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The Republican Ledger.
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©bolcfate prices Current.
AT PORTSMOU TH, (N. H)
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Current prices of per from to
, D. C. D. C.
ASHES, Pot, ^rt; T. 130' 6 0 c
, Pearl 140 o o o
Bread, Ship C 7 ° 9 0
Buttery Ib 0 16 048
Brimstone, C. 3 0 4 0
Beef, commori B. 11 0 012
, mess, 13 0 15 °
Beans, white , bit. 1 50 1 50
Brandy, Spanish 4/^ ,r .G. 125 1 3°
, Naples 4th pr.— 120 128
Corn, Indian -- 116 125
, Rye •- 140 1 5°
Caffiin lb °75 0 8c
Cloves -- 0 0 216
Coffee 0 24 0 2)
Cheese, American — 06 016
'Cotton, foreign fearce -- 0 4° ° s°:
, American J -- 03° °3 1
Cordage, American C. 19 0 20 0
Chocolate, common ft) 020 021
, best „.2&I -- 030 0 34
Candles, mould . — 020 022
/dipt — 017 018
Coals, foreign Ch. >6 0 18 0
, American none,-- 0 0 0 0
Duck, Rullia, if qual. Bt. 20 o' 22 0
, Ravens — 13 0 14 0
Filli, Merchant, none C. 0 0 0 0
, W.lndia mark. -- 0 0 5 0
Scale - 333 383
>Salmon ^^e B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 50 60
Flour, super. frefh — 13 ° 14 °
, firie --13 50 d 0
, middlings 10 50 ,11 0
, country C. 6 0 625
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
Flaxseed, no sale bu. 0 0 1 0
, Gun Powder # lb °55 066
Geneva, Holland iJlpr G. 1 25 1 33
, American -- 0 75- ° on
Hogs Lard ffi 018 020
Iron, Philadelphia T. 140 0 0 0
- f Russia -- 125 0 130.0
, Swedes — 1 3° 0 . 1 4° °
Logwood ' , T. 50 0 55 0;
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 15 0 16 c
, dry -- 1,350 % 0
, red - 850 ob
, Ihedt . ' — 0 o I 0 0'
Lemons /r^ Ibx. 9 0 100
Lumber, boards clear M. 17 ,0 18 0
; * , merch. -- 10 50 11 c
shingles ,- tSO 2 75
Molasses Q. 05° 00
Nutmegs lb 6 50 , 7 0
Liver Oil none B. 14 0 '5 °
Pepper • . lb ° 3<. °33
Pork, best pieces B. 21 0 28 0^
; Common 18 0 20 0
Peas ' bu. tSO 175
Pimento 1b O ' f s 0 16
Pitch, scarce; : N B. 6 o 6 0!
paper, Sheathing C. 425 4 50.
Redwood' T» 5$ 0 60 0
Raisins /r^ calk 825 . 850
Rum, Jamaica G. 117 1'25
, Windward ,- I o\„ I 8<
Rice ' C. 675 7 0
. Rosin B. 550 # o ,1
Soap, white ffi 014 0 16,
, brown - r : 0 10 o' 0
Starch, Poland 'ffi 025 d 30'
; American' 012-, 617!
Sugar, Havanhat tC. r) o' 18 50
, East-India — 13 ' 0 0 0
, Weft- India -' =ll 0 13 0
, Loaf lb 027 Q2B
Salt, St. Übes H. 0 0 650
, Turk's Ifand -- 6^o 0 0
, Liverpool -- p.Q 550
, Rock — 666. 7 0
Steel, German lb 016 019
, English -- 016 019
,S*k Petre, rough — 624 0 0
^hot C. 9 0 10 0
Tar B. 4: 50 5 0
Turpentine s^-- 4 0 ;§^
9 Tea, Hyfon ffi 1 10 • 0 0
< y Souchong -- 0 90, 0 0
, Bohea , °3 6 37 °
Tobacco, Jernes River C. 7 0 ^ o d
, Georgia A, & 's 0 °,6
Twine, sewing doi 567 6 0
,Teine 5.0' 5 50
Wines, Madeira G,. 166 257
Lisbon - f±l 13°
Sherry,fare? — 14 2 150
* Malaga fee. 26 0 27.0
red Patt ^nc— 0 0, 0 0
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PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, MULBERRY LANE, ADJOINING ROUS3ELET^ MUSEUM. ^,
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NUMBER 44. VOL. ll.] *
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War Department.
April 20 th, 1801.
Notice is hereby given;
That fepirate PROPOSALS
will be received at the office of the Secretary for
the Department of War until the expiration of
the 30th day of Juneilext enfning, for the supply
bf all RATIONS, which may be required for the
use of the United States, from the foil day of Oc
tober, 1801, until the thirtieth day of September,
1802, both days inclusive, at the following places,
viz.
First. At Pittfburg; at Fort Franklin; at
Le Boeuf, at Prefquifle ; at Niagara ; at Ofoe
go ; at Detroit ; at Fort Wayne; dt Michilli
mackinac ; at the Falls of St. Mary 's ; and at the
Grand Portage on Lake Superior.
Second. At Forts Washington, Vincennes,
and Maffac,; at the Cantonment near the mouth
of thh Ohio, and at any post or place on the east
tide of the Mississippi River, between the mouths
of the Oliio and Illinois Rivers : and at any place
or places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched or recruited within the date of Kentuc
, ky. ; '
0 Third. At Knoxville, Tellico, South Weft
Point, aud'any place or places where troops are
or may be Rationed, marched or recruited within
the Hate of Terineffee ; at Bear Creek on the Ten
nessee River, and at any place in the Chickasaw
or Chocktaw country between Bear Creek and
Natchez ; at the Chickasaw Bluffs ; at Natchez;
at Fort Adams and its dependencies, and thence
to the Mobile River.
Separate PROPOSALS will also be received as
aforefaid for the supply of all rations which may
be required for the use of the United States from
the iff day of January, 1802, until the jiff day
of December in the fame year, both days inclusive
Witi in the feteraf Rated herein after mentioned,viz.
Fourth. At Point Petre; at Fort Greene ;at
Fort Wilkinson ; at Fort Pinckney ; at Fort John-,
don , at Fort Moultrie in Chartefton harbor; at
Fort Johnson, Cape Fear, and at any place or pla
ces where troops are or may be Rationed, march
ed or recruited within'the ttates oßGeorgia, South
Carolina, and Notth Carolina.
FiFTfab At Fort Norfolk ; at Harper's Ferry;
at Fort M'Henry,; at the City ot Washington and
at any place or places where troops are or may be
ftationedj marched or recruited within the Rates
of Virginia and Maryland.
SixtiY. At Wilmington ; at Fort Miffin ; at
the Laboratory hear Philadelphia, and at any place
or places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched or recruited within the flames of Dela
ware and Pennsylvania, excepting Pittsburg, Fort
Franklin, Le Boeuf, and Prefgaifle, in the Rate ot
Peon'yvania. ,•
Seventh. At Trenton ;at Fort Jay ;at Weft
I Point, arid at any place or places where troops
are or may be Rationed, marched or recruited
within the dates of New-Jersey, and New-York,
excepting Ofwego and Niagara in the state of
New-Yorli.
Eighth. At Newport ; at New-London, and
at any place or places where troops are or may
be fusioned, marched or recruited within the
dates of Rliode-ifland and Connecticut.
Ninth. At Fort Independence, Boflon Har-,
bor, at Salem, at M^rbleheafl, at Portland, at
Portfmopth, at Bennington, and at any place or
places where troops are of may foe Rationed , march
ed or recruited, within the Rates of Massachusetts,
New-Hampshire and Vermont. : .
A RATION is.to confid 6f eighteen ounces of
bread or flour, of when neither can be obtained,
of one quart, of rice, or one and a bdf pound of
fifted or bolted Indian ideal, one pound and a
quarter of frefh be^f, or one pound of salted beef,
or three quarters ofa pound of salted pork ; and
when freth meat is iffbed, salt at tte rate of two
quarts for every hundred rations ; soap at the rate
Os four pounds, and candles et.the rate of a pound)
and a half for every hundred rations—The pro
posals will extend to the supply of rum, übifkey,
or other ardent spir its, at the rate of half a gill
per- ration, and vinegar at the rate of two quarts
tfor tevery;hqndred rations. The price of the sev
eral component parts of the ration, 4s well as of
[ fubflitutes and alternatives, mutt befpecified.
:The rations are to be furuiftfed in fifth q-uanfi
ties as that there fhallb^ at all times, during the
: 'term of the proposed cdptfa&s, be fufficient for
' the Confuiuption of the tfoops at Mtcbilimackiuac,
;Detroit, Niagara, and Ofwego, for lix months in
; advance, aqd at each of the other polls on the
Weitem waters for at fe'aft three months in ad
vance, of good andubolcfnme, provisions, if the
feme mail be require^. It is afro to 6e permitted
to ass and every of the; Commandants of fortified
places, or of posts, to call for at seasons when the
fame can be transported, or at any time in the case
bturgency, such Supplies of like ptovilions in ad
vance, as in the discretion of the commandant
(hall be deemed proper. It isto be und&good
that the contractor is to be at the egpenfe and'
nfk of i'fluing the Supplies to the troops, and that
all losses sustained by the depredations of an ene
my, or by the means of the troops of the United
States, shall be paid for by the United States, at^
the price of the article captured or destroyed, on
the depositions oftwo of more perforis of credita
ble characters, and the certificate of a commiflion
ed officer, ascertaining foe cirentfißances of the
loss, and the amount of th< |articles for which com
pensation fball be claim'ed,./ : , •' : .; " r
The privilege is to be understood to be referred
to the United Stares of requiring that none of the.'
:fuppltes which may be furnifhed under any of the
proposed contracts, (hall be issued until the flip
plies which have been, or may be furniflled under
contraas now in force, have been consumed, arid
that a supply in advance may, be afways required
at any of the fixed poftsof the sea board or Indian
frontiers, not, exceeding three months.;
't, . 1 Secretary of War.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1801.
PROPOSALS
For earning the MAILS of the United States
on the following routs will be,eceived at the
General Pofl-()ffice in Washington City, un
til.the igtb day of July tiext inclusive.
PROPOSALS ffionld be made in writing, and
may be forwarded by poll. There is no
occasion for those who enter into contracts 10
come to the general Poll-Office. When a Propo
sal is accepted the person making it is immediate
ly notified and the contract, &c. is sent jo the
nearest Pod-Office, to be executed in presence of
the Poll-Mailer, , , : 1
7. From Portland' by Scarboro', Biddeford,
Kennebunk, Wells, and York to Porifmouih, N.
H. three times a week. Leave Portland every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4A. M. and
arrive at Portfmouib by 6P. M. Leave Partf
mouth every Tuefday, Thursday, and Saturday,
at 4A. M. and arrive at Portland by 6 P.M. The
hour of arrival to be at 8 P. M. in Winter, Nov.
15 to April 15. v
, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
11. From Portfmputh by Dover to Berwick, Me.
once a week. Leave Berwick every Monday
noon, and arrive at Portfmourh by 5 P. M. Leave
Portsmouth every Tuefday at SA. m. and arrive
at Berwick by 1 p. m.
12. From Pgrtßnoutty by Dover, Rocheder,
Middletown, Offippee, Moultonbero' and Centre
Harbor to Plymouth, and from Plymouth by New
Hampton,J^eredith, Gilmanton, Nottingham and
Durham to Portsmouth ence a week. Leave Ports
mouth every Monday at 2 P. M. arrive at Oißppee
on Tuefday by 6P. m. Leave Offippee on Wed
nef'days 6 A. m. arrive at Plymouth by 2 p. m.
Returning — Leave Plymouth on Wednesday at 4
p. M. and arrive at Portsmouth on Friday by 6
P. M. nr
13. From Por ^mouth by Exeter, Kingflon, Ha
verhill, Ms. Ar/bver, Ms. Woburn, Ms. and Bed
ford, Ms to Zofton, Ms. three times a week.
Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at 5 A. M# apd arrive at Bolton the fame
days by 6P. M. Leave. Boston every Tuefd,,
Thursday and Saturday at 5 a.m. and arrive at
Portsmouth the farce days by 7 p. M.
14. From Portsmouth by Exeter, Chester, Lon
donderry, Archerfl, Peterfboro'. Marlboro', and
Keene to Walpole once a week. Leave Ports
mouth every Tuefday at 9a. m. arrive at Am
herst on Wednesday at 7p. M Leave Amherfl
on Thursday at 5 A. M. and arrive at Walpole on
Friday by 10 A. M. Returning — Leave Walpole
every Friday at 2„P, M. arrive, at Amhertt on Sa
turday by 6 p. m! Aid at Portsmouth on Monday
1 by 4p. M. , ,
15. From Haverhill NTs. by (Cheder, Pembroke,
Concord, Bofca wen, Salisbury, Plymouth and
Romneys to Haverhill N. H. once a week. Leave
Haverhill Ms. every Friday at 2 P. M. arrive at
Chester by 5 p. M. at Concord on Saturday noon.
Leave Cotacord at ,6 P. M. arrive at Plymouth on
Monday at §A. M.-apd at Haverhill N.<H. by 6
P. M; Returning —Leave Haverhill N. H. every
Tuefday at 8 A. M. arrive at Plymouth by 3 p. m.
leave Plymouth at 4p. m. and arrive at Concord
on Wednesday by 6p. M. Leave Concord on
-Thursday io A. M. arrive at Haverhill on Friday
by 10 A, m. ; • • ,
16. From Exeter by Newmarket, Durham and
Dover, to Berwick Me. once a week. Leave Ex
eter every Tuesday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Ber.
wick by ii a.m. Returning — Leave Berwick at
3 P. M. and arrive at Exeter by 7 p. Is.
In VERMONT.
37. From Brattleboro' by, Poultney, Westmin
ster, Walpole, N, H. Charleflon, H. H. Weathers
field, Windsor, Hartland, Hartford add Norwich,
to Hanover, N. H. tu ice a week—Leave.Brattle
boro' every Tuefday^and Friday at 1 P. m. arrive
at Windsor on Wednesday and Saturday noon—
Leave Wjnd for at IP. M. and arrive at Hanover
fame days by 6p. tri Returning: —Leave Hano
' ver every Thursday and Monday at 6 A. M. ar
rive at windfor by ,noon, and at Brattleboro' on
Friday and Tuefday at 10 A. M. ..
38. From Hanover, N. H. by Orford, N. H.
:Haverhill, N. H. Newbury, Ryegate and .Peach
am, to Danville, once'a week—Leave Hanover
every Monday at 6. A. M. arrive at Haverhill by
6. P. M.—Leave Haverhill on Tuety, by 6 A. M.
arrive at Danville by 4p. M. Returning — Leave
Danville Aery Wednesday at 6 A. M. and arrive
at Hanover on Thursday by 4 p. M.
39. from Haverhill, N. H. by Bradford, Oo
rinth, Walhingfop and Barre, to Montpelier, once
a week—Leave Montpelier every Monday 6 a.m.
and arrive at Haverhill by 6 P. M. —Leave Haver
:bill every Tuefday 6A' .M. and arrive at Moritpe
lier by 6p. M. , #
NOTES.
: Not 61. ,^he Po(|ina(ler General may alter the
times of arrival and departure At any time during
the continuance of the contrasts,.he prevjdgfly
: Pipulatirig an adequate compensation for arf ex
traexpeufe that may be occasioned thereby.
Note 9. Fifteen minutes fljall be allowed for
opening and &)fidg the mall at all offices where
no particular time is Specified.
Note 3. For every thirty minutes delay (°n&
voidable accidents Excepted) in arriving after
times preferred ih any contrasts, the contractor
firall forfeit Oh^dollar ; and if the defay continue
until the departure of any depending muil,where
by the mails defined for such dependfog mail lose
a trip, an additional forfeiture of 5 dollars fliall
,I be incurred. .. •
Note 4. Nefr&ters as well asletters a»e to
be sent in the mails Faud if any peffop, making
proposals, defireS to carry newspapers other than
those conveyed to the mail, for his owp emolu
ment, he mud datein his proposals, for what sum
he will carry it ,has emolumeiit and for
, what sum without that emolument'..
INote 5, Should any person, making-proposals;
defre ari alteration of the times of arrival and de
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.[1 DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM
parture above Specified, he mutt state in nis pco
pofals, the alterations detired, and the difference
, they will make in the terms ot his contrast.
Note 6. . Rerfons making prupofals are desired
to date their prices by the year.-Those who con+
trait will receive their pay quarterly,in rhe month
of Aogutt, November, February, and May, one
month after the expiration ot each quarter.
Note,.' The contrails for-the above routes
are to be in operation on the firft day of October
next, and tocontipue in force mini the ill Otto^
ber, 1805, excepting such routes as have a parti
cular note refyeßing the continuance ol the cor
trad. r :
Joseph Haberlham,
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General Post-Office, )
Washington City, ,
April 27, 1801. )-•
ll *! |l '* l,w,l| *«*»a«wnmß»ijiite«wjiiii
FRANCIS MAURICE'S
Dancing Academy
Is opened at Jeffedon Hall, every Tuefda r
and Thursday evening for the large^clafs;
and every Thursday and Saturday in the at- *
ternoon for the small. class., .'
^Jr. Maurice also proposes toteach, in
the fame Academy, that most beautiful and
ufeful accomplishment of the 'FRENCH
LANGUAGE, if there appears Sufficient
encouragement. , „
' CONDITIONS.
School for ladies; from 8 o'clock a. at,
to 12. For gentlemen, in the afternoon or
evening to 10. 8 dollars per quarter fo r
each scholar, one half to be paid at entrance
and the remainder at the end of the quarter.
12 fubferibers at least, for morning School
and 20 for the afternoon or evening. For
gentlemen, days, will be appointed fit their
convenience, twice a week.
N. B. .Mr. Maurice has taught the
French Language in Rhode-Idland Colley
Cambridge University, and Mvflik Acade
my, with Boyer's Grammar and Dictionary;
^hich has been proved by his fludents to
the most easy and flhorteft way to learn the
language, by those who are acquainted wif
their own grammar ; Mr. Maurice, there
tore recommends Buyer's grammar, and will
f° r ^ P u P i!s > if applied for.
'°W C '^"°° 1$ !°^ ed ^' his boarding,
h p' e ;,,^ ton -ft re et, near the Bridge,
Portsmouth, June 8, 1801. 6
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Gentlemens Taylorfo,
IN THE NEATEST & NEWEST FASHICNS,
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!°'r • Burnham, rcfpe^fullv
informs the gentlemen of Portsmouth and
its vicinity, that he dill carries on his bufi
"'?" " s branches, back of Mr. Eaton si
Jeffrey's Row ; where he will, wait upon
them with piefoe. He flatters himfelf
while constant attendance to his bufmefs,to
gether with the neatness anddifpatch of'the
work which has already been put into Ills'
hands, and which he may be hereafter fav
ored with, foaH be observed, 'he (hall meet
the encouragement he withes, arid Secure the:
patronage of his former friends arid the pub-
To-she Ladies;'he tenders his
melt fintere thanks, for their kind attention:
to his advertisement in the last Ledger;-
and for the favors which they in future ifo
tended to confer on him :—But at the fame:
time has to regret, that as the person he
employed for thetf services, lefi'him abrupt
ly, be muff at pr^fent be deprived of their
favors.,
Portfmemih, June 3, ißcr.
A QUANTITY OF
POLLOCK FISH,
For fate by
Eliilia Wbidden.'
HATS.
FAMES RUNDtET,
Hai jujdrec&flper the MbiQ, fan tefa;
.° l '"' ge 'w rt ™ elt ^ °
Ladies, Gentlemen's ami Youths' beaver arid oilier
HA TS.
Portsmouth, May 18,iSco
,Rur Gentlemen tuay, be accommodate '
ed with genteel Btardin^dnd Lodging, in tiprirdte
family, in'a^ldafatftt tfthe'tQn—Ufl^
the Printers. fine 8.
^ Wanted, twofmart, athve Lads
as apprentices to a aoed bufmefs, anti tOrohbm 00, d
. encuuragemeat wi^t&gfeen ,btyairetfskeprhifl,„