The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-09-22 00:00:00, page 1

September it, 1781,
IN purfu?Qce of an a& of the United States in Con
gress affrmbled, Notice is hereby given, that propd
s will be received in this office, from the date hereof
until theist day of October next, inclusive : For supply-.
ing by contrast, the rations deliverable by the pu lie
at the post of Wyoming, to such Officers, Soldiers arid
others, as are or may be entitled to them, from a certain
time to be fixed in the centred until the expiration of
twelve months thereafter. The raticns to consist of
One pound of Bread,
One pound of Beef, or three quarter of a pound
of Pork,
One gill of 7oad Whfcy,
And of One quart o< Sap, \to every hundred
Two quarts if Vinegar,, rations.
81b. of Snap, \ to every seven hun
glh. of Candles, / dred rations.
The contractors to issue the said rations : The pay
ments to be made in gold or silver at the times to be
stipulated in the contrast The proposals to be sent in
feared and to contain the lowest pri es, and longest
terms of payment at which the parties will contia&.
N. B. The stipulations tc be entered into may be
fein in the draft of a contrast at this office
This is to give Notice,
To ALL wherh it may concern, That SUBSCRIP
TI N• will be received to the NATIONAL BANK
of the United States, until the First Day of October
next. That the Suofcriptibn will on that Day be
closed : And on the First Day of November next, at
TEN o'clock in the Forenoon, the ELECTION for
DIRECTORS will be held, at the Long-Room in the
Cy Tavern. GEORGE CLYMER,
Sept. 17. JOHN NIXON.
(Being the 24th Instant)
At TEN o'clock in the Forenoon,
On Messrs James and Drinker's Wharf, between Arch
and Race streets,
Will be Sold by Public Auction,
20 Hogsheads of Tobacco,
30 Hogsheads of Rum and Spirits,
20 Bags of Coffee, &c. &c. &c.
And at TWELVE o'Clock, at Noon, of fame Day,
at the Coffee House,
WILL BE SOL D,
The Sloop PHOENIX,
With all her guns, tackle, apparrel & Furniture, agreea
ble to an Inventory to be seen at the Place of Sue;
being a Prize to the P ivateer Brigantine Holker and
Fair American. By Or ter of the Cour fr of Admiralty
CLEMENT BIDDLE, Marffijl.
Pursuant to a Decree of the Court of
Admiralty for the State of Delaware,
Will be Sold at Newport,
On TUESDAY,
Qhe 25th Infant) A: TE N o'Clock in the Fore
noon.
The Cargo of the Prize Schooner
BETSEY, or hiring of Two Hundred unJ Thirty B;r
---rela ol Superfine FLOUR, and One Hundred and
Twenty five B riels of SHIP BREAD:
And at SIX 'C ock in the Evening of the fame
Day, the afore, id SCHOONER, together with ali her
Tackle and Apparel, cempleatl, fitted for ie, ^iil al
so be Sold. The Sale to be ready for Money only.
GEORGE LATIMER, M^fhai.
Newport, Sept. 11,
On MONDAY Next,
^ N Y Periods having Accounts or Demands upon
the Mumpers of the Houle o' Emotomen- < r
Overseers of the P >or, for Support o' the Poor in 6 d
Houle, are reqnelhd to bring them in to Mr. CHRIS
TOPHER MARSHAL, junr. Treasurer to that Cor
poration. By order ot a Board of Manager', &c.
JOHN CUMMINGS, Steward.
Philadelphia, September 17.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 178 g
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O^WIW^I^O
O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. X.l
Office of Finance.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
Said NICHOLS returns his best
Thanks to those who have heretofore fa
voured him with their Custom, and hopes,
in future, from his Attention to Business,
and Willingness to Please, that it will be
the Interelf of his Customers to continue
their Favours.
A LL Perlons INDEBTED to the UNIVERSITY,
fl on account cf Rent, payable in Specie or Wheat,
are hereby Notified, that unless the amounts of the laid
rents be paid to the fubferiber, on or bes re theist of
October next, they will be proceeded against ar the
Law directs. ARCHIBALD GAMBLE.
Philadelphia, September 7, 1781.
SCARLET, brown, |
purple, black, green, !
blue, light coloured, fu 1
perfine and second B/oad
cloths,
Scarlet, brown, blue,
light and coloured fu
perfine Knaps & Coat
ings,
Blue, grey, light and
Larlet Duffih & Frizes,
White, buff and scarlet
Caffimers and Wiltons,
Crimion, brown, blue,
striped, black, fpottrd
and corded Velvets and
Velveretj,
Olive & white Corduroys,
Ti: kfets and Duroons,
Barragons,
Childrens worsted Hose,
Pink, blue, black and
c'oth coloured Duroys,
Prunellas and Durants,
Tammies and Sattinets,
Crimson, green, sky-blue
and pink Ruffels, Mo
reens and Calamancoes,
Jeans, Fustians and Beav
ers,
Camblets and Hairbines
of all colours and fine
nefs,
Corded Worsteds and
Everlaftirigs,
Sarges and Serge de jeans,
Blue and white Plains and
Halfthicks,
7 8, 3 4, and apron-wide
cotten. & linen Checks,
An assortment of Irilh
Linens,
Fine and coarse Hollands,
Yard and half yard and
3 8 brown and white
Sheetings,
Brittaanus aud Plattella
royals,
Lavals, Penturies, Ozna
brigs and Ticklenburgs,
Sil and Duck Cloth,
Marseilles Quilting,
Plain and corded Dimities
and Diapers,
Wide and narrow Russia
Sheetings, Dowlafs and
Flanders Ticking,
J. conet and book Muslins,
Tapes, Bobbins & Laces,
Plain and figured Kent
ings, kenting Handker
cl iefs 2nd Catgut,
Plain & millionet Lawns,
Cambrick,
JUST IMPORTED,
In the last Vessels from Europe,
AND TO BE SOLD, By
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
At hit STORE, on the North Side of Mirket-ftreet,
opposite the Indian King,
A Large and General Assortment of the
Following Articles, viz.
IMillionet Handkerchiefs
ard figured Apron Pat
terns,
Plain and figured Gauzes
and gauze Handker
chiefs,
Womens Glove: of all co
lours,
Ditto silk Mitts,
Mens silk Glover,
A beautiful Assortment
of dark and light
Chintzes,
Elegant chintz Bed-pat
terns
Fine and coarse Calicoes
and Cottons,
Ginghams and Bengalis,
I Nankeens aud Damafeug,
Duc&pes,Paduafoy#,Man
tuas, Luteftrings, Bro
cades, Modes and Taf
fities,
Green, blue, claret,
bloom, orange, aad
white 2-4 and 3-4 ell
Persians and Saringts,
Pekirgs, Mexicans and
Mufflemans,
Ell wide Persians, black
and coloured,
Mens, women and child
rent cotton and thread
Hole,
Elegant Tambour Waist
coat Patterns,
Best Ss>irg-fiik,
Black Tnread,
Coloured ditto,
Silk and linen Handker
chiefs,
Black and coloured Bar
celona ditto,
Best scars Twist, Mohair
and Buttons,
Back and white Blond
Laces and Edgings,
Thread ditto,
Painted, figured and plain
Ribbands,
Superfine, second and
coarse Bolting- Cloths,
Plated Buttons,
Skelleton and hoop Wire,
Best Tully Gartering,
Cetton Cord and Toffels,
Bandana, silk and cotton
Romalls,
Quality and narrow Bind
ings and Ferrets,
Snuff Boxes,
With many other Arti
cles, too tedious to enu
merate.
CIOLEN or Bira/ed from out of a Y^rd in Waters
Y street, on the Ni^ht of the 14th instant, A Flea,
bitten Grey GELDING, about 10 years old, rough
mane, Leitch tail, and (hod all round, small marks of fad.
die bags on his flues, is a strong full-bodied H ;fe.
Whoever finds said Horse, and delivers him to STE
PHEN ROWE, at th- Fountain, in Chefnut.ftreet, or
to THOMAS STAINES, at the corner of Spruce and
Fifth-ftreeu, shall receive th* above Reward.
Sept. 17. JONATHAN JOHNSON
®w^^@rA®^@®@^ @®
FELLOW CITIZENS.
IH AVE often times lamented, when I eonfidered
the many heavy taxes this city pays ; it is a truth,
that taxes in a ftata cannot be avoided, for the sup
port of government, which each freeman ought to pay
chearfully; but when the community is burdened with
heavy taxes, not only unnecessary, but of a most griev
ous nature ; it is time for every freeman to enquire where
the fault lies; and when that is found out, early to
have the evil remedied. This city pays the most gre
vious tax to all forts of huckflers, particularly in the
market. Let ua view the market after ten or eleven
o'clock, you will fee it full of vegitables in the huck
flers hands, of different ages, and the most part young,
which could earn their bread with their labour: It
might be said, you are not obliged to purchase from
hucksters; it i< true, if you go early to market you
may perhaps avoid it; but the reason of that tax lays, not
only in buying of huckfiers ; the causes are various and
many, of which I'll point out one or two—When th&
country people come to market, their firft business is
to ask the huckflers, how they fell the fame articles
they bring; which prices afterwards the country peo
ple ask for theirs; or the huckflers buy, or at least be
speak the fame immediately; they go to the waggons
and carts in the fireets, and buy openly, and if a house
keeper tries to get some they get an abuse inflead of it.
If vagabond comes to town, let it be from where it will,
she turns a huckfler: If a mother-huckfler has seven
daughters, they are brought up huckflers, because it
is an idle and profitable trade, as they dont take less
than one, or two, and even three hundred per cent.
Would i; not be a great saving, if the city maintained
ten or twelve old huckfler women in the alms-house ?
Formerly the corporation kept order and regulation in
the city, which is since the happy revolution, left with
the city magistrates; but, alas ! most of our magistrates
dont trouble their heads about any thing which brings
them in nothing. They even are the greatest extorti
oners, as they raise their fees fix, seven and eight for
one. Now, my fellow citizens, how can you groan so
quietly under such a tyranny ? Every freeman oughttp
petition the general affimbly for a regulation of fees;
as the abuse in this particular is so general, I doubt not
the house of assembly is willing to ease the communi
ty of all unreasonable and illegal extortions.
A FELLOW-SUFFER ER.
Philadelphia, Sept. 12, 1781.
N. B. Conflitution, fe&. go. fays, No justice of that
peace shall be allowed to take any fees, nor any salary
or allowance,„except such as the future legifbtures may.
grant.
By Public Audion, on Saturday
The Twemty.fecond Day of September, at 6 o'Clock
in the Evening, at the Coffee-Houfe,
SUNDRY LOTS, of T^n Acres each of excellent
3 good CEDAR SWAMP, laying in the County of
Glcuceftcr, in the State of New-Jersey, about 36 miles
from Philadelphia, and 3 and a half from Great Egg-
H.rbrur landing; it being part of a tra& of swamp of
netr locoactos, and the purchasers have the advant
age that they may work or cut timber in any part of
the whole, it being exceeding good timber for shingles 4
boards and rails, &c. Shingles are brought to Cooper's
Ferry by land in great quantities from laid swamp, and
a valuable trade may be carried on, by either fending
lumber to Egg-Harbour or bringing it to Philadelphia.
The conditions of sale will be, one half to be paid in
thiee d?ys ?ft€r the falf, ii any kind of goods or cash,
and the remainder in four weeks; and an indisputable
title will be given.
Any person inclining to purchaf- any cf the above
Premises at private sale, may, by applying to JAMES
RUTLAND, in Second ft ect, between Walnut and
Spruce ftreett; or any perlon willing to Work on the
Sharer, m?, have a good opportunity, and likewise g
or 10 Men that üßd^ft^nd making Shingles, will meet
with good Encouragement.
N. B. Said Butland has federal PLANTATIONS in
PnnLlvqnla, with good titles, which he will Sli for
Good: or Cash.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD.
ro BE SOLD,
[NUMB. 785,