The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1786-09-25 00:00:00, page 3

ELIZABETH-TOWN, Sept. 13.
A correspondent enquires, From what quarter must
be derived" energy in government, and the consequent
tranquility and happiness of a republican community?
Can these blessings proceed from the bowels of lux
ury ? No. From idleness ? No. From felf-inte
reflednefs and a party spirit ? Surely no. The only
source from whence this great good, this national
bappinefs, must proceed is, patriotism, or the love
of our country; that is, an absolute determination
to promote the interef of that society of which we
are members; to attend to it with active zeal; to
negleft no opportunity by which we may, without
violating the great law of universal benevolence,
advance her honour and profit; and generously to fa
crifice to this governing principle, all inferior regards,
and less extensive claims, of what nature soever.
Patriotism once deigned to take up her residence in
America,---or never would the have become indepen
dent! but now, alas, where has she flown? me
thinks, she rather exists in description than reality
foe is represented only as an antiquated and for
gotten virtue! If this be true; if there be not re
maining some few sparks to re-kindle the flame of
publick virtue that glorious sceptre of poli
tical righteousness wretched, aggravatedly
wretched and delpifed must be our race ; and, if
we degenerate thus, and continue insensible to the
beauty of all social duties, counteracting the com
mon bonds of alliance with our species, and check
ing the source of^our most relined fatisfaftions,
be not surprised, Americans, should the hallowed
ghofls of your virtuous ancestors, and late heroes,
whose precious lives were magnanimously laid down
to purchase your glory rife up in judgment a
gainst you and the protection of your celestial
Parent be withdrawn. America drew not the sword
for cenquef, but for juflice not to introduce,
but to prevent slavery: nor if a spirit of patriot
ism be diffused, will it ever be in the power of a jun
to to enclave her! “ If (fays a modern writer) we
have a true affection for ourlelves; if we would reap
the fruits of our industry, and enjoy our properties
in security, we must stand firm to the cause of pub
lick virtue; otherwise we had better return to
the raw herbage for our food, and to the inclemen
cies of the open fl<y for our covering ;---go back to
uncultivated nature, where our wants would be fewer,
and our appetites less."
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SAV ANNA H, Aug. 17.
We hear from Augusta, that the general assembly
Extraft of a letter from Madrid, dated the iofh
•J 7 u /y' 1786, to a refteClable boufe in this city.
" A most perfect peace is at last concluded be
tween this kingdom and Algiers. The Count de
Efpiili is himfelf come to bring this news to the
king, and is actually here.
" The American commissioners have now a fair
opportunity of entering into negociation with that
regency; as it is obvious, that the king is the best
mediator they can wish for the purpose.
" 1 he Algerines have lately made several captures,
among which are two Italians, and two Portuguese
rebels."
Extrad of a letter from Paris.
" The king will set out the 21st inst. to view the
grand works of Cherbourg. The piles are in the
form of a cone, and there are 32 of them; each
weighs four millions of pounds, and will be 70 feet
higher than the strongest spring tide. The timber
cage is 60 feet diameter at the bottom, each cone
costs 400,000 livres, 153,6611. 4s. sterling."
It is said, that a committee of the assembly of
the state of Rhode-Ifland had reported a bill,
which was to deiboy the negotiability of notes—to
limit the payment to fix months, when, if not paid,
nor proved by the creditor to have been demanded,
the obligation should be out-lawed. This was so
barefaced a villainy, that its friends were ashamed
to speak much in its support. When a vote was ta
ken, it was rejected by a large majority. There
were only eight fufficiently hardened to go this length
in iniquity.
We learn from Schoharry, that the Rev. Mr.
Sommer, Lutheran minister, in the 77th year of his
age, received his tight in a miraculous manner, after
he had been totally deprived of it about 17 years.
On getting awake in the morning, and perceiving
some glimmer of light through the window-lhutters,
he deiired his wife to open them, in order to convince
himfelf by trying this renewed sense, when at the
fame instant advancing towards the window now
opening, he not only saw full day-light, but the
church, which stands opposite his dwclling-houfe.
This spread admiration and joy through the house
and neighbourhood. He was able to name those who
came to participate of his joy; and the Sabbath fol
lowing, to the astonishment of his congregation, went
without his ufnal guide to church, and praised, with
heart-felt gratitude, the Creator, who alone is able
to do such wonderful works.
have passed an ad for the emillion of 50,0001. in pa-I
per money, to be a legal tender in all payments what-a
ever : that they have appointed commissioners to treatl
with the Creek Indians; and that the governor and :
council have been censured for their conduct refpeft-j
ing the suspension of the judges and justices in Chat-j
ham county.
RICHMON D, Sept. 14.
About half past seven o'clock, on Tuesday even
ing last, a beautiful luminous body, of a globular
form, was seen in the S. W. defeending with veloci
ty in aN. E. direction. It burfted without any noise,
blazed with great brightness for the space of half a ;
minute, and then disappeared. Its size we cannotl
pretend to determine, though it appeared (to the eye);
about the bigness of a man's head.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. tj.
A correspondent writes us that an expedition is vi
gorously profetuting by the state of Georgia against the
Creek and Cherokee Indian nations, with a very for
midable body of men, under the command of general
Elbert, and that Dr. James Lauder is appointed di
redor-general to the army, John Apling, efq. quarter
mafter-gencral, and col. Lenier, adjutant-general.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.
Extras of a letter from a trader at St. Chrifto
pber's, to bis friend in London, May I, 1786.
" On the arrival of my goods at this illand, 1 icund
it impoffiblc to find a market for them, dry goods of all
forts felling here to the greatest disadvantage, even 50
per cent, under prime cost.
" It will be impoflible for the fliips here to be sent
off with full cargoes, there being an exceeding bad
crop of sugars throughout the islands, occasioned by
the damage done to the canes by the late hurricanes,
and the extreme dryness of the season.
" The fort on Bluff Point (which with that on
Smith's Point and Londonderry fort, was demolished
by the French) is begun to be rebuilt, but the two
others are condemned.
" Money is exceedingly scarce to be procured here,
though the inhabitants can find some to game with,
vice reigning here in a high degree—horse-racing and
cock-fighting are the principal diverfioiis. St. Eufta
tia enjoys the greatest part of the trade of this island,
and is the cause of the scarcity of money, which is
taken off by French, Spaniards and Americans, and
through the Americans, though contrary to law, and
which is not fuffered in Jamaica, is this island supplied
with fait fi(h, pork, flour, lumber, &c. &c. in those
cargoes, by the negligence, or rather roguery of those
persons who are appointed to fee the laws enforced—
Muslins, chintzes, nankeens, and every other article
of Indian goods, are likewise to be fold here ; all which
were brought to this island from the American India
nun, now lying at St. Euftatia.—l am sorry to inform
you, that a putrid fever and fore throat rages here with
much violence, and daily carries off numbers."
On Sunday, the 3d inst. was brought up to town by
one of our pilots, the sloop Bumper, lately com
manded by captain Simplon, belonging to Antigua.
There was only a negro boy on board when the pilot
boarded her, who informed, that the mate had run
away with the sloop from St. Euftatia while the captain
was on Ihore, and that he touched at some other illand,
where he took another negro, and failed again ; that
they arrived in our bay the latter end of August,
when the mate rifled the cabin and went on Ihorc
leaving him alone in the vessel. The sloop is now
under the care of the marshal of the admiralty.
Saturday last James Byrne, mate of the above sloop,
was apprehended in this city, and committed to gaol,
for piratically running away with her. We hear he
has confefled every thing laid to his charge.
On Wednesday lalt a committee of Congress was
admitted to address the Affembiy upon matters highly
interring to the dates. The honourable Mr. King,
it is laid, gave so lively, so pathetick, and just account
°' the date of this country, and urged the requditions of
Congress with Io much found reasoning, that it is gene
rally expected the Affembiy will adopt the mcafures
proposed by him. Nothing can save America but a
union in Congress ; without it neither liberty, pro
perty nor life, can long be fafe any where. The con
duct of the Massachusetts-Bay insurgents, and of the
Wyoming intruders, are proofs of this aflertion. In
an union of the frates, the strength of the whole may
always be directed against rebellions, or usurpations
of each state. United we stand, divided we fall—and
let all the people fay amen.
’On Thursday last the Rev. Dr. White, Redor of
Christ and St. Peters' churches in this city, was uua
nimoufly elected by the Episcopal convention of the
state to be consecrated Bishop for Pcnnfylvania.
TRENT O N, September 25.
Married, on Wednesday evening last, by the Rev.
Mr. Armstrong, the honourable Benjamin Van-
Cleve to Mrs. Anna Green, of Cherry Grove.
°° Thursday the 14th inst. the convention of com
miflioners, assembled at ^nnapohs, in the state of
Maryland, for the purpose of conlidering the trade
of the United States, adjourned.—We hear they
have reported their proceedings to Congress and to
the several states, and have recommended the assem
bling of another convention to meet at Philadelphia
in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on the fecond'
Monday of May next.
Mr. Colling,
I AM apprehensive some people may think me a
whiriificdl fellow sot what I am about to offer—[
do not care if they do, so I can but carry my scheme,
which I am pretty fare I shall, for the more I think
of it, the better I like it, and I always judge of other
peoples' sentiments by my own.
I think, by what I fee in the minutes of the Afi
fembly, and by what I hear talked of in my neigh
bourhood, that dividing of counties is the present
rage, to use a polite expreflion, I- find there ate peo
ple in at least four counties in the Rate who wish to
have them divided—l have a mird to go a
little further—and supposing wh^t would please so
many would please more---! would piopofe to divide
five counties, and out of those five to form one new
one; and I'll tell you how I would do it: I would
begin my division at the mouth of a little creek which
puts out of the Delaware a little below Bordentown,
and which, as 1 know no name for it, I shall call
Lewis's Creek, and run up the fame to where Lewis's
mill once Rood, thence on a straight line to Walne's
mill on Croffwick's creek, thence bn a straight line to
Lawrence's meeting-house, thence on a straight line
to where Affanpink creek crosses the Great Road
from Burlington to Amboy, thence on a straight line
to where Millstone crosses the Post Road from Phi
ladelphia to New-York, near Kingston, thence on a
straight line to where the north line of the township
of Hopewell ftiikes the line of the county of Som'er
fet, thence along the northern boundary line of the
townfllip of Hopewell to the rivet Delaware, thence
down the said river to tlre # place of beginning: Heigh
ho ! methinks I hear some of your readers fay, this
fellow has led us a wild goose chace, from county to
county, till I am quite out of breath ; so be it, gen
tle reader, flop now and take breath, and conlider
well of the matter-'--it will not appear so wild to you
then—perhaps you are an old man, who Five in some
part of one of these old counties which 1 have clipped
to make my new one, and you do not know how to
leave the old road to your county town, which you
have beat these twenty years, to seek out a new one ;
but, harkee friend, if this new one is much Ihorter,
and more convenient, you will soon like it as well as
the old, and your children and younger friends, not
having your prejudices ir i favour of the o:d, will find
it much better. Conlider, there is not a man of you
who lives within the circle I have described, but what
lives nearer the centre of my new county, than what
you do to the county town, to which you now belong.
Confider, every one of you, that the counties you
now live in, will remain infinitely more convenient
than they now ate. Confider, what a pretty, com
pa&, convenient county you will then be thrown in
to; the very farthell of whose inhabitants will not
have more than fifteen or sixteen miles to ride to at
tend courts, elections, afleffments, and every other
publick business of the county, and who yet will be so
numerous, tliat tlie burden will not fall heavy on in
dividuals.
1 had almost forgot to tell you that, as I know of
few men who have done more for this country than
Louis the 16th of France, so, in honour of him, I
would propose that my new county be called Louis
County.
Gentlemen, you all hear what I fay, as I am set
upon bringing it about, if any of you have any objec
tions, make them known to the legislature at their next
meeting, or elie for-ever hold your tongues. If any
one wiihes to know who 1 am, tell them it is of no
conlequence, if the Icheme is good it ought to be
adopted, let who will be
The Schemer;
Wilmington, New-Castle county, Delaware state,
August 4, 1786.
THIRTY DOLLARS
REWAR D.
f) AN away from this place, on Wednesday the 7th
day of June, a negro man named Tom; he is a
st r ong, square built, well-set fellow, talks strong and
coarle, pretty forward, and easily made to laugh, about
five feet four inches high, and between thirty-five and
forty years of age; has lately had his right arm broke,
and when he went away carried it in a fling; he is by
no means fond of rum, but will drink cyder; and as
he is but just from Motherkill Mills, Kent county
about nine miles below Dover, on Delaware, and has
a wife thereabout, he may possibly talk of that place :
Had on, when he went away, a light-coloured, short,
coarle cloth coat and waist-coat lined with green baiz
and trousers of the fame, a wool hat, and good shoes
tied with firings, but possibly may change his dress.
as he had other clothes with him: It is supposed hd
is intending for East-Jersey, and possibly New-York
as he was seen about sixteen miles from Philadelphia
on his way thither: Whosoever secures said negro in
any gaol, so that his matter may get him again, shall
receive the above reward, and all reafonablc charges,
paid by
6w 7 /6 pd. t. f. JOHN STOW.
N. B. It is requested that, if he should be appre
hended, intelligence may be sent to Mr. Charles Stow
in Coombs's Alley, Philadelphia, or the fubferiber, bv
post or otherwise, in Wilmington, as soon as possible