NATCHEZ, in Adams county, stands upon the left or east bank of the Mississippi, at 31° 33′ N. lat. 14° 20′ W. from Washington city. The site of Natchez is high and commanding The town is laid out at right angles upon very uneven ground. Though upon a bluff of the Mississippi, the river cannot be seen from the town, owing to the elevation of the intervening hill. The waters that drain from Natchez, flow into St. Catharine creek. It is difficult to ascertain the present population of Natchez, perhaps 2500 would not be far from the number of persons now residing in that city. This town is well situated for a commercial depot; having a fertile well-cultivated country in its rear. Many very wealthy merchants are established in Natchez, who carry on the cotton business extensively.

There are no public edifices of any particular consequence in Natchez. Most of the private buildings are constructed of wood, though many elegant brick houses have been erected within the last twelve years.

WASHINGTON, about six miles east from Natchez, also in Adams county, has been for fifteen years past the seat of government for the Mississippi territory. This town contains at this time perhaps 1000 inhabitants. It stands on the bank of St. Catharine creek, in a healthy pleasant situation, amid the most wealthy and best peopled settlements in the state. Washington has many allurements as a summer residence over any town near the Mississippi river, south of Tennessee; it is placed in a well-cultivated neighbourhood, the water is excellent, the adjacent country is agreeably diversified with hill and dale, and no stagnant waters in its vicinity.

The state of society does not differ materially in Natchez and Washington. There is much in both of that urbanity that marks the people of the southern

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states, and strangers meet an unreserve found in place where men have much intercourse with each other.

The other towns in the state are yet small, and of no other consequence than being the seats of justice for the respective counties. No city of any great extent can easily rise in the vicinity of New-Orleans; its concentrated advantages will allure population and commercial capital into its own bosom, and prevent the increase of other towns within the sphere of its attraction. Some place on or near the Mobile river, will no doubt become of considerable importance; but a ratio will exist between the cities situated on the respective streams on a similar scale with that between the Mississippi and Mobile rivers.

THE Alabama territory is formed out of the east part of the late Mississippi territory, and occupies almost all of the valley of the Mobile and its tributary streams, part of that of Tennessee, and Pascagoula.

This territory was created by the following Act of Congress.

An Act to establish a separate territorial government for the eastern part of the Mississippi territory.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that all that part of the Mississippi territory, which lies within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the point where the line of the thirty-first degree of north latitude intersects the Perdido river, thence east to the western boundary line of the state of Georgia, thence along said line to the southern boundary line of the State of Tennessee, thence west along said boundary line to the Tennessee river, thence up the same to the mouth of Bear-creek, thence by a direct line to the north-west corner of Washington county, thence