The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1797-01-26 00:00:00, page 3

PA At length the qoeftion on the refolutnm for
] , i11j: a toX an land wa- put and carried by a con*
, ,;,|c m j.nity, there being 56 in favour of it,
r^. m ib«t f >1 laying a tax on'flaves. 1 he coni
’ .o*'.e,-reported the relolution, and obtained
j /.fio tit again. The houie refomed, and*a nioti
t i. v/as made to take up the relolution, but it was
tngmvcd +7 10 37
NEW. YORK, J uni ary >5.
A paffenpsr in the Prtoc' Edward, i'awaLondon
yy r a! L) j 1, of the i8ifl ult. a pragr.ph in
V'liich Italcd, that 80.COO U Of; S and i 8 loll of the
),iie were Ling at iii.-u, p»’cp0r.itoiy iu an intend
ed iuvaiiji) ut Great Biium ihould the negotiation
Tali.
PHIL A!. EL^h*rt, J Hilary 1 7.
A Iptter from B .it iiu<»r>- ;*.> .. g-uiltman in this
cl tv dated me iy ii ii»U. co.-ieins the iuihwirg 111*
ioi illation, v)/.
*• A letter iron Norfolk nun-ions that the Spa
niards have captured and lent into -una thirty Ame
rican ve.sela, wnich have been condemned with
their cargo*s.”
Liic ;V1 . »ci <v nighr, aSou' a mile north weft from
this city, :> g.jl ot the be:i French biandy, was pla
cet. in u field m a coin non (aucer j auci auoui iq mi
Iiu e? df<Vr the fun role‘next morning the circum
ference had a ring oi ice, about half an inch oroad.
'1 be ici had no regular form, but cloi ted like gre.iie :
the remaining br.mciy inti to? appearance ut mi, and
wlun tailed vr m mild as milk
l he friend* of peace in ihe United States fhootd
be p . pared io m *t the ai'empts, which there is
great ;caton tobtlieve viil be made, to invoice this
country in a war v. ith France. When our commerce
fir ft iiff-ren by B'itiln depredations, ihe pretend
ed friends of pt->ce, but in reali'y the friends of
Britain law falvation in lubmdli *11 and an appeal
1 () the mgu mutiny and j ult ice ol the King ot or eat
Britain only ; now that France is ret-iuiing 011 our
commerc'*1 t -r the injuries Ihe has l .ff red through
our jnfiilaniniity—war, and an alliance offender
and detiiifive with Britain, are uppenholt in the
minds ot fume people.
RICHIVJONu. January 15
Y^frerday forenoon a fi e broke out in tins c-fv.
5n ne houle occupied by Dini l Timmings, 'I al
Ttv.’ Chandler, on ihceali iidc of 1 he bridge ; it im
mediately communicated to the adjoining two ftory
huute, both oi which w ire conlumed—-but, by the
g • e at ex--h. ions of \ lie citizens in cutting away the
ii-uie of D id Loggan, Shoemaker, on i he weft,
\vi h the ^ilil. ancc of the engine, ike fire was got
nno.r wi hoar forihet i> jury.—Too much credit
cannot he given to every defcript.iou of our citizens,
'•who -nfran iy repaired from different pins of the
city to the fcence, and rendered every icrvice in
their power.
AL X.A aD'KIA, January 2r.
Th- Northern Pipers, by this morning's if.ail,
evt venv ly barren, except in accounts,, f more
drpn.daiions by fire.— The Norwhh Packet men
tions no 1-Is than (hree in thar town and neigh
bourhood ; by owe of which v operty to the amount
of 18..oca doll us were enrirt !y confuted.—Afire
*t Eiixaheth. ToWn has alfo been attended with con
■fiderable lofs of property but it is with peculiar
pain we ftate, that, notwiihftanding the utni-.lt
exertions, a gir! of 12 yeras old was bfcrnt to death I
-—At Shrewsbury, a ichool houfe was burnt through
careleisnefs in pnttihg alhes into a barrel. 1 he fire
at Norwich caught by a brick hearth being laid up
on th- floor fome time before, and on which a very
hot fire had been kept the evening preceding. Two
fires are itated to have been communicated by ltove
pipes.
MARTINSBURG, January z6.
Agreeable to the plan laid before Congrefs the
I2. h inlt. of a direct tax of one million four hun
dred and eighty-four thoubnd dollars, to be laid
upon the United States, the apportionment of the
feveral ftates is as follow :
Dollars.
To the ftate of Vermont,
New Hampfnire,
M1 Isa chute 1 is,
I96 000
Rhode Iflind,
Connect lent,
98.000
New York,
N - w-Jerfey,
70.000
Pi-nniy Ivania,
182.000
D-la ware,
M iry la rid,,
112.000
266.000
V irjniua*
Kentucky,
28.000
Norih-Carolina,
Tennefsee,
South-Carolina,
84 000
Geoi gia,
Amount to
2,484,000
from which there being deduct
ed for abatements, trroneous
aisefsments and charges of col
lection fifteen per cent, or
There will remain the eftimatec )
net proceeds of the propoied C
1,262,000
tax, being J
The above plan embraces a tnx«</ <valorem upon all
lands, with their improvements, including town
lots, with their buildings thereon.
The foilowing remarks aremain . . m ;l. .i.uou)
Star, cl Nov. 17, imaiediaiely after the Jolt tom
mumcation irom L'-nd Malmesbury to the French
Govprnmept and their anlwer.
“ At preteni we ihsll offer no comment on this
very cm 10a? and important correlpoml me. We
Jhill only venture odj alsertion— l he prelent nego
ciation will end in mlappounnitnt, i<wl thm' will
be no peace till Mr. Pitt obtain prtrrJJLu-to retire
wuich will be in a few mono.s ’*
Some dtirefpectfol paragraphs having appeared in
a P sr 1 paper, relative to the million ot hud Mai
mcloury, liis lorolhip complained ol this to the
Directory, as an in lull—and w.s anlwered — as it
is laid, that, that body held no authority to control
ihe French miners. *
Extrail of a letter from a Member of Congrtft to his .
fnthfl in .bis tO'xxti. dahd Philadelphia, Jan 16, '97. ,
•* 'I'lle .flairs ot tiit i: 111011 arc critical, and arc 1
brought to the brink, ot a dreadful precipice. It
now appears to every underfianding, that the mi
nority were perfectly right in their objections to
canning the batm.in in favour of the B.niih Court
j.nd merchants into effect, Even the declaration a
g.iint’r. LugS.tnd by Spain, ailigns the iu-tci i.gcueout j
iitraiure as one of the cables ot the war, and clearly !
thews the uufri.viuily light they viewed it in, as it ,
rel’pects the Unitt-ci States, which, with other evils. |
wete torcieen at the time, and jultities the p .uiings j
and heliiations of our gi>od Pi ellclcnt, when com ;
priled, as it were, by the ftate ot things, to make j
0[> his final judgment ; hut it is pleaftug, that this |
good nan is ftill zealoufly dilpoftd and anxious to |
pielerve Jiarmouy with our great aPy and befiefac 1
tor, and to avert the horrors of war, as is particu
larly demonltrated in his it*ply to the immediate
repretematives of the people, w ho arc dually ot the
lame lemimetit, and who, with him, will, 1 trufi,
be enabled to counteract the machinations of oil
g iiled cmifsaries and apo'tatc citizens, who appear .
to be fee icing by every ariifi.e, and more particular- j
ly by inliniuus atul im endiary publications, ant'
even provocations, to involve us in the difm.il c.-l.i
mi ties that would refulc from a rupture between
; belt two free and actually friendly nations, and
whole aims and wifhes are the ianit."
Mb Willis,
•' 5“ u be chotm the rcprefentanve of n rre,-, nnme
J rous and wealthy people, is a flattering cir
j cuinftance to any perion, more to to a young man
emerged from «bi. .and of w hole talents, it tie
t had any, they couhi have had no proof; it is an ho
; nourab'e rel’timony of their good opinion ot his tide*
I joy and uprightm Is, trolling to whith, without a
i regard to c^pav tiy, they confin. to him the lacitd and
important trutt of a law loaker, ami ue guardian
ot every thing that is dear to them, viz their lives,
liberty and property; is not Inch a per ton bound
I by every tie of gratitude, honour, cor.fcitnce anti
i duty, to fulfil that important trutt to the belt of his
! aoilii ies, and not to betray it or neglect ii ? It
j ought to he remembered that the man who is* lent
to tire leg fl tore is not feut ill re tor his own take
but for the lake of thole who lend him ,* not ro de
corate him with :he pompous name of a Legislator,
to nuke a figure without being of any fervice to his
country, hut 10 do the buflmTs of his conftitnents,
f,,r win. h there is a time and place appointed, there
tore fit- is not at liberty to attend or not artetul to
that bu ft nets according as it may fuir his own pri
vate tmeieus, amuleniems or pleafures. Having
f.iid this much, let me nik, was it r'ght for one ot
our members 10 leave the Alsembly in rhe height of
their hufiue'.s and rake an airing of about two hun
dred miles and batk again, and !ray two or three
weeks in the country ? Was it right for that lame
member to take his final leave of that lame Alsrni
bly, one or two weeks before its riling, and come
home in order to lave pence for himfelf, while he
might be looting hundreds of pounds for his coun
try ? Might not many laws have palsed during his
abfence, by which the good people of this county
would be without a voice in rejecting or receiving
them ? is not this a contempt offered by him to the
people, in return for the honourable preference
they gave to him ? Does it not thew that it was to
ferve his own vanity or intereft that he af’pired to
that eminent feat and not the people ? Thele things
drierve to he ferioufly conflclered by the people,
who teem to he fo barefacedly impofed upon, and
whole confluence leems to he lo thwmeftillv ahuied.
THt PEOPLE.
A GREAT BARGAIN,
FOR SALE,
1500 acres of prime Miami LAND.
The greater part catn, and the remainder in good
fecuiity, will he required in payment. This land,
from the molt authentic descriptions, is fituated in
the tnidft of the paradicical chart, ard bids lair to
become not only ihe garden of America, but of the
known world. This illaborare account is juft, bur
urtnecefsary, as the public will he afsuretl that no j
representation can lufficienily give a cotnprehenfiole
idea of its value And ferrilitv, and is given merely
to fill up the fquare. Likewife for hie, two tracts
of Land in Hampll'.ire, which may be feen by ap
j ply ing to the iublcribtr.
GABRIEL NOURSE.
N. B. A 11 perfons indebted to me, are cautioned
againfr making any payment to John Meredith, my
late afsiftant, on my account, bur are requeued to
fettle their refpective balances without further no
tice, with me. G. N.
| „ ue loid at FUlilnC AUa I iurt,
On the 6thday oi Klinmt next, >1 t.nr, >1 not llls
mxi Uir day, at the late dwelling •-! .Stephen
Harlan,decetiled, ms pcrfooal enate, uinliitir.g
Hoiks, Cattle, Sheep, Wheat, Indian
Corn Hay, sumh and u.ai pciiei’s l a' ls, tanning
Utetiiils and Houlhold Furniture, wall oilier a,u
t|,s tuo numerous in be lu re mleried- A iealnna
blr credit will be ginen, and the terms more paill
culuiiy “lade known on the day «l tale, ny
JKs.'K HAKLAn £ Khutors.
Jt.HU HaIaLAN. i
Ian. 2.1.
WHKREAS on the 2d iofr. the lubtcnfrr g»vo
a prumil'sary note ol 25 pounds, Pennlylva
nia currency, to John Willtamtun, as p-" P*)"1"'
of a piece ot land formerly Lord h •" tox s, but the
laid William Ion not being able to make nit a luHt
cient deed, and as I an, likely to luoL what 1 hate
already paid, 1 hereby cauti n »U perlons from tak
ing any aflignment on .he laid note, as 1 am deter
mined not to pay it uni, is romp-Ued ny law
WILLIAM LAWkhNCE.
I -AKlvN up by ills .unictiber, on the lit tnft. a
1 liras mate colt, about iS months old, ot a
brown colour, near 12 hands h’feh. with a [mail
liar, 3ppraifed atone pound ten Millings. Alio, a
heifer calf, black -alonr, while fate, without brand
or tar mark, appraifed at iivtlve Imlltngs. I he
owner or osvners are deftred to pr iv, properry,
pay chatg.s, and take them away
1 ; h DAVID OSBURN.
Berkeley County, Jan. 25, y7- ______
LL pertuus indented to in- route ol Loner C
fi. 1 hrnckmorton, ol this County, in his I'te
tune, are r, quelled loprepare tor ditch-urging their
deb, -; 1 hole having demands againtt the taitt eliate,
are e, quelled to make t lie n» known as ipeedity as
pofsibte, that the atlmmittraliou of the laid Ro
bert ‘s elf are may be completed, and 1 lie accounts
thereol leuled ,nd doled within ilvclve ninntiis,
the term allowed by lew.
B\ JOHN DAVENPORT.
Jan. 23, *07.
Stub.ME OF A LOT TERY .
THE German inh.»buants ot Marti nsbukc and
its vicinity, numbers ot the hv.*iig-tic Iri'be
r. .i Church, are deitituce of a habitation for ikeij*
Minifter to dwell in- and as a great ex;> r>ce would
accrue in building a houfe, as alio th« length of
lime that would elapte Ik tore laid building would
be fimilled, to fave trouble and executes, I offer tb*5
following plan by lottery.
DJ/ars.
*500 Tickets, at 9. dollars per ticket, is 7000
Grant to the congregation of part of lot
No. 21!, fronting on King's Street. 50 feet,
and in length 15 * feet, on which is erected
a new two dory l..» houie, to be folly and
completely finifhed, a liable to he thereon
bnilr, and a partition fence to be run thro*
the premises j as alio part of lot No. 3:1
and No. 217, fronting King's Street, goieet
in width, thence to John’s Mrcel, in length
ijoofeer, thence along John's Street, go T t
in width, and thence ag tin to King's v.rc« ',
400 feet to the beginning, valued at j cE6
dollars. - - - I S6a
i Prize, a new two ftory log honfe, to
be completed , finiihed, onK.;' g’s Street,
adj lining Henry Grows, lituared on
lot No. 212, containing of laid lot in
front 34. feet, and in length 150 feel, va
lued at 800 dollars, - - 800
I Prize, part ot lor No. 320, fronting on
John's Street i 16 feet, and on Back
Street {o feet - - 29!
i Pri/.e, parr of f a id lor, fronting on Bark
Street, 50 feet, and in length 116 leet,
valued at 26J
1 Prize, part of ditto, fronting on Back
Street 50 feet, and ill length 116 feet,
valued at 267
l Prize, part of ditto, fronting on Bick
Street 50 feet, and in length 116 feet,
Valued at
t Ditto, in cafh, of too Dollars,
1 Ditto, - 50
1 Ditto, - 25
1 Ditto, •• - 18
1 Ditto, - 12
10 Ditto, - 10
ico Ditto, - - 4^
500 Ditto, -
547 Ditto, - 2^
1167 Prizes and 2333 blanks ; exactly 2 6999^
blanks to a prize.
JOHN ROINEFELD.
We the Subfcribers, whole names are hereunto
written, have been appointed Managers by John
Roinefeld. and we are fully empowered by him to
convey and pay off fuch prizes as may be drawn,
by the fortunate adventurer, if the aforelaid lot'et y
thould be drawn and if in cafe the laid lottery Ihould
nor be completed, we will repay to each per Ion
the fum or i'ums of money of them received by the
laid Roinefeld refpccting the (aid lottery, as loon a :
punlic notice is thereof given, and tew da)S af er
the drawing is completed, all claims fhall he o.f
charged, by
PETER SNOWDRKL, NICH. CHOPPER T,
WENDRL SYBART, JACOB ShlARl EL,
JACOB PAINTER, CHR IS. FaUI K.
NICH. STRAYER, TsiCH. bHAUL, j'»o