane?” Are we, like the Parliaments of France under the ancient dynasty, summoned here to attend a royal bed of justice,’ and to register, by compulsion, the royal edicts and manifes toes? If these are our appropriate functions,, why stand we here prating about the Constitu tion. the rights of the legislature, and the custody of the public treasure? If we have lost the sub stance of liberty, I say down with the idle and unsubstantial pageantry of its forms. W hy keep up the delusive mockery of a Legislative De partment, when it serves only as a mask for that despotic power which controls every thing, and as a memorial to remind us of our own degene racy? Let us rather conform to our own condi tion, by obeying that imperial mandate which was first issued in the city of New York, some months since, through one of the executive or gans;_“pass the appropriation bills and go home,” leaving the people, in the extremity of their distresses, to the tender mercies of the Pre sident and his privy counsellors! Ay, sir, grease the wheels of the Car of Juggernaut—enrich the J shrine of your idol—and when you have per- i formed these ministerial offices of priestly devo tion, go home, and tell your miserable and ruin ed constituents to prostrate themselves before the mighty pageant, and oner up the incense 01 their expiring hosannahs to the god oi their ido latry, while his fatal car is crushing them into the earth, and mingling their blood with the dust, and the whole Pandamonium of false and trea cherous counsellors who have deceived him by their flattering sorceries, and ruined the coun-; try by their infernal machinations, are laughing i at the agonizing distresses, and revelling in the j spoils of a people, whose hopes he has disap pointed, whose sacred rights he has violated, and whose vital interests he has betrayed, and j whose constitutional liberties he lias trampled in the dust! We are not, indeed, without some very signi ficant indications, that this royal mandate will be executed by the prerogative of prorogation. It has evidently been the subject of grave delibe j ration, in that secret consistory where such high matters are usually decided. And as I feel— like one who, about to retire from the stage, has a natural anxiety that his last act in the drama should be decently performed—I must ask it as a personal favor, that if we are to be prorogued by the President, the act may be performed with becoming solemnity, and according to the most approved historical precedents. I shall now proceed to furnish such a prece dent, and l trust the friends of the President will appreciate the feelings of kindness in which it is done. I quote from a high authority, sir; no less than that of the Lord Protector Cromwell. He had organized his first Parliament as he sup posed, in such a manner as to be sure of a ma jority for any project of the court. But although his returning officers had taken care to give him a majority at the commencement of the session, yet the spirit of liberty so far prevailed over the spirit of personal allegiance, as to throw him in to a minority in the progress of the session.— Finding the majority inaccessible to fear or per suasion, the historian records, that lie sum moned the House to meet him in the painted chamber. [We shall be summoned, I suppose, to the East Room, scarcely less celebrated.]— Displeasure and contempt were marked in his countenance. [A very natural prelude to what follows.] They appeared there, he ob served, with the Speaker at their head, as a House of Parliament. Yet what had they done as a Parliament? He never had played, he ne ver would play the orator; and, therefore, he would tell them frankly [Cromwell was a frank man. too. sir.1 thatthev haddone nothing. For five months they had passed no bill, [our time is not yet out] had made no address, had held no communication with him. As far asconcern ed them, he had nothing lo do but to pray that God would enlightened their minds.” “But had they done nothing? Yes; they had encouraged the cavaliers to plot against the Commonwealth, and the levellers to intrigue with the cavaliers. [The coalition between the nullifiers and national republicans is here evi dently foretold.J By their dissentions they had aided the fanatics to throw the nation into con fusion, and by the slowness of their proceedings had compelled the soldiers to live at free quar tors on the country. [Here Gen. Jackson could give Cromwell a lesson. Why did he not seize upon the deposites? It was supposed that he would not be able to raise money without the aid of Parliament. But he had been inured to diffi culties, and had never found God wanting, when he trusted in him. [Almost the very lan guage of the manifesto.] The country would willingly pay on account of the necessity. But was the necessity of his creation? No: it was of God; the consequence of God’s providence. It was no marvel, if men who lived on their masses and service books, their dead and carnal worship, were strangers to the works of God; blit tor those who had been instructed by the spirit of God, to adopt the same language, and say that men were the cause of those things, when God had done them, this was more than the Lord would bear. But that he might trou ble them no longer, it was his duty to tell them, that their continuance was not for the benefit of the nation, and therefore, he did, then and there, declare that he dissolved the Parliament.” This is the manner in whigh Cromwell got rid of the troublesome incumberance of an independent Parliament. But to be serious, sir, I for one, am not dis posed to adjourn before something effectual is done to relieve the country from its distresses, and I will not do so with my own consent, even to avoid the fate of Cromwell’s parliament. In the present calamitous condition of the country we have a melancholy exemplification to prove how small a share of human wisdom is requisite to produce the greatest conceivable extent of human misery! The merest pigmy, armed with a sceptre, can destroy in a single day, the fabric of a nation’s prosperity, which all the intellec tual giants of the land cannot rebuild in a long and laborious course of years. I will not tell the people to look for salvation to those who have involved them in this calamity. No, sir, this storm has been produced by a species of necromancy, which is endowed only with the faculty of mischief, and which, having raised the elements, has no power of exorcism to lay :hem. The Prospero, whose fatal wand has j sonjured up these elements, into this wild and fearful and disastrous commotion, has no magic power to call up the ministering spirits of the stormy deep, to rescue the sinking fortunes of a whole people, rashly and wickedly exposed to the rocks, winds, and waves and quicksanks ofthis most desperate and inperous experiment. Sir, the executive branch of the Government has plunged the country into this stormy sea of j desperate adventure, under circumstances which o-reatly aggravate the outrage committed upon j the Constitution, and upon the rights and inter-! ests of the people. What excuse or apology can be offered for such a daring assumption and hazardous exercise of power by the Ex ecutive? When Cromwell usurped the supreme power in England, he saw the nation torn to pieces by factions and drenched in civil blood; and his strong arm clutched the fallen sceptre, to save the country from universal desolation. When Bonaparte returned from Egypt, and dispersed the Chamber of Deputies, he found the armies of the republic driven back, the fi nances involved in bankruptcy and the combin ed powers of Europe menacing the existence of France. Wliere, said he, are the conquests I made, the victories 1 achieved, the resources|I supplied, and the armies I left for the seciuity of France? But what was the condition of the United States at that fatal moment when the evil genius of the President prompted him to assume the fearful responsibility of destroying our system of currency, in open and avowed contempt of the legislative power. What was there in that condition to afford the shadow7 of a pretext for the usurpation of which w-e com plain? What civil dissensions was it designed to compose; what financial embarrassments and public sufferings was it calculated to relieve? It is w orth while to look back to the inception ot this executive experiment. The people of the United States were in the enjoyment of an un exampled prosperity: literally basking in the sun shine of tranquility, abundance, and content ment-blessings the more exquisitely realized fmm th^ir contrast with the troubled scene which had recently passed away. They had seen a dark and portentous cloud lowering in the ho rizon, and could almost hear the distant thunder and see the prelusive Hashes of the coining storm, which threatened to shake the mighty fabrick of this federal system to its deep foun dations. But at this eventful crisis, a redeem ing power was interposed, in the spirit of con ciliation; a covenant of peace was ratified here, the storm passed away, and the rainbow cir cled the arch of the heavens, the cheering har bingerofthat happiness and contentment which were the lot of a united people, until the fatal dog-days, when this most pernicious scheme of executive usurpation was engendered, not to save the country from civil dissensions and res tore its disordered finances, but to mar and des troy the brightest vision of happiness that ever blessed the hopes of any people! And I regret to find that the authors of this fatal experiment are resolved to carry it on in the same reckless spirit in which it was con ceived. Nothing has struck me more forcibly than the stubborn perseverance of the admin istration in their desperate purposes, hoping against hope, blind to the palpable results of ex perience, and deaf to the cries of a suffering people. It is a spirit of heartless indifference to popular suffering, wholly without excuse, and almost without example. We have been told by a member of this House, (Mr. Beardsley,)-— in the exterminating spirit of that Roman who always concluded his speeches w ith the motto, Carthage must be destroyed”—that the Bank of the United States must be destroyed by what ever means, and at the hazard of whatever con sequences. Perish commerce, perish credit; give us broken banks and a disordered curren cy,” rather than retrace the steps of this execu tive crusade against the bank! And the Chief Magistrate himself declares that neither “the opinion of the legislature, nor the voice of the people, shall induce him to abandon his purpose, whatever may be the sufferings produced,” add ing, for the consolation of the enterprising and industrious classes, that if those should fail who trade upon borrowed capital,” they deserve their fate. Mr. Speaker, we can scarcely give credit to the historian who records the degeneracy and degradation of a great people of antiquity, when he informs us that a Roman Emperor amused himself by fiddling while the capital of his em pire and the fortunes of the Roman people were involved in one general conflagration. But our own melancholy and woful experience is but too well calculated to remove any historical scepticism which might induce us to suppose that the extraordinary spectacle to which I have alluded, was drawn rather by the pencil of poetry than by the pen of historical truth. For even at this early period in our national pro gress, in the very dawn of our republican insti tutions, we are ourselves exhibiting to the world —which we vainly boast of enlightening by our example—a spectacle, in some of its aspects, more unnatural and revolting than its Roman prototype. If my recollection of this interesting chapter in the history of man be not imperfect, Nero was not himself the incendiary who ap plied the fatal torch, by which the temples and the gods, the senate house and the forum, the gorgeous palaces and the humble cottages of the imperial city were consigned to the devour ing element. Can you say as much, sir,—I will not say for the President of the United States,— i but for that irresponsible cabal, which is the liv ing emblein of pestilence and famine, by which even his more noble and generous impulses are converted into instruments of mischief? Who is it that has kindled up the conflagration which is now sweeping over the land,—like a prairie fire of the West,—bearing destruction in its bo som, laying a scene of desolation in its rear, and scattering consternation in every direction?— Nay, sir, who is it that has sacreligiously invad ed the sanctuary of the Constitution, and lighted at the very fires of the altar that fatal brand, which, desperately and vindictively hurled— with whatever aim—has struck upon the great temple of our national prosperity, involving it in hideous ruin and combustion?” Mr. Speak er, it was no midnight incendiary that silently stole into the temple with his Ephesian torch, concealed by the mantle of darkness. No; it was the high priest of the Constitution that vio lated the sanctuary, and desecrated the fires of the altar. It was in the broad glare of noon day, from the imperial heights of power, and in open defiance of all the moral and political gua ranties of human rights, that this consuming brand was cast into the elements of combus tion, and whieh came upon an astounded peo ple, without cause and without notice, like Hea ven’s avenging bolt from a cloudless sky. And now that the signal bells of alarm and distress are ringing from one extremity of this Union to the other, mingling their disastrous chimes with those cries of distress which come to us from the four quarters of the heavens, on every wind that blows, and forming one mighty chorus of indignant complaint that has forced its way in to the sealed ears of infatuated power:—with tvhat sympathy, with what feelings of commise ration, with what compunctious v isitin^ these proofs of a nation’s suffering receiv a*e the authors of the calamity and their accornpjp [HereMr. BEARDSLEY made an exnb tion, disclaiming the language imputed m r by Mr. McDuffie, to which Mr. McDlh llrri plied, that he spoke from memory, and did re' profess to give the words of the oenth.rnot throughout, but his (Mr. McD.’s) interpret-,l-an ofthem.] latl°h Mr. McD. resumed. I ask you. sir. if fhr. ministration or its friends have raised a r,* ,a-y. sider you what services he has domy y country?” “Very well,” says the foimei, _ could give him good report for it; but himself with being proud****’! say unto what he hath done famously, he did yy end: though soft-conscienced men can 1 tent to say it was for his country, it w ay y partlv proud, which he is even to the a his virtue.” T You know the fate of Coriolanus; am 1 the friends of General Jackson, that a y military glory has great fascination, ana y the Americans are a grateful people, aniJrTi;‘ refuted the calumny that republics are n»r‘“;v ful. he must not rely too much upon tnat nor tax the national gratitude beyond durance. I particularly warn his (j(l personal, and political friends, f iat, i not rescue him from the mercenary who are murdering his reputation, tnei s .(1 much reason to apprehend that the mm came into the presidential office with rn<y pularity and a more enviable fame; ,^"„ton. chief magistrate since the days of will go into retirement, when lie ceasca' n surrounded with the appendages and p< age of power, escorted by the execration^ betrayed people, and deserted by the h y flatterers who lias been the means of hi them* I shall be very far, Mr. Spenkn

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"TIInt to procure donations, and a lot of The A^erv P the Polish Exiles, has Land ff°dnl s state’that he is in this city; that requests President have set the lib ‘hePrtfmDle and affixed their names, with a era' Sin to the parchment, which lays in the Jj0nati°n> _ *Jess He hopes all men of all Lit^y;' jo likewise. The proceeds go to the P^mithttee at New York. Globe. fast of the Missionaries.—On Thursday 'f the Rev. Samuel Worcester and fam 131 ™nved their residence in this place, to ilyfeDard within the limits of Tennessee, Cher Vation The cause of his removal isv in i oke€iinence of the operation of the law of Geor c0 n white men residing on Cherokee lots. fr8*residence was on a lot embracing several r n improvements, and his continuance as by the law, would have prejudiced; Horhts of the Indians to their improvements. Governor’s Agent, we are informed, had 4irpssed him an order tor his removal, and ?da!nTalready obtained a decision in the Su Court, to his right of residence in the Fwokeecountry, and unavailing to him, per K^the case was not unlike a man setting out n7? 1 ,ncy iourney on land, and arriving at the vean could proceed no farther. Mr Worces 5, improvement was of considerable value, Ie d we expect will be occupied by his oppres Zl Rumor states that he expects to proceed n to the Arkansas Cherokees, on a mission, i °aA raav be the case of leaving without being ^possessed. If otherwise, the Cherokees had nprmiited him to reside here and preach, he ,L0Uld have sustained his ground until an au ihoritv had taken the premises from him. Uiomyn* r nh-rnlt** Phrnir. An Election for a member of the House nffeiegates for the County of Fairfax, and for a member of the Senate, will be held at James Milan’s, in Fairfax County, on the road leading from Alexandria to Occoquan, on the third Mon day in April, [21st day j. Voters are requested to attend. Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 8 for 1834, Will be drawn in Wilmington, Del. on Tuesday April 15 HIGHEST PRIZE $20,000! Tickets 85 00; halves 2 50; quarters 125 Lowest prize $0 To be had in a variety of numbers of J* C!OKSEv Lottery Exchange Broker, Alexandria. Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 8 foi lbo4, Tobedrawn at Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday, April 15 1 prize of 820,000 1 prize of $5,000 1 do of 6,000 1 prize of 3,000 20 prizes of 81,000! &c. &c. Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25 On sale in great variety by JAS* RIORDAX. Uncurrent Notes and Foreign Gold pur chased.^______ Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 8 for 1834, Will be drawn in Wilmington, Del. on Tuesday, April 15 i prize of $20,000 I 1 prize of $5,000 t do of 6,000 I A do of 3,000 20 Capital Prizes ol$l,000! &c. Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25 To be had in a variety of numbers ot J. w. VIOLETT, Lottery and Exchange Broker, Sear the corner of King and Fayette Streets, Up Orders from the country, enclosing the cash or prize tickets, promptly attended to. ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT. The ESSEX will here after make three trips each From Alexandria at 8 10 and 4 From Washington at 9 11 and 5 PETER JONES, Master. apr 15—3t [Nat. Int.]_ r. n CM VvH. iv rvoiu. I XAA Good Cedar Posts wanted. JUU apr 14 A. C. CAZENOVE CO. SUGAR. Si Hogsheads West India Sugar, just received and for sale by LINCOLN CHAMBERLAIN, apr 14 Vo well’s wharf. SUGAR AND MOLASSES. Hhds. New Orleans and West India Sugars I 5 do Cuba Molasses Landing from schooner Washington, and for ^eby apr 12 WILLIAM N. McVEIGH. PAINTED BUCKETS. XA Dqzen Painted Buckets, assorted colors, I received per brig Alexandria, and for 5 *jeby apr 11 A. C. CAZENOVE CO. SCALE BEAMS. "4 ^cale Beams* large sizes, for sale, low. by *j,jpr 11 GEO. WHITE. w F11U1T. .4(1 Boxes Oranges 10 do Lemons deceived per brig Alexandria, for sale by iP tQ W. FOWLE Co. «kS' MOLASSES, SHERRY WINE,#c. 7 Bbk Sugars 1 do Molasses 1 quarter casks old Sherry Wine 3 octaves do do i per brig Alexandria, for sale by W. FOWLE Co. I"1 kid AM HARPER, DRUGGIST, Has just received a general sup ply of Fresh and Genuine DRUGS and MEDICINES, which he offers as low as they can be purchased in the place. A good credit will be given to punctual customers, a supply of Hair and Flesh Brushes; house for rent. Jju v'p HOUSE lately occupied by Mr. Tho Br°cchus, deceased, on Queen street, 0*^ n St- Asaph and Pitt streets. A large „l an liunu some embroidered and dock’d Bead Reticules and Belt Ribbons 1 1-2 to 22 Lustring Ribbons Black and colored Italian Crapes Linen Cambrics and Linen Cambric Hdkls Superior white and colored Marseilles Vesting Parasols, a large assortment, and very cheap Silk and Cotton Umbrellas English and American Tuscan Bonnets 30 pieces 4-4 and 6-4 Canton Floor Matting, superior quality, very cheap 20 bales Brown and Bleached Shirtings and Sheetings 5 do Cotton Oznaourgs Penitentiary Plaids and Stripes Checks, Rouen Cassimeres, a variety of goods for boys Burlaps and Oznaburgs Canvass, Bleached Ticklenburgs and Ravens JJuck, &c. 50 dozen Palm Leaf Hats, cheap With many other articles; all of which have been bought upon the best terms—and we are determined to sell as loir as any House in the District. Our customers and the public are in vited to call and examine for themselves. We shall receive every week from New York further supplies of Goods, aprj i_W. H. THOMPSON CO. GEO. S..HOUGH HAS just received a part of his Spring As sortment of FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS, and in a few days will have received from Philadelphia and New York a very gene ral assortment of most desirable articles—and as cash at this time is a very necessary commo dity, it would present a strong temptation to sell at small profits.4th mo 11 MORE NEW GOODS. WM. H. MOUNT CO. will open, this morning, a very handsome lot of NEW AND BEAUTIFUL GOODS; some Figured Silk (new style.) The public are invited to call. j apr 4—tf NOTICE, To Dealers in Fuel I food a fid Tan Dark. 1AM enjoined by the Mayor to execute the law respecting Fuel Wood and Tan Bark strictly, according to its letter, until otherwise ordered by the proper authority, apr 15—3t JNO. IIUMNEY. E. ctractfrom the Law of Janury 20th, 1821. Section 10. Be it enacted by the Common Council of Alexandria, That all fire-wood brought to town by water, for sale, shall be four feet long, clear of the kerf, and shall be corded at the place where it shall be landed. A cord of wood shall contain one hundred and thirty eight feet and two-thirds of a foot, cubic mea sure, well stowed and packed. All decayed wood, or wood under one and a half inches in diameter, at the small end, shall be considered unmerchantable; and there shall not be a great er proportion of small and crooked wood in a cord, than the Measurer shall think a reason able proportion. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That all tan-bark brought to town by water, for sale, shall be corded at the place where it shall be landed, and a cord of bark shall contain one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall bring fire-wood or tan bark to town, by water, for the purpose aforesaid, and shall deliver the same, or any part thereof, with out having it first duly corded and measured by a public Measurer, shall forfeit and pay one dollar per cord for all wood or bark so sold and delivered, and in the same proportion for any greater or less quantity. Each Measurer of Wood and Bark shall attend, at all reasonable times, for the purpose of measuring all such wood and bark as he may be required to mea sure, and shall be allowed therefor a fee at the rate of seven cents per cord, to be paid by the seller.__ EXHIBITION OF J. G. CHAPMAN’S PAINTINGS. THE Exhibition of J. G. Chapman’s Paintings is now open to visiters, on Pennsylvania 1 Avenue, nearly opposite Brown’s and Gadsby’s Hotels, from 9 o’clock until sunset. Admission and Catalogue 25 cents Tickets for the season 50 cents In a short time several of the Paintings will be removed to give place to additions that will be made to the collection._apr 10—tf N. E. RUM. 8IIhds. N. E. Rum* received per brig Alex andria. from Boston, for sale by apr 10 W. FQW LE Co. AUCTION SALES. BY GEORGE WHITE—THIS DAY. DRY GOODS AT AUCTION. THIS MORNING, at 10 o’clock, will be sold, without reserve, at the Storehouse one door east of Messrs. Jas. McKenzie Co’s, on King, between Pitt and Royal streets, THE RETAIL STOCK OF DRY GOODS of a house that has declined business, embracing a great variety of seasonable articles, to which the attention of country merchants and others is invited, as they will doubtless be sold at a great sacrifice. Terms liberal, and made known at sale, apr 16 GEORGE WHITE, Auctioneer. BY WILLIAM D. NUTT. SUGAR AND FRUIT AT AUCTION. TO-MORROW, at 11 o’clock, will be sold at my Auction Store, without reserve, 6 hogsheads prime Trinidad Sugar part of the cargo of the British schooner Re treat, and some of the best of the cargo. ADDITIONAL. 3 half pipes genuine Cognac Brandy (su perior 50 boxes Oranges 30 do Prunes 10 do Lemons apr 16 MARSHAL’S SALE. WILL be sold for cash, on Saturday, the 10th day of May next, at 11 o’clock, all the right, title, and interest, of Peter Hewitt and Jane Moxlcy in the following Property, to wit: A One LOT, with a two-story Brick HOUSE If thereon, now occupied by Hugh Leddy, si tuated on Royal street, between King and Ca meron streets, 24 feet on Royal street, and run ning westwardly 124 feet. Also, one other FRAME HOUSE and lilillil LOT, now occupied by the said Jane Mox ley, situated on the east side of Pitt street, and binding on the said Pitt street 22 feet, and run ning eastwardly 114 feet 5 inches, to a nine feet alley. The above property is sold to satisfy a judg ment due Tench Ringgold, for the use of Ashby and Stribling, plaintiffs, against Peter Hewitt and Jane Moxley, defendants. C. SCOTT, D. M. apr 9—eots For H. Ashton, late Marshal. TO WILLIAM B. ALEXANDER, And the others next oj kin to Lee Massey Alexan der late of Alexandria County, deceased. TAKE NOTICE, That, on Friday, the 18th instant, before the Orphans’ Court of Alex andria County, D. C., 1 shall proceed to take the depositions of sundry witnesses to sustain the will of the said Lee Massey Alexander, here tofore filed in the Office of the Register of Wills for probate; which depositions will be continued from day to day during the session of s'aid Court, apr 12—tlSthFRANCES SWANN. FOR RENT, Those two new and convenient HOUSES iiiifseven rooms each) on King, between Pat rick and Henry streets. Likewise, the House at the corner of Prince and Alfred streets. All of which are in thorough repair, and conveni ent to good water. To good and punctual te nants the rents will be low. Inquire of JNO. F. M. LOWE, and in my absence of Mr. James Douglas. apr 12—6t TO RENT, And possession given on the Is* May next, MK Tne DWELLING PART of the HOUSE JjjjjLof the late Mechanics’ Bank of Alexandria. It is pleasantly situated, and conveniently ar ranged for the'accommodation of a genteel fa rnily; with a good Stable, Carriage House, &c. &c. For terms apply at the Office of the Fire Insurance Company of Alexandria, apr 9—eotf FOR RENT, a a The three story file proof WAREHOUSE iSilicornes of Prince and Union streets, now occupied by the subscriber. If not rented be fore the 1st of May, it will then be offered for rent at public auction. JOSEPH H. MILLER. nr»r 9—eotlstMay FRESH GARDEN SEELS, ALL of the growth of 1S33, from the Boston Horticultural and Agricultural Society, this day received per brig Alexandria, and for saie cheaper than usual, by W. M. MORRISON, viz: 4 bushels early Peas (represented to be ex ceeumgjy mu, 10 lbs. EearJy Turnip Blood Bret 12 do Long Blood do 6 do Early Horn Carrot do 10 do Long Orange do (fine for cattle; 10 do Early Dutch Parsnip 10 do Long Green Cucumber, for pickling '1 do Mangle Wurtzel Beet, for fieid culture 10 do Early Scarlet Short Top Radish 2 do Cherry Turnip do 100 do Early fine Gilmer Corn (yellow) French Sugar Beet Green Globe Savoy Cabbage Early York do Large Altringham Carrot(for field culture) Early Cauliflower; Late do Red Dutch Cabbage for pickling White Solid Celery White Portugal Onion Double Curled Parsley; Squash Pepper Summer Savoy; Large Cape Broccoli Curled Cress, or Pepper Grass Summer Spinach Early Scollop Bush Squash Do Long Wai ted do Do Orange do Canada do Tomato, or Love Apple The above, with a lot of 4STJCUllur^il Imple ments, such as Pruning Shears and Knives, Gar den Hoes, Rakes, Cutting Boxes, Corn Shelters, Transplanting Trowels, &c. &c. apr 11 BOOTS AND SHOES. AD. IIARMON lias received, by schooners Mount Vernon and Forrest, in part, his SPRING SUPPLY OF BOOTS SHOES, consisting of Men's coarse water proof Toots Suitab)e for Do do pegg’d Bootees and Fjsherjes Men’s fine Bootees and Shoes, various qualities Boys’ do do Ladies’ Morocco Slippers and Walking Shoes Do Kid and Lasting Slippers i And has on hand, and continues to manufacture, Ladies’ Kid, Morocco. Seal-skin and Lasting Slippers Misses’ and Children’s Leather and Morocco Shoes and Bootees Gentlemen’s fine Shoes, various qualities All of which are offered, wholesale and retail. on the most inviting terms. apr 9 CLOVERSEED. A Bushels of fresh Cloverseed, for sale by apr 12 W. H. MILLER

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FtMie Attention-' S respectfully solicited by“‘^eriw^of’which*bBTe been*teste!f £lK3« "ed b' Und0UMed testimony DR RELFE.S «r Botanical Drops! mre every year increasing their long established repu fThev have outlived many rival preparations, ?„d are continually gaining upon public confidence. The Botanical Drops have been successfully admin* A*j for many years, as a thorough remedy for that «i known and prevalent class of inveterate diseases which originate from a vitiated habit of body, or an he wsditarv predisposition in the patient, and generally appear under the various and distressing shapes of Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Leprosy, St. Anthony s Fire, Vever Sores, White Swellings, Scurvy, Foul and Ob stinate Ulcers, Sore Legs and Eyes, Scald Head, and the last mentioned condition of the system, the Botanical Drops will be found to eradicate the lurk ing poison, where mercury has totally failed, and thus prevent the patient from entailing the seeds of an he reditary disease on his offspring. Dr. Relfe's Botanical Drops are successfully used in cases of violent eruptions after the measles—red blotches—pimples on the face-festering eruptions on the skin—and other diseases of the external surface; and are one of the best Spring and Autumnal physics known, to free the system from humors A physician of eminence, who had witness-d the ef ficacy of this article, had the candor recently to ack nowledge to the proprietor, that he considered it the best medicine known, for the complaints for which it is intended, and that it ought deservedly to stand at the head of the whole class of such remedies. Price $1 a bottle, o~ 6 bottles for $5. WHITE TEETH! AND HEALTHY GUMS! THOSE who would retain or restore these desirable personal advantages, are assured that no compo sition can be obtained superior t z the fBRITlSH ANTISEPTIC DENTRIFICE. This is an elegant and pleasant preparation m every respect, and has, for many years past, given universal satisfaction wherever it has been used. The Antiseptic Dentrifice is exempt from acid and other deleterious ingredients, which too frequent y enter the composition of tooth powders in common use. and it whitens the enamel of the teeth without doing it the least injury. The regular use ot this au hv nurifvincr the mouth and preventing the accumulation of tartar, operates M the best pre ventive of the Tooth Ache. The Dentrifice removes discolorations, and restores the beautiful native white ness of the enamel. As its application braces and strengthens the Gums, it secures to them their healthy and florid hue, and, by removing all offensive foreign accumulations from the teeth, preserves the natural sweetness of the breath. Price 50 cents. None genuine unless signed on the outside print ed wrapper by the sole proprietor, T. Kidder, imme diate successor to the late Dr. W. T. Conway. For sale, with all the other “Conway Medicine, at his Counting Room, No 99, next door to J. Kidder s Drug Store, corner of Court and Hanover streets, near Don' «ert H^ Boston THOMPSON KIDDER; And, by hi, special appointment, by WM. STABLER, Fairfax street, Alexandria. Large discount to those who buy to sell again. Consumption! Asthma! S’ Catarrh! IN that long train of disease, which seem to grow with the growth of civilized society, Consumptior takes the lead in its relentless inroads upon humar life- vet this dreadful disorder is easily overcome m its earlier stages. It is only when neglected that it ar rives at the terrific maturity which so often baffles the sagacity of professional science. An obstinate cough is the customary forerunner of the pulmonary con sumption Improper neglect in the timely adminis tration of simple and salutary remedies, is sure to be reproved by a dreadful succession of consumptive symptoms-oppression of the breast; greenish and bloody spittle; ulcerated lungs and hectic fever; shn veiled extremeties, and general emaciation ot the whole body; prostration of strength; flushed cheeks, swollen feet and legs; and at last in the full posses sionof the mental faculties, and while hope still whis pers her flattering tale—cold extremities, and a pre mature death. For the various stages of this complaint, one ol vhe most aDProved remedies ever yet discovered is DR RELFE’S ASTHMATIC PILLS. This exceedingly powerful, and yet equally sate and innocent preparation, has effected thorough and rapid cures upon patients supposed to have been far advanc edin a confirmed Consumption, and who have exhibit ed the appearances which usually indicate a fatal ter mi nation of'he disorder. As the Fills require in ordinary cases no confine ment they may be administered with confidence and safety to all ages and classes of people. Unexampled success has hitherto attended their administration in a great variety of cases; andjhe proprietor can refer tc a multitude, which testify to their efficacy in reviving the emaciated victim lrora the bed of disease, and re storing him to the blessings of accustomed health and Price f 1 for who/e boxes of 30 pills, and 50 cents for half do. of 12 pills, with directions. Debilitated Females: •TIMS complaints peculiar to the female part of the Ml community, have been long successfully treated by the administration of the Aromatic Pills, originally prescribed and compounded by Dr Kelfe. They cleanse the blood from those disorders of the female constitution, for which the pills are an effectual speci fic- they restore a free circula ion, reform the irregular operations of the sanguiferous system, and rectify the disordered habits. The proprietor’s confidence in the superior excellence of this equally innocent and pow •rful preparation, is founded on the most decisive tes timony from many restored patients. He can assure this portion of the public, that when ©R.P RELFE’S AROVIVriC PILLS FOR FEMALES are regularly taken, according to the directions, ac* companying them, they revive and establish the desir ed healthy habits, and restore to the pallid counte nance the natural glow of health and good spirits. Married ladies will find the pills equally useful, ex cept in cases of paegnancy, when they must not be takeni neither must they be taken by persons of hec 'TJc'SrYoflTOTOptiftf habits. They may be used success fully by either men or women in all Hypochondriac, Hysteric or Vapourish disorders. In all cases of this description, the pills purify, invigorate, and revive the disordered system. Price $1 50 a box. None genuine unless signed on the outside print wrapper by the sole proprietor, T. Kidder, imme nse successor to the late Dr. W. T. Conway. For mSs with all the other Conway Medicines,” at his Counting Room, No. 99, next door to J. K.dder’s Drug corner of Court »nd H.nover streets, new Con Store,coroer THOMPSON KIDUStt. CeAnd »lso by his special appointment, by WM SPABLBK. Fairfax street, Alexandria. V Urge discount to those who buy to sell again. To Rheumatic Invalids! PbttaOAs wittering u.iUer ubeumatic Affection are respectfully assured that they can obtain of the proprietor and his agents a safe and admirable reme dy for Itheumaiism, however obstinate the disorder may be, and in all its different stages. MMr. Jcbb's Liniment! will afford immediate relief to the patient, end has tometimea been attended with such extraordinary sue gens as to cure the oust distressing Kheumatism in twenty four hour*, even when of years standing. fails higuly valuab'e Liniment is recommended With a confidence founded on the experience of ma nv veara, not only aa a cure for that excruciating cue, but a* an excellent application ft»r Stiffness of the Joints* Numbness, Sprains, Chilblains, &c. (This article is considered so superior to every thintr else, and to possess such uncommon virtues, that it is ordered from all parts of the country.) re? An Agent recently writes: Please send me a further supply of Jebb*s Liniment the first opportuni ty—I shall probably sell a considerable quantity, as it is recommended by some ot our physicians very high ly, although contrary to their rules and regulations to give encouragement to such (or, patent) medicines. But is a most decided proof of their confidence in its invaluable properties Another agent writes: “I wish you to forward me some more of Jebb*s Liniment, which has recommend* ed itself very highly.** Price 50 cents bottle, The Painful and Debilitating Complaint of THE PILES Receives immediate relief, and in numerous instances has been thoroughly cured, by the administration ot DUMFRIES’ REMEDY FOR 0? THE PILES. THIS approved com^ounu also .imigaies and re moves the symptoms which frequently accompa ny that disorder, and increase the danger ot the pa tient, vis: pains in loins, headache, loss of appetite, indigestion, and other marks of debility A relieved patient writes from a distance: It is but justice to inform you, that I have used vour Dumfries* Remedy for the Piles for some time past, and have found it eminently successful- The remedy is quite innocent, and may be adminis tered to all ages and both sexes. Plain and ample i* rections, with a description of the complaint, accom pany each package, which consists ot two boxes, one Suing L Ointment, and the other an Electuary. Price $1 for both articles, or 50 cents where but one is wanted* DUMFRIES’ Itch Ointment! TUB extensive sale and established reputation ol Dumfries* Itch Ointment, encourages the propr. etorto recommend it with renewed confidence to the public, a9 a most innocent as well as powerful applica tion for this annoying disease The most inveterate cases have been cured in one noun! by this esteem ed Ointment. It contains no mercury, or other noxi ous ingredient, and imy be confidently applied ever to the youngest children, or to pregnant females n •_£VV 1 _ 4 riii'G *J4 g *t» Mone genuine un ess signed on the outside prin ted*wrapper by the sole proprietor, T. Kidder, imme diate successor to the late Dr T. Conway. For sale with all the other Conway Medicines,” at his Coun ting Hoorn, No. 99, next door to J. Kidder’s Drug Store, corner of Court and Hanover streets near Con cert Hall, Boston THOMPSON KIDDER. And also, by his special appointment, by WM. STABLER, fan 15 Fairfax street, Alexandria. Large discounts to those who buy to sell again Albion Corn Plaster! f|lHE Albion Corn Plaster softens the corn, howevei l old and tough, and extracts it to the very roots The relief afforded is gentle, immediate, and tho rough. The proprietor begs leave to submit tne following case, from Mr Stowell, who is well known to the in habitants of this city, especially at the South End an; South Boston, as a very worthy and respectable cm zer.:— A Case. Sie—* I do not hesitate to give my most unqualifiec i approbation in favor of your valuable \lbion Corr i Plaster. By the use of less than a box, Mrs Siowel i has been cured of a corn on each foot, which had beer exceedingly troublesome and painful tor years, and think it hut juatice to your invaluable preparation ti add, (for the encouragement of those who, owing ttde rick. Md Fukdehick, Md. May 6,1831. Mr. C Htrslons—I deem it proper to state, for the i benefit of the public, that, several years since, two of j my children were affected with scald head of an inve terate character. My family physician, Dr John T. Wilson, of Leesburg, Va who was very skilful and ju I dicious in his practice, in vain endeavored by every i means to effect a cure. At length Judkins Ointment I was applied, and the affection was permanently reliev i e(i Very respectfully, v our obedient servant, I J L. P. W. Balch. From the Honorable John Taliaferro, Member of Cun gress, dated vy ashiwgtobt, January 22,1829. gIR_Ithasbeenmy wish, fora considerable time, to communicate to you the good effect with which I have used the Ointment invented by a Mr. Judkins, and which 1 now understand is made and sold by agents appointed by yourself, I have applied this Ointment during the last three years to every species of tumor and wound, without failure to produce a cure in every instance. 1 consider it the most decided and efficient remedy in all cases of tumor, be the cause whatit may; and 1 have found nothing so good for wounds of any description It may be proper to add, that the cure of a tumor called white swelling, given over by the most distinguished physicians as in curable. and whichth :y decided would, withoutampu tation, prove fatalto the patient, was, under my imme diate notice, effected by the use of Judkins’ Ointment, and the patient is in fine health. His limb affected by the tumor being restored to a perfectstate of sound ness. Also that the leg of an aged man which had been wounded, and exhibited one dreadfully ulcerated sur face from the knee to the foot, and which, for more than two years,had been considered incurable, wasef r^o highly prize, that that I cannot, injustice, refrain from gitring you this information. _ (TT* To avoid the imposition oFcounterfeitsand spu rious imitations, as related above, the purchaser has only to examine the bill of directions covering each box, and if signed at foot, in my own handwriting, im mediately under my printed name, they are genuine, and prepared by me; but if omit the printed name is affixed, they are spurious, and to be avoided. J S. H. P. LEE, New London, Conn. Dec. 1823.__ HYGEIANISM. THE following testimonials of the superior efficacy of the HYGEIAN MEDICINES in the cure of our diseases, speak in a language which must carry conviction to the minds of the most skeptical: B&owx Uxivxrsity, Dec. 25, 1833* To Mr. Samuel Young, Agent for the Hygeian Vege table Universal Medicines, for the State of Rhode Island. Sir—Gratitude to the Great Preserver of Men com pels me, in compliance with your request, to give a brief statement oft* cure, which, I think, I received from the Hygeian Medicines. I give publicity to the same the more cheerfully; because thereby, perhaps, I may be useful to some of my fellow-men, who may be afflicted with a similar disease. My complaint was called Pulmonary Consumption, and that my real condition may be explicitly utrier stood, I state, in connexion with the relation of the cure, some of the symptoms of the disease. In Sep I tember, 1832, 1 caught a severe cold, which settled on i my lungs; I was confined to my room about one week, with a fever, attended with considerable cough; my I cough soon abated, and apparently, I was regaining my health; when, after about three weeks, in the I course of the night, having returned the evening be fore in usual health, I found myself bleeding at the Iung9. I had not, to my knowledge, received any hurt or strain, to which the cause of this might be attribut ed. I spat blood, occasionally, for four da>s; it left me with some fever, pain in the breast, very little ap petite, and withal, very w?ak A few weeks determined that I was in a decline 11 received the attention of the most skilful Physicians, who often seemed to check the progress of the dis ease, and inspire the hope of a speedy recovery. But reLpse upon relapse, and each bringing me lower than the preceding, seemed to baffle all human skill, and warn me of an approaching dissolution. Thus, months after the first attack, a tubercle” [small ul hrnWp in thp Innorc. after u/hir.b I anat hlond. one day. I continued to decline twomonths longer, when I obtained the Hygeian Medicines. 1 had now been unable to sit up a whole day, for four months and a half. My feet were cold and lifeless, sleep unsound, cold night sweats constant, tongue furred, pulse in the afternoon from seventy-five to one hundred per mi nute, food produced great distress, appetite very poor, pain in the breast directly opposite the heart, attended with some cough, &c. &c. Such was my condition, when I first became acquainted with the Hygeian Medicines. 1 commenced taking the medi cines, four pills at a dose, and increased the dose dai ly, one up to the number of twelve. In about ten days, my appetite became good, and food produced no distress, sleep soon became sound and refreshing, and in about forty days the symptoms of the disease had nearly all disappeared I took the medicine sixty days regularly every night, averaging about ten pills at a dose; the greatest num ber taken at any one time was fifteen. After this, 1 took about four doses a week, until I had taken abou' thirteen hundred pills, when.I found myself restored to health. After I commenced the Hygeian, I took no other medicine. One year from the first attack, l was able to resume my studies in college, where I have since remained without any recurrence of the disease Hitherto I have been convalescent; and if my strength is not yet fully returned, I am certain I have less pains, and am more free from temporary sickness* than at any time since my earliest recollec tion. Yours, with respect, -HORACE T. LOVE* Dr H. Shephkard Moat. Dear Sir—l wish to state that my sister, after severe suffering, and employing a medical man three years, was relieved by the use of the Universal Medicines. Her complaint was a violent pain and soreness in her side; indeed, to use her own expression, her ribs on one side had turned in, actually deformed. The pain was a violent burning pain, almost intolerable; so see vere, that she could not nit up for upwards of three years. It was occasioned by over-lacing hers o If, and perhaps, over exertion with it. After using a few, doses of No. I and 2, alternately, about eight pills for a dose, the pain decreased, and, by perseverance in their use, she is now restored to health; and 1 have no objection to this case being made public for the benefit of others; and am, dear sir, yours truly, H. DYER. Lowell, Massachusetts, Feb. 8, 1834. Injustice to Dr. M., her medical adviser, when he heard her improvement in health, he recommended perseverence in the use of he medicines. _u____i _..e Uia 1 t* I VAt*lS W MUUIVIMVy V Vlll^ VVIU|/VJVU Vf»»i J VI vegetable matter, or medicinal herbs, and warranted, on oath, as containing not one particle of mercurial, mineral, or chemical substances, (all of which are un congenial to the nature of man, and therefore destruc tive to the human frame,) is found to be perfectly harmless to the most tender age or weakest frame, un der every stage of human suffering; the most pi *asant and benign in it operation, and at the same time the most searching out the root of every complaint, how ever deep, and of performing a cure, that was ever offered to the world. This wonderful effect, too, is produced by the least trouble to the patients, by merely swallowing a certain number of small pills, and being called a few extra times to the purposes of eva cuation, with the least possible sensation of pain, or exhaustion of bodily s'rength, and without the tear of catching cold, or attention to dress or diet, in any way different from their accustomed habits. These pills cure ali cases, and cannot be taken to excess Experience, which is the touchstone of all human knowledge, has long borne testimony to the fact; and extensive use of them has already verified its truth in this country. These medicines cure by purging; and yet the weak, the feeble, the infirm, the nervous, the delicate, are in a few days strengthened by their operation, because they clear the body of its bad humours, and invariably procure sound sleep. They are the safest and most efficacious menicine to take to sea; preventing scurvy, costiveness, &c, The Vegetable Cleansing Powders are of great as sistance to patients, and facilitate the evacuation of bad humours; they soften, cleanse, and detach the acrimonious phlegm; are cooling, and allay the thirst. One, two, or three powders may be taken throughout the day, mixed in half a wine glass of water. The genuine Medicines can be had of WM. POMEROY, Alexandria, Sole Agent for the District of Columbia and its vicinity. By whom the Pills are sold in packets of one, two, and three dollars each, and the Powders at 37$ cents per box, with printed directions; and also by the fol lowing-*ub-Agents: R. W. Polkinhorn, between 9th and 10th streets, Pennsylvania Avenue; John Stillirjs, Navy Y*rd, Washington; and Thomas C. Wright, Georgetown; of whom alone can the Medicines be warranted genuine. By appointment of Dr, H. S. Moat, H. P, M., M B. C. ft., Brooklyn, New York, *he sole importer of these Medicines. Morrisonia, or the Family Adviser, price $2 75; Prac tical Proofs, illustrated by numerous cases of cure, third edition, price 37$ cents; to be had as above. api 5 —tf COLORED APPRENTICES WANTED, For the Patent Rope-Making Business. I WILL take two or three Colored Boys, of unquestionable character, (none other will be taken) to learn the Patent Ropemaking Bu siness.. JOSIAH H. BAVI«( 1 DR. MEAD’S ANTI-DYSPECTIC, or Vm MACH PILLS, THE only medicine ever yet offered to ti public, from which a radical and Perm nent cure can be obtained of all those chreT* states of derangement of the digestive or"?0 constituting that complicated disease Dyspepsia. rme« The duty which the proprietor owes to ety, has induced him to adopt this mode of culation, in order to give it a greater ran^ publicity, that it may thereby become morep°‘ tensively useful than it could possibly be w it confined within the private practice of aCre individual whatever. The diseases consent? on a morbid state of the stomach and bow? are numerous, complicated, and, for the m? part, very difficult of cure. m°£l The proprietor of these Pills is happy jn u ing it in his power to offer to all those who? afflicted with the above complaint, a medic:? in which the most unlimited confidence mav placed, and, for simplicity of composition be given to children and patients of the?? delicate habit. In every chronic case ofstomar1 complaint, where the disease does not dene? on a schirrus, or cancerous state of that or?1 (in which case no medicine whatever can any good,) these pills will effect a certain speedy cure, after the stomach of the patient IV been cloyed with magnesia and chalk. a? drenched with all the bitter potions that a could invent, to no purpose. They will mcu effectually remove all sourness of the stomach not merely by neutralizing the acid, but byCOr’ recting that morbid state of the secretions whic! gives rise to it; and at the same time that thev are giving tone to the organs of digestion, the will renovate and give new life and vigor to tf whole system. Geo. Smith, Proprietor For sale by WILLIAM STABLER' IMPROVED COMPOUND CjlLORttF TOOTH WASH. THE discovery of the Chloride of Soda an* its uses, by Labarraque, of Paris, was a addition to the resources of medicine of the ut most importance as a neutralizing agent. To counteract at once the principle of decay, which commencing imperceptibly, slowly ga thers strength, and finally destroys, is the im portant service w’hich can be derived from *thc use of the Chloride of Soda, when administered with skill and care. 1 he diseases of the Teeth being, in the great majority of cases, the result of neglect and a gradual accumulation of the principle above alluded to, it became obvious, from the earliest experiments, that the Chloride was the proper remedy and preferable to pow ders, dentrifices, &c., of whatever kind or pre tension. By a chemical analysis, it will be found that the greater proportion of the Ohio rine Compounds so extensively in use, do not contain a particle of the Chloride of Soda, on the agency of which their efficacy must neces sarily depend. This article is confidently offered to the ex animation of the public, as possessing in an em inent degree the virtue of neutralizing all that is offensive in the mouth and breath, removing soreness and sponginess of the gums,destroying the taint of tobacco, or any other effluvia fron. whatever cause. In short, this preparation w be found to justify the various commendator;. notices and recommendations it has received. Prepared and sold, wholesale and retai by Rushton Aspinwall, No 81 William stiee: and 110 Broadway, and N. Smith Prentiss. N 45 Maiden Lane, New York; and sold in Alex andria by WILLIAM STABLER; in Wash ington City by William Gunton, Todd& Co; in Georgetown by Q. M. Linthicum. martM SWAIM’S PANACEA. AFRESH supply just received from the pro prietors, William Swaim Son. On hand SWAIM’S VERMIFUGE. 3d mo 10 _WM. STABLER. BARTON’S COUGH DROPS. AFRESH supply received for sale by E KENNEDY; price 25 cents per bottle. NOTICE. THE subscriber, having taken the large three story fire-proof Warehouse at the corner ol Prince and Union streets, nearly opposite his Grocery Store, (which he intends occupying as a Warehouse,) respectfully informs his friends and country merchants generally that he w. receive and forward GOODS of all kinds; re ceive FLOUR on storage; store GRAIN ana other GOODS, on the usual terms. The situa tion being convenient to shipping, persons dis posed to STOKE their r LUutv win nnu duad vantage arising therefrom. Any business wr trusted to his care in the above Agency, will punctually and carefully attended to. He continues to keep constantly on hand age neral assortment of GROCERIES, SALT, &c. &c.; and will at all times funu>: PLASTER to those wishing to purchase, a of which he offers, wholesale and retail, u low. WILLIAM N. McVEIGH, feb 25 Prince street wnari. H33 Leesburg Washingtonian, Republican, and Political Spectator, 3n; ton) 2 months, and charge BOOTS AND SHOES. JH. WHITE has just received, per _sw«» Union, a well selected and seasonal in voice of BOOTS AND SHOES. Amongt-' are— Men’s Calf Sewed Boots, first quality Do thick Pegged and Sewed M ut-n j Do Calf Pegged and Sewed Munme# Boys’ do Pegged and Sewed (i() Women’s Lasting and Seal Slippe1^ 1 fersons, (very cheap) Hair Trunks, &c. &c. Also in Store, of his own manujaciurr, Ladies’Gaiter Boots ii.;rt? Do Lasting, Seal,Morocco KiJ bl *1 Do Calf and Seal Jeffersons a. Misses’Lasting, Seal, and Kid Jeffersons 11U binds Gentlemen’s Boots and Shoes, 'a11 ,..;ce; All of which will be sold at the .Lien [,v* street, Georgetown. wr