The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser

February 7.

On Friday the 23d ult. both branches of the General Assembly of Virginia adjourned. During the session, seventy bills were passed, among which were the following:--

To empower the Governor to transport slaves when it shall be convenient.

To establish a guard at the city of Richmond.

Another bill was also passed, to incorporate a company, for establishing a turnpike road from the mouth of Savage river, or George's creek, on the Potomack, to the nearest western navigation. It is proposed that this turnpike should commence at the mouth of Savage river, which is 21 miles above Fort Cumberland, and about 200 from Georgetown. A subscription is to be opened for 20,000 dollars, in shares of 20 dollars each. The important benefits to be derived from carrying this plan into effect, will more fully appear from the following preamble to the bill:

Whereas it is conceived that great advantages would accrue to the trade of the Potomack, and to this Commonwealth generally, by making easy the communication between the head navigation of that river and the nearest western navigation, which would cause the produce of a large extent of the western country to take its course into this channel, instead of going 2500 miles, partly through the dominion of a foreign nation, to market at New-Orleans: And whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that these navigations may be made to communicate by a road of about 40 miles, and that an association of citizens are willing to undertake to make the road, if proper legislative encouragement be given by the states of Virginia and Maryland, through both of which the road will have to pass an equal distance, &c.