Oracle post — Portsmouth, N.H., 1804-10-30 00:00:00, page 4

gold. silver.
Bv Queen Elizabeth, 1.12,000 4,632,932
James l. 800,000 1,700,000
"Charles !. 1,722,000 5,7/6,544
Parliament % Cromwell 1,000.000
Charles !!, 3,500,000 3,524,104
James 11. 1,400,000 1,007,607
William 111. 6,511,963 4,000,000
Anne 1,300,000 1,391,626
George I. 8,030,000 725,000
Gemmell. 11,662,216 304,360
Geor^, ITT. 63,772,236 63,600
fr%r^tis evident that the coinage of silver in
Er "mm has been greatly neglected during the last
three reigns, vndthat the quantity in existence is
^mewhav ^ innate to the circulation of the coun^
GALVANISM.
It is stated^ authority, that the transactions of
the" At ^dam of Sciences at Paris, for the year 1700,
prove but animal electricity o r Galvanism was
known a.t that period.
HOMAS MOOR ESQ:
A linden periodical publication announces the
early a< ; earaucc of a poem, by Moore, the author
of I' tie's Poems, and translator of Anacreon, call
ed 'he Philosophy of Pleasure—lt speaks of the
@roi 3 rod work in terms of particular praise, and
that i will entitle the author to the appella
f^athc British Anacreon.<
D. IMPROVEMENTS.
understand that the Rev. B. Allison of Bor-
RLNew-Jerscy, and Mr. Richard French of
Rhbourhood, have, invented a machine for
upon a plan entirely new, and very sim-
Rcructicn.„
Athis machine cuts the nail, places it
h vice on its heads it by the action
Recharging it by means of machin
mher added, that a l>oy can make
thirty to £fty pounds et nails
this machine is no\v arm-
LofStockton, Durham, has
11, capable of thrashing
hour, and 12 sheaves
Lutes. Twelve feet in
for the machine, as
& ''
BL four feet. The
principles and
A'Ts. Though
■faprovision
il :
■ pillars, and
L'^'^'^^
■a^ wall
On this interesting subject it may not be unaccept
able to State the quantities of specie coined since the
time of Elizabeth,
F POETRY.
from the Rir^"°"•
THE PHILOSOPHICAL FARMER.
Translated from the Italian.
THERE lived a gentleman, whose head
' Was full of philosophic notions,
Who had ten thousand volumes read,
Which filled his mind with strange emotions.
He own'd a very large estate,
Whose annual crops were rich and great.
To farmer Ralph he sent one day,
Who came with all precipitation,
S Ralph, I intend to change my way,
a And former mode of cultivation ;
" To weeds and tares no more a foe,
" I mean to let them thrive and grow.
" No argument can I discern,
' " Against poor weeds for force employing,
& The darnel, cockle weed, and fern
' u Henceforth, good Ralph, forbear destroying.
" Free let them rise midst rival grain,
" And taste the blessings of the plain !"
A Ralph scratched his head, and gaped with
wonder,
<' Alack-a-day ! Sir, why this change r
a Fool," cries his Lord, with voice of thunder,
" Why shoulfl your numskul think it strange ?
" To root up weeds there is no reason,
" Against the rights of plants 'tis treason.§
, Each has an equal right to live,
« To which its life kind nature yields.
• And why should wheat and barley thrive,
" Despotic tyrants of the fields ?
* The smallest blade by man that diet
« Draws tears front philosophic ')&»•
Ralph scraped obedience and departed,
Much wondering at his Lord's conceit,
Th&weeds unculled, in thousands started,
And choaked the barley, corn and wheat.
The harvest realized Ralph's fears,
Yielding but few and barren ears.
Away flies Ralph, and tells his master,
That all his granaries empty lay ;
" And whence cries he, this dire disaster.
" Have tempests swept my crops away ?"
" No please your worship—no," quoth he
“ Twas—what you called philosophy."
From the Charleston Courier.
When Samson, full of wrath, devis'd
Vengence on false Philista's race,
Three hundred Foxes scarce suffic'd
To blazed destruction o'er the place.
Three hundred, cries WILL PlTT,and smiles—
Alas ! in my Administration,
One single FOX alone has wiles
Sufficient to destroy a nation.
COINAGE.
One cent Reward.
LEFT the subscriber on Thursday evening last, an
Indented Apprentice named JOHN FERNALD,
aged 19 years—Had on blue Jacket and Trow seis,
and brown Shag Wrapper. He has light lint
All Persons are forbid harbouring or trusting him
as they would avoid the penalty of the law. All
Masters of Vessels are particularly cautioned against
receiving and harbouring said boy.
GEORGE FERNALD, Cooper.
Portsmouth, October 20, 1804.
FOR SALE, .
That lengthy, commodious
ROPE WALK, with all the Tools and Furniture
on the the road to the Pound, now standing on the
ground of Jacob Sheafe, Esq.—a handsome cred
it will be given for secure notes.t
Forparticulars apply to JOHN UNDERWOOD
WANTED,
A Journeyman, and twb
Females, to work at the Tayloring Business. None
but those who work well need apply to the Printers.
October^
"■Barley & Flax-Seed
WANTE£F&p,hich Market price will be
rfven. Appl,to
WM. & CHA'S. NEILL
_____ — — * — • —= -~—
Evening School.
- An Evening School will be opened by JEREr
MIAH HART, Monday -evening Oct. 22, for the
instruction of Youth of both sexes.—Needle-work
taught in a separate apartment by Mrs. HART ;,.
terms made known by applying at No. 3 Ladd&reet.
Taken from the Assembly
house, on Monday evening last, a large lightens
SILK SHAM B. with a Netting Fringe—W Imever
will return said Shawl to the Printers hereof, shall
be handsomely rewarded.
Portsmouth, Sept. 29, 1804.
FOR SALE,
as she came from Sea.
T"' fa st sa ''^
1 Schooner Eunice, burthen 103
e^gy» tons, she may be fitted for sea at a
pa— small expense.—For further particu
lars enquire of JAMES DAY,
October 6. .nGfchU
New Goods.
Caere —•
Nathaniel Dean
Respectfully informs his customers and the pub
lic, that he has removed into the new brick store
frnting on Market-street, where he has received,
A handsome assortment of
Fall & Winter Goods,
which are ready for Sale, on reasonable terms.
Also:
10 chests Hyson Tea,
By consignment, warranted the first quality,
October 13.
Fresh Goods.
Oliver Briard
Has just received and now ready for Sale, a large
and general assortment of
Fall & Winter Goods,
which he will sell very low at his Store, No. 2,
Merchant's Row. Portsmouth, October 6,
■dice,
; Jeremiah
niter ; John
nery ; Eli
phard ; Jo
n French,
in; Benja
)n, 2 ; Bean
Flint ; Ben
, Shephard
ench, Ken
. _ ~ mi i The
Justices of the Superior Court.
% J. W. GILMAN, Post Master.
' FOR siILE,
At Public Auction, on the Premises, if not disposed
F of at private Sale, previously to the 6th of
November next.
ah A small Farm in
Afet/iue??,(Mass.) containing 30 acres
d^flof Moving, Pasturing and Tillage
I Land ; having a young Orchard ; a
good Dwelling House ; Out-Houses;
and tfogood Wells of Water in the Garden. It
is a good situation for a Trader, a Tradesman, or
for a Tavern—five miles from Haverhill, on the
main road to Dracut.
—ALSO—
About half a mile from the above, and on the same
road,
25 acres of good Mowing
and Tillage Land, with a good Young Orchard, and
a good Barn, occupied last by Benjamin Webber.
For terms apply to
WILLIAM W. MESSER, Hatter,
Buck-street, Portsmouth. Oct. 20. t
Now Landing and for Sale by
E. Hill, jr.
Turks-Island SALT and
St. Vincent's RUM.
In Store,
Grenada RUM and MOLASSES ;
140 boxes Mould and Dipt CANDLES ;
100 bbls. BEEF and PORK;
40 boxes brown SO&h October 19,
Deserted from the service of
Reuben Shapley on the 14th instant, a Servant
Man, named Thomas Lunness, an Englishman,
about five feet eight or nine inches high, light sanely
hair, stoops considerably when be walks. Whoever
will take up said deserter, and return him to the
subscriber, shall have Twelve Dollars reward, and
all necessary charges paid.
REUBEN SHAPLEY.,
Portsmouth, October 20, 1804. pd.
Cotton Yarn.
his dav received & quantity Whitened SINGLEY
TARN for weaving ; ^ff"^ threaded for knitting
American Manufactured
Bed Tick & Cotton Cloth,
'"NATHAN B. FOLSOM.
Portsmouth, October 12, 1804.
Peter Coffin,
In the Ships Galen from London, and ^ally from
Liverpool,an extensive assortment ofFASHion able,
Fancy & other Goods,
which are now opening, and for Sale by wholesale
;and retail— viz.
SUPERFINE, middling, &
low priced Broad-Cloths ; double mill'd Cassi
lucres ; fine drab and otQer Coatings; Ratteens ;
Kerseys; Fearnaughts; Forest-Cloths ; Serges ;
Baizes; Flannels; Blankets; black and colored
Wildbores ; Gambleteens ; Crapes ; Denmark Lus
tres ; Durants; Tammies; Shalloons ; Caliman
coes ; Russels ; Moreens ; Taboreens ; Sattinnets ;
Florentines ; A great variety of
Fashionable Waistcoating ; biack and olive Vel
vets ; hunters Cords ; black and other Shags ;
worsted Sc silk Plush ; mens ribb'd Sattins; Fustians;
Jeans : Quiltings ; Silk Velvets ; Thicksetts.
A targe assortment of
Calicoes and Chintzes : Chintz, dimities and cop
plate Furnitures ; Muslinetts ; Dimities ; Counter
panes. A large assortment of
Book and Cambrick Muslins ; elegant colonade,
lace, India and Chambray Muslins ; colored Sarse
net Cambricks ; Muslin Handkerchiefs.
Camels hair, cambrick, purple, chintz and silk
Shawls ; cambrich linen, cotton, vernal, Bandannas
and blank silk Hauakerchiefs.
A variety of
Italian and Florence Silks ; Felice Silks ; Lus
trings ; black, white and green double arsenets ;
India Persians ; Modes ; Sattins ; Tiffanies ; Ital
ian Crapes ; Gauzes ; Millinets ; black Cypress.
Elegant white and black lace Veils ; black lace
Cloaks ; black and white silk Laces ; a large assort
ment Thread Edgings and Laces ; some very wide ;
Ribbons ; cotton and silk Gown Trimmings ; gold &
silver Trimmings ; Fringes ; Gown Buttons ; silk
Cords ; silk Girdles ; gold Eardrops ; elegant dress
Fans ; Crape Fans.
A large assortment of
Morocco and Kid Shoes ; some with laced Pat
terns ; walking Shoes ; Shoe Roses ; Shoe lies ;
stock Stiffeners ; silk and cotton Braces.
A great variety of
Fashionable straw and willow Bonnets ; black &
fancy Feathers ; fancy flowers and Wreaths ; straw
Trimmings ; Parasols; Umbrellas.
A large assortment of
Mens and youths cotton, worsted and silk Hose ;
womens and misses cotton, silk and worsted Hose ;
womens and misses cottou and worsted Gloves and
Mitts ; Picnic and plain silk Gloves and Mitts ; Kid
Gloves ; mens and womens black Garters ; mens
and womens worsted socks ; womens worsted Gloves
St Mitts ; mens worsted & mill'd Caps ; mens black
and white gauze Hose ; mens silk, worsted, thread
and beaver Gloves ; some lined with flannel ; wors
ted Drawers.
Ne-w Goods.
B. Brierley
H IS received by the late arrivals from England^
very extensive and complete assortment of prime
Fashionable, Fancy and
Staple Goods,
which are now openinQr Saieby
WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
Pelice Waddings ;
Sewing & Knitting Cotton ;
Cotton Shirting & Bed Tick,
JUST RECEIVED
From the Beverly ?,nufa c tory and for Sale by
*J. MARSH.
Portsmouth, October 12, 3 " 5
New Goods,
James Rundlet
Has just received per the Galen from London, and
the Sally from Liverpool, a handsome assortment of
English Piece Goods,
which are now opening, and will be Sold low by
Wholesale and Retail.
WANTED,
A capable LAD 14 or 16 years old.
October 6.
" FOR SALE BY
Ebenezer Chadwick,
At hi* Store head of Buck-street,
30 casks Gun Powder of
an excellent quality ; patent S ,° T rfrTOCE•
Together with a general assortment of GROCb ,
RIES, as usual.
RUM.
Few puncheons Rum, for
Mie, apply to THOMAS CHADBOURN, jr.
A great variety of
Bear and Jennet Muffs and Tippets ; Fur Trim
mings. A large assortment
Irish Linens ; Irish Sheetings ; Brittannias ;
brown Holland ; table Cloths, ail sizes ; Diapers,
some 2yds wide ; Napkins ; yellow and green Can
vas ; check Linens ; Threads ; embroidering and
other Sewing Silks ; Bindings; white chintz Bed
Lace Cords and Tassels.
Fashionable gilt, plated and silk Buttons ; steel
Knee-Buckles ; Watch Chains,Seals and Keys.
A large assortment
India Cottons, very cheap ; cheap India Chintzes
and Checks ; blue Gurrahs ; Madrass long Cloths;
Nankeens. A large assortment
Carpets & Carpeting.
Portsniouth, September 29.
New Goods.
COT— I
just Imported by
la^Urecelra! * fresh supply of
Dr. Cooley's Vegetable Elmr &
OR COUGH DROPS.
Secured to him by the [United States] Patents
A REMEDY far exceeding every other .fed, for Cott^
furoptions, Afibmas, Spitting of Blood, Coughs
Shortness of Breath, and ever, other fpeeies of difeafc t#
which that organ of life, the lungs, is perpetually exposed.
Complaints of the lungs have always been considered th#
Opprobria Medicine (or reproach to the art of physic) and
it has long been a desideratum inMedicalScience that a rcrot
edy might be devised, which should check this wide outlet
to human life. The many :houbnds which yearly fall afa
crifice to this insidious difeafc, FhthiGi Pulmonalis, or Coo
fumption of the Lungs, has ever since my acquaintance wick
diseases (which is almaft thirty years) so excited my com
miseration, that a large (hare of my time has been employ
ed in investigating the cause and cute of it; and from my
most ueremitted attention and constant refcarch, 1 have the
haftpinefs to proclaim to the world, that in my Vegetable
Elixir, a fpecdy, fafe and effectual remedy is generally to
bad. 1c is ocediefa for me to dwell too long on the praifea
of this medicine; those who use it will immediately be con
vinced of its superior virtues, in difpelliog every distressing
symptom in the complaints above enumerated; those hec
tical heats will io a few days be allayed, the night fweatt
will disappear, the cough diminish rapidly, and the patients
who previous to the use of this medicine were panting for
breach, and faft approaching to dissolution, will find them
fclves resuscitated in the most unexpected manner. So won
derful has been their relief, that to express their gratitude^
frequent felicitations have been made to have their testimo
nies made public of the unrivalled virtues of this mediejno
—those who experience its benign and faiutary effects by
a Ihort trial, will need no other recommendation.
It is not pretended that this medicine will cure every dis
ease to which, fuffcring humanity is liable, as is the case
wish molt patent medicines: diseases which are as com
pletely eppoOte as an acid and an afoti, &, Q^frttw
will to be cured by one fimpk remedy. Such weak impofl
pions have with much propriety brought mod patent drug
nto disrepute—But the Vegetable Elixir is calculated fora
one class of diseases only, via. those to which the lungs are
exposed, and I need not obferae that they terminate in con
fumptions—The precursors or harbingers of this hithert
intractable malady (until the difeovery of the Vegetable
Elixir) are Spitting of Blood, Pains in the Breai and Sides,
Coughs, Difficulty in Breathing, and a great number of
complaints, which Bender and delicate couftitutious are fa
frequently labouring under, : th if attended to immedi
ately on their commences' tGly be obviated; and
those in the last Cages wi be .; alleviated, and many
of them effectually, redve.
. For Sale in Portsm< (ARLES PEIRCE,)
and in Dover by Ji IEELZR, flrice 7s'
cents a bottle,
' at+„
Also may be • same places.
Dr. Rawson's ce 'CH OINTMENT @
being a certain cure ft- ^complaint.
Look Teeth,
Dr. Thompfdn'sbea rale Tooth Paftc, for the;
scurvy and ail coropk u. teeth and gutos, and for
whitening and preferv th. It like wife takes off
all disagreeable smells aath, which generally ari r l
from scorbutic gumsa h. /& 50 #s.,<,'
Dr. HINKLEY's cure for the U
,so so^ f „ ^^l
Dr. LEE's genuine I ft SPb' ^ h \<
proved so eminently A ^ - I theie
billions complaints, gz< ,u to
Dr, Rawson's -Ni ILLICK > < &ILT
PHYSIC. %l # fa.
Dr. Rawson's c... }'''''''
flruction of ever, ;ies^ WORM.,. .J> : ,!a ^ in
man body. jcm.i# for.
Dr. COOLER'S A^rif^it^, enuating,
and restorative PILI I ° " erml io Rheumatic 4
complaints, and billions ^Lll ; M*n a box.
Portsmouth, October 6, i?i
Benjamin Lllei,
Respectfully acquaints his Friends in particular, and
the Public in general,that he continues to carry on the
Cabinet Making Business,
in all its various branches, at his Shop at the head
of Washington-street. He returns thanks for past
favors, and solicits a continuance.
Orders executed at the shortest Notice, with fir (
delity, neatness, and dispatch./
Portsmouth Sept. 29.1
Evening School,
S BOWLES intends opening his Evening
• School at the Brick Shcool House, on
Monday Evening, Nov. sth next ; for particulars ap
ply to him.
Portsmouth, October 9,
To Let, l
A Small Shop near the Union Bank, —apply ta ,
the Printers, Sept. 29. —pd.
TO BE LET, part of fl convenient
House, confiding of five lower rooms, four
chambers, a large garden, wood house, good
well in the yard, with other conveniences. En
quire of the printers.
Oct. 20, 1804,
FOR SALE,
by Reuben Shapley,
at his Store on his Wharf, _.
Holland GIN of a superior quality, per pipe^
Cogniac BRANDY per pipe; . & h
Madeira WINE in p ipe w half pipes and quarter =
casks;
Linseed OIL per cask ;
WHITE LEAD ground in Oil, in kegs;
Dutch CANVASS suitable for light sails :
Raven's DUCK, and TICKIJNBURGHS;
HESSIANS suitable for Cotton and Coffee bags ;
1 box Marbled OIL CLOTHS; from 7--4 to 5-4
wide;
Floor and Hearth BRIISHES different sorts;
1 box PAINT BRUSHES ;
Lisbon FEATHERS;
OLIVE OIL in jars.
Portsmouth, October 13, 1804,
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