An accident had occasion'd my absence from hence, at the time your letter of the 30th Ulto arrived here; and the intensity of the recent cold weather, kept me from home during its continuance, so that until yesterday, I did not receive it— Immediately it came to hand I called on the Cashier of the Virginia Bank, to see what arrangement I could make with him for the payment of the draft you now have, and any others you might hereafter obtain, from the President of the Dismal Swamp Canal Co., on that Bank, which should be payable in C