The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-03-08 00:00:00

KENTUCKE GAZETTE,
S A T U R D A Y, MARCH 8, 1788.
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Extracts from the journals of a convention begun and held for the district of Kentucky at Danville in the county of Mercer on the 17th day of September 1787.
RESOLVED by the representatives of the good people of the district of Kentucky in convention assembled, that it is expedient for and the will of the same, that the said district be erected into a separate and independent state, on the terms and conditions specified in the two acts of assembly, one entitled "An act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state," the other entitled "An act making farther provision for the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state."
RESOLVED that this convention do fix the thirtyfirst day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, to be the time on which the authority of the commonwealth of Virginia and of its laws over the district of Kentucky shall cease and determine for ever, under the exceptions specified in the act, entitled "an act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state."
RESOLVED that an address to the congress of the United States of America be prepared stating the existing reasons to which the convention have judged a separation of this district from the state of Virginia to be expedient, and requesting that the district may be admitted into the federal union on agreeing to be in all of the general assembly of Virginia in what case made and provided.
WHEREAS this convention hath adjudged it expedient that this district should be separated from the state of Virginia and erected into an independent state and hath determined that the authority of the commonwealth of Virginia and of her laws over the district shall cease and for ever determine on the thirty first day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight. And to the end that no period of anarchy may arise to the good people of the proposed state.
RESOLVED as the opinion of this convention that a convention shall be elected with full power and authority to frame and establish a fundamental constitution of government for the proposed state and to declare what laws shall be in force therein until the same shall be abrogated or altered by the legislative authority acting under the constitution so to be framed and established.
RESOLVED that in the month of April next, on the respective court days of the courts within the said district and at the respective places of holding courts therein, representatives to continue in appointment until the thirty first day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight to compose the said convention, shall be elected within the said district, by the free male inhabitants of each county, in the like manner as the delegates of the general assembly have been elected, in the proportions following; in the county of Jefferson shall be elected five representatives; in the county of Nelson five representatives; in the county of Fayette five representatives; in the county of Bourbon five representatives; in the county of Lincoln five representatives; in the county of Madison five representatives; and in the county of Mercer five representatives. That full opportunity may be given to the good people of exercising their right of suffrage on an occasion so interesting to them, each of the officers holding elections, shall continue the same from day to day, for five days including the first day, and shall cause the resolutions to be read, immediately preceding the opening of the election at the door of the court house, or other convenient place; and that Mr. Bradford be requested to publish the same in his Kentucky Gazette, six weeks successively, immediately preceding the time of holding the said elections. Each of the said officers shall deliver to each person, duly elected a representative, a certificate of his election. The said Convention shall be held at Danville, on the fourth Monday in July next, and as soon as eighteen members have convened, they shall and may proceed to the choice of a President, and other proper officers; and settling pro-
per rules of proceedings; to consider, and by a majority of votes, establish a fundamental Constitution of government, for the proposed state; and declare what laws shall be in force therein, until they are abrogated or altered by the legislative authority, acting under the Constitution to be framed and established.
RESOLVED, that three members of the said convention assembled, shall be a sufficient number to adjourn from day to day, and to issue writs for supplying vacancies which may happen from deaths resignations, or refusal to act.
RESOLVED, that in case there shall be no sheriff within the respective counties of the district of Kentucky, at the time the several elections are directed to be held for the election of the said members of Convention, that any two acting magistrates, who may be present on the day of holding the said elections, be appointed commissioners to superintend and conduct the said election, and to make returns in the same manner as the sheriffs are directed to do.
A true copy from the minutes.
THOMAS TODD, C. C.
MR. BRADFORD.
THOSE who know me, know that I am no writer, it is therefore an awkward piece of business in me to appear in print, nor would any thing but the defence of my honour, induce me at this time to trouble the public. I know myself incapable of a dishonourable intention, and will lose my life sooner than my character. Mr. Marshall having in your paper of the 23. February offered me an insult, I deemed it to punish him for the same, the first time I saw him; this happened in Lexington on the 27 of February, when Mr. Marshall passed through the town I followed him on horseback with a brace of pistols, and having strong reasons to believe him a coward, intended just to have cased him, but when I came near him I thought it would be but generous to give him an equal chance, and with this intent I took the pistols in my right hand and offered him his choice, Mr. Marshall refused the pistol, and at the same time aimed a blow at the small of my arm which was extended towards him, with a cudgel which he carries, he struck me, but not with such force as to destroy the use of my hand, upon which being enraged at the unmanly advantage which he meant, I turned the pistol and as he dodged about fired at him, but from the motion of my horse and Mr. Marshalls dodging I missed him both fires, I then rode to town for a supply of ammunition when the interference of my friends stopped the affair. If I acted improperly in this affair, but I hope I was justifiable, for if Mr. Marshall had broke my arm which I am certain was his intention, I have no doubt but he would have taken my life. I have since put Mr. Marshall to a fair trial and can now to the titles of liar and scoundrel, add that of infamous coward. The letter from Mr. Marshall to Maj. Crittenden which he calls for, you will find inclosed for your paper, it will prove him to be a more vicious man than I ever pronounced him. I am yours, JORDAN HARRIS.
Copy of a letter to Maj. John Crittenden.
Dr. Sir,
I am now about to drop you a few lines, and to begin with the words of Solomon "there is a season and a time for all things" therefore things may be said or done at one time that would be extremely improper at another. It is the height of human prudence to know how to time all things. This is what I sometimes aim at, tho' I may often miss it, whether I have done it once, and am now about to do it again the event of this present writing can only determine. I shall send it to you in the morning when I suppose your passions are hushed to silence, and the serenity of your mind will enable you to judge impartially. You will recollect, that on a certain occasion it was asked how my brother in the settlement could get information of Calmes's entry, and whether he had informed himself of it when in this country, I replied evasively or rather answered the latter question, that I did not know it was possible that he might have informed him.
self of it when in this country. It is not necessary to tell the whole truth at all times. At that time the temper of mind you appeared to be in, rendered it in my opinion improper, as it unfitted you for an impartial judge. It was your own case and I did not chuse to hazard your friendship on a first and single impression. I should be as much wanting to it now to continue you any longer under a deception. Especially as I find that you have expressed great resentment against the person who would purchase an entry in that situation, without knowing that you suspect me; I think myself called upon to declare the whole truth. This I owe to myself as a man of candour. Not that I would be thought to court danger, or wish to enter into altercation; but to avoid the imputation of insincerity, and to shew that I dare do nothing that I dare not own and justify, and justify even to yourself. As to the matter of information alluded to, altho' my brother might for ought I knew have acquired it in this country. I am rather inclined to believe he made the purchase on my information. I avow giving him information. At this perhaps your choler begins to rise, you think perhaps it was done with a particular intention to injure you. But be calm, there was no such intention in it.
I will tell you the cause and the intent of it. You I dare to say were no stranger to Wilkinsons and Turpins attempts to establish a vague claim of Davis's upon the land which Col. Marshall had given to me and which I had exchanged with John Craig and was bound to warrant, this Wilkinson knew, and when I discovered their intrigues, without condemning them I was necessarily determined to counteract them by forming others of the same nature it was only retaliating. You would have done it yourself. It is a sentiment universal among mankind. To have complained would have been childish. It would have been tameness and folly to have remained an idle spectator of their designs; To have suffered myself to have been speculated upon, and taken no steps to return the favour. You know at that time they were both my sworn enemies. They were in possession of the land, I had long known of the prior entry. It gave me an opportunity of turning the gentlemen's shafts against themselves. It*** not to be neglected; at least I should h*** it in my power to make them glad to exchange, this is the most favourable sentiment they could expect from me, and more than they deserved in case they had established the claim of Davis. In this situation of affairs you are not to be surprised if I overlooked your interest. Thus you have the whole secret.
At this time since they have not been able to establish the claim of Davis on the land I am perfectly easy whether my brother makes the purchase or not if he should I shall most cheerfully use my influence with him to exchange it for other lands. I have for your own satisfaction been very explicit with you but I do not wish every part of the letter to be seen.
H. MARSHALL.
*** Words torn out by breaking up the seal.
For the KENTUCKE Gazette. To Mr. FILSON
Sir,
AS I am a citizen of Kentucky and have a number of children to educate, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to see schools raising so thick in various parts of the district. How happy for this infant country that we have so many gentlemen of learning and abilities, who are ready to take our youth by the hand and lead them through the whole circle of arts and science, at so moderate an expence. Only a few months ago I was puzzled to find a proper school for my sons: now the scene is changed, and I seem equally embarrassed to know which seminary to prefer.
At one time I had concluded to suffer my boys to drink at the Royal Spring, and try the efficacy of that wondrous font: but, being a very staunch whig, I hate even the name of royal, though applied to the waters of Parnassus. I then turned my attention to Lexington school, and was about putting my sons under the tuition of the former professor of Philadelphia college. But, before this could be accomplished

an ingenious production from some of the pro- mi-gnaths of Jessamine m d t - pre me to j ad tu - that celebrated poet - the Muses.
However, Sir, upon a careful review of your late publications and seriously weighing the matter in my own mind, I have at length come to a fixed reso- lution to keep my days at home till your academy is one et. For of all plans of education hitherto of- fered to the public, yours certainly bears the palm, and promises the most creative utility. Your design is great and important. To unite the scholar, the gentleman and the christ in one, is the su- preme, the ultimate end of science. Indeed, a design like this will stamp divinity on your institution, sanctify philosophy, and raise humanity to a consum- mation which every good man must devoutly wish. And in this view of it, I have the pleasure to in- form you, that all my acquaintance are charmed, are delighted with the institution, and determined to give it every encouragement. And as we feel so deeply interested in this institution, we wish to know more of it, and fully to understand every syllable that has dropped from your learned pen concerning it.
But, here, Sir, we labour under an unhappy disad- vantage. In my neighbourhood all are illiterate, and unaccustomed to high flowery language or ab- struse reasonings. Your sentiments are, many of them so new; your stile is so lofty; your periods are so lengthy, and crowded with such a variety of mat- ter, your conclusions are often so remote from their premises, and relatives quite out of sight of their an- cedents, that we are totally lost in the maze, and the longest line of our understandings are not able to fathom the depths of such erudition. I have, there- fore, by the desire of my neighbours, flung those parts of your advertisement that we could not un- derstand into a few plain questions. As
1. What is meant by the word popular, as applied to the situation of your intended academy?
2. Is it necessary that your scholars should travel a mile every day, in all weather, in order to find board- ing at eight or nine pounds a year?
3. Are youth who receive their education in popu- lous cities generally more virtuous than such as have a private education?
4. What peculiar charm have northern teachers to inspire virtue, suppress vice, and explode all party spirit that southern teachers do not possess?
5. What is the meaning of the verb hulk? 6. Are young ladies, educated in the country, guilty of this sin, --- of hulking?
This quest on comes from the fair sex themselves, who have taken the alarm. They fully believe that the crime of hulking, which you have so indistinctly charged upon their brothers, is a rude stroke of satire, indirectly aimed at them. Take heed, good Sir; tis death to provoke the Fair.
Lestly, for the benefit of such as cannot give their children a public education, be pleased to point out that peculiar moment, that particular nick of time when admonition, like a thunderbolt, shall knock a hulking boy out of his "awkward gestures" into a "genteel movement".
By giving a plain, easy solution to these ques- tions, you will for ever oblige many of your well-wish- ers, and, with the rest, your most obedient and humble servant. AGRICOLA.
Extract of a letter from H. fax, dated Novem- ber 20.
This day a packet arrived from England--- au- thentic news by her is that a war between Great Bri- tain and France had broke out--- that two French Frigates had been taken and carried into Falmouth, three days before she sailed--- Orders are come down to fortify this place with all possible dispatch."
Extract of a letter from a merchant in London to his friend in America, dated the 30 th October, 1787.
"Dear Sir, Your last letters are very discouraging to our farther advances in the American commerce, the precarious state of property under the instability and I might say--- of the partial state laws make us fear we have much more abroad than we shall ever recover however, we would not wish you to be more than decently press'd with our debts: the present pros- pect of a war gives us hope that we shall at last be secured and eve twa y said. It is whispered, that should the war be determined on, we shall with a lower class and army take possession of Rhode- Island, from which it is expected the following ad- vantages will arise.
1st. It will be in our power to restrain any com- merce to or from America, which we may think in- jurious and perfectly guard against her taking any secret part contrary to our interests. 2d. It will be an advantageous and safe port for our shipping, and in case any enterprise should be undertaken against the West Indies, it will be a heal- thy and well chosen rendezvous for an army. 3d. We shall obtain all the provisions we shall want
from America, and secure the carrying of them in our own bottoms."
4. In the case of necessity, we shall be able with our frigates to carry a large quantity of American jeans for making our navy.
5. By granting commissions for privateers to the Americans (if they retain their spirit of enterprise) we shall employ the greatest part of their naval strength against their good friend and ally, and perhaps even- tually draw them into the war, in defiance of all the requisitions of their Congress.
6th. By the sale of prizes at that port, we shall ne- cessarily draw there the principal wealth of A- merica, and from the quantity of money that will necessarily be in circulation there, we shall not only have the means of collecting our arrears, but the America's may be brought to wish for a return to their ancient government; we have no doubt of the Rhode Islanders. At present this is not the case at the close of the war, a few of our frigates could lay your port under a contribution, to reim- burse us some of those guineas we have trusted you with; and to convince the Americans of the insigni- ficance of their Federal Government--- These, and many other substantial reasons, it is said, are urged in the cabinet for the measure. I should not have been so explicit with you upon this subject, but the circumstances, being duly considered, it becomes ne- cessary for you to determine, whether it would not be proper for you to secure a lease at New-Port: if the event takes place, I make no doubt I shall have the necessary intelligence, so as to be able to sell you at a price equal to your own mutual interest, I shall so exert it to the embarrassment of 200,000,000, and abide your future orders for further business."
WASHINGTON March 6.
By some travellers, who arrived here yesterday from Cumberland, we are informed, that on Thursday the 21 st inst. five men came to the road leading on the road that leads from Kentucky to the settle- ments on Cumberland, they sometime in the night they were fired on by a party of Indians, and two killed on the spot, two made their escape and one miss- ing; the Indians took all the horses and baggage. The two that escaped got into the Kentucky settle- ment, raised a company, and went in pursuit of the Indians as there was snow on the ground they were easily followed, they came on them in the night, fired on them but undluckily missed them, the Indi- ans ran off naked leaving all their goods behind, and all their foot pouches together with every article they had taken on the expedition. The white men followed them the next day and found where they had encamped, and took pieces of their leggings &c. to cover her feet. As soon as they discovered that they had carried her from that place, most of the white men got their feet frozen, and were obliged to return, there is no doubt but the Indians have all perished as they were all taken, and without provi- sion or the means to procure it, and the weather ex- ceeding cold.
LOST
On monday evening the third Inst. in or near the town of Lexington, a Silver watch with a steel Chain two steel Keys, large triangular Buffalo stone Seal, a Silver dial plate, Makers name Wagstaff London No. 118. Whoever finds said Watch and delivers her to the printer hereof shall receive two Dollars Reward by.
WILLIAM MOFFOT All persons are requested to secure said Watch & deliver it for said Reward. March 4 1788.
Strayed from the plantation of the widow Stevenson near Lexington last noember, a gray horse about fourteen hands and a half high, paces trots and can- ters well, has a remarkable scar on his head occasioned by burning him to cure the pole evil, he has a speck on his right eye, branded on the near buttock B3 a- bout ten years old had on a small bell ti- ed on with a tug. Also a black mare about thirteen hands high, about twelve years old some where on her hind feet paces naturally whoever takes up said creatures and delivers them to James M'Connell or the subscriber shall receive three dollars reward. JOHN BARR
THE subscriber takes this method of in- forming the publick in general and As acquaintance in particular that he has opened a tavern in Lexington on Main- St. et two doors above Cross-street. He flatters himself that he will give general satisfaction to those gentlemen who may favour him with their custom, as he will be careful to provide good entertainment for man and horse, and the clostest attention to business will be the study of the publics humble servant. HENRY MARSHALL.
The public should be cautious how they deal with a certain capt. John Martin of Lincoln county, asil man has lately taken advantage of the law in pleading the limitation act, and that only, because he has been indulged nearly three years. This I hope will be a sufficient warning to the citizens of Kentucky particularly those in business. Danville, Dec 4, 1787. 29 MNAGLE. N. B. He says I owe him, let him pro- duce his account proved, and then I will give him credit on the execution I have against him. M. N.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform the public that he has set up the blue dier's business in Hopewell in Louisiana and will take in Hemp, Flax, and Cotton thread to dye. Those who will please to favour him with their custom may depend on being faithfully served by ADAM METERSON.
WHEREAS I passed my bond sometime in the year 1787, to Thomas Arbuckle for £145. the Condition of which bond I have fully complied with, I therefore forewarn any person from taking an assignment thereof, as I do not concure myse- lf in other bond by said bond. Feb. 2, 1788 27 JOHN GRUNDT
TAKEN up on the Ohio river, about Twenty five miles below Limestone sometime in December last, a bay mare about fourteen hands high, ten or eleven years old, dockt but no brand perceiv- able, a blemish in her right eye had on a small bell tied on with a tanned leather string, and a piece a horse-shoe tied in the Bell for a Clapper, the owner may get her by applying to the subscriber liv- ing near John Koons Station on the north fork of Licking about six miles from Limestone. March 1. 1788, JOHN CURTIS.
VIRGINIA: at a General Court held in Richmond, October 6, 1787
THE Court doth authorise and appoint the acting justices of the peace within this commonwealth, and every of them, sever- ly, to take cognizances of special bail within their respective counties, in actions which now are or hereafter may be depending in this court, and it is ordered that a copy of this order be published three weeks in each of the Virginia Gazettes.
[A Copy] Teste, JOHN BROWN, C.G.C.
BLANKS
ALSO, SPELLING BOOKS, WRITING PAPER, SEALING WAX, &c. MAY BE HAD AT THIS OFFICE.