The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1790-01-02 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, JANUARY 2, 1790.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his Office at the corner of Main and Craft Streets, where Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition.
Proceedings of Congress. HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES. WEDNESDAY, September 16.
THE following message from the President of the United States was received by the Hon Secretary at war
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
The Governor of the Western Territory has made a statement to me of reciprocal hostilities of the Wabash Indians and white people inhabiting the frontiers bordering on the river Ohio, which I herewith lay before Congress.
The United States in Congress assembled, by their acts of the first day of July, 1787, and of the twelfth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, made a provisional arrangement for calling forth the militia of Virginia and Pennsylvania in the proportions therein specified.
As the circumstances which occasioned the said arrangement continue nearly the same, I think proper to suggest to your consideration the expediency of making some temporary provision for calling forth the militia of the United States for the purposes stated in the Constitution, which would embrace the cases apprehended by the Governor of the Western Territory.
GEORGE WASHINGTON. New-York, September 16, 1789.
New York, Sept. 14, 1789.
SIR,
The constant hostilities between the Indians who live upon the river Wabash, and the people of Kentucky, must necessarily be attended with such embarrassing circumstances to the government of the Western Territory, that I am induced to request you will be pleased to take the matter into consideration, and give me the orders you may think proper.
It is not to be expected, Sir, that the Kentucky people will or can submit patiently to the cruelties and depredations of those savages—they are in the habits of retaliation, perhaps without attending precisely to the nations from which the injuries are received. They will continue to retaliate or they will apply to the Governor of the Western Country (through which the Indians must pass to attack them) for redress;—if he cannot redress them (and in the present circumstances he cannot) they also will march through that country to redress themselves, and the government will be laid prostrate.
The United States on the other hand, are at peace with several of the nations; and should the resentment of these people fall upon any of them, which it is likely enough to happen, very bad consequences may follow; for it must appear to them that the United States either pay no regard to their treaties, or that they are unable or unwilling to carry their engagements into effect. Remonstrances will probably be made by them also to the governor, and he will be found in a situation from which he can neither redress the one, nor protect the other; they will unite with the hostile nations, prudently preferring open war to a delusive and uncertain peace.
By a resolution of the late congress, the governor of the Western territory had power in case of hostilities, to call upon Virginia and Pennsylvania, for a number of men to act in conjunction with the continental troops, and carry war into the Indian settlements; that resolution it is supposed, is now no longer in force. The revival of it might be of use, as it would tend to conciliate the Western people, by shewing them that they are not unattended to:--- and would in some measure justify me in holding a language to the Indians, which might obviate the necessity of employing a force against them.
The handful of troops, Sir, that are scattered in that country, though they may afford protection to some settlements, cannot possibly act offensively by themselves. I have the
Honor to be Sir, Your most obedient and most humble servant. ARTHUR ST. CLAIR.
The President of the United States. This message was referred to a select committee.
The House then proceeded in the amendments reported by the committee, to the judicial bill, and having gone through the same, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading tomorrow---And then the house adjourned.
HEREBY forewarn all persons from taking an assignment of a Bond given by me to John Biswell for two thousand weight of inspected tobacco (dated I think, in August last,) and payable I think the 25th Inst. as I have paid off said bond.
MARSTON CLAY.
FOR SALE
PART of a Lot of ground in the town of Lexington, near Captain Young's Tavern, and near the new Court house, for which good wheat, Rye, Flax, Corn, Pork, Salt, & Cows and calves, will be taken in pay: in- quire of the Printer.
THE public were informed in the last paper, that a plan was in agitation for the settlement of the lands belonging to the State of Georgia, contained in the great bend of Tenese river, commonly known by the name of the
MUSCLE-SHOALS COUNTRY.
In addition to which, the subscriber has thought proper, to communicate the terms more fully, for the satisfaction of any person desirous of emigrating to that delightful country. The character of this country is so well established, as to require little commendation at present. The soil is as fertile as Kentucky, the climate infinitely more agreeable, better calculated for raising cotton, indigo and the different productions of this climate. Its situation is perhaps as convenient as any on the Western waters, lying on the navigable and beautiful river Tenese, which affords an infinite variety of fine fish &c. Any person who has a wish to assist in forming a settlement in that country, may be informed of any particulars by application to the subscriber, who hereby engages to every able bodied man, two hundred acres of land of the first quality in that country on the following conditions: that they meet him at Lexington or such place in Kentucky as he may think most convenient, on or before the first day of March 1790, well armed and compleatly equipped, to proceed from thence to the place of settlement, (which will be at the Muscle-Shoals,) and to continue there until the twenty-fifth day of December following.
R. GAINES. Lexington, December 15, 1789.
TO be let to the lowest bidder in the town of Washington on the first Tuesday in February next, the building of a stone Jail sixteen feet square two story high, for the County of Mason.
Thomas Warring, Henry Lee, Miles Conway, Robert Rankin. Commis.
TO BE LET
TO the lowest bidder, at capt. Thomas Young's Tavern, in Lexington on the second Tuesday in February next, (it being court day) at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the building a
STONE JAIL. Thirty Two feet long, Twenty feet wide, and Seventeen feet pitch above the lower floor; a plan of which, will be shown on that day: Also, the erecting a Pilory, Scocks and Whipping Post.
Edward Payne, Levi Todd, Robert Todd, Thomas Lewis, James Trotter. Commis.
WHEREAS a certain Andrew M'Kenly of Lincoln County has taken liberty to make injurious mention of me, in the fictitious introduction to his pretended discovery of the Perpetual motion, wherein, he charges me with downright plagiarism, and erecting my machinery, on a plan, wholly deduced from him; to refute which, I have thought proper to publish the subsequent narrative, of real facts.
I recollected the said M'Kenly visited me, at my house, to know (as he said) my opinion of his plan of operation for the attainment of the aforesaid purpose, which plan I intirely condemn'd, and was at pains to convince him of the impossibility of its success, by pointing out to him the gross errors it was fraught with. He again, presented two others, with the sight of which I agree to have been impressed but with no other Emotions, but those of laughter and contempt; one of them was, to suppose a boy made of wood to walk by springs on the inside of a wheel &c, with several other Chymical inventions which looked upon to be, no more than the spurious offspring of a distempered brain. Possessed of this opinion, (& his not one making the least mention, to me of the futile and borrowed plans he hath since published) it is highly improbable I should offer to enter into any obligation or promise to find him workmen to execute any one of his plans.
Perhaps the gentleman (in a fit of scientific pride) may deem it both fraud, and presumption in any person to invent a Machine that may contain any of the properties mentioned in his pretended plan, viz. wheels, weights, liquids, posts, or shafts, of any form whatever, and not ascribe the whole (or at least) the primitive invention to him: however as I have not (as yet) presented any thing to Congress, and mean to finish my Machine this winter, the gentleman is still at liberty to make the best of his invention, for I both renounce, and despise all his plans, public, or private, and feel myself sensibly degraded (by even the supposition) that I should have borrow'd any thing that Originated in the brain of Mr. M'Kenly; but as I am not of a retaliating temper, I would advise the gentleman, to proceed immediately to the execution of some one of his plans; that of the wooden boy I think the most eligible, for should it fail of the desired purpose; the showman may probably purchase the Puppet. Mr. M'Kenly will then be convinced the plan I proceed on is intirely my own, and will (I hope) confess that if he has been defrauded, or the public deceived the fraud and deception proceed from himself and not from
The public's most Humbly Servant, William Bard. Dec. 18 1789.
WANTED
A MAN well acquainted with the business of an Overseer; Such a person coming well recommended, will meet with good encouragement, by applying to the Printer hereof, or to the subscriber near Danville, 16 18 William M'Dowell.
Dec. 6th, 1789. All kinds of Blank Books for Merchants, Clerks, &c. made and ruled to any pattern: Also old books new bound, on reasonable terms, at this office.

JUST ARRIVED,
And now opening for sale by PETER JANUARY & SON,
At their Store in Lexington opposite the Printing Office, a large and complete assortment of GOODS adapted to the season, which they will sell on reasonable terms for Cash, Corn, Wheat, Rye, Butter, Pork, Salt, &c,
JUST OPENED, AND FOR SALE BY WILSON and PARKER
At their new Store nearly opposite the new Court-House a very general assortment of
MERCHANDIZE. Suitable for the season, which they will dispose of on reasonable terms for cash
JUST OPENED, And now for sale, by GOUDY AND WILLIAMS
At their store in Lexington, opposite Capt Youngs Tavern, and near the new courthouse, a neat and general assortment of
GOODS
Well adapted to the season; which will be sold on the most reasonable terms for cash or Burr.
Lexington, Dec. 2 1789.
JUST OPENED, And for sale by
ALEXANDER & JAMES PARKER
Two Stores in this place, one of them in their new house opposite the new Court-house, and the other where they now live, each of them well assorted and adapted to the season, which they will dispose of on reasonable terms for Cash, Merchandise wheat or flour. Lexington, Dec. 5, 1789.
ALL persons indebted to me for lots in the town of Frankfort, or for mares put to Slider or Godolphin, are requested to make payment to Capt. D. Gano at that place, on or before the Twenty-first day of January next, after which time no produce will be received.
I will sell my stud Godolphin and several other valuable nags, on reasonable terms for produce.
Several houses and lots in this Town, to be sold for Cash, or exchanged for merchandise --- One a most valuable stand for business---Also a valuable Tract of land of 10,000 acres, together, or in small parcels; located and surveyed for Col. Dan. Boone and patented for myself.---This tract lies on the right of the road from this place to Limestone, and about nine miles on this side of the lower blue lick, a few families may occupy it in safety and I will make the terms of payment easy to the purchasers JAMES WILKINSON.
I DO hereby give notice to all whom it may concern, that the actions, Transfers or doings of Capt. Tho. Johnson, of Kentucky, are in no way or manner whatever, binding on me. HENRY GARRETT.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A SECOND GUN POWDER PLOT.
PARIS August 7. HINTS were given to several of the Deputies of the National Assembly on Monday last, of a mine being formed from under the stables of the Comte d'Artois to the Hall of the Assembly.---After the recent and well ascertained atrocities of the Cabal, the Members justified in improving every attempt possible, caused a strict search to be made by the militia of Versailles, on the night of Monday and a number of citizens quitted their houses in the Rue de Nonettes, under which the mine was supposed to pass. On arriving at the stables the Swiss refused the militia entrance; on which they commanded him on pain instant death, to enter and precede them with torches. At length M. de Vergennes, Equerry of the Comte d'Artois, arrived, and refused admittance; but on his offering to show every place, he was suffered to accompany the militia, who had already broke open several doors. All the cellars were carefully examined and at length a discovery was made of an immense pile, the bottom of which could not be discovered. One of the citizens descended by means of a long beam held in a slanting direction; and the result of his observations was, that he could perceive no apertures corresponding with this hole, which was very deep. So that all that can be concluded is, that such a horrid plan has been really in contemplation, and preparing for execution, either prior to or since the revolution, no person belonging to the stables being able or willing to assign any use or meaning whatever for this evacuation. It is unnecessary to add, that proper precautions are taken.
The Hotel de Polignac, Versailles, has been visited, and 151 fusils found in it on Sunday, which were distributed among the militia, as was likewise a waggon load of muskets seized in their way to St. Germain, under the pretence being of chests of soap. The friends and the relations of those who have been butchered by the mob feel in their breasts a resentment which, though it may not be Christian, is not unnatural.
Some of them have considered the Duke of Orleans as the immediate cause of all their calamities; they do not pretend to say that his Highness has either commanded or advised the bloody executions that have taken place; but they charge him with having been the cause of this confusion, from which all dreadful excesses of the people have flowed.
Plots have, in consequence, been formed against the life of this Prince; and it is said, that in all probability, he would have been dispatched on the 26th of last month, Montau, if he had not fortunately received a line from Versailles, warning him that his life was in danger, and advising him to be constantly on his guard.
Two gentlemen went to his palace that day, and requested the honour of an audience.
The Prince was then writing in his closet; and just as he was going to desire the person who had announced the gentlemen, to shew them in, another person entered with a letter, on the cover of which was written--- "To be delivered without a moment's loss of time."
This letter, which the Duke immediately read, contained the warning above mentioned.
The Duke resolved not to admit the two gentlemen to his presence; but at the same time he did not think proper to cause them to be apprehended, for, by the liversies of the servants, their families were known, and known to be great and powerfully allied.
The message he sent to them was that "He was too busily employed to be visible to any person whatever out of his family"
The gentlemen hearing this, appeared to be greatly disappointed, and drove off full speed.
August 27. M. Necker did not go to the Assembly yesterday, on account of his health. He sent the following apology: I had presumed too much, Mr. President on my strength and my health, in announcing to you that I should wait this day on your honorable Assembly. I shall address to you to-morrow the reflections I intended to read. Deign Sir, to accept the homage of my excuses, and be the interpreter of my regret.
L O N D O N.
August 9. Baron de Bezenvol is to be tried immediately. He is in safe custody. He was general of the Kings' troops in the district of Paris at the time of the revolution; was in all the secrets of the court party, and was the person who wrote to the governor of the Bastille to defend the garrison but for twelve hours and all would be safe. The people are most inveterate against him.
August 12. The following is an authentic copy of a petition of the National Assembly of France ordered to be deposited among the archives, as an original paper:
To the National Assembly of France. The petition of the right honorable Lord George Gordon, brother to the Duke of Gordon.
"Humbly sheweth, "THAT a sentence of two years imprisonment, among the felons and transported convicts in Newgate, with a fine of five hundred pounds sterling, has been passed upon your petitioner for a publication in favor of liberty in France, in which the names of the Queens of France, le Comte de Breteuil, and le Marquis de Launay, were mentioned as a party supporting arbitrary power. Lettres de Cachet, and the Bastille. "That this publication was made with a view to succour the oppressed and form the best information, which he received from several of the nobility and gentlemen of France, who were in London at the time of the publication, and who requested your petitioner's assistance in the cause of freedom. "That your petitioner has received great satisfaction (in the midst of his sufferings) to find that the good people of France hath hitherto succeeded in their endeavours to regenerate their constitution; and he prays to the Almighty to crown your patriotic exertions with liberty and peace. "The request therefore, of your petitioner is, that your most honorable Assembly, in your wisdom and sympathy, will apply to the court of London to relieve your petitioner from the above mentioned sentence and imprisonment.
G. GORDON." "Felon Side, Newgate Prison, London, July 23, 1789."
Sept. 1. A gentleman who thought proper to withdraw from Paris, where he has resided some years, reports, that if any foreign auxiliaries should attempt to enter France it is the determined resolution of the armed citizens of Paris, Versailles, Meudon, St. Cloud, Marolles, Senlis, St. Dennis, Paddy, and the whole Isle of France, or province of Paris, to seize the King and Queen, and to detain them as hostages, till the foreigners shall return by the way they came, and leave them at liberty to settle their own affairs as they shall think best.
Accounts from Nantes mention, "That the armed association of Rennes have issued a strong arrest, excluding the gentry from joining them, and from wearing the national Cockade."
Extract of a letter from Brussels Aug 16. "We are on the eve of a great revolution. Many of the citizens are every day departing for Holland in quest of arms, to return with them in their hands, and assert their freedom as the French have done. It is even said, that they have taken some Holland troops into pay, and a great many of Hanoverian and Prussian deserters; and that the number of the confederate malcontents amounts to forty thousand."
Three men have been arrested who were carrying dark lanterns. They intended to set fire to one of the public magazines. Another has been found with several state papers belonging to the Bastille on him. He gave in four different names and places of abode.
LEXINGTON, Jan. 8.
The PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES has been pleased to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the SENATE, to appoint.
Supreme Court. Jno. Jay, Esq. of N. York, Chief Just. Associate Judges. Wm. Cushing, of Massachusetts. R. H. Harrison, of Maryland. James Wilson, of Pennsylvania. John Blair, of Virginia. John Rutledge, of South-Carolina.
   Districts. Judges. Attorneys. Marshals.     Maine. D. Sewell. Wm. Litchgow. H. Dearborn.   N. Hampshire. John Sullivan. Sam. Sheburne jun. John Parker.   Massachusetts. John Lowell. Chr. Gore. Jonathan Jackson.   Connecticut. Richd. Law. Richd. Edwards. Phin. Bradley.   New York. James Duane. Richd. Harrison. William S. Smith.   New Jersey. David Brearly. William Livingston. Thomas Lowry.   Pennsylvania. Gen. Bedford. George Read, jun. Allen M c Clean.   Delaware. Thomas Johnson. Jas. Potts. Nat. Ramsey.   Maryland. Edm. Pendleton. John Marshall. Edd. Carrington, jun.   Virginia. Thos. Pendleton. John Julius Pringle. Isaac Hager.   South Carolina. Harry Iines. Mat. M c Calister. Robert Forster.   Georgia. George Nicholas. S. M c Dowell, jun.  
FAYETTE COUNTY, Sc. To all Head Boroughs and Constables within this Colony, to whom these presents shall come:
WHEREAS it hath been this day proven on oath, before me James Trotter, one of the justices of the Commonwealth, for the county aforesaid, that Thomas M c Millin of the said county, did, on the evening of the 24th instant, feloniously stab with a knife, and mortally wound a certain William Ackles, in said county. So that said Ackles is since dead of said wounds, and said Thomas M c Millin is since fled for the same and not yet apprehended. Therefore in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I charge and command you and every of you, in your several precincts to search diligently for the said Thomas M c Millin, and to make hue and cry after him, from town to town, and from county to county, as well by horsemen as footmen, and if you shall find him, that you apprehend and bring him before a justice of the peace of the county where he shall be taken, to be dealt with as the law directs.
Given under my hand and seal, this 27th day of December, 1789. JAMES TROTTER, L.S.
CHARLES WHITE. COPPER-SMITH. Late of NEW-YORK.
RESPECTFULLY informs the Public that he intends carrying on the Copper Smith's business at this place, in all its various branches, (to wit,) Stills, Brew and Die kettles &c. Also, casts all kind of brass work for mills---makes and repairs all kind of brass and tin work, likewise repairs all kinds of locks and keys. He buys all kinds of old copper, brass, pewter and lead.---Those who please to favor him with their custom shall have their work done in the best manner and on the shortest notice. Lexington, Dec. 3. 1789.
JUST PUBLISHED
THE KENTUCKY ALMANACK
FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1790.
Printed on fine writing paper. And may be had at this Office by the Gross dozen or single.