The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-05-10 00:00:00

KENTUCKE GAZETTE
SATURDAY, MAY 10 1788.
LEXINGTON: Printed and Sold by JOHN and ELIZABETH BRADFORD, at their PRINTING OFFICE in Main Street where subscriptions at 18/ per Ann. Advertisements 6/ for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in all its various branches done with Care and Expedition - Advertisements of no more than one inch breadth, are inserted for 1/ the first time and 3/ each time after and longer ones in proportion
JUST OPENED
AND FOR SALE AT THOMAS JANUARY'S store in Lexington near the Court-house and one door above Alexander & Co. lime-burners
 CUP RINE, Broad & Narrow Cloths,  Corduroys, Fustians & jeans,  Calico,  Muscans & Durants,  High Linen,  Ap on check,  Old Hanoverian,  White and black Covert,  Blue & Green Sars,  Pen, Shears,  Men & Women's Gloves,  Pibbles and Winton etc,  Line & coarse Cambric,  Ink & Quills,  Pen & carriage Knives,  Wool Coats,  Cumberland Cotton,  Coopers & Robin,  St Nails,  Chisels and Augers,  Q. cast-ware,  and a general assortment of cutting-together with a number of a nice set of tools to mention
FOR SALE FIFTY THOUSAND
ACRES of valuable land situated on the following water courses viz twenty five thousand acres in the waters of Cumberland river within the Boundary of the county of Ohio and twenty five thousand acres lying on the waters of Elk, Elk and Tennessee rivers, and several other navigable water courses falling into the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The subscriber thinks it unnecessary with regard to its situation, timber, to be very particular in his description as he imagines the purchaser would previous to any contract be desirous of seeing the land. Insuperable titles will be made the purchasers, and eight years credit will be given from the time of making the titles, no interest will be requested for the first four years. Any person inclined to purchase may know the terms and be favoured by applying to ELIJAH ROBERTSON. Nashville January 21. 1788. b29
STRAYED from the subscriber's plantation near the Surveyor's office (Payette) a two year old dark bay, rather brown stone horse, has a small star in his forehead, two or three white feet, is well blooded, and a bay filly of the same age, has a very small star, and one white foot: also a yearling horse colt, a bay, neither of them are docked or branded, they went off with a small gray mare, she was a stray and had on a good bell. Any person who will take up the three first mentioned strays, and bring them home or secure so that they be recovered shall be handsomely rewarded. April 29 1788. H. MARSHALL
WHEREAS we hold three bonds to Richard James for the amount of five hundred pounds about the 20th of March last, to be discharged by certain pieces of property and carpenters work: in consideration of the said Richard James having sold to Mr. Smith for five hundred acres of land lying in the county of Bourbon: and as said Richard James has not paid the amount of said bonds, we therefore foreclose on said bonds, taking an assignment of the said property, and we are desirous of being charged with the amount of said bonds. April 11, 1788. THOMAS HAMILTON SAMUEL HINDMAN.
PUFFY ROOT is the name whereon is the following bond, and the consideration for which is the sum of five hundred pounds, for which I have a bond from the said Richard James, and I have this bond assigned to me, and I am desirous of being charged with the amount of said bond. April 21, 1788. JAMES ARDERT.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD STRAYED from Mr. McFalls near Lexington the day of January last a dark bay horse about fifteen years old, valued on the bond at five hundred pounds, with a white star on his forehead, and a white blaze on his face, no matter remembered, and a white blaze on his face. Whoever secures said horse and delivers him to me at Lexington, or to Mr. Tho. Wells at Bourbon, shall receive the sum of four dollars reward, and a reasonable charge for keeping said horse. April 21, 1788. JOSEPH KASCHVILER.
BEING appointed executor of the last will and testament of Richard James of the county of Cumberland and state of Virginia, for the purpose of attending to the valuation of certain lands and other property of the said James and Mr. William Morris deceased, the contents of London and state of Virginia: I do hereby public notice that I shall in the event of the said James James proceed on the third day of June next to call on the said James, referred to in the articles of the said agreement in order to have the valuation on the aforesaid lands settled, when Mr. McGehee or his agent is requested to meet me at Danville. April 21, 1788. A. P. RICHARD JAMES.
STRAYED from Capt. John Fowlers about Christmas last, a small bay horse, four years old this spring, has a small star in his forehead, a long tail and hanging mane, branded on the near shoulder A on the near buttock, B on the off shoulder 15 and on the off buttock a flower device. Whoever delivers said horse to me at Lexington, or to Mr. Tho. Wells at Bourbon, shall receive the sum of four dollars reward. JAMES WILKINSON.
Longville March 17, 1788. BY Authority from the honourable the Executive of the state of Virginia, (being duly admitted thereto) the duties of Notary Public, for the district of Kentucky, will be to those who are Virginia officers. BENJ. JOHNSON.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD STRAYED from the subscriber about four miles from this place a bay horse about fourteen hands and an inch high eight years old, a broad hanging mane and a large bushy tail, fore saddle space, the hair is worn off his sides with the stirrup leathers, and when he moves gently one of his hind legs cracks, whoever takes up said horse and brings him to me at Lexington shall receive the above reward. Lexington April 20 1788. JOHN GOUDY
FOR SALE A tract of land containing 1400 acres on the waters of the north fork of Licking, lying on the road from Lexington to the lower Blue Licks; being Myers settlement and preemption and includes ways, hills, roads, bonds on portions in this district or on portions in the Eastern part of Virginia will be received in payment, and I will warrant the title. HARRY INNES
My Mr. Pritchett, I reported in your paper, No. 33 an advertisement, signed by a certain individual that Nickle, holding forth to the public that I was run off, but my presence will prove to the contrary; he also refused paying a draught I drew on him which was justly due, this will caution the public against dealing with such a rascal as he is, the said Mr. Nickle pretends at present to be a stone mason, but his trade is whatever. EDWARD MC FARLAN.
I have for sale at my house a large quantity of dry game and salt, which I will sell for cash, at two Dollars pr. bushel. ANNIE CHRISTIAN Lincoln, April 8. 1788. 3337
REDBIRD A now fat and blooded horse, will stand the season at the subscriber's house in Lexington, his price thirty shillings cash, or 300 lb of merchantable tobacco, or 300 lb of pork, to be delivered in Lexington on or before the 20th day of October next. REDBIRD was got by Fearnought and his dam was a Janus, called sow and fure, his grand dam was creep Kate, so well known on the continent for her swiftness and high blood. JOHN MCNAIR.
I BEG leave to inform my clients, that Capt. T. Marshall will attend to their business in my absence, and respectfully. April 29. 1788. H. MARSHALL

Messrs. Bradfords,
AMONG the numberless privileges which free citizens enjoy, the liberty of the press is perhaps one of the greatest; open to all parties, but influenced by none, would not be an improper motto for your paper; if so, how comes it to pass that a piece lately offered for public investigation has been suppressed; it is not the piece of performance of the author which I would wish to see, I am as heartily tired of the scandal, low and unmanly contest as any man; But I am alarmed, at the consequence, the fatal tendency which this precedent, might authorise; where the press is under the direction, fear, or influence of one part of the community, what has the other not to dread? Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press, but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequences of his own temerity. To subject the press, to the restrictive power, of a licencer, is to subject all freedom of sentiment, to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge, of all controverted points, in learning, religion, government, &c.
I am Sir, yours &c, CATO.
May 6, 1783, Messrs. Printers,
I had prepared a piece for public investigation, but upon hearing that there is a third Gentleman whose approbation is first to be had, before a piece is admitted to the press, beg the favour of you to inform me of the Gentlemans name, and place of abode, that I may be enabled to procure a Certificate of his approbation, before I send you the piece in order to prevent a disappointment.
I am yours &c. PHILELEUTHEROS.
** Gratitude demands our humble and unfeigned thanks to those Gentlemen who have with disinterested motives lent business to our office, and necessarily induced us to use our greatest official powers to serve and oblige them, but still always concieve ourselves justly liable in suspending or suppressing any piece which to us shall appear to have a tendency to involve us in altercation.
Alarmed that the public have taken up an idea that our press is under the restraint or influence of a single individual, and conscious of the fatal tendency such ideas will have to destroy the credit of this paper unless timely removed. We therefore have thought proper to publish two of the many addresses sent to us on this subject; and farther declaring, that this paper is, and shall ever continue OPEN TO ALL PARTIES BUT INFLUENCED BY NONE, and that each individual, shall have an equal privilege of publishing his sentiments (in becoming language) in this paper; but in case of an attack on the character of a private individual, the Printers to be indemnified by the author.
The transaction that gave rise to this publication, was the suspension of the publication of a personal piece addressed to a private Gentleman, by one who was about to leave this district, we have wrote to the author, acquainting him thereof, and shall wait his answer, before we finally determine on the suspension, or publication of said piece.
Continued from our last
SECT. VI. AND be it further enacted That nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to any proceedings that may be had in consequence of any distress made or to be made for any rent reserved and due, or which may hereafter become due, upon any demise lease, or contract whatsoever. Where any writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum, has been or shall be served on any debtor, it shall be lawful for such debtor to tender to the sheriff or other officer serving the same, property to the value of the debt and costs for which such execution has issued, or may hereafter issue, which property the said sheriff or other officer shall receive and proceed to sell in like manner as is herein directed in the case of goods taken in execution upon a writ of fieri facias, and shall thereupon discharge such debtor out of custody.
SECT. VII. AND be it further enacted, That where any bond directed or permitted to be given by this act, shall be offered, a execution issued thereon, against the original obligor or obligors, and on such execution there shall be a return by the sheriff or other officer that there were no goods, or not sufficient goods of the obligor or obligors, to make the debt and costs, it shall be lawful for the clerk, who issued such execution, to issue a second execution against the assignor or assignors of such bond, for the
debt mentioned therein, or such part thereof as shall appear to be still due; on which execution there shall be similar proceedings to those in an execution against the original obligor.
SECT. VIII. AND be it further enacted, That the valuers shall be amenable to their respective county or corporation courts, and at the discretion of such courts may be deprived of their office for neglect of duty or misfeasance therein; and upon the death, resignation, or removal from office of any such valuer, the vacancy shall be supplied by new appointment of the county or corporation court in which it shall happen. When the sheriff shall under any execution have fixed the time and place for the sale of the property taken under such execution, he shall summon three of the commissioners appointed under this act to value the property and ascertain the sufficiency of securities, to attend at the time and place of such sale. If only two of the said commissioners attend, they shall, after the hour of two o'clock, choose one of the by-standers to assist them in such valuation. If only one of the said commissioners attend, he shall at the same time and in the same manner choose one of the by-standers, and they shall together choose a third to value such property as aforesaid. If none of the said commissioners shall attend the sale shall be postponed until another day, which shall not be longer than ten days, when the same proceedings shall be had as are directed to have been on the day first appointed for the sale. The sheriff shall administer the same oaths to the persons chosen by the commissioners as are directed by this act to be administered to the commissioners by the county or corporation courts.
SECT. IX. AND be it further enacted, That all and every other act and acts, and parts of acts, coming within the purview of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.
SECT. X. THIS act shall continue in force for three years, and no longer.
Messrs. Bradfords,
THE freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, therefore I request your favour to insert the following piece in your paper. The same thing is often conveyed in high flowery language, is not agreeable in the nature of them, when spoken or wrote in a low style.
The end of government is intended to secure to us the blessings of life, liberty and property, and the blessings of liberty, cannot be preserved but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue; and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. If you adhere to justice, you will prefer a form of government which is best calculated to do justice to every member of the community; every man who performs any service to his country, ought to receive a reward equal to his service, for if he receives less than the true value of his labour, he is deprived of that justice which he is intitled to, according to the nature of right; and on the other hand, if a man receives more from the public than the true value of his labour, it is unjust, and tends to many bad consequences; first because it increases the burthen of the public, secondly it fixes a precedent for others to receive in the like proportion for their services, and thus a small error, is multiplied, until it becomes very great and thirdly when once a custom is introduced, of giving the officers of government too much, it has a tendency to encourage extravagance generally, which is apt to coincide with the natural haughtiness of the human heart, and when those officers are supported extravagantly by the public, it will be an encouragement to live more extravagantly than they otherwise would, and the result of late will of course be led more or less to follow the example, and so from one associate to another, until a great part of the community is considerably moved from that moderation, temperance and frugality, which is necessary for a free people; and fourthly, if the government of Kentucky is filled with a great number of officers, and those officers to have high salaries the state of Kentucky will not be able to support itself, and of course must be reduced to a state of bankruptcy, but perhaps you will say it is necessary to give high salaries to procure men of the greatest abilities to fill those offices of state, as some of those are Gentlemen of the law, who makes a great profit by pleading at the bar, this I conceive to be no good reason, because those Gentlemen ought not to have more than what is equal to their service, then it would be as agreeable to them to act in some other office as to plead law, I am clear in opinion, that some of the lawyers fees are too high, and it is better to correct one error than to let it continue to be a means of in-
troducing ten more. If more money is in the treasury than will pay all the demands on the state, it would not be very inconsistent with justice to give a bounty to the manufactories, as their business carried on properly, is of much essential benefit to the community. It is said a legislature of one house of representatives is best to be elected by all free men of age, because a majority of the people may not be freeholders, and if it was freeholders only which were to vote, one half of the men in the state, might have no voice in the laws which were to govern them. The representation ought to be by numbers and not by counties, because it is men they represent and not land, (a Territory was to be represented a man holding one thousand acres of land, ought to have ten votes, when another holding one hundred acres, ought to have only one vote in the election for Delegates.) Every Representative, ought to represent the same number of men, or as near the given number as may conveniently be ascertained, otherwise one member, which represents five hundred men in the county, ought to have five votes, when another member, who represents two hundred and fifty, ought to have only one vote, for unless every constituent has an equal representation in the legislature, it cannot be said he has equal liberty. The more equal the Government is balanced, the better it will be for the general good of the whole, and if there was as many districts as delegates, and each district to send one delegate, elections would be more pure and convenient, and the people would be more fairly represented, I concede the same may be counties which hath inhabitants inconvenient to the place of holding elections, which will prevent their attendance, and if they were to attend, it might be very difficult to elect, when the people are very numerous, and that one thousand men might carry an election, against twelve hundred. The interest of men in the same county in some cases are opposed to each other, owing to their situation. The laws enacted by one house of representatives may be examined by the judges of the supreme court and attorney General, if disapproved to send their objections to the house, to reconsider it, and if two thirds are in favour, it might become a law, this would be as good a check as that of a senate, and less expensive to the state; without some check a member might take the opportunity of the most favourable time and get a law passed by a bare majority, to answer some private purpose, revert to public good, is not a Governor and two coadjutors as fully sufficient for the executive department, as one judge and two assistant judges for the judiciary in the General court, as they are fully qualified for the administration of justice. They will be less expensive to the community.
A CITIZEN OF KENTUCKY.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD
STRAYED from John McKenneys on Icfhampe creek the 24th of April, a forrel mare about thirteen hands high, bald face, three white feet and legs as high as her knees, has a white ring on the off side of her body, branded on the near shoulder P, and on the near buttock T, was hopped when she went away with a girth-web surcingle, whoever takes up said mare and brings her to the subscriber living about three miles from Lexington, shall be intitled to the above reward.
b37 ALEXANDER MAXWELL
JUST ARRIVED AND WILL BE OPENED ON MONDAY NEXT, BY ALEXANDER & JAMES PARKER; AT THEIR STORE IN LEXINGTON, A LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARD- WARE AND QUEEN'S WARE.
BLANK DEEDS, SUBPOENA'S, BONDS &c. may be had at this Office.