The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-09-12 00:00:00, page 3

ALEXANDRIA, (Virginia) Sept. i.
'Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Botetourt coun^
ty, dated August 23, to bis friend in this town.
" Colonel Lewis, who was supposed to be killed
by the Indians, has lately been brought in, escorted
by ten Shawanefe chiefs, who refined him from the
Mingoes and Cherokees, who were the Indians that
fired on him and his party as they were going to
treat with the Shawanefe at the Salt Lick. The
following is the speech, delivered in council at Muf
quifack Town, on the 29th of July last:
" Brothers,
" You have seen all our head men yesterday; but
they are not all here now.—Brothers, when your
people fettled this fide of the Big River, it made us
very uneasy.—We are glad you have ordered them
away. —Peace we are willing for.—Brothers, we
are happy, young and old, that you have called all
the people off our lands, which we hope may be the
means of promoting peace and harmony between us.
—Brother colonel Lewis, we have brought you and
one more out of tl^at bad man's hand (the Wolf.) —
We wish you all well, and fafe home.—Brothers the
Virginians, we hope you have nothing to study but
peace, and let us hold faft our chains of friendfhip;
you must not mind the bad people amongst us.—
Peace is the height of our defire.—lt i.s only one man
[the Wolf] who has done all the mifchief, and will
not mind any good that is laid to him.^ Brother co
lonel Lewis, we hope you will be strong to acquaint
our American brethren, that our wishes are peace,
We shall fend ten of orir principal' men fob to escort
you home, having appointed one out of every town,
to convince you that all our people are of one senti
ment, and unaninioufly desirous to re-uhite the for
mer friendfhip which so happily subsisted between us.
Brothers the Virginians, listen to your younger bro
thers; the great spirit has allowed us now happily
to meet, and to inform you that we are very sorry
for what has passed. Brother colonel Lewis, when
you were coming off to meet your youngest brothers,
and when you were jovial and happy, expecting to
fee them, a fform darkened your joys. When you
arrived here at the houses of your brothers, they took
you by the hand, and wiped the tears from your
eyes; now your eyes are cleared and the tears wiped
away, you can fee if your youngest brothers treat
you with friendship.
" For the loss of the great man that set off along
with you we are all sorry; bat we hope yob will bu
ry all remembrance in eternal oblivion. The reason
that we request of you to forget what is paf£ is, be
cause our nioft earned wishes are to live with you in
unity and friendfhip. In refped to your trade, we
are glad to hear that you mean to be reasonable in ex
changing your goods for fur.—We hope, brother,
that you now fee plain that rhe' fault ought not to be
laid on us the Shawanefe.. We have orders to be at
peace from all n'atious, white and red; but the Che
sokees and one trading man of the Mingoes are en
deavouring to do all the hurt they can, and to set us
at variance. You fee the milchief is not committed
by us; and those that do it, it is out of our power
to prevent.
" From your youngest brothers the Shawanefe,
with three firings of wampum.
" Signed by Ten Chiefs."
PHILADELPHIA, September 2.
We have taken the following from a late London
paper—One of our Devonshire correspondents gives
us the following: A gentleman of that county dying,
left a widow and two sons, appointing a gentleman
to be trustee for them, who some time after married
the deceafed's widow. The eld^ft foo coming of age,
demanded his fortune, and was paid fix or seven
hundred pounds, which not being his whole due, he
in a little time made a second demand of a gold
watch, some plate, &c. His father-in-law told him
to meet him on an appointed day, when they mould
be ready. Accordingly the young gentleman came,
and being invited up stairs, saw upon a table the
things he had demanded. The old gentleman told
him, as they were left to him, he might take what
he pleased; who replied, if he would deliver them
himfelf, he would accept of them, and not other
wise; whereupon the young gentleman went down
stairs, and mounting his horse, his father-in-law of
fered to ffiew him a nearer way over the ground;
and though he desired he would not give himfelf the
trouble, yet he infilled on going with him, walking
all the way by the fide of the horse, and an oppor-,
tunity offering, he stabbed the young gentlemen in
the back, who, making an outcry, was heard by two
men in the next field; and they feeing the old gen
tleman over the hedge with a knife in his hand, were
afraid of him; but finding biinfeJf blown, and threat
ening death to any person who came near him, cut
Qis own throat, and died on the spot. The young
gentleman is now in a fair way of recovery. 'Tis
fai4 he ought to have had two thousand pounds.
Same day arrived in this port, the fllip Fayorite,
captain Vallance, from Amsterdam, Ind brought 300
paflengers.—The fliip Adolph, captain Clarkfon, ar
rived here last week, brought about 200 passengers
from the fame place.
Sept. 3. A French gentlemari now at New-York,
educated at the Academy of Sciences at Paris, is
desirous of being employed in railing and concluding
a China and Earthen Ware manufactory. He is said
to be well Billed in making China and the belt
Earthen Wares, and has had the direction of a prin
cipal manufactory of those articles in France.
Thursday niorning Jacob Stillwell, a waterman
belonging to the Old Ferry, in assisting to put a horse
and chair into one of the large boats, accidentally
fell, and his head striking against an iron bolt instant
ly killed him.
The life of a labourer was last week most provi
dentially saved. Being at the bottom of a deep well,
which he was walling, in Arch near Eighth- Street,
and a person above attempting to let down a bucket
full of bricks, the rope broke near the furface of the
well, and the bucket dropped to the bottom where
the man was Landing, and it was expeded must have
killed him; but he escaped with the loss of the back
part of one ofhis feet, which, with the heel was torn
bff by the edge of the bucket falling oh it, and it is
feared an amputation must take place.
Sept. 5. In the French packet, lately arrived at New-
York, came passenger monsieur Otto, charge des af
faires from the court of Verfaiiles to the United States.
This gentleman succeeds monsieur Marbois, who, we
hear, is constituted intendant to Hifpanfola—an ap
pointment both honourable and lucrative.
Also arrived at New-Yorli a few days since from
CharleftQu, Monsieur de la Fore,it, consul general pro
tem. from the above court ; Monsieur St. John, having
obtained leave to go to Paris.
Our last contains a mistake, as to the appointment of
the marquis Luzerne. —That nobleman (brother to the
chevalier) is appointed governor of the French Wind
ward Islands, and the chevalier Luzerne, late minister
from the court of France to the United States of
America, is appointed amb^ffador to the court of
Sardinia., .
Sept. 6. Yesterday arrived here in five weeks from
London, the fiiip Harmony, captain Willet. In her
came passengers mefirs. Nicholas Waln, John Town
send, Thomas Colley, John Storer, Edward Shippen,
jun. Alexander Scott, and William Delaplain ; captain
Barnet and his lady ; major Marrice and his lady;
and captain Cook.
The Harmony had only 31 days passage, from land
to land, and brings London papers to the 19th
The arrival of that justly celebrated and revered
patriot, Doctor Benjamin Franklin, may be hourly
expected in this city, as he had taken his passage on
board the ship London Packet, captain Truxton,
which failed from England about the fame time that
the Harmony left Gravefend.
A letter from England, dated Falmouth July 9th,
fays, " Such weather was never kndwn-here as we
have had these fix months past; not more than two
days rain during the whole time; there is less grass
on the ground than there was at Chfiftmas last ; hay,
which usually at this season was i4d. is now 10s. per
cwt. though the harvest is prdmifing particularly for
wheat."
There is not a greater instance of the extreme drought
of the present season in Europe, than the following,
which is feleded.out of a letter from a house of emi
nence in the commercial line at Dorltf; in Holland.
" You will scarce believe, that in a country like this,
(watery by nature) that we complain of drought ;
but such is abfolutcly the case at present, 110 tain hav
ing fell in this country for upwards of 4 months,
and the continued easterly winds have so emptied the'
Rhine, Locke, Meafe, and Dartez, that there are not
in many places lufficiept water to carry vessels over
the sands. Our wells are uncommonly low; and; as
a greater phcenomcnoh, at the Kiender Dycke (which
is famed in history from the cirtumftance of 73 villages
being overflowed by its breaking in the year 1691,
the waters are so low, that the very foundation of
that ftupendbus fabric is now to be seen, and work
men are repairing it in many placed. Such a Circum
stance has not occured in the memory of the oldcft
man now living in Holland."
September 8.
ExtraS of a fetter from London; dated fid, 18.
" Friday lift his excellency John Adams and his
suite, dined with the American Society at the New-
England Coffee-houfe. The company was numerous
and genteel ; dinner was served up with the greatest
order and exa&iiefs; and the wines excellent. The
company departed about eight o'clock, well Satisfied
with the entertainment and their new visitor."
On Monday last, at five in the afternoon, a bal
loon (about 20 feet diameter) was let off from a place
called Hessian Castle, in the Southern Liberties. It
gradually afeended for about the space of half an hour,
and seemed to be defeending before it was loft fight
of. It took an easterly direction, the wind beihg
W. S. W.
Thursday a carpenter fell from the top of a bank
house between Race and Vine-Street,, which he was
Singling, and his head striking a post in Water-
Street, dashed out his brains.
On the 34th ult. the Ship Sophia Bailey, captain
Swann, from Jamaica, put into Norfolk, Virginia,
in distress, after having been ashore on the coast of
Florida. She loft her rudder, and both her anchors
and cables. It is said the belongs to New-York,
Superfine flour 43s 6d
com. do. -40 s
Bur middlings 32s 6d a 35s
Indian meal 23s 6d to 24s
Tar -12 s to 13s
Pitth -16 s to 17s
Terpentine -20 s
Pork, Burlington 61,56
Beef Trish -4115 s
Country -3115 S
Mackarel %6s to 60s
Herring ^ 22s 6d
Per Cwt.
Ship huff *; igsto 16s
bread ^ 03s to 24s
Pilot ditto 28s
Rice -26 s
Sugar Mufcov. 36s to 65s
Tobacco James river
558
Yorli - ~ -50 s
Rappahannock
403 to 43s
Coloured Maryland
55s to 60s
Western Shore
long leaf 40s
Eafterh Shore
30s to 35s
Lead in pigs 35s
Ditto in bars 40s to 45s
Shot -. 4os
Red lead 48s to 50s
White ditto Systogos
Spanifli brown - 55^
German steel 70s
American -60 s
English blistered
Cordage 6cs
Codfifh 26s to 27s
Pearl allies )
Pot ditto )'°" e
Cocoa - 41 ios
Per lb.
Beeswax - 2s 4d
Feathers 3s to 3s 6d
Hams iod to nd
Spermaceti candles 3s yd
Mould ditto - iod
Tallow ditto - 9a
Soap A 7 d
Englifli cheese ijd
Butter - gd to nd
Chocolate - i^d
Coftee - ud towjd
Tea Hyfon 8s to 12s 6d
Souchong 6s 6d
Bohea 2s 6d to is 8d
Indigo French gs to izs
Carolina 6s 6d to 73
Hemp 5d to jdj
Ginseng 2s to 2s 3d
Snake-root - 2s
Starch - 4d
Snuff - 2S 6d
Loaf sugar - nd
Havanna sugar white Bdagd
Ditto brown jdj
Nutmegs -60 s
Cinnamon - dos
Mace - 6cs
Cloves 128 6d to 15
Pepper - 38
Pimento is 3d to r 6d
Copper in sheets is iod|
Verdigreafe 4s 6d Lemons per box 40s to 45s
Course of exchange—On London 76! to 80 per cent.
Amsterdam 3s 2d per guild#.
Paris. 7s 6d per 5 livres.
* The tonnage of ship-building is near 15 per cent,
better in Pennsylvania, than in any of the eafterd
Rates. ', .;.
-WWrTnteli
A LARGE and convenient tanyard, in Trenron,
fufficient for taning 1500 hides annually, for
merly the property of Stacy Potts. .Apply to Jfaac
D'Cow, Lfquire, in Trenton, or to the febferiber at'
Change Water.
MARK THOMSON.
September 2, 1)85. § w *
Notice is hereby given,
'THAT there will be fold, by publick vendue, ort
4 Thursday the 2~d of September infant, between
the hours' of 12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, at
the house of James Efdal, innkeeper in Buflihgton, a
very valuable piece or pieces of meadow ground, lying
and being in the townfnips of Mansfield and fpriqgfield,
containing about 25, acres of land; seized and taken
in execution as part of the estate of Peter Tallman, Ffq
at the suit of Ricliard Smith, and to be fold by
JACOB PHILLIPS, late Sheriff.
B. As there has been feverdl sales of part of the
above, and the purchasers have not complied with the
conditions thereof, which has caused it to be so re
peatedly advertised, the fubferiber experts and hopes
the purchaser or purchasers, at the next sale Will come
so well prepared as to pay the purchafe^money, or
make fat^fadion to the executors of the plaintiff by
the 23d instant, at 11 o'clock in the morning,' or
it will absolutely be set up on the fame dav at 11
0 clock for sale again. J. PHILLIPS.'
September 9, 178% ^
Philadelphia, Price-Current, September 2. 4
Per barrel. Vermillion - ijs
Anchors - 8d to pd
Per biifhel.
Wheat 7sto7s9d
Rye - - 3 s 9 d
Barley 6s
.Indian corn 3s gd to4s id
Oats Isiod to 2s 3d
Flax-feed 5s 6d to 6s
Allum fait, - 3s
Liverpool dittd 2s 6d.
Coal (dull sale) i6d
Per pipe.
Wine Madeira 401 to 80l
Lisbon - 4ci
Port - 4 0 l
Teneriffe - . 24!
Fayal r X s l
Per gallon.
Jamaica rum 4s to 4s 3d
Windward ditto gsto ?s4d
French ditto - 2s
New-England ditto 2s id
Brandy $ s 6d to 4s'
Sherry wine 5s to 8s 6d
Malaga - j s 6d
Molaffcs - tyd
Per ton,^
Bar iron - , 30!
Pig iron - 9I
Logwood - iil js
Ditto unchipt 7I ics
Fuftick ,1 to iil
Braziletto 181 to 2cl
Lignum vitte 51 10s to ,lids
Qak timber , -j., 40s
* Ship-building. Whites
oak frames 61 to 71
Live-oak and Red-cedar
ditto. - 81 to 9I
Per 1060.
Staves pipe , . -isl
W. O. hhd. 81 103
R. O. do. fl
Leogan - 61 i rs
barrel - 51 10s
Heading (drefs'd) 9I 103
Oak boards 41 2s 6d to ,1
Merchant pine ditto 5!
Sap ditto - 4:1
Cedar ditto - 5I 103
Oak plank - iol
Pine ditto - iol
Short "thing. 11s gdaias 6d
Long ditto 51 to 51 109
Scantling -41 to 51
Skins and furs.
Deer-skins per lb. is ibg
Beaver ditto 7s 6d to 15=
Per piece.
Otters - , 253:
Minks - - as 6d
Foxes grey 7s 6d red 5^
Martins - 53
Fishers - - 45&1
Cats - - 3s 9 d.
Bears - ios to 20s
Rackcons - 43 6d
Muskrats ^ x3d
T. Crowley steel per
faggot - 4 15$
Tin in boxes 41 15s to 51
Gin per case 28s to 30s
Claret perdoz. bot. 3053453
Port wine ditto yes