Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-04-03 00:00:00, page 5

N E W - Y O R K, March 23.
On Monday afternoon expresses arrived in town
from the county of Cumberland, in this province,
who bring accounts from thence of a very extraor
dinary and alarming nature. —On Monday after
noon, preceding the day for holding the Inferior
Court, several riotous and disorderly persons, to
the number of between 80 and 90, assembled at
the court house, of whicf ithey took possession,
with an avowed intent of preventing the court from
being held the next day, many of them had arms,
and those who were unprovided for were collecting
both armsand ammunition with all possible dispatch.
Many of the magistrates having come to town, it
was thought advisable that the Sheriff Should make
the usual proclamation against riotous assemblies,
and demand the possession of the court-house and
gaol, which being refufed several times, about
nine d'clock at night a parry assembled, in order
to disperse the rioters : These proceeded with the
fheriff and some magistrates to the court house,
where proclamation was again made by the Sheriff,
for the rioters to disperse, and fundty attempts
were made to get in without using fire arms; but
this proving ineffe&al, three guns were fired over
thedoor, in hopes the rioters would be intimidat
ed, and retire; but so determined were they in
their undertaking, that the fire was immediately
returned from the court-house, by which one of
the magistrates was slightly wounded, and another
person (hot through his clothes. The magistrates
feeing the eminent danger they were in, exerted
themselves so well that they forced the front door,
and after a very fn^rt engagement, wherein one of
the rioters was killed, and many persons on both
sides wounded, proper measures were taken to pre
serve the peace for that night.
The next morning all was tumult and disorder;
thejudg.es, however, opened the codrt at the usual
hour, and adjourned till three o'clock in the after
noon; but by this time the body of rioters begin
ning to assemble in large parties, from New-Hamp
shire and places adjacent, and particularly from
Bennington in the neighbouring county of Alba
ny, with an hostile appearance, and the court fore
feeing no probability of being able to proceed to
bulinefs, adjourned to next term. The body of
rioters, which soon amounted to upwards of five
hundred, surrounded the court-house, took the
judges, the justices, the fheriff, the clerk, and as
many more of their friends as they could find, into
close custody, and sent parties out who are daily
returning with more prisoners ; the roads and pas
ses were guarded with armed men, who indiscri
minately laid hold of all passengers against whom
any of the pa rty intimated the least suspicion, and
the mob Stimulated by their leaders to the utmost
fury and revenue, breathed nothing but blood and
Daughter against the unfortunate persons in their
power; the only thing which suspended their fate
was a difference i) opinion as to the manner of
destroying them, a nd from the violence and inhu
manity of the difpot ition apparent in the rioters, it
is greatly to be feare 1 that some of the worthy men
in confinement will fall a facrifice to the brutal
fury of a band of rut lans, before any timely aid
can he brought to thri. f assistance.
POSTSCRIP Tto the Pennsylvania Packet. No. 180.
CONNECTICUT, March 15 .
In the House of Represen tatlves, rffmbled
at New-Haven, March 8.
F^^*^ HEREAS our brethren of Boston
)tf( ^ have long fuffered, and are yet fuf
fering under the hand of oppression,
[#r ™j grievous and unparalelled hardships
an d distresses in consequence of their
resolution to support the great principles of
Constitutional Liberty; and having endured,
and yet enduring those fufferings in the com
mon cause of America, with most exemplary
fortitude and magnanimity; the principles of
humanity and justice to odrfelves and them re
quire, that they Should not be left to link un
der the weight of burdens, which without as
sistance may become absolutely insupportable.
And although many donations have been
made them, by this and other Colonies, yet
upon authentic intelligence it appears, that
they are inadequate to the real distresses in which
thoafands of their innocent and virtuous inha
bitants are involved by means as aforeiaid.,
THIS House taking the matters aforefaid
into their serious consideration, Do Re
solve, That it be, and it is hereby recommen
ded to the inhabitants of the several towns in
this Colony, to continue chearfully and libe
rally to contribute to the relief of their fuffer
ing brethren in said town, according to the se
veral abilities which Divine Providence has
given them; esteeming it an incumbent duty,
and an acceptable service in the fight of God
and their Country. ^i Order of the House,
Wm. WILLIAM S, Speaker.
Last Friday our General Assembly adjourned
to the 13th of next month, then to meet at
Hartford.
March 30. An express lift night arrived,
brings an account, that the inhabitant of Cum
berland County are in the utmost confufion and
distress, and that one of the Judges, two Ma
gistrates, the Sheriff, the Clerk, and four other
persons, (whose lives were providentially saved
from the fury of the rioters by the timely inter
position of a Strong party of men from New-
Hampshire) have been committed to the gaol of
the county of Hampshire, in the province of the
Massachusetts-Bay, escorted by an armed party
of the rioters, —that all the magistrates in Cum
berland, except two, are expressly ordered by
the rioters to cease the further execution of their
offios, and these two are permitted by the mob
to act in criminal cases only, for the purpose of
signing warrants for the commitment of such
persons as they ihall bring before them ; and that
there were 7 persons, whom the mob had im
prisoned, let out on giving bail to the Chair
man of a Committee appointed by the mob,
without whose pass no man can travel that
country.
TobeSOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
on Wednesday, the 12th of April inst. on the
premises, in pursuance of the last will and telta
ment of James M'Connell, deceased,
_ VERY valuable Plantation, situate in E ft
x, Pennfborough towrrfhip,Cumbeiland county,
ort Conedogwainet creek, and within four miles of
Harris's Ferry ; containing 150 acres of extraordi
nary good land, about one half cleared, and in
very good repair, having a good (quire log dwell
ing-house, a barn and other convenient buildings,
a good bearing apple orch qd, and a great ? umber
of very good peach trees thereon. The sale to be
gin at ten o'clock, when due attend ne wll be
given, and\the terms o SGI- ma'v'i.j.m, on rhe
day and place^bove mn im<.i. '.
ST^LIAM ( )
JAMRS OiIV, £ - s.
JAME^PURDY
D r 'r),'
Gardener and Seedman, from! ndon, living
in Spring Garden,,
WILL supply any Gentleman or other per
son 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 Mar
ket, Philadelphia.
The A M-~E R I CAN
GLASS WA RE-HOUSE,
For the sale of GLASS WARE made at
Kensington, is now opened by. ~
JOHN ELL I OTT and Company,
A few doors above Maiket-ftreet, at the weft tide
of Second-street;
Where (hop keepers and others in town or. country
may be supplied with the following Articles, ei
ther cut or plain, in general as cheap, and lome
much cheaper than those imported; viz.
DECANTERS, from one gallon to half a
pint; wine glasses of various forts; tumblers
or 411 sizes; bottles for cases, &c. flint or other
beer glasses ; bafons, cans of all sizes, candietticks
and sockets, confectioners glasses, cyder glasses,
caniflers, bitter bottles, bird cisterns and boxes,
candle (hades, cruets and casters, chimney arms,
cream pots, cupping glasses, dishes for Sallad, &c.
e , %' c ,gl'bes and cylinders, garden bells, hour
glasses, ink cups, lamps for halls, Streets, cham
bers, (hops, weavers, &c. mortars and pefths,
nipple Shells and pipes, pyramids, pipes for tohac
cofrfalvers of various sizes, fait cellars, sugar
dishes, spice bottles, urinals, wine and water
glasses, goblets, jelly glafles, jewellers glasses,
milliard pots, proof bottles, pocket bottles, Sylla
bub glasses, sweet meat ditto, salt linings, smell
ing bottles, tubes for thermometers, &c. phials
of all sizes, &c. &c.
N. B Orders or patterns for any forts of glasses
for Apothecaries, Virtuof, or others, left at the
aforeiaid Ware-houle, will be chearfully and duly
attended to.+
.*** Ebe Proprietors being unwilling to deprive
such as are desirous <#f feeing the factory, from
the gratification of their curiosity, but at the
fame time finding it necessary to endeavour, in some
measure, to save the works from the disadvantage
which mult and does actually aide , from the great
retort of fpeCtators, it is therefore hoped that no
one will take umbrage at the turn of two (hilling#
for each perlon's admittance, expected at the gate,
which yet is very inadequate to the hinderance oc
casioned thereby.
Gojben T^nJbip, March 13, 1775.
TH E fubferiber hereby informs the
Public, that from the fiilt instant (March)
he has undertaken the business of the Stralburgh
Messenger, which he is determined to perform in
the most punctual manner: All persons desirous
tb promote so useful an undertaking, by opening
a weekly correspondence with the city of Philadel
phia, are requeued to leave their names and terms
at the taverns where the papers are left. As he is
confident the utility of it will be evident when re
gularly conduced, he does not demand any cash
before the expiration of the firft quarter, relying
on the public Spirit of the inhabitants upon and
contiguous to the said road.
ARTHUR MURPHY.
N. B. He sets off from William Dibley's, at the
Fountain Tavern in Chefnut-ftreet, Philadelphia,
every Wednesday, and returns every Tuesday even
ing, where the public commands will be duly at
tended to.
Just Fubli/bed, and to be Sold by
JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,,
PRINTER, in Market-street, Philadelphia,
SOME EXPRESSIONS of ANN
CROWLEY, daughter of Thomas and
Mary Crowley, of London, during her last ill
ness, from the 23d of the First month 1773, to the
12th of the Second month 1774. With an intro
du&ory Tettimony concerning her, from the family.
So teach us to number our days that <we may apply
our hearts unto Wisdom. Psalm xc. 12.
:They are alto to be had of ISAAC COLLINS,
Printer, in Burlington.
THE Subferiber, who has carried on
the Soap-boiling and Tallow-chandling bu
siness for some years pad for Mr. George Kennedy,
takes this method to inform the Public in general
and his friends in particular, that he has opened
said business in Second street, opposite the City
Tavern, between Walnu,f and Chefnut-ftreets;
where he intends carrying it on in the most exten
sive manner; and as said Kennedy has declined,
hopes for the encouragement of his friends, as he
will make it his particular, itidy to serve his cus
tomers with the greatest care and punctuality, and
their favours (hall be gratefully acknowl dged by
the Public's melt obedient humble servant,
i'WILLIAM GILMORE.
N. B. Merchants, Captains of vehels and coun
try (tore keepers (hall he supplied on the fortett
notice.
Germantown BleaChfield.
JOHN H UNT ER,
At the above B'^chfidd,
WI LL immediately beyin towhiten <1 forts
of p:ain liner, yard wide an-'nrdervr r.bs
not exceeding a 900 eed, at vt per yar , 1000
reed at gd. peryard, and all aboveat 6& ; , vard;
huckabacks .ird coarse diapy , at pii, id;
fine diapers at 5.1. per yaid. kufiia t^d, nd
fhf tings will be bleached for trerchairts at 40 per
yard, and Ireffed nd lapped tqul 0 any import
ed it 6d. per piece. Linen yarn and thl,ad whiten
ed it is. per Ib. no less quantity than 10 lb. will
be received. Cotton whitened at iod. per It), and
cotton dockings at 4d. per pair.
e Families who have meets or table linen ft lined or
difcoloured, may have them cleared at a moderate
price.
GOODS for said Bleachfield are received by
the following Gentlemen in Philadelphia, viz.
Mr. Francis Gurney, merchant, below the Draw
bridge, Mr. William Shute, tallow-chandler, at
the New-Market, and Mr. John Green, merchant,
near the upper end of Second-street; Mrs. Da,is,
at the new Rising Sun on Germantown Road, and
jchn Hunter at the Bleachfield ; at all which places
receipts will be given,
N. B. The Advertiser presents his grateful thanks
tc those who were pleased to favour him with their
custom last summer, //,nd hq.earneftiy folieits the
future favours, of them and the Public in general ;
and although the finallnefs of his business last year
occasioned hint to be a considerable loser, yet he is
not thereby intimidated from prosecuting a business
that is so principal a branch of the linen manufac
tory, but tti)l hopes that his knowledge of the bufi
nefyand ftri& application thereto, will enable him.
to finifh every article intruded to him, in such a
manner as will gain him the most generous encou
ragement from the Public. &'',
WANTED, a man who has been employed
in bleaching either in Leland or Scotland.
*#* Said Hunter will also attend himfelf at
George Zeller's, inn keeper, at the Germantown
Stage the corner of Cherry-alley and Third-streets,
in Philadelphia, on every Saturday, to receive and
give receipts for Goods..
TO BE SOLD BY
WILLIAM MARTI N,
Upholsterer, next door to the City Vendue
dore, in Front-nreet, Philadelphia, ;
PA R Tof his Stock and Houfyld Furniture,
confiding of twelve duffed bicK and feat chairs,
three fofas and three ealy Chairs in canvas, fix ma
hogany Gothic back chairs covered with hair cloth
and brass nailed, one French elbow ditto, two
four feet dining tables, a handsome Pembroke
ditto, fix neat mahogany chair frames, A pair of
handsome hand irons, some trimmings, &c. &c.—
He returns his unfeigned thanks to his numerous
employers ; and as he intends leaving this city, begs
leave to recommend CHARLES JAFFR EY,
who continues in the house, as a person fit and
capable to succeed him in his business, which, if
approved of, will lay a further obligation on the
Public's greatly obliged and humble servant,
WILLIAM MARTIN.
N. B. Said Martin requests those who stand in
debted to him to pay, and those to whom he is
indebted to fend in their accounts.
qr H E Subferiber takes this method to
A inform the public, that he is rendered inca
pable of following the Hatters business as usual, by
reason of much affliction and loss ; he therefore
flatters himfelf that the humane inhabitants of this
city will be pleased to favour him with their custom.
in the Haberdashery business, as he intends to fol
low cleaning, colouring and dressing old hats, also
binding, looping and lacing Gentlemens hats. All
those that are pleased to encourage this business,
will confer the greatest obligations on their very
humble servant, 4 ! 1 ^ 4
WILLIAM MURDOCH.
N. B. The Millener and Mantau-making busi
ness is carried on as usual, by Jane Murdoch, in
Front-street, near Almond street, Philadelphia.
Madeira and Teneriffe WINES,
In Pipes and Hogsheads,
TOBE SOLD BY
MICHAELCONNLR.