Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-07-05 00:00:00, page 4

The Importance of the Rear Rank.
SAID aman in the front, to a man in the rear,
" ¥°" your peace with your insolent chat—
" You poor sneak behind, what's the use of you
here ?
Might as well give a gun to a rat.
“ You pretend not to know what's the use of us
here !
“ They know it who give us onr pay ;
46 Such heroes as we, Sir, are clapt in the rear,
“ To prevent you from running away !"
We obfer^e in a late paper under the head of
“ London Fashions for April," the following
remark : —
“ Several dashing FAIR ones have lately appear
ed in Persian trowJers, edged with white lace,
peeping beneath the bottom of the petticoat, and
Shewing visibly through a thin upper garment."
It has been feared that modern fafhionable re
finement would finally come to this. Without
pretending to believe that any very serious plot or
conspiracy is on foot, we would merely 'urged
that if the ladies succeed well in wearing trowfers
the time is not far d ftant when they will boldly
assert their right to put on the breeches.
Balance.
O
Dr. JOHNSON'S Marriage.
Dr. Johufon gave the following curious account
of his journey to church on the nuptial morn :
The church at which we chose the ceremony Arnold
be performed, lay in a distant parish, and we lei
out on horse back It was a lore match on both
sides, but the bride had read the old romances and
had got into her bead the fantaltical notion that a
woman of spirit fliould use her lover like a do/.
So Sir, at firft die told me that I rode too fall, and
she could not keep up with me ; and when I rode
a little flower, the puffed me, and complained that
] lagged behind. I was not to be made tiv floe
of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I could end.
I therefore pushed on briskly till I was fairly out
ofher fight. The road lay between two hedges,
so I was fire (he could not miss it ; and I contriv
ed that (he foould soon come up with me. When
she did 1 observed her to he in tears.
LIME.
A few Hhds. N. S. Lime, for file
at the Long Wharf. Inquire at
D. AUS VlN's store, opposite the
brick market.
Lee's New-London Billions Pills.
Aromatic Paste for the Teeth and
Gums. Likewise,
Beafeley's {airily Plaifter,
FOR SALE BY
Josiah D wight,
At his Shop in PortJm^uth.
Quaker SCYTHES, so called,
yap received & For Sale
By Ebenezer Chadwick,
At hia Store in Buck-flreet,
BEING from the fame Factory as those
he has been felling the halt two years.
Also, Spermaceti Oil ; Cod and
Pollock Filh, bribable for country use ; Salt ;
Lemons per box ; Malaga Wine per cask ;
calk- Raisins and Figs ; a few bags Coffie,
Coion an 1 Sugar, of a superior quality ;
Rum ; Brandy ; Gin.
And a general afertment of
GROCERIES, as usual.
Portsmouth, June 25.
Zemple of tljc tyufe^
DAY :—A PASTORAL.
MORNING.
IN the barn the tenant cock,
Close to Partlet perch'd on high,
Brdkly crows (the Shepherd s < lock )
Jocund that the uiounugs nigh.
Swiftly from the mountain's brow
Shadows nurs'd by Might retire,
And the peeping firn-beam "”'%
Paints with gold the village tyire.
Philomel forfikes the thorne,
Plaintive where the prates at night ;
And the lark, to meet the morn,
Soars beyond the Shepherd's light.
From the low roof'd cottage rid•'
See the chatt'ring swallow Spring :
Darting thro' the one arch'd bridge,
Quick file dips her dappled tting.
Now the pine tree's waving top
Gently greets the morning gale !
Kiddlings, now, begin to crop
Dailies in the dewy vale.
From the balmy Tweets, uncloy'd,
(Reliefs till her talk is done)
Now the btify bee's employ'd
Sipping dew before the fun.
Trickling thro' the crevic'd rock,
Where the limpid dream Jißlls,
Sweet refreffiment waits the flock
When 'tis fun-drove from the bills.
Colin, for the promis'd corn,
(Ere the harvefl hopes are ripe)
Anxious hearts the huntfmdn's horn,
Boldly founding, drown bis pipe.
Sveet, O fwect, the warbling throng,
On the u hire embloffom'd spray !
Nature's universal song
Echoes to the riling day.
Benjamin Floyd,
Respectfully informs the
Public in general, that he has just com
menced the b
Book-Binding Business
in its various branches, at his Shop in
Demarara-flreet,
where he would be happy to wait on them
in the line of his profeffion.
Account and Record Books ruled
and bound to any pattern, at the Ihoiteft
notice^
He assures the public he shall Rudy to
merit their patronage, by a faithful atten
ion to their orders.— Wanted an appentice,
apply "' above.
Portsmouth, June 21, 1803.
Daniel Auflin
HAS FOR SALE at his Siore opposite the
Brick Marker,
BONE middlings, No. I & No. 2 PORK.
800 wt. BACON.
VINEGAR, per barrel or gallon.
CHEESE, RYE, and CORN.
Cover and Herds GRASS SEED.
MOROCCO SKINS.
Parlour STOVES.
A large assortment
Paper Hangings, with borders
suitable.
Milled Saws,& Waters'ScYTHES
of a funerior quality,—with a general
Assortment of Groceries.
Now Landing from Jlcop Amity,
AND FOR SALE BY
Waldron and Holman,
Frefn fuperfine and fine FLOUR.
Also, Cross 'brand, middlings, and
ship Stuff.
The sloop AMITY
"'" '" "' a ' ew days for
Philadelphia,—For Freight
^%o°r PalFage apply as above.
hmjm^th, June 27.
Dr. DWIGHT
Informs the public that he Inocu
lates for the KINE POCK.
Loft and Found.
THE fubteriber loft from the door of his
(hop in Buck-flieet, about two months
liuce, a large Sh^p Key ; leaving the Ihop
rather hastily the key was left in the hole on
the outer fide, on his return a few hours after
tie key was miffing ; the lock was imme
diately taken off, and one of different wards
fubflituted. On Friday morning last a
Gentleman brought him a white leather bag
(found in a neighboring garden) containing
10 Keys, principally Store Keys, but filed
and cut in tl.e wards. This bag was in all
probability thrown into the garden in the
night. It is for the security of the neigh
bourhood in general, to aid in the investiga
tion of this single tranfa&ion, —and any
Gentlemen who have milled Keys, are re
queued to call aud examine thole advertised,
at his (hop. JOSIAH BLAKE.
Portsmouth, June 25.1803.
ALSO,
A few House or Store Lots of
LAND, in eligible situations, on easy terms.
Port]mouth, yth "June.
Daniel Brown
LT AS taken a Store adjoining the
-*- -Lparade, north fide of the State House,
Where he has FOR SALE
A General Afortment of
Weft India GOODS and
GROCERIES,
Cheap for Cafo.
Jane 14.
Just Received, and for Sale by
Stephen Hardy,
Opp'foe Dr. Job" Jamon's, Buck-fireet,
A LARGE aflortment of gold ear and
finger rings, ring-cases, gold handker
chief pins, gilt do. plated candleflicks, fugar
tongs, silver thimbles, smelling bottles, tooth
powder, plate powder, tea and cream pots,
fegar cases, fnuft and tobacco boxes, fleve
buttons, lilver tooth and ear picks, do pencil
and pen cases, combs, feiflars, &c. &c.
N. B. Most kinds of Hollow
Ware executed in the Silver-fmith'j
line.
PortJmouth, June 7,
IO BE LET,
/^^ A convenient House
■ i na pleasant part of the town—
' ""h 1 Shop, a large Garden, and
^^g^^^ building with feme repairs, that
will make a good joiner's fliop
A joiner would be preferred to improve the house.
For particulars apply to the Printer.
PortJmouth, June 21.
War Department,
JUNE ts, 1803.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be receiv
ed at the office of the Secretary for the De
partment of War, until the gift day of July
next ensuing for the supply of all rations
which may be required for the use of the U
nited Sones from the ill day of October,
1803, until the 30th day of September, 1804,
both days inclusive, at the following places,
—viz.
Firff. At Niagara, Detroit, Chikago, the
Miami of the Lakes, Michilimacinac, Fort
Wayne and at any place in the State of Ohio.
Second. At Vincennes.
Third. At Fort Maflac, near the mouth
of the Ohio, Kalkafkias, and near the mouth
of the Illinois.
Fourth. At South Weft Point, Tellico,
Knoxville, Nashville, and at any place or
places where troops are or may be Rationed,
matched or recruited within the state of Ten
nellec and Kentucky, and within the Chero
kee nation between Tennessee and Georgia.
Filth. At the Chickasaw Bluffs, Natchez,
Fort Adams, Mobile, and any place within
the MiffiflippiTerritory more than ten miles
from the river, and on the road between the
Miffiflippi Territory & the Tennessee river,
& on the road from Natchez to the boundary
line between the Chocktawsand Chickasaws
and at any place in the Chickasaw or Chock
taw country between Bear Creek and Natch
ez.
Separate proposals will also be received as
aforefaid for the supply of all rations which
maybe required for the use of theUnitedStates
from the iff day of January, 1804 until the
31st day December of the fame year, both
days inclusive within the feveial Rates herein
after mentioned—viz.
Seventh. At Charlefton,Rocky Mountain
on the head waters of the Santee, and at any
place or places where troops are or may be
Rationed, marched or recruited within the
Rates of South and North Carolina.
Eighth. At Norfolk and at any place or
places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched or recruited within the Rate of Vir
ginia.
Ninth. At Fort M'Henry, and at any
place or places where troops are or may be
Rationed, marched or recruited within the
Rate of Maryland.
Tenth. At Fort Mifflin, Pittfbufgh, Car
lifle, and at any place or places where troops
are or may be Rationed, marched or recruit
ed within the Rates of Pennsylvania, New-
Jersey and Delaware.
Eleventh. Ar Fort Jay, Weft Point, Al
bany, Schenectady, and at any place or pla
ces where troops are or may be stationed,
marched or recruited within the Rate of New
York, excepting Niagara.
Twelfth. At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wol
cott, in any part of Vermont, and at any
place or places where troops are or may be
itationed, marched or recruited within the
Rates of Connecticut and Rhode-llland.
Thirteenth. At Fort Independence (Bos
ton Harbour), and at any place or places
where troops are or may be Rationed, mar
ched or recruited within the Rate of Massa
chusetts, the DißriC t of Maine excepted.
Fourteenth. At Portsmouth, Portland,
and at any place or places where troops are
or may be Rationed, marched or recruited
within the Rate of New-Hamplhire and the
Dißria of Maine.
A Ration to consist of one pound and a
quarter of Beef, or three quarters of a pound
of Pork,eighteen ounces of Bread or Flour,
one gill of Rum,Whilky or Brandy, and at
the rate of two quarts of Salt, four quarts of
Vinegar,four pounds of Soap, and one pound
and an half of Candles to every hundred Ra
tions. The prices of the several component
parts of the Ration must be fpecified.
The Rations are to be furnilhed in fitch
quantities, that there Ihall at all times, during
the term of the proposed contracts, be fuffi
cient for the conlumption of the troops at
Michilimacinac, Detroit and Niagara for
fix months in advance, and at each of the o
ther polls on the Weftern waters, for at lead
three months in advance, of good and whole
some provifions,if the fame Iliall be required.
It is also to be permitted to all and every of
the Commandants of fortified places or ports
to call for at seasons when the fame can be
transported, or any time in the case ofurgen
cy such (applies of like provisions in advance
as in the discretion of the Commandant Ihall
be deemed proper.
It is to be underfood that the Contractor
is to be at the expedite and rifle of illuing the
supplies to the troops, and that all losses sus
tained by the depredations of an enemy or by
means of the troops of the United States,
Hiall be paid for by the United States at the
price of the articles captured or destroyed on
the depositions of two or more perfous of
creditable characters, and the certificate of a
Sixth. At Fort Wilkinson, Cockfpur Is
land and at any place or places where troops
are or may be Rationed, marched or recruit
ed within the Rate of Georgia, or on the In
dian boundary line between Georgia and
the Creek nation.
I ne^goods. I
# Edward Parry,o
0 Has Imported in the ships Nancies g
Q & Friendship from London, a gener- *
Q al allortment ofq
I Fajhionable GOODS,
* which are now opened an I for sale at O
, his Rore in Congress Rreet, at a low „
* advance, by Wholesale and Retail. O
Q Port/mouth, June 11,1803. *
^33nfy^fyi *| ^wwww^
NEW BOOKS.
RAYNAL'S hiftory of the EaR and Weft
Indies, in 6 vols. ; Edward's hiftory
of the Weft Indies ; Strolberg's travels
through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and
Sicily, in 4 vols. ; Life of Edmund Burke,
2 vols. ; Life of Catherine 11. ; Whifton's
Josephus, 3 vols. and in 6 vols. ; Prideauic
Connection of the Old and New Testament,
4 vols. ; Dr. Moore's Mordaunt, or Sketches
of life, characters and manners, in various
countries, including the memoirs of a French
lady of quality, in 3 vols. ; Oevres Pofthu
mes de Frederick 11. rio de Pruffe, 15 vols. ;
works of the late Rev. William Romaine, 8
vols. ; the Loudon Monthly Mirror, from
1796 to 1802, in 14 vols. ; European Sport
ing and Universal Magazines, in separate
vols. ; the Lady's Monthly Museum, or Po
lite Repository of amusement & instruction,
being an assemblage of whatever can tend to
please the fancy, intereß the mind, or exalt
the character of the Fair, by a feciety of
ladies in England ; this work cont ain#
painted and engraved descriptions of all the
prettiest and mod fashionable dresses in alt
Europe, in 9 vols. ; the Claflics, in 32 vols. ;
and a beautiful assortment of other Books
ann Stationary, &c. &c. just imported from
Europe and for sale at
CHARLES PEIRCE's
Book-Store, in Buck-Rreet, Port fmouth.
Bed English Pot, Foolscap, Demi, Ele
phant, Falio, and Quarto Pott Writing and
Letter Paper. June 13.
COFFEE HOUSE.
S. DELANDE again informs the public, he bag
been at considerable expense in fitting his boufe
for the purpose of a Commercial coffee house, and
that it is now ready for the reception of company.
He flatters himfelf this undertaking w ill meet with
encouragement, as such a place of resort in every
commercial town is highly ncceffary. He has
been at the expense of obtaining a considerable
number of the principal newfpapet s in the United
States. He has refrethments of every and the best
kind, and the greatest attention paid to those gen
tlemen who may please to honor him with their
company.
Buck-flreet, Portsmouth, June 14.
Case given for clean linen and
cotton and linen Rags, at the Ledger
Office, opposite the Brick Market.
x£^^^^^^f^^#^Mwwii^^ft^
4 Ilje Republican Ledger, »
lls1 Is pubiijhed ev^ry Tuesday morning, at S
the Printing Office in Court-freet, oppoftJl
the Brick Market ; at One Dollar ^d,
g Fifty Cents ' year, exclufrue of poflage.— §
«Letters, Subscriptions, Communications, »
Advertisements,Articles of Intelligence, (Ac. &
& directed to the Editor, (pofl paid) care
gfully attended to.
, ^As the Ledger has an extensive cir-»
© culution, it is very advantageous for Ad-
I vert ifements, which are confpicuoufy in- «
g ferted, on reasonable terms.
^%x% 3wwoi;o %^OG^X^^
Cbmmiflioned officer afcxrtainirg the cir m
cumßance of the loss, and the amount of the
articles for which computation Ihall be
claimed.
The privilege is undciftood to be refcrved
to the United States of requiring that none
of the fup'plies, which may be furnifhed un
der any of the proposed contraas, thall be
ilfued until the Supplies which have been or
may be furnilhed under contracts now in #
force, have been coufumed, and that a sup
ply in advance may be always required at
any of the fixed ports on the sea b^rd or In
dian frontiers, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary J /Par.
marFslmes
HafforJaie, at hi§ Store in Bow-frert,
A Quantity of patent ffieathin^
1 =and other Nails, irom 4 to 26 pum}/
made at the Amdbury Factory, which he
intends felling at the Fadozy' prices.
He as offersforfate,
Cordage of all sizes manufactured
in this town.
Ruffa, Swedes, and Philadelphia
IRON.
Philadelphia Flour.
Maryland Corn & Wheat Bran.
Philadelphia & Salem Loaf Sugar.
Iron Camboofes. Nail Rods.
Ravens Duck, &c. &c.
Falmouth. June 21 1803