Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

GEORGE-TOWN, July 7.

FOR THE CENTINEL.

The bridge, lately erected over the Potomac, at the place where the tide meets the waters from the mountains, opens a direct communication between the city of Washington, and the rich farming counties of Loudon, Berkeley, Fauquier, Frederick, Shenandoah, Hardy, and Hampshire, in Virginia. These counties are inhabited by the industrious proprietors of their own lands, who are chiefly emigrants from the middle and eastern states; preserving with their industrious habits, the plain republican manners of their ancestors, in spite of the contagion of example.

The city, by means of this communication, has now become the nearest sea-port, for the immense products of this extensive and valuable country, by six or even miles, with the advantage of the best roads;—and nothing seems wanting but PEACE, and a few more men of capital and enterprise, to give the most active spring to the most active commerce, in this favored spot.

For the facility with which this great object has been completed, we are principally indebted to the enterprise and perseverance of that most useful and public spirited citizen, John Templeman, Esq. who zealously engaged in the superintendence of the work at its commencement; and suffered no obstacle to impede its progress to its final accomplishment:—and of whom it may be justly said, and we therefore say it with pleasure, "That he has deserved well of his country."