The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-05-28 00:00:00, page 3

WORCESTER, MAY 20.
We hear that the Members of the General Court
es this Commonwealth for the year enfuing,will not
he near so numerbus as the laft.—lt is therefore
hoped there will be " left noise, and more ework."
It is said that the new assembly of Rhode-Ifland
will be as much opposed to the new Conftltutic'h as
thcfe who have gone before them.
BOSTON, MAY 26.
The PRESIDENT,
We are happy to learn by letters received last
evening from the feat of Government, was, at the
date thereof, in a state of convalescence. That his
health may be restored, and his life and ufefulnefs
long continued, is the continual craifon of all ranks
and conditions of his fellow-citizens.
On Monday evening, the Hon. Chief Jud^e JAY,
2nd Judge CUSHING, arrived in town from the
Eastward, on their way to the feat of Govern
ment.
The Hori. John Lawrence, Egbert Ben
son, and James Townsend, Esquire„ are eleded
Federal Reprefenta ives for New-York.
A correspondent has communicated to us the fol
lowing abftraft of the cargo of the Ship Federal/)?,
Capt. Dale, lately arrived at Ne^-l^rk, from
Canton, China:
1706 Chests Hyson Tea,
4to do. Souchong do.
66 do. Bbhea, do.
>4,000 pieces of Nankin.
The Convention of Rhode-Ifland— met ori Monday
last at Newport- —Whether or-not,they have adopted
the Constitution of the United States, we have not
Thf Naturalization Laws of Maryland are pub-
Ethed in the Gazette of that State, in the Ertglifo,
tahnd Dutch languages.
" The Senate is employed in framing a Bill
for prohibiting all intercourse with Rhode-Ifland
by land or water, after the firft of July, and also
to require the payment of your quota of the debt,
without delay.
'' If Congress Ihould begin to coerce your State,
they must proceed ; and I Should suppose that your
Oppofers would readily fee the prudence of prevent
ing coercion, by an immediate return to their fe^
deral duty. What is now before the Senate, and
which is fapported by a majority perfectly disposed
to bring your State into the Union, ought to be
made known in your State. The people in the
' back parts ought no longer to be deceived with
the idea, that the condition of single independence
is an eligible one. I sincerely with your efforts may
facceed on the 24th."
NEWYORK, APRIL 30.
Extra? of a letter from Kensington, Jamaica, April 5,
" A private letter, from Carthagena, mentions
that the Spaniards are extremely jealous of any
foreign vessel, upon any account whatever, en
tering that port, as well as others upon the Spa
nilh main. That the government seems to be
exceedingly agitated, not only from internal con
vulAons, but the dispatches from old Spain, which
breathe nothing but vengeance upon any who fhal)
attempt© propagate the French ideas of liberty,
&c. in their Affierican empire. The British fri
gate Amphion lately attempted to get itfto that
port ; but was peremtorily ordered away without
the least ceremony or regard to her errand. ^is
certain that both Indians and Creoles are very
troubiefome, in some parts of the interiour coun
try, ^nd that the government has ordered many
fortifications to be demolished, for fear the insur
gents should get possession of them. 1 may hazard
an opinion, South-America (as well Mexico as its
dependencies) will as naturally by her own weight
fall off from Spairt, in less than half a century as
the United States did from Great-Britain, and
possibly with less violence. Ambition is natural
co all mankind, which, as well as the distance of
their connexion, the impotency of old Spain in
disunion with France and the intrigues of the cler
gy, will soon pave the way to a complete indepen
dence."
Monarch, and desire bis rekafe ; and we are informed
that the President has accordingly Jent dijpafches to
Mr, Carmichael, relative thereto^
Mr. Langftaff, a merchant of CharleftOri, (S.
C.) has received an extraordinary Turnip, which
was raised by Captain James Vincent, late of the
Continental army, on Cumberland Island. It
weighed when firft taken oat of the ground, about
three months since, golb/fince which it has Ihrunk
near one third, and now weighs tybs, it is in
found order for re-planting to procure feed.
PROVIDENCE, may 20.
Extract of a Letter from a Member of Cengrejs, New-
York May 11, 1790.
Every friend to his country, to science, and the
liberal arts, must feel the most pleasurable sensa
tions in^obferving the rapid improvements, which
are made in the various branches of mechanick arts;
—lt is with pleasure we announce, that our country
man and tewofman, Dr. Josiah Leavitt, has
lately ceftruded and completed an Organ under a
Hatpficord; a piece of mechanism .so curious,
was never before attempted or executed in A
merica: Either iriftrument may be played upon
Separately, or with the greater ease, be connected
together. The tones are exceedingly fweet,and when
combined, afford a most rich a^i proofing variety.
Those Ladies and Gentlemen , ,of taste and know
ledge, who have seen and heard it, have not hesi
tate d toexprefs their approbation ; and Mr.SELBY,
whose fuperiour knowledge is too well known to be
doubted, has pronounced as his opinion, that it is
fu periour to any instrument of the kind he ever
saw. It was built by desire of, and is now owned
by Mr. Ariel Smith, of this town; Dr. Lea
vit has begun another, to be put under a Forte
Piano, to be completed in two months. A Harp
ficord alone is truly plbafing, and a Forte Piano
alone extremely agreeable ; but when combined
with an Organ, and touched by the fingers of the
Fair, are truly rapturous and transporting.
From Baltimore in the fix months from Oftober
to April, there was exported—of Flour 89,204 bar
rels ; of wheat 229,262 bushels, besides vast quan
tities of meal, bread, &c. to England, Ireland,
France. Holland, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the
Weft-Indies, and other foreign ports. We men
tion this circumstance, as demonstrable of the ob
servation made some time since, That America will
become the Granary of the World. -The exports from
the small, though flourifhing port of Baltimore in
the months above mentioned, of provisions, &c.
were worth at that place above a Million of
dollars.
Pumpkins is one of fhefe ; For railing a crop of
pumpkins, choose a piece of ground near the- farm
yard ; a light loam, foil answers best ; plough it up
in the fall, then cross ' plough and harrow it in the
fp r i h g ; furrow it out in squares of ten feet each,
and provide a quantity of well rotten dung,
and particularly hogs dung in preference to any
other.,
, In the last week of May dig holes at the inter
fedions of the furrows, and throw in each two or
three shovels full of dung, mixing it well with a
parcel of mould dug out of the holes. About the
tenth of June mix again the dung and mould in the
holes, and plant the feed. The yellow flefhed
round pumpkins 'or the flat ribbed fort are reckon
ed the best. After the feed is planted, plough up
the ground Between and harrow it ; and while the
plants are growing, plough and harrow the ground
as often as is ne,ceffary to keep it loose and clear of
weeds, always hand hoeing round the plants. It is
the pradice of some to make up hills and plant the
feed in hills : „Thi, may be proper in England, from
whence I presume, the practice has been brought,
where the summer fun is weak and faint but it is
certainly improper m this country under the fchorch
ing fun, and where summers are commonly dry;
and therefore the' holes, when the dung and mould,
are mixed in them for planting should be somewhat
lower thin the furface of the adjoining ground.
About fix or feveri feeds should be planted in each
hole; but when the plants are up and out of dan
ger from flies or infests, then the weakefl should be
plucked up, and only three of the most vigorous
plants left in each hole.' When the pumpkins are
ripe, gather them into heaps, laying them on a
thick bed of riraw and cover the heaps well with
draw, to guard them from froft. They are excel-^
lent food for both cattle and hogs. They are to be
brocken or chopped in pieces and given to the cat
tle in troughs or thrown upon clean grass. Several
farmers have fattened both hogs and cattle entirely
with them.— The produce is immense. It is cal
culated that an acre of ground may be used in fnc
ceffion for any number of years.
On Thursday evening, a small fifhing schooner
in coming up the harbour, ran on a ledge of rocks
near the spit of sand, and immediately funk, by
which accident Mr. John Mansir, of Charles
town, and his eldest son, were unfortunately drow
ned. ~
THOUGH crops of torn and potatoes, barley,
clover and wheat, may be considered as the
staple articles in farming, yet there are other arti
cles o' produce which deserve the attention of a
farmer.,
,R>M THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
NOTES on FARMING.
CURIOUS ? M£CHANISM.
Next Wednesday the honorable Genual Court
of this state is to convene at Concord agreeably to
adjournment.
^ —
DIED] —At Cape Erancois, Capt. Ebenezer
A R ^lSTONG,fofyerfy of Boston, aged 28.
At Dedbarn, ^t, Howdin le Boucher, late cf
Guardaloupe, aged 22.
At Be,lon, Mrs. Ann Card, aged 71.
At Killingworth (Conn.) Benjamin Gale,E,fl
aged 75.
At Newhaven, Dr. Hezekiah Beardsley,
^42.
At Surry^ in this State, Mr, Lemuel Field.
At Swanzey, Mrs. Hannah Statton,aged 23,
At Keene, Mrs, Briggs.
At Portsmouth, Mr. George Boyd, eldest Son
of the late Hon. George Boyd, Ejq.
At Kensington, Mr. Israel James — aged 77.
In this town, on Saturday the 22d infant, after a
fort illnefs — Col. Samuel Folsom, aged 60.— 8 y
this melancholy event, his family is deprived of a hu
mane, sincere and affectionate Hujband, a kind and
indulgent Parent—and the town, a ufeful & worthy
member of Society : and
On Wednesday lafl, Gen. Nathaniel Folsom,
aged 64 — His ficknejs was fart, hut painful —which
he bore with the greatest fortitude & chriflian patience.
He has often manifefed the excellency of the chrifiad
religion—met Death like a Chriftian —and could /reel,
make u/e of the words of the great Apofle, O Death,
where is thy Sting ! O Grave, where is thy Victory!
His undiffembled Piety was an Honor to the Church of
Christ, of which he was a member for man, years.—»
He has filled severalf everal important offices in the Service of
his Country, both before and face the revolution, all
which he difeharged with the greatest fidelity. —In his
disease, his friends and connexions have met an irrepa
rable loft —and the town a worth, member of Society.
—He was an affeXionate Hufoand, an indulgent Pj
rent,an amiable, sincere Friend —pious, benevolent, and
charitable. His remains this da, will be removed to
The House appointed lor all living, from whence
there is no return.
In a letter from a Gent leman at Newycrk, of
the 13th initio his friend in this tov/n,afer menti
oning the Ravages the Influenza has made among
the inhabitants of that city, adds, " The PRESI
DENT of the U. S. is now confined to hi }bed,
and his complaints are of a threatening afped—l
hope, however, it is decreed, tnat he ihall soon
recover."
In another letter from the fame gentleman of the
16th inst: he observes—“ I wrote you a few day§
ago that The PRESIDENT was very unwell—His
disorder is a peripnumcm,, or an inflammation of the
Longs, attended with a violent fever.—lt is the -
opinion of the ghyficians, that the crisis was last
night—and.that he now has a profped of recover
ing.—l hope their prugnoftics will be verified—
for feeing the hand of Providence has so long di
refted the affairs of our Country, I cannot think:
that one of its chief instruments is to be removed
all on a fudeen, before we are prepared to meet sh
great a calamity."
We are hippy to add, Reports from the southward
corroborate the wilhes of the above Gentleman.
CASH, arid a generous price given
for LAMB-SKINS, with the Wool on, at the
Shop of William Kelly, near the Academy.'
Exeter, Ma, 27, 1790.
0 fold, A New Milch COW,
cheap for Case, and feort credit given, if a,pli~
edfor fan. Enquire of the Printer. Maj lfl
p, To NonreJident Proprietors of land.
SALE of Nonresident Lands in the town of
Cornish, for the years 1785, 1786, 1787,
1788 and 1789, will be by public advertisements on
the 3d day of June next, at the house of John
Morfs, Collector.
—- — In Candia, for the year 1787, the 17th
day of June next, at the house of Col. John Carr.
THOMAS Colcord, Collector.
STRAYED or stolen, from the pas
ture of Capt. Josiah Gilman, in, Exeter—-
A dark brown HORSE—about 14
hands high—trots and paces—white hind, feet—a
star in his forehead —hog-back'd—and cruked hind
legs. Whoever will bring the above Horse to the
fubferiber, shall be handsomely rewarded, and all
necessary charges paid. JOSEPH OSBORNE.
Exeter, May 27, 1790.
EXETER, (Friday,) MAY 28.