The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1789-11-14 00:00:00

K E N T U C K Y G A Z E T T E.
S A T U R D A Y, NOVEMBER 14, 1789.
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.
The following is a copy of an agreement entered into by the Kentucky Society in or near Danville
From a conviction that the welfare of Kentucky must depend in a great measure on the establishment of useful manufactures; and that this desirable end cannot be attained by individuals who are not able of themselves to purchase the machines and to advance such sums of money as would be necessary to carry them on with success.
WE the subscribers have agreed to associate ourselves by the name of "The Kentucky Society for the encouragement of manufactures" and we do oblige ourselves to pay to the managers hereafter to be chosen by the society the several sums affixed to our names, at the periods and on the conditions mentioned below: six shillings in every pound to be paid on or before the last day of September, 1789: one moiety of the remainder, on or before the last day of November, in the same year: and the residue on or before the last day of March 1790.
We do further agree, that if the first payment is not made within twenty days of the time prescribed the other, that the person failing shall forfeit his interest in the society and also be obliged to pay to the managers for the use of the society the amount of his first subscription, and that no her subscriber may be admitted into his place: and that if the last payment is not made, within twenty days of the time prescribed therefor, that the first payment and all the interest in the society of the person so failing to pay shall be forfeited and that another subscriber may be admitted into his place.
Provided, that no person subscribing hereon shall be obliged to pay any part of his subscription, unless the sum subscribed altogether shall on the 20th day of September 1789 amount to £. 500 at the least.
Provided also, that the sum so to be subscribed shall be divided into shares: one share being allowed for every sum of ten pounds: and that every person or company in all meetings of the society, shall be allowed one vote for every share that he or they shall possess.
Provided, that no business respecting the society, shall be done in meeting consisting of less than a majority of the shares, except by persons to be appointed by meetings consisting of at least a majority of the whole.
Provided, that a majority of the shares shall have a right at any meeting, of which due notice shall have been given, to take such steps as to them may appear right for the carrying into execution the purposes of the said society, and for laying out and expending the monies hereby subscribed, and directing in all things respecting the same, except when it is specially directed otherwise by this agreement.
Provided, that the shares shall be assignable in such mode as shall be agreed on by the society: and that if it shall hereafter be judged necessary to increase the capital of the said company, it shall be done by increasing the number of shares, which additional shares the first subscribers shall have a right to take, before any strangers shall be admitted to subscribe.
Provided also, that so far as the money hereby is to be laid out in labour, materials or provisions within the district, that the managers shall allow the subscribers to furnish the same at cash prices, instead of the money so subscribed. The price and time of furnishing the same, to rest with the managers.
And for the purpose of setting the business into motion, there shall be a meeting of the subscribers...
timber, 1789, and if a majority of the shares shall not then be present, on such other day as those who then attend shall appoint.
In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands this 14th day of August 1789.
N.B. All persons less than of encouraging such a Society in or near Lexington, and are willing to become subscribers, are desired to meet at Capt. Thos. Young's tavern the second Tuesday in December next. Oct. 21, 1789.
NOTICE is hereby given to such as it may concern, that whereas the subscribers gave their bond, on or about the fifteenth of July, 1788, to col. Harry Innes for two hundred and thirty eight pounds eighteen shillings and six pence, Virginia currency, to be paid in bonds on me in Kentucky, on or before the first day of November, 1789, the said bond being since assigned by Gen J. Wilkinson to Matthias Denman & Joseph Halley, to whom the subscribers paid one hundred and twenty-five pounds twelve shillings and one penny, and are now ready to discharge the remainder of said bond, if they knew where to find it.
DAVID MORRIS, and ABRAHAM DRAKE. May's lick, M c Kinney county, October 22, 1789.
At a meeting of the Trustees of the Town of Lexington August 1st 1789.
Resolved, that the holders or claimants of the in lots No. 2, 17, 21, 23, 60, 70, and 85, have the further time, until the first day of January 1790 to save their lots by improving them &c. for the particulars of what is required they are referred to said resolves---and that they need not expect any further indulgence.
By order of the board ROBERT PARKER C lk .
A large company will meet at the Crab Orchard the 26th of November, in order to start early next morning for the Eastern settlements: all are to go well armed.
To be Sold to the HIGHEST BIDDER, for ready cash, agreeably to the last will & testament of Henry Field, jun. deceased, on Friday the 20th of November, on the premises, altogether or in parcels,
One thousand acres of first rate land, lying on Huston's fork of Licking, adjoining Mr. Charles Smith, in Bourbon County. If the land should not be sold on the day of sale, it may be bought privately, at any time after, of DANIEL FIELD, jun. in Culpepper County, or HENRY FIELD, in Woodford County. Nov. 3, 1789,
A good saddle horse to be exchanged for store goods, salt or
JUST ARRIVED,
Aid will be opened on Tuesday next, by THOMPSON and McCULLOUGH, At their Store in Lexington on Main Street, in the house formerly occupied by Gen. Wilkinson, a General Assortment of
DRY goods, groceries, queens ware, glass ware and iron mongery; which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms for cash.
JUST OPENED,
By HUGH M c LAIN, In the new house above the court house, and nearly opposite Capt. Young's tavern a neat & general assortment of MERCHANDIZE well adapted to the season.
DRY goods, Iron mongery, queens ware, glass ware, tin ware, groceries, clover seed and medicine, which will be sold on reasonable terms.
MERCHANDIZE
Will be given in exchanged for good cheese, and butter in cakes, by ALEX & JAMES PARKER.
S trayed from C ol . Crockett's plantation last June, a small likely dark bay horse, about 9 years old, ewe necked, trots and gallops: Whoever delivers him to the Printer hereof, or to Mr. Brent in Lexington, or to Mr. Hughes in Danville, shall receive two dollars reward, from JER. MORIARTY.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Boone's creek, a sorrel mare, 9 years old, 13 hands high, had on a small bell, branded on the near buttock D B. Appraised to £. 4. WILLIAM ELBIS, Jun July 3, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living near the mouth of Dick's river, a bay mare, about four feet nine inches high, with a small bell on with a hole in it near the stable, appears to be branded on the near shoulder but not perceptible, a natural pacer. Appraised to £. 8. JAMES DAVIS. August 3, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, on the head of Hickman, a gray horse ten years old, branded on the near shoulder R C, and C on the buttock. Appraised to £. 5-10. JOHN YOUNG. July 23, 1789.
AN EXCELLENT NEW PRIMER
BITE OF A MAD DOG.
Near Wrexham, in North Wales, three men died of canine madness, in October and November, 1788.
These melancholy cases spread a general alarm. But it ought to give great comfort and satisfaction to any one who may be bit, to know that there is a safe, easy, and effectual method of preventing the infection; which can seldom give pain, or require skill, and is in the power of every person to employ. It is universally allowed by physicians that the spittle of a mad animal, infused into a wound, is the only cause hitherto known, that can communicate canine madness to the human body. This poison does no immediate mischief, but is slowly absorbed into the blood, and sufficient opportunity is given to remove it, before any danger can arise. Whenever a person is bit, the plain and obvious means of preventing future injury, is, first to wipe off the spittle with a dry cloth, and then to wash the wound with cold water---not slightly, and superficially, but abundantly, and with the most persevering attention, in bad cases for several hours. After a plentiful effusion of cold water, warm water may be employed with safety and advantage; a continued stream of it poured from the spout of a tea-pot, or tea kettle, held up at a considerable distance, is peculiarly well adapted to the purpose. If the canine poison infused into a wound were of a peculiar colour, as black, like ink, we should all be aware that plenty of water and patient diligence would wash out the dark die; but this could not be expected by a slight and superficial ablution. After the first careful washing, apply to the bite, saliva, colored with ink, indigo, &c. and by the second washing a visible proof may be obtained, how soon and how perfectly it can be cleaned out of the wound. As a proof that slight washing of the wound is not sufficient to cleanse it effectually from the poison, we may mention, that in some cases, after inoculation for the small pox, the poisonous matter has been attempted to be washed out of the wound, by persons who wished to prevent its effects: yet the inoculated small pox appeared at its proper period. These unsuccessful attempts were performed secretly, hastily and timidly, by a female hand. But, in a case when the ablution was more perfectly performed, inoculation was prevented from taking effect, though the patient was susceptible of infection. They teach us the importance of patient perseverance in washing away the poison; but they need not abate our confidence that such perseverance will certainly be successful.
The ablution should be accomplished with great diligence, and without delay, and may be performed by the patient or any assistant. However, as the apprehension of this dreadful disorder always excites the greatest anxiety, a surgeon's advice and assistance ought to be obtained as soon as possible, in all cases where the skin is injured. He will execute those directions most dexterously and completely. In a bad wound, the poison may be conveyed deep into the flesh, by long teeth, or by lacerations. In such circumstances, he will open, cup, syringe, and wash every suspicious place, & whenever any uncertainty can remain, that may occasion future solicitude, he will previously shave off the surface, and cut away the jagged or other parts of the wound---by this method of purification it cannot be doubted that every particle of poison, and consequently
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THE TABLET. No. XXXIII.
Prohibition often creates eager and intemperate wishes towards objects; which we should otherwise seek after moderately, if at all.
It is not an easy question to decide, whether it is a more common fault in education to indulge children too far in certain instances, or to restrict them too rigorously in others. If we take a critical view of human life, we shall probably find a considerable proportion of the most abandoned characters, that disturb and disgrace society, to have originated from parents of very scrupulous piety, and severe and exacting morality. Such over-exact people draw the cords of discipline so hard, that they must inevitably break asunder. They express the strongest deprecation, and bear unrelenting testimony against many recreations and pastimes, which only cease to be innocent when carried to excess, and would seldom be carried to excess, were a proper medium of indulgence seasonably observed.
The children of austere, unaccommodating parents discover a stronger inclination for some pleasures and amusements, which are prohibited, than they do for others more tempting in themselves, which are not barred by such prohibitions. It is evident therefore that the prohibition itself gives the principal edge to the temptation.
There are two sources of inordinate love of pleasure that should be guarded against. One of them consists in indulging recreation to so great a degree, that we feel pain in refraining from it, because it has become so fixed a habit as not to be laid aside without reluctance. The habit of enjoying constitutes, in this instance, the principal stimulus to gratification. The other source depends on a cause exactly the reverse. Some youth, by being prohibited from diversions, affix an imaginary delight to the enjoyment so much greater than the reality would afford, that their desire to trespass becomes irresistible. They are tempted to taste what is forbidden. Had they been left free, it is ten chances to one, whether the object had contained charms sufficient to attract their attention. Imagination is on the wing, from a value on what is indifferent and creates a passion which runs into extremes. The order of inclination is heightened, by the satisfaction of violating an unreasonable command, and passing over restrictions that are founded in superstition or austerity.
But this is not the worst of it. When attempts are made to draw children to a belief that all pleasures are vices, and that all vices are equally abominable and injurious, they move no distaste between actions of moral demerit, and those which are only deemed wrong by the caprice, the ignorance or over exact maxims of their parents. The consequence of such an error is dreadful to think of. A child of common sense may persuade himself that he is forbidden many gratifications which are not intrinsically wrong. From a sprightliness of imagination he will easily be enticed to break over parental authority in such things, as he sees other people practice without inconvenience or reproach. The effect of this disobedience is that he gradually accustoms himself to disregard the admonitions of his parents, and is instigated into actions which he would never commit, had his parental restrictions been confined within reasonable limits.
The ideas suggested in this number deserve a more ample consideration than can be allowed in a single paper. In my next the subject shall be again introduced.
THE TABLET. No. XXXV.
The fear of punishment may restrain some people from the commission of atrocious crimes, but it is expecting too much from that passion, to imagine that it is alone capable of guarding youth against immoral or impudent actions.
To determine how far it is proper to lay prohibitions upon the conduct of children, constitutes one of the most difficult parts of education. Too much indulgence produces respectively a
There are two important points of view, in which the subject should be considered.
In the first place, it is requisite to distinguish between habits that may be denominated good or bad; and secondly what are the most suitable methods to prevent the one, and promote the other. Having determined what actions are improper, it will of course be enquired, what is the best way to secure a child against the temptation to commit them. Indolent or austere parents will be apt to conclude at once, that severe prohibitions are the most effectual security against the allurements of vice or folly. Those who are indolent wish to avoid the trouble of examining the different springs of the human mind, and therefore remain so ignorant of the true character of a rational being, that it is very doubtful whether their children are ever taught to love or practice the moral duties. To make the matter easy and cut short the labour of enquiry and investigation, arbitrary regulations are adopted which suggest no other motive to shun evil actions, than what results from the fear of breaking through prohibitions. Austere men being destitute of fine feelings and an amiable disposition, take delight in rigorous precepts and discipline. Their temper is so morose and unindulging that they characterize as vicious and reproachful, many customs and habits, which in the view of other people are innocent and even useful. It is obvious to a moderate capacity that taxes any pains to reflect on the subject that such people will generally find their children perverse and prone to an excessive career of vice.
The great point to be accomplished is to counteract and divert temptation to bad actions, by rendering an opposite conduct more desirable. This can only be effected by creating motives to a good conduct, that shall be stronger than what impel to a bad one. If children do not take pleasure in the company and approbation of their parents, as to make it their chief delight to obey and gratify them, there is an end to every reasonable hope of their being virtuous or amiable. By accumulating rigorous prohibitions children take a disgust against their parents, and acquire an habitual inclination to thwart and disregard their injunctions.
Every person should conclude that he is pursuing a wrong mode of education, if he finds that his child does not prefer home to any other place, and consider his parents as his best friends and most entertaining companions. As soon as a youth dislikes the company of his father, he will feel an inclination to disobey his commands, and oppose his wishes. In proportion as prohibitions are rigid and numerous will the young reprobate strengthen his fortitude to break them, or improve his sagacity to elude them. He acts upon the presumption, that they are all useless and arbitrary.
A youth set loose upon a world full of temptations and intrigues, with a persuasion that he has been hood winked and duped in his education, has nothing to guide his future steps. It is altogether a matter of accident whether he makes a virtuous man or a knave and vagabond. One cannot pronounce with any certainty what will be the destiny of such an adventurer. If he falls into good company before he has been seduced by bad it is possible he may form good principles and habits. But should he on his first escape from parental authority, meet with profligate associates, there is little hope he will preserve his morals or his character. Whatever new connections he forms, he will be obliged to assume different notions and manners from those under which he was educated. It is to be expected he will imitate the actions of those with whom he associates. He will soon imagine that his parental reproofs and counsels were founded in error of judgment, and in an utter ignorance of human life. In this however he is mistaken. Many of the admonitions were proper in themselves but by being blended with others that were merely capricious and unnecessary the whole are rejected and disowned.
The subject is capable of being thrown into so many different lights, that I shall venture once more to resume it.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, June 6.
LETTERS from L'Orient, Nantes, Bourdeaux, and other French Ports give an account that considerable quantities of American salted beef in barrels & tierces from Boston and other parts of N. America, had arrived there, and though much inferior in quality to the Irish provision beef, had a tolerable sale the price being on an average from fifteen to twenty per cent. less than what is usually shipped from that kingdom. Sans doute!
Extract from the instructions of some of the Bailiwicks in France, relating to the abolition of the Slave Trade.
Noblesse of Beauvois — "That the States General take into consideration the situation of the negroes in our colonies."
Clergy of Melun and Moret — "Seeing that in the eye of religion, difference of color causes none among her children, her ministers cannot forbear personally to exclaim against the slavery of negroes in the colonies."
Tiers etat of Chateau Kierry — "The third estate, considering that France hath been at all times an asylum for Kings, and the protectress of oppressed nations: That slavery itself, on breathing the air of her happy climate, becomes free, cannot omit exclaiming against the public outrage on humanity and upon the nation, occasioned by the commerce and slavery of the negroes, not desiring, however, to prevent the measures necessary to be taken to guard against detriment to the cultivation of the colonies."
Noblesse of Monts and Madon — "We also recommend to him to propose an examination into the means of destroying the slave trade, and preparing for the destruction of the slavery of the blacks; and we must be permitted to wish that France may have the honor of effacing the last vestiges of this degradation of human nature."
Clergy of the same — "Disgusted humanity ought to hold out to the nation represented in the States General, an abuse by which every feeling mind is wounded. This abuse is the shameful right that man has assumed of buying his fellow man; of depriving him of liberty, subjecting him to rigorous and continual labor, and making him, to the end of his life, the victim of caprice and cruelty. The King therefore, should be petitioned to encourage the respectable Society of Friends to the Blacks and to authorize them to consider, and to propose to government the most proper means of abolishing the infamous commerce of the slave trade."
AMERICAN OCCURRENCES.
CHARLESTOWN, July 22.
Yesterday a man was committed to prison, for running a small sword through the under jaw of Mr. Harrigan a constable. The case was Harrigan had a warrant against the assailant who bid him keep off, and not approach on peril of danger, retreating at the same time, and being still pressed by the constable, he pushed the sword through his under jaw. The constable had his wound dressed, and attended the man to gaol. Should a grand jury find a bill of indictment, this case will probably decide a point of some consequence, which is, how far a person is justified in resisting an officer who has a writ, but has not touched the party.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by virtue of powers given by the United States in Congress Assembled, to Arthur St. Clair, governor of the territory north west of the Ohio, and commissioner plenipotentiary for treating with the Indian nations in the northern department, a treaty was concluded at Fort Harmar, on the ninth day of January last past, by the said Arthur St. Clair, on the part of the United States, with the sachems, chiefs, and warriors of the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottawa, Chipewyan, Miami and Sac nations,
in due form ratified the said treaty,— Now therefore, to the end that the same may be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the said treaty to be published; and I do hereby enjoin and require all officers of the United States, civil and military, and all other citizens and inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfil the same.
GIVEN under my hand in the city of New York, this twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine and in the thirteenth year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States.
G. WASHINGTON.
By command of the President of the United States of America, H. Knox, Secretary for the Department of War.
By the President of the United States of America,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor: And whereas both houses of Congress have by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States, a day of public Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday the twenty sixth day of November next to be devoted by the people of these states, to the service of that Being, who is the benificent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be: That we may then unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union and plenty, which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish a constitution of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general, for all the great and various favours which he has been pleased to confer upon us.
AND ALSO, That we may then unite in most humble offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech him to pardon national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us, and generally, to grant unto all mankind, such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
G. WASHINGTON.
All kinds of Blank Books for Merchants, Clerks, &c. made and ruled to any pattern. Also