The Pennsylvania ledger, or, The Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-09-14 00:00:00, page 4

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From the Lyon's Mouth.
The PUPPET- SHE W. 1 0
THE life of man to represent,/
And turn it all to ridicule,
Wit did a puppet-lhew invent,
Where the chief ador is a fool.
The Gods of old were logs of wood,
And worlhip was to puppets paid,
In antic dress the idol flood,
And prices and people bow'd the head.
•No wonder then, if art began,
The iimple.votaries to frame,
To shape in timber foolifh man,
And consecrate the block to fame.
From hence.poetic fancy learn'd
That trees might rife from human forms,
The body to a trunk be turn'd,
And branches illite from the arms.
Thus Daedalus and Ovid too,
That man's a blockhead have confefs'd; ,
Powel and Stretch * the hint pursue,
Life is a farce, the world a jest.
What Momus was of old to Jove
The fame a Harlequin is now;
The former was Buffoon above
The latter is a Punch below.
This fleeting feene is but a stage,
Where various images appear,
In different parts of youth and age
Alike the Prince anfl Peasant Ihare.
Some draw our eyes by being great,
False pomp conceals mere wood within,
And Legislators rang'd in state
Are oft but wisdom in machine.
A dock may chance to wear a crown.
And timber as a Lord take place,
A statue may put on a frown,
And cheat us with a thinking face.
Others are blindly led away,
And made to aA for end's unknown;
By the mere springs of wire they play,
And speak in language not their own.
Too oft, alas! a scolding wife
Usurps a jolly fellow's throne,
And many drink the cup of life,
Mix'd and imbitter'd by a Joan.
In short; whatever men pursue
Of pleasure, folly, war, or love;
This mimic-race brings all to view,
Alike they dress, they talk, they move.
* Two Puppet-few men.
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“ You cannot think how sorry I am the Governor
has so loft himfelf; a man once so mucli beloved, his
absence from the government so much regretted,
his return so pleasing to mod people, now spoken
of with contempt and dihruft. 0 Lucifer, once the
fon.of the Morn, how fallen! General Washing
ton is expected hourly; General Putnam is here,
with several other Generals, and some of their la
dies. AH communication with the men of war has
been flopped some days ago, and a guard kept at
the watering place, to prevent their getting any;
in consequence of which a skirmish happened on
Sunday last. Our troops took prisoners some men
from a barge that came for water, a twenty gun
sloop fired upon our men, but only one was wound
ed . To the great joy of its old inhabitants,
Boston is left by the ( to speak in the style of the
times) ministerial troops; with great precipitation
did they quit it, and to their credit left the town in
a much better condition than was expected.
“ Major left a letter on the table, directed
to the owner of the house he lived in, intimating
that he expected to pay the rent, and was willing to
make good any damage the furniture might have
received. It was a day of general rejoicing and
thanksgiving the day the Bostonians entered their
town again, tho we New-Yorkers have been in fear
ever since of their coining here: the variety of re
ports keeps one's mind always in agitation. I be
lieve they have been seen off a dozen times, and
sometimes just into the Hook; we have been To of
ten alarmed now, that I fancy, like the boy in the
fable, report may cry out till the wolves are in the
fold, before we fltall attend Clinton and Howe,
to be sure, have set the Continent a racing from
Boston to Carolina. Clinton came into our har
bour; away flew the women, children, goods and
chattles, and in came the loldiers flocking from e
very part. No former was it known that he was not
going to land here, than ekpreffes were sent to Vir
ginia and Carolina to put them on their guard; his
next expedition was to Virginia, where they were
ready to receive him: from thence, without at
tempting to land, he failed co Carolina. Now Ge
neral Howe is leading us another dance. Some
Philadelphia, Sth Month 30, 1 776.
ALL Perlons that have any demands against
the Estate of ELLIS LEWIS, late of this
City, deceas'd, are requeued to bring in their Ac
counts that they may be adjufled and paid; and
-those that are indebted to said Estate, by bond,
note, or book account, are.defired to pay the tame
to the Subscribers.
TO BE SO L D.
Agreeable to the last Will and Testament of said
Ellis Lewis, deceas'd, a MERCHANT MILL and
SAW MILL adjoining, in good repair, together
with 100 acres of land, situated in the County of
Cheder and Townlhip of Kennet, distant from
Cheder 20 miles, and from Wilmington 10 miles ;
the County of Lancaster lies about 25 miles back of
said Mill, where a fufficient quantity of Wheat may
be procured, the Mill house is built of done and
brick, about 40 by 35 feet, allo a done addition
adjoining 30 by 25 feet; there are in said mill two
pair of mill stones, one of French burrs the other
Cologn three boulting reels, and holding works
that go by water. A two dory done dweliing
houfe, three rooms on a floor, a done kitchen, and
a pump of good water in the yard; the barn is one
dory of done and a frame upon it, with stabling
underneath, there are about ten acres of very good
meadow, that is watered out of the mill-race, and
two apple orchards; the place has always been
deem'd a healthy situation and in good neighbour
hood. Any person inclining to purchase the above
described premiles, by applying to JOSEPH
MUSGRAVE living near the fame, may know
the terms and veiw the place. An indisputable title
will be made to the purchaser by the fubferibers,
MARY LEWIS,?
I JOHN MORTONJ ^ xecutors -
CAME to the place of Robert Morris, Esq; near
the Upper Ferry on Schuylkill, a red COW,
with white under her belly. Whoever owns the
said Cow, by applying to the Tenant of said place,
ihall have her again, proving their property, and
paying charges.*
companies from Philadelphia, coming hdre, were
ordered back again, on a report of his attention to
pay the city a visit. Since that it is said, that part
of the fleet are already gone to Halifax, part to ei
ther Carolina or Quebec, yet I am not certain to
which, but from my very foul wish they were going
up the rivej/fhames. There is a talk of erecting
batteries at a place called Red-Hook, which will
make it very dangerous for men of war to lie in our
harbour. # We lovers of peace have all our hopes
rested on the commissioners—ls wiffies could have
filled their fails, they had reached the continent ere
this. A feMhphlet entituled Common Sense, has
converter thousands to independence, that could
not endure the idea before: If I knew how, would
have sent it to you, for I think you want Common
Sense in England very much, or you would have
found out some means of making peace with us be
fore we had gone to so vast an £x,ence, and put
you to so much greater. is among the runa
ways, and only waits fora boat to carry her goods
to I am chagrined at losing a neighbour. When
ever my friends are going, I accuse Lord North,
indeed I do not curse him, but I am not chriftian
enough to bless h ; m. A fluttering man the other
day, moving away his goods, something broke by
accident, which put him in a violent pafyn, and he
Hammered da— da— damn Lord North, da— da —
damn Lord North, several times, to the diversion of
the bye-danders, so all ithe evils are charged to
his Lordship's account, except by Dr. , who
preaches in the meeting, he lays it is not Lord
North, or Lord South, nor English Parliament, nor
french, but it is your fins have brought it on you,
Lord North he fays, is commissioned by the Almighty
to plague us tor our iniquities, and by him we may
infer he is acquitted."
W'AS found on the 27th of Augull intt a lea
ther Pocket Book, with a final! quantity of
mo^ey, the owner may have it again by proving
his property, paying charges and applying to Sa
cheve,el Wood in Market-street, the sign of the
Lam band Star, near the Court-house.
H-AMTLTO N Ind's (TN,
Tobacconids.
HAVE moved from the corner of Spruce and
Water-streets, to the house belonging to,
and lately occupied by Mr. John Wallace, in Se
cond-street, fix doors below Market street, where
they continue to carry on their Scotch fnuff and
tobacco Manufactory in all the several branches
as usual; they have laid in a large dock of the
very bed Virginia leaf tobacco, and are confident
of giving the utmost fatisfadion to their former
cudomers and the publick. Orders will be punctu
ally anfwer'd with all possible dispatch; they give
chh for good empty muff bottles.
ANY Person who understands calling and finilh
ing Cannon, by applying to Henry Howard
at the Northampton Furnace about ten miles from
Baltimore town, in the province of Maryland, will
met with great encouragement.
Baltimore, Zluguft 5, 1776,^
T hefe plumbs enrich and sweeten the whole mass of blood, car
ry off all gross, corrupt and putrid humours, and create a frefhand
bed th complexion in such as are affe&ed by any putrid matter.
The plumb is a great diuretick, cleaning the reins of slime;
it expels wind, and is a sovereign medicine in the cholic and
griping of the guts. It allays and carries off four vapours which
occasion many difordets in the head. It opens all obstructions in
the stomach, lungs, liver, reins and bladder; causes a good appe
tite and helps digestion. It hath been found wonderfully success.
Yul £0 inch persons as are going into chronicle distempers, as aflh-
m 's, phthifics, or shortness of breath, dropsies and yellow jaun
dice Now I hope all impartial persons arc fatisfied, that the me
dicine which works upon such humours, will almost reach any
^(temper if not too far gone, since corruption and putrefaction
are the forerunners of all diseases; therefore no better physic can
be taken for all ages, sexes and confutations, from infancy to old
age. These plumbs are highly Serviceable to the female sex,
from the age of fourteen to twenty years, and from 40 to 50.
Each box contains ore dozen of these plumbs, price ftven Shill
ings and fix pence with printed directions. Sold by Nicholas
Brooks, Philadelphia.
Diognoftic Signs of Worms.
PALENESS in the face, itching of the nose, hollowness
ofthe eyes, grating of the teeth when asleep, dulnefs, pains,
and heaviness in the he.d, a dry cough, and itching in the
fundament, white and thick urine, unquiet sleep, qften flatting,
loft appetite, fuelled belly, knawing and biting about the do.
mach frightful dreams, extreme thirds, the body decayed and
lean, fits, often vomiting, linking breath, &c.'.
Directions for taking them.
A child from , to 2 years may eat one plumb from 2 to 4 one
and a half; from 4 to 6 two; him 6 to 8 t.wo and a half; from
8 to 12 three; from 12 to 15, and all ab ve the age, may eat four
plumbs, one hour or two before up riling, not to drink during
that time, but afterwards drink war m tea, whey, or water gruel
in taking them, the patient mud day two or three days betwixt
each dole.
In agues, the fame quantity mud be taken, two, three or four
hours bes re he fit comes on, and be repeated three times. In
whooping or chin-coughs give the quantity above mentioned.
Those Subscribers who have not yet compleated
their Sets of the following Work are requeued
to do it immediately, or perhaps they may be
too late.
Just published and to be fold, by
JAMES HUMPHREYS, junr.
The corner of Black-horse Alley, Front-llreet,
The compleateft Edition yet published of
The WORKS of the
Rev'd. Laurence Sterne, A. M.
Prebendary of York, and Vicar oi Sutton on the
Forest, and of Stillington near York;
In Five Volumes;
containing:
The Life of the Author.
The Life and Opinions of Triftram Shandy, Gen
tleman.
Yorick's Sermons—Forty-five of the best moral
Difeourfes ever delivered irom the Pulpit.
Yorick's Sentimental Journey through France and
Italy.
The History of a Watch-coat, —a Political Ro
mance.
Yorick's Letters to Eliza, and
Sterne's Letters to his Friends, on various Occa
sions; which were never before published in any
Edition of his Works.
Just Published, and to be SOL D,
By JAMES HUMPHREYS, junr.
An ESSAY of
A FRAME of GOVERNMENT
FOR
PENNSYLVANIA.
A few Copies of the
Military Guide,
FOR
YOUNG OFFICERS,
By THOMAS SIMES, Esquire,
In Two Volumes, large Octavo, embellished
with a Number of Copperplates,
(Price Three Dollars)
May be had of the PRINTER hereof.
Dr. R LAN's incomparable WORM defraying
SUGAR PLUMB S,
Necessary to be kept in all Families.
SO exceedingly valued by all people who have had of them in
Great-Britain and Ireland, for their tranfeendent excellency
in the destroying Worms of all kinds,, both in the bodies of
men, women and children, by not only breaking the knots of the
Duodenum, or guts next the stomach, but they pis through the ;
smallest passages of the body, and purge away those ropy and
humours which are the cause of tnofe pernicious vermin, an<^k
source of many other diforder^ they are one of the bed purge^hG
the whole world for gross bodied children that are apt to breed
worms, and have large bellies; their operation is mild, fafe and
pleasant, they wonderfully cleanse the bowels, of all Iliff arid
clammy humours, which flop up the parts, and prevent the juMl,
of food being conveyed to the liver and made blood, whicH^q
often the case with children, and is attended with a hard belly,
Linking breath, frequent fevers, rickets, and a decay of flrength
in the lower parts: Likewise fettled head achs and pains in the
head, swellings, old lores, scabs, tetters, or breakings out, will
be perfectly cured, and the bio d and skin, restored to its origin
al purity and smoothness; they purge by urine, and bring away
the gravel, and effectually cure all obilruQions of the urine, or ul
cers in the kidneys. They at once drikc at the true cause of the
feurvy and entirely dellroy it, and all scorbutic humours and ef
fects, root and branch, so as never to return again; and what
makes them more commendable is, they are full as agreeable to
both taste and fightas loaf sugar.
1 have by thele plumbs cured a great many children of whoop
ing orehin coughs, and agues, which didempers are very com
mon and troublesome o families, and the want of these plumbs
are the tuin of many childrens constitutions.