Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-11-28 00:00:00, page 1

To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
SIR,
^-4.,f^/^cO great is the ufefulnefs of Nitre
< , ^ 1 or Salt-petre in life, so many are
x s the purposes to which it is appli
tf)&% ' )^^ plicable, particularly in medicine
, ^1 I and chemistry, the art military,
%'% J & Y t bunting, pickling animal food, &c.
and so small progress has the production of it hi
therto made in these American colonies, that I
flatter myfelf a few new though hasty, and, if I
am not mistaken, important hints, tending to the
improvement of the manufacture of so valuable a
commodity, will not be unacceptable to the Pub
lic; especially to the colonists of Maryland and
Virginia.
Chemists well know that Nitre is a particular
kind of neutral fait formed by a combination of an
acid and an alkali; and it is seldom, if ever, found
native, but is generally, if not always the produce
of art. The alkaline basis is indeed very common
in such a country as this, being nothing more than
the fixed vegetable alkali or fine pearl aft, produ
ced by burning vegetable substances ; whereas the
acid is of a peculiar kind, being the product of
putrefaction and very volatile, and therefore much
more scarce, and difficultly obtainable in a new
country, by the common methods, out of the ru
ins of old houses, &c. I beg leave therefore to
point out to the public, what by a number of ex
periments I made about two years ago I am con
vinced would prove a most plentiful source of the
nitrous acid, that neceflary requisite to the manu
facture in question. By this time probably I have
awakened the curiosity of most of my readers, and
many of them will perhaps be furprized, when I
inform them, that the fubjeC tfrom which I encou
rage them to expect so copious a supply, is one of
our greatest fuperfluities, fubjed like its fitter Tea
to a duty for the purpose of a revenue —in one
word, 'tis neither more nor less than that common
weed TOBACCO.
Every one that has taken particular notice of
the stalks of Tobacco that has been well cured,
when burning, must have observed a deflagration
or flawing exactly similar to that exhibited by
Salt-petre, when thrown upon coals. This phe
nomenon, after I had frequently for many years
observed, at length induced me, at a feafoo of
leisure to attempt making nitre out of tobacco;
which I did, and I own it was with no small con
fidence of fuccels, as I know of no substance but
nitrons falls which deflagrated in that peculiar
manner. I made therefore a strong decoCtion of
tobacco stalks, which, by a number of experi
ments, I found replete with two kinds of nitrous
salts, viz. nitrous ammoniac and nitrous felenites,
the fame which are contained in the common mo
ther lye of nitre. In short, notwithstanding [
wafted a considerable part of the decoCtion by ac
cidents and experiments, out of half apound avort
dupois of dry tobacco stalks, I obtained (byadding
pure fixed vegetable alkali and disengaging the vo
latile alkali and earth) about an ounce of true falt
petre; which however was brown by reason of the
oily parts of the stalks. Thus far I proceeded
that time, but, for want of leisure, have not as
yet proceeded any farther. I beg leave however
to recommend it to others, who may think it
worth their while to labour for an improvement
of this hint towards a falt-petre manufactory; and
I would particularly recommend it to the tobacco
colonies, to confider whether it be not an object
worthy of their serious attention; for 1 own I am
so sanguine as to believe, that, by proper manage
ment, they might even make Salt-petre a staple
commodity. The impurity of the Nitre I made
was undoubtedly owing to the incompleteness of
the putrefaction, which proceeds to no great
length in the curing of it ; but if under such cir
cumstances eight ounces of stalks will afford an
ounce of impure Nitre, there seems reason to be
lieve that, if the putrefaction were to be com
pleated in a bed of mould, till the tobacco was
reduced to earth, and proper substances mixed
therewith during the progress of the putrefaction,
to fix the Nitrous Acid as it forms, a lixivium
drawn from such mould would yield a much
larger quantity (with refpedto the quantity of
tobacco) of much purer Nitre, and probably much
more than any other substance known. Was I,
therefore, a tobacco planter, I would certainly
try what might be done with a bed of mould
made of refufe tobacco, and doubt not but it
would fully answer my expectations. However
that might prove, these hasty and perhaps season
able hints are offered to the consideration of his
countrymen, by a sincere and faithful friend to
America.
PEREGRIN U S.
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TO BE LE T,
hi HE large and convenient Stores on the Dock,
[ lately occupied by Reese Meredith and Joseph
Wnarton, which will contain above two hundred
hop,head.. Apply to SAMUEL MORRIS,
to Market-street.
^^^ '"MI»OW
O R, J THE
GENERA L ^^@APVERTISER.
M O N D A Y, NOVE MB E R 28th, 1774.
V 0 L. IV.
Just Publijhed, and to be Sold by
JOHN DUNL A P,
Printer and Bookseller in Market-Street,
Philadelphia,
FATHER ABRAHAM's
ALMAN A C K,
For the YEAR 1775.
Containing,
THE motions of the fun and moon; the true
places and afpe&s of the planets; the rising
and setting of the funfthe rising, setting and south
ing of the moon ; the lunations, conjunctions,
eclipses, rising, setting and southing of the planets ;
length of days, judgment of the weather, feftivals
and other remarkable days ; high-water at Phila
delphia ; tables of interest at 6 and 7 per cent, a
table of the value and weight of coins ; Quakers
yearly meetings; fairs, courts, roads, ©c. ©c.
Also, a number of ufeful and inftru^ing pieces,
fele&ed from the heft authors, viz. new method of
making hay, which saves one third of the time and
labour usually employed, and by which that valua
ble vegetable is better made than by the customary
practice; of the food persons in years (hould avoid,
extracted from a pamphlet called " The old man's
guide^to health and longer life;" how a person in
years is to know he is in health ; of a regulation of
temper and of the passions ; of deep for old men ;
a fafe and pleasant cure for the gout; of the misery
of men ; of the unreasonableness of men ; detached
thoughts; a curious extra& from Latimer's ser
mon, preached before Edward VI, affording a strik
ing contrast to the present extravagance and difli
pation, which seem to have corrupted every class
of men ; a salutary hint to farmers refpeCting the
management of their cattle, communicated by
Sieur Rosin, master of ceconomy to his Prussian
Majesty in East Vriefland; a cheap manure for
damp, cold, wet and boggy lands, which has been
tried with great success ; receipt for a felon, for a
wound made by a rusty nail or thorn, tor a fore
throat, for the itch, for a pcifon from vines or
other noxious weeds, for a violent tooth-ach, for
a sting of a wasp or bee, for corns, for a drain, for
a bruize, for the rheumatism, for numbing pains
in the body, for a cancer, for the ague and fever;
choice receipts to catch fiffi ; receipt to bottle cran
berries, to kill rats, to kill bugs; directions to
make an excellent essence for the head-ach, and
other local pains ; a famous worm medicine; se
cret of difeovering the writing upon parchment,
decayed by time, and of making it legible; a rid
dle in real life; a remarkable story of Saladin, con
queror of the east; an uncommon indance of forti
tude and stratagem in a Highland foldicr; two
questions antwered ; a smart reply of an old man
concerning marriage. Poetry The hermit, a
beautiful poem ; an epigram; epitaph on a very
lovely bo, ; epitaph on the late Do&or Goldsmith;
elegy on General Wolfe; a with ; elegy on the
death of a young lady ; pifture of a male coquet.
Also, FATHER ABRAHAM's
POCKET ALMANACK,
For the YEAR 1775.
Containing, besides the usual Agronomical Cal
culations,
TH E times of holding courts in Pennsylvania,
New-Jersey, New-York, Maryland and Vir
ginia ; Quakers general meetings; fairs; rates for
porterage of goods in Philadelphia ; Governor,
Council and Representatives of Pennsylvania, New-
Castle, Kent and Sussex ; Mayor, Recorder, Alder
men and Common Council of the city of Philadel
phia ; Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital ;
Managers ofthe society for the relief of makers of
ships, their widows and children ; Directors of the
contributionfllip for insurance of houses from fire ;
Managers of the silk filature ; Directors of the Phi
ladelphia library; Commissioners of the light-house;
City AfTeffors; City Wardens and Street Commis
sioners ; Land Officers; Governor, Council and
Representatives of New-Jersey ; Officers of the Cus
toms for the port of Philadelphia; Court of Ad
miralty; Admiralty Court of Appeals; Delegates
who attended the General Congress at Philadelphia;
Justices of the general quarter-sessions of the peace,
and of the courts of common pleas ; Prothonotaries
and Sheriffs of the several counties in Pennsylvania;
Judges of the supreme court, and court of oyer and
terminer, &c. Tables of interest, coins, tide, roads,
&c. &c.
*„* The Public are requested to observe, that the
ingenious David Rittenhouse, A. M. of this
city, has favoured us with the agronomical calcu
lations of our Almanacks for this year, therefore
they may be most firmly relied on.
TO-M O R R O W,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, a t
JOHN HA R Th
VENDUE-STORE,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat assortment of
MERCHANDIZ E,
AMONG which are, 33 pieces of broadcloths,
io ditto of nap, 15 ditto of coatings, 20 ditto
of plains, 20 rugs, 15 pair of blankets, 10 pie
ces of ticking, 36 table cloths, 20 dozen of wor
ded hose, 20 ditto of worked caps, 20 pieces of
check, 20 ditto of check handkerchiefs, 30 dozen
of horn and ivory combs, 10 lb. coloured threads,
lo pieces of carpeting, 20 ditto of oznabrigs, 15
ditto of furniture checks, 15 ditto velvets and vel
verets, 10 ditto of cambricks and lawns, 20 ditto
Walloons, 10 ditto durants, 20 kegs of choice
indigo. Also a large quantity ofiron pots, ket
tles, bake ovens, tea kettles, &c. Houlhold
Furniture, &c. &c.
D U N L A P's
AL L Persons indebted to the estate of
. Mr. James Maccubbin, late of tnis city,
merchant, deceased, are requested to make pay
ment; and those who have any accounts against
the said estate, are requested to bring them in, that:
they may be adjusted and paid by
ZACHARIAH HOOD, Executor.
N. B. The still-house, at the corner of Walnut
and Fifth streets, to be fold or let.
MANUFACTURE,
AN Y agreeable person or perfens, who are
willing to employ two, three, four, five hun
dred, or from five hundred to one thousand pounds,
in carrying on an American Manufacture,
which will, according to probability, produce a
considerable profit either in time of importation, or
non -importation, will be informed of the particu
lars, and of the terms, by applying to
ROBERT BELL, Printer and Bookseller,
In Third Srrect, Philadelphia.
Just Publifoed and to be Sold by
JAMES HUMPHREYS, Junior,
In Front-Street, THE
UNIVERSAL ALMANACK,
For the YEAR 1775.
fit The calculations of this Almanack are per
formed by the ingenious David Rittenhoufe, A. M.
of this City, and may be depended on as ftri&ly
exa& and true. He has kindly added considerably
to them, and rendered them plain and easy to the
most common capacity by a particular and full ex
planation of every part.
Containing,
E motions of the fun and moon ; the true places
and afpefts of the planets; the rising and setting
of the fun; the rising and setting of the moon ; also the
lunations, conjunctions, eclipses, judgment of the lea
ther, rising and fitting of the planets, length, increase
and decrease of days, equation of time, fairs, courts,
roads, ©c. together with ufeful tables, chronological
observations, and entertaining remarks. Likenvife
the following curious, entertaining and inftrußive
pieces—A new method of making bay, by which one
third of the time and labour is sawed, and the bay much
better; on the culture of hops ; A beautiful infiance of
generofty in a soldier ; receipts for compounding and
preparing the principle medicines of Dr. Word, by
fobn Page, Esq; to whom be left bis book of secrets;
cure for the spleen, an anecdote of Capt. Hippifb and
bis negro ; an anecdote of Dauphine ; new maxims
and thoughts ; epigram on a lady of &xty years of age
marrying a youvgfe'low of seventeen ; epitaph on a
bufoand and wife; a birth-day thought ;an ode; an
inflance of avarice and speculation providentially p un
ified; a pretty duetto; a song ; paradoxes to be an
fwired next year; answer to the riddle lufl year, ©c.
*J The third volume of Sterne's Works is now rea
dy for the fubferibers, and it will much oblige the
printer if they can fend for them.
W H . E .REAS William Dewees, Est; High Sbeiff
o, this county, barb advertised the sale of a cer
tain meffuage or tenement, and lot or piece of ground
thereto belonging, situate on the east fide of Second
ftreet, between Market and Chefnut Jireets, the south
corner of Black-borfe Alley, on t^eff day of Decem
ber next, as the ejiate oj Richard Robinjen, deceased;
now I do hereby give notice to all persons intending to
purcbafefad premises, that the said Richard Robinson,
in bis life time, and before the said premises were any
way incumbered, conveyed the fame to me, by a deed
duly executed and acknowledged, fubjefi to a ground
rent oj 501. per annum, which is all the interef be
longing to the said Richard Robinson, at the time of
bis death, in the said meffuage and lot of land.
TO BE SO L D,
THE TIME of a servant Girl that has two
years to serve : ihe can b# well recommended.
Enquire of the Printer.
Philadelphia, Nov. 25, 1774.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of
JAMES DAVIS, late of this city, car
penter, deceased, are desired to make immediate
payment, and those who have any demands against
the said estate, are requested to bring in their ac
counts, properly proved, to the fubferiber, in or
der that they may be adjusted and paid.
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RANA WAY on the 23d inst. (November)
from the fubferiber, living in Front street, a
little below the Drawbridge in Philadelphia, an
Irish servant man named SAMUEL SHORT,
about five feet eight or nine inches high, Aim made,
of a swarthy complexion, down look, and has a
cast with one of his eyes ; had on when he went
away, a black coat and jacket of fuperfine broad
cloth, dove coloured velvet breeches, and fine hol
land shirt; he had allo two silk jackets and a white
cloth one, worked dockings and white metal
buckles. Whoever takes up the said servant and
secures him in any gaol, so that his master may
get him again, shall have the above Reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by
Salem County, November 23, 1774..
TO BE S O L D,
Between this and the firft of March next,
ON E hundred and forty acres of L AND in
Salem county, the whole well watered.
There is on the premises a good house and fliop,
two wells of water, and two orchards. For terms
of sale apply to G E() RGE KATTS.
JAMES DAVIS, 7 r
WILLIAM SHEDAKER, § x ~ cut ° rs#
James Thomson.
ISAAC COREN.
Abrabam Ufoer and George Henry,
Have imported in the last vessels from London, Li
verpool, Bristol and Scotland, and have for sale,
at their store in Front-street, the fifth door above
Walnut-street,
A General assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
suitable to the season, which they will fell on
reasonable terms for cash or short credit.
N. B. Abraham Usher requests all those that
are indebted to him, whose accounts are become
due, to make payment.
FOR SA L E,
AVERY valuable Plantation in Berkeley coun
ty, Virginia, about ten miles from Watkins's
Ferry, on the great road from Philadelphia to
Winchester, known by the name of the Red House,
containing five hundred and thirty-fix acres, of
which about seventy acres of upland and ten acres
of meadow are cleared, and about fifteen acres
more fit for meadow to clear : The said land is
very rich, commodious for farming, and has plen
ty of lime stone on the fame ; there are also on the
premises a convenient dwelling-house, kitchen,
stable, and other eut-houfes suitable for a public
houfe, and has been a noted stage for travellers
many years past. For terms apply to Edward
Beeson, who lives adjoining said Plantation.
WILL supply any gentleman or other person
with any quantity of Garden Seed, which
he will warrant to be of good quality : They may
be had at his stall at the Court-house every day of
the week (Sunday excepted) or at the Widow
Lawrence's in Second-street, near the Market.
DAVID R E I D,
Gardener and Seedman from London, living
in Spring-Garden,
THREEPOUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living
near Ellicott's Mill, in Ann Arumdie county;
an indented Irish servant man named EDWARD
HAYES, about twenty years of age, five feet se
ven or eight inches high, well let, swarthy com
plexion, has dark hair tied behind, and is a pert,
talkative fellow ; he took with him a new felt hat,
a white shirt, a green caffimir coat lined with green
silk in the fore ikirts, a pair of pale blue breeches
with black knee-bands and button-holes, a pair of
grey yarn hose with white tops, and a pair of old
shoes lately mended. Whoever takes up and se
cures laid servant, so that his master may get him,
again, ih 11 have TWENTY SHILLINGS
Reward, besides what the law allows, or if brought
home, the above Reward and reasonable charres,
paid by JOSEPH HAWKINS.
THE ship Sally, Capt. Osman, is
just arrived from Rotterdam, with German
Passengers, all in good health, whose passages are
to be paid to SAMUEL HOWELL, or the
master on board said ihip, nearly opposite Market
ftreet.
All those indebted to Samuel Howell for
German Passengers, or otherways, are desired to
call and discharge their bonds and accounts, tu
prevent cost.
Lately published, and to be fold b,
John Sparhawk and John Dunlap,^
In Philadelphia, price Ten Shillings, neatly
bound,'
JULIET GRE NVILLE,
Or the HISTORY of the
HUMAN HEART,
(Three Volumes, elegantly printed in two.) By Mr.
Brooke, author of the Fool of Quality.
f HI S ingenious and pathetic work abounds with
1 sentiments of the mo, refined and important kind.-
Animated with the love of virtue, the author has en
deavoured to disseminate its feeds in o the minds of the
ri,ng generation, and in order to engage the attention
oj the young, the gay, and the indolent, he bas.de iver
ed the mo, important precepts unde r the ,leafing veil of
un engaging narrative.—And thus the reader becomes
enam ured oj virtue, nrohile be is engagedin tbe perusal
of an interring tale.
" Juliet Grenville is indubitably a work of
genius and uncommon merit : as are indeed all the
produdions of this writer, from his Gustavus Vafa,
to the present work. He entitles it “ The Hiiloiyof
the Human Heart." —And it must be acknowledged
the human hea t is a fubje& with which Mr. Brooke
seems to be so well acquainted, that we may truly
fay, he has in various instances defcribtd i t s native
operations and genuine movements, that while we
read him, our feeling, to ule his own expression,
" like a tuned though subordinate instrument, bears
" unison and accord to every word he utters."
Monthly Review,
*, The Hi,or, of Valvaise, formerly feublijhed,
in this paper, was extracted from this work.
Reading, November 16, 1774.
I HE Subferiber having purchased a
dark bay M AR E, about fifteen hands
and carries well, of one Jacob Kroul, tavern
keeper, in this town, which was left at his liable
by a man that calls himfelf George Atlcw, who
fays he is an Englishman: He is now confined in
the gaol of this town ; and as from some report of
his character the fubferiber is apprehensive that the
mare may not be his real property, he has lodged
the price of her in the tavern keeper's hands for a
month, intending to advertise her in the New-York:
and Philadelphia papers, with a view that any per
son who may have any claim to her may apply with
in that time (which he confiders Sufficient to con
vey information) pay charges and take her away.
JOHN HULING.
NUMB. 162.