Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-09-07 00:00:00, page 3

Philadelphia, Aug. 28.
DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING.
Weare informed that the house of Mr.
Mark Balderfon, in Bucks county, was
struck by lightning, at ten o'clock on Wed
mefd?y evening lalt, which killed his wife
in the cellar ;and, at the fame time, a barn
was (truck and burnt down belonging to
Mr. John Ely. It is said that the house of
Mr. Balderfon also took fire and was much
inj tired.
In addition to the preceding melancholy
accident, we were last night informed, that
the Mail Stage, owned by Mr. Vandegrift
of Trenton, was (truck by lightning at a
late hour on Saturday night last while on the
load between Princeton and Trenton. The
lightning appeared firft to be attracted by
the iron on the back part of the carriage and
on the bind wheels, from whence it descend
ed to the axle tree and ran along the pole,
under the carriage, and inflantly killed the
four horses. Betides the driver, who was,
for a short period, flunned by the shock,
there were two or three passengers in the car
riage, who providentially eleaped unhurt,
although the body of the Itage was consider
ably fhatteicd.
The (form appears to have run in a nar
row vein, in an easterly dire&ion. Many
fields of Buckwheat in its course were near
ly destroyed by the hil. In many places
large trees were twilled off by the wind at
the trunk, or fhivtered to pieces by the light
ning.
C^ Republican Ledger,
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''TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUN?'
«.<44,^4fy§|»>+
r Portsmouth, (n.h.) SEPTEMBER 7.
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lift of Votes for Reprejentattoes to Congress.
Reputean. Anti-Republican,
^ortfmoutb, 3 1 ' 121
Newmarket, 7 1 3°'
Rye, 80 0
Durham, 76 44
/Northampton, 33 33
XenJingtort, 19 1?
Deerfield, 98 25
Nottingham, 36 17
Rochejier, 35 % 8
Dover, 63 30
Greenland, 49 6
New-Cajlle, ^4 °
Londonderry, 1 "6
Candia, 5 55
Barrington, 8 I°s
Exeter, 1 9°
Somerjwortb, 0 35
Milton, 9 7°
Brentwood, 0 35
Btratham, 34 ^4
%, ^ 4 8
£pjom, 43 0
Farmington, 9 36
Hampton, 30 21
Pittsfield, 0 23
Wolfsborougb, 60 24
Newchefler, 60 2*
Stoddard, 60 0
Ipswich, 107 °
Wilton, / 30 33
Safoury, 9 [ 21
Bedford, 30 33
Madbury± 22 14
Concord, IO 71
Chichefer, 22 29
Merimack, 22 30
Amberft, 9° 35
Dutiable, / 16 36
New Boston, 55 37
Lyndborougb, 43 x 7
Litchfield, , 40
Antrim; 6 3 II
Peterborough, % 37
Derryfeld, 8 ll'
Milford, 5_ 88
>9® 5^
Latett ^ tbs ®ails,
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Richmond, Aug. 25.
ON Monday mornine, about five o'clock
a smart (hock of an earthquake was felt in
this city. Its noise resembled that of the
roaring of a chimney on fire, or the rolling
of a carriage on the pavement.
Albany, Aug. 23
It is a melancholy truth, that the most
flattering profpeasfa few weeks since) of
one of the greatest Wheat Harvells this State
and Vermont were ever bleffcd with, is, in
a moment, bladed. In the nothern and
weftern counties of this State, the failure
has been very general ; along the margin of
livers, and in low lands, in many places
there is a total failure ; large straw but no
wheat. In the uplands, in some places, it
is estimated that seven tenths of the crops
will fail, and from all the information we
can gather, we fear the average loss in this
neighbourhood, will be at lead one third of
the whole crop.
Perfection ! Horrible Persecution ! !
From the cry of persecution which has been
raised by the Feds, on account of the dismissals
which have taken place lu the rdi-oHUc Depart
merit, one would suppose that not a man of th&r
" feft” was left in possession of an office 1
^hat is the FACT^
There are in the United States one thousand
and ninety-five Deputy Pott-Mafters who are ac
countable to and removable by, the Post Matter
General. These, when the present administra
tion came into office, were almost to a man Fed
eral. Os these 1005 deputy-poft-maftters, but
FORTY-FIVE have been dismissed ! And a
large majority of this small number were dismis
sed for mal-condutt, and other fufficient reasons,
independent of political fentiments.— ib.
[The following quaint SONG, is extracted frem the
Hornet, a Democratic paper published at Fred
erictoun, Maryland.]
See yon pack of Jad Feds,
How they hang down their heads,
In deep grief for the lots of their places 1
'But they'll never more rife,
Though they cry out their eyes,
And extend a full yard their long faces.
For Republicans flout,
Will with rapture keep out
Such chaps, for the good of the nation ,
They may foam, they may fret.
But we'll hold 'em a bet,
CT Not a man will regain his loft flation.
A BRACE OF FEDERAL CAPTAINS, AND
JEFFERSON-HATERS !
A Capt. Charles Hyde who has been dif
niffed from the military service by the Pres
ident, in perfuance of a late Law of Con
trefs reducing the army, writes thus to a
friend r
“ Through the prevalence of Jacobinifm,
the PreJident has deranged me : I hate him,
by God ! By God I hate him ! I hope you will
help me to hate him ;for I can't bate him half
bad enough !"
This fellow seems not only to have fuf
fered derangement in the army, but in his
intellects. —7. Amer.
[Capt. Hyde was paymarter to the firft
regiment, and we are informed, that on fet
tling his accounts, he bated the Paymarter-
General, to the amount of 5000 Dollars—
which will account for his not being able
to hate Mr. Jefferfon " half bad enough."]
—■ l ■■■■
Our readers will recollect the brave Capt.
Michael who, when discharged from the Jer
vice,faid, " Our infamous PreJident has
ordered me into civil life," This Michael de
fertbed in the following Letter is the fame
INFAMOUS SCOUNDREL.
From the (Lancafer) Intelligencer.
By desire.
Extrafl of a letter to the Editor of the Auro
ra, dated Niagara, July 24, 1802.
" Notwithflanding the disappointments
of so many of the Menonifts, who travelled
from Pcnpfylvania across the Genneflec to
COMMUNICATION.
Mr. Nutting,
I was happy to fee, by the last Oracle, a friend
to the injured Mr. Smith has taken some pains to
trace the ridiculous and unlikely (lories propagat
ed about him, by a person whole character is dif
pifed, and who appears to be unwilling to link
into infamy alone, but wishes to drag the inno
cent along with him. The reports (like those
propagated about our blessed Saviour) are all
found to be falfe.
I feel, also very much gratified, that We are
likely to have inch an able, fenlible gentleman
as Mr. Smith is, to fettle amongst us. Asa preach
er, he is certainly beyond the generality.. And as
a fobfcription is on foot to build him a Meeting-
House, I hope those friendly to the most brilliant
talents, and abilities, as well as piety, will hep
forward and encourage so laudable an endeavor.
" Tho' reviled, yet he reviles not again."
It has been said by the Republicans, that no
virtuous adminiftration.could be battered down
by Paper-fat. The Feds, are determined to
make the experiment, and have accordingly com
menced and kept up a constant fire upon the pre
sent administration, from their whole park of ar
tillery, directed by Major-General Hamilton.. No
breach, however, is yet discoverable ; and we
venture to predict that their ammunition will be
expended, their ranks thinned by dejertion, and
they finally obliged to relinquish the attack.
Mir. Adams fays in his letter, that in England
theßoyalills " have succeeded in rendering the
wods Republic and Republican unpopular to such
a degree that with a great majority of that na
tiol a Republican is as unamiable as a witch, a
blaphemer, a rebel or a tyrant."
jhe people of America have not forgotten,
andought never to forget, the attempts which
hate been made to render these words unpopular,
and odious in this country. That Mr. Adam's
hinfelf has officially declared that “Republican
ifa meant any thing" or nothing, as he has in this
letter averted “ that there is not in lexicography
a more fraudulent word than Republican." That
CoBBETT, the fofter-child of Federalism, pro
nounced the love of liberty a ''leprofy," and
Democratical government a “ knavish farce,"
That nothing which would tend to bring Repub
licans and RepublicaniJm into detestation, has
been left unsaid or unwritten by the federal ora
tors or writers, from the late president of the U
nited States to the late editor of Porcupine's Ga
zette.
But all their drivings proving ineffectual, and
the name, the principles, and the advocates of
Republicanism, becoming every day more and
more popular, the federalifts, having by their
conduit disgraced their own name, impudently
assume the name of Republicans, which they have
so long, and earneltly labored to render con
temptible. This plan cannot, however, succeed.
The people are attached to principles, not to
names. And until Federalists can change their
nature, they have no room to hope for the favor
of the people, let them assume what name they
may. A mad-dog is not the less dangerous for har
ing a harmless name.— N.J. True. Amer.
TOQ3wwwmtmro¥TOU &
^bip jaetog.
Davis' Marine Lift.
Arrivals and Departures since August 31.
Aug. 31, failed snow Equator, Rindge, Martinico.
schooner Industry, Walker, Weft-ladies,
schooner Amity, Treiethen,Philadelphia.
Sept. 5, failed (hip Horace, Parker, India.
Sept. 8, arrived brig jofeph, Salter, Demarara.
brig Little Cherub, Appleton,Weft-Indies.
VESSELS ARRIVED.
At Boflon, brig Apollo, Crocker, Isle of France;
British fchs. Joseph and Lois, Bain, Windsor ; Ad
venture, Swain, Shelburne ; ship Pallas, Dalling,
(of Salem)fr. St. Petersburg, with hemp, iron, &c.
At Quarantine, ship Mary, Gray, from before
the Havana, being refufed admittance to that port ;
brig Elizabeth, Gibson, St. Vincents; fchs. Dol
phin, Adams; Snrrinam ; Gardner, Clifford, An
tigua ; Rhoda, Green, Martinique.
At Salem, brig Catharine,Gould, St. Petersburg ;
sloop Bluebird, Millet, Wilmington ; fch'r Waldo,
Curtis, Richmond ; ship Riling States, Beckford,
Cronflaii and Copenhagen ; brig W'm and Henry,
Boden, Cadiz —left there about 15 fail of American
vessels, lames not recollected.
VESSELS SPOKEN.
Aug. 25, longy 68, brig Galen, 2 days from
Kennebunk, for St. Vincents.
REMARKS.
Capt. Lord, of New. London, informs, that there
have bepn 22 tail of American vessels cast away on
Turks kland, and the Caicos—A severe gale of
wind was experienced in the East Sea, about the
26th Ju,e. No damage was heard of excepting
that among the Ruffian men of war ; many of
which feftained considerable loss in men and Ipars.
—Foulteen fail of American vessels, mostly in
ballad,paffed Elsinore, from June 1, to July 8.
COMMERCIAL.
Prices at Cadiz —Flour 10 1-2 dols ; Rice 8a 9;
Flhy ; Beef 13 ; Pork 21; Pipe Staves no;
Hhd. de. 70 ; Barrel 37 ; Tar, Pitch and Turpen
tine, no price, dull.
TO MARINERS.
London, July 16. A new Light House has late
ly been erected in the Baltic. It is situated on the
S, point of Tclfter, named Giefder Odde.
this place, and who attempted "
dements in the Britiib territories
my arrival here that several otl^l
are now removing hither, and U„
remove soon.
“ Capt. /JV^ca,l have
about ; he left this place rnuchs
went off secretly ; for months ■
crols the rivei , be was twic
the states fide, and for so
(fir outside of the garrison, lel j^^
fliould catch him. After all
consequence, he did no credit
and even now has left his Friflffi
lurch.”W
Capt. Michael has rendered himfelf
of ridicule.—Some rhymester in the \=
zette has tins paraphrased his letter
DEAR brother, unto you 1 wrp||
To tell my sorrows o'er,
For ne,er was your brother Mic.j^re
△Aided so before.
Were you to fee me as I am,■
'Twould scare you half to deu^E
For sorrows vex me so of late, ■
I scarce can draw my breath, ■
Our President, “ infamous" man ■
Hath robb'd me of my life ; ]
Or what was dearer far to me, ■
Than children or a wife.
My dear commission now is gone,
.And with it all my joy.
Where (hall I go to seek relief,
Or where to find employ.
I cannot work, I scorn to beg
, My bread from door to door !
Oh ! never was this heart of mine
Afflicted so before.
Farewell to eife, farewell to weahi
I'm doom'd to '' civil life,"a
No more to wear my silver fwor 1
And hear the drum and fife,
ANOTHER DUEL.|
On Saturday the 31st July, a duel
on the ealt bank of Savannah River, be.
ter L. Van Allen, Esq. Solicitor Genl
William H. Crawford, Esq. Attorney a
They exchanged two fires, the firft wasl
effeft, but the second proved fatal to then
He received a ball about two inches
right hip, it palled through the abdew
lodged against his left hip bone, from
was extracted on the ground. He livj
thirty eight hours.— Augufla Herald. I
Weare happy to learn that the (U
of New-ferfe, is rapidly rebuilding
the beams and joists in the house area.
the roof is on in part, and the workmen
covering it. The doors and window Talh
are made; and it is expected it will b rea
dy to be re-inhabitea in the nonth of sNo
vember. .
Richard Bassett, Esq. appointed by
the late President, as a Circuit Judge, has
publithed at Bohemia, in Delaware, a lon^
protest against the Adt of Congress whicl
repealed the a& undet which he was ap
pointed With what view, time will
determire.,
Prom Philadelphia, Aug. 31.
In otr Walks through the city yefUrday
we observed many of the (hops and (lores
that have for some time part been (hut; dis
playing their goods, and inviting customers.
And we are told a great number of our fel
low-citizens intend returning in the course
of the week.
By the report of the Board of Health in
Philadelphia, of Monday last, it appears
that five persons had been reported as all of
fever ; —that one had died in the hospital,
and that only four remained therein.
The persons who shall make proposals
for the above undertaking, (finding all the
materials, except the Hone for the underpin
ing,) are desired to fpecify on what terms
they will agree to finifh the fame this season,
and on what terms they will accomplith it
by the 20th day of May next.
Joseph Whipple.
Cuflom-Houje, Portjmouth, Au^uj: 31.1802.
To Let,
And possession giv.
gansn en the 20th inltant —1 hat
ggffliliffl commodious and pleafant
<ly situated
DWELLING HOUSE,
Out-Houses, and Garden, belonging to the
Subfcriber,near the mill bridge, at the north
end. SETH WALKER,
Port/mouth; Sefet. 7.
I s(^l^ Wl2^r^l
I pieces ^cr—ra
' h "^^^^ '- ^ hs :
.which may be of white hemloG^pq
and the Brace' (which mod be of v hiieoa,
,by 7 inches.— 1 he P,xamid is to ue divided
into 8 (lories or Jivinons, and a flight of
lairs in each—the out fide to be covered with
seasoned inch pine boards featheredged, on
which is to be laid a covering of (higgles of
'he best seasoned white pine, and painted
with three coats of paint.—On the head of
the Pyramid are to be placed and secured
Suitable rafters, on which is to be lad a
dooring for the Lantern, of 2 inches white
oak plank, having a suitable difeent lor the
water to run off, and a covering of thick
sheet copper.
The Lantern to be framed of iron, 8 feet
diameter, and 7 feet high—the Posts to be
if inch square, and to pass through the floor
2 feet, in conta& with the inner fide of each
port of the Pyramid, to which they are to be
secured by 2 bolts in each—a bar of iron
parting from the head of one port to the other
is to secure the whole together,—eight iron
rafters are to be secured to the heads of the
ports to form the dome, which of a suitable
elevation, is to terminate at, and fallen to a
hoop of 10 inches in the centre of the dome,
forming an aperture of that diameter in
which is to be placed a copper funnel of 18
inches in length, through which the smoke
is to pass— -over the funnel is to be suspend
ed a canopy of copper—the Lantern is to be
secured by 8 iron braces, and a failing to
render the passage round it fafe—the inter
laces between the ports to be filled with glass
set in iron sashes—ventilators to be inferred
in suitable places, and the whole to be finifh
ed in a neat manner, and according to-the
mode adopted in the moll improved construc
tion of Light-Houses in this country, and as
(hall be approved of and more fully describ
ed in the contrast that may be made.