The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-08-19 00:00:00, page 4

ANECDOTE.
A Certain antifederal can
didate for a feat in Con
gress, in conversation the oth
er day, observed, that if the
French had, ns was reported,
captured the infamous Bene
dict Arnold, he hoped they
would not fend him to the
United States. His reason
was alked, “Because,” he re
plied, <c he would be sent a
member to Congress—“ Ido
not know but that he would,”
rejoined the other, " for as I
understand you intend to con.
sider yourfelf as a candidate,
the People will undoubtedly
of two evils chufe the least.”
• I . . .J ■
air,
The cocks, and hens, and crows, began to
flare.
And sulky went all fappedefs to bed :
For not an almanack had ope’d his lips,
About Io very wond’rouj an eciipfe.
The Peacoc'’’ too among the rest
Os marveling foal and staring breft,
Amaz'd to And his hundred eyes put
cut;
In ’eed, all naturenow appear’d as blacb
As if old, Sol haH popp’d into a sack.
Pleas’d with thia triumph, f'3m a cloud.
The Sun, flill hiding, call’d aloud.
Well 1 can ye merh to my face allow ?
What’s now your colour ? where’s your
hundred eyes ?
The mingled raidance of a thousand dies;
Speak miller Peacock* What’s your col
our now r
•* What color,” quoth the bird, as much
afliamed,
As courtiers high by loss of office tamed,
** To own the truth, much injured Phoebus
know,
** l*m not one attom better than a crow.
I fee my folly—pity my poor train,
** And let thy good ne fa bld it Ihine again.”
From the EAGLE.
Mr. DunhaM,
Perhaps the Republican Dofirine of “ all
power originating from the people” twat
never more ingenioufy illustrated, than in
the following Fable recently written by
Peter Pindar, Efg. D.
A Peacock mounted on a barn one day,
Bleft with a quantum fuficit of pride,
All consequence, #m;d the Tolar ray,
Spread with a strut, his circling plumage
wide.
**Good morrow (^uoth the coxcothb) Mas
ter Sun,
*‘Your brafly face has greatly been ad
mir’d j
** Now pray, Sol, answer me—l’m not in
fun,
« What is there in it to be so admir’d ?
“HI have eyes to Tee,
“ And, that I have is clear to me t
•* My tail poflefle# far more splendid grace,
By far more beauty than your worlhip’s”
face”
The San look’d down with faults upon
the fowl,
Supprfing it, at firft, an owl;
And thus with gravity reply‘d:** Sirjknow,
M That though unluckily my worjhip's fate,
“ Seemi far beneath your tail in fplended
grace,
“ Still to my face that glittering tail
you owe.”
“ Poh, quoth the Peacock. Matter Sun,
Your highness loves a bit of fun”
“ 1 beg your pardon,” anfwer’d Sol a
. g«n, .
“ And, if you please. I’ll condescend to
IhoW, *
• r How much to me you every moment owe”
“The boasted beauties of your waving
train.”
•* Agreed, with all my foul, the bird reply’d,
In all the full blown insolence of. pride ;
“ To credit fucha tale I’m not the nod
dy :
“ Prove that the glorious plumage I display,
** Owe# all its happy colours to thy ray,
“ D—n nie ! I’ll tear my feathers from
my body.”
The challeng’d Sun in clowds withrew
His filming beams from every view ;
And o’er the world a depth of darkness
spread ;
The bats their churches left, to wing the
The SUN and the PEACOCK.
Poet’s Corner.
Capain Cochran is just return
ed co the Hook—during his cruize
he spoke a veflel bound from Bar
badoes to St. Euftatia, from the
Captain of which, he got a Bar
badoes paper, giving an account,
that the British packet had arriv
ed at that island the day before he
failed, and brought the Gazette
account of the engagement be
tween the British and French fleets,
and that Lord Howe had adually
taken Nine fail of the line.
It is a Ifo rumored, that fix more
of the French line of bactle ships
were totally crippled, and could
not be towed away. That the
jun&ion between Cl air fa yt and
the Duke of York, had taken
place: And a severe adion had
taken place fifteen days after the
DuKE^check, in which M. Pcch
egru left 17,000 men dead on the
field, and got ofFhimfelf with great
difficulty.
LITCHFIELD, (CON.J July 36.
On Monday last, Serjeant, La nt Mun
son, late of the firft lub-legton in General
army, arrived in tbit town, from
captivity among the Ottowey Indians.-—
Mr. Munson’s intelligence, obfervauon,
and integrity entitle him to fail credence-
PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 2.
BATTLE on the FRONTIERS.
Extra fl of a letter from Grenville,
July 4, 1794.
“ the morning of the 3O:h
uk. the escort of convoy
under M. J. M. Maham, were
attacked under the walls of Fort
-Recovery, by upwards of 1000
Indians, who also aflauked chat
Fort in every direCtion, but were
repulsed with great (laughter.—
They again renewed the attack,
but at a more refpeCtful distance,
keeping a very heavy and cooftant
fire all the day* and by intervals
during the night and morning of
the firft instant, but were ulti
mately compelled to retreat be
tween the hours of twelve and
two o’clock of that day, with
loss and disgrace from the very
field where they had on a former
occasion been proud and victo
rious.
“ We loft 21 men killed, and
29 wounded during, the action ;
among the former, we have to'
lament the death of the gallant
Maj- M‘Mahan, the brave Capt.
Hartsmorne, Lieut. Craig and
Cornet Turry ; amongst the lat
ter,the intrepid Capt. Taylor, of
dragoons, and Lieut. Drake, of
the infantry.
" In the course of the action up
wards of 200 borfes were killed or
taken; but certain it is, a consid
erable number where in pofieflion
of the enemy, loaded with dead
Indians.
“ it does not appear that the
enemy could pofiibly have receiv
ed any information of this efcort—
their objeCt was to carry Fort Re
covery, by a cotip de main. Major
Wells, who has since reconnoi
tered the ground the Indians occu
pied on the day and night preced
ing the adion, is decidedly of the
opinion, that the enemy had dou
ble the number of warriors in the
affaulc on the 30th uk. that they
had in the adion of the 4th No
vember, 4791.” I
NEW YORK, AUGUST 2.
REPORT OF THE DAK
Domestic Intelligence.
(^Medicines will be fold
at his (hop on the terms for money
ard good Beef,
Exeter, August ir. 1794.
BARLEY wanted.
THE highest price given for
good clean Barley, by
Gilmaq & Boyer— or
Daniel Connor,
at either of their stores in Exeter.
August 12, 1794-
£', -- -I -'- ■ . "1— . r ~ ---- —
W Anted as an appren
tice to the Printing ;
bulinefs, an active Lad», from
14 to 16 years old.— -Enquire
at this office. Aug. 12.
river, thirty miles from its mouth on the
Lake Erie ; where he continued until the
17th o f June last, when he made his escape.
British Oil,
Terlington’s Bal
sam of Life,
Lockyer’s Pills,
Hooper’s Female
do..
Hat Case,
Oil of Vitriol,
Spices,
FRESH MEDICINES:
Among •which are.
derftand their con variation. They told
him they expeded to have a great many
warriors colleded, enough to cut Wayne’s
army to pieces; but the traders, there,
said if the Indians colleded 1600, it would
be more than they expeded ; 1500 they
thought was the utmost the Indians could
bring into the field. He fays the Indians
talk with great confidence ci their own su
periority in numbers and bravery; and boast
that they are not afraid of four to one ; they
fay the American army is made up of cow
ards and boys. They seem however to
stand in awe of Gen. Wayne, though they
despise hrs men ; and from all that he un
derstood from the Indians and traders, he
thinks their mode of conduding this camp
aign will be by attacking escorts of provi
sion and detached parties ; and that they
will not attack the main army unlcls they
find it weakened or exposed.
Mr. Munson escaped by the way of the
rapids Detroit and N agari. He law the
new Fort ereding by Governor S/mc ie at
the rapids of the Maumee, 15 miles from
Lake Erie. The party there at work in
stead of quitting the place, a# has been re
ported, had been lately reinforced by a
bout too men. Gov. Simcoe had been
gara when became through that place. A
Regiment called “ The firft American Reg
iment, or the Queen’s Ranger/’ was rail
ing at Niagara, where the bounty was ten
guineas. He was foiicited to engage in
that corps by a Mr. Fanning, one of Gov.
Simcoe’s Aids, who told him that they
expeded a war with this coun.ry. They
were making great preparations for war,re
pairing their Fons, and arming veflels ;
three veflels of war were Failing on Lake
Erie ; two of them carried 12 guns, and
the other 8 | and leveral gun boate. *'
The Indians have no expedation of be
ing lubdued ; they fay that when they have
cut off twoor three more armie# of Ameri
cans, the United States will make peace
with them. On the 4th of Jane the In
dian# received >heir iupplics of ammunition
for the campaign from the King’s, stores.
The Wai nor# had gone off on the I2h to
join the main body of the Indians that was
forming at the Glaze, about 40 miles up
the river; He had before this time learned
their language so far that he could well un.
there a short time before ; but was at Nia-
He was taken by the Indians at their defeat
of the party under the command of Lieutr
Loo ry and Ensign Boyd, escorting the
waggons, on the of Odober hft, four
and a half miles advanced from Fort St.
C'air. The Americans ion filled of ioO
rank and file f GF the Indian there were
but 52. How many Americans were kill
ed he knows not; there were only eleven
taken prisoners, one of whom a weakly boy,
unable to travel, was killed and icalpcd.
T^e Remaining ten Were distributed among
the captor#, their heads shaved, and made
to serve as Have#. He was carried by his
mailer to their fectlement on the Maumee
To be SO L D by
Joseph Tilton,
A General Affirtment of
Castor,
Eff. Pip. Menth,
Cephalic Snuff,
Salt Petre,
Flour Brimstone,
Borax,
Court Plaifter,
Blue Vitriol,
White do. &c. &c*
RAGS.
CASH, Writing-Paper, or
Books given for clean
cotton and linen Rags at this
Office.
L-. z 9' .
Blanks
OF most kinds, printed on
good paper, to be fold at this
Office.
hundred green
Sheep and Lamb Skins,
immediately after the wool is takenojf.
LIKEWISE
Fewpoundscoarfe Sheep’s Wool.
WANTED
By the printers hereof, two or three
jAIS an App entice to a good
business, a smart active LAD,
about fourteen years of age.—
Enquire of the printers. - Aug. 4.
ALL persons indeb-.ed to the
Estate of John Moulton,
jun late of Hampton, Husband
man, deceased, are requested to
make speedy payment, and those
who have demands on said Estate
to exhibit their accounts for fetde
ment to
THE lubfcriber having ac
counts open and small notes
of hand against 2 number of per
lons of Long standing, and the
Law now makes it ncceflary that
thofeold accounts Ihould be fettled
and notes paid or renewed : There
fore all persons against whom I
have Notes or accounts of more
than two years (landing, are earn
estly requested to call and fettle
them foonj or otherwise 1 (hall be
under the disagreeable necefllty of
procuring a feukment in a differ
ent way.
4 x JOSIAH BARTLETT.
King fawn Augujl 6 b, 1 794.
Hannah Moulton, Adn^x.
Hampton, July ystb 1794.
RAN away from the Cubic fib
er on the 9th inst. an ap
prentice boy, named Joseph C.
Hoit, aged feventten years, about
five feet nine inches high—carri
ed with him a variety ofcloath
ing, viz. A redilh fnuffcoloured
coat, a redid) brown coat, ft riped
patterned waiilcoat, allo black
everlasting waistcoat, and a pair
of striped velvet breeches, a pair
of hemlock coloured rroufers and
striped furtout, likewise a bear-
Ikin naplack.
Whoever will return said boy
to the fubferiber, (hall have four
dollars reward. All persons are
forbid harbouring hirr)> for I axn
determined not to pay any debts of
his contracting hereafter.
Che ft er, August 11.
Jonathan Longfellow
REfpedfully informs the public, that
he proposes, next week, to com
mence riding Post from Exeter to Tam
•worthrinftead of Mr. Rowe', whole health
Will not admit of his pursuing that
bufmefs.
Said Longfellow will supply Mr.
Row e’s cutiomers with the American H »
raid of Liberty. And any other bufmefs
with which he may be entrusted will be
performed with accuracy and puniluality.
Exeter, August 12*
ikante d.
Shearborn Dearborn.