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Which are now opening for fate, by wholesale
and retail, viz.
LONDON and Yorkshire
fuperfine Broad Cloths, of the most
fa (hionabh colors; Ladies Habit Cloths;
plain, mix'd and ribb'd Caffimeres.
A great variety ts
Fafhionabie Waistcoating ; —
Buftians ; ^hite & color'd Jeans ; cotton
Denims ; clouded, twill'd and silk Nan
kenets ; Thicksets ; Velvets; color'd
worsted and silk Plush ; rich stripe silk
Florentines, for Vests and Capes.
■ A large afotment of
Calicoes and Chintzes, of the
fateft fathion ; elegant Chintz, Gingham
and Dimety Furniture; Copperplates.
Agreat variety of
Fafhionabie color'd and check
Ginghams; fafhionabie printed Mullins ;
ftrip'd and flower'd Muflinets ; Dimeties ;
fine Cambricks; large cotton Counter,
panes; table Cloths; green table coverings.
/ great variety of
Book, jaconet, ftrip'd check'd,
lappet, cambrick and black Mullins ;—
satin sprig and fancy Mullins ; Mullin
Handkerchiefs ; Men's Neckerchiefs ;
Mullin Shawls, with fringes ; chintz,
purple and silk Shawls ; Camels hair
Shawls, with netted and silk Fringes ; —
romal, linen, cotton, bandannoe & black
Silk Handkerchiefs; black Silk Shawls.
A great variety of
English and India Luftrings ;
A large affirtment of
Strip'd, plain and changeable
Italian Silks ; India Satins; black and
color'd Modes ; black and color'd bon
net and other Satins ; color'd Tiffanies ;
black, white, blue, green and pink Italian
Crapes ; plain, picquet, net, crape and
cypress Gauzes ; Millinets; Sarfoets.
A large afotment
Thread, Laces and Edgings ;
black silk patent Laces and Edgings.
A great variety of
Fashionable clouded, ftrip'd,
spotted and check'd Ribbons; black and
white cotton and silk Gown Trimmings;
chintz Trimmings; cotton and silk Gir
dles ; Glove Ties; gold and filve rLaces ;
gold and silver Cord; gold and silver
fringes ; geld and silver Epaulets, feme
very elegant. A great variety of
Fafhionabie Straw and Chip
Bonnets, for Ladies Misses and Children ;
fafhionabie silk Bonnets, full trimm'd ;
Ladies Satin Beavers, with Bands,Feathers
and Coops ; fafhionabie black Beavers.
A variety of
Black and fancy Feathers and
Flowers; fancy Straw trimmings and
Bindings. A great variety of
Fafhionabie Fans, some very
elegant ; black crape, glaz'd and corrthon
black Fans ; Parafoles, force with walk
ing flicks ; Umbrellas.
A large affirtment of
Morocco and Kid Shoes ;—
Shoe Roses; elegant fleel Shoe ornaments
and Clasps ; a great variety of fafhiona->
ble Necklaces and Crosses; Eardrops.
Men's and youth's white, ran
dom, twill'd, imperial and vandyke cot
ton Hose; Men's white & black,filk do.
with lac'd clocks ; mens brown thread &
cotton (Io ; Women's cotton & silk Hose,
some wi s h laced clocks; Women's black,
White and color'd silk Gloves and Mitts;
women's white & color'd cotton ditto ; —
best white kkl Gloves ; Men's cotton and
worsted Caps ; worsted Pantaloons ; —
pantaloon Hose; silk, cotton and worsted
Pantaloon and Breeches Pieces ; Men's
beaver, wash leather and brown thread
Gloves; Stock Stiffners ; cotton and silk
Ekftic Slings ; Shoe-Ties; Men's and
Youth's fafhionabie Hats, some grey with
green under.
Fafhionabie fteel s gilt, plated,
filver'd, horn, matthewman arid Italian
Buttons ; Button- Moulds ; Sleeve But
tons; flee! Knee Buckles ; silver Thim
bles ; fled ^d gilt Watch Chains, Seals
and Keys; Tooth Brushes; Spangles;
Morocco Focke- Books; Pins; Cap Wire.
Iri(h Linens and Sheetings ;
India Cottons ; brown Hollands ;-
Checks; Threads ; embroidering and
common Sewing Silks ;'Twift ; Gal
loons ; Bindings; Ferrets ; Tapes ; n
large assortment of white cotton and
Chintz Bedlace, fringes and Tassels.
Tammies ; Durants ; Sha^
loot's; plain and ribb'd Calimancoes ;
Ruffels; Montas; Taboreens; Floral
fine ; Listings ; Sattinds.
Portfavuth, A: ♦# 18, ISOG
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every SATURDAY
the United States,
Has deceived per flip Packet and John
Adams,,om Liverpool,
An extetfive aflortment of
Fafhionabie, Fancy and Staple
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY- FIFTH YEAR.
Peter Coffin
GOODS.
MORALITY are indispensable supports. WASHINGTON'S Legacy.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY; KLLIDIVtY AND 11URA _
flit Wttb Stated
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1801.
SUPERfine Broad Cloths and
Caffimeres; fafhionabie Waistcoat
ing ; Cotton Denims; Jeans; Fustians ;
clouded, twill'd & silk Nankeenets.
Calicoes and Chintzes of the
Latest fafhion ; Dimeties ; ftrip'd and
flower'd Muflinets ; book, jaconet, and
cambrick Mullins and muffin Handker
chiefs; ftrip'd, check'd, and tambor'd
Muslins; black Muslins; Mens Necker
chiefs ; chintz, purple, silk and camels
hair Shawls; black silk Shawls; Bail,
danoes; Romals; linen & cotton Hand
kerchiefs. A variety of Fafhionabie
Straw Bonnets ; Ladies black
beaver Hats & Bonnets ; draw and other
fafhionabie Bonnet Trimmings; black
and fancy Feathers ; Fans ; Parafoles
and Umbrellas.
Fafhionabie Vesting and But
tons; Pantaloons and Pantaloon pieces ;
.String, and a great variety of other
G6ODS as ufnal.
Benjamin Brierly,
BEGS leave to inform bis
friends in town and country, that
he has just received per Chip Packet from
Liverpool, an extensive affonment of
fafhionabie Spring and Summer
GOOD S,
which he is now opening tor fate at his
store in Market-street, opposite Spring
hill, by Wholesale #nd Retail for cafli or
short approved credit. 4^! 18
James Henderson,
Has received a general assortment of
Which are now opening Jor sale at his Store in
Market fteet, CHEAP for Cajh .• —
CONSISTING or
Mens and youths white arid co
lor'd cotton Hose; Women and misses
cotton Hose ; Women's silk, cotton and
kid Mitts and Gloves; cotton & worsted
Pantaloons; Mens beaver & wafli leather
Gloves ; 61k and cotton elaftick Braces ;
Stoek Stiffiiers.
William R. Hardy,
TAILOR,
At his Shop in High. Street,
BEST Superfine London
Broad Cloths and Caffimercs; Met
feilles Quiltings ; Dimities; silk & cot
ton Nankenets; white, olive and printed
Jeans; Fustians; Pantaloons^ and Pan.
taloon Pieces ; Silk and Cotton Ehilic
Braces ; Nankeens ; black silk Velvet;
Cotton Caffimere ; cotton Denim; Steel,
Gilt, and Plated Buttons, of the latest
fafhion; Trimmings of every kind, in
his line of business. Ap^l 23.
Just Received and for Sale by
Charles Hardy,
TAILO R,
Coat & vest Buttons ; Ferrits;
Bindings; Grillooms; Tapes; Threads ;
sewing Silk ; Twist; Bobbins; Laces ;
Edgings ; Ribbons ; Tafies ; Modes;
Satinets; black & color'd Satins; crape,
cypress & plain Gauzes; Milliners, &c,
Portfm%th, Aevilz; 1801.
H A T S.
William Bayley,
Begs leave to inform the public
that be has opened a
Hat Manufactory
in Buck-street, where he makes
and fells all kinds of HATS as cheap as
at any Store in town.
r,Calh given for FURS;
P&tfmouth April 2§, 180!.
Hopkins's Celebrated Elastic
Ra^or Straps and Paste,
is now received and for sale at C. Peirce's
and W. Treadway£ BookftoreS, Pirfauth,
Durants ; Tammies ; Shalloons;
ftrip'd and plain Callimancoes ; Moreen;
Taboreens; Florentines; Ladings; Sat
tinets. Fajhionable
Mens & Youths Hats ; India
Cottons; brown Hollands ; Cotton and
cotton & linen Check. Fafhionabie
At his flop in Crofifreet, nearly opposite Cd
Brewster's,
A large affirtment of
THE best & most fafhionabie
London & Yorkshire Broad-Cloths
and mill'd Caffimcres. —also,
Just Received and to be Sold by
GOODS,
NEW SPRING GOODS.
SPRING & SUMMER
NEW GOOD).
An ACTfupplementar, to an afl, intitul
ed, " An aft to divide the territory of the
United States north-weftzf the Ohio, in-
to two separate governments?'
BE it enabled by the Senate and House of Ref>re
fentativee of the United States of America in
Congress affembkd, That all suits and process &
proceedings which on the third day of July, one
thousand eight hundred, were pending in any
court of either of the counties, which by the aft,
intituled, ",An ad to divide the territory of
the United States north-weft pf the Ohio, into
two separate governments," has been included
within the Indiana Territory :and that all
suits, process and proceedings, which on the
aforcfaid third da, of July, were pending in the
general court of the territory of the United
States north-weft of the Ohio, in consequence
of any writ of removal or order for trial at bar,
bad been removed from either of the counties
how within the limits of the Indiana territory
aforefaid, shall be and they are hereby revived
and continued; and the fame proceedings be
fore the rendering of final judgment and there
after, may and shall be had in the fame courts,
in all suits and process aforcfaid & in all things
concerning the fame, as by law might have
been had in case the said territory of the Unit-
States north-weft of the Ohio had remained un
divided.
An ACT further to alter and to eJlabl'fh
certain Post-roads.
BE it ena&ed by the Senate and House of Rebre
fentatives of the United States of America in
Congrefe assembled, That the following post roads
be discontinued:
From Laoeafter to New- Holland in Pennsylvania.
From Greenville in Tennessee, by the warm
springs to Buucomb court-house.
From Elizabeth city in North -Caroline, by
New Lebanon to N. W. river bridge.
From Upper Marlborough to Fifcataway.
From Henderson court-house, to Muhlert-
Uerg court-house.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled, That the fol
lowing be established at post roads.
In Maine.
From Standiih to Eryburg.
In Neu 7 -Hampshire.
From Amherst by Franciflown, Wallington
and Claremont, to Windsor in Vermont.
In Vermont.
From Bennington to Battleborough. From
Newbury by Bedford, Corinth, Walhington &
Barre to Montpelier.
In Massachusetts.
From Leominfler through Wellminfler, Tem
pleton and Athol, to Greenfield.
From Worcester by Mendon, to Providence
and from Worcester to Lancaster.
In Rhode-Inland.
From Providence, by Rehoboth, and Attle
borough, to Taunton, Massachusetts.
In NeW-ToeK-
From Albany, by Duancfburg and Durlock,
to Cherry valley.
From Poughkeepue, by Sharon, to Litchfield
In Delaware.
From Georgc-Town, by Concord, and the
village of Laurel to Salisbury.
In Maryland. ,
From Annapolis to Eafton, by Young Had
daways.
From Annapolis to Centrc-ville, by Kent
Ifland.l
From the city of Washington to Pifcataway.
, From Elkton, by Warwick and Bridgetown
to Greenfboroiigh in Caroline county.
From the city of Washington by Brookville
and W. Hobb's in Frederick county,to Tanyton.
From the city of Washington to Wiley's ta
vern in Fairfax county, Virginia.
In Pennsylvania.
From Pittiburg, by George-Town andtar
field to Warren in the Nort^-weftern territory.
From Berwick, to Wilkrfbarre.
In Virginia.
' From Richmond to Charles city court house.
From Clarksburg to Marietta.
From Romney to Morgentown or Clarkf
fburg. . ,
From Alexandria, by Thomas's ferry to Pif
tataway in Maryland.,
From Halifax court-house to Danville.
Froth Bowling-green, by Broaddus's mill, S.
Harrison's, and Dunkirk, to New Kent court
house. trt,
The pofl-road from Jerusalem to Hickss
lord, shall pass by the Cross-keys, and from the
Ctofs-keys to Murfeefborough.
From Peterfhurg, by Suffix court-house to
Southampton court-house.
From James town to Farm-ville.
The Mail from Mecklenburg court-house in
Virginia, to Chrifyan ville shall be carried by
Mulbalhasd Wilfool ftote,
Sec. 2. And be it further eitoßed, That all tara
or arrearages of taxes, fines or forfeitures, which
on the aforefaid third day of July, were due to
the treasury of the territory of the U. States
north-weft of the Ohio, from the said trad of
country new comprized within the Indiana
territory, or from any inhabitant thereof, or
holder of land within the fame, ad&which
have not been paid into the treafurydflhe ter
ritory of the United States north-weft of the
Ohio, shall be levied, oolle&ed and p*id, in like
manner and for the fame purposes as though the
said territory last mentioned had remained un
divided.
Sixth Congress of the United States, at the second
Sefon, begun and held at the City of Washington,
nt the Territory of Columbia on Monday the I„b
of November, one tbquiayd eight hundred.
Laws of the Union.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Reprofentatives.
JAMES HILLHOUSE,
Pref dent of the Senate, pro tempore.
Approve# March 2, A. D. xßci.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prefdent of the United States.
PUBLISHED Br AUTHORITY.
m. xl.
No. 30.
Morning, by CHARLES PEIRCE, Printer of the Laws &c. of
in New-Hampshire.
In the North-IP extern-Territory•
From Cincinnati to Detroit.
In Indiana Territory.
From Vincennes to Hafkafkias to Kahokia
In Kentucky.
From Hardin court-house to Brekenridge
court house, to Henderson court-house, Eddy
• grove, and Eldyvilie to fort M^ffac.
From Brekenridge court-house by Hartford
and Vicuna, to Muhleuburg court-house.
In Tennssee
From Knoxville, by Sevierville, New-port
and the Warm-springs, to Buncomb court-house.
4 Ftorn New-port by Check's cross toads to Ortf
f ville.
;In the Mississippi Territory.
IFrom Natchez to the Southern Boundary
line of the United States
iln North Carolina.
The post road from Raleigh to Chatham
court-hbufe (ball pass through Haywoodf
borongh.
The pott road from Raleigh to Newbern
(hall pass through Green county.
From Elizabeth city to Indiantown and Full's
creek, to north-well river bridge.
The post-road from Winton to Windsor
dall pass through Pitchlanding and Colerairt.
From Louifhurgh by N^fh court-house to
I Tarborough.
I From Charlotte court-house to York court
- house, in South Carolina.
From Charlotte to Camden In South Caroline.
Sec. 3. And.be it further enaa± That all
letters and packets from John Adams now Pre
sident of the United States, after the expiration of
his term in office, and during his life, shall be
received and conveyed by post, free of poflage.
Sec 4. And be it further en&aed, That this
aft shall not be construed to affc& any existing
coutra&B.
An ACCOUNT of two very remarkable
OCCURRENCES in the Natural
History of CONNECTICUT.
WINDHAM refem'oles Rumford, and
fhnds on Winnomantic river. Its mect
ing-houfe is elegant, and has a ftseple, bell and
clock. Its court-house is scarcely to be looked
upon as an ornament. The township forms
four parities, and is ten miles square.
IStrangers arc very much terrified at she hide
ous noise made on summer evenings by the iraft
Inumbers of frogs io the brooks and ponds.
I There are about thirty different voices among
I them ; some of which referable the bellowing
; of a bull. The owls and whipperwills com
;plete the rough concert, which may be heard
federal miles. Persons actuftomed to such
; serenades are not disturbed by them at their
I proper Rations ; but one night in July, 1658,
so the frogs of an artificial pond three miles
square, and about five miles from Windham,
! finding the water dried up, left the place in a
body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards
Winnomantic river. —They were under the ne
cOTicy of taking the read and going through the
town, which they entered about midnight.
The bullfrogs were the leaders, and the pipers
followed without number. They filled a road
forty yards wide for four miles in length, and
were federal hours passing through the town
unusually clamorous . Ihe inhabitants were
equally perplexed and frightened: some expec
ted to find an army of French and Indians : 0-
thers feared an earthquake and dissolution of
nature. —The confUrnation was universal. Old
and young, male and female, fled naked from
their beds with worse (bricking than those of
the frogs. The event was fatal to fcveral wo
men. The men, after a flight of half a mile,
in which 'they met with many broken Ihini,
finding no enemies in pursuit of them, made a
halt, and summoned resolution enough to veh*
ture back to their wives and children, tvhen the,
diftindly heard front the enemy's camp these
words, Wight, Hclderken, Dier, Tete, This hft
they thought meant treaty; and plucking up
courage, they font a triumvirate to capitulate
with the supposed French and Indians. These
three men approached in their shirts, and beg
ged to speak with the general ! but it being
dark, and no answer given, they were forel, agi
tated betwixt hope and fear ; and at length
however, they difeovered that the dreaded ini
mical army was an army ol thirsty frogs going
tb the river for a little water.
Such an incursion was never known before
nor since } and yet the people of Windham
have been ridiculed for their timidity on this
occasion. I veril, believe an army under the
duke of Marlborough,would, under like circum
stances. have aded no better than they did.
In 1768, the inhabitants of Connedicot ri
ver were as much alarmed at an army of Cat
erpillars, as those of Windham were at the
frogs; and no one found reason to jest at their
fears Those worms came ip one night, and
covered the earth on both Edes of that river,
to an extent of three miles in front and two in
depth. They marched with great speed, and
eat up every thing green for the space of 100
miles, in spite of rivets, creeks, streets, & the unit
ed efforts of 1000 men. They were, in gene
ral, two inches long, had white bodies,covered
with thorns, and red throats. When they had
finifhed their work, they went down to the ri
ver Connecticut, where they died, poisoning the
waters until they were waffled into the f&a.—
This calamity was imputed by some to the vast
number of trees lying in the creeks, and to the
cinders, smoke, and fires made to consume the
waste wbod, for three or four hundred miles up
the Connecticut ; while others thought it au
gtirated future evils similar to those in Egypt.
The inhabitants of the Verdmonts would un
avoidably have periled by famine in conse
quence of the devaftatian of these worms, had
npt a remarkable Providence filled the wilder
ness with wild pigeons, which were killed by
fticki as they fat Un the branche# of trees' in such
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Reprefentatita.
JAMES HILLHOUSE,
Prefect of the Senate, pro tempore.
Approved, March, 3, A. D. 1801.
JOHN ADAMS,
Pref: dent of the United Statee^
Oracle of the Bap.
MISCELLANY.
PRICE I DOLLAR 50 CEN TS Per Annum
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THIRTEENTH YEAR.
The preceding remarks are occasion
ed by /^.circumfa^s:
Firfl, Because we know it is the in
tcreft and policy of France to involve
us in the present contest ; —which is
proved by the success they have alrea
dy had in cajoling the Northern powers
into measures deftruftive of their com
merce ; —and because the French have
invited not very indirectly our Govern
ment to adopt the fame policy;
Secondly. —Because we know that the
President formerly entertained ideas,
which would favour the objects of the
northern coalition ; —and it has been
rumoured,that he has lately encouraged
this sentiment. It has been laid, that
the expedition now preparing in Hamp
ton Road, is intended to convoy our,
merchantmen and to resist the right of
search. But we cannot believe that
the President would attempt a measure
so utterly opposed to.our best interests ;
which would infallibly involve us in
war, expose our immense uriextended;
unprotected commerce to the ravages
of British cruisers, arid thus infli& a
blow which we should hardly recover
in fifty years 0^ ordinary prosperity.
I have already intimated, that the!
two principles for which the northerri
nations are contending; to <wlt, the right
to refill the searches of the enemies of
the belligerent natioris, arid the inviolaf
tiility ot enemf'S property in neutral
bottoms, are not founded in the Law
of Nations.
I deduce this opinion from twofared j
from the reason of the thing—and from'
acknowledged authorities. Andftfi
with refpeft to the right of search.— ;
The law of nations does not arise front
any positive compact, actually entered
into by the various nations of the earth,
multitude, that 30,000 people lived on them for
three weeks. Isa natural cause may be affigri
ed for the coming of the frogs and caterpillars,
^t the visit of the pigeons to a wilderness in
Aaguft has been necessarily ascribed to an irt
terpofirion es infinite power dud goodness. Hap
py will it be for America, if the foiling Provi
dence of Heaven produces gratitude, repentance,
and obedience among her children .'
CT The Principles of the Northern
Confederacy examined ! 1
MR. RUSSELL,
SOME remarks have already been
made upon the extreme impolicy of
the Northern Association, and upon the
ruinous consequences which would re
sult to the United States if the Govern
ment should either join or attempt to
enforce the principles which the North
ern Confederacy pretend to attablilh—•
Too great fears cannot be entertained
bn this fubjeft ; and every citizen of
the Northern States cannot help feeling
great anxiety with refpeft to the line
conduft which the Government ma,
pursue.-
New-England is by itslocal filiation
and its natural advantages, peculiarly
calculated to be the carrier, pf the pro
duce of the Union. Her farmers, her
mechanics,her merchants and her man
ners are deeply interested in the success
of her commercial enterprizes.
If by the narrow, the local preju
dices of any of her filler States, the
Navigation of New-England shall be
jeopardized or destroyed, we must bid
adieu to our importance, our profperf
ty, and our weight.,
We do not, like some other parts of
the Union, possess any rich staple com
modity, which in all times, f nd under
all circumstances, will enable us to
flourifh and grow wealthy.—-Our foil
is tilled by the labour of @ur hardy &
industrious yeomanry, who do not un
der the most advantageous circttmflan
ces acquire more than a comfortable
and reasonable support. Our sea-coast
is generally barren and peculiarly in
vites us to attempt our fortune on the
ocean. If however our interests were
incompatible with those of the South
ern States, we ought not perhaps to
expe& them to make great facrifices to
our commerce ;—but the truth is, that
our interests are perfedly coincident
with theirs. Let tihem raise their luxu
riant crops of Wheat, Indigo, Tobacco,
Cotton and Rice, and let them as they
do, enjoy the luxuries resulting from
their profitable agriculture, but let N,
England which nature has deprived bf
these advantages, only have the advan
tage of carrying their produce to mark
et. We will be contented with the toil
and the fatigue, compensated only by a
reasonable freight. But let not that
power which was invested in the Gene
ral Government for the general Welfare
and to provide for the common good,
be perverted from the aggrandizement
of one part of the Union, and to the de^
ftru&ion of the other.
From the CENTINEL.