The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-05-27 00:00:00, page 3

Extras of a l^ter from Pert Pitt, dated May Wb, 1,79.
" The nth inst. four Delaware Indians arrived here
from Mufkingum, and bring letters for Col. Broadhead ;
they fzy teat Hear) Hamilton, Lieut. Gov. of Detroit, hav
ing feme time ago got possession of poll St. Vieucent, was
surprised in the garrison b), party of Col. Claris's men,
and t Leu prisoner with all his peeph and flores; that the
Governor and some others were certainly put to death in
consequence of tnejr-fornier cruelties ; tout a p^rty of war
riors, twenty in number, who bad been ihlitio Kentucky
Settlement, happened foot )after to return, and not know
ing of the fort being retaken, marched boldly withiQiew
yards of it, expecting that their father (me Governor)
was Hill there ready to receive them with open arms, but
were more warmly received by the Virginians, who were
prepared ter their reception, killed eighteen the firft fire,
the ether two made their escape with the news to Detroit.
This is the third time we have received these accounts,
and from different quarters."
In COUNCIL, Philadelphia, May 26, 1779.
fr H E Honorable tne Copgrels ot thele United States
having transmitted to this Board the following refo
lutioh, viz.
" In CONGRESS, Philadelphia, May 22, 1779.
" WHEREAS a proposition has been made lor ex
" changing a number ot the good citizens of these States,
" who .re in captivity at Niagara and its vicinity, for
" difalfefted citizens who are dUirous to join the enemy.
" Relolved, That the Commiffiohers of Indian affairs
" in the Northern department, or any two of tiiem, be
'' authorifed and directed with the concurrence of the
" Commander in Chief, and the Governor or Executive
" Authority of the leveral States, whole, citizens refpeQ
'' ively ihall be the fubjeft of the proposed exchanges, to
" negotiate and fettle such exchange in the, manner had
" on the terms they ihall judge realizable and expe
“ client."
Whereupon the fame being taken into confideratiop,
Refolded, Tha.t the Agents for confifeated estates be di
rected and requeued to transmit- to this Board from time
to time, the 11 .mes of such dhaffeaed citizens as fal^with-
V) tue description of the above ' resolve, m order that pro
per heps may be taken to carry the fame moil effectually
into execution.
iExtract from the Minutes,
T. MATLACK, Secretary.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
To the GENTLEMA N under the signature of
CANDOUR in last Tzurfday's Payer.
SIR,
h HE Public are much obliged to you fer the commu
& hicati^a of Mr. Laurens's letter, which has been tne
lubje^ of to much debate and convcifation —And as some
Gentlemen seem to be mucn alarmed on the occation, be
it known to them thkt tne feniimencs iGcontai^s are not
Angular. And though it is firmly believed that a great
majority of that Honorable Body the Congress aft upon
the most upright and patriotic principles, yet it is too well
known and felt what a few individuals may do in obllru€t
ing public bufin,.!, entanglinghon.fi well -meaning Mem-,
bers in ridiculous deputes about order, defiroyin^ a
question Shader the pretence of amending it, and adding
iQfritate after fubfutute till all idea ot the original quel
ton is lull. Let the journals of the firft and second Con
gress be infpe&ed; we find no such crooked lines drawn
there; the patncf public business was made plan : Where
as tne journals of Congaefs as now published are unintel
ligible to hhlt the world tor whose information they were
deigned. These are the devices of some modern Machia-'
vel, who not beingsable to rife to that simplicity and gran
. deur which ought to diftinguilh a Republican Government
• seek to ert'e& by artifice and Rratagem what cannot be
accomblifhed by fair and open methods. It is hoped those
who are distinguished id convivial hours as the honefl part
of Congress, will think it high time re exert themselves,
and by feaferiable; vigorous and deeifive measures recover
the confidence of the people. They cannot doubt their
firmed and most explicit support, in every patriotic and
disinterested measure. And most heartily is it tb be wish
ed that our brethren in other States, Simulated by the
example of the brave and patriotic Virginians, would
P rG ', ute inquiries into the commercial schemes of these
public characters, leaflunder tne falfe and fallacious ideas
°oi trade we barter away ©uf liberties and heft interests to
aggrandize and enrich a few individuals. And as you,
Sir, have gratified the public cutiofity with one letter, we
hope you may do so with another of much importance to
the people of this country, I mean a letter wrote by Mr.
oimon Deane, dated at Feteriburg in Virginia, to his bro
ther, Silas Dvane, Esquire, then supposed to be in France;
which was intercepted and published in England, and was
transmitted to Congress about three months ago. If the
I ttter is genuine, it contains Has worthy our attention.
If it is not so, justice to injured individuals requires that
they mould have an opportunity tQ vindicate themfelyes
from malevolent aspersions. Be not difeowraged from the
prosecution of such inquiries by the threats of any set of
men, however feelingly powerful—hi the virtue and good
sense of the Public you will find proteaion and fafety from
the greatsft of them.
P 110 CIQ N.
^mxw^w^x^m^
Philadelphia, May 21.
ONE DOLLAR REWARD.
RAN AWAY the twenty firft instant, from the
fubfcriher, an apprenticed named JOHN KING,
about eighteen years of age, and about five feet high,
of a Aim ft&ture, 2nd wears his hair tied ; had on when
he went away, a light blue jacket with sleeves, a brown
uuder jacket, grey cloth breaches, thread flockings, old
ihoes, and a wool hat. Whoever secures laid appren
tice and brings him to his master, Ihall have the above
reward. J^H_N MITCHE L.
T O B E ~S
A- —LELY stout NEGRO MAN, twenty
feven years of age, fit for town or country, and 'is
remarkable for hi# aveificn to liquor. Enquire of
JOHN PATTERSON, Black-froth.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Thursday the twenty-ninth instant, at Three o'clock
iu the afternoon, at the hbufe of Peter Mathers, in
East Wbiteland township, Chester county,
A LOT of GROUND containing four acres and
three quarters, with a fauare log'houfe thereon, a
never-failing spring of water, and a young bearing or
chard. An indisputable title will be made. Far fur
ther particulars apply to Richard Robinson, near
the pren;ifes, or of Samuel Garrigues the younger,
in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, May 26.
Next WEDNESDAY morning, at Nine o'clock,
at Mrs. Hopkinson's, in Walnut-ftrcet, above
Fourth-street, will be mid at Vendue
A VARIETY of HOU EHOLD and KITCHEN
FURNITURE, confiding, in part, of thefellow
ing articles, viz. walnut and mahogany chairs, ditto
tables, a genteel fofa, a suit cf chnifon haratecn dur
tains, looking glares, pictures, &c. &c. &c.
' II E Managers of the United Company of
A Philadelphia for promoting American Manufac
tuies,acquaint thePropriators, That a final dividend will
be made on the fir^ '' June, when all outfandin, ac
counts against the F.&ry (if any thme are) mull te
main unpaid. The Treafoer, RiOharP Well's, in
Afch-ftreet, a"ove Sixth-street, will give attendance to
pay off the shares, for gkc meek from the said firft of
June; ^lu will be much obliged to the Proprietors to
call for their money within that time. Many of thefitf
dividends remain unpaid, and federal pieces of G^s
allotted in the second dividend are in his hailds ready to
fee delivered.
S T
HA VE removed th^ir Printing-Office to the house
, of Mr. Frederick Kuhl, on the eatt fide of Second
it^ct, four debts above Race street, where they hive for
Die, English and German . School-bocks, fuchas Te&-
irents, PfalterS, Spriling-bpoks, New England and
Arnerian Primers ; likewise Writing P iper, Ink Powder,
Quills, Sealing W x, Wafers, Slate Pencils, &c. &c.
N. B. They give the highest pri.e foreman LINEN
RAGS.
x Pbilade^k:a, Ma, zz.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
C TOLEN on the night of the t*enty.fi rtinfant,
from the fuhferiber's ftahle in Water-RreT, between
.Arch and,Race Greets, a small BLACK HORSE,
between thirteen and fourteen hands high, trots, paces,
and canters 19ell, has a remarkable white streak acrols
his back, is rising five years old, in good order, net food,
his hoofs very much broke, thick main, flitch tail, and
h ,°'f h '" e ""' likefrife a neat Endill Silver mount
ed SAD DL E with girt aud (urcihgle, blue and white
helped houfifa, a common double reined BRI DL E,
with a leathern curb. Whoever will secure the Hoife;
Thief, &c. ft) that the owner gets them again, shall have
One Hund ed Dollars reward, and all reasonable charge
ts paid ; or for the Saddle only One Hundred Dollars,
by applying to the fubfcriher in Wa?er-ftreet.
lardner claric
N.B. The persons fuppbfed to have stolen the above
Horie, appeared to be two short men, with white frocks
Mdlfttne 22.
DESER T E D,
From the tenth and second Pennfylvznia regiments, the
following soldiers, viz.
JAMES ADAMS, twenty-fourears of age, five
§ eet eight inches high, an Irishman, red hair, lived
near Middletown, in Lancaster county, Pennfjlvznih.
, John Stope, twenty two years of age, five feet fit
incites high, an Irishman, brown hair, lived near
Downing's Town, in Chester county, Pennsylvania,
John Evans, twenty years of age, five feet tert inches
"'gh, an Irishman, dark hair, lived near Chester, New-
Jersey.
John Lilly, twenty-fix years of age, five fel ten inches
rngh, an Irishman, brown hair, worked at Mr. Ogden's
Iron works in New Jerley, iulifted in a Jelfey regiment.
„ James Berry, twenty-seven years of age, five feet eight
inches high, brown hair; and James Reynolds, twen
ty-two years of age, fire feet five inches high, brown
hair; both Irishmen; were seen in Philadelphia, and
supposed to be gone to sea. *
Andrew Shierk, forty year^of age, five feet eight
inches high, a German, black Irair, resided hear Leba
non, Lancaster county.
Rudolph Growman, thirty years of age, five feet ele.
"'^''> a German, bown hair, lived near
stole a horse and 'tis said is gone to Maryland)
1 hom ? s Lyons, thirty.two years of age, fivi feet ten
inches high, bom in Pennfvlvania, dark hair, lived
near Downing's Town, Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Evans, twenty years of age, five feet fix
b ° rn ' n P «nnfylvania, da^k hair, lived hear
P " d ' ha * a remarkable cast with his ever,.
William Caylor, thirty-nine years of age, five feet
five inches high, born in Maryland, brown hair, lived
near the Head of Elk, and wants the firft joint of the
fore finger of his right hand.
Peter Dominick, thirty-two years es age, five feet
tight inches high, a Frenchman, dark hair, supposed to
"v°^ e 're'" th , e F'" ter P"' ateer at Philadelphia.
Robert Peeling, Serjeant, twentr-eight years of age,
five feet eleven inches Itigh, an Irishman, red hair, has
a .^ e ,".° n . his right hand, was recruiting for the
marine service in Philadelphia, and produced a difeharge
from his regiment. *
George Campbell, twenty-eight years es age, five feet
eight inches high, a Scotchman, black hair, went off
from Princeton with said Peeling the 6th of May.
Whoever shall apprehend any of the above deserters
on application to the Commanding Officers of said regi-'
ments shall receive for each TEN DOLLARS ex
clufive of what is allowed by Congress.
RICHARD HUMPTON, Col. 10th P. Re^
WALTER STEWART, Col, xdP R% °
GENERAL LOAN-OFFICE,
May 22, 1779.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby
given, That the Commissioners
appointed to destroy the erniffions of
May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778,
taken out of circulation by a resolution
of Congress, have entered upon that
buiinefs and already burned ne^r half a
million of Dollars : And the Commit
fioners cf Loans, Collectors of theCon
tinental Tax, &c. in the refpedtive
States, are requeued to fend in td this
Office the funis on hand of those emis
sions, as Speedily as possible, agreeable
to the in ftrudions they have received
from the Board of Treasury.
F. HOPKINSON,
Treasurer of Loans.
fit The Printers throughout the
States are requeffied to insert this adver
tifementin their refpedive News-papers,
TO BE S O L D,
AVALt )ABLE Plantation and' Tra& of Laric!,
fruait in Chester county; about forty miles from
Philadelphia, fixtech miles from Wilmington, thirteen
mires Lem Newport, and ten miles from Newark ; con
taining about two hundred and fixt, acres, ' about one
bah whereof is cleared and the etler half good wood
land. Said plantation is accobimodated with an excel
lent ^rearti cf waUrTuffi^ent for any mills or other wa
ter-works, which stream waters about thirty acreq of
good meadow, and as much more my be made and
Watered by fQveral other lefler Itreams of watW. Thera
is on said plantation, a frame bbu(c with two foohis on
a floor and a chimney m each, also a guc4 new log barn,
and an apple orchard as above One hundred apple-trees,
fthe title indupfitable. Any peifon inclining to pur
chase the fame nay be further informed by applying to
Mr. Alexander Too, merchant, in Front-fl eet,
between Market and Chefnut street, Mr. James Hut
bAND, lace maker, in Second Iheet, below the Bridge,
or Mr. John Jervis, tavern keepar, at the sign of the
Coneftogo Waggon, in Market, street, Philadd^ie.
Solebury, Buchs County^ Ma, 20.
PILLS to cure the Tooth-ach,
Made Qd fold by the Subfenber, and to be had ofMrs.
Martha Stackhoufe, at the corner of Vine street, in
Front ftiect, Philadelphia.
° ?^ them—cleanie firft well the mouth with the
£ Monition of a little allnm, and if hollow put one cf
the pills into the tooth afiefted, ii hot, on the top of it,
and detain until by rhe msifture difoived: If the cure
be net perfected on the firft application, use in the fame
manner a second, third or fourth pill, though but ftl
dom more than a second will We neceffiry; and teeth,
once cured never ach again. The saliva during the ope
ration may be spit out, or if casually Fallowed,
not of the least disagreeable or evil confequerice. The
Public are further informed refpe&ing said pills, that
they are not of any terebinthiate composition, or from
r'r "'he c ",~ n uai warmer oils, as rosemary, origanv#
fifixfra#, pulegii, fuccini, or the like, immixed with
infpiffat juices or gums, as opium, galbanum, myrrh,
or the like, or of said lubflances alone ; nor el the mu
riatic alcaline or vitriolic concrete fats per fe or in any
form disguised; the firft, from their fubtile, unftuous,
penetrative property, too warm and foreign to the ani
mal obconemy or nervous circulating fluids, and of the
teeth, although they may for a time ease pain, yet the
consequence frequently is a deftru&ion to the part by a
Produced caries, or further rottehnefs in the tooth af
fe&ed, whilst the latter articles are used with very little
better fucffli.
The price T<wo Dollars per paper. Gentlemen of the
faculty of Ph) lie in the Continental Army may be Sup
plied with quantities at a lower rate than above on ap
plication at his residence, or leaving orders with
Their humble servant,
m. THOMAS SANDS.
N The said Pills dissolve with heat, otherwise will
keep good for twenty years.
GERMAN F LUT B.
RAYMOND JEGU, takes this method
,f acquainting the Public, That he is lately ar
rived in this city, and purposes teaching the German
Flute in the rieweft and most approved method
Any Gentlemen inclining to learn this elegant amuse
ment, will he immediately waited on by applfee for
him at John Frymout's, Baker, in Black-horse Alleys
between Market and Chefnut-ftreete.
& N. B. He also makes, repairs and tones German Flutes
in the best and most approved taste, and on the shortest
notice.
Philadelphia, Ma,
WANT E D,
A NUMBER of Journeymen Shoemakers, to make ,
ftrou^ Shoes, who may meet with g9od encourage
ment and constant employ by applying to Samuil
Bur ma m, at the corner of Walnut and Fiftb-ftrecta
Philadelphia.'
Likewise wanted to purchase, a large quantity of
Leather and Itrong Shoes. Any person having such to
dispose of may hear of a-purchaser by applying as above.