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I jl i i if CHARLESTON SATUUDAY MORmNO DEC THE COClUrril i THE UOOK OF UNIVERSAL HWA'ILS With Improvements adapted to the merchant ves sels vf the States 1 BY JAMES' ELVORD Is Hus Daf Published and cjjered for sale a Mo 70 East-Bay SIGN OF THE QUADRANT CC Subscribers to the above Work are requeste to call for their Copies 7 i The above Signals are said to be in general use b)l the British and other European Powers The alan- 1 1 tage of this simple work Is a suit of Color (with two Black Balls) are all the Flags rcquired The work includes 16 Engravings half-bound in boards and sold at 81 copy (Copy right secured) Dec 8 1818 rsiVATB COHIUSrOjriiesCE COLUMBIA 8th DEC 1818 Nothing material has occurred in either House within the last few days but the subject of the repeal of the Act to prevent the introduction of Negroes into the State which has been carried in both Houses at the second reading of the Bill The debate in the House of Representatives was one of the most tlo quent and animated that has taken place on tlmt floor for manv years Colonel Wilson brought in a resold lion to instruct the Military Committee to enquire into the expediency of establishing a Battalion or Regiment of Riflemen in every Brigade throughout the State wTiich was agreed that Committee no doubt will report favorably and by Bill The Members of both Houses proceeded in processiou yesterday to the College' and witnessed the exercises of tlnday The Graduates acquitted themselves witi great honor The election for Governor will come on this day or to-morrow Taylor Geddes and Wilson the candi dates the two former the no correct opin ion can be given as yet of the man who is to govern Times The lion JOHN GEDDES was on Tuesday last elected Governor of this State The follow ing is the state of the poll 1st BALLOT 2d DO 3d BO 4tll DO ir came to store and purchased to the amount of 840 in payment of winch and Ids due bill he tendered a KICK) US Bank note and received his change At tfie same time he purchased a negro woman from Col for 8500 which lie paid in 5 notes of the States Bank of 00 each and during the same day lie made a similar purchase from a man who was about to leave the county and paid g600in six 8100 notes ot the United Slates Bank making in all 12 8 100 notes of the bank which he had disposed of immediately after his declaration to Col Holt that 875 was all the money he had and within 8100 of the amount of United States bank notes which was stated in memorandum From all the circumstances it appeared in the inquest that although Ackiss did not commit uor even assist in committing the murder he was the master spirit who commanded his black agents to perpetrate the deed and under the pretext of hunting on the Bight the deceased lodged at his house ne took an opportunity of instructing them in the bloody part which they but too successfully acted on the following morning as The Bill now before the Senate for the more convenient organization of the Courts of the States provides that from and after a certain da the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of the Supreme Court of the States shall cease to be Judges in the Circuit Courts of the United States and shall be discharged from the performance of any duties therein that the Supreme Court shall thereafter hold its sessions at the seat of government twice a year to commence on the first Mondays of May and that the Supreme Court shall consist after the next vacancy of six justices one chief and five associate and after the occurrence of another vacancy shall consist of five justices the Chief Justice and four others any three of whom shall form a quorum to do business The bill further provides for dividing the United States into eight Circuits and for the appointment of a Circuit Judge to each There is some probability that this bill will pass into a law The subject is one of much interest and the proposed modifioition of our Judicial system has many recommendations Mat Irit Pubfishetl (paily) by A WELLINGTON 1 Printer to the City N63 EASYVBAY (SICOHD BOOft BSOAD-STS1IT OAfOSIT TSS XOBTO-Wirr COISSB 01 TS IXCBAXSl) CRARLESO'OA So Ca DAILY PAPER tb domabb COUNTRY PAPER (tKBIX TIWSS 4 WISE) IVS BOll FZH ABBUK ASS ADT1UTIHSIBST ATrSiB lit BOTB tAFEBS Prom the Norfolk Herald 4th inst MURDER AMD ROBBERY The following' details of a murder recently tommitted in the neighborhood called PungO in Prince9 Anne County are communicated to us by a gentleman who was present at the inquest on the body of the deceased person As the individual who stands committed for a participation in the crime is now in the hand? of justice and in the eye of the law must be presumed innocent until his final sentence is pronounced we will barely state the facts as they were related to us without any comment of our own For some days previous to Tuesday the 24th bit there had teen in Pungo a man by the name of Alexander Taggat from South-Carolina whose errand was to purchase Slaves and it was po secret that he had a very large sum of money ahathtm Among ethers who nad slaves to sell was one Harper Ackiss a farmer in the neighhor-hood who became acquainted with Taggert at 2 the house of a Mr Gornto It was' on the day above mentioned that Ackiss invited Taggert to come to his house in the evening that he might see the negroes and purchase such of them as he wanted the latter however having staid later at Mr Gornto than he had intended expressed "Some apprehensions at going to that night and at trie recommendation of Air postponed his visit till the next day On Wednesday he accordingly set out and on his arrival at Ackisses was mtt by him and welcomed with apparent sincerity and hospitality It was not wish to tarry any longer at Ackisses than ms business required but A contrived to him Until night came on when contrary to the mten- tion he had expressed to Mr Gornto in the morning he was prevailed on by Ackiss to stay at his house all night wife was from home and the only white persons aout the farm were himself his guest and two young men one of whom lived with him After they had supped Ackiss I told his guest that as it was a fine night he should go out a hunting and said he would leave the young men to keep him he then went ofE Soon after this the young men made some excuse to get away also at which Taggert became exceedingly alarmed and besought them with great earnestness not to leave him alone he re- presented to them his fears that the gang of negro desperadoes and runaways who infested the neighborhood and with whom negroes were known to be in league might seize the ty to murder him but they determined ongoing had left the house but a short time however when (as they stated in their evidence before the inquest) they began to entertain some tears for Taggart's safety and being aware that if he was murdered they might get into trouble on account of it they concluded to return and on entering the house tliej found Taggert in' a dark corner of the room where he had crept for the purpose of concealment and under the influence of a violent paroxysm of fear At a late hour of the night Ackiss returned from hunting (as he wished it to be believed) and the whole party retired to bed Very early the next morning (Thursday the 26th) Taggert had his horse got ready took leave of Ackiss and rode olF he had just time to proceed 3 or 400 yards £romie report of a gun was I heard- fhesound alarmed one of the young men I who immediately foreboded a verification of the I 'Jl i tie preetding night I and he exclaimed Til lay a wager toe I rogues have shot Taggert replied I £k8S i ai into J'our liead 1 The man has fired oil one of is i trouble to ascertain who fired the gun Un the following Monday horse was Band in an inclosure about 3 miles on the road from is fired oil one of his own oUnla 1 1 Neither however tookthf lij'Ll ui uiem nowever took tue 1 '0 Ac 9 preprietor of the place knew I thatnotlung had been heard of after his depar- tnra iVnm Iw an I 1 r- i i ture from Ackiss the I Van Alstyne Has at last been taken as mentioned in a lata paper and is now safely lodged I worthy of such a greeting Were it our object mm id the gaol of Schoharie He was taken at Black dvidniiu i called his name Allen said he was going to Ohio in pursuit of Van Alstyne and in proof of it took from bis pocket the sheriff's advertisement for his own apprehension After being a short time however in custody a person came forward who was acquainted with him and identified his He was then secured put undei the care ot three trusty persons and conveyed in a wag-1 The following interesting article of intelligence Is gon to Schoharie- and delivered to Mr Keyser from the National Intelligencer of the 5th inst sherifl of that deniti all knowledge I ye understand that on the 20th October the of the murder of Mr Huddleston Albany Ad 3 day before he lately left London on his return to A Quick Thought Paris Mr Gallatin in conjunction with Mr A few days since a gentleman having a draft Rush signeia TREATY between the States for a few thousand dollars on one of our Banks aUj ui eat-Britain which had just been conclud presented it and demanded specie No sooner said than done a number of bags containing one et t0e gentlemen with Plenipotentiaries on thousand dollars each in sixpenny pieces and ten the part of Great-Biitain but we do not learn and twenty cent pieces and other sm-ill change that any copy of this Treaty has )ct been re which Would take at least a week to count were turned out gentlemen untied two or three of the bags and finding them all filled with this kind of precious metal thrust his hand into each bag filled his jacket and pantaloons pockets and then turning round to the cashier of the bank informed him that he did not want any more specie we will venture to say werea class of graduates mon in its SMI NEWH i POUT OF CHARLESTON ariuveo lESTcfinar Schooper Governor Coppinger Ilulbert St Augustine 2 days Deer Skins and Oranges To the master Miller Son and Kicardt Passengers Mrs Pans Messrs Lafont Ii chard Mathews Bennett iVhite and liu'sts Schooner Carrier Tobias Cliehaw das Cotton and Wood To Mag wood Patieraon On Tuesday evening off the bar saw a man of war brig at anchor full of men Schooner Experiment from St Parish with Cottn 1 and Wood To Osborn and Waring Sloop from St Parish with 12S barrels Rice To Simons Sons CLEAUM) Fr si lip Mara-Theresa Bazin Havre A Pitray Brig Gov Jones George Havana liarelli Torre Brig Cyane Edlund Norfolk II Tapper WEST TO SEA VESTEBDAT brig Enterprize Lt Kearney for New-York Brig Angelina Chazal New-Orleans Schr Eagle Uizuel Havana Schr Tr ends Lachicotte St Jago dc Cubs -Schr Pennsylvania Moore Philadelphia Schr Maria Chadwick New-Y6ik Sloop Ann Fezant Cuoa AHKiviLs raow this roar Britishbrig Iitile-Eliza Calderat (Jam) Oct 16 1 British brig Cora Arnold at Kingston (Jam) 12 days British schr Fr endslip Wyllie at do II days British schr Favorite Uunlevy at do 21 days Sloop Harriet White at Wilmington (N C) The Steam-Boat Charleston Utley for Savannah full of passengers started yesterday morning at seven The sclirs Mary 81 Eliza Snow and Morning-Star Kendrick for this porf are up at Boston 1st inst The schr Marys Martha Burgess for St Johns (East-Florida) cleared at Boston 1st inst The ship Lucy Ann Arnold with a full freight and 70 passengers sailed from New-York for this port on the 2J inst The schr New-Orleans Adams for this fort cleared at Nt-vv-V'ork 3d inst The schr Amuuscade Skidmore 4 days fiom New-York bound to this port touched at Norfolk 3d inst to land 92 seamen for the frigate Congress The schr Fish-Hawk Taber arrived at Norfolk 3d inst in 8 days from Savannah Th- schr Decatur Wheeler arrived at Boston 30th ult in 9 days from Savannah The sloop Delight Cooper cleared at Savannah for this port on Wednesday lust WILMINGTON (N C) Dec 5 since our last brigs Seaman Wood ard Aux-Uayes John Lon don Pierce New-York Hiram Gale Prov idence sclirs Ocv a a Kent Boston Commerce Munson York Minerva Greaghcad Philadelphia Industry from New-York sloops Three-Brothers Randal Kew Bedford Harriet White I harlcttm Cleared brig ltobert-Cochran Grafton New-York schrs Sallv Ilibbert Burmuda George Berry Mu tauzas i sloop Eagle Grimes Newbern NEW-YORK Dec Arr last evening brig Stafl of Life Lee fiom Richmond and 4 days from the Roa-isj schrs Financier Crowell Barnstaide 8 days Two Sisters Gilley Portland 16 days Relief Baxter do 25 days Arrived this day brig Actress Potter 34 day from Cork wi'U dry goods und coal Left ship Aaron Davis for Newport It I to sail in 3 days Sailed in co with brig Harvey for Norfolk and hip Ansimnenes for New-Yorx Below ship Carolina-Ann Palmer 45 days from Liverpool with di gauds coal kc Cleared brig Leopard Wiison Leith schr New Orleans Adams Charleston PHILADELPHIA Die 4 Arrived sldep Packet Brown Newbern 5 days with naval stores- Cleared ships Ruth Mary Singleton Lisbon 1 Joseph Manlove West-Indies Junius Dum on Brazils sloop Rachel Rhoda Russel Savannah Below ship Adriana Donaldson Liverpool The Adriana sailed Oct 9th was 10 days clearing the Channel and ha I westerly winds and a boisterous passage of 42 days from the Tuscan Cabin passengers II Graves and lady Clark Mathews Edward Poole Henry Holt Hindinark John Selkirk and Alex Selkirk and 6 in the steerage KINGSTON (JAM October Arrived schooner Friendship Wylie Charleston II days sloop Maria Ellen Hallimoie 31 days llth brig Cora Arnold Charleston 12 days About eight days ago the Cora was boarded by schooner supposed to be a Mexican privateer which put a French negro on board and after making some enquiries permuted Capt Arnold to proceed for his destination Oct The brig Fdiza Whinyates from Liverpool to New-Orleans out 52 days put into Port uoyai on Saturday afternoon in distress having Carried away her main-mast and fore-top-masts bulwarks in a gale of wind which she encountered on the 2 lot ult off Guadaioupe Oit Arrived ship Race Horse De Gairis Bal-timure 28 days 18th schooner Favorite Dunlevy Charleston 21 Cordelia Philadelphia 20 The Race-Horse made the east end of this island ten days ago since which she has encountered almost continued gales of wind but received very trifling injury The Favorite carried away her main-boom lore lop-mast and sprung her fore-mast during a heavy gale of imi about ten days ago The Cordelia On the 13ih inst-off Cape Nichola Mole fell in with a dismasted ship but as not enabled to communicate with her The schooner Rosario from Beaufort (N C) arrived at Kingston Oct 7i brig Woodman from St ar at Port Maris 17th Brig Nassau Rue from Wilmington and Nassau arrived previous to the 6th and ship Union from Norfolk previous to the 21st at Kingston Schooner Delight Trott 14 days from Baltimore arrived at Kingstou 19th hrig Little-Eliza Caldcr from Charleston arrived at 'ort Antonio 16th Arrived at Montego Bay 7U ship James Donlop Bride Bath 52 days 8th brig Brisk Mossop York 20 Ar at Falmouth 'Oct 6 brig Duke of Wellington Chancellor Norfolk The Spanish schooner Carridad had been seizea and condemned at Jamaica with her cargo of logwood and sheep A severe gale was experienced at Moran tBy Oct a British drogging sloop was lost and six persons perished including two females and an infant There was a public sale of Coffee at Kingston Oct it brought from 41 14s 2d to tl 5s lod per cwj Sale of Sugar 22d at 21 15s per Stockholders in the Bank of the (J IN SOUTH-CAROLINA XII Corresponding Committee appointed at a meet ing beld in Charleston on the 12th int respectfully request ihe Stockholders resident in this Stale aS early a9 possible lo call ai the Office of Mr- Thomas Morris Notary Public corner of wharf and Easi-Uay street to sign thw General Power of Attorney appointing a lroxy to vote for them at the ensuing Election for Directois of the Mother Bank irf Philadelphia on the first MoniL in January next in continuity to a resolution of the stockholders agreed to at the above Meeting recommendatory of the same DAVID ALEXANDER Chairman Corresponding Committee Carhm 18rA Jov 1818 1 For the convenience of Stockholders in the ipuntiy era of Attorney will be forwarded lor gnature to Columbia Georgetown Beaufort and Camden 1 V- £5 The Subscriber will 'be absent from the City a short time- Mr Dahiel Fdwubds has been appointed his Attorney curing his absence byl whom all business will be transacted RICHARD OTIS December 12 2-- Dr Finley has removed froni No 19 King-street to No 10 MEETING-STREET December 12 4 0" Whereas some persons harp lately been in the habit of taking the Iiandies and Bolta out ot the Puplic Pumps to the great inconvenience of the citizeiei generally as well as danger in the event of Fire 'Ihe Fite-Masters therefore warn all persona from trespassing in like manner in future at 1 they are determined to prosecute in every instance By order JOHN WRAINCIJ Clerk '7' Female ScminaryT PARENTS and are respectfully informed that select SCHOOL for Young Ladies will be opened on theiun-M day of January' 1819 where the English and French Languages will taught! grammatically by the Rev Robiut rwis Geography History and Belles Lettres Writing and Arithmetic will form a course of study Apply to ROBERT SSYMES December 12 sthf4 1 1 Ladies Benevolent Society A Quarterly Meeting of tin Society will held at the Orphan House on Tvibiut the 15th inst at 11 o'clock A 1 Dec 9 South-Carolina Medical Society THE hlembers of this Society will dine together on MONDAY the 14tli inst (their next anniversary) at? bally Dinner will be on table at 4 December 8 I hand Masonic Festival THE Grand Lodge ot Ancient FreeSlasons ofSouth-Carnlins and the Lodges under its jurisdiction will celebrate th Festival 01 St John the Evangelist1 011 MONDAY the 23th inst (St Day falling on Sundayi) when the General Grand Communication wijl be held in the Grand Lodge Room at Brother Corner of Meeting and Market-streets wher the Grand Officers Past Grand Officers aiid Members of the subordinate Lodges anti the Brethren' generally together with all transient Brethren ate particularly requested to attend precisely at 10 in the from whence the Masonic Body will proreed to St chad's Chunk where Divine Service will be performed and a SERMON delivered by the Hey Brother Fhzdmuck Daicho Most K-terend Grand-Chaplain 1 after which the Brethren will return in the same order of procession to the Grand Lodge Room to transact the usual business of the day The Dinner wdl be provided by Brother Galloway and 1 ickels for the same to be had of the following Brethren CHARLES TUCKER -l CHARLES CLEAPOU RICHARD PEARCE MAYNARD PETER JAVAIN By order of the G-and Lodge MITCHELL Grand Secretary December 10 ST FETE1VS CHURCH i THE increasing demand for Pews in St Philip's and iSV MichaiCs Churches has rendered it necessary to erect an additional Church for the accommodation of Episcopalians who cannot obtain Pews or even Seats in either of those Churches It is intended therefore to build immeliatdy a NEW EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the lover part of the city upon the most economical plan Persons who are desirous uf contributing towarus the building of this Church cither with the view ot taining Pews for their Families or from the laudable desire of promoting the Christian Worship of God by erecting another Temple to His name are informed that the Subscription Book it ltft at the Counting House of Messrs Keushaw Lkwik wbo will receive Subscriptions Loans and Donations for the pious ob? ject 3 a Nov 3 Office of the Commissioners of Streets Lamps? December 5th 1818 THE Board ot Commissioners of Streets and Lamps' will proceed on Wsiixksdat the 16lh inst -to the ELECT ION olV Clerk two Scavengers and two Lamp-Liglrers Persons desirous to apply for either of tin? situations will deliver their Letters of Application sealed to the Clerk previous to that day 1 By order Hicham Kilit Chairman OTMNIKL GILES Clerk Office of the Commissioners of Streets and I Amps 'December 5(A 1818 PERSONS desirous of contracting fof the cleaning if the Public Drain in Cumberland-street will send in their Proposals to either of the subscribers previous-to the 16th inst EDWARD CREW7 HENRY TOVEY Committee on Contract' JOHN It ROGERS 3 The United States of America Sauth Carolina District WHEREAS at a District Court held at Charleston -for the District aforesaid on the 2lst day of Sept-last James Bee Wilffam Dewets John John Gardner Samuel' and Charles were duly returned summuned to sene as Grand Jurors and Jacob Read William Young and George White as Petit and Pleas Jurors and were noted for non attendance Notice is hereby given that th above named persons will be respee'ively fined ac-cording to law unless thiy sliall severally on or before the 14th day of December next make good and sufficient excuse on oatlifor their non attendance JAMES JERVEY District Clerk fa November 23 Received 1 4 By the Columbine f-om Liverpool' avd for tale by EDtrtHDS IIAlGll 221 East-Bay Company Patent HOES ditto Chaff Knives ditto Coffee Mills --uble Sheet Iron and German Steel Dec 2 1 For Sale A VALUABLE Tract of LAND on Johns Island containing seven hundred tud' acieS the greatest proportion of which is gntd Cotton land surrounded bv beds of Manure should that article be-nired: The remainder as good Coi-n Imrd as any on the Island well supplied with Wood and at this Office tilth Dee 1 Second Lieutenant of the Republican Artillery Compa-ny and William Joses Esq Second Lieutenant of the Cadet Artillery Company of this city The annual Commencement of the So Carolina Col lege took ppce at the College Chapel yes erday Nev er perhaps on any occasion was the house crowded with a more lirilliant or polished audience and never haa been twrmitte3rerorted unanimously favour the He 1U ting the claim f-vour the ties dciJed 128 to 31 against admit- I a The President of the United States fsaya the Motional Intelligencer of the 5th inst) having signed the Act for the admission of the State Illinois into the Union she may now be counted the twenty-first state in the Her Senators and Representatives have taken their seats in Congress Tie committee appointed to investigate the procediBgs the Bank of the United States de- -j nn parted from Washington for Thiladelphia on the 5th inst A Canadian Taper intimates that the Fort lately built by the Americans at Point has been found to be of kit that is within the British territory xXthact op a xktteb dated Jiucnot Ayret Aug 20 1818 city is ii a complete state of fermentation in consequence of the discovery a lew davs since ot a eontfiracy which had in contemplation the removal of the present chief Director who is very unpopular owing to his bias in favour of the Portuguese It was composed of the most influential men- lherc are at this me about thirty of them in prison Opinion differs aa to what puy be their tate but it is thought by nuny that tha present director will not dare to proceed io extremities The plan was to seize him at his country house where be uvually retires on Saturday and remai tv until Monday and to put him on board a resst-l in the river or as others say toassassinate him it is said he was acquainted with the plot for several L-js but suffered them to proceed Until the night previous to its intended execution when the principals were taken from their beds and committed to prison The commandant of marine Don Pedro Aguirre for mer minister to the United States general Sarratea one the ex-directors and a number of others equal-ly eminent are accused of being among the conspirators and in Aurora IIMIJX'GTOK C) Prices Dec Bacon (none) Beef 14 cents Bees Wax 25 a Corn I a 1 dull 20 Corn-Meal £1 25 per bush Cotton Upland pet lb 25 a 27 Flour per bbl a Hogs Lard 17 a 18 cents Lumber Boards Plank and Scantling per 1000 feet S1 13: Staves 0 Iliid 23 a 30 do Bbl 15 a 17 do It IHid (rough) 8 a 10 Heading V028ao2 Cyprus 22 in I 50a 2 ditto Juniper rounded 16 in 2 50 a 3 Molasses per gallon 06 a 63 cents Tar pur barrel 82g 25 cents i Pitch per 320 lb R2 a 225 Turpentine 8 S- 2 50 Spirits Turpffitinc 60 vents Kice (cask paid for by the purchaser 50 cents) gti a 7 Tobacco glO all Whiskey 0 a 75 cents -r DIED at Topsail Sound (N C) at the residence of Stokely Sidbury Esq Capt COiiFKiYUOVDEN in the 36th year 01 his age He was a native uf Boston and has left a wife and four small children A laUlij WHO writes an expeditious hand and ij wiping to attend to any kind of business about a Counting-House may obtain a rcpectbic place and meet with encouragement on appheatian in writing oirected to at at that time than what lie had taken from the bags dc9'red hira to count what wa eft ad place if in liia rt-m I i ami than lait tka no rv L- Attempted Suicide Yesterday a respectable dressed female was brought to Union-hall charged xvitli assaulting her husband Mr Edwards of Maidenlane in a most violent manner When she wa3 brought into the office she begged the officers not to take her before the magistrate as she had never been in such a place before in her life Her it to his credit and then left the bank V- Even Post I re 7 "'I hLSband Prh'scharge she was locked urnn the Drison at the back of the I she was locked up in the prison at the back of the office until he arrived She expressed great ter-1 ror at being put into a prison and sighed deeply when the keeper left her The office beinj under repair a painter who was at work near the" prison time ncai a loud groaning he ran to the spot preceding 1 hursday At and on looking through saw Mrs Edwards hang-t ie sight of the horea vvithout his rider a suspi- jg f10tn the window bar by a handkerchief cion of the dreadful truth that laggert had been which she had tied round her neck He immedi-ai and nurdered rushed upon his mind atey gave an alarm and the keeper opened the Communicating this suspicion to a neighbor ofliis door of the prison and she was cut she ey ot concluded to take the horse back to I was not quite dead but apparently insensible in Ackisses and learn if possible some trace of its 1 owner Dn arriving at the spot where the report of the gun had been heard in the morning the instinct of the animal gave a uevv and intet-esting development of its master's it stopped all of a sudden snorted reared and plunged as if violently alarmed and no effort of the rider could urge it a step futther A coroner inquest had by this time been assembled and it was here that the enquiry commenced a little way from the side of the road a number of papers were scattered about knownjto have belonged to Taggart A little further into the woods lay his and Iatl a spot where the earth was newly dug near to 'which was a hoc the property ol Ackiss and on turniu crate heard a 1( learU a short time she was recovered and her husband declined pressing his charge against her The case was discharged and she went home with her husband London paper COMMERCIAL REPUBLIC OF HAYTI Port-au-Prince 17th Oct 1818 in the 15th year of the Independence The Secretary of State to the Principal Administrator of Port -an- Ptince No 103 Section 3d The decree of the 15lh Oct 1814 in the llth year of the Independence issued by the late Alex Petion that reduced lo five per cent the duty of importation on all British manufactures 1ms been subject to so many different in'erpretations Citizen Administrator i the earth about two feet the lifeless body the I tie executive power desiring tlmt all reclama-tinforfuaate Taggart was found I It is unnecessary 8m which have been made by foreign to add that the murderers had taken his monrr mcrchant determined on the manner in whih to what amount was not known but presumed to hfriUter ct 01 the JubJ'lct have iocll 1 presutneu 10 1 be intent of thealecree was to encourage the corner 8 IhAO 15 Or glGOO On a piece I merce of Grent Britain nd to facilitate more particu- Ot paper which was picked up near the fatal spot I larlv all Britiih manufactures the intention on the was the following memorandum 8150Q in the government being evaded and instead of being introduced in vessels under the Britiih flag the decree has beeu made use of as a pretext for iipro-ducing merchandize said to be of British manufacture and arriving in our ports in American Swedish Danish and Prussian vessels in consequence of which ad merchandize of British manufactures arriving in British veaselv alone shall be subject to five pet cent import duty XI bereas those said to be of the same manufactures and arriving in vessels of odicr Rations shall remain subject to ten per cent as all other merchandize You will istie your orders to the directors of your States anil on another g25u in Georgia Among the papers also was the commission of a Captain in the South-Carolina Militia and the diploma of a Master Mason So far we have the particulars relating to the murder as stated in evidence during the inquest It new remains to give some account of the proolsin addition to those already detailed which lead to the committal of Ackiss as tn accomplice in the umnlerJ Col Win Ilolt I i au opr mot and respectable store keeper at Black I that they may put the same into immediate ex- ater was examined he stated that AcfcUa had I edition whih remain under vour personal rexponsi-Tut a few da before the murder setfled a long Lil standing account with him the balance i his layer was eighty odd dollars Ackiss said ou will bje the same posted up at the customhouse in order that it may be known to all foreign merchants aiidjuu wil acknowledge the receipt of tiie sunc I am yours Stc (buned) JN IMBERT Certified Viifarmalily to the original by the principal Admmiitraiir Signed TIL LA ItOCIIE it was more Ilian fie bad calculated but paid 75 dollars towards it in the various woles in circulation and gave his own Oote (or due bill) for the nie saving he had no more money Two aUer the murder was committed Ackisi Dec 11 tue Courier-office i.