The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-05-24 00:00:00

K E N T U C K E G A Z E T T E
S A T U R D A Y, MAY 24, 1788.
LEXINGTON: Printed and Sold by JOHN and FIELDING BRADFORD, at their PRINTING OFFICE in Main Street where Subscriptions at 18 3/4 cts An Annuallife...
JUST OPENED AND FOR SALE;
On the most reasonable terms, for CASH or Country produce, such as Cotton; Sugar, Linnen corn, or salt by
ROBERT PARKER
The corner of Main and Cross-Streets, Lexington the following Assortment of
GOODS
VIZ.
BROAD and narrow cloths, coatings and other low priced cloths, shalloons, callimanco, joans, spinning, baizam, corduroys, velvets, jeans, fustians, plated metal and mohair buttons, sleeve buttons, calico and chintz, flit and pocket handkerchiefs, gauze and tiffany ditto, black and white maitre net, broad tiffany, spotted and plain gauze, kleton and capwire, ladies fans, garnering, binding, pins, writing and wrapping paper, large and small black books ruled and plain, inkstands, waters in boxes, knives and forks of various kinds, carving ditto, scissors, razors, files, crooked laws, shovels and tongs, screw-augers every quarter from two to eight, gimblets, falling axes, carpenters hatchets, iron traces, flooring brads 6d. and 8d. nails, loaf sugar, tea, coffee, chocolate, pepper, allspice, ginger, alum, indigo, copperas, madder, white chalk, queens ware and other cups and saucers, bowls, mugs, tea and coffee pots, cream-coloured and red edged soup and shallow plates, tumblers of various sizes.
Also a fresh assortment of medicine, amongst which are Glauber salts, rhubarb and jalap powdered, ipecacuanha, tartar emetic, spanish flies, extract of lead, spirits of hartshorn, calomel, red and white precipitate, mercurial and itch ointment in boxes.
Also, potts, kettles, an assortment of dutch ovens, bar iron drawn out for various purposes, with many other articles too tedious to enumerate.
Taken up by the subscriber living on cane run about five miles from Lexington, about the twenty-eighth of April, a bay mare about thirteen hands and a half high, branded with IM and a flower on the near shoulder and II. on the near buttock and IM with a flower deluce on the off buttock. Also a gray yearling horse colt, has a small streak down his face, his near hind foot white, the owner desired to come and take them away
DAVID MITCHELL
I PEG leave to inform my clients, that Capt T. Marshall will attend to their business in my absence, and respectfully.
April 29. 1788.
H. MARSHALL
FOR SALE
A tract of land containing 1400 acres on the waters of the north fork of Licking, lying on the road from Limestone to the lower blue licks; being Mays settlement and pre-emption and includes Mays lick, good bonds on persons in this district or on persons in the Eastern part of Virginia will be received in payment, and I will warrant the title b30 HARRY INNES
Strayed from the subscriber at the surveyors office in this county on the ninth ult. a horse an Iron-gray horse, four or five years old, fifteen hands high, neither docked nor branded, his tail long and tolerable thick almost white, his mane inclined to be gray, narrow made about the breast, trots very well and carries his head high when mounted, he was very poor, bare footed all round, whoever takes up said horse and delivers him to Mr. Thomas M. Marshall will receive two dollars reward. Fayette County May 2 1788. 3539 WILLIAM MARSHALL
TWO DOLLARS REWARD
Strayed or stolen from the subscriber living in Danville, about the 23rd of March a small bay mare five years old, about thirteen hands three inches high, has a small star in her forehead, had a bell on when she went away, was shod before, branded on the near buttock with a cross, whoever takes up and secures said mare to that I get her again shall be entitled to the above reward. JAMES SPILMAN
Some years past I gave William Buckhannon bonds for three Negroes and after his death James Buckhannon returned one of them on my giving him a bond for one in his own name, he some days after came to me and reported he had lost the whole, at that time I paid him and took a clear receipt against those bonds, and do forewarn all persons from taking an assignment of any bond or bonds given by me to said Buckhannon as I am clear of the same. WILLIAM HOY
REDBIRD
A low-ful high blooded horse, will stand this season at the subscribers house in Lexington; his price thirty shillings cash, or 200lb of merchantable tobacco, or 300lb of pork, to be delivered in Lexington, on or before the 20th. day of October next
REDBIRD was got by Fearnought an imported horse, his dam was a Janus, called slow and sure, his grand dam was creeping Kate, so well known on the continent for her swiftness and high blood. JOHN MCNAIR
SOPHIA'S DREAM
Dull sleep instructs, nor sport vain dreams in vain! Young.
To the Honourable, the Judges of the Supreme Court in Kentucky.
GENTLEMEN.
ALTHOUGH my sex and situation may have kept me from a personal acquaintance with you, and indeed have made it doubtful whether you have ever heard of my name, yet I am not wholly unacquainted with your characters: to celebrate which is not my present province: The public voice, through which channel I have received my information, has I hope done you justice in setting those, in so far a point of light as they now stand; and (I ask pardon of the fashionable part, of my sex) flattery I sincerely despise. You gentlemen have it very much in your power to form the principles create the manners and stamp an indelible complexion on the general character of this district. The important consequences of performing this task well, may probably continue to a very distant period. Go on then to make every succeeding year reflect honour on the past, your actions continue ever to approve themselves to the virtuous mind; and when your administration ends (for it must end) may it receive the final approbation of heaven earth and yourselves. As to the following visionary suggestions, I have nothing to say: if the sentiments they convey are right they need no apology: if wrong it is nothing more than may be always expected in the wanton evanesces of a dream, or the wild sallies of an ungoverned imagination. I am gentlemen your unknown humble servant March 18, 1788. SOPHIA KENTUCKEANA.
AVAUNT ye critics! nor your art abuse; But spare the softness of a female muse; Through tracts of prose your envious route pursue; This puny essay was not made for you: Ye ne'er can live on such a phantom theme, For empty, like yourselves, 'tis but a dream.
The clock struck 12; & from his golden throne, The sun, in full meridian grandeur shone; O'er shadeless fields the light wing'd zephyr flew, And not a vapour tinged the ethereal blue Tird with the spindles unharmonious sounds, And the thread-forming wheel's repeated rounds, Down the blunt garden's untrod walks stray'd, While round me coolly rustling breezes play'd: For winter yet, shook oft his nitrous wing, To check the virgin wantonness of spring: No flowret dar'd unveil her silver gem, Nor genial juices swell'd the purple stem; No peeping rose-bud cheer'd the garden's toil, And embryo-pinks lay brooding in the soil There I upon a gently-swelling bed, Of grateful cammomile reclind my head; From whose prest foliage, breathing fragran' rose, Which soon my senses soon in soft repose.
Methought an airy-footed sylph drew near, And gently stooping, whisper'd in my ear, Arise my Sophia; slumb'ring female rise; For April's court-day-morning gilds the skies; Heav'n's wand'ring lamps, have shone their nightly round,
And cease to twinkle in their azure ground: Arise, and skiff with me o're fairy meads, Sweet sylvan scenes, and visionary shades: Or, wing'd sublime rise and traverse with me, The various regions of air, earth, and sea. She said: we mounted, light as vernal gales, When Flora breathes her fragrance o'er the vales: With wide stretch'd wing, cleft the unfeeling air; And sudden swept our western hemisph're, From where the Atlantic washes Georgia's shore, To where broad Erie's mid-land surges roar: Recross'd Ohio's stream, with flacken'd reins, And hover'd o'er Kentucky's fruitful plains: Wary with flight, we took our station there, On a strong column of collected air.
I look'd, and soon an infant-town descry'd; Her streets, and houses, throng'd from side to side, From side to side, my curious eye pursu'd, And the well-varied scene with pleasure-view'd. A motly group of men, this scene disclos'd, Of ev'ry colour, age and sex compos'd;

White, black, and mix'd; all hues that intervene, From jetty black to wavy locks, to red hair'd danes. He hoary age she's out, and boasts her years; There rosy youth, veil'd with a blush appears: He e-walks a sage, in sober ruffe clad; And there a well-ac'd gallant fluts in red: The fallen clown stalks, here, before his spouse; There lath infests the Ladies with his bows Through ev'ry lane they pour, and ev'ry road; Till the street groan beneath the cumb'rous load. Mark yonder blund'ring rake, with empty skull, By nature made impene'trably dull; Or here, and there, a shed of straggling sense, Mix'd with lewd jests, or rude impertinence: He freely calls, and quaffs bowl after bowl, Till mixtures foul, immerse his very soul: Then as occasion, time, or grog invites, Sings, laughs, or dances; bullies, sweats or fights. Behold the parson, - babb'ling muse forbear, That character's too sacred for a freer; Leave that to the half-heliconean brood, Who can be witty only on the creed; Old Dryden's bastard brood; who dare dispense, His obscene sallies, without his licence. Here too, but by variety oppress'd, Deception tires; fancy must paint the rest: A blended, motley mass of things, and themes; All factions, sects, tongues, partizans and names; That time, in past or present ever us'd: Old Babels builders were not more confus'd When lo! amid the throng a form appear'd, Of awful port; as soon as seen reveal'd: Aged, majestic, totem, majestic: Something like human something like divine: Kentucky's genius he was known to be, And on his forehead label'd LIBERTY. The wond'ring multitude together ran; He look'd the crowd to silence, and began. "The great th' important hour at length appears, That seals the final fate of future years: All time, till the sun's last expiring ray, Shall bless or execrate the fatal day: Fix'd by your citizens, and fix'd by fate, To choose the men, who form your future state. This task, great Liberty! To thee we owe; Thine hand the glorious blessing does bestow; Though vast the price we gave for being free, And paid a mighty purchase, ev'n for thee, For this our warmest blood shall not to flow, From Bunker's hill, to Yorks decisive blow; For this the soldier toil'd, the patriot bled, And thou and he's slumber with the dead. Britains fierce sons wou'd often taught to yield, O, driv'n, fast panting, o'er the inglorious field, The glorious deeds of each important day, Now rushes on my mind in wild array; Th' earth rending cannon, yet, I seem to hear; And fierce platoons, thick thund'ring, wound my I see the flaming blade, glare fiercely bright, [ear; And strike the dazzled eye with dreadful light; But why re- o' those distant scenes of war; Hee too the monster drove his bloody car: Ev'n here, in this my land, have thousands dy'd, By savage hands: victims to british pride, The fatal Blue-lick! I remember well; Where the prime flow'r of western prowess fell: Where fires with sons, brothers with brothers slain, Tram'd one promiscuous carnage o'er thy plain. Where the arm be o, shouts to martial sounds, Then bleeds his soul out at a thousand wounds: Or yields his last, last fleeting dregs of life, To crashing com-hawks or the murderous knife: While bellowing fiends, deaths native horror And howl his obsequie in defying yells. [swells, But how can fancy paint, or words relate, The poor distress'd despairing captives fate: Smear'd o'e with black, doom'd by the brutal To feel the impaling stake or tort'ring brand; band To feel their sinews crackle, vitals broil; Or sweat their marrow to the flaming pile: Feel different tortures, fill each different pore, Till hell, exhausted, can invent no more. And does just heaven permit the miscreant breath, Who can, unmov'd, recount those scenes of death; Shake friendly hands, or hold an Indian dear, A brothers blood yet reeking on his spear. Perish his tongue! be wither'd his right hand! Who preaches peace with the accursed band, Till vengeful death their latest name inrolls; Or he who made them, humanize their foals. Thee are thy trophies, O, Britain! thine alone; Such gems infernal sparkle in thy crown: Tis thine, to imite at mis'ry's deepest groan; To spoil with human pangs, is all thy own: To mock the parents tears, the widows sigh, And the poor fireless or, hangs trembling cry. Thy worthy, mulciberian artists, made, The brain smear'd hatchet and the scalping blade; Thy breath inspir'd the tawny fiends with rage, To hunt the frighted soul thro' ev'ry stage; To rack the shiv'ring nerve, the gushing vein, And trace the secret avenues of pain; Then with thy gold, O execrable trade! Thy guilty gold, the cruel murderers paid.
"May all the vengeance due to all thy crimes, Thro' east and west, in past and present times; Fairy divine, in ev'ry dreadful form, Collected thick in one o'erwhelming storm, Ug'd on by the fierce blast of angry heav'n, Be----- yet averted, and thy crimes forgiv'n. (To be continued.)
An ACT of the Kings Council of State, for the Encouragement of the commerce of France with the United States of America.
December 29, 1787.
Extract from the Records of the Council of State.
THE King, desirous of encouraging the commerce of his subjects with the United States of America, and of facilitating between the two nations connections reciprocally useful: Having heard the report of the Sieur Lambert, Counsellor of State, and of the Royal Council of Finance and Commerce, Comptroller General of Finance, his Majesty being in his Council, has ordained and does ordain as follows:
ART. I. Whale oil and sperm oil, the produce of the fisheries of the citizens and inhabitants of the United States of America, which shall be brought into France directly in French vessels or in those of the United States, shall continue to be subject to a duty only of five livres per ton the barrel of 500 pounds weight, and whale fish shall be subject to a duty of only five livres per ton per fish dealer, the quintal with the ten sous per livre on each of the said duties which ten sous per livre shall cease on the last day of December 1790; his Majesty reserving to himself to grant further favours to the produce of the whale fisheries carried on by the fishermen of the United States of America which shall be brought into France in French vessels or in those of the United States, if, on the information which his Majesty shall cause to be taken thereon, he shall judge it expedient for the interest of the two nations.
II. The other fish oils and dry or salted fish the produce in like manner of the fisheries of the citizens and inhabitants of the United States, and brought also directly into France, in their, or in French vessels, shall not pay any other nor greater duties than those to which the oils and fish of the same kind, the produce of the fisheries of the French towns, or of other the most favoured nations, are or shall be subject in the same case.
III. The manufacture of candles and tapers of sperm macti shall be permitted in France, as that of other candles and tapers.
IV. Corn, wheat, rye, rice, peas, beans, lentils, flaxseed and other seeds, flour, trees and shrubs, pot ash and pear ash, skins and fur of beaver, raw hides, furs, and peltry, and timber brought from the United States directly into France in French vessels or in those of the United States, shall not be subject but to a duty of one eighth per cent. on their value.
V. Vessels built in the United States and sold in France, or purchased by Frenchmen shall be exempt from all duties on proof that they were built in the United States.
VI. Turpentine, tar and pitch the produce of the United States of America, and brought directly into France in French vessels or in those of the United States, shall pay only a duty of two and a half per cent. on their value, and as well the duties mentioned in this as in the fourth article, shall be exempt from all addition of sous per livre.
VII. The exportation of arms of all sorts, and of gun-powder for the United States of America, shall be always permitted in French vessels or those of the United States, paying for the arms a duty of one eighth per cent. on their value; and gun-powder in that case shall be exempt from all duty on giving a cautionary bond.
VIII. Papers of all sorts, even paper hangings and coloured papers, paste board and books; shall be exempt from all duties on their embarkation for the United States of America, in French vessels or in those of the United States, and shall be entitled in that case to a restitution of the fabrication duties on paper and paste board.
IX. The admiralty duties on the vessels of the United States entering into, or going out of the ports of France, shall not be levied but conformably with the edict of the month of June last in the cases therein provided for, and with the letters patent of the tenth of January, 1770, for the objects for which no provision shall have been made by the said edict; his Majesty reserving to himself moreover to make known his intentions as to the manner in which the said duties shall be levied, whether in proportion to the tonnage of the vessels or otherwise, as also to simplify the said duties of the admiralty and to regulate them as far shall be possible on the principle of reciprocity, as soon as the orders shall be completed which were given by his Majesty according to the twenty-sixth article of the said edict of the month of June last.
(To be continued.)
LEXINGTON, May 21.
By late accounts from Louisville, we are informed, that a boat was taken up adrift, near the mouth of Goose creek, it is said she belonged to Col. Mitchell from Berkeley county Virginia, and supposed to have been captured by the Indians, as there was a number of balls sticking in her sides, and the floor bloody, also, several casks of flour and whisky, with their heads knocked out, &c.
We also hear, that sometime last week, two lads on Licking-creek, who were going to a lick, fell in with two Indians riding on one horse, the lads fired on the Indians, and wounded both mortally, they dropt one of their guns and their baggage, a company was raised who pursued them, and it is said got both.
I WANT to purchase, not exceeding a thousand, nor less than three hundred acres of land within the county of Fayette, to be of the first quality, well watered and timbered, and conveniently situated: For payment I will give my bond and good security, that any person applying with my order to my Father William Morgan in Fauquier county Virginia, whom said land will be for, shall receive the cash on said bond.
b29
CHARLES MORGAN,
WANTED immediately a number of pack horses, or four or five Waggons, to go to Bulletts Licks for a quantity of Salt, of which I will give one third to any person or persons, that will engage to bring the Salt or part of it to Lexington, may get an order for it by applying to the subscriber in Lexington.
Lexington, May, 21 1788, JOHN CLARK
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that a number of Gentlemen propose meeting at the Crab-orchard on the fourth of June, in perfect readiness to move early the next morning through the Wilderness.
WHEREAS my wife Sarah Garton and myself have, by mutual consent agreed to separate, for divers causes known to us; this is therefore to forewarn all persons from trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debt she shall contract after the date hereof.
Lexington May 21 1788 URIAH GARTON
A PERSON qualified to teach reading, writing and arithmetic in its various branches, book-keeping, Surveying and Navigation, geography or the use of the globe &c. is desirous of a school in any part of the District, a small part cash would be required in the subscription the rest in property paid quarterly. A line directed to A.B. at the printers will be duly attended to.
May 22 1788
BLANK DEEDS WRITS SUBPOENAS COMMON BONDS
MAY BE HAD AT THIS OFFICE.