The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1790-04-05 00:00:00

KENTUCKY GAZETTE
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1790.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his Office at the corner of Main and Cross Streets where Subscriptions, advertisements &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition
JUST OPENED, AND TO BE SOLD BY ANDREW HOLMES & Co.
A large and general assortment of MERCHANDISE suitable to the present and approaching season, which will be sold on the lowest terms for CASH or COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Lexington, Jan. 12, 1790.
THE subscriber will rent between 30 and 40 acres of cleared land 3 miles below Lexington, under good fence, and will be in good order to raise a crop of corn the ensuing season.
Thomas Lewis.
March 6, 1790.
WANTED
A quantity of Tobacco, Hemp, Hempseed, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Corn, &c. & all kinds, for which Goods will be given at Cash price by
PETER JANUARY & SON
March 18, 1790.
ALSO FOR SALE,
TWO IN LOTS, ON MAIN STREET, IN THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON.
CHARLES WHITE
COPPER SMITH Late of NEW YORK.
RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he intends carrying on the Cooper Smith's business at this place, in all its various branches, (to wit) Stills, Brew and Distilleries &c. Also, casts all kind of brass work, for mills, makes and repairs all kind of brass and tin work, likewise repairs all kinds of locks and keys. He buys all kinds of old copper, brass, pewter and lead. Those who please to favor him with their custom shall have their work done in the best manner and on the shortest notice.
Lexington, Dec. 8, 1789.
REWARD
Whereas a quantity of Hemp was stolen from the subscriber, for which twenty-five shillings per hundred will be given if delivered at Frankfort, or twenty-three shillings in Lexington, payment will be made in merchandise at the lowest Cash price.
ROBERT BARR.
Lexington March 4 1790.
Those indebted to the Printer hereof, are requested to pay up their respective balances; and I do hereby assure all those who have failed to pay for the first volume, that I shall take such steps forthwith (if this fails) as will render it unnecessary to request them by advertisement any more.
Mr. Hitt is hereby authorised to receive any money due the Office, and receipt for the same.
TIPPOO SAIB
Stands the ensuing season at my plantation near the mouth of Hickman in Fayette County, and will cover mares at forty shillings the season, payable in merchantable produce if delivered at the mouth of Hickman on or before the 1st day of December next; or thirty shillings cash if paid within the season, and fifteen shillings cash in hand the single leap - good pasture gratis for mares at a distance and particular attention paid them, but will not be answerable for thefts, escapes or deaths.
David Walker.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
Stolen from the subscribers in Hopewell Town Bourbon County, about the first of March last, two horses, one a Brown, seven years old, fifteen hands high, branded on the near buttock H a small blaze in his face a natural Trotter. The other a bay, eight or nine years old, short man and tail, shot before, branded on the near shoulder and buttock P about fourteen hands high - whoever will deliver said horses to the subscribers shall receive the above reward or in proportion for either.
SMITH & GOLL.
In pursuance of an act of assembly, the commissioners of the town of Louisville will sell, for ready money, on the fourth of May next, (being Jefferson court day) at the house of John Harrison, in said town,
THAT valuable square of ground in Louisville, number 1x, lying between the half acre lots and Water-street, late occupied by John Sinclair, and recovered from him by suit at law, in the supreme court of the district - Also, on the same terms, sundry other lots in the aforesaid town, their situation and numbers will be made known at the time of sale.
By order of the board. JOHN CLARK. Chairman.
TO BE SOLD
To the highest bidder, on Monday the 10th day of May next, for ready Cash a LOT of ground in the town of Lexington, containing 4 poles on Main-Street and 13 poles back, being part of the town commons, directed by an act of the Assembly of Virginia, for the purpose of erecting thereon, a house of Divine public Worship. - No person need expect to become a purchaser without being legally authorised by the denomination to which he belongs. - Further particulars will be made known at the time and place of sale.
By Order of the Trustees, April 5 1790. Robert Parker Clerk.
THE subscribers take the liberty of informing the public, that they have opened, and established a butchers shop, where Andrew Steiger Jun. Butcher from Baltimore Town, will kill and dress all kind of meat, of superior quality, and in the neatest fashion; any gentlemen and ladies who will honor them with their custom may rely on their assiduity to serve them.
JOHN SMITH. AND. STEIGER.
N.B. They buy all kind of fat cattle, ears, calves, sheep, lambs and hogs, for which will be given, cash or store goods at each price.
PEYTON SHORT & Co
Have for sale at their store in Lexington, a considerable assortment of
DRY goods, hard ware and groceries, which they will sell on reasonable terms for cash, tobacco, corn, wheat, rye, pork, beef, bacon, hemp, flour, furs of every kind, tar, pitch and turpentine, &c. &c. &c.
They flatter themselves they have given general satisfaction to those who have already favoured them with their custom, for it has been their wish and shall be their study, although they receive every species of country produce, to sell on as moderate advance upon the Philadelphia cost, as any Merchant in the district.
March 6, 1790
Excellent Wine Vinegar for sale by
P. S & Co.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that I intend to petition the next Assembly to confirm a title to me in the lands that were elcheated from Robert McKenzie, in the district of Kentucky, for the use of a public school.
W. M'KENZIE.
THE ARABIAN GRAY
WILL cover mares at the subscribers plantation, this season, at one guinea payable in salt, corn, wheat, rye, or country linnen at the market price, if delivered by the first day of August next, if not, in cash; It is needless to lay one word in commendation of the above horse.
John C. Lenden.
April 3, 1790.
A List of Letters in this Office
A Joseph Anderson in some part of Kentucky, to the particular care of Mr John May. Samuel Avery, near Lexington. Thomas Asford Bourbon.
B Daniel Brodhead jun. Esq. William Barn, going down the river from Salt River.
Calaway Bunch, near the mouth of Dick's River.
Christian Bush Esq. Fayette. John Bell Fayette.
Thomas Banfield, to the care of Mr. Shovers tavern keeper Lexington.
Patrick Burke, to the care of Mr Daniel Lexington.
C William Connor. Joseph Crosby Fayette.
Fanny Crozier Danville. The Commissioners of the Land Tax.
Fayette. William Cummons Fayette.
Lewis Craig, Fayette. Mary Crozier Lexington.
D Christopher Durbin Fayette.
Joseph Debonn. William Dougherty.
Obed Denham. Robert Davison.
F William Fletcher Boonsborough. Henry Floyd Nelson.
Jones Fowler Middletown. G John Goble.
H Harrison Harris Woodford. Leonard Hetherly Fayette.
Robert Huchison Strouds station. Benjamin Howard Lydia's mount.
K William Knox, Boons creek.
L Nicholas Lewis, Fayette. Nancy Lockhart, do.
M Robert Mitchell Fayette. Geo. McIntyre, to the care of Mr.
Jared Cowan near Lexington. 2 Henry Murray Fayette.
Thomas M'Farland, do. Duncan M'Ruer, do.
Francis William Murray, Lexington. William M'Clelland, Bourbon.
Colo. Nathaniel G. Morrice, Buckeye Fork Fayette.
John M Gee, Nelson. N Nathan Nisbet, Bourbon.
O Henry O Nail, Bourbon. Charles O Nail, Woodford.
John Ormsby, at or near Lexington. Nicholas Osborne, Kentucky.
P Daniel Peake near Frankfort. James Patig, near Lexington.
Nathaniel Parker, Danville. R Joseph Rogers near the big crossings.
Fayette. S John Smith near Danville. Jacob Springer Fayette.
Milly Scot, mouth of Hickman. Lawrence Smith to the care of Mr.
Alexander Ramsey. Daniel Shewhan Bourbon.
John Selfnet Fayette. T Thomas Thomson, near Wilsons station.
Mercer. David Thompson. Charles Thruston Louisville.
Thomas Thornton Fayette. V Lewis Van Buskirk Bourbon.
James Van Buskirk Bards town. W Jacob Wall near Fishers station.
James Ware Jefferson. 2 John Williams Washington.

An act concerning the erection of the District of Columbia into an Independent State. Passed the 13th of December, 1789.
[Continue from our last.]
And be it further enacted, That if the said convention shall approve of the erection of the said district into an independent state on the foregoing terms and conditions, they shall and may proceed to fix a day posterior to the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, on which the authority of the Commonwealth, and of its laws under exceptions aforesaid, shall cease and determine forever over the proposed state, and the said articles become a solemn compact mutually binding on the parties, and unalterable by either without the consent of the other. Provided however, That prior to the first day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, the general government of the United States shall assent to the erection of the said district into an independent state, shall release this Commonwealth from all its federal obligations arising from the said articles or being part thereof, and shall agree that the proposed state shall immediately after the day to be fixed as aforesaid, posterior to the first day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, or at some convenient time future thereto, be admitted into the Federal Union. And to the end that no period of anarchy may happen to the good people of the proposed state, it is hereby understood that the said convention shall have authority to take the necessary provisional measures for the election & meeting of a convention, at some time prior to the day fixed for the determination of the authority of this Commonwealth, and of its laws over said district, and posterior to the first day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one aforesaid, with full power and authority to frame and establish a fundamental constitution of government for the proposed state, and to declare what laws shall be in force therein, until the same shall be abrogated or altered by the legislative authority acting under the constitution to be framed and established.
And be it further enacted, That the electors in going to, continuing at, and returning from an election of members of the said convention, shall be entitled to the same privileges from arrest, as are by law allowed at an election of members to the General Assembly, and each person returned to serve as a member in said convention, shall be entitled to the same privileges from arrest in going to, during his attendance on, and returning from said convention, as are by law allowed to the members of the General Assembly. This act shall be transmitted by the Executive to the Representatives of this Commonwealth in Congress, who are hereby instructed to use their endeavors to obtain from Congress a speedy act to the effect above specified.
NEW-YORK, January 7.
House of Representatives
Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Sturgis, Mr. Van Rensselaer, Mr. Carroll, and Mr. Matthews, appeared and took their seats. A message was sent to the Senate, informing them that a quorum of the house was now assembled.
Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Sherman, and Mr. White, were appointed a committee to report the unfinished business of the last session.
A resolution was received from the Senate, by which Mr. Strong and Mr. Izard are appointed a committee on their part, to wait on, and inform the President of the United States, that the two houses of Congress are now formed, and request to know of him, what time he will affect to meet them in the Senate chamber, to lay before them the business he has to communicate. The house concurred in this resolution, and appointed Mr. Gilman, Mr. Ames, and Mr. Seney, a committee on their part.
On motion, Resolved that two chaplains of different denominations, be elected for the present session—one by each house, to interchange weekly.
Mr. Gilman of the committee appointed to wait on the President, informed the house that the President had assigned to-morrow, at 11 o'clock to meet, and conduct both houses of Congress, in the
Senate chamber. Adjourned to half after ten o'clock to-morrow morning.
January 8
Mr. Wynkoop appeared this day and took his seat.
The house being assembled, adjourned to the Senate chamber. At eleven o'clock the PRESIDENT of the United States, attended by his Aids and Secretary, was received by the two houses of Congress in the Senate chamber, when he was pleased to make the following SPEECH:
Fellow-citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives.
EMBRACE with great satisfaction the opportunity which now presents itself, of congratulating you on the present favorable prospects of our public affairs. The recent accession of the important state of North Carolina to the constitution of the United States (of which official information has been received) - the rising credit and respectability of our country - the general and increasing good will towards the government of the union, and the concord, peace and plenty, with which we are blessed, under circumstances auspicious in an eminent degree to our national prosperity. In returning your congratulations for the past, and, you cannot but derive encouragement from the reflection, that the measures of the last session have been satisfactory to your constituents, as the novelty and difficulty of the work allowed you to hope - Still further to realize their expectations, and to secure the blessings which a gracious Providence has placed within our reach, will in the course of the present important session, call for the cool and deliberate exertion of your patriotism, firmness, and wisdom.
Among the many interesting objects, which will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defence will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; which end a uniform and well-organized militia require that they should be made such manufacturers, as tend to render them independent on others. For special, particularly for military supplies.
The proper establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable, will be entitled to your consideration. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it, it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers with a due regard to economy.
There was reason to hope, that the pacific measures adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians, would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depredations. But you will perceive from the information contained in the papers, which I shall direct to be laid before you, (comprehending a communication from the Commonwealth of Virginia) that we ought to be prepared to afford protection to those parts of the union; and, if necessary, to punish aggressors.
The interests of the United States require, that our intercourse with other nations should be facilitated by such provisions as will enable me to fulfil my duty in that respect, in the manner, which circumstances may render the most conducive to the public good; And to this end, that the compensations to be made to the persons, who may be employed, should, according to the nature of their appointments, be defined by law; and a competent fund designated for defraying the expenses incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs.
Various considerations also render it expedient, that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of Citizens, should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.
Uniformity in the currency, weights and measures of the United States, is an object of great importance, and will I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
The advancement of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, by all the proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and
useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius, in producing them at home; and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the Post Office and post-roads.
Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing, which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. It is one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionally essential. To the security of a free Constitution it contributes in various ways: By convincing those, who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people: And by teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority; between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience, and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society; to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aid to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the Legislatures.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
I SAW with peculiar pleasure, at the close of the last session, the resolution entered into by you, expressive of your opinion, that an adequate provision for the support of the public credit, is a matter of high importance to the national honour and prosperity. In this sentiment, I entirely concur. And to a perfect confidence in your best endeavours to devise such a provision, as will be truly consistent with the end, I add an equal reliance on the cheerful co-operation of the other branch of the Legislature. It would be superfluous to specify inducements to a measure in which the character and permanent interests of the United States are so obviously, and so deeply concerned; and which has received so explicit a sanction from your declaration.
[To be continued.]
LEXINGTON, April 5.
A Correspondent informs us that a negro woman the property of Mr. James Logan of Lincoln County, was lately delivered of two children, the one a very white one, the other a black, the children are both alive and very healthy.
By a prisoner who lately escaped from the Indians encamped on the Ohio river, near the mouth of the Scioto, we are informed, that a few days before the attack was made on the three boats mentioned in our last, the Indians took a large canoe, going up the river, killed three men on board, the rest were made prisoners; also, a boat coming down the Ohio, was decoyed to shore by a white man who appeared in distress, and begged they would take him on board; the boat no sooner struck shore, than the Indians (to the amount of about fifty) who were in ambush fired on them, killed Mr. John May who was on board, and a young woman, the rest were made prisoners. We are also informed, that the Indians have sent for a reinforcement of two hundred more to assist them in watching the Ohio river.
By a gentleman who arrived in this town this day, and who is just down the Ohio, we are informed, that on Friday last, about ten miles above the mouth of Scioto he was attacked by the Savages, but luckily five boats appearing in sight, the Indians did not pursue him, but turned their attention to the other boats, one of which fell into their hands having first been abandoned by the people on board, there was one man killed in the first mentioned boat, and several horses killed and wounded.
From BARTGIS's Virginia Gazette.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in New-Orleans, dated December 12.
The sparks of liberty which were discovered some time past in South-America, have now actually broke out into a flame. - Yes my friend, the American fever which has shook to its foundations the thrones of enlightened Europe, has found its way to this land of ignorance and superstition; By accounts received over land from Mexico, all bids fair for a revolution. The inhabitants of this rich and fertile country, who have been the dupes and sport of priestcraft for centuries past, begin to open their eyes; they have refused to pay the 4th part of the produce of their mines to the King, in consequence of which the Viceroy ordered the European troops to take possession of some of the most valuable mines in the neighbourhood of the city of Mexico; this happened in October last, about the 20th of November upwards of 7000 inhabitants appeared under arms, amongst which were the most respected characters of the country; they marched and attacked the troops who had taken possession of their property: an engagement took place, the greatest part of the King's troops fell a sacrifice, and the people took their property; they were afterwards joined by a large body of Indians (who make the greater part of the inhabitants) and then proceeded to the city of Mexico, where they took possession of the King's magazines, arsenals, &c. the Viceroy, the chief officers, the priests and jesuits, the most obnoxious to the natives, fled towards Cadiz; two expresses arrived here over land; government wishes to conceal it from the people but time will disclose the whole of this in erecting affair.
I Want to employ a number of hands to conduct my boats to the City of New Orleans to whom I will give the most liberal encouragement. JAMES WILKINSON.
SALES BY AUCTION, For the benefit of the concerned.
ON Tuesday the 31st inst. will be sold by public vendue a quantity of damaged Irish linen, also a quantity of coarse linen for negroes wear &c. The sale to commence precisely at 10 o'clock at the house of Stephen Collins. Lexington, April 1, 1790
I HAVE a considerable quantity of valuable Iron-monnery, buckles and buttons, round glass and Queens ware, Men's and Womens shoes, hats Norwich camblets and callimancoes, India chinizes, Muslins, silks and calicoes, together with a compleat assortment of British mounted Carpenters and Joiners tools, which, with a variety of other articles, I will exchange at the lowest cash price for young healthy Negroes, two or three yoke of oxen, and a quantity of whiskey.
CHARLES VANCOUVER. Lexington March 12, 1790.