The museum of Delaware — Wilmington, Del., 1804-11-10 00:00:00, page 4

Poetic Department.
THE SAILOR.
BY SELLECK OSBORNE.
«« The weary sea-bird screams afar i
Along the wave dire omens sweep :
From the veil'd sky no friendly star
Beams on the undulating deep !
Hark ! from the cliff's of distant shores
The Lom* emits his dismal cry—
yarning roars,
The wave portentous
And speaks the threatening tempest nigh !
What guardian angel's watchful pow'r
Shall snatch me from the angry deep,
Or bid, in that tremendous hour,
The d«mon of the waters sleep ?
Or who, if on some desert wild
I drift, weak, famish'd and distress'd,
Shall hush the sorrows of my child,
And sooth Lavina's wounded breast ?
Sweet objects of my early love !
For you with aching heart I mourn ;
Far from your peaceful vale I rove,
Ah ! hopeless ever to return.
Yet should it he my happier lot
native shore.
"To hail agu.ii
Secure within my humble cot,
I'll brave the restless deep no nr.
His r»r®y*r was heard. The rolling barque
Rode through the storm with stubborn pride ;
And \V ill i am blithe as morning lark ;
Ficw to his sweet enraptur'd bride.
Yet Will with love and liquor warm,
Ere yet a month, had pass'd in glee,
Forgot the terrors of the s.orin,
A ntl, singing, f
" The Lorn, accordin;
di
mal kind of bird, which, especially
ti.
proach «'f
the cliffs anti pro
in, perches
lriontavir-s of the shore, and utters a noise like the
shrieks of a drowning man.
ANC TEXT S I Mi >i. ICI 71 \
F ot.k be too fond of mounting Fortune's
■•heel ;
And though she humbleth thousands in the
lic
:k,
by
n's flame their bre
nng bosoms fee!,
Am
Pardi e ! they must crawl up and try their luck.
But when n'oft ...themselves they scarcelyJcnow,
Despisefull squinting on the world below :
But when they tremble, none lament their thrall,
But grin, and point their finger
their fall.
lut uttering lies,
To shew that 1 :m
now
11! teh a Unie tale in .1
THE YOUNT. CROWS AND THU
YOUNG WRENS.
A TALE.
lofty tire
A CROW
sticky ne? I;
D ; 1 build h
Am
mher live at least.
It
1 a summer's clay,
One mon
youngling Crow,
Did pivp
-1.
hrumbli
nifih
All 1 Spied up,»*
.Si'ine youngling wrens below.
YiTiis in happy glee
•e simple
tlitir little v Î»
Did
■.siime, hvpp'd from bush to bush,
A .id, ii
ellilj did sing.
And
" cry'd the Crows,
• Poor humble frea* tires
" Eche is a b.qri
Lb' !: up
state,
lofty bight.
Our house!
*« Ft* look into tlic beamy skies,
through he.lj
de ;
Wlv.h
Wr glue
the
While ye are lost in shade.
" Poor imps, depart
nor here offend î
Take of ce he siiie l
'c ;
This hill was only made tor crovcs,
Then do not us disgrace.
-U do not this region quit,
•î If
We'll dung upon you soon.**
ilii
•ns made answei
The
me,
wi
ill'd tin
little tun?.
But
Short time had pass'd, when suddenly
■reas, *gau howl ;
Grim 13
,*r crack'd, tiie lightning flush'd,
The thvni,
and fowl.
And frighted ma
While thus the drcdefnl! thunder crack'd,
bread did ilnvh ;
And light
The limb whereon the crows were pcicli'd
Did give a sut
tl
D w.i came the limb, and with it down
Did tumble eche young crow ;
Some broke their legs, and some their wings'
And doleful look'd below.
now the time for wrens to jeer j
So forth did fly the train,
And, twittering, saw with smiles the crows
All sprawling on the plain.
Then taunting an arch wren began :
" Sir crow s, of high renowne,
Ye came, by this your dirty trim,
All in a hurry down.
" And by the looke of all your limbi,
And feathers sous'd with rain,
It will be some time before
Your graces mount again.
" Proud fooles, how selie ye descend
dirty fern /
From skies
content,
Thank Heaven, with hedges we'i
And happy to be Wrens. n
mgjAUAaua..« — lut. AA.
NOTICE.
Art, persons having demands against
: v. '.ate of William Black, deceased, are
requested to present them, legally attested,
for*settlement ; and ail persons indebted to
1 estate are earnestly enjoined forth»
tii
with to settle their respective accounts.
i
WM. PRYCE,
:1dm rs.
HE/. NILES,
■
JOSEPH JONES.
Wd.uin.jh»,, Oct. 30, 1 804.
Rev. William Pryce is in possession
of tue books and papers of the deceased, to
whom those concerned will please to ap
SCHOOL REMOVED.
cr
rrt HE Subscriber respectfully in
J. forms th public, that he has re
moved his school, from the Academy,
he formerly occupied at
to the room
end of the lower market,
the east
per
where he purposes receiving under his
tuition both male and female, on his
usual terms.
The patronage of the generous pub
lic is, therefore, respectfully solicited
by its hum')!'-servo nt. '
DANIEL COLEMAN.
120— 3/i
ï
ed
Bunk of Delaware, Nov. 1, 1804.
T iJIE directors have declared a di
vidend of twelve dollars,
on
ach share, for the last six months,
hich will be paid to the stockholders,
or to their representatives, any time
after the 10th inst.
Bit order of the board,
JOHN HAYES, Cash.
120—-JR
For Sale
Ç' IXTY thousand acres of most ex
nJ> cellent land in Wayne County,
Pennsylvania, about 120 miles from
Philadelphia, and from 15 to 20 miles
from the Delaware. This land is admi
rably calculated for grass and grain,m a
r
very healthy country, somewhat hilly,
* It is
hut bv no means mountainous,
plentifully supplied with good
water.
abounds in mill-seats and is within a
few miles of the village of Bethany,
which will probably he the county
town. A turnpike road is expected to
he soon laid out, near the upper end of
this land, running from the Susquehan*
and at the Dela
na to the Delaware
ware meeting a turnpike leading direct
ly to the North River, a great part oi
which is already completed.— Thirty
five families are settled on the tract by
purchase from me.
Having been on the land I can re
commend it,but am desirous that every
man, who means to purchase, should
I trust that
examine it personally, at
the more it is known, the better will it
he liked. The value of the tract must
he much increased, by its small distance
front Philadelphia, there being no larg
body of good unsettled land, that
i
know of, so near to that city.
One-third or one-tourth of the pur
chase money (as may suit the buyer
;
must be paid down, the residue in I
2, 3, 4, or 5, yearly payments, with in
terest.
EDWD. TILGIIM AN.
13—f.
Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 1801.
LANDS FOR SALE
In Lycoming Canity, Pennsylvania.
HE Subscriber offers for sale a
large tract of land situate on the
waters ot Muncey, Loyal Sock, and
Tawanda creeks, in the county of Ly
coming, on which there is already for
med a settlement of about fifty families,
so that the difficulties usually to be en
countered by those who go first upon
back lands are completely removed.—
Provisions of all kinds may now be pro
cured there, at a reasonable rate, as al
so laborers, if wanted, who are accus
tomed to the best mode of clearing the
land. Two grist-mills and a saw-mill
bave been for some time at work, and
another grist-mill and a saw-mill will
be completed in a month at furthest.—
These lands are intermediate between
the waters of the West Branch and
North East Branch of Susquehanna.
The two roads most usually travelled
to the Genesee country, pass directly
through the main body of the lands
>
and another road making- as a turnpike
from Berwick and Waphollopane to the
Lehigh, is intended to connect with one
of the Genesee roads, passing through
the tract. No part of these lands are
distant more than fifteen or twenty
The
miles from the old settlements,
land will be sold in any quantity, from
fifty to five hundred acres. If a part
of a tract be sold it will be laid off pa
rallel to any of the boundary lines ; but
no tract will be reserved, that the set
ler is desirous of purchasing,
The
lands will he sold very reasonable for
cash, but at the same time an extensive
edit will not be refused to those who
cr
may require it, particularly il they en
gage to make valuable improvements.
The cash price, during ten months from
price, during
this date, fora tract, will be 2t dollars
per acre, or the same price tor halt a
one
tract of four hundred acres, or 3t dolls.
Ms. payable in five years without inter
he
est, paying half a dollar per acre
in
hand. To purchasers of larger quan
reasonable terms will ee al
tiles, more
lowed to piopwid'M..
v
The lands are generally of good qua
to
ty, well watered, and heavily timber
ï
ed with Sugar Maple, Beech, Birch,
Hemlock & Poplar, and in some places
with chesnut and white-pine. When
the roads, at present contemplated,
shall he made, the distance will only he
140 to 150 miles from Philadel
from
phia.
For further particulars enquire of
John Vaughan, No. 107, South front
street, Philadelphia, Merchant—or to
the subscriber, at Northumberland,
forks of Susquehanna, who will either
accompany settlers to the land or refer
to
them to proper persons, now living up
on them.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.
20-—//'.
Northumberland, Oct. 20, 130*1.
NOTICE.
a
r 1 iJIE subscrihei\beingin possession
JL of a lot of ground and premises,
is
situate at the corner of Second & Wal
nut streets in the Borough ol Vv iltning
a
ton, by virtue of a deed from Abraham
Scott and Thomas Cox, administrators
of Richard Irvin, late of said borough,
to
deceased, hereby gives notice, that in
of
of the said Richard Irvin
consequence
being an alien at the time oi his de
cease, she intends to apply to the Le
gislature of the State of Delaware, at
oi
their next session, to confirm to her
the title to the said lot of ground with
by
its appurtenances agreeably to law.
MARY BROWN.
re
tinL.
IV ihn in" ton, Oct. 15, 1B0-1.
1H
TO BE RENTED,
25th
OR a term of years, from the £
it
_ of March, 1805, the farm on which
Samuel Biddle resides, ne..r Appo
quinimink Landing.
It consists of 900 acres ol land, 600
i
There is an ex
of which are arable.
brick house on the
cellent two-story
premises.
;
For terms apply to the subscriber at
I
Wilmington, or to Robert Maxwell,
in
esq. at Middletown.
ROBERT MILLIGAN.
15 tf
Wilmington, Sept. 25, 1804.
GEORGE WHITELOCK,
CABINET AND CMAIR-MAKEB,
Next door above the Tuicn-haU, Marktl~strcct
Wl I.Ml NOTON,
ESPKCIT LILLY informs Ids friends
R
and the public, that he carries on the
above businesses in all tln-ir various blanches
....and that he has constantly for sale Side
boards, Bureaus, Dining, Tea and Card
Tables, finished in the. neatest manner, with
a general assortment of fashionable furni
ture. .. .As lie is determined to employ only
the first rate workmen, and make use of the
best materials, he has no doubt of giving
satisfaction to those who may favor him with
their custom.
June v!.i.
1—fnix
TO BE LET,
A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE,
situate* in French, above llanover
Strect... .The situation fs pleasant and the
house convenient, with a small
uien and
a well of good water at the door.f or
further particulars enquire of the Subscri
ber, on the premises.
JOHN SPERRY.
>
June 23.
1 ..(it
ONL CENT REWARD.
AN AWAY from the subscriber,
R
on Friday tire 3d inst. an appten
tice lad, named John Tavriner, about
18 years of age, slender made, and lui!»
cyed.—Whoever takes up the said lad,
and deliver? hint sale to his master
shall receive the above reward, but
no
charges will be paid.
JAMES COLLINS, Taylor.
Wiimington, August 7, loUl.
s-q.
PUR 1ER BUTTLING.
HR subscriber havingunderstood
the price oi porter hath been re
duced by individuals in the borough, to
one dollar per dozen, respectfully in
forms his friends and the public, that
he is determined, in future, lose
ii, for
cash,lower than any other person,
He
therefore solicits the continuation of
iis par
their past favors, believing
;hat
v * >,;1L
j —b
to equal any that may be produced.
CALEB SHE WARD.
7 mo. 20.
(>—
GEN. ALENASDEN JIAMILluN.
R. FOE WELL,
TNFQRMS the friends and ad
1 ntirers of the late Alexander
Hamilton, that he has made at range -
vf
ant engravings
ments to puons
that gentleman, from an npp'-ov.u like
one of
That he i
a ein 1
ei
.
ness.
the best artists, who has already given
to the public many specimens, acknow
ledged to he equal in execution to the
works of the best English engravers,
ant! more laithlul to tie oiigir.'.i.
nUuUHMi who
'1 he price to those gt
four dollars
wish to subscribe, wifi ht
elegatilU
per sheet, or eight dollars
a
tiled and glazed.
The first thirty plates will he consi
dered as proof plates, and solo at six
dollars in sheets, or ten dollars framed.
itivlits,
The size will he 1G by
clear of the frames.
The engravings will he given from
the press in rotation, according to the
priority of subscription.
Subscriptions will he received "By
Richard Folwell, No. *53, Strawberry
street, and bv such other individuals in
the different slates, who were friends
to (he deceased.
All the printers of public papers in
the United States are requested to in
sert this once in their paper, and, if
they think proper, obtain subscriptions,
for which they shall have the usual
commission.
Philadelphia, JuT
28.
!i?ui>u&öc3
BY
JOSEPH JONES
k.wtON,
NO. 5, HIGH-STREET, »II,
DELAWARE. *1
'..-'•ays, *A 1 ' h 1-s of
|LT' Advertisements, f
■ill be thankfully n.cei'r
Intelligence, &c. v
cd, and punctually
attended U>.