Oracle post — Portsmouth, N.H., 1805-05-28 00:00:00, page 4

Mould & Dipt Candles
FOR SALE BY
J. LANGDON, jr.
Any number of Boxes can be supplied at the short-'
est notice— Also just received
30 casks fresh Malaga Rai
sins. Langdon's %vharf, May 18, lEOS.
— TO'BE'LET;
THE House now occupied
by Mr. William Gray, suitable for one
of two families — Enquire of the Printers.
May IS, 1805.
To be Let,
A convenient Shop, with, or without the Cellar
and Chamber, opposite Mr. Charles Peirce's
Book Store, in Daniel-street.#
apply to S. ELLIOT.
Portsmouth; April 18, 1805.
A FRENCH MISER.
Mr. VANDILLE was the most remarkable man
in Paris, both on account of his immense riches, and
his extreme avarice. He lodg'd as high as the roof
would admit him, to avoid noise or visits, maintain'd 1
poor old woman to attend him in his garret ; allow
ed her only 7 sous per week or a penny per diem.
His usual diet was bread and milk : and for indul.
gence, some poor sour wine on Sunday ; on which
day he constantly gave one farthing to the poor,
being a shilling and a penny per annum ; which he
cast up, and after his death, his extensive charity
amounted to 435. 4d.
This prudent economist had been a magistrate
cr officer at Boulogne, from which obscurity he was
promoted to Paris, for the refutation of his wealth,
which he lent upon undeniable security to the pub
lic funds, not caring to trust individuals with his
life and soul. While a magistrate at Boulogne, he
maintained himself by taking upon him to be a
milk-taster-general at the market ; raid from Jne
to another filled his belly, and washed down his
bread, at no expence of his own ; not, doubtless,
from any other principle than that of serving the
public, and regulating the goodness of the milk.
When he was called to Paris, knowing that stage
vehicles were expensive, he determined to go thi
ther on foot ; and to avoid being robbed he took
care to export with himself neither more or less
than the considerable sum of 3 pence sterling to car
ry him one hundred and thirty miles ; and, with
the greater facility to execute his plan of operation,
he went in the quality of a poor priest, or mendi
cant, and no doubt gathered some few pepce on the
road, from such pious and well-disposed persons of
the country who where strangers to him.
The great value a miser annexes to a farthing,
will make us less surprised,^ the infinite attach
ment he must have td a guinea, of which it is the
seed, growing, by gentle gradations, in pence, shil
lings, pounds, thousands, and ten thousands ; which
male this worthy connoisseur sa,'Take care of the
farthings, and the pence and shillings will take care
of themselves : these semina of wealtli may be com
pared to seconds of time, which generate years,
centuries, and even eternity itself."
When he became immensely rich, being, in the
year 1735, worth 7 or 8 hundred thousand pounds,
which begot or multiplied on the body of a single
shilling, from the age of 16 tothe age of 72, one
day he heard a woodman going by in summer, aty
which season they stock themselves with fuel for
the winter : he agreed with him at the lowest rate
possible, but stole from the poor man several logs,
with which he loaded himself to his secret hiding
hole, and thus contracted in that hot season a fe
ver ; he then sent for a surgeon to bleed him, who
asking half a livre for the operation, was dismissed,
he then sent for a poor barber, who undertook to o
pen a vein for three pence a time ; "But," says the
economist, "how often will it be requisite to blec,b"
Three times, said he. "And what quantity of blood
do you intend to take ?" " About eight ounces
each time ;" answered the barber. "That will
be nine-pence ; too much," oys the miser. "I
am determined to go a cheaper way to work ;
take the whole quantity you designed to take at 3
times, at one time, and that will save me sixpence"
which being insisted cn, he lost 24 ounces of blood,
and died in a few days, leaving all his vast trea- 1
sures to the king, whom he made his sole heir.
J gentleman from Trinidad has politely favored
us with several of the Weekly Courants
that Island, from'which is selected thefollowing
patriotic lines.
'TIGHT LITTLE TRINIDAD ISLAND.
Should the French but come here
Which none of us fear,
We'll shew'em how Britons stand by land,
How we to a man
Will do all we can
To beat all the foes of the island.
Let'em come within sight of the Island,
They'll see how we'll fight for the Island;
We'll make ready and fire,
And then we'll rush nigher
Qur foes as they jump on the Island.
We all shall be ready,
And like Britons steady,
When the critical moment is nigh hand ;
And prove that we can
Fight to a man
For Governor, King, and the Island:
Huzza my brave boys of the Island,
Oh ! wont us take care of the Island ?
No scandalous mol)
Shall e'er dare to rob
Us of Tight Little Trinidad Island.
But should it so be
That they're masters at sea,
And do really get upon dry land,
1 hen this is our plan
To die to a man
E'er we give up our right to the Island :
But we're perfectly neat in the Island,
While there's a retreat in the Island ;
For you plainly may see
That the hill called VIGIE
Will protect us twelve months in the Island. ,
Then we'll fight hand in hand
At the word of command,
Should our enemies dare to defy land,
And may HE be blest
Who has built us the nest
At the top of the hill on the Island !
Shall he ever be robb'd of his Island,
While a Briton's alive in the Island ;
No _ for while we can fight
We'll stand up for his right,
And our own to Tight Trinidad Island !
D. Weeks
No. 2, Market-street, has just received a large
assortment of
Staple and Fancy Goods,
among which are
T ACE CAMBRICS.
~ Plaid, plain, color'd and black Chambray
Muslins.
Black, Slate, and Plumb color'd Cambrics.
Pink, blue, and buff ditto.
7-4 Muslin Shawls. 5-4 Silkditto.
Linen, Cambrics, Irish Linens, cheap.
Book Muslins.
A great variety of black and color'd Florence Silks.
Black Lustrings.
A large assortment of Calicoes.
Dimities ; Muslinets.
Ladies' white and slate color'd Cotton Hose.
Men's white and slate color'd ditto.
Straw and Willow Bonnets.
Chip Hats, Straw and Chip Plumes.
India Cottons.
India Chintzes for 456 piece.
Fans for 3 Cents, See. &c.
NOTICE is hereby given,
that the Commissioners named in a Commission of
^nkruptcy, against ALEXANDER EWEN, of
^■^nouth, in the State of New -Hampshire, and
Assignee of the estate of the said Ewen will
at the office of Jeremiah Libbey, Esq. in said
Portsmouth, on Tuesday the eleventh day of June
next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose
of making a second dividend of the estate of said
Ewen ; at which time and place the creditors of
said Ewen who have not proved their debts under
said Commission, are to come prepared to prove
the same, otherwise they will be excluded from
the benefit of said dividend.
JEREMIAH MASON, Assignee.
Portsmouth, May 4, 1805.
"SCHOOL.
The subscriber informs the cit^en^portsmouth
and its vicinity, that his school 6r mEses, com
menced on Tuesday, and is now open for the re
ception of a certain number of pupils.
May 11. ENOCH M, CLARK.
% FOR SALE,,
a few thousand clear Boards,
very dry, fit for immediate use—Apply to
May'll. &HN GREGORY.,
Thread Cases, Purses, Card and Compliment Cases.
Gentlejnen and Ladies Pocket Almanacs and Dia
ries, for 1805, with a Pocket Book attached.
Backgammon Boards complete.
Cribbege and Checker Boards.
Message, compliment, conversation, geographical,
puzzling and playing Cards ;
Morocco and Shag Spectacle Cases;
Morocco and common Scissor Sheaths.
Children's Ivory Rattles and Whistles.
ARTICLES of CUTLERY, &c.
An elegant assortment of Pen and Counting room
knives. do. do. Jacknives.
do. do. Razors, of all qualities, from 20
cents each t&7s6. and in sets knd cases, from
50 cents to 3 dollars. Gentlemen may be sure,
here tq find good Razors.
A variety of Scissors from 9d. to 756 a pair.
Cases of Instruments for Mathematicians.
Scales and Dividers for Navigators and Surveyors.
Japann'd Dressing Cases, and Glasses. -
Real Ivory fine teeth Combs.
A variety of Spectacles from 25 cents to 3dols. a pair.
Ivory and bone Paper Cutters and Folders.
The dbo%e articles, ivith a variety of others, are
just received by the late arrivals from Europe, and
for sale at the lowest Boston prices, at CHARLES
PEIRCES Brick Book-Store, Daniel-street, Ports
mouth. May 11.
Stationary of every description, ftichas
Writing arid Letter Papers, from an inferior to
the most superior kind!, from 25 cents to 2$ per
quire ; or from 4 dollars to 35 dollars per ream,
almost all prices between. Some very beautiful
superfine wove hot-pressed Letter and Drawing
Papers ; Transparent and coloured Papers.
ioo,o<fo Dutch Quills of every qual
ity from 50 cents to 3 dollars per hundred.
Ink Powder, (black and red) by the single Paper,
4oz. or gross.
Bl^k shining and common Sand ;
India-Ink, superior quality ;
Red, black,and coloured Wafers and Sealing-Wax ;
3,000 Crown and half crown office Wafers ;
Billet wafers, all colours, very small ;
Ink Stands for counting-rooms, houses, Secretaries
and Pocket, from 6 cents each, to six dollars.
India Rubber by the bottle or piece.
Pounce boxes and pounce.
Writing and copy slip Books.
Drawing Books of various kinds.
Reeve's boxes of fine drawing Paints and Colours,
with Camel's hair Pencils, from 9s each, to ten
dollars each.
Gentlemen's very nice Dressing-Cases.
Snuff, Tobacco, Ceguar and Miniature Boxes.
Slates and Slate Pencils.
Best warranted Lead Pencils; Also,
Silver Pencil Cases, and silrcr Tooth Pick Cases;
Deep and pale Gold Leaf;
Children's small Books.
With a great variety of other Goods CHEAPER
THAN USUAL. Portsmouth, Muy 11.
Fresh Importation !
By C. PEIRCE, consisting of
BOOKS & STATIONARY;
FANCY ARTICLES and CUTI ERY, viz.
AN extensive assortment of L\W BOOKS,
such as Reporters, Pleaders, Commentaries,
Digests, Precedents, and Declarations.
' ALSO
A FEW hogsheads Trinidad Sugar,
suitable for retailing, to be sold at NS. 7,
Portsmouth Pier. May 11.
—Ail-
Divinity, Geography, Hiftcry, Navi
gation ; elegant pocket editions of the Bible, Church
Prayer Books, and Dr. Watts' Psalm and Hymn
Books ; large Family and common Bibles; elegant
and common "Testaments. —also —
Physical, Surgical, Chemical, Anatom
ical, Elementary, &c. &c.
Sugar for sale.
A large assortment of Gentlemen & Ladies
POCKET BOOKS.
CHEAP.
c*-O^ #» ft
Just received by the John Adams, and Packet,
from Liverpool ; and Galen from London,
And tliis day opening at
Shawls.
ditto 5,6, & 7-4 Silk do.
6-4 Muslin Blush'd
check'd ditto,
6-4 lace Cairbricks.
4-4 and 6-4 Book Jaco-I
net and Cambric Mus-|
lins.
Linen Cambrics.
A great variety of pink
and dark plaid Cali
coes.
Pink, blue and Buff
6-4 Sarsnet Cambrics.
Slate And Plumb color'd
ditto.
4-4 and 6-4 Black do.
Black Lutestrings.
do. Florence, do.
black Crape yard wide.
Black and white Parisnet
Gauzes.
Pocket Handkerchiefs,
4 Cents a piece.
Ladies short Silk Gloves
do. Kid do.
do. long white Kid do.
English and French Silk
Gloves.
Blacl; and white picnic
do.
Pink and blue Muslins.
I Fashionable Willow Bon
nets ^Chips for do.
Straw cffito.
Parasols with walking
Sticks.
Dimities.
White Chips for Bonnets
Gentlemen's black and
white silk Hose.
Ladies' black, white and
slate color'd ditto.
Ladies' white and col
or'd Cotton Hose.
Gentlemen's do. do.
Blue, drab, dark mixt,
and, strip'd Cotton
Cassimeres.
English yellow Nankeens
Nankinets, Jeafis and
Fustians.
Sprig'd Book Muslins.
Variety of nice and com-
Spring and Summer Goods.
DRAPER'S
Cheap new Cash store,
A very extensive supply of
Fancy & Staple Piece Goods-
AMONG W
Elegant 6-4 Muslin
Spring Goods—cheap.
Just received bu
JAMES RUNDLET,
Andfor sale 80. 3, Market -street.
Walking Cane Parasols ; Velvets, plain and fancy ;
Green silk Umbrellas ; Nankinets;
Calico ditto; Cotton Cassimeres ;
Black and white Lace Jeans ; Fustians ;
Veils; Blue Nankins;
Lace Cloaks; Yellow ditto;
Lace Spencers ; Company ditto, long sort,
Lace Vandykes; Cotton Sewings ;
Black Laces; Sewing Silks;
Black patent ditto ; Cambric Muslins ;
White thread Laces ; Jaconet and japan'd ditto,
White silk ditto ; Laced lappet ditto ;
Silk Shawls ; Satin stich'd mull ditto ;
Muslin ditto ; Glazed Cambrics ;
Ladies fine cotton Hose ; Book Muslins;
ditto black, white and Dimities and Muslinets;
rose silk Hose ; Quilting Vesting;
Men's black, white and Satin and silk Velvet, do,
colored, plain and rib'd Straw Bonnets & Hats ;
silk Hose; Silk Bonnets;
Men's cotton and worsted Calicos;-
Hosiery; Broad Cloths;
Ladies silk, cotton and Cas;
kid Gloves; Cassimeres;
Men's beaver,woodstock, Carpets and Carpeting ;
silk, cotton, thread and Rush ditto ;ls4 to 2s. yd.
kid Gloves; Brown Hollands ;
Irish Linens ; Platilles;
Linen Cambrics ; Oil Cloths;
Black Florence Silks; Diapers ;
Colored and black India Table Cloths;
Lustrings ; I Fancy & black Ribbons ;
Black Italian Silk; | Tapes and Bobbins ;
Black Crapes,very good, , Patch Furnitures ;
Fans from 3 cents to 2% Copperplates;
each ; Black and white picnic
Black velvet Bindings ; Gloves and Mitts ;
Bandanna and Lungee Black Meries & Sattius;
Handkerchiefs; r Calamancos;
India Cottons,rocry low. Russels ; Durants;
India Ctiintzesgd. wide, Moreens,' &c, &c. &c.
for sl. a piece, 6 yds. kc. &c. &c.
in a piece ;
With a great variety of other Goods, toomany to enu
merate in an advertisement—all of which will be
!ald for Cash or approved short credit full as cheap
as at any " NEW CHEAP CASH STORE"
whatever. Portsmouth, May 4, 1865.
A BARGAIN.
Sale, a Farm
re ' yi "^ i4 S* ndwic| h about half a
m '' e f r °m Sandwich corner, and
two and a half miles from the
Meeting-House, on the main road from Sandwich
to Tarworth and Portland ; pieafantly fituared ;
consisting of about one hundred acres—with Orch
arding (efficient to make about forty barrels of
Cyder, and other Fruit Trees; a twoftory House,
and a large Barn So by 30 feet—has a beautiful
grove of young rock maple near the house,
which is an invaluable grove for making sugar,
and is well wooded and watered, and mostly en
dufed with flout floor wall, with a handsome pro
portion of lad<T suitable for tillage, mowing, and
pa fluting, ^nd calculated to make an excellent Farm
—a hand for a Tavern, or a Tradermao. F<r
further particulars enquire of Daniel Little
living at Sandwich corner, who cap give an un
doubted title to the fame. ~,
Sandwich, May J, 1805.
HICH ARE
mon Fans.
White Lace Veiling.
Black and white Laces,
and Edgings.
Velvet Bindings.
Ladies' rose color'd Silk
I Hose.
1 Case 7-8 and 4-4lrish
Linens.
1 do. gentlemens' Hatts,
first chop.
Drab Tabby Velvet.
Black do. de.
Snuff do.
Black Silk Velvet,
do. Cambric Shawls.
Slate do.
fancy silk Handkerchiefs
Black Modes.
Blue, white and Pink
Sarsnets.
Fancy Merseilles Quilt-
nigs,
Plain and strip'd Sattin
Vestings.
Long Lawns.
Furniture Chintzes.
Low pric'd Calicoes.
Dark purple Shawls.
Brown Hollands.
Italian black Sewing
Silks, by the pound.
Color'd Threads, do.
Corded black Velvets,
do. light do,
Superfine Broad Cloths.
Cassimeres.
Bandanna Handker
chiefs.
Cotton Checks.
Blue India Cottons.
Linen Checks.
India Calicoes.
Cotton Umbrellas.
Gilla Handkerchiefs.
Blue and yellow Nan-
keens.
A very large supply of
India Cottons, of all
prices some as low as
9d per yard.
Black Morocco Shoes.
Diapers, and Diaper
Table Cloths, xc. Sec.
Portsmouth, May 3.
B. Brierley
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the Public,
that he has just received 'y the lAc annals
from Europe, his regular and extensive assort
ment of
I & I Cambric Muslins, all prices; some
thin and,very fine for Gentlemen's wear ; jaconet,
mull and cobweb sprig'd and japap'd do ; book do. ev
ery quality ; India book do ; elegant lace Cambric;
do. lace ground and picquet Muslins; 6-4 hmslin
Veils, and lace muslin Shawls ; Chantyray Mus.
lins ; Sarsnet Cambrics all colors ; plain and sprig'd
Patinett Lace for shades, &c. ; black and white Lace
Veils, from 15s. a 22 Dollars each ; black Luce
Cloaks, Spencers, Shawls, and Mantles ; black and
white patent Laces ; Thread, Laces and "Edgings ;
India Lutestrings at 6s. per yd.; black and colored
Italian and Florence Silks ; do. Persians ; silk
Handkerchiefs; also 6-4 Silk Shawls; Ribbons or
all kinds ; Fans from 4 cents, to 4 dollars ;-black
and colored Italian Crapes ; plain and spewed
Guazes; black and white Parci-t; white and
colored silk and cotton Cords, all sizes ; Thsseb ;
Gown Buttons and Gown Trimmin,, ; Flowers
and Plumes; Dimities 2s. a 4s. per' yd. ; a few
very fine Cambric Dimities ; Sewing Cottons, white
and colored of all sizes ; Floss and Nun's Threads;
colored Threads ; patent do. ; sewing and marking
Silks ; Cap Wire ; Buckram.
a handsome assortment cf'
Printed Cambrics and Calicoes, very
cheap ; 7-8, and 4-4 Irish Linen ; some very low ;
5-4 Irish Sheetings ; 5-8, 3-4, 6-4, 8-4, 9-4, and
10-4 Diapers ; Linen Cambrics 7s. a 30s. per yd.
India Cottons and Chintzes very cheap ; do. blue
Cottons and Checks ; blue and yellow Nanknens ;
twilled Nankinetts ; patent colored Nankeens, and
cotton Kerseymeres.
Hosiery, a large assortment both silk
and cotton ; a few ladies very elegant rose color
ed silk Hose ; ladies white and colored Silk
Gloves and Mitts; do. picnic, and lace do. kid
Gloves ; silk and cotton Umbrellas ; some of a very
superior quality; walking cane Parasols various
sizes.
Henderson & Cooper/
Have just received a large assortment of
Fashionable & other Goods,
WHICH ARE NOW OPENING VIZ.
A great variety of
PLAID, plain, Limon foot'd and ,
black Chambray Muslins ; elety^laced Cam- <
brics; emboss'd Cambrics ; pink, Irek, mourning, z
and common Calicoes ; Fucnitu^; tape-stripejffa
narrow and corded Dimities ; AR^ihets.'
Black and colored Sar^t Cambrics £
sarsnet jaconet, book jaconet anra^mbric Muslins^
spotted Book Muslins; black=tyress Shavirc,
black Crapes ; black Bomb .^U .'
Cambric satin check'Ll colorU&Lni-^'
brie, purple and chintz Shclt; Peaml Veils;
black Veils ; white and black Opting and
white Cypress.
a large assorfflfeit of &
Fashionable c^:J velvets white
and figured Merscilles ; print& Jeans ;
Men's plain and ribb'd silk Dufefets;
cotton Cassimeres ; yellow l^&ns ; JeM^; Fu~-
tians ; plain and ribb'd Velvet^©:
a large variety^^
Women's habit, black grain, and extra^
long kid Gloves ; long white Kid Gloves ;
black and white , picnic Gloves • /and
Mitts ; extra long white black and colors silk
Gloves; women and men's white and color'atottou -.
Gloves; beaver Gloves ; fashionable white, black'd '
and spangled Crape Fans ; Parasols.R
Women's white and black silk Hole
for 10s. pair ; women's superfine white and black
cotton Hose ; misses cotton Hose ; men's outsized
plain and fine ribb'd cotton Hose; men's black cot
ton Hose ; youth's white and colored Hose ; men's
brown Hemp Hose ; men's vandyke and imperial
Hose.
India and Florence Luteftrings; Modes;
Sarsnets ; Guazes ; Millinetts ; black Laces;
Edgings ; linen ; cotton, bandannoe, check'd and
black silk Handkerchiefs.
Silk and cotton Umbrellas; cotton
and silk Braces ; colored Threads; Ferrets ;
Gallooms , Cap Wire ; shirt Buttons ; Floss'
Thread.
Irish Linens ; Brown Hollands ; Sew
. ing; Silks ; black Velvet Bindings ; worsted Bind
ings ; gilt and plated Buttons; India Cottons ; In
dia Chintzes ; Madrass long Cloths ; Checks.
Superfine and common blue and black
Broad Cloths ; Cassimeres ; Woolen Cord; Thick
setts.
Callimancoes ; Satinets ; Durants ;
Moreens ; plqin and ribb'd black Wildbores.
a. Igrge assortment of «
Men's and Youth's HAT'S.
India Nankins. '
Portsmouth, May 4, 1805, No. 3, Market-street:
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THE PORTSMOUTH ORACLE,
is published every Saturday morning for the town
, # /and vicinity, and
THE ORACLE POST
every Tuesday morning for the Country by
William and Daniel Treadwell,
at their Book and Stationary shop, opposite the
Court House, Portsmouth, JVrtvhan:f shire.
Terms 150 cents per annum, 50 cents paid in ad
vance—Punctually forwarded to all parts of this ,
State and the District of Main.'
3^— -— — e&=li^^
Fancy, Fashionable, & Staple
GOODS,
suitable for the season—among which are,
an assortment of
Straw, willow, and cane Hats, and
Bonnets; white chip Flats, and white colored cane
Flats for making Bonnets ; boy's Leather Caps,
some large sizes ; men's and boy's Hats, ml prices,
a few large brimm'd for summer wear. ~Aiso,
Best fuperfine and low priced Broad
Cloths and Kerseymeres of all colors; Velvet:;
Thicksetts, &c. together with almost every other
article usually kept in a Dry Good's Stb;e ;—All
which will be sold (not for Cash only, but Lsa on
short a/i/iroved credit) full as cheap as can ^
bought at any of the self-styled CHEAP CASH
STORES in town.
Portsmouth, 11th May, 1805.
"NEW GOODS?