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Congres^f the United States.
House of Reprefect afives.
Tuesday, Jan. „.
Petitions were presented by Ann Alricks, arid Judith
Crew, both of thed^i& of Columbia, praying to be freed
from their matrimonial obligations. Read and committed.
Wednesday, Jan. 25.
ITwo bills relating to the regulations of the city of Wash
ington, were reported, and referred.
A bill for fixing the salaries of certain Executive Offi
cers, was reported, and referred
The Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, on
various petitions for the encouragement of trades and arts,
reported at great length, and recommended an mcreafe or
diminution of the duties at prefentlaid on some articles,
end an entire exemption of other articles from duty. Re
ferre/, rs
^Tbe committee recommended; that Rags, Trifles, Antimo
ny, Burr Stones, Salt Petre, aid Cork be imported fr^e of duty,
•That the duty on Hats and Plated Ware, be raised to 20 per
cent-— That Brufbes, black glass bottles, flone ivere, window
glass, c annon balls, be advanced to 25 per cent. And that addi
tional duties be laid on foreign FiJb,Jiarcb, bair-powder, glue,
gun powder, printed calicoes, cordage, umbrellas, soap, tallow
candles, ^6.
LOUISIANA.
The bill giving effeft to the Laws of the '"United States
in Louisiana; which had come from the Senate with a
mendments, was taken up in committee of the whole. Af
ter a lengthy debate, the amendment of the Senate for con
^ituting Natchez as a port of entry Was concurred in.
Having made pregrefs in the amendments of the Senate ;
the committee rose, and had leave to fit again.
Monday, Jan. 30.
Mr. Leib, after some mtrodu<9ory observations, moved
the following Resolution :
Refolded, that a, committee be appointed to enquire into
the expediency of providing by law agaidft the appoint
ment of Judges of the United States to other offices under
the government.
A committee was directed to bring in a bill on the fub
j^ of the location of military lands.
The House appointed a committee of conference on the
fubjeft of the amendments to the bill making military ap
propriations.
LOAN OFFICES.
The House, in committee, rook up the resolution of
Mr Eppes, for a committee to bring in a bill for the dif
'tontinuanceof Loan Offices. The resolution was fappofted
by Messrs. Eppes and Smilie ; and opposed by Mr. Clay,
Elliot, and Randolph; and NEGATIVED, Nays 59.
Yeas 52.
Some bills for the regulation of the diftrift of Colum
bia were aded on.
THE JUDGES.
Mr. Randolph, of the committee appointed to inquire in
to the conduct of Judge Chafe and Judge Peters, fated
that documents had been received by them which occu
pied a considerable bulk, the printing of which would con
siderably assist their investigation.1
They were ordered to be printed.
Tuesday, Jan, fl.
SALARIES— again.
The House went into committee on the bill for fixing
the falrries of certain Executive officers. After the usual
forms of procedure, which it is unnecessary to detail, the
salaries were fixed as follow .•
Secretary of State, 1 : 5000 dolls.
Yeas, 80.— Nays 31 :
Secretary of the Treasury, s®oo
Secretary of the Navy. _ : 4500
And the salaries of the other officers the fame as in the
law which passed the House in a preceding pate of the ses
sion.
When the salary of the Post-Master-General was under
consideration, Mr. Varnum moved 350 c dollars, which is
500 dollars more than by the temporary ad of 1799. Mr.
Randolph moved 3000. After a Ihort debate 3500 wa
agreed co in c >mmittee of the whole. When it came be
" fore the House, another debate ensued; in which the larg
est sum was advocated by Messrs Varoum, El'iot, Lytn
and Holland ; and opposed by Messrs. Huger, Incas.
Nicholson, and Euftis ; when the question being taken on
3500, was negatived, 67 to 54 / and the blank wa 3 filled
with 3060. the duration ol the bill was fixed to three
years. The bill palled for engrossment, Ayes, 51, Noes 47
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Patent Medicines.
THE Subscriber has received at bis
Shop near the Parade, a large supply of
Qr. Leg's New London Bilious Pills ;
Aromatic Paste for the Teeth and Gums;
Beasley's family Plaifter for old fores,
burns, fcaids, &c. together with a general as
fortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES.
Ship's Medicine Chests put up at the
shortest notice.
JOSIAH DWIGHT.
Bortfaoulb, Feb. 11, 1804
=— m ns-.- — IBB,Hi !■.■. .a—
-— Cafli or Credit.
For Sale by JACOB WALDEN,
Eighty Bbls, of Alexandria Fine and Superfine
FLOUR,
of a good quality. Feb. 4.
Wanted to Purchase,
ONE hundred and twenty M. Bricks
eight and half or nine inches in length,
four and half ditto in wedth, and z| ditto in
thickness ; —alfo a quantity of Stones suitable
for a cellar, and a good substantial white pine
Frame, for a Store, 27 feet by 44 ditto. In-,
quire of the Printers, Feb. 11.
For Sale,
A few Hhds. good flavored, high proof
RUM, by N. A. & J. Haven.
Fefer, 4.
Perkins' Patent Pumps,
KEPT constantly for sale at No. 5
Merchant's Row, where may be had
RuffialßON; DUCK&SHEETING.
Particular Notice.
THOSE Persons who have purchased Tick
ets of Gilbert & Dean, in the sth Class
of South Hadley Canal Lottery, from No 4060 J,
to 10715, are requeued immediately to exchange
them for others, with Gilbert & Dean, or either
of the Managers—as the greater part of the a
hove Tickets were burnt in the recent fire. This
notice is of confeqrace to the holders, a speedy
compliance will & necessary. Feb. 6.
'J' AKEN out of the Bar Room of ths
Mason's Arms Tavern by some villain on
the night of the 29th December, or the morning
following, a piece of Linen, wrapped in brown
paper, mark'd Jeremiah Smith, Esq. Exeter ;
whoever will give information of the fame so
l that it may be recovered, shall receive one half
' the value of the fame on application to
J. DAVENPORT.
Portsmouth, Feb. 10, 1804.
NOTICE?" ~
1 HEREBY caution all Persons against
purchasing the following notes figged by me,
ns I have paid the fame, and am determined never
to pay either of them again, viz. one dated some
time in the y^ar 1 799, payable to one Charles
Rundle'tt, for the sum of two D>lhrs, on de-
I mand, the other to Joseph Gilman 4th, payable
sometime in September last, for fifteen Dollars.
Zebulon Gilman.
GilmanUm, Feb. 1, 1804.
LETTERS
Remaining in the Pofl-Office at York,
February 9, 1804.
Benjamin austin ; Mary Beal; Joshua
Bridges, 2 ; James Firzgerall ; fenny Ffm
ham; William Hutchings ; Job Hutchings ; Jo
seph Hutchings ; William Moulton; Elias Mein;
Sukey Main; Joseph Mmlton.ir. Sufapna M'Colly; t
Benjamin Preble; James Pib*lam : Lucy Pafys ;1
Daniel Simpson ; Robert Briar, Kittery ; Markl
Fernald, jr. do. ; Nathaniel Hooper, do. ; Samuel
Hammonds, do. ; Jofta'h^n Woodman, do.
DANIEL SEWALL, P. M.
Tyler's patent Grist Mill.
THE fubferibers have purchased of the Pro
prietors the exclufiveprivilegc of building, ufog or of
vending to others to be dfed; in the "State of Newhampffiire,
Tyler's Patent Grist Mill.
The tifefulnefs of this invention is proved beyond a doubt,
to those who have seen it in operation—Torhofe who have
not, the following is a specimen ; the expense of building
is less than the ordinary conftruLion; it is very simple,
and not fubje& to get out of repair ; it takes less water,
and very little room; more of them ma, be set in the fame
quantity of room, than any other; the building that con
tains it, is no more fubjed|to decay than any other building,
with a small expepfe of underpinning with stone ; it goes
free in severe frofty weather, without cutting ice—Any
gentleman wishing to fee them in operation, may be grati
fied inClaremont, Alftead, Surry, Peterborough,Dcrryfield,
Concord, Salisbury, Pittsfield, Moultonborough, Concord
in Coos, and many other places in this State. Gentlemen
who wilh to build mills upon this truly valuable plan, will
pleafc to apply to the fubferibers in Claremont.
ELISHA HITCHCOCK,
LEMUEL HITCHCOCK,
JOHN HITCHCOCK, jun.
January 27, 1804
Fifty Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS some mifehievous person or
persons did at a late hour on Tuefday
night latl, break open the North Meeting House
in Portsmouth,& did then and there ring the Bell,
uhich alarmed many of the inhabitants, and af
frighted others, as if the town was on fire.—
Therefore, the fele&men offer the above reward
to any person that will give evidence fufficient
to cohvia the perpetrators before any Court pro
per to try them.
GEORGE GAINS,I
MOSES WOODWARD, 0
SAMUEL HUTCHINGS, > SeleAmen.
ELIJAH HALL, (
EDWARD CUTTS. J
Portsmouth, Feb. 10, 1804.
LOST'
^ROM on board schooner Sally, Ro-,
-& bert Oram, mafler, two Bags of Coffee, after
flic came to Mr. Sheale's wharf, whoever will give
information of the fame shall receive ten dollars re
ward by ROBERT ORAM.
Portsmouth, Feb. ri, ISO 4.
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Attention.
ALL persons indebted to the fubfcii
ber by Note or Account, are requeued to
make immediate payment. It is highly probable
that he will retire from the prefeirt business by the
last of March. Those who have been in the habit
of negligence and still persist in it, mutt expea
no favors but such as law administered in common
form will admit of. OZIAS SILSBY.
NOTICE,
Rockingham, fs.
ALL Persons having demands on the
elhte of
.JOSEPH MARCH,
late of Deerfiled, in said county, cfquire, deceased,
are rtquefted to exhibit the fame for lettlement ; and
all persons indebted to laid estate are called on to
make immediate payment to
Anna March, Executrix.
Deerfield, Feb. 6, 1804.
Dijiria of N&W-Hampjhire, to wit :
BE it remembered that on the tvrenty
firft day of January, inthe twenty-eighth year
of the independence of America, William &
Daniel Treadwell, of the said Diffria, have
deposited in this office, the title ofa book, the right
whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the wards fol
lowing to wit: " Nightingale. A colledion
of the most popular, ancient and modern Songs ;
Set to Music. Selected by Sunuel Larkin." In
conformity to the aft of the Congress of the United
States intituled “ An Aft for the encouragement
of learning, by securing the copies of Mapq, Charts,
and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such
copies during the times therein mentioned."
Jon'a. Steele, Cletk
of the Didria of New-Hampfine
Atrue Co, of Record,)
Attefl, Jon'a. Steele, Clerk.
FRESH GOODS.
Just received and for sale by
EDWARD PARRY,
Market-Street,
A large assortment of
Superfine Broad &: Forest Cotton, Cambrick, and
Cloths, Cambric Muslins,
Coatings & twill'd Duffils, Chambroy Mullins of the
Flannels & Baizes, 1^,4 ftfton,
Kofe & Duffil Blankets, Callenade & sprig Mulling
Muffs and Tippets, of every description,
India Cottonßremarkabkebea, Irilh Linens & Sheetings,
10 chefts.BOHEA TEA, of the firft
quality
1 $ ^ ^ thread Cod Lines, cheap, by
wholefile and retail _Fcbruary 4,1804
Hosiery Find Hats / /
Manufaaured within Ninety Days. A
IMPORTED in the ship Tyger, from
I London, and for sale at
Cazneau Bayley's
Hosiery and Hat Store, sign of the
Spinning Wheel, Buck-street,
MEN'S plain and rib'd light color'd
Worsted Hose.
Ditto plain and rib'd black do.
Ditto plain and rib'd white do.
Men's worsted Gloves.
I Men's lamb wool Socks.
IWorfted Pantaloons, three threaded.
Women's black worsted Hose.
Ditto cotton do. Youth's cotton do.
Ditto lamb wool socks.
Women's black, white and color'd silk Gloves
extra size.
Ditto black, white and color'd cotton Gloves
and Mitts.
Men's flout black silk Hose.
Youth's worsted Hose.
Women's w >rfted Gloves and Mitts,
Men's, women's, youth's, and children's
HATS of a superior quality and the newest
!fafhion.
iWith a variety of other articles in the English
Goods line—All which will be fold bargain
for cafli. Portfmerutb, fan. 7.
Nathaniel White,
HAS removed from the Shop which
he has improved in Congref-Jlreel, to a
store in the fame street, at the corner of Vaughan
'freet, where he has for sale, a general assortment
;of GROCERIES,
very cheap, and of an excellent quality.
Should his friends with a supply, they may be
furnifhed with
Havannah Segars pr. box or retail ;
Best. Philadelphia Loaf& Lump Sugars §
;Brown Sugars, various qualities ;
Raisins pr. cask or retail;
Bloom and Muskadel Raisins pr, box
or retail;
' Rice per cwt. or pound ;
Warranted good Florence Oil ;
Weft-India Rum, and Old Spirits ;
Cogniac & French Brandy;
Wines; Cayanne;
Gin; Nutmegs;
Cotton; Cassia;
Coffee; Salt Petre;
Chocolate; Powder and Shott;
Hyfon, 1 Coiks;
Young Hyfon, — Demijohns;
Hyfon-fkin, M Candles;
Souchong, and )» GoodAmericanSegars;
1 Bohea J • Tobacco;
I Ginger; Seives;
Pepper; Good (having Soap;
Pimento; Bed Cords;
Mustard ; 7 Cioaths Lines;
1 ORANGES pr. hundred or doz.
Fre(h LISBON LEMONS pr. box
or retail. SALT — with many other articles in
the Grocery line. January 7.
Joseph Chase,
No. 7, Long Wharf, has for sale
300 Hhd. large Turks Island SALT,
suitable for country use.
20 Hhds. good flavoured RUM ;
20 thousand R. O. Hhd. STAVES ;
I!F^"'"'° — THE Brig Hope bur
and FISH, suitable for
■ra&gj[ihe Weft-India Market.
Pertfmoutk, fanwar, 4, 1804.
A Good Farm for sale,
THIS Farm is situated in Stratham,
on the main road from Portsmouth to Con
cord, adjoining Exeter river, containing one hwn
dred and fitiy or seventy acres, with a good House,
two good Barns, one forty two, and fixtv two, one
thirty and thirty feet, a good new Cider House and
•Mill, with other out buildings, an extraordinary
Orchard, containing about 1009 Pear and Apple
Trees, principally young and growing, a number
of best grafted Trees beginning to bear, said Or
chard will produce one hundred barrels Cider in a
middling season, and is likely to double in a (hurt
time, said Farm is well watered, wooded, and suit
ably proportioned for tillage, paflure, mowing, fait
marsh, fait beech for grazing in pasture, with an
inexhaustible fund of fait manure, for further par
ticulars apply to ABEDNEGO ROBINSON.
Stratham, February 4, 1804.
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To Let,
A FARMin the town of Portsmouth,
well flocked, and may be entered upon in
March neat,—apply tQ the Printers. Feb. 4.
Lines and Netts.
LADD and SMITH,
HAVE imported direst from the
Manufadories and now ready FOR SALE
by the bale, doten or tingle 18, 15, 12 and g
Thread Fifhirig Lines; Herring Netts of all sizes;
2 and 3 thread Herring and Salmon T&ine.
Also For Sale,
Best Bank Steel I ? Cod Hooks j
large, middle apd small quarter do. ; Mackrel, Bob,
and Gig do.; Fish Leads of different 6zes ; Fite
man's Splitting and Throat Knives, &c. &c
No. 5, Merchants Row, Feb. 3, 1804.
JOHN MANT--
has for Sale, at the corner of Market and
Bow-fireets, Springshill,
RUM, GIN, and BRANDY, per
bbl. or gallon, Hyfon, Souchong, and Bohea
TEAS ; Loaf and Brown SUGARS ;
No. i, and 2 Chocolate ; Coffee ; Span
ish INDIGO of an excellent quality pr»
dozen or less quantity ; GINGER pr.
keg, dozen, or lb. Gun Powderdo; Nut
megs ; Cloves; Pepper; Allspice ; Salt-
Petre ; Copperas ; Allum ; Red Wood;
Fuftic; Soap; Starch; Spanish Segars,
with most articles in the +
GROCERY LINE. dfl
Also American and English Shovels ,!
Frying Pans; Flat Irons; Cotton and
Wool Cards; Blocktin Tea Pots; Pew
ter Bafons; Spoons ; Knives and Forks ;
Jack-Knives; Pen & pocket do. Razors;
Sciflors ; Japan Cannisters ; do. Waiters;
Pins; Knitting & sewing Needles &c.
Iron Hollow Ware, viz.
I Small and large KETTLES ; Pots;
Dutch-Ovens ; Batons; High-pans; fpi
-Iders ; Skillets; Large & small Cart boxes,
Waggon do. & Chaise do. a large supply
of Dogs & AN DIRONSof all sizes; iod
&2od Hammered NAILS ; 4,6, 8,10,
& 20 cut NAILS ; English Bliftcred,
German, Hallbach & Trieste STEEL,
some . of which is suitable for Shoeing
sleighs;
LIVERPOOL SALT
per hhd. or bushel—all of which he will
fell low for Cash.
GUN POWDER.
50 casks Gun Powder, of.
good quality ;
Few hundred wt. PATENT SHOT;
Swedes IRON; Wes-India Goods g
: Groceries in general, for sale bv
WILLIAM WALKER,
at his Store on Spring Hili.
Portsmouth, January 28, 1804.
Picked up adrift,
ON Sunday, last, goth January, 1804
a Gondolo, —apply to
Daniel Staples.
Kittery, February 3.
For Sale by
T. MORTON,
Sign of the Golden Key, Congrefs-freet,
Two Doors from the Portsmouth flone.
HYSON, Young Hyfon, Hyfon-lkin,
Soufbongand Bohea Teas warranted. Cog
niac and Barcelona Brandy ; Holland's and A mer
ican Gin; Rum per hhd. or otherwise; Mad eira
Sherry, Lisbon, Claret, Port, and Sweet Wines, per
quarter calk or less quantity; Loaf, India zhd
Brown Sugars; Coffee; Floury Pollock Pith;
Salt ; Cotton ; Cards, &c. together with a /enersl
aflortment of
of the firft quality, and very low for ready cafli.
Attendance from fun-rife, until 9
o'clock in the evening. (t,f.)
Portsmouth, December 3, 1803. *
THE Subferiber gives notice that he
interims offering the last Will andTeftament
GEORGE SINCLAIR,
late resident in Portsmouth in the county of Rock
ingham, mariner, deceased, for Probate, at the court
to be holden at Portsmouth, in and for said
county of Rockingham, on the third Wednefda,
of February next, all Perlons concerned, may then
and there make their objeaions, if any they have.
Benjamin Cheever, Executor..
Portsmouth, fan. 28, 1804.
HE Subferiber having been duly ap
pointed adminiffrator on the eflate of
CHARLES ROBERTS,
Mariner, of Portsmouth, deceased, hereby calls on
all Persons having demands on said estate to prefen<
them for settlement, and all indebted arc require
to make immediate payment to
Joseph Hodgdon, lidminifrator.
Roehler, fauuafy26 1804. •
For Exchange,/
30 tons of Screwed Hay,
for Weft-India Goods—apply t/ thc Printers.
'Feb. ir. /
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