The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-10-23 00:00:00, page 3

Colonel Porter had got into Fort-Pitt, after hav
ing completed the line of the western boundary of
this Rate, and we understand that the Indians offered
him no kind of insult or molestation whatsoever.
General Clark at the falls of Ohio, was collec
ting his troops and making the necessary preparations
for his expedition against the hostile tribes of Indians.
E^trae of a letter from an officer at the Rapids of
Ohio, to a gentleman in this city.
" Camp near the Rapids of Ohio, Aug. 25,1 786.
" I have the pleasure to inform you, our troops
'from the Miami arrived at this place on the 15th
instant, and yesterday we began to hut.—ln about
one month I presume we will complete our buildings
and finifh a stockade.—A few days since, some horses
were stolen from the neighbouring inhabitants, but
'whether by Indians, or a party of Negroes who ran
away about that time, is not afeertained; the for
mer, however, bears the blame.—On the 10th of
next month General Claris marches into the Indian
country with a powerful army: he proceeds imme
diately to their towns, which he intends laying in
afoes, destroy their corn, kill and scalp as many as
he may conquer.— 1 his ftourge they justly deferve,for
immediately after and at the time of the treaty held
at the Miami, they killed and plundered the inhabi
tants.—The settlers at Kentucky have loft upwards
of five hundred horses during the summer.—Should
this expedition be crowned with success, it will give
peace to our frontiers for this year at lead, and put
a total flop to treaties hereafter, which it seems has
answered no other purpose than that of Ipending pub
lick money, and serving the private purposes of a few
designing men."
Oft. 18. Sunday last the ship Mary, captain Wil
son, arrived here in eight weeks from Glasgow.
Returns received face our ff.
Hunterdon. Council, Robert-Lettis Hooper, Esq.
Affemblv, Benjamin Van-Cleve, Joab Houghton, and
John Anderton, Inquires. Sheriff, Jodiui Corlhou,
Esquire. Coronets, John Singer, Eli Moore, and Eli
sha Bird, Enquires.
Etlex. Council, John Peck, Esquire. Assembly,
Daniel Marsh, Jonathan Dayton, ami Henry Garritfe,
Enquires. Sheriff, Caleb Camp, Esquire.
Middlesex. Council, Samuel Randolph, Esq. Af
femblv, John Comb, James Bonney, and James Doug
laft,' Enquires. Sheriff, Thompson Stell, Esq. Coro
ners, Dav'd Ol'den, Abraham Schuyler, Joel Dunn',
and Josiah Freeman, Esquires.
Morris. Council, Abraham Kitchel, Esquire. As
sembly, Ellis Cook, John Stark, and Aaron Kitchei,
Esquires. Sheriff, Jacob Arnold, Esquire.
Burlington. Council, William Newbold, Esquire.
Assembly, Joseph Biddle, David Ridgway, and Uriah
Woolman, Esquires. Sheriff, John Hollinfhead, Esq.
The return tor Cape- May has not yet come to hand.
The legislature of this fate are to met here to
morrow agreeably to law, for tlie dispatch of publick
business.
The postmaster general has been pleated to appoint
Mr. John Singer, deputy-poftmaftcr in this town,
in the room of Benjamin Smith, Elquire, retigned.
His excellency General Sullivan, of the state of New-
Hampshire, has, by general orders, directed a court
martial to convene on the 21st of next month, for the
trial of several militia officers (among whom are a
colonel and two majors) who were concerned in the
late riot in that date.
From the Kingston ('Jamaica) Mornirg PoJl, &c. of
Augufl 14.
For the information of the nautical interest in gene
ral, a correspondent desires us to fay, as a fad, that a
very dangerous reef of sunken rocks has been lately
difeovered by an American mariner, extending about
one hundred yards east and weft, in lat. 20, 28, and
due north from the harbour of Cape Nichola Mole.
These rocks, it would appear, have not yet been de
lineated upon any map or chart that ever was extant.
Extract from a quell written piece under the signature of
Solon, from the Albany Gazette.
" Many people, fcniible that the right of legislation
is in their own hands, suppose they have a right to re
fufe obedience to a law which is made by their repre
tentatives in the legislature, provided they do not like
the law. This dangerous, this pernicious principle,
proceeds from an erroneous opinion that ought to be
driven from free governments —which is that the legis
lature and people are two diftindbodies. This opi
nion, while it exists in force, will ever produce fer
ments in a state.
" The legislature of a state is the authority of that
whole state collected. When, therefore, a man fays,
I will not submit to a law, he rebels against the au
thority of the whole state. In the fame manner Con
gress is, so far as their power extends, the authority
of the thirteen states collected ; and no individual state
has a right to fay, we will not abide by their resoluti
ons." This falfe principle, that Congress and the le
gislatures are bodies diftind and independent of the
people, unless correded both in theory and practice,
will defeat all the ends of government. We are con
stantly alarmed with the danger of giving power to
Congress. Those who declaim upon this head, are
The inhabitants also removed from the banks of the
river, below Pittsburgh, on Grave and Fish creeks.
Our informant adds, this intelligence was corrobora
ted by a faithful Indian from the Shawanefe town,
to col. Harmer, at the garriion at the mouth of the
Miami.
T RENTON, October 23.
Certain it is the time is NOW COME, in which
the states must adopt a permanent system of federal
government, or fuffer a revolution to imperial.
No nation can exist without a permanent revenue,
therefore if the United States mean to exist, they
ought to have eftablilhed their national revenue, as
the corner stone of their fopport; and unless they
do it IMMEDIA I ELY, they must inevitably lose
their present form of government. There is no other
alternative, but cither to vest Congress with com
plete powers to levy an impost equal to the ex
pences of the union, and to regulate trade—or to
revolve to an imperial government. One of these
events must soon take place, and it is idle and vain
to expect any thing else, THEREFORE NOW IS
THE TIME, FOR THE SPATES TO FIX
THEIR FATE.
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N. B. A comparison between the debt of Britain,
and that of America, will demonstrate the ease which
the people of this country may pay their publick
debt. the interest of the British debt, when ave
raged among the whole number of people including
every age and sex, is about nineteen foillimgs and
fix-pence per year—that of America is only three
frillings, and this being paid partly in facilities, re
duces the three Killings to two.— Thus we fee, that
one Briton pays above nine times the sum that an
American pays— and this (with gratitude to Heaven
be it spoken) is one of the glorious fruits of inde
pendence! Is it possible the independent citizens of
America canjink so low in their own estimation, as
to believe that nine of them are not equal to one
Briton ! —Such a reflection ought to arouse every
spark of energy in their fouls.— Britons can get mo
ney to pay their taxes, only in the line of industry,
which lies open to all, and the Americans must want
the spirit of men to endure the idea that nine of them
cannot bear the publick tax of one Briton.
Wanted Immediately,
A PERSON who will undertake to teach the
practical mathematicks, book-keeping, and, if
required, the Latin language. None need apply un
less he can come well recommended. Good encou
ragement will be given. Enquire of the printer.
Brenton, October 20, 1786. iw*
-PATENTED- LANDS.
TO BE SO L I),
TEN thousand acres of land, situate upon Kentucke
1 river, in the flourifhing diftrid of Kentucke, taken
up in the year 1784 ; several thousand acres, lying in
Monongehala county ; and four thousand acres taken up
under the direction of the Rev. William Worth, of
Pitts-Grove, New-Jersey, situate upon the waters of
Hughes's river—all in the state cf Virginia. Those
lands bear an excellent character; and, from the con
stant and great emigrations to the western country,
mull : be, in a little time, of considerable value. They
will be fold in trads to suit the purchasers; for which
cadi, funded securities, houses and lots, and improv
ed plantations, will be received in payment. Apply
to the printer of this paper.
°^?ber 19, 1786. t. f.
Agreeably to an all of Assembly will be fold to the
highest bidder, on Tuesday the seventh of
November next, on the premises,
THE publick barracks in the city of Burlington,
X together with the lot of ground they Hand on:
Three months credit will be given to the purchaser
for payment, which may be made in lawful money of
this state, notes given for depreciation of pay due the
officers and soldiers of the Jersey line, notes given by
commissioners on settlement of pay due to the militia
of this state, and notes given by the treasurer for ba
lances due to persons on demands against forfeited
estates, or any of them.
COULD the people of America, for one mo
ment, realize their foil), they would start with
amazement.—ls it true, or do my eyes and ears de
ceive me, that this is the fame people who astonished
the world with their magnanimity? Are these the
glorious defenders of freedom, who pledged their
lives and sacred honour in the cause, and who tri
umphed over every host of British tyrants? Is it
possible these invincible patriots, should halt in the
path of glory, to dispute about trifling matters, and
leave the great system of national government to -
moulder into ruin ?
either ignorant of the principles of government, or
are maliciously bent upon lowing difeord., So long as
Congress are dependent on the people, they are not
a diftind body, they are the fame body as the people ;
when, therefore, we talk about giving power to Con
gress, we talk nonsense ; investing Congress with power,
is nothing more than colleding the power of the peo
ple into a point, where it must be collected before it
can be exerted. When we talk of giving the impost
to Congress, we talk nonsense, it is nothing more
than cohering the duties of the continent into a point,
and justice cannot be done to all parts of the conti
nent, till the whole union has the collection in its own
power."
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From the Massachusetts Centinel.
The R OUSE R.
THOMAS FENIMORE, Agent.
State pf New-Jersey, Sept. 26, 1786. 5 w
'°ffcfcated lands in the county of Hunterdon.
TO BE SOL D,
By Publick Vendue,
At the courthouse in Trenton, on Saturday the 18th
of November next, between the hours of two and
fix 0 clock in the afternoon, viz.
A LOT of meadow land in Maidenhead, adjoining
, meadows belonging to Aaron Van-Cleve and
others, containing about five acres and three quarters -
late the property of Thomas Hooper. ' '
A plantation in Tewkefbury, near Potter's-Town
whereon Harmanus Hoffman now lives, containing
five hundred and nine acres of land. Also one sixth
oftwo fifteenths of the undivided part of a trad of land
the Society's Great Trad; late the property of
William Tyrell.'
# And at the fame time will be fold the publick barracks
in Fienton, with the lot on which they stand ; fubjed
to a lease for two years from the firft day of April
1 hree months credit will be given to the purcha
payment will be received in lawful money
of this state, notes given for the depreciation of pay
due to the officers' and foldiers' of the Jersey line notes
given by the commissioners on settlement of pa'y due
to the militia of this state, notes given for debts li
quidated by Silas Condid, Esquire, and notes giveri
by the treasurer for balances due to persons on de
mands against forfeited estates.
„ MOORE FURMAN, Agent.
Odober 3, 1786. 6w
In a few days will be ptiblifhed,.'
The New-Jersey
ALMA N A C K
For the year 1787;
Which will contain, beside the usual astronomical cal
culations, a variety of entertaining and inftrudive mat
ter in prose and verse.
Mill Stones and Boulting Cloths.
FOR SALE BY
Robert Lewis and Sons,
At their STORES, and MILL STONE MANUFAC
TORY, on the fourth wharf below the Drawbridge,
and next to Levi Hollingfworth's.
BURS of excellent quality, just imported from France,
and are now manufacturing into mill stones of all
sizes and dimensions, which may be ordered, by a
complete workman from England, and warranted at
leak equal in quality, and as low in price as those
imported from Europe. Directions will be given (if
required) for laying out the quarters, and dressing them
to the best advantage, according to the temper of the
stones.
COLOGNE MILL STONES (commonly called
CULLINGS) imported from Holland, a few of diffe
rent sizes.
COUNTRY-MADE ditto, from the American rock,
of every usual size, or any other that may be Ordered,
the be s grit for merchant or country work, either to
run together, or work with a French Bur or Cologne,
ever yet experienced in this state.
Warranted Boulting Cloths.
A very extensive and complete assortment, lately
imported from the manufactories, suitable to every
branch of the boulting business; which are to be dis
posed of at the fame low rates as they were fold be
fore the revolution, at the stores above-mentioned, or
at ROBERT LEWJS's dwellingboufe in Spruce, three
doors from Third-street. MILLERS and others, may
be furnifhed with cloths of fuberior quality and texture
to any we have hitherto known imported into Ameri
ca : those who are unacquainted with this very difficult
and precarious article, may rely on being supplied
with such cloths as will certainly answer their pur
poses; provided they attend to directions for affixing
them on reels, in the most advantageous manner to
perform the work intended; which will save the trou
ble and expence of returning cloths of an inferior kind,
which are frequently fold in this, and the neighbour
ing states.
Philadelphia, Od. 13, 1786. 3m
State of New-Jersey, Monmouth county.
W HERMAS inqmfition hath been found and final
'' judgment entered in favour cf the state, previ
ous to the third day of February 1783:
Notice is hereby given,
THAT the real and personal elates of the under
named persons, will be fold at publick vendue, at
Monmouth courthouse, on Thursday the 23d day of
November next ; the laid vendue to begin by one
o'clock in the afternoon. A plantation of two hun
dred and twenty acres, whereon captain John Coven
hoven now lives. Also another trad of near one hun
dred acres, adjoining the aforefaid trad. Also the one
fourth part ot the plantation whereon William Grover
lives, or all laid William Grover's snare, in said plan
^^ ™ fe , P," ccls of land lieth in the township
of Upper-Freehold. Allo a trad of land formerly John
Williams's, fen. late of Lower-Freehold. Also t^
fourths ot a large trad of land formerly owned bv
Philip Kearney, jun. and Cortland Skinner. Those
two tiads lie at Manihakin. All the remaining
of John Williams's estate, of Shrewsbury, that is un!
fold. Also one ninth of the farm called Morrifdon
forfeited by Cortland Skinner. Also the remaining
part of Joseph Allen's estate that is unfold. Also one
fourth part of the mill called Lufborrow's Mill Also
a small plantation and two lots of fait meadow' lying
at Conafcong, in the township of Middletown. Those
were formerly Criney's, once Vanmarter's.
I JOHN SI ILLWELL, Agent.
Odober 6, 1786. 4w