The United States oracle of the day — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-05-03 00:00:00, page 4

Poetical RepoJitor,.
SON G— Rosa.
THOUGH fofter'd in the humble cot.
My friends of lour degree;
A higher fate I envied not,
While bleft with Liberty.
Then sweetly danc'd the hours awt,,
What sorrow could I prove ?
With all to make the bosom gay.
Sweet Liberty and Love.
But now my heart is full of woe ;
Ah ! well a day, poor me 1
The worst of misery to know—
The loss of Liberty.
Yet fti!l be calm, my anxious brail,
Hope comfort from above !
Kind heaven again can make me bleft,
With Liberty and Love.
THE MORALIST— No. 349.
RICHES cannot be within the reach of
great numbers, because to be rich is to
possess more than is commonly plated in a sin
gle hand ; and, if many could obtain the sum
which now makes a man wealthy, the name of
wealth must then be transferred to Hill greater
accumulations. But it is not certain that it i,
equally impossible to exempt the lower classes
of mankind from poverty ; because though
whatever be the wealth of the community,
some will always have kaft,and he that has left
than any other is comparatively poor, yet there
is no necessity that any ffiould be without the
indifpenfible conveniences of life ; but casual
calamities excepted, there might by universal
prudence, be procured an universal exemption
from want ; and that he who Should happen to
have leaft,might notwithstanding have enough.
THE- MEDLEY.—No. i? 8.
SOME time ago, a certain- Lord,
(in Ireland) gave a grand gala to the
neighborhood, all of whom attended
in full uniform. Among others his
lordship's tailor was prelent and the
host came up to him, faying, "My
dear fir, how d'ye do ? I beg your par
don, I forget your name, but I perfect
ly recoiled feeing you some where be
fore," The tailor was a little confound
ed by this particular notice, and as the
best way of making himfelf remember
ed, whispered, " I made your breeches."
The noble Lord, thinking the tailorhad
informed him of his name, turned round
and took him by the hand, exclaiming,
" Major Bridges ! I'm happy to fee
you.
A Curious cause of War.
In the year 1005, some soldiers of
the commonwealth of Modena, ran a
way with a bucket from a public well,
belonging to the state of Bologna. This
implement might be worth a (hilling ;
but it produced a quarrel, which was
worked up into a long and bloody war.
Henry, the King of Sardinia, for the
Emperor Henry the second, assisted the
Modenefe to keep pofleffion of the buc
ket ; —and in one of the battles he was
made prisoner.—His father, the em
peror, offered a chain of gold that
would encircle Bologna, which is se
ven miles in compass, for his fon's ran
som, but in vain. After twenty-two
years imprisonment, and his father be
ing dead, he pined away and died.—
His monument is still extant in the
church of the Dominicians. This fa
tal bucket is still exhibited in the tower
of the cathedral of Modena, inclofed in
an iron cage. Taffo has very humor
ously described it in his Della Secchia.
Nine Principal Chiefs, and a large number
of Indians, of the Cherokee nation, attended
the funeral honors at the United States garris
on, at South Weft Point, and testified their
grief, by sighs and death songs, for the death of
General Washington.
A Duel has been fought between Capt. Meri
wether Jones and Jarties Rind, Esq, of Rich
mond. The latter received a wound in the
body, but it is likely not to prove mortal.
One of Brahams's Royal Patent Engines,
(fays a New-York paper,) received here in the
flip Sarah, from London, was yesterday shipped
on board a vessel for Boston. We are inform
ed it is a present to the Boston Fire Insurance
Company.
SCHEME
Os the SEVENTH CLASS of
Dartmouth College Lottery,
(CONSISTING of Six Thousand
Tickets, at Four Dollars each, divided
into the following Prizes—
Subjed to a deduction of n| per cent.
Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.
1 *f 3000 is 3000
I - 3000 - 2000
2 - - 1000 ar. 2000
a - 600 - - 1200
2 - - 400 - 800
5 -200 - - ICOO
10 - - 100 - 1000
20 - 50 - - loop
30 - - 3° - 900
62 - 20 - - 1240
lio - - 10, - 1100
1460 - - 6 - - 8760
1,05 Prines 1 amounting to - 24,000
6000 Tieleh, aS 4 Dollars, are 24,000
The Prine of 2000 Dollars, "will be,faced to
& left drawn blank.
This Class will commence drawing
at Concord, on Thursday the fifth day of June
next, and will continue (positively without post
ponement) until completed,—A lil) of Prizes
will be immediately published, and the prizes
paid on demand :-—
JONATHAN FREEMAN,)
MICHAEL M'CLARY, } Managers.
WILLIAM A. KENT, )
^TICKETS and QUARTERS, in
the above Lottery, may be bad of Charles
Piirci, at the Columbian Bookflore, N°. 5
Danielfrect, Portsmouth
ft Those who mean to become adventurer, in Wie
L^ry, will ,base to applyfa,•'" will ,of fol,
ctommee drawing the „b da, of need month.
PROPOSALS, ,r
JTilliamP.W Lemuel Blake & Mannings LorLeg,
FOR PRINTING, BY SUBSCRIPTION,
A COLLECTION, of the most ce
lebrated EULOGIES ou the Life,
and ORATIONS on the death of Gene
ral George Washington, which have
been delivered in the United States, from
the time of his death, to the sad Feb. 1800,
Those Eulogies and Orations which
have been already published, are of fQ
many different fixes, that it is impossible
to have them bound together in a vo
lume ; —and as every American will un
doubtedly with to preserve these memen
tos oftheir departed Washington, a
Collection of this fort mud be very ac
ceptable, wherein are celebrated his servi
ces and virtues, portrayed in the glowing
language and pure sentiments of our most
esteemed Eulogifta and Orators, from
r Maine to Georgia.
; CONDITIONS.
„ I. The work will be, at to press in tie werfe of
T afew weeks, allowing onl, time to collea those Lu
f logics and Orations, which ma, have been publijked
r in the diJiant parts of ibe Union.
11, This Volume fall be bandfomely printed as
g ,"' p a p w i and contain about 300 pages oßavo.
\HE Tbe price of each book, neatly bound, lettered
and rolled on tbe edges, will be one dollar 25 cents,
? to fubferibere.
. IV. A lift of fubferibere fall be added to tbe
:work.
1 Those «wbo mifb to become fubferibers to
[ tbe above valuable volume, will please to call or
1 fend tbeir names to C. Peirce's Book,ore, No. 5 Da
, niel-ftreel, Ports mouth, witbin 15 days.
Proposals,
FOR CARRYING
The Mails of the United Slates,
, On the following Post Roads,
Will be received at the General Poft-Office,
Philadelphia, until the loth da, of frul, next.
I I. T?ROM Portsmouth, by Hampton-
L Falls, Newburyport, Ipswich,
Beverly, Salem and Lynn to Boston, three
timesa week.
From April 15 to OHober 15.
Leave Portsmouth every Tuefday,
Thursday and Saturday at 4 A. M. and
arrive at Boston the fame days by 6 P. M. 1
Returning, leave Boston every Monday,
Wedoefday and Friday at 4 A. M. and
arrive at Portsmouth the fame days by 6
P. M.
From Oaober 15 to April 15.
Leave Portsmouth every Tueltlay,
Thursday and Saturday at 1. P. M. and
arrive at Boston on the following days,
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 6 P.
M. Returning, leave Boston every Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A. M.
and arrive at Portsmouth the next days,
Tuefday, Thursday and Saturday at 10
A. M.
Note 1. The Postmaster-General may
alter the times of arrival and departure at
any time during the continuance of the
contrad, he previously stipulating an ade
quate compensation for any extra ex
pence that may be occofioned thereby.
Note 2. Fifteen minutes (hall be allow
ed for opening and closing the mail at all
offices where no "particular time is fpe
cified.
Note 5. For every fifteen minutes delay
(unavoidable accidents excepted) in ar
riving after the times prescribed in the
contrast, the contrador fliall forfeit one
dollar and if the delay continue until the
departure of any depending mail, wher&
by the mails Jeftined for luch depending
mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture
of five dollars (hall be incurred.
Note 4. Newspapers as well as letters
are to be sent io the mails : and if any
person, making proposals, desires to carry
newspapers, other than those conveyed
in the mail, for his own emolument, he
must state in his proposals for what sum
he will carry it with that emolument, and
for what sum without that emolument.
Note 5. Should any person, making
proposals, detire an alteration of the times
of the arrival and departure above fpeci
fied, he must state in his prtyofals, the
alterations desired, and the difference they
will make in the terms of his contrad.
Note 6. Persons making proposals are
desired to state their prices by the year—
Those who contrast will receive their
pay quarterly, in the months of January,
April, July and O&ober.
Note 7. The con^ads for this route is
to be in operation on the ift day of Oc
tober next, and is 10 continue in force un
til the ift of Oaober 1804.
JOS. HABERSHAM, Ptfmaftcr Gen.
General Post Office.?
Philadelphi^Marchio^iSoo^J
THE SUMMER establishment of
the MAILS, commences on Mon
day next, as follows, vim.
Southern Mail,
Arrives on | elofes on
Mondays, ™\ at 6 Mondays, ) at,
Wednesdays > o'clock Wednesdays > o'clock
and Fridays,) P.M. and Fridays,) P.M.
Eastern Mail,
arrives on elfee on
Mondays, "I at 6 Mondays, at t
Wednesdays > o'clock Wednesdays > o'clock
and Fridays, ) p.m. and Fridays,) p. M.
Berwick Mail,
arrives on c/ofa on
Mondays 7at 5 Mondays " )at,
and Fridays, j p.m. and Fridays,, p.m.
Weftern Mail,
arrives on I elofes on
Monday, at , p.m. (Tuefday, at xo a.m.
Northern Mail,
To arrive once in two weeks. On Monday, at 5
o'clock P.M. departs tbe neat week, on Tuefday at
moa.m. M @ Simes, ptM^er.
Portsmouth, April 18, 1800.
CT WANTED, to live in a
small Family, a next, tidy Woman, in the
capacity of a maid, — Inquire at the U.S.
Oracle Office, Pot tfmonth.
REMEMBER that
Wednesday next
Will be fold, at Abraham Ifac's
Auaton-Room, in Buck-Jireet,
CEveral Trunks India Clothing,
O -AS FOLLOWS—
-7 Gentlemen's striped Summer Coats.
7 do. Silk &Chintz Morning Gowns.
9 do. Spences.
a Ladies elegant Silk Gowns & Skirts.
3 do. Quilted Silk (hort Gowns.
4 do. of other kinds.
s do. Silk and Cotton.
24 small Childrens Gowns.
3 do. (hort waists.
6 pair Mens' Trowfers, some 61k.
60 pair Boy's Jackets and Trowfers.
9 bandtome Counterpins.
12 bandfome Chintz Coach Coverings.
, 2 Matraffes,
12 handsome Chair Bottoms.
2 Chintz do. Coverings.
§ Elegant red Quilts.
3 do. Cradel do.
2 Remnants Chintz.
A number Bolsters and Pillow Cases.
'Several Pocket Handkerchiefs, —with
a number of articles of Clothing, too te
dious, to particularize.
N. B. The above to be fold without
any reserve.
Sales to commence at io o'clock, A. M.
TO BE SOLD '
At Public VENDUE,
DY virtue of a licence from the
U Court of Common Pless for the
County of York, on Tueiday the 20th
day of May next, at 11 o'clock, forenoon,
at the dwelling house lately belonging to
JOHN KENNY, late of Leb
anon, in the county of York, Esquire,
deceased ; two thirds of the real Estate of
the laid John Kenney, deceased, with the
reversion of the widow's dower therein,
consisting of the homestead LANDS and
BUILDINGS, and one PEW in the
new Meeting-house in said Lebanon.
1, Conditions of Sale may be known
at the opening of the Vendue.
D. HUBBARD, Admixifrator.
April 17, 1800.
TO BE SOLD
At Public AUCTION,
0a the tyh da, of June next, at 3 o'clock
P. M. on the the premises,
THAT NEW AND WILL FINISHED
e Dwelling House,
With a convenient SHOP
n front, an excellent Cel- I
lam, a Well of good wa
ter within the House, and convenient
Out-Houses, now occupied by the sub
scriber. John Boadge.
@, The premises may be view,
ed an, day previous to the Sale.
Portfmouth, April 11, 1800.
TO BE SOLD,
OA Small FARM,
containing about 30
acres of good Land, con.
filling of Mowing, Pas
turing, and Tillage ; with
a good House, and Barn on the fame,
lying in Portsmouth, and adjoining Pifcat
aqua-River. Also— fix good COWS.
Inquire of the Printer of the U. S. Oracle.
Portsmouth, April I I, 1800.
'FOR SALE,
f^^THE Schooner
X SALLY, ofta; Tons
■^fß, burthen, new last fall, hav
performed only one
voyage, has a long quarter deck, that will
flow twenty Hhds. and is well fitted for
the Weft-India bulinefs ; (be is now
compleatly fitted for a voyage, and may
be put to sea without any expence— for
terms, apply to JONATHAN S. BAR
RELL, at his Store in York.
York, April 2§, 1800.
- TO THE PUBLICK.
^KN/ THE Subscriber,
ffFQL JL being well aware of
te^mNw the disappointments, and
delays that frequently oc
cur, with refpe& tothofe who (hip freight
on board the Packets in Boston, for
Portsmouth—hereby notifies the publick,
that he has fitted the Sloop Polly, in such
a, manner, as to accomodate paflengers,
and take freight, and he, engages for the
firft time this season, to fail from Ports
mouth for Boston, four days after the
date hereof, and will not tarry in Boston,
or Portsmouth, at any one time after his
arrival, longer than four days, (storms &
tempestuous weather excepted,) and will
keep constantly going from one of laid
ports to rhe other, until the 20th day of
Odober next,— Passengers and Freighters
may depend on fidelity and dispatch, and
all who chufe to take passage, or put
freight on board, his exertions to ''"'
them, (hall not be wanting,and the smallest
favors, will be gratefully acknowledged
by their bumble servant.
JOHN SHAPLEY.
STRAYED from tbe fubferi
ber in the afternoon, of the 21st inst.
a reddifli grey HORSE, 4 or § years old,
about 14 hands high; trots all; the hair
rubbed off his tides by drawing. Who
ever has found said horse, and will return
him to the fobferiber, dial! be handsome
ly rewarded, and all charges paid by
ASA DEARBORN.
Pertfmowk, April*;, 1800..
1
Kariety SHOE-STORE^
Abner Newhall,
Oppofte the Sign of the Golden-Pitcher,
Daniel-freet —
TAKES this method to inform
his friends and the public in general
that he has for sale a large and genteel
assortment of.<
S HOE S,
—Among which are-—
Ladies Englilh plain and figured
Kid SLIPPERS.
Red, yellow, green, blue ind black
Morocco ditto.
'Mens' Boots and half Boots.
Fine and coarse SHOES.
Mifles and Boy's fine and coarse
SHOES, &c. &c.
^Conftant attendance, and the fmalLeft
favors gratefully received.
Thomas Morton,
Hasjufl Received and for sale at his
Shoe & Leather Store,
” IGX O OF THE
GOLDEN T KE Y,
FORE- tfi STREET,
At the lowest prices possible •
A Complete affatment ts
Gentlemens, Ladies, Misses & Children's
SHOES;
Whole & Half Boots ; Boot Legs;
Leather of all kinds; Saddles & Bridles.
50 dozen blue & white
CUPS and SAUCERS.
200 Straw Tumblers.
200 Glass Decanters.
A few black China Teapots, with
Sugar Bowls and Creampots, of the
newest falhion.
40 dozen china colored Plates
and Dishes.
Common Teapots, do. Sugar
Diflies, do. Creampots,
100 Fur and other Hatts.
Cotton ; Sugar ; Coffee ; Tea ;
Rice ; Flour, and Raisins.
N. B. Any quantity ts BOOTS, SHOES
or LEATHER, suitable for an. Contrail,
may he had at the above Store, by giving pro
per notice. Portsmouth, March 8, 1800.
Bartlett Adams,
Sculptor and. Stone Cutter,
HAS arrived from Boston with
a dock of ITALIAN MARBLE
and Quincy Slate Stone, suitable for table
flabs, hearths, chimney-pieces, tomb
hones and grave-Hones, and many other
uses he is determined to fell on
reasonable terms, if applied for soon, at
Mr. Mark Roger's Wharf.
N. B. Gentlemen engaged in building,
may be supplied with any kind of Stone,
by giving a (hort notice.
Portsmouth, A, ail 2§, 1800.
R DALYT
Boor and SHOEMAKER,
from Philadelphia ; Refpeafully in
forms tbe Citizens of Portsmouth, he has
taken tbe stand lately occupied by Mr.
Vernum, Congress-street, opposite tlie
State-House, where gentlemen may de
pend on being served with Boots and
Shoes of the best kind, both as to neat
ness and durability.
Portfmouth, April 2§, 1800.
: ONION SEED,"
Warranted of a superior quality ;
TO BE SOLD AT
Theodore Furber's store
Spring-Hill,— Portfmouth, Aprils;, 1800.
GARDEN SEEDS?
A frefh assortment of Garden-
Seeds, to be fold by SAMUEL HAVEN,
jun. at his store in Market-street.
FRESH English and American
GARDEN SEEDS,
fuft received, and for sale at
Wm. Stanwood, jr.
Store, Market-Jlreet ;
Where gentlemen in town or country,
can be supplied with those that are good.
—ALSO—
Englijh & India GOODS
as usual, very cheap for Cash.
Portsmouth, April 12, 1800.
NEW Stone LIME
from St. Georges, of the best quali
ty, fold by ABNER BLAISDEL.
Port/mouth, April 2§, 1800.
STRAYED or Runaway from tbe fubfaiber,
on the night of tbe aid inf. an indented ap
prentice key, by tbe name of William Lyford, 16
yeare old, about 5 feet 5 inches bigb, rather fim ;
fort black bair; be bad a guilty down look; much
addiaed to lying; was very deceitful,lie. bad on either
a blue sarge coat, black broad cloth jacket, and drab
colored trowfere ; or, a new drab colored homerun
coat,jacket and overballe, a lambskin great coat, and'
round black bat. He bad served about x 8 months
at tbe printing bufnefa. Whoever will return said
runaway, or give information where be ie, will
oblige tbe fubferiber. All perfone are forbid har
bouring, taping or employing him, and ma,ere of
vessels and others, are forbid admitting him on board
tbeir veffelc, or carrying bim away,ar they would
avoid tbe penalties 0, & law.
April loam. Camil PnHZ
IPott and Pearl ASHES.
WANTED, ten tons of
Pott and ten tons of Pearl ASHES,
to be delivered by ph July next, in Ports,
mouth, when the cadi will be paid,—or
an advance of part cash paid, on a note
with good endorsers.™
^"'" Joseph Champney,
Tolerain Irish Linens &
INDIA COTTONS.
Edw d Parry
HAS yusi RECEIVED?
A NEW ASSORTMENT of
j&| best Colerain
IRISH LINENS.
INDIA COTTONS
of superior quality. And
Fine Britifli Cotton.
Best Superfine faJhionable
BROAD CLOTHS,
and other GOODS as usual.
ALSO,
Six Bales of
COTTON ^OOL ;
All of which will be fold CHEAP for
CASH, or POT & PEARL-ASHES.
Portfmouth, April 19, 1800.
TEAS?—
TAMES RUNDLET,has just
J received a frefh (apply of Souchong
and Bohea ,EAS, of the firft quality,
which being a consignment, will be fold
on the best terms for Ca(h or (hort Credit.
Portsmouth, April 11, 1800.
TOEW' RIC E,
TO BE SOLD,
At No, r, Langdon's Wharf, a few calks
of NEW RICE. Asa
A few bales of excellent COTTON.
By Silas Holman.
Portsmouth, April 11, 1800.
THE Subscribers ap
appointed Commissioners to re
ceive and examine the claims of the seve
ral Creditors, to the Estate of
SAMUEL SMITH,
late of Newmarket, Blacksmith. deceased,
hereby give notice, that they sll attend
that service, a t the house of Mr. JoHM
Shute, inholder in said Newmarket, on
the firft Monday of May next, and the
five following months, from two to fix
o'clock, P. M.
NATH'I ROGERS,
JOSIAH ADAMS,
>UDLEY WATSON,)
Newman het, April 9, 1800.
A few Chaldrons of excellent
Virginia Sea-Coal,
For sale by GEORGE PLASTED, on
the middle Town-Wharf. April *;.
WANTED to hire, a conve
nient, decent Tenement, con
taining one Room, a Kitchen, Chambers
&c.—Any perfonhaving such a place to
Let, may procure a tenant, that will
pay the rent pundually as it becomes due.
Enquire of the Printer.— Portsmouth April s;
THE Inhabitants of the town
of Portsmouth, are hereby notified
and requeued, to exhibit to the feleamen,
ajuft and true account upon oath, of
their pole) and edates, that are taxable by
the laws of this state, on or before the fif
teenth day of May next, and the felea
men will attend upon that bufinels at the
town Hall, in the brick icliool-houfe, ev
ery Thursday, from seven to nine o'clock
in the evening until that time.
N. B. Good Encouragement will be
given (oa suitable person with a small fa
mily, to dwell at the Peft-houfe—for
terms apply to the feleamen. Also,
Went adrift sometime last winter, an
old Mast, with some ring bolts in it, and
was part of the old ferry-ways ; whoever
has taken up the fame, and will give no
tice thereof, or bring it to the ferry-ways
in said town, dial! be handsomely reward
ed for their care and trouble, by apply
ingto GEORGE GAINS, j °c,
MOSES WOODWARD, I ^
SAM'I HUTCHINGS, ,^
ELIJAH HALL, L
SAMUEL DROIVNE. J *
Portsmouth, April §, 1800.
Two Apprentices Wanted,
at the Braft-Founders bufnefs —enqui> e of
WARD GILMAN.
Writing Boqks,
Merrill's Arithmetic.
Wrapping Paper of
a superior quality, for sale at C. Peirce's
Bookstore Daniel-street. Price 6f.ream.
The U. S. Oracle,
Is still open for tbe reception of new Sub
scribers. —Those who with to commence
from the ^ of March, (the day on which we
began the publication of the Laws of the Union)
may have the papers from that period-All such
will receive European and Domestic News,
Political Matter ; Entertainment, &c. and all
the Laws of the United States, and Public Ad
yertifements, at the very fame price they would
have to give for the most ordinary paler.