The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1792-06-02 00:00:00

Kentucky Gazette.
NUMB. XXXVIII.
Quicquid agunt homines—nostri farrago libelli. Juv. Sat. 8. v. 85
[VOL V.]
S A T U R D A Y, J U N E 2, 1792.
LEXINGTON; Printed by JOHN BRADFORD, at his Office on Main Street; where Subscriptions, (at Fifteen Shillings per Annum) Advertisements &c. are thankfully received, and Printing in its different branches done with care and expedition.
AUTHENTIC.
SECOND CONGRESS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
At the first Session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the Twenty-fourth of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One.
An ACT establishing a Mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States.
(Concluded from our last.)
AND be it further enacted, That the bullion which shall be brought as aforesaid to the Mint to be coined, shall be coined, and the equivalent thereof in coins rendered, if demanded, in the order in which the said bullion shall have been brought or delivered, giving priority of delivery only, and without preference to any person or persons, and if any preference shall be given contrary to the direction aforesaid, the officer by whom such undue preference shall be given shall in each case forfeit and pay one thousand dollars; to be recovered with costs of suit. And to the end that it may be known if such preference shall at any time be given, the assayer or officer to whom the said bullion shall be delivered to be coined, shall give to the person or persons bringing the same, a memorandum in writing under his hand, denoting the weight, fineness and value thereof, together with the day and order of its delivery into the mint.
And be it further enacted, That all the gold and silver coins which shall have been struck at, and issued from the said mint, shall be a lawful tender in all payments whatsoever, those of full weight according to the respective values herein before declared, and those of less than full weight at values proportional to their respective weights.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the respective officers of the said mint, carefully and faithfully to use their best endeavours that all the gold and silver coins which shall be struck at the said mint, shall be, as nearly as may be, conformable to the several standards and weights aforesaid, and that the copper whereof the cents and half cents aforesaid may be composed, shall be of good quality.
And the better to secure a due conformity of the said gold and silver coins to their respective standards, Be it further enacted, That from every separate mass of standard gold or silver, which shall be made into coins at the said mint, there shall be taken, set apart by the Treasurer and reserved in his custody a certain number of pieces,
not less than three, and that once in every year the pieces so set apart and reserved, shall be assayed under the inspection of the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, the Secretary for the department of State, and the Attorney General of the United States (who are hereby required to attend for that purpose at the said mint, on the last Monday in July in each year) or under the inspection of any three of them, in such manner as they or a majority of them shall direct and in the presence of the director, assayer and chief coiner of the said mint; and if it shall be found that the gold and silver so assayed, shall not be inferior to their respective standards herein before declared more than one part in one hundred and forty-four parts, the officer or officers of the said mint whom it may concern shall be held excusable; but if any greater inferiority shall appear, it shall be certified to the President of the United States, and the said officer or officers shall be deemed disqualified to hold their respective offices.
And be it further enacted, That if any of the gold or silver coins which shall be struck or coined at the said mint shall be debased or made worse, as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained, or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be pursuant to the directions of this act, through the default or with the connivance of any of the officers or persons who shall be employed at the said mint, for the purpose of profit or gain, or otherwise with a fraudulent intent, and if any of the said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals which shall at any time be committed to their charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins which shall be struck or coined at the said mint, every such officer or person who shall commit any or either of the said offences shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death.
And be it further enacted, That the money of account of the United States, shall be expressed in dollars or units, dimes or tenths, cents or hundredths and milles or thousandths, a dime being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, a mille the thousandth part of a dollar, and that all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the Courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
Approved, April 2d, 1792.
G. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
A plan for supporting the Civil List, and raising a Revenue for the State of Kentucky.
THE expences of Government may be divided into two classes:
1. Those which are indispensably necessary, and without which the Government cannot exist or be carried on:
2. Those which are necessary to enable government to carry into effect such measures as tend to increase and promote the general welfare, and the public happiness.
That expence which is necessary to the existence of a government, is the amount of what is necessary to support those officers who are appointed to administer the government, and to defray the expences necessarily caused by that administration: The proper amount of this necessary expence, differs in different countries according to the extent, population, wealth and luxury of each country: An extensive country filled with people will require more public officers, than a small territory with few inhabitants: a wealthy and luxurious nation can better afford, and must pay greater salaries to their public officers, than can or ought to be paid by a poor, and an oeconomical people.
The great difficulty lies in fixing upon a proper standard by which to determine what is the medium to be observed in any country; so as to avoid on one hand that ill judged profusion, which is attended with an unjust & impolitic dissipation of the public wealth, and which tends to introduce into a country dissipation and corruption of manners; and on the other hand to keep clear of that parsimony, which will in the end be productive of that very expence to the public which it was meant to save, by not getting its business properly done: These two extremes ought to be equally guarded against, because their consequences are the same; public distress and unhappiness: It is obvious to all that these must follow from too great a profusion and extravagance, and reflection will shew that they must also follow from an improper parsimony. Prudence as well as justice requires, that a real and just compensation should be given for public services; for if they are undertaken for less, it will either be by improper persons, or by those who will make out enough by improper means: Where it is undertaken by improper persons, the loss of the public in consequence of their want of skill and judgment, will amount to much more than will be saved by the reduction of their salaries: Where the officer makes out the difference by improper means the full amount of what ought to have been given, is certainly levied by them, and there is very great dan-
ger that they will not stop when they have got what ought to satisfy them:
Fixing salaries below a just compensation for public services, is a great step towards establishing an aristocracy: because as it would exclude indigent merit, it would give a monopoly of the public offices to ambitious wealth: For as if no salaries at all were given, none but those who have wealth enough to support their ambition would go into office, so where too little is given, none but those who have wealth enough to make up the deficiency can accept an appointment.
The amount of public salaries ought also to depend in a great measure on the expence attending a proper and decent mode of living in the country where they are given: This varies in most countries: Salaries ought not to be as low in a country where the necessaries of life are at double prices, as in one where they may be got for half those prices: neither ought they to be as high here where those necessaries may be got for much less than in most other countries: As to foreign luxuries, so far from giving salaries to an officer to enable him to give generally into their use, it would be a sufficient objection to him that he used them at all.
With a due attention to all these considerations, I have estimated as far as it was practicable to do it, what I thought a proper establishment would amount to in this country; and after allowing a proper salary to a Governor, a secretary, the members of the legislature for 60 days in a year, and their officers, six Judges, and the officers attending the courts; an auditor, a Treasurer, a register, and an Attorney-General, it amounts to only £4,400 a year: To this add £1,100 a year for criminal and contingent charges, which cannot be enumerated, and £1,000 for extraordinary occurrences, and the whole expence will be about £6,500 a year: and I am confident it cannot exceed that sum; though it will probably fall £1000 at least short of it;
This being the amount of the necessary and unavoidable expense, which must be borne; let us,
2d Enquire what further expence may be necessary to enable the government to carry into effect such measures as may be necessary to promote and increase the public welfare and happiness? That government answers only half the purpose for which it was instituted, which only preserves the public peace, and administers justice with impartiality; and those rulers ought to be accounted very unprofitable trustees, who instead of increasing ten fold, the talent of public happiness delivered to their charge; shall deliver it up to the people at the end of their time of office, without addition; and if

they do not merit punishment, should at least ever after be rejected as unprofitable servants.
The final view of all rational politics, is to produce the greatest quantity of happiness in a given tract of country: To encrease that happiness in this we must lay the foundation of our government so as
1stly. To encourage the population of the country;
2dly. To extend and improve our agriculture; and
3dly. To promote Domestic manufactures, especially those which are made from the natural productions of the country. For the prosperity and happiness of the country, will be accelerated or retarded according to the progress of these: The happiness of a people is made up of the happiness of single persons, and the quantity of it can be only augmented by increasing their number: Within certain limits, and under moderate governments, it may be affirmed that the quantity of happiness produced in any country, so far depends upon the number of inhabitants, that the collective happiness will be nearly in the exact proportion of the number; that is, twice the number of inhabitants will produce double the quantity of happiness: consequently the decay of population is the greatest evil a state can suffer, and the improvement of it is the object, which ought in all countries to be aimed at in preference to every other political purpose whatever:
1st. To encourage the population of the country: To do this we must find out and remove the present impediments to it; They are 1st the great uncertainty of our titles to land, and 2, The great monopolies of land. State how they affect it?
As to the proper mode of correcting the evils arising from the uncertainty of our titles, I shall reserve my observations until I come to consider the Judiciary.
As to the monopolies of land, no law can or ought to be passed to destroy those titles. Therefore none but indirect means can be used to break those monopolies, and a land tax will be found amongst the most powerful of those indirect means: Difficulty of collecting it will arise from three causes:
1. The land not being settled; 2. The uncertainty of the titles: and 3. The number of married women and infants that are interested in them. If the land was all settled the tax might easily be collected by making distress on the land and leaving the owner and the occupier of the land to settle the amount afterwards between themselves: If the lands were not settled, if it was or could be known who was the real proprietor, if he did not pay the taxes due on it, it might with propriety be sold, unless those owners were under such disabilities, as would be a sufficient reason against making them incur a forfeiture: such as infancy and coverture: Situated as they really are in this country, a land tax can be made effectual only by.
1. Laying a tax on every hundred acres without regarding the quality. 2. By giving the State a lien on the land for the tax, interest, and interest on the interest, and making the first property that is carried on the land liable for the whole; and 3. By fixing the land tax so high that that proportion of it which can be actually collected, shall be sufficient to answer the demands of government for the necessary annual expenses: leaving the remainder as it can be collected to be applied to purposes of public utility: The fixing the land tax on the quantity
without regard the quality, is not as equal as a proper attention to both would make it, but in the present situation of the country, it is impracticable to fall on any plan to ascertain the quality, therefore it must be laid on the quantity or not at all.
The giving the state a lien on the land, for what was due for taxes, would ensure the payment if the land was ever settled, and it would be no bar to the settlement, as the amount would be inconsiderable, could always be known at the proper office; and might be deducted by the purchaser or tenant from the sum given for the purchase or lease.
The payment of interest on interest, will be necessary to make the fund sufficiently productive to answer the public purposes, and to do justice to our own citizens, who being settled on their land must annually pay their proportion of the tax; for tho' they would rather withhold their tax, and pay simple interest for the amount, they would rather pay it than pay compound interest.
To ascertain what such a tax would produce, the quantity of land, and the amount of the tax must be fixed? Suppose the quantity of land 15,000,000 of acres, and the tax 3s per hundred, it will produce £22,500 add to this a tax on 12,000 slaves, say at 3s each; and it will bring £1 800: These two sums make £24,300, from which deduct 10 per cent for collecting and involencies, amounting to £2,430 there will be an annual income to the state of £21,870: from which deduct £6,510 which is the utmost that the expences of the government can amount to; and it will leave a nett annual balance of £15,360 to be applied to promoting the public welfare.
The amount of the tax of 3s on land, cannot be complained of by the non residents, when they consider how long ago we paid a quit-rent of 2/6.
And they must expect to pay some tax: because by the purchase of land in any country, the purchaser obliges himself to contribute to the support and defence of the government of that country, as the very service and condition upon which he shall hold that land:
[To be continued] LONDON, Feb 10.
By the last packets it appears, that the court of Madrid had given orders to a number of troops, to assemble on the frontiers of France: This account was laid before the National Assembly.
The last letters from Brussels state that affairs still wear an unfortunate aspect throughout the Belgic provinces; that a general spirit of revolt is still alive, and that some regiments of the Imperial cavalry have been discovered to have received pay from the leading insurgents.
The unceasing disquiets of the low-countries give great uneasiness. The Emperor is averse to violent measures, which he, nevertheless, seems resolved to adopt.
France is also a source of alarm. A war is far from desirable; and the late indecisive conduct of Prussia gives reason to apprehend, that the court of Berlin would be glad to see the Emperor exposed to the whole risk of a very dangerous enterprise.
DUBLIN, February 20. The late Belgic army is again assembled to the number of 60,000, on the frontiers of the Austrian Netherlands, and are ready to co-operate with the French army against the Emperor. The flame of liberty, it is said, has communicated to the imperial troops, great numbers of whom desert daily—The Hungarian corps, almost to a man, have declared for the Belgic provinces.
A letter from Barcelona, dated January 18, says—"The extraordinary movements to which we are witnesses, give room to imagine, that some great stroke is in agitation, and very near its birth. The Spanish troops advance towards the frontier, the number of emigrants daily increase, and there exists a perfect concert between them.
Thirty vessels are actually chartered in the Southern parts of this kingdom, to load wheat for France, on account of the government of that Kingdom.
The politics of Europe at present exhibit a very complex view to the politician, and bewildering speculation by a variety of facts and opposition of interests. The military movements in Germany, which at first light appear hostile to France, have probably the preservation of order at home as their object, and this idea is strengthened by less prominent measures of the German government, it having been thought necessary to encourage a periodical work under the title of " The Annals of Vienna ," the intention of which is evidently to counteract those principles to which the French Revolution has given birth, and inspire not only a regard and preference for their present constitution, but submission to the laws from religious as well as prudential considerations.
BOSTON, April 29.
News from the West-Indies.
Since our last, several vessels have arrived here from Port-au Prince; all of which bring the most gloomy accounts of the situation of that island; the distresses of which appear to be owing, not more to the revolt and devastation of the slaves than to the enmity prevailing among the freemen, and the want of subordination to any government.
About the 13th of March, the negroes attacked the town of Leogane set fire to the plantations on the plain, and were joined by the negroes thereon, who had till then been in quiet servitude: after much fighting and burning, the negroes retreated. Many were killed on both sides—the lowest number, including all parties and colours is stated at one thousand.
Capt. Wollman of Salem, who sailed from Port-au-Prince the Twenty third of March, at evening, informs, that one thousand militia and five hundred regulars marched out that morning, said to be on account of the insurrection of the negroes on several plantations on the plain, who had drove their masters into town. That they were met and opposed by the mulattoes, whose head-quarters were only four miles from the town. That he saw numbers of wounded brought into town while he was on shore. That the battle continued all day—and that its issue was unknown when he failed.
A detachment of the regular troops had been called for by the municipality, to go to Leogane, at the time of the negroes attacking that place, and boats were prepared to transport them; but the officers refused to embark—as they said their orders were to defend the town
of Port-au Prince. But the clamours of the populace, and of the private soldiers, being for action, the municipality caused the officers to be arrested, and sent to the Cape, in order to be carried to France. After this new officers being substituted, the troops marched out, as before mentioned.
PHILADELPHIA, April 16.
A dispute took place, some months since off the Cape of Good Hope, between a French and an English frigate called the Thames. The Frenchman had several of his men killed and wounded by a broad-side received from the English vessel—Further particulars are not come to hand.
BALTIMORE, April 9.
On the 6th of February last, at a meeting of the Trades House in the city of Glasgow, they unanimously resolved to petition the British Parliament to abolish the traffic in human flesh, that has long disgraced humanity, on the coast of Africa. Other Societies, of respectable citizens, in Edinburgh, Perth, Dumferline, and other parts of Scotland, actuated by the same humane spirit, have recently entered into wise and spirited Measures for effecting the abolition of that horrible trade, "which can be prosecuted only by the unceasing Ravages of TREACHERY, RAPINE, and MURDER."
Accounts from Paris, dated the 2d of February, mention, that there were more causes for uneasiness there than ever—that they were exposed to hourly alarms, and though a momentary quiet existed, it was that sort of awful calm the too frequent presage of an approaching Storm—That the court of Spain seems openly bent upon WAR—Every quarter, near the frontiers of France, abounds with troops, and the emigrants were openly protected by the Spaniards—That there can be no doubt of the hostile intention of the Emperor—That an insult on the French Flag had been committed in the Port of Lisbon—That Specie in France was very scarce—Manufactures on the decline—and many places in the Kingdom were a prey to the most dreadful Riots.
April 13. A Philadelphia Newspaper of Wednesday last, (received by last night's Mail) advises, that General ST. CLAIR had resigned the command of the Army.
PITTSBURGH, May 5.
We hear that DAVID RITTENHOUSE esq. is appointed Director of the MINT of the United States.
LEXINGTON, June 8.
From the Weekly Register, Printed at Norwich, Connecticut. Every friend to this country, must be sensibly impressed with the arduous business which has been performed during this session of Congress. If any one is so stupid, as to insist on an enumeration of the important acts above mentioned, I can

answer him that since the meeting of the present Congress which is not yet quite four months, they have passed an act making appropriations for the year 1792, or in other words providing for their own wages, and also an act to regulate post-offices and post-roads: And what mortal could expect greater exertions than these? Why, sir, the whole expenditure for performing this does not surmount an hundred thousand dollars. But this is not all, much has been said about the indian war and the galleries have been cleared twenty three times for important private communications. These private communications doubtless contain much excellent matter, such as the Cornplanter's speech, and an exact list of the number of men butchered at the Miami villages.
Again, sir, how many fine speeches have been made upon the memorial of Catharine Greene, relative to a contract made by the late General Greene? How language was exhausted upon this subject, and how many of our sage legislators spoke affectingly of the cruel subject of the American War?---who shall supply the place of President of the United States, in case of his death or resignation, or in other words, Whether the state of Massachusetts, New-York or Virginia, shall have the next President, has been litigated with great candor and disinterested patriotism.
But the great question whether John Churchman's magnetic discoveries, deserve the attention and patronage of the national legislature, has been discussed in the most finished and elaborate manner. This subject employed the time of the first Congress, from their earliest meeting, till their dissolution, and seems yet in its infancy. Here was an excellent opportunity for the display of literary talents, and the members immortalized their names on this subject! Are not such questions highly interesting! What will become of the national funds, if Congress neglect this opportunity of informing themselves where the magnetic pole is!
General Wayne and Jackson's electioneering dispute, has been entered upon and great preparations are making for its discussion---'Tis expected, this will be highly entertaining and important, equal to the cock-fighting and bull-baiting, practised in Europe.
What praises then are due to the faithful guardians of our liberties, for such singular exertions for the public-good? Six dollars per day, is a pitiful compensation for such important services. Monuments ought to be erected, in perpetual remembrance of their noble deeds and placed in the New Federal City, the place designed for the display of all that is great and magnificent.
Norwich, Feb. 21, 1792.
Some time last week seven Indians attacked a house on the Rolling fork of Salt River, in which they killed a woman and wounded a man.
The Rev. Mr. BAILEY, will preach in Lexington on Sunday the Seventeenth Instant.
DESERTED About the 14th or 15th day of May, on the road leading to the dry ridge, about twelve miles from this garrison,
A Certain John Ryley, private Soldier in capt. Ballard Smith's company in the first United States regiment---by birth an American, and for some time a resident in the town of Carlisle, state of Pennsylvania, aged twenty-six years, five feet seven inches high, brown hair, (swarthy complexion, some what lame in his right leg---As he in no measure possesses the qualifications of a soldier, he probably may endeavour as early as possible to divest himself of the appearance of one---from the situation of the place from whence he deserted, and its communication with this fortress, I am induced to believe he will by indirect paths, exert himself to gain some one of the settlements in the district of Kentucky and from thence make for his former place of residence---As desertion is a crime of the blackest hue, and it must meet the detection of every man who feels for his country's welfare, therefore it is hoped the good people of the United States will use their utmost endeavours to apprehend the above deserter, for whom (if delivered to any recruiting officer in the United States or properly secured, so that he may be forwarded to this garrison) a reward of ten dollars will be given, and all reasonable charges paid.
JOHN WADE, Lieut. 1st U.S. Regt. Fort Adjutant. Fort. Washington, May 20. 1792. [The Printers throughout the United States are requested to insert the above in their respective papers.]
Whereas by the death of David Kirkpatrick, the partnership of Byers and Kirkpatrick is dissolved---and as there is a considerable debt due from said partnership, which the subscriber is bound to pay, therefore he hereby give notice to all those indebted, to make immediate payment as it is impossible from the nature of the business to give any indulgence.
JOSEPH BYERS. May 14 1792.
THIS is to inform the public that I have lately moved to Lexington & fixed my shop next door to Mr. Edw. West, where they may be supplied with mens and womens Saddles of the first quality, likewise old ones repaired: or any kind of carriage harness, light-horsmens caps, holsters &c. which shall be made or repaired in the neatest and best manner and with the quickest dispatch, by the public's most obedient humble servant,
BENJAMIN S. COX. June 2d, 1792.
THE subscriber being employed as an agent during the contract of Messrs Turnbull Marmie and Co. and Daniel Britt, was under a necessity of drawing several bills on the said firm for supplies, for the payment of all which he received their obligation, (on settlement.)
It appears since that many of those bills have been protested and not yet paid.
The undersigned requests the holders of unpaid Bill may transmit them to Pittsburg where he will be previous to the termination of the suit he has brought against the said Contractors compel them to perform their agreement.
JOHN BRADSHAW. May 22, 1792. *3w
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the East fork of Hickman, an old white cow, no ear mark: Appraised to £1 4.
Ephraim Wayn. February 13, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Lexington, a brindle steer, about 5 or 6 years old, marked with a swallowfork in each ear, white between his hind legs, with large horns; Appraised to £2 8. Chas. Oeh Self.
Jan. 20, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Bourbon County, on Stoner, a brown mare, about 14 hands high, a star in her face, not docked or any brand perceivable about 3 years old; Appraised to £10.
Mary Junkin. Feb. 21, 1792.
WANTED
TO employ a sober industrious man who is capable of conducting a Coarse Linen Manufactory---Any such person coming well recommended will hear of suitable encouragement by applying to the Printer.
FOR SALE
FIVE hundred acres of land, part of the tract whereon I now live, with valuable improvements thereon, viz, a good dwelling house, stone spring house and several other useful houses, saw and gristmill, a number of good springs, about fifty acres of cleared land---cash and negroes will be taken in payment: for terms apply to me on the premises.
John Grant. N. Elkhorn, Woodford county, March 16, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the East fork of Hickman, a brindle steer, 3 years old, a half crop in the left ear, and hole in the right; Appraised to £1 4.
Thomas Cavin. Feb. 13, 1792.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD
STRAYED from the subscriber living in Lexington, about the 27th. of March last, a DARK Brown HORSE, fifteen hands high, about 6 years old, branded on the near shoulder R, a natural trotter, had been lately docked; Whoever delivers said horse to the subscriber in Lexington, at the sign of General Washington, shall receive the above reward.
WALTER TAYLOR. April 17, 1792.
JUST OPENING FOR SALE, At the Store of the subscriber in Lexington, a large and general Assortment of MERCHANDISE, Suitable for the approaching season, to be sold on the lowest terms for cash or public securities.
WILLIAM LEAVY. N. B. A quantity of Wheat immediately wanted, for which no exorbitant price will be given. W. L.
THE inhabitants of Woodford county will please to take notice, that a petition will be presented to the Assembly of Kentucky in June next, for the division of the same, agreeable to the line prayed for last year. May 15, 1792.
I Purpose laying off a number of additional lots to the Town of Lexington, on a high and handsome situation---They will be so arranged and disposed as to have the stream, which waters the town, running thro' a straight canal at the foot of each lot, which by ripulation shall be adorned with shady trees---and, if cultivated and improved with the smallest taste and attention are capable of being made the most beautiful part of the town---I will sell these lots on very moderate terms for cash or country produce.
I will also sell or rent the tenement whereon I now live, as likewise sundry lands mentioned in a former advertisement.
I wish to let for a term of years, my distillery in Woodford, together with a tract of adjoining land, if more agreeable to the lessee.
This distillery is well calculated both by nature and art, for carrying on that branch of business to advantage---on the adjoining tract, which I would let with the distillery is a tenement of between thirty and forty acres of cleared land; together with a thriving orchard of peach trees---and to accommodate a good tenant who would take the same for a term of years, I would erect a comfortable dwelling house thereon for his reception.
PEYTON SHORT. Who has also for sale several valuable stills of different capacities, mashing tubs and other appendages to a distillery. May 26, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, on a clear creek, a chestnut sorrel mare with a small star in her forehead, branded on the near shoulder W, and on the near buttock G, about 13 hands 3 inches high, judged to be 6 or 7 years old; Appraised to £7.
Simeon Proff.
THE first Class of the TRANSYLVANIA SEMINARY LOTTERY
WILL be drawn in Lexington on the 20th day of June next, under the direction of the Managers, provided a sufficient number of the Tickets are by that time sold; those gentlemen who received Tickets will make return on that day how they have been disposed of.
By order of the board. JOHN HAWKINS Ch.

***** SACRED TO THE MUSES. *****
ON CENSURE.
YE wise, instruct me to endure An evil, which admits no cure: Or, how this evil can be borne, Which breeds at once both hate and scorn. Bare innocence is no support, When you are tried in scandal's court. Stand high in honor, wealth or wit; All others who inferior sit, Conceive themselves in conscience bound
To join, and drag you to the ground. Your altitude offends the eyes, Of those who want the pow'r to rise. The world, a willing stander-by, Inclines to aid a specious lie; Alas: they would not do you wrong; But, all appearances are strong.
Yet, whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? For, let mankind discharge their tongues In venom, till they burst their lungs, Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ake: Nor spoil your shape, distort your face,
Or put one feature out of place; Nor will you find your fortune sink, By what they speak, or what they think. Nor can ten hundred thousand lies Make you less virtuous, learn'd or wise.
The most effectual way to baulk Their malice, is—to let them talk.
A N E C D O T E.
A Certain Dutch Justice of the Peace, in New-York (when an English province) issued a summons returnable on the Sabbath-day, the Constable, into whose hands it was put to be served, being a fellow of some humour, returns the sum- mons agreeably to date; the Justice expecting it to be of some other nature, perused it, and finding what it was, said in a great passion, vat de deval you brings dis do day vor? Why replied the Constable, see whether it is not returnable this day, and should I neglect my duty, you would no doubt report to the grand jury, and in all probability have me severely fined; upon which the justice with a loud voice proclaimed, I adjourns this courts till next Wensday , and calls to his son, saying, Hanns look off almanack and sees as dat vil be on de Sunbats day.
GENERAL Lee being one day surrounded by a nu- merous levee of his canine favo- rites, was asked by a lady, if he was fond of dogs? With his usual politeness he instantly replied “Yes, madam; I love dogs:— but I detest bitches.”
A large company will set out from the Falls of Ohio to the Illinois on the 20th of July next—such persons as are desir- ous of driving stock to that country a- bout that time are desired to meet at the time and place mentioned, and it is ex- pected those people who wish to go then will endeavour to come well armed. May 11, 1791. us
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Woodford county at the head of clear creek a bay mare 13 hands and a half high, 10 years old, a large white in her face, and both feet white above the foot locks, no brand perceivable; Appraised to £5 10. Elisha Hadden. Feb. 21, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Bourbon County, on Cooper's run, a black heifer, three years old, marked in each ear with a swallowfork. Appraised to £2 - 10. Peter Vordiman. Jan. 24, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Nelson County, on Pope's creek, a branch of the Rolling fork, on the Cumberland Trace leading to Danville, a Sorrel mare, 3 years old last spring, about 14 hands high, a large blaze in her face and her under lip white, also a small white spot under her jaw on her Wensend, three white feet, no brand perceivable, trots and gallops. Ap- praised to £9. George Watts. January, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, near the forks of Elkhorn in Woodford county, a white heifer with dark ears, a small crop off the ear, two years old last spring, appraised to £2. John Miles. Oct. 1792.
JUST IMPORTED, And now opening
FOR SALE
At the STORES of ELLIOT & WILLIAMS
IN LEXINGTON and DANVILLE,
a very large ASSORTMENT of M E R C H A N D I Z E,
Amongst which are SCARLET, blue, green, brown, drab &c. Superfine broadcloths. Second and a variety of low priced do. Olive, buff, black, crimson, and figu- red velvets and velveteens.
Durants, moreen, wildbores & Joans spinning of all colours Nankeen, satinets &c.
Low priced dark and light chiniz. Calicoes and cottons.
Checks, gauzes, shawls, lawn, ribbands mouselins &c.
Silk, cotton, and linen handkerchiefs. Cotton and thread hose.
Tin ware assorted.
Pewter, castings, Iron and steel.
Smiths, carpenters and joiners tools.
Bar and pig lead.
Powder and shot.
Cotton and wool cards.
6d, 8d and 10d nails.
Window glass, &c &c.
With many other articles too tedi- ous to be enumerated in this advertise- ment.
The subscribers would wish to ac- quaint their friends and the public that they meant to sell on the most reasonable terms for cash and produce, that they will give the highest prices for the latter, particularly corn, and country li- nen; that they mean to pay the strict- est attention to their purchasing the best and cheapest goods, that their supplies in future will be more frequent and extensive and consequently better calculated for the immediate use of the planters than heretofore that every ex- ertion to merit the custom and give general satisfaction to the publick, will be put in practice.
ELLIOT and WILLIAMS, Salt for sale at their Store in Lexington.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Danville, a bay horse five years old, about fourteen hands high, bob hind feet white, a star and snip and a small streak between, with some gray hairs in his tail, no brand perceivable; Appraised to £9. Walter E. Strong. May 11, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Bourbon county, on Slate creek, a dark bay mare, 3 years old, 14 hands and a half high, branded on the near shoulder R and buttock E not docked; Appraised to £17. Also a bright bay mare, mixed all over with white hairs 8 years old, 13 hands and a half high, blaze face, blind in the near eye, branded on the off shoulder O and on the near shoulder with a spade; Appraised to £6 - 10. William Caffity.
Also a bright bay mare, mixed all over with white hairs 8 years old, 13 hands and a half high, blaze face, blind in the near eye, branded on the off shoulder O and on the near shoulder with a spade; Appraised to £6 - 10. William Caffity.
THE CONSTITU- TION
OR FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE S T A T E OF K E N T U C K Y, FOR SALE At this Office.
Strayed from James Pringle on Cane run the following steers, the proper- ty of Elliot and Williams, viz. one small brindle, one red with a white face, one white with small red spots over his body, one red steer without horns, one red steer the whole are branded thus AT on the near cubbin and C on the horn; any person giving notice of such steers either to Mr. Keam, in the Contractor's store Lexington or Mr. George Brown, in George Town, or James Pringle on Cane run shall have one dollar reward for each. James Pringle.
STRAYED from Lexington and the vicinity thereof, a number of Horses chiefly branded EW. With a number of steers branded EW as above and C on the horn, who- ever secures any of the above de- scribed, shall receive a generous compensation, all reasonable char- ges paid by delivering them at Lex- ington to Wm. KEAM.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Woodford county, on Clear creek, a yellow brindle cow and calf marked with a crop in the left ear, about 8 years old, appraised to £3 10 - 10. Jonathan M'Neal. Feb. 10 1792.
Whereas my wife Mary has left her usual abode, (which was with me) therefore I do forewarn all per- sons from giving her credit on my ac- count, as I will not pay any such con- tracts unless a written order from me. JOHN M'LEAN. May 30, 1792.
All kinds of Blank-Books, for Merchants, Clerks, &c. made and ruled to any pattern: Also old Books new bound at this Office.
BLANKS
Of all kinds may be had at this Office.
I Hereby notify that I will sell the following tracts of land viz. ten thousand acres on the Kentucky river at the mouth of Severn creek; five thousand acres on Gunpowder creek within a few miles of the Big-bone- lick; and fifteen thousand acres on the waters of Licking within about ten or twelve miles of Fort Washington, on the most reasonable terms, together or in parcels as may suit the purchas- ers, I will take in payment cash, ne- groes, cattle, sheep, or horses and mares, and will give a reasonable cre- dit for one half the purchase money on receiving bond and approved secu- rity—I will also dispose of two thou- sand acres of land on the terms above mentioned situated on the dividing ridge between the north fork of El- khorn and Eagle creek which may with propriety be immediately settled, any person inclined to purchase may be shown the land by applying to the subscriber. John Crittenden. March 12 1792.
TAKEN up at the mouth of Hick- man the 10th inst. a bay horse 14 hands and a half high, 7 or 8 years old, a blaze face and three white feet trots, branded on the near shoulder O and M on the near buttock, I took said horse in possession supposing him to belong to my neighbour near Limestone, but find he does not; the owner may get him by ap- plying to me in Washington Mason coun- ty. Thomas Burk. May 10 1792.
Whereas my wife Catha- rine Williamson has elop- ed from my bed and board without any just cause, I hereby forewarn all persons from trust- ing her on my account, as I will not pay any debts she may contract, after this date. William Williamson. May 14, 1792.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on the 4 mile Creek, Fayette coun- ty, three steers, viz a sorrel mare about 14 hands and a half high, with a large star in her forehead no brand perceivable about 12 or 14 years old; a last spring bay horse colt, no white about it, the mare and colt appraised to £12 10. The other an iron gray mare one year old past, neither docked nor branded, ap- praised to £3 10. Samuel Crosthwait.
I have FOR SALE EXCELLENT
COTTON
OF the growth of Cumberland, by the large or small quantity, and either with or without the seed. WILLIAM LEAVY. Lexington, Jan. 27, 1792. if
A. SCOTT & Co. At their Stores in Lexington and Paris, have now on hand a hand- some assortment of DRY GOODS groceries, Iron mongery, Saddlery and Queens ware—which they will ex- change for Bear, otter, beaver Raccoon and Fox skins, country made linen and Sugar.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, near the mouth of Hickman, a red brindle Cow 4 years old, a star in her forehead, her belly, feet, hind legs and tail white, marked with a small crop in the left ear, had a calf the latter part of last summer, which is now with her; Appraised to £1 6. Also a black steer, rising 3 years old, marked with a half crop in the right ear, his belly, end of his tail, left hind foot and leg white; Apprais- ed to £2 3 6. James Hogan.