Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-01-04 00:00:00, page 4

From Babie's travels among ^age Nations.
Although the Iriquois Indians affea to
hav- no jealouly, it is with them a violent
padion, the efeds of which are often dread
Washington-City, Dec. 9.
" The House of Representatives formed
a quorum on Tuefday last ; but a fufficieni
number of Senators have not made their ap
pearance, and it is worthy of remark that
the federal Senators such as Morris, Dayton,
Ross, and Co. have kept themfeTves away,
which has occasioned an extraordinary mes
senger to be dispatched to summon their at
tendance-one week has been loft to the na
tional business by federal negled-—but the
tory editors will endeavor to turn the loss of
time the other way."
Tn three churches of New-York city for
the charity fehool were collected lately 1100
dollars by contribution.
Samuel M'Clay is speaker of the senate of
Pennsylvania, and Isaac Weaver speaker of
the house of representatives.
Joseph Winthrop, is Danish Vice Consul
in S. Carolina.
The difmiffion of Gen. St. Clair is said
to have been consequent upon his late ad
dress to the convention. Says this modest
man, " We have the means in our hands to
bring Congress to reason, if we ihould be
forced to use them."
A letter from the Cape, of the 16th alt.
received in Salem mentions that the Brigands
had quit their situation at the back of the
town, and retired to the Mountains.
From Maine has appeared the form of a
petition, by which that diftria will be pro
posed as a new state. It represents that it
has already the necessary population, having
above 150,000 fouls. Its valuation shews
that it poffelles a property equal to the sup
port of government, and its 300 miles sea
coast promises all the advantages which
commerce, the fifhery and navagation can
afford.
rf "r mora ' agents, destined to pass a
life of change and trial here, and soon, very
loon, to land on the firm and immutable
ground of an eternal existence. The hap
piness of every part of life depends much on
our condud in the preceding period in the
fame manner the condition of the future on
the general tenor of the present.
Could but our tempers move like this machine,
Kot urg'd by passion, nor delay'd by spleen ;
But true to nature's regulating pow'r,
By virtuous a&sdittinguifh every hour :
Then health and joy would follow, as they ought,
The laws of motion, and the laws of thought ;
Sweet health to pass the present moments o'er,
And ererlafting joy when time shall be no more.
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NOW gloomy winter (hows his hoary head,
And nature's face is with confusion spread ;
Stern Boreas rambles forth with bluft'ring sweep,
I' explore th^ continent and (form the deep :
Awhile he ranges with despotic Tway,
'Til vanquifh'd by the genial lamp of day.
The foreit now appears with rueful mein,
The groves display a like ungrateful fctne:
No chearful verdure beautifies the field,
Nor can the vales their Wonted odours yield :
The open lawn, witheach dilated plain,
No semblance of their former bloom retain.
Now hurried vapors, fogs, and mitts arise.
Which choke the air, and (hade the envelop'd Ikies.
Impetuous rains in fable streams defeend, I
And various meteors in the tether blend.
The rapid floods, which from the mountains pour,
With voice like thunder thro' the vallies roar :
While echo does the noisy din provoke,
And joins the difeord from each vocal rock.
The silver ponds now shine in glit'ring mail,
And frozen clouds discharge the patt'ring hail.
A coverlet of fleecy snow o'erfpreads
The tow'ring hills, and clothes the naked meads,
No warblers now chaunt forth their lively (trains,
Nor with foft notes divert the lill'ning swains;
No plcafing object entertains the light,
Nor rural walks, nor sylvan shades invite :
No more we trace the mazes of the grove,
Tho' once our calm retreat and feat of love.
HOW sweet when the nightingale sings from the
grove,
When the moon is half hid o'er the hill,
When nothing is heard but the whispers of love,
And the found of the far distant rill.
How sweet with the friend of our bosom to stray,
Midst feenes such as these to commune,
And quitting the glitter and buflle of day,
Mend the heart, and the passions attune.
May this oft be our lot, so wisdom divine
Shall lead us a flowery way ;
So our Morning of life fliall mod brilliantly shine,
And its Evening be cloudless and gay.
Zemple of the q,ufts.
FROM CAPE- FRANCOIS.
Last week's Omissions.
THE SWEETS OF FRIENDSHIP.
LINES
Written in the Case of a Watch.
Indian Jealousy.
^rak Os ^foitg.
THE SEASON.
WILLIAM GARLAND
Informs the public that be bas taken
fore No. 7, PortfmoUtb Pier,
where be bus for sale,
10 hhds. W. I. Rum.
9 ditto Molasses, firft quality.
20 calks Gun Powder.
Whole, half, and quarter thefts
Bohea Tea.
With a general aflortment in his
line. 28/b Dec. 1802.
SAMUEL LARKIN
DEGS leave to inform his friends
in town and country, that (in
consequence of the late distressing
fire) he has opened a Store in Broad
freet, nearly opposite Major Hale's
corner, where he offers for sale,
A general afortment of
Weft-India Goods and
Groceries,
at the lowest prices ; —and as he
intends keeping no Goods but such
as are genuine, he solicits a ihare
of their favors. Constant attend
ance given, and punctual attention
paid to orders, however small.
Portfmoutb, Dec. 28.
JOSHUA BLAKE
HAS taken the store formerly
occupied by Mr. Timothy Winn,
in Buck-street, leading to and near
the Pier, where he offers for sale,
a large assortment of ENGLISH
GOODS, as cheap as ever.
Dec. 28.
Just Received from New- York,
And for Sale by
Stephen Deland,
25 Barrels best kind of New-York
APPLES,
per Barrel or single Dozen.
"Groceries as usual.
ful. On this fubjea I fliall relate a fa&,
which I have from a person who had lived
a long time among them.
A husband, not pleased with the condua
of his wife, but dissembling his resentment,
carried her with him at the usual time of
hunting. The year was favorable, the game
abundant, and the husband a good hunter ;
yet he pretended that nothing was to be got,
and alledged as an excuse, that he was under
the power of fafeination. The hunting sea
son drew to a close, the provisions were ex
pended, and the wife fuffered much from
hunger. The husband having harraffed her
in this manner for a long time, at last pre
tended that he had had a dream ; that he
was to attack the hut of his wife, during the
night, as an enemy, to make her a prisoner,
and to treat her as a Have. The wife, who
fancied that the should be able to elude the
effeds of this dream, as is often the case,
agreed that her husband should realize it.
This he did not fail to do the following night.
He attacked the hut, made a slave of his
wife, condemned her to be burned. He tied
her to a post, and made a great fire. The
wretched wife considered all this merely as
a joke, but (he was deceived. With the
husband the matter was but too serious. He
reproached her with her infidelities, either
true or pretended, and toasted her at a flow
fire, with the mod unfeeling cruelty. The
brother of this woman, who had for her the
strongest attachment, had set out to bring her
provisions, least she should fuffer from want.
He arrived at the place during the time of
this cruel execution, and was a distant fpe&a
tor of the dreadful fpe&acle. The hut was
opened, and he heard the dreadful sh rieks of
his sister. Having recognized her husband,
and his sister, without being perceived, he
did not long hesitate ; he pointed his gun,
and killed the husband. He then untied his
lifter, and learned from her the suspicions of
the jealous husband, and the cause of this
dreadful vengeance. The recovery of this
poor woman was hopeless ; the compassion
ate brother pitying her fufferings, stabbed
her with her own consent; and after having
paid the last duties to the body, according to
established customs, he returned to the village
and related the melancholy tale.
A clergyman in Sussex (England) at a
(ingle dilcharge of his gun, killed a partridge,
(hot a man, a hog and a hog-ftye, broke
fourteen panes of glass, and knocked down
fix ginger-bread kings and queens that were
Handing on the mantle-piece opposite the
window!
Extraordinary Shot.
G. DOIG and ce
Painters and Guilders,
WISH to remind their old friends and
the public in general, that they in
tend to carry on the
Painting Business
in all its variety as usual, at their shop in
Water-street, near Liberty Bridge.
Coach and Sign Painting and
Gilding.
Orders attended to with accuracy. The
molt trifling favor will be received with
gratitude.
N.B. A Servant Maid wanted.
apply as above.
Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.
Now Landing from sloop Juno,
AND FOR SALE BY
Waldron and Holman,
Superfine Galego's FLOUR.
In Store ; Iron, Steel, Nail Rods,
N.E. Rum, Cotton, Tar, Beef,&c.
ACCOUNT BOOKS
7 u f received from the Southward and forfale
at the Bookflofe of
N. S. & W. Peirce,
Opposite the Poft-Office, Buck-ttreet, Portfmoutb,
A lar^e assortment of
BLANK BOOKS,
from 3s to 12 dollars each :
such as Ledgers, Wattes, and Journals ;
Record, Letter, and Memorandum Books.
'The whole comprising a complete assort
ment, and warranted as cheap as can be
purcbafed in Boston or this town.
A bandfome assortment of
TRUNKS
kept couftantly for sale as above.
Books and Stationary, as usual.
NOTICE /
This s to warn all Persons
against harbouring or trusting WILLIAM
SHUTE, a minor, under the guardianship
of the fubferiber, he having left me without
m y approbation—l am determined to pay
no debts of his contrading.
SAM'I CHAPMAN.
Newmarket, Nov. 23, 1802.
EXETER -
DAY STAGE
Commences Running this Day.
THE fubferibers propose running their
DAY STAGE, for the accommodation
of the towns of Exeter and Portfmoutb, and
for Travellers in general. Leave Exeter
every Tuefday and Thursday morning at nine
o'clock, and return to Exeter on the after
noon of the fame days.
Faffengers bound weft, who wiffi
not to go through in a day, may be furnifhed
with feats in this Stage, and be assured of a:
passage through on to Boston on the following
days.
Faffengers bound eastward, who
travel in this line may be assured of a passage
on without any delay.
Seats may be had in this Stage by
applying at Hutchins' Tavern in Exeter,
and Davenport's Tavern in Portfmoutb,
where Stage Books are kept for that purpose.
far Fare from Portfmoutb to Boston Four
Dollars.
JOHN DAVENPORT,
EZRA HUTCHINS.
Exeter. Nov. 30, 1802.
FEATHERS.
Abraham Isaac,
Informs the public in general that he has
received a great quantity of
NEW FEATHERS,
which he will fell very cheap.
*4* He keeps Crockery & Glass
bfare as usual, as cheap as can be
purchased in town.
.Portfmeuth, Dec. 14.
SINGING. —
TH E fubferiber proposes to open a
SINGING SCHOOL on Wednes
day the 22d inst. at the house belonging to
capt. John Salter in Washington street ;
then and there any person may apply, and
be received on liberal conditions, as before
proposed. ASA SHAW.
* # * The Bass Viol taught likewise.
CT Cash and the highest price
given for RAGS, at the Ledger
EDWARD PARRY
Has taken a store in Congress-street, ad
joining Dame & Penbafow's store,
where he basforfale a
VERY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
GOODS,
which was purchased from the manu
, faflurers, and which be will fell at small
advances for cath or approved credit,
by the package, piece or retail ;
and aflures those who have
, money to dijpofe of fi r
any articles in bis
line, that they
will find it to their advantage to call at
Hrs (hop—
His Stock corffs of
I S° pieces of Superfine and
low price fafhionable Broadcloths,
from 6f. to 4of. per yard.
200 pieces Plain and Forest Cloths.
I go pieces fuperfine Coatings, Rat-
Iteens and Lambskins.
,40 pieces blue, red and green Serges
l and Fearnaughts.
135 pieces Fashionable Caflimeres,
from 6fto 21 /per yard.
50 pieces fashionable Swandowns.
150 pieces Baizes and Flannels.
200 pair Rose Blankets of all sizes.
200 pieces Durants, Tammies and
Moreens.
100 pieces Ruffels & Calimancoes.
I S° pieces Wildbores, Camblets,
and Cambleteens.
40 pieces Shalloons and Antiloons.
40 pieces blue and black Velvets
and Corduroys.
50 pieces Florentine and Lastings.
200pieces Irish Linens & Sheetings.
000 groce fashionable and com
mon BUTTONS.
10,000 yds. fashionable Chintzes,
and Copperplate Furnitures.
600 yards Dimities and Muflinets.
1000 yards fprig'd and Tambor'd
MUSLINS, from 3/ to 24/ per yard.
1000 yards Cambrick, jaconet and
Book MUSLINS.
600 yards English Bed Ticks.
1200 yards black Modes & Satins.
200 yards Pelicee Silk.
30 dozen men's Beaver HATS, of
the latest falhion.
20 doz. ladies' Beaver HATS, some
of which are veiy elegant.
; 30 doz. fafhionable Ronalloy Straw
Hats and Bonnets—Trimmings.
50 doz. Camels hair, Silk, Mullin,
Cambrick and Chintz SHAWLS.
100 doz. best Jersey and Wiltshire
men's knit Stockings, superior to any ever
imported.
100 doz. ladies' cotton & filkHofe,
Gloves and Mits.
2 Trunks of fafhionable MUFFS
and TIPPET S, Fur Sitawls & Wadding.
A large assortment of
Ladies' London made SHOES with
Water proof soles to fit.
An elegant afrrtment of
English and French LACES and
EDGINGS.
A large assortment of
Bed Laces, Fringes and Tassels.
English patent white and colored
sewing Cotton Thread.
Water proof Umbrellas.
20 bales 15 thread Cod Lines, Sew
ing Twine, Herring Netts, and patent
Shoe Thread.
With a general assortment of
Other Goods as usual.
,** Pot & Pearl Ashes, and Flax
,gSfed will be received in pay.
Congress-Street, PortJmoutb, Nov. 23, 1802.
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Fifty Dollars Regard.
WHEREAS one ELISHA ALLEN,
from Boston, did on the 11th inst.
hire a horse of the fubferiber to ride to Ken
sington, and has not yet returned, it is sup
posed he has absconded—the above reward
is offered for the said Alien and Horse, or
25 for either, The man was about 5 feet
10 inches high, short sandy hair, tolerably
well dressed. The horse was of a yellowim
colour, about 15 hands high, 8 years ^ld,
white hind feet, a white spot on the end of
his nose, a small white spot on the forehead,
and a dark stripe on each shoulder, with a
dark main and tail, trots all, high catriaged
Apply to WILLIAM BARTLET T,
! Newburyport, Nev. 23, J