The Phoenix — Dover [N.H.], 1792-12-26 00:00:00, page 3

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The rage for Bridge building hat increased to
such an amazing heighth, that we learn it is in
contemplation to ere& one from this town over
Bloody point ferry to Newington—and that lots
are now felling, to build a City on the beautiful
peninsula leading to the ferry.
Cap:. Flag g, who has arrived at Porifmouth
since our last (from England) brings intelligence
that the Duke of Branf&ick with the combined
armies was still flying before the French troops ;
Who were in the highest spirits—and in daily ex
pedation of cutting off Brunswick's retreat, and
making his army prisoners.
A mechanic by the name of Garneer, has pre
sented to the National Assembly of France, a
model of a battery of markets, which may be loa
ded and fired by one man. By this mathoe a
min may fire zzo times in two minutes.
Some time ago, when the docks suddenly funk,
an eminent physician, who had a large property
in the funds, was called to visit a young lady, who
was vaporiffi, and fancied herfelf ill. The man
of science learned in the anti-chamber,that flocks
had fallen very low, and took the tidings To much
to heart, that when he entered into the chamber
of the sick lady, and was feeling her pulse, he ex
claimed, " Good God ! low, low, low, lower
Hill, lower still!" The lady immediately flatted
up, rung the bell with great force, and thus ad
dressed her waiting maid who came : " Oh ! I am
a dead woman : Dr. —• ——fays that my pulse is
lower and lower. I muff die. O Lord !to die
so young!" The physician, then recollecting
himfelf. exclaimed—" Dear Madam, it wan the
flocks I spoke of; your pulse is excellent, and you
Q in no danger, upon my foul Madam !"
TLohdon Paper.]
Abutment on the N. more of Deer IfLnd 60
Abutment on the S. ihore of Doer Ifiand, 93
Arch, — — 160
Abutment on the Newbury (here, 18;
Whole length of the Bridge, 1030
Width of the Bridge, 34
Average depth cf water at common high
water mark, 30
Heighth of the arch between Newbury and
Deer Island above common high wa.
ter mark, 37
Heighth of abutments above common high
water mark. 30
On Friday the 2d ult, was executed in Hilfbo
rough, Norttcarolina, Samuel Fuller, for the hor
rid and unnatural murder of his own son. Mr.
Fuller, till within a few years part has conducted
himfelf as a good and refpedable citizen, has rai
sed a family in good repute, and by his industry
and frugality acquired considerable property, —
Unfortunate for mankind, their passions in some
unguarded moment, get the better of reason and
every human feeling ; in the present case we have
a striking inHance. A man, near three score years
of age, unworthily takes to his bed an abandoned
woman.and keeps,her in defiance of a faithful wife
and a number of children who are the pledges of
his marriage vow. The unhappy one who fell a
victim to his rage, had frequently requested his
father to drive this infamous woman from his
house who destroyed the quiet of all the family.
On the morning of the fatal cataftrephe, this son
went with a resolution to drive her cff; when high
words ensued, and fobn after a gun wasdifeharged
by the father at his son, loaded with buck (hot, se
veral of which perforated his head and body,
which killed him instantly.
The President in his address to both heefes,re
cognizes the importance of a free communication
Os intelligence and information, by means of news.
papers, throughout the Union.
It undoubtedly becomes the repre feitatives of
the free people, in a free government, to pursue
every measure which can tend to enlighten their
constituents as the belt means of fecoring their
confidence, the surest basis upon which their laws
can rest.
DOVER (IVedneJda,) December 16.
A SON MURDERED BY HIS FATHER.
NEWSPAPERS.
" A gentleman 06 veracity that left Detroit
the loth of Odober, and arrived here last week,
informs that the vast supplies brought to the gar
risons, of Detroit and Niagara, indicated a firm
determination of the British court to hold those
polls in possession, unless compelled to give them
up by force ; that a constant and regular commu
nication with the Indians is kept up, by which
they are supplied with every neceffar, in abund
ance for carrying on the war—that the tribes in
contest with the United States, understanding the
disposition of the Americans were for peace,were
willing to come upon terms of reconciliation, For
this purpose, a council was to have been held on
the firft of OHober, at the Wamees-towu, about
60 miles from Detroit ; but the determination of
the council had not arrived when the gentleman
left that place.
^THIS immense lake, or rather inland ocean, is
said to be the largest body of frefh water-in
America, if not in the whole world. It approach
es nearer to the form of a square than any of the
larger lakes on this continent, aud has a coast of
more than 1600 miles. The greatest part of this
coast, however is bounded by mountainous and
rocky land, and the lake itfelf lies upon avast bed
or rocks, which at certain seasons, from the lim
pid clearness of the water, may be seen to a great
depth, huge, vast and irregular, and in some pla
ces" exhibiting an appearance of having been
hewn, and inclining the fpedator to believe that
large cities had been funk by some convulsion of
nature, of whose foundation these were tbe re-
mains,
In the summer time the waters, conflicting the
fuperfices of the lake, are tolerable warm, but if
you take it up from the depth of only a single fa
thorn it is equally cold with ice ; the long conti
nuance and extremity of the winter's cold, pre
vailing in the temperature of the waters, over the
fhprt and transient heat of the summer atmosphere.
Lake Superior is, in extent, about 290 English
miles from north to fouth and about 360 miles in
length from east to weft ; the 48th deg. of north
lat. passing thro' the middle of the lake, and its
westward extremity lying in 53 deg. 30. mitt, weft
long, from the merid, of London.
This lake includes several fine Islands, the un.
disturbed haunts of the native quadrupeds of the
sorest, feeladed from other parts of America by the
vast extent of the lake, and far out of view of all
other land, These Islands seem never to have
been inhabited by men, a superstitious notion ha
ving prevailed among the Indian nations that they
are haunted by invisible powers, inimical to the
race of man, avenging with the utmost severity e
very attempt to penetrate those lonely forefts.
One of these islands (Royale)\s at least 100 miles
in length, and about 45 in breadth. Maurepas
is something less ; both are covered with thick
wocds, and inhabited by deer, foxes, rabbits, and
a few other quadrupeds. How these came there
is a question not easily to be r olved, unless we
fappofe with some free philosophers,that the earth
'' He further fays, that is was the general opi.
nion, that the Indians would make peace on no
other terms,than fixing the boundaries of the fron
tiers along the course of the Ohio. He had seve
ral hours conversation with Col. Brandt, on the
fubjed, who, with about thirty warriors of the fix
nations were oh their way to the council : but
were delayed some time by the indisposition of
Col. Brandt. Many of the warriors of the dif
ferent tribes, he was informed, were willing that
the boundary line should be so run as to include
the towns of Galliopolis and Marietta, and the
country immediately dependant on them ; but it
was thought the former opinion would prevail in
the council."
From the Harrisburg Oracle, of November 19,
Upon miture inveftigarion it will be fouud,that
that part of the late Post Office law, which relates
to the carriage of newspapers has had an efTed not
intended when it passed, has materially cramped
the circulation of those truly valuable publications
-Mat pa-c of the law, it is therefore probable,
will undergo a total repeal, and the free convey,
ance of newspapers be made a general expence as
it is a public benefit.
Concise Description of LAKE SUPERIOR.
l^l^l CONTAINING upwards
C^of One hundred Acres ; buil-
Uif tig .
dings new and convenient—
i il^l Pi I produces Twenty loads of Hay, and
=^^\^J has pasturing equivalent. —It is an
inviting situation on the Great Road leading frQm
Dover to the upper Coos. It would be an ex
cellent stand for Commercial business, gratify the
Gentleman Farmer, or suit the taste of one who
wished to enjoy the sweets of retirement. For
further particulars enquire of
ASA PIPER,
Living on the prtmifu,
— ALSO—
A LOT of Unimproved Land in said town:
NOTIC E.
ALL persons indebted to the estate
ofCapt. THOMAS FALLING,
FORD, late of Somerfwortb deceased
intestate, are notified to make immedi
ate payment ; and those who have a
ny demands against him are requested
to exhibit the fame for immediate set
tlement to
THOMAS WALLINGFORD,
^dmiatfr^r.
It is now nearly thirty months since the firft
Newspaper was published in this town ——since
which time he has endeavored to give fatisfaftion.
to his friends—with what success this has been
attended—they are to determine. He still ardent,
ly wishes to ensure the approbation of the public
—by his future endeavors, in his line to give fa*
tisfadien. But he is under the disagreeable ne
ceflity of informing his customers, that he has not
received one quarter part of his pay for servicer
since his residence in this town —Therefore they
cannot take it amiss if he now calls upon them
seriously to pay him his honest dues—for ha
has been favorable so long that he has experienced
the disagreeable consequences, resulting from the
want of money to difeharge his boneft debts, he
has made out the account of all his customers,and
lAuft new insist up^n all those who are indebted
to him for Newfpspers, Advertisements &c. to
make immediate payment without FURTHER
notice.—He cannot let flip thii opportunity of
presenting his grateful thanks to those gentlemen,
from whose punctuality he has been enabled to
continue his business thus far and should the,
think fit to continue their patronage- -to give
them fatisfadion ffiall be the heighth of his am*
bition.
^ In future this Paper will be published on
Saturday, on account of the alteration in the arri
val of the mails.
A FARM in WAKEFIELD
The water in a large extent of this lake is 80 or
90 fathoms deep, and in some places is said to be
unfathomable. The navigation is equally, if not
more dangerous than that of the Atlantic ; the
waves fuelling to avast height in gales of wind,
and at the fame time so short, that it is difficult for
a vessel to rife them. Fish abound here, particu
larly the sturgeon and the trout, which grow to a
size unknown in the more eastern parts of the U
nited States. Many rivers empty into lake Supe
rior, of which two are very large on the north and
northeast ; and are partly difeharged thro' St, Ma
ry's Straits into lake Huron, and partly through
subterranean passages.
Notwithstanding the pretended influence of the
moon upon the waters of the great ocean so as to
occasion tides, she is found to occasion no such in*
fluence over the waters of lake Superior ; which
she surely would have to a sensible degree, if there
were any truth in the Newtonian theory of the
tides. There is a gradual swell, however, in the
lake, which rises to about three feet four inches in
seven years and a half, and in the fame space of
time again falls gradually to its former level :
Nearly the fame thing is observed of the Caspian
sea in Asia. —
the EDITOR tc his CUSTOMERS.
itfelf is alike prcdu&ive cf vegetable and anima
life.
To be Sold,