Oracle post — Portsmouth, N.H., 1804-06-12 00:00:00, page 1

THE subscriber withes to contrast f¥ the
building a House in Portsmouth, 42 by
36 feet—Three dories high, as per plan which
will be exhibited. The builder to find ^ll the
materials, and Complete the fame by the Ift of
O^ober next. Digging and stoning the cellar
included if more convenient. Cash will be ad-'
wanted as the work may progress.
May 26. _ JOHN_PENH ALLOW, t. f.
rfHlTfubfcriber haying come to a full determi.
1 nation to give tip the business of Poftriding
on the route from Portsmouth to Amherst, into
the hands of William Thayer, present Mail
carrier, the fifft day of July next.
He has likewise determined to remove from
the route about that time. It therefore becomes
indifpeniably necessary to fettle all his accounts
in the month of June. And as friendfhip on
reasonable terms has been his invariable object,
be wishes it may not be disturbed at parting, by
a non-compliance with his reasonable request.
OZJAS SILSBY.
N. B. The small number who may negleft to
adjust their accounts must expea no favors from
q zia § SiL§ aY „
No, 1 % 2, BEEF ^nd PORK ;
io@ ffis. Superfine FLOUR; the a
bove will be fold low for Cash. May 19.
Vol. XIV.
For sale bv T. MORTON,
10,0001 b. Fresh Rice ; a few
bales Cotton ; Teas of all kinds warranted ;
pipes and barrels of Brandy and Gin ;'Rum
per hhd. or less) Louf, India & Brown Sugars ;
Molafles ; Coffee ; Wines—Cotton and Woof
Cards ; 401 b. Nutmegs ; also a few elegant 2 bar
rel guns —together with a general assortment of
Weft-India Goods & Groceries,
as good and as cheap as can be bought in
town. — Attendance from fa-rife until 9 o'clock roe.
Ma, 26. t.K,
' FOR SALEBII "
Elisha Hill, jr.
, NORTH END.
Grenada RUM; do. MOLASSES, per
Hhd.:
Mould CANDLES of the firft quality ;
Has for sale at his Store; nearly opposite the Mar
ket House — -a general assortment of
W. I. Goods & Groceries,
among which are real old Cognac Brandy ; old Ja^
maica Spirit ; Barcelona Brandy ; Holland's Gin ;
Shrub; Rum; Madeira,.Sherry, Lisbon, Red Port,
Vidonia, Malaga, & Long Cork'd Claret WINES ;
London and American bottled Porter ; Taunton
Ale ; Strong Beer r Bottled Cyder ; bottled Perry ;
Gun-Powder ; Hyson, Souchong, Young Hyson,
Bohea and Hyson^skin TEAS ; Coffee ; Choco
late ; Cocoa ; Shells ; double and single refined
LOAF SUGAR ; test Turkey Figs ; fresh
Prunes ; Almonds ; Muscadel Raisins ; Currants ;
Tamarinds ; preserved Ginger ; fresh Cajjers ;
excellent Sailed Oil ; Mustard ; Kcyan ; SPICES
of all kinds ; Cotton ; Rice ; best Spanish Segars ;
—with almost every article in the Grocery line ;
also for sale, just received a few casks & boxes fresh
RAISINS, in excellent order. Ship stores put up
in the best manner and rfthe shortest notice, and
the smallest favors thankfully received.
Portsmouth, June 2.,
NETT and Seine ditto ; Lines, Net^s and
Hooks of all sizes ; just received and for
file, bv the bale, box, or any less quantity, by
ROBERT RICE,
Fdre-flreeGNc^L— June 2.
Ju/i received for [ale by
Stephen Delande,
OPPOSITE THr POST OFFICE.
looowt. frrfn hard-shelled Almonds, at
iffmfr per pound ,
500 do. Lit do. do. at zgcts.per ib.
250 do. unfuelled, do. do. gocts. do.
2oowt. frefh TAMARINDS;
100 wt. Preserved GINGER;
50 wt. Cition LIMES preserved; •
with a genera! assortment of
CONFECTIONARY..
W.lndia Goods & Groceries.
, Portsmouth, fune 3, 1604#•_
et al afortment of
Spring and Summer Goods,
Which he ^1 fell very I w for erfh.
@(, Wanted 5,000 yards Good Tow
Cloth. May I2|
some of which are of the la'eft falhion— war
ranted good, and will be fold on reasonable
terms.
10 Chests Souchong TEA ;
6 do. Hyfon-fkin ;
Pipes BRANDY and GIN;
Quarter chests Bohea TEA ; apply to
William Garland.
''F'HETubferiber informs the Public that he
A , has now on hand (for sale or exchange
several New Chaise,
Exeter, May 21, 1804.
New Goods.
Benjamin Swett,*
No. 8, Market-street, h f is received a gen-
A House wanted.
Sewing Twine.
S. Larkin,
FOR SALE,
Josiah Coffin Smith.
ORACLE POST.
Improved Patent Bedstead.
THE Subscribers having observed
and experienced many inconverttences atten
ding the fixing, patting up, and taking down that
neceffiry Article of Furniture, the Bedstead,
have invented an improvement to remedy thole in
conveniences. Being equally applicable to com
mon Bedsteads, with lacking Bottoms, as to more
costly ones, they persuade themfelv.s it will meet
with general approbation. It would exceed the
limits of an advertisement to be particular in de
scribing the ftrudureand advantages it may fuf
fice to fay, the Bedstead is firmly fastened at
t he corners, without the troublesome operofe con
trivance and use of screws. It may be easily put
up by one person, and little more time is required
for taking it down b, one person, than would be
necessary for putting up and taking down the leaves
of a Dining Table. These advantages are obvious
in an article which requires frequent examination
and is frequently removed, but the special advan
tages mcafe of Fhu ^BI be perceived at mt by
those who have been obliged to remove abd save
furniture on such occasions of hurry and distress—
The fubferibers flatter themselves that ah invention
combining simplicity, ufefulnefs, and cheapness
will be encouraged by a generous Public.
The right for making and vending the above
Patent Bedstead, may be purchased, on appli
cation to either of the fubferibqs at Portsmouth
New-hampfhire.
ADVERTISEMENT
IT is notorious that most diseases of the
present day which affli& the human frame,pir
take more or less of a Bilious temperament ; hence
the unfrequency of those, where the giands and
membranes being attacked, and styled inflamma
tory—fuch as Rurify; Peripneumony, &c. and the
increasing prevalence of Fevers of the Spring fta
ion, of mixed type, always refusing from a predis
position occasioned by bilious redundances in the
stomach and bowels. Diseases of this class, are
more difficult to cure, when the attack is furious,
and combined with the interposition of bilious se
cretion, invading the blood and juices of the body.
It is therefore found, by daily experience, that
the best method of removing predifpofi|ion, is to
remove the contents of the stomach and bowels, by
efficacious and suitable purgatives ; and as often as
symptoms of heaviness, latitude, debility,lofs of
appetite, pains in the stomach and bowels, flow fe
vers from colds, a sense of weight at the stomach,
and costiveness, &c. occurs, it is of importance
immediately to promote those evacuations, for
thereby the causes of more severe illness may be
Speedily and happily removed, and much trouble,
expence and danger avoided. —To answer those
purpofes,and to be within the reach of every indi
vidual to preserve his health by a timely exhibition
of mild and suitable purgatives, no public medi
cine extant deserves so /high a rank, as "Doer.
Lee's Patent New-London Bilious Pills"
—which have been found, by a fix years expe
rience, to have engaged the attention, not only of
those whose judgements and opinions were candid
and unbiaffed, but of the faculty of Physic, whose
prejudices have been honorably overcome (after
ascertaining their real merits) by adopting them in
their daily pradice ; the numerous letters with
which the Doaor has been favoured from Pradi.
tippers and others, from all parts, of their superior
virtues, is a fufficient proof of their eligibility for a
place in every family and sea medicine chest, tra
veller's portmanteau, sailors trunk, and lady's
toilet.
The Pills above mentioned may be procured,
with direaions for use, price go cents the box, at
the store of Doct. JOSIAH DWIGHT, Ports
mouth, and to avoid mistakes, (other pills of sim
ilar titles, &c. being kept in fliops, but in no wife
partaking of the qualities of the above pills) the
public are requested always to fee that the direc
tions is headed with these words— “DoAn Lee's
Patent New-London Bilious Pills, prepared only by
Samuel H. P. Lee, Member of the Conne&icut
Medical Society—Without which they cannot be
the Patentee's. May 19.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from this place on the
16h of April last, Samuel l^wis, a private
Soldier in the United States Artillerifts, aged twen
ty fix years,five feet nine inches high, light complex
ion, brown hair, blue eyes, was born in Kitfery,
Mail, and is by occupation a Blackfmith.—^o,
deserted on the ift inff. Samuel Miles, a sol
dier as above, aged twenty-fix years, five feet
ten and a half inches high, fair complexion, light
hair, grey eyes, was born in Canterbury, New
hampfhire, and is by trade, a Hatter.
. Whoever will apprehend said Deserters,
and deliver thefp to me at this place, dr to any Mil
itary Officer, of the United Stales, shall receive
the above reward, and all reasonable charges; or
ten Dollars for each of them.
An additional reward of 20 Dollars, will
be |pven for the apprehension and delivery of
Milks.
LEMUEL GATES, ty. Art.
Commanding.
Fort Constitution, Ma, 2, 1804.
A Book for Ladies !
, Now in Press 'and will be published,
in 3 weeks by W, &D. TREADWELL,
THAT JUSTLY CELEBRATED POEM
The Triumphs of Temper.
BY WILLIAM HALEY, esquire.
Author of 'E&y on Old Maid,' 'Life of Cowpa' &&
May 25."
Ward Gilman, ? n ,
Willliam Jackson, J
Portsmouth, May 12.
TUESDAY, June ll 1804.
MISCELLANY.
- or^*®*,® ^^-at — tt
from The palladium.,
AS it 18 presumed a contfW^blafroportion of the
Citizens are uriacquaintQjmwl the titan of" An
exchange office,"for th^R^shmCnt of which
a petition is now before the-pgislature, the edi
tors of The Palladium, are requested to publish
the following Prospectus in their paper. They
will thereby gratify many <f their
% CUSTOMERS.
PROSPECTUS
•.,.Qfr.THE
Boston Exchange Office.
This subject being new, and now before our hono
rable General Court, the subsequent outline is pre
sented, for the information of those Who are unac
quainted with its principles.
Ist.—-A Fund of one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars $ current bank bills of ^ Q&n®wt@
OF zab THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS
WHICu LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY
""F.™ AN P MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLE SUPPORTS. —lValdington 3 Legacy.
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—-*«*# *0 *,^ ;,# pr=.
Original Letter
from l)r. Samuel Johnson, not flushed in his
works, nor any life of him.
We know little of the state of departed souls, be
cause such knowledge is not necessary to a good life.
Reason deserts us at the brink of the grave, and
gives no farther intelligence. Revelation is not whol
ly silent. "There is joy among the angels in heav
en over a sinner that repenteth." And surely tlie
joy is communicable to souls disentangled from the
body, and made like angels.
Let hope, therefore, dictate what revelation does
not confute—that the union of souls may still re
main: and that we who are struggling with sin,
sorrow, and infirmities, may have our part in the
attention and kindness of those who have finished
their course, and are now receiving their reward.
These are the great occasions which force the
mind to take refuge in religion. When we have
no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we
look up to a higher and greater Power ? And to
what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts,
when we consider that the greatest Power is the
best ?
DEAr. IR, March 17, 1752. 0. S.
NOTWITHSTANDING the warnings of plii
losopher, and the daily example of losses and mis
fortv.ne~, whicli life forces upon us, such is the ab
sorption ts our thoughts in the business of tiie present
day—s"<h the resignation of our reason to empty
hopes ^future felicity, or such our unwillingness
to fore fwhat we dreaa, that every calamity comes
suddenlyapon us, and not only presses as a burden,
but crusts as a blow.
Th l • are evils which happen out of the common
CCTftq-b're, against which it is no reproach not
tc lie, LlecL A flash of lightning intercepts the
traveller in his way.^ The concession of an eur.n
quake heaps the ruins of cities upon their inhabit
ants, But other miseries time brings, though si^
lently, yet visibly forward, by its own lapse, which
yet approaches unseen, because we turn our eyes a
way, and they seize us unresisted because we would
not arm ourselves against them, by setting them lx*
fore us.
That it is jn vain to shrink from what cannot be
avoided, and to hide that from ourselves which must
sometimes be found, is a truth which we all know,
but which all neglect, and perhaps none more than
the speculative reasoner whose thoughts are always
from home, whose eye wanders over life, whose fan
cy dances after meteors of happiness kindled by it
self, and who examines every thing, rather than his
own state.
Nothing is more evident, than that the decays of
age must terminate in death. Yet there is not aiman
(says Tully) who does not believe he may yet live
another year, and there is none who does not upon
the same principle, hope another year for his parent
or his friend ; but the fallacy will be in time de
tected ; the last year, the last day will come : It has
come and is past. “ The life which made my own
life pleasant, is at an end, and the gates of death
are shut upon my prospects."
The loss of a friend, on whom the heart was fix
ed, and to Whom every wisp and endeavour tended,
is a state of desolation in which the mind looks a
broad impatient of itself, and finds nothing but emp
tiness and horror. The blameless life, the artless
and tender, the native simplicity, the modest resig
nation, the patient sickness, and the quiet death,
are remembered only to add value to the loss—to
aggravate regret for what cannot lie amended—to
deepen sorrow for what cannot be recalled.
These are the calamities by which Providence
gradually disengages us from the love of life. Other
evils fortitude may repair, or hope may mitigate ;
but irre parable privation leaves nothing to exercise
resolution, or flatter expectation. The dead cannot
return, and nothing is left us here but languishment
No 1 grief.
Yet such is the course of nature, that whosoever
lives long must outlive those whom he loves and
honours. Such is the condition of our present exist
ence, that life must one time lose its associations, and
every inhabitant of the earth must walk downward
to the grave alone and unregarded, without any
partner of his joy or grief, without any inter
est witness of his misfortunes or success. Mis
fortunes indeed he may yet feel, for where is the
bottom of the misery of man ! but what is success
to him, who lias none to enjoy it ? Happiness is not
found in self-contemplation; it is perceived only
when it is reflected from another.
Surely there is no man, who, thus afflicted, does
not seek succour in the Gospel, which has brought
life and immortality to light ! The precepts of E
picurus, which teach us to endure what the laws of
the universe make necessary, may silence but not
content us. The dictates of Zeno, who commands
us to look with indifference on abstract things, may
dispose us to conceal our sorrow, but cannot assuage
it.=-Rehl alleviation of the loss of friends, and ra
tional tranquility in the prospect of our own dissolu
tion, can be received only from the promise of him
in whose hands are life and death, and from the as
surances of another and better state, in which all
tears will be wiped from our eyes, and the whole
soul shall be filled with joy. Philosophy may in
fuse stubbornness, but religion only can give pa
tience. SAM. JOHNSON.
MORALIST.
and a further sun, in specie, not exceeding fifty
thousand, as a guarantee to the people for the Safe
ty of deposits.
2d.—Tae new bills or notes of credit to be emitted.
Sd.—Said Fund, and such a proportion of deposits
as may be consistent with the safett of the inst' 1-
tion, to be subject to discount on banking pri 's,
4th.—All current bills of this Commonwe. to
be received, and issued; at their nominal value, for
Convenience and facility in the transaction of business
sth.—No runs upon banks to be permitted, but
their operations aimed to be supported agreeably to
their charters.
COMMENTS.
A direct specie capital is not necessary to the op
eration of this system, as the respective banks will
alone be accountable for die payment of their own
bills ; which bills are to constitute its fund ; & Ic
ing an ample guarantee, will remove nil apprehen
sions on account to the safety of deposits.
This town being the centre of circulation for II
bills of this Commonwealth, the following advanta
ges would result from its operation.
Ist.—lt would afford a place of fafety from the
ravages of fire, thieves, and other casualties.
2d.—lt would call into active and profi^wte use,
that partial, of bank bills occa^onafc dor rant in
every man's pocket.
3d. —It would furnish the trading interest of the
town with the means of punctually discharging + heir
obligations, relieving them, at the same time, front
the present incumbrance ci gieng from one to two
and an half per cent advance, with much perplexia
ty, and loss of time, for a particular species of mo
ney for that purpose ;—their obligations being usu
ally deposited at the Boston Banks for collection,
where out of town bills are net received in pa meat.
4th.—Notes for collection at this office, and oth*
er daily deposits, would create a successive fund in
bills, which being part reloaned, and thereby kept
in circulation, would produce a profit ci interest
probably exceeding the expenses of the institution.
sth.— h would give a prompt effect to trades en
courage industry, set aside premium speculation, 8c
supercede the necessity of running upon banks,
thereby enabling them to discount With more uniform
mity, and to operate upon that system of .neral
accomodation, for which those institutions were in
corporated.
6th.—The jiomin 1 value of out of town bills be
ing established here, it would invite the commerce
of sister states, who would the more readily receive
and give currency to bills issued remote from this
metropolis; and that portion of our trade which
has been recently turned from New-York, to this
place, would be advantageously preserved ft greatly
increased. ———
Note— The forgoing remarks, if duly considers
ed, will, it is conceived, clearly elucidate this sub
ject. It being granted, that the clac^ of citizens
who are the petitioners for thi. institution, are nu
merous, useful,enter/ rising, and industrious ; that
they flay a considerable part of the taxes f Tie
town of Boston, and are the party directly aggrie
ved,these Legislative questions occur : Are they not
in these times of paper calamity entitled to pratertier.?
Shall one class of citizens enjoy special immunities,
to the privation of others, whilst exclusive lights Sc
priviledges are prohibited by our constitution.
—__§_. •
FROM SA^ANHAH aTJ.IL 15.
More Fraternity. —The commerce of cur port
has for sometime past been embarrassed by the
presence of the L'Hazard French privateer on cuf
coast, cruising between Tybee and Charleston bar.
This privateer came into the river about 10 days
ago with her two prizes, the British ship Rosa
mond & the American brig Chance, and anchored
with them at Cockspur ; the latter vessel belongs
to Mr. Daniel O'Harra, of Charleston, and was made
prize of by the L'Hazard off that port in violation
of the treaty between France and the United Btate%
In a blow after the above vessels came to an anchor
the two prizes ran aground. In thic situation, Mr.
G'Hara, was on board of the brig when taken but
afterwards removed by the privateersmen to the
ship Rosamond, swam ashore ? and camepp to towh
when he applied to the Court of Admiralty for an
order to detain the brig, which was granted &; the
vessel |^ken pcsessicu of by the marshall of the.
district The brig Chante was bound from Jamaica
to Charleston nd first captured by a French pri
vateer soon after she sailed—was then recaptured
by a British cruizer, from whom she was ransomed
by Mr. O'Hara ; and again captured off Charleston
bar, within the jurisdiction of the United States, by
the L'Hazard privateer.
While the L'Hazard lay at Cockspur, her officers
behaved with insolence to some officers that went
down to make enquiries into the transaction, setting
at defiance not only the force of Georgia, but that
of the United States and it is a sorry sac., that such
is the crumbling state of Fort-Green, though it is but
a short time since the United States erected it, and
continues garrisoned by its troops, that had it been
expedient to punish the insolence of this privateer,
the fcrt with all its embi asurts, would have been
incompetent to the task, notwithstanding the priva
teer lay immediately under, and almost hi the very
mouth of its cannon.
I have just seep an account in your paper of
Wednesday last, and also in Cheetham's paper of
the same day, of a disagreeable circumstance rela
ting to myself, that took place it the Mayor's house
on Tuesday afternoon last. Since you have thought
proper to put it in the papers, before my trial for
it comes On, which may be of injury to me, I must
ask you to publish a few lines in my favour.
I have for some time past been so il'-treated by
those that call themselves my friends, and met
with so many heavy misfortunes and losses in my
private property in shipping and- ft^-essels,
that I have once in a while been a little Zerenged
in my mind, as many of my acquaintance can
testify, hut to come to the case in hand—l recov
ered a judgment in the Mayor's Court, by a ver
dict of the jury, against David Sherwood and Rufus
Green, for 150 dhlare, for an assault and battery,
and after it had hung up four courts, my lawyer
told me last Tuesday that foe court gave judgment;
that the verdict should be null, and the defendant,
should haveanother trial, which would take a long
time more. Thih provoked me so much that I went
down to the Ma, dr's, he being the fountain head and
father of the city, to ask the reason of it and get
some consolation. He objected to telling me, and I
was carried away by passion and derangement tdi
gether, so much that I fergot myself and know nee
what I did,butfar which T&n here. lam sorry if!
used'any ill language or otherwise ill treated the
Mayor, ^ is alluded against are, and I hop#fa;
7b the Printer qf the Evening Post.
New-York, County Prison, May 25, 1804.
Sir,
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