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Peter Coffin,
Has removed to the New Fire Proof I
Store in Market-street, where a large al
fortment of
FaffTenable, Fancy & Staple,
GOODS,
received by the late arrivals from
England, are now opened for
SALE by Wholesale and Retail, — viz.
LONDON and Yorkshire
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RAGS? RAGS!
THE proprietors of this paper having
undertaken to supply a paper mill,
call on all ranks of peoplein Ponlmouth,
and its neighborhood to
>Save their R^IGS,
nod help the manufaaure of this uleful
rtHe in New- Hampshire, where the
, Lills arc Earvin for the wait, of flock.
Pre bone Pubheo,
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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
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^l. XIII.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1803.
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Miscellany.
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OF THE
MISSISIPPI.
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By JOHN PINTARD, Esquire.
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— Miffiffippi,pronounced by the na
tives Mefeoafiopi,after a course of 3000
miles & receiving the tributary dreams
of the iramenfe rivers Meffouri, Cum
berland, Tennedee, Ohio, and many
others, all which far surpass in extent
and magnitude, every river that emp
ties into the Atlantic,the St. Lawrence
excepted, difembogues through several
channels into the Gulph of Mexico, in
N. lat. 29, 3, and 89, to, W. long,
from Greenwich.
The approach to this river, by sea, is
known by an instant change in the col
our of the water, from black or dark
sea green to whitifli, next clayed, and
lattly a very muddy, frothy water, with
founding from 70 to 50 fathoms at a
bout ten leagues from the coast, grad
ually diminilhing to 4 fathoms at the
distance of ten leagues, when the wa
ter becomes abruptly more difcoloured
and yellow. Direaly off the mouth of
the river the water resembles dirty soap
suds ; every change of colour is drong
ly didinguidied : you pass through one
into another in an iaftant. The water
at the mouth of the river is quite frefh.
The pilots drink it, scooping it up in
their hands, the usual mode of allaying
third by all who navigate this immense
river.
The entrance of the river is very dif
ficult, there being no land marks along
the coast, which is very low and scarce.
ly difcernable at four leagues distance.
Should a vessel fall in with the land on
either fide of the narrow or longation
of the continent through which the
Mississippi passes into the Gulph of Mex
ico, he will in all probability, get em
bayed and be obliged to wait a change
of wind several days to beat. This cir
cumdance very frequently happens.
The shores along the coasts are lined
with innumerable ti ees, which are con
flantly floating down the Mississippi.
The appearance is not much unlike a
vatl mall & spar yard. The trees are ve
ry large,&in reaching the mouth of the
river are driven ashore by the winds &
tides ; some are carried out to sea, and
are to be met with at a great distance
from land. These trees accumalating
becomes a mound, which arrests the
muddy sediment of the river in process
of time, form numerous small islands,
which condantly increasing and uniting
at length becomes part of the continent.
This new land is firft covered with rush
es resembling elders, and lastly, with
ash and other sorest trees. The whole
country bordering on the month of the
Mississippi has been thus made ; and
the probability is, that all the land on
both sides of the river, from Ibberville
downwards, a distance between two
and three hundred miles has originated
from the illuvious and deposits of this
muddy dream. It must require a con
siderable time ere this new land can be
come ufeful. Where the present Ba
life is ereded, the ground was so low
that earth was brought to elevate the
foundation for the beacon, guard and
pilot houses. The site of the old Ba
life, which was built in 1734 and at
the mouth of the river, is now more
than two miles above. The present
Balife was conftrufted in 1756, by Don
Antonia D'Uiloa,on a small island near
the foutheall entrance of the river ; of
which about thirty years before, there
was not the lead appearance. In con
versation witn an experienced officer in
the Spanifli navy, a colonist of Lonifia
na, on the fubjeft of this prolongation
of the continent, he informed the wri
ter of these observations, that in the
summer of 1800, he remarked a new
island at the mouth of the river. That
not many years ago when lying at
point La Hatch, between the Balife &
New-Orleans, a seaman died on board
his snip—they sent on shore to make a
grave, but could not find Efficient firm
earth to bury him. This place is since
become solid land. He could also re
coiled when Plaquemines, where the
fort now stands, was a quagmire. Mr.
Vandreuil, formerly governor of Lou
isiana, in a letter, dated September 2,
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1752, remarks— 6 There is infinite dif
ficulty in fettling towards the mouth of
the river Miffitippi on account of the
immense expence in banking'ag linft the
inundation of the sea and sand floods.
I am against fettling it as yet, and for
waiting until the ground he more rais
ed on the acretion of foil, as it hath
been three feet within the space of 15
years.
Every thing occurs to prove that this
river has enlarged the continent nearly
100 leagues. Not a single done, nor
even a pebble is to be found in all the
new made ground. The sea repelling
that prodigious quantity of mud,leaves
boughs and trunks of trees, which the
Mississippi is constantly waning down ;1
all these materials constantly pushing
backward and forward colled and bind
themselves in a solid mass, which thus
tends to prolong this vail continent.
Another striking singularity, no where
else to be met with, is that of the wa
ters of this great rivet, when once it 0-
verflows the banks, never returns with
in its bed again. The reason is this :
—The Mississippi is annually swelled by
the melting of the snow in the north,
which begins in March and cotinues a
bout three months. This river lies very
deep at the upper part, and does not 0-
verflow on the east fide until within
100 leagues of the mouth ; that is to
fay on the low land supposed to be new
ground. These muddy grounds like
all others which have not yet acquired
their due confidence, bear a prodi
gious quantity of large reeds, which
flop and entangle all extraneous bodies
that are washed down the river. The
collection of all thefefragments,with the
dime that fills up the intermediate spa
ces, raises in process of time, the banks
higher than the adjacent ground, so
that the waters once overflowed, are
prevented by this obftaefe from the
possibility of returning to their natural
channels, and are therefore compelled
to force an outlet into the sea by anoth
er course. The new lands and islands
at the mouth of the Mississippi are said
to rife and fall with the swelling & aba
ting of the waters. This story howev
er, wants confirmation.
From the astonishing length of the
Mississippi and the vast bodies of water
that flow into it, one is led to imagine
that it must be proportionably broad.
Every traveller is much surprised at the
direct contrary. Instead of entering
an open extensive bay, the mouth of
the river is narrow and contracted ;
and through its whole course to Ne< r -
Orleans after passing La Lotre, scarce
ly exceeds half a mile in breadth. Op
posite the city the river takes a consid
erable sweep, forming a beautiful cre
feent, along ^hich New-Orleans is fit
nated. At this place it may be about
three quarters of a mile wide. The
level or embankment which defends the
town from the inundation of the Miffifip
pi is elevated about three feet above the
furface of the country, over which the
frefhes seldom or never rife.—The dif
ference between the greatest height and
lowed ebb of the river i$ somewhere a
bout fourteen feet perpendicular. The
last two years the Miflilfippi bad risen
so very inconsiderably, as to have ex
cited much surprise, and some conjec
tures that the waters of the Missouri
had found a new channel to the ocean.
This river it is which raises the former
and discolors its ftream—for before its
junction with the Missouri, it was clear
andlimpid as the Ohio. The latter,al
though fubjeft to great frefhes, has but
little effect on the Mississippi.—The
water of this river, notwithstanding its
being exceeding turpid, is nevertheless
very palatable and wholesome. Il is
used entirely at New-Orleans for drink
ing andculinary purposes. It is carted
through the city in the fame manner as
the New-York tea water, and fold at
the rate of a penny a bucket cr half a
dollar a hogshead : deposited in a large
earthern jar, it becomes after of a mil
ky colour and is thus used. When fil
tered it becomes clear as crystal ; to
drink it in this state is a luxury not com
monly enjoyed at New-Oileans. This
river water is quite cool and though u
sed at all times, and in the higheftper
fpiration by the boatmen and labourers
no ill consequences ensue—its salubri
ty is such, that the inhabitants who u
sed it, are said never to be afflicted
with that excruciating disorder the grav
el, nor to be troubled with that loath
some infection the itch.
From the Scotia Gazette.
Mr. Willis,
Plcafe to publife the fillo-wing —yox
may depend cn thefads as fluted —there is
nothing related but what we either Jaw or
heard in evidence.
0.8.^W.C.,
Fleafant Towuffiip,State of Chio, May 7, %2?3.
On Monday last, about fun-fee a hor
rid murder was committed on the bo
dy of Polly Mallony, a girl about nine
years of Age, the circumftancesofwhich
are as follows—A certain John Rowe,
late from Kentucky,and uncle by mar
riage to the girl, had obtained leave
from her step father, William Thomas
to let her go to his house and stay all
i night. They fetout a little before fun
let ; they were both on foot— Rowe
had an axe on his shoulder and a rope
in his hand. About three quarters of
a mile from where they fee out, an aged
woman met Rowe, and the girl was
not with him ; he spoke to the woman
and palled on ; he was on his way home
on the country road, and had got a
bout 2o rods beyond where the body
was found, but the woman is confident
that the body was not there then. It
appeared that soon after he met the
woman he returned back to Thomas's
fence and began to shout and finite the
trees with his axe crying out “ Polly is
killed and I am undone ; I never shall
get over it, &c." The distressed moth
er almost frantic, took the road and
out ran her husband, who carried one
of the children. Rowe kept with him.
Thomas aiked him how (he got killed.
Rowe said she fell off the horse across
a log. Thomas knowing he had no
horse, asked what horse ? Rowe said he
did not know, he could not tell how
she got killed. The out-cries of the
mother drew a number of neighbours
together, about the fame time that
Thomas and Rowe came to the bodt
the mother said, oh John you have kill
led my child ! On which he drew hil
knife and swore he would cut his own
throat if she accused him ; he however
fuffered her quietly totake the knife out
of his hand. It was thought expedient
to take Rowe into custody and he was
bound and kept beside the corps in the
woods, during the night.
After he was taken into custody, he
denied having any knowledge of the
girl's having been with him,or of his go
ing back to Thomas,to tell of her death.
When asked, what induced him to turn
back again hefaid he remembered noth
ing about it. The woman who met
him on the road, asked him if he re
membered meeting her ; he said he did,
but some time after said he forgot it.
When asked if he touched the girl, he
said he did not. When asked what he
thought when he found her, he said he
was much surprised, but could give no
account how he came to return. It is
certain that he had been drinking, but
it was not perceived upon him. Seve
ral circumstances concurred to prevent
an inquest from being called. The cor
oner lives remote from the place where
the murder was committed; it was also
uncertain whether the old coroner or
the new one was in commission. The
magistrates were not furnifhed with the
afts of assembly, defining the duties of
coroner and others in such cases. No
person was willing to take a journey of
60 or So miles voluntarily, and none
knew how to compel them. In addi
tion to these difficulties the waters had
rendered the roads difficult, if not im
paffible,and the warm season would soon
have rendered the body highly putres
cent-A number of refpedable matrons
were called to examine the body ; they
agreed that a rape had been committed
or attempted upon her. To fatisfy the
numerous fpe&ators, twelve men were
sworn to examine her wounds and oth
er circumstances relating to her death.
It appeared to have been occasioned by
a blow upon her right temple; there was
an orifice which would have admitted a
large penknife out of which it is sup
posed, about a quart of blood issued ;
the wound seemed rather a contusion
than a pundure, as the continuity was
destroyed on all tides of the orifice, tho'
the ficin remained whole. It was sup
posed that she was not killed where she
was found, but the place could not be
afeertained—there was some blood on
the handle of his axe and some on
Rowe's trousers.
He was committed to the jail at
Williamsburg, by Alexander Martin &
Amos Ellis, justices of the peace. It
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was with regret we saw him led up to
touch the body upon the dale and rid
iculous notion, that dead bodies and e
ven dry bones would bleed a-treih if
touched by the murderer. The event
was as any wife man in his senses would
expe^. Let us not, however, be too
fever: in cenfaring their credulity—
our progress from ignorance to know
ledge is but flow. Let the benevolent
drop a tear of companion over fuffer
idg innocence. Let the sons of lewdness
take a timely warning & learn to check
the firft motions of inordinate desire,%
remember that lust, when it is conceiv
ed, bringeth forth fin, and fin, when it i;
finifhed,bringeth forth death. Let these
who are given to drunkenefs,refled upon
the danger & misery to which they fre
quently expose themselves and connec.
tions, by such ads of intemperance.
Lee us all attend to theadminiftrations of
cur divine teacher, to watch and pray
left we enter into temptation. And fi
nally let him that thinketh he ftandeth
take heed left he fall.
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BY MAIL.
PHILADELPHIA, /.cc7=o"
HEALTH OFFICE.
Philadelphia, August c, 180 g.
Whereas information b is octa received,
that a disease deemed contagious & dan
gerous to the community, prevails in the
city of New-York, in the date of New-
York :
Resolved, That from and after this day,
& during the continuance of laid disease,
and until other wife directed by theßoard,
no communication shall be admitted to
be had from the said city of New-York,
to and with the city or liberties of Phila
delphia, except under the restrictions and
provisions hereunto annexed.
lII.—All veflets from the port of New-
York, and bound for the port of Phila
delphia,(hall come to anchor at the Laza
rotto, and (halt,with their cargoes,crews,
paffeogers,eloathing and baggage,be pro
ceeded with in the fame manner, and un
der the fame penalties and forfeitures, al
are by law and the regulations of the
Board of Health provided in cases of vef
feis coining from foreign ports.
2d.—No goods, wares, merchandize
cloathiiig, or baggage, capable of retain
ing infeftion, and being from the said ci
ty of New-York, (hall be landed or bro't
into the city or liberties of Philadelphia,
by land or by water, except the necessary
eloathing of such palfengers as are admit
ted by the 3d section of these regulations ;
the said clothing being firit ventilated, or
otherwise purified, as the case may re
quire.
3.— No person or persons from the said
city of New-York,fhall enter, or be bro't
into the city or liberties of Philadelphia,
except such as are in good health, & (ball
firit prove, on oath, before some Justice
of the Peace, Notary public, or other per
son, duly authorised to administer the
fame, or produce other fatisfaftory evi
dence, that fifteen days have full, expir
ed since they lalt departed from the city
of New-York.
Resolved, That the forgoing, together
with the 16th and 18th feftions of an aft,
entitled, “ an aft for establishing an
Health Office, and to secure the city and
liberties of Philadelphia from the intro
duction of pestilential and contagious dis
ease," be published in two hundred hand
bills,and two or more of the daily papers,
for the information of all stage and team
drivers, owners and matters of all packet
boats, and other vessels, pilots, ferrymen^
and all other persons concerned.
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We underhand, thai the government
of the United States notwithstanding the
cession of Louisiana, are determined not
to abandon their claim of satisfaction
from Spain for the outrage committed on
its rights and dignity at New-Orleans.—
I Indeed this is believed to be the main ob
os Mr. Munroe's mission to Spain. What
reparation will be required, cannot at
present be disclosed to the public.
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TRENTON, (N. J ) AUG. 8.
From Bridgetown, county of Cumberland
July 27.
TORNADO.
ON Sabbath evening, about 6 o'clock,
in a southwesterly direction, the heavens
appeared to gather blackne^, and to af
ford some pleasing profpetfs of rain, we
having experienced a very severe drought
of near 42 days. The iky was gradually
overfpread,and without much appearance
of thunder or tempett, the clouds began,
about 7 o'clock, gently to dillil the rain,
to our great fatistattion and joy.—The
rain gradually increased, and the wind,
tho' light, appeared to proceed from va
rious quarters. Towards 8 o'clock, the
lightning began to appear, and the thun
dering voice of the Almighty to be heard
from every quarter—The storm increas
ed, and for the space of about 3-quurters
of an hour the lightnings were incessant,
and the thunderings most awfully majes
tic.
At the distance of about two miles from
this place, ia a northerly direction, about